Tyler stood at the entrance of platform 9 ¾. This was her first year at Hogwarts even though she would be starting fifth year. Her brother had run off with his friends somewhere so she was looking around to see what she was supposed to do. Right as she went to pick up her trunk she felt something collide with her.

"What the hell were you doing just standing in the middle of the portal?" Snapped a tall pale boy with jet black straight hair.

"Obviously not expecting to be knocked on my ass" she tried to joke. The boy didn't try to help her up, he just stood there looking down at her in a condescending way.

"Hey Snivellus, what do you think you're doing?!"

'Great' thought Tyler 'brother to the unwanted rescue' "James" she said out loud, "it's fine. It was my fault, I was in the way."

James ignored her and looked at the boy. "You'll stay away from my sister if you know what's good for you."

"Oh damn," the boy said sarcastically, "I'm going to miss the privilege of talking to this idiot. I think I can get over it." And with that he walked away. As he turned he noticed the girl (still on the ground) let out a small snigger at his comment.

James' friend Sirius helped James pick up Tyler's trunk and headed towards the train while his other friend Remus held out a hand to help her up.

"Who was that?" Asked Tyler

"A degenerate" answered Remus

"A degenerate with a nice ass" Tyler said under her breathe.

"What was that?" Asked Remus

"Nothing," Tyler replied and started walking after him.

They met Sirius and James in a cabin. "Can you believe it?" James exclaimed putting his arm around Tyler," my baby sister is finally joining us at Hogwarts!"

"We're the same age "Tyler said removing his arm. "And I would have been thrown out of beauxbatons sooner if I knew the reward would be Hogwarts."

"Come on," James grabbed her again. This time he pulled her in tight almost lifting her off the ground. The compartment door slammed open.

"Hey James," a redhead said coming through the door. When she saw James holding Tyler tightly her smile dropped. "Are you kidding me potter! One summer! That's all I asked! 3 months of staying away from other girls and I'd give you a chance. You made me believe... Never mind. This is my fault, I never should have believed..."

"Lily," James interrupted, "it's not what you think."

"Really James? That's the line you're going to use? I walk in with your arms wrapped around this blonde, big boonbed bimbo and you expect me to think it's something else. You're ridiculous if you think..."

This time lily was cut off by Tyler, "you must be lily." She offered her hand. "James has been talking about you every summer since first year. Well, he started talking about you nicely summer after third year but whatever."

"Tyler, you're not helping." James chastised her, "lily, this is Tyler. My twin sister."

"Sister?" Lily asked suspiciously

"Yes," James confirmed

"Then why hasn't she been at Hogwarts,"

"I transferred" Tyler supplied before any of the boys could divulge that she's been kicked out. Lily's mouth made an 'o' shape.

"Well in that case nice to meet you" lily held out her hand.

"I would say the same but I don't know if my bimbo mind can stretch that far," the Tyler turned to the boys, "I'm going for a walk."

"Do you want one of us to go with you?" Asked Sirius. Tyler shook her head no and walked out the door. From the hallway she heard Lilly apologizing to her brother and him assuring her that Tyler would forgive her and his assurances they'd be friends. 'Fat chance with that' Tyler thought. She walked to the very end of the train looking for an empty compartment. When she was at the very back she found a small janitor's room that was vacant. She turned a bucket upside down and sat next to the window opening it up a little. She dug in her pocket and pulled out a joint and muggle lighter. Inhaling she lit the tip then took a long drag. She sat thinking for a few minutes about what this year was going to be like. She didn't have many friends at her old school, well, actually she just one friend. Girls could be catty. Some wanted to be a fake fried because of her family's status and others hated her for it. A lot of them assumed she thought she was better than them. Truthfully she was in some ways but she never acted like it. Tyler was extremely smart. A lot of people assumed she was an idiot at first because of her looks. She was more than pretty, she was gorgeous. Something that she always detested. People could rarely look past that and actually listen to what she had to say. Just as she took another drag the door started to open. She tried to hold her breath but this caused her to cough violently. When she stopped she looked up to see the boy from the platform standing at the door.

"We'll don't just stand there," Tyler said, "Close the damn door." It was too late to make excuses she knew she had been caught.

Surprisingly he shut it quickly and looked at her. He then proceeded to sit down on the floor across from her and pull out a joint and muggle lighter, copying Tyler's earlier movements. They sat there for a few moments just existing. Then Tyler decided to speak. "I'm Tyler," she offered her hand.

"I don't care" he replied.

"That's an odd name." He looked at Tyler like she was an idiot. He started to put his roach out but she stopped him. "I was just kidding. Here" She handed him a clip from her hair as a piece offering. He took it and put it on the end of the joint and took another drag. He watched as Tyler took an object out of her pocket out of her pocket and then reached in her shirt. The boy adverted his eyes quickly. Then he noticed she had pulled out her wand. He raised an eyebrow giving her a look that clearly said, 'seriously?'

"What?" Tyler shrugged, "bra pockets are the most reliable pocket." He was still giving her the raised eyebrow look.

"It is!" She insisted. "One, it's not going to get a hole that your wand can slip through. Two, no one is going to grab it from you. And three, you'll never sit on it and get a sharp poke in the ass." She ticked off her fingers as she presented her argument. He dropped his eyebrow and gave her a whatever look. She used her wand to enlarge her object which turned out to be a book.

She caught the boy reading the title 'transdimentional theory and magical integration'

"They're exploring the possibility of creating pocket universes using muggle science and apparition. They think that people may be able to apparate into a," she stopped when she saw the look on his face, "oh umm a pocket universe is."

He cut off her explanation by snapping "I know what a pocket universe is."

"Oh sorry. I'm not used to people understanding what I'm talking about." The sentence hung in the air.

"Severus." Tyler looked up from her reading, "my name is Severus."

Tyler smiled. Tyler pulled out another book on the same subject and offered it to him, "Have you read it?" She offered it to him.

"No." He shook his head, taking it in his hands.

"I haven't either. Read then switch?" She offered. He nodded and silence fell over the broom closet again. About 20minutes later Tyler pulled out of another joint and offered it to Severus. He accepted and they puff puff passed while reading for the next hour. Tyler finished reading and closed her book and looked out the window contemplating what she had just read. A few minutes later Severus finished and they traded. Another two hours of reading passed and it started to get dark out. Severus shut his book and interrupted Tyler. "I'm going to go get changed, I expect we'll be there soon" as he started to walk out the door Tyler stopped him.

"Do you want to meet up later and discuss the books?"

Severus turned and gave a nod them walked out. Tyler lit up once more then found her way back to the compartment.

"Where have you been?!" James shouted as Tyler walked in.

"I found a quiet place to read," she answered. He sniffed her and gave her a look. "What? It makes me a nicer person."

"We should change into our robes" Remus informed them. They all reached into their trunks and grabbed their uniforms. As Tyler was taking off her shirt Sirius said, "nice a"

"Turn around now!" James interrupted him.

"What," Sirius asked, "I was going to say abs."

James gave him a look then turned back to Tyler. "What are you doing!?"

"Changing." Tyler stated like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

James yelled "you can't do that in here"

"Why not?" She asked "you guys were about to change here." She pulled on her shirt and buttoned it up.

"That's completely different!?" He exclaimed.

"Why?" Tyler asked pulling her skirt on over her jeans.

"Because we're not got to show our ..., "he paused, "you know bits" at this point Tyler was shimmying down her jeans under her skirt.

"And what exactly am I going to show?" James looked back and saw that she was fully dressed and putting on her socks. She gave him a cheeky smile, "you know you four really should put your uniform on. I suspect we'll be their soon."

He gave her an exasperated look then gave the 3 other boys permission to turn around. James and Sirius stripped down without a problem, after all Sirius practically lived at their house so it wasn't like she hasn't seen him naked. Remus and Peter were more reserved and stepped out to change.

When Tyler stepped on the platform and she found Hagrid right away. "Hi Hagrid!" Tyler waved. She had met him several times on trips to the castle to visit her God Mother who was a teacher here. She was one of the reasons Tyler had fought to go to Hogwarts for 4 years.

"Tyl'r," he said in his in his uniquely Hagrid accent, "how av ya been?"

"Great thanks. And you? How's fang?"

"Been good. Been good. Ready fer the kids to be back." Tyler nodded understandingly. "Well I guess yull be coming up wit the first years. Follow me. First years! Over here". He repeated the last part and more and more kids started to gather around him. Some looked excited enough to jump for glee; while others looked like they were going to be sick. Tyler noticed a little girl who was fighting back tears standing alone.

She walked over to her and squatted to her level. "I'm Tyler." She introduced. "It's my first year here too." The girl looked at her like she was stupid, "of course I'm starting my 5th year here but I've never actually been to a class here."

"I'm Ashley." She said timidly. "It's not just Hogwarts; the only time I've been to a magical place was diagon alley to get my stuff. I didn't grow up around this stuff."

"Oh," Tyler said understanding "you're a muggle born then."

"A what?" Ashley questioned

"Someone without magical parents."

"Does it matter?" She said quickly.

"Not really." Tyler answered "I'm not going to lie to you though. Few wizards think their better because they're pure blood. Not many, just the super inbred ones." Ashley looked terrified "but don't worry. Anyone worth getting to know won't care ok?" Tyler smiled

"Let's get going." Said Hagrid "four to er boat."

"Let's take this one." Tyler said to Ashley. On the way she saw a frightened boy standing with an extremely excited girl. "We need two more if you want." She said to them. "I'm Tyler and this is Ashley."

"Hi!" Said the girl excitedly. "I'm Miranda and this is my twin brother Mike!" The boy smiled a little. The boats set sail into the rocky waters. With the cold air and water the kids were freezing.

"This isn't working for me," said Tyler. She then took out her wand (this time in her robe sleeve) and said a shielding spell to keep the water out. She then cast drying and warming spells on the three 11 year olds.

"Whoa!" Said Miranda. "When do we learn that?"

"I expect around your second year." Tyler answered.

"I can't wait to write mom and dad about this." She said to mike. Then turned to Tyler. "Magic's amazing. My parents want us to write them all about it. I think dad is still a little skeptical that this is all real."

"You're muggle borns too then?" Ashley asked excitedly.

"What? "Mike asked.

"Wizards and witches whose parents aren't magical." Tyler said. "Don't worry they'll be loads of kids in your classes that are just like you. Even the kids that grew up knowing the magical world won't start off knowing spells. You're all going to be on the same playing field." All three kids smiled as they saw the castle. It was huge medieval castle with inviting sparkling lights from every window. It shone in the starry night.

When the got to the shore they scrambled onto land. Ashley Miranda and mike looked way happier than the rest of the first years because they were dry and warm. Other kids looked envious. "Follow me." Said Hagrid

Tyler stopped bobbed around them casting drying spells on them as they walked. She received several appreciative smiles but some kids were too nervous to even notice they were no longer wet. They went through huge sturdy thick wood double doors and were led into a small side chamber. Waiting for them was a stern looking woman whose hair was held tightly in a bun. She looked around at all the terrified faces and smiled. She always thought it was funny that her god mother's students were afraid of her.

"I am professor McGonagall deputy head mistrials of Hogwarts. Soon you will be escorted into the great hall where you will be sorted into Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, or Slytherin. While here your houses will be your family. You'll share dorms and a common room with your house mates as well as eating breakfast lunch and dinner with them. You'll earn points for them when you express skill in classes and you'll lose points for bad behavior and laziness. Understood?" Everyone nodded. She looked at Tyler and said, "You wait out here until you're called in. There should be another transfer student here at any moment." She then led the kids through the doors.

'They made it sound like transferring was a rare thing but apparently not' Tyler thought. She walked over to the door and cracked it open. Once again lighting up. She put it out quickly and turned around when she heard footsteps and saw an olive skinned girl walking towards her. "Well I'll be damned." Tyler said. "Roxy I thought you were being sent to a school in America?"

Roxy smiled. Pushing some of her long black hair behind her ear. "Daddy decided that he wanted me to stay on the same continent as him more than me being at an all-girls school."

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"It was only arranged last week. I conveniently forgot to tell him my partner in crime would be attending. What have you been doing this summer?" They had only exchanged a few owls due to the fact that Roxy's father was trying to keep them from communicating. He thought Tyler was a bad influence even though staging a coup had been Roxy's idea to begin with. Tyler simply planned and executed it. Alright maybe Tyler was to blame too but still.

"You know the normal." Tyler said with a joking rock star accent. "Sex, drugs, and rock and roll!" She threw her hands in the air just as the doors opened. She dropped them quickly and gave a winning smile. She softly laughed the whole way up the isle while Roxy looked around with indifference. Tyler noticed that Ashley, Miranda, and Mike had made it into Gryffindor. She smiled at them as she walked past.

The headmaster stood up. "These are out two new exchange students. They will be in fifth year."

"When I call your name come sit to be sorted. Roxanne Molovie" Roxy walked up and sat on the stool. But when professor McGonagall tried to put the hat on her head she jumped up.

"I'm not putting that on my head." She looked at the old hat.

"Don't worry dear." The hat said through its slit mouth, "I'm clean."

"Yeah, that's what he said." She mumbled sitting back down. After about five minutes the hat shouted "SLYTHERIN" she made her way over to the clapping table.

"Tyler Potter." Professor McGonagall announced giving her a don't you dare act like that too look.

Tyler sat on the stool and allowed the hat to be played on her head.

'Interesting' came a voice in her head.

'My thoughts exactly' she thought 'what spells did they use to animate you?'

'My dear there are many spells they used but now is not the time to discuss this. We need to find you a house'

'I don't really car where I go.' Tyler thought dismissively. 'Did they put parts of their sole in you? A type of bipolar horcrux?'

'So you're not going to drop it eh? Just like a Gryffindor.'

'No that wouldn't work. Souls wouldn't be able to share such little space so cloaked and come out as one voice. Maybe a modified paint spell. Are you a projection of a shared portrait?'

'Thirsting for knowledge, very Ravenclaw'

'I understand that you're trying to find me a place but you're just a really interesting hat.'

'Flattery to get the information you want. Very Slytherin. You would do great in any of the three.'

'I told you I really don't care please just tell me what they did'

'This is a conversation for another time. Right now you're hungry classmates are waiting for us to finish.'

'They can start without me'

'I'm afraid they can't. If you don't care then we'll go with your bloodline and put you in.' "Gryffindor!" He shouted the last word.

'This isn't the end of the conversation. I intend to figure it out." Tyler said as the hat became inanimate once more. She walked towards the cheering table where her brother was cheering loudly. She sat next to a girl with brown extremely curly hair and a muscular brunet.

"I'm Frank Longbottom." Introduced the boy.

"Tyler." She stuck out her hand and they shook.

"I'm Nadia Noah. I'm in fifth year too. We share a room with Cassidy and Brittany." She indicated to two of the girls down the line. "They're assholes and we also room with lily. She's fine. A bit of a pride but fine." She motioned to lily next to her brother.

Tyler laughed, "Oh I've met miss prude over there. Apparently I'm a blonde big boobed idiot. All this without hearing a word out of my mouth mind you." Nadia laughed frank smiled. The food appeared on the table. "Thank Merlin. I've got mad munchies."

"Nadia!" Frank gestured towards Tyler.

"Frank she reeks of weed. Unless she's bathed in sandalwood recently I think we're ok." Nadia defended.

"I don't reek... Do I? "Tyler tried to smell her own shirt." Damn alright I do. You two are the third people I've met that smoke. Do a lot of people here?" At her old school it was pretty much Roxy and her.

"Not really." Nadia replied. "Franks got a green thumb and grows it."

"Yeah and I supply to five other people." Frank said. "And this moocher" he nodded towards Nadia.

"Hey!" She slapped him. "It's not like I don't help. And you don't even charge."

"What can I say I like to be in the dirt and can't stand to see a plant go to waste." The three of them laughed. They stuffed their face in compatible silence.

"Holy shit this is awesome. At Beubatonx we never had this much food!" Tyler exclaimed

"Is that where you transferred from?" Asked frank.

"Yeah. It's actually a pretty funny story. It's an all-girl school and let's just says they're more training the students to be wives instead of witches. You're given this stupid test at the end of fourth year to determine what profession your husband will most likely have. I know it's stupid, inaccurate, and degrading". She when she saw Nadia's pissed off face. "Anyways my favorite teacher madam Maxine tried to lobby the school governesses to drop this stupid test and allow the girls to choose their classes and give them an opportunity to have a career in the future."

"I bet they didn't like that." Nadia observed.

"Nope. They fired her. Well this pissed Roxy and I," Tyler indicating towards the Slytherin table. "off. Neither of us wanted to eat that school anyways so Roxy suggested we do something. We decided there needed to be an overturn of power. We rallied the girls and were able to stage a coup after the last classes of the year. We held the school for three weeks until all our demands were met."

"Which were?" Frank asked

"We wanted Madam Maxine to become Headmistress and to remain there until she chooses to leave, make the test optional in case some students still wanted to take it, and a student representative to have a vote on the board. We got it all put on the magical charter and made it irreversible."

"If Madam Maxine got her job back because of you guys why did you get expelled?" Asked Nadia.

"We broke a shit ton of rules in the process." Tyler laughed. "Although she appreciated what we did for her and our fellow students she couldn't look past them all. I don't really care though; I finally get to go to Hogwarts."

"That's awesome." Said frank. The headmaster stood up.

Meanwhile at the Slytherin table Roxy has sat down next to a girl with white blonde hair and across from two boys. One was pale with straight black hair and a black boy with a fohawk. "I'm Blaze" said the boy with a fohawk.

"And I'm Andrea" said the girl. They looked at the boy with black hair. He gave them a bored look, "and this welcome wagon," Andrea supplied, "is Severus."

"I'm Roxy" she addressed the group.

"So why'd you transfer?" Asked blaze.

"Blaze way to keep it classy." Andrea said in response to his bluntness.

"I prefer direct questions instead beating around the bush." Said Roxy. Blaze stuck his younger out at Andrea.

"We got kicked out of Beubatonx for staging a coup."

"We as in you and the blonde girl?" Andrea asked? Severus showed interest in the conversation for the first time.

"Yeah. Tyler and I were roommates and are best friends. Long story short there was some shit going down that we didn't agree with. When no one would listen to us we took matters into our own hands."

"That's awesome. Did it work?" Asked blaze.

"Yup." Roxy said proudly. "All three of our demands were met and placed in the charter permanently."

"Interesting." Said Severus to himself.

"What was that?" Asked Roxy

"Nothing" he grumbled. He hadn't meant to say that out loud. 'First the books then this. I may have misjudged that girl Tyler.' She was a potter after all and potters were douche bags. As he thought this the head master stood up commanding the attention of the hall.

"Welcome back students and welcome to our first years. Mr. Filch has asked me to inform you all that there has been 7 items added to the list of prohibited items found outside his office. I, however, suggest you live by this simple rule: if you have to check to see if it's allowed you probably shouldn't have it." He smiled around the room. His eyes lingered a little longer on her brother. "Now that you're stomachs are full let us rest so we may fill our brains tomorrow. If the transfer students would stay behind for a few minutes." With that all the students started up to their beds.

"Ladies," Dumbledore addressed them "follow me to my office please." They followed along with professor McGonagall and what Tyler assumed was Roxy's head of house. When the entered he motioned for the girls to sit. "Roxanne, this is professor Slughorn. He is in charge of Slytherin and will be available for you if you should need help," Roxy nodded towards him in greeting. "And of course Tyler you know professor McGonagall."

"The name rings a bell." Tyler joked and was playfully smacked up the back of her head by her god mom.

"Starting a new school gives you a clean pallet. No one here knows of your past transgressions and I hope you'll harness that to the fullest and turn your behavior around." Professor Dumbledore said.

"I don't understand." Said Tyler, "I'm proud of what we did. Getting kicked out wasn't really part of the plan just a bonus. We've changed the path of every girl that will go through that school."

"Be that as it may, you had several detentions before that." He argued.

"Granddad you said you were proud over the summer." Tyler insisted

"Here I am your headmaster and cannot condone such behavior." Silence followed.

"You're such a pouty little girl at times" Roxy said in reference to Tyler's attitude. Tyler gave a fake hurt look.

"Traitor." Was her one word answer

Dumbledore smiled, "alright off to bed both of you." They followed their respective heads of house to their common rooms.

"Ms. Molovie Slytherin holds a high standard they we expect each house member to uphold." Slughorn broke the silence as they walked.

"I understand sir. But I assure you what I lack in behavior I more than make up in smarts. That should even out my inevitable loss of points."

Slughorn laughed, "oh yes I've heard of you and your friends academic prowess. Is it correct that you both have already been published in journals?"

"Yes sir. Tyler and prefer our own research over what we learn in classes. It challenges us and keeps us out of trouble."

"Well then, if at any time either of you would like to research in my personal library stop on by." He offered.

"I'll let Tyler know."

"Of course I make that open to all my slug club members."

'Ah so this is what he's after.' Roxy thought. 'Tyler did say he would probably want us.' "Slug club?" She asked out loud.

"Oh my dear, it's a group of a few select students. The best of the best." Roxy nodded. She knew what he meant. He was making connections so he could claim responsibility for mentoring so many great minds. They stopped by a stretch of wall. "We'll here's the common room. The password is Rumble Stilskin. "As he said that the wall slid open. "Slytherin dorms are a bit different than the others. Each student has their own bedroom linked by a bathroom for each year. The fifth years currently occupy the top level. You'll find a door labeled with you name and your things will be in there. Give some thought about joining the club miss"

"Will do" Roxy said out loud. 'Not she said in her head.

"Have a good night." He then walked out of the room.

She walked up the stairs. Each level opened up to a large circular hallway with the doors facing inward. She assumed the bathroom was at the central point of them. When she finally reached the top she started following to the left. She looked at each door. Narcissa black read the first plaque. Then Amy Holmes. Then Amanda Sanchez. Then Carly Casanova. She saw the stairs coming up. 'Guess I should have taken a right. There were three more rooms. Andrea Malfoy read the plaque. Then finally Roxanne Molovie. For the hell of it she looked at the last plaque which was empty. She went back and opened her door. It was locked. She tried alohamora. 'Christ' she thought. Just as she was going to knock on Andrea's door she walked out.

"There you are." She said.

"How the hell do you get in?" Roxy asked

"Touch your wand to the door." Roxy did and she heard a click.

"When you get inside they'll be a price off paper telling you how to set your password. You best do it now before someone tries to sneak through your shit. I'll wait out here."

Roxy went inside and looked around. There was a four poster full size bed, a desk, a wardrobe and a door that must lead to the bathroom. She would look at that later. The entire room was done up in dark cherry wood, and green and silver bedding. She saw her trunk had been delivered. There was a piece of paper informing her of the spell to set the password. She decided on H.B.I.C. She walked back out to Andrea.

"Follow me," she said and Roxy complied.

"Where are we going?"

"Midnight toke." She held up a pipe

"Damn I chose the right people to sit will!" Roxy whispered. They walked out of the common room and went about twenty feet down the hall where a thick tapestry was hung. Andrea disappeared behind it. Roxy followed. There was a small indention in the wall big enough for two people, three if they squeezed.

"Alright to get through this door all you have to do hit these bricks." Andrea showed her the geometric pattern. A door appeared and they walked through it. Inside blaze and Severus were already waiting for them.

"What took you so long?" Asked Blaze. "I was waiting for Roxy to get to the dorm." She sat down on one of the fluffy couches and lit the bowl. She passed it to Roxy who mimicked her movements then it went to Severus, then Blaze. They continued to pass it as the talked.

"How'd you guys even know I smoked?" Roxy asked.

"Russ got stoned with Tyler on the train. We figured since you two were friends you smoked too." Blaze answered.

"So what's your password? Mine is check yourself." Andrea said. "If you ever need anything or I'm too stoned to remember my password feel free to use it"

"H.B.I.C." answered Roxy "same goes here."

"What's that mean?" Severus (I guess she was allowed to call him Russ now) asked

"Head bitch in charge." They laughed.

"Mines underwear." Supplied blaze.

"What the hell?" Asked Roxy.

"I don't want anyone to figure it out." He smiled sheepishly.

"Don't come in my room" Russ said.

"Don't be offended." Said Andrea. "He won't give us his password and we've been friends with him for 5 years."

"Oh I just thought don't come in my room was you're password." She said to Russ. He gave a sly smile.

"Someone finally figured it out." He laughed lightly.

"Are you kidding me?" Blaze exclaimed "you asshole! That's been your password the whole time hasn't it?"

"Hey. It's not my fault you didn't listen properly." He was still smiling.

"We better be getting back before we're missed." Andrea said. They remained a 15 more minutes and finished off the bowl. They all stood up and started back towards their common room.

"Liquid?" Roxy asked too out of it to form a sentence.

"Room table." Andrea answered.

"She means the bed side table. Just tell it what you want." Apparently Russ held his shit better than the other three. He said the password and they went in. He stopped blaze from trying to sit on the couch and directed him up the stairs. The girls went up their stairs and all four passed out in their beds.

Tyler and professor McGonagall made their way up to Gryffindor tower. "You really do have to try and behave yourself this year. Your grandfather had to pull a lot of strings to get the governors to allow you in."

"I know" Tyler responded. "I appreciate it. But I meant what I said before. I'm proud of what we did."

"And I'm proud of you," her godmother said, "just try to rein it in this year? Please?"

"You guys act like I'm going to take over here too?" Tyler laughed. "What if I guarantee that I'll get fewer detentions than James?"

"That's not saying much." She said as they stopped in front of a portrait of a rather plump lady. "The password is sugar quill. The fifth years are located on the 7th floor use the left staircase for girls and up the right are the boy's dorms. Have a good night and I expect you to be in class tomorrow morning." She then left down the hall.

Tyler looked around the common room. It had mismatched couches all in shades of gold and maroon and all of them were stuffed to the brim. She made her way up the staircase all the way to the top floor. She heard bickering inside. "Honestly I don't know how they could let someone like you stay in the same room as us." Said a voice Tyler hadn't heard yet. It must be Brittany or Cassidy. She opened the door and saw they were talking to Nadia.

"Fuck off" Nadia replied, "why do you insist on doing this at the beginning of every year?"

"Because you're a freak. You're always hanging out with Longbottom and going off in the middle of the night with him. We all know what you're doing."

"For the last time Frank and I are just friends. You know what? Just drop it." Nadia said

Tyler entered the room and the girl who had been speaking to Nadia smiled at her. "I'm Cassidy." She said. "I'm sorry you had to sit at dinner with this looser. We would have come and gotten you but there were no seats left by us. We'll make sure to save you one tomorrow."

"Wow you're a bitch," Tyler observed.

"Excuse me?" she asked

"Oh I'm sorry you must have not heard me." Cassidy smiled thinking she had misheard Tyler, "I said you were a bitch." Her smile faltered, "I think I'll go ahead and stay with the 'losers' as you call them."

"Aw honey that's really sweet of you to try and stick up for her but you don't know what a weirdo she is." The other girl said. It must have been Brittany because she's the only one Tyler hadn't met.

"Yeah I like weird. Thanks for the advice but as Nadia said 'fuck off'" Nadia smiled at Tyler.

"You wanna get some fresh air?" Nadia asked Tyler

"Yeah sure. One second." Tyler changed into sweat pants and a Kiss t-shirt. She slipped a small wooden box into her pocket. She then locked her trunk with various wards staring pointedly at the two girls as she did so. "I'm ready. Let's go." They walked down to the common room where Frank was waiting.

When he saw the look on Nadia's face he said, "Usual greeting?"

"Yup," answered Nadia, "welcome fucking back." She stormed through the portrait and into the hallway. Right outside the door was lily.

"What are you guys doing?" she asked

"Getting as far away from those fucktards as possible," Nadia snapped. She didn't even have to explain what happened Lily knew what happened every year and usually waited to go up to the dorm for a while so she could miss it.

"I'm sorry they're so mean to you,"

Nadia smiled and empty smile, "If you were sorry you would never have been friends with them." The trio walked down the hall away from Lily.

"She's friends with those idiots?!" asked Tyler

"No, but she used to be. They used to only talk behind my back and spread rumors but last year was when the name calling started. It doesn't really bother me but Lily got really upset when she heard them call me a freak. I think that was when she noticed how truly terrible they were."

"Through here," Frank indicated to a window. Tyler watched and he and Nadia climbed through it and to the side. She followed suit and found out that it wasn't just a window. There was a corridor that could be accessed by walking on the ledge a bit.

"Do I want to know how you found this?" Tyler laughed.

"We were escaping Filch one night and realized we weren't going to make it to the portrait in time. Even if we did he would just ask the fat lady if she'd just let students in and we'd be caught anyways. So this genius," Frank pointed to Nadia, "decided it was a good idea to hide out on the ledge. Keep in mind she knew of my extreme fear of ledges."

"After we got out here we noticed a hole in the wall and decided to wait it out in here until we were sure filch was gone. We put on an anti-gravity spell a few feet below the ledge about 5 feet long in case one of us falls." Nadia said, "And we elongated the edge a bit." They walked to the back of it and Tyler noticed it was more like a cave than a corridor. "I like to go here when it rains." Nadia then moved the top of a box and pulled out pillows, blankets, and a bong.

"I am soooo freaking glad I sat with you guys," Tyler laughed.

"Oh shit," said Frank, "I forgot the stash. I'll be right back." But Tyler stopped him. She pulled out the wooden box and opened it revealing a little baggy of green glory. "Ladies," Frank said as he put his hands behind his head and leaned back," I think this is the start of a beautiful relationship." All three laughed.

"Speaking of relationships," Nadia started, "How is you progress with Alice going."

Frank smiled, "we owled each other every day and I even got her to go on a date with me! We went to one of those muggle movie theaters. It was amazing. Remind me to ask her to the first Hogsmead trip."

The three then talked about their summers and Tyler talked about her old school. Frank and Nadia filled her in about Hogwarts. What teachers were strict, who was the most boring teacher, trick stairs, schedules, and holidays. About an hour later they made their way back to their dorms where thankfully their three dorm mates where asleep.