When Nola left the library, she hadn't realized that she had no idea where she was going. She had no idea where she was. She had gotten to the moving staircases, and some paintings had told her that it was no use to go on the stairs. "They just make it worse. You could wander around here for days, if you kept going on those bloody things.", the painting of Lady Viola told her. She had just sat down on a windowsill, hoping that someone would pass her by. A few hours went by, no one had gone near her. She had fallen asleep for the second time that day. She was rudely awoken by sounds of people whispering.
"Bloody Prat!" a male voice whispered, "Bastard nearly stole my bloody map"
"You shouldn't leaving it lying around then anyone could try to use it." a second male voice whispered back.
"No one knows the passwords except us." the first voice responded, "Do they"
"Not unless someone says them a bit more quiet from now on." the second one said.
The voices stopped almost directly in front of Nola. "Who's that then?" the first voice said.
"Duno, can't see well enough" second voice responded, "Check it on the map. Lumos"
"I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." the first voice responded. Nola heard the crackling of parchment being unfolded and refolded.
"Look at what it says." the first voice continued. "No name. Just that she's in Gryffindor. Should we help her back to the tower?" the second voice said.
"Yeah, she looks to be asleep though. Go over there and get her." the first voice said.
The body of the second voice seemed to have appeared out of thin air; he slowly made his way over to Nola on the windowsill. Just when he was about to pick her up he heard a voice say something.
"You touch me and I hurt you"
Nola opened her eyes to see the person she had left in the library, Harry. He looked utterly confused, and with no reason to.
"What're you doing here?" he asked her, still talking in a whisper.
"I got lost." she whispered back.
"We'll take you back. Come on" he whispered to her. He urged her to come with him, but she didn't move.
"Why are you being so nice to me?" she asked. "It's part of what I do." he said, "Come on! We gotta go before Filch comes, and we get caught." She got off the windowsill and followed him, which it seemed that he was leading her to the wall. Suddenly two hands appeared out of nowhere and opened up a cloak. "Hurry up! He's coming!" the male inside of the cloak said. Harry and Nola bolted inside of the cloak. Then, they moved themselves up against the wall until Filch passed. Harry subconsciously wrapped his arms around Nola at her waist and pushed her against him. Filch and his cat, Mrs. Norris, passed by without a glance in their direction. Once Filch and Mrs. Norris left the hall, they could go the opposite way. "We best get going" Harry said. The three left the hall quickly and without looking back. They moved quickly and quietly through the halls of Hogwarts. As they made their way back to Gryffindor tower, paintings were snoring and muttering in their sleep. They arrived at the Portrait of the Fat Lady. The first thing they heard was the pink lady trying again, and failing miserably, to break the glass goblet. "Lionus Cordis" Harry whispered. The pink lady opened the door, not knowing where the voice came from. They walked through the corridor after the painting into the common room. There was only one person in there, and she was preoccupied with schoolwork. She was wearing muggle clothing, more specifically, jeans and a sweatshirt. The girl was sitting on the floor in front of the fireplace with many books and sheets of parchment spread about near her. The three of them were quietly walking until the yet to be named boy rammed himself into the nearest chair causing a rather loud "Ouch!" to expel from his mouth. The girl didn't bother to look up but to just say "Hello Ron. Hello Harry. Been out and about again"
Harry pulled the cloak off of them. The girl then looked up just expecting to see Ron and Harry. But, instead, she saw a girl with them. Nola saw the girl look at her with confusion.
"Wondering who I am?" Nola asked the girl.
"Yes, I am." the girl responded.
"I'm Nola, I just got here today. I'm still relatively new." Nola stated.
"I'm Hermione Granger." the girl responded as she stood up, "Welcome to Gryffindor"
"Your name's Nola?" Harry asked interrupting Hermione from speaking again.
"Has been for sixteen years." Nola replied.
"What's your last name?" Ron spoke up for the first time in what seemed like forever.
"Lupin" she stated.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione's faces all changed to that of shock. Ron looked like he might piss himself.
"Did you say Lupin?" Harry asked to clarify.
"Yea, what of it?" Nola replied.
"Nothing. It's just that the name isn't very common." Hermione answered before Ron and Harry could make idiots out of themselves. "We better go to bed soon." Hermione said to change the subject. They each went their separate ways to their dormitories and went to sleep.
Harry heard just one thing before he went off with Morpheus.
"Goodnight, Harry."
It wasn't a voice of any one he knew.
And, it definitely was not anyone with in the castle.

The next morning, Nola was awakened by a rather loud hiss, and then a scream. "The bleedin' cat almost ate me!" Lavender screamed at the top of her lungs.
Hermione walked over to where the cat was sitting below Lavender. Lavender was standing on her bed, clinging to the curtains for support. Nola sat up and pulled the covers off of her. Hermione picked up the cat and began to pet it. "The cat wouldn't eat you," Hermione began "You use too much perfume, he'd be hacking it up for days"
"Just keep it away from me!" Lavender said still frightened.
Nola at this point at gotten out of bed and was rummaging through her trunk to find clean clothes to wear. This is was a rather pointless task. She didn't like to do laundry. The only clean clothes she found were her muggle clothes, jeans and a long sleeve black shirt. She went to the bathroom, took a shower, and changed.
When she had returned from the bathroom, Hermione was dressed and waiting for her.
"Hungry?" Hermione asked.
"I could eat an entire hippogriff." Nola responded, "I haven't eaten since the day before yesterday"
Hermione led her out of the girl's dormitory, and into the common room, where Ron and Harry appeared to be waiting. But, were in the middle of a chess match. Harry was loosing pitifully. Hermione told them that when they were done, She and Nola would be in the Great Hall. Then were then on their way to breakfast.
Not ten minutes later they were just outside the doors, Hermione stopped Nola from opening the door to give her a warning. "Be prepared for anything, you never will know what exactly will happen here"
Nola gave her a confused look, but opened the heavy door with a bit of strength. Hermione walked in after her, then proceeded to pass Nola and lead her to where she, Ron and Harry would normally sit. As soon as Nola sat down she quickly began to pile pancakes, fruit, and syrup onto her plate. Not shortly after the two girls had arrived, the boys joined them. Ron was aghast at the fact that Nola had more food on her plate than he did. And he is usually the one shoving food into to his mouth, like there is no tomorrow. Nola had three rather large helpings of pancakes. Once she started the second one, Harry and Hermione joined Ron in watching her eat, while still putting food into their own mouths. She didn't notice until she was done eating. "What?" she asked. "I haven't eaten for two days"
Once they were all through with breakfast they decided to go for a walk and sit down near the lake. It was mostly so they could try to get to know Nola, and have her become acquainted with them. While walking to the lake, Hermione and Ron ran off ahead of Harry and Nola, leaving them alone for the second time in twenty-four hours. They walked in silence until Harry couldn't take it anymore.
"I want to apologize about last night. I'm beginning to over react to things." Harry said hoping that it would spark a conversation. In the recent years past, he hasn't liked awkward silences.
"It's fine. Don't worry about it," she said, "You're not the only one who over reacts. I've done it all my life"
"If you don't mind me asking," he began, "why did you come so late after the start of term"
"Honestly I don't know how to answer that without giving every detail up." she said. "I don't like sharing everything at once"
"Share what you want to, or what you can" Harry said, hoping that she would continue to talk.
"My mother died not to long ago. I never really did have a family besides her. And then, Hogwarts intervened and I'm here." she said with a bit of sorrow present in her voice and face.
"We've found one thing we have in common." Harry said. Nola replied by giving a confused look.
"Lack of family." Harry said making eye contact with her. And finally seeing some of the pain inside one another. This was interrupted by Ron yelling for them to catch up. Nola ran up ahead of Harry and he watched her run. He then ran to catch up with his friends, feeling a little bit better than he had in the last few months.