After the prank, teachers were even more observant, trying to find the pranksters but there was nothing that they could tie to any student and they did not know how many pranksters were responsible for this mischief. All of the students affected by the prank were in their classes on Tuesday but many people were laughing at them, most of them being Slytherins which led to some teachers suspected the members of the house of Salazar as the pranksters. It made Lya, Kermit and Damien laugh when they were having their weekly meetings. Another hilarious thing was how many Ravenclaws, with Hermione on the lead, were spending their time in the school library, trying to find any books that could point them towards the pranksters but they had found nothing. Whenever Hermione was accompanied in the library by Lya, Theo, Tony, Padma, Clara and Su, Lyanna was questioning the sanity of her friend and other people from their house. Really, how would they even know where to look for? It could be anyone – during the rise of You-Know-Who or any other wars between 'Light' and 'Dark' where many people died. But she said nothing and even helped Hermione sometimes just so that nobody would suspect her.
She thought that they would be more watchful that something like that would happen, especially after 11th January, a few days after they came back from the Christmas holiday.
Everyone was excited as soon as the morning before the 11th of January, the Headmaster told everyone about an upcoming test. Especially Ravenclaws, as always. It was something that would help them 'explore more of their magical powers' or something stupid like that. Lyanna was confident that this would be a useful experience but it was not something very important. How she later learned how wrong she was. Before the whole examination started, one of the Ministry employees who were present in school to perform the test, informed all of them that they could make their results anonymous if they wanted to but if they wanted to share it with anyone, they would be free to do so. And then they started calling out names. ALPHABETICALLY. Yes, there were several rooms where the test was performed but it was still too long for Lyanna. She decided to speak with Bran through her bond to make time pass faster, occasionally joining a conversation that her friends were having regarding an examination. It was getting more boring with each passing second. Finally, after a long waiting, it was her turn to go and to have her test. It did not help that she was the last one of the Ravenclaws and all her friends left her quite some time ago. The only other people there were Julia and Robb Stark, Weasley, Dean Thomas, Lisa Turpin and Blaise Zabini. Lya talked to Robb a little, catching up a little but she was glaring at Julia and Weasley, not minding the other three. When she walked into the examination room, she saw a young woman sitting there.'Hello, my name is Valeria Charlton. I will be performing this exam on you today, are you ok with this?' She received a nod as an answer from Lyanna. She then handed a small vial of liquid to the girl 'Please drink it and we will wait a few minutes before resuming the test.'Lyanna did as she was told. She did not talk to a woman, choosing sitting in silence instead. It was a little awkward but she did not care.'It seems that we took enough time. Now, I will cut your finger and we will pour seven drops into this parchment before you. After that, we will wait up to a minute for the results.'Again, Lyanna did as the woman told her and waited. She saw as the blood was slowly breaking itself into 3 pieces. Then they were transforming into three, clear digits. 715.'I am quite impressed, as I see this result. This is a result which should be achieved by an average student of the third or fourth year but here you are, a first year. I need to say I am impressed. Can I get your name so that I can put this parchment in the file?' Asked Valeria.
'Lyanna Arya Daria Snow.' Said quietly Lyanna but loudly enough for the woman to hear her.'Oh, one of the famous Snows. I heard about your family quite a lot...''I hope most of it was something good.' Snapped Lyanna, not liking the way that Ms Charlton was talking.'Yes, most of it was good. Actually, I and my friends from work were curious what results you would get for this test. I can see that I will not be disappointed. Now, do you want to have results anonymous or public?''The first option seems smarter.' Lyanna was slowly getting less patient as the woman spoke more. Lya did not like her a lot.'Ok, this will be all. The overall results for your year will be published tonight at the dinner time. Goodbye."Lya did not answer and simply walked out, making her way towards the common room where her friends would wait for her. She was not disappointed – as soon as she answered another easy riddle, she heard the voices of her friends, who were sitting in their usual place in the corner of the room.'My examiner told me that my score of 556 was one of the best that he saw of anyone my age' Declared proudly Hermione in her know-it-all's voice. Lyanna almost wanted to laugh at her tone.'I think that he said that to you because he wanted you to feel special. Also, don't forget that you were one of the first people to take this test.' Remarked playfully Theo, waiting until his friend will get angry at him. Fortunately, others saw what he was doing.
'Theodore, please, stop teasing Hermione. You are just jealous that she had a higher score.' Said Su, attacking her friend.'539 is not that small!''Yeah but still it is lower than Hermione's.' Laughed Padma, loving the way Theo was going redder with each second. Lyanna decided to help Theo before he did something foolish (just like this one time he decided that wet Lyanna was a happy Lyanna).'Guys, I think our dear friend had enough teasing for today.' She said quietly, revealing her presence to the others.'Lya!' Shouted the whole group almost in synchronization. Then the questions started, each of them being different but about the same thing – the test. She knew that she needed to lie, she could not tell them that she received such a high score, she did not trust them enough for that.'I got 585 points.' Said Lyanna in a proud voice, hoping that she could convince her friends. It worked. They did not ask her after that, just congratulating her of such a high score.
At the dinner that day, results for that day were given and they shocked everyone – someone in the first year scored 715 points. Of course, after everyone learned that, they wanted to know who was this person. Draco Malfoy told all Slytherin's that it was his score but nobody from other houses. Lyanna laughed because out of all names given, nobody even suspected little, innocent Lyanna Snow. If anyone would watch everything carefully, they would know that a person with such high marks and who had not told anyone about it, would be the first suspect but nobody connected two facts.
In the following weeks and months, people were talking about the incident less and less until it was mostly forgotten and people (mostly Ravens) focused on their school work and upcoming exams. Not many things had happened in the four months except for quite a lot of birthdays happening, of course. Most of them were non-important as they were not of close members of family and Lyanna had only sent a birthday for these people. However, there were 8 birthdays that deserved a good gift. Her cousins (Jon Stark and Rhaenys Snow), Uncle Benjen, her mother, grandfather, great-grandfather all had birthdays between the beginning of February and end of May. Fun fact about Jon's birthday was that it was on Valentine's Day and Lya with her younger cousins used to tease him about it when they were younger by giving him flowers. It was very funny to see him blush. This year, she decided to give him a book about Herbology that somehow mentioned quite a lot of things about flowers... Yes, Lyanna knew that she could be evil sometimes. For the rest of her family, she gave them books, sweets or jelewery. However, there were two birthdays that were very special – Padma's and Dominik's. The first one was in her close group of friends so she deserved something special – Lyanna got her wand holster made from dragon skin. It was a little expensive but when Padma saw a gift, she thanked Lyanna a lot. Hermione even thought about doing a small birthday party and professor Flitwick helped them in organising it in one of the unused classrooms. There were a few guests, all of the first years from Ravenclaw, Padma's sister, Parvati and her friend Lavender Brown along with Robb and Neville Longbottom. Everyone had fun at this party and Lyanna even made friends with Longbottom heir after he stopped being shy, she saw quite a lot of potential in him and decided that she will try to help him to become a better wizard.
After a few weeks, Dominik's birthday came. Lyanna thought about a birthday gift for him for a few months but she could not come up with anything good. Fortunately, she found a perfect present – a new guitar, which was handmade and had a few protection charms on it. Lyanna knew of her friend's love of music and especially guitar as he started playing it at the age of 5 and he was almost an expert by now. After he received her gift, they talked a little about their school work and he asked her about her relationship with Harry and Veronica. It seemed as if he knew that something was wrong and he was correct- she had not talked to any of them since the end of Christmas Holiday and she tried to avoid the twins as much as she could. It led to rumours spreading quickly around the school but nobody except for probably Headmaster knew the cause of it. Lyanna quickly changed the subject and Dominik did not press further although he had a concerned expression on his face.
It was the end of May, Saturday, the 30th of May. This afternoon Lya was walking through the corridors, trying to find more secret doors or passages that could help her in the future. She started to think about the pranks that she and Damien thought of doing next year. Suddenly, she walked into someone and knocked them over. She quickly came back to the real world and saw that it was Veronica on the floor.
"Lyanna! That's good that I see you here!" Said quickly the other girl as soon as she saw Lya. "You need to help Harry, Ernie and I."
"Why? Did something happened?"
"Yes! You see, we were interested in this closed corridor on the third floor. We suspect that something important is stored there and Professor Quirrell will try to steal it tonight because Headmaster is not in the school tonight."
"I don't think it is a good idea. You should inform a teacher about it."
"We did! We told professor McGonagall but she said that we were imaging things."
"Fine, I will go but I will pick up two friends with me."
"Whom?" Asked Veronica, wanting to know who is going with them to save this item in the Forbidden Corridor.
"Just Theo and Hermione. Don't worry, they will help us."
"Thank you, Lyanna!" Said Veronica and she hugged her oldest friend, the one she considered a sister.
"I will wait for you with them before an entrance to the corridor."
"Thanks again. We will meet you there!"
Without further words, they split, each walking in the different direction. As Lyanna reached the common room, she saw Theo and Hermione talking to each other about the homework while Tony, Su, Padma and Klara were talking quietly.
"Hermione, Theodore – I need your help."
