Yearbooks and Secrets

The next morning Starlit awoke to a loud screech coming from the bed next to hers. Immediately she jumped to her feet to see what was wrong.

"What's wrong?"

"You all right?"

"What happened?"

"I was sleeping and I woke up and there was an owl sitting on me. I'm sorry I know it sounds rather foolish but it startled me. I didn't mean to wake you up." Hermione replied sheepishly.

"Its all right. Might as well get up now any way." Lavender said though she looked a little annoyed.

"Where's the owl?" Said Pravarti looking around.

"I don't know." Said Hermione.

"Look there he is. Rooney!" Starlit gave an exasperated sort of gasp. "What are you doing in here? Come on I better take you up to the owlery."

Starlit quickly dressed and made her way to the owlery. After getting lost three times and asking for directions twice she finally made it.

"You stay in here." She told him sternly. "No going into the dormitory, got it?

He gave a little hoot to show he understood and flew into the rafters to sleep.

As Starlit made her way back down the owlery and to the great hall, only getting lost twice, she passed by a door on the first floor corridor were she could make out whispers that sounded like the came from students. Who could possibly be in class this early? She stopped to listen to what was being said.

"… Father how I'm I suppose to do that! To get him out of the castle is impossible with everyone always… Yes sir… but… all right all right I'll try sir."

She couldn't hear what the other person was saying but it couldn't have been good from the way the one boy was talking. I wonder what that was about? She could hear footsteps walking towards the door and left before he saw her standing there. She certainly didn't want who ever it was to know she was listing.

When she reached the Gryffindor table she sat down next to Harry, Ron, and Hermione. In a hurried whisper she told them what she had over herd.

"Did you see who it was?" Harry asked

"No I left before he could see me."

"I bet it was Malfoy!" Ron hissed looking over at the Slytherin table.

"Ron we don't know that!" Hermione said though she rather agreed with Ron.

"Well no use thinking about it now, he have class. Transfiguration." Said Harry.

"Right lets go." Starlit said they grabed their bags and left for transfiguration.

They reached the class and Harry and Ron took their sets in the back row, Hermione and Starlit sat in the row in front. McGonagall came in and began lessons with know delay. As class drowned on the strange conversation Starlit had heard was pushed far from her mind. She was to busy taking notes on how to successfully transfigure an inanimate object into an animal. By the end of class they all had a paper due on the subject. They then made their way to Herbology with Hufflepuff.

The rest of the day was uneventful. After all their classes for the day were over Starlit headed for the library to work on her transfiguration homework. After ten minutes of searching she finally reached her destination. She found a set in the back of the library so that no one could disturb her while she was working. While she was writing the mysterious conversation came back to her head playing over and over again like a broken record. I don't get why I keep thinking about it its not like it matters. Well what if it does? Who cares if it does its none of my business. So someone wants to get someone else out of the castle. Its probably just some prank someone's try to play on someone else. Yes that must be it. No big deal I'll put it from my mind and forget I ever herd it. That's what she did too, Starlit put it from her mind and forgot about it. She finished her easy and decided to see if she might be able to find an old Hogwarts yearbook. One thing her mother had told her was that she had met her father at Hogwarts, which meant her dad would be in at least one of the yearbooks and if he was she would find him.

Starlit packed up her things and headed up to the check out desk to ask the librarian where the yearbooks were located.

For some reason Starlit had always had a fascination with trying to find her dad, maybe it was because she had never known him. She often got a weird feeling that he was still alive and looking for her but she had always brushed it off assuming it was nothing, because while her heart told her that her dad loved her and was alive, her brain told her he was died and gone.

"Excuse me ma'am do you know where I could find the old Hogwarts yearbooks?"

"Ninth row all the way to your left." Madam Pince said with out looking up from the papers she was sorting through.

Starlit walked over to the given row looking for the yearbooks. She found them in no time and began going through them looking for her mother that way she would know she had the right year. The process was long and tiring, as there were over five hundred yearbooks, she started with the earliest and worked through them backwards. She didn't know her mother's last name so she had to look at every single page to try and find her. Finally after an hour and a half of looking she found her mother. Great now I know I have the right book dad has to be in here some where and I'm going to find him, some how. Wonder if Madam Pince will let me check this out, well it can't heart to ask. She first put away all the yearbooks she had taken off the shelf in the correct order, after every thing was in order she picked up her bag and headed over to the check out desk.

"Excuse can I check this book out?"

Madam Pince looked up and stared at the girl taking in the shoulder length black hair and gray blue eyes. She seemed to be deciding wither the girl was trust worthy or not. Starlit shifted under the uncomfortable gaze of the women. She was relieved when the women finally spoke.

"Yes you may." She then grabed the book stamped it and handed it back.

"Thank you." Starlit took the book and tucked safely in her bag before she headed for the Gryffindor common room. She arrived there to see Ron, Harry, and Hermione talking to one another in a hushed whisper in the fare corner of the room. She was deciding whither or not to go over to them when Harry looked up at her. He smiled and nudged the others making them aware of her presence. Hermione waved her over to join the isolated group. Starlit walked over and took a set in-between Hermione and Harry.

"What are you three are you guys doing? I just got back from the library." Starlit asked putting her stuff down and taking out the yearbook.

"We were just finishing are homework." Hermione said. Starlit looked around it didn't look to her like they had been doing homework, there wasn't a book in sight. She didn't particularly care what they had been talking about so she shrugged it off.

"What's that?" Ron asked spotting the yearbook.

"It's an old Hogwarts year book. I was hoping I could find my dad in it since he went her with my mom then I would finally know who he is."

"How are you going to know who he is you don't know what he looks like do you?" Hermione asked.

"No I don't but I figure I would have to look a little bit like him right? So I just look through and see if a can find someone who looks a little like me. Its worth a try even if it doesn't work."

"Suppose so…" Hermione said apprehensively.

Starlit looked down at the book than at all the others, Ron looked like he had given her his support, Hermione looked like she wasn't to sure Starlits plan was going to work. Harry had a strange look on his face like he was keeping something from her, he had been really quite the hole time she had been there.

"We'd best be going down to the Great Hall for dinner now." Ron said getting up.

"Right." Harry replied

They got up from their corner; Hermione and Ron were in front followed by Harry then Starlit. Once Ron and Hermione had gone through the portrait hole Harry stopped to talk to Starlit causing her to bump into him.

"Sorry." She said stepping back.

"Can I talk to you for a moment there's something I think you should know."

A/N I know Hogwarts most likely doesn't have yearbooks but it's my fic so deal with it ok. Any way please review and let me know what you think. The more reviews I get the faster I write chapter 4 so I strongly suggest that you review. I also apologize for any spelling or grammar mistakes. Thanks For Reading! E-mail me if you have any good ideas for plot advancement because I'm going to be stuck soon seeing as I have no idea where I'm going with this.