Chapter 5

That morning, Lisa got out of bed and went down to breakfast alone, not bothering to wait for anyone to go with her. She was one of the very few people that were there, since it was so early.

On her way out, she bumped into Snape.

"I'm ready to grade that essay of yours," he said. Lisa gulped. She had completely forgotten about it. "It is finished, I might ask?"

"Of course!" Lisa lied.

"Then I should take it now, I have enough time to grade it before classes start."

"It's not with me," said Lisa quickly. "It's back in the common room; I'll give it to you when I'm in your class."

Snape's lip curled.

"Very well," he said, and strode off. Lisa let out a sigh of relief and ran to the dormitory.

She shook Emma awake.

"Emma, please, you have to help me! The essay! Snape'll kill me! Oh please!"

"No" she said and put her head back down.

"Emma!"

"I told you last night to finish it."

"I was so tired, please!"

"I can't do it for you."

"I know, and I'm not asking you to, just help me with it!"

"Sorry, but I told you I'm not in this."

"I thought we were friends!"

"We are! But being friends does not mean doing each others work."

"When did I ask you to do it? I asked you to help me!"

"No! I won't! End of discussion!" and she dropped her head back on her pillow and closed her eyes.

Lisa scowled and went to her own bed.

I hate her! She thought Hate! Hate! Hate her!

She pulled out her diary that she had gotten for Christmas from her mum. It had golden lace around the edges and the light peach cover sparkled in the light. It was very pretty, which is probably the only reason she had kept it. She had never used it before, and she thought it was about time to start.

I am at Hogwarts, and I just had a fight with someone that I thought was my friend. She thinks I want her to do my work, but all I wanted was help! She's a fowl, evil little twerp that doesn't

"Don't you think you should be writing your essay instead of writing negative things about me?" asked Emma sitting up. Lisa scowled, slammed her diary shut, grabbed her bag, and marched out of the dormitory, her nose in the air. She sat down on the couch in front of the fire (which was now green) and started writing her essay. She finished when the whole house was awake, and slipped it in her bag and headed for Herbology.

They learned about different plants and what they were used for, and Lisa didn't find it very interesting.

Next they went to Defense Against the Dark Arts with Professor Quirrell, a man who stuttered in every sentence. He explained to them about ghouls and they took notes. Lisa only got a few down; she couldn't understand him with all his stuttering.

After their free time (which during that Lisa and Emma didn't talk to each other at all) was Potions again.

"Why do we have to have Potions four times a week?" whined Mandy. "Why not Herbology?"

"Because Herbology is stupid and useless, that's why" said Terry. "Defense Against the Dark Arts, however..."

"What can you understand with Quirrell stuttering all the time?"

"Enough that I need to know, because of course I am an expert!"

Now Terry and Mandy weren't talking to each other either. Padma and Phil tried to make everyone friends again, but it was useless.

Lisa handed in her essay (which was awful) during Potions. They were separating their potion into four cups, and people were lining up by Snape's desk so he could freeze it for them.

Very few people finished, and Lisa wasn't one of them. Snape let everyone go to dinner; except those adding lemon powder, which Lisa and Susan happened to be doing. She and Susan had to wait in Snape's class 15 extra minutes and hear him laugh at their essays while he wrote something on them which looked remarkably like 0's.

When their potion had completely melted, Snape let them go, although he wasn't too happy about it. They ran to get to the Great Hall, but on their way up a marble staircase, it moved.

"Oh no!" cried Susan. They got off the stairs and ran to the closest door.

"It's locked!" yelled Lisa. They turned around and ran down to corridor into another room.

"It's the trophy room!" said Lisa.

"This won't help us, come on" and Susan ran back out the door.

They ran down 2 staircases and they ended up next to a portrait of a fat lady in a pink dress.

"Excuse me," said Susan, "but could you tell us where the—"

Then the portrait swung open, and out stepped Ron and Harry.

"It's the Gryffindor common room!" squealed Susan. Harry grabbed Lisa's arm.

"Don't tell anyone or we'll all be expelled!" Lisa looked from Ron to Harry, then at Susan.

"Alright!" she said, pulling her arm away.

"Thank you; we have to go to the Great Hall now."

He led them down two staircases and into the Great Hall. Lisa ran to join her table while the others went to join theirs.

"Where were you?" asked Padma.

"The stupid stairs moved and Susan and I got lost." said Lisa, not mentioning the Gryffindor common room.

They finished their dinner quickly and went back to the Ravenclaw common room.

"I hate Snape!" yelled Mandy as she walked in.

"What'd he do?" asked Emma.

"I got lost, and I was on the 3rd floor corridor. I didn't know! Snape came and saw me trying to open the door, and he took 20 points from Ravenclaw and I have detention. I want to kill him!"

"Ouch!" said Padma. "That's awful! He really is evil!"

"Obviously! Didn't you see what he made Susan and me do?" said Lisa.

"I think he doesn't like you because you don't follow the directions. He did say exactly." said Emma.

"Oh shut up!" said Lisa. "You only like him because he never did anything to you!"

"I thought you guys weren't talking to each other." said Mandy.

"We're not!" snapped Lisa.

"You guys, stop fighting! You're all fighting over teachers and stupid things! Can't we all just get along?" said Phil.

"NO!" everyone yelled and they turned around and went to their dormitories.