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I opened my eyes, and looked around. I figured I'd see Angel, Nudge and Total with me, but when I looked, all I saw was a bushy haired girl, and when I turned the other way I saw two other girls. Then I remembered, I was in Hogwarts. I knew that the two girls on my right were Lavender and Pavarti. I'd seen the other girl before, but I'd never talked to her before. I have to thank those whack-job scientists for giving me bird eyes. It let me see easier in the dark.

I stood up, and stretched, my wings felt cramped, I knew that I should probably fly around soon, or I'd go insane. I hadn't taken my clothes off since I had been to tired and kind of depressed that Nudge and Iggy were somewhere else. I walked to the edge of my bed, and bent over my trunk. Before I did anything, I noticed a strange piece of paper on my trunk. I picked it up, and started to read the first row.

Schedule:
Monday: Herbology, Care of Magical Creatures, Double Divination

I guessed this is what our day would be. I didn't know what Herbology was, but it was obvious what the second class was. The third one, I didn't know about either. I opened my trunk, a loud CLUNK rang when it hit the end of my bed. I saw one of the girls shift, but she seemed to ignore it. I grabbed a new pair of clothes, a strange emblem was now on it. A large golden lion with a red flag behind it. I shrugged and picked it up. I changed quickly, and started to head to the main room down the stairs.

When suddenly I heard a loud tapping from the window. I turned around, an image was there. It was a girl, small, with wings, and curly bouncy hair. 'Angel,' I thought, 'don't! You'll wake the other girls in this room. Or you'll get caught some other way. And even if this is a magic school, I doubt there are many kids here used to seeing a flying seven year old.'

'But Max,' Angel's small voice filled my head. 'I haven't seen you since yesterday, and since the storm was over, I thought that I'd see you.'

'Thanks sweety, but I'll come after my classes to visit you. Did you tell Gazzy that you were coming to see me?'

'No, but I don't think he'll notice. He was asleep when I left.'

'Well, you better go. You can swim in the lake if you want, just be careful.'

'Alright Max, I'll see you later.' Finally she flew away, back to her cottage. I sighed, would she ever learn?

I turned back to go down the stairs, I was going to go down early, and meet Nudge. She'd freak out if I wasn't down there when she got there. I walked down the stairs, and turned the corner, but I accidentally ran into a boy. I fell backwards and looked up to him. I stood up, while he was still in shock.

"What was that for?!" I shouted. The boy had messy black hair, like he had never brushed it in his life. He wore glasses that he was placing back on his nose, he also had green eyes. That's when Fang came down the stairs.

He smiled at me, and then stared coldly at the boy, who hadn't answered anything. I sighed, and started to go out of the main room. Fang followed quickly.

"Who was that?" I asked Fang when we were far enough out. Fang shrugged.

"I dunno, I sleep in the same room as him. But I don't know who he is. Along with that red-headed kid that was staring at you yesterday."

"Well, whoever he is, if he ever crosses my path again..."

"Don't smash his head." Fang chuckled.

"How do you know I was going to say that? I sleep with these three girls, some bushy haired girl, and then two other preppy girls who I think like are best friends."

Fang nodded. "Angel came to see me this morning." I said.

"What?"

"She flew up to my window, and smiled at me."

"Great." Fang laughed. I smiled, there was silence the rest of the time we walked down the stairs. We couldn't think of anything to say. Finally, we reached the room that entered the eating place. The doors were open, about five kids were already in there.

I leaned up against a wall, and looked for Nudge. Fang followed my lead, and we stood there, waiting for Nudge and Iggy. We stood there for about half an hour, about ten kids had entered. Then a rush started, twenty kids at a time started to enter, I strained my neck, trying to see over the crowds of people. Then I saw Nudge, she was at the edge of the crowd, looking around. I waved, and she saw me. She pushed through the crowd making her way over to us.

As soon as she could, she jumped on and latched onto me. Tears were streaming down her cheeks. "Max, I don't want to be a Hufflepuff. I want to be with you and Fang and Iggy." she said.

"It's alright Nudge." I said, smoothing her hair. "We're waiting for Iggy, he was put in Ravenclaw. Anyways, what were they doing?"

"They were making fun of me, saying that it was weird that I had no last name. Or middle name. They teased me the entire night! I tried to get out early, but some of the girls in my room held me back until they were ready to go. Asking me questions. They wouldn't do that if I was with you. Is there anyway I can change and be with you?" she said.

"I don't think so Nudge. Don't worry, find out the names of those creeps, and they won't be able to go anywhere for a few weeks. Unless they know how to walk with broken legs." I smiled, she giggled.

"Okay Max." she nodded.

"There could be nargles in the air. You should always be careful." came a dreamy voice about ten minutes later. I looked at Fang, and then I saw a white haired girl, she was walking with a boy that looked about a year older. Then I noticed that the boy was Iggy!

"Iggy!" I called walking over. His head moved to my direction.

"Max! Luna, this is Max. Max, this is Luna Lovegood. She's been helping me around, you see, that McGonagall lady wanted me to take the test again, but this time she told me how to do things. She put me in the third year, with Luna here."

"Hello." she said, I looked to her. "Nice to meet you." she held out her hand. "Do you think there are nargles around here?" she asked.

"Um, I don't know. Maybe." I responded, a little confused.

She nodded, her hair swishing with her. "Well, I'm going to go and get some breakfast. I'll see you there, alright Iggy?" she said. Iggy nodded.

Iggy turned to me again. "She's not to bad really. She's just different, and that's what I like about her." he said. "Not like, ya know, she's just really nice."

"Okay, so, you've got your new guide around here, Nudge is being bullied, and some kid ran into me this morning." I said. "What a great day this has turned out to be. Alright, plan, after all of our classes our over, we meet here and the we're going to see everyone else, that works, right?" I had already led Iggy toward the others.

"That's fine. I can't wait to see Angel and the Gasman. I miss them already." Nudge said.

"Alright, do you think they'd let me bring something into the castle?" Iggy smiled.

"If its a bomb, no." I said sternly, looking at him. I didn't even want to think what would happen if they blew something up here.

Iggy just gave me a smile. Which worried me. "Okay, so let's get some breakfast, come on Iggy, I'll bring you to your table." I said, I looked around, and saw Luna, spooning some oatmeal, and let it run back into the bowl.

"Here Luna." I said, she smiled at me, and then started to talk to Iggy as I walked away.

I walked over toward Fang. "So, where do we go to for Herbology?" I asked him. He shrugged. "Okay then." I sighed, just then the red-headed boy passed by, and he was staring at me. "Give me one second." I said smiling.

I walked around the end of the table, the boy was smiling. "Excuse me, I needed to know where the Herbology class was held, can you tell me?" I asked.

He nodded. "It's outside, you can come with me and my friends." he said.

"Alright, where are they?" I asked, this was a one time thing I knew.

"Um, Hermione needed to talk to Harry for a second. But, they were going to come, oh! There they are." He said, pointing to the bushy haired girl and the boy I had seen earlier.

I clenched my teeth and hands for a second, they walked up closer. The boy, Harry, looked at me. "Hey, its you. The girl I ran into this morning."

"Max, right?" Hermione asked. "We sleep right next to each other. It seems you've already met Ron. And this is Harry. I'm Hermione."

"Nice to meet you. I was just asking Ron here where we had to go for Herbology."

"I told her she could come with us." Ron said.

"That's fine. Hey, sorry about earlier." Harry said, sticking out his hand. I didn't shake it.

"It's fine. I'll meet up with you after breakfast, is that alright?"

"Yeah, that's fine." Hermione said, "By the way, do you want to join S.P.E.W.?"

"Spew? Uh, maybe. I need to get back to my friend now. I'll talk to you later." I said, and walked away. That was so strange. What was with them anyways. I sat down next to Fang, and grabbed a handful of bacon.

"So, how did it go?" he asked through a mouthful of egg.

"Alright, they're going to show us where the Herbology class is." I said. He nodded, and we began eating. After eating three eggs, ten pieces of bacon, four pieces of toast, and two glasses of pumpkin juice, I stood up, feeling almost full. The three were leaving, I motioned for Fang, Nudge waved at us as we walked out. I smiled back, and hoped that she would be okay.

Me and Fang followed the three, and we walked out onto the grounds. Suddenly I was almost tackled by a hurdle. I caught myself with an "Oof!" I looked, Angel had run into me, and was squeezing me. Hermione looked back.

"Who's that?" she asked. Harry and Ron turned around as well, and looked at Angel.

"My name is Angel." she said to the three. I was so glad that she wasn't showing any signs of her birdkidness.

"Angel, go back to Gazzy and Total. I need to get to class. I told you, I'll come see you when class was done." I said returning her hug. She looked disappointed, but nodded and ran back to Gazzy, who was waving at me and Fang. Total was sitting at his legs, looking at us, smiling. Harry and Ron looked at them, Hermione had quickened her pace wand was walking away.

"Come on! We're going to be late, you know how Professor Sprout hates tardiness." she said, quickening her pace even more. Me and Fang looked at each other, and quickened our paces to match hers.

We arrived with a large group of kids, each having the same markings as Nudge's on their badges. They were Hufflepuff's. A stout woman led us into a strange looking greenhouse. She told us how to extract some puss, and then afterwards told us it was good to cure kids of acne. If only that was all I had to worry about.

We did as she said, putting on the dragon gloves that we had to borrow since we didn't get any. How where we to know that we'd need them?

Afterwards, though the lesson was long and boring, I thought that I would probably like Herbology. "Now to Care of Magical Creatures." I told Fang. With our amazing vision, we saw Harry, Ron, and Hermione, walking away. We followed them, and were led into a clear part of the woods. We saw the forest, it was teeming with life. I liked it, I hoped that we could fly in this soon.

I gaped when I saw a large hairy man walk over to us. He was twice as big as me, and had a shaggy beard. "Wh' I don' think I've seen you ter befer." he said, his voice was gruff.

"Probably not. We just came here." Fang said. Look at him, being all talkative. The man nodded.

"Welcome ter Hogwarts then. I'm Hagrid. Don' like the 'hole Perfeser thing 'onestly." he said. I smiled.

"Thanks. So, we're just going to take our spots then." I said, pointing to the two empty spots. Me and Fang looked at it, inside the boxes were nasty little creatures. I'd seen a lot of failed experiments when I was young. Such as babies with their organs on the outsides and other horrible mutations. Though, this came in about fifth place. I got one with a sucker on it. Fang got one with a stinger on it.

I looked at it. I was going to poke it, but I didn't. Hagrid started to talk about how these were Blast-Ended Skrewts or something. The boys would burn you, while the girls sucked blood. I was liking the boys better already.

After the longest time, the class finally ended - I decided that this wasn't one of my favorite classes - and it was time for lunch. After lunch we had to go to some other strange class. I ate almost three peices of chicken, four sandwhiches, and a glass of pumpkin juice. I wasn't really into eating at the moment. Fang on the other hand just ate to his heart's delight.

I told him that I was going to go follow some girls who were already heading over to the next class. I followed them around the castle, and into a high tower. I just kept going and going. Finally, I reached a hot room, it had to be the tallest tower ever! And sat down. Some lady was looking at me, her eyes looked humongous behind her glasses.

"Who are you my dear?" she asked, walking up to me.

"My name's Max. I'm new here." I said. "And you are?"

"My name is Professor Trelawny. Oh, here comes the rest of the class." she said, her voice seemed mystical. 'Oh great.' I thought. 'A fortune telling weirdo.'

I lowered myself in my chair. I groaned, I couldn't wait to see Angel. The class piled in, Fang sat next to me. "Alright, today we will be looking at your planets. Turn your textbooks to page thrity-seven, and look at your signs. To do this, you must use your birthday. I heard that there would be two people that didn't have books. So, here you go." she said, passing me and Fang some books.

I turned to the page and sat there. Since me and Fang didn't know our birthday's, I never got around to talking to my mom or Jeb about that, we just sat there, pretending to be interested. Finally, about an hour later, we were done. I rushed out of the classroom, and into a courtyard - it was the fastest way to the eating place, or Great Hall, as they called it.

Out of the corner of my eye, I saw that blonde kid from the train station, insulting the kid called Harry, and the other boy named Ron. I listened in. This kid, Draco, was a bully, and was insulting their mothers. "I'll be right back Fang. I don't like them that much, but they helped us. Call it, returning a favor." I smiled. I snuck up behind Draco. With a quick leg, I kicked the back of his leg, hearing the snap. I knew I had easily broken it. Draco was now moaning. Two huge idoits looked at me. "You want to end up like him?" I said. It was weird, normal humans were so easy to break, these two idiots wouldn't be to hard.

The shook their heads, the bigger on grabbed Draco and walked away. I smiled after them. "Consider that, a thank you." I said, and rushed back over to Fang. I whispered to him, "That felt good. I almost forgot how easy it was to break humans." He smiled darkly, and was continued to walk. Nudge, Iggy, and Luna were waiting for us.

I raised my hand, waving. Nudge walked over to me. Followed by Luna and Iggy. "Hi everyone. So, how did your first day go?" I asked, trying to avoice Luna's dreamy gaze.

"Me and Iggy went to potions." Luna said. "Snape gave us some trouble, and took away ten points, but it was fine." she said.

"I wasn't teased all day. Not after I managed to do this move that Professor Moody did perfectly. They won't think twice about teasing me now, unless they want to be the next one on the chopping block." I rustled Nudge's hair.

"I hope you don't mind, but I wanted to come see Iggy's friends."

"Oh, sorry Luna. But only friends are allowed in the cottage. We might get permission later on. Sorry." I lied.

"Alright." she said, she was obviously dissappointed.

"We'll be back by dinner, and then you can take over agian. Sorry." I said, and we walked toward the cottage where the last part of our group was staying.

"Ya know, Luna isn't so bad. She's helpful, tells me what's around, and she lets me make my own descisions." Iggy said.

"Sorry Iggy, it's just that gaze of hers. Of course you don't see it, but it's a little creepy." I said. Iggy sighed a little. I nudged him teasingly.

As we entered the cottage, we saw that all in all, it had three rooms. A table with a couple of chairs and a large moldy and lumpy sofa. One room must have been the bedroom, the other a bathroom. Total greeted us.

"Max! Fang! Iggy! Nudge! It's great to see you! Angel's swimming in the lake, Gazzy's asleep. Sorry."

"That's fine." I said. That's when, sleepily, Gazzy walked out of a room. The next second, a soaking Angel entered the room. She had a towel wrapped around her.

"Hi Max! How was you day?" she asked.

"Let's sit down first." I said, grabbing a chair. Everyone took a seat, and we each took turns telling how our day had been. Honestly, I didn't think it would be so bad. I could actually get used to this place.