Clark was stuck. He didn't know enough about this whole magic thing to blame his floating on it. He assumed all four boys had seen him, so he couldn't deny the occurence. Clark almost laughed at the thought of some of his past lame excuses given to his friends after they saw something strange. He didn't want to have to tell any of the people at this castle who, or rather what, he really was. Though he figured they would discover his lack of wizard-ness after a while. He would have a hard time explaining that.

That was when he thought of his excuse. He'd just tell them about his powers. That he could do certain things other people couldn't. Of course, he would have to leave out the part about him being an alien. Brilliant!

This whole debate in Clark's head took only a millisecond, and he looked back at Harry and explained.

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"So... You have increased strength, speed, and hearing. And, heat comes out of your eyes and you can see through things. And, you are pretty much invincible, AND, you float. Right?"

"Er... Yeah...

During the conversation between Clark and Harry, the excitement on Ron's face had grown more and more everytime a new power was mentioned. Speaking up, Ron said to no one in particular, "Wicked!!" Then to Clark, "How strong are you?!" he asked with a grin.

"Umm... I... I don't know," Clark answered.

"Oh." Ron was quiet for a minute, then his face lit up full blast again. "Let's test it!!!" Ron was practically jumping up and down.

Clark chuckled nervously, "I... um, I'm not sure that's a good idea, someone could get hurt...."

"Oh come on!! How strong could you be??" Ron complained.

Clark opened his mouth to answer, but was stopped by Dean saying, "Ron, give him a break, why don't you?"

"Sorry. It's just so cool!!"

This time Harry started to say something but was cut off by Ron. "Oh!! We need to meet --" he turned to Clark, "You need to meet Hermione! She's gonna think this is awesome!!"

Before Clark could protest, the door opened and a girl with long brown bushy hair peeked in. "Harry? Ron? Where have you been? I waited for you in the Great Hall...." She saw that they had a guest. "Hello!" she said, walking up to Clark and holding out her hand.

"Hi."

"I'm Hermione Granger. And you are?"

"Um... Clark Kent."

"Pleasure to meet you."

"You too..." Clark thought Hermione was very good looking, despite the scary hair. He wondered how old these guys were... But he was supposed to be 21!!

Just then, Ron said, "Hermione, guess what Clark did this morning!"

Before he could talk about the floating, Clark reached out faster than any of them could see and kicked Ron lightly in the shin, causing him to yelp. Giving him and apologetic glance, Clark turned to Hermione and said, "Yeah it was pretty funny, when these guys saw me in here, I scared them and got threatened by Harry because they didn't know who I was!!" Clark chuckled.

Hermione just laughed along with him, thinking it must be a guy thing. "Well since you're all in your pajamas still, get dressed and I'll meet you in the commons." She walked out, shutting the door behind her.

Ron glared at Clark and said, "Hey! What was that for!! That hurt!!"

"I'm sorry, but could you guys not go and tell people about this? I'd prefer to keep it.... private..."

Ron looked disappointed. "But why?? It's not like you're the only one who can do strange things! I mean Professor McGonagal can turn herself onto a cat!"

Clark's eyes widened. "She can?!?!?!?"

Ron gave him a strange look. "She's an animagus..."

Clark pretended to know that. "Yeah, I know what an animagus is, I just um, I didn't know she was one."

Ron was still looking at hiim strangly, but let it go.

"Come on guys, lets go get some breakfast," suggested Seamus. Agreeing, all the boys left the room.