"Lily!" a voice groaned beside the red-haired girl.
"Yes Leah?"
"I still don't get it."
"What?" Lily looked up from her paper and looked at her friend.
"What did Slughorn say again was the use of the bats liver in the Babbling Potion?"
"It was to ensure that the effects of the potion were not permanent, so they would wear off after some time."
Leah groaned. "I thought that red thing was for that. The uhh," she flipped a page "the core of nesselwood."
"No that was for the taste."
"Crap now I have to rewrite that whole thing." Leah flopper her head on the table.
"Are you going to start then?"
Leah looked up "No way, I am way too tired to rewrite this whole thing." She closed her book as Lily exclaimed "Leah!"

"Is my sister troubling you Lily?" a voice asked from the formerly vacant seat which now held Ryan in it.
"She has to rewrite her essay but she won't do it."
"I will just not right now, I wrote like two pages. And the only thing I had wrong was two sentences and for that I have to rewrite the whole thing?"
Ryan smiled "Or you could use a spell to erase the wrong part and then use another one to adjust your essay."
We looked shocked and Lily asked "There is a spell for that?"
"Sure!"
"Teach me!" Leah stated.
Ryan pulled out his wand muttered a word, while Leah scrambled for a parchment and wrote it down quickly. The wrong writing vanished and Leah quickly wrote down the correct sentences. Then her brother mumbled another word while once again moving his wand over the newly written part and the paper adjusted itself.
"Wow. Thank you so much Ryan. This will be really helpful for further essays."
"No problem sis. That's what I am here for, to teach you everything I know."
Lily was still curious "How come the professors don't teach that spell to everyone during the first few weeks?"
"That spell was invented by Dumbledore, I don't know how many teachers or students know if it."
Lily's eyes widened "You can invent spells?"
Leah nodded "Of course and how do you know that?" she asked while turning to her brother.
He smirked "Well sometimes during some of the school parties some of us prank professors and after one of those, my friends and I pranked McG and Dumbledore saw us but he laughed so hard and told us he hadn't laughed like that in a while and told us something to help us out."
"Wicked. When was that?"
"Uhm," he rubbed his head "I think third year. Yeah probably around Christmas."
"Awesome!"

Lily could only nod while processing that one could invent spells and if she could one day do that?
"Lily? You ok?" the blue-eyed witch beside her asked.
"Yeah just wondering how you invent new spells."
Ryan chuckled "Well apparently it is a complicated and long process and one needs complete focus and some other things. Heck I don't even know properly. Dumbledore sometimes holds a little seminar for some selective few to teach them a few things that they can't teach us."
Lily looked at him, he had the same blue-green eyes as his sister and the same smile "Do you think you are one of those few? I mean if I can ask that." She blushed.
"Don't worry Lily, I don't bite. You are a friend of Leah. To answer your question I don't know. I mean I hope so."
"Oh as if Ryan. You are not Head Boy for no reason. Dumbledore obviously saw something in you which the rest of us are still trying to find."
Ryan rubbed her head and kissed her on the cheek as he stood up and left.

"Ugh, my brother ladies and gentlemen."
"Dumbledore chooses the Heads?" Lily asked while packing up her books.
"Yes. And nobody knows how he chooses or which criterias to fulfill. My mom said he has like this list of students who have amazing grades and never caused any trouble but my brother is Head Boy and my dad was a Prefect. And let me tell you something. They are not angles."
Both of the girls laughed as James walked into the Common Room followed by the other boys.

James was sitting at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall waiting for his friends to join him. It was breakfast time and he was so hungry he left early. Right now he was eating his second toast and a cupcake.
A loud shriek was heard and owls were swooping in to their respective owners. A reddish owl landed in front of James. It was a letter from his parents.

Dear James,

We hope you are behaving well and are paying attention in class. We miss you very much. Your sister was hoping you would be able to come back home for Halloween and her birthday but she understood that you would not be able to come.
We got your letter and we want you to know that we know that you want to try out for Quidditch but first years are not allowed to try. You can try out next year. Of course it will be no surprise when you will be great at flying class, just don't get too cocky about it.
Your friends sound really nice and of course we remember Minister Parkers daughter Leah, you guys used to play together as kids. Of course with their busy schedule and ours we never had the time to do as much together as we had wished but maybe now that can change.

We are anxiously awaiting your next owl and hope and wish that you will continue to be on your best behavior.

We love you,
Mom and Dad.

"Awww you wrote about us, how sweet." A voice said behind James. While reading the letter he hadn't even noticed that his friends and the girls came downstairs. Leah was standing right behind him reading his letter.

"Ever heard of privacy of letters?" he asked.

"Nah, I don't believe in privacy or secrecy. You should know that by now."

Remus was sitting in the library thinking of the next excuse he had to make up. The full moon was only one weeks away and it was the week before Halloween. He would need to say his mom got sick and he would have to visit to help. He just hoped Leah would not get suspicious. His schoolwork was not too hard and Dumbledore already talked him through the process of Madam Pomfrey walking him to the Whomping Willow where a tunnel leads to a Shack near Hogsmeade which was supposedly haunted. He knew of course that it wasn't but he hoped it would not set him off during the night.

"Hey can we sit?" a timid voice said. He looked up and saw Caitlin and Lily standing in front of the table.

"Yes of course, please sit."

They smiled and unpacked their things.

"What are you working on Remus?" Lily asked curiously.

"Charms homework. And you?"

"The same and we wanted to look into Herbology too."

"I think I will join you there."

They smiled at him and they started working in silence. With his condition making friends was never that easy. His parents were afraid that somebody would find out and would tell on him. He doesn't even think the Minister knows. Being here though it was so easy to find people who liked him because not a lot of people knew each other before Hogwarts. Lily and Caitlin were so kind and a lot less loud than Leah and Emma. Which did not mean anything according to Leah. She had made fast friends with Lily, Emma and Caitlin and the boys. But Leah never had that problem of making friends.

"Remus? Do you think we will get to the actual magic soon?" Caitlin asked while shaking him out of his thoughts.

"I hope so. I am anxious to start."

"Same here. Leah's sister always tells us these incredible stories but it seems like the theoretical stuff will never end."

"Yes, I have heard all the stories before; some of them are quite terrifying."

"What is terrifying?" Leah's voice called.

Lily groaned "Library Leah, quietness."

Leah just blew her a kiss. "What are you doing? It is a wonderful Thursday afternoon."

"Homework. Charms and Herbology."

"Ah, I already finished them. I couldn't sleep."

Remus looked up concerned "Are you alright?"

She just waved him off "Of course, I just had some trouble falling asleep and homework made me tired so it's a win-win situation."

He just smiled and continued writing.

"Do you want to copy mine?"

"No bug, I want to learn it."

"As if you need to."

"Why are you here?"

"Well I am bored."

Caitlin chuckled "Where is Emma?"

"Off with Peter and Sirius trying to find the Secret Passageway."

"A what?" Lily asked.

"Secret Passages. Apparently there are 4 in the school, according to my siblings and their friends. But they won't tell us where."

"And James?"

"I don't know to be honest. I'll go look for him. See you soon." She yelled as she was running out of the library while her three friends chuckled lightly and went back to work.

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