Sparks Fly (Harry Potter FanFiction)

Chapter 25

Rose entered the Gryffindor common room the next morning to see a tightly-packed crowd of people around the notice board. Rose pushed her way to the front of the crowd and saw a great, big poster covering the entire notice board.

APPARATION LESSONS

If you are seventeen years of age, or will turn seventeen on

or before 31st August, you are eligible for a twelve-week

course of Apparation Lessons from a Ministry of MagicApparation Instructor.

Please sign below if you would like to participate.

Cost: 12 Galleons

Students were clambering to sign on the notice, scrawling their name on the sheet wherever possible. Already a long list of names was growing. Rose managed to get the quill being passed around quickly and signed her name, then shoved her way back out of the crowd over to Chelsea who was sitting in one of the armchairs.

Rose plopped down into the chair across from Chelsea. "Hey Chels." she greeted her.

"Hey Rose." Chelsea replied, smiling at her. Rose noticed Chelsea had dark circles under her eyes.

"Why do you look so tired?" Rose asked curiously.

"Natalie was sleep talking last night. It wasn't very loud, but loud enough to keep me awake." Chelsea explained. "She was muttering something about Death Eaters and stuff. Although every time I'd get up to wake her up, it was like she could sense me and thought I was trying to hurt her. She'd start talking more louder and louder. Eventually I just gave up." Chelsea said, yawning.

"Has she said anything about what she was dreaming about that night she woke up screaming?" Rose asked.

Chelsea shook her head. "She's still as cold as ever towards me. Whenever I try and talk to her she glares at me and acts as if I'm not there."

Rose sighed. "I wish she'd tell us what was going on."

"I know, but she hates us, we'd be the last people she would tell."

Rose was silent for a moment, even more questions swirling around her head about Natalie.

"Want to go now?" Chelsea asked, breaking Rose out of her reverie.

"Sure." Rose said, standing up and walking with Chelsea out of the common room.