Author's note: I am sorry if I led any of you to believe Monique's uncle is Professor Snape, I read the section I mentioned that in and I might have confused some of you. HE IS NOT HER UNCLE. Thank you for all the reviews and I am not a stressed out writer anymore...at the moment at least. *************************************************

I looked both ways before turning down the dark hallway that led to Professor Snape's class room (actually I can't be sure, considering I usually follow people there). I did not want a repeat of yesterday happening and all, so I didn't ask for any directions. It seemed to take forever to get to Professor Snape's office and I found a lot of new turns and dead ends that I thought were possible, but that might have been because I was trying not to make any noises walking down to the dungeons. My running into the randomly placed suits of armor didn't help me achieve my goal of silence either. Why can't they put things like suits of armor some place either than up against a wall? Don't they realize that people are bound to run into them?

Anyway I finally made it to Professor Snape's office and having the great luck I have, he wasn't there. I ended up standing in front of his office for about an hour. When he did finally come down the hall I was sitting in front of his door and singing 91 bottles of butterbeer on the wall (I was on 5 when he came and I had started on 1000, but I did loose track a couple of times...).

"What are you doing? Laying siege on my office? Don't answer that. Don't you have legs to stand on? Well get up girl I haven't got all day!" he yelled sharply. You would think I was the one he had been waiting for, which I don't think is true, is it?

"Sir, I was told by the nurse to report to you after I got out of the...the, um..." I paused not knowing what I had been in. Do people in England call a hospital a hospital or an infirmary or do they have a different word in general when the hospital is in the school?

"Yes I know all that." He then 'assisted' in moving me from the front of his doorway and did some spell to open the door. "Follow me."

I followed for what else was I supposed to do, run? Well I would if I could have, but since I couldn't do that I won't dwell on that.

"No I have taken the liberty of having one of my students find out what you missed and it's on that piece of parchment over there." I stood there, wondering what he wanted me to do with a piece of paper that was some where with in his class room or as he said over there.

"Um, where?" I asked, felling stupid. All teachers have this effect on me, Mary Sue said I just had a low self esteem that freezes when ever I am not with my peers but I think its just because I am always being told I am stupid and calling myself this.

Professor Snape shot me an irritated glance before muttering a spell which shot a piece of parchment and a couple of books at my head (and just think, I was once wondering why Slytherins were so bad, just look at the head of their house!). I took a step to move out of the way of the projectiles, but somehow I managed to get in the line of fire of some huge book and WHAM! My head connected with the book. The Professor made something between a snort and a hiss (maybe it was a laugh?) before telling me what to do.

I spend the next couple of hours (got there at 3 and left at about 7) doing homework under the eye of Professor Snape. Did you know that man has his own way of writing the letter s and almost all the other letters in the alphabet? According to him my letter s looks like a 6, I have the worst handwriting he has ever seen, meaning he also now having me practice penmanship! Do I honestly need to know the perfect way of writing every single letter in the alphabet? Mary Sue might but I don't! By the time seven rolled around I had completed all of my homework and written the alphabet in my best handwriting on a piece of parchment for the professor to analyze (to think I once thought Mary Sue and Monica were perfectionist.).

I made it back to the great hall by following Professor Snape from his office to there. He gave me many funny looks on our way up; these might have been caused by the sounds I made whenever I ran into a suit of armor. I can now swear that they move just so that I run into them! I saw one. Anyway I made it back into the great hall, in one piece, which is all that really matters.

When I got up there I quickly found Mary Sue. I have been trying to piece the whole Ron and her thing together and from what I was getting the whole thing was not going as she had planned.

"Mary Sue!" I called from across the hall hoping she would hear me. The Professor gave me one last glance before setting his course to the staff table.

"Monique!" came her answer as she ran over to me. "I heard all about how you took a nasty fall down the stairs from Monica and Jean. You are such a klutz! How is life, I haven't seen you since yesterday morning!"

"Nothing new, except I have all my work done for once, due to the work of a slave driver!"

"Oh, well don't say you don't deserve it."

"I don't."

Mary Sue gave me a big (fake) smile before pulling me in the direction from which she had come. "I have been telling the girls all about you and they are just dying to meet you!"

"They have?" I asked, digging my feet into the ground. I think this must only work if you are on dirt or in mud because Mary Sue just kept on pulling and I kept on moving to a crowd of blond Gryffindors.

"Mary Sue did you hear?" asked one who had blond highlights in her fake blond hair. All I have to say that at least I am a natural blond.

"No, what?" asked Mary Sue.

"We are all going to have a Saturday trip to Hogsmeade!"

"Oh?" I said with all the other girls who squealed with joy. Was this a good thing?

"This is just in time for Christmas stopping!" said one. Dang I don't want Christmas shopping to come up, which means I will be leaving a month from Christmas. Thank goodness Christmas is still about three weeks away. Wait, I just realized that people at Hogwarts do their shopping real early, to bad I have never been in the habit of going shopping until Christmas Eve for Christmas presents. I also don't have any money. Maybe I should write to my mother for some and tell her it is for a good cause.

While I was thinking this I heard another one ask when we were going. I had to think twice, hadn't the first one already say this. I looked at Mary Sue who seemed to look over the question, as if used to this sort of thing. I wonder I always ask stupid questions.

As the girls continued talking, Mary Sue forgot about me, and my stomach was growling like a lion so I left them to go to the Hufflepuff table. I found Jean and Monica deep in some conversation about some religious issue or something like that, and I defiantly didn't want to join in. I walked further down the table and sat at the next opening I saw.

"Hello, you are in my Muggle Studies class, aren't you?" asked the boy across the table.

It was Tomas. The one boy, who I think, is scared of Monica and Jean. "Hello Tomas." I answered, thinking of how Jean had sat on his lap a couple days ago.

He must have been thinking the same thing. "Are your friends near by?" he asked looking behind his back before looking back at me.

"No, they are having a religious debate about Hindus and Muslims, or something along that line. I can take you to them if you want..."

"NO! I mean I think I will have to live without that honor. So how did you miss Muggle Studies today?" he asked. I now know he doesn't like them. Darn, he is such an interesting fellow and he knows about Muggles, but if he doesn't like my friends then I don't like him.

"I fell down a flight of stairs." I said, following the story Jean and Monica and the nurse were saying. Actually I don't think the nurse knew if she was lying or not, but Jean and Monica did.

"Ouch! That had to be painful."

"It was, especially when I crashed into the suit of arms at the bottom, which was holding a book, which fell on my head. I still have a bump from that." I answered elaborating on the truth (Draco's foot was now a book and his friends were now suits of armor). I had debated saying a stiletto then bashed my head (to me this would be Draco), but that wouldn't work. Think about it, what self-respecting suit of arms would be holding a stiletto? I then started slurping to my hearts content. Hogwarts makes delicious split pea soup.

By my second bowl of soup Tomas had told me all about Hogsmeade and what he was going to buy for his whole family. This was a very one-sided conversation, and I soon became board. To amuse myself till he was done rambling I started Harry watching. Every male boy with black hair was watched for signs of being related to Harry. I know he doesn't have any wizarding relatives but I wouldn't mind dating any of his relatives, just as long as I am somehow connected to him.

"I am going to buy my sister a-" Behind him I saw Mary Sue get up and leave.

"I am sorry Tomas but I have tons of homework that I have to catch up on and I really need to go." I said interrupting him. I find it easy to lie to people who have no idea as of how to hold a conversation and who don't like my friends.

I then left him and trailed Mary Sue out the door. "Mary Sue, slow down!" I called after we had gotten out the door.

"Oh, Monique what do you want?" she asked.

"Well we haven't talked for a while and I was wondering how the whole Ron mission was going."

"The same as your Harry mission." She sighed, looking over her shoulder. "What to go to the library were we can talk in peace?" she asked. I turned to look where she was looking and saw some of her Gryffindor friends.

"Sure." We then started towards the library in silence. Once inside Mary Sue and I found a table and sat down. She started on homework and I played with a piece of paper, for thanks to Snape I had none to do for tomorrow or the day after that, which I don't have classes on due to its being a Saturday.

"Can you believe we have been here for almost a week?" Mary Sue asked, never looking up from her homework.

"Not really considering I have had three full school days."

"Monique I only have seven weeks to make Ron ask me out." She whined, pushing her homework aside.

"Well think of me."

"Yes but you are hopeless when you talk to Harry. Any what I think you scared him off in herbology. But thankfully you have a backup boyfriend."

"I have a what?" I asked, honestly I should talk to Mary Sue more often; she always knows more about me that I know about myself.

"You have Jean."

"Yes Jean is a friend." I said, not knowing where she was going. Did Jean like me? I wouldn't mind dating him that is unless Harry asked.

Mary Sue rolled her eyes in a manner that would have made Jean proud, well at least I think it would have made him proud. "By Merlin, you are crazy and ignorant about men Monique." Like she can talk...

I decided we had talked enough about me and I still didn't know how she had lost Ron. "Mary Sue you really need to tell me how come you and Ron aren't going out yet, I mean I will lose a bet with Jean if you don't do it soon."

"Monique, I think I scared him away with my usual plan and that friend of his..."

"Harry?" I asked.

"No the girl. Hermyknee or something is always with him. How am I supposed to spend some alone time with him if she is always there, listening, or just pretending to read? I swear she is just doing this to be a nuisance. Ron's sister is another problem. Its like she can't leave her brother alone. She is with him when the Hermyknee person isn't there."

"Are we talking about Hermione?" I asked.

"Yes, that is what I said. I need a new plan. Maybe we can run into him at Hogsmeade. I can sprain my ankle and look to him for assistance."

"Mary Sue, didn't you just say I was hopeless?" "Yes."

"Well you are worse off then me if you think that is going to work."

Mary Sue shot me an evil look before squashing my fingers under one of her rather large books. "Then let us both be hopeless together." She proclaimed as I nursed my fingers. *************************************************************** Authors Note ~ I hope all of you liked it. I should work on ending it sometime shouldn't I, lets see this will take another 15 chapters at least. That's all for today and I think maybe this weekend as well due to those lovely teachers of mine...