Recognition

            "Xander, are those normal?" Willow asks, with an eyebrow raised.

"I certainly hope not!"

"Are they the school mascots or something?"

"Not to my knowledge."

The trolls looked down at the three and began to raise their clubs.

"Then I suggest we run." Xander nods.

"Agreed."

The three move in overdrive down the hallway as the clubs came crashing down, putting dents in the cement floor before lumbering after them.

            "In here Will, Dawn, I found some weapons in here while I was cleaning up earlier. But then again, Willow, you don't need any do you."

Willow smirks, "You two can take one troll, I'll take the other. Dawnie…"

"I have a crossbow," as she starts getting ready to string it.

"Good girl. Xander what are you doing?"

"Well they didn't see us come in here after we turned the corner. They also didn't seem too intelligent, so…"

            "Xander don't even think of it…Xander!" she whispered as the first Troll passed their hiding place. He glanced across the hall at the broken mirror leaning against the wall, noticing the position of the last Troll's feet. Then he quickly stuck his leg out and tripped it. The last troll fell, dropping its club on the other troll's head, knocking it unconscious. As this happened, the whole castle shook.

            "Will…this ones yours." As they all started backing up from the now rising Troll.

"Oh yeah, let me do all the hard work." She sighs.

            As the troll approaches, grunting, she lowers her head. Suddenly she lifts her head, her eyes, change to pure white and raises her arms. By the goddess Hecetate, fall!!!" The castle begins to shake with her raw power as she pushes both arms out, as if pushing something non-existent and the troll flies into the opposite wall, smashing the wall and the troll's neck too.

            "Oh, hey that's the same wall Fitch was going to open up…Thanks Will." Xander smiles and begins clapping. "Good show, but really, did you need to do all the fancy hand gestures?"

She shakes her head. "Naw, but what's the fun in just saying one word. Now, the problem. What to do with the bodies?"

Dawn feeling the stress plopped down on the dead troll's leg commenting," In Cleveland we had places we could bury them easily, here…" Dawn, who gets up, follow Willow and Xander out of the room.

            "Hold it, I forgot something." Xander says as he turns around and stops dead cold. "Er Willow?"

 "Yes Xande..." She turns around as well. The two bodies have disappeared.

 "Cool, trolls evaporate in this place!" Dawn and Willow exclaim together.

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            The troll hit in the head wasn't yet dead when it awoke next to his deceased partner. Looking up he found himself in surrounded by at least forty girls, each with various weapons of a sharp nature. In the back of his head, he figured something was really wrong.

Behind the troll stood Robin Wood man who began cringing, as he felt bad for what was about to happen to the evil creature that had just appeared out of nowhere.

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            The sun was shining bright the following day. Still unsure about yesterday's two earthquakes, McGonagall walked outside, across the front lawn. So far the year seemed relatively normal and that bothered her more than mischief, especially with Voldemort still plotting.

            Walking she suddenly stops and bends over, picking up a piece of what seems to be from the statue at the front door. Spying Xander who's walking over to the broken' down old dock, she walks over to him. "Mr. Harris, I found this somehow way over here. I believe it comes from that statue near the door. Could you please fix it?"

"Xander nods, "Get that done as soon as possible Prof.."

Professor McGonagall allows him a faint smile. "Thank you." As she walks off, she doesn't notice Xander looking in all Directions then throwing it over his shoulder, near the edge of the forest.

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            Potions class was alive with multiple whispers and conversations. "Did you hear about the new girl, they say she's a muggle…" "Yeah, and that she's strange…" "Yeah did you hear about what her red headed friend said to…" The conversations abruptly ended as Snape came into the room, simply fuming.

"Class," In a very sarcastic attitude. "We have ourselves a new pupil. A muggle as it were. Ms. Dawn Summers…" Slytherin's laughed at Snape's comments, but were quickly silenced by Dawns entrance.

Harry watches as a stunning brunet in a bright t-shirt and short skirt hips swaying down the stairs. In fact, most of the males were staring as she took a seat near the back of the room.

Hermione leaned over next to Ron and Harry saying" better wipe the drool off your chins boys, you could slip on it and fall."

            "Ms. Summers, could you please, tell the class, how you expect to pass."

 She shrugs. "Can't be worse then chemistry, and I'm good at cooking so it should be a snap."

 "Yes well, we'll see how much a snap this is." He mumbles something to himself. "Today we're going to create a potion that will summon a messenger demon. Using two parts dragon tongue, one part wolfs bane, and a few cloves of garlic and of course unicorn hair, this demon can be used to send messages. After heating it to a simmer, what do we do then?"

As usual Hermione was first to raise her hand, but looking around, he was taken back by Dawn's hand up. Knowing the answer was to let it cool over night and then add rats eye.

Hermione was surprised that Dawn had her hand up as well.

Snape smiled. "Well Ms. Summers, what is the next step?"

"Why wait till tomorrow, add some ginger, the little guy will appear in a few seconds. Ginger works wonders for a summoning spell."

Snape smiled. "Wrong Ms. Summers, now the correct way is to…."

"Wrong my rear… " She stands up, walks over to Harry's simmering potion. Adds the clover, unicorn hair and finds some ginger. Turns off the fire.

 "Hey…" Harry cries.

"Ms. Summers, I have never seen such a disrespectful…"

Suddenly the potion bubbled and turned to smoke, soon revealing a small demon.

"Well, wot can I get ya mate."

Snape just stood there. His mouth was opened. His mind was reeling. There was no way this girl could have known that. Looking up he sees Dawn there, looking smug as the class just looks at her in awe.

"Told ya so," She says as she leaves the room heading towards her next class, being that she finished her class early.