Chapter 2

Fifteen minutes later the train pulled into the station, and students started pouring out of the steam engine from every direction.

Harry, Hermione, Ron and Jade walked to where all the Chariots were held. Jade squirmed slightly seeing the site of the hairless white-eyed horses. She took a sharp inhale. "You see them, don't you?" Harry whispered in her ear. She looked up at him and frowned.

When they were in the great hall, the trio headed to the Gryffindor Table, Jade panicked slightly "Wait, what do I do?"

Hermione shrugged "Oh, I don't know…" She admitted looking around. Before Hermione or Jade could say another word, Jade was tapped on the shoulder by a stern looking woman, her lips tight and her face emotionless.

"Miss Granger, take your seat." The woman said and Hermione nodded walking back over to the Gryffindor table. "And you, this way." She instructed curling her finger as a gesture to follow her. She led Jade up to the center of the great hall near the staff table with the first year students.

The woman, who Jade assumed was a professor read through the list of first years. Then an old looking Professor, that Jade knew as Dumbledore stood up and went into an explanation about Jade, like where she came from, but he left out a few things, then he went into a speech on how all of the Hogwarts pupils should give her a warm welcome. The room echoed with applause, once the fake, forced applause dying out the lady Professor ushered Jade onto a small three legged wooden bench and placed a battered old hat onto of her head. She felt her face starting to flush as the black fabric fell over her eyes.

"Ah I see your dark secret makes you a Slytherin," The hat whispered into her ear and Jade nearly jumped out of her skin, a talking hat, this was a strange school, even for a wizarding school talking hats and killer looking horses. "But your deep love and ambition would take you as a Gryffindor." The hat continued his speech into her ear, "You have the intelligence of a Ravenclaw," What are all these things he's saying? Ravenclaw, Slytherin? "But your patience gives you Hufflepuff. Your personality and mine pulls you one-way and your heart pulls you another." He sounded like he was coming to a close, thank heavens, Jade felt like if she stayed on this seat for very much longer steam would start coming out of her nose and ear. "Your heart is the most in your eyes," The old hat's voice paused, until he raised his volume and shouted, "GRYFFINDOR!" through the Great Hall. The hat was pulled from her head and Jade looked around not sure what to do, or what to say. Her eyes fell on a Gold and Scarlet decorated table and Hermione beckoned her over wildly.

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Jade stepped down from the stool and gingerly walked down the three stairs to the floor where the tables seated themselves. She looked up and made her way over to her newly founded house's table. Seating herself next to Hermione, she smiled and looked across the table to Harry, she noticed his eyes, rimed with his round glasses. He really does have beautiful eyes, she commented to herself as she kept staring into them, coming back to reality when Hermione jabbed her in the ribs slightly.

Professor Dumbledore stood up and introduced the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Professor Cheewa. She had long brown hair that cascaded down her back into blonde curls. Her black robes with yellow trimming might've hinted that she was a Hufflepuff in her days at Hogwarts that was a new one. All the defense against the dark arts teachers before her time had seemed more like Gryffindors or Slytherins, maybe even a Ravenclaw, but there was a first for everything. After a word or two from the new Professor, Dumbledore clapped his hands once, and the empty plates lined down the middle of the tables filled with food.

"Amazing." Jade said under her breath.

"Thank Merlin!" Ron said loudly "I'm so hungry I could eat a hippogriff."

Jade gave him a look "That would be completely barbaric!" she said widening her eyes.

"I'm only joking, jeeze." Ron said and looked at Harry who was sitting next to him "Who is this girl? Never heard sarcasm in her life or something?"

Harry shook his head "Maybe that school of hers, Catback, was really prim and proper or something." Harry shrugged "Show a little bit of respect."

Ron threw up his hands "Chill man! It was just comment"

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After dinner the prefects ushered every student back to their dorms. Hermione, Jade and the boys made their way to the Gryffindor common room. "Bloody hell, I'm tired." Ron said rubbing his eyes.

"Amen to that," Harry agreed. "Good night Hermione, Jade." He said nodding to each other them.

Hermione and Jade nodded back murmuring their good nights as Ron and Harry stumbled up the to the boys dormitory. Jade flung herself in a nearby chair and started undoing her hair.

"I didn't realize your hair was that long" Hermione commented as Jade's orange hair fell down her back the button curling in dark red spirals.

"There's a lot people don't realize," She said "Like the fact that my eyes are really red, not green," She pointed to her left eye that was back at it original color, while her right was still green. "And that my hair is really dark red, not orange." She threw some of her hair over her shoulder, "And that I have horns and fangs." She laughed as Hermione's eyes got wide like sauce plates.

"F-f-fangs?" Hermione gulped. "H-h-horns?"

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you." Jade laughed and pulled a small mirror out of her inside pocket of her robes to look at herself. She sighed looking at the skin around her eyes that was developing dark brown spots. "Charms are wonderful aren't they?" She commented pulling out her wand.

Hermione was frozen stiff, there was a monster with fangs draped over her bottom lip and horns, and brown dots, and she was scared out of her wits. Jade rolled her eyes and flicked her wand muttering the familiar incantation. Hermione let out a breath as Jade started to look like a human again. "I'm only deadly once a month," She commented "Don't you know anything about demons?"

"Well, we haven't exactly had the best defense against the dark arts teachers, except for professor Lupin, and that was when we were still young." Hermione said embarrassed of her ignorance.

"Well," Jade smiled "If Professor Cheewa doesn't teach you about demons, I could"

Before Hermione could answer Ginny came in the common room with a brown haired boy clinging to her arm. They were deep in conversation. Hermione raised her eyebrows and looked at Jade and giggled slightly.

"Oh! Hermione!" said Ginny "I didn't see you there"

"Well do you mind introducing us to your friend here?" Hermione said slyly.

"This is Jake Ravenwater" said Ginny turning pink "And Jake this is Hermione Granger and um…"

"Jade Wilson," Jade introduced herself to the unknown girl.

"And Jade Wilson," Ginny relayed to the boy. The boy named Jake nodded.

"I'm going to bed," Jake said kissing Ginny on the cheek and heading towards the boy dormitory.

Hermione's eyes followed the boy upstairs then she turned them to Ginny "Gotten over Harry have you?" She smirked

"I guess," Ginny shrugged.

"Good timing," Hermione laughed, Ginny gave her a slightly confused look. "Oh, him and Jade have some chemistry between them." Hermione smirked and looked over at Jade "Isn't that right Jade?"

Jade looked at Hermione and widened her eyes and shrugged "Oooh, I don't know,"

"Oh come on," Hermione laughed "You've seen the way he looks at you, and I've seen the way you look at him, if you didn't just meet him I'd think you guys were in love or something." Hermione smiled "He seems really taken by you."

Jade shrugged and laughed uncomfortably, "I guess I'm just oblivious then."

Ginny gave her a look and curled her lip. "Well," Jade frowned at the look Ginny was giving her, What the hell! I don't even know who she is! "I'm going to bed." She said swiftly turning and making her way up the stairs.

"Interesting." Jade said frowning. "She doesn't like me." Jade stated firmly nodding her head.

"Don't be silly." Hermione waved her hand.

"Oh COME ON Hermione!" Jade rolled her eyes "Don't tell me you didn't see that look, with the curled lip. I've seen a nicer face on a Vampire that tried to kill me once."

"Don't be silly…" Hermione said quietly.

"It's probably because of that thing you said, about Harry." Jade suggested.

Hermione shook her head "No, it's probably just in your imagination." Hermione said waving her hand.

Jade rolled her eyes "Well I'm going to bed, if I don't get some sleep I'll look like a demon, charm or no charm."

Hermione chuckled, "Yeah, I'm coming with you." Hermione said standing up as they both went up the stairs and walk to the sixth year girl dormitory.

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Jade walked down the staircase into the common room. She mindlessly sat down in an empty armchair hoping to fall back asleep. She sat down and felt something hard under her. She looked down at the chair and realized what she had sat on.

"Oh Harry I'm so sorry. Are you ok?" she said jumping to her feet, looking down at the sixteen year old that she had almost used as a seat cushion.

"Fine. I'm fine. I didn't even feel you there." Harry replied sitting upright in the chair. "Why are you are you down here anyway?" he asked.

"Oh just, you know, I can't sleep." Jade waved her hand sitting in the armchair across from him "The charms do that to me." She moved around the chair a little and let her head rolled to the side and she let out a long yawn. "Good night Harry," she said blinking her eyes a few times before closing them.

Harry watched her as many strands of red hair fell into her face. Then he sank back into his armchair and went into a deep dream.

Harry was sitting a bon-fire, he looked to the center of the fire, and there was a bed. Someone was lying in it. The fire had not reached the bed yet. He got up and walked to it. Jade was lying on the bed. Her horns weren't showing and she looked exactly like Lily when she was sixteen. Her eyes flickered open. She looked at him and whispered, "Help me Harry, only you can." Then Harry felt himself being pulled away from her. He then was thrown to his seat and he saw the flames explode around Jade, he felt a tear run down his face

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