Watching the rain by the fire.

Rain... rain go away. that's what Hugo thought as he looked out the window of the Gryffindor Tower as the rain beat against the glass. It nevered failed when Hugo wanted to do something fun rain always got in the stupid way. Not that he minded rain but he was really looking forward to flying around hogwarts seeing how he found the time to do it. Growing to himself he boredly looked at the rain wishing it would stop so he could have some fun. Although he wasn't the only one in the common room it was filled from people reading, playing wizard chess or doing homework or studying.


As he looked at a table that had wizard chess on it he sighed to himself for he didn't have anyone to play with for Leslie and the others were somewhere. Hugo was quite a wizard chess freak like his father but he could never beat his father at it for he was a wiz at it. As he turned back to the window he stared at the rain watching it beat against the window. "I could read a book."Hugo thought to himself as he laughed at the thought of it. Hugo wasn't much of a reader but he was so bored he actually considered on picking up a book which would give his mother a heart attack.

Hitame was sad.

Just utterly sad. Her sister, Naomi, had gotten sick because she had insisted on going outside and playing in the rain the day before. It had been raining the day before, just as it did now. Naomi had a very bad cold and she even had a fever, but she refused to go to the Hospital Wing, so the nurses could help her. She prefered to stay in bed sick, rather than go to the nurses and get better. Hitame didn't get Naomi, but she smiled as she thought that she had gotten their father's stubborness. Then she frowned, thinking of her parents, and the letter they had sent her saying they were alive. She still couldn't believe, her parents could lie to their own children like that, make them believe that they were orphans for so long. Hitame had finally gotten Naomi to fall asleep after singing her the song their adoptive mother had always sung her, before she was killed.

Not wanting to do anything that could wake her sister up, Hitame slowly creeped out of the girl's dormitories and she ran down the stairs, almost tripping and falling on her way down, to the common room. She looked out the window quickly and frowned. "Stupid rain... You made Naomi sick..." she said softly but angrily. She sat down on one of the chairs near the fire, to dry her still damp hair, and she sneezed. Oh great, now all she needed was for her to get sick too. Then how was going to take care of Naomi? She was so focused on Naomi and herself being sick that she didn't notice anyone else in the common room. She sneezed again and she sighed heavily. "Ugh, stupid rain!" she said.

Leslie walked into the common room after spending almost all afternoon doing her homework and getting it all finished. As she walked tiredly into the common room she flopped down in her favorite chair by the fire and rubbed her eyes. "Gr... this stupid rain is making me all tired and sleepy."said Leslie in a annoyed voice as she turned to Hugo. "Oh hey Hugs, how are you?"Leslie asked him softly noticing he looked bored out of his mind like the rest of the Gryffindors. As she looked around the common room she Hitame she waved a friendly wave at her and seen her sneeze.

Getting up from her chair she walked over towards her. "Hello Hitame, are you ok?"Leslie asked her softly noticing she didn't look so good. "Maybe you should go to the Hospital Wing and get something for that cold you have."said Leslie softly. Leslie hated seeing anyone sick especailly a fellow Gryffindor even if she was younger then her by two years. "I also heard your sister Naomi is sick as well, maybe you can owl Sophia or something to send you some medience that way you don't have to go to the hopsital wing."shuggested Leslie. Leslie hated going to the hospital wing so he always owled her borther Andrew and he always got some medience from Sophia.

Hugo eyes shot off the window as he seen Leslie walking into common room he smiled at her. "Hey Les, I see you were in the library doing homework."said Hugo eyeing her bookbag on her shoulder. "Oh dear god, I'm one year from being a O.W.L. student god so help me."said Hugo. Hugo wasn't really looking forward to next year for his father told me stories about his O.W.L. year and his mother told him he'll have to study hard if he wanted to become an auror. "So... how is this year going for you so far Les?"Hugo asked her softly as he heard a sneeze a whipped around to see Hitame sneezing.

Walking beside Leslie he turned to Hitame. "Are you ok Hitame?"Hugo asked her softly as his blue eyes had worry in them. He and Hitame weren't really friends but they were Gryffindors and Gryffindors were there for each other. Hugo listened to Leslie and nodded. "Yeah maybe you should do any one of those, before it starts to get to bad."said Hugo. "So does anyone want to play some wizard chess?"Hugo asked Leslie and Hitame hoping one of them would. Hugo was bored and neededd something to do with his time seeing how he couldn't go outside cause of the rain.