Life and Love

Friday

Your last lesson had ended slightly early so you and Harry went back to dorms to get changed before dinner. You changed into grey skinny jeans, ankle boots, strappy top and cardigan before sitting on the sofa in front of the fire waiting for Harry.
‘Whoa how did you get changed faster than me?!’ Harry said walking down the stairs.
‘No idea.’ You said walking towards the portrait.

You were going down towards the great hall when Harry pulled you aside into a dark cove.
‘Can I talk to you about something?’ Harry said looking slightly upset.
‘Yeah of course, what’s up?’
‘I’ve had these awful nightmares lately, where you or one of the others are killed. I’m just worried they will come true.’
‘Oh Harry, It's ok, I’m sure they will go away soon.’ You said giving him a hug.
‘What the fuck are you doing?’ You hear Sam shout at you.
‘Giving Harry a hug.’ You say letting go.
‘You seem to be doing that a lot lately.’
‘What? Why are you so jealous of him? Were best friends nothing more, there is nothing going on between us.’
‘Because you’re always with him, I hardly ever see you.’
‘That’s because I am in loads of his classes, he’s in my year, in my house and he’s my best friend!’
‘That’s not what I hear.’
‘So you’re going to listen to some bullshit instead of your own girlfriend?’
‘No, but you can’t help it when you hear these rumours and then catch your girlfriend in a dark out cove hugging another bloke!’ He said pointing at Harry, who seemed to of shrunken into the background as far as he could.
‘What so you have no trust for me at all.’
He paused for a while. ‘To be honest I don’t think I do.’ And with that he walked off. You turn back around to Harry.
‘What the fuck was that?!’
‘Hannah you’re still shouting.’ Harry said at a whisper looking at the first years coming out of a class room behind you who all were looking over.
‘Urgh, who ever said Hufflepuff were the friendliest best friends you could have were wrong.’ You said carrying on down towards the great hall.

‘Hannah you don’t have to eat it but don’t demolish it instead.’ Ron said watching you jab a potato.
‘Fuck off it's my potato’ You snapped.
‘Sam had a go at her on the way down.’ Harry told Ron leaning round the back of you.
‘Oh, jealous of Harry again was he?’ Hermione asked.
‘Just a bit.’ You mumbled under your breath. ‘Stupid Hufflepuff, the only good thing that came out of that house was Cedric.’
‘That’s because you thought he was hot!’ Hermione said laughing.
‘So…’ you paused before making a sobbing noise.
‘Aw it’s alright Hannah, you could do better.’ Ron said giving you a Hug, and Harry doing the same. Suddenly a note landed in front of you, you picked it up and opened it.

Yeah I just saw that. I don’t think we should go out anymore. Sam

‘What?!’ You shouted standing up getting a lot of strange looks from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw before Ron and Harry grabbing your arms and pulling you back down. Hermione took the note.
You mumbled a lot of swear words under your breath.
‘Oh.’ Hermione said looking sympathetically at you.
‘What is it?’ Harry asked.
‘Sam broke up with her, via a note.’
‘Ouch that’s low.’ Ron said.
They all paused giving you sympathetic looks.
‘I’m not hungry; I will see you in a bit then guys.’ They nodded.
‘Quidditch practice is on tonight at 7.30, if you want to come.’ Harry said as you were getting up. As you left the great Hall you realised you had quite a few pairs of eyes on you.

You were half way up the stairs towards the common room and starting to feel slightly upset. You had been going out with Sam for 4 school months, and yet he had broken up with you via a piece of paper. You couldn’t help but feel a little worthless.
‘MALFOY!’ You heard Sam shouting from inside the hall.
Suddenly there were footsteps behind you, and you felt someone grab you, put their hand over your mouth and pull you into a dark passage behind a tapestry.

‘He must have gone this way.’ You heard Sam say from just outside the tapestry, before hearing the footsteps run off again.
‘Lumos’ you heard someone whisper in your ear as their wand lit up and they let go of you.
You stood up off their lap and turned to see who it was.
‘Malfoy?’ You said confused.
‘Yeah err, sorry about that.’
‘It’s ok. Why were you running from that jerk?’
‘Erm, well news travels fast in the great hall; sorry about how he broke up with you.’
‘Mmm, why were you running from him though?’
‘Let’s just say I threw most the halls food at him.’
‘Why?’
But instead of answering you he walked out the passage. You jumped out to follow him but he had already gone.
‘Weird.’ You said out loud and carried on up to the portrait.

You went back up to your dorm and lay down on your bed. You stared up at the drape that covered the top of your four poster bed thinking about your eventful day.
To be honest, now you had time to think about it, you were not too bothered about the break up. You and Sam had been drifting apart and with him being all jealous and all you thought it was the inevitable. You were not the type to get upset by little things and tended to keep most your emotions locked up.

You wanted to be single for a while again. You knew their were a few parties coming up and you were well known for what you were like after the 5th or 6th butterbeer, and if some strongbow or vodka was around then it all went seriously down hill.
Normally, you were a bit shy, yet confident and flirtatious around guys. Usually around the girls you were not very confident and very quiet. That of course unless you were friends with them, or they were insulting you or your friends, sometimes people reckoned you could have been in Slytherin with how aggressive you could be.
You still remembered how it took the sorting hat a good 5 minutes before sorting you; he said you were a little bit of everything, apart from Ravenclaw.
However, when drunk you suddenly believed you could kiss anyone that you felt necessary. You still had control, I mean you had never kissed anyone that was not considered ‘fit’ or at least average looking, and you were quite sensible in a drunken sense. You danced and had long convocations with any of the girls, same with the boys and usually kissed them. Some of the girls were annoyed at this, calling you a slut and you hogged all the guys but you didn’t care. Your friends didn’t think of you any different, nothing ever came of what happened, you had never cheated on a boyfriend and it was all seen as a bit of fun.
After the one time you threw up everywhere, you had learnt your boundaries and it hadn’t happened since.
Breaking out of your deep thought and memories you realised that it was 7.20 and you had quidditch practice in 10 minutes. You dashed to get changed grabbed your broom from under your bed and ran down and out the common room with two minutes to get there. Luckily, you had always been very athletic and loved running and any sports. You loved the feeling of using all energy in a sprint.
You legged it to the quiddich pitch and got there just as everyone was coming out of the changing rooms.
‘Hannah! I didn’t know if you would be coming.’ Harry said smiling and walking to the middle of the pitch where you were stood.
‘Of course, I’m not going to let some stinky boy mess up my quidditch time.’ You said smiling. Harry laughed and you got on with practice. Occasionally messing around with Fred and George as you always did, luckily Angelina didn’t seem to mind much today, you thought she probably just wanted to keep you happy, realised you hadn’t eaten or maybe stop you from wearing yourselves out before the match the next day.
‘That will do guys.’ Angelina said as it was getting dark around 9pm. ‘Remember it’s a late match tomorrow at 5.30, so don’t be late if you go down to Hogsmeade and I want everyone here by 5, okay.’ The whole team agreed. ‘Good, and then after, when we have won, we are going to have a party in the common room okay?’ You smirked at her confidence and made for the changing rooms, Fred grabbed you and put him under your arm as if you were a light teddy bear and began walking as if he had not noticed you were there. You giggled.
‘Fred I know you’re strong but I am not light enough to be carried un-noticed.’ You said looking up at him.
‘Well seeing as you complemented me…’ he set you back down next to him.
‘Well I guess I will have to talk to you later as I got changed in my dorm.’ You said turning towards the castle as everyone made there way into the changing rooms.
‘Oh wait… so did I.’ Fred said realising he was going in the wrong direction.
You both said goodbye to the others and told Harry you would meet him in the common room and walked towards the castle with Fred.

‘So, you don’t seem too upset about the break up.’
‘Oh, you know already do you?’
‘Hannah, most the hall saw you stand up and then walk out, after a few Hufflepuff starting talking the whole school new with in three minutes, and someone made all the food from Slytherin and Hufflepuff fly and hit Sam, was hilarious. If it wasn’t for the fact that Gryffindor was laughing so loud I would have seen who Sam ran out after.
You laughed. ‘I’m glad to see I have some friends.’
Fred laughed with you. ‘As long as you are alright about it though?’ He said taking a more serious tone with you.
‘Yeah I’m sure I will be fine. I’m sure I will always have Mr Muscle here to cheer me up anyway.’ You said with a wink.
‘Anything for a damsel in distress.’ He said winking back. You giggled and made your way up the last flight of stairs.
‘Tiger Pop’s.’ Fred said to the fat lady and she swung the door open. You both walked through and towards the dorm stairs.
‘I will see you at the match then Hannah.’
‘Yeah see you tomorrow.’ You said smiling and giving Fred a quick hug and making your way to the dorms.