Disclaimer: J.K Rowling owns all Harry Potter characters. Kate Zephrem, Emrissa, and this idea are mine.
Wine Rose: Thank you for the reviews! I appreciate your humor! You give me so much inspriation and support in putting in funny parts! lol! Those poor Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws! But I love Ravenclaw, they are so cool. Of course Slytherins are at the top of my list, surprising as it may seem, Gryffindors are last. lol-yes, a true Slytherin.
Moon Spun: I will take your advice on the matter, but I haven't been putting in who is speaking because I thought the POV notices and explanations before would be enough. However, a few of my chapters have already been written, so I'll have to fix the later ones.
Bookworm12357: hmm...I think it's the movie that made Snape british, so I say that I'm not really concerned in the matter. So there's my explanation, but if I get the chance, I will explain!
Ron muttered something Harry couldn't catch.
"What was that Ron?" he asked.
"It's bad luck for the school year if a Slytherin's at the bottom of the list" he said.
"That's a ridiculous superstition!" laughed Hermione.
"Oh you don't know that 'mione" said Ron darkly. "I don't think I should have lent you that book on bad omens Ron" said Hermione.
"I won't go crazy over it, but you'd be amazed at how many signs I can notice" said Ron beginning to heap food onto his plate.
Hermione rolled her eyes, "You're beginning to sound like Professor Trelawney" she said.
"Not in a million years" said Ron.
Harry smiled, it was so good to be back with his friends again. He started to fill up his plate as well and eat. Food never tasted so good in his life. Treatment from the Dursley's had gotten worse and he was relieved that the term had started again.
"So, where do you think Hagrid is?" asked Ron. Harry shrugged,
"Maybe he's been held back taking care of his creatures" suggested Hermione.
Dumbledore clapped his hands to get attention for the announcements.
"Unfortunatly, Hagrid is not able to perform his teaching duties this year because of an injury. We have Professor Hawkings to replace him"
An elderly man stood up, then sat back down after a few seconds.
"The Forbidden Forest is strictly off limits to all students, and the third floor is also in the same state. Quidditch tryouts will start next week and training for starts one day after that. Professor Lupin is also back in commission"
There was a huge upheaval of applause at the name and it was a little while before Dumbledore got everyone to calm down. After he had announced some more pieces of information, he let everyone continue with their dinner.
Although Ron was happy about Lupin's return, he was furious about Hagrid's dropout.
"Load of dung that was! Where is Hagrid really?" he asked as he stuffed food into his mouth.
"It doesn't seem likely that he was injured and can't come for the whole year" said Hermione.
Harry nodded slowly, "I guess we can't ask him later" "Definetly" said Ron.
Soon, everyone had eaten and the perfects lead their groups to the common rooms. Harry slid into his bunk underneath Ron and put his glasses away as he closed his eyes. It would be a busy day tomorrow, and he was going to be ready for it.
Kate woke up and almost rolled off her top bunk. She blinked, then climbed down and changed into new clothes. Grabbing her schedule from her things, she saw that Transfiguration was first with the Gryffindors, onto a double period on Potions.
Kate sat at any random table she found, and ended up sitting next to a boy with messy black hair. McGonagall came in and started class by handing out mice they were supposed to turn into watches. Kate felt uncomfortable with the mice, she didn't want to turn them into watches! She stood up to ask McGonagall what would happen afterwards and she assured her that the mice would be restored later.
Kate's POV
I poked the poor white mouse back up the desk, it kept trying to scamper off and I said the correct words to transfigure it, with a slight pop, it turned into a rolex watch. "I could make alot of money with this" I said. The boy next to me wasn't as fortunate as me though. He pointed at the struggling mouse and said the words over and over again, but the only change was the mouse making a ticking noise.
"Need some help?" I asked.
"Um, yeah. I'm Harry" he said.
"Kate, hmmm...I'll hold it, you try again, and articulate it more, with an emphasis on 'ekt'" I said.
I picked up the mouse by the tail and he did as I told him to, next thing I knew, I was holding a watch.
"Great" I said and put it down on his table.
"Err, aren't you a Slytherin?" he asked.
"Yeah...so what?" I asked.
"Slytherins don't exactly help Gryffindors" he said. I rolled my eyes,
"So now there's an unwritten law?"
McGonagall came around to inspect our mice-turned-watches. She nodded approvingly and gave out more points if the watch was more valuable, or took them off if there was still hair on the watch.
"Oh yes!" I said, she had just given Slytherin ten house points, I was off to a rolling start.
Transfiguration went really well, but everytime I answered a question right I would get all these odd looks from people.
"What?" I whispered once to a person, they just rolled their eyes.
Snotty little kids. After Transfiguration ended, it was time for Potions, I can't say that I was happy to see Snape again. But I like to learn, so I guess I was preparing for fun.
I sat at the front of the room, and once again, I felt the vibes of 'What the hell does she think she's doing?' As soon as everyone had grabbed a seat, I noticed there was a scramble for the ones in the back, Snape came in from his office.
"Potions is class where there is to be absoltely NO horseplay. House points will be deducted and awarded towards the quality of the potions you produce.-" he went on for a little bit, then started to get to the real good stuff.
"You will be creating the Emblezon Potion today. Potter, do you know what it is?" he asked suddenly.
The boy who was my partner in the last class looked up abruptly,
"No sir" he said.
Snape sneered, "I thought so, you obviously haven't been studying over the summer"
My eyebrows went up to my hairline, what was with Snape?
"Does anyone else know what the Emblezon Potion is?" asked Snape.
The hand of a girl went up and it seemed that he didn't want to pay attention to her. I raised my hand somewhat timidly, it was a wild guess based on the name. Soon I would have to get a Potions book. "Miss Zephrem" he said, still sounding a little lethal.
"Emblezon is used to create large signs in fire, usually as beacons and signals" I said.
He was slightly surprised, you could see the smallest twitch of his face giving it away. "Correct, Slytherin recieves five points"
"Emblezon is used by many secret societies because the potion can be slightly altered so that the sign would only be able to be seen by certain people. Emblezon can be seen for miles and is launched high into the air. As some people might realize, Emblezon is used by death eaters to cast their signs over victim's houses"
There was silence and uncomfortable looks at that.
"The Potion you create now will not have any long term effects providing that we make it with diluted whisper drought. It will also be in the shapes of your Houses, not anything else" he said.
Giving out instructions, everyone quickly set out to work.
Author's Note: Oh, it's the return of the Perfect Kate. Heh, don't worry about that, I have little kinks here and there. Besides, you should enjoy Kate when she's here.