It's the next day and we are just in Herbology at the minute. Grace was so excited to see Hagrid and she couldn't wait to tell him all about flying a car to school.

"You two should be ashamed of yourselves, dragging poor Jade and Grace along with you that" Hermione says. She been angry at Ron and Harry ever since we told her the story of what happened with the car.

They lower their heads, they feel really bad about what happened. "You have already told them that Hermione, maybe it's time to let it go, because keep going on about it won't change anything."

She sighs. "You're right Jade. I'm still not happy though."

"We can see that" me, Harry and Ron say together. We look at each other shocked, then burst of laughing.

I can feel someone looking at me, I look up and see Draco looking at me, he mouths the word 'Mud-Blood' when he sees me looking. I just look away.

I still don't know what that word means, but I'm guessing it's something bad, but I'm trying not to let it get to me so I'm not to upset when I find out what it actually means.

"Good morning class" Professor Sprout says as she walks into the room. "Welcome to Herbology, now gather around please, today we will be learning about Mandrakes, can anyone tell me what is a mandrake?" she asks and Hermione hands goes up in the air.

"Yes Miss Granger."

"Mandrake or Mandragora, is used to return those who have been petrified to their original state. It's also quite dangerous, the Mandrakes cry is fatal to anyone who hears it" why can't I be as smart as Hermione?

"Well done, ten points to Gryffindor" I smile at Hermione who's gone a little red in the face.

"Now as our Mandrakes are only seeds, there crying won't kill you yet, but it can knock you out for several hours."

"Hopefully they will knock out Malfoy, then we won't have to listen to him for a few hours" Harry whispers to us and we laugh under our breath.

"Everyone pick up a pair of earmuffs and make sure the flaps are down tight and watch me closely" Professor Sprout says, we all put on our earmuffs.

"You grasp your Mandrake firmly, you pull it sharply out of the pot" she says and she pulls it out "AAHHHHHH" it shrieked.

"And now you dunk it down into the other pot and pour a little sprinkling of soil to keep him warm" she says as she puts him in a pot and covered him with compost.

Just then Neville fell on the floor. "uh, Longbottom's been neglecting his earmuffs" Professor Sprout says.

"No mam, he's just fainted" Seamus says.

"Yes, well just leave him there. Right, on we go, plenty of pots to go around. Grasp your Mandrake and pull it up" she says.

I did what she had done and pulled my Mandrake out and it started crying. I put him in the pot straight away and covered him with dirt and it started to fall asleep. I smile to myself, he looks cute.

I look up and see Draco putting his finger in the Mandrake mouth and he bites his finger which made me laugh quietly to myself. He gives me a dirty when he hears me laughing.

After class and we managed to wake up Neville and headed to the Great Hall for a little break before our next lesson.

"Neville, you should try and drink something, it might make you feel better" I say and he picks up his cup of tea and gets a sip.

"Did that help?" I ask him.

"Yeah, thank you Jade" he says smiling.

"Your welcome" I say smiling back to him.

I look over at Ron and he's trying to fix his wand Sellotape, he looks up at us. "Say it, I'm doomed."

We look at each other then back at him. "You're boomed."

"Hi Harry" someone say as a flash goes off in Harry's face. We look and see a boy standing there smiling and holding a camera.

"I'm Colin Creevey, I'm in Gryffindor too" he says smiling.

"Hi Colin" Harry says, blinking a few times.

"Do you think your friend here" he says pointing to me. "Could talk a photo of me and you standing together. To prove I've met you, it's my dad you see, he's a milkman and a Muggle, and I want to send a photo back to him."

"Erm, not today Colin, maybe another day."

"Ok sure. See you later" Colin says before running out the Great Hall. Harry looks at us and we smile at him.

"Hey Ron, isn't that your owl?" Dean says and we all looked to see Ron owl flying towards us, then I see another owl flying towards me, it drops a letter in front of me. I pick it up and see that it's mom's writing. I open it and read it to myself

'Dear Jade,

I have no idea why you thought flying a car to school was a good idea. You were so lucky that you weren't killed, but I'm so glad that you are all ok. Just promise me that you will never do anything like that again.

"I promise" I say inside my head, then carry on reading.

'Your father is fine, he's still the same, but don't worry, I'm fine, I've got everything under control. Trust me.

I've been working some things out and I'm doing a lot better than I was a few months back.

Oh, and tell Grace that I love her picture, it was so good, and I can't wait to see more.

I love you both so much,

Love mom xx'

I smile at the letter and quickly wipe away a tear. I'm so glad that mom is ok and that she's doing fine. I didn't expect her to write anything different about dad. I don't think that man will ever stop drinking. Grace is going to be so excited about mom getting her picture.

"RONALD WEALSEY" I hear Mrs Weasley yell, I look around but can't see her anywhere. I look at Ron and see that there's a letter in front of his face and it's talking to him in his mom's voice. Weird, but so cool, I love what we can do with magic.

"How dare you steal that car, you Harry, Jade and Grace all could have been killed. What the hell were you thinking, your father is no facing an inquiry at work and it's entirely your fault. If you put another toe out of line, then I will bring you straight him" she shouts.

Then the letter turns to me and Harry "and you two" we look at each other "I might have not the rights to say anything, but do you have any idea how serious your action were? You all could have been killed. Jade, how could you put your sister in danger like that? You should be ashamed of yourself young lady" I narrow my eyes at the paper. "This is the last warning for all three of you" it stops, then tore it self's up.

I look at Ron. "What the hell was that?"

"It's called a -"

I cut him off. "I'm not on about that letter, I'm on about your mom. What gives her the rights to say stuff about me like that? Saying I should be ashamed because I took Grace in a flying car. We wouldn't even have been in that car if you two" I point at him and Harry, "had just listened to me and send Hedwig."

"There, there, clam down little bunny" Harry says patting my head.

I smack his hand away. "I am clam and hey, I'm not a bunny, I'm a -"

"Arse in the pain" Harry said smirking.

"Maybe" he laughs a little, "but, I was going to say a little lion cub" then I do a fake little roar like a lion.

We look at each other and burst out laughing. Well, that's took my mind off that letter. I can always count of Harry to take my mind off things without actually doing anything.

"Snape at 1 o'clock" Harry whispers.

I look at where 1 o'clock would be on a clock and see Snape walking over to us. "Oh for god sake" I say out loud. Crap! I was meant to say that in my head.

Snape rises his eyebrow at me. "Sorry, I was meant to say, hey" I can hear people laughing under their breath.

"Follow me" he says walking off.

"But we have class in 5 minutes."

"This will only take 2" he says looking over his shoulder, before he carried on walking. I sigh and stand up and follow him to his office. Do I knock or just walk in, I mean he already knows I'm coming. I'll play it safe and knock.

I knock on the door. "Come in Miss Turner."

I open the door and walk in. "How did you know it was me?" I ask smiling, he rolls his eyes, but smirks, then points to the chair in front of his desk. I walk over and sit down, he just looking at me, so I look away not knowing what else to do.

"Is everything ok?" he asks.

I look at him. "Yeah, why?"

"You seemed a little angered in the Great Hall".

"Oh that, that was nothing, all forgotten."

"You sure you're ok? You seem a little different."

"I do?"

He nods "yes, you're more cheerful."

I couldn't help but laugh. "So, I'm different because I'm happy."

"Why are you happy?"

"Dose one need a reason to be happy?" I ask.

"Yes, one dose need a reason."

"I'm happy because I got a letter from my mom."

"I see" I nod, then I remember what Draco called me.

I look at Snape, hopefully he tells me. "Can I ask you something?" he nods. "What's a, a Mud-Blood?" I see him tense up a little.

"Why do you want to know that for?" "I got called one, but he won't tell me what it means" I can see the anger in his face.

"I know it's something bad, I'm just not sure how bad."

"It's a disgusting word to call someone who is Muggle-Born. It means dirty blood."

"Dirty blood?" he nods. "But my blood isn't dirty" I frown.

"Some people won't see it like that. Whoever called it you are basically saying that you're scrum and he's better than you. In their eyes, you're not worthy to learn magic" Snape says.

Wow. What the hell. I knew it was bad, but I didn't think it was that bad. Now I'm glad I asked Snape because I think Ron would have sugar coated it a little.

"Miss Turner" I blink and a tear falls down, I quickly wipe it away.

"I-I'm just g-going, I-I have to g-go" I rush out his office before he could say anything.

I'm sitting on a bench in the courtyard. I can't believe people actually think like that, I mean how can someone judge you on your blood, the same blood that runs through their bodies.

I can't believe that Draco actually thinks that I have no rights to be here, if I didn't have the rights to be here, then I wouldn't be here.

"Miss Turner" I jump, then sigh. "I'm fine."

"I know you're not. I'm sorry if I upset you" Snape says as he sits next to me.

"You didn't, I mean you did, but I'm upset by the words, not you, if that makes sense?" he nods. I look at him. "Do people really think that way?"

"I'm afraid so" I sigh a little. "Who called it you?" Snape asks.

"No one, it doesn't matter anymore."

"Of course it matters, this person has upset you Miss Turner, you can't just bottle it up and act like it never happened."

"That's all I ever do, just bottle everything up."

"What have you been bottling up?" he asks looking right at me.

I look at the floor. "Nothing."

"Maybe I could help you if you talk to me."

"There's nothing to talk about."

"Everything ok at home?" he ask for the millionth time.

I sigh. "Yes, everything is fine at home".

"You sure about that?"

"I think I should know if it wasn't" Snape pulled something out of his pocket and hands it to be me. I open it and see that it's mom's letter. I look at him. "Where did you get this from?"

"It fell out your pocket when you ran out my office. What did your mother mean by your father is still be the same?"

"Why should it mean everything?"

"It hasn't, but the way she's said it, makes me think that there's something behind it."

"There isn't. Honesty, everything is fine."

"What dose your mother mean by, she's got everything under control" Snape asks.

"You ask a lot of questions" I say a little annoyed.

"I just want to make sure that everything is ok."

"And I've told you time and time again that everything is fine, so just keep your nose out of my business" I stand up and walk off.

"Miss Turner" I don't answer him. "Don't walk away from me Miss Turner" I can hear the anger in his voice, but I carry on walking. I'm not in the mood for him to keep asking questions that I don't want to answer.

I'm just walking to Defence Against the Dark Arts. I've missed half of the lesson but I thought I would go because I might get in more trouble if I don't show up at all. I turn the corner and see people running out of Lockhart's classroom. I wonder what's going on?

I walk over there and walk into the classroom only to find a load of little blue thingy's. I don't even know what they are, there's flying around and destroying the classroom.

I can see Harry, Ron and Hermione trying to fight them off. "What's going on? Where's the teacher?"

Harry was about to say something, but Hermione cut him off by shouting "Immobulus" I look around and the little blue things have slowed down.

"What are they?" I ask touching one that was by me. He tries to grab my finger, but it's moving in slow motion, I smile and move my hand away.

"Cornish Pixies" Ron says, putting one in the cage.

"Where's Lockhart?" "in his office, he just ran in there and told us to clear up his mess" Harry says.

"Wait, so he just ran off and let kids deal with something that he should know about?" I ask and Ron and Harry nod, whilst Hermione glares at me.

"Why you giving me that look for?"

"He was probably just giving us some hands on experiences."

"But wouldn't he made the whole class stay behind too? And shouldn't he be here telling you if you're doing it right or not" Hermione opens her mouth but closes it again.

We manged to put the Pixies back in their cage before they all unfroze. Hermione got Neville down from the light he was hanging off. I don't even know how I missed that, I mean he was right in front of me.

It's later in the day and I'm sitting in Hagrid's house, Harry's got Quidditch practice and Ron and Hermione have gone to study somewhere.

"Hey baby girl, guess what?"

"What?"

"I got a letter from mommy" I say smiling.

Grace gasps. "Did mommy get my picture? Did she like it?"

"Mommy got your picture and she loved it and can't wait to see more" Grace smiles.

"I'm going to draw her one now" she says rushing over to the table. I'm just looking at her.

"Everything ok Jade? You seem a little down" Hagrid says, sitting next to me.

"Yeah, I've just found out what Mud-Blood means."

"It's a horrible name to call someone" he looks at me. "Has someone called it you?" I nod, then I don't know why but I start crying.

"Oh Jade" Hagrid putting his arm around me. I guess that word affected me more than I thought it would have.

"Listen to me Jade" I pull away and look at him, "don't you think about it, don't you think about it for one minute ok, because you're not that word, you're so much more."

I smile at him and give him a hug, just then there was a knock on the door, Hagrid pulled away from me and want to answer it.

I look and see Harry, Ron and Hermione walk in. I smile at them, then frown when I see Ron throwing up slugs. "Eww, was that a slug?" Grace asks and Harry nods. "Eww" she says pulling a face.

"How come he's throwing up slugs?" I ask.

"He tried to curse Malfoy" Harry says as he bought Ron to sit down on the chair. Hagrid handed him a bucket so he could be sick in because there's nothing we can do for him.

"Tried to? How come it didn't work?"

"His wand backfired on him and he ended up cursing himself" Harry says.

"Oh I see. How come he tried to curse Draco anyway?"

"He called Hermione a -" Harry starts but I cut him off "don't say it. I can already guess what he said."

"He's called it you too, hasn't he?" Hermione asks with tears in her eyes.

"Hermione, you're crying" Grace says giving her a hug, Hermione smiles and hugs her back.

"Yeah. I've only just found out from Snape what it actually means."

"What does it means?" Harry asks. I walk over to him and whisper what it means. "That's horrible" I nod.

"Just don't say it in front of -" I point to Grace who's still hugging Hermione, they all nod.

Grace pulls away from her. "Do you feel better?"

"Loads better, thank you Grace" Grace smiles at her, then walks back over to her picture. Hermione is still upset so Hagrid tells her what he just told me and that seemed to do the trick.

It's time for my detention with Snape, it's punishment for flying the car to school. Harry's got detention with Lockhart, Ron's got detention with Filch and I've got Snape, I'm kinda worried on what he's going to ask me to do. Hopefully I'm just sorting through his books again.

I knock on the door. "Enter" I take a deep breath in and open the door and walk in, he just points to the chair.

I walk over and sit down in front of his desk and he's is just looking at me, I dunno where to look so I just look at my lap.

"The leeches have matured and are ready to have their juice extracted from them" he says. I look at him and he points to the jar of leeches on the table next to his desk.

"You will be compressing them so their juice can be used for classes, you may not use magic or protective gear" he says.

I look at him, but don't say anything "get to work" I stand up and walk over to the table. I look and I can see 6 jars of leeches.

I pick one up and open the lid, I just watch them move around. I should be allowed to at last wear protective gear, they are going to suck at my fingers. I shiver at the thought.

"Miss Turner" I jump at the sound of Snape's voice. I look at him. "Why are you just looking at them?"

"No reason" I say quietly.

"Well, stop looking at them and get on with it" he says and I nod.

I can feel my hand shaking. I put it in the jar and leeches start swimming to my fingers and start sucking on the ends of them, I use my other hand to take them off and throw them onto the tray.

I looked at my hand and there is blood trickling from my fingertips. I wipe my hand on a towel, but it doesn't really do anything.

I press one leech at a time and green juice came out. I pull a face, that made me feel sick, then I scoop it up and put it in another jar, I put my hand back into the jar and a big leech starts sucking my finger, really hard. It took me a few times, but I manged to get it off my finger.

I have tears in my eyes, that hurt so much, my finger is bleeding so bad that I have to warp it in the towel.

I look up and see Snape looking at me with a little smirk. I narrow my eyes at him, you know what? Forget this, I'm not doing this anymore.

I leave the towel wrapped around my hand and pick up my bag. "What are you doing Miss Turner?"

"I'm leaving."

"I haven't said you can leave."

"I don't care what you say. I'm not going to stand there and torture myself just so you can get pleasure out of it" I say without thinking.

He looks angry, I quickly walk over to door, but he beats me to it and blocks my way. "What did you just say to me?" he asks angrily.

"N-nothing" he starts walking over to me and I move back and hit the table behind me. He's standing right in front of me. No, I'm trapped, I look at him. "M-move back" he rises his eyebrow at me.

"I'm just standing here Miss Turner."

"You're to close and I don't like it" I say panicking a little.

"Is this what your father dose before he hurts you?" he asks.

"W-what, no, no my dad doesn't hurt me, so stop saying he dose."

"I can tell from you behaviour that something is going on at home" he says. I look at him, but don't say anything. "Miss Turner, if you talk to me then maybe I can help."

"There's nothing to help with, everything at home is fine and my mom and dad isn't hurting me or my sister."

"Funny that, I never mentioned your mother."

"I'm trying to make you realise that our parents are not hurting us, so stop saying they do because you're wrong, you're so wrong, and I would like you to stay out of my private life, it's got nothing to do with you" I say and he rises his eyebrow at me.

"I'm just trying to be here for you Miss Turner."

"Why?"

"What?" he frowns .

"I asked why. Why are you taking an instant in my life all of a sudden? Why are you acting like you care, when you will happily put me through hell here" I say and he looks at me confused.

"Put you through hell?"

"Yes, in case you haven't notices, I'm kinda bleeding from the detention you have just given me. You think things are going on at home, so why put me through more of it here? And now you stand there and make out that you're trying to help me when your actions say different" I say holding up my hand that's still in the towel.

He sighs. "Give me your hand."

"Why?"

"Just give me your hand."

"No, tell me first."

"It's so I can heal you."

"That's all?" he rises his eyebrow at me.

"Yes, now give me your hand" I hold out my hand and he takes the towel off. I'm just watching him, he pulls out his wand and I go to move my hand out of his, but he grips it so I can't.

He looks at me. "I haven't finished yet" he says in a softer tone. I nod and let him carry on. He waves his wand and my fingers are healed. I look at my fingers and you wouldn't have even known that they were bleeding a few second ago.

I can feel Snape looking at me, I look at him. "I'm sorry about your detention Miss Turner."

"Why did you even give me that detention?"

"I don't know, I really don't."

"Was it because you were angry at me for walking away from you?"

"No, I'm not angry at you. Like I said, I don't know why I gave you this detention, but I am sorry."

"Lucky for you that I'm very forgiving" he smiles at me. I look at him. "I'm sorry about what I said. I didn't mean for it to sound so -" I start but Snape cuts me off "it's ok, I understand." I nod.

"Anyway, it's almost time for dinner, so you should start heading to the Great Hall."

"I will, but I've got to pick Grace up first" he nods. I give him a little smile and leave his office.

I've just picked Grace up from Hagrid's and we are walking to the Great Hall for dinner, it sounds like she's had another good day with Hagrid.

We turn the corner and see all water on the floor, I look and see Harry, Ron and Hermione stood there looking at something. I look and see Filch's cat hanging from a candle hander on the wall.

We walk over to them, I was about to say something but Harry cuts me of "did you hear a voice just now?"

"No, I haven't longer walked into the school. What you mean voice?"

"I heard this voice, Ron and Hermione couldn't hear it, then we saw this" Harry says pointing to the wall.

There's writing on there and it looks like it's written in blood. "The Chamber of Secrets has been opened, enemies the heir beware" I read. I look at them. "What does that mean?"

"We have no idea" Hermione says. I feel Grace hold my hand, I look at her and she's looking at the car.

"I'm going to take Grace to the common room" they nod. I go to walk off, but stop when I hear footsteps, I look around and see students all looking at us, then look at the wall.

Draco steps forwards and reads what it says. "You will be next, Mud-Blood" he whispers in my ear and it makes me jump because I didn't realise he was that close.

"Why so jumpy Turner?" he asks smirking.

"Leave me alone Malfoy" I look at Grace. "Come on, let's go to the common room" she nods.

We walk off and Draco follows us. "Hey Turner, have you found out what Mud -"

"Yes, I know what it means" I quickly cut him off.

"Why did you cut me off?" he asks and I look at Grace. I look at him and he smirks, he looks at Grace. "Hey little Mud -"

"Don't you dare call her that" I snap.

"Oh yeah, and what are you going to do about it?" he asks smirking. I look at Grace and she smiles at me, I smile back.

I look at Draco. "Nothing, I'm going to do anything."

"That's right because you're too weak to do anything."

"If you say so."

"I know so."

"Whatever" I grab Grace's hand and we walk off.

"See you around, Mud-Blood" he shouts.

"I really hope not, jerk" I shout with my back to him.

"Mr Malfoy, Miss Turner" me and Grace turn around and see Snape walking over to us. Draco is stood there smirking, but that soon drops when Snape asks Draco to follow him to his office.

"What about Turner?"

"I heard you shout something first, she had every right to shut someone back" now is was my turn to smirk.

"Follow me Mr Malfoy" Draco gives me a nasty look. I just smile at him and wave a 'goodbye' to him.

Me and Grace start walking back to the common room. "Sissy, what dose Mud-Blood mean?" I stop walking and look at her. Damn it! Draco shouted that on purpose.

I bend down in front of her and take her hands into mine. "It's a horrible name to call someone like us, someone who doesn't have magic mommy and daddy's."

"How horrible?"

"Very horrible, the word Mud-Blood means, it means dirty blood."

"I have dirty blood?" Grace asks looking upset.

"What, no, no of course not. Remember that one time me, you and Harry were over the park and you fell over and cut your knee."

"I remember, that really hurt, but your kisses made it feel better" I smile at her.

"But what colour was your blood?"

She gasps. "Red, it was red, I remember it was red."

"Exactly, it's just a word that means nothing and if Draco, or someone else ever calls it you, then just say thank you and walk away from them and go to the common room, because you are not that word, you are so much more than that" I say using Hagrid's words at the end.

"Miss Turner" we jump, I stand up and look at Snape.

"Must you keep doing that?" I ask

"I must. I always get such a satisfying reaction" he says smirking. Wow, he's actually joking around. Who would have known he could do that?

"Are you and your sister ok?"

"Yeah, we have fine. What did you do to Draco?"

"Gave him detention for tomorrow night and took 5 points from Slytherin."

"Wait, you took points from your own house, and gave your favourite student a detention?"

"Yes, he upset you and he's not my favourite student."

"Oh, so you do have a favourite student, who is it?"

"I can't tell you I'm afraid."

"Why not?"

"Because I don't want you getting jealous when I say it's not you" he says smirking.

"What? Me? Jealous? Never!" he smiles at me.

"Come on, I will walk you to your common room" we nod and start walking. "What about you anyway?" he asks.

"What about me what?"

"Do you have a favourite teacher?"

"Ahh, I can't tell you that I'm afraid. I wouldn't want you getting jealous when I say it's not you."

"Oh, so you do have a favourite teacher?"

"Yeah, Lockhart is pretty amazing" I say, then start laughing at the look on his face. "Oh, is someone getting jealous?"

"Over that moron, sure."

"So you admit you're jealous?"

"I didn't say that."

"You kind of did, even if it was in a sarcastic way" he rolls his eyes, but doesn't say anything. I look at him. "Do you know what happened to Mrs Norris?"

"Yes, she's been petrified."

"Petrified? What could have done that?"

"We are not sure, but your favourite teacher seemed to think that he could have spared her with a counter curse, just shows how much he knows because there isn't even a counter curse that could stop someone from being petrified" Snape says, putting a little emphasis on favourite teacher.

"Oh, I always thought that Professor McGonagall was smarter than that."

Snape looks at me with a look. "I bet you feel stupid now?"

"Shup up, Turner" I laugh and I see Snape smiling. He's doing a lot of that lately.

"But on a serious note, just be carful when walking around the school. We don't know what happened to Mrs Norris or how she got petrified, so just be on your guard" Snape says.

"I'm always on my guard" he nods.

We finally reach the Gryffindor common room, it seemed like it took us longer to get there tonight. I dunno, maybe it's because I'm tried.

I look at Snape. "Thanks for walking us back to the common room."

"Your welcome Miss Turner, Grace" she smiles at him. I say the password and we walk into the common room and head to bed.