Love, Lies and Magic Wands: Hannah Potter

Love, Lies and Magic Wands: Hannah Potter

New Engagements

Kassia and I sat by the lake. Two weeks had passed since school had ended and we were trying to enjoy our summer break. It was hard to do so though and I admit it was probably my fault.

THe one person I had that was the closest thing I had to a father had been murdered.

I'd broken up with Draco, my boy friend of a year and a half who to this very moment I was desperately in love with.

The second war with Voldemort had begun and I was in the middle of it, but by now I suppose I was used to it.

"You think if you bothered the water in the lake enough the squid would come out?" Kassia asked.

"Yeah but why would you do that?" I asked.

"I've never seen," Kassia said.

"It's huge. I called it 'The Kraken' until I was about 10," I said.

"Whoa..." Kassia said. "What cha thinking bout?"

"... Sirius. It's jsut, I remember seeing him reading a book under this very tree when he was my age," I said. "It was pensieve of course."

"I didn't know Sirius very well," Kassia said.

"I wish you had. He was so much fun. He could make a joke about anything and I mean anything. He was cruel and insensitive sometimes about it," I said. "But he always made me laugh and at Christmas he was such a child. He wanted to open gifts and give them so bad. It was so funny."

Kassia chuckled.

"Sounds look like a good guy," Kassia said.

"He was. Only justice anyone can do for him now is knowing that he's not a murderer and he's not the reason my parents are dead," I said. I sighed. "He was the closest thing I had to a father which teaches me that I would have been a major daddy's girl."

Kassia laughed.

"I was a dday's girl. I didn't ever ask for much but what KAssie wanted, Kassie got," Kassia said.

"I'm glad I know you Kassie. You're the only person in the entire world besides Harry who can feel where I'm coming from with our parents gone and our god fathers who are both psychopathic in thier own way," I said.

"We're both freakin hot. You forgot that," Kassia said.

"Oh yeah. We're totally hot," I said. "Our milkshake brings all the boys to the yard."

We both laughed.

"Oh, how blissful iggnorance is," Kassia said.

"Hmm... I miss Draco," I asked.

"No! You do not. You are perfectly capable of going five minutes without thinking about him," Kassia said.

"I don't it's just... Maybe I made a mistake," I said.

"You did not. You are fine," Kassia said.

"I don't," I said.

"Now what if your mother had gotten back together with Lupin?" KAssia asked.

"Then I'd be half werewolf and my name would be Hannah Lily Lupin which sounds like a Doctor Seuss character," I said.

"... You've thought about htis before haven't you?" she asked. I nodded. "And the point I was trying to make is, if your mother and Lupin had stayed together she'd have never went out with your father and found true love. You breaking it off with Draco is a sign that you are meant for someone else maybe. Maybe you need to test the waters and find someone new."

"You have any idea how high my standards are? I'm WAY to materialistic and high maitenence and domineering for any other guy BUT Draco," I said.

"No you're not," Kassia siad.

"Yes. My ego is way to high. I think I'm perfect and deserve everything," I said.

"... True," Kassia said.

"The only person in the world who thought I was perfect and deserved the best of everything was Draco," I said.

"THere are other Draco Malfoy," Kassia said pushing her long black hair behind her ears. She smiled encouragingly at me. "There'll be other boys. You've only been broken up a week so you don't believe me but there will be. I promise."

I took a deep breath. "You haven't lied to me once Kassia... I don't expect you to start," I said.

"I won't," Kassia said. "What times was Dumbledore supposed to be coming to get us?"

"Uh.... 10:30 I think he said," I said.

"Doesn't he know people sleep at ten o'clock?" Kassia asked.

"Clearly you're a Slytherin," I said. "Gryffindor's are knockturnal. We never sleep."

"Good thing I hang out with a bunch of you then," Kassia said sarcastically, sounding slightly annoyed at this as well.

"We're not so bad," I said.

***

Harry knocked on the doorof the burrow. In the course of the evening we had managed to go get Harry from Privet Drive, explain to the Dursley that Sirius was dead, that Harry only had to come back one more time before he graduated Hogwarts, discover that Sirius had left us everything (including Kreacher who was sent to work at Hogwarts), hire a new teacher (a one, Professor Slughorn), and arrvie safeley at the Burrow.