Chapter 23

Twilight, Digger, and Eglantine were walking towards potions. Twilight and Eglantine had been pleasantly surprised to find Digger had class the same time as them.

But once they reached the entrance to the potions room Twilight grimaced. "What is it?" Eglantine asked.

"I think I dropped my potions book in the room of requirement. And there's no way I'm going back there for it." Twilight explained.

"Don't worry." Digger told him. "There are extra books in the box by the door. You can borrow one of them."

Twilight let out a sigh of relief. "Oh thank Glaux. I think Snape would've killed me if I didn't have a book."

So the three stepped in and walked towards their desks. To avoid attracting attention and possibly getting in trouble, Twilight opened the box as little as possible and took a book without looking at it.

Much to his dismay, it was a really, really old and tattered looking book, and he wasn't sure if he would be able to read it. Then he opened it and just barely suppressed a groan. It had writing all over it that made it hard to figure out what to do for the potion they were working on.

Then, as he was chopping up potions ingredients, the book fell off the table. Twilight reached down and picked it up. It was on a different page then he'd left off on. Then some of the words the former student had written in attracted his attention. He read through and his breath caught.

"Digger!" He hissed. Digger turned to him. "This is it." He pointed to the words the student had written in. "This is the potion that turns us back into owls."

"Are you sure?" Digger asked.

Twilight gave a nod, then Snape noticed them. "You two are very talkative today. Perhaps one of you has something you would like to share with the class."

"No." Twilight said quickly.

"We were just comparing ways to prepare the potion." Digger improvised.

"Odd, I don't recall ever saying you should vary from the book." Snape pointed out coldly.

"But I recall this class being about improving in potion making. In that case, it can't hurt to try new things." Digger pointed out.

Twilight gave him an impressed look. He didn't know how Digger came up with this stuff so fast.

Snape on the other hand was the exact opposite of impressed. "You really should get rid of your attitude Digger." He sneered the name, causing a few people to giggle at how ridiculous the name was for an Other. Twilight curled his hands into fists. "It could get you in trouble, and I'm sure you hate to lose house points."

"It doesn't matter if he'd hate that or not!" Twilight snapped. "You're going to take them away anyway!"

"Perhaps." Snape agreed. "And perhaps you'd like to have points taken away from Gryffindor too."

"You know what, let me tell you something!" Twilight leapt up. Several people gasped. Then Twilight sucked in a breath, and burst into a song.

Once he finished his song everyone, including Twilight himself, was shocked frozen. Then what had just happened began to sink in. "Run!" Eglantine shouted.

Twilight grabbed the book and ran out of the room. Eglantine and Digger followed him out, Digger muttering, "Here we go again." Then he called to Twilight, "If he wants to come after us, he's going to catch up. We're still not good at running."

Twilight and Eglantine looked at each other, grinning. "No problem." Twilight said. He ran to a door. The three dashed in. Twilight shut the door, then opened it again, and they were in a completely different hall.