Emma was slammed against the corridor wall, oof, the sudden hit stung her back.

'Lucas?' Emma gasped breathlessly

'What is your deal?' Lucas hissed, he didn't sound very angry but the situation and his hushed tone made him more intimidating that Emma would have liked.

'Get off me!' Emma growled while trying to shake Lucas' grasp

'Why are you here?' Lucas asked while staring Emma down

'Because I can use magic!' Emma screamed, using Lucas' moment of shock to throw him off her and onto the cold stone ground 'just as well if not better that you can' Emma brushed her uniform down as though Lucas' touch had dirtied it, before strutting away leaving Lucas stunned on the floor.

She strutted herself all the way to the Gryffindor common room where the twins were sitting on a sofa casting spells on paper aeroplanes.

'What are you doing?' Emma asked

'Oh hey, were going to make these paper aeroplanes fly into the fire wanna help?' George responded, only briefly looking up from his paper plane.

'No, I'm good thanks. Where's Aggie?'

'Up in her room I guess?' Fred said while failing to make the paper plane land in the fire.

'Okay,' Emma almost walked away but felt the need to try something 'you know you can just throw those into the fire? You don't need to enchant them or anything.'

'Yeah but it's easier to enchant them' Fred said sounding quite bored

After a beat, Emma picked up one of the paper planes and threw it into the fire. To everyone's surprise including her own it landed, the twins looked, jaws dropped at the fire then at Emma. Emma's eyes went wide before she couldn't hold it any longer and let out a wheezy laugh, slapped her leg and walked out of the room and to the bedroom with a skip in her step.

When Emma arrived upstairs she found Aggie sitting on her bed reading a book.

'Hey, what'cha reading?' Emma asked with maintaining her high self-confidence from the common room

'A book about muggles' Aggie responded without looking up

'If you ever have any questions about the authentic muggle experience you're welcome to ask me' Emma said half-jokingly

'Actually, I do have one question'

'Go for it!' Emma was exited to hear what sort of questions a witch would have for her, it must be something big to warrant a question from a wizard born, magic user like Aggie.

'How do you send letters?' Aggie asked, completely seriously.

'Sorry, what?' Emma asked, befuddled. posting letters? How boring! Emma thought

'you don't use owls, right? So how do you post stuff, like how does it work'

'Well you write a letter, put it in an envelope, put a stamp on it then put it in a letter box' Emma listed off the steps with confusion and disappointment, she thought Aggie would have a good question. What she would consider a good question she wasn't sure but it certainly wasn't one about posting letters.

'Okay, what then?' Aggie pried

'What do you mean?'

'After you put it in the post box what happens?'

'I don't know? Do you know what happens for the whole of your postal service?!' Emma said trying to defend herself

'Yeah, you do all that stuff but give it to an owl not a post box. Then the owl takes it to the person you've addressed it to.'

'Okay that was an easy one forget I said anything, but if we used owls they would clutter the sky. People send lots of letters.'

Aggie looked thoughtful for a moment, raising her eyebrows and pouting her lips slightly.

'I guess that's fair enough'

The girls sat in silence for a short while before Emma broke the silence

'Remember Lucas?'

'Lowell? How could I forget.' Aggie joked

'He basically ambushed me in the hall today' Emma didn't mean to but she sounded distant, as though it was the first time she had taken in what had happened. She had thought on it briefly as she walked to the common room but now she was admitting it, saying it out loud and really thinking it through. She played it off as innocent but he threw her against a wall, and it had really hurt. If she hadn't gotten away when she did who knows what could have happened.

'You should tell someone' Aggie said, sounding urgent

'Yeah, maybe.' Emma said still sounding more distant that she cared to be.

'No maybes, that creep went for you, you should say something' Aggie had a stern motherly tone to her voice reminiscent of Emma's own mum.

'Okay I'll tell someone' Emma said defensively

'Professor McGonagall would be best, she's the head of Gryffindor' Aggie sounded as though she was already planning exactly what Emma should say when she had barely heard what happened. Although Emma had promised she knew she wasn't going to tell on Lucas, there was something about him that made Emma's stomach stir.

After a relatively quiet tea in the grand hall, where Fred had tried to turn his water into alcohol 'just for a little taste' key word being tried. Emma decided to write her parents a letter, hopefully Rufus could get it to them.

'Dear mum and dad,

I thought I'd just drop you a letter to let you know I'm doing well. I've made a few friends so you don't need to worry about me being lonely out here, and I'm trying really hard in all my classes. Odd question but do you know anyone with the last name Lowell? No reason just curios but if you do let me know. You can write a letter and give it to Rufus, he'll bring it back for me. Hope everything is good at home, miss and love you both.

Lots of love, Emma xxx'

Emma ran the letter up to the tower where Rufus slept and sent him on his way, her first letter sent by owl. She felt a strange sense of achievement as she watched Rufus soar out into the night. As for the rest of the night Emma spent it curled up with a book about potions, she was determined not to fall behind, even be a high achiever if possible. She knew it would be hard work but she felt as though it would be worth it, she ended up falling asleep with her book open on her chest, that night she dreamed about punching Lucas in the stomach a few times over. It was a good night.

Hey! Not much happened in this chapter but it was a bit of a rush to get it done in time, I try to post every Monday. I'm starting to get more of a feel for the characters so hopefully the story will pick up soon, be sure not to miss the next chapter! As always DM me any time about anything and a review is always appreciated, until next time!