Sorry for the lack of update :S MERRY BELATED CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEARS! Sorry if near the end there are spelling/grammer problems as I woke up early to finish this for you guys (And as it was New Years eve yesterday I'm still pretty tired :P)

Rowan sat beneath a light in the library, burried beneath a hefty pile of yearbooks from the past. It'd seemed that Hogwarts never had a beginning, the books dated farther back than she cared to imagine. She picked another up, it had faded gold lettering and the cover was slightly torn. She couldn't remember if she'd already check through it or not.

"Miss Annemarie, what are you doing all alone in a library?" Rowan swivelled around on her chair to face James.

"I could ask you the same thing." She stated, feeling uncharacteristically bold.

James laughed, pushing his dark hair up out of his eye's. "Is it a crime to be in the library?"

"It is if you're a Potter." Rowan mumbled under her breath.

"I was getting some books for my potions essay." He continued, not hearing her comment. "And you're doing what?" He asked again, noticing the blanket of yearbooks surrounding her.

"Searching." She muttered, flipping through the pages of the closest book.

"For what?" he asked, not surprised about his quiet friends odd antics.

"For a Katerina Woods, Gryffindor." She said, pushing a few of the books into his hands.

"Whoah, who said I was here to help?"

Rowan bit her lip, of course he didn't want to help her, they weren't friends, well atleast not good ones.

She scrambled to her feet, accidently knocking a few books from the table. "Well, I have to go anyways." Her voice was barely a whisper as she pushed past the boy and out towards the hall. "Stupid Gryffindors." She whispered to herself. Sometimes she wondered why she wasn't sorted into Ravenclaw, or even Hufflepuff for Merlins sake.

"I was only joking!" James called after her, slightly bemused, but Rowan was already out of hearing distance.

"Girls.." He laughed under his breath.

"What about us?" James glanced over to acknowledge Sabrina who'd walked up beside him.

"You're all crazy, crazy and dillusional." James stated in mock seriousness.

Sabrina tilted her head in thought, "Sounds about right." She laughed.

"Why is everyone in the library?" James suddenly asked, already making his way to the nearest exit.

Sabrina wondered at this. "I truly don't know. I was here to help Rowan, thought it would be a nice surpise, she was sounding pretty crazed yesterday about some girl called Katarina Woods. Do you know who that is?"

"No idea."

"Mhmm, me neither. But if this girls got a problem with our Rowan than she's got a problem with me." Sabrina declared, pulling her dark hair into a ponytail as the two marched from the stuffy book filled room.

"Speaking of problems, you havn't seen Lily around have you? I swear she's out to get me, her two little friends have been eyeing me like dead meat since we got off the train." James started to sound worried. "I don't want a repeat of last year."

"Oh come on, that was funny." Sabrina chuckled, bumping him with her hip.

"How is turning all my boxers into raccoons funny!" James choked out. "I still have scars!" He cried, pulling up his robe sleeve.

"Hey don't go off on me, I didn't give them the idea!" She held her hands up in innocence.

Suddenly James grabbed her arm and pulled her back around the corner. "Oh god they're right there!" His voice wavered. James had to be one of the best looking in his year and was absolutely the most attractive, as reassured by his mother, yet something about the way those three third years carried themselves when they were together gave him chills that only another sibling of the girls would understand.

"For Merlin's sake James, they're 13! You shouldn't be scared! You're the prankster of this school, not them!" She pulled her wrist free and marched out and around the corner, smiling at the girls as she passed them. The three smiled sweetly back at her, double checking to see if Lily's 'lovely' brother was with her.

But when James didn't show up around the corner after his friend the girls gave up the act and waved good-bye to Sabrina, it wasn't as fun to mess with the older girl cause she'd always get them back.

Lily sighed, as she caught James running after Sabrina form the corner of her eye. Sometimes he could be so embarrassing, she thought quickening her step to catch up to Beth and Olizia. Beth turned around to walk backwards, facing Lily.

"I was thinking of heading down to see Vanessa today." Beth started casually. Both Lily and Olizia gave her a funny look.

"But why? She's so... so..." Olizia stopped, searching for the right word.

"Different." Lily offered, jumping in before her friend said something stupid. Beth frowned at this, her miss-coloured eyes narrowing at the two red heads. It was her job, and her job alone to bag on her sister.

"Well she is." Olizia muttered under her breath.

"Well, I'm going now! I don't care if you guys don't want to come with me." Beth had already turned down the next hall towards the Huffelpuff common room. She was hustling so fast down the stairs that she barely heard her name being called till she was at the Huffelpuff passageway.

"Beth! Hold up!" The two Gryffindors sprinted to grab hold off their fuming friend.

"Why are you so worked up?" Olizia asked curiously, looking Beth straight in the eyes.

"It's nothing, I just wanted her help with Charms. I've been falling behind and Mum get me at the break if I don't pick them back." She replied so earnestly and with a drop of embarrasment. Most would have dropped it at that, 99 percent of of the school would have believed it too. But Lily and Olizia knew better than that. They noticed the way her pinky and thumb on her right hand pressed together as she talked, they could catch the slight lisp to her speech, as if her mouth was lined with cotton. But most of all they knew Beth, and there was no way in all of Britian that she needed help in Charms, the girl could Bloody well teach the class.

Olizia gently grabbed her shoulders and pulled her back round to face eachother again. She raised her eyebrow and tilted her chin, Beth's lip quivered for a secound then she exploded into a fit of tears on the spot.

The three girls were flopped down againts the wall of the corridor, Beth's face bright red and nose running like a faucet, Lily cooing and rubbing Beth's brown hair smooth, and Olizia just sitting silently holding the sobbing girls hand, waiting patiently for Beth to say whatever it is she means to say.

The Huffelpuff door opened and the Head Boy, Simon, strode out. He turned as if to say something to the group of girls, but changed his mind when Olizia gave him a look that clearly said, 'I will hex you to pieces if you open your mouth.'

With a sigh Simon quickly walked from the hall shaking his head slowly. He thought for several minutes on what or where to go, patrolling the halls was a tedious chore but it was really the only thing do. He made his way throughout the castle, stopping to check on the other prefects whenever he saw them. After several mintues he passed by the Trophy Room, he stopped in surprise. Aubrey was standing in the middle of the room, back turned to him.

Simon entered to room, and walked up beside her quietly. She turned her head and he could see she was smiling. "Hey." was all he said.

"Isn't it beautiful?" She asked dreamily. Simon turned to her, completely puzzled. He tried to see what she was looking at, all he saw where a bunch of trophies and plaques that truly needed polishing.

Finally his eyes landed on a plaque that was labelled 'Head Boy' and 'Head Girl'. His smile twisted into a grin. This was what had Aubrey in such a tizzy?

"My Dad was Head Boy, he's an Auror now, and so was my Gran and she went and became a healer, And both of my Gran's parents where Heads too. For all I know, my family is a chain of Head Girls and Boys, and I made the chain an extra link.

The little blonde seventh year reached up towards the plaque and tried to shine it with her sleeve, she only got the very bottom part. Blushing she stepped back quickly, stepping on Simon's foot. With a laugh Simon swiftly pulled out his wand. "Scourgify." he said, still smiling, and the plaque bubbled with suds for several secounds before revealing such shine that it could serve as a mirror.

Aubrey sucked in a breath of air quickly before turning around to the dark haired Head Boy before her. "Thank you." She whispered taking a step closer.

"No problem, now you can check for more relatives." He replied, same goofy grin on his face.

"But I really appreciate this." She said again stressing her words softly, Simon blinked. Boy was he thick she thought, taking another step closer, they were near touching now and Bree was just about to grab hold of his hand when there was a large shatter in the hall.

Simon twisted around, pulling his hand out of reach. "What was that?" He sounded surprised. Bree frowned. "I'll go check it out." He bounded off out off the room leaving Bree.

It was easy enough to spot the source of the noise. A bunch of students were huddled wide eye'd around a knocked over suit of armor. Simon smiled reasuringly to the younger kids as he set the suit back up with his wand.

"It was an accident!" One of them piped up. Simon glanced down at the little blonde boy, then realized there was an identicle match beside him. Realization hit him like bricks. These were the Scamander twins. He didn't have anything against them, but wierd things tend to happen to people when they're around.

"No harm no foul." Simon laughed awkwardly, ruffling the boys hair as he passed. Lorcan gave the Head Boy an odd look as he left, lifting up his spectraspecs to gawk at him.

"What an odd kid." Lorcan muttered to his friends, pushing his colourful glasses back over his eyes. Woody nodded his head in agreement and Vyn tried to keep from bursting into a laughing fit while Lysander struggled to fix his hair from looking like a Pygmy Puff.

They slowly moved their way to the Ravenclaw Common room. Lysander quickly answered the riddle and held to door open for Vyn to pass, then Lorcan. Woody stayed outside the passage, shifting from foot to foot.

Lysander gave him a look. "What are you waiting for? Nargles'll get you if you stay out there." He pointed out, still holding the passage open wide.

"Umm... I was actually going to go hang with Hugo and Roxanne before curfew." Woody muttered, eye's pointed downwards. He felt bad for leaving his friends but it's not like he was supposed to only be friends with them.

Lysander frowned, "Oh." was all he said before slipping into the Ravenclaw room himself, giving Woody a small last wave before the door pulled shut.

He neared his friends and sat down next to Vyn. She looked at him questioningly, wondering where Woody was.

"He's with the Gryffindors." He shrugged, catching the question in her eyes.

"Oh." Vyn recoiled back in shock.

Lysander smiled, "That's what I said too." The three sat in silence for several minutes, each wondering what Woody was doing.

"This is weird." Lorcan finally said what everyone was thinking. Vyn nodded again, feeling a little lost without her other half. "I think we just need someone to make us four again instead of three, yeah, that should fix this up quite nicely." Lorcan stood up abruptly, head swivelling around to see who else was in the common room.

Both Vyn and Lysander tried to pull him back down to he floor but he pushed them off and hopped over to an older girl with a long dark brown pony tail on top of her head. She looked up, a happy smile glued to her face. She had an ocean blue blouse on with her Ravenclaw robes over top.

Lorcan grabbed her hand from her lap and shook it. "Hello there, I'm Lorcan Scamander. Me and my friends over there were wanting to know if you'd like to sit with us." Vyn watched as Lorcan pointed over to her and Lysander, the girl craned her neck to look and them. Vyn slammed a hand over her face, her face burning blotchy red in embarassment.

Surpisingly enough when Lorcan sat back down, the girl had come with him. She waved quickly at them before introducing herself. "I'm Roxie, I'm in my fifth year though so I'm not sure if you know me or not-" She looked as if she could go on forever but stopped short when she noticed Vyn staring at her.

Vyn squinted. If you looked closely you could see that Roxie had put some kind of blue glitter in her hair. Lysander nudged her and she quickly looked away. Roxie quickly moved on from the awkward lookover and attempted to start up another conversation with the little Ravenclaw hatchlings.

"You're Mum's Luna isn't she? She was a Ravenclaw." Both the twins nodded.

"Wit beyond measure is a mans greatest treasure." Lysander recited with a grin. "Mum takes us exploring during the breaks, to help her discover new creatures." Lorcan was already trying to put his spectraspecs over the girls eyes as the Scamanders began there favourite topic.

"There are Nargles and Heliopaths, and little creatures called Gulping Plimpies that make excellent soup." Lorcan exclaimed.

"Oh and Wrackspurts, they're the worst! That's what the specs are for." Lysander said trying to turn Roxie's head so she could see all the Wrackspurts fuzzing up the room. "And we're still on the hunt for the Crumple Horned Snorkack." Vyn shook her head with a giggle as the older girl took in the boys absurd stories, looking around the room in amazement. She teetered to her feet and Vyn threw her arms out to steady her.

"I've got to show Aurora!" Her voice was filled with astonishment and Vyn could just feel the two boys ego fill up the room.

Roxie swung open the door and skipped out into the hall, making sure to look at everyone that passed to see how many Wrackspurts they had. She could just hear the wispy voice of Lorcan chirp, "Hey, she still has my Spectraspecs!"

She knocked on the Gryffindor passageway for atleast six minutes before someone opened it, giving her a rather annoyed look. Jumping past the boy, she quickly spotted the porcelain skinned girl sitting on the carpet near the fire. Roxie tackled Aurora to the ground with a laugh.

Aurora was laughing till she saw her friend, then she burst into full out hysterics.

"What?" Roxie asked, slightly hurt.

Aurora pulled her golden hair from her face and snorted. "Your glasses, where'd you get those from?" She asked trying to compose herself, yet failing horribly.

Roxie grinned again. "The Scamanders gave them to me. Aren't they cool!" Before the Gryffindor girl to reply that no, the colourful glittery glasses were not very attractive looking, Roxie was already pulling them off and shoving them onto her.

"Look! Can't you see them? The Wrackspurts!" Roxie was jumping in her seat like a six year old on Christmas day. Aurora sighed.

"Roxie, you can't just believe whatever the Scamanders tell you. Everyone knows there a bit... well you know." She searched for words, wiggling her fingers above her head.

Roxie nodded her head slowly, taking back the spectraspecs. "But you can see them." She whispered, trying to discreetly look through the glasses again.

"Roxie, give the glasses back to them when you get back tonight." Aurora said, trying to look out for her friend who was attempting to throw away the sane reputation that she'd built up. The other kids would eat her alive if they knew Roxie believed in the Scamander's wacky creatures.

"I think I'll just head back now." Roxie replied flatly.

Aurora grabbed her wrist. "I'm sorry, I-I just get worried about you." Aurora finished hoping that she didn't sound as lame as she thought she did. Roxie nodded again, and stumbled back towards the portrait in defeat. Jumping out of the passage way she accidently knocked into someone.

"Sorry." She said automatically, pushing past them. The person turned around and grabbed her wrist. "I said I was sorry!" Roxie repeated, frustration evident in her voice. She spun around only to be face to face with Albus, his sharp green eye's curiously worried. Roxie sighed, this just wasn't her day.

"Look, I've got to go." Roxie muttered, trying to pull free.

"Are you okay?" Albus murmered, directing his gaze to the floor.

"Yeah." Roxie gave her arm another tug.

"Are you mad with me? I didn't anything to do with what happened at the Welcome Feast, it was the girls." He tried to explain. He'd had a whole speach planned out to talk to her but it was falling apart as he spoke.

Roxie shook her head, a bit of glitter floating of from her hair. "I know, there's been quite a bit of 'I know what's best for Roxie' going around." She frowned thinking back to her last conversation with Aurora. "I'm not mad with you Albus." She whispered again.

Albus grinned, brushing his unruly black hair from his face with his free hand. "Good, you had me worried. Maybe we could hang out sometime, to study of course." He added in a rush. Roxie smiled.

"Sounds like fun, studying I mean." She blushed. The two stood there for a minute before Roxie spoke up again. "Albus, you've still got hold of my arm." She stifled a giggle as the Potter boy quickly dropped her hand as if he'd been burned.

"Right," He said, "G'night Roxie." He waited in the passage for a minute hoping no one could hear how loud his heart was beating.

Roxie skipped down the hall back to the Ravenclaw room, giddily she'd put back her spectraspecs on and sang the Hogwarts anthem out loud until she reached the Ravenclaw tower, by the end of the song she was belting it out so loudly that she didn't even notice the clicking of shoes behind her, or the jumping form of a shadow flick across the walls. By the time she'd ended the song the form had already snuck past her and was quickly making it's way to the upper levels of the school.

The shadow had belonged to Dominique. Breaking curfew wasn't exactly something that worried the Slytherin girl, but she didn't want to be caught, not when she had business to attend to. She moved quickly and as quietly as air. Pie slithered after her, careful not to tangle at her feet. With a quick check behind her shoulder, the dark haired girl slipped down a dead end corridor and into the dark. There were no torched lighting this hall and she didn't dare pull out her wand.

Kneeling down on the cold stone she felt her way along the wall until she felt the odd sensation of magic run through her palm. Sure enough the brick turned away into a small door, just as it had the other day. Rubbing her hands together she grabbed hold of the handle and pulled back as hard as she could. With a low moan the door started to peel open revealing the same darkness as out in the hall. She gave another hard tug and the door opened enough for a body to crawl through.

Hands and knees she stooped to enter the mysterious passage. She poked her head in and screamed as a family of bats flew at her face. Pie snatched them out of the air, catching them with his venom lined fangs. Dominque gasped pulling her snakes scale covered body to her in a fleeting hug. She pulled back to get out of the doorway when a light shone from down the corridor.

"Who's there?" A raspy voice called out. Dominque froze. "I know you're there, I can hear you breathing." It was the Caretaker. The bloody man would wring her neck if he caught her, she'd already spilt her potion supplies in the hall so she was not in this guys good books.

Quickly she crawled the rest of the way throught the little door, Pie close on her heels. Shifting around she tugged the door shut with all her strength, the wall flattened back into brick as just as the foot steps arrived at the end of the hall.

Standing up in the dark she felt along the walls. There was enough room for only two very thin people to stand beside eachother comfortably. She was in a hall that had two directions. Left or right. She hesitantly started walking left down the hall, her curiosity getting the best of her. She rounded the corner only to come to three more pass options. With a gasp she realized that she wasn't in a hallway, she was in a maze.

"Are you lost?" Dominque spun around, the voice had come from behind her. She squinted into the dark but couldn't make out a form. She assumed the voice was a girls. The girl laughed lightly, "You must have just been released. Don't worry, you'll get used to it soon enough. I'm Katarina, by the way."

Dominque blinked. "What? Released?"

Okay there it is, a long one to make up for the lack of update. (But remember I'm a slow writer!) Hmmm... What is Beth so upset about? Where is Dominque? And Katarina makes another appearance! Hope you all liked (Enough to review?) :D