Her uncle banged open the door during Double Potions later that day and told everyone to shut up and sit down. He was obviously in a very foul mood. He then proceeded to give them an essay due in class over the properties and functions of the Sleeping Draught. Serena stared scribbling away on her slip of parchment, but Harry looked out the window at the clouding sky instead. She looked up at him; his eyes were fixed on something. She followed his gaze but didn't see anything at all.

"What are you looking at?" she asked him. He blinked then looked over at her.

"It's nothing," he sighed and pretended to be doing his essay.

Serena finished it about ten minutes before class ended. Everyone else had about a half a foot left to go on their parchment. Harry wasn't even halfway through. She decided to take this moment to see what Draco was doing and cautiously turned her head towards him. He was playing with the end of his quill, looking deep in thought. Serena turned away so that no one else could tell she was staring and looked back down at her essay, scanning over the words the see if they fit together correctly. Her thoughts couldn't focus on the essay anymore, she was now thinking only of seeing Draco later that day. As she thought about it more and more her stomach started to turn slightly. She turned her head away quickly and pushed a very peculiar thought away. Was she falling for Draco?

Lunch went by quickly and Serena soon found herself even dozing in Arithmancy. Hermione kept having to get her to snap out of it before Vector could see her.

"What's the matter with you today?" Hermione asked after class as they meet up with Ron and Harry to go up to Astronomy.

"I didn't get much sleep last night," she muttered trying to rub away the red mark that was on the side of her face. She had fallen asleep with her head on her hand earlier. Serena was practically begging for time to fly so she could go see Quidditch Practice. She couldn't wait to see how well they played. From what she had heard, no other seeker compared to Harry.

"Stupid git, he couldn't catch the snitch even if it flew right to him, landed on his hands, and stared up at him," Ron had said at lunch.

"It doesn't have eyes," Hermione had laughed.

"I know that, I was just saying…"

"We know, Ron," Harry had tried to end this strange conversation as soon as possible.

Class ended and Serena grabbed her things and rushed out of the tower and ran down to the common room. Ron, Harry and Hermione had barely had time to say anything to her as she passed by them when leaving the common room. Ignoring their stares, Serena exited the room and ran downstairs and out to the Quidditch field.

She had never been out here before. It was an incredible sight, even though she had seen quite a few Quidditch games before. She looked up at the stands, they were empty. She heard movement from the dressing room and hurried off to find a hiding place in the stands. She didn't want the other Slytherin's to see her; she was a Gryffindor after all. They slowly headed out of the room and took off into the sky. Serena watched as Draco started looking for the snitch. Crabbe and Goyle were hitting the bludger back and forth and the chasers and the keeper were busy by the three rings. She watched as Draco went into a dive, and she saw the golden snitch twinkle as it flew past Crabbe. Draco almost knocked him off his broom as he flew by him, and about five minutes later caught it. She smiled slightly when he did, and wondered if he had seen her yet.

Practice ended a few minutes before Dinner and she waited patently for Draco to leave the dressing room. When he did she called him over before his friends could here. He started towards her voice when Goyle came out.

"Are we going, then?" he asked.

"Just a minute or two, I'll be there in a bit," Draco said. Goyle shrugged and headed up towards the castle. After everyone had left Draco finally came over to her.

"It's been the longest day," he sighed sitting down on a bench.

"I know what you mean," she said sitting down next to him.

"I noticed you and Potter are friends again," he said suddenly.

"Yes," she said.

"Do you think he's better than me?" It was a very surprising question.

"What do you mean?"

"At Quidditch, I could catch the snitch quicker but Potter distracts me, I keep thinking about winning and it blocks my concentration," he said.

"I wouldn't know, I've never seen him play," she said.

"You will. The next match is a month away and we play each other,"

"I'll be rooting for you," she smiled. Draco turned his head towards her. His eyes were so intense, she felt like she could stare at them for hours and not blink, just sit and stare.

"We'd better get back to the castle, people will start to wonder about us," he laughed.

Serena slipped in next to Ron at the Gryffindor table and Hermione looked at her curiously. They didn't bother asking where she had been.

After dinner, Serena and the others headed up to Gryffindor tower to go to bed. She had loads of homework for the weekend and needed to start as soon as possible. She changed into her night clothes and climbed into bed, clutching her amulet as she slept, like she always did. She fell sound asleep a few minutes after everyone else settled into their beds.

The dream came again, this time with crying. A woman was knelt down next to the edge of a pond. The water was black but as her tears fell onto the surface there was a ripple of light color. Serena came closer to the woman and she heard her say something but couldn't make it out. She slipped her hands into the water and blood ran from her fingers. She pulled out a small child wrapped in a blanket and stood and ran. Serena then heard the same melodic tune and turned to see the same creature, staring at her with black eyes.

"Don't tell a soul!" a man's voice seemed to scream out inside her head and Serena looked down at the black pond. Creatures began to climb out of it, and Serena stood back in horror. They all seemed to want her.

"Serena…"

Suddenly she couldn't breathe, and in terror she began to scream.

She woke up with her face against the rug on the floor, her sheets tangled up around her, and about six pair of eyes looking down at her. She looked up to see her fellow roommates staring in shock.

"Hey, are you okay?" asked one girl.

"Yes, I just had a nightmare," she stood up.

"You don't look so good," she said.

"Yea, maybe you should go see McGonagall," the tall girl beside her said.

"Yes, I will, tomorrow," she got back into her bed.

"I'll go get her now, you've been screaming and crying at night when you sleep, and it's really strange," the girl who had first spoken turned and hurried down the steps.

"Wait!" Serena called but it was too late. Serena waited for the other girls to go back to bed but they didn't.

"What are you all standing there for?" she asked. They looked at each other. A few went back to bed, but the tallest of the four stayed standing.

"I'm going to make sure you don't go insane again, I don't want to have to get up,"

"Sorry if I inconvenienced you," she said smartly, sitting back against her pillow. They sat in silence, and Serena was about to doze off again when she heard someone come in. In walked Hermione and Professor McGonagall who looked very worried. "What is it, what happened," she asked. "I just had a dream, that's all," she said.

"Serena you've had these dreams before," Hermione said.

"Yes, she keeps us up all night whimpering in her sleep," the tall girl said.

"I do not!" Serena yelled.

"That's enough now, Serena, I think you need to talk to someone who knows much about dreams, because this isn't just dreaming," McGonagall said.

"Not Trelawney, Professor," Hermione whispered.

"No, I was thinking of Firenze, actually, he might be able to help you," she said.

"I don't need help," she said.

"You're just as bad as Harry," Hermione said.

"I am not; it was just a dream alright? So what if they're a little vivid," she whispered.

"I want you to go talk to Firenze tomorrow as soon as you possibly can, he'll know you're coming," McGonagall turned to leave. Serena was so embarrassed by what had happened she simply turned over and threw a pillow over her head. Slowly, everyone went back to sleep.

Bits and pieces of the dream returned, but Serena didn't wake up on the floor this time. She got dressed and went down to the common room to find Hermione sitting on the couch by the fire.

"You are going, aren't you?" she asked. Serena sighed.

"I suppose so," Serena continued walking out of the common room and went to find this Firenze. She went down to the bottom floor and found his office. She knocked on the door gently and opened the door. She was expecting a stuffy room but instead her shoes sank into warm earth. She looked around to find grass and trees, and the light of a warm sun seeping through the canopy. Over beside a large rock was the centaur. She took a step back as he turned to face her. He had white-blond hair and his horse-like body was brown.

"I knew you were coming, Miss Serena, will you please sit down," his tail swished back and forth.

Serena stood there for a minute and sat down on the cool grass underneath a tree.

"You need not fear me," he smiled.

"Who said I was afraid?" she said in a shaky voice.

"I can see it in your eyes," he said.

"It's just that…well…I've never seen a centaur before," she said.

"It's quite all right, just tell me about your dream, Serena," he said. Serena began telling Firenze about the dreams she had been having, and then told him about the others in her dorm hearing her cry at night.

"Do you have any Seer's in your family, Serena?" he asked after she had finished telling him the story.

"No, I don't believe so, why?"

"These dreams seem to be a foretelling of something, either that or a sight into past events," he said looking up at the sky.

"What is it?" she asked.

"I'm wondering, where you adopted?" he asked.

"I believe so," she said.

"How can you know that?" she added quickly.

"It's all in the stars," he said.

"But there aren't any stars out, it's daytime," she said.

"Yes, but they're still there, you just can't see them," he looked back down at her.

"Something important will happen soon Serena, I can't say what, I'm not entirely sure myself, but you need to really pay attention to your dreams, they could be telling you something," and with that he asked her to go, because Hagrid was on his way to see him.

"Thank you, I suppose," she sighed.

"I know it doesn't help much, but it will all be clear in the end,"

Serena was even more confused than she was before. Maybe it really was a foretelling of some sort, and she just hadn't quite figured out what her dreams were telling her. Whatever it was, she knew it had something to do with her real parents.

Serena entered the common room to find Ron, Harry and Hermione all gathered around the fire doing their homework.

"You're back, I see, what happened," Harry asked.

"He didn't make sense at all," she said. Ron pulled a book from his bag.

"Here, maybe this'll help," It was book titled, Dream Oracle.

"Thanks, Ron, I'll give it a try later," she put the book down beside her and started on her Defense Against the Dark Arts homework.