"So, what is the password for this year?" Neville Longbottom asked as he hobbled up to the trio on their way to the Gryffindor common room. He had missed the welcome feast, and had forgotten the new password already.
"Googolplex." Harry answered automatically. His thoughts were elsewhere.
"Have you seen the new student?" Neville asked. "I heard it was a girl and she was rather-" Neville stumbled for the word. "well, with an unearthly air about her." Harry, Ron and Hermione stopped dead in their tracks, and wheeled around sharply to face him.
"Where did you hear that?" Hermione demanded, "Some stupid jealous rumour no doubt."
"Actually, no, I ran in to the class clown who was sitting across from me and he told me. She gave him a shudder, like a darkness creeping into his soul."
"Hell, that's just bloody creepy. I felt it too." Ron added his input.
"A shudder? A darkness creeping into his soul? Sounds like some pathetic excuse to make everyone hate her." Hermione said.
"But still Hermione, we should be careful and put a look out. We should start spying on her after we get settled in the common room. After all, I felt it too."
"Spying!" Neville said wide eyed, then a slow smile crept across his face, "Count me in."
"No one tells anyone. Ever. Agreed?" Harry said.
"Agreed!" The others replied in unison.
"On what?" A wispy voice said behind them. All of them jumped to see a tall black haired and pale girl standing right behind them. No one had heard her come up.
"Katrina, hello, and welcome to Hogwarts. I hope you like it as well as your old school." Hermione said, smoothly adopting a calm face and covering up what they had been talking about. "Uh... agreed on being a study group for the entire year."
The boys still looked very guilty. Hermione talked as if nothing illegal ever happened. Katrina laughed, and smiled easily.
"Thank you, and hello as well. Good luck with your study group, I hope I have friends like you in Ravenclaw."
"Wait." Harry said as Katrina turned to leave. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, I was trying to find my classes, and everything else."
"Hey, we can help you." Ron said, finally composing himself. "Here, let me see." Katrina handed him her class schedule. It read:
Potions Professor Snape
Defense against the Dark Arts Professor Atrus
Transfiguration Professor McGonagall
Astrology Professor Sinestra
Herbalogy Professor Sprout
Divination Professor Trelawney
"Wow, that's a coincidence. All five of us have the same classes."
"Really?" The others asked and peered at her schedule.
"That's rather freaky, but very lucky." Katrina said.
The others agreed. Hermione looked overjoyed.
"We could all study in the library, together." Hermione said.
"That sounds like a good idea." Neville said. "Two smart girls to help me figure out what on earth the teachers are talking about." He had gotten over the creepy factor with Katrina.
"Well, thank you again, I should really be continuing to find my class rooms now." Katrina said.
"Here, this is where they are." Harry replied and gave detailed instructions on how to get to each class. Katrina gave her thanks and left.
The next day, Katrina came running down the corridor, her recently combed, unbound hair streamed out behind her and her pounding footsteps sounded hollowly in the empty corridor. *I'm late, I'm late, crap, I am really, really late.* She stopped right outside the door to regain her breath and compose herself before she quietly opened the door and snuck into the potions room. Luckily Professor Snape was bending over his desk, reading something. Katrina found an empty seat in the back, sat in it pulled out some paper, her quill, and ink well. She looked over the student next to her's shoulder and read what she had been writing:
Question one: What is the difference between wolfsbane and....
Here she stopped reading and looked up at the board. It had five questions written on it. That's damn lucky, it's a quiz.
She quickly began copying the questions and answering them. Katrina had one more question to answer. When Snape looked at his watch and said, "That's enough, time's up, pass forward your papers," Katrina sighed and did as she was told.
"Well, well, well." Professor Snape said as he looked down at the papers, "Pleasure to have you join us, Katrina." Katrina smiled easily.
"The pleasure is all mine, Sir -ah- Professor Snape."
"So is detention." He smirked, Katrina scowled, looked into his eyes, and immediately darkened. Professor Snape dropped his smug complexion, shuddered and turned to face Harry, whose desk was on the other side of the aisle in the back on the edge.
"Potter! You should have told her how to get to class. Five points from Gryffindor and ten from Ravenclaw."
"What?! That's not fair, she's not even in my house-"
"Do you want it to be ten?" Snape questioned, shutting Harry up. Harry simply glared loathingly at him.
"I slept in, Sir." Katrina said, the last part mockingly. Snape turned around; her eyes were boring down into Snape's; he stood unflinching. "And I suggest that you get back into class."
"Detention for two days with me, Katrina." Snape replied, turned back to the class and walked back to his desk.
"Today's lesson will continue by taking notes on potions." He erased the board and conjured up the notes, which Katrina hurriedly copied down. The rest of the day continued like that; completely uneventful and god-awful boring.
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"Googolplex." Harry answered automatically. His thoughts were elsewhere.
"Have you seen the new student?" Neville asked. "I heard it was a girl and she was rather-" Neville stumbled for the word. "well, with an unearthly air about her." Harry, Ron and Hermione stopped dead in their tracks, and wheeled around sharply to face him.
"Where did you hear that?" Hermione demanded, "Some stupid jealous rumour no doubt."
"Actually, no, I ran in to the class clown who was sitting across from me and he told me. She gave him a shudder, like a darkness creeping into his soul."
"Hell, that's just bloody creepy. I felt it too." Ron added his input.
"A shudder? A darkness creeping into his soul? Sounds like some pathetic excuse to make everyone hate her." Hermione said.
"But still Hermione, we should be careful and put a look out. We should start spying on her after we get settled in the common room. After all, I felt it too."
"Spying!" Neville said wide eyed, then a slow smile crept across his face, "Count me in."
"No one tells anyone. Ever. Agreed?" Harry said.
"Agreed!" The others replied in unison.
"On what?" A wispy voice said behind them. All of them jumped to see a tall black haired and pale girl standing right behind them. No one had heard her come up.
"Katrina, hello, and welcome to Hogwarts. I hope you like it as well as your old school." Hermione said, smoothly adopting a calm face and covering up what they had been talking about. "Uh... agreed on being a study group for the entire year."
The boys still looked very guilty. Hermione talked as if nothing illegal ever happened. Katrina laughed, and smiled easily.
"Thank you, and hello as well. Good luck with your study group, I hope I have friends like you in Ravenclaw."
"Wait." Harry said as Katrina turned to leave. "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, I was trying to find my classes, and everything else."
"Hey, we can help you." Ron said, finally composing himself. "Here, let me see." Katrina handed him her class schedule. It read:
Potions Professor Snape
Defense against the Dark Arts Professor Atrus
Transfiguration Professor McGonagall
Astrology Professor Sinestra
Herbalogy Professor Sprout
Divination Professor Trelawney
"Wow, that's a coincidence. All five of us have the same classes."
"Really?" The others asked and peered at her schedule.
"That's rather freaky, but very lucky." Katrina said.
The others agreed. Hermione looked overjoyed.
"We could all study in the library, together." Hermione said.
"That sounds like a good idea." Neville said. "Two smart girls to help me figure out what on earth the teachers are talking about." He had gotten over the creepy factor with Katrina.
"Well, thank you again, I should really be continuing to find my class rooms now." Katrina said.
"Here, this is where they are." Harry replied and gave detailed instructions on how to get to each class. Katrina gave her thanks and left.
The next day, Katrina came running down the corridor, her recently combed, unbound hair streamed out behind her and her pounding footsteps sounded hollowly in the empty corridor. *I'm late, I'm late, crap, I am really, really late.* She stopped right outside the door to regain her breath and compose herself before she quietly opened the door and snuck into the potions room. Luckily Professor Snape was bending over his desk, reading something. Katrina found an empty seat in the back, sat in it pulled out some paper, her quill, and ink well. She looked over the student next to her's shoulder and read what she had been writing:
Question one: What is the difference between wolfsbane and....
Here she stopped reading and looked up at the board. It had five questions written on it. That's damn lucky, it's a quiz.
She quickly began copying the questions and answering them. Katrina had one more question to answer. When Snape looked at his watch and said, "That's enough, time's up, pass forward your papers," Katrina sighed and did as she was told.
"Well, well, well." Professor Snape said as he looked down at the papers, "Pleasure to have you join us, Katrina." Katrina smiled easily.
"The pleasure is all mine, Sir -ah- Professor Snape."
"So is detention." He smirked, Katrina scowled, looked into his eyes, and immediately darkened. Professor Snape dropped his smug complexion, shuddered and turned to face Harry, whose desk was on the other side of the aisle in the back on the edge.
"Potter! You should have told her how to get to class. Five points from Gryffindor and ten from Ravenclaw."
"What?! That's not fair, she's not even in my house-"
"Do you want it to be ten?" Snape questioned, shutting Harry up. Harry simply glared loathingly at him.
"I slept in, Sir." Katrina said, the last part mockingly. Snape turned around; her eyes were boring down into Snape's; he stood unflinching. "And I suggest that you get back into class."
"Detention for two days with me, Katrina." Snape replied, turned back to the class and walked back to his desk.
"Today's lesson will continue by taking notes on potions." He erased the board and conjured up the notes, which Katrina hurriedly copied down. The rest of the day continued like that; completely uneventful and god-awful boring.
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