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After transfiguration and charms, Anna joined Lani, Eliza and Will on their way to lunch. Anna was wearing her Martial Arts Gi. Lani noticed for the first time that she had a different colored belt than she had last time she'd seen her wearing a Gi. Her belt was now brown with a blue stripe down the middle. She made a mental note to ask about it later.

Anna said that she had been practicing. Lani briefly had a feeling that screamed that Anna's behavior was a little weird, especially in the middle of the day, but shrugged it off; figuring Dumbledore had figured something out so she had time to work out.

The conversation was turning awkward, though no one was really putting effort into saving it. (Anna and Will, to put it mildly, weren't exactly trying to be civil.) Lani was about to say something when her words were drowned out by some nasty voices coming from right behind them.

They turned around to see Annabelle and Thomas Lestrange, Amy Malfoy, John Crabbe and Melissa Goyle. They were all sneering at them. "Hey, Potter, Hagrid and Longbottom are desperate enough for friends, but now you've got the squib hanging around you, too?" Annabelle sneered. All of her cronies sniggered and cackled.

"Yeah, mudblood squib. You think you can Karate chop your way out of Hogwarts? Hiya" Thomas said the last part mockingly, while pretending to punch Melissa Goyle. She clutched her stomach and pretended to pass out.

Anna was red in the face. She had a terrifically short temper. It was awful, well depending on what side you were on. Her hands made fists and she was taking deep calming breaths that weren't working. "Go away," she whispered dangerously. They only laughed harder.

"What's the aquib gonna do? Tell her mummy on us? Oh yeah, I forgot, she's dead!" They all laughed and sniggered.

"You're lying! Youdon't know anything about my mother! Go away! What have I ever done to you? Nothing." Her already red face was turning, if possible, redder. A drastic change from her normally medium copper skin.

"You have done something, squib." Thomas said, taking a step closer to her in a threatening manner. "You're here, and you don't belong here. Leave, or we'll make you."

Anna snorted, but you could tell that it was forced, she looked on the verge of pounding him. The only thing that seemed to be stopping her was that he had his hand in his pocket, no doubt on his wand. "You're not making me do anything"

"Leave her alone," Lani said, putting her hand on her own wand. Surely she couldn't miss a target so close to her?

"Stay out of this, Potter."

He muttered something to Anna. She pounced. "You're lying! She was not!"

'OH no. oh no-oh no-oh no-oh no-oh no! This is going to be bad!' Lani felt a bit helpless, not wanting a full out brawl.

What? Oh no what? Did you forget your homework or something?

NO! Can you just go away? I didn't know you could still annoy me all the way from where ever you are to... where ever Hogwarts is! Plus, aren't you in school now? It was just then that Lani realized that she had no idea where exactly Hogwarts was. Oh well.

Lani shook James from her head and returned to the matter at hand, just in time to see Anna jerk out of Wills' grip (He keeping her from beating the stuffing out of the Slytherin crew. Or at least trying. Though he could care less what happened to Anna, Eliza made him. And messing around with Eliza wasn't exactly the smartest thing in the world.)

Anna leapt in a flying side kick towards Annabelle Lestrange, who'd apparently said something particularly nasty (Lani missed it). When Thomas whispered something, pointing his wand at Anna. She yelped and tumbled on top of Annabelle. Lani didn't see any effects of the spell.

Anna jumped up again she cringed for a moment but then pulled a blank mask over her features. "Hasta La vista, pretty boy" she growled at him as she ran at him. He shot another spell at her, but this one she managed to dodge.

Lani didn't know what to do. She poked Eliza, and gently whispered so the others wouldn't see "let's try to curse them". Eliza nodded.

"Guys, we're going to get in huge trouble if we're caught. She's fine. " Will didn't want to do this at all. Why did he hate Anna so much? It was starting to get on Lani's nerves. She looked around, making sure that there were no teachers anywhere in sight.

There weren't as far as she could see. There were still students milling about. Talking to friends, walking to their dormitories or to lunch. Nobody appeared to notice what was going on here.

Eliza breathed "Expelliarmus!" pointing her wand at Melissa, and surprisingly, Melissa's wand flew out of her hand into Eliza's hand. Eliza looked excited that one of her spells actually worked properly. In her excitement, Eliza dropped the wand. Utter horror broke over her face as one of the crew tried to dive for it.

Lani pointed her wand at Melissa's fallen wand and quickly called "Wingardium Leviosa!" before the blonde who dived for the wand could reach it, making sure not to break her eye contact with the wand.

This was a mistake: She practically levitated the wand into Melissa's hand. Lani cursed herself mentally. She looked up just in time to Anna flip Thomas over her hip and slammed him onto the ground before collapsing; Thomas had hexed her, this time, more severely.

Lani saw her cousin, Matthew, walking through the halls, she ran up to him. "Can you get rid of that?" she asked him, pointing to Anna.

"Your friend?" he looked confused.

"No-no-no, the hex on her." Lani looked over her shoulder to see Eliza attempt to put another disarming spell on John, who was trying to punch Will in the face, the only good thing being that he couldn't reach it. Will threw him on the ground before Eliza could aim properly.

"Erm... sure, what's going on?"

"I'll explain it later, just please help."

"Right, okay."

Lani dragged Matthew up to an unconscious, bleeding, Anna. "Oh, that's not too bad... Enervate."

"What's this nonsense?"

Lani cringed. She knew that voice. She turned around slowly and confirmed her fears: A sneering, scowling, extra greasy Professor Snape.


Many Many thanks to my Beta, WhispyRaven. I don't know how much longer this would have taken without her.