On the Diagon Alley

Jessica had been something once again most of days at home. But she knew that she can't always spend it inside. She needed to go some other places too. She said to her parenta that she will go outside for awhile and has no idea whe back. She just walked on the streets and soon decided to go Diagon Alley. She soon was there.

She walked around there the and looked into the few shops. She didn't really buy anything from these shops. She just didn't need find anything what she needes or liked then. She had pretty much everything what she needed already. She walked into another shop soon and it came to become sweet shop and here shw bought few of them.

after that she was walking on the streets again. She had pretty much nothing else to do right now and wondered what she should do now or then where she could go now.

The blonde's eyes jumped around, taking in all of the shops as best as she could. It had been literally months since she had even seen Diagon Alley, and now she couldn't quite believe she was walking through it again. Not two weeks ago she had believed herself to be dying. Believed that she would never see this place or any other parts of the Wizarding World again. She certainly hadn't expected to be going around getting school supplies.

That was probably the strangest - and, really, the hardest - part about being where she was. The fact that she had to go back to Hogwarts as a sixteen year old but be a year behind was frustrating - almost to the point of being infuriating. But Katherine had long since lost that passion that made her angered or made her love Potions and Herbology as she had. Now she didn't have the energy to focus on most anything, and all she could hope for was a quiet school year in which people didn't ask her too many questions and didn't try and treat her like a child. Yes, she had some problems and would need to talk through things or avoid certain trigger situations, but she also didn't need people to try and help her avoid them. Being independent sounded a lot better than reliant on someone else.

"Kit."

Blinking hard, she turned her head and looked up at her brothers, realizing that they had been watching her. "You're doing it again," Mesut pointed out, gesturing to her hands.

She had recently taken up clasping her hands together and digging her nails into the fingers of the opposite hand. This, of course only happened when she was particularly anxious or wanted to get away from the situation she was in. Once, Lucas had asked why she was holding her hands like an opera singer, but then understood when she relaxed her arms and he saw the half-moon shaped marks on the insides of her fingers.

Katherine's hands fell to her sides and her cheeks colored red in embarrassment. "Right. Sorry," she offered quietly, instead clasping them behind her back.

"We need to go grab some Quidditch supplies, yeah? But we'll only be gone a few minutes," Luke promised. "If you can't find the right books, just come get us."

Katherine nodded, trying not to question the fact that she so easily took their coddling when despised it from everyone else. But after they left, she bit her lip and looked around. Heading off in the direction of the book store, Kit let herself just look around at the people and shops in front of her. Suddenly, she saw someone who looked extremely familiar. One of her old dormitory roommates to be specific. But now Jessica would be a year ahead of her and they would not be sharing a space as they had in the past.

Although she usually wouldn't have initiated a conversation, Katherine knew that if she wanted to have anyone at all to talk to at school, she had to start trying to get to know her old friends. It wouldn't be that easy for her, and she would have to learn to talk louder since that was one of her main struggles now. But she decided to go with her gut feeling anyway, so she sped up and tried to reach her old friend.

"Jessica?" She asked, her voice not really carrying very far, but hopefully loud enough to get the other girl's attention.

Jessica had been walking on the streets and looking into the shops once more there. She still haven't found what she wanted or liked. She knew that next shop will be book store, she needed to buy a few books from there now for her school actually but yeah she haven't reach to that shop yet there.

She heard her name called by someone and she looked around. She soon saw the familiar face there not very far from her. She soon realized who it was. She was her old roommate in Hogwarts, Katherine aka Kit. She smiled to her and walked a little bit more cloze to her.

"Kit," she said there. "No long time see," she added then. "You're feeling now already better right and you are coming back to school?" She asked basically two questions in row. She had missed hang out with her. It was quiet lonely in her room after she had left. "I missed you to see around our dormroom and yeah also I missed you in person," she said then.

Katherine felt bad for looking so surprised, but really she was glad that Jessica was being so nice to her about everything. She hadn't really expected the other Ravenclaw to be so kind to her, but really she shouldn't have worried about it at all. Jessica had always been a good person, so Kit took a deep breath and offered a smile in return for her questions and words.

"Yes, the healers say I should be okay now, so I have to go back and do fifth year again," she explained, walking beside Jessica as they moved towards the book store. "I missed you, too. I just hope that people don't think of me badly because I went away. Some of them might not know what actually happened."

"I have to get supplies for next year, which is why I'm here. Did you get yours already?" She asked, looking towards the shop. Talking to a person face to face was difficult, but when she didn't look right at them it actually wasn't so bad. She just hoped Jessica wasn't thinking Katherine was being rude by refusing to look directly at her.

Jessica was yeah good person most of times. She was rude or mean only when you really did piss her off or were rude and mean with her too. She is very sweet and caring person usually. She cares a lot about her friends for sure. She won't ever be wiyhout any reason mean or rude for them at all. Never. It's not like her when she doea it without reason.

Jessica nodded. "Oh that's good you are better now. But yeah we won't share room now but we can still see each others in common room or then around school. I hope you'll do good if you need any help In studying i can help you," she said then to her with smile. She did pass her fifth year with quite good greads and her all exams were basically done by O's ans E's. "Oh yeah. There will be yeah such people for sure but don't worty about it. All people don't have to know what happened. They will say bad words and such but just ignore them basically at the end they will stop doing it," she then suggested it basically to her.

"I still need a books for my school year. Other stuff I did bought already last time I was here," she said then with smile and walked too then towards bookstore. She didn't think that she was rude when she didn't look at her face or eyes. Shw doesn't do it all the time either. So need to worry about it at all.

Jessica was right, of course, when it came to their fellow students. The others might not have any real problem with talking to Katherine about her problems. She wouldn't really be surprised, either, if a few of them were completely rude about it. "That would be nice," Katherine replied, talking about the offer for Jessica to help her get back into classes. "Thanks."

"You're probably right," she added. "I mean, I hope they leave me alone but I guess sometimes people are just mean for fun." Shaking her head, she sighed. Even as someone who classified herself as a Dark Follower, Kit wasn't the sort to just be mean because she felt like it. She saved all harsh comments for people who talked bad about her family or herself. Until then, she wouldn't say anything against anyone. Well, actually, most of the time she didn't say anything at all.

Katherine followed Jessica towards the store, saying, "Maybe we can pick up our books together, then. I'm not sure I remember what people take fifth year."

When they reached the book store, Katherine let Jessica go first, and followed the other girl inside. Once they started walking around the book shelves, Katherine tried to find something else to talk about. It had been a long time since she had talked to anyone from the Wizarding World besides her brothers, so Kit wasn't really sure what topics were safe. In the end, she picked the most obvious one. "So, did you have to do anything for the marriage law thing? My father made sure we weren't involved, my brothers and I."

Jessica just nodded her head. She was right most of times but she really never said it out loud or anything like that always. She was glad that her friend was okay that she will help her out when needed, since she knew much about fifth year studies now and she would help her when ever she needs it, since fifth year wasn't that easy like it seems. "Ask any help when ever you need it, I'll try and help you out then," she said to her then with smile. "No need to thank me because, friends are there for each other when you need them."

"Yeah about that you are right, that some do it for fun. I don't really get why it's so funny for them, I never get it," she said there and shook her head on that idea bullying someone for fun. She didn't like that idea at all, never did.

"Sure we can, I think I know, I'm not really that sure either what books I need myself for my sixth year," she said with smile.

Soon she walked then into bookstore first. She began to look for her books and also did help Kit find hers. It was difficult if here was so many books. "Nope I didn't. You had to be sixteen for to go through it I heard but I turned sixteen just a few weeks ago. Also my parents didn't want be to through it so much either, I guess they made it sure that I won't be involved in it too," she said then there. She knew that much about it as she have heard and read about that marriage law.

Katherine turned her gaze to Jessica, surprised somehow at the other girl's words. She hadn't really thought about making friends - or getting in touch with her old ones - since leaving the hospital. The only person she truly was close to outside her family was a woman named Sharon who acted like a grandmother for Kit during her time at the hospital. She shouldn't have been shocked when the other blonde treated her so kindly.

"I think I'm taking Defense Against the Dark Arts and maybe Charms. Or Transfiguration. So I'll need those books for sure," Katherine explained. She always felt it would be better to go into classes prepared, so even if she bought books for classes she wasn't going to end up taking, at least she would have them available. Especially considering it had been a long time since she had worried about essays or exams.

"Well that's good," Kit nodded, glad that her friend wasn't forced into a marriage like some people she had heard about. "I know that many people hope it will be repealed soon. Everyone would probably like it to go away, really."

Thinking about her brothers, Katherine had to admit that she would have been curious to know who the Ministry thought was the best person for them to marry, and then who they would have matched her with if she had been required to sign up. "Did you have anyone you wanted to be matched with, if you had to be involved? I didn't really have anyone I was interested in. At least, not enough to marry them."

Jessica was kind always with people who she knew and also considered as a friend. It was natural thing for her to do it. It was just her. She didn't treat Kit anyone other way.

"These are good lessons. I'm taking Charms, DADA and then Potions. So I need these books," she said there quietly and with small mile there. She have taken these lessons already for awhile and she loves them very much and she is good at them too.

"Yeah I'm glad too that I wasn't forced to go through it," she said there and found her books so she took these to her hand. "Yeah there is," she said with nod now.

When she heard her next question she wondered what to say now back to her. "Too be honest no. I don't really have anyone who I like or date. So I'm kind of curious who would have been prefect match to me," she said there then. "Yeah there wasn't anyone like that me too, who I could marry I mean," she added then.

"I've never been all that good at Potions, honestly. My eldest brother was, though. It was easier when he and Luke were still in school and could help me. Now that they've graduated it's more difficult." A little sigh left Katherine as she remembered that her brothers would not be attending school with her this year.

She would have two fewer people to watch out for her and make sure that she didn't do or say anything ridiculous. Now that she kept to herself, she had become more likely to retaliate when someone spoke against her or her family. So without those older figures to stop her, Kit wasn't sure she wouldn't come off as cold or.. well, the Slytherin her father had expected her to be.

Katherine waited for Jessica to collect her books before turning to look for her own. "I mean, there are some guys who were nice to me and all, but that isn't really a reason to want to marry them, you know? I guess I would have wanted someone I was friends with, though. It would have been easier than a stranger or someone who I didn't get along with."

Her feet carried her towards the section with Transfiguration textbooks, even as Katherine kept an eye out for parchment and the other things she would need for classes. How soon would her brothers come back? She actually wasn't having a bad time like she had expected to upon leaving her house. At least she had run into someone she knew. Turning to Jessica, Katherine took a deep breath, eyes widening a bit out of nervousness. "Would you want to get lunch after we get everything? My brothers wouldn't mind waiting."