As I walked into potions class I made a point of greeting Snape. I talked to him and handed him a pair of socks I had knitted myself, as well as a matching hat, to give to Tom.

"I know he's lonely without me there. That's why they're pink, I thought it's remind him of me. Tell him that please." I smiled at him then skipped to my spot next to Hermione. Snape was holding up pink socks with a look of absolute disgust on his face. My smile widened. Then I noticed Ron staring and I blushed horribly. Hermione seemed to notice and giggled, earning her strange looks from Lavender and Paravarti, who are Gryffindor's chief gigglers.

"Shut up." I said moodily.

"Sorry, it's just that…" here she collapsed in an absolute fit.

"Ok, fine. Be that way. Ron, move it, I'm not sitting by her." Ron practically jumped up to do my bidding, and I couldn't help but smirk.

"Well, you've got Ron wrapped around your finger." Harry said as soon as I sat down.

"Do ya think?" I said absently, pulling my books out.

"Well, he's got it bad for you. Let him down easy." Harry said, copying out the instructions.

"Who say's I'd turn him down?" I said, a little to loudly. Ron blushed, Hermione giggled, and I nearly had to get up and kill her with my own to hands.

"What's this?" Harry was holding up a piece of construction paper marked with stickers. I would have belittled him for changing the subject again, but I had realized what he was holding.

"Mr. Potter, what on earth is that?" Snape called from across the room, where he was towering over Neville.

"No idea." Harry said, taking in the gold stairs and little circles.

"Um, it might be mine…" I said quietly.

"oh, and it would be…?" Snape asked. Go ahead and make things difficult why don't you.

"Erm, it's, its um, it's a good behaviour chart." I was blushing again. Gah, I never used to blush! Why did I start all of a sudden? Stupid peer pressure and all that jazz!

"for?" He asked. I gave him my evil glare, the one I learnt from Tom. He flinched, I'm sure he flinched.

"Who do you think?" I said loudly.

"Ah, you made him a Good behaviour chart? What are all those black things?"

"Demerits."

"And the star?"

"He saved a kitten from a tree once." I said simply, then returned to my work. Harry was staring at me. So was Ron. And Hermione. And about half the class. I sank lower on my stool, which is a very awkward thing to do. As a matter of fact, it's so awkward that I ended up falling off my chair and was excused from class.

~*~

Well, that was the most embarrassing thing ever. That coming from a girl who invited all of the wizarding worlds even upper crust over for a Tupperware party. I even got Tom to sit through the whole thing. He bought a juice combo set. However, a Tupperware party seems less embarrassing them being banished from class for the day because you fell off your chair, hitting your head on a table that was already only being held together by dust, having it collapse on your head and having you crush watch it all.

So now Hermione is still giggling. Harry is smiling every now and then at me, and Ron seemed to have disappeared. Finally, I couldn't stand it any more and announced I was going for a walk around the grounds. This seemed like a very good idea at the time, but that was before I discovered that Ron also thought the same way. Half way around the lake I saw him walking towards me, and ducked behind a tree.

Oh yes, I laugh in the face of Voldemort, I play Twister with Death eaters (long story) but I can't face this one guy.

"What are you doing?" Ron asked, poking his head around the old oak tree I had chosen as a hiding spot.

"Um, contact lens. Fell out." Oh yes, keep it vague, that's the ticket. Apparently Ron didn't know what a contact lens was though, because he got this really confused look on his face. It looked cu-wait, shut up inner me. "got it" I said straightening up and dusting the knees of my pants.

"Hey, did you hear that they're gonna hold spirit days this year?" the look I was giving him must have been a very strange one because he paled then said quickly, "Yeah, they give out points and…you wanna head back up to the school?" I brushe dhim off by telling him I had more things to think about, and he walked up to the castle by himself. It was getting dark out, and cold. I should head back up, but before I could I decided to take a walk down along the forbidden forest.

It had seemed like a good idea at the time, but now the trees were creaking ominously and something was howling in the darkness. I nearly wet myself when something dragged me into the cover of the trees.

"What are you doing?" someone hissed. It was a very familiar hiss.

"Tommy, you shouldn't be all the way over here, what if someone were to see you? Then how would we explain all this?" I folded my arms, shaking a finger at him.

"I was checking up on you. And there is a flaw in our plan. A rather large flaw we hadn't foreseen."