At 10 o'clock, once Peter and James had tumbled their way down the stairs, they all headed down to breakfast. Barty was thinking all the way, and apparently, Hermione could tell something was troubling him, if only slightly. He pulled her back from the rest a little, but carried on walking behind.

"Come on then." Hermione said, "Spill."

"Look." Barty said, in a hushed tone and nodded towards the small group of their friends infont of them, "I have you, Sirius has Remus and James has Lily, eventually. But who does that leave?"

It took Hermione a couple of seconds before it struck home, "Peter." she whispered, "You're worried about your friend." Barty nodded, and Hermione pulled his into a hug, "Aww, that's so cute... but yes. I agree with you. We have to find him someone. In Griffindor,"

"Of course."

"Which way does he swing?" Hermione asked.

"Huh.. Oh! Straight. As far as I know, he's straight." Barty said.

"Anyone he likes?"

"There's one lass. She's abit wierd. Like's small rodents... oh god," Barty grinned, "How could I 'ave missed that! They'd be perfect! He's a rat and she loves rodents!"

"Barty, Shh!" Hermione laughed, "Want him to find out already, do you?"

Hermione couldn't help but laugh at the pained look on his face. She grabbed his hand and ran to catch up with the other's, who were already going through the Great Hall door's, dragging Barty along with her. When they entered the Great Hall, Hermione wasn't suprised to see that they were some of the only people awake, after all, it is a saturday. Hermione looked at Barty to see him already with a plae of toast and a bowl of ceriel.

"Pig." She commented, nicking some of his toast. In responce, since he had a mouth full of milk and ceriel, Barty rose his eyebrow's and nodded towards James, Peter and Sirius, who were all stuffing food in their mouths like it would be their last meal for a month. Remus saw Hermione looking at the three and just shrugged.

"Ok, I see what you mean."

"Yeah, an' tha' lass?" Barty said, swallowing a piece of toast, "To your left, right at the end. Thats her."

"I think we can do that..."

"And at the other end, we have a girl that keep's mostly to herself. Scares most people, even some teachers." Barty informed her, as he picked up another piece of toast from his pile.

"What's her name?" Hermione asked, looking up the table wihout turning her head.

"Thutho" Barty said with a mouthful. Hermione waited until he had swallowed and asked again, "Thunto. Wierd name, huh?"

"Nice name really." Hermione said, looking over to Thunto one more time, "Maybe we should try to talk to her too? Unless she has enough friend's?"

"No, she's very solitiude." Barty replied, as Thunto finished her food and walked out of the Great Hall, "She'll go back up to the Common Room and sit either by the fire or at the Window, or she'll go sit by the Lake side. Where'd you wanna look first?"

"Errrm, Common Room first, if not at least then we can grab some warmer clothes." Hermione said, standing up and walking towards the door, "Coming?"

"What? Oh, right aye, hold on a second." Barty replied, picking up three pieces of toast and standing, "We may be in the Common room. If not, we'll be by the lake, Ok guy's?"

"Yeah, sure. We'll find you." Sirius replied, "and if we can't we'll use the map."

Barty laughed, and ran to catch Hermione up. "Is it just me, " he thought to himself, "Or am I doing alot of running this morning... Ahh!" The last part of Barty's thought's was both said in his head and outloud as he had to suddenly stop as to not run into someone.

"You should really pay attention to where you are running, you know." A gruff female voice commented, "Just because you have to catch up to your girlfriend, does not mean you may run into me."

"Errrm, yeah..." Barty said, looking up to see none other than Thunto, "Sorry about that. I was wondering if me, you and Hermione could talk sometime? Just to chat about... well, stuff..."

Thunto laughed before replieing with a nod of her head, "Come meet me by the Lake. As soon as possible, if you do not want me to wander away."

"Yeah, ok. I'll ust go get 'Mione and we'll see you there." Barty said before running up the stair's. He ran as fast as he could up to the Griffindor Common Room to see Hermione coming out of the Girl's Bedroom with one of Lily's coat's.

"She must be outside." Hermione said, "We'll have to go see."

"She is." Barty commented, "I ran into her, literaly, and asked her. She said she'd meet us by the Lake, but we'd have to be quick or she'd wander off."

"Oh, alright then." Hermione said, looking at Barty expectantly.

"What?" Barty asked, tilting his head to one side.

"Go get your coat!"

"Och! Ok, Ok!" Barty said, ducking Hermione's hand as she play swiped him, "I'll be down in a second."

Thirty seconds later Barty was in the Boy's Domentries, searching everywhere for his coat.

"Coat, Coat, Coat, Coat, Coat, Coat..." Barty muttered, looking under his bed, "Oh for god's sake! Where the hell's it gone now! I swear, if Sirius has nicked it again, I'll make his hair bright pink for a week..."

"He hasssn't ssstole it." a voice said, making Barty jump. He could have sworn there was no-one in the room when he entered and he would have heard someone come in, "Your coat, if it issss the brown ssssewed one, isss under Ssssiriussss bed. Jamesss put it there thisss morning."

Barty jumped up, and looked around the room. Walking to the middle of the room, he crouched down and looked around, making sure no-one was hiding under the bed's, "Who are you?... Where are you?"

"I am... I am..." the deep voice stuttered, "I cannot tell you at thisss presssent time. Asssk Thunto later. Tell her Morfin sssaid you could know, but, alassss, for now I musst depart. I sssshall sssee you later, Bartemiussss Junior."

Barty shook his head, knelt down next to Sirius' bed, grabbed his coat, and ran back downstairs.