Author's note- Thanks for the reviews everyone! I didn't expect so many in one day! orangepenguin. Sorry. Falling into a cliché. That's what my story's about btw, I haven't even seen the third potter movie. I just wrote that chapter to make Snape look cool!!!!

It's all about the detail! I read heaps of 'detailed' books so I'm influenced! Anyway, just keep reviewing!

"But if he had... but that's advance magic...he couldn't have. Could he?" For the first time Éclair couldn't find an answer to a question. She had tried hypnotism spells herself. But she was different. Dumbledore had told her so on her first night. She repressed a shudder. "Could he?" she asked herself again. Both entered their dorm in silence. Questions buzzed Éclair's mind but she too tired to contemplate them. She let her tiredness carry her off to sleep.

Back in the Slytherin dorm, Snape was trying to figure out Éclair. She was... different from the others; he could sense something about her. He had tried hypnotizing her friend... Gina or whatever her name was. He could find no answers in her. Puzzles irritated Snape. Especially when he couldn't figure them out. He would try again tomorrow. This time he would delve deeper. That night Snape dreamt of endless corridors.

Snape entered Great Hall for breakfast the next morning. He surveyed the enchanted ceiling with interest, trying to suppress a yawn. It was as if he had not slept at all. If he had, his mind was still working while he was sleeping. As he sat down to eat his porridge, the morning post flew in. Snape scanned the flock for his gray eagle owl. He had got it for his 13th birthday and it was the only thing he had really cared for.

"Hey Éclair! You just spilt your pumpkin juice over my timetable! Again!!"

"Sorry Gina..." Éclair apologized. She was staring into space.

Snape turned around. He surveyed Gina then Éclair. Hmm... it was as if...

"Timetables..." The pale, blonde boy was handing them out. He noted the 'P' on his robes. 'Prefect huh...' He turned his attention back to Éclair.

"Oi! You." Snape turned around and Lucius Malfoy handed his timetable to him. He took it from Malfoy's hands coldly and turned around to examine it. Before lunch...Double Potions-Harold and Transfiguration- McGonagall. He recalled last night's events. Boy... eh...?

"Oh great. We've got double potions first, Éclair. Hmm... and we're having it in the fourth Dungeon and that's the furthest from here. You'd better not be late. You know how Professor Harold objects to tardiness." Éclair merely nodded absentmindedly. She was spilling her porridge down the front of her robes unknowingly. Gina sighed. Éclair was a mystery. How was she so absent-minded and yet so smart?

Double potions... in the furthest dungeon... He would make his move then and there. His mind started scheming. He could hardly wait.

Snape deliberately cleared up his potions ingredients slowly. Then as everyone was leaving, he stuffed everything in his bag. Checking that no one was watching, he cast the Imperius curse on Gina. She was conveniently sitting in front of him.

"Imperio" he muttered.

"Come on Gina. You usually have to wait for me. What's up with – ow..." Éclair had tripped over the hem "too long" robes. "Damned pest" Snape thought.

"It's ok... you go on first. I'll catch up." Gina said. That alerted Éclair immediately. That was not like Gina. At all. She noted Snape pretending to clear up his potions ingredients behind her best friend.

"All right... see you at Charms. I'll tell Professor Flitwick." Éclair made a noisy exit. But right outside the doorway, she paused and listened.

"Tell me what you know about Éclair"

"She's my best friend"

"More."

"Why do you wanna know?" Gina was beginning to fight the Imperius curse. Éclair had to find out more. Why did Snape want to know so much about her? Her powers? But not even Éclair to Gina. It wasn't that she didn't trust Gina. It was too big a secret to tell. She heard Snape enforcing the curse.

"We've been best friends since first year. We sleep in the same dorm and have the same classes. Anything else you want to know?" Gina asked politely.

"Her family"

"Éclair's parents are dead. Éclair doesn't know much about them. She was sent to a muggle orphanage. When she got her Hogwarts letter, she came here. Ever since then, she's never gone back there. She spends her summers with me." It all lead to dead ends. And Snape was running out of patience. Éclair knew that more questioning would be pointless. She shuddered to think what Snape could do to Gina.

"How did her parents die?" Snape asked

"I don't know. It's a touchy subject for her so we avoid it." Éclair decided to step out of the darkness.

"What's taking so long Gina?" She let out a feigned gasp.

"What're you doing to her?" The curse broke and for the second time Gina came back to life with a gasp. Snape had failed again. He cast a cold, contemptuous glance Éclair's way, his eyes flashing a stormy gray. His 'master' was not going to like this.

Éclair packed Gina's potions materials with a flick of her wand. By now Snape had left and they were alone.

"Éclair what happened... that Slytherin..." Gina looked very shaken.

"Come on. We're fifteen minutes late to Charms. We're doing the Truth and Lie detection Charms today. Professor Flitwick hinted they might come up in our NEWTs."

"Stop changing the subject Éclair! I need to know... please... it was the Imperius curse ... wasn't it? My mind suddenly went blank and then I heard his voice... he was asking about me about you...but why. Why did he want to know about you?"

"I dunno, Gina." Somehow Gina knew Éclair was lying to her. Éclair didn't want keep lying to her. She had to tell Dumbledore tonight before anything else happened. But first she had to make sure that Snape was no where near Gina. Eclair spent the left of the lesson in the Ravenclaw common room trying to comfort Gina.

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