Finally the first years have been sorted. Who cares which house the first years are put in? Well some do but Johanna hates it. Listening to all the names being called out. It bores her. If she wasn't so hungry she would be in her dormitory now, reading or listening to the weird sisters.

"Ouch! Cygnus! What was that for?" She asks as the boy kicks her under the house table.

"Sorry. It wasn't meant for you." She clicks her tongue. Food appears on the table. Thank God! She stuffs anything she can into her mouth before running of to the Slytherin common room. She sits down on the sofa. She begins reading. She feels a slight tug at her hair. She turns to see Abaraxas.

"Go-away-you-stupid-bastard!"

"You don't mean that do you Joey?"

"Believe me I do. And if this is you trying to turn me on….." She shakes her head.

He looks disappointed. He walks of. A few first years are experimenting spells they are reading from a book.

"Would you stop?! I am head girl you know!"

Of course she isn't but it's enough to scare them out of their wits. They run upstairs.

"Shit!" She has lost her page. She searches for it angrily.

"It's not good to lie." Tom is smirking at her. She hadn't seen him there.

"So? They don't need to know do they?"

"What if I tell them?"

"I couldn't care less!"

"Why aren't you scared of me?"

"Why would I be? I can curse you into oblivion!" He raises his eyebrows.

"I think Malfoy has a thing for you."

"'I never asked anyone to drool all over me.' Your words, not mine." She smiles inside at her achievement to shut Tom up.

She stands outside the 'dada' classroom. She has always enjoyed this subject quite a lot. Not the defence. More the dark arts. Can you blame her? She is a Slytherin after all.

"Doesn't Tom look nice today?" Asks Eileen Prince waving at him. Trying to get him to notice her.

"I haven't noticed."

"How could you not?" Eileen finally gives up her dodgy waving.

"Trust me it's easy."

"It's easy for you to say, you have a boyfriend."

"Not anymore."

"What? What happened?!"

"He didn't want anything serious. I just wish he had told me before."

"Oh Jo!" She hugs her best friend, squeezing the life out of her.

"Ladies" Says professor Alexanderof. "Please try not to smudge your make-up in my lesson." The Gryffindor's begin to laugh. "Get inside." The students walk in and take their places. "Today you will be partnered with the person I have chosen. I have tried to avoid putting Slytherin's and Gryffindors together to stop any unwanted visits to St. Mungos. Now the partners go as follows:

Prince-Crabbe

Malfoy-Black

Goyle-Burke

Jones-Parkinson

Riddle-Borgin

Johanna rolls her eyes. Great, just great. Anyone but him. She would rather have gone with Crabbe. She waits for him to move over to her desk, but he sits superglued to his chair so she gets up and sits next to him. Cursing under her breath.

"Don't worry Borgin, I'm hardly happy to be with you."

"Don't make your mind up quite yet Mr Riddle. You will be duelling your partner. You will be marked out of ten on your performance. Remember this: Nothing dirty or illegal! I have begged your headmaster for this chance. You will not ruin it."

She watches as Eileen stuns Crabbe. The poor boy was to busy staring at her curves to have seen it coming. Then as Malfoy hexed Black after a few attempts, winking at her as he walks past. Then Goyle and Burke who had both knocked themselves out. Parkinson had got a nosebleed before his turn which meant that Johanna and Tom had to duel a turn early.

"Get ready to meet your grandmother Borgin!" She can't believe he has just said that. She told him that and wished him never to repeat it. She feels angry and upset at the same time. She runs out of the classroom. She runs along corridor after corridor not stopping once. She doesn't know where she is going, just that she is. She stops at a corner panting, her chest heaving. She pushes her head back into the wall and closes her eyes, she lets her tears fall. She doesn't care who sees her crying. Her grandmother was all she ever had, the only love. But now she is gone.

"Johanna?" It's professor Dumbledore. "What are you doing out of your lesson?"

"I-I just needed some um air."

"Well, I believe you have had enough, would you care to go back? Actually, there was something I wanted to ask you."

"What is it?"

"Well, I know how disappointed you were to find you weren't head girl. Tina has left school, family problems of some kind I believe. How would you like to become head girl?" He smiles at her hopefully.

"Wouldn't that mean sharing a dorm with Riddle?"

"It would."

"Yes. Yes I would." To make his life hell. She thinks to herself.

"A wise decision. Of you go now."