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Last Chapter

Everyone went up to their dormitories and as soon as their head hit the pillow they were asleep. Well almost everyone. The only person who was left awake was Jen, and she was sitting in the common room reading.

Sirius was the first person awake in the guy's dormitory. He quickly got out of bed and went to take his shower. When he got out, he realized that no one was awake yet so being his normal energetic self, he started to wake everyone up. Sirius didn't stop to think maybe people weren't morning people. He woke up James by jumping on his bed. James pretty much pushed Sirius off the bed and said, "Leave me alone! How could anyone be up this early?" Sirius then decided that James would want to have a nice cold shower. Ho got off the floor and went to the pitcher of water under the window. Sirius walked over and poured the whole pitcher on James.

James's "Sirius I am going to get you" ended up waking both Remus and Peter. When Sirius heard James, he ran down to the common room and hid. About a half-hour later James, Remus, and Peter walked down the stairs, ready to go to breakfast.

James called, "Sirius, come out, I won't do anything to you now, maybe later, but not now." Sirius looked up from the nook that he had found on a table in the corner of the room. He called back, "James, I am right here. I can't wait to see what you come up with for getting me back."

Remus walked over to Sirius. "What book are you reading?"

"I don't really know. When I came down this morning I found it open to this page on the table. I just started reading it. It is an amazing book."

By the point James had walked over with Peter following close behind. "I have seen that book. My parents have it in their library. It is really advanced magic; most of it is counter curses to the dark arts curses. My parents won't allow mw to look at their copy. I wonder whose it is."

Must be a seventh year," said Peter. He really just wanted to be part of the conversation. Peter just wanted to be friends with them, and he told himself that he was going to do everything possible to be friends with them.

"No Peter, I don't think even seventh yeas would be allowed to have this book. We maybe with all those attacks but I still don't think so. Whose ever it is knows a fair amount of the dark arts," Sirius said with out looking up from the book.

"Why is that?"

"This book only gives the counter curses which means you need to know the curses before you read the book." Sirius turned to the front of the book. "I would only know about half these curses and my family owns almost every book about the dark arts."

"Why don't we go to breakfast? We probably shout not have looked at it. Lets just go and pretend that we didn't see it." Remus looked a little worried.

"Fine lets go."

At breakfast Peter remembered what Sirius said the night before. "Sirius, I have a question. What did you mean by being in Gryffindor doesn't mean you are a Gryffindor?"

"Sorry Peter, I forgot that you come from a muggle family. Well Gryffindors and Slytherins are enemies. They have been like that since the founding fathers. Well when Stone shook Malfoy's hand that broke that law. Stone might be in Gryffindor but she, how do I put this, she won't act like a Gryffindor. I bet she knows a lot about the dark arts."

That scared Peter because the hat thought she should have been in Slytherin. Sirius must have thought that Peter was scared of the dark arts comment because he said, "Don't worry Pete she wouldn't try anything while she is here."

Peter just gave a small smile and started eating again. Professor McGonagall came around and handed everyone a time table. James looked over it and just shook his head. "Well at least we don't start with double potions." It was the best thing he could think of to say. The first class was Transfiguration and then Double Potions. After lunch they had Herbology.

"Why is Double Potions so horrible?" Peter looked over his time table waiting for an answer. He couldn't see anything wrong with it.

James looked at Peter and said, "See that women sitting next to Professor McGonagall?" Peter looked over to the staff's table. "You mean the one with brown hair that is pilled on top of her head?" James turned back to Peter. "Yeah, well she is the head of Slytherin, her name is Professor Collins, and she is the potions master. She favors her own students. Gryffindors always have potions with Slytherins, so no matter how hard you try you never get the grade you deserve unless every thing is perfect."

"We should probably start down since no one really knows where the class room is," said Remus. With that James, Sirius, and Peter got up to follow Remus. They found that room with only a few minutes to spare. They quickly got in and sat down. James and Sirius paired up and sat at the back of the room. Remus and Peter sat at the table next to them. No one saw Jen slip in and sit in the back corner. Lily came in quickly and sat at the first available seat, which happened to be at the table with Jen.

As soon as the bell rang Professor Collins stood up and started talking about potions. "This will be a hard class for all of you, but it you do as you are told it will pay off in the end. Potions is very useful in daily life."

The rest of the class was taking notes about certain types of potions. The bell rang and James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter all got up and headed out the door. Their next class was transfiguration.

The bell rang just as everyone sat down. Professor McGonagall got up and went to the front of the room. She quickly did role call and started the lesson. "Why don't we start a practical lesson? Everyone have their wands ready to copy me." That was how the lesson went. By the end of class only James, Sirius, and Jen, much to Sirius's and James's dislike, could turn their feathers into a needle.

Everyone else had to practice it as their homework. Peter looked frustrated. Sirius just said, "Keep trying Pete you are bound to get it down sometime."

This didn't help Peter's mood. "Yeah when is sometime like in a year. I can't even do the simplest transfiguration. I don't think I can be a wizard."

James just turned around (he was walking with Sirius in front). "Peter only three people got it to work. Stone just got it at the end of the period. Even Remus didn't get it during class."

"So says the person who got it on the first try!"

"No more like fifth, but it doesn't matter how many tries I did it in. If you want help just ask. I will gladly help you."

The rest of the afternoon was uneventful. Herbology was just as boring as James had thought it was going to be, but Peter seemed to have fun. James did like the Jen was having problems with this class. The only good thing about the day, as Sirius decided, was the open period right before dinner. Everyone went up to the common room. James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter went in and took one of the corners with a couple comfy chairs. The minute Sirius sat down, his eyes began to sparkle. James looked up and said, "Sirius, what are you thinking?"

It was amazing that James already knew Sirius so well. "Well if you and I could a feather into a needle what is do different then a chair or something else?"

Remus was quickly becoming the most sensible one of the group. "What a minute, first of all we would be in so much trouble and secondly only the two of you can do it." Remus seemed to know what Sirius was thinking too.

"Well you guys could work on it this week and we could do it next week." Sirius looked really hopeful.

"No we can't physically hurt someone like that, maybe in charms we will learn something we can prank with." Remus seemed to think that would be fun. Remus looked around and saw Jen sitting near the table they found the book that morning. The book was gone. Peter seemed to see the some thing.

"I wonder who owns the book me found this morning because who ever owned it picked it up. The book is gone from the table." Sirius and James looked over. What seemed to amaze Remus was that neither of them could see Jen sitting in the same spot as Sirius had this morning, reading a book.

"Well, I am personally glad that it is something from our house because I know that we will be protected whoever it is." James's eyes lingered on the table until he said, "Remus, isn't that Stone sitting there reading a book?"

"Yeah that is Stone and she is in the exact spot you were this morning Sirius," Peter piped in.

"What is your guy's point? So she is sitting there reading. I don't care what she does as long as she doesn't bother me." Sirius looked angry.

"Well, Sirius, what if the book belongs to her? I think she might know enough of the dark arts to be able to understand it." Remus met Sirius's eyes. "I also want you to know that the spell we used at the welcome feast was in fact hers. She was sitting in the compartment when I walked in, just none of you guys noticed her there. Maybe she isn't as bad as you think she is."

This speech brought the desired affect. James and Sirius had their mouth wide open. "Why didn't you tell us about her then?"

"Well James, I was about to introduce her but then Sirius and Peter walked in. I met her eyes and she shook her head to tell me not to bother with introductions."

Sirius looked at Remus and said, "I still don't like her, no matter what book she has done. Why did she shake Malfoy's hand then if she doesn't believe in the dark arts and being a pureblood?"

"Haven't you ever heard 'keep your friends close but your enemies closer'?" a voice from behind the group said. Everyone turned around quickly to see Jen just standing there. "I came over to tell you dinner is almost over so you guys might want to hurry if you want something to eat."

No one realized that everyone had left except for them and Jen. "Why didn't you go down if dinner had started?" Sirius asked suspiciously.

"Sirius, that was completely uncalled for." Remus looked ready to kill.

"No, Remus, it is ok. It is a perfectly good question. The answer is that I wasn't hungry." The smile never left her face. "Now that I told you what I wanted to I will just go sit back down and you can finish talking about me." As soon as she finished, she turned and sat right back down and picked up her book again.

"Let's go to dinner. I am really hungry. Please." Peter didn't stop pleading until James finally said that they would go.

Jen was right, dinner was almost over. By the time they got there almost everyone had left, either onto the grounds or back up to their common room to start their homework. They ate quickly but stayed in the Great Hall for awhile.

"I can't believe she just walked over and said that quote, told us about dinner and then left. I wonder how long she had been standing there."

"Sirius, I think that you are over reacting a little and she only heard the question. She wasn't close enough to hear anything other than that." Remus's tone told Sirius that he disapproved of what Sirius had said either before in the common room or just then.

"Then if you like her so much why don't you just go and be friends with her? I am sure that you two would get along great."

"I will leave then since you don't seem to want me here either." Remus looked mad and this was where James learned that he never wanted to be on Remus's bad side.

"No, please Remus, don't go. Sirius didn't really mean those things." James gave Sirius a hard look. "We don't want you to go."

"No it is fine I understand completely. Don't worry I won't hold it against you. I am sure Jen is better company then Sirius is anyways." He was gone before anyone could say something else.

James just turned to Sirius and gave him an evil glare. "No, why did you have to go and do that? It is only the first day of school and you are already judging people and making enemies. Let you just say something, you are doing the exact thing that your parents do, and on that note I am leaving. Come on Peter, Sirius needs to think without distractions."

Sirius sat in the Great Hall for hours just thinking about what James had said about him and his parents. It was midnight before Sirius even thought of moving. After about fifteen minutes debate, Sirius decided to head up to the common room. He had decided he would apologize to Remus for what said.

Sirius walked into the common room and was surprised to find Remus and Jen still up. Sirius walked over. "Remus, I am sorry for what I said and Jen I am sorry too. I wasn't giving you a chance to prove yourself. I have so bent on not being like my family that I started acting like them. Again I am sorry."

Jen looked up. This was the first time Sirius had seen her eyes. He was amazed at the color they were. "NO it is fine you every right to think what you did. If you didn't know me then it would look like I was trying to be friends with the 'enemy'. I was always taught that if you can keep enemies as close as friends, it helps you in the long run. No matter how much I don't want to be Malfoy's friend, or any Slytherin for that matter, I feel that it might help me later." Jen gave Remus a look that clearly said 'Forgive him; he did say he was sorry'.

Remus looked from Jen to Sirius. "Yeah it is fine. I overreacted too. I am sorry." Sirius just went up to Remus and held out his hand as a peace offering. Remus took his hand, and then Sirius sat down. "Jen will you tell me more about you since I don't know anything."

"Well you know my parents left me with my grandparents when I was one. After that I seemed to fall out of the eyes of the wizarding world. My grandfather died when I was three and my grandmother remarried a muggle. Though he took a little while to get used to the idea that she was a witch, he got used to it. He didn't seem to mind me. Well then my grandmother dies and my 'new' grandpa remarried a muggle and she hated me. So when I was six I was taken to her daughter's house to be raised. They didn't have any kids when I got there but the next year they had a little boy, Adam. After Adam was born I was forgotten by my 'aunt and uncle'. Then I came here. You don't really need to know much more than that."

Sirius just sat there amazed. Finally he said, "I can't believe that happened to you. That must have been hard." Sirius figured that she hadn't told everything, but decided that he would find that rest out later. He looked up and saw that she was reading again. He didn't want to disturb her so he laid down on the couch to read, but he fell asleep.

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