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Lise squeezed her eyes shut as the ground rushed up toward her. The rest of the class was stopped, suspended in the air on their brooms. When suddenly a 'poof!' was heard, and a black dove glided down and landed on a patch of thin grass. As soon as it touched down, there was another 'poof!', and Lise sat right where the bird had been.

Shouts were heard among the ground in the air and James and Sirius immediately dove down, while Remus yanked his disobedieant broom in the right direction and then dove. Meanwhile, in those three seconds, Lise stood up, shaking and brushed herself off. James reached the ground first and abruptly pulled out of his dive. Half a second later Sirius landed, nearly on top of James, and a second later Remus nearly knocked both of them over.

"What was that?!" James asked.

"Well..."

"I mean, are you, like, and animagus or something?" Sirius cut in.

"Um.."

"I mean, did you really get to be an animagus this young? Most people can't do it 'til they're, like, adults, or something. That is so cool!"

"Well, um, you see.." she fell silent. Up above there was a droning as the classmates chattered as excitedly as Sirius and James had been. This was when Madame Jemen decided to interfere.

"Alright class, that's enough! Potter, Black, Lupin, please get back up, Miss Denate, you should probably go up to the hospital wing, just to make sure you're fine."

James and Sirius stared for a moment then hopped back on their brooms without question, but Remus stayed behind and asked.

"Um, Madame Jemen, should I accompany her to the hospital wing...?"

Madame Jemen glanced back over her shoulder at the slowly retreating figure and sighed. "Fine, Lupin, but hurry up."

Remus deposited his broomstick on the ground carefully, then ran after Lise as she trudged back to the castle. "Hey, Miss Denate! Wait up!" He still called her Miss Denate to her face, as she was usually polite enough to address him as such (of course using his name, not hers, and Mr, not Miss...).

She lifted her head and glance back, the stopped until he caught up. When he was there and catching his breath, she resumed her slow walk back to the castle. "Hey...." Remus said. "What was that anyway?"

"It was nothing."

"But you changed into a bird!"

"I suppose that is none of your business." Lise pointed out.

"Not to mention, you almost died. And you call that nothing."

"Now, thank you for escorting me, but the hopital wing is very close. You should get back before the others start to worry. Good day." her voice sounded strained.

"...Alright. See you later." he trotted back. When he looked over his shoulder, she had vanished. Not only from the spot she was standing, but she was no where in the halls or corridors.

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The Great Hall was full to bursting as the five friends (Lily was sitting elsewhere) chatted. Lise sat and listened as Sirius and James talked about all the stuff they planned to do now that they were finally here.

So many pranks, so little time, they said. Like the first one they planned to do:

"So, I'm thinking.. we should blow up something.." James announced.

"...Like what?" Lise asked him with a slight hint of curiousity on her face.

"A portrait?" Peter asked.

"No.. How about a statue?" Sirius proposed.

"Yea.. That could work!" James said excitedly.

"What would we do with the mess?" Peter asked catiously.

"Humm.. well.. We should number them.. like 1, 2, 3, 4, and 6.." James smirked. "Have them looking for number 5 all day.. ok?"

It sounded a bit dull to Lise, but she was keeping the subject of this conversation away from this morning.

She got lucky, because lunch ended a few minutes later, after she had eaten her apple. There was potions this afternoon. That wouldn't be so bad, except the potions teacher also happened to be leader of the Slytherin house. Professor Harent was notorious for taking points off unsuspecting Gryffindors for no reason. She doubted she would be any exception.

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She stirred the potion rapidly, as the instructions on the board said. It was turning an odd turquoise - aqua-ish color, much like her eyes, instead of the gray it was meant to be, and seemed to be emitting sparks. It didn't help any that she didn't have anyone this time to fix it. She raised her hand, moving out of the way of a shower of sparks. She held it there for a few minutes until Professor Harent finally decided to acknowledge her existence and walked over.

"What is it?" he asked.

"I think I messed this up somewhere, and I was wondering if you could maybe..help me fix it...?"

His eyes narrowed. "Are you mocking me?"

"No, sir! I was just wondering..." she said, shaking her head slightly, eyes wide behind her glasses.

"Ten points from Gryffindor for mocking a teacher. Get back to work." he whipped around and walked back to his desk. Lise glared at his retreating form, and went back to stirring her cauldron, hoping she wouldn't poison the tester of the potions.

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Later that night, Lise changed into a pair of plain black robes with a large hood, and stuffed a few pillows under her covers in her bed. Satisfied that to someone glancing over, it would seem she was asleep, she snuck to the window, and a few minutes later, a black dove could be seen flying away.

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