Sorry for lack of update, damn weekday computer ban. I am also planning two nice new fanfics, one Sherlock, one HG. Sorry it's been so long, but I've been busy writing an 80 word Russian essay and avoiding a broken nose.

Knights and Fights

After several more dreary lessons, the details of which I am rather unclear on, we had dinner, and were then instructed to return to our dorms. I found Ares, my owl, sitting on my desk and attempting to chat up a quill. He was holding a letter. My first guess of it being from my mum was wrong, it was from my nana. Bear in mind I'd only been there a day, it read.

To Daisy,

You promised you'd write, are you safe? Have you decided what you want to do when you're older? Are you eating well? Do you like your dorm? Do you like the people? Is anyone being mean to you? You must promise to tell me if anything's wrong. How's Lulu, the cat, do you want me to send some snacks for her?

Love, Nana.

I appreciated that she cared, she just didn't need to care that much, I'd seen her less than two days ago. It struck me I had to reply, I started writing. At least I didn't have to do any homework, totally illogical thing to set at a boarding school.

To Nana,

Yes, I'm fine. Not yet, but it's been a day, and you know I've always liked potions. Not much decent veggie stuff, but I'm surviving fine on chocolate. My dorm's very nice. Yes, I already had friends, remember? People have tried, but it's quite amusing. Yes, I promise. She's fine, just like she was the last time you saw her, less than two days ago, no thanks.

Love, Daisy.

I gave the letter to Ares to take to my nana, and he gave me a look that said 'that's not much to write to your grandmother'

'You'll see why.' I said out loud, when Ella walked in.

'Ah, now you're talking to an owl, ninety fourth sign of madness is it?' She asked, jokily.

'He gave me a funny look; I was merely explaining the shortness of my letter to my nana.' I explained, before realising how silly I sounded.

'Okay, so you were explaining your communications with your nana to an owl that looked at you funny? Right, that explains things perfectly, but that's not what I wanted to talk to you about. What do you know about animation enchantments?' she asked, obviously causing me to mentally look through the list.

'Absolutely nothing, but it's a bad idea to train suits of armour.' I replied, 'They rust and fall apart.'

'Okay!' She replied, overly cheery, before leaving the room, now I was really worried.

I decided to go to bed, but first I had a bath. I had already put all of my toiletries in a locked chest of drawers in the bathroom, but it turned out that I hadn't needed to, Hogwarts provided some. I looked to see what they had provided and came to the conclusion that it was ninety percent potentially fatal chemicals and ten percent water. I got my own totally-natural-not-going-to-kill-me-unless-someone-poisons-them shampoo, and shower gel, and obviously, smelt them to see if anyone had poisoned them, they were clean.

I spent a surprisingly long time in the bathroom, contemplating the universe; I revised my plans for a z-day, an elven invasion and the return of Voldemort. Though I know it was very unlikely I'd ever need them, it felt nice knowing I had them. I was just washing the shampoo from my hair, one of the worst things that can ever happen in a bath did; I got soap in my eyes. I grabbed for my flannel and ran it under the cold tap, pulling out the plug as I went; the consequences of having your eyes screwed tightly together, and pressed said cold flannel to my eyes, rubbing away any trace of soap. I let the water run out and got out of the bath. I cast a basic drying charm and donned my laser kitten pyjamas. Only two of the girls from my dorm had been allowed to use our own pyjamas, Millicent and me, the others had brought see-through night dresses, or shorts that came above the knee. We had to pass these checks because, on the weekends and before bed, you were allowed to wander around the common room in your night clothes.

I unlocked the door to find a queue of rather annoyed Slytherins, well, three rather annoyed Slytherins, each dorm had a bathroom. They were all carrying rather a lot more than I had done; tweezers, wax strips, fragrance oils, bath salts, other random bits of brightly coloured hell.

I fell onto my bed and, for the second time, went to sleep in the mahogany four-poster with green silk sheets.

Next morning

It was the same as yesterday, I was awoken by the R's choosing what to wear, yes, we had a uniform, but they were intent on customising it. From what I heard, they had chosen rudder wristbands with the name of some pop star on, hot pink earrings and, tiny skirts (four inches, to be exact).

I, obviously, dressed in the standard uniform. I attempted to brush my hair and utterly failed, I tied it in a low ponytail, resolving to ask Pansy for help later.

As I entered the common room, Draco Malfoy walked up to me, 'I was in the owlery,' he stated 'you know, to collect letters from father, and when I called for Ares, two birds came over. One of them was holding this, I assume the owl was yours, the parcel has your name on it.'

I wondered who would send what, especially so early in the term. 'Yeah, that's mine, Ares is my eagle owl. I didn't know there was another owl called Ares, if I had, I'd've called him something else to avoid confusion. Thanks.'

I opened it, and sure enough, it was from my nana, but who else would be sending me anything?

It was a food package, the type muggles have at their boarding schools. It contained tofu sandwich filling, olives, chocolate coated coffee beans, English muffins, apple lollipops, apricot jam, cheese spread, rice cakes and sherbet lemons. Well, this was a bit embarrassing, but altogether rather awesome as it meant I could eat breakfast in the common room.

'Hey!' I shouted to Draco before he left, 'would you like a lollipop?'

He returned to the sofa on which I was now sitting, 'What flavour?' he asked curiously.

'Green apple.' I read from the packet, he took four. This was when I found out all the food was self replenishing.

I had tofu and cheese on a rice cake for breakfast, before checking my timetable, it was quite annoying really, it magically changed every day so we couldn't pack the night before and there was no regularity for it. Today this first lesson was astronomy, the furthest away I could possibly go.

As I made my way there, people were acting weird, the moment I left the dungeons, a Ravenclaw prefect, who I recognised as Penelope Clearwater, hugged me, as did several other people on my journey to the class. I just stood there awkwardly for the first four, then started shoving them away and by the time I'd been squeezed by ten people, I started hexing, nothing too bad, just itching hexes that my uncle had taught me.

People eventually stopped hugging me after the third lesson, as I started attempting bat bogey, which 'failed', but actually turned out quite well, they got nosebleeds. It was soon time for lunch, as we trooped to the great hall, that is Pansy, Rosa and me, Pansy and I both had our wands out. In the great hall was a banner stating 'Official Hug A Slytherin Day', so that was why people had been hugging half my class.

'Why didn't you tell me?' I asked Rosa and Pansy,

'We assumed you knew.' Replied Rosa, well I guess she hadn't seen that I wasn't a breakfast.

As I sat down to lunch and took a portion of cheese and tomato pizza, someone came over to hug Millicent, I would've warned them, but I was speechless. I recognised her as Lavender Brown, Rosa's dorm-mate and as she leant down to hug Millicent, she was punched in the face by Millicent's massive fist.

This seemed to anger Lavender, for obvious reasons, and she raised her wand, which was soon snapped by Millicent. Lavender ran away, with the fragments of her ex-wand to her dorm room.

The people previously watching were soon distracted, but as people avoided the first years and started to hug the sixth formers, there were more and more casualties, people being thrown across the room, having their hair set on fire and one was crucio'd, which is when the professors decided to step in, removing the offending student and filling the hospital wing.

I had a more than sneaky suspicion that Ella and The Twins had something to do with this. I reckoned it was time to confront her.

'Ella, you complete and utter blithering idiot!' I shouted at her, after dragging her from the hall. 'Why on earth did you think that was a good idea? Our common room has books on dark magic lying around!'

'It was funny though!' She claimed, through laughs.

'No, it wasn't, even I put someone in the hospital wing, there are people being flown to St. Mungos!'

'Lighten up!'

'I will most certainly not lighten up! If you do anything this stupid again I will use every spell from those books on you! Only not the ones that help you live forever!' And I stormed off, hearing the announcement that the Slytherins were to stay in their common room for the rest of the day pending punishment for various infractions.

When I got in, Draco Malfoy was hexing cushions and Pansy was ripping the heads off Barbie-cum-voodoo dolls. They seemed rather angry, as were some of the older people, based on the noises from some of the boys' rooms. Apart from the three of us, the common room was devoid of human life.

'Okay, you two, calm down.'

'Bloody Gryffindorks.' Sneered Draco Malfoy, taking the offered lollipop.

'Actually, it was a Ravenclaw too.' I corrected him.

'What?' He asked.

'Nothing!' I amended, no matter how infuriating my friend was, I didn't want her hexed.

When I'd given Pansy some chocolate coffee beans and calmed them both down, I decided to put a wizarding film on the enchanted mirror which acted like a muggle TV. It was about aurors infiltrating Voldemort's ranks; apparently they thought it had been long enough to be tasteful, though I didn't think so and turned it off after about four minutes, remembering that my company's parents had been on the dark side.

Eventually, I suggested sneaking out to Hogsmead, using the passages Ella had told me about.