" Good, thought I was right" William told Presley. " You welcome" William said to Presley. " Now I bet the girl who comes out sometimes has to fight off the boys" William explained to Presley.

" Judt having some time off from Hogwarts" William told Cleo. " Love friends and family over at Christmas time" William said to cleo. " If you mean presents, I am happy with a lot of things that are given to me, but I love giving out presents. too" Willaim explained to Cleo. " So do you want to join Rose at my parents Villia for the Christmas vacation?" William asked Cleo.


" They are Bonkers, interesting" William laughed. " Then you will not have any problem meeting my family over the Christmas holiday" William told Rose. " No, you are your own unique person" William explained to Rose.

"No problem" Cass said dismissively as she stood up. It was quickly becoming chilly out here and she wanted to get back down to the dungeons. "So, we're done?"

Ariana walked through the grounds, moping. She'd found that she felt like walking through the Hogwarts Grounds whenever she felt... anything, really. Happy: enjoy the day by walking through the grounds. Sad: cheer up by walking through the grounds. Mad: walk through the grounds slowly to calm down. And, of course, Mopey: walk through the grounds to figure stuff out.

So, as she walked through the grounds, Ariana came upon the Whomping Willow. Hmmph. She'd never really liked that tree. Deciding not to test her luck and lean up against the actual tree, she crossed her arms a few feet away and had a glaring staring contest with it.

Glare

Glare

Stare

Stare

......................

Samira's thoughts were filled with a certain black, funny, sweet Gryffindor as she walked across the grounds. Levi was...perfect, and the Slytherin couldn't help but feel her heart flutter whenever she thought about him.

For some reason, she felt drawn to one of the most dangerous objects at Hogwarts...the Whomping Willow. She loved that tree, even if it wasn't so nice. As she moved forward, she saw the back of a familiar friend. Deciding not to spend her time alone, she moved forward.

"Hey, stranger," she greeted lightly. Then Samira caught a glimpse of her face. "Is something wrong?" Not that Samira was a prying person, not at all, but she wanted to know if there was something bothering her friend.

'Well, that's good! An unique person, huh? Well, that's me!' Rose grinned

Justin sighed not knowing what else he could say or do. His strength wasn't exactly at his highest right now. "No need to thank me" he replied, his voicing sounded as though it was breaking up.

" Yes, my family gone be crazy at times" William told Rose. " Yes, very unique" William said to Rose. " I also thnk that yo uare intriguing, too" William explained to Rose.

Nodding in agreement, Riley turned his head to look at the girl. He could see where she was coming from, he too, initially saw Hogwarts as an unfamiliarly unpleasant place to be but he grew into it. Coming from a family with means and always getting his way, Hogwarts served as a wake-up call that the whole world wouldn't always treat him that way--even though he still expected it.

"Yeah, I'm Gryffindor. Suprised? Yeah I know, I'm cooler than the rest huh?" he grinned at his joke. That wasn't true of course, there were many Gryffindors he liked: Lexi, Brae NOT JOSH WHO TRIED TO KILL HIM. He looked at the girl, thinking of the house she was in. "Well seeing as you are pretty cool since we've met, I assume you aren't a Hufflepuff? You don't have the sullen look of a Slytherin..." She was obviously moody and could have an attitude, which Riley admired incredibly, but she wasn't mean (from what he could tell so far) enough to be a snake. "So are you a claw?" he asked hopefully, maybe he had just won that game!

He nodded half-listening to Ryden after the excitement he was feeling, he was pretty sure he had guessed her house right. WAIT...was she going towards the tree. He stood up and grabbed her arm. "Ryden! I know this place is hard to get used to but do you really want to end it here? NOW?" he was not about to let some girl he just met run smack dab into the Whomping Willow. Did this girl have a death wish?!

'What'd'ya mean intriguing? I mean, what does that word mean? I sort of know, but not sort of know, you know?' Rose asked William getting more tonguetwisted every moment!

" Intriguing means intersting" Willaim told Rose. ' Of course if you are a spy, the word intriguing woud mean you so something that is sneaky but something someone would want to know" Wiliam expalined to Rose."So you are spy who is interesting" Willaim said to Rose.

Surprised was one word for it - disappointed was another. Gryffindors were so annoying, from her experience. There was not ONE nice one but perhaps this Riley guy over here could be an exception? Hmm. Maybe he WAS, as he said, "cooler than the rest". She chuckled.

But then he tried to guess HER house, and Ryden couldn't help but laugh at his choice of words. "It's nice to know the stereotypes actually apply here... And yes, you're right, I'm indeed in Ravenclaw. But that you even entertained the idea that I could be a Hufflepuff is slightly insulting," she added with a grin and a wink, though she HAD been a little miffed. The stereotype for Hufflepuffs was perhaps even worse that the Gryffindor's one.

But she wasn't going to tell a Gryffindor that.

In any case, the girl had indeed decided to step closer to the tree when she felt a hand on her arm and almost jumped out of her skin. Violent trees with personal space issues she could handle - human contact? Not so much. At least, not when SHE hadn't initiated it.

Looking pointedly at the place where his hand had grabbed hers, she raised her eyebrows and wriggled her arm a bit - hinting that he should let go. "This place sucks but it's not THAT bad," she said, talking as if the subject was the weather for next week. "And second, I'm quicker than you think," Ryden grinned wickedly as she gave her arm another jolt.

The plus side of being so unbelievably small was that she was unbelievably fast. The down side to that was that people never took her seriously as a Beater and always wanted to make her Seeker but one thing many people are not aware of is that speed - as well as strength - is important for a Beater. If you can outrun the Bludger, you've got full control of it. Hehe.

Not that she'd tried out for the Ravenclaw team or anything.

Evan blinked at this calm answer for a moment about Finlay. Why wasn't he wondering how to stop him? He hoped Seb was planning something, at the very least to speak to Sophie, even if he wasn't telling him yet. Because otherwise, Sophie would be pretty heartbroken.

Oh, so he didn't know Mina was back neither. He had missed some important things there. "Mina came back," he said, watching for his reaction, or if he would remember the name 'Mina' in the first place. "And, well, I obviously couldn't throw away our 3 years' relationship." And now they were even happier.

"What a bad way of explaining intriguing! intriguing is when you are curious about everything but you in yourself are a puzzle. Oh and by the way Will, yes please to coming to your house, anyway of getting me out of school but away from the losers of the muggle world" Cleo told him as she crept up behind him!" oh and by the way Will, can i talk to you by the lake later?"

'Ummm.... Spy? OK??' Rose said whilst giving William mock weird looks


'Oh, right.... I understand that!' Rose grinned as Cleo told her what intriguing was 'I thought it was when you found someone strange but in a good way.... sort of....'

" well, you are right about the meaning" Willaim told Cleo. " Can't a spy be puzzling? to others " William asked Cleo. " Cleo, did you know that I am half- muggle?" William asked Cleo. " I am pureblood but 1/4 Veela so half-blood" William smiled. " My father's best freind is half. blood too" Willaim explained to Cleo."Sure we can talk by the lake later" Willaim smiled again.

'Oh, as long as they're cool!' Rose grinned

Mina.

Who is Mina again? Sebastian merely nodded his head up and down pretending to listen, while he thought about his girl, Mina. The name sounded really familiar but he couldn't put his finger on it. Then his question was answered when Evan brought up how he was dating her for 3 years and now they were still together. "Oh alright, well glad you're happy, mate." He said, wondering how Sophie took upon all of this. He wondered if she needed him during all this drama that seemed to happen all over the time of summer.

Now to get everything straightened and settled, otherwise he was going to get majorly confused overtime. "So, you're with Mina, Sophie likes Finlay or they're together now? And that's it then, right?" He said his curiosity filling his senses. He wanted to know, who could really blame him, he had seemed to miss a lot anyhow.

Ad continued to hu the love of her life as tears began to pour down her cheeks again. "I love you Justin. More than anything" she said, her cheek on his shoulder.

Evan offered a short smile. "Thanks," he said, relieved as Seb took the news well. At he understood it that he still liked Mina more than anyone else, despite spending 2 years apart.

"Well... I think they are together. Or close... because I saw them together in Hogsmeade..." He would rather NOT think them as together, but they did look close... holding hands and such... he didn't like it the least. Sure, it was probably like Finn took her out to a date while the other girls were busy, and she thought it was a real date with only Finn and her. The boy disgusted him, which was pretty clear on his face.

"Yes, that's all for now..." he said, as if they were small things. Each topic was a subject to novels, but life was fast like that.

Stereotypes? Riley wasn't meaning to sound as if he was judging. He normally didn't care but this girl seemed cool so he planned to keep his judgmental and rude side toned down a bit. "They aren't really stereotypes, just alot have so sometimes they get generalized into one group." he said slowly. Yeah stereotypes. And he couldn't blame her for feeling insulted by the Puff comment, he would want someone to think he was one.

Well that was good, at least she said she wasn't going to run and do a head dive into the Whomping Willow but no matter how fast she said she was he was still nervous that she had planned to go closer to the thing. Riley let go of her hand just as she yanked it away. She was fast it seemed. "I see that." he grinned, "So what do you plan to do with your swiftness?" Here today, sports, during her life. It was up to her how she answered.

"Cool like you dear" Wiliam told Rose. William kissed her on the cheek.

Justin smiled slightly. These were the moments he'd never forget. "I love you too baby girl" he replied. Then it dawned on him. "Promise me you'll take care of Mikey for me if you return?" he asked.

Ad didn't smile. She just couldn't. "I want you to stay with me" she said, sounding not even half as depressed as she felt. "I'm not coming back. No point. But I'll see what I can do, hon" she said, fighting tears.

Justin sighed and just sat there. "I can't. I have other people to say bye to. All over the world" he replied. Mostly in America. Then Ad mentioned not coming back. Great. Mikey was gonna be alone. "I guess he'll have to fight this place alone then"

Ad stared at the large tree. "Yeah, I know. Ren's going to be going back and forth to Japan because of some murder that she was a witness of. I think it was her parents, and they're arresting the sons of the killers or something like thta cuz Ren's been getting threats or something. I'm gonna be all alone in that big manor" she said, as if it was a bad thing. It was. She felt sorry for not being able to stay. But if Justin wasn't there, why would she bother. "I'm sorry. It's not like I'm gonna get anywhere in life with an education. I'd rather live with Dreamer and Moonshadow than stay here. And besides, Maria's gonna be here next year" she said. Ad and Maria had gotten rather close as the weeks dragged by. "Mikey won't be here alone. I'll personally make sure of that" she promised.