Rachel: I'm very very happy about our review screams and dances around wildy! Thank you so much! To answer Twilight Elf-Maiden's question: This story is (in case you haven't guessed) about Voldemort's Mother. It was made pre-HBP. Tom Riddle is actually, Tom Riddle Senior. He should show up in a while. We're not exactly sure when. But it'll definately be good.

Thanks again!

Chapter Ten

Finally, I thought, Saul is taken care of, now on to the potion. Once inside the secret passageway, I double checked to make sure that everything was in order. Stirring the potion once more, I prepared for what I had been waiting for seven years (Okay, six, but seven sounds better).

Katie's POV

Lion x person/2 + animal regulas por figuras…..

"These are Win's transfiguration notes?" I asked in disbelief "How on earth does she pass tests?"

Calandra shrugged. "When I agreed to help her with her homework, I didn't think I'd have to deal with this.." she said in disgust holding a piece of parchment covered in ink by the tips of her fingers.

"That'll teach us not to help Win out again."

"Actually, Katie, I didn't agree to anything. You volunteered us. Us as in two. Me too."

"I already apologized and did three of your essays for you! What more do you want?" I asked exasperated. I was such the unappreciated genius of the group.

Suddenly Saul burst into the unused classroom we had been studying in. Obviously not seeing us, he ran into the room and hid behind a chair.

"Um. Saul? What are you doing?" Calandra asked in the kind of voice she uses with six year olds.

Saul screamed and hit his head on the chair.

Me and Calandra exchanged our "he's-a-weirdo" look.

"Is there anything we can do to help?" I asked him, worried about his sanity.

"W-w-Win." He puffed out.

"What?" me and Calandra asked simultaneously.

"Win… Secret passage… Thing… Flying lizard..." Saul cowered even more behind the chair. "Poster… stuff… blackmail…potion… ahh!"

Me and Calandra exchange another look. This was our "worried-about-Win" look. We seemed to be using this look a lot lately.

Win's POV

Finally. I was done! I started whooping for joy. ("whoop!")

After a few minutes I got bored of whooping and started looking for a cup to drink the potion in.

Katie's POV

Being the violent girl that she was, Calandra pinned Saul over the desk. Quite interesting to see, seeing as Calandra is about five feet tall and weighs only about ninety pounds.

"Tell us where Win is." Calandra commanded through gritted teeth.

Needless to say, Saul was pretty easy to persuade. When she's mad, Calandra has that effect on people.

"I'll tell you! I'll tell you!"

"Then tell." Calandra said in a solemn commanding tone.

I rolled my eyes. She was such a Drama Queen.

"There's a secret passageway. I don't know the password, but I can tell you how to get to the passage." Saul gave us the directions, but sadly, before he could leave the room, he was frozen. To this day, I will not admit anything, I will not confess to anything, and I never did anything that involved freezing, petrifying, or immobilizing any person or persons… Besides, it was all Calandra's idea.

Win's POV

Finally. I found a cup! That took awhile. But now my moment of triumph (or something) was at hand! I grabbed the towel I had used after showering this morning from my bag (I had been too lazy to return it to my room), and wiped the dust off the cup. You see, I'd found the cup in the secret passage.

Katie's POV

Me and Calandra barreled out of the classroom and sprinted down the hallway.

"You know, as weird as this all is, it's also kind of cool." Calandra grinned and looked over at me. "How can you be eating at a time like this?" she asked me.

"I'm hungry!" I protested stuffing the empty candy wrapper into my pocket.

"How can you be hungry for chocolate?" Calandra asked me in disgust. "You just had lunch!"

"One can never not be hungry for candy." I said solemnly.

"Well, if you just had an entire box of chocolates…" Calandra trailed off.

"I didn't!" I said indignantly.

"We're talking hypothetically." Calandra guiltily touched her stomach.

"You ate the entire box?" I exclaimed.

"Define box. If you think I actually ate the cardboard that the chocolates were enclosed in… you'd be wrong."

"Traitor! I can't believe you!"

"What do you mean? I bought them!"

"You were going to give those to Lark as a get-well present!" I told her.

"Oh, yeah. Well, chocolate does cause cavities. Let's just say I was protecting Lark's teeth from cavities and nail rot."

"Nail rot? How can eating her chocolate protect her from nail rot?" I ask in disbelief.

"If you think about it, your nail's get chocolate on them from eating it. So if you left the chocolate on there…"

"Why wouldn't you just wash it off?"

"I dunno. Maybe Lark's scared of soap!"

"What were we talking about in the first place?" I asked.

"Um. I don't know but I'm sure it was very important…"

We both look at each other and exclaimed "Win!" at the same time before rushing off.

"Do you think we get a little side-tracked sometimes?" Calandra asked.

"Don't start." I said.

Win's POV

Finally (is this getting a bit repetitive?)I was done getting the dust off the cup. I scooped a ladleful of potion into the cup and briefly considered making a toast to myself. Oh, what the heck, I guess I would, there was nobody around.

"This toast is to…um…me being a Thestral…my excellence at potions…and, uh,…happily ever after! Yes, this is to me living happily ever after…cool." I waited a second. Nothing happened so I drank the potion. EEWE! It tasted like burnt oranges. I knew this because…well, it's kind of embarrassing. Let's just say it involved an exploding yo-yo, a purple monkey, and a small amount of burntified powder.

Katie's POV

"Okay," I said "now what would Win use as a password?"

"Something random." Umm, I don't know… exploding yo-yo, a purple monkey, and small amounts of burntified powder are all passwords she's used before.

Discouraged, I looked down at Win's notes. Then I noticed she'd written in her book!

"Oh my gosh!"

"What!" Calandra asked, alarmed

"Win wrote in her book!"

"Really? What does it say?"

"it says… Password for secret passageway: Dissendium"

We both looked at each other.

"Okay," said Calandra "Now this is just bizarre."

"Don't question fate" I scolded

"Okay, sorry."

"Dessendium"

The no longer secret secret passageway opened.

Win's POV

Funny, the darkened passageway was suddenly getting darker, and why was it so cold? I shook my head, the room spun. When I stopped shaking my head, the room was still spinning. Then I thought of something funny, I can't remember what it was, but it was funny. I started laughing hysterically. Suddently I felt like screaming something.

"Bunnies!"

Katie's POV

"Bunnies!" I heard Win scream

"Did you just hear Win scream the word bunnies?" I asked

"Gosh," said Calandra "all this fuss about hiding rabbits."

"Well maybe they're vampire rabbits" I suggested hopefully "I've always wanted to see a vampire rabbit."

Calandra gave me the look "You are so weird."

"Yah, let's go."

We went.

We arrived just in time to see Win, standing over a cauldron and laughing hysterically, Faint.

Win's POV

Win's POV will be taken over by our friendly neighborhood narrator, as Win is about to be unconscious.

The room was very dark, I fainted

Narrator: Win fainted.

Because Win was in a state of magical unconsciousness, she did not notice when she was slapped, doused with cold water, pinched, screamed at, shaken, or had two very odd sixteen year old girls dance around her chanting voodoo spells( Calandra: I swear, they always work for me!) and occasionally throwing salt over her and screaming "Awaken!" (Calandra:Seriously, I think you didn't do it right!). She also did not notice when she was lifted onto a streacher and flown along a no longer secret secret passageway and taken to the hospital wing where she was promptly teleported to saint mungo's (Nurse: Why does she have all this salt on her!)

Twilight Elf-Maiden: Thanks for reviewing. Actually, tom won't be in the story for quite some time, but he will play a very imprtant part in the story