Chapter 3 All shall be revealed…I think.

Susan and Ellen had finally came back to Susan's house. Susan noticed that she had scratch marks on her arms and her sleeves were ruined. 'Damn,' thought Susan, 'my mom is going to kill me.'

Ellen noticed Susan's face and knew that her thoughts were going dark. Ellen said, "Sue, I need to tell you that Jake had come earlier and demanded that I bring him to your house and I told him no since he wasn't invited… Oh yeah, and he knows that I am a witch."

Susan groaned at that and said, "Elle, did you happen to have your wand out?"

"No, why?" replied Ellen.

"What you did was accidental magic. It's normal." Susan replied.

As the two friends walked into the house Susan's mom saw Susan and screamed, "Susan Diane Thieme what the hell happen to your shirt?! I want you go to your room change your shirt and get back down here! Harry Potter will be here in 30 minutes!"

Susan nodded and went to take a shower and changed her cloths.

When Susan and Ellen came back down they noticed a man with raven black hair and emerald green eyes staring at them. Susan fake smiled, which made her look evil and said, "Mr. Potter how nice to see you again and this time no vampires around. This is my friend, Ellen Russell."

Harry smiled and added it was nice to meet Ellen before going back to conversing with Susan's dad. Susan gave him an ugly look and went back up to her room and opened a potion book and started on a potion when Ellen came up.

"So that is the person who saved you from the vampires." Ellen stated.

"Yea but I can't stand him."

"What are you making Sue?"

"I'm making a potion that will turn his skin and hair blue."

"Isn't your mom going to be mad at you? Again?" Ellen asked, rolling her eyes.

Susan frowned. "I just can't get caught. Don't worry, I have a plan."

Ellen was worried about her friend. She was still not sure why Susan didn't like Mr. Potter, or the why she would want to turn him blue. All that Ellen knew was that there was something that no one was telling her that happen that night and she wanted to know. She went downstairs and saw that Mr. Potter wasn't talking to Susan's parents and said, "Excuse me Mr. Potter but may I ask you a question?"

Mr. Potter smiled and said, "If I can answer it, you may, Miss Russell."

Ellen said, slightly irked. "It's Ellen. My question is, why doesn't Susan seem to like you?"

Harry laughed and said, "Ellen, please call me Harry. The reason Susan doesn't like me is because she blames me for becoming a daywalker, or so I can imagine. See, when Susan got kidnapped, her dad was talking to me while my son, James, was talking to her. He said something that must have made her angry so she ran into the Forbidden Forest near your school, not Hogwarts. That was when the vampires got her. Her dad and I went after her. We couldn't find her anywhere. Then, when we found her she was already bitten and given a little bit of blood. She has never been able to forgive me."

Ellen stared at him. So that was where all the hatred was coming from… Then she said, "Thank you, Harry, for telling me."

Up in Susan's room, Susan finished the potion and was letting it cool. So, she decided to go downstairs to get something to drink. She heard everything Harry had to say about their encounter with the vampires. She thought, 'sure… make me seem like the bad one… if his son would have apologized to me I would be fine…'

Susan hopped out into view and told Harry Potter, "That is not the reason why I dislike you. I dislike you because you never made your son apologize for what he said about me."

With that being said, Susan went stomping into the kitchen to get a soda.

Ellen was worried. Susan didn't get angry very often. What was more disconcerting was the fact that Susan was holding this in for three years, all for something a boy had said.

Sitting at the dinning room table, Ellen asked Susan, "Sue, what did Harry's son call you to make you run off like that?"

Sighing, Susan replied, "He called me a pureblood slut. How rude. I think I was right to run off that night. Not once has Harry attempted to have his son apologize to me for it…immature boys…"

Ellen nodded. That is pretty bad. Good thing Susan wasn't overreacting or anything. Okay, maybe she was. Still, who really cared at this point…

Susan looked back at her soda and thought, 'how many more days until school starts?'

A week later Harry announced that his son was going to Salem since he wanted his son to have a education outside of his father's frame.

Susan was ticked. It just had to be a real bad dream where she would wake up and it would all be over. The next day Susan and Ellen met up with Tessa and Nate to get their school supplies. Susan told Nate and Tessa that Harry's son, James, was going to Salem this year.

Tessa and Nate both groaned. Even they couldn't stand James. Ellen, on the other hand, had never met him before. She was curious to see how this would play out. How bad is James really, anyway?

As they got their school stuff (a lot of new books, a new cauldron, and plenty of joke stuff so they could get out of class…Ellen frowned on that part…) Ellen notice that Gary Stu was around but she didn't say anything.

August thirtieth came around, the day they would have to board the Salem Express. Luckily, they all were able to leave pretty quickly. And this time, Ellen was sure to look around for the accursed duo, Ed and Jake. They didn't appear to be here.

Susan was sitting in the compartment with Ellen, Tessa, and Nate. All four were reading their own varieties of books. Susan was reading one of her new potions books which she had got from her mother over the summer. It was great because it had yet more potions to make than her old potion book, and it had pictures to go with it.

Ellen was reading all their new course books so she could keep up with school and everything.

Nate was reading a book by Gildroy Lockehart. To Ellen's knowledge, apparently he was a wizard who went on many adventures. There was another rumor that he was a really bad wizard and stole the adventures from other really good wizards. Whatever it was, it was far too confusing for Ellen to worry about just now.

Tessa was reading one of the many wizard magazines she brought with her. The images (which were all moving) seemed to contain things like fashionable robes to wear and what turnips can make good earrings.

The train started moving. No more than five minutes later, their door opened to reveal a tall boy who looked vaguely similar to Harry Potter. His smirk was not at all like his father, however. Nor was his tone. "My dad told me that you guys were to help me around." Susan got up and punched him before anyone knew what she was thinking. James collapsed on the floor, and Ellen and Nate quickly grabbed Susan before she could hit him again.

Susan struggled for a second before yelling at James, "I don't take orders from your father! I'm not a lackey for him to own!"

James held his nose in his hand. There was a puddle of blood in it already. He quickly got up to go get something to stem the bleeding with.

Tessa smirked knowing that more or less Susan would have a howler the next day for that.

Ellen stared at Susan, and at where James had disappeared. Her expression was one of mild distaste.

"What?" Susan snapped. "He deserved it."

There was a fire in Ellen's eyes. "Deserved to be hit? Over something that happened YEARS ago, when you were both…EIGHT YEARS OLD???" She screamed. Ellen pushed Susan out of the way and followed James to his compartment.

Susan was shocked. That hadn't happened before. Wasn't Ellen the one who was so happy to use violence back in Laci Alley? She looked at Nate, who shrugged. His expression seemed to say, 'These things happen.' At least Nate wasn't too bothered… But Ellen?

In a few hours, it became night time and before long the train was pulling to a stop. Ellen quickly came in, gathered her things and left without a word.

"What's with her?" Susan asked Tessa and Nate. Whatever it was, she was now ready for bed in the Earth Dorm.

First, of course, she had to get though the sorting and the feast. Together with Tessa and Nate (since Ellen was MIA) they went to the great hall, where they split up. Nate was in the Water Dorm, while Tessa was in the Earth Dorm with Susan.

Susan watched Nate sit next to Ellen, whispering something to her. Ellen gladly whispered back to him, but only after giving Susan some angry looks.

Next was the sorting. The first years for this year came in, huddled together. They looked confused and dazed, and Susan couldn't help remembering what she felt last year when she was about to be sorted. She had been hoping for the Fire Dorm like her family, but changed her mind toward the end.

Professor Myles stood in front of everyone, and read the names off her scroll.

"Cranfill, Coleen!"

A girl with short brown hair and dark eyes hurried up to the stool and put on the traditionary ring. Moments later, Professor Myles called out, "Water Dorm!"

Blah, blah, blah… Susan didn't like this constant waiting…

A few more kids were called. Almost there…

"Potter, James!"

Susan watched James squeeze past his classmates. He looked vaguely surprised that no one was recognizing him as Harry's son here. Or that anyone had noticed that he was a third year. Susan admitted she was surprised at that as well.

To Susan's dismay, and to Ellen's surprise, James Potter was placed in the Earth dorm.

He tried to wave to Ellen, and Ellen waved back.

Susan scowled at him when he tried to sit next to her. Maybe it would be best to sit as far away from the two most violent girls he has ever known was a good idea.

"Okerblom, Bror!"

"Air Dorm!"

Soon, the sorting was all done, and it was time for the feast. Susan, Ellen, James, Tessa, and Nate all ate until they were full, even though they were in different places physically as well as mentally.

Back in the Earth Dorm common room (though away from James) Tessa said, "I can't believe that he is in our dorm."

"I know. It's ridiculous almost like when I thought I would be fire dorm because of my family history." Susan added.

"But how are we to deal with him? You know our house is going to need a new seeker and he's going to try out." Tessa pointed out.

"I know. And I am doing my best not to think of it. Tess, we just have to make sure he doesn't bother us. He must be afraid of us. Let's keep that up." Susan suggested.

"But what about Ellen?" Tessa asked, remembering the way Ellen looked when she pushed past Susan to go help James on the train.

Susan shrugged. "She'll come to her senses. Eventually. Don't worry, we've been friends for a long time… I don't think Ellen will call it quits—especially this early in the year."

At the Water dorm, Ellen and Nate were having their own discussion about what happened, and it was just loud enough for Jen and Devin to be included as well.

"It's just so heartless. How could Susan punch him, and never forgive him?" Ellen sighed. "I thought we're all supposed to forgive. You know, you can go up to the person, relieve your anger, and then let it flow down the river…forgotten."

"Wise words," Nate nodded. "Chances are, Susan's not quite in the right mind at the moment. But I agree with you."

Jen leaned in close to Ellen. "How is James anyway? He seems kind of cute to me. And, I also saw that he couldn't keep his eyes off you."

Ellen couldn't help but blush. Gosh darn it, stop blushing! "Oh… I wouldn't know anything about that… I wasn't looking." Ellen replied.

Jen smiled slyly. "Of course…" She giggled.

"Okay, I don't know anything about this, so can we please change the subject?" Nate interjected.

So they ended up talking about beginning of classes in two days.

gain.