The Hall was abuzz for the rest of the breakfast period. At ten past nine the mail came.

"Hey Ana! Wanna go play quidditch?" asked Harry.

"No! Just go away!"

"Why do you cut yourself off from us all the time," asked Harry.

"Harry, I've been here for less than 24 hours. Please don't get all emotional on me now. It's just A Trick of the Tail," said Ana walking away. She went back to the dorm and fell asleep again. She woke up just after dinner had ended and everyone was coming into the dorms. She snuck down to the kitchen and tickled the pear. She entered. The house elves were running towards two boys in the corner. They were the twins that she had seen on the train.

"How did you get in here?" asked the one that had asked her to the Quidditch match.

"I tickled the pear," she said in the middle of ordering a raspberry pie and milk.

"How did you find out? Harry told you didn't he," said the other twin.

"No, when I was in the hall I read his mind," she said pointing to Fred.

"Oh, Fred why did you have to think about that when you were talking to her?" asked the other twin.

"I was hungry," he said, taking a bite out of his cookie.

The other twin made a "hmmm" sound. He grabbed an eclair and walked over to the fire.

"So do we have a new -" started Fred.

"Nope, Harry asked me at breakfast. And I don't read people's minds like that because it bothers them that I can and they can't. If you want I will but it'd bother you," said Ana. "You don't even have to tell me it wouldn't because I know it will. But if you insist I will try it. No and I don't intend to here. I don't because I don't like to attract attention. Hey you!" she yelled at his brother. He looked around. "I would never do that! If you dare saying that to anyone I will beat you into the ground until you are six feet under. And Fred I will stop if you'd like."

"That was freaky. Please consider a career in comedy," he said. He leaned against a chair. "So do you wanna go out sometime?"

"I knew you were gonna ask that. I already told you I have prior arrangements." Ana kicked one of the feet of the chair and Fred fell. She finished the last bit of pie and set off back to her room. She moved in the shadows so not to be seen. She was almost there. She was walking down the last corridor. A long, dark corridor it was. She rounded a corner and hit something hard. She fell back a bit. She looked up and was staring up into the face of Severus.

"Ah, out of bed I see. You are starting to act like another of my pupils who I happen to know is your twin brother. So as a mind reader what am I thinking?" asked Severus.

"I would rather not mention what you are thinking aloud," she said.

"You are a Gryffindor. I could take one-hundred points from you."

"No you couldn't! I am not any house. I am just staying in the Gryffindor dorms," she snapped back.

"Well I happen to know that certain someone will be taken into a certain headmasters office tomorrow to be sorted. Gryffindor will not be permanent. You are definitely Slytherin material," he said as he pushed hair from her face. He pushed her chin up a bit. "You are so beautiful when you smile."

"I am not a slimy, rude, insensitive, ugly jerk so how could I be put into Slytherin," she replied.

"I love it when you talk nasty to me!" he said pulling her up against his chest knocking her glasses off. Just then Dumbledore came into the hall.

"What is all this racket?" he asked.

"Oh sir. Miss Amour here left her glasses in the Great Hall," said Snape pushing the glasses out of view with his foot. "And we were on the way there to get them and she tripped and I caught her. That's all."

"Well make sure to get her back to Gryffindor Tower safely," said Dumbledore. They watched him walk away.

"You listen and you listen good. If you get into Gryffindor then you better keep to yourself and not go poking around like your idiot brother." He gave her a little push towards Gryffindor Tower.