esteledhel: You think it's hilarious? So do we! What a coincidence!

strawberry_chuppa_chup: Yey! Originalness! Speaking of being original… where'd you come up with your screen name?

Chibi Zen-chan: LOL… we're gonna have to use that plastic thing sometime… got any copyrights on it we should know about?

sierradogbaby (x2): Hm… never had my ears boxed before… Nikki? Nope, she hasn't either. But we updated quickly just in case… getting your ears boxed doesn't sound pleasant.

Bloated Toads: You have multiple personalities too?!

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Nikki remembered the days when the most she and Ginny had had to worry about was how to keep the Nillos (tiny balls of fluff with chicken legs and beaks, and beady eyes) from eating Legolas's face (though it was their fault – Nillos eat cheese and the girls had run out). At the risk of sounding like an old geezer… those were the good old days.

Their troubles, it seemed, had grown. After what seemed like Ginny's hundredth loud exclamation of the day, Nikki had dropped her head to the table and given it a good, sound *thump*. By the time she looked up, Ginny had bounded straight over the Slytherin table and was, at the moment, choking the crap out of Harry Potter, Boy-Who-Lived, in a giant hug.

It looked like most everyone figured that the strange (crazy) new girl would let go before she suffocated Harry, but Nikki knew better. By the time Harry started turning blue, Nikki had managed to pry her friend's arms open.

"Ginny, watch it; you're gonna kill Harry!" Nikki exclaimed.

Ginny's eyes narrowed suspiciously. "Harry Who?" she questioned.

Nikki rolled her eyes. "Harry Potter, Ginny."

"His last name is the same as my first name!" Ginny yelled.

"No! His name is Harry Potter."

Ginny's eyes went wide and she grabbed Harry by the shoulders, shaking him and shouting in his face, "You're Harry Potter?"

This time Nikki threw her hands in the air, giving up on trying to explain anything to Ginny. Across the table, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger were struggling not to laugh. Nikki shook her head.

Suddenly, everyone gasped loudly and the Slytherins began laughing hysterically and pointing at the Gryffindor table. Nikki looked back at Ginny, only to find that Ginny was no longer attached to Harry. In fact, she was floating in the air above an unconscious Harry Potter. His friends and teachers were frantically flitting around him, trying to revive him.

Ginny, on the other hand, was making wide motions with her arms and legs, swimming around in the air. "Wee!" she squealed. "Lookit, Nikki. I'm flying!"

Nikki laughed and, motioning to Harry, she scolded playfully, "You probably killed The-Boy-Who-Lived, Gin."

Ginny shrugged, still swimming. "Aw, he can't die. He's Harry Potter, Nik!" Nikki shrugged right back at her. "What, you want him to wake up?"

"Yeah!" Nikki said.

"Okay. Just snap at him."

Yeah right, Nikki thought, but decided that it couldn't hurt. She snapped at the unconscious boy.

Harry immediately started back to consciousness. Madame Pompfrey whisked him off to the Hospital Wing, and a flock of students followed them.

Ginny just kept on swimming. "Hey, Snapie! Can you put me down, ol' buddy, ol' pal?" she called.

Snape ignored her and, with a flick of his wand, he began following the crowd out the door, Ginny trailing along in the air behind him. Nikki hurried to keep up, snickering as Ginny shrieked when she ran into the wall on the way out of the Great Hall.

Wonderful first impressions they made, Nikki was sure.

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Know what happened this afternoon? The writing bug bit me! It hurt like heck, but I got a whole chapter done the day after we posted! WHOOPEE! Review, and maybe we'll have another chapter out soon.

And what was that on the last chapter? That was PATHETIC! We got ONE lousy review (no offence, sweetie). PICK UP THE PACE, PEOPLES!