His Angel

Chapter 10

"There's a reason why we avoid that place. Don't trust what you can get from there." He looked downcast again. "I'll check out Snape's private stores for you." He looked at her in horror.

"I can't asked you to do that!" She waved her hand airily.

"He doesn't mind if we snoop around. And besides I like having you around, can't afford to lose you under the lake." A grin lit up his face.

"Don't let it get into your head Potter." She muttered although a small smile was playing on her lips. He widened his eyes and looked at her with the same forlorn expression he had minutes ago.

"Okay." He said, his voice etched with sadness although she could see the amusement in his eyes. She grinned at him.

"You've been around the twins for too long. What's the second way?" She asked curiously.

"Bubble head charm."

"It works?"

"Yeah, tested it out too." He had indeed gone to the prefect's bathroom and used the charm which worked well to his delight. "But…the only problem is, I'll be too slow. Gillyweed makes you faster underwater…" She nodded, her brow furrowed thoughtfully.

"You could always try some transfiguration." He grinned ruefully at her and lifted the book he was reading now for her to see the cover, Human Transfiguration.

"I could yes. But it's really hard."

"When is the second task?"

"February 24th. Professor McGonagall told me yesterday."

"It's not too bad then. You still have what? Five weeks and a couple of days to work on it." Gazing at her watch she stood up. "We need to go, it's almost time for Runes." He nodded and stalked off towards Madam Pince with the books under his arm.

"Note?" She snapped as soon as he approached and he pulled out the slip McGonagall had written for him. The books on Transfiguration were from the Restricted Section. She spent about a whole minute trying to detect some form of forgery before she huffed and handed him the books.

"What took you so long?" Daphne asked haughtily when he came back to their table where she was waiting for him.

"She was having fun with the note." He muttered, shoving the books inside his bag. They set off upstairs towards the Ancient Runes classroom and they were met halfway along the way by Tracey who greeted him a lot more warmly than before and fell into step with them.

Harry sighed softly. Daphne had finally made him realize that more than half the school had crushes on him including Tracey although she also assured him that most of them had given after seeing him and Fleur at the ball. There were still quite a few that refused to give up though.

Ancient Runes was becoming more and more enjoyable now that they had finally moved past the translating phase. They were now learning the theory behind applying Runes for enchantments and they were especially excited when Professor Babbling announced that they would be able to move on to a more practical application of them by the end of the year, if not, definitely by the beginning of next year.

Afterwards they hurried downstairs to the grounds for Care of Magical Creatures which had recently ceased to be as fun as before partly because the Skrewts were becoming potentially lethal and mostly because Hagrid was not his usual old cheery self.