On Sunday morning, Jade sat with Pansy and Draco at breakfast and Draco had begun telling them about his detention with Harry, Hagrid, Hermione, and Neville Longbottom. He told them of how he had to go into the Forbidden Forest to try and find what was killing the unicorns. How a hooded figure came after him and Harry. How Draco went to get Hagrid to help Harry to find that Harry had been saved by a centaur.

"Hagrid figured we'd had enough and let us go." He concluded his story and Jade had many questions,

"Why did he have a group of eleven-year-olds looking for something that killed a unicorn? That's dangerous!" Jade asked,

"To split you all up was worse!" Pansy added, "Were you scared?"

"No." Draco scoffed, "But how was I supposed to fight that hooded floating thing?" Draco commented, Pansy and Jade nodded in understanding, "I figured our best chance was to get back to Hagrid but Potter must've fallen because when I got to Hagrid he wasn't with me." Draco paused to take a drink, "That centaur was huge!" He added,

"What did it look like?" Jade asked,

"It was a guy, I think. It was dark and I was keeping my distance, he kept talking about the stars."

"What did he say?"

"I don't remember, I was ready to get out of there." Blaise quietly sat down next to Crabbe and across the table from Jade.

"Are you ready for exams tomorrow?"

"I'm as ready as I can get." Jade felt a lot better than she had a few weeks ago, she had a good idea of what could be on each written exam and was practicing her magic frequently, making fewer and fewer mistakes. "Blaise," Jade turned her attention to her friend and he glanced up at her from his food, "Would you practice with me after breakfast?" She asked him and he smirked at her,

"Sure, you could use the practice." He said jokingly but Jade threw a grape at him and hit him square in the chest. "I'm kidding!" He said when she had grabbed for an apple to throw. Jade had a schedule worked out for the day, she would practice charms with Blaise, refresh herself on possible questions that could be asked on her written exams with Pansy, and then go over any potions that Snape would have them make with Draco. Jade eagerly finished her breakfast and made her way to Professor Flitwick's class, he had agreed to let Blaise and Jade practice there.

"Ah, Miss Maddex!" Professor Flitwick greeted warmly, "Mr. Zabini." He added when he saw Blaise follow in behind her. "Alright, I have a few things here," He walked over to his desk that sat behind his large stack of books he stood on to teach class and gestured towards the objects. A pile of feathers, a stack of parchment, a small group of sticks, and an old notebook sat on his desk, "Do as you wish, if you need anything else, I'll be in the breakroom." Jade grabbed her wand, "Please try not to destroy anything I cannot replace." Flitwick added before leaving the classroom. Jade grinned at Blaise,

"Shall we?" She asked and he grabbed his wand from out of his waistband. "Wingardium Leviosa." Jade smiled with a swish and flick and a feather gently rose in the air, following Jade's wand's movement. Jade took a step back and the feather slowly followed. She slowly moved her wand to face Blaise and the feather brushed past his face and he batted at it.

"Incendio." He pointed towards the feather and a jet of flames flared from his wand and set the feather ablaze and quickly sizzled into nothing. Jade turned to the piece of parchment, folded it into a paper airplane, and threw it around the room, "What are you doing?" Blaise asked and she threw it again, this time quickly pointing at it with her wand,

"Diffindo!" She spoke clearly but the paper airplane drifted out of her aim and made its way to the floor, she went to gather and threw it again, watching it, she tried again. "Diffindo!" The airplane's left wing got nicked and it turned and fell to the floor.

"Let me try," Blaise said reaching for the airplane. He threw it into the air and failed just like she had the first time. He tried again, missed again. He refused to be behind Jade in any way. Jade grew tired of watching Blaise throw the airplane and try to hit it so she worked by herself, cutting up the notebook before using Reparo to put it back together just so she could repeat the process.

"Why do I feel like this is too easy?" Jade huffed, she was practicing and she was happy she could do the spells correctly on the first or second try but she felt it couldn't be that easy so she felt she was studying the wrong things. Blaise walked up to her with the tattered paper airplane and set it down on the desk.

"There's one I wanted to try." Blaise said carefully, "Requires much more concentration than what we've been doing."

"Which one?" She asked eagerly, wanting more of a challenge.

"Lumos numerosa." Jade's excitement fell a little, that one had been difficult for her in class. She couldn't lose a second of concentration or her light would go out and it had frustrated her for days until she forgot about it. Jade nodded and moved to the opposite side of the classroom and faced a wall, she didn't want to blind Blaise by accident or have him blind her. Jade took a deep breath and let it out slowly, letting everything else clear from her mind. She moved her wand in a counterclockwise loop and then followed it with quick similar loops. Small beams of light shone from the tip of her wand, Jade smiled but then stopped, not wanting to lose focus. There were currently three different beams dancing on the wall. Jade was currently picturing her wand as a faucet, letting the beams stream out of her wand like water. The beams started to wander away from each other and Jade struggled to keep them closer together. This was the best she's ever been able to perform the charm and she didn't want to stop now. Jade imagined the faucet being wider, allowing more water to come through it and a fourth beam slowly appeared on the wall and then after a few seconds it shone just as brightly as the others. This seemed to be Jade's limit, she felt herself growing tired. The four beams became more difficult to keep from spreading out and they'd lost their brightness. Slowly, the charm began to die out and Jade let her wand fall. She smiled to herself, she didn't know if she could do it, she had only been able to produce two dim beams in her class after trying the whole period. She was satisfied with her work today, she felt like no matter what charm Professor Flitwick would have them perform she'd be able to do it without breaking a sweat.

"Are you finished?" She asked Blaise and she heard footsteps behind her so she turned around, Blaise was placing his wand back in his waistband,

"Yeah, you?" He asked her and she nodded, he threw his arm around her shoulders as they walked out of the classroom, "We got this." Jade laughed as she shoved him off and he lightly stumbled to regain his balance.

"I feel good." She told him as they made their way to the Common Room so Jade could meet with Pansy. "Thank you for practicing with me."

"No problem, I needed it. I was only able to produce two beams of my Lumos numerosa."

"Only two?" Jade said mockingly and Blaise gave her a look, "I made four." She stated proudly,

"I'm going to practice more." Blaise said shortly and Jade laughed again, "Unacceptable." He said seriously but the small smile on his face betrayed his tough facade. The Common Room was full, like it always was recently, and Jade found Pansy talking to Adrien Pucey.

"Hey." She greeted them both and Adrien gave her a small nod in greeting before getting up from where he was sitting on the arm of the lounging chair Pansy was sitting in. "Ready?" Jade asked and Pansy groaned. "Get your books," Jade told her, grabbing her hands and lifting her out of the chair.

"All of them?" Pansy asked as they made their way to the girls' dormitory to grab Pansy's books,

"What do you need to practice?" Jade asked, barely slipping past Millicent on the staircase.

"All of them."