UGH! I'm sorry this chapter took so long, but after writing the first 2 pages, I accidentally deleted it and had to start over, and I'm not an amazingly fast typer :\ OK, I'll stop my incessant rambling.

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Lani took the sword to her four poster bed and took it out of its sheath. She admired its fine silver blade and emerald encrusted handle. Lani had an odd love for swords and sword fighting, she wasn't quite sure why.

There was a loud bang that sounded like a door banging in the common room below. Lani jumped; the sword flew up in the air and the blade landed squarely on the palm of her hand. How stupid can you get, Lani? She thought to herself as her hand seared with pain and she used her other hand to find the nearest thing to soak up the blood, a sock. Well, I can't go to the hospital wing, Lani thought. I mean, what am I going to say? 'Sorry Madam Cumph, but I got frightened about nothing and cut myself with a sword I shouldn't have brought'?

But Lanis' hand started bleeding profusely and she decided it would be foolish not to go to the hospital wing.

*****

Madam Cumph managed to heal Lanis' cut in seconds, and she luckily didn't ask how it happened.

Monday was a sunny day, and they were going to learn how to fly on a broomstick! Lani was so excited she could barely sit through double charms, which happened to be taught by the meanest teacher in the school, even meaner than Professor Snape, which was saying something. His name was Professor Eddenburg, and his favorite thing in the world was to totally make a fool out of Gryffindors, Lani in particular.

Lani had concluded a few things about the teachers; the meanest teacher was Professor Eddenburg, followed closely by Proffessor Snape. The most boring teacher was Proffessor Binns, the History Of Magic teacher who was, in fact a ghost (the only ghost teacher in the school). But the other teachers seemed to be nice enough. Proffessor Mcgonnagol, the transfiguration teacher, although strict, was very fair, and pretty nice. The herbology teacher, Proffessor Roberts, was very nice and head of the Hufflepuff house.

After double potions, and a monotonous hour of History of magic with Binns, the Gryffindors and Slytherins ("Ugh, why slytherins!?" Will exclaimed, while Lani and Eliza agreed) went out to the quidditch field where Madam Boggs awaited them. There were about one hundred brooms laid out on the ground and Madam Boggs greeted them jollily.

"Now" she said in a loud, clear voice. "put your wand hand over your broom, and say 'up!' ... you understand?" everyone nodded.

There was a chorous of 'up's from the Grtffindors and Slytherins, not one of the brooms responded for the first minute or two. Eliza got hers after about five minutes and Will was beginning to get worried that the broom would not be able to support his weight. Lani had to try hard not to laugh at that. Will had to be approaching 6'6'' and, although he was not heavily built, because of his height he had to wiegh at least over 150 pounds.

after almost ten minutes, Lani was getting annoyed at her broom which was rolling around on the ground. "up...UP....UP!" Eliza sniggered and Lani glared at her "UP!---UP you lousy piece of wood!" That got the brooms attention, but not in such a positive way. Lani's broom flew upwards and slammed her in the face. All of the Slytherins burst out in laughter, especially Matthew and Annabelle Lestrange and their stupid friends, Amy Malfoy, John Crabbe and Mellissa Goyle. Elana glared at them all, and started laughing herself and nudged Eliza and Will to do the same, just to spite the Slytherins.

They had learned how to steer and basically fly on brooms that morning, it took some of the people the whole two hours (mostly the Slytherins) to just get in the air properly, but to Lanis' suprise, she did exeptionally well on a broomstick. She found out that her father and grandfather had both been seekers on the Gryffindor house team when they were at Hogwarts. Lani also found out that her father was the youngest seeker in a century that made a house team, being in his first year when he made the team.

That night they had a lot of homework. "History of magic! I don't even pay attention... I can't It's way too boring, even when I try I just can't!" Lani exclaimed. Will, on the other hand, always seemed able to pay attention in History of magic, and he let Lani and Eliza copy from his notes. They also had to read all about levitating charms and take notes on their reading ("Aaaaaaargh, we take enough notes in class", Eliza snarled). The three of them were in the common room doing homework until about twelve O'clock at night.

"Good Lord" Lani said quietly, looking at the days schedule.

"If it's bad, don't even tell me" Eliza said, Will looked over Lanis' shoulder to see what classes they had and snorted into his pumpkin juice.

"Bad..." Lani said, looking to see if the classes would magically change, "Is an understatement"

"Ugh" Eliza said simply.

"Double charms, potions, and History of magic for this morning".

"Eddenburg, Snape, and Binns!" Will exclaimed, "Is it even possible to get a worse mmorning?"

"Don't jinx us" Lani said darkly, "Because it probably is, and if so we'll end up getting a worse one tomorrow." All three of them chuckled at this.

Proffessor Eddenburg was just as cheerfull as usual that day. "Potter!" he barked. "Repair this!" He slammed a large glass jug on the floor, Lani had never repaired something so long. He knew this. I bet he wants to make a fool out of 'the famous Harry Potters' daughter' she thought bitterly.

"Repairo!" Lani said, pointing her wand at the broken glass, it pulled itself together, then fell on the floor and broke again. "Repairo! Repairo! REPAIRO!" Lani roared, and finally, the broken glass repaired itself and jumped on the table.

"That took too long, five points from Gryffindor" Eddenburg said with a smirk.

"What!?" Eliza growled

"I know" Lani said, scowling at the teacher. "What did I ever do to deserve this treatment from him, this hatred."

"Just drop it with him, Lani" Will said, he shot her a reassuring look. "He just doesn't like you for some strange reason, but if you don't drop it, Gryffindor will soon have no points to take."

"I know" Lani replied grudgingly, what she wouldn't give to put a good hex on that teacher.

Potions wasn't much better. Lani got another ten points taken away for what she could've sworn was just plainly exsisting, and he got rid of her sleeping draught and gave her a zero for the day, even though it was just ever so slightly a different color. However, Lani noticed bitterly, John Crabbe's potion was shooting blue sparks and a deadly looking greenish-brown, but Snape didn't do so much as mention to him that something was most definately wrong. Both Eliza and Will shot her reassuring glances. Eliza's sleeping draught had been perfect, as usual, but Will's had reached the consistancy of cake batter. Snape had taken ten points from Gryffindor. Lani scowled at him with a feeling of pure hatred.

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Saturday dawned sunny and beautiful, Lani, Eliza, and Will, decided to take a stroll by the lake, and maybe do some homework. People were basking in the sun, and chattering with their friends merrily. The trio had just sat down when Eliza and Will got in a, what Lani would coonsider, useless arguement about the giant squid in the lake.

Lani was just going to tell them to cut it out, when a hand grasped over her mouth, she tried to get their attention, but engrossed in their arguement, they didn't seem to notice that somebody was taking her away.

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I know, lame chapter, this is where I decided to put the rating on PG. please, please, please review!