Aranel woke up the next morning early. The girl on the bunk next to her was snoring. Her arm dangled above the floor and drool fell upon her pillow. Aranel laughed quietly and slipped out of bed.

She dressed quickly and ran downstairs. No one was in the common room. Aranel slumped on one of the velvet red arm chairs.

The fire was nice and calm sending bright sparks out to explore every so often. She yawned and watched as the fire died down slowly.

Suddenly she heard a voice.

"Hello!"

Aranel sat upright, looking around wildly.

"Who?"

"Oh sorry." came the sheepish reply.

A boy suddenly appeared out of thin air. A dark red cloak appeared beside him a minute later.

"Sorry about that, I forget it's an invisibility cloak."

"An in invisibility cloak!" Aranel asked in surprise

"Yea my dad gave it to me."

"Cool! So anyway, who exactly are you?" Aranel asked him

"You must be new. I'm Avery Potter one of the most famous people in school, only because I'm "Harry Potter's boy"." He replied

"Harry Potter...Oh, I read about him in Hogwarts: a history...the updated version. By the way I'm Aranel Akimra."

"I know. You're pretty famous too." He said

"I am?"

"Yea, right in the middle of Dumbledore's speech, you got up and walked right up to Professor Dumbledore!"

"I did?" Aranel asked standing up, but her legs gave out and she fell back again.

"Yea, everybody's talking about it! You touched his forehead then fell down silently screaming and writhing, or at least that was what it looked like."

Aranel blushed, red rising to her forehead. "So that's why no one talked to me yesterday and gave me weird glances...except Meg."

"Yea, you'll get that. I do too, but not as much as you will. Don't worry people forget fairly quickly. Hang out with me and you'll fair much better. Or worse, oh, and by the way, stay away from Dec and his group, as well as Meg and the group of prefects she hangs out with."

"Why? She seemed nice enough."

"When she's alone!"

"Oh."

"So anyway, couldn't sleep?"

"No, I slept fine but I'm an early riser, You?"

"Yeah, same here."

The two new friends stared at the fire for awhile. Soon the home room was filling up with students going in and out of the dorms and the picture of a knight on a horse running around a grassy plain. Aranel could hear snatches of him yelling things like, "Come back you scallywag!" or "Good day madam."

"Hey Aranel, you hungry or are you just going to sit there and stare at the fire all day?" Asked a voice on her right. Avery was laughing at her.

"I don't see what is so funny!" She snapped at him, making him laugh harder.