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Katie still wasn't back, I heard that she was transferred to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, so Harry asked me if I could join them with their Quidditch practise. It was storming outside, and I didn't want to leave the Common Room, but I made him a promise. So at eight in the morning Ginny and I walked out of the Common Room and made our way to the Quidditch pitch with our broom on our shoulders. "You know, I'm surprised you offered to help us out, I thought you didn't like Quidditch that much."

"I never said that", I argued, "I told you I like flying, it's just too much to do both Quidditch and schoolwork and relaxing. But it's only for a while, I'm sure Katie will be back after Christmas and she will take her place again." I snuggled a bit more in my robes, it was really chilly in the hallways.

"But anyway, how is it going between you and Harry, you haven't told me anything lately." Ginny smiled, "I think he's finally seeing me in another way then Ron's little sister, sometimes I see him staring at me. But I think he should make a move first, I'll give him until the end of next term, and if he hasn't said anything, I'll tell him."

As we walked on the frozen grass we chatted about Quidditch and boys of course, I was glad when we reached the changing rooms, it was at least a bit warmer in there! But my happy feeling of being inside changed quickly, Harry told us what we were going to do today, and it didn't take long before we stood outside on the cold Quidditch field. The start of the practise went quite good, I could play together with Ginny and Demelza Robbins, and scored a few times, but Ron became wilder in his actions, he punched Demelza in the mouth, so Ginny got angry at him. I didn't understand why he played like rubbish, he had played great in the last match against Slytherin, so we all knew he could do it, but I guess he still didn't know himself.\

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After Quidditch practise, Harry, Ron, Ginny and I went back to the Common Room, "I played like a sack of dragon dung", Ron said as we walked over the grounds.

"No, you didn't", Harry said, "You're the best Keeper I tried out. Your only problem is nerves, you showed in the match against Slytherin how good you are." Ron shook his head, "That was only because I thought you gave me Felix Felicis –"

"Ron, Harry didn't spike your drink, so what you did last time, you did it yourself, without any kind of help", Ginny interrupted her brother, Ron saw that there was no point in arguing with his sister anymore, so he kept quite.

When we arrived in the Gryffindor Tower, I excused myself to take a bath, we'd been on the Quidditch Field the whole morning, and I was muddy, soaked and cold, and besides that, I had to think and the Prefects Bathroom was one of the few quite places in Hogwarts. I grabbed my towel en some clean clothes, and made my way to the Fifth Floor.

It was Saturday, what meant that most of the people stayed in their Common Rooms, so I didn't see anyone on my way. I said the password to the door, fluctus, and walked inside, luckily there was no one using it at the moment. I locked the door behind me, and warded it to be on the safe side, I didn't fancy anyone walking in while I was in the bath.

I tapped with my wand on the tabs and waited until the bath was filled with different colours water, bubbles and foam, then I quickly pulled out the dirty Quidditch Robes and dived into the water.

I made some lanes before I stopped in the middle of the bath and floated on the water, I looked at the mermaids on the stained glass windows, but they were asleep. It had started to rain outside, so it looked like the mermaids were crying.

I sighed and tried to clear my mind to order my thoughts. Last term had been quite an interesting one, first Ginny's love for Harry, although I should've seen that one coming, in our First Year she had a massive crush on him, then what happened with Katie, the poor girl hadn't done anything wrong. And of course the things I learned about Severus Snape, to be honest, that had been quite a shock for me, I always had known somehow that he had feelings for me, but I could've never guessed that they were so deep.

I was feeling sorry for him, and got a bit angry on myself because I hadn't noticed it when we went to Hogwarts together. And now I was falling in love with him. How could that ever work out, I couldn't go to him, and just tell him everything, he wouldn't even believe me and if he did, he probably would faint and then think it was a dream. I grabbed my head in frustration, why is life so difficult?

I stayed in the bath until it got cold, I quickly dried my self and put on my clean clothes, I made my way back to the Gryffindor Tower, grabbed my Transfiguration homework and joined Ginny and Dean in a corner.

"You took a long time in the bathroom, Els", Ginny said, I nodded, "You know it's a big bath, so I've been laying in it for a while to relax and get clean and just thinking about some stuff before it starts messing too much with my head."

Ginny looked curiously at me, but decided not to ask anything.

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I was looking forward to the Transfiguration lesson on Monday morning, the week before McGonagall promised that we would do something excited in the lesson, so everyone was waiting outside the classroom even before the bell had rang. As the bell rang, McGonagall opened the door, and was a bit surprised that everyone was already there. We quickly went to our places and waited until McGonagall started the lesson.

"Good morning, you all have improved so much this term, and we are ahead on your O.W.L.'s curriculum, so I've decided to do a N.E.W.T. spell today." Everyone started talking to each other, N.E.W.T. spells were difficult, but much more interesting then the ones we've been practising for the last 4 years. McGonagall cleared her throat to get or attention again, "I do not expect that everyone will be able to conjure the spell, if there are only two students two are able to do the spell today, that will be a lot, most of the Seventh Years still got problems with this spell, but it can be very useful. The spell changes your appearance as you like, the most common things that people change are their eye and hair colours, because those are the easiest to change. Most of the people get no further then changing their hair or eye colours, because it drains a lot of you magic to change your appearance, but the most talented people, who've completely mastered the spell, can change almost anything about their appearance, like their height."

Ginny put up her hand, "Can you change your appearance, Professor?", she asked. McGonagall looked at her, "Yes, I can, Miss Weasley."

She took out her wand and pointed at her self, one moments there was the person we knew as Professor McGonagall, the next moment there stood a woman with long, black hair, fierce green eyes and a smooth, wrinkles white skin in the front of the classroom, "As you see, Miss Weasley, I am able to change my own appearance."

She waved her wand again, and changed back in our Professor. "The main thing is that you have to image what you want to change, I suggest that you all take a mirror, to practise with, you image what you want to change, you point you wand on your self, concentrate really hard on the change and say 'Muto Transferto'. If you don't want to use a mirror, you can also work in pairs, and practise on each other, there's nothing that can harm you, maybe you will walk around with different colours in your hair."

I looked at Ginny, "do you want to practise on each other, or would it be safer to try with a mirror first?" "Why use a mirror, they can only break and give bad luck, I don't mind practising on each other." We stood opposite each other and started practising.

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When we left the class room, most of the people were sweaty and tired, the spell did really drain a lot of energy and magic. Nobody had been able to change in the way they wanted, but Ginny managed to change the colour of my right eye, but not my left, so I walked around with two different eye colours, the left one was still blue, but the other one was now bright green, similar to my old colour. But Ginny walked around with short, jet black hair, especially by Harry and Ron when we walked into the Great Hall for Break.

"Ginny, what happened to you?", Harry asked.

"We practised a N.E.W.T. spell with transfiguration, and Els and I practised on each other, she did this", Ginny said, "but that was after I was able to change the colour on only one of her eyes."

Harry and Ron looked at me, and started to laugh, "You know, you look ridiculous with those eyes, one blue and one green."

I slapped them both on their arm, "well, at least it isn't as obvious as Ginny's hair, you see from miles away that something happened to her, at least in my case you can't see it until you're close to me."

Ginny looked from Harry to me and said, "You know that your new eye colour is the same as Harry's, Els?"

Of course I knew, I had seen that eye colour for 21 years, and also the last 4 years every day, but I tried to act surprised, "I guess that you are not the only one with green eyes anymore Harry."

Then the bell rang and Ginny and I made our way to the Third Floor for our DADA lesson. Professor Snape was standing outside the class room and looked at us, "What happened to you, Weasley, got into a fight with the big boys", Snape sneered, Ginny shook her head, "No Sir, we practised the Muto Transferto spell this morning with Transfiguration, and Elisabeth took revenge on me after I changed one of her eyes."

Snape looked at me, and my eyes met his, for a moment I saw pain and loneliness in his eyes, but as soon as it appeared, his eyes went back to their cold form.

"You look ridiculous, Miss Vinyal, and now get into the class room, before I take 20 points from Gryffindor for being late in the lesson." We quickly went inside the class room and took place on our usual spot, I sighted, that man had a heart from stone.

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