A week later Henry, Ana, and Colleen boarded the Hogwarts Express, heading for school. Ana sat on the train staring out of the window. It was a rainy, cold and gloomy day. All of Ana's days had been that way for the last week, whether it was raining outside or not. Henry had left the train car to go to the bathroom. Ana pulled her knees to her chest and sighed loudly. She didn't look up when the car door opened and Henry walked in. Three boys followed him.

"August," he said sitting down next to her. The three boys sat across from them and smiled at Ana. She looked from Henry to the boys. "These are my best friends Jon, Todd and Tom."

"Hello," said Ana quietly. She held out her hand to each and they shook. "It's nice to meet you."

"It's nice to meet you too," said the boy named Tom. He was sitting in the middle of the group. He smiled a charming attractive smile at Ana. His eyes were brown and he had short blonde hair. He was good looking.

All of Henry's friends were good looking. Jon was the shortest but he had mesmerizing blue eyes and was funny. Todd was the handsomest of them all, except for Henry, he was tall with dark hair and eyes and looked much older then his young seventeen. He was the tall, dark and handsome type.

"This is August Miller," said Henry. "My girl friend."

"Jeez Henry," said Jon. "Couldn't let her go to her other school…had to make her come here."

"It's not like that," whispered Ana with a small smile.

"How'd you two meet?"

"At a potions shop," said Henry. "She handed me a love potion with her name on it, so I could send her an owl."

Ana smiled at Henry. She couldn't believe that he remembered how they had met. She bit her bottom lip and looked back out the window.

"So why are you coming to Hogwarts when it's your seventh year?"

"My Mother died," whispered Ana.

Harry and the Phoenix had decided this would be an appropriate story because it wasn't completely a lie. The story was that her Mother had died a month ago and had had connections with Albus Dumbledore who sent August to live with Harry Potter, who just turned out to be Henry's Father.

"I'm sorry," whispered Todd softly. "My Mum died when I was young."

"You live with your Father?"

"Yea," said Todd. "He's a Muggle."

"I don't have a Father," said Ana looking out the window. "He's the one who killed my Mother."

Henry looked at Ana surprised. This wasn't in the story they had gone over with the Phoenix. Ana wasn't supposed to say anything about her Father, and if asked she was to say that she had never met him.

"Did he go to Azkaban?" asked Tom.

"They haven't caught him," whispered Ana. She forced a smile and looked at the boys. "Have you all known each other since you were first years?"

The train ride was slow and the only thing Ana wanted was to be alone. She laid down half way through the trip, resting her head on Henry's lap. She fell asleep for the rest of the trip there holding his hand.

Henry woke Ana lightly. She sat up slowly and rubbed her eyes.

"We're here," he whispered kissing her forehead. "Come on, I'll help you with your stuff."

As they rode up in a horse drawn carriage Ana said she wasn't hungry and didn't want to go to dinner. Henry nodded but told her she had to be sorted. As they walked into the large castle a man shouted Henry's name. Ana and Henry turned and saw a slim handsome man in green robes marching towards them.

"Hello Henry," the man said with a smile. "I'm assuming this is Miss Miller?"

"Yes sir," said Henry with an arm wrapped around August. "August, this is Professor Tarvin, he's a member of the Phoenix. He knows the real story."

Ana nodded.

"Hello sir," she said.

"It's a pleasure to meet you," said Tarvin. "I teach Transfiguration. If you'll follow me, I'll take you to Professor McGonagall's office and we'll sort you. Henry you can go to the feast."

Henry glanced at Ana. She nodded.

"I'll be fine," she whispered. "I'll see you tomorrow morning. I'm going to bed after I'm sorted."

"Alright," he whispered back. "Good night."

Professor Tarvin led the way up the grand staircase and headed down halls. Ana felt herself getting confused. She hoped she was in the same house as Henry so she'd have the same schedule as him, then she wouldn't get so lost. They stopped in front of a large statue of an eagle. Professor Tarvin waved his hand at it and muttered something.

"Gordric."

Ana lifted her eyebrows as the statue jumped out of the way and a spiral staircase appeared behind it. Tarvin stepped onto the stairs and motioned for Ana to follow him. She stepped onto the moving staircase slowly and wobbled to catch her balance. They stepped off the moving staircase and in front of a large wooden door. Tarvin knocked and entered slowly.

"Hello Thomas," said the familiar voice of Minerva McGonagall. "Hello there August. Welcome to Hogwarts."

"Thank you Head Mistress," said August sitting down in front of her desk.

Tarvin set a patched, old, crummy looking hat on the desk in front of Ana. McGonagall thanked him and motioned to the hat.

"This, August, is the sorting hat," she said. "It will sort you into your proper house."

Ana nodded.

"Henry explained what they were to me," she said.

"Alright," said McGonagall with a smile. "Just put it on your head then."

Ana picked up the hat and put it on her head. It fell over her eyes, covering her in darkness. She heard a whispering voice in her head and shivered.

"Mmm deep back ground," said the voice. "Your blood goes far in Gryffindor, but I can see that Slytherian is close too. A confusing childhood, unhappy and lost. You have never liked the pure blood lifestyle you were kidnapped too…I think you should be placed in Gryffindor for comfort and home. Yes, I shall sort you into GRYFFINDOR!" The hat shouted the last word for everyone in the room to hear.

Ana pulled off the hat and heard McGonagall clapping.

"Perfect," she said. "Professor Tarvin is in charge of Gryffindor. He is head of house. Now, let's go to the feast that is waiting downstairs for us."

"Head Mistress," said Ana standing up. "I'm not hungry at all; I wish to go to bed. Please, can someone show me to my dormitory?"

"Yes, I'll take you," said Tarvin.

"Thank you," said Ana.

McGonagall smiled and nodded her head.

"Sleep well Miss Miller," she said leaving her office.

Tarvin led her down another number of corridors heading for Gryffindor Tower. They stopped on the third floor in front of a picture of a fat woman in a pink dress. She looked down at the two.

"Password?" she said staring down at them.

"Hippogriff," said Tarvin.

"Correct!"

The picture swung open and allowed them entrance.

"That's the password," he said. "You'll need it every time to get into the Tower."

Ana looked around the common room they had just walked into.

"You're dormitory is up these stairs and to the right," said Tarvin pointing to a set of stairs in the far corner of the room. "Sleep well August. I will see you tomorrow in class."

"Good night sir," said August heading for the stairs as he left.

Ana was lying in her bed awake when the other girls in her dormitory entered. There were laughing and talking loudly, not realizing that she was in there until they lit their lamps.

"Oh," said a girl surprised. "Who do you think that is?"

"I don't know," said another girl. "Must be that new girl Tarvin mentioned before we all left…I wonder who she is…"

"I think I know who she is…" said yet another girl.

"You're right Liz, she looks familiar," said a similar voice to the girl that had spoken just before. Ana thought about it and decided that the last two voices must have belonged to Henry's twin cousins who were their age.

"Oh my, Tess, did you see Henry Potter tonight?" asked one of the girls from before.

"Yes," said Tess. It was the girl who had spoken first. "He looked gorgeous."

"He always does."

"Well he did especially today because I haven't seen him in so long."

"Guys," said the girl named Liz. "That's gross, he's our cousin."

"Your twos cousin maybe," said Tess. "Nancy and I simply adore him."

"Have since first year," said Nancy.

So Liz was one of the twins. Ana didn't know the other twins name. She came to the conclusion that there were only four other girls in her dormitory, which meant only four other girls in her year in Gryffindor House.

"Liz is my hair brush in your trunk?"

"No Cassie," said Liz. Cassie was the other twin. "I'm just saying guys, Henry is my cousin and I know him well enough to know that he's not attracted to either of you."

"Who's he attracted to then?" asked Tess offended.

"Didn't he have a girl friend at that last family dinner we had before term started?" asked Cassie.

"Yea," said Liz. "He did…and I think she's sleeping right now."

"What?" snapped Nancy. "The new girl?"

"My name is August," said Ana sitting up.

She got up out of bed and pulled a sweater on over her body. She left the dormitory quickly. As the door slid shut behind her she heard the girl named Nancy make a quick remark.

"Touchy isn't she? Not very pretty either…"

Ana collapsed on a large puffy arm chair in front of the fire in the common room. She pulled her knees to her chest and stared into the fire. The only thing she wanted was quiet, was that too much to ask for?

The common room was empty when Ana entered it the next morning. She knew she was late and no one had bothered to wake her on time. She adjusted her robes as she stepped down onto the floor of the common room and looked around. There was one person in the common room and she smiled at their appearance.

"Hello," she said to Henry Potter as he sat on a chair watching the stairs she had just descended.

"Good morning," he said getting up and greeting her with a warm kiss. "I've been waiting for you."

"Thank you," she said with a large smile. She stood on her toes and kissed him again. "I hope you slept well."

"I did," he said walking towards the portal whole of the common room. "And you? Liz told me that you slept down here for awhile last night."

"Well Nancy and Tess were being loud, snobby, and talking about you," she said back. "They didn't even think to respect the fact that I was trying to sleep. At least your cousins were whispering."

"What were they saying about me?"

"How gorgeous you are," said Ana as they entered the corridor. "They also said I wasn't pretty."

"Mmm I see," said Henry taking her hand. "Don't worry. You're beautiful. And you're my Angel and always will be."

Ana smiled at him.

"I love it when you call me that."

"I love calling you it," he said as they reached the bottom of the grand staircase. They entered the great hall and found Tom, Todd and Jon sitting in the middle of the table. The boys made room for Henry and Ana, then handed them their schedules.

"Tarvin told us to give these to you," Tom said.

"Oh yay," said Henry looking down at his schedule. "Double Transfiguration and Potions today? That's crazy!"

"Don't forget that it's advanced Potions," said Todd. "N.E.W.T. level."

"Even better," said Jon.

Ana was studying her schedule.

"Defense Against the Dark Arts tomorrow," she whispered. "Who teaches that? I was told the job was cursed here."

"That's her," said Todd pointing to the staff table in the front of the hall. "The hottie Professor."

"Todd's had a thing for her since she started teaching here last year," said Henry in Ana's ear.

"The brunette at the end of the table talking with Tarvin?"

"Yep," said Todd. "I'm going to marry her someday."

"She looks like she's ten years older then you," said Ana with a laugh.

"Actually she's fifteen."

Henry laughed and shook his head as he dug into his breakfast of hotcakes and eggs. Ana ate very little and slowly.

"You have to admit, she's been one of the best teachers we've ever had," said Jon.

"Well yea," said Henry. "But not because she's attractive. She's just a good teacher. She's an Auror in the off time."

"That's why she's so good," said Tom.

"Plus being hot helps," said Todd. "Your students always like you better when you're hot."

"I think she'd like you guys less," said Ana slowly.

Todd looked offended.

"She likes me," he said.

"Well, of course she likes you as a student," said Ana. "But she probably doesn't like you only paying attention to her because you like her ass and breast. She's teaching you stuff that could save your life…especially with our day in age…she'd probably prefer if you pay attention to what she's saying, not what she's wearing."

"Hey, if she's whispering sweet nothings in my ear, I will listen until I die," said Todd forking his potatoes.

"Yea, you'd die of shock just after she leaned in. You'd never here the sweet nothings," said Henry causing his friends to laugh.

The dungeons were dark as the students waited for their potions professor to enter the classroom and start the lesson. A short stocky man came walking into the room fifteen minutes after the lesson was supposed to start. He had thick grey hair and a full face covering beard, but it was short and well kept. His eyes were large and blue. He stared at the class with out a smile. Ana could tell this wasn't a nice man.

"Open your books to page two hundred and thirty two," he said. "Start the Wolfsbane potion on that page. There is enough time during the period for them to be done. The materials you need are in the back."

Ana raised her eyebrows and began her potion. She read the page about it first. The potion was a Werewolf potion, to help stop the transformation of a man into a werewolf. Ana understood that by drinking this potion, a victim of the werewolf curse would simply become a harmless wolf during the full moon instead of a crazed killing animal. She followed the direction to a tee, adding in the ingredients exactly when she was supposed to. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Henry lean over to look at her cauldron. She looked at him.

"What?"

"Yours is red," he said. "Mine is blue."

Ana laughed and looked at the book.

"It says it's supposed to be red," she said. She laughed and looked at Henry's cauldron. "Oh, Henry, you forgot the muskrat tail."

"How can you tell?"

"Because one of the traits of the muskrat tail is red dye," said Ana. "It turns anything its put into red and is strong enough to keep it red."

"What is the only thing that can counter the red dye of the muskrat tail, Mr. Williams?" asked the Professor from behind Ana. She jumped at his voice and looked over her shoulder with surprise. She heard Jon mumbled an answer to the Professor.

"Is it a bezoar, sir?"

The Professor was silent for a few moments.

"You disappoint me Mr. Williams," said the Professor. "It's not a bezoar; it's the flesh eating snail shell shavings. We studied that last year. Five points from Gryffindor." He then looked at Henry's potion. "Mmm…Mr. Potter I see you have failed to make your potion correctly." With a swipe of his wand Henry's caldron was empty. Henry bit his lip and glared harshly at the Professor. "No points today Mr. Potter. You can make them up in an essay about the many properties of muskrat tail due to me by next lesson." The Professor turned to Ana. "And who might you be?"

"August Miller, sir," said Ana slowly.

The Professor stared at her for a few moments then nodded his head.

"The Head Mistress told me you'd be coming," he said. "How'd you get into my N.E.W.T. class?"

"I scored well on my exams at my other school," said Ana coolly.

The Professor was still studying her. He then looked at her potion and nodded approval.

"You may learn something from Miss Miller, Mr. Potter," said the Professor with a side glare at him. He glided over to the table next to them and leaned over the caldrons. Once the Professor had walked away and was out of earshot Ana leaned over to Henry.

"Who is he anyways?"

"Professor Mark," said Henry. "He's been teaching this class for five years now. He's much better then our last teacher, but a whole lot meaner. He was in Slytherian when he was here and favors them over everyone else."

Ana glared at Mark harshly.

"I get a nasty feeling from him," she whispered. Henry glanced at Ana with a nervous look and nodded his head.

Ana sat between Henry and Todd in Transfiguration a half hour later. The room they sat in was a long, hall like room, with rows of wooden desk and benches. At the front was an enormous desk covered in papers, books, animal feathers, quills, and bird cages. Behind the desk sat an excited looking Professor Tarvin who was twiddling his thumbs waiting for everyone to be seated. Tom and Jon sat behind the other three with a few other Gryffindors next to them.

"Well," said Professor Tarvin standing up and stepping in front of his desk. "Hello, hello, welcome to your seventh year of Transfiguration. I must warn you that this course is extremely difficult and hard to study; I will not except excuse and will expect the best. Now, we'll start today with reappearing spells. Mr. Williams, if you will please take this box of mice and give one to each of your classmates, it will be greatly appreciated."

Jon stood up and passed out the mice to everyone. Ana looked down at her mouse and smiled. It was brown with a few streaks of white in its fur. She reached out and petted him smoothly. She picked him up and held him eye level.

"Oh you're a cute little mouse, aren't you?"

She smiled and rubbed his head. Henry was looking at her oddly out of the corner of his eye.

"It's a mouse August," he said.

"And you're an annoying boy," she said back with a large grin. He grinned at her and took out his wand.

"Alright everyone," said Professor Tarvin form the front of the room. "Vanish your mice now please, and silently, to practice our nonverbal spells."

Everyone waved their wands in silence. Ana's mouse disappeared, to her disappointment, from her hand. She could still feel him crawling on her flesh as if nothing had happened. Henry smiled at her and made his mouse disappear. He leaned close to her ear.

"First one to reappear their mouse gets top next time we…"

She looked at him with an even larger grin then before and her cheeks pinched red.

"You've got yourself a bet," she said.

"Good," said Professor Tarvin. "Now that everyone has vanished their mice, make them reappear! This spell is a bit more difficult then the vanishing because one can't see what they are trying to make reappear."

Ana waved her wand and her mouse reappeared within a second. Henry was staring at her, gaping. She reached out and closed his mouth.

"I win top," she said with a smile.

Henry smiled and looked back in front of him, waving his wand. He raised his hand with a frown.

"Yes Mr. Potter?"

"Professor, I think my mouse ran off."

"You know Henry," said Ana to him as they leaned over their pile of homework for the night. "I don't think we're going to be having sex for a very long time."

He looked up at her suddenly concerned and shocked.

"Why?"

"Well," Ana looked around the common room that was nearly empty. "Where here are we going to have sex? And on holidays we're back at your house…no place to even kiss…"

"Fair point," said Henry pointing his quill at her. "Well, we'll just have to manage." He leaned forward over the arm of his chair and kissed her softly. She smiled.

"Just remember that I get top," she whispered.

He laughed loudly and kissed her again.

"I might just forget…"

Ana laughed and turned back to her transfiguration essay.

"Have you started Mark's essay?"

"No," said Henry with a sigh. "At least he's giving me a chance to earn back the lost points."

Ana nodded.

Once the common room had cleared, and Ana and Henry were left alone, Ana began to think. She often did this late at night. She bit her bottom lip and thought about her Father. He must know that she is at Hogwarts now. Where else would she have gone?

"Something wrong August?"

She looked at him with a smile.

"No," she whispered. "No, I was just thinking."

"About what Angel?"

She smiled broadly at him because he had called her Angel. Before she spoke though her frown reappeared because of her thoughts.

"I was thinking about my Father."

Henry looked at her concerned.

"Why?"

"I think he'll figure out that I came here. Where else could I have gone?"

Henry shrugged.

"You're safe here Ana. And after this year you'll be safe with me."

She nodded.

"I still can't help worrying. I know that I haven't seen the last of him. He'll fine me eventually."

"Do you think he'll ask Voldemort to help find you?"

Ana thought about this for a moment.

"Perhaps," she said. "I doubt that he would help even if my Father did ask. I mean, I didn't even know they were in with Him until just before I left…what would be the benefit for Voldemort if he helped find me?"

Henry nodded.

"You have a point."

He smiled and brushed her hair behind her ear, comforting her. She stared at him as he turned back to his homework. He sighed and rubbed his neck. She was now glaring at him. When she caught his eye, he did a double take and looked at her confused.

"What?"

"I wanted you to kiss me," she said lightly then looked back at her homework.

Henry leaned over and tried to kiss her but she put her hand up and caught his lips in her hand.

"Don't bother," she whispered. "I don't want to be kissed now."

He sighed and kissed her extended palm slowly, and then he got up out of his chair and leaned over her, kissing her neck and ear. She was cornered in her arm chair and giggled when he nibbled on her ear. He groped her gently as he sucked a little on her neck. She gasped.

"Henry," she said pushing him away. "What if someone walked in?"

"Eh," he said with a shrug and came back at her. She smiled as he kissed her lips passionately. "I want you," he whispered in her ear.

"Well you can't have me," she said. "Not right now anyways…"

He sighed with fake frustration and kissed her again deeply.

"Fine," he whispered. "Then I'm going to go to bed where I can imagine us entangled with each other, pressed together, gasping, moaning, and sweating…"

"Henry," she said as if he had said something obscene.

He smiled at her.

"What?"

"Nothing," she said going back to her homework. "Sleep well."

He smiled and kissed her neck to say good night, then made his way upstairs to his dormitory. Ana shook her head and smiled as she continued to write her essay. A few hours later she made her way upstairs to bed too.

The next morning at breakfast, Todd was extremely cheerful and smiling. Ana shook her head as she sat down next to him.

"What?" he asked. "I'm not allowed to be happy?"

"I never said that," said Ana with a soft smile. She began to spoon some eggs onto her plate. Henry sat down across from her and looked at her oddly.

"You're eating a lot," he said.

"I'm hungry," said Ana with a true smile to him. He smiled at her and winked, then began to put some food on his own plate. Tom and Jon sat down around Henry and yawned widely.

"Good morning," said Jon. He picked up some toast and began to spread butter on it. "Charms, Herbology, and Defense Against the Dark Arts. Are we all looking forward to classes today?" He looked directly at Todd.

"Yes," said Todd quickly.

Ana snorted and coughed.

"What?" asked Todd.

"You're making a fool of yourself," she whispered with a chuckle.

"He does that a lot," said Henry eating some fruit.

"I would have thought a boy as good looking as you would be a bit more charming," said Ana looking at Todd. "You're so good looking Todd. Just relax for Merlin's sake. She'll just see you as annoying if you keep acting like she's just some goddess in witch's clothes."

"Well she is," said Todd.

"Then you don't really like her," said Ana.

"Well of course I like her," Todd insisted.

"Oh, so you're one of those," she said softly.

"One of those?" Todd sounded offended. "And exactly what would that be?"

"A sniveling pig who only likes a girl for her body," said Ana looking him directly in the eye.

Henry smiled and shook his head.

"There's more to a woman then her—"

"You sound like a broken record," said Todd finishing his breakfast. "Did you ever think August, that perhaps the only interest Professor Jennings had in me was for sex?"

"Have you actually had sex with her?" asked Ana.

"Well, no," Todd admitted.

"Then no," said Ana. "She has no interesting in anything but teaching you."

Ana looked up at the staff table at Professor Jennings. She was a beautiful woman, with curling brown hair and dark eyes. Her skin was pale, but she had a curvy hour glass figure, and the tight corset she wore over a blouse proved to show it off. She wore a long black cloak over her shoulders, so she looked somewhat like a professor. Ana looked back at Todd with a frank smirk.

"That woman could rip you to pieces," she said.

Todd smiled.

"That's exactly what I want her to do," he said with a wink.