Chapter: Five




A soft light bled through the window at the other end of the large dormitory. Most of the room was bright and cheery looking, except for that part in the far corner. The crimson drapes had been pulled over all the sides of the double bed. Nothing could be seen inside the drapes. Hermione rose quietly from her bed and smiled at herself.

"It's going to be a beautiful day!" She thought happily to herself. Then got out of the bed. Both Parvati and Lavender had already gotten out of bed and were long gone. Hermione looked over to Missy's bed and thought just what everyone else had thought. She must already be up and gone. Hermione went about her normal morning business and was out of the room within twenty minutes. Time went by and nobody came back to the room, when there was a moaning sound coming from the bed everyone thought was empty. Inside Missy lay looking up at the high roof. She had been awake for all of a minute of so, but she was letting her eyes to stop being blurry, then sighed. She had one of the first good nights sleeps she had, had in what seemed like years. Every time she closed her eyes and the images of her mother and grandmother came hauntingly back to her, but for some odd reason they didn't come to her last night. She rolled over onto her stomach almost positive, she was going to back to sleep for another hour or so, when her knee collied with a hard object setting on her bed, with an old looking piece of paper. Missy sat up and moved her computer off her bed and placed it on the floor, then went and grabbed the piece of paper. When she put her hands on it if felt heavier then paper, she was use to and more crunchy. She looked down on it and listed was her timetable of the semester. She looked at the class and saw that she had Potions first thing on Thursday mornings with Professor Snape and the Slytherin first years followed by Transfiguration with the Hufflepuff's and a double class of something called Care of Magical Creatures for two classes in the afternoon. She looked down at her watch that read eight twenty-two, then to the timetable and saw that Potions started at eight-thirty. Missy groaned at the thought of having to be at class that early in the morning.

"Maybe I should just skip." She thought to herself. She had gotten into that bad habit back home when she didn't feel like going to a class in the morning she would just sleep in and go to the next one. Then she bolted right up and looked back at her watch.

"Shit!" She exclaimed and jumped out of the bed and ran around her side of the room like a mad man. She grabbed the first outfit she could find. It was a pair of worn tight jeans at hugged her hips really tightly and black tank top that had "New York" in shinny letters. She grabbed the robe she needed for class and her lap top and backpack then went running like mad out of the room and into the very empty common room then out the port hole to the corridor. She didn't even have time to do anything with her waist long brown hair but pull it into a ponytail while running to what she remembered as the direction of the dungeons. After getting her hair-tied back she looked down at her watch that was counting the seconds until 8:30. She knew she was going to be on time to this class.

"It's my first day," She thought. "He'll understand." She ran down the stairs to his class room as the bell rang out loudly throughout the entire school. She looked down at her watch as she reached the door into her class room and it read 8:31.

"Whew, only a minute late for the class." She said the pushed open the door and made her way into the classroom. She was walking down the isle looking for a seat, when she heard a roar.

"You're late for my class!" The roar screamed at her. When she looked up, she saw a man in all black robes with shoulder length black greasy hair. His face as pale and he look like he was going to kill her.

"Sorry sir, I wasn't very sure where this class was located." She said point blank, and honestly.

"What kind of incompetent fool, can't find my class room when they have been at the school for two months now!" He yelled not really at her, but more to the half-frightened class.

"Well normally I would agree with you on that sir, but today is my first day." She said with a smile.

"Well normally, I would take five points away from anyone late for my class, but seeing as it your first day." He said trying to look sympathetic. Missy thought she was clear from his wrath when she heard him yell out,

"Fifteen points from Gryffindor!" Missy looked shocked!

"Fifteen points! How is that fair sir?! I was only a minute late!" She yelled back at him.

"Well it is now 8:35 and you have yet to take your seat with your classmates, as well as that is not the approved outfit for this school." He said pulling back he sides of her robes so some of the class could see what she was waring. Most of them were shocked by what they saw. Didn't really matter, that they were a bunch of first years, they all were surprised by how her body was built. Snape looked at the class and all the whispers that were going stopped rather abruptly.

"Take a seat next to Millinda Jorbins." He snarled at her. Missy turned on her heals to look for the empty seat then sat down in to listen to the lesson. She was just getting comfortable in the seat when the dungeons' door opened up and a student came wondering in.

"Mr Flannigan?" Snape said in a clam voice, forcing Missy to look up at what was going to happen.

"At least I won't be the only in trouble today." She thought to herself, then continued to watch the scene play out.

"Sorry sir, I slept in." He said then went and took his seat with a group of boys all wearing green on there robes.

"Very well, please try to be on time tomorrow." He said in a clam, decent voice as if he didn't care that the person way late. Missy didn't even think about what she was doing as she jumped out of her seat and looked at Snape.

"What the Hell! That not freaking fair!" She yelled out at him not really caring what people thought.

"Is there a problem Ms Mcra?" He growled back at her, eyes narrowing at hers.

"Yes there is a problem. You didn't even take a single point off that kid and he was almost ten minutes late for class, and you took 15 of me, just for being two minutes late!" She yelled at him, while make her way from the seat and into the isle so she could get closer to him.

"Yes I know that. It was to teach you not to be late for my class!" He said back keeping his voice calm as the ocean.

"So you don't believe in simple warnings?" She questioned back at him.

"Not for people of your age. At 17 you should know how to be on time and wear the proper clothing." He said still remaining calm but his eyes where like black fire from anger.

"And this is how a 17-year-old dresses where I'm from!" She said back starting to calm down a little. Snape looked at her for anther moment and smiled.

"Another 20 from Gryffindor and detention." Missy was about to object to what had been said when Snape cut her off.

"Ms. Mcra, I suggest you shut your mouth before you have any more points taken away from your house." He said. Missy looked around then room and saw everyone in green smiling evilly at her and anyone and everyone in red where hoping she would stop yelling and give in. She held her head up high and walked back to her seat and sat down. Snape looked pleased with himself for winning that argument then went on to teach the class. Missy sat there with her arms crossed over her chest not really paying any attention at all to what was being said to the class. Every now and then she would hear. "This will be on your final exam." But she didn't copy it down or really listen to what Snape was saying. Everyone else in the class ears were perked up making sure they didn't miss a single word being said. Finally after what had seemed like hours of Snape blabbing on he stopped and handed out an assignment to the class. "You will work with the person sitting next to you." He said then turned and sat back at his own desk to observe the class at work. Missy partner looked shyly at her.

"Do you understand what he wants us to do?" She asked meekly.

"Yeah. Don't you?" She asked back to the girl.

"No, not really. I don't understand a lot of what's said in this class."

"Here I'll help you. Millinda is it?"Missy asked.

"Yeah but everyone normally calls me Milly."

"I'm Missy."

The girls set to work on what Snape had handed out and within ten minutes Missy was sitting back on the chair smirking away. Snape was watching all of the Slytherin's work loudly with each other trying to figure out how to make the potion work. While yelling out at the quiet Gryffindor's to be quiet. His eyes wandered over to where Missy was sitting with her hands behind her head and leaning back on the chair. Her shirt that read 'New York', in shimmering letters was showing fully and the letters caught what little light was in the room making it glow like the look on her face. Snape through his chair back at the wall, startling everyone in the room. He stalked over to Missy, who hadn't moved a muscle. Even with the chair banging into the wall.

"What are you doing?" Snape snarled yet again at her.

"Relaxing. I was thinking of catching a few winks but hadn't really decided when you so rudely came over to my desk." She said in a very snobbish voice. The entire room filled with whispers and odd looks, while Missy just sat there.

"Why aren't you working on your potion?" He asked back.

"Because it took me all of ten minutes to create. Well it would have only taken me five, but I was helping Milly understand what to do." Missy said looking up at Snape with even more of a smile on her face.

"Millinda, fill that glass with the potion and drink it!" Snape ordered of the girl. She looked a little frightened to be drinking the blue stuff, and looked to Missy for support, but she was staring at Snape with a smile on her face.

Millinda filled the glass with the blue liquid and drank it back in one chug. Everyone could tell by the look in Snape's eye he was waiting for something to happen, and Millinda looked at Missy with a smile.

"Well I see you got that one right." He said with a glum look on his face, like he wanted Millinda to turn bright green from drinking it.

"I can get anything right you ask me." Missy said with her own smug smile on her face.

"Oh really. Lets have a pop quiz that only you need to take." He said with his own evil smile.

"What would I get if I added powered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" He asked. Missy didn't even bat an eye she said in a very cold calm voice. "Asphodel and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death." Snape looked a little shocked then smiled and continued.

"Find me a bezoar." He said blankly.

"Find me a goat and a knife and I'll get the bezoar stone." She said now getting more cocky as the question came at her.

"What does a bezoar stone do?"

"It will save you from most poisons."

"What's the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?" He spate at her now growing angrier with every question asked.

"They're the same plate, which also goes by the same aconite." Snape grabbed Missy by her arm and started dragging her out of the class room. He was holding her arm with an amazingly tight grip, and before he left he looked at everyone in the class.

"If anyone makes so much as a peep while I'm gone I will have them expelled." He kept moving while Missy's robes started to fall off her body. He marched her up the dungeon's stairs and onto the main floor. Missy vaguely remembered where she was going as she was pulled through the corridors. Snape stopped suddenly.

"Where did you learn all that?" He barked at her.

"My mother has been teaching me since I was eleven!" She snarled back at him. Snape was really starting to hurt her arm as she was being pulled once more. He didn't realize this but he also had a huge chunk of her hair in his hand, which was making this whole experience seem much, much worse. When Snape came to a stop once more in front of a door and with one hand he opened it and dragged Missy into the room. The teacher at the other end stood abruptly at the intrusion into her class room.

"Professor Snape, what the matter." She asked sounding annoyed that his problem couldn't have waited for another time.

"May I speak with you, in the hall?" He said letting go of Missy's arm with more of a push to get her away from him. The Professor left the room with Snape rather quickly and Missy was left standing there. She looked a round and realized Snape had left her in a full class. She looked around the room and found a face she knew rather well and the face looked back at her extremely worried. Missy just waved her hand and wondered back to stand near the door. Everyone was looking at her, until the door slammed open again just barely missing Missy's arm.

"Class is demised, earlier today students. Please go back to your common room's and wait for, your next class to start." The Professor said. Missy looked at her and realized that it was McGonnagall. Snape had left and they were alone.

"Professor Snape said that, you were causing problems in his class." McGonnagall said with a sour face. Missy was about to defend herself when McGonnagall cut her off. "He also said you knew potions that not even some of his second years know. Is this true?" She asked.

"Yes. My mother started teaching me when I was eleven. She was teaching both me and her mother. I was at year seven when she died." Missy said with a some what sad face. This being the first time that she had said anything about her mother being dead.

"So that's why you tried to insist on take your O.W.L's." McGonnagall said letting her face soften much more.

"I think that it could be arranged for you to take your test over the next few days." Missy face went bright and started smiling.

"Really?" She asked.

"Yes really. You will be transferred into seventh year today, and tomorrow you will start classes. You just need to tell me what classes you want to take." Professor McGonnagall said. Missy just smiled and looked truly happy for the first time in a long time. She was now going to be at the right grade level and hopefully never see Snape again.