"Welcome, students to another year at Hogwarts" greeted Headmaster Weasley "I hope you are all excited for the great year it will be! Now, for all the first years, just some housekeeping rules.."
Willow, Snitch, Stella and Pippa zoned out at this point, they weren't first years anymore, and they didn't really need to hear this. Then, Headmaster Weasley said something that shocked them all.
"I, however, must tell you, that we Professors believe that Mary-Anne Grassus is in the school"
The whole school gasped. They knew how bad Grassus was, and to have her in the school again...maybe this year wasn't going to be great.
After that, they were all sent to their dormitories. Willow, Snitch, Stella and Pippa met at the door of the great hall and continued walking together.
"Wow, what a lovely thought to leave us with right before we go to bed "there could be a killer in the school" how nice..." said Willow, her voice dripping with sarcasm
"Yeah, I know. I could have nightmares!" exclaimed Pippa
"What if she gets into the common rooms and finds us?" said Stella
"You know what we should do? We should look for her" Snitch whispered
"Yeah! That's a great idea" said Willow and Stella, together
"I don't know guys...it sounds really dangerous" commented Pippa
"Well then, don't come" Snitch replied
Willow said goodbye to her friends and skipped off to the Ravenclaw common room.
"There is a common English word that is nine letters long. Each time you remove a letter from it, it still remains an English word - from nine letters right down to a single letter. What is the original word, and what are the words that it becomes after removing one letter at a time? "The portrait asked
Willow thought about this, but it didn't take her long to figure it out.
"The base word is startling - starting - staring - string - sting - sing - sin - in – I" answered Willow, proudly.
The portrait swung open, and Willow walked into the common room to sit with her friends Lysander and Lorcan.
Stella ran down to the dungeons to her common room.
"Bezoar" uttered Stella
The portrait swung open and she clambered into the green and black common room.
Pippa and Snitch dawdled to their common room, they were arguing about going to look for Grassus. As soon as they came to the portrait, they said the password as fast as they could, as to get away from the other girl
"Caput draconis!" they both said
And the girls quickly and quietly walked up to their dormitory. They both soon realised that unfortunately...they shared a dorm.
The next day, Willow, Snitch, Stella and Pippa met at the entrance of the great hall. Willow, Snitch and Stella decided that after breakfast, they would go and look for Grassus. Pippa didn't want to go; she didn't want to miss her first day of classes as a second year.
Stella and Willow decided that they would sit at the Gryffindor table with Snitch and Pippa for breakfast. Pippa knew they would be talking about their plan to find Grassus, so she sat with her friends Rose and Albus...
Stella, Snitch and Willow ran around the school, using all the spells they knew, and checking every place they went, they were about to check the one-eyed witch passage way, when Professor Blueburger came striding past
"What are you girls doing out of class?" she shouted
"We were...um...looking for... "Stammered Snitch
"It doesn't matter! You were breaking school rules and for that you must be punished! Detention for all of you, and ten points from Ravenclaw, Slytherin and Gryffindor" said Blueburger
They all groaned in unison.
"That's quite enough, get back to your classes please" demanded the Professor
Stella, Snitch and Willow walked back to their class, which was Charms. They were all quite disappointed; they really wanted to find Grassus. But they got detention with professor Blueburger instead.
The girls walked into charms and found Pippa looking at them with a smug look on her face. She was sitting with Rose, so Snitch and Willow found a desk, and Stella went to sit with Storme, as she did not want to sit with Scorpius and his friends.
