Soon after she was patched up by Madam Pompfrey, Dumbledore arranged for an extra bed to be placed in one of the Gryffindor dorms. She would take lessons with the other 6th year Gryffindors.
She got up the next day at around 7. Most of the girls in her dorm were still sleeping or were just getting up themselves.
She followed the group of girls, who she only knew by face, down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
Sitting near the end of the table closest to the door, she just stared at her toast, listening to the conversations around her. Unfortunately for her, everyone was talking about her, and what happened last night.
Everyone in the Hall kept stealing glances at her, which made her feel extremely uncomfortable.
Professor Mc Gonnagoll handed out the timetables, and she glanced down to see that she had a pretty easy day ahead.
Period
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1
Potions
Transfiguration
D.A.D.A
Divinitation
Care Of Magical Creatures
2
D.A.D.A
Care Of Magical Creatures
Potions
FREE
Transfiguration
3
FREE
Potions
Care Of Magical Creatures
D.A.D.A
Divinitation
4
Divinitation
D.A.D.A
Transfiguration
Care Of Magical Creatures
Potions
5
Care Of Magical Creatures
Divinitation
FREE
Transfiguration
D.A.D.A
She decided to set off to Potions now, to give her some time to find her way say she got lost.
When she got to the Dungeons, she found that she was the first Gryffindor there, surrounded by Slytherins.
"Hey, it's the freak."
She spun around and saw the boy with the pail blonde hair and the marque sneer plastered on his face.
"What's wrong Freak? What? Got nothing to say to defend yourself? I bet that you're a mudblood and you don't even have a wand."
"DRACO MALFOY...... Knock it off." Said the boy with the flaming red hair, as he, the brown haired girl and the boy with those elegant green eyes came down the stairs.
'Hmmm...... they must be in some of the same classes as me.' She thought.
"Piss off Malfoy. What has she ever done to you?" The girl said. She then faced her. "Hi there... I'm Hermione Granger, Pleased to meet you. This here is Ron Weasley, and here, is Harry Potter. The jerk over there is Draco Malfoy."
"Err Hermione; have you ever noticed that you take too long to make the introductions?"
Miss Blake's Point Of View.
The girl called Hermione started to yap on about that the boy's names were Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. Ron might be another name for Ronald? I thought it was funny, but deep down, I thought that it suited him.
"Pleased to meet you." I said. I kinda thought that my tone was a bit icy, but I couldn't do a thing about it now.
Everybody's point of View.
"Please..... Now the mudblood has a friend. How priceless."
Hermione all of a sudden turned bright red, and Ron and Harry started yelling at Draco.
She went over to him and stared him right in the face.
"You got a problem, Mr Malfoy?"
"Yeah... You live." Draco spat. "Why don't you, pot head, the Weasel and mud blood over there go off and hug some Muggles, and get the hell off this planet."
"Well Mr Malfoy I'm disinclined to acquiesce to your request."
Draco stared bewildered by all the fancy words she was saying.
"Means 'no'."
"Hem hem... please enough of this dilly dally and get into the classroom." Said the familiar icy voice of professor Snape.
The students filed into the cold and damp dungeon/classroom.
"Welcome to advanced potions. As I have already stated at the beginning of your first year of Hogwarts, I am not hear to baby-sit you. I am here to teach you, well those who want to be taught that is." He glanced at Draco, with an extremely slight smile etched across his face.
"I don't know how SOME of you passed their exams," he stole a look at Harry and Ron. "But you are in this class right now, and this subject will continue to get harder. Turn to page 21 of your textbook ADVANCED POTIONS: 6, and read from that to page 27, in silence."
Soon, the sound of pages turning and the occasional coughing, was all the sounds echoing from the surprisingly warm (considering the fact that it was autumn, and it was underground) classroom. (A/N: If you would call Snape's dungeon a classroom.)
The class spent the lesson writing notes on how to brew the more advanced potions they would be doing, and read up on what would happen if the potion went wrong. The textbook had some pretty gruesome pictures in there, which caused a collective reaction of most girls 'ewww'ing and complaining to professor Snape about how the diagrams and pictures made them feel extremely sick. He didn't care.
The bell rang after an eternity of writing and every one left for their next lesson.
'Hmm let's see...... ah hah! Defense against the dark arts next.'
She went into a jog since d.a.d.a was a subject that would prove interesting.
Most people were already waiting outside the classroom when she came to it.
She over-heard from numerous students that they knew what they were going to do first. They were all different thoughts.
One person said that they would be doing Vampires, and professor Lupin had gotten one as a spokes person.
Another said that they were doing Dragons, and were taking a trip to the forbidden forest to look at one.
And another student had blurted out that they were going to do werewolves, and on a full moon, professor lupin would change in front of them. (A/N: After he'd taken the wolfs bane potion of course.)
She stayed at the back of the crowd of students while she waited so not to attract attention to herself. She had already had enough of that for a lifetime.
Professor Lupin opened the door and the students filed into the classroom, eagerly awaiting what they were going to do first.
"Welcome back. Today, we'll be going over..." He scanned the glossary of the text book, "Vampires. Now, what can you tell me about vampire?"
To no one's surprise, Hermione's hand shot up first, and she had a look on her face that seemed to say "pick me, or else I'll explode."
"O.k. Hermione, what do you know about vampires?" Sighed Remus.
"Well, Vampires fall under the category of dark creature because they go around killing people, they have fangs, obviously, which they use to suck out the blood of humans, the way to kill a vampire is to stake them through the heart, and also they can't go out in the sunlight, because it burns them."
"10 points to Gryffindor. Does any body else have any information about vampires?"
No one's hand went up, so she thought that she would have a go, and meekly put her hand half up.
"Yes miss Blake?"
"Umm...I think that Hermione is wrong,"
Every one gasped at that remark, and people shot Hermione worried looks. Hermione herself was outraged by the fact that this new girl just popped up and was accusing that she was wrong. SHE WAS NEVER WRONG!!!
"Well miss Blake, why do you think that?" asked Remus.
"Well...Vampires DO fall under the category of dark creature, but that's only because vampires in about the 12th century thought it would be cool to kill humans. Vampires are just thought to still be in that sort of mood. In actual fact, most vampires just try there hardest to make wizards, witches and muggles think that they have become extinct, or something like that. Like what we do to muggles. Vampires do have fangs yes, but they don't go around killing people. They would much rather feed off a pig or a cow than suck out our blood. The way to kill a vampire is not by a stake through the heart. That is just superstition. The way to kill a vampire is to chop off their head or the shoot them. The sword or the bullets need to be silver plated, or the vampire would just heal itself. And lastly, vampires can go out into the sunlight. Every one thinks that they can't because they are so pale. They are pale because they don't have much blood in them. Also, a blessed crucifix or holy water will burn them, but not kill. To use it on a vampire is like giving a warning curse to say that you are prepared to fight."
"15 points to Gryffindor. Now, open your books to page 23, start reading and I would like a full summary on pages 23 to 30 for me on Wednesday."
Everyone started reading, but kept glancing at her, which made her feel uncomfortable again. She also began to blush slightly, but the bell went soon.
She let out a sigh of relief that no one was glancing at her.
"I can't believe that she thought I was wrong!"
"Calm down 'Mione' its just one answer."
"Calm down? CALM DOWN!?!?! SHE COMES WALTZING IN HERE AND STARTS MAKING AQUSATIONS THAT I AM WRONG RON."
"Professor Lupin stated that I was correct."
The two spun around and saw her standing there with some books in her arms, looking at them with a blank expression etched across her face.
"Listen Blake, I don't know WHO you think you are, but no body has ever called ME wrong, and I don't plan to have that start now." Growled Hermione while prodding her in the chest with her finger.
"Looks to me like it has already started Hermione, and I do have a first name you know."
"Oh and what may that be pray tell?"
"Yana."
Ron burst into a fit of laughter, seeing as he thought Yana's name was so entertaining.
"Got a problem Weasley?"
Ron shut up for the first time in his life after not being told to.
"If you would excuse me, I need to go to the library."
Yana walked off, not noticing that a piece of parchment had fallen onto the ground.
Ron found it and picked it up. All of a sudden he got an extremely marauderish idea. He had to tell Harry and Hermione.
He found them in the common room. Harry was off in his own little world of depression again, and Hermione was reading through stacks of books on vampires. She would show Andra who's who.
"Hey Harry, you o.k.?"
Harry didn't answer. On Harry's lap, was his open photo album, turned to the page of his parents wedding. Everyone in the picture looked happy, and they were all smiling at him.
Lily and James were holding up champagne glasses as they stood under a banner that said...CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEWLY WED LILY AND JAMES POTTER.... Sirius and Remus were on either side of them, and Sirius stole a kiss from Lily, which made James slightly mad at him. Remus had a shocked look on his face which seemed to say 'why didn't I get one too?'
He was brought out of it, when Ron yelled in his ear.
"I said it once and I'll say it again, are you o.k. Harry?"
"Yeah" he sighed while looking back down to the photo.
"Good. Cause I got a great idea to show up Yana Blake."
Hermione heard that and started to act like a ravenous wolf trying to get the information.
"Well, when she left after your encounter Hermione, she dropped this photo," He gave the photo to Hermione who in turn gave an evil grin, then passed it to Harry.
"I was thinking that we could change it around a little, and post it up around the school."
"Ron that will only make you like Malfoy, I don't think you guys should do it. I mean, how would you feel if someone did it to one of your photos?"
"Ahh come on Harry, lighten up a bit."
"What's wrong with you Hermione? You don't normally try to humiliate someone."
"Yeah well she just pissed me off so much that I have to find someway to get even."
There was an awkward silence for about 1 minute.
"Just think about it before you go off and hurt somebody like that o.k.? I'm going to the library to do the homework Remus set us."
Harry got up, grabbed his books and left the common room.
When harry got to the library, he grabbed a table, and started to work.
Yana's point of view.
I left Hermione and Ron staring at my back as I held my head high while walking to the library to do the homework that professor Lupin had assigned.
When I got there, I grabbed an empty table and began to work.
In about ½ an hour, I had finished my work, but didn't dare leave to the common room. I try and avoid people who don't like me much. No doubt that Ron had picked up the photo of me and Jean Claude, because I can't seem to find it.
In a way, I kind of wanted him to pick it up, because that brown noser Hermione would start looking up who Jean Claude is by the photo, and figure out that I associated with vampires. But then she would blab to Headmaster Dumbledore, and think that I am one myself. The vicious circle of life I suppose.
I sighed as I stood up bracing myself for Grangers and Weasley's glares, when Harry walked in, and sat down. No doubt doing his work.
He looked troubled, so I went and sat next to him.
"Hey harry."
"Hey."
"What's wrong?" I asked with a worried look on my face.
He looked at me, and I could tell that he wanted to tell someone, but he didn't overly want to talk about it.
"Nothing."
"That's a lie and you know it Harry. What's troubling you? I'm all ears."
He sighed before he told me what was troubling him, and a though popped into my head. His friendship with Ron and Hermione.
"Well you know all about me not having any parents because of what Voldermort did to them, and what he almost did to me,"
I didn't really know about that, but I nodded my head any way.
"its just that well, I found out that I had a god father in my third year here, and last year he died from that ministry attack that Voldermort made on it."
"You ok?" I asked
"WHY DOES EVERYONE ASK ME THAT?!?!"
"Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that you normally mope around all the time, and people are just concerned about you. Besides, your godfather probably wouldn't want you to do that either. He maybe would want you to go on with your life, and stop with all this black hole of depression thing."
"You right." He sighed. "Thanks Yana."
Ohhhh. How sweet. Just like sugar .... Mmmmm sugar. I love sweets, they make me hyper! That's 1 reason why I'm able to writes these stories, so keep the sugar coming! stuffs face with candy and sugar Luts seef dhat hakens mext.