The Forgotten Child by Gemzgurl

It wasn't fair the way Snape had jus shoved her out of class like that. But in a way, Lei was rather happy that she never had to set foot in his classroom again, the slimy git. She was fuming just thinking about that horrible, evil little man. She shuddered in anger. Both Ron and Harry warned her about him, however. At least they had bothered to tell her that he was an evil man, she though.

Lei took a few calming breaths, letting them out slowly, before standing up and heading back into the castle. She stood in the entrance hall for a few minutes for deciding to head for the library. But before she could even get there, Argus Filch came slinking out from behind a corner, Mrs. Norris hot on his heels. Lei sighed; just what she needed after having that…argument with Snape.

"Only her first day here and already Miss Potter is ditching class," snarled Filch meanly. "I believe you're supposed to be in Potions, am I right, Potter?"

"Yes, but—"

"No buts, missy. It's back to the dungeons with you. Get going." He pointed toward the stairs, but Lei didn't budge. "Now Potter, wouldn't want to get detention with Professor Snape, now would you? Didn't think so, so get moving!"

This was getting ridiculous. No one in this castle bothered to listen to her. What was going on with these people? She hadn't been able to finish hardly more than two sentences the entire day so far. She shook her head but did was she was told—there was no use in arguing if no one was going to listen to her, now was there? Besides, she certainly didn't want to get detention with Snape, but somehow she doubted Snape would want to spend any more time with her than was necessary.

Filch barely tapped the door to the potions classroom before he opened it and marched her inside. As soon as she entered, the room went dead silent. Filch bare even noticed the sudden quiet; he went straight to Snape, who was back to his normal, ugly face, and revealed Lei to him as if he had just found Snape's most prized possession.

"What is she going here?" he snarled, face immediately turning puce.

"I found her standing in the entrance hall," Filch said proudly, and Lei rolled her eyes and crossed her arms over her chest, interested to hear what Snape had to say to this.

"She was ordered to stay out of my dungeons!" Snape hollered.

"And I gladly would have, too, if it hadn't been for him!" Lei said heatedly. "It's not like I actually want to be in here, but I didn't want detention with you, either."

"I didn't ask you, Potter!"

"You know, I get this distinct feeling that I'm not the only one who doesn't like you," she said looking right at Snape. When Snape opened his mouth immediately after her comment, she quickly cut him off, not wanting to hear what he had to say to her at the moment, or ever for that matter. "Don't even attempt to mess with me right now, I'm really not in the mood for listening to every single nasty word out of your filthy, putrid mouth, so just shut it, will you?"

A collective gasp went around the room while Snape just stood there and gaped at Lei. Filch had his head cocked to one side, sure he had never heard a student talk to Snape like that before. This new student from Italy certainly had some guts. Must have gotten that bit from her dad, he thought, remembering the way James Potter had treated the Potions master back then.

Just at that moment the bell rang, signaling the end of class, but Lei refused to back down from her stare-fest with Snape. After gathering her things up into her book bag, Hermione came to the front of the classroom and touched Lei's shoulder gently.

"Come on, Lei. The boys say you have Divinations net, and it's a long walk from here to the north tower," she said softly, careful not to make eye contact with either Lei or Snape.

The redhead finally backed off, but not without sticking out her out at the Potions master and glaring thoroughly at Filch for bringing her into this situation in the firs place. Then she grabbed her book bag (which she was embarrassed to admit that she had forgotten it the first time she left the classroom) and left once again, this time with Harry, Ron and Hermione.

Hermione hadn't been kidding when she'd told Lei that it was a long walk to the north tower from the dungeons. They climbed what seemed like a hundred stairs when Hermione left them at the Ancient Runes classroom, but much to Lei's disappointment, they didn't stop until they'd reached the very top of the castle.

"Why do they have make classrooms all the way up here?" she complained, sitting down against the wall and trying to even her breath back to normal.

"I think they do it to make us get some exercise, personally,' said Seamus, panting his over to them with Dean Thomas right behind him. "Say, have you heard about Trelawney?"

"Please tell me that she got sacked after what happened with Umbridge last year," Ron said hopefully, and Lavender Brown and Parvati Patil both glared at him. He ignored them both and looked to Seamus.

"Actually, yeah." Dean nodded his head enthusiastically, also ignoring the girls' dirty looks. "I can't wait to see who've gotten now. I hope the new professor's nice."

"I hope he or she isn't as crazy as Trelawney was," Ron said, rolling his eyes and receiving more nasty looks from Parvati and Lavender. "It would be nice if they weren't frauds, too, but…" He shrugged and grinned, causing the others to laugh.

"I hope the room doesn't smell like incense like it did all those other years," said Harry, wrinkling his nose in disgust. "If I have to smell that nasty stuff one more time, I'll—"

Before he could finish his sentence though, the silver ladder fell from the ceiling and a round face appeared there. Lei recognized the face as the silver haired witch from the Great Hall, though today that silver hair was pulled out of her face by an elastic band. "Come on all of you now so we can get started, yes?"

Everyone climbed up the stairs and took their seats around the classroom, which hadn't gone through a major change. It still had circular tables spread around the room at random, though they weren't really crowded in there any more. The poufs and chairs were still there as well, also scattered around the room. But there was no misty, sweet smelling smoke anywhere, though there was a small hint of it in the air, even though the window was open as wide as it would go. There were three bookshelves lining the back wall, positively stuffed with books.

"As Seamus has mentioned, Professor Trelawney will no longer be a teacher here at Hogwarts," said the witch, who was presumably their new Divinations teacher.

"How did you know my name?" Seamus asked in awe as she turned toward him.

"Ah, Lavender would you mind enlightening Seamus to which classroom he is no in? Thank you." She smiled sweetly at Lavender, who instantly obliged the request.

"This is Divinations, Seamus, and she is the new Divinations teacher," she said, obviously enjoying showing Seamus up. "She's probably a Seer, duh."

Seamus glared at Lavender and shrank back in his seat, regretting having said anything in the first place. Harry felt like telling Lavender, "Oh, like Professor Trelawney was a Seer?" but he didn't.

"My name is Mirashar Tanzi, and I am going to be your new Divinations teacher. Now as I'm sure Professor Trelawney has already told you that not all of you will have the Sight, but what she probably didn't tell you is though you might not have the Sight, you will still be able to use this class to a certain extent.

"There will be a handful of you that will have the Sight, and you will find this class fairly easy and I will be able to teach you to perfect your gifts and talents," continued Mirashar Tanzi. "But until we find that handful of you, I will treat all of you as if you were like the greater part of the witch and wizarding population."

Everyone looked around at each other, curious because Professor Tanzi's speech sounded a lot like Professor Trelawney's first speech to them, although Tanzi didn't keep trying to brag to the students by predicting their futures. Some of them swallowed, remembering Trelawney's prediction of Harry's death three years ago.

As if reading their minds, Professor Tanzi said, "I don't feel predicting you futures is a proper way of introducing you to my class. If you'd like to know your future, you'll just have to do it the hard way by finding it yourself."

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Me: Goodness, it's taken me so long to update, but I've gotten a lot of inspiration for this lately, so hopefully I'll be able to update more often.