Treacherous | Hermione Granger Book II

|08| Chapter Eight

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If Saffron hadn't already know what feeling like an outsider felt like, she would have felt completely on edge as she spent her train ride to Hogwarts with a group of tightly-knit Ravenclaws. But her whole life before Hogwarts was one of being a total outsider to the rest of the world, outside of her little room she had just hours beforehand said goodbye to in Squires. Thus, she could tolerate feeling isolated from the majority of the group in the Ravenclaw compartment. 

Even though she felt isolated from the group as a whole, she didn't feel isolated from Olly. Staying true to his promise, he talked her through his notebook for what must have lasted for over an hour. With Terry, Lisa and Padma sitting on the otherside of the compartment, he could essentially show it to her in private, which greatly irritated Terry and Lisa.

"I've been his best friend since day dot and he hasn't shown it to me," Terry said to the other two girls loudly, interuptting Olly describing a day back in December when he and Padma ventured to a secluded area of greenery a mile or so away from the castle, where he found the strangest looking toad like creature which he had drawn in detail.

"That's just a lie," Olly replied faintly, keeping his eyes on his drawings. "I've shown you loads of them, I just haven't talked to you about them. Anyway, it's not like they're even any good, I just like the stories I have with them all,"

"I think they're brilliant," said Saffron breathlessly, staring down at the toad's bulging eyes in admiartion. 

"It's a work in progress," Olly told her honestly. "I'm working on making them move, but Miss Davies said it takes a lot of time," 

He flicked over the page to find a picture of what Saffron assumed to be a self portatit. 

"So that's you?" She meant for it to be a rhetorical question but Olly answered it for that wasn't the case.

"No, it's my little brother Locklan," 

Saffron clapped her hand to her forehead. "Of course, the one you wrote to---"

"Every day," Olly finished for her with a small laugh. "Yeah, he's basically my best friend,"

"And my favorite person," added Padma, looking up from the game of exploding snap that she Lisa and Terry had engrossed themselves in.

"You've only met him once," Olly arched an eyebrow at her.

"That just shows how adorable he is,"

"He was so funny," added Lisa. "He wouldn't let go of you when he saw you,"

"I would have thought you two were conjoined or something," remarked Terry, before whooping triaumphantly at winning a hand of the card game.  

"I get the best friend thing, I'm close with my siblings too," Saffron told him earnestly. With those words, she went back to thinking about Rachel and Rowan. Were they okay? Had they found anybody to sit with? Was anybody giving them any trouble? She gulped as she knew that even looking for the answers to those questions would be to chagrin of the twins.