That day was spent by the girls doing a lot of renewing old acquaintances, and friends, that they had not kept that close of contact with over the long summer. The girls, however, had kept close contact with each other. They had seen each other at least once a week, had met each other's family, had enumerable sleepovers-so many in fact that they now knew each other's homes like their own-and they were perfectly at home at every one of them.

Lily was muggle born, Saxon was pureblood but they had met at one of the muggle summer camps Saxon's parents were so fond of sending her too. They had become good friends there and since they ended up living only a few miles away from each other they had stayed friends, so had their mothers which helped. It had been wonderful for both girls when they found out that Lily had magic too and was going to Hogwarts, since Saxon and her family knew how everything worked and could help Lil's family. Plus now both girls would have a familiar face, which they liked, in their year and hopefully in their houses.

Basha was a half blood and Abrinna was pureblood, but their mother's had been good friends at school and had stayed in touch over the years having the girls only a day apart from one another. Of course the two girls had become life friends pretty much as soon as they met when they were four. They didn't meet till then because Basha's patents had been living in America for a few years since her dad got a good job there. But as soon as little Basha showed the first signs of magic-she had been having a tantrum and the thing she wanted, some toy, had flown to her hand when it was about twenty feet away-then her father had moved back to England. The two woman had got together often after that and their two daughters had become good friends even though on the first meeting Abrinna had bitten Basha. A joke laughed at even now.

Saxon and Abrinna had been friendly acquaintances as well and were probably related somehow since they were both pureblood and their parents knew each other. So they got together sometimes and saw each other at parties or other pureblood family things. Not so surprising then that both girls had known Potter and Black, especially Black for Abrinna since he was her second cousin or something and especially Potter for Saxon since he was her cousin-sadly as she often commented. Her dad was Potter's dad's brother and so she saw him every holiday as well. Potter and Black had not really been friends before or really known each other since their families were different kinds of people and so got invited to different things. Saxon had met Basha once or twice at some party and once Saxon had brought Lily to a picnic thing that both of the other girls had been at. So they had all met at one point or another before the Hogwarts train.

Anyways, while Pad was thinking of all of this and reflecting-instead of doing her homework I feel obligated to add-the other girls were reading(Di)or doing their homework(Cave, duh), or being somewhere besides with them(Milk). When something, of course, had to happen.

The portrait opened and then Milk stumbled in, hair a miss-more than usual and that's saying something, followed by a grinning Black and Potter.

Padmé was the first to notice them since she was done with her musing and extremely bored-still not doing her homework which technically she should have been doing.

"What the bloody?!?" Pad said getting up and going to Milk, she led her to the couch but almost fell on her face because Black stuck out his foot tripping her up. "(##^&%#Bastard^5*(%&#$%(freak*#%^&^ %$*#!!! Damn you Black." She growled pulled away from them.

"Oh dear, what's the matter." Cave said coming over-and poking Di to make her notice-to Milk.

"Well I was on my way back from horrible double potions, when I happen to run into these two pricks about two levels down somewhere."

"Lost I might add." Potter interrupted her,

"Shut it!" Di told him sharply and Pad glared at him,

"And well, I didn't truthfully see them at first, reading one of my books when they jumped out at me. I screamed, dropping my book. Then they asked me if I was lost-after chortling at me clumsiness. I told them I wasn't and started to leave quickly. A few feet later I ran into a few Slytherins coming out of a side class room, I was knocked to the ground and they sneered at me. One pulled out his wand, and then Potter and Black came up behind me and helped me up. After exchanging a few insults with the Slytherins they turned away. The snakes weren't done though and cursed me before I got away; it felt weirdly like an electric shock. Potter and Black then turned and started a fight, and I got hit with a dancing hex and that one that freezes you. So I couldn't move but my legs were dancing. Once the snakes had run away Potter and Black stood there talking for a while completely ignoring me, then finally helped me out of the spells and we came here."

"Finally?" repeated Pad glancing at Di before looking at Potter and Black who shifted uncomfortablely then as one blurted out;

"Wedidhelpherthoughbeforeandwecouldn'tdecide-"

"Um, I didn't catch that bit after decide." Di told then looking slightly amused but also murderous.

"We couldn't decide what the counter curses where and whether if using one would affect the other so we diced to do them together so there wouldn't be any, side effects?"

"Why are you asking us Potter." Cave asked back,

"Um, we aren't?" Potter replied shiftily,

"No side effect? What do you mean side effects?" asked Di,

"Um, I don't know-" Potter said slowly looking at Black,

"We, well, also couldn't remember the counter curse to the dancing hex for a few…minutes." Black amended,

"Well, in that case go away." Cave told them sharply, turning back to Milk.

"Well, yah know I never got back at you for this morning." Pad mentioned reaching for her wand causally.

"But doesn't helping out your friend cancel out any bad feelings?" Potter asked hopefully, Pad hesitated.

"Well, for half of it since it hit two people and you did a favor for one of us…and not for me directly…you really should be grateful since you did help her you will get off easier and I won't ask the others to help me deal with you." Pad finally said grinning evilly,

"No, your wrong there." Di replied grinning too now, "I'm bored so I'll help you…plus they should be punished for taking so long in restoring her." She took out her wand and the two girls advanced on the boys who took to their heels and ran out of the portrait hole screaming. Di and Pad high fived since they had gotten in a curse each before the boys had gotten out of range.

As soon as they went back to sit by Milk and Cave another person walked into the common room.

"Hello Rem!" Pad said seeing him-another reason not to do her homework!

"Did I just hear Sirius and James?" he asked her looking around the common room. Pad giggled,

"Yep!"

"Not sure where they are now though." Di said thoughtfully, "You see they just exited the premises."

"Screaming their bloody heads off." Milk added grinning at the other two.

"You two better not get into trouble the first day." Cave said from her place reading a text book by the fire.

"Don't worry so much." Pad complained as Remus rolled his eyes and walked back up to his dorm room-the other boys would be back eventually and he had homework to finish. "Plus we have plenty of dirt on them." She added confidently,

"Um, what dirt?" asked Di,

"I'm sure I could think of something since he is my cousin and I spent plenty of time with him…considering everything…"

"So nothing specific?"

"Well, no. But whatever, it was worth it even I they do tell-and they are believed that is. The teachers love us and we will deny everything anyway. You two as well." Pad added looking at Milk and Cave with a severe expression. Milk nodded right away and Cave sighed again and nodded after a moment.

"I won't say anything at all." She stated finally.

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The week went by pretty smoothly after that, except one or two PB confrontations, but those were only to be expected. Pad managed to only get one detention with Potter, Black somehow got out of it. So on Sunday at 1:50 Pad, groaning and looking at the clock, got up and said goodbye to her friends. She walked down to Professor McGonagall's office. After another lecture about their bad behavior she set them to cleaning and organizing the filling room, they were supposed to have to cooperate to finish the job. She seemed rather smug at coming up with the job and after escorting them to the room she informed them that they would work till they were done and if they didn't finish in time for dinner they would go and come back.

Once the 'witch,' as Pad rudely muttered, left Potter and Pad looked at each other, Pad raised an eyebrow and he grinned gesturing for her to look around. She did, and swore again, then she brightened grinning.

"Did she say no magic for the cleaning part?" She asked him, he grinned-though knowing him even if she had he would have said no even if she had-but then he frowned.

"No she didn't," He started, then he hesitated, "Do you even remember the cleaning spell?" She rolled her eyes at him,

"Would I have suggested it if I didn't?" He smirked at her,

"Ladies first." Bowing her into the room,

"How convenient for you." She muttered but then smirked happily quietly muttered 'scrugify' to one cabinet. He poked her,

"Do you really want to do this all alone? Not that I'd really mind but it would take longer…and I don't really want to be stuck here longer than necessary." She smiled widely at him, and told him the spell. They moved through the rows of cabinets Once that was done Potter showed off by summoning all the papers to the table in the back probably put there for their use-since it was clean already. Then they spent a few minutes having Potter show Pad the spell…surprisingly few papers had come from actually in the cabinets but there were still very many, including the ones on the ground and on top of the cabinets.

Pad moved the stacks of paper into two piles on the ground and sat on the one chair, Potter had to search around and find the other chair-on the other side of the room covered in spider webs and dust-not that it mattered with the cleaning spell. She quickly indicated what they should do and he sat across from her and started. At first they only talked to decided what ways to sort different papers or to find specific piles. It was all rather confusing and after about five McGonagall visits and lots of talking, and cursing from both party's, later they had made pretty nice piles and were on first name terms again. Then they made labels for the cabinet drawers and started putting them away sometimes having to combine stacks since they had made two piles by accident. It was rime for dinner, 6:00, and they had only four more stacks to put away when McGonagall came to collect them. She let them finish quickly and walked town to the Great Hall together splitting ways at their table to go to their friends.