Chapter One

Emerald Eyes Watching You

Harry looked up from the book he was reading to see a pair of emerald eyes watching him. They belonged to a girl of 15. She had dark brown hair and fair skin that was sprinkled with freckles. She quickly looked down at her book again.

This girl–whatever her name was-had been at Hogwarts for two days. It was odd because no one had ever changed schools. One day everything was normal and great and the next day things had gone missing and turned up in odd places broken or worse and to top it all off a new girl had shown up at the entrance to Gryffindor saying she was in the house.

Harry looked over at the girl and caught her gaze. He held his eyes against hers for a long time until a group of gabbing girls came to drag her off to the library. One girl with blond hair and blue eyes had smiled and giggled at Harry. He didn't care. He was going to follow that girl to the library and at least find out what her name was.

He pushed off his chair and crept as quietly as a needle trough lace behind the group and into the library.

The girl with brown hair sat by herself in a table closest to the fiction. Harry walked over and sat down in front of her. He grabbed a book off the table and pretended to be interested in it. The girl looked up at him just as he had looked up to see her. The girl blushed and said, "You're holding your book upside down." Harry looked down to see that he was holding his book upside down. He blushed too but was determined to make conversation.

"I'm Harry Potter." He smiled at her again.

"I'm Emerald." She said.

"What school did you come from?" he asked her.

"Oh. I don't know for sure." She looked down and Harry wished she wouldn't. He wanted to see her emerald eyes watching him.