-Chapter four-

First step potion, second step the meeting

Professor Snape stormed in the class room like before and addressed himself to the class.

"Now this year will be one of you hardest because of OWL's we'll be doing some extra studies and I will not tolerate any mistake in potion making, this is very serious" he said bitterly. "Any major mistakes and would will find yourself low in points faster then you can say Wormwood, is that understood?" he ended bitterly. "Now today we'll be making the polyjuice potion, can anyone tell me the effect of this potion," he asked the class while pointing his wand at the board, making the ingredients needed appear. Ellie looked around to see if anyone knew but it didn't seem so, so she raised her arm. "Yes miss Potter," he asked her knowing perfectly well that she'll know the answer.

"The polyjuice potion is used in a matter of which a person desires to change his or her physical appearance to look like someone else. To do so, the person must recruit a flack of hair from someone else of he or she wants to change to and put it in the end results of the potion and then drink it. The potion it self is highly difficult to do and takes about a month to prepare," she answered like she had read it from a book.

"Indeed it is miss Potter, five points to Griffindor, now I want everyone to take in notes the ingredients and pair yourselfs in groups of three," he said a bit coldly. As usual, Ellie paired with her two friends Lee and Dixon and as usual she took the notes. The class flew by and with great pleasure wasn't that bad except for the exception of one of the Hufflepuff boy accidently braking a jar that contain Spudgedar in and the class was dismissed early, but that was alright. Ellie made her way to the great hall since there wasn't anything else to do, her DADA class only started in half an hour because of the accident. She had completely forgotten about Teran and was left in the great hall staring off to space thinking that she had indeed forgotten something but nothing came. She stayed in her dreamy expression for a while until Lee had shouted at her.

"What?" she asked innocently. The two boys laughed.

"Are you deaf?" Dixon asked laughing. Ellie gave them a stern look.

"No I was just...I just didn't hear you!" she said not wanting to let them on to what she had been doing. At that saying the two boys bursted out of laughter.

"My point exactly," added Dixon still laughing. Ellie crossed her arms realizing that she had just said something stupid and that she wasn't in the finest mood to be laugh at by her two friends. Sometimes she wished that her best friends were girls instead of boys but truthfully she didn't regret it. She was ready to go back in dreamland when someone spoke.

"Where's the food, I'm starving" asked Lee looking around expecting to find someone with food. Ellie laughed quietly rolling her eyes.

"Lee, we had breakfast like two hours and a half ago. You guys and your food, its all that matters to you...well actually that's not all," she said playfully. Lee and Dixon soon turned their attention to Ellie wanting to know what she knew or were just looking for something else to tease her about.

"Is that so? Well if you know so much about man like us, then tell us what it is," asked Dixon taking the words out of Lee's mouth. They both looked eager for information. She wore a big smile on her face before laughing her head off.

"You call yourself MANS! Ha! That's the funniest thing I've heard since summer time...man ah! But anyways there IS something else that matters greatly to you, and that's HOW big your EGO is!...always fantasying about the most beautiful girl to snog! You guys will NEVER learn will you?" she finished still laughing about the "man" thing. "Now tell me how it feels to be laughed at?!" she asked smiling widely. The guys were shocked by her words but with a simple stare, they soon changed their once struck face to one of mischief.

"You'll pay greatly Elizabeth, your cleverness has consequences, that answer of yours was correct but was way out of bound, just you wait," said Lee talking for himself and Dixon, still their mischievous expression was extremely visible. That relieved Ellie a bit but she knew that they were planning something on her. She wanted to be prepared but she knew that they always managed to surprise her. And she knew it was something big because Lee had used "Elizabeth", and that meant BIG TROUBLE.

"I'm so scared!" she said acting scared, shivering in her seat.

"You better be...but anyways we should probably go to our next class if we don't want to be late," said Dixon pointing at his watch. Dixon was probably one of the few who had a watch like his only because he was a half-blood. His mom was a muggle and worked in the ministry, and since she knew about the wizarding world she could transfer highly confidential information from the muggle world to the wizarding world.

They left the great hall and onto their Defense Against the Dark Arts class. This was probably Ellie's favorite class and not only because its was her aunt who taught but also because she had inherited her father's abilities in that domain. She sat in the front row waiting patiently for her other classmates to come. Beside her sat Lee and besides him Dixon. They kept whispering to each other and from time to time would glance at Ellie mysteriously. She knew they were talking about her and was even more sure they were planning their prank. She rolled her eyes and watched the others come in the class and her aunt make her way to the from of the class.

"Now today we will be learning the Patronus spell" she moved her wand in a simple manner and information about the spell appeared on the board. "I know the Patronus spell is rightfully taught in your seventh year but from what I've experience in my childhood its never to early to learn these kind of spells" she added cleverly. "Now you will each individually practice the spell. I don't expect you all to get it the first class as its quite difficult. To activate the spell you must say 'Expecto patronum' . To successfully perform a clear Patronus you must only think of happy thoughts. Now lets get a move on shall we" she finished. The class divided in their own little corner and each tried to perform the spell. As Hermione walked around the students, sometimes stopping to help them, Ellie tried desperately to remove every unhappy thought from her mind and concentrate on more pleasant ones. The problem was that she didn't have many.

'Come on think happy thoughts' she told herself in a low whisper. Thoughts came rushing in her mind of herself with her two best friends. It was a memory of her twelve birthday and Lee and Dixon had surprised her in the common room with the biggest cake ever. She clearly remembered the top of the cake exploded, streamers everywhere and just above it a message floated in bright green. She even remembered what it said. ' Happy Birthday to the best girl in the world! From Lee and Dixon, your most trusted idiots and best friends.' She smiled widely at the memory. She was happy.

"Expecto Patronum!" she said loudly. It was amazing, even more than amazing it was miraculous. The most beautiful thing in the world and it came from the tip of Ellie's wand. The elegant white winged horse galloped majestically all around the room. All the students included the professor looked at the horse in awe and then turned their faces at Ellie when it disappeared. Everyone was speechless, even Hermione who clearly remembered when she was Ellie's age, it had taken her and the DA a lot more time then one class to learn it.

"Well done Elizabeth, twenty five points to Griffindor for this remarkable patronus, well done in deed" said Hermione clapping her hands proudly. Everyone else turned back to reality and tried again and again the spell that only Ellie had been able to conjure up. Ellie didn't try again, afraid that she wouldn't be able to do it but looked at the others to see if they would be able too. She walked towards the professor but someone had caught her wrist unaware. Whoever had done so spun her around to meet them. To Ellie's relief it was Lee that had done it and beside him stood Dixon. Well a part of her was relieved but another part wished that it had been Teran.

"So Miss little know-it-all, how did you do the patronus spell in only one shot?" Lee asked, his hand held up to her face like he was holding a microphone. All three laughed before she answered.

"Its just like you said, since I know all ain't it obvious?" she replied smartly. Then again they laughed. Now it was Dixon's turn to act like a reporter.

"And how exactly did you conjure up such a magnificent what-you-might-call-it?" he asked her in the same way Lee had done. She thought for a moment before answering, not wanting to let them know that it had being them who had helped her perform the spell but they were her best friends.

"Actually, if you remembered clearly what my aunt said, she said that you needed to think of happy thoughts only and really concentrate. The end result was that the thought that helped me do it was one of you guys" she said smiling weakly. Their face expression gave it all, it said 'oh really, glade to be at service'. Before she could got talk with a group of girls that were her room-mates Dixon asked:

"Which one?" he waited and so did Lee. She smiled softly.

"The one of my twelve birthday, when you guys surprised me with the cake and the..."

"Message" both guys said in unison, finishing her sentence. She nodded happily and turned around but hit someone, falling on the ground hard. "Sorry, so sorry" she said not even looking who it was. She got up awkwardly rubbing her behind.

"Funny. Every time I'm around you, you always seem to end up on the ground" said a certain slytherin boy softly that only she could hear. Her head jerked up, her eyes widen. She grinned viciously at Teran and nodded in agreement. She hadn't thought about asking him to meet her and watched him make his way to the far end of the class. She reached her first destination, her room mates and talked just about anything that came to mind, well not everything in her mind. As thought someone had fast forwarded the time, Defense Against the Dark Arts was over and it was now lunch time.

"Now you can eat!" she said to Lee, who now had took his place beside her on the bench. He turned to her and flashed one of those looks that said 'Don't play smart with me missy'.

"Ha, ha...I think I already keow that Ellie" he said grinning from ear to ear, his tone hugely different at the use of her name. She rolled her eyes to make it look like she didn't care but it was clear that she did because she was smiling widely. They ate happily until their other classes came. The day past fast enough she thought and now she found herself eating again but this time it was dinner time. She remembered that she had to talk to Teran and thought of a way to talk to him without the need of meeting the ground again. She quickly finished her meal and got up. Dixon and Lee looked at her oddly.

"Where are you going?" asked Dixon curiously. Lee was nodding to show his regards.

"Homework" she said a bit to quickly. She left just as quickly, she was rather relieved that no one was around. She walked towards the gryffindor tower, each step echoed from the empty halls. She reached that fat lady's portrait, mumbled the password and waltz inside. She took a flight up the staircase and into her dormitory, quickly taking out a piece of parchment and quill. The tip of the quill tapped gently on her chin while thinking.

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Meet me in the prefect's lounge at 10 tonight

E.P

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She decided that, that letter would do the thing and that hopefully he would understand. She attached that note unto Liane's leg, instructing her of her destination. She watched the owl spread her wings and fly, how she wished she could be an owl, that way her life wouldn't be as complicated. Now the only thing she was expecting to come was a response letter then...the meeting.

(a/n...oh, there's love in the AIR!....well duh!)