Did I not tell you that I was hoping to get another chapter up tonight? I know I told ya. So, do y'all love me or do ya love me? Well, enough a that. Here's the chapter. Enjoy!

When Sheila woke up to find the four other girls in her dorm still snoring, she decided to write that letter to Wormtail telling him to give her father the bad news of Potter's ability to deflect the Imperious Curse.

She went down to the common room, grabbed some spare parchment and a quill, and began to write.

Wormtail,

You know who this is so I won't bother telling you. This years Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is Mad-Eye Moody. He just taught us about the Unforgiveables yesterday, and he demonstrated Imperio on each of us. This brings me to my bad news. Potter was almost able to throw it off on his first attempt. By the fourt he had total success. I will need you to tell my father of this new development. Please keep me posted on anything of great importance. I will do the same.

Until next time,
SER.

When she had finished, Sheila looked over her letter. No one would understand the significance of it if they didn't know who she was. Which is why she used her given initials rather than her legal ones. To the world, she was Sheila Marie Reynolds. To her father, she was Sheila Elizabeth Riddle. Her given name wasn't on any records. As far as most people knew or cared, her middle name was Marie. How she hated that name. She prefered the one her parents gave her, but legally being the daughter of her aunt and uncle, she was forced to take the name they had chosen for her.

With thoughts along the lines of, stupid legal system. Ministry doesn't know what's happening right under Fudge's stupid nose, she made her way to the Owlery to send her letter and get to breakfast early.

She decided to use one of the school's barn owls, as it was unlikely to be intercepted. Once she had watched the owl out of sight, she made her way slowly to the Great Hall. She was, after all, in no hurry. Sure, she liked to get there early, but not outrageously so. And besides, what was the point of being the first person to breakfast? All that meant was that you probably woke up too early and had nothing good to do with your time. It really made you look kind of pathetic.

She was relieved to find that about 30 people were already in the Great Hall when she arrived. Taking her usual seat at the Slytherin table, Sheila noticed Theo. She was rather surprised that he was already out of the Hospital Wing because she was fairly certain that Madam Pomphrey had made Blaise stay the night.

So she decided to ask hime about it. Sheila had never been one to let her curiosity eat at her. If she had a question, she would ask it. Simple as that. "Hey Theo," she called. "Come here a minute, I wanna talk to you." He stood, rather hesitantly, and slowly walked the short distance up the table towards her.

"What do you want?" Sheila couldn't help but notice that he sounded rather wary.

"Two things, actually. First, I wanted to apologize for what happened yesterday. Second, didn't Pomphrey keep Blaise in the Hospital Wing overnight? Why didn't she keep you?"

"She offered to let the both of us leave, but Blaise opted to stay the night. And no worries, we all know you've never been any good at Potions anyway." Theo smiled up at her as he finished speaking, Sheila being a half a foot taller than him.

"You're right. I haven't. But if it makes you feel any better, Snape finally convinced Dumbledore to let me drop the course," Sheila said, returning the smile.

"It does give me a little peace of mind knowing that your atrocious potion-making is no longer on the list of things that Hogwarts has to worry about." They both burst into laughter at that.

Sheila sat back down and, to her surprise, Theo sat down next to her. Teh two talked lightly of nothing in particular for a few minutes, until the hall began to fill with a steadier stream of students. When Draco entered, Sheila stood and waved him over. When he shot a questioning look at Theo, she just shook her head.

As Draco took his seat, Sheila twined her fingers through his and leaned up to kiss his cheek. As tall as Sheila was (5 foot 6), Draco was still taller, and for this, Sheila was glad. She did not like the idea of being taller than her date. After all, traditionally, the guy was supposed to be taller than the girl.

"So Theo, what brings you to sit with us today?" Draco asked while piling waffles onto his plate.

"Nothing, really Drake. Your girlfriend here just wanted to apologize for what happened yesterday and ask why Blaise was still up in the Hospital Wing," Theo explained, sounding quite bored.

Draco turned to Sheila and asked, "Apologize? You?"

"Well, yes," she replied indignantly. "I'm not made of stone you know. I do feel remorse of rare occasions, and I happen to be in a rather good mood this morning."

"And what has you in such a good mood?"

"Snape finally convinced Dumbledore last night to let me give up Potions."

"Good for you. Speaking of Dumbledore, though, we have our first detention with McGonagall tonight."

Theo laughed. "I still can't believe that you two managed to get detention on the first day back."

"If you ask me," Sheila said, "Pansy got what was coming to her. She was being a bitch, so she got no more or less than she deserved."

"Remind me never to get on you bad side," Daphne said with a laugh as she took the seat across from Sheila. "And if she already got her punishment, why are you torturing her with the fear that you're still angry?"

"Because it's fun," was Sheila's simple reply. "If you stay on my good side, I don't torture you for my own entertainment. It's really not a difficult system to follow."

The four friends (if you could call them that) were soon joined by Crabbe, Goyle, Millicent, and Tracey and they all conversed easily.

Eventually, Sheila stood up and said, "We should probably get going. We don't want to be late to class." The group left the Great Hall and made their way to History of Magic.

There it is. It's not perfect, and I think it could have been better, but I hope y'all enjoyed it anyway. Review if ya wanna.

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