The three girls were very excited to start their first class. Unfortunately, it was potions. Harry had told them about Snape and so now the girls weren't feeling so well.

To make things even worse, the class was with Slytherin, which meant a lot more snickering and whispers. Gryffindor entered the class and took their seats. It was dead silent when Draco walked past Crabbe and Goyle. They used to be friends and now, with Draco gone, they had risen to evil position that Draco had once filled.

Draco took a seat next to them, because it was his assigned seat. Harry and Ron found their seats right in the front and the girls stood by the door awkwardly.

"Well, we have 3 new students, there are three seats right here in the second row, have a seat, NOW! What you will learn in my class is I am not a patient person and you will NOT be disrespectful to me." Snape said to the girls. They nodded.

"Good, now, on to our lesson. We will be making a difficult potion in which you must have the ingredients right, exactly, or else there will be severe consequences. Now follow my instructions." Snape went on to explain how to make the potion. Finally, he quit talking and it was up to them to make it.

The girls didn't realize it but there were actually rather good in potions. They finished before anyone else and had to just sit there.

Kelsey saw Neville Longbottom. He was partnered with a Slytherin, who was doing nothing, making Neville do everything. He knew that if their potion was messed up, Snape would blame Neville.

Neville was messing everything up, so Kelsey decided to intervene. Kelsey starred at the worm root and it levitated. She put in three more for Neville, who was at the moment, crying with defeat. She put in some more ingredients and stirred it. Soon it turned to a boiling purple, the color it was supposed to be.

"Very, umm, nice Neville. The first time you have ever done something right in this class." Snape said, looking down in the cauldron with a face that showed disgust.

Neville looked up and saw his cauldron boiling purple. He looked very confused. He looked up at Snape and then his eyes shifted across the room. He caught Kelsey's face, with a mischievous grin. Once she saw him noticing her, she abruptly turned around and started a conversation with Vanessa. Neville, still looking in that direction, thought, and then shooed it out of his mind. "There is no possible way." He said under his breath.

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"Man, you guys are amazing!" Ron said. "I've never seen Snape be soo nice to a Gryffindor! After you did your potions, it was like he was a whole new person!"

Harry, Ron, Draco, Angela, Kelsey, and Vanessa were all walking out of the dungeon, where Snape's class was. Hermione passed them, but not before giving them a mean look.

"What's wrong with her?" Angela said. "I think she thinks we stole her friends." Kelsey said and trailed off. "I think that maybe if we became friends with her, then she wouldn't be so distant, makes sense right?"

For some reason, Vanessa thought that becoming friends with Hermione would be nothing but trouble.

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That night Vanessa slept heavily. One might think it was because of the rough and tiring day she had, but it wasn't. Vanessa was having a horrible nightmare.

She saw a girl being very sneaky. This girl was hiding behind corners, and listening to conversations. Ironically, the girl was hiding and snooping on Kelsey, Angela, and herself, Vanessa.

Vanessa never saw this girl's face, because she was always in the shadows, but once she was done snooping, she sneaked outside and went into the Forbidden Forest. There she met a tall dark figure. The shadow girl told something to the dark figure and the figure laughed.

It laughed, and laughed, and laughed and laughed.

"AHHHHHH!" Vanessa screamed, becoming awake.

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"AHHHHHH!" Harry screamed. He awoke suddenly.

"Huh? What? Harry? Harry what's wrong?" Ron said also waking suddenly, hearing Harry's scream. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*

"Vanessa, what's wrong, what is it?" Angela asked.

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"It was my scar, it started hurting, and throbbing, and- and." Harry trailed off.

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"It was a premonition. It was horrible, all I could hear was laughing." Vanessa explained.

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"Harry?" Ron said slowly. "Harry, you're scar, its, umm, its bleeding."

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"The laughter. The laughter." That was all Vanessa could say.

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