Fake siblings it is then. Jonathan nodded but still the thought of having a so-called sibling is kinda weird. Well, just the term used. It's still funny to Jonathan, so he will still laugh every single time Beezus would say that word.... Fake siblings. Jonathan chuckled once more. See? It was just funny and he doesn't even know why it is funny. It's just is.

Quite frankly, Jonathan would love to meet her as well. She's gone for the term and the last time they saw each other was when she gave him this crup, at her father's birthday. It was a really nice celebration even though Jonathan was stuck with Jeanne the whole time. He was not really the one who likes mingling in parties. He'd rather sit down and talk with her, try and catch up. Jonathan slowly shook his head "She's transferred to Beauxbatons" her mother loved that school and Jeanne, herself, wanted to graduate there. Ironic because, he knew that she didn't like that school in the first place. "Too bad. She's graduating this term as well" he added. Yeah. Beezus would have probably fun talking to her. Jeanne loves talking about a lot of things.

SNORT.

Him? Cheating? More like the other way around. Jonathan didn't answer the question. Please, he was just starting to feel okay. He's not going to have a recap of this again. So instead of talking about it, Jonathan smiled and asked "Are you done with the Charms homework?" he wanted to be done as well but he still wasn't. UGH. He's been procrastinating the whole time already and he needed to just sit down and write about it. Maybe Beezus have already finished hers?

And as for liking Jeanne... Well, Beezus doesn't really need to know. She doesn't know her and so did Jeanne. Although, yes... He did used to like her more than just a friend.

Minerva smiled looking at his brown eyes, wishing to be no where better at that moment. She bit her lip torn from moving away from him to continue her teeth thought or just staying and keeping with this moment looking in his eyes. She stayed for a few more minutes just looking at him and smiling feeling her heart pound a little quicker. Then she tore her eyes away from his and sat up. "Well maybe there is a certain look to them, I mean we could look at some animal pictures and maybe compare teeth to see if their is an exact similarity to your teeth and one of them." Minerva went into thought over all of this thinking about the animals he just names, how neat it would to see him as any of these animals, but a nervousness that was never there before hit her she looked back at him wondering. "Maxwell can this be dangerous? Could you get hurt trying this?"

Why the laughing? Seriously, did Jonathan find it funny that they were going to be fake siblings? She didn't. She liked the idea, thank you very much. "Don't laugh okay? I'm your sister now so you need to do what I say." Heh. Maybe she should've made a contract in black and white so Jonathan won't go ignoring her as his fake sister right? Right. Beezus made it a mental note to do a contract and have Jonathan sign it the next time they hang out.

Oh? She's transferred? Bummer. From his talking, she could tell that Jeanne was really an ideal Ravenclaw to befriend. And she and Jonathan were in the same year too. Awesomer. With a pout, she said, "I hope she didn't transfer. She should've been my fake older sister too." Yeah, she was so confident that they will be friends. She liked this Jeanne girl even if she haven't met her yet. Hmm..maybe when she comes to meet Jonathan's mother she could also get to meet Jeanne? Yeah, she'd tell him about that later on. And speaking of transfers, "Did you know that Mordred came back?" asked Beezus casually. Jonathan knew him possibly, yes?

Narrowed eyes.

He was avoiding that question. She eyed him with a slight raise of an eyebrow and chided, "Yeah, I'm done with Charms. I used the Aguamenti charm." That was her favorite, producing water. Water was always handy and cool. But wait, wait...back to the strange part. Why did he seem to evade that question? Probably, he didn't hear? So Beezus repeated it. "I asked you, are you cheating on the Gryffindor Prefect and Lion Cookie Girl Kurumi Hollingberry?" Because that action he just did made her very curious.

Something was going on.

Oh, so now he says he's Canadian. But whatever, Victoria could never tell the differences between North Americanians. United States...Canada...what's the difference really? One's colder than the other. One's got mooses and the other's got a more colorful flag.

"Same difference really." Victoria retored as kindly as possible. "So how are you finding Europe??" Victoria asked...er...Gary. Personally, Victoria finds nothing much interesting in the more Western part of the globe, she finds Europe a more historical area, which makes it more interesting and a residence to be proud of. Seriously, the Statue of Freedom came from France. Europe!

Victoria heard Gary's next response and merely laughed. If she was really going to argue this thing down, it's obviously Victoria's going to seize the gold medal. "Yes, that is true. But you said previously that how are you suppose to trust me if you don't know my name. So I said 'you can't determine one's trustworthiness just by their names'." Victoria thought that she probably said too much. But then decided that this is good, because it meant Gary will talk more. She's actually helping him in a way; to talk more. Who would like an untalkable person? "I never mentioned that I want to get to know you more." Smirk. To be honest, Victoria always likes winning argument, even the little silly ones like this.

"But I do now. So nice to meet you too, the Boy-That-Gave-Me-Bread!" Victoria said cheerfully and was about to shake his hand when she realized they've already done that. "Sure, Vic is fine, just no Vicky-this or Vicky-that." the She-Snake pointed out.

Same difference?

Now, the blonde guy thought that she didn't know much about America. But he was too lazy to argue about that. That's not important actually.

He continued to feed the ducks by tossing some bread again. He really enjoyed that activity. It's really funny when he watched the ducks fought to get the crumbies. Hehehe.. Sometimes he never realized that he could really enjoyed a small thing like this.

Back to this girl. Emm.. Victoria. He was not in a good mood to have an argument. Especially a small-pointless-argument with a girl. Yes. a girl. That's his weakness actually. Suddenly he remembered when he met Zhenya at a first time and the argued each other just because her clumsiness. EEEEEEPPPP..

Why she always came to his mind?

"Okay." he said. Gary tried to be calm and cool, because those were his middle name though he felt a little bit annoying. "My uncle wants to expand his business in Britain actually. So, our family moved here." At first, he didn't agree about Lucas' decision to move here. But slowly, he enjoyed England, and Hogwarts.

Suddenly he remembered that Victoria had asked him before about the 'matter' that distract his mind. Should he tell her? He was doubt. "Hey.." he said. "Imagine that if you love your own- best friend, what should you do?" he asked. Maybe his question sounded a little bit extreme. But yeah.. Perhaps she knew about that?

Victoria still thinks he's badly distracted. He didn't even argue back...and Victoria didn't want him to. She likes those kind of people. =)

Okay??? Okay is not a good enough word to describe Europe, not nearly enough. "You know, I actually moved to England from France, where I used to attend Beauxbatons Academy of Magic..." Yes, it is necessary to say the full and official name. "I had first couldn't even compare Hogwarts to Beauxbatons. But then Hogwarts started to grow on me, and I started to love its ancient style and classic ways." Sometimes by the way she talks, Victoria think she reads too many dramatic novels.

THE DUCKIES! How can she forget? It's actually been a while since she has threw some crumbies into the pond. Oh, those duckies must have been very hungry. Thus Victoria threw all the left over bread crumbies into the duckie pond. If the duckies are still hungry after this, they'll have to beg Gary the Always-Distracted.

Uhhh...wha--love...best...friend...what???

Victoria starred at him oddly before slowly opening her mouth to say something. "Well...first of all, I would never fall in love with my best friend..." Uncertain of everyone else, but Victoria can never transform a friendship relation to a love relationship. "...but...if I did..." Victoria felt that it's best to tell him some advise rather than do nothing. "I would...I would not tell him just yet. When spending my time around him, I would do things to...to...please him...no...to please both of us, to let him know that we'll always be laughs and smiles when we're together. To let him know that it's important to me to be with him every minute for miracles to happen." said Victoria, as she took caution and care with every word to answer this question. "But do it very slowly. Then slowly, he will realize with all his heart." Yes...Victoria think that's what she'll do if it happened.

Wait...hang on... "Why???" Victoria asked suspiciously, but a joking smile is on her face. "Did you fall in love with your best friend??"

Cue more snorting.

Yeah, yeah. Since she already claimed it as it is then Jonathan can no longer say anything about it. But Jonathan's expression changed when she suddenly said you need to do what I say. Jonathan's eyes widened and looked at her. Pffft. "yeah right" he mumbled sarcastically at Beezus. "Since I'm your fake brother" he said still smiling at the term "Rule number 1..." yes, he had a rule "...no one tells me what I should do" he said as his hand tossed his hair onto the side. Actually, that was the only rule, or wait--- they'll just have more rules as they go along with this brother-sister relationship. Of course, as the older one, he gets to state them.

Jonathan put both of his hands into his pockets as they kept talking about Jeanne. Jonathan nodded some more, that's what exactly happened "She did transfer, last term" on their sixth year. He didn't miss out on her that much because they usually met over the vacations when Jonathan was pulled out of school. Then from Jeanne, the topic shifted to Mordred. Mordred was back? Jonathan tried thinking about it, oh yeah. Now that she has mentioned it, Jonathan have seen Mordred around the common room this year. "yeah, I saw him once but didn't get to converse with him yet" sadly they haven't yet. "Why? What about him?" he said cocking an eyebrow at her. Was there something about him that she would like to ask? Or a message she would like to give?

UGH. Was everyone done except for him? Jonathan should really get on with this Charms homework tonight. PROMISE! He won't sleep until he finishes it... since he barely sleep nowadays. Jonathan was about to ask her a suggestion when she suddenly asked that awful question again. What is up with everyone and the asking of questions about him and Kurumi? Because quite frankly, he's getting annoyed every minute of it.

Jonathan's eyes squinted at Beezus, Jonathan was trying to calm down but seriously that sort of accusation is beyond the line. "NO" he raised his voice a little bit and looking away, specifically at the water. "No okay. Look Beezus..." he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "... we broke up a month ago." Should he just post this all over the notice board of each houses too? "So i would appreciate it if we stop talking about this!" since cheating was the main reason why they both broke up. No more questions.

So, she was also a transfer student? Interesting. So many people from all over the world moved to this school. It made sense, since Hogwarts was the oldest Wizarding school.

WHAAAAAA...

Actually what did he say before to her?

Okay. That's okay, Gary Rush. Just be cool as usual,you know?

"Err.." he was a little bit confused how to start this story. "Well, I think I like her before we became good friends." he smirked. Then suddenly he remembered at the first time he met Zhenya in Diagon Alley. "She is my first friend in here, then one day she said to me that she liked me just as her good friend."

He didn't know if Victoria was a right person to know about this, but he couldn't keep this by himself alone. The blonde guy didn't have many friends in Hogwarts.

"Well, I don't think that she likes me." He sounded a little bit pesimistic. But from her gesture, her reaction when he did something to her, from.. where again? He could realize that she was not an ordinary friends. He didn't know much about that. Gary was not a 'girl' expert. Believed it or not, Zhenya might be his first love.

Maxwell smiled at her as she kept her eyes on his. He thought she was adorable when she bit her lip...and then she asked him that question...the one that Taylor did constantly...Maxwell thought this was the reason Taylor never offered to help him, she new the risks. "I'm not going to lie to you Minnie...there are risks...things could go wrong, but that's why there's so much studying involved...and i've been at it longer than most.." He said hoping to reassure her. He felt no fear or doubt about it but he didn't want her to either.

Minerva looked at him and gave him a reassuring hug, she believed him like she always did. She didn't know why, but she really trusted Maxwell. "Okay, I'm really going to start focusing on this then. I need to know the ins and outs of what's going on. Hopefully I can also find things that can be used..." she didn't know whether to finish the thought, she wanted nothing to do with that thought. She put her hand to his face worry in her eyes. She didn't want to think of something bad happening with him trying something like this. She knew that her feelings were becoming stronger for him, but it wasn't until that moment when she thought about the dangers that it really sunk in how much she was starting to fall for him. "I will just being studying everything I possibly can, so that I am prepared to help if needed when you do this the first time." She didn't ask if she could be there, but figured if she was she would be ready to help if something went wrong. She didn't know how she would help, but hopefully a book would tell her that.

Maxwell looked into her eyes giving her a reassuring look. "You are very sweet, thank you...but it's not for another year or two..We have plenty of time." He said not just speaking about him becoming an Animagus but them as well, how much time did they really have? How attached was he to Taylor still? and her with Damon?

Minerva looked at him feeling a bit unsure at the moment. "You still do want my help don't you?" Maybe he would rather her not be around while he was studying or maybe he didn't think they would be together long enough for her to help, the doubts started creeping back into her head and she shoved them out by quickly leaning in and giving him a kiss. "I'm glad you have a few years left, because that will give me time to look for more information and not just in the library here. I know it probably has most of the things we can find, but some books stores might have others." Her eyes sparkled a little talking about the books and reading she loved it, it was a part of her she was trying to run from since last term, but there was no hiding her excitement for learning.

Maxwell nodded. "Of course, it's one of our goals remember?" He said kissing her back. "I've a few books from Diagon Alley, You can barrow them sometime, i have most of them memorized. He'd been reading them since the end of first year. Reading was never something he was into before this, but now he constantly had a book, whether it was a transfiguration book or a very large novel.

Evelyn refrained from rolling her eyes when she heard Blue's explanation about why she named her toad WMD. Rule Hogwarts? Really? She bit her lip from smiling. This girl was way too funny for words..even if she didn't mean to be funny. Evelyn, trying to keep a serious expression, said, "Well, I honestly don't see it but if you think so..well, okay." HUH!? "Blue, relax." Evelyn thought the kid was way too hyper sometimes..well, ALL the time but heh. She was a kid. Kids were always hyper, right? Evelyn smiled at Blue again. "I agree with you. He'll definitely rule the world." She might as well make the girl happy by agreeing with her.

And..Blue poked her cheek. Something wrong with her? She'd been a little touched by what her sister had said..but she wasn't going to say that aloud though. Blue would probably think she was stupid or something.. "No, not really. I'm fine. I was a little flustered, that's all."

Tap dancing dinosaur!? Evelyn giggled and nudged Blue in the arm. "How can I not see it?" Well..probably because Eve didn't exactly have an over-active imagination. But, whatever. This was fun.

Minerva smiled glad that he still wanted her help. "Yes it is still one of our goals. We are partners in crime, just a little more then that now." She grinned at him feeling a bit excited to help him with this. "I would like to borrow them, when you have a chance to get them to me." She really did want to start reading more about it. Minerva started trying to figure out when she would fit it into her schedule with classes and hopefully quidditch.

Maxwell smiled back. "Just a little more." He said leaning into her a little. "I can get them to you by dinner if you're not too busy to join me tonight." He said reaching for her hand and giving it a little squeeze.

Minerva's smile got a bit bigger as he leaned in to her. "I would love to have dinner with you silly." She squeezed his hand back, this had turned out to be a wonderful day. She felt like she was on cloud nine. Looking at the ducks she sighed at bit. "Maxwell I keep forgetting to ask you, how are thing with you and your friend?"

Maxwell smiled. "I promise not to eat like such an animal this time." he said laughing a little bit. "Ariana? we made up. I took her to my spot and we're okay." He said smiling at her and wrapping his arms around her.

Minerva cuddle closer as he placed his arms around her. She was happy he made up with his best friend. She wondered if it was time to make up with Harvey for calling her stupid. She hadn't seen him since that day at the tree. "Well I'm glad you two made up. I hate seeing friends upset with each other. Did she like your spot?" Minerva turned kissing his cheek.

Maxwell nodded. "She was a little terrified at first but she got over it." He said with a small laugh.

MEEEEEP! That was his rule? No one would tell him what to do? POUT. "But I'm your sister!" she snapped. "You should at least listen to me." Because sisters came next to mothers knowing whats best for the important men in their lives. That was right. Jonathan was officially a VERY significant man her in her life now. He should be feeling lucky.

He said Jeanne transferred last term. She was already at Hogwarts last term! Why didn't she have the chance to meet her? That was so ironic. Them being in the same house, but not knowing each other! Pffft. She really should mingle more with the people in her own house, she's being too friendly with the ones in the rival Houses. And off to the Mordred talk. The Ravenclaw shrugged nonchalantly as she watched the crup running around. "Nothing. Nothing. I already talked to him."

Irony was the topic of the day huh? She and Jeanne, both Ravenclaws, never met. Jonathan and Mordred, both Slytherins, haven't talked yet despite the fact it's been almost three months since term started.

.....Her head jerked to his direction. What's with the voice raising? Was he mad? Did she say something wrong? If so, she was clearly unaware of it. Then he looked at the water and she stared at his profile. What's bothering you brother? She wanted to voice out but before she could even open her mouth, his words drowned everything she wanted to say.

With widened eyes and a loud hammering upon her chest and head, she stood up. "W-what?" She asked in a weak voice. "You..you what?" She must've have heard it wrong. There seemed to be a mistake. "Broke up? What?!" The young Claw swallowed hard. "No..no...Jonathan, you..you and Kurumi...you can't.." Was he playing with her? She didn't find it funny at all. Not even one bit. Shaking her head, she continued weakly. "You can't be serious brother." It can't be true.

Minerva looked at him a little confused. "I know I have not gotten to know her very well and I hope I will better since she is your best friend, but that surprises me that she would be terrified of anything. She doesn't seem like a person that would be afraid of much. Plus she is a slytherine, right? Her common room is in the dungeons and she is afraid of your place?" That confused Minerva a bit. She remembered meeting her at Damon's birthday party and she didn't seem very happy to meet Minerva. She didn't give her much of a chance, so she assumed that she would probably not approve of them dating, but that didn't matter.

Maxwell laughed a little. "Yeah, she's a Snake. I'm not sure why it freaked her out, probably because i didn't explain anything and she just found it odd." He smiled at her "Ariana's a little rough around the edges but once you get to know her she's pretty great."

Minerva smiled, still in shock a bit that she was freaked out. "Well I hope I get to know her better. Since she is your best friend, I think I need to try to welcome her in my life as well. I don't want her feeling like I'm a threat or that I would ever think she is a threat, because I don't. I know some people get that way when they are dating, but I don't want you to change anything with me." she kissed his cheek and smiled. She wanted him to be happy and she wanted to be a part of everything in his life so she would get Ariana to like her some how if that would make him happy.

Maxwell nodded. "I'm sure you will. She might be a little over-protective..." He said hoping Ariana wouldn't scare her off...