What had happened at the Sphinx? Why did she have that dream of her sister? Clairisa couldn't figure it out. She jumped at Hermione's silent thought.

She looked around the common room, and then went up to her dorm she had to get her stuff. She had to do what she had to do to trick Tricia. The least she could do is help her with the research she wanted. She dug through her trunk and pulled out the book that she gone and bought the night before. "Egyptian History" was a big book but I had more information than most people thought, they just didn't know how to look at what they wanted to look for.

"Are you alright?" Hermione asked from the doorway.

Clairisa turned and smiled. "Yea, of course what would make you think I wasn't?" She looked around the room then walked over to Hermione, "Let's continue this down in the common room."

Hermione nodded and together they walked back down to sit in front of the fire.

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Harry saw Hermione looking at Clairisa sympathetically. But when she went back to her charms homework she didn't see Clairisa jump. "Do you think she is still upset over whatever it is she saw in Divination?" Ron whispered trying not to disturber Hermione.

"What do you mean?" Hermione snapped from her homework.

Harry looked at her while Clairisa's gaze was scanning the common room. "She had a vision or something today. She didn't say anything she just zoned out. She looked scared when she well came back to reality." Then as an after thought added. "What's a baka?"

Hermione laughed. "It can mean Moron, Idiot, or stupid. It depends on how it's used. It Japanese. I have a cousin who lives there. He taught me how to speak it." She smiled. "I'm going to visit him this summer."

Looking back at the chair Hermione realized that Clairisa wasn't in front of the fire anymore. She decided to follow.

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"Harry what do you think is going on?" Ron asked, "I didn't know Hermione had family in Japan!"

Harry chuckled. "Neither did I." He looked towards the stairs to the girl's dorms. "I think Hermione knows something about Clairisa we don't."

"Of course she does, she knows everything remember." Ron exclaimed then rethought it. "But really Harry if she knew something don't you think she would tell us?"

"Yea, your right. She would tell us." Harry heard footsteps and looked towards the stairs as Clairisa and Hermione emerged. Surprisingly Clairisa was carrying a huge book and Hermione had none.

"Now that," Ron said softly. "Is strange."

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Clairisa sat there and read she read even more. She couldn't find anything on any of it! She decided she would just tell Tricia that she was sorry but she couldn't do her that favor. She didn't looked up when someone tapped her shoulder. She motioned for them to sit. Then went to the index, while searching there she decided to speak. "What did you need Harry?" She didn't need to look up to see he was surprised. She heard him thinking 'How did she know?'

"I - ah -" He was at a lost for words. "Well," he sighed. "What is a rose?"

"A rose?" She was surprised, even taken back by his question. She knew he had read he letter to Claudia and didn't know what any of it meant. Her and her sister had perfected secret code, although none was in the note. But this question startled her. She looked up at him finally. She saw that he was taken back by he puzzlement.

But Harry simply nodded. "Yea." Then as an after thought added, "And you're not an idiot." He looked up surprised again. Clairisa was laughing at that statement.

"I know that silly. She wasn't calling me an idiot. She was calling me a moron." Clairisa stopped laughing all of a sudden than just sort of stared at him. Then spoke softly and very calmly. "I don't need to explain to you what it is like not to know anything about your past, not knowing your parents, heck, not even knowing where you belong. Being set apart from everyone and everything you think of as friends or normal. Well my sister and I grew up are parents never home. Us never knowing why we could read everyone's minds. And well how we could do the strangest things." She closed the book and leaned back. Harry couldn't help but wonder why she was studying ancient Egypt but decided not to ask questions. He let her continue.

"Harry, my sister and I were set apart. A long with other people, just as you were. We were sent to a school. Just as you were. But we were sent at the age of eight, not eleven." She leaned forward. "We memorized potion's various spells. We learned magic you yet have to learn. I graduated at the age of thirteen a long with a friend of my sister's and I. My sister had been taken from the school early or she graduated early and just didn't tell me. She is great with potions not as good as me mind you. But good. But she is better at manipulating people's minds. She can make you believe the strangest things without using a bit of magic or her telepathic powers. That is what makes us different."

"I use my strength and intelligence. As if I'm in a war. She uses her beauty and her enemy's weakness against themselves. It takes intelligence to do that as well." Clairisa opened the book again. "She and I got a job. We got it as spy's international spies mind you. Our first mission was quit interesting. Be run into a couple people during it. We have remained friends since. I don't think you would get what it is like to be asked to kill your best friend. To have it expected of you. I was hired by one of the countries and put on a special assignment I was suppose to search something out. I found it. Unfortunately a different country hired my sister."

Looking around Clairisa saw that it was almost midnight at that only her, Harry, and Hermione were in the common room. She nodded at Hermione in acknowledgment. In return Hermione began to walk over. "We are like bounty hunters you see. But we work for an actually company that recruits assignments for us. Well did is more like it. I quit not long after she did last year. It caused pandemonium. We knew when someone was looking for us and chose when to go see them." Hermione sat. "I chose to take a case that was very close to me. Someone I know was in trouble. I took the job. No one I know will get hurt as long as I'm alive." Clairisa's voice dropped a couple degrees in the last sentence. Harry shivered he believed it to be true. "Now I am being watched very carefully. Hello Dobby."

Although she acknowledged the house elf's presence she didn't stop her pace. She didn't skip a beat. "I don't like being watched. When people breath over my shoulder I get mad." She looked back down at her book and began scanning again. Her voice was back to normal when she spoke again. "It was surprising when Tricia Switchback had taken a job here. But of course she's asked me to look into a few things for her." She laughed softly then quickly turned to a specific page. "She just didn't know I was a couple steps ahead of her. My sister and I found something interesting out about something tied to Egypt I was interested and convinced her to look into it while I did my job."

She pulled out parchment and a quill and began to copy something from the book while continuing to speak. "My job is getting harder and harder by the minute." She stopped writing suddenly then looked at Harry. "Oh, and don't go down to Hagrid's tomorrow night after hours. Do it the night after." She wrote a little more then. She picked the parchment up then ripped it in half. Harry looked in disbelief then realized that know she held two parchments identical to the first.

"You are too good at magic." Hermione puffed out. "You have to teach me how to do that some time."

Clairisa laughed, "I will Hermione, I will." She looked at Harry. "I'm going to go send these. Good night Harry."

"Good night Clairisa." Harry walked up to his bed, mind full of what she had just told him. He wasn't satisfied, he was even more curious now.