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Back at the barrels, Cedric, Julia and Maeve sat in front of the fireplace.

"Im sorry it wasn't you guys, who got to experience my break." She laughed. Cedric looked over at her, with a small smile. 

"You okay, Mae."

"I think so, I think I needed it. I'm glad Fred was there." She blushed.

"So it is Fred!" Julia exclaimed, causing Maeve to jump a bit, "that'll be 3 sickles, Digs." She motioned her hand to him. He groaned and placed the coins in her hand.

"You guys bet which twin I liked." She laughed, "I never said I liked him, he's just a really good friend." She was clearly lying. The two friends just rolled their eyes.

Cedric got up from the couch, "you can keep saying that, but we all know. I'm off to bed, Maeve we have tryouts tomorrow, your arm good enough to play." Cedric bit his lip in anticipation.

"Yeah I should be good, just a scratch. I'll see you in the morning at the pitch." 

"Are you sure you're okay?" Julia looked at Maeve rubbing her arm, "Cedric wouldn't be upset with you if you missed it."

"No. No, I'm good." she smiled, "It's just sore. Madame Pomfrey said I can play."

"Whatever you say..."

"I swear! Honestly when I get out there tomorrow, I'll forget all about it." Maeve kind of smiled

"Forget about your arm?" Julia asked

"What else would I want to forget about?" Maeve played it off by laughing.

Julia watched her friend carefully.

"You're allowed to miss him." Julia said, "Talk about him."

Maeve swallowed, her eyes shifting to the fireplace.

"Julia, I'm fine. I talked about him!"

"With Fred..."

Maeve looked at her friend, she was hurt. Out of all the people, Julia figured Maeve would of chosen her to talk about him.

"I miss him." Maeve finally confessed, "And having Buckbeak gave me a piece of him back."

"I know. Come here." Julia pulled her friend into a hug and the two cuddled on the couch reading one of Julia's muggle magazines.

"Who's Matthew McConaughey?"

"He's this American." Julia laughed, "He's supposedly going to be playing in this new film coming out this month." She pointed at the page, "Dazed and Confused."

"Oh. He has the same mustache my dad had..."

The two girls broke out into laughter.

Across the castle, the Gryffindor common room was busy. Harry and the twins were discussing quidditch and wondering how the other teams were doing. They're first match was against Ravenclaw, but they weren't nervous about that. They were a little nervous about Hufflepuff, Cedric was really pushing the team this year.

"Hufflepuff has tryouts in the morning tomorrow. We can sneak down to the pitch and check it out." Fred said

"You do realize Maeve is a Hufflepuff, and if word gets around that we're spying she'll be pissed at us." Harry reminded them.