Writer: Hey guys, heres the seconed chapter, it does drag on a bit but bare with me it'll get more interesting i sware.

Chapter 2

In Gryffindor Common room

". . . Wronski Fient, a classic and Krum pulled it off perfectly" Rachel commented

"Yeah it was great" Harry replied.

The both of them had been sitting in the common room for what seemed like ages. They seemed to have bonded quite quickly. Harry told her about living with the Dursleys and Rachel had told him about how she grew up in a muggle orphanage in California and then attented a wizarding school there for the last six years. (Well enough with the flashbacks and back to the present)

Rachel was laughing now , as Harry had just told her about the incident in his fourth year when Malfoy got trasfigured into a ferret by Professor Moody/Barty Crouch Jr. They heard someone come down and turned to see Hermione in nightgown looking very tired and annoyed.

"Did we wake you Hermione?" Harry asked still laughing a little.

"actually you woke up every Gryffindor, but I was the only brave enough to come and tell you to pack it in! and go to bed! it's midnight you can bond more tomorrow"

They got up from the couch and walked towards the stairs. Rachel turned and gave Harry a hug.

"Night bro"

"Night sis"

They heard someone crying and turned to see Hermione with tears in her eyes.

"Why is she crying?"Rachel asked Harry, looking slightly confuesed.

"She's a little emotional"

"A little? If she doesn't stop we'll have the entire Lake Michigan in here soon" Rachel teased.

"Oh ha ha, very funny" Hermione said sarcasticly before turning on her heel and making her way back up the stairs.

"I thought it was funny" Harry said to his sister, she just smiled as they both went up to their dormotries.

The Next Day

"Cool! You like football, as in english football?"Dean asked excitedly in a whisper.

"Yeah, I used to watch it all the time on tv" Rachel whispered back.

"I'm a West Ham fan, what team do you support?"

"Manchester United, Reds all the way"

"What's tv?" Ron whispered sounding rather confuesed.

"I thought we went through this Ron" Rachel answered a little annoyed that she would have to explain it again.

"Oh is it that box with little people in it, that muggles stare at all the time?" Ron said rather confident it was right.

"Um. . close enough", she wasn't going to explain it again. This was if possible harder then when I tried to explain the point of a telephone to this guy in my Herbology class, she thought to herself.

"Who can tell me the reason we are learning to block non-verbal spells?", Professor Lupin asked looking around at his seventh year Defence Against the Dark Arts class. He was happy to be back at Hogwarts. The parents of the students had finally agreed to let him teach at Hogwarts again. He supposed it had something to do with him helping out in the fight against Voldermort. Well that and the fact that he knew Dumbledore had put in a good word for him. Hermione being the only student who knew the answer raised her hand in the air (this class was with the Slytherins, no surprise as to why they didn't answer).

"I know you know the answer Miss Granger but I would like someone else to answer for once. lets see . . . Miss Potter?"

Rachel was still having her conversation with Dean, claerly unaware of the fact that she had been asked a question. Harry elbowed her to get her attention.

"Ouch, what the f-yes professor?", she said finally noticing. Lupin repeated the question once more, as the Slytherins sniggered.

"Oh right, well because if someone is attacking you using a non-verbal spell, they are not going to tell what spell their about to use,so we need to know how to block them just in case we come across this very situation", She said all of this very calmly and confidently. Everyone looked rather surprised.

"What! Don't you think girls in California can read?" she said to all the shocked faces.

Last Lesson of the Day

Rachel and Hermione opened the door and took up two saets in the middle row nearest to the window as they waited for the rest of the class and their Professor to arrive. Rachel stared out of the window, which was to her right (she was clearly bored). She only looked away when Hermione spoke (as she was blocking her view).

"You'll like this class, it's very small. Including you it brings the total to six", Hermione stated.

"Six! I'm guessing that not many students here like Arithimancy?", she asked rhetorically and started looking out of the window again.

A tall and handsome ravenclaw boy walked in or was he a hufflepuff? Rachel still had a bit of a problem telling the houses apart. The boy walked over to them putting his bag on the table infront of them. He turned to face them.

"Hi Hermione, Hi Rachel isn't it? (she nodded) I'm Cedric Diggory"

"Hi. . . Your on the Hufflepuff quidditch team aren't you? Captain and a Prefect". She was now very interested and her her attention had finally been taken away from the window.

A couple of minutes later a ravenclaw boy walked in, 'he is good looking too' Rachel thought. The boy was followed by a ravenclaw girl who looked like Parvati, 'must be her sister'she thought to herself as the last student walked in, a tall blond slytherin. The ravenclaw boy spoke first as he sat on the table next to Cedric.

"Hey everone, hey Rachel, I'm Terry Boot and this is Padma Patil" he pointed at the girl as she sat down next to him. The Blond sat behind them and next to the gryffindors (mainly because they were the only tables there, due to the small class). He didn't seem to notice or care who was there. 'All good looking guys in my class, I have the best luck in the world' Rachel thought happily as the professor walked in.

"Good morning class, I'm professor Vector Miss Potter and welcome to seventh year Arithimancy, Before we begin let quickly take the register, Mr Boot, Mr Diggory, Miss Granger, Mr Malfoy, Miss Patil and Miss Potter, very well lets begin", he said all this very quickly but no one seemed surprised 'must be like this all the time then' Rachel thought to herself. The Professor started explaining certain things for the first half and now everyone was reading and making notes.

'Look at her, shes so h-NO shut up! Concentrate on your work, Malfoy's don't gaze. Well this one certainly does. No. . .', Malfoy argued with himself. Hermione stood up and went to professor Vector.

"Me and Rachel have finished the work you set us professor"

"I see Miss Potter is another hard working girl. Well there is still some time before the end of class, you may begin on the homework if you like?" he put up the homework title on the board as Rachel and Hermione started to work. The two gryffindors walked out at the end of the lesson with Cedric.

"I could do with a little help on my homework Rachel, since you already finished it", Cedric asked hopefully.

"Sure. We can meet in the libarary on-", she started when Cedric interupted her.

"-after dinner?", he finished, as they reached the great hall for dinner.

"Ok, I haven't got anything else to do. Later", she walked to the gryffindor table with Hermione.

'Help with work, why didn't I think of that'Malfoy thought to himself angrily.

"Malfoy! Are you gonna stand there or are you gonna come and eat" Blaise yelled from the slytherin table. Malfoy snapped out of his thoughts and walked over, wondering what the hell was wrong with him all of a sudden. He couldn't understand what it was not even when he got annoyed seeing both Potter(female) and Diggory get up and leave the hall together.

Writer: So what do you think so far? Also thought I might mention that I'm very nice therefore I keep the good people alive Dumbledore, Sirius and Cedric. So please review I want to know what you think and chapter 3 will be up soon, promise but you need to review first.