Zal- Hey! Look we're back!

Kai- Sorry, we've been really busy with school as a lot of you know what that's like.

Rei- So please don't hurt us for the long absence.

Kosa- We're here now so read!

Zal- Calm down. Right so there is a little blurb at the end which you ALL MUST READ! Only read the story first.

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Harry, Ron and Alex arrived at Hagrids house. Hagrid lived in small wooden house on the edge of the forbidden forest. A crossbow and a pair of galoshes were outside the front door. When Harry knocked they heard a frantic squabbling from inside and several booming barks. Then they heard Hagrid's voice, saying "Back, Fang- back."

Hagrids face appeared in the crack as he pulled the door open. "Hang on," He said to them. "Back, Fang." He let them in, struggling to keep a hold on the collar of a massive black boarhound. there was only one room inside the hut. Hams and pheasants were hanging from the ceiling, a copper kettle was boiling on the open fire, and in the corner stood a massive bed with a patchwork quilt over it.

"Make yerselves at home." Hagrid said, letting go of Fang, who ran straight to Ron and Alex and started licking them. Like Hagrid, Fangs was not as fierce as he looked.

"This in Ron." Harry introduced to Hagrid who was pouring boiling water into a large teapot and putting rock cakes onto a plate.

"Another Weasley, eh?" Hagrid said, glancing at Ron's freckles. "I spent half me life chasin' yer twin brothers away from the forest." Alex giggled at this. She seemed to find the Weasley twins highly amusing and they always entertained her.

They told Hagrid about their first week of classes and pretended to enjoy the rock cakes which were ironically almost like rocks. They were happy to hear Hagrid call Filch "that old git."

"An' as fer his cat, Mrs. Norris. I'd like ter meet Fang sometime. She's always follow me everywhere, Can't get rid of her- I swear that Filch puts her up to it."

Harry and Alex told Hagrid about Snape's lesson. Hagrid, like Ron, told them not to worry about it, that Snape liked hardly any of the students.

"But he really seems to hate us. Or from my perspective, loathe us." Alex said in a bitter voice.

"Rubbish!" Hagrid said. "Why should he?"

Harry and Alex had the feeling that Hagrid didn't quite meet their eyes when he said it.

"How's yer brother Charlie?" Hagrid asked Ron. "I liked him a lot- great with animals."

While Ron told Hagrid all about Charlie's work with dragons, Harry picked up a piece of paper the was lying on the table under the tea cozy. It was a cutting from the Daily Prophet, he showed it to Alex who read along silently with him:

Gringotts Break-In Latest

Investigations continue into the break-in at Gringotts on 31 July, widely believed to be the work of Dark wizards or witches unknown. Gringotts goblins today insisted that nothing had been taken. The vault that was searched has in fact been emptied that same day.

"But we're not telling you what was in there, so keep your noses out if you know what's good for you." said a Gringotts spokesgoblin this afternoon.

"Hagrid, that Gringotts break-in was on my birthday! It might've been happening while we were there!" Harry said. There was no doubt about it, Hagrid didn't meet his or Alex's eyes this time. He grunted and offered Harry another rock cake. Hagrid had emptied vault 713 taking out that little package. Had that been what the thieves were looking for?

As Harry, Ron and Alex walked back to the castle for dinner, the boys pockets weighed down by the rock cakes Hagrid had given them. Alex had her mind on other things than the Gringotts break-in as Harry, whom she knew, did. She kept thinking about later that evening when she and the guys would see if she had any demon powers, so far as much as she knew, she was only a human.

Later That Evening

At Midnight she, Kurama and Yusuke snuck out of the portrait hole. They had to wait only because Harry and Ron kept asking Alex and Kurama how to do the potions homework for Snape. As soon as the two boys had gone up to the dormitory for some sleep they finally got to leave. They had to dodge Peeves, Filch and Mrs. Norris but managed to make it to the grounds and into the forest with no other trouble.

Hiei was already waiting for them and Kuwabara came afterward with green goo all over him.

"I got hit by Peeves in the corridor." he explained as Alex flicked her wand and the goo was gone.

"So Alex, have you ever fought before?" Yusuke asked. She shook her head.

"Well, I guess we'll have to work on that too. So you have no idea if you're a demon or not?" Kurama asked.

"Nope, it didn't show up on my last check up at the doctor." She replied.

They spent the next few hours teaching Alex how to defend herself. She did fairly well but every time she was suppose to face Hiei she refused to even look at him. At about 3:00 in the morning they all headed back to the castle. Alex, Yusuke and Kurama went last inside as to not attract attention to Mrs. Norris who was lurking on the 4th floor corridor. They made it safely back in the common room of the Gryffindor tower, and without a word of explanation about her attitude towards Hiei she left up to the girls dormitory.

Next Day

There was a notice in the common room about flying lessons starting on Thursday- and Gryffindor and Slytherin would be learning together.

"Typical," Harry said darkly. " ust what I always wanted. To make a fool of myself on a broomstick in front of Malfoy."

He and Alex had be looking forward to learning to fly more than anything else.

"You are probably going to do better than me. I have terrible hand-eye coordination." Alex said sadly.

"Maybe you'll do better in the air." Kurama tried to reassure her, and it seemed to work a little bit.

"Yeah, maybe."

"Don't you go thinking that. Malfoy is all talk and no proof." Ron said.

Malfoy did talk a lot about flying. He complained that first years should have a chance to get on the Quidditch teams at school, he was always telling stories that always seemed to end with him narrowly missing Muggles in helicopters. Though he wasn't the only one with stories; Seamus Finnigan also told stories of zooming around in the country side. Even Ron would tell anyone who would listen about his times on a broomstick. Everyone from a wizarding family talked about Quidditch constantly. Ron and Dean Thomas had already had a big argument about soccer. Ron couldn't see what was so exciting about a game with only one ball where no one was allowed to fly. Kurama had played soccer back at his old high school and so he and Dean enjoyed talking about it and who their favorite teams were. Ron however was caught, by Harry, prodding Dean's poster of West Ham soccer team trying to make them move with his wand.

Hermione was very nervous about flying, her and Neville, they had never been on a broomstick. Hermione had tried to get information from a book, which wouldn't help. At breakfast on Thursday she bored them all stupid with flying tips she'd gotten out of a library book called Quidditch Through the Ages. Neville hung on to every word, anything to help him hang on to his broomstick later.

Alex had been listening to tips from the Weasley twins, who had taken a quick liking to her, though Harry and the others couldn't figure out why. Sure she was a smart and sweet girl, but definitely not their kind of person, they were also on the Quidditch team for Gryffindor, as Beaters, and could help her as well.

Hermione's lecture was, thankfully, interrupted by the morning mail. Harry hadn't received anything since Hagrid's note, Alex often received letters from her friends back from her home in Japan. Sometimes she would read them a loud because they were so funny. Harry caught names from a couple of the letters; Koenma (Harry had figured out this was her brother), Botan (Koenma's girlfriend, though according to Alex, he always denied it.) and some others he couldn't remember.

A barn owl brought Neville a small package from his grandmother. He opened it excitedly and showed them a glass ball the size of a large marble, which seemed to be full of white smoke.

"It's a Remembrall!" He explained as everyone looked in awe. "Gran knows I forget things- this tells you if there's something you've forgotten to do. Look you hold it tight like this and if it turns red- oh..." The Remembrall had suddenly turned a dark red color, "... if you've forgotten something..." Neville was now trying to remember what he had forgotten, just then Draco Malfoy passed by the Gryffindor table and snatched the Remembrall right out of his hand.

Harry and Ron jumped to their feet, Alex would have if Kurama didn't hold her down. It was more of the fact that Hiei was standing next to him, smirking. The two boys were half hoping for a reason to fight Malfoy, but Professor McGonagall, who could spot trouble before it really started, was there in a flash.

"What's going on here?"

"Malfoy's got my Remembrall, Professor." Scowling, Malfoy quickly dropped the Remembrall back on the table.

"Just looking." He said as he and Hiei walked away with Crabbe and Goyle behind them.

"I always thought there was something fishy about your friend, when we met on the train. Is he paranoid or something?" Ron asked. Alex's eyes followed Hiei as he turned out of the Great Hall.

"Or something." She said.

At three- thirty that afternoon, Harry, Ron, Alex, Kurama, and Yusuke with the other Gryffindors hurried down to the grounds for their first flying lesson of the year. It was a beautiful day with a slight wind. "Perfect for flying, I'd say." Alex said to the boys. The Slytherins were already there and along with many brooms lying in neat lines on the ground. Their teacher, Madam Hooch arrived not long after. She had short, gray hair, and yellow eyes.

"Well, what are you all waiting for?" She barked. "Everyone stand by a broom hold out your hand and say 'up'." Madam Hooch walked around as people were having trouble getting their brooms even a few inches off the ground.

"You must say it firmly." She commanded.

Alex had only need to say it twice, the first time she had said it in just a whisper. Harry had gotten it on his first try.

"Right, now hop on your brooms." She showed everyone how to properly mount their brooms. Hiei and Yusuke had both fallen off. Alex laughed as she helped Yusuke up. She wasn't laughing a him though; she was laughing at Hiei. He gave her the world's worst death glare as he re-mounted his broom.

"When I blow my whistle kick off the ground, hard, rise up a few feet in the air lean forward slightly to come back down . Right, on my whistle then, three- two-"

Neville never made it to one, he was so nervous he had kicked off the ground to early and started rising higher and higher. Everyone watched as he looked, gasped, slipped sideways and fell a good 20 feet. There was a loud crack as he hit the ground.

Madam Hooch was bending over Neville, her face as white as his.

"Broken wrist," She muttered. "Come on, it's alright, get up." She turned to the rest of the class. "None of you had better get on those brooms or you'll be out of here faster than you can say 'Quidditch'." She led Neville towards the school. Once they were out of range Malfoy burst into laughter.

"Did you see his face, the blubbering git?" The other Slytherins joined in the laughing.

"Why don't you shut it Malfoy." Parvati Patil said.

"Sticking up for Longbottom?" Pansy Parkinson, a hard faced Slytherin girl, said.

"Look!" Malfoy said, darting for something on the ground. "It's that stupid thing his gran sent him."

The Remembrall glinted in the sun as he held it up.

"Give it here Malfoy." Harry said quietly. Everyone stopped talking to watch. Malfoy sneered.

"I think I'll leave it somewhere for him to find it- Maybe in a tree?"

"Give it here!" Harry shouted, but Malfoy had leapt onto his broomstick and took off. Kurama and the others were standing next to Alex as they watched the conflict between Malfoy and Harry. Kurama turned to see her clenching her fists in outrage. She was emitting a strange aura, one that the other students couldn't see.

So she does have some sort of demon power. But this I haven't seen before- Kurama couldn't finish his mental thought as Alex took off in a small run, jumped on the broom she had and took off towards Malfoy. As if she had been flying all her life she put both legs on one side and hung backwards with her broom in the grips of her knees. Just as Malfoy held the ball up to throw it, she snatched from his hand, flipped back up onto her broom and threw it towards Harry. Harry was so amazed that he didn't see the Remembrall until it it flew past him.

Harry caught it just a foot before hitting the ground and managed to level before hitting. He toppled off his broom and rolled onto the grass. Alex had just landed on the ground when they heard, "Harry Potter! Alexandria Rowen!" They're hearts sank. Professor McGonagall was running towards them. Alex helped Harry up both trembling.

"Never- In all my time at Hogwarts-" She was almost speechless with shock. The two were scared of what might happen to them now. "How dare you- might have broken your neck-"

"It wasn't their fault Professor-"

"Be quiet Mr. Minamino."

"But Malfoy-"

"That's enough, Mr. Weasley. Potter, Rowen, follow me, now." As they followed they caught sight of Malfoy, Hiei, Crabbe and Goyle's triumphant faces. Alex hung her head low, not wanting to look at Hiei, but in that time, the moment that could've made them friends again, she missed the worried look on Hiei's face.

Harry and Alex knew what was going to happen; they were going to be expelled for sure. What would Alex do know? She couldn't face her brother, not after this. Maybe she and Harry could live on the grounds like Hagrid. Maybe they could be his assistants.

They stopped at a classroom and McGonagall stuck her head inside.

"Excuse me Professor Flitwick, could I borrow Wood for a moment?"

Alex's stomach jolted. Was Wood a paddle she was going to use on them? Would it be to knock some sense into them?

Actually, Wood was a Fifth year student who came out of the classroom looking as confused as Alex and Harry. The two looked at each other then back at the Fifth year and McGonagall. The Professor led them to an empty classroom.

"Potter, Rowen, this is Oliver Wood. Wood I've found you a Seeker," She waved her hand towards Harry. "And also the best Chaser I've seen in years." She said waving her hand towards Alex.

Wood's expression changed to delight.

"Really Professor?"

"Of course, these two are naturals. Was that your first time on a broom you two?" They nodded silently not understanding what was going on.

"Rowen here snatched it right out of Malfoy's hand while doing the most incredible stunt I've ever seen. He didn't even see her coming. And Potter caught it in a 50 foot dive and didn't even scratch himself." McGonagall told Wood.

Wood looked as if he was in heaven.

"Ever seen a game of Quidditch you two?" He asked excitedly.

"Wood is the captain of the Gyffindor Quidditch team." Professor McGonagall told them.

"He's just the right build for a Seeker, and she's got a great build both upper body and lower body strength." Wood said, walking around the two.

"Both light, speedy. We'll have to get them both decent brooms, Nimbus Two- Thousand or a Cleansweep Seven, Perhaps."

"I will speak with Professor Dumbledore about the first year rule. We all know we need a better team than last year. Flattened by Slytherin in the last match." McGonagall looked at them sternly. "I want to hear that you two are training hard, or I may change my mind about punishing you."

She then suddenly smiled.

"Your father would have been proud Potter. He was an excellent Quidditch player himself."

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Zal- Right so I know it's been for like, freaking, ever since we put up a chapter but here it is. And more will soon follow, for sure.

Kosa- Please rate.

Zal- Also about Kyoko being Chaser. ( See I have plans for this in the future. I pretty much know the basic plot for her through all the books, including what happened with Voldemort, how she ties in with Harry, even which guy she's going to be with.) But yeah, Kyoko is replacing Alicia Spinnet as Chaser. Alicia never really appears in the other books but the other two Chasers do so this is how it's going to work.

Kai- Okay it's bedtime!