It had been two long days, since she had received her mystery letter. She had managed to half convince herself that the letter had been a joke. Even after rationalising, that she shouldn't give that secret joker the satisfaction of seeing her upset, she hated herself for hoping to get a new letter. She had been antsy at every morning when owls brought the mail and had checked her bag several times a day to see if there was anything new inside her bag. To make matters worse, Harry had noticed her strange behaviour.

"Are you sure you're allright? You seem a bit weird." He once again asked her. However, this time it was Ron who jumped to her defence. "Harry stop bothering her. Who would be normal before DADA lesson." She smiled at him. Ron had many talents and good qualities, but keen observations kills weren't one them. This morning luck seemed to be on her side, since Harry seemed to interpret her smile as confirmation to Ron's statement. She looked around them and noticed that their year mates were all nervous and fidgeting.

Giving last look at the enchanted ceiling, she gathered her bag and stood up. Still no owls for her. Only mail she had received these days was the Daily Prophet. Harry followed her out the Great hall and few seconds later Ron ran to catch them. He had at least two croissants in his hands, probably more in his pockets. She smiled how predictable he was. She could always count on Ron's appetite. It didn't take them long to get to the Defence classroom. They seemed to be first ones there. Since Umbridge had started teaching them, it was unanimous amongst students that defence was the most hated sunject in the school. Usually the most hated was O.W.L level Potions, except with Slytherins. She had wondered if Professor Snape had some form of system to teach his house defence. She wouldn't put it pass him to teach his house it himself, after all he had been after the defence post for many years. She knew Hufflepuffs had tried to follow the lessons as instructed but it had left them a bit confused. They had asked the older students and Ravenclaws for help. Ravenclaws had taken the change of curriculum as a challenge and had set up a camp on the defence section of the library and she had had difficulties getting books for their club. Quite a few students from all houses but Slytherin had come to their defence club, Dumbledore's Army. The DA had grown little by little bigger since they had started it. She considered it lucky that teachers hadn't found out or even if they had they hadn't told Umbridge.

She jumped at the sound of the bell. All the students had gathered on the defence corridor while she had been in her thoughts. She, like many others around her, stiffened at the sounds of heels and nausea inducing girlish giggle. They let their teacher go first into the room. It had become the favourite place to set up pranks. She tried not to laugh, thinking back the lesson where Umbridge had started to swell up and turn neon green. It had taken the teacher most of the hour to realise, what was happening. She took her normal seat and took her books and notes. However she hit a snagwith her quill. She had left it in a special pocket inside the bag, but it wasn't there. Her ink bottle was where it was supposed to be but no quill. She reached to the bottom of the bag and finally found a long box. She placed it on her lap and discreetly checked it for spells. Nothing. She was intrigued. She opened the box carefully and found 5 different coloured quills in it. Picking one up she noticed it wasn't just a quill, it was purple sugar quill. When she was in Diagon Alley before first year, she had seen the different coloured quills on the window of wizarding candy shop but so far she hadn't had a opportunity to get some. Normally she didn't approve sugar or candy, especially in higher dozes like sugar quills due to her dentist parents, but sugar quills were her weakness. At home or elementary school she used to chew her pens while thinking. She had brought her habit into wizarding world but normal quills tasted bad and left tiny bits of feather in her mouth. One of the girls in her year had suggested the sugar quills, and from first taste she was hooked on them. How had her mystery friend known she wanted to try the coloured sugar quills or was it a coincidence? Unfortunately she didn't have time to see if the box had a note because the lesson had already begun and students were already reading around her.

Instead of going straight to lunch, she told her friends she was going to the library to pick up a book. She really did need a book but she was more interested in the box of quills. She hadn't had the chance to look at it more carefully. She went to the back of the library to have more privacy. After checking she was alone, she took out the box. It was a simple white box with no markings. She opened it and there were 4 quills left: red, blue, yellow and green. She noticed that inside the top half, there was writing.

Dear Hermione

I'm sorry it took me this long to write. I had ordered the quills before I wrote the first message but they only arrived yesterday. I had noticed you chew on pens and quills and you tend to use sugar quills but you only have the white ones from Hogsmeade. So I wanted to give you these. Each colour has their own flavour, red is strawberry, blue for blueberry, yellow for lemon, purple for grapes and green for apple. There are more flavours but I think you will appreciate these. These are also more nutritious than the white ones, not a lot though. I know you like to eat healthy. I know you have umbridge first thing this morning, I hope nothing goes wrong or that you won't get detention. Believe me they aren't fun. Although you most likely know that already, with being Harry's friend.

Mystery Friend

Still don't own anything but plot.

If there are problems, I blame headache, but please do report them. I don't think I will be posting chapters this often in the future, especially not tomorrow, but I got inspired today.

Ok reading this through couple days later it was horrible. So I corrected the biggest errors but it's still almost excatly the same no new information or anything.. Also I noticed a little error. -11 would make this a Saturday and I don't think they had lessons on Saturdays so I changed it to -12 days and Friday.