Inside My Mind (A Harry Potter Fanfiction)

Chapter IV

Hogwarts, Unplottable Location, Scotland, Great Britain

Thursday the 12th of September 1991

3:30 PM

Bella watched as Neville fell from the broom with a sickening and rather loud crack and Madam Hooch rushed over. Bella winced at the pained whimper that escaped from the Longbottom. Hermione looked terrified now and didn't even seem to ever want to touch a broomstick. Madame Hooch inspected the Longbottom scion and Bella head him whimper as Madame Hooch poked his wrist.

"Ooh...broken wrist. Up you get boy. I'll bring you to the Hospital Wing," Hooch muttered. She turned to the rest of the group were watching curiously, the Muggleborns looking scared, the Slytherin purebloods looking haughty, and the Gryffindor half-bloods and purebloods looking worried.

"None of you is to move while I take this boy to the Hospital Wing! You leave those brooms where they are or you'll be out of Hogwarts before you can say 'Quidditch'. Come on dear. Let's get you fixed up," Hooch finished, leading Neville away from the group of eager but now downtrodden first years. Bella frowned at the sight of Neville's tear streaked face in slight worry. They were not friends but he was a housemate.

As soon as Neville was out of sight, Draco began to laugh.

"Did you see him? The great fat lump!" he cackled.

Parvati Patil glared at him in anger and Bella felt a flash of sharp annoyance at the blond boy's cruelty.

"Shut up, Malfoy!" she snapped. Pansy Parkinson smirked.

"Ooh, sticking up for Longbottom? Never thought you'd stick up for fat crybabies, Parvati," Pansy Parkinson teased.

Parvati blushed and the Indian girl looked down, easily embarrassed at the idea of someone thinking she was attracted to a 'fat crybaby'. Bella rolled her eyes in disgust.

Draco was the first to catch sight of the glass ball glittering the in the sunlight where Neville had fallen. He raised it to his eyes and smirked, wickedly as he came to understand what it really was.

"It's that stupid thing Longbottom's gran sent him!" Draco said, tossing it up and down, catching it easily. Bella's eyes narrowed on it.

"Give it here, Malfoy," Bella hissed, finally fed up with him and sounding very much like an angry serpent. Draco looked at her, faintly surprised before he gave a sly smirk. Bella gritted her teeth at the presumptuous look and Draco looked even more amused.

"No. I think I'll leave it up in a tree somewhere," Draco said, almost sounding thoughtful about. Bella took a step toward him, her wand out, ready to do whatever it took to take the Remembrall back. Bella hissed in anger again.

"Give it here!" Bella shouted, as Malfoy leapt onto his broomstick. Bella's eyes widened as he took off from the ground and looked down at her with a haughty sneer. She felt her blood begin to boil.

"Catch me if you can!" Malfoy challenged. Bella leapt onto her own broom, never one to back down from a challenge. Hermione grabbed her arm and looked at her with a worried look. But, something in her eyes freaked Bella out, strangely enough.

Beneath the worry in those chocolate eyes, something deeper and darker lurked, biding its time and awaiting the perfect moment to unleash what was exactly hidden inside this very smart girl.