After lunch, the five of us apparently had a free half hour. They had gotten their schedules at breakfast, when--surprise, surprise--I had been snoozing.

As we walked through the school aimlessly, Max showed up. I sent him off telling him that I heard his book bag had been found in the Potions room (dungeon, I found out later).

Thinking we were sick of being indoors, James led us outside. We walked to the giant lake right on the school property and sat on the closest rocks. I noticed a hut in the distance, and Remus told me that the giant guy, Hagrid, lived there. He was in charge of the animals and school keys, I found out. Oh.

Sirius saw a tree in the distance. It looked like it was swatting things, birds most likely. Remus said that he heard it was alive. I wondered where he had heard that, of all things.

I moved back onto the grassy area and lay back. The guys did the same. For a long while, we just stared at the sky.

Peter's watch beeped a long while later. "Class starts in a couple minutes. I set it to beep before every class."

"What do we have now?" I asked as I stood up.

"Herbology." We started walking

"Oh. You guys better know where you're going."

"We don't," James told me. "Last time we ended up asking some coats of armor and a ghost--Nearly Headless Nick, resident of Gryffindor house."

"A ghost? Cool! I asked the people in the pictures to find the Great Hall."

"Smart move. Just make sure you don't ask a knight on a fat horse. Stupid git my father told me about. He's mental."

"Git?" I repeated.

"Yeah."

Sirius pulled the door open for us as we walked back into the school.