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Well, here's chapter five! Please read/review! :~)!

CHAPTER FIVE

Eventually, Parker came in, accompanied by Sirius, James, and Peter, and the red head witch that we shared a dorm with, Lily Evans. They all made their way over to us, and sat down.

"New friends of yours I presume?" I asked Parker, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, you guys sort of ditched me, so I started talking to them, and Lily just kind of came along. Next thing I knew, we were all talking, and then we were walking down here, and then we were here." Parker said, shrugging, and loading her plate with food.

"Hey, you don't mind us crashing your party, do you Russet?"James asked cockily. I scowled at him and went to try to talk to Remus, but he was talking to the other three boys, and when I turned to Parker, she was talking to Lily and a girl that I recognized from the sorting as Alice Cornell. I sighed, picked up my bag, and walked out into the hallway that led to the Gryffindor common room.

I said the password, and walked straight up to the dorm. I quickly made my way over to the bookshelf that hung over the headboard of my bed. I put my Transfiguration and Charms books on the shelf, and grabbed my Potions, Herbology, and Defense Against the Dark Arts books. I put the books in my bag, and left again, going down to the hallway that lead to the Great Hall, and went over to one of the circular windows that were set into the walls. Small tables were set near the windows, and I was left wondering where the chairs were. I shrugged, and went over to a window, and sat in it. I put my bag down on the table closest to the window that I sat in, and pulled out my Potions book again. I began reading and found that I could actually understand terms like; boil, stir, and simmer. I hadn't expected to understand any, so me understanding that much, was a surprise. I sat there reading until 1:00. I looked at my schedule and sighed.

I put my book and schedule back in my bag, and slung it over my shoulder. I started walking toward the big wooden doors that were now open, and went outside.

"Hey, Asana, wait up!" I heard Parker shout. I stopped and waited for her to catch up. She was still running when she crashed into me again, and we were back on the ground.

"Parker?" I asked.

"Yes, Asana?" she asked.

"Why is it that whenever I'm in front of you, you wind up on top of me?" I asked. I could feel her shrugging against my stomach, and I suddenly felt a little nauseous.

"Can you please get off of me?" I asked.

"Nah, I'm good." she said, laying down so that she could be more comfortable. I sighed, and pushed her into the dirt next to me, stood up, and brushed off my skirt. I bent over to pick up my bag from where it had fallen, and felt myself being pushed toward the mud. I put my arms out to stop myself, and wound up doing a somersault before I could stop myself. I whirled around to see who had pushed me, and saw a head of silvery blond hair, belonging to a person wearing green robes.

"Malfoy, why?" I asked Lucius Malfoy.

"Because it was fun, why else?" he said, giving me a smile that made my skin crawl. He turned and walked off with a few of his Slytherin friends. I sighed and gave Parker my hand, and pulled her up.

"Okay children, put you bags under the table, and take a sprig of the plant on your table." said Professor Sprout, a twenty something plump witch in mud smeared green robes. I recognized the plant and I wasn't about to touch it.

"The plant that you are all holding, is called vervain. Vervain is one of the best ways to repel a vampire. It burns them if they touch it, and if you can get it into their heart, it will kill them. If a witch or mortal or anything were to put vervain in a drink or food, and consumed it, if a vampire were to drink your blood, it would cause them to become very sick and very weak. Any questions?" she asked. I was busy trying to keep myself from shaking with fear to ask any questions. Parker was standing next to me, and she turned toward me, her face as pale as a sheet.

"Why is she teaching us about this? Does she know about you?" she asked me.

"Yes, all of the teachers know about me. But then again, what self respecting wizard wouldn't know about the Russet vampires?" I asked, sourly.

"The other plant that is on your table, is called wolf's bane. Can anybody tell me what that is?" asked Professor Sprout. I flicked my gaze over to Remus, and saw that he was pale and shaking as well. The only thoughts running through my mind were, Is professor Sprout trying to out us or something? Giving a student this kind of knowledge could kill Remus or I or any of my brothers...

"Yes, Miss Evans?" said Professor Sprout.

"Wolf's bane is much like vervain, except that it only works on werewolfs," she said. I looked over at the small red head witch and knew that something weird was going on. She was standing next to the same greasy haired boy that I had seen her with on the train. I thought that his name was Severus Snape but I wasn't really sure, a lot of people had been sorted the night prior. Looking at is robes, I knew that he was a Slytherin, which was odd, because I could already see that the older Gryffindor students encouraged arguments with the Slytherin students, and the Slytherins encouraged it as well. That left me wondering why the two of them seemed to be getting along with each other.

"Yes, very good Miss Evans, five points for Gryffindor."she said cheerfully. After that, she lapsed into a twenty minute long lecture about the two plants, and why they were very useful things to have handy. I would look at Remus every now and then, to make sure that he hadn't passed out or anything, and saw that at times, he was getting pretty close, and I wasn't doing much better.

Professor Sprout continued to quiz the class on the two plants for the rest of the twenty minutes that we had class, and I raised my hand a few times, but only on the questions about wolf's bane, and Remus did the same for vervain. When we were finally let go, I just about ran out of there. Parker caught up to me quickly, and we walked together to Potions.

"Are you ready for Potions?" Parker asked me, as we followed a long stream of assorted first years to the dungeons.

"As ready as I'll ever be." I said, sighing. We walked into the classroom, and sat down at a table in the back of the room. Remus and Peter sat down at the table next to us, and James and Sirius sat down next to them. Lily and Alice sat in front of us, and Marlene McKinnon and Mary MacDonald sat down next to them, and in front of Remus and Peter.

"Why do you think that Professor Sprout would give a lesson like that, never mind that it was our first Herbology lesson ever!" Remus asked me in an urgent whisper.

"I don't know, maybe she has something against werewolves and vampires. Or maybe she just wanted to make us squirm, I don't know, and I don't like it," I said. That was when Professor Slughorn came into the room. He waddled over to the desk at the front of the room, and sat down in a high back chair. He smoothed out his mustache and cleared his throat.

"Hello, children, my name is Potions Master and I am the Professor Slughorn here at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. No, that's not right, my name is Professor Slughorn, and I am the Potions Master here at Hogwarts. Yes, that's right." he said, bustling around the front of the classroom. I groaned as quietly as I could, but I could hear Parker chuckle softly.

"Well, students, do any of you know what this is?" he asked, holding up a clear vial of amber liquid.

"Yes, Miss MacDonald?" he said, calling on the small auburn haired girl near me.

"That's Pepper Up Potion," she said, looking nervous.

"Correct, five points to Gryffindor!" he said excitedly. Then, he started to explain what it did, how it was useful, and how to make it. And then he said that for the next hour, we would be making it.

Everybody got out the required ingredients, and put them in their cauldrons. If anybody was talking at all, they were whispering about the potion, not about anything else, and that amazed me. I knew that I couldn't concentrate that hard, even if my life depended on it.

When we finally got out of Potions, Parker and I made our way over to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. A young looking man with strawberry blond hair and sparkling blue eyes greeted us with a pearly white smile.

"Hello students, I'm Professor Stevenson. Please come inside and sit down anywhere." he said in a deep voice. We went over to a table at the front of the classroom. Within ten minutes, twenty other students had come in and sat down at tables around us. Then, Professor Stevenson came into the room and went to the front of the classroom.

"Okay, today we'll be starting with the defense spell, Expelliarmus. Now, repeat after me, Expelliarmus." he said. The class repeated, and he took his wand out of his pocket.

"Okay, I will now take a volunteer from the audience, anyone, anyone?" he asked. Along with five other people, I raised my hand.

"Hmm... Miss Russet! Please come up to the front of the classroom. I stood up, grabbed my wand from where it had been on the table, and walked over to stand across from him.

"Okay sweetie, just raise your wand as if you were about to put a spell on me, okay? And then I'll use the spell on you. But it won't hurt, okay?" he asked. I nodded and raised my wand. He yelled the spell, and my wand flew toward him, and he caught it with his other hand.

"See, that didn't hurt you, did it?" he asked. I could feel my temper rising. I got enough of this babying crap from my older brothers, and I wasn't about to take it from him.

"I'm not a baby! I can take care of myself, and I don't need you going easy on me!" I yelled at him, and I could feel my face burning from my rising level of anger.

"Miss Russet, go to Professor Dumbledore." he said, pointing with a stiff arm toward the door. I growled from deep in my throat, and stalked over to my desk. I grabbed my bag and started to go out the door when I heard somebody yell out,

"Yeah, that's right, Russet! You tell him what for!" I looked around and saw that Sirius had been the one that had yelled out.

"Mr. Black, you can go with Miss Russet to see Professor Dumbledore. Good bye," said Professor Stevenson. I could hear him grumbling as he got his bag and wand. He made his way over to me, and we walked out together.

"I guess we were never properly introduced, I'm Sirius Black, and you are?" he asked, taking my hand and bringing it up to his lips, giving it a light kiss.

"I'm Asana Russet," I said, giving him a small curtsey.

"Nice to meet you Asana," he said.

"Likewise," I said.

"So why did you yell at him like that? I mean, so what, he went easy on you, but from what I hear, he does that with every witch." he asked.

"Well, I have ten older brothers, and they do the exact same thing, but even more so. And I hate it. So, I snapped. I'm sorry that you got in trouble because of me." I explained.

"Hey, it's no problem. Damsels in distress are my specialty." he said, put tensed quickly when he realized what he had said.

"Yeah, and I get more than enough of the damsels in distress stuff to last me my whole life." I said, sourly.

"Hey, sorry if I hit a nerve there, I didn't mean to," he said, looking at me with his sad looking gray eyes.

"No, it's okay, I'm used to it," I said, walking briskly toward the large griffin statue that stood guard at the entrance to Professor Dumbledore's office.

"Do you know what the password is?" Sirius asked. I listened hard to what was going on in his office. I heard the words; sugar quills, and thought that they might be the password.

"Sugar quills," I said to the statue.

"You may enter," it said to me, twisting to the left to reveal a winding staircase.

"After you," I said, giving Sirius a mock bow.

"Thank you," he said sarcastically. He stepped onto the staircase and it started spiraling upward. I jumped on, and it brought us up to a large opening in the wall, that opened into a large room, with an ancient looking man with a long silver beard and half moon shaped spectacles sitting behind a grand looking wooden desk.

"Hello children, please sit down." he said, waving his arm at two chairs that sat in front of his desk. We sat down and he leaned forward.

"Would either of you like to tell me why you're here?" he asked, kindly. Sirius and I looked at each other, and a silent agreement passed between us.

"It's my fault Headmaster," I said.

"And why is that?" he asked.

"Well... we were in Defense class, and the Professor was going easy on me, and I didn't want him too, so I yelled at him, and he told me to come here. Sirius tried to defend me, and he got sent here as well," I said, not wanting Sirius to get in more trouble because of what he had actually yelled out. But, I actually appreciated it more than if he had defended me.

"Okay. Well Miss Russet, you will get one detention for yelling at a teacher, Mr. Black, you will be let off with a warning. Don't let me see you back here again," he said, smiling at us.

"Yes, sir!" Sirius said, standing up and picking his bag off of the floor.

"Yes, sir," I said. I picked up my bag and was about to follow Sirius when Professor Dumbledore called out,

"Actually, I would like to talk to Miss Russet for a moment. Mr. Black, you may wait outside." Not quite sure what this was about, I sat back down, and I heard the stairs take Sirius back down.

"Yes, Professor?" I asked uncertainly.

"How are you doing so far? Any problems?" he asked.

"Well, I had to get out of Professor Flitwicks' class, his voice made my head hurt, no disrespect intended. But other than that, today has been fine. Why?" I asked.

"What? Am I not allowed to worry about all of my students. As for your problem, your brothers all have the same problem. What would you like to do about it?" he asked.

"Well, I was going to try putting cotton balls in my ears, but if anybody saw that, I might run into problems. What do my brothers do about it?" I asked anxiously.

"Well, at first, they did the same thing as you were thing about doing, but then they each slowly figured out that yes, it would muffle the sound, but it's the pitch that's the problem, not the volume, correct?" When I nodded, he continued,

"Well, then your oldest brothers; Trent and Timmy created a spell specifically for this problem. I believe that it is called Kreanne, it will make you think that his voice is deeper than it actually is, and if you cast it on him, then it will work until you take it off of him. But it will only work for you, otherwise we wouldn't be having this problem now. The next time that you see him, place the spell on him, and you shouldn't have any problems.

"Mr. Black will be wondering what is taking you so long, you had better go and catch up with him. Good bye, Miss Russet." he said, standing up. I picked up my bag, and this time he didn't stop me when I went to leave. I stepped onto the staircase and went down to the bottom.

"So what did he want?" Sirius asked when I stepped off of the staircase.

"Noting important." I said, walking toward the Gryffindor house.

"Why did you take the blame for me? I didn't defend you in the slightest, I was encouraging you." he asked.

"I felt bad, you wouldn't have gotten in trouble at all if I hadn't yelled at him. I don't mind, I was probably going to get a detention anyway." I said, stepping through the portrait hole. I walked up to my dorm, I went in and dumped my bag on my bed. Then I went down to the Great Hall to find Parker and Remus...