Prologue

(A/N: Just so everyone knows, I don't look nearly as pretty as Kaysha, or Anise or Channel, so it's not a Mary-Sue thing. Thanks!)

Kaysha Knawel is a 6th year Gryffindor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Kaysha is 16 and is half veela. She has silver blonde hair with two white cherry streaks just in the front. Her eyes are unusual; they are a light shade of blue with silver and red in them. She's friends with Hermione, Ron and Harry and she helps with a lot of the adventures. I hope that you enjoy this fanfic; it's been a lot of fun makin' it! When you read it, you may think I have something against Ron, but I don't, I just like his stupidity, so I use it to my advantage.  LOL 

SWAK!

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Disclaimer

I own nothing except for the Time Stoppers idea and any names you don't recognize. Fenoderee, Puck, Sir Eskavaria, Lady Elladine, Lady Beauty and all the other Bogles are Sheri Tepper's ideas; they are from a story called "Beauty". Very good book, incorporates Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and Snow White, but also has travels to the year 2108 and to a magical land called Faery. I think that I'll let Mrs. Rowling take care of the N.E.W.T. tests. Thanks!

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"Speech."

(A/N) Well you know, author's note

- Thoughts -

-inner voice/

Chapter One

The Unexpected Greeting

Kaysha reached out and put the last trinket on the shelf. This was her 6th year at Hogwarts and she had just come from home.

"There. That should do the trick!" Kaysha said in her British accent.

Kaysha Knawel put the rest of her books on the shelves and smiled as Hermione walked in the room.

"It's lovely Kaysha. Do you have room on one of the shelves for our school books?" Hermione joked. Hermione had changed since last year. Her bushy brown hair was no longer bushy, it was in perfect ringlet curls; ones which Kaysha was jealous of, and she had the most perfect smile. Kaysha couldn't see why a boy hadn't asked her out yet.

"They're already on here." Kaysha pointed to hers and Hermione's books.

Hermione was in her 6th year as well and they both took most of the same classes. They had Potions together, Transfiguration, Care of Magical Creatures, and if they had found a teacher, Defense Against the Dark Arts. Kaysha took Divination instead of taking Muggle Study's. Kaysha was looking forward to the feast this afternoon. She would get to see Harry and Ron again. But the funniest part of the feast would be when Draco Malfoy tried to insult her again.

"So what do you think Malfoy thought up this year?" Kaysha said to Hermione, fluffing her pillows. She stepped back and looked at the bed, then turned her head to Hermione. She was reading a book.

"Hello? Earth to Hermione! Is anyone in there?" Kaysha asked walking over to Hermione. She tapped Hermione on the shoulder and Hermione jumped.

"Sorry." Hermione said blushing. There was a knock on the door.

"Come in!" Kasha and Hermione yelled in unison. Ginny Weasley opened the door.

"Harry and Ron want you two to come down." Ginny said.

"Tell them we'll be down in a minute." Kaysha said to Ginny.

"Alright, I'll see you two in a second." Ginny said closing the door.

Kaysha looked in the vanity that she and Hermione were sharing to make sure that her silver-blond-hair-with-light-red-highlights-in-the-front looked neat. Kaysha applied some lip gloss and grabbed Hermione by the arm as she made her way to the door. Kaysha and Hermione reached the bottom of the stairs and Harry and Ron came rushing over. They were both 6th year too.

"What took you so long Hermione?" Harry said.

"I was reading and Kaysha was straitening the room, you gotta problem with that?" Hermione said, she didn't have a very good bad attitude, but Kaysha had to give it to her, she was trying.

"Well we do when you take forever." Ron said back.

"Well then get over it." Kaysha said stepping out from behind Hermione. She hadn't seen Harry or Ron since last year and they hadn't seen her. Last year her hair had been a deep shade of red with golden highlights only on the sides. She had also had braces and glasses. Kaysha had changed her whole look. She had gotten her braces off and she had contacts now. And she had stopped dying her hair, this was her true color. She finally figured out how to use make-up and it was now her best friend. Ron and Harry stared open mouthed.

"You've certainly… changed." Said Harry still staring. Though Kaysha was wearing the black robes as required, she had made hers a little more form fitting, so it fit her figure and it was a bit tighter. She had also embroidered her name underneath the Hogwarts sign.

"Yes, well, can we just go to the feast now?" Hermione asked impatiently.

"Let's go boys." Said Kaysha grabbing Harry by the arm as Hermione grabbed Ron, and the two girls dragged them out the Common Room door.

Once in the hallway, the girls let go of the boys and they all walked in a horizontal line. Harry then Kaysha then Hermione then Ron. From past experiences, everyone moved out of their way, or else you'd have to go strait to Kaysha. That's something that you don't want to do. They had a clear path all the way down with a few stares from First Years. The four got the closest seats to the Sorting Hat and started talking.

"So, Harry, find anything exciting over the summer?" Kaysha asked.

"Well all that I found out is that Dudley's going to be thinner." Harry said sounding bored.

"I highly doubt that's going to happen." Said Kaysha, laughing.

"Me too! Hermione, did you find out anything?" Harry over dramatically asked.

"Nothing. How about you, Ron?" Hermione answered.

"Not a thing. Kaysha?" Ron asked, turning to Kaysha.

"I thought you'd never ask!" Kaysha said excitement on her face.

"Well, I heard that Dumbledore might be have found a new DADA teacher (Defense Against the Dark Arts) and she's supposed to be, very good!" Kaysha said her eyes wide.

"So the teacher's going to be a girl? And a good one? Not like that Umbridge woman?" Hermione asked, Kaysha shook her head. "Finally!" Hermione said, looking at the enchanted ceiling. As she said that, Dumbledore stood up and tried to get the room quiet.

"This is yet another year at Hogwarts that I hope you all will enjoy it here. I know that I have so far and I've only been here for about 3 hours." Dumbledore paused and allowed the few giggles and rolling of eyes to stop. "Now if you'll please keep quiet and seated, well let the sorting begin." Professor McGonagall walked to the front of the Banquet Hall and set down a stool and put the Hogwarts Sorting Hat on top. The usual rip in the seam opened and the Sorting Hat started his annual song.

"Oh, you may not think I'm pretty,

But don't judge on what you see,

I'll eat myself if you can find,

A smarter hat than me.

You can keep your bowlers black,

Your top hats nice and tall,

But I'm the Hogwarts Sorting Hat,

And I can top them all.

There's nothing in your head,

That the Sorting had can't see,

So try me on and I will tell you,

Where you ought to be."

(Some of you might have noticed that that's the beginning of the song in the 5th book, that's cause it is, I couldn't think of another song, sorry :'( but you love me anyways!  )

Kaysha always enjoyed the Sorting Hat's song. Professor McGonagall called out the first name, "Silverstone, Alicia."

A small girl with violent red hair walked up to the stool, picked up the hat and sat down. Kaysha noticed a slightly larger girl; she guessed a 3rd year in Hufflepuff, motioning for her to put the hat on her head. Alicia did and it took a second then the hat called out,

"HUFFLEPUFF!"

The larger girl stood up and started cheering, as did the rest of the table. Alicia hopped off the stool and ran over to what looked like her sister, the one that started the cheering. There were several others until Kaysha recognized one girl.

"Hey guys, that's my sister! She just transferred from Beauxbatons! She'll be in fifth year! Cross your fingers!" Kaysha whispered to Hermione, Ron and Harry. The three looked at her and smiled.

"Knawel, Anise."

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Kaysha started the cheering this time. There was certainly a family resemblance between Kaysha and Anise. The two both had silvery hair, though Anise didn't have cherry red highlights in front, she had golden colored stripes all around. Kaysha and Anise had the same eyes except Anise didn't have red streaks.

Anise jumped off the stool and ran over to Kaysha. Kaysha embraced her in a hug and told Anise to sit next to her. The Sorting Hat finished it's sorting and Professor McGonagall picked up the hat and stool, put them in a back room and sat down. Then Dumbledore began his speech.

"I'd just like to say welcome to all of our new guests and I'd like to say a few words. And they are: Grittlebelt! Blubber! Slangsbroth! Tweak!"

Every jumped up and cheered. Anise just clapped looking up at Dumbledore as if he was insane. Kaysha read the look on her little sister's face.

"Don't worry, he's not mad, he's just a little tired." Kaysha said while still clapping.

Suddenly, Kaysha felt someone watching her. She looked around and saw Malfoy staring at her. She glared at him, her stunning blue eyes turning fire red, she quickly stopped though, her mother had warned her about getting angry in school.(  ) Malfoy quickly looked away. Next thing Kaysha knew, everything had paused. She was the only thing still moving, except for a small figure by the main entrance. Kaysha craned her head to see what it was, not moving too much though as to not look different from everyone else. Kaysha saw it to be a young girl; she looked about 25 or so. Kaysha saw that the girl was struggling so she decided to take the risk. She made her way through the frozen people and walked up to the girl, she had bent over some of her luggage.

"Can I help you with that?" Kaysha asked, not daring to think what could happen next. The girl was startled and dropped her bag. She quickly looked up and her hood fell down revealing soft silver curls with ocean blue eyes. Her skin shone like the moon on a clear night and her face was the smoothest ever.

"So you're one too e'?" the woman asked straitening up.

"I'm a what?" Kaysha asked, she came up to the woman's chin.

"Well, you're a time stopper, cause if you weren't, you'd be frozen wis all zee rest of zem." The woman had a French accent, she pointed around at the rest of the students in the Great Hall.

"Oh, well I never knew that. Can I help you with that?" Kaysha asked again.

"Sure, my name's Channel LaMain. And you are?" Channel held out her hand.

"Kaysha, Kaysha Knawel." Kasha said taking Channel's hand.

"Nice to meet you, Kaysha."

"Nice to meet you, Channel."

Kasha and Channel talked as the two brought Channel's bags up to her room.

"Where exactly are you staying?" Kaysha asked when she thought that they must almost be there.

"I'm zee new Defense Against zee Dark Arts teacher, I'll be staying on zee 4th floor, we're only on zee third, so one more flight…" Channel said.

Kaysha was taken aback by this; she had not expected a woman so young to be their new teacher, let alone this pretty.

"Are you part veela?" Kaysha asked, she was surprised by her own question more than Professor LaMain.

"Oui, oui, I am, 'ou did you guess?" Professor LaMain asked.

"Well, we kind of look the same, and I'm half veela, so I just guessed. So tell me about this time stopper idea." Kaysha said as they walked down the hall to the almost too familiar classroom.

"You see we can stop time for about zirty minuets before zee time starts back up again. All you 'ave to do iz say, Les viges, dejaro megama. That'll get time paused for you in no time. And if you're touching someone as you say zoze words who iz not a time stopper, zey will not be frozen like everyone else." Professor LaMain said. Kaysha immediately picked up the joke and the two laughed as they stepped in the bare office.

"Thank you for helping me, you 'ave about 5 minuets to get bake to zee feast, I 'ope it iz delicious! Good day!" Channel said looking at her watch.

"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow!" Kaysha said walking out of the room. It was a much shorter walk down than it was going up. Kaysha pondered over the 'time stoppers' thing and over Professor LaMain. She found her spot again but realized that she still had 2 minuets before time would start up again. She made her way over to the Slytherin table and found Malfoy. She took his plate and shoved it in his face, then wrote, on the plate, 'Eat Me!' she had about 30 seconds to get back to her place. She ran through the frozen crowd and found her spot just as it unfroze. Again the hall was filled with cheering and clapping. Kaysha couldn't wait to tell her friends what she had just found out, but she had to, she couldn't risk the others hearing. She took a glance over to the Slytherin table and found Malfoy clueless to what or how it happened. There were many cries of laughter. Malfoy made his way to the Gryffindor table.

"I know that was you, you filthy little -" Malfoy started.

"Yes, well I'm over here and your git like dirty face, was over there. Sorry, you're not that good in Math, are you?" Kaysha said.

"Well, I, unlike you, are stunningly handsome and I, unlike you, don't shove my face into my food. This therefore means that you did shove my food in my face." Malfoy said with a look of triumph on his face.

"Yes, well you see, you, unlike me, are a filthy little slime ball that doesn't know how to control his appetite. And you, unlike me, smell bad and I'm sure that all of Gryffindor would love to see you leave." Kaysha snarled, there were a few applauds, and loud applauds from Harry and Ron. Malfoy made his was back to Slytherin where Crabbe and Goyle helped clean him off, though it made him a bit messier. Professor McGonagall saw Malfoy and chuckled. Dumbledore stood up after everyone had finished their feast, he said the few start of term reminders.

"The forbidden forest is, well, forbidden. And Quidditch tryouts will be held on the Quidditch field next Tuesday."

Everyone bustled about and Dumbledore dismissed the school. Everyone traveled back to their Common Rooms. Kaysha pulled Harry, Ron and Hermione into a corner away from all the noise.

"I met the new Professor tonight. She's very nice." Kaysha said slowly getting to her 'time stoppers' point.

"You met the new Professor? How could you? You were with us all night!" Ron said.

"She's a time stopper, and I guess I am too." Kaysha said to her confused friends.

"Time stopper? I thought that only special witches and wizards were supposed to have that power. I mean not special, because I mean you are special Kaysha I mean experienced, well I'm not saying you're not experienced -" Hermione said.

"It's ok; I get what you're saying." Kaysha said laughing.

"So what's this time stoppers thing do?" Harry asked moving closer to Kaysha's right.

"Well all I have to do is say these words, and, well just every touch my arm and you'll see what I mean." Kaysha said unable to explain how Professor LaMain did. Hermione grabbed her left hand, Harry and Ron grabbed her right.

"Les viges, dejaro megama." Kaysha whispered. The whole room paused except for the four of them.

"Wow…" Ron said walking over to Anise. He waved his hand in her face.

"What are you doing?" she asked. Ron jumped.

"I thought you only said that it worked on time stoppers!" Ron said turning around to face Kaysha.

"She must be one too." Kaysha said walking over to her sister.

"Mother told me that I am, because she froze time to clean house for dad, I scared her half to death when I walked in the kitchen and said that my goldfish stopped moving." Anise said laughing at the last part. The four 6th years laughed along with her.

"So how long does this time stopping thing last?" Harry said.

"Thirty minuets. Unless I say those words again, then it'll go right back." Kaysha replied.

"Can you unfreeze time now?" Hermione said, with her face green.

"Sure… Les viges, dejaro megama." The Common Room was filled with the usual hellos and laughter just as before.

"So what's the Professor's name?" Ron asked.

"Channel LaMain or Professor LaMain." Kaysha said turning to find a comfortable chair.

It was about 11:30 when Harry, Ron, Hermione and Kaysha finally decided to go to sleep.

"'Night Ron. 'Night Harry." Hermione said making her way up the stairs yawning.

"'Night Hermione, 'Night Kaysha." Ron said making his way up stairs.

"'Night Ron." Kaysha said as Ron reached the last step.

"'Night Hermione." Harry said as the Girls dormitory door closed.

"So, you've got some special power, that's pretty cool." Harry said trying to start up a conversation.

"Yea. It's kind of weird though." Kaysha said chuckling.

"Yea, I guess it would be. So I'll see you tomorrow." Harry said.

"See ya tomorrow." Kaysha answered. The two looked at each other. There was some emotion that flew between the two's eyes but Kaysha was unsure of what the emotion was. She and Harry made their way up the steps to their dormitories. Kaysha took a glance back to look at Harry and she found that he was doing the same thing. Kaysha smiled at him and went into the 6th year girl's room and closed the door. She smiled as she changed and got into bed. Suddenly her curtains were drawn back. Kaysha sat bolt right in bed.

"You like him don't you!" said an almost too familiar voice. Kaysha relaxed and laid back down.

"We all know you do." Said another voice. She hadn't expected more than one girl to gang up on her. A light went on and she saw that the whole dormitory was sitting there plus her sister.

"So what if I think he's hott, you probably do too!" Kaysha said defending herself; rolling over on one side to face more girls.

"It's ok, admit it, you want to go out with him." Lavender said.

"Well, I -" Kaysha was interrupted by Professor McGonagall.

"Lights out everyone!" Kaysha loved Professor McGonagall, Kaysha hope that she'd love her just as much tomorrow when Kaysha took her class. Kaysha smiled and pulled back the curtains and lay back down.

"She just said lights out, she didn't say no talking." Hermione said slightly opening the curtains and she sat down on the bed.

"Alright, if it's so important to you, yes I do like him!" Kaysha said shoving Hermione out of her bed.

"You're just saying that so I'll get off your case, not from your heart." Hermione said as she closed the curtains and went to sleep. Kaysha pondered over the words that Hermione had just said until she slipped into a deep sleep.

Hope that ya'll like it; the second chapter will be coming out soon!

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