At dinner that night Harry was sitting talking with the Weasley twins about what the new girls had done and said to Malfoy and his friends. It would be no exaggeration to say that every Gryfinndor was very impressed and that night Josephine and Victoria were heroes in the common room.
It quickly became clear to the pair that Draco Malfoy wasn't liked, and neither was any other Slytherin for that matter. Hermione seemed concerned about Kevin Silverton and his sudden change of character and had went to the library. Harry and Ron explained that this was typical Hermione behaviour – "no matter what you're feeling the library will hold an answer in on way or another."
The night pounded on and Victoria was describing what happened for what seemed the fiftieth time to a small group of older students, at the long oak table beside the window. Once she'd finished telling the story most of the group drifted off, but one boy hung back and Josephine could hear them laughing at each others jokes over all the racket of the common room. She was sitting in an armchair at the warm fire, and the orange light from the fire made her hair shine a ginger that would rival Ginny Weasley's. Harry was playing wizards chess on the floor in at Josephine's feet.
"I think we've got a second Hermione here?" Ron said pointing his thumb up at Josephine.
"I doubt it no-one could be as bad as her!" Harry said in a soft voice and they both stifled laughs. "Then again she is doing homework we've only just got! Hey Josephine how come you're doing Flitwicks homework already?"
Josephine looked up flustered, "Oh…I … I just thought I'd get it out of the way you know, if I do my homework on the day I get it, I know I'll never have to worry bout doing it the night before you see. So I've got more time to practice Quidditch, hang around with friends and play wizards chess of course! Plus I've still got loads of the castle to discover tonight, I only managed about a fifth last night!"
"What! You've been out around the castle at night? Hehe I like it! Where'd you go? How come Filch didn't catch you?" Ron asked, this girl broke the rules of her own accord she didn't need encouragement, Ron was beginning to like her.
"I just went out for a stroll around the castle with my wand for company and a map of the grounds, who's Filch anyway? Oh is that the caretaker? I did meet him and his retched cat. I used a memory charm on him and changed his memory so after one minute he'd have forgotten ever meeting me! Memory charms are really handy you know."
"You can do memory charms?" Said Harry very impressed, "What would you have done if someone else had seen you, you wouldn't have adjusted there memory?"
"No of course I wouldn't, just Filch doesn't seem like a nice bloke. If I met another teacher… I would just jump that hurdle when I came to it. Can you not do memory charms? We have to do them in third year at Tealeaky but that's probably just so that you can adjust the minds of people so they follow Voldemort!" Ron jumped so much his knees knocked the chess pieces all over the board, they all got up and began to compose themselves before walking back to their squared extremely disgruntled. Harry made a mental note not to go near a Slytherin ex-Tealeaky pupil as he might not remember anything he had said or heard if they could use memory charms. He also wandered how long it would be before Malfoy and all Slytherins had been taught how to use them too.
The portrait whole swung open and Hermione scrambled in and came and sat next to Ron on the floor. She thumped a huge book onto the floor and jumbled past what seemed like hundreds of pages, until she suddenly stopped and pointed forcefully at page two thousand and thirty eight. "There, I found it! That is if his first names Newt."
Harry and Ron exchanged confused looks before Harry asked, "Found what? Who's Newt?"
Hermione picked up the book which they could now see was called 'Dark Wizards and Where to Find Them: A Revised Edition 2002', cleared her throat and read aloud, somewhat professionally sounding, "…many Death Eaters used curses in order to control innocent people into following out there orders. It often went as far as murder after the innocent victim had been used to do as much as they could. One such wizard was caught outside the town of Auderhagen, Switzerland. After being caught with the offending wand in his hand (discovered using 'Prior Incantantem') Newt Silverton, was sent directly to the nearest Wizarding prison in Switzerland. His releases date is rumoured to be coming up soon and he has swore never to revert to his 'dark' ways again, and has also sworn he will never be associated with the likes of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named again. The words of a criminally minded man must be taken with an air of suspicion especially in this case considering the dreadfulness of Silverton's crimes." Everyone traded bewildered and worried looks, as Hermione looked proud as ever to be the one who discovered it. It was she who spoke first, "you see, Kevin's dad must have been in prison for using the Imperius Curse on people and he got out a year or so ago. I bet he's got Kevin under it to, in order to recruit more supporters, cause Josephine you said he used to be a nice boy, so it must be what it is."
"Wow Hermione! How did you know where to look? Yeah his name is Newt! I can't believe you figured that out, in all the time I've known him I never thought to do that." Hermione sat legs crossed, bolt upright, sitting as if she were royalty, austerely smiled in gratitude to Josephine's flattering remarks. Ron however merely mumbled something about having nothing better to do with her time, but only loud enough for Harry to hear. But even Harry had to admit it was quite impressive.