"So you've been getting migraines by overusing your PSI powers?" Ginny asked in a low voice as she grabbed a piece of toast, Ness nodded and took a bite out of his pancake, "More or less, I've been trying to use PSI to mimic magic so I could get a passing grade. But since I haven't been allowing myself to rest in-between class I've been getting headaches."

"Huh." Was all Ginny said before she took a bit into her toast, Ness glanced around the Gryffindor table and frowned when he didn't see Harry sitting with Ron and Hermione, which was odd since it was a school day and class was due to start in an hour.

"Hey Ginny, where's Harry?" Ness finally asked once he was sure that the lightning scared boy wasn't anywhere in the room.

"Probably sleeping in." Ginny guessed, "He has Qudditch practice and I heard that this is Wood's, the captain, last year at Hogwarts."

"What's Qudditch again? I know you mentioned it before."

"It's a sport involving broomsticks and four special balls, the four houses play against each other to try and win the House cup. Gryffindor hasn't won in ages thanks to all the chaos that's been going on lately."

"How many teams there? Or is it just a school thing?"

"Qudditch is national, I'm pretty sure that every region has a Qudditch team, even America although I don't think there are that many matches against their teams."

"Well that would explain why an American transfer isn't that big a deal." Ness grumbled,

"Well, there are wizards from all over the world." Ginny said, "That's probably why there isn't a huge fuss about it."

Ness sighed and resumed eating breakfast, wondering what the heck he should be focusing his energy on. Thankfully he didn't have time to dwell on it since a Barn owl landed in front of him with a letter, "Great, another mystery letter." Ness grumbled, he glanced at the owl who was sticking its leg out waiting for him to take it. It seemed impaction since it was ruffling its feathers and shooting him a dirty look.

"Alright, alright." Ness said, he untied the letter and muttered, "Bird brain." As the owl flew away.

"Whose it from?" Ginny asked, studying the letter with slight interest, "Oh! Maybe it's something that can help with your, 'dilemma." Ness opened it and frowned at the bold letters that just said to meet someone at the Owlery during lunch.

"Weird, it doesn't say whose it from." Ness noted, "It just says to meet me at some Owlery during lunch."

"Odd." Ginny noted, "Maybe it's Selvis?"

"Why would he send a letter? Couldn't he just meet up with us for potions?"

"I don't think Snape would appracte it us sitting near his students after hearing the story of him in a dress."

"True…" Ness said, he sighed and looked around out of pure boredom, class would be starting soon, which meant more headaches to go around while he waited for lunch. The only good thing was that he only had one class that involved casting spells and it was a double class with Professor Flitwick.

"I wonder if Luna has an idea." Ginny mused as the hurried to their first class, Potions.

"Maybe." Ness said, trying to focus on breathing instead of talking. He wasn't a very good runner and having to practically sprint to class wasn't always fun. Especially when other students blocked the hall, "Luna does seem to be out there."

"And she might know something." Ginny said as they made a sharp turn and climbed the stairway, "After all, she loves reading about unimaginable things."

Ness nodded in agreement and slowed down to a brisk walk as they entered Snape's classroom, Selvis was already there, sitting with a pencil thin Slytherin girl who was leering at everyone. Ness noticed that Selvis seemed to be glaring at Ness's bag before looking at his potion book then looking up to glare some more at Ness's bag.

"So Selvis did send the letter." Ness realized as he sat down next to Colin who was twiddling his thumbs, watching Snape with slight unease as he glided around the classroom, giving everyone except his house the evil eye.

Ness was used to this and mostly focused on a much more pressing matter besides concocting a swelling draft. Like what did make PSI so different than magic? He thought he had found a slight answer to his question but the more he thought about it, the more they seemed the same.

It was frustrating and made Ness's brain feel like mush, which was probably why he accidently added dragon breath to his potion and blow it up. Losing ten points for Gryffindor and earning another F.

"I suppose you were overthinking?" Ginny asked as they walked toward Charms, their next class, "Under thinking." Ness corrected, "I was trying to find more differences between PSI and magic."

"Did you find anything?

"Not really. Just another headache."

"Maybe you should avoid thinking about it until lunch time." Ginny suggested.

Ness groaned and adjusted his backpack, "But then I'll have to think about the boring subject at hand!"

"Charms isn't boring." Ginny said, "It's interesting."

"And dull." Ness grumbled, Ginny rolled her eyes and picked a seat near the back of class, Ness sat beside her and watched Professor Flitwick write down the charm they were supposed to be using. It seemed to be a charm called Aresto Momentum, which would slow the object down.

"Now the trick here is to toss the ball up high—like this-," Professor Flitwick instructed tossing a foam ball up in the air to prove his point "And say the spell with confidence. Understood?"

He received a couple "Understood." Before he allowed them to start. As usual Ness ignored the written instructions and tips and started to toss the ball up and down out of boredom.

"Any luck?" Ness asked as Ginny tossed the ball up and pointed her wand at it, saying "Aresto Momentum." She caught and shook her head no, "I just can't get the hang of this."

"Well, it is out of reach." Ness teased,

"Very funny." Ginny said, "Let's see you try it then."

"Prepare for explosions." Ness warned, he tossed the ball up in the air and pictured it slowing down and slowly stopping, he saw a swirl of rainbow lines engulf the orange foam ball before disappearing.

"Odd… Nothing blew up." Ness muttered, he made to grab the ball when Ginny stopped him, "Ness, it isn't moving." Ginny whispered, looking amazed as the ball hovered a couple inches over Ness's hand. Ness glanced at Professor Flitwick who was working with another student and grabbed the ball then panicked when the ball refused to move. He couldn't even squeeze it!

"Ginny. I can't move it." Ness whispered, trying to carefully pull the ball back without attracting everyone's attention.

"What? Try reversing the spell." Ginny offered looking a little worried.

"I didn't use a spell!" Ness hissed, "I just pictured it slowly stopping and then some rainbow lines briefly engulfed it!"

"Rainbow lines? I didn't see anything." Ginny said, now trying her own luck with pulling the ball out of the air only to fail, "Try picturing it returning too normal." Ginny offered.

"Right." Ness pictured it falling back down and acting like a normal foam ball. Some black lines engulfed it and then the ball fell into Ginny's hand.

They exchanged a look of surprise as the bell rang and studied the ball the entire way to the Owlery during their lunch break. "About time." Selvis sneered, he froze when he spotted Ginny standing beside him, "Why is she here?" Selvis demanded.

"The same reason Ness was called up here." Ginny retorted,

"I summoned Ness here, not you snake charmer." Selvis hissed.

"Wow… there are a lot of owls here." Ness noted, studying the army of birds who gave him an intrigued look, "And there all awake! Well, most of them."

"Well it might something to do with the fact that we're in an Owlery." Selvis snapped, "A place for owls!" Ness ignored him and studied a snow white owl which was dozing.

"This place is sooo cool." Ness said, "Yes, lovely birds now can we move onto something important?!" Selvis demanded, he pointed at Ginny who gave him a cold look, "Why did you bring Weasly here?!"

"Firstly, her name is Ginny and secondly, she wants to solve the mystery of Psi and Magic." Ness explained. Selvis frowned and stroked a pointed owl, "What mystery? Their clearly two different things."

"Yea no," Ness, "Can magic completely stop a foam ball with ease?"

"And make it impossible to move afterwards?" Ginny added.

"Of course." Selvis snorted, "You just need the right spell." Ness raised an eyebrow and tossed the ball in the air repeating the steps he had performed in Charm class to make the rainbow lines reappear. Just like last time it froze in the air and stayed there.

"So? You used Aresto Momentum big deal." Selvis said as he reached out and grabbed the ball, then he frowned when he realized that he couldn't move it. "What spell did you use?!" Selvis demanded as he used his other hand to give himself more leverage over the inanimate object.

"I'm not a magic user." Ness deadpanned as Selvis leaned back and pulled even harder, "And all I did was picture it, cause some rainbow lines to appear and it just started to stay in place."

"What rainbow lines?! I just saw you looking at this bloody ball!" Selvis snapped, "I didn't see anything either." Ginny admitted.

"Really? Weird." Ness looked at the owls who were now watching Selvis struggle with the ball, "I guess wizards can't see PSI moves." Selvis pulled out his own wand and pointed it at the ball yelling "Flippendo!" He growled in anger as the spell disappeared the moment it collided with the ball. Doing absolutely nothing to it.

"If it makes you feel better, Ginny and I were having panic attacks on trying to hide the ball from Professor Flitwick during class." Ness offered when Selvis shot him a murderous glare.

"Didn't you have something important to tell Ness?" Ginny asked, Selvis gave the ball one last glare before he put his wand away, "Yes, I had something to tell Ness, not you Weasly." Selvis spat.

"Oh for crying out loud." Ness said, he turned to Ginny and asked, "Do you trust Dumbledore?" Ginny hesitated then admitted "Not really, honestly I can't help but feel like he's hiding something or purposely letting people get people hurt for some secret agenda."

"See Selvis, she doesn't trust the old kook either." Ness said turning to Selvis who was now looking unsure, "Right." Selvis grumbled, "I was going to suggest that we use the upcoming Hogsmead trip as a way to explore the library and see if they were any other PSI users let into Hogwarts."

"Couldn't we just use the library any time?" Ness asked,

"Yes, but mostly everyone well be out having fun. Meaning that the castle will be practically empty of any spies." Selvis explained.

"That sounds like an awesome idea," Ness started, "But there's one problem."

"What is it?"

"If no one knew about Psi or Belinda then what makes you think that the last headmaster willingly left scraps of evidence pointing toward the accident?" Ness questioned, "He has a point." Ginny said, "The ministry would have swept it under the rug to avoid panic."

Selvis opened his mouth to argue then sighed, "Fine, so what do you propose instead?"

"I say we find the real difference between PSI and Magic, there has to be a huge reason for PSI to be banned beside one small outburst." Ness said, "What outburst?" Ginny asked her question was quickly shot down by Selvis who said, "We'll tell you later."

Ginny frowned and folded her arms, "If we're going to work together then you should fill in the blanks Karma." Selvis scowled at her and tried to argue with her when Ness interrupted them, "Alright, so on Halloween we meet up with Luna at the rooftop overseeing the Forbidden woods and—,"

"I'm sorry." Selvis interrupted looking disgusted with Ness, "Do you mean Loony Luna?" causing Ginny to snap, "She not loony!"

"Yes Selvis." Ness answered then resumed speaking, "And while we wait we look around for possible answers to be tossed around during the meeting."

"And what happens when we find nothing?" Ginny asked, "We ask Paula, Poo and Jeff for help. After all, I bet their wondering why I'm even here." Ness finished.

"Do you even know how to contact them?" Selvis asked,

"Nope. No clue."

Selvis face palmed while Ginny sighed and explained, "You use an owl to send a letter to people outside of Hogwarts, must students have their own owls but the school provides a couple."

"Like my wonderful Southern White faced owl, Kir." Selvis boasted, "He's a prime example of a mail carrier." Kir stirred slightly and shot Selvis a look, silently demanding to know why his master was talking about him.

"So they just know where to go? Without and address?" Ness questioned, "Well, they do need an address but other than that it's easy as pie." Ginny clarified.

"Huh, I thought this would be a lot harder." Ness said, he approached Kir and held out a hand, "Hey buddy, what's going on—OW!" Ness jerked his hand back as Kir gave an outraged screech and tried to bite his fingers, "Kir!" Selvis scolded sounding bewildered by his owl's outburst, "What's gotten into you!?"

"I guess he doesn't like kids with black eyes." Ness grumbled as Kir shot Ness a glare and puffed up, "Odd, I've never seen an owl act like that before." Ginny noted she jumped as Ness tried to say hello to a tawny barn owl and received another attempt to bite his fingers off.

"Okay! Birds hate me." Ness declared, Selvis and Ginny exchanged a look of confusion, suggesting that owls had never openly tried to attack someone before, "Maybe you're sending off the wrong signals?" Ginny suggested, "Oh!" Selvis said, realizing something, "Maybe it's because you aren't a wizard or a human!"

Ginny and Ness gave Selvis a look, forcing Selvis to explain himself, "Well, owls are usually used by wizard to commutate with each other without attracting muggles attention. So that means that their usually surrounded by magic since there smart enough to understand what we're talking about."

"Sort of not following you." Ness said as Ginny caught on too what Selvis was saying, "So you think they can sense Ness's Psi powers? Like how a cat can sense a ghost?"

"That has to be it, it's either that or Ness is really bad with animals."

"Hey! I have a dog at home and he doesn't have a problem with me!" Ness protested but before he could say more the bell rang, forcing them to head for second period.


Halloween arrived faster than Ness expected, he swore that Hogwarts had some sort of time spell that made everything go faster since he could barely remember the past few days. Although that was probably because of the increasing migraines he'd been getting from practicing fake magic and experimenting with his PSI powers.

"Well." Ness sighed as he climbed the tower leading to the west roof, "At least I can read my letters in peace." He smiled down at the simple colored envelopes in his bag and studied his little sister's letter, which had been decorated with all sorts of fall themed stickers.

"I wonder what exciting thing Tracy's been up to." Ness mused as he stepped outside and took a deep breath of crisp fall air, "Hopefully something Halloween themed." He grumbled sitting down in the corner of the roof to read his mail while he waited for Ginny, Luna and Selvis to arrive.

Tracy's letter was surprisingly quick and to the point, talking about how she told everyone at school what happened to him and warning him not to abuse his PSI powers, then adding that he had forgotten his baseball bat and wanted to know if he wanted her to send it to him.

"I don't even think they allow bats here." Ness grumbled as he folded her letter up and put it away to read his mother's which was long and basically full of motherly worries, like 'make sure you're going to bed on time!' and also, 'if doing magic gives you a headache then just focus on writing it down to practice later, I know you're used to pushing yourself but this isn't a quest the save the world!'

"But what if it really is?" Ness wondered as he went to read Paula's letter, which was oddly… sappy and full of worries. Which seemed odd for Paula since she was usually the calm anchor who knew how to get things done, with or without her frying pan.

She seemed interested in Ginny however, probably because she had at least seven brothers while Paula was an only child. Ness made a mental note to explain more about Ginny the next time he wrote home.

Poo was more short phrase of, "Beware of those with hidden plans." While Jeff was at least three papers long full of PSI theories and why magic was interfering. The only thing that made sense to Ness was Jeff's definition of magic and his somewhat helpful theory of why PSI and magic were different. Before Ness could read into it more the tower door swung open and Ginny and Selvis walked through, arguing.

Ness blinked in surprise as Luna glided in after them and closed the door, "Hello Ness." Luna greeted, "How have you been?"

"Meh." Ness answered before he pointed to Ginny and Selvis, "What's up with them though?"

"Not sure, something to do with Harry I believe." She sat down beside Ness and studied Jeff's letter, "Letters from home?"

"Yea, and Jeff actually pointed out something insightful." Ness said he glared at Ginny and Selvis who were practically yelling and snapped, "Yo! Cool it you two!"

Ginny flushed and angrily pointed at Selvis, "It's not my fault he's a mouthy git!"

"Looks whose talking snake girl!" Selvis retorted, "I bet you enjoyed going on a power trip!"

"Oh dear…" Luna mused as Ginny whipped out her wand and yelled "Stupifiy!" Selvis whipped out his own wand and stuttered, "Protago!" summoning a small blue shield which barely protected him.

"Alright knock it off!" Ness ordered using Paralysis Omega on both of them, they yelped and tried to move only to find that they couldn't.

"Although I'm really curious to know why you and Selvis were fighting." Ness said, "I'm just going to skip that point and ask if you saw anything odd."

"Besides this red haired freak." Selvis snarled, "No, now unfreeze me you brute!" Ginny glowered at him while Luna shook her head no, "I just saw Selvis and Ginny freeze up."

"So you didn't see any yellow lines blasting them?" Ness asked, Luna shook her head no again, "Sorry."

"So Jeff is right!" Ness exclaimed, "Who is Jeff and why is he right?" Selvis asked.

"He's a friend back home and a science geek who found some helpful information." They gave him blank looks at the term 'geek' forcing Ness to explain, "Geek, it's slang for someone who likes school and or science."

"So would that Granger girl be a geek?" Selvis asked, "She seems like one to me." Ginny glared at him and opened her mouth to argue when Ness cut them off, "Anyway, he was saying that one of the possible reasons why PSI and Magic are so different is because of how its performed."

"Performed how?" Ginny asked while Selvis snapped, "Will you unfreeze us before you continue explaining this theory?!"

Ness rolled his eyes and performed Healing V before continuing, "Well, you guys can't see what I see when I perform PSI. Right?"

They nodded yes. "And wizards have to use their wands, charms and potions in order to properly use magic. Right?" they nodded yes again and Luna's eyes let up, "Oh! You think the difference between wizards and PSI users is that one requires a tool while the other only needs their mind?"

"That's what I'm getting from Jeff's letter." Ness said, waving it in the air slightly.

"If that's the case then how come you seem to be able to see magic while we can't?" Ginny questioned.

"I dunno. Maybe it's because thought power going through a magical stick?" Ness offered. Selvis groaned and sat down, "I'm beginning to think that PSI and Magic are a curse, every time we find learn something new, another question pops up."

"But that's what makes it so exciting!" Luna exclaimed, looking fully awake for once, "After all once we answer the little questions then we can move onto why the Ministry banned PSI users from Hogwarts and why Ness is here."

"And figure out what Dumbledore has to do with all of this." Selvis said. Ginny nodded in uneasy agreement, "Maybe he's worried about Harry's safety?"

"Maybe." Luna mused, "Or maybe he's been taken over by a PSI monster that only Ness can defeat."

"If that's the case then wouldn't he not invite me to Hogwarts? Or at least cancel my acceptance if the monster took over after he sent me the letter?" Ness asked.

"Point." Selvis grumbled while Luna thought about this, "Well, maybe that's not the case." Ginny said, "But maybe we should look for physical differences between PSI and magic."

"How so?" Selvis questioned.

"Simple, Ness duels one of us while the other two observe and see how things play out." Ginny explained, Selvis's eyes lit up and he sent Ness a murderous grin, "Finally you suggest something interesting."

"Well, looks like we're watching then." Luna said. Ginny joined her on the floor and watched as Ness and Selvis stood at the opposite ends of the tower, "Alright, no dangerous spells or attacks, just the basics." Ginny instructed.

"No promises." Selvis sneered as he pointed his wand at Ness, posed and ready to strike, "Well, that won't be a problem since I only have one offensive attack that I feel confident in using." Ness said, standing up straight and allowing his arms to hang loosely at his sides. It felt so weird not to have his trusted baseball bat in his hands.

"Begin!" Ginny said, Ness jumped to the side as Selvis yelled, "Flipendo!" firing a much larger blue ball of magic at the castle wall. "So that can increase in size." Ness noted as Selvis quickly followed up with a leg binding jinx.

Ness flinched as he was hit by the spell and felt his arms and legs stick to his sides, a brief surge of panic rose as Ness saw the words, status paralyze hover briefly in his line of vision before fading. It had been ages since he had seen a status warning that usually told him what was wrong.

He used Healing V and pointed at Selvis, "Hypnosis A!" light purple lines briefly surrounded Selvis who jumped back in surprise, then fell forward, fast asleep.

"Amazing." Luna breathed as Ginny shook and prodded Selvis with her wand, "How did you manage to get out of the jinx?" Ginny asked once she was sure that Selvis was out for the count.

"It came up as paralyze so I used Healing V on myself and countered." Ness explained with a small shrug of his shoulders, "No big deal."

"You saw what the jinn status was?" Luna asked sounding even more awestruck than before.

"Well, yea. If I didn't know what was my condition, then I would just waste PSI points trying to heal myself and the others." Ness said, "Speaking of which, I need to sit down. Everything's trying to spin."

"Do we need to take you to Madam Pomphrey?" Ginny asked sounding a little worried, "Nah, I just need to rest." Ness said as Selvis stirred and muttered something about flying carpets. Luna pulled out a journal and scribbled something down, "What's that Luna?" Ginny asked.

"A secret journal, I'd figure it might be useful to take notes of our discovery and unanswered questions."

"Cool, so we're a secret club now." Ness said, "Whaaa? What secret club?" Selvis slurred as he sat up and rubbed his eyes, "And why was I taking a nap on the cold stone?"

"It's not important." Ginny said, "But if we are going to be a club then shouldn't we have a cool name?"

"Yea! But what? I'm drawing a blank." Ness admitted, Luna thought for a bit before she offered, "How about The PSI Decetives?"

"Too out in the open." Selvis said, "We don't want more people to wonder about PSI since it could get Ness in serious trouble with the Ministry."

"The ministry's like the government. Right?" Ness asked, Selvis shot Ness a disgusted look while Ginny and Luna shared a look, "I keep forgetting that you're like Harry." Ginny said sounding apologetic.

"I'm like Harry? How?" Ness questioned, They'll answer that question later. Can we focus on one thing at a time?" Selvis said, "Like figuring out a cool club name?"

Ginny glared at Selvis while Luna suggested, "How about Boundless? That sounds catchy."

"And it fits with our current agenda." Ness offered, "So Boundless it is."

"I bet I can make cool badges that can single future meetings." Luna mused, "Fine, but it can't be too noticeable." Selvis said, "It has to be discreet."

"Sounds like you're enjoying being in a secret club." Ness teased, Selvis glowered at Ness while Ginny smothered a laugh, "I am not enjoying the privilege of being in a secret club! I'm just glad to know that I'm not the only one who opposes Dumbledore, that's all!" Selvis argued.

"Still sounds like you like the secret club." Luna pointed out. "And having people with similar view points." Ginny mused. Selvis stiffened then changed the subject, "You wanted to know something about Potter, right?"

"Yea, why the heck am I like him?" Ness questioned.

"Well, you both came to Hogwarts with no real clue why you were brought here and you know nothing of the magical world but became heroes." Ginny explained, "Without much of a choice." Selvis grumbled.

"Harry's done something besides being a miracle kid?"

"Yup, he defeated Voldemort again in his first year and sealed off the Chamber of Secrets while rescuing Ginny." Luna answered.

"Wow." Ness whistled, "Harry also grew up with filthy Muggles." Selvis added.

"Wow again."

"As for the Ministry, it's basically a magical version of the Government." Ginny explained, "They ensure that everyone follows the rules and that Muggles don't find out about the wizarding world."

"It's quite busy." Luna mused, "Especially with all the Flitter-Sparks hovering around the workers."

Selvis opened his mouth to say something then closed it, probably realizing that asking Luna what a Flitter-Spark was would get him nowhere.

"Right, so what should we do next?" Ginny asked, "We still have about four hours left before everyone else comes back from Hogsmeade."

"We could find history books that might have studied PSI before it was banned." Luna suggested,

"Vetoed, anyone with a brain would have gotten rid of those books once the ban was in place." Selvis said.

"We could explore the castle for cool hiding spots." Ness offered, "After all we could stumble upon a clue."

"Or the castle's kitchen." Sevlis mused, "I've heard that the door way is a fruit painting with a secret code."

They gave Selvis a curious look which prompted him to shrug and say, "I like to lurk in the corners of the castle to hear juicy gossip. It beats moping around the Common Room once classes are over."

"So that's how you knew about Potter going after Black." Ness realized.

"Nah, that was because Malfoy was bragging about it after Potions."

"Wait, Harry's going after Black?" Ginny questioned, "Why on earth would he do that?"

"According to Malfoy, it's because Black had something to with Potter's parents getting killed." Selvis said mischievously, "I'm not exactly sure what happened but I do know that the Black family were huge followers of Voldemort."

"So is that why Ness is here?" Luna questioned, "To stop Black from exacting his revenge on Harry for killing his master or to stop Harry from killing Black?"

"I dunno. Maybe?" Ness said. Ginny thought for a bit before she slowly said, "Hold on, if that was the case then wouldn't Dumbledore try and recruit Poo and Paula to stop Black? After all he is a notorious murderer."

They thought about this before Selvis shook his head no, "Impossible, with three students coming from America who were all from Ness's 'comic adventure' it would be a big red flag to the Ministry and to the other students that something was up."

"So we're back too square one." Ness sighed, "Not knowing why I'm here since I clearly can't use magic and PSI is clearly banned."

"Well, maybe the ban got vetoed." Luna offered, "After all, it might have been a spur of the moment thing thanks to a Biggily Horn."

"Every time you speak sense more nonsense comes out of your mouth." Selvis grumbled, "Make sense or don't!"

"If everything made sense then where would the fun be?" Ness asked earning a glare from Selvis who collected his bag and stood up.

"Where are you going?" Ginny asked, "To the realm of sense." Selvis retorted and with that he headed back inside the castle.

"Huh, he stayed longer than I thought he would." Ness said once a few minutes passed and they were sure Selvis was gone.

"He's interesting." Luna mused while Ginny shook her head, "Well, I have no clue on what to talk about next, so I'm going to take a nap." Ness announced, "My head's killing me."

"I think I'm going to look around the castle for Luck-Lows." Luna said, she stood up and looked at Ginny, "Would you like to come along?"

"Sure, maybe I can find my missing sock." Ginny said. "I swear I had it yesterday." Ness laughed and made his way to the Common Room which was full of First and Second years who were chatting, playing some type of chess or just studying.

He glanced at Hermione's devil cat which was sulkily sitting in a corner, probably upset that it hadn't been able to kill Ron's rat, he was tempted to say hello but decided not to when he remembered the long jagged cuts he had received from the mangy cat.

So he headed up to his bed and promptly went to bed in hopes of soothing the pounding in his skull. It didn't work since he promptly snapped awake with a feeling that he needed to do something.

Actually, it reminded him of when he woke up and went with Porky to find his little brother Picky. The entire walk Ness had a feeling that something important was about to happen and the wild animals attacking them hadn't helped that nagging feeling that something would happen.

"Alright, headache's gone. It's the middle of the night." Ness muttered as he looked out the window and at the Halloween moon softly glowing in the black night sky, he stared at it for a while until he jolted to his feet, "Crud! I'm missing dinner!" he stumbled down the stairs and entered the Common room which was completely empty, even Crookshankies was gone.

"I bet they have a bunch of Halloween snacks out." Ness grumbled as he crawled into the portiator hole, about to push it open when he heard a rough voice growl, "Let me in. Or else!"

Ness tensed as the Fat Lady angrily retorted, "No password, no entry!" the owner of the voice growled again and Ness could hear brief movement before the Fat Lady gave a hysterical scream as the man stabbed her painting, ripping into it.

"No way…" Ness breathed, without thinking he tried to force the door to open in hopes of saving what little was left of the Fat Lady, "Why. Isn't. This. Opening?!" Ness grunted, "If I could just get out then I could-," he paused then face palmed, "Duh! I can teleport outside the common room."

He jumped back and took a running start, picturing himself landing outside on the eight floor entryway, "Yes!" Ness cheered as he felt the common room disappear and reappear outside the common room, "Alright time to find that painting slasher… Who is not here." Ness sighed, "No prob, I'll just look for Mr. Knife man." He walked into the stairwell and climbed down a couple flights trying to find something. Anything that would lead to the slasher's current position.

"He couldn't have just—" Ness started to say when he heard the sound of a door closing, "Yes!" Ness quietly cheered as he sneaked over to the classroom he peered inside a Charms classroom. He managed to catch a glimpse of a black creature jumping out the window.

"What…" Ness said, as the creature disappeared into the night, "Was that?" of course he got no answer since he was the only one there, but what had he seen? He had heard a man and now he was seeing some four-legged black beast escaping. How was that possible?

"Hello?" a voice called, a teacher most likely, "Is anyone there?" Ness jumped and accidently teleported himself back into the common room. Which was still locked from the outside. "Great going Ness." He grumbled, "You locked yourself back inside the common room." He looked around out of boredom and thought for a bit, he could teleport back outside and join the feast but that would raise questions which Ness wasn't sure to answer.

Like how the heck he got of the common room. Sure, he could lie but that would only bring up more questions as time went on. "Well, maybe I could raid someone's trunk…" Ness mused, "Actually, that sounds like a good idea. To Harry's trunk!" he sprinted up the stairs saying, "After all, everyone's down at the feast so no one could really get upset at me and-," Ness paused spotting an old newspaper on someone's bedtable.

On it was a picture of Sirius Black ducking out of view, "Didn't… Black want to hunt Harry down or something…?" Ness vaguely recalled then he remembered something else, Mr. and Mrs. Weasly had also mentioned about how he would step in if anything was wrong. That would mean that they probably knew that he was a PSI user. Right?

"First things first, focus on Boy wonder." Ness said, shoving his PSI question in the far back of his mind. "Besides, if Black really did want to kill Harry then why not attack earlier? I mean, Black could have attacked him during the Hogsmeade trip… Surrounded a bunch of people… Yea, that would totally work." He sighed and headed toward his bed to think more about it.

If he was indeed trying to kill someone then hiding in their room while everyone was occupied with dinner was a sure fire way to avoid detection, but he would have ensured that he had an easy way through without alerting anyone, after all the Fat Lady could have screamed for help or the other paintings could have saw him make his way up to Gryffindor tower and alert someone.

"Maybe he wanted to poison something belonging to Harry?" Ness wondered aloud, "Actually… that could work. By the time the people found the poison Harry would be as good as dead." He thought for a bit more before he sighed and flopped on his bed, "Maybe the others have a better idea of what happened. I'll bug them in the morning." He turned on his side and thought for a bit more before a better idea struck him.

"I'll ask the stars! Maybe they know what happened! Or better yet, what to look out for" Ness realized, he scrambled out of bed and pressed his face against the cold window, trying to see the bright stars' and their omen. He studied them for a couple minutes before he spotted Mars and Mercury easily able to see despite the moon's bright light.

"Mars…and Mercury?" Ness groaned and adjusted his hat, "That just suggests a chance of reunion and the escape of a traitor!" he sighed and returned to his bed. Wondering who was going to be reunited and who was going to be killed. Maybe Professor Kale had a better idea.