"You.... you make me feel things girls aren't supposed to feel for each other."
in which asteria rosier finds her solace
in the bossy, vivacious beauty
that is hermione granger
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(the hogwarts express)
"we keep bumping into each other, some might call it fate, granger."
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ASTERIA FIDDLED WITH A loose string on her jumper, the crimson wool was unraveling, but she had yet to repair it.
Ever since her First Year, it had rained on September 1st, and the whole carriage was gloomy, now more than ever, as nobody was speaking.
Draco's head was in her lap, and she was pretty sure he had fallen asleep ten minutes into the journey, Blaise had been asked to join some teacher for lunch, and Pansy was busy snogging a random Ravenclaw boy in one of the boys toilets. Goyle was eating a whole box of Cockroach Clusters, and Crabbe was busy reading a comic (Asteria was surprised, she wasn't aware he could read).
The brunette was bored, her Pygmy Puff (whom she named Blaise, and when she told him, he promptly burst into tears) had fallen asleep too, so she had absolutely nothing to entertain her.
They were nearing Hogwarts, and Blaise still wasn't back, so Asteria gently lifted Draco off of her, and excused herself from the compartment, so she could go change in the Girls Lavatory.
Humming a tune under her breath, Asteria skipped through the compartments, and saw Ginny Weasley shoot a particularly nasty Bat-Bogey Hex at Zacharias Smith.
"Ow!" Said a loud voice from behind her.
Asteria had been so distracted she walked right into someone. She turned around to see a large mane of bushy hair. Granger.
"We keep bumping into each other, some might call it fate Granger." Asteria teased.
Hermione rubbed her forehead, which had smacked into Asteria's shoulder and looked up at the brunette girl.
Asteria followed Hermione into the lavatory, and closed the door behind them.
"Fate is stupid. You sound like Trelawney." Hermione muttered, half expecting Asteria to snap at her like Malfoy would. To Hermione's surprise, Asteria chuckled.
"I remember when you stormed out of Divination in Third Year." She said to no-one in particular. The two lapsed into comfortable silence as they got changed in two separate cubicles (there happened to only be two in the lavatory, it was a train bathroom, after all).
Asteria came out to attempt (and fail) to fix her tie, as she needed to do it infront of a mirror.
"Stop, you're acting like you're tying a noose." Hermione huffed, shaking her head. "I'll do it."
