A/N YAY!! Thanks for reviewing dragonwing and AbbyAbberline I'm glad to know people are reading this. If you don't mind I'm going to use a small bit of swearing just to illustrate a point and Ellen's personality. If there is a problem tell me.

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'Shit!' For once in this situation Ellen didn't know what to do. 'Fuck!' She got up. Fortunately she wasn't badly hurt. though she was still dazed from the fall, altering her ability to think. Finally she decided that it was best to go get someone. She was starting back up the stairs when she heard Snape groan below her. Ellen jumped back down the stairs to help him. 'Don't move you could be badly hurt.' He was already sitting up wan she got to him.

'I'm fine.'

'You sure, I thought I squashed you.'

'I hardly think you could "squash" anyone' Severus sat up rubbing his head and looking at her small frame.

' It's lucky you broke my fall.' She tried to be humorous.

'Glad to be of service.' he sneered. Snape pulled himself up painfully

'I'm really, really, really truly sorry. Are you sure ok?' Snape watched her, no one had ever said sorry to him before, and meant it.

'It's unimportant' he replied silkily

' It isn't if you are hurt'

'I'm fine.'

' Good. You sure?'

'Yes!' he said getting agitated

'Ok sorry.' Snape walked away. Ellen was sure he was hurt but too proud to show it.
After the incident Ellen thought it would be safe to just go back to her room and read something. She also thought it best that she stayed away from Professor Snape, as he obviously didn't like her. The fact that they were to share the same bathroom was a problem. So she wrote him a polite note to him.

After reading five chapters of: "The Memory Game" Ellen was wondering about her roles at the castle. So she decided to go find McGonagall for some reassurance. It took about an hour and a half to find McGonagall as she got lost so many times while trying to avoid the stairs on which she got stuck. When she finale found her, McGonagall was just leaving.

'Oh Miss Grey, you wanted to ask me something?'

'I just wanted to know about my roles here in the castle, what I'm really doing.'

'Well I have to go to Hogsmead right now, but all will be explained at the meeting tonight after dinner in the Great Hall which is at six.' McGonagall left rather quickly after that leaving Ellen standing in the doorway of her office.

Before dinner Ellen picked out her most nice but casual clothing. A white shirt and brown flared chords would be nice enough. She was a bit worried because she didn't know how people would react to her. She didn't dress like she was part of the magical world nor did she know anything about it.

At the Great Hall there was a small cluster of people milling around a table in the center of the room, three other tables were pushed to the walls. Ellen sat down next to a woman with extremely wind-blown hair. The dinner was pretty quiet, Ellen was only asked a few questions, mainly:

'Who are you?' And

'What are you doing here?'

After the hushed dinner, Ellen followed the other teachers to the common room. She edged to the back of the room and lent against the wall to remain unnoticed. The room slowly filled with people that were not at dinner including a woman with big glasses and about five shawls wrapped around her shoulders and a giant man. Everyone was chatting among themselves except Ellen, who was too shy to talk to anyone, and Snape who was sitting in a low armchair by himself. When Dumbledore stood up and cleared his throat the chatting slowly died down.

'Welcome all.' He started beaming at everyone 'I'm glad everyone has made it. I know everyone is anxious about the Dark Mark scare that happened at the Quiddich World Cup but I assure you that nothing will come of it.'

' How can you be sure?' Someone asked in the pause.

'Well... ok I can't but we are alright here.' Ellen notice some peoples gaze rest on Severus.

'The Triwizard tournament that will be starting this year.' Dumbledore went on ' As you know there will be two other schools attending your time will be very strained after Halloween so I have brought another addition to our staff. This is Miss Grey,' he motioned to her to come forward. 'She will be around to attend to your every whim.' He smiled. ' As you see on the table before you there are different coloured stones.' As Ellen looked the table was covered with different stones all about the size of your palm. 'Before the end of this meeting' He continued 'Miss Grey will have given you one each. After you get your stone you can push it down and Miss. Grey will come to you after receiving the colour of your stone on this.' Then out of his pocket he pulled a wristband with a giant clear stone on it. 'May I?' He slipped the band onto her wrist. And she went back to leaning against the wall.

' Now the other addition to our staff is not here right now. Our new Defense against the dark arts Teacher will be Alistair Moody who will arriving soon.' Again Ellen noticed that gazes shifted to Snape.

The rest of the meeting was about the Tournament that was to happen later that year. But all that Ellen was thinking was how to distribute the coloured stones to everyone. She decided to give them out according to the colours that reminded her of them. But the problem was that she didn't know them well enough to colour code them. When the meeting had finished she asked everyone nicely to tell her what he or she taught. Before giving anyone anything she slipped the ebony stone into Snape's lap.

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