Audrey's Secret

Flying

"Wake up, Audrey! No more dream land for now. Aren't you hungry?" A high pitch voice squeaked interrupting my nightmare, which I didn't mind. It was a terrifying nightmare, one that I'll never forget.

"Audrey, breakfast starts in ten minutes." Hermione popped her head inside my little cave and I grumbled getting up and making sure my notebook was covered and out of sight. I brushed my curls back into a bun and slipped on my robes. I said 'thanks' to Terra, the one who has the small voice, for helping wake me up and slipped into the common room, with Hermione dragging me. "Flying lessons?" Ron grumbled.

"Just what I wanted. Making a fool of myself in front of Draco." Harry joined Ron's unhappiness.

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I cramed the blueberry pancakes in my mouth, I basically took the whole stack of them on our side of the Gryffindor table. My mom used to make these every morning when my dad was alive. He always would tell me that I would turn blue if I ate too many of them. That was when I was about five? Six?

"It's a remembbrall!" Neville said excitedly. I glanced up at everyone who were gazing at a crystal ball. "Gran knows I forget things - this tells you if you've forgotten something..."

Draco snatched the remembrall as he passed. Harry and Ron both jumped up, half looking for a reason to fight him. I aimed my pancake at him, aiming to throw it at him if he did something, anything. I imeaditaly put it down seeing professor McGonagall had him under her gaze.

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"Hermione!" I called after her in the corridor just before she reached the doors. She waited as I jogged to catch up. "Audrey? I thought you were already there?" I glanced at the grandfather clock that stood taller than Hermione combined. Three fifteen. "I have to tell you something."

"We're going to be late. You don't know who the teacher is do you?"

"No, not really but I-"

"Not now, Audrey. Just tell me when we get back to our bunk. Now come." Hermione took my hand shutting any possiblilty of me telling her anything.

We skipped down the steps and onto the smooth, flat lawn on the opposite grounds to the forbidden forest. It looked quite dark and dangerous. Why would Tom want to be in these woods? Why would he want me when he could have been my big brother?

"Audrey," Harry whispered. I snapped out of my gaze and thoughts and turned to my left. Harry was beside me pointing to get beside a broom.

"Well? What are you waiting for? A rainbow? Get beside a broom stick!" I placed myself on the right side of my broom.

"Stick you hand out over the broom and say 'UP!'" Madame Hooch barked.

A chorus of 'ups' shouted and some people's brooms came up immediately, unlike mine. "UP!"

Mine wouldn't budge, and how it was irritating me. Madame Hooch helped me mount on mine but quickly told me to unmount. Something about how dangerous it is. "Now, when I blow my whistlee, kick off the ground, hard, keep your brooms steady and keep a firm grip. Audrey, I will get you another broom in a minute. One my whistle - three - two-"

Neville kicked as hard as he could and went soaring through the sky. "Come back boy!" She shouted at him. he went up higher and higher. He made the choice of looking down, gasp, slip vertically off the broom.

WHAM - a crack and Neville lay facedown. Madame Hooch bent over him for a moment. "Ah, broken wrist."

"C'mon get up - there you go." She turned to the rest of the class sending her death glare at us. "Don't move or fly, if you so much as touch the broom, you'll be out of Hogwarts before you can say 'Quidditch'!"

When they were out of earshot no other than Draco burst into laughter.

"Did you see his fall? Like a rock, the lump?"

"Shut up, Malfoy." I snapped at him.

A slytherin girl gasped dramatically. "Oh Audrey! Never thought you would stick up for a fat boy!" I rolled my eyes at her attitude.

"Give it here, Draco." Harry said. I turned to see what that was about when I saw Draco holding Neville's remembrall in his hands. Draco got onto his broom and took it up into the air with Harry following, Hermione trying to stop him but failing horribly. She came stomping to where I was. "He's going to get us all in trouble." She mumbled I laughed and pointed to Harry. "Look, he's almost got 'em." Harry shot down from where Malfoy was and caught the remembrall and landing swiftly on the ground. "HARRY POTTER!"

Harry followed Professor McGonagall back to the school showing a small smile to me as he left. That was pretty cool if I say so myself.

Audrey...

"What?" I looked to Hermione. "What?" She replied back to me.

"You said my name."

"No, I was talking about the history of the staircases. Why?"

"Oh, nothing. I thought you just said my name, that's all."

She shrugged her shoulders and turned back to a blonde headed girl.

Audrey...come to...the forest....

"OK, Who's doing it?" I shouted and everyone looked at me. "Who's making me hear things?"

Some Sytherin kids started laughing. "We've got a crazy loon here! Look's like Gryffindor is going to loose again this year!" Draco commented. "I know you're doing it, so stop it!"

He held his hands out 'inoccently'. "I'm not doing it, loon! You're just crazy!"