Enchanted [Fred Weasley]

Thirty-Six

"I really want to know what peanut butter taste like, I forget." With a startled look, Grace looked up from her journal and at Reese. The girls were seated at a table in the library doing their homework.

"How does Defense Against the Dark Arts homework have anything to do with peanut butter?" Grace asked. Reese shrugged and turned the page of her book. Once again, her dark, curly hair was pulled back into a bun, besides a few pieces that got loose.

"It doesn't, I was just thinking of it. I would really like some."

"Reese, you can't."

"Well, why not?"

"You're allergic to it."

"I know, but just a little won't hurt."

"Yes, it will."

"Just a little, little bite."

"Don't risk it."

"Fine."

"Did you hear," a passing girl whispered to her friend. "Sirius Black has been spotted in Hogsmeade." Reese and Grace looked at each other.

"Hogsmeade," Reese cried. "We're all going to be dead at this rate."

"Actually, my mum told me he was a great guy in school." Reese and Grace looked over at the Hufflepuff who was sitting a couple chairs away from Reese.

"He's a murder." Reese whispered to the girl.

"My mum said he would never murder. She believes he was framed."

"Excuse me, but what's your name?" Grace asked. The girl looked up to give Reese and Grace a look at her features.

Her brown hair fell down her back in wavy motion. Towards the bottom it looked like it was dipped in blue kool-aid, which it obviously wasn't. It didn't look bad, but Grace has just never seen it. Her brown eyes darted between Reese and Grace before she answered.

"Leslie Arkson, who are you?"

"Who wants to know?" Reese asked.

"I do."

"I'm Grace Kellner and she's Reese—"

"Don't worry about the last name." Grace kicked Reese under the table.

"Don't be so rude!"

"It's no issue, I'd do the same thing." Leslie told Grace.

"You said that your mum told you Sirius was different in school, what was he like?"

"Well, my mum said he was a trouble maker. His friend James Potter and him always pulled pranks. They were sometimes accompanied by their friend Florence, she was my mums best friend." Florence, the name sounded familiar to Grace.

"Was?" Reese questioned.

"Well, they still are, but my mum hasn't seen Florence in almost ten years." Reese and Grace glanced at each other. Grace wanted to know more, but she was sure the girl would tell them more. That or her mother wouldn't tell her more about the history she had at Hogwarts.

"What's your mums name?" Reese asked. Leslie looked up from her homework again.

"Catalina."

• • •

"Florence, I wonder if the last name was Anderson." Grace told Reese after they left.

"Why?"

"My dad played Quidditch with a girl named Florence. I just wonder if he knows anything about Catalina."

"Fred and George have talked about her before."

"Catalina?"

"No, Leslie."

"Have they?"

"They say she's a prankster herself. Smaller pranks, so less detention than we get."

"Excuse me, I've only had detention a couple times."

"I meant less than the twins and I."

"Maybe, if we can find Florence we learn more about Sirius Black."

"We don't even know the woman!"

"True."

"Besides, let's say we find her. It's not like we can just stroll out of Hogwarts."

"Yeah, yeah."

"We also have to get Ashton a present."

"And we did a group present last year, so we promised we'd each get him one."

"Any ideas?" Grace thought for a moment before shaking her head.

"Not any I can think of."

"I can't either."

"This year is off to a wild start."

"We better hold on then, the years will just get wilder."

A/N
If you haven't read my book Limits, I recommend you do since the books will be intertwined. The book will be updated shortly. Also introducing Leslie as a character cryingforfred thought of.