DISCLAIMER: Why, oh why don't I own Harry Potter? Because, oh because i am not J.K Rowling. Darn it.

The next day, everything seemed to go slowly. Charms seemed to go twice as long, especially as she had done the spell already. When the bell rang, she hurried out and checked her timetable. The dreaded subject: Double Potions... With the Slytherins. Groaning, she trudged wearily to the dungeons and plonked herself down on a seat next Hermione, as far away as Ron from possible. Hermione was sniffing and her eyes were bloodshot. "What's wrong?"
"D-Draco Malfoy! H-H-he just called me a Mudblood!" she sobbed even louder.
"What's a Mudblood?" Nessie asked nervously.
"It's a horrid name for someone with non-Magic parents. A muggle-born, with filthy blood, no magic in them. Someone like me."
"Hermione, don't you be upset," Nessie said sternly. "You may be muggle-born, which isn't a bad thing at all, but you're one of the cleverest witches that I know. Much smarter than that stupid, blockhead Malfoy. Now stop crying, and show him that you're better than him at potions as well, even with the head of Slytherin teaching."
Hermione smiled weakly, and wiped her eyes and sat up straight. "That's my girl!" said Nessie. "Here cones Snape, let's show the Slytherins what Gryffindor's got."
Snape entered and stared around the room with cold, empty eyes. "Turn to page 33, and get your cauldrons out. If all goes well," staring at Neville smugly, "You will get to keep it. If it doesn't, I will make you drink it. Go."
Nessie flicked through her book and was delighted to find that page 33 was the swelling solution. She got her cauldron, the flobberworm mucus, dried nettles and dried billywig stings, and got to work. In 5 minutes, she her cauldron bubbling away. She saw Neville was still on the first step. Snape went out of the room, she rushed over and corrected him, and in 2 minutes he had his cauldron bubbling away happily. She sat down quickly as Snape walked back into the room. His expression turned sour as he saw Neville's potion boiling on the fire. Nessie tried to look as unaware as possible, gazing into her potion and stirring it. Snape swept around the room and came to Neville and whispered, "Who helped you?"
"Pardon?"
"Who helped you?"
"Why, no-one, Professor."
"Don't lie."
"I'm not lying, Professor."
Snape glared at Neville and said louder. "Who helped him? If nobody in Gryffindor owns up, you will all be in detention tonight! In my office!"
Nessie bit her lip. If she didn't own up, all of Gryffindor would be in detention. But if she did, she would miss the audition. She stood up and declared. "Professor, It was-"
"ME!"
She was interrupted by someone across the room. Ron Weasley was trying to take the blame for her. "What are you doing?" she mouthed to him.
"Professor, I helped Neville."
Snape turned around suspiciously to Ron. "Very well. If no-one else will take the blame," he said, almost certainly looking at Nessie and Hermione, "Then the punishment will go to Mr Weasley. If your potions are done, you may go to lunch now. Class dismissed."
Everyone except Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle left. Nessie ran to catch up with Ron. "What did you do that for? I should have got that detention!"
"I was NOT letting you miss that audition, Nessie."
"But you have to go detention with Snape!"
"At least you get to go to the audition and beat Slytherin."
"Oh, Ron!"
Nessie hugged him so hard, and everybody turned and looked. His face turned red, and finally swept off to the common room. Ron was surrounded by people asking him countless questions. Most of the questions were other Gryffindor boys asking how to get it off with Nessie, but he tried to force his way out of the crowd. "Really, people, its just a hug!" he cried.
He finally escaped the crowd and got back to the common room, where he was greeted by Nessie. "Do you want to come to lunch with me?" she asked brightly.
"Yeah, sure!" replied Ron, decided that detention with Snape was not going to ruin his mood, especially after getting back on the good side of one of the most famous people in the wizarding world.

Lunch passed in a flash and they went back to the common room together. As they got in, they were greeted by about a billion people. Nessie shoved her way through the crowd and up to the girls dorms to get her bag. She got to Transfiguration and sat down wearily. Then a swarm of Gryffindors cane into the room, and literally every boy in the year tried to sit next to her. She sighed and Ron sat at the back of the class. Two boys finally emerged from the scrum of people fighting to get next to Nessie, hoping to have the next Ronald Weasley moment. They were Seamus Finnigan... And Draco Malfoy. "What are you doing here, Malfoy?" she said sourly.
"I heard about you and Weasley."
"Well done for having ears. And his name is Ron."
"Doesn't matter. Do you have the swelling solution?"
"Yep." she handed over the glass vial. "Don't break it or you'll be the one in the Hospital Wing. Now sit somewhere else." she flicked her wand and Malfoy levitated of the chair and fell on an empty seat, as all the boys again tried to sit next to her. Professor McGonagall walked in and all the boys ran back to their seats and she was pleased to find another Gryffindor sitting next to her. "Hey Harry," said Nessie.
"You hugged Ron in front of the WHOLE of Gryffindor?!"
"Oh great, no 'Hello Nessie', 'How are you Nessie', just straight onto the fact that I hugged one of my best friends?"
"He's my bet friend as well!"
"Congratulations!"
"Why?"
"Because he saved me from detention with Snape and from missing the audition. And it's just a hug."
"So you DO want to do the audition now?"
"Yeah, I suppose so."
"Yessssss! You'll do great Nessie!"
"Thanks!"
"I'd like to start my lesson now please, everyone."
Everyone was startled and quietened down as McGonagall started the lesson. They were supposed to turn a bracelet into a ring. She set them off on the task, and the room returned to a chattering buzz. After 2 minutes, Nessie had a golden ring in front of her and she got 10 house points. She got bored then, and turned talk to Seamus. "Hey, Seamus," she said in her casual tone.
He seemed to be thrilled that Nessie was talking to him. "Hi! Can you help me? I can't seem to do this without it going green and purple," he said, slightly embarrassed.
Nessie shrugged. "Sure." she picked up her wand from the desk and looked round at Malfoy, who thankfully hadn't succeeded in anything more than making Pansy Parkinson's transfiguration book tiny. "OK, Seamus, we have to beat Malfoy aswell. Thankfully, as well as being annoying, he's dumber than a bag of rocks, so we have a huge advantage. Now, picture in your head a beautiful gold ring. Can you see one?"
Seamus nodded. "Yep."
"Right, then with that picture in your head, do the spell."
He muttered the incantation and the green and purple ring became gold. He was glowing with pride as McGonagall gave him the second lot of house points. "Thanks!" he said.
"No problem," said Nessie, as he turned around to chat with Dean Thomas.
She sighed happily and turned around to Harry. "Have you done it yet?"
"Almost... Just trying not to make it be furry... Yes!"
His glittering ring sat in front of him and he got the last set of house points from Professor McGonagall. She dismissed the class and Nessie sailed out, ever so happy. She waited for Harry and Ron. "D'you want to play exploding snap this evening?"
"Sorry, can't," said Ron, "detention with Snape."
Nessie gasped. "Oh no! I completely forgot! I'm so sorry..."
Ron shrugged. "Don't worry. It's only detention. As long as you get to do the audition."
"Oh Ron, that's really terrible! You can't take the blame for me..." Nessie gasped. "I'll see you later, I have to do something."
She ran off and Harry and Ron looked puzzled. "What was that about?" asked Ron.
"She may be my twin sister, but I have absolutely no idea what that was about," said Harry, "and her audition isn't until quarter to 5."
They shrugged and they walked back to the common room and waited until Ron had to go to detention with Snape. Fifteen minutes before detention, they saw Nessie run down the stairs and quickly say "Bye!" before rushing out of the common room.

Nessie ran to the astronomy tower, where the auditions were taking place. There was a short line of people waiting nervously outside a little room. She closed her eyes and ran through the song in her head. "Well, well, look who's here."
She opened her eyes, and in front of her stood Pansy Parkinson, with her arms tightly wrapped around Malfoy. "Oh hello, Parkinson," said Nessie, "I see you've been at the superglue again."
Parkinson suddenly stopped clinging to Malfoy and Nessie smirked slightly. "Well, you don't have a chance in hell of getting this solo!"
"Really? I have an entire house that would say otherwise."
Malfoy laughed. "Well, let me tell you this; if you stay in there shortly, you're fine. But if you're in there for more than five minutes," he smiled, "you're doomed."
"Well, are you auditioning Parkinson?"
"Yes..." she said.
"Well, you'd better line up, because, I'm up next. Let's see how I do," she said, as she walked into the audition room, "and see what fate awaits."
She closed the door and saw that Professor Flitwick was taking the auditions. She smiled, and she was given the go-ahead to start singing. She breathed, and sung the first note. It went well, and she became lost in the music. She sang and sang, getting carried away. Shortly she was stopped by Flitwick, who looked very happy, almost glowing, and she was allowed to leave. She had lost track of time, but judging by the look of horror on Parkinson's face, she had been in and out in a flash. "Good luck, Parkinson."
She punched a dumbstruck Malfoy, and sprinted back to the common room.

Ron trudged back to the common room wearily at 6 o' clock from his detention with Snape. He had had to slice and prepare 100 bat spleens for pickling. Stumbling through the portrait hole, he was greeted by Harry, who offered to play chess. Ron sat down and looked around. "Where's Nessie?"
"Oh, she said she was doing something," replied Harry as he fought with Seamus' chess set.
Ron played rather carelessly, and then went up to bed halfway through. He was about to collapse on his bed, when he saw a little glass vial of potion on his pillow, with an envelope attached. He examined the bottle, then opened the envelope. It floated up and started speaking. It said:
Dear Ron,
I'm so sorry that you got detention with Snape because of me. This is a bottle of Colour-Changing potion, and will change the colour if anything you pour it on, and anyone who touches or drinks it. Yeah... That kind of means you have to be careful with it, because you only need a drop for the full effect. I tested it on Parkinson and Malfoy at dinner, and it was hilarious! They're still going to look like idiots tomorrow, because the effects last for around 12 hours. Again, I'm sorry that you got detention because of me, and feel free to get revenge.
From Nessie.
(P.S: I'm not sure how the auditions went.)
Ron laughed and put the potion in his side drawer, and fell asleep quickly, wanting morning to come faster, so he could laugh at Malfoy.