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Another Try???

September turned into October and Sara wasn’t given the permission to go out of the castle to go in search of her friend. She tried to talk to the headmistress but she was strict on school rules. She was allowed to go out only when there would be Hogsmeade trips. Sara didn’t go for quidditch try outs and Ginny was upset with her. It was the first trip to Hogsmeade and the students were all anxious to get out of the castle and go for an outing. Sara was more then anxious to leave the castle for one she would meet Rosmerta again and two that she was allowed to go ahead and go to Duff Town to see if her friend is still there. She was hoping to see him. It was two days after the full moon and she hoped he would be back. Though Rahul had made no intentions of staying in Duff Town when she first met him, she had a hunch that he was staying there. She quickly dressed up in her blue narrow jeans and black polo necked shirt, she donned a thick jacket as the weather was turning cold and windy. She brushed her thick curly hair and clipped it.
“Sara,” called Fiona, “you ready”
“coming…” she called back. She quickly wore her shoes took her bag and left.
“sorry to keep you holding,” said Sara as she came down.
“hey morning Sara,” said Derek and he stared at her which she ignored. Derek had this incoherent habit of staring at her which used to trouble her in the beginning but now it irritates her.
“morning Derek and it will be really kind of you if you stop staring at me,” she said politely.
“lets get going. Ginny will be waiting for us at the door”
“ok”
“why is she there?” asked Derek as he followed the girls out of the portrait hole.
“she had to talk to Luna about something,” said Fiona as they climbed out of the portrait door. They walked towards the castle entrance and saw Ginny in her red sweater and black denim skirt and boots and Luna in her typical Luna-ish dressing style with cork necklace and some sharp canine ear hangings.
“hey there Sara”
“morning Ginny, morning Luna”
“so ready for some butterbeer Sara,” asked Luna
“yeah, but I think you should allow me to get it for you people, I am missing the counter at Three Broomsticks,” said Sara and Fiona, Derek and Luna looked at her amazed.
“you mean you worked in Three Broomsticks before?” asked Derek
“yes Rek she worked there and helped Madam Rosmerta during the summer,” said Ginny and they walked out of the castle into the grounds and then walked past Hagrid’s hut and then out of the castle gates.
“Ginny I need to ask you something,” said Sara nervously
“what is it?” she asked as she and Sara were walking behind Luna and ahead of Fiona and Derek.
“um…why is it that everybody staring at us? Am I looking hideous or something? Actually Fiona called and I thought I was getting late so I didn’t even bother to look at myself in mirror,” said Sara and Ginny laughed aloud. Luna looked back but then turned away and hopped her way as usual.
“Sara they are not staring at us, they are staring at you and not because you are hideous,” she cut Sara off before she could open her mouth, “but because you really are looking great” and Sara gave her an incredulous look and Ginny rolled her eyes
“are you as blind as Hermione is? She hardly paid attention to any guys in her year as she always would be busy with helping Harry and bickering with Ron. I have heard so many of them thinking of taking her on a date but they were too anxious and even scared of getting bit off by Harry or Ron that they kept to themselves. I think the only brave amongst them was Cormac Maclaggen and it was Hermione who flirted in the beginning to make Ron jealous but she herself burnt her fingers that way,”
“great. I don’t understand how come people end up embarrassing themselves to grab someone’s attention towards themselves,” said Sara and Ginny raised an eyebrow.
“no not that I am saying Hermione is stupid or something but its just that, have you seen that Ravenclaw girl the way she works so hard on grabbing Wayne Hopkins attention. For me it really is funny,” said Sara, “I would rather put in so much of hard work in studying for NEWTs or going in search of my friend” and Ginny just rolled her eyes, “you are no different then Hermione when it comes to studying but at least she helped me with getting around Harry” and Sara just nodded.
“so you are going in search of your friend?” asked Ginny
“yes”
“why? I mean why do you want to go back and get hurt all again. I have never seen you so happy after you joined Hogwarts. You will go in search of him. he might not be there and you will be all broken heart and even if you meet him I am sure that he will not go back not until you finish your year here at Hogwarts. Then why do you want to go back again?”
“just to meet him. You obviously meet your friend when he isn’t well, right?”
“not well?”
“its just 2 days after full moon Ginny”
“oh”
“and moreover I want to ask him something that has been in the back of my mind since I got my reply from the headmistress during the summer before coming to Burrow”
“was that the reason why you were so disturbed and quiet all the time?”
“yes”
“what did Professor McGonagall tell you?” she asked
“um…she said that however ironic it may be but the things have worsened in my country with downfall of Voldemort”
“what does that mean?”
“maybe it means something like the people who believe in dark arts back in my land didn’t like Voldemort being killed,” she said softly
“what!” exclaimed Ginny
“do they, do they have any idea as to what kind of a curse was Voldemort on the wizarding world all over?”
“that is what I am not able to understand, Ginny. Why would things go in the wrong way. That is what I need to ask Rahul. He had a similar idea and basically it was this idea which formed his reason for not going back,” said Sara
“Ridiculous, truly ridiculous,” said Ginny shaking her head.
“Don’t bother yourself with that Ginny and don’t bother telling Harry about it either. Its something I need to worry about, alright,” said Sara and they stepped in to the pub and Ginny looked at her amazed.

“Sara!” called Rosmerta clasping her hands together and she almost hurried towards her and hugged her, “Sara, I have missed you so much, dear, so much” and pulling away and looking at her and looked behind her as Ginny, Fiona and Derek stepped in
“aha…Ginny how you doing there?” she said pulling her inside. The students were surprised at Rosmerta’s behavior towards this foreign student and head girl. No one knew about Sara at all and that she worked here in the Three Broomsticks last summer.
“so Madam Rosmerta want any help at the counter?” asked Sara
“oh no, no you are going to be sitting with your friends but yeah if you want you can take their drinks for them,” she said as she went to attend customers.
Luna had taken a seat in the middle of the pub with 5 chairs. The students went and settled themselves
“what can I get you sir?” asked Sara with a wink and Derek was taken by surprise
“Sara, Sara did, you just”
“yes I winked Derek,” she said rolling her eyes and Ginny giggled.
“good Sara you are becoming livelier and funny”
“um…Sara can you get me a small size butterbeer, please,” asked Fiona
“that’s like a sport,” said Sara and she turned to Luna
“anything for you ma’am?”
“ah…yes I want a medium sized gillywater for the beginning” said serenely.
“sure, Miss Weasley?”
“a medium sized butterbeer and for my dazed friend over here a large one,” said Ginny as she patted his back. Sara nodded her head and went to the counter.

Sara returned with a tray of drinks.
“here is your large butterbeer sir. I hope it gets you out of the trance,” she said lightly
“your gillyweed ma’am,”
“thank you”
“here’s your medium and small butterbeer,” said Sara handing Ginny and Fiona’s drinks
“is there anything else that I can get for you?” she asked
“well I think we are done for now, maybe after we finish our drinks,” said Fiona and Sara left to place the table back. She came after 10 minutes. She was at the counter talking to Madam Rosmerta and helping her with the customers with their orders.

“so finished with your drinks?” she said as she sat between Ginny and Derek.
“yup, so where next are we going?” asked Derek
“hey Derek do you remember the bet? I think you owe me some sweets, sugar quills and every color changing ink,” said Fiona
“oh damn, she hasn’t forgotten that yet,” muttered Derek. Derek and Fiona have this stupid childish habit of betting against each other. This time it was whether that Ravenclaw will be successful in hooking Wayne Hopkins. The result Fiona won as the Ravenclaw wasn’t successful in grabbing Hopkin’s attention.
“I will not forget that for anything, Rek,” she said
“before you forget we better get going,” said Fiona and Derek slumped his shoulder and was fishing in his pocket.
“what are you doing?” asked Sara
“taking out money”
“keep it inside. I am paying for your drinks today,” said Sara and Ginny looked at her surprised and smiled, “you never stop to surprise us” and Sara just winked at her and went to the counter and paid.
“so where are you heading?” asked Sara as they came out of the Three Broomsticks after a 10 minutes talk with Madam Rosmerta.
“I need to buy some stationary,” said Luna
“I have some basic shopping go to do, why?” asked Ginny
“nothing, I just wanted to ask you if you could buy few quills and one blue and a black ink bottle for me,” asked Sara and Ginny raised her eyebrow, “so you are leaving?” and Sara silently nodded and looked behind Ginny
“ok, I will do that. Anything else?”
“um yeah few rolls of parchments”
“fine”
“where are you going, Sara?” asked the once dreamy voice now concerned
“do you think you can trust on her?” asked Sara in low voice.
“I trust her with everything, you can trust her too,” said Ginny
“if she asks what I am up to you can tell her everything, without others knowing about it. not even Fiona or Derek. I am trusting you,” said Sara
“if you believe me then I wont let you down,” Ginny assured and Sara nodded, “see you at dinner”
“dinner?” asked Luna with even more concern
“Luna don’t worry I have the permission from the headmistress,” said Sara
“I don’t care about that. Just be careful. I just hope there aren’t any Nargels in the place wherever you are going”
“what!” said Sara with amused look.