AN:/ Welcome back to another chapter of Rising of a Phoenix! Two chapters in one week! I can't believe it! I don't own the rights to Harry Potter that belongs to JK Rowling! Enjoy Chapter 18 of Rising of a Phoenix!

Hermione's Point of View:
I sigh and sit in the abandoned girl's bathroom it seemed like it was the only place I could be alone without my friends. I loved them desperately, but ever since the incident, as we are all calling it they haven't wanted to leave me alone. They even have the girls following me into the bathroom. I thankfully listened to my brothers and I was able to lose them in one of the secret acolves of the castle. I look sadly at the witch Moaning Myrtle as many called her, but I saw her and I knew what happened to her and it broke my heart. I had become friends with her she kept my secret hiding place, and I come and keep her company. Though today was a little different because I was making a potion. And Myrtle seemed wary, "What if it kills you? You are only in your first year! And, I happen to like you though I am not up to the idea of sharing my toilet with you Hermione Prewett." she says to me.

I smile at her and sigh. Knowing she is right, but knowing if I let her go and find someone then my secret hiding place would be gone for good. And, I didn't want to drink it myself and turn up like someone my friends hate, and they try to attack not knowing it was me. "Alright go find the group they are probably in a tizzy since they don't know where I am at. Through have you heard the room of lost things Myrtle?" I asked her.

She nods, "Yes it's the room Hogwarts sends items when a student loses them and isn't looking for them. They magically appear when they are being looked for in the place they were lost. It's on the seventh floor. You have to pace in front of the troll painting three times and think of room for lost things. The room is actually called the room of requirements. Not many students or staff know about it, and many stumble across it by mistake. Since the room transforms into anything the person is thinking about." she informs me. "Now don't do anything stupid Prewett while I find your group of friends. I will be very put out with you if I come back and find you dead," she says to me and then she is gone.

I laugh and shake my head of course I would make friends with a ghost. Though my brothers became quite close with Peeves. Though they tried to prank him, I don't see my brother's logic behind that since you can't really prank a ghost. They found out when it right through him and got them instead. I laughed so hard when I got that letter. And shook my head at their antics. Soon I could hear the running of what sounded like a herd of centaurs coming, I turned my head and see my friends. Looks of concern, anger, and relief on their faces. "Hermione Grace Prewett! You have some explaining to do! You just can't up and disappear! What if you got attacked again, and we weren't there to help you!" Dorcas yells at me.

I sigh and they noticed the cauldron boiling next to me. "I understand you all care and want to protect me. But, you can't protect me from everything. You had the girls following me into the bathroom. I felt like I couldn't breathe. I needed some time alone. I love you all, but don't you understand? It was my life that was in crisis. I got pushed down the stairs. I am the one who almost died. I needed time alone to process it all. Don't you understand?" I asked them.

They seem to understand and sit with me. James sitting the closest. "What is this potion?" Alice asks,

I smile at her, "I have been reading about the polyjuice potion." I say to them and they roll their eyes. I was always reading. "It changes the looks of a person to someone else when they have a piece of their DNA or a piece of the person," I explain to them.

They look at me with wide eyes. "You're going to use the potion to figure out who pushed you?" Isaac asks.

I nod, "The potion doesn't last longer than an hour. And, Myrtle didn't want me to take it and then run into you guys and you not knowing who I was, and try to attack me. Leaving me back in the medical wing. And, you all feel guilty." I explain to them.

I hear a hmph in the background and roll my eyes. "Or kill yourself as I said I truly care about you, but I quite like you alive and don't want to share my toilet with you for eternity," Myrtle mutters.

I roll my eyes, "Wait dying?! Who said anything about dying?" Marlene asks with wide eyes.

I sigh, "I have never gotten a potion wrong, and I have done my research on the abundance of it. So I have complete faith in my potion." I say and raise my nose in the air at my ghost friend. "And who said I would want to share a toilet with you Myrtle I quite like the library so I might haunt there," I say to her and then break out in laughter.

My friends join me. "Well, Kitten it would give me a reason to visit the library then I would get to see your beautiful face," Sirius says and I roll my eyes at him. "But, I would need to find someone else to run away with I can't be tied to a ghost until I join you in the afterlife. I hope you understand," he says with a completely serious face and then broke out in laughter.

James shakes his head at his friend, "That just shows I care more about her I would become a ghost with her, and then we would haunt you for the rest of eternity. Right, Grace!" James says to me.

I roll my eyes at him, "The potion is ready I just need someone to take it. Since I am on potions from the incident I can't take it." I say to them. Before anyone can start disagreeing on who should take it Marlene grabs the flask and takes it in one shot. Her face begins to bubble, and she rushes to a stall and starts to get sick. Our friends look worried, "I expected that and would have told her to expect it, but she took it before I could let her know. It should be over soon." I say to them and they relax.

The noises stop and soon the stall to the door opens. Before us no longer Marlene McDonald was our best friend. "Well who am I?" she asks in her own voice.

The room feels like it has dropped a few degrees and you could feel the anger rolling over all of us. "You are the she-devil of Slytherin. Your Lily Fucking Evans" I whisper.

James stands and I reach out to grab him so he doesn't leave. "She's dead I am going to kill her!" he snarls.

I shake my head at him. He looks at me in shock, "How are you going to pursue me constantly if you're in Azkaban for the rest of your life? James Charles Potter?" I ask him.

He seems to freeze at that and leans his forehead against my own, "She hurt you. She tried to kill you! How am I supposed to let that go Grace?" he whispers to me.

I look into his eyes, "I said you couldn't kill her. I didn't say you couldn't prank her, or make her life miserable. You just can't kill her James. Or I might have to run away with Sirius. Don't leave me to that life." I say and laugh when I hear a complaint hey from Sirius.

He nods, "Alight no killing but she will pay I promise you that," he says to me and pulls away.

I smile at him, "I have no doubt you will make her life torture. Got a whole group of friends. To help you with it." I say smiling at my friends, and the poly-juiced Marlene as the bane of my existence. And, that was the start of the prank wars between Slytherin and Gryffindor.

AN:/ So a lot of you have liked the idea of Sirius being in a Triad, but you didn't want him with James and Hermione. So this will remain a James/Hermione main pairing. I was inspired to write another chapter this week, and so excited to be back into writing, and feeling inspired to write. I hope you loved this chapter as much as I did. It made me smile and laugh! I will either update again this week or next week depending on when inspiration strikes. But, I promise this story won't be abandoned! I love it too much! Lol! See you soon readers DracoLoverForever1994(FF)/JamioneLover(A03)