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"That is rude, you can't just say that." Easton shook his head.

"Uh, yes I can? You're talking like we can't say that at all, we're not in a book and he's certainly not the main character at all." Henry rolled his eyes.

Benjamin nodded "that's true." but Easton sighed "it's basic decency, do not talk behind someone's back."

"Don't care"

I clapped my hands together to get their attention "focus on our main problem here, Kayden, will you ever join us? How about your parents-"

"Didn't you guys hear about it? My parents are out of the country... Haven't heard anything from them." Kayden grunted.

Oh...

"Hey, it's alright and I hope your parents reply to you soon as possible."

"You know... Sometimes having parents who constantly ignore you and don't have time for you is much worse than having your parents dead..."

"Don't you ever say that."

"I'm speaking the truth. What's the point of having parents if they act like they're dead to you. The last time I met them, I was only 3."

"This just got depressed real quick,"

"Let's go out."

The five of us went out of the common room and decided to walk around the castle, "Do you think it's a good idea to walk around, especially in a full moon?" asked Benjamin.

"It's full moon today?" I asked.

"Yes, it's going to be a full moon for the whole month, we do not know why but mother nature I guess, but it will be dangerous for us because of the werewolves. I overheard that everyone must stay indoors once at bedtime, with no practice at night. Only in the mornings." Easton said as he adjusted his glasses.

wait, glasses?

"Since when you're wearing glasses?"

"Just this summer, my eyes got rotten. I am slowly having bad eyesight so i have to wear glasses now."

"Oh."

"OY!"

We checked where the yell came from, it was at the Gryffindor tower and it was Ron, seizing his bag as Crookshanks sank four sets of claws deep inside it and began tearing ferociously. "GET OFF, YOU STUPID ANIMAL!"

Ron tried to pull the bag away from Crookshanks, but Crookshanks clung on, spitting and slashing.

"What's going on here?" Benjamin asked as we five entered their common room.

"Granger's cat is after Ron's rat." Oliver stood next to me.

"Hey."

"Hi."

"Ron, don't hurt him!" squealed Hermione; as we watch them along with the others inside; Ron whirled the bag around, Crookshanks still clinging to it, and Scabbers came flying out of the top.

"CATCH THAT CAT!" Ron yelled as Crookshanks freed himself from the remnants of the bag, sprang over the table, and chased after the terrified Scabbers.

"I want to see where this goes." Kayden chuckled.

"Come on don't be like that, the rat is also breathing living, let's help." Easton shook his head.

"That rat was the reason why your homework was destroyed..." Henry looked at him.

"..."

"..."

"...I'm going to kill that rat."

Before we knew it, Easton Kinsley Hamilton was already chasing after the two animals with his wand out.

"That's right! Help me stop that cat, Hamilton!" Ron screamed happily as he chase after them.

"Oh poor Ron, he thinks Easton is helping him." I snorted.

George Weasley made a lunge for Crookshanks but missed; Scabbers streaked through twenty pairs of legs and shot beneath an old chest of drawers. Crookshanks skidded to a halt, crouched low on his bandy legs, and started making furious swipes beneath it with his front paw.

Ron and Hermione hurried over; Hermione grabbed Crookshanks around the middle and heaved him away; Ron threw himself onto his stomach and, with great difficulty, pulled Scabbers out by the tail.

"Look at him!" he said furiously to Hermione, dangling Scabbers in front of her. "He's skin and bone! You keep that cat away from him!" then he looked at Easton who still has his wand out pointing at Ron's rat. "And you! Stay away from my pet, I thought you were going to help me."

"Because of that pest, I failed one class."

"It's not his fault!"

"Weasley, don't be stupid, it's the rat's fault." Henry sighed.

"Also, Crookshanks doesn't understand it's wrong!" said Hermione, her voice shaking. "All cats chase rats, Ron!"

"There's something funny about that animal!" said Ron, who was trying to persuade a frantically wiggling Scabbers back into his pocket. "It heard me say that Scabbers was in my bag!"

"Oh, what rubbish," said Hermione impatiently. "Crookshanks could smell him, Ron, how else d'you think --"

"That cat's got it in for Scabbers!" said Ron, ignoring the people around him, who were starting to giggle. "And Scabbers was here first, and he's ill!"

Ron marched through the common room and out of sight up the stairs to the boys' dormitories.

"Oof."

"That was a bit intense,"

"What are you five Slytherins even doing here in the Gryffindor tower?" asked Fred.

Then George playfully gasp "they're here to spy on us Freddie!" he immediately went to his brother's side but never forgot to wink at me.

Which made me roll my eyes "no, we are not. We heard the racket so we decided to check it out, we were just having our walk; that's all." I smiled at them.

"But it's dark already, remember what the professors said while everyone was in the class, first year's until 7th years are forbidden to go out of their dorm at night, especially after dinner," said Lee as he sat next to the twins.

"It's alright, Kayden- we can just apparate."

"..."

"Only the year 7th can do that spell, it's a very advanced level of a spell. You can't do that." said Hermione as she clutch her cat to her chest.

"Oh that... Uh..."

"Oh piss off now, look at the time. Time for bed. Everyone hold hands. Now." said Kayden grumpily as she grabbed my hand and in a blink, we were at the boy's dorm.

" I still find it weird how you can do it without a wand," Henry said as he went over to his bed.

"We're sleeping at the Slytherin dorm from now. Let's go before everyone sees us." I said as both Kayden and I left them and went to our room.

~~~

Ron was still in a bad mood with Hermione the next day even with Easton who he doesn't even talk to, I mean Ron talks to him if he needs help with studying. But with Hermione, he barely talked to her all through Herbology, even though he, Harry, and Hermione were working together on the same Puffapod.

"This is depressing, look at them three." Benjamin whispers to me.

"Shush, I'm trying to listen to their conversation." I placed my index finger to my lips giving Benjamin a sign to shut his mouth.

"How's Scabbers?" Hermione asked timidly as they stripped fat pink pods from the plants and emptied the shining beans into a wooden pail.

"He's hiding at the bottom of my bed, shaking," said Ron angrily, missing the pail and scattering beans over the greenhouse floor.

"Careful, Weasley, careful!" cried Professor Sprout as the beans burst into bloom before their very eyes.

Draco and his friends laughed at his mistake.

Soon after hours came by "we have Transfiguration right?" Kayden asked.

I nodded "yeah we do," as we all walk in to the room, we saw Lavender Brown seemed to be crying. Parvati had her arm around her and was explaining something to Seamus Finnigan and Dean Thomas, who was looking very serious.

"What's happened to her now," Kayden groaned.

"What's the matter, Lavender?" said Hermione anxiously as she, Harry, and Ron went to join the group.

"She got a letter from home this morning," Parvati whispered. "It's her rabbit, Binky. He's been killed by a fox."

Kayden looked at me squinting her eyes, "what? Why are you looking at me like that?" I whispered

"It's not you right?" she whispered back.

"I beg your pardon? Why do you think I would kill a rabbit." I slapped her arm.

"Ah, ouch. My bad,"

Kayden knows my secret, that I can change into an animal.

~flashback-

"Y/N, have you seen my-"

Before I knew it the door was already opened, and Kayden was staring at me.

I'm on my fox form.

"Holy shit."

I changed back to my normal self.

"Please don't tell anyone-"

But something happened.

She shifts into a tiger... It was King.

Then she changed back "YOU'RE KING!? WHAT THE FUCK!?" I run up to her and hit her a couple of times.

"Ah! I thought you knew about it already, I'm surprised Hagrid and the centaurs actually kept it a secret."

"But it was you all along?"

"Yeah?"

"This is so... AMAZING, we can sneak out on our animal form." I grinned.

~end of flashback~

"Oh," said Hermione, "I'm sorry, Lavender."

"I should have known!" said Lavender tragically. "You know what day it is?"

"Er --"

"The sixteenth of October! 'That thing you're dreading, it will happen on the sixteenth of October!' Remember? She was right, she was right!"

The whole class was gathered around Lavender now. Seamus shook his head seriously. Hermione hesitated; then she said, "You -- you were dreading Binky being killed by a fox?"

"I swear it wasn't me, I mean. We're in Hogwarts, her rabbit was at her home." I nudge at Kayden keeping ourselves quiet as possible.

"Well, not necessarily by a fox," said Lavender, looking up at Hermione with streaming eyes, "but I was dreading him dying, wasn't I?"

"Oh," said Hermione. She paused again. "Then --"

"Was Binky an old rabbit?"

"N -- no!" sobbed Lavender. "H -- he was only a baby!" Parvati tightened her arm around Lavender's shoulders.

"But then, why would you dread him dying?" said Hermione.

Parvati glared at her.

"Well, look at it logically," said Hermione, turning to the rest of the group. "I mean, Binky didn't even die today, did he? Lavender just got the news today --" Lavender wailed loudly. "¨C and she can't have been dreading it, because it's come as a real shock --"

"Don't mind Hermione, Lavender," said Ron loudly, "she doesn't think other people's pets matter very much."

"Ron Weasley."

I glared at him as he looked away.

Professor McGonagall opened the classroom door at that moment, which was perhaps lucky; Hermione and Ron were looking daggers at each other,

"When will this be over," I grumpily groan as I slump into my chair.

"Did you say something, Miss Dumbledore?" Aunt Minnie raised her eyebrow.

I shook my head and fixed how I sat "no ma'am." I said.

"Good, now, class starts."