For Holly Potter the book meant a cruel end for her friend Hagrid,and it now appeared, it would claim herself and the rest of her friends.She was bare...ly conscious from avoiding the vortex the swallowedeverything around it. Ginny, Jilly, and Luna held on firmly to eachother and to her. "We're going to DIE!" Yelled Luna. "Stop struggling! You're only making things worse!" Ginny replied. Luna's eyes widened. "Worse? WE'RE GOING TO DIE! HOW MUCH WORSE ISTHAT?" Jilly was about. "It was late and you two were sitting on the couch. I sat down between you. Adam hugged me. Then kissed me. Then I turned and gave you a quick kiss. You had a hard-on." I didn't," I denied."You did so, just like the one you have now," Caitlyn answered. "I can remember it so clearly. I can remember saying to myself, 'do it, just lean over and touch it. Take them both to bed, it'll be okay'." And I always thought you were such a nice, proper girl." Eventually we went up to our room. You stayed. During lunch, I was accosted by one of the guys on the football team."Hey, newbie," he called, "who was that old chick you were swapping spit with this morning?" Do I know you?" I asked, amazed that anyone here would be so crude."You don't have to know me, newbie. Just answer my question," he told me, snottily."If it's any of your business, that was my grandmother," I told him."She didn't look like any grandmother that I ever saw," he replied. "How come you were swapping spit with her?" he. “What if it’s iron-clad?” she asked.“Then the two of us live on the $15 million of Stan’s money that I already have set aside for the future,” I told her. “I’d take you today with nothing more than the clothes on your back and consider myself lucky to have you to share the rest of my life with.”“I still want my own money,” she said. “Please don’t get upset about this, but I don’t ever want to feel like I’m just along for the ride again.”I nodded in understanding.“Mel, I get it, I really do. We.