Books are Good but Cute Boys are Better

Terry yawned as she snuggled against the tree trunk, book propped up on her knees. The sun was bright and warm, but it was windy out and she was pretty sure Iggy was somewhere up in a tree....

Oh well.

Terry had a lollipop sticking out her mouth, the candy part almost gone as she had been reading for several hours.

She had finished the chapter when a shadow neared her.

"Long time no see?" Dree grinned at sat down next to Terry. "How've you been?" She asked her fellow dormmate/redhead.

"What are you reading?" She asked, trying to get a good look at the cover. "And there's a cat in that tree over there" She pointed to a tree a few feet away. "Does it belong to you? Because it was glaring at me. Cats don't like me. I don't like cats." She rambled a bit...

Terry blushed at seeing Landon. "Hi Dree, vhy did vou leave early?" she asked, glaring playfully at her friend. "But no, not my iguana. Iggy's somewhere... And it's a complete history of dragons." she added.

"T-thank v-vou L-Landon.." Terry blushed, hiding her face with her book. She had developed a mild-fine, major!- crush on the Gryffindor over the summer. "V-vhy don't vou join us?" she asked nervously.

"Dree Conners!" Dree grinned at the new boy. "and yes. I see Iggy. I mean that cat" She pointed to an orange ball of evil and fur that was lurking on the low branches of a nearbye tree.

"Yeah sorry" She grinned sheepishly and rubbed the back of her head. "Something came up.. Sort of a family emergency... I'd rather not talk about it" She added at the end. She didn't mind telling Terry, but she didn't know this new boy who was making her stutter. "And haven't you read that book like a million times?" She asked.

"Dree.....Iggy is an iguana, hence Iggy." Terry pointed next to the cat at a snarling iguana. "Oh! I don't have a kitty." she shrugged.

"I still don't remember how many scales a female Cornish Velsh has, Dree." she glared mildly. "And it's only twenty times."


"Anyvays, Landon, how has vour summer been?" she asked the boy curiously.

Fiona was sitting under one of the trees at Centenary Park. It was her fourth day in Diagon Alley, and so far, other than the raccoon incident yesterday, things had been quite peaceful. She had been upset by the fact that she had kind of gotten a reputation as an 'animal whisperer' among the group that had been stuck up in that tree. They had been jerks though, and she had long ago decided not to bother with any of them from now on.

Fiona had her bag about her shoulders and her back was against the trunk of the tree as she read a book. Everything seemed pretty peaceful. Her raven Kira was on her shoulder and her sharp black eyes were looking around as her master read a book on Transfiguration. Fiona was really interested in the concept of Animagi and being able to change your shape. She knew she'd never be able to do it now, especially seeing as how she'd only found out about the magical world a few weeks ago, and it'd take a lot of work. She definitely wanted to become one one day, though.

Kira suddenly took off in flight and Fiona looked up in surprise. The raven was flying off towards a group of people, in fact. With confusion, Fiona stood up and put her book back in her bag, then running after her familiar, wondering what she took off for.

She finally came up to the group of two girls and a boy, stopping when she saw Kira making circles above an iguana and a cat. When she spotted Fiona, she flew back to her, taking her rightful spot on Fiona's shoulder, her eyes staying on the iguana. Apparently, Kira did not like this iguana, but Fiona knew it was no excuse for the raven to act in such a way. Fiona looked at the three people with a slightly embarrassed, but more so apologetic look on her face. "I'm sorry, I don't know what came over her," she said, standing before them feeling a little awkward.