Harry's POV

Hogwarts, Great Hall

"My staff, students, and I are vampyres…" She proclaimed. For the third time that night, the hall broke out in whispers.

"Vampyres? Zoey and Stark? But they seemed so nice…" Ron whispered to me, still shocked.

"How did they get on the train then? It was broad daylight…?" Hermione whispered back.

"Dunno." I whispered to both of them. I wanted to know what Neferet was going to say next. I looked back at her as she began to speak again.

"The stereotype vampyre is nothing like us. However, yes, we drink blood. No we will not harm you. We have brought our own supplies from the local muggle blood banks back home." More whispering, then she held up her hand, gaining absolute silence in an effective way. "Prefect Council please come here." Zoey, and several others stepped up to the podium, some glaring at Neferet, others staring at their feet.

"If you have any questions please feel free to ask the seven of them now or later. They are my finest students. Thank you." She said and walked to the end of the High Table and sat down. Immediately garnering questions to Zoey and the others.

"How did you all get on the train?" Malfoy sneered from the Slytherin table.

"Will you burst into flame if you get touched by sunlight?" A Durmstrang student yelled.

"What classes will you be taking?" Hermione called out.

"Okay one at a time. First let's start with introductions. Then you can ask each of us specific questions deal? I'm Zoey Redbird." Zoey said, from the center of the group.

"I'm Stevie Rae Johnson." This was said by a girl with short blonde curls and red tattoos.

"Damien Maslin. And this is my boyfriend Jack Twist." One of the only two guys up there stated, pointing to himself and the other guy.

"Shaunee Cole. This is my soul twin Erin Bates." The black girl on the end proclaimed, pushing the extremely white girl beside her, forward.

"Soul twins? What even is that?" Hermione whispered, more to herself than to anyone else.

"Aphrodite La Font." Aphrodite said, snootily. Zoey sighed and smiled at the Great Hall.

"Now stand up if you have a question." Most of the room stood up.

"Okay, sit down if it has anything to do with us drinking blood. Or us drinking your blood." Only ten kids were left standing. Three from Durmstrang. Four from Beauxbatons and three from Hogwarts.

"Great. Okay, let's start over here." She said pointing to the Slytherin table. One of the Durmstrang students spoke up.

"Are you in any harm if you go out in sunlight?" The guy with short brown hair, named Damien, stepped forward.

"Okay. That depends on which kind of vampyres you're talking about. The blue vampyres won't be harmed. Even though we get extremely uncomfortable. Red vampyres however will burn." He smiled and stepped back in line, Jack grabbing his hand. Viktor Krum spoke next.

"What's the difference between red vampyres and blue vampyres?" The blonde girl strode forward, confident. I could see Zoey shift nervously and look downward. What's up with her?

"Red vampyres are really just blue vampyres that died during the Change. When a fledgling dies they become a red fledgling, and then eventually become red vampyres." Stevie Rae said, smiling at Zoey. Zoey let out a sigh of relief and smiled back. She has a really pretty smile. I shook my head and almost missed the next question.

"Why do some of you have masks and other only have a crescent moon?" The last Durmstrang student called. The girls named Shaunee and Erin stepped up.

"The ones with full tattoos like Stevie Rae are grown vampyres. The ones with empty crescents are baby vamps. Called fledglings." Shaunee stated.

"Then there's Zoey, who's not only the only vampyre in the world to have tattoos all over her body, but, she's still a fledgling. Making it doubly rare and awesome." Erin nodded as she said this and she and Shaunee sashayed back into their spot. Before someone could get another question out Stark stepped up to the podium.

"Sorry guys, but we're all really tired. You have to remember that we're used to sleeping during the day. But now that we're going to school with you all we need to change that. If you have any questions please go ahead and ask the seven up here, or anyone with a full mask tattoo." He led Zoey down from the podium while four other guys and a black girl rushed up to help the others. Now that I looked closely I could see that all of the vampyres were exhausted, some were half-asleep on the table. Once everyone was either seated, or leaning against a wall, Dumbledore stepped forward again.

"Once again I offer welcome to our three visiting schools. Now, for rooming assignments. Durmstrang, you shall be housed with Slytherin. Beauxbatons with Ravenclaw. And Tulsa House of Night will be in Gryffindor tower. However. In the case of the Depot dorm students, you will be housed in the dungeons due to the..disabilities on many of your parts. Please follow your respective houses to their dormitories and get a good night sleep. Tomorrow morning you will all receive your years schedule and will start classes Monday morning." He gestured for us to leave and we all headed off to our common rooms. Ron and Hermione got pushed ahead of me but I was soon joined by Stark, Zoey and their friends. Zoey grinned at me.

"Hey, sorry we disappeared on you. Your headmaster wanted to see us about making sure we can take classes."

"No problem, you had Hermione kind of worried though." I replied smiling.

"Well tell her sorry for us."

"Hey, do you think you could lead us to the dungeons?" The African-looking girl holding up Damien and Jack inserted.

"Oh yea, sure. This way." I lead them off to the right and down the stairs. When we reached the bottom Snape was on his way up.

"Potter! What are you doing down here?" He snarled. I wasn't really in the mood and I was getting ready to retort when Stark and Zoey stepped in front of me. Zoey had her hand of Stark's chest, almost like she was holding him back from something and I could see that he was clenching his fist around an intricately carved bow, that matched the quiver on his back. A bow and quiver? Why would he have those? Zoey looked up at Snape.

"Harry was leading my dorm mates and I down here seeing as we didn't know where we were going. I assume that you were coming to get us?"

"Yes, I assume that you are the High Priestess, Zoey Redbird?" High Priestess? Isn't that what they called Neferet. Why is he calling Zoey that? Zoey nodded and Snape walked away.

"Thanks for bringing us down here Harry. We'll see you tomorrow morning." She waved and ran after Snape with Stark hot on her tail. After saying thanks their friends ran off too.

Hey, this'll be my first author's note. I wanted to make it up to you guys for not updating on Saturday...Been grounded. So here's a double chapter.