You're Not Alone-Hermione Granger(Currently Editing)

Four

    "Eye of rabbit, harp string hum, turn this water into rum." One of the first year Gryffindors, Seamus, keeps chanting at his cup full of water as they sat in the Great Hall. Juniper sighs, leaning her head against her hand. "Eye of rabbit, harp string hum, turn this water into rum. Eye of rabbit, harp string hum, turn this water into rum." Seamus chants and his water explodes making everyone look his way. He had ash all over his face and smoke coming out of the cup as everyone laughs.

Juniper rolls her eyes and looks back at the Ravenclaw table where Summer and Lucas were laughing about Seamus. "Help me" Juniper mouths to them and they roll their eyes, Summer making a heart with her hands. They all suddenly hear an owl squeak. Owls start flying around the hall, dropping packages and letters off to students. Juniper watches as a letter falls in front of her and her eyes widen as she sees it's from her parents.

She looks back at the Ravenclaw table to see Lucas had one too. She turns back around and opens it up slowly. She pulls it out and reads it over. It read:

Dear Juniper,

We see you haven't written us back yet about your house even though you told us you would. We need to know now if you got into Ravenclaw or not. If you don't answer back immediately, there will be consequences.

You've been warned,

Your very upset parents

Juniper sighs with wide eyes, not sure what to do as she feels a hand on her shoulder. Lucas was stood there, looking over her shoulder at the letter. "Mine said the same thing" He sighs. "What are we gonna do?" Juniper asks him nervously. "We have to write back." Lucas tells her. "Oh my God. They're gonna kill me" Juniper complains. "Who is?" They hear someone say. They look over to find Hermione sat across from her. "No one" Juniper mumbles, wondering why she was being so nosy. "I'll write for the both of us if it makes you feel better" Lucas offers. "Could you?" She sighs and he nods. "Thank you" She smiles and he nods, making his way back over to his seat. Juniper was dead.

*****

    Yet another class Gryffindors had with Slytherins was flying class. Gryffindors stood in a line on one side while Slytherins stood on the other side. They each had a broomstick in front of them as they waited for the teacher to come. Juniper stood across from Draco, eyeing him carefully. If there was one thing you had to know about Juniper and Draco's friendship, they were very competitive. Everything they did was a race or some sort of competition to see who was better.

When the quartet would play quidditch together, Draco and Juniper were never on the same teams. Juniper thought Draco was pretty good at quidditch and the other way around but they would never admit it to each other. Their stare off was interrupted by the teacher, Madam Hooch, walking in between the lines and blocking their view of each other. "Good afternoon class." She greets them all. "Good afternoon. Madam Hooch." The class greets back.

She walks all the way to the end of both lines, giving Draco and Juniper another chance to stare down each other and get in each others head. "Welcome to your first flying lesson. Well, what are you waiting for. Everyone step up to the left side of their broomstick. Come on now, hurry up." She rushes them and everyone does as they're told. "Stick your right hand over the broom and say, 'Up'" She tells them. Draco and Juniper don't lose eye-contact as they both hold out their right hand and shout "up". Both their broomsticks fly up to their hands and they both smirk at each other.

Everyone continues to shout up but it wasn't working that much. Juniper watches as Ron's broom hits him in the face and she laughs making the boy glare at her. Once everyone finally gets their broomsticks in their hands, Madam Hooch explains the next task. "Now, once you've got hold of your broom, I want you to mount it. And grip it tight. You don't want to be sliding off the end." She explains as everyone starts to climb on their broomsticks. "When I blow my whistle, I want each of you to kick off from the ground. Hard. Keep your broom steady, hover for a moment...then lean forward slightly and touch back down." She explains and Juniper and Draco narrow their eyes at each other mouthing things such as "You're going down" or "Totally gonna beat you".