Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter characters, Rowling has all the credit. The artists have credit for their own songs as well, I just love music.

'Italics'- thoughts

'Bold'- singing

'Bold/italicized'- just the song that goes to the chapter.

'((Bold and in double parentheses))'- Singing with Siren abilities, with only one set of parentheses its talking with the ability.

Author Note: Okay, I'm doing my best so I'm going to throw out another chapter (I made it lengthy for you all) for you guys because you all are being so awesome not whining to me about not updating fast like I use to ^_^. You guys rock.

Chapter 16

Sadly Monday had come, which meant getting up early and having to sit through class after class. Only the first years were awake during breakfast everyone else was wishing they were still in bed, myself being at the top of that list; I was not a morning person and if I found a morning person I seriously wanted to kill them…

So after I had a nice hearty breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast, and hash browns I made my way to class; Alice Hanner from chorus joined me. "God, what more can we learn about charms, 'most of them are harmless but others are very strong and take a long time to break…" Alice said in a high pitched voice that made me chuckle. "Ugh! I don't think I'll survive another whole year of listening to Professor Flitwick. Little man needs to go work at Gringotts with the rest of his family." Alice said in a natural bitchy Slytherin tone, and but in my own Slytherin way I couldn't help but laugh last at her last comment.

When we got in the room we took our seats with the others Slytherin's. We were discussing all the different charms we could use to fly Professor Flitwick out of class when he walked in behind the last group of kids ordering us to 'hush.' James, Al, Chris, Steve, and a very grumpy looking Rose were the last group of kids.

I smirked as James, Al, Chris, and Steve tried to hide their laughter as Rose thoroughly wacked each with her book. That's when James caught my eye and gave a small wave I gave him a wink, the others must have noticed because they all gave a small wave as they shuffled to their seats.

Professor Flitwick climbed up on his stack of book, 'I get what Alice was talking about earlier now…' I thought easily scanning him from head to feet, "Now, since you all are already very talented with charms I thought it would be fun to have a little competition the first day back." I rolled my eyes, 'Merlin's beard, I was going to go crazy if every lesson was like this… And if he seriously talked like that all the time.' Al must have seen my little eye-roll because he was reenacting it very dramatically across the room causing me to cover my mouth to hide my smile and stifle my laugh. Rose who was sitting up behind him saw the whole thing and somehow discreetly hit him on the back of the head with her book once again, "Ouch!" Al shouted rubbing the back of his head.

"Is there a problem Mr. Potter?" Mr. Flitwick asked seemingly very interested. "No sir," he said throwing a glare back at Rose and she had on the perfect innocent face, "Must have been a bee, or a brick from the ceiling falling on my head…" He said the last part under his breath causing some of the Gryffindor to chuckle around him. Flitwick regarded him curiously, "Yes well, if you need to go to the Hospital Wing just let me know…"

"Now as for your challenge today, you will be charming a box to allow your House to touch it. And it will have to do something different to every other House that tries to touch it. Okay? Now one person from each House come up and get a box to begin. Winner gets 15 points for their House!" Mr. Flitwick said in a little excited voice.

When we all finished charming our boxes Mr. Flitwick had one person from each house take the box and place it in front of a person from another house, so everyone could see the reaction. So Al snatched up his House's box and placed it in front of me…

I had my head resting in my hand; I looked down at the box then looked up at him, "Pick someone else…" "Nope" I replied simply not moving. I sighed and looked back down at the box; it had already giving a Huffelpuff enough static electricity to make his hair stand on end, so I guess I could be thankful that won't happen to me. 'I'd send him flying if that did happen to me.'

I took my head out of my hand and slowly let my hand fall towards the box. I looked back up to Al just before I let my hand drop and he was smiling from ear-to-ear. I let my hand fall onto the box and then I felt a tug on my ears. Al was now backing away and trying to stifle his growing laughed; Chris and Steve did nothing to hide it. James was stifling his as well but he looked a bit scared for his life as he continued to laugh. Rose's eyes grew, "I knew I shouldn't have let you boy's charm the box!" she shouted causing almost everyone to erupt in laughter.

I reached my hands up to feel my ears; tops fine, sides fine, bottoms…I felt these weird things that felt like vines dangling from them. My eyes became fixed on the boys as my finger traced the vines down to where I felt some form of fruit hanging from my ears! I pulled one off, not caring if it would hurt but it didn't. It was a plum….a plum…

James stopped laughing when he saw me pull of one of my plums and my face go deadly. He tried to get the other boys attentions but it was all in vain. I launched the plum at Al's head and to everyone's shock it scored a direct hit in his face. "I'll show you a few funny charms!" I shouted standing up and drawing my wand. Now I had the boy's undivided attention. I flicked my wand where Al and Chris were and they ducked out of the way and a chunk of the desk splintered in the blast. Then I thought of something ironic, I slashed my wand down towards the floor and vines sprang up and coiled around Al's, Chris's, and Steve's legs causing them to fall over.

"Miss Malfoy! Stop it was part of the exercise!" Professor Flitwick tried to stop my rampage. I stood up on the desk and looked down at the two brothers contemplating what to do to them, and then I realized I had missed one. I cast my eyes over to James who was still rooted in his seat. I cast a lazy flick of my wand towards him and vines shot up and secured him to his seat until I got to him. "MISS MALFOY!!"

I turned back to the brothers, "Hmmm…" I tapped my lip with my wand. "Oh Come on Alexis. I've already been hit by one of your hexes…" Steve said trying to plead with me. "So it's funny making things dangle from my ears….What if I make something stop dangling? What then?" I said easily keeping a straight face earning cruel laughs from my fellow Slytherin.

"DETENTION! DETENTION! DETENTION!" Mr. Flitwick said jumping up and down on his stool. I looked at him with big eyes….who knew the little guy had it in him. I looked back down at Steve, "I'm racking up those detentions hn?" he gave a little smile and a chuckle.

I did a lazy circle over my head and all the vines coiled back in the room and the boys were able to move again. "You really scared the shit out of us for a second Alexis…" Al said still looking a bit scared. "I don't like plums." I said with a straight face. Chris and Steve erupted in laughter and I smiled; Al and James visibly relaxed and laughed too.

"Could you take care of this?" I said turning my ear that still had a plum on it to Chris. "Ha-ha yeah I got it." I pointed his wand at my ear and the weight was gone, I reached up and felt my ears, back to normal. As we split to go back to our seats that class was quite, "Oh, and don't do that again or I'll make the detention worth it." I said looking back at the boys and they all froze. "No jokes on Alexis, consider it a new law." Steve said saluting, he could be such a smartass….I knew he'd try getting me again.

The rest of class passed slowly and I got the distinct feeling Professor Flitwick had a chip on his shoulder towards me now…who knows why… Ravenclaw students ended up winning; their box melt to the touch of a Huffelpuff, would try and bite a Gryffindor continually if they tried touching it, and when a Slytherin tried to touch it our hands would pass right through it as if it were a hologram.

Mercifully the bell rang and I jumped up from my seat and ran out of the class with half of the other students. I met up with James, Rose, Al, Steve, and Chris in the hall way, "Hey, my plum hotness." Steve said wiggling his eyebrows at me. I glared up at him, "Back off Golly Red Gryffindor…"

"Aw, come on Alexis. It was just a harmless, funny joke. We would have reversed it anyway." Al said throwing his arm over my shoulders. I shrugged him off, "Yeah… I'm sure…right after you all laughed your asses off. For future reference, I don't like things that aren't earrings, hanging from my ears."

"Duly noted," Chris mumbled from behind us and we all laughed. They continued to make jokes about what else they could charm to hang from my ears as we walked into Transfiguration class. We were some of the first students in the room so it was open seats pretty much. We walked up to the front and stopped and we all went silent looking from desk to desk.

"Okay…" Steve said finally breaking the silence, "How's the seating going to go?" Chris finished. We looked from one to another not really sure how the seating is going to work. "Well, seeing as Rose and I are they only girls, I say we sit together." I said walking to our right behind a deck and Rose joined me. I got the seat on the left side of the desk and Rose got the one to the right. James, Chris, and Steve looked between themselves and then scrambled to get the desk in front of us, causing our desk to jar. "Hey!!" both I and Rose shouted.

"Haha yes!" James and Chris gave each other a high-five's. "Man…" Steve sighed in defeat, "Now I get boned, thanks a lot."

"Sorry man," Chris said shrugging, "guess you're not so fast off your broom." Chris said laughing. Steve wacked him on the back of his head and Chris whined a complaint. Steve moved across the aisle from Rose and sat down.

The rest of the students started filling in and with them a grey cat with black strips all along its body leapt up to the top of Mrs. McGonagall's desk and waited patiently. I thought it was odd but when I looked over to Rose she sat up straight in her chair watching the cat. I was definitely missing something here.

A few minutes passed and we all got quite waiting, then the cat leapt in the air and transformed into Professor McGonagall. I was the only one whose eyes widened; I had never seen it before and if all the teachers were that sneaky it would make things a lot harder this year…

"Hello and welcome to sixth year Transfiguration class. Now, for the first quarter of the semester you will be learning how to turn inanimate objects into living things; aside from people of course. At first we will start off simple, making things shift into animals and perhaps do small things like blink or breath then we'll progress upwards. Now, I want everybody to turn to page ninety-four in your texts and read the chapter on 'Artificial Life Manifestation' once done wait patiently for further instructions."McGonagall said to the class and we all dug out our books and got reading, 'Yay, reading…ten galleons says Rose finishes first…' I sighed and began reading like the rest of the class.

Twenty minutes later we all had finished; and Rose had finished first 'I should have bet someone on it…' and McGonagall handed out little origami animals that coincided with our houses. "Now, I want you to just animate your origami animals to behave like its living counter-part would. Now, stroke you wand the length of your animal and say, 'Relensis Faux.'

Everyone began mumbling the charm or possible curse since we're willing something to act out of its nature, but anyway, we all jumped when a muffled 'boom' sounded from the back of the room. We all turned and saw a young boy with his hair blow back and black soot obscuring his face, then a little piece of burning paper floated down; it looked to have been some part of a leg at some point…

"Do…you think I could have another animal Professor?" Was all the boy asked. Professor, to my surprise, rolled her eyes and as she walked past me I heard her mumble, "I thought all this nonsense would be gone since Seamus graduated…"

Next to me Rose chuckled and leaned over, "Mom told me stories about the boy named Seamus; he was always blowing things up on accident. But mom says that he graduated in one piece so that's good." I chuckled to at this, then I noticed that Rose's little origami lion was acting as though it were a real lion. "Nice, job." I commented, she replied with a 'thanks'.

Then I gave a try at it, I pointed my wand at my origami snake and drew my wand the length of my animal while saying, "Relensis Faux." My snake squirmed and wiggled for a second but then fell flat against my desk again. So I tried again, I wasn't until my fifth try that I got it to finally work right.

Now sitting before me was, I dear say, a very cool origami snake acting like the real thing. Rose and I played with our new pets until Mrs. McGonagall spoke again, "Okay, I see that you all have the hang of it, now I want you to undo the curse and switch with someone from a different house do the same thing; animate the origami piece."

We did as we were told and Rose and I switched, and once again she got hers to work before I got mine to; but it only took me three tries this time.

We continued trading and animating the little origami creature until we had done one from each house, then we got to read more…

Then the bell rang, 'Yay, Herbology….ugh I could die happy now not going….' As we walked through the hallway the boys chatted animatedly about all the different plants they might get to play with; my scowl just grew on my face at the thought.

We walked down the hill and the greenhouse came into view I sighed and glared at it. James looked over at me and laughed, "Aw, what's the matter Alexis? Afraid of a little dirt?" I bumped him with my shoulder, "Shut it you. I absolutely abhorrer Herbology… It's gross, smelly, and it makes you disgusting after the class. Why would I look forward to it, and Rose don't answer it because you'll give a good reason that I don't want to listen to." I said holding up my hand to her as she took her breath to talk.

As we walked through the doors Professor Longbottom was at the door handing out protective gloves, aprons, and goggles. "Yay, this is a good sign…" I said in a grumpy voice. "Oh, quite being a drama queen Alexis, I'll be your partner and you won't have to touch a thing, at least I don't think you will. Professor Longbottom probably won't make us do anything to big our first day." James said slipping his apron on and pulling his gloves on. "Thank you James!! I'll love you forever!" I said hugging him and just to push him I gave him a quick kiss o the cheek.

James froze when I did and looked at me with big eyes questioning the meaning behind the kiss, and I just gave a light smile at him and winked. He was so adorable.

"Okay, good morning class. Today we're going harvest Wolfsbane. Now we have to be very careful, one wrong cut and the poisons could seep out and burn anything it touches. Now the gloves I gave you will stop it from burning through immediately but I don't think it wise to watch it do so. Now…" He went on to the instructions, and I looked over to James, he was sharing excited looks with Al, Chris, and Steve. I was kind of worried about the poisons professor talked about, but they looked excited so maybe I was over reacting; and it's not like I'm going to be the one touching them…

I stood close to James as I watched him carefully cut the seed pocket open; I had to stand close so it would look like I'm doing something…

I looked across the table to Alice; she had this class as well, and I made a dead face because I was seriously dying from boredom. She laughed, nodded, and mouthed 'I know, WTF?' I laughed back, and then I caught a whiff over something sickly sweet and tart. "What in holy Hogwarts is that smell!" I said covering my nose. Rose's face was strained with the smell as well but she looked like she was thankful that I said something.

"Oh, good question Miss Malfoy." Longbottom said missing my obvious hate for the smell, "That is the smell of the Wolfsbane, a Strong pungent odor that is said to appeal to werewolves."

"Let's just hope they don't appeal to them from here, Professor." I mumbled under my breath causing a few students about me to laugh, the Professor in question missed my little comment.

James was on his third seed, I was just leaning against the table and Professor never commented. I started out of the greenhouse ceiling when I saw a blue jell like substance slip over the outside surface. "Professor what is that?" I asked looking over at him; he was currently looking outside the greenhouse as well, trying to locate something.

The greenhouse went quite. Slow deep breaths filled the air and nothing made a sound.

The serious look on Professor Longbottom's face made in twinge, he looked back at the class, "Stay. Here." Nobody moved as Longbottom walked out of the door through the blue jell shield. He walked a few paces out and stopped as if standing guard.

I turned and looked at Rose, she was staring across the table at James, and he stared back at her. James looked back at me and I instinctively took a step towards him.

A few minutes passed and everyone still remained quite. Then we saw a teacher making her way towards Professor Longbottom. They said brief words before our Professor made his way back in the greenhouse and the blue jell slowly crawled back down the sides to where it came from.

"Okay, everyone sorry to worry you, just a test run. Now back to work." Professor said as if what just happened was no big deal. 'What the hell was that all about!' But as I looked around I saw everyone was thinking the same thing, and we all knew we weren't going to get any answers.

So we all just returned to our work, I kind of pitched in a hand every now and then. As soon as we were out of the greenhouse and heading to our next class, conversations burst from student trying to put together what just happened.

We listened to the gossip, none of it really catching our attention, we just listened. Until someone came up to me, "So, a few of us were wondering did you guys see that girl again?" We all shook our heads 'no' "Noo, why?" I asked.

"Well it was only a few days ago she showed up so we thought it might be her again…well umm…I'm late for class, later!" and she scurried away to her friends.

"That was my first thought as well." Rose said in her know-it-all tone. I looked over at her with a questioning look and she continued, "What she said was right, it makes since for us to assume that this thing that happened today; whatever it was, was result from the same person. Anything else would seem too much of a coincidence."

"And what I don't get is why they're so intent on getting you now," Rose said looking at me and I just stared back not giving anything away, "There's something you're not telling us Alexis."

Now everyone's eyes were on me, "Sorry I'm not one to reveal my life's story at the drop of a hat, but something's others don't need to know." I said looking back ahead of me down the crowded hall; we were almost to the Divination tower.

'Just what I need, to look into a glass ball and tell me my future… Wonder what's in store for me since I'm just so damn important now.' I thought as I charmed my skirt and climbed the ladder to class.