The first thing Ness learned on his second day of school was this, Slytherin and Gryffindor cannot be friends. Why? Because they were rivals. Which seemed pretty immature to Ness since just because an entire section of a school hated each other didn't mean that everyone should be a bias jerk to each other.

And the only reason why Ness learned this lesson was because he joined a Slytherin student for potions. Since he didn't really see much of any other house students due to classes Ness decided to try and meet as many different people as he could. Sure, his fellow housemates were cool, but Ness liked having a variety of different people to speak with who had different views on different subjects.

So the moment he stepped into the Potions classroom and spotted an empty bench with a Slytherin boy, he took it. The boy, Selvis Karma had looked up in surprise and narrowed his forest green eyes at Ness in suspicion.

"Hi." Ness said, Selvis sneered and hissed, "What are you doing Gryffindor scum? Trying to mess up my perfect grade?"

"Nah, just wanted to try and make a new friend."

Selvis looked at Ness for a good minute before he shakily asked, "What?"

"I want to try and make a friend, and if I do somehow wreck you're grade I'll help you out in Astronomy." Selvis raised an eyebrow as Ness added, "For three straight weeks."

That convinced Selvis, "Fine." He grumbled, "But don't expect me to get all buddy-buddy with you."

"I wasn't expecting it since we just met." Ness replied with a small smile. Selvis made a small growl but didn't say anything as Professor Snape swooped in. Studying the class with cold eyes, "So now we have two famous heroes in Hogwarts," Snape sneered.

Ness blinked in surprise. He didn't know he was famous, then again he didn't really understand anything about this world of magic. So he decided not to say anything.

"Today, we will be working on a Mood Iris potion." Snape started as he waved his wand, causing instructions to appear on a faded chalkboard behind him, "It's a potion that can normally bring a rainbow into the room and change the mood of those around them. Simple enough if you remember your coursework from last year."

Ness frowned as Selvis and some other kids from his house muffled their laughter. What was so funny? Sure it seemed difficult since it had a bunch of contradicting instructions like add a drop of something called Billywig sting and counter clockwise stir then add a teaspoon of fairy wings then stir clockwise before returning to the Billywig step.

Snape either didn't care or was expecting some of the kids to laugh since he ignored them and continued speaking, "Now before we begin, who knows the proper method to keeping the potion in a liquidated yet ethereal form?"

Selvis's hand shot up into the air while Ness thought for a bit, "A liquid yet ethereal, form? I guess over cooking it isn't the answer…"

After a bit of waiting Snape called on Ness or rather, his last name, "Earthbound, do you know what the answer is?" Snape asked sneering slightly. It took Ness a moment to connect 'Earthbound' to him, which earned him a couple snickers.

"I suppose the answer is to change the heat ever so often so it boils and then cools down." Ness answered, Snape gave a triumphant smirk and said, "So it appears that this hero is too busy being famous to study. Just like Potter."

Ness bit his tongue to withhold a snarky remark along the lines of, 'Yes, me discovering that I'm a wizard and a popular comic strip character is totally the reason behind my lack of knowledge.'

Selvis raised his hand despite the fact that he was already speaking, "The correct way is to use a Wisp flame, which transfers ethereal matter into the potion, Sir." Snape's smirk grew wider as he said, "Exactly, 5 points to Slytherin." Which earned muffled growls from Ness's housemates.

"Weird." Ness thought, and found Selvis's smug smirk at him even weirder. Since it seemed like a I'm better than you smirk that Porky usually had. But that didn't make sense since they just met and Ness didn't have any clue as to what he was doing

Of course he didn't have time to figure out why people were growling and groaning since Snape quickly got them started on their potion saying that the steam should be a see through mix of colors as they worked.

So far Ness was doing everything except making the steam see through, was it because he had accidentally mixed in four teaspoons of fairy wings? Or because he had stirred counter clockwise when he needed to go clockwise?

Maybe if he added an extra teaspoon of flobber worms it would lighten up the steam, "Five more minutes." Snape announced, giving Ness a look as he lurked around the classroom.

"Peachy." Ness grumbled, he glanced at Selvis's potion which was a fine multi-colored mist, just like his should have been. What was he doing differently? Selvis caught Ness's questioning look and gleefully whispered, "Trying to figure out where you went wrong Earthbound?"

"Well, yea, since so far all I have is a thick cloud of light blue." Ness admitted, "Did you add an extra fairy wing or something?"

"What? No!" Selvis hissed, trying keep his voice low, "And besides, why would I tell a filthy Gryffindor anyway?" Ness frowned then managed a light smile, "Hey, I'll have you know that I am a squeaky clean Lion, Sir snake."

"Excuse me?" Selvis questioned, his eyes darkening. Before Ness could fix his mistake Snape said, "Time's up, fill a flask with your potion and bring it to the front desk."

Ness sent an apologetic glance at Selvis as he filled a flask which was really just a glass bottle with his Mood Iris. Which earned him an F-.

"Great, I'm awful at potions and magic classes." Ness said as he, Ginny and a boy named Colin Creevy walked to their next class. "Well you were doing a lot better than me." Colin sighed, "I managed to make mine a thick pot of jello."

"Don't worry about it Ness." Ginny reassured, "Snape's always giving Gryffindor students bad grades."

"He is? Why?" Ness asked, "And how the heck hasn't he been fired?"

"Because he's one of Hogwarts greatest potion masters." Ness jumped and looked at Selvis who was sneering at them, "Hey Selvis," Ness greeted as Ginny and Colin glared at him. "What's up? Besides the sky of course."

Selvis gave him a strange look before he continued, "In fact, he'd made a perfect Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher." Ginny rolled her eyes and nudged Ness, "Come on, let's just go." Ness ignored her and asked, "So why would Snape make a good teacher for Defense Against the Dark Arts? He seems more like a potion person to me."

"Simple, he's had years of experience, unlike that shabby excuse of a teacher, Professor Lupin." Selvis retorted.

"Oh shove off Karma." Colin snapped, "I've heard from everyone else that Lupin's a great teacher."

"Oh yes, like our last teacher, Professor Lockheart." Selvis sneered, "And he was such a wonderful teacher."

Ness grinned at the name but didn't say anything. Selvis noticed this and turned on him, "And what are you grinning at Earthbound? Another one of your witty insults?"

"I'm just laughing at Lockheart's name. I've never heard anything like it." Ness said, "And besides, who have I insulted?"

Selvis opened his mouth to say something but quickly closed when Ness said, "Wait, are talking about me calling you Sir Snake? Because if so, I was joking."

"Joking!?" Selvis spluttered, "How was Sir Snake a joke?"

"The same way someone calling me Sir Lion would be a joke, since I'm in a Lion's den."

"What?!"

"Gryffindor. Lion symbol." Ness clarified, "Any other questions?" Selvis flushed a bright red when he noticed Ginny and Colin muffling their laughter, "This. Isn't over. And I decline your pathetic attempt to make amends with a tutoring session!" Selvis hotly declared as he spun on his heel and stormed to his class.

"Kay, see ya later!" Ness yelled.

"Are you actually happy about having a Slytherin coming after you?" Colin asked, sounding surprised. "Well, yea. He doesn't seem so bad." Ness said, when Ginny and Colin gave him a look he added, "Okay yea, he enjoys insulating people but he's a lot better than Porky."

"How? Slytherins' are ten time worse than any normal bully!" Colin argued, "And just why are Slytherin's bad guys? I haven't heard a good reason not to be friends with them." Ness replied.

"Just stay away from Slytherin's Ness." Ginny warned, "There a house of lying sneaks being led by Snape."

"Snape's their Head of House?" Ness questioned then he frowned and muttered, "That explains the high and mighty attitude."

"See! Another good reason to avoid Slytherin." Ginny said.

"No," Ness corrected, "Another good excuse to avoid Slytherin. They don't seem that bad." Ginny and Colin gave him a look but didn't add anything else as they stepped inside Greenhouse 9 for Herbology.

It went well since Ness actually looked up a couple plants beforehand to be somewhat prepared for class. They were working on some plants called Green Death which required the up-most concentration to avoid getting pricked by the slow moving plant of death.

His partner, a boy named Edward Humuis was quite talkative, chatting about Ness's adventures, the escape of Siruis Black and of course about the newest rumor floating around the school, which involved a boy named Draco Malfoy from Slytherin getting attacked by a Griffin.

"So it just attacked him?" Ness asked as he carefully pruned his Green Death, "Unprovoked?"

"That's what going around." Edward said leaning back as his Green Death tried to slowly swipe at him, "But knowing him, he probably annoyed the Griffin into attacking him to act like a drama King."

"Geez, is he okay?" Ness asked, Edward gave him a strange look as he resumed pruning his plant, "Why do you care? He's a stuck up little git."

"So? I'm still going to be worried about him if he got himself attacked by a Griffin. I don't want him to get killed or anything."

"…You're a weird one." Edward decided, ending the conversation. Ness frowned but didn't push it. After class Ness discovered that almost everyone had the same opinion on the Slytherin house except the Slytherins' who had all given him dirty looks when he tried to make small talk with them in the hallways.

"This doesn't make sense." Ness muttered he walked up the flight of stairs to Kale's classroom with his classmates, "Why does everyone hate Slytherin?" a boy in front of him slowed slightly as if to answer his question but Ness quickly cut him off, "And if you say it's because their house of backstabbers and evil wizards then I hurt you."

The boy resumed walking while Ginny said, "Well, it's that and because of some sort of rivalry. Something to do with the original founder of Gryffindor and Slytherin splitting up over what kind of wizards should be allowed to enter Hogwarts."

"And this dumb feud hasn't ended?" Ness said in disbelief. Ginny shook her head no as they stepped outside into the cool midnight air, "Welcome!" Professor Kale greeted his dreamy night blue robes practically glowing in the moonlight, "Today, we shall be observing the plant Uranus and its Five major moons."

His enthused greeting was met by muffled groans and a 'Cool!' from Ness as they went to set up their telescopes. Ness had brought his own batter telescope from home in order to avoid picking up a costly new one. It worked fine at home, so it should do the job here.

He focused on Ariel and looked around trying to see what else he could find to jot down in his Astronomy notebook. So far he hadn't found anything new besides the moon Cupid which was obscured behind another moon.

"Now then, who can point out the newest star besides Uranus?" Professor Kale abruptly said, interrupting the quiet scratching of quills and soft muttering. Ness quickly raised his hand and pointed his telescope toward an oddly bright beam of light, "It's by Titian's dark side sir."

"Excellent! Five points to Gryffindor." Professor Kale said. "As you can see, this star appeared a couple days ago, meaning that those born under the stars of earth are to expect a couple days of good luck. Be sure to keep an eye out for newly formed stars and where they appeared and what sign their under, they usually bring good fortune."

Ness looked around some more, trying to find Umbriel before class was over, so far. This was becoming his favorite class, he knew how everything worked, it was quiet, made sense and Professor Kale seemed cool. Clueless about everything that wasn't surrounding stars, but cool.

He sort of wished it lasted more than an hour as he finally stumble upon Umbriel and took note of where it was only to hear Professor Kale call the class to stop and receive their homework, "Now there are a total of five new stars around Mars, Neptune and Pluto, I want to have a one paged paper on what signs these new stars are and their fortune." Professor Kale explained, "This is due next Thursday and—Is that another comet?" Ness stifled a laugh as once again, Professor Kale found something more important than teaching a class.


The rest of September went along smoothly; Ness was slowly getting the hang of faking magic by expanding his PSI abilities (Which left him with daily migraines after every class.) His favorite teachers, Professor Kale and Professor Lupin always found a way to make their classes interesting.

Well, Lupin did, Kale was just off in his own little world until he saw something important in the night skies. For his first class with the second year students Professor Lupin had taught them how to use a defense spell, Protego and a basic attack spell, Stupify.

Ness had done great with his partner, a girl named Diana Rose when he was defending since all he did was point his wand and use Shield Beta when she used Stupify. But when it came time to switch Ness had trouble using Paralysis alpha since he had low PSI energy. Thankfully the lesson ended before Diana noticed anything odd.

Also, his relationship with Selvis was going well despite his poor attempts of insulating Ness since Selvis had grudgingly admitted that he needed help with Astronomy near the end of September during a Potions class.

Ginny thought it might have been a trap at first since Selvis needed lessons daily in order to maintain an okay grade. "I can't help but feel like this is a trap." Ginny muttered every time Ness accidentally mentioned his tutoring sessions with Selvis, "Well, trap or not. Selvis wanted me to keep this a huge secret. So I think I'm safe." Ness had replied, "Anyway, I'm off to teach Astronomy."

"Good luck." Ginny said, knowing how stubborn Selvis could be from Ness's many tales of him, Ness laughed and made his way to an empty tower, he had stumbled upon it when he was heading to Professor's Kale's classroom. It had seemed perfect for tutoring sessions since you could clearly see everything from the roof, despite the fact that it over looked the Forbidden Woods.

He was greeted by a curt, "You're late." From Selvis who had already set up his telescope and his charts, "You always say that." Ness reminded him as he set up his own telescope and checked his chart, he had already finished his homework but he brought it along for reference points. And so Selvis would stop claiming that he didn't know anything about Astronomy.

"Alright, so today we'll work on locating Titan which is…" he trailed earning an irritated sigh from Selvis who dutifully guessed, "One of Saturn's many moons."

"Right! Saturn has a total 62 moons, the only difference between Titan and the 61 other moons are…"

Another sigh from Selvis who grumbled, "the fact that Titan has the most mass of any of Saturn's moon."

"Right again!"

"Are you always like this?" Selvis asked, sending Ness a withering glare, "Annoyingly upbeat yet utterly laid back?"

"More or less." Ness replied as he studied Saturn, "If it's not a problem then I shouldn't worry about it."

"Ugh. You are impossible." Selvis grumbled, "Your supposed to be a Gryffindor! A brave and proud idiot! Not a laid back maker of peace who wants to be everyone's friend!"

"Hey, I don't want to be everyone's friend." Ness corrected, "I just like broadening my horizon."

"Ah-ha! So there is a reason as to why you want to be my friend!" Selvis said triumphantly, "That, and because you seem like a nice guy. Despite the fact that you yell a lot."

"I do not yell!" Selvis hissed his cheeks flushing slightly. Which was true since Selvis was usually hissing, but Ness wanted to avoid any more misunderstandings. This rivalry between houses thing made everything hard. The only people he seemed too able to talk with seemed to be Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw—

"Hey wait." Ness realized, "Why is it that only Gryffindor and Slytherin butt heads? I mean, the other three houses must have a reason as to why the hate Slytherin too. Right?"

"Oh please, they hate my house the same reason Gryffindor does, because we have dark wizards and don't like filthy mudbloods." Selvis replied, "The only difference is that those pathic houses let Gryffindor do all the work while they stand in the background, whispering awful things about us."

"So almost everyone is a Porky." Ness deadpanned, "Letting someone else win their battles which make absolutely no difference."

Selvis thought for a bit before he quietly muttered, "I suppose so." Ness sighed and looked up at the stars, "It must be rough. Unable to really talk to anyone outside your house because of this one event."

"I talk to people outside my house." Selvis retorted although he quietly muttered, "Sort of…"

"You know, if this dumb rivalry over who should and shouldn't be accepted never existed, I think everyone would get along just fine."

"Oh please." Selvis sneered, "As if anyone's going to willingly make friends with a Slytherin and vice versa."

"I'm trying to." Ness said, "Except your too busy worrying about boring stuff. Like status and class."

"Excuse me?! My family has a status as the best Broom makers in England to uphold! Status is the up-most importance you country rat!"

"Country rat? That's a new one. And who cares? You're a kid, status doesn't matter until your grown."

"Yes it does! I can make important connections while I'm in school!"

"And who are those connections?"

Selvis opened his mouth, paused then spun on his heel, "I have a bunch of them! I just can't remember their name at the moment, that's all."

"Don't you mean names?"

"Shut up! And besides, I know something you don't know."

"What?"

"That Harry Potter plans on hunting down Sirius Black." Selvis revealed, "Malfoy told him early September about how Black was the reason why his parents were dead."

"Really?" Ness thought for a bit before he lied down on the stone floor, "Well, if Harry wants to anything dumb, I'd rather wait to catch him in the act than waste energy."

"What?! I thought you two were buddy-buddy or something!"

"Dude, we're a year apart, I barely see him. I just hang out with Ginny."

Selvis growled then tried, "Oh yes, that idiotic puppet who unleashed the monster onto the school to kill all the Mudbloods. Nice to see that you enjoy hanging out with a Damsel in Distress."

Ness twitched slightly then looked at Selvis with an annoyed glare, "Congrats, you annoyed me."

"Yes! You are vulnerable to something!" Selvis cheered the he cleared his throat and said, "Not that it matters."

"And for that, you win a prize." Ness announced, Selvis blinked and then froze as Ness used Paralysis Alpha on him, "See ya in the morning." Ness said as he packed his stuff and headed toward the stairs.

"W-wait! Are you just going to leave me here? Frozen!?" Selvis demanded.

"No, I'm going to rescue you." Ness snarked.

"Oh. don't scare me like that!"

"That was sarcasm."

Selvis paled and yelled, "Hey wait! Don't leave me here! I'm sorry if I offended you or something!"

"Nah, I think you need to chill out for a bit."

"In the middle of October!? I'm wearing bloody pajamas! Pajamas!"

"Well why'd you do that?"

"Because it's the middle of the bloody night you brute!"

"Brutes use force. I use my mind." Ness replied. Selvis growled then yelled, "No wonder the School board banned PSI users from magic schools! You're walking disasters!"

Ness froze and turned around slightly, "The school board banned PSI users from Hogwarts?"

Selvis smirked and kept going, "And every magic school in Europe after an attack that happened 20 years ago, I know since my Mom's father was a witness. He barely made it out alive."

"If that's the case… then why am I still here?" Ness wondered, "And what caused the attack?"

"Well, I would tell you but…" Selvis trailed off and glared at Ness who nodded in understanding and used Healing V on Selvis who fell forward and landed on his school bag.

"Ow…" Selvis muttered before he continued, "The person who caused it was named Belinda Thimble, she was in her fourth school year and shopping around Diagon Alley with a couple friends from school. No one knows what triggered it, but all of a sudden people started to fly backwards and Belinda was screaming at them to get away from her while she hid in some alleyway. At least 15 wizards died before the Ministry could apprehend her. Some say she was having a mental breakdown, others said she was just plan crazy."

A shiver ran down his spine as he pictured Belinda attacking everyone, "But why did the school board ban all PSI users?" Ness asked before he added, "Besides the obvious fact of Belinda going insane."

"Because no one knew who caused it at first. No one sensed any magic being used" Selvis explained, "It wasn't until she started screaming at everyone to leave her alone that people realized what was going on. She was just sitting in an alleyway, watching everyone run around in panic. My dad says that he was convinced that the world was ending."

"Which school did she go to?"

"Hogwarts of course, Headmaster Dippto invited her from America thinking she was a Witch was special powers, PSI wasn't very well known back then. So they didn't realize the dangers of having a person capable of doing pretty much everything without boundaries." Selvis answered. When he finished he gave Ness a questioning look, "Which why it's a miracle that you're even here, you brute. How did you even get in?"

"The school sent me a letter, claiming I was a wizard and Professor Kale gave me another letter from the Ministry saying the same thing."

"You're lying." Selvis retorted, "Where's your wand? If you really are a PSI user, then you shouldn't have a wand." Ness pulled out the small wand and handed it to Selvis, "I got it from the wand shop in Diagon Alley."

Selvis held it up and frowned, "And just why would Ollivander sell you a toy wand?"

"Toy?! I have a toy wand?"

"I just said that!" Selvis snapped, "And yes, I can't sense any official magic from this twig, just some charms to make it seem like the user's performing magic," he tossed it to Ness and scoffed, "Honestly, do you know anything about magic?"

"No! I'm still trying to figure out how to send letters." Ness retorted, a knot forming in his stomach at just how unusual it was for him to be at a school for wizard with practically a fake wand and with the ban of no PSI users still active.

"Really?" Selvis said in disbelief then he realized something, "So you were more or less forced here and told nothing about why you were here?"

"So it seems, unless Dumbledore mentioned something about me being here."

"No, he merely announced at that we had a transfer student from America joining us for the first time in 20 years." Selvis recalled, "He did say your name but everyone thought it was a joke since we all thought you were just a comic book character, actually. I think people still believe that."

The knot tightened as Ness remembered how many people seemed disturbed yet at the same time unfazed by his appearance, he had expected much more attention since he was in the news but at the same time figured that no one really read the comic section. Now he was wondering if it had something to do with the PSI ban wiping out all knowledge of the accident to keep the public safe.

The boys flinched as a strong gust of wind slammed blew past them, prompting them to quickly pack up and head inside the tower, "Hey Selvis, what's Dumbledore like?" Ness asked as they quietly headed downstairs. Selvis snorted in disbelief then caught himself, "I see him as an old kook, but everyone else worships him since he's the greatest wizard ever. It's a loud of junk, since he couldn't even protect the school from the Chamber of Secrets."

Ness made a mental note to prod Ginny for answers about the Chamber of Secrets before asking another question, "Does Dumbledore go out his away for anything?"

"Not unless it's for his hero Harry Potter." Selvis grumbled, "Everyone knows that Potter stole a potion ingredient from Snape but Dumbledore refuses to believe it, especially since Perfect Potter saved the day. Somehow." He glanced at Ness who was slowly walking alongside him, "Why do you ask? Want to know if he'll expel you for free or something?"

"Well… before I arrived at Hogwarts, I overheard Mrs. Weasly say that if anything happens to Harry, I would step in or something." Ness admitted, "So I'm wondering…"

"You think Dumbledore pulled some strings to have you protect Harry from some known disaster?" Selvis gasped, "If so… that would be the scandal of a century! He would become front page news for eons!"

"Shh!" Ness hissed as he heard something shuffling toward them, "Someone's coming."

"Bloody pickles." Selvis cursed, "It's probably Flich. He's the grounds caretaker and he hates students."

"Peachy. So do we run or…?"

"Running would be best." Selvis hissed, "Come on, I know a secret passageway." Ness nodded and followed Selvis through the seventh floor corridor, "Here." Selvis ordered pushing a surprinsgly still painting of a wizard glaring down at them, out of the way and revealing a small hole.

"Whoa… where does lead to?" Ness questioned, "It leads to the dungeon section," Selvis explained carefully crawling into the hole, "Careful, it's a slide."

"Double whoa…" Ness exclaimed as he followed Selvis and slide down the metal chute. It felt like ages until they landed in a heap on the cold stone floor.

Selvis cursed and struggled as they tried to untangle themselves before they looked around, "We're near one of Professor Mcroy's classroom." Selvis said, when Ness gave him a blank look he clarified, "Another potion teacher, don't worry about him. I'm pretty sure he's dead."

"Has anyone told the staff?" Ness asked as he stood up and looked down the dark hallway, "I dunno. And I don't really care." Selvis said he held up his wand and muttered "Lumois!" summoning a faint green light.

"Wait, shouldn't we use a torch or something?" Ness asked, "I'm pretty sure green light isn't normal." Sevlis scowled but killed the light, "Well there aren't any torches so we're stuck with Lumois."

"I have fire though."

"No you don't." Selvis sneered as Ness put out his hand and thought for a bit, repeating the steps he had used last time to summon fire against the Demontor, Ness grinned as a weak flame appeared and illuminated the darkness.

"You can summon fire?!" Selvis exclaimed then he cleared his throat and repeated his question in a whisper, "Sort of." Ness replied winching at the slight headache that was starting up, "Fire's usually Paula's PSI but we've been showing each other how to use different attacks."

Selvis gasped in awe then quickly frowned, "Come on, let's head to bed before Flitch somehow finds us."

"Sounds good to me."

They carefully made their way through the dungeons and back to the first floor it was there that Selvis left him for his common room saying, "We shall continue this discussion tomorrow night."

"Tomorrow's a school night." Ness reminded him, "And what do you mean discussion?"

"The discussion of figuring out why you're here of course!" Selvis said, "I bet there are loads of dark reasons as to why that old kook is still here! Loads!"

"If you say so." Ness said as he watched Selvis disappear back into the dungeons. Although this mean that Ness was left alone with more questions which he had been trying to forget, besides the basic why am I here and what am I supposed to do, he now wondered why Dumbledore would allow Ness to stay here.

Did he know about his PSI powers? Probably, after all the comic had probably stated everything about him and his friends, and Dumbledore had to know about the attack, he was alive during that point and it was probably all over the news.

So why? Ness sighed and looked at the painting of the Fat Lady, who was fast asleep not wanting to get yelled again for waking her at up 3 in the morning Ness used Healing V to wake her up and said, "Fortuna Major."

"Why must you insist on coming in so late." The Fat Lady grumbled as she swung open and allowed Ness entry, "Because nighttime is the best time to see the stars." Ness grumbled, too tired for a wittier remark. Right now all he wanted to do was get some sleep and hopefully quill the rampage questions in his head.

Of course, fate wouldn't let him do that since a migraine started and forced him to lean against one of the puffy couches, "I've really got to manage my PSI better." Ness grumbled as he waited for the waves of dizziness to fade away. "Hrmmm… Ness…?" Ness glanced down and saw Ginny rubbing her eyes.

"Hey Gin-gin, what's up?" Ness asked, winching at the sudden tired edge in his voice. He surely wasn't that tired.

"I had a question about one of the stars we were studying." Ginny said, sitting up and giving Ness a worried look, "Are you alright? Did Selvis try to jinx you or something?"

Ness hesitated before he sighed and said, "Before I answer that question, I have a question for you."

"Sure, what is it? Are you still wondering about the magic plates?" Ginny asked, recalling the first few times Ness had asked about that.

"No, although they still don't make any sense. But what I wanted to ask was, what do you know about PSI?"

"It's other form of magic right? Only American wizards deal with solely elemental, mental and physical types of magic right? Like how Paula could use fire magic sometimes or how Poo could use ice magic."

"Is this how everyone sees PSI?"

"More or less. Why do you ask?"

"Well, because first off, PSI isn't magic, it's short for Psionics, and we don't need a wand, hand motions or anything. We just need our minds."

Ginny frowned and said, "Still sounding like magic."

"Can magic mentally change someone's mood without a difficult spell?"

"You could use a charm or a potion on them to make it easier."

Ness groaned and thought for a bit, trying to figure out how best to explain it, "Alright, as far as I know, PSI and magic are too different things. Magic requires mental, physical and emotional will since you need to make hand gestures and other stuff, while PSI just requires the mind, the only difference between PSI users is their personality, which is where the PSI stems from."

"Seeing a slight difference." Ginny said, "But why are you asking about this now? Did something come up?"

Ness looked around before he joined Ginny on the couch, "While I was with Selvis he said that PSI users were banned from the school and asked how I was able to come here, I told him about the weird letters—which I shall explain afterwards—and he told me about this girl, Belinda something, who was from America and used PSI."

"Wait, PSI users were banned from Hogwarts?" Ginny questioned, "Why would they banned a different type of magic?"

"Because, it's not magic." Ness explained feeling exasperated by Ginny's lack of understanding, "It's like juice and water, you can drink both of them and there slightly the same but they aren't at the same time."

"So you're asking me about PSI to see if I knew about Belinda." Ginny realized.

"That, and to see what you knew about PSI, I'm not completely sure how their different since Magic makes no sense to me and honestly I don't want to think at the moment since I have a migraine but I'm wondering if no one really knows about how different PSI and magic are."

Ginny nodded and looked into the fire, "Well, I might have a small answer for that."

"You do? What?"

"You said you helped scare off the demontor with fire, right?" Ginny recalled, Ness nodded yes and waited for her to continue, "But Professor Lupin said that only a Patronus could scare it off, and later in class he said that the reason why that was, was because a Patronus emits positive feelings from the user, which contradicts the Demontor since it feeds on negative emotions. So how did you scare it off with just fire?"

Ness thought for a bit before he answered, "I'm not totally sure, at the time I was trying to follow Paula's instructions and was thinking of this giant warm ball of fire. I guess the mental picture of warm fire freaked the Demontor out a bit since I wanted to help Harry?"

"Maybe…" Ginny said, she leaned back against the couch before she stood up again, "We should continue this in the morning, this is giving me a headache."

"Cool, see you in the morning." Ness mumbled trying to remember what he had exactly done to the Demontor in the first place.


Dun dun dun! A mystery! Sort of. Thanks again Zentari2238 for pointing out details I missed! Hopefully this properly explains some things I skipped over in Chapter Two . :)