A few days ago Natalie crash-twirled into a boy in the courtyard. It had not been her intention. In fact she had thought herself completely alone at the time of the incident. However, it had happened and she had ended up on top of a cute Ravenclaw. It had been Toby, the Ravenclaw chaser and she had been so perplexed and attracted to him that she had completely forgotten that she had laid on top of him. Regardless, they had chatted and flirted and Natalie now found herself completely smitten by him. She could not get the lad off her mind and thus it was making it hard for her to concentrate on any other task. She wasn’t sure someone had captivated her attention quite so before. Her curiosity was even more sparked as she delved into those feelings. Could this be more than the hearts desire? Was it possible that she had a crush? She pondered and wondered about this feeling. They always said you just knew when you felt something, but how did you know? No matter how Natalie pondered and thought about it, she couldn’t make sense of it. It didn’t make sense to just know things. No matter, the more she felt on it, the more it made sense to her. She did have a crush on someone. Oh, what a feeling!

Natalie was having a hard time getting a spell to work on her goblet. She was trying to transform it into a mouse. A rather easy task, surely, but Natalie had always found it difficult to transfigure even the simples of things. She furrowed her brows in deep concentration, but images of Toby’s body pressed up against hers constantly made her loose her focus and make the grapes on the plate next to the goblet dry up into raisins. Natalie scoffed with frustration, her entire being showing signs of conflict. How on earth did people live with these strange feelings inside? She never knew how girls survived having a crush on someone, or how they hid it. Apparently people went around with crushes all the time, and Natalie just didn’t understand how they could hide their emotions so well.

The petite blonde closed her eyes and concentrated on the goblet again. She was sitting in the Great Hall during lunch, a great deal of buzzing of voices were around her as she practised for this weeks homework. She opened her eyes, mustering new determination and pointed at the goblet, trying to will it to change form. Toby’s handsome eyes attacked her mental mind and five grapes exploded into raisins. “Arrghh!” Natalie let out another frustrated growl. She felt absolutely hopeless. She sighed and leaned forward, supporting her head with on of her hands as she pondered her own hopelessness. She was lost in thought and jumped as someone sat down next to her and said something. “Huh, what?” she said perplexed, looking up to see whom had addressed her.