"Umm, I'm Hermione. I'm really not that important, you sure you don't want to sit with, like, Charlus Potter?" Hermione responded. "No, you seem cooler." Emery responded.
And that was the start of a wonderful friendship.
Emery broke from Hermione after the feast, with promises of meeting up the next day and, maybe, allowing Hermione to drag her to one of her classes, which Hermione had all but insisted on after Emery accidentally let it slip that she had the ability to perform magic (of some sort.) Wandering through the corridors of Hogwarts without her friends, it gave her an appreciation of how large the school actually was. It was easily as large as, if not larger than, DWMA. Maybe wandering around in a constantly changing castle without her friends was not a good idea. She was fascinated by the moving pictures that decorated the castle, and by the fact that magic was accepted and not feared here.
Emery was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't realize that she was completely lost. 'Good job,' Emery said to herself. She then expanded her mind to access her meister's location so that she could find her way back to the dorms that the six of them were sharing. As soon as she had found Kid, he shot a message through the bond. 'Where are you?' He asked. 'No idea,' she responded simply. She wandered back through the castle by tracing her meister's soul wavelength until she reached the door to the room that the group was sharing. She pushed it open to find Black*Star passed out on the couch. She carefully picked her way around him before finding her own bed and collapsing.
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Hermione walked down to breakfast, feeling as if the previous day had all been some sort of crazy dream. There were some new kids coming to protect the students, and one of them, Emery, by far the coolest person Hermione had ever met, had actually come to talk to her and called her interesting. From someone who was barely even noticed by her classmates, having a real life superwoman tell her she was interesting seemed like a dream come true, which all but convinced her that it hadn't really happened and she was going insane.
She walked into the Great Hall to find that she was, in fact, not going insane, and that Emery really did in fact exist. She was sitting at the end of the Gryffindor table with the rest of her group of friends that she had come with. Hermione couldn't help feeling slightly disappointed, but she realized that it was silly of her to be, because of course Emery had friends of her own, and they were here and had known her for much longer.
Lost in her own thoughts, she barely recognized that someone had plopped down next to her. She only looked up when a hand was waved in front of her face and a voice she recognized as Emery's said, "Earth to Hermione?" Hermione zoned back in to find herself face to face with Emery, who was looking at her with something akin to worry etched onto her face. When she saw Hermione's watchful gaze instead of a fazed out one, she gave her a cheeky grin. She then turned to her toast and promptly swallowed half of it in one bite.
Hermione shook her head at her new friend's antics. "You're going to choke," She said. Emery chuckled to herself, before speaking. "My friend Kid says that all the time." Hermione nodded, remembering Kid from the night before. She turned to Emery and asked, "You want to come to classes with me today?" Emery looked thoughtful. "Sure, I guess. I don't think we're doing patrols or anything. I'll tell Kid," She responded.
Emery got up and strode over to the boy in the black suit, who was engaged in conversation with the girl with the trench coat. She exchanged a few words with the two of them, and when she came back she was joined by the girl. Emery sat down and the girl slid in next to Emery. "Hermione, this is my LITTLE sister Maka, Maka this is Hermione," Emery introduced them. Hermione and Maka shook hands. "Would it be okay if she joined us?" Emery asked Hermione. Hermione nodded; the more the merrier.
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Maka found the magic classes to be very interesting. She turned around to ask Hermione a question to see her sister staring off into space with a blank look on her face. Maka shook her head at her sister's antic. She proceeded to ask Hermione her question which Hermione answered patiently. The Transfiguration Teacher, Professor McGonagall, was about to go into a new topic when some sniggers erupted from the other side of the classroom.
A couple of boys, two redheads, were laughing about something that they had just done. At that moment, Emery shot up as something hit her in the head. It was a note that Emery pulled open, read over, then looked up and glared at the two boys. Maka leaned over to Hermione and asked her, "Who are those two boys?" "Charlus Potter, the boy-who-lived, and Ronald Weasley, his best friend. There the biggest idiots in this grade, but everyone thinks that Charlus is a hero because he banished a dark wizard when he was younger, so he gets away with everything."
Right after Hermione had finished speaking, Emery handed the note down to Maka. Maka read it and she understood the glare. The note read, 'Hey baby. Want to meet up with me by the lake. –Charlus." Maka smirked. She leaned over to Hermione and showed her the note. "I don't think he is going to get away with this one." Hermione chuckled. Charlus Potter, the great hero, was in for it this time. And Maka guessed that the majority of this school would probably glad to see it happen. Hell, half of them would probably pay to see it. And that was before Death the Kid found out.