The Lost Story

Chapter 6: New Friends

His POV:

When I returned to Hogwarts after the holidays, I couldn't admit to myself that I was actually happy seeing Eleanor again. I noticed that she was behaving a little differently than before, although she still spent time with her brother, Emily and the others, I often saw her alone in the common room or in the corridors.

As she was strolling around the grounds one afternoon, I followed her inconspicuously. I wanted to know what she was up to. A slight shiver ran down my arms. Was it a premonition or the weather?

But instead I was distracted by her brother and his friends. Through the window of Hagrid's hut I saw a small dragon on the table! If Potter allowed himself to indulge in something in the next few weeks, I would have my fun! Unfortunately, that backfired a little again. I borrowed a book from the weasel under a clever pretext when he was in the hospital wing. In it I found a letter instructing when they were going to get rid of the dragon, but unfortunately Professor McGonagall caught me before I found them. As a measure of justice, Potter and the Granger were also caught and we had to serve our punishment together with that weirdo Longbottom, which unfortunately consisted of searching for an injured unicorn in the Forbidden Forest...

Luckily I survived the night without any further injuries and without anyone mentioning anything. I had been pretty scared in that damn forest, but I would never have admitted it, especially not to Potter and the others. That strange hooded thing in particular had scared me to death...

Gryffindor had lost the lead that they had had after the game against Hufflepuff and that alone was reason enough to keep annoying them. Eleanor also seemed to think the punishment was appropriate, she seemed to know more about everything than she always let on, but she hardly spoke anyway, especially not to me...

Her POV:

I walked alone through the corridors of Hogwarts. I was on my way to the library, it was slowly time to review some material for the exams. I often wandered around the grounds and looked for secluded corners. I wanted to find out what I could do, but I didn't really dare. That's probably why nothing worked properly, even flying didn't work well.

I wanted to meet Emily in the library and we wanted to study for Potions, the only subject we had together. Not that that would have stopped us from studying the other subjects together, but we wanted to do Potions today.

But on the way up I was caught up by the twins, who joined me laughing.

"Hello Lea, we were wondering-"

"-if you could tell us where our deary is," Fred finished the sentence.

"Of course I can, but why should I?" I asked and continued on my way.

"Because otherwise we'll hurt you terribly?" asked Fred with an evil grin. I stopped.

"My dear Fred Weasley. You certainly wouldn't hurt any girl, and definitely not me. You wouldn't dare," I said sweetly and looked up into his hazel eyes. His smile flickered briefly.

"And why wouldn't I do anything to you?"

"Because I'm Harry's sister and Emily's friend, that's why. And because then you'll have no one to listen to your low-brow comments long enough to respond anymore," I replied with a bitter grin and left the two astonished twins standing there.

"Hey Lea! Wait! Where is Emily now?" George suddenly called after me.

"Come with me and you'll find out," I replied without turning around. The two redheads were already running after me like two dogs after a tennis ball. When it came to Emily, they would do anything, especially George.