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"Yes she will." he smiled "Wow that is alot! Well I can see that this will be a very good summer for you." he chuckled cheekily. "No problem, I can see you are learning to trust Minerva with us. I happy to see that. I... guess what I am trying to say is....." he paused here, it hurt to even think about it, but maybe it was true. "Minerva is lucky to have found you. I am glad she did." he said as he smiled.

" Great summer for me" Willaim told Harvey. " I better trust Minerva or I will lose her" William said to Harvey."I appreciate you saying that I am good guy to be with Minerva" Willaim explained to Harvey.

Harvey laughed "Yes great summer!" he smiled "Yes you have to, that is what thing that you have to remember trust is a key thing in not just your relationship or in mine but in all relationships." he said, he then smiled "You are, she seems a little different with you than when she was with me. She seems more...... comfortable, with you. So you are a good guy for her." he smiled, knowing that maybe this relationship will last the test of time.

" You are a wise man above your years on relationships" William told Harvey." I try to make Minerva comfortable" William said to Harvey." You are a real good guy for Ronnie, too" Willaim explained to Harvey.

Harvey smiled "Really? Well all that I know about relationships I have learnt in the 3 months that I was with Minerva. Being with her taught me alot, and I am sure you too will learn." he smiled. "Thanks, I want to be the best boyfriend for her." he said as he dreamily thought about Ronnie.

Caroline was back at it again, studying. It seem that that was all she got done lately was studying, studying and practice. It seem that practice was her only escape from studying. She would of course take a break to eat and sleep too, along with going to her regular classes, and working on yearbook stuff. So it possibly could be that she was just a bit overwhelmed with it all.

She made her way into the library, carrying everything she needed in her bag. Something made her stop in her path on the way to the study tables, the sun shining through the stained glass windows. Maybe she would sit over there and study it might make it better than sitting at a table.

She plopped down next to the window, maybe this wasn't the best idea. She could get easily off track sitting here. But no she couldn't there was to much at stake to get side tracked.

Maybe it was just what she needed, at least for a while.

Now that the end of term was approaching, Vashti needed to go to the library to start studying for her finals. She might've just studied in the Ravenclaw common room, but she really wanted to get out of there for a little while - she felt like she was spending more time in there than anywhere else, and if she only had what was left of this year and next year to enjoy Hogwarts, then she was going to enjoy everything about it, not just the common room.

As she entered though, instead of the hundreds of shelves of books catching her attention, her eyes went immediately towards the pretty stained glass windows. With the sunlight streaming through them...Merlin, were they beautiful! Vashti started to make her way over to them, deciding that near them would be the best place to study, when she suddenly realized there was someone else there as well - someone she knew.

"Hey Caroline!" she said with a smile as she reached the girl. "How're you?"

" Well, you did learn a lot" William told Harvey." You will be the best boyfriend for Ronnie" William said to Harvey.

"Yeah I did, thanks. So hows studying going for you? ready for finals?" he asked William.

" I have done all the finals they have given to us" William told Harvey. How are your studies going?" William asked Harvey.

Harvey nodded "I also have finished the ones they have given us. Did my best now waiting for the resutls" Harvey told William

"Waitng for my redullts, too" William told Harvey. " I am just taking the rest of the classes now" Willaim said to Harvey.

Harvey nodded "Yes that is all we can do for now, that and spend the rest of our last months here with our friends. I will miss this place and everyone within its walls during the summer." he said to William.

" Unfortunately, you are rught about waiting" William agreed with Harvey." I will miss everyone too" Willaim said to Harvey. " I will be seeing Minerva a lot over the summer" Willaim explained to Harvey.

Harvey nodded and then beamed at William "That is fantastic, it will be a great summer for you!" he said chuckling "Just you and Minerva, alone, very cute!" he said beaming.

" Thankso it will be a fantastic summer" William told Harvey. " I never said alone" William laughed. " I wi;; be at some o Minerva's dance competions, ar her house with her parents and at my house with myparents" William explained to Harvey. " Not much alone time for Minerva and myself" William said to Harvey.

It was one of Louisa's finals study session at the library. She had her bag half open on the floor with a parchment or two slipping out of it, the white cat, Viola, was curled up nearby and the egg, Dalouisa, was safely in the basket at the girl's feet. This time Louisa didn't forget to check up on it every half an hour. See? She was getting better and better with this responsibility thing.

Reading about Merope Gaunt which was the star of her History of Magic homework, Louisa was tapping her foot gently, entertained by the book.

Viola, however, stretched herself up and slowly walked around the basket of her foe. She made sure that the big girl was deep into that book of hers before she rolled the foe off the basket. Roll roll roll roll.. between feet and wooden sticks chair legs. Roll roll roll roll.. until she reached a block.

... time for Dalouisa checkup. Louisa glanced quickly at the empty basket- EMPTY! She frantically fell on her knees and hands, crawling and looking around. There shouldn't be many metal eggs lying around, right? Right.

Up ahead, against the big bookcase were her cat and egg. Stumbling on her feet, she snatched the egg and gave her cowering cat a LOOK. And just to spite the jealous creature, she took her wand out and, "Excolo," pointing her at the egg and traced it on the not-so-shiny spot. Heh, that should teach Viola to stop trying to get rid of the egg.

For the rest of the session the egg was to sit in Louisa's lap.

Well, it wasn't easy, was it? Discussing something you didn't feel comfortable talking about. Especially to a Professor. Luckily for Kurumi, she didn't have to talk to Lafay and Magnus was incredibly understanding. Though, Bishop had been a more understanding back in the days, but she had nothing to do with this.

OH. "I see what you mean." He said, as he shifted in his seat. So, if Kurumi had pretended she wasn't able to do the spell...then it may have been seen as if she couldn't do that particular spell, BUT she only pretended she could do it...and blend in with the rest of the students. Nice. "But that's not cheating." Because if she'd done it without 'pretending' to use her wand, then her ability would've been out in the open for people to see, yes? And she didn't want that? There was nothing wrong with that. And there was nothing wrong with people NOT knowing, too. "Clearly, that sort of magic doesn't work on you." Wink. CLEARLY.

"I'm most certain that Magnus will agree with me and say that you weren't cheating." There was nothing Kurumi could do.

He chuckled, "Your brothers? You ought to warn Jonathan about your brothers as well?" Yes, she ought to IF they were anything like her father.

Tori and Harry headed up to the library to do some more research for one of her numerous essays and assignments. Harry was looking nice and shiny, as usual, but unfortunately, the library was COLD.

"Brrrrrrrrrr!" the redhead whispered to her egg. "Are you as cold as I am, buddy?" Merlin, she thought she could see condensation collecting on the little egg already.

Maybe she'd better cast a spell on him already! "Argentum Calidus!" Tori cast, swishing and tapping her wand on Harry. The little egg quivered a bit but warmed up, any real or imagined condensation quickly vanishing. Yay! Much better!

Tori tightened up her sweater and settled in to read some more, since it was so nice and sunny out by the stained glass windows and all.

Kurumi was back to her confused blinking again when Treyen told her that it wasn't cheating. Perhaps they had different definitions of what cheating entailed? Or could it be that she really was over analyzing the situation like she was almost always prone too? Either way, it was nice to know that Treyen didn't seem to think any less of her. She was probably doing that enough for the both of them anyway. "I...sort of asked before we tried the spells if the magic would work on a Metamorphagus, and Professor Magnus said that it would be just fine," she sort of mumbled while chewing on the inside of her cheek. Merlin why did this year have to be so complicated? "I've...never told a professor about it, not even my own Head of House...what I can do I mean." She had come close to telling Professor Zookara, and most likely would have done so if he hadn't left Hogwarts mid term.

She smiled faintly."I guess...I should really just stop avoiding her office and get it over with..." For sure before the end of next term. Yep.

When conversation shifted, Kurumi relaxed a bit more. "They...don't really like Slytherins, Ryunosuke in particular, so he sort of already has one strike against him." Thankfully, they were not as bad as her father when it came to such things. For one, they did not carry around a photo album filled with a ridiculous amount of pictures.

That was...unexpected. If Magnus had said that it shouldn't be a problem, then why didn't the spell work on Kurumi? It should have, yet it didn't. All the more reason to speak to her...or not...this was all based on the fact that Kurumi thought she'd been cheating when she actually wasn't, so, the only reason to discuss Metamorphmagi was to prevent this kind of things from happening again...and to provide answers to the Gryffindor's questions.

Which were normal questions to be asked, by the way.

"Well, I didn't know that." Ha he been on that same lesson? Not really, he hadn't. That's why he didn't know, yet he suspected that what Magnus said didn't apply to Kurumi. Perhaps its effects on Metamorphmagi wasn't precisely proven.

Sounded like research to him.

And....nod. Yes, she should do that. Stop by her office and demand a private meeting. That was very much like Kurumi. Not.

HA! That was funny. "Yeah, I used to feel that same way about Slytherins too." But then...Genius Destiny...mind you, she was a nice Slytherin. And...well, Sierra had her moments. Victoria was the nicest of them all, no doubt.

"Nothing is ever what it seems to be, though," and he was sure that her brothers would know that. "They'll give him a chance if he's nice to you." If he isn't...then he won't just have to deal with Kurumi's brothers, but with Treyen as well. "You know, the first thing my sister told me about coming to Hogwarts was," besides the fact that Vindictus always has chocolate frogs, "to stay away from Ravenclaws." He smiled at the thought, "I don't think I really listened." And he couldn't be more glad he paid no attention to his sister's warning. A warning that not even his sister took as a rule, because she met Tiberius FIRST, and she'd been nice to him and all.

Kurumi wasn't entire sure which part of the what she had said that he wasn't sure of, but there was a lot there to take in. Kurumi would like to think that she wasn't as much of a freak as she thought she was at this point in time, but she wasn't about to voice that out loud. If nothing else, it would remove the smile from his face and he probably would stop winking at her - wait, the latter might be a good thing since her heart still sort of raced whenever he did. She was just hoping that there wasn't something wrong with her.

Putting THAT conversation aside, Kurumi laughed a bit. "Ryunosuke told me that if I was sorted into Slytherin he would disown me." She had had no clue what her oldest brother had been talking about at the time either, not knowing that Hogwarts was divided up into houses and all that, so it had sounded like rubbish to her 11-year-old self. "I still don't think that many Slytherins like me very much though. At least, they are the ones that glare at me during lessons and in the corridors." Namely a certain third year she-snake who Kurumi still needed to speak to and sort of demand an apology that she was sure she would never get anyway. "Evelyn and I are alright now though. She is even teaching me hexes."

She sort of flinched when Treyen mentioned Ravenclaws, but not because of the implications there with Ellie. Her final match was still fresh in her mind and the Claws had really taken all their aggression out on the lions. She had never seen so many of her housemates thrown off their brooms. At least this time the team hadn't flaunted their victory in their faces like last term - when they had flat out ignore Gryffindors congratulating them. She didn't really say anything, seeing as she was lost in her own thoughts.

Oh, she probably looked weird. "I, um, one of my brothers was a Ravenclaw..." That was related to what they were talking about, right?

Treyen laughed, loudly. He didn't know how serious Kurumi's brother had been, but it sounded extremely hilarious to the Hufflepuff Prefect. Granted, considering that he liked Gilderoy so much, if Treyen had ended up in Ravenclaw, well, Kaika may have freaked out just a little bit.

"I don't think he would've, really, especially since you would've been the nicest Slytherin to date," he said, shaking his head at first and being completely serious at the end.

As far as the glaring Slytherins, well, he had a vague idea as to why they did so, she was incredibly smart and they didn't like being outsmarted, right? He knew how Sierra felt about Kurumi, anyway. "And since you pay no attention to them, it doesn't matter." He felt so sure about the little Gryffindor not paying attention to them, but she did, didn't she?

Huh, what?

He blinked. Was something wrong? Or...had something happened with Ravenclaw and Kurumi as well?

Never mind.

"Really? I didn't know that." And...how old was the Ravenclaw brother? "When did he come to Hogwarts?" around more than 7 years ago? If so, they probably met. Probably. Probably not.

Amethyst smiled and sat, looking out the window. It was gorgeous, the window. She hummed as the window set her at ease, all pain in her arm going away for the moment.

Harvey was bored so he decided to go to the library. When he got there he saw a familiar person sitting by the stained windows and recognised her as AME!!. He went over and sat down next to her "Ame! How are you? What are you doing here?