A/N: I've added some stuff to chapter 1, and deleted the last part, and there's nothing left of it. This is the new version, but it's so different, you can't even call it a new 'version', it's just new. (Thanks to Jekyll, I removed some of the spelling mistakes. I won't rewrite those sentences with action in it, though, but I won't do it again, next chapter. And yeah, I suck at beautiful written sentences with loads of details)

Chapter 2: The classes begin

The following morning Hermione was the last to arrive at breakfast. Her hair wasn't combed and she was yawning every few minutes.

'Did you sleep well?' Ron asked.

'Yeah, I just fell asleep a bit late, nothing to worry (she yawned again) about.'

And she started to eat her porridge. Harry pinched Ron's arm, and whispered: 'You see what the new one is eating? Like she didn't eat last I night. I'm still full, and she's eating half a cow!'

'Yeah, dude, except that there is no cow on her plate, just veggie stuff. I hate tomatoes and salad, and cucumber, and all the other stuff on her plate! But she eats even more than me!'

This summer Ron had decided he had to get more fat on his bones, because he was too thin (according to himself). So he tried to eat as much as he could every meal, and most of it had to be meaty or fat, and as little vegetables as he could take without his mom getting worried.

After breakfast Raven asked Hermione, the only one she had spoken to so far: 'Uhm. I feel stupid to ask it, but my first class today is Potions, and I have no clue were to go.. Can you show me. please?

'I have Potions too, so you can walk with us,' Hermione answered, and she yawned again.

And it worked infectious, because now Harry and Ron started to yawn too. Raven looked at them, and slowly, very slowly the corners of her mouth twitched, and she smiled.. 'Could you stop before you make me do it as well?'

'We really try girl (Ron yawned) but we really can't help it. Blame Hermione!' And he started to tickle her in her side.

'Stop it, or else we get late, we al already the last to leave the Hall!' Hermione said worried, 'And you know what Snape's like!'

'Snape? Suppose that's the teacher? Is he that bad?' Raven asked when they ran to the dungeons to the Potions classroom.

'Yeah, very. He is the head of the Slytherin house, and he always favours them, and he really hates me. We had Potions with Slytherin for the past few years, so I think we'll have this class with them again.'

'And the homework?'

'That's always too much. I hope it'll be a little better than last year. We've got our OWL's now, and it's still two years till our NEWT's, but with Snape you.'

Harry couldn't finish his sentence because they had reached the classroom. They went in, and seated themselves at the only tow places left. Those at the front.

'Hey Potter! Finally found yourself a girl I see?' Malfoy said loudly from the back of the classroom, 'Does she cry too, every time she comes near you? Or was she the only one who wasn't afraid you'd get her killed?'

'That's just Draco Malfoy, an asshole of a Slytherin, don't pay any attention to him. He's not worth it,' Harry said, but inside he was boiling. The story about him and Cho had gone through the whole school, but how could he know about Sirius? Probably because his father had been there when Sirius died, and he had told him. It sucked! Now that kid had another so-called 'reason' to make fun of him.

Snape, who had been looking in the books on his table so far, looked into the class and said: 'I see everyone has finally (he looked at Harry) arrived. This year will be the year between the two big exams, but that does not mean you will be able to rest during my class. You have to be trained because you're all lazy scum. Some of you did manage do get some good grades on their OWL's, like Malfoy here. If I should just teach those with Outstanding on their exams I would be here now with just 4 students. But Albus told me I had to have more students in my class, so the most of you are here because of his grace (and again he looked at Harry). Now get to your cauldrons, light fire under it, and start to cut the ingredients for the Hardening potion, as is written on the blackboard.'

The rest of the lesson everyone spent by cutting roseleaves, mingle gargoyle blood with water from melted glacier ice, a lot of other nasty stuff, and letting the blend heathen, almost till boiling point. On the end of the two hour class, the potion from Raven and Harry looked pretty fine. At least better than the potion Crabbe and Goyle had brewed. (why were those stupid morons still in this class? Harry wondered). Everyone left a bottle with their mixture on Snape's table, and they left for their next class.

When Harry, Ron and Hermione reached the Defence against the Dark Arts room, they discovered Raven wasn't following them anymore. She probably didn't have DADA.

They had to wait with a group of about ten other students. Not that much. The new teacher came walking into the corridor with just a wand sticking out the pocket of her robes. Not a bag, nothing. She looked even paler than it had seemed yesterday, something which showed even more, because her robes were black, and she was wearing a sort of hood instead of the normal heat the teachers wore.

'Sorry I'm so late kids, couldn't find the classroom. It won't happen again.'

She opened the door to let everyone in, and walked to the only table in the whole room. She stood behind it, with her hands flat on the table-top leaning forward, her eyes going over everyone's face.

'You there girl, please close the door for me,' she said, 'As Dumbledore told you yesterday, I'm the new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher. I don't work with books, cause I really don't like them, unless it are books which tell stories. My name is V.G. Jekyll. You don't have to call me professor, just 'Jekyll' will do. Now take out your wands and we'll do some of the stuff you should have learned last year. Find yourself a partner, and try to disarm him.'

Everyone divided into pairs and started to practice the Expelliarmus spell. When Jekyll saw everyone did fine, she let everyone stop, and told them to use another spell. You could easily tell the difference in the people from the class who had been in 'Dumbledore's Army', and the ones that hadn't. The whole lesson they just repeated all kinds of spells, to 'see how far they were', as Jekyll told them afterwards.

'Although we didn't learn anything new, it still was a good lesson, right?' Ron said.

'Yeah. But I wonder why that Jekyll is so pale, and she didn't eat anything last night,' Harry answered.

'Do you only look what other people eat during mealtime? Are you obsessed with the food that is not going into your mouth or something?'

'No, of course not! I just happen to look around every now and than when I eat. Not like you, who can only look on his plate, and on the filled dishes.'

'I don't, I'm just trying to give al my attention to something it deserves...'

They went on quarrelling like that till they reached the Gryffindor common room.

There was a large crowd of first and second years, al looking at something in the middle.

Hermione and Ron pushed the kids aside. 'Give me some space, show me what's going on here, come on.'

When they saw it, they stopped telling the younger students to step back, and Ron said, after a few seconds of total silence: 'Harry you've gotta see this,'

In the middle of the group stood Raven. Her eyes looking to the ground, her hair hang before her face, but you could see she was on the edge of tears. Then he saw it, and he was shocked.

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A/N: Yeah, a cliffhanger (I know, the same as on the first version of chapter 1, but hey! I've been busy, can't write whole day!) Hope you guys liked is, if anyone is reading this. Please review, and I'll love you forever.

Or hate you forever, just what you prefer.