We stopped just outside of the classroom. Swell tugged a chain with some sort of pendant on it out of her pants pocket.

"This was your great grandmothers." She said and handed it to me. It was a thin delicate silver chain with a tiny key dangling from it. Examining it more closely I saw that wrapped around the key was a tiny serpent, which was actually slithering through the keys loop hole at the top.

"This was Sinamus De'barbaluke's?" Swell nodded and smiled as she watched me slide my finger over the snake.

"The key was passed down to me, and I had passed it down to Charisma." Swell ended on a somber note.

"My mother wore this." I said more to myself than her.

"It opens a door in the De'barbaluke Manor. Only the women of the family can see the door, and only the keeper of this key can unlock it."

"What's in the room?" Swell laughed a bit.

"That my dear you will have to find yourself. Well certainly I've taken too much of your class time away from you already. After lessons come down to the west garden and we will start your training." Swell smiled and shoed me back into the dungeon classroom. While I was gone it seemed as though everything returned back to normal. A few students were still eyeballing Snape a bit but it seemed most of the attention was now on me. Slytherians were staring in their attempts at looking as though they didn't care but truly wanted to know all of the details. Most of the Gryfindores were looking at her with curiosity even sympathy. I sat down in my regualar seat next to Harry and Ron.

"Did you get in trouble?" Harry asked softly.

"Of course not." I replied looking in at the potion.

"Well, tell us who is she and what did she want?" Ron asked a bit more demanding in his curiosity than Harry.

"She is a friend of Professor Dumbledore's that is staying here for a little while. Draco and I were introduced to her yesterday."

"Draco? You call him Draco now?" Ron asked grumplily.

He is so dumb sometimes.

"If you haven't noticed before I've been calling Draco, Draco since the beginning of the year. It is only out of respect that both of the Heads refer to each other by means of first names." Ron and Harry looked at me with blank faces.

Really, they can be so daft sometimes.

"I expect a 3 foot essay on the effects of the Piccolo Potion by tomorrow." Snape said regaining the evil respect he had before the little incident with Swell. The students groaned a murmur of yes sir.

"I have to go back to my room, I forgot my charms text. See you in care of magical creatures!" I yelled over my shoulder as I quickened my pace outside the classroom.