As I was walking upstairs though, I checked my watch and realised, to my horror, that I was late for Snape's detention. Of course, saving Andrew had taken all thoughts of that away from me, but still, Snape was hardly going to let me use that as an excuse.

"Oh, shit! Snape's detention!" I called out

The others turned and looked at me, but I left without another word. It was the second year in a row that I'd been late for a detention set by Snape, but while that time it was Filch who was conducting it, this time it would be Snape himself, which made me feel like I wouldn't be so lucky and escape additional punishment this time. When I arrived in Snape's office, he didn't even turn to look at me.

"Another 20 points from Gryffindor for your tardiness"

"Oh, I'm sorry, I was only saving my friend from torture" I said before I could stop myself.

"Make that fifty points. Now shut up and sit down before it gets even worse for you!"

I bit my lip and did as I was told. It was already bad enough for me. I wrote my essay and handed it to him, and luckily it seemed like he didn't have anything bad to say when he read it, as he just jerked his head irritably and said "Go". I won't bother describing the next 2 nights detentions, as nothing significant happened. I only described this one because I was late and I had to mention the extra punishment he gave me.

The next day saw Demelza, Amy, Luna, Stefan, Andrew, Magda and I all sat underneath a large tree during lunch break.

"So how's the first couple days been for you two lovebirds then?" asked Demelza

"Well, considering I spent most of last night tied up and we all had classes, we haven't actually spent much time together since we made ourselves official" said Andrew.

"And speaking of lovebirds, don't try and tell us that you and Stefan haven't been up to anything" added Amy

Demelza and Stefan immediately looked uncomfortable

"We-we haven't" stammered Stefan "we aren't official"

"You may as well be though" said Luna, "I've seen you acting extremely flirtatiously. You may as well stop wasting everyone's time and just make it happen"

"Cheers Luna" he said sarcastically, giving her a thumbs up.

"Thanks" replied Luna, missing the sarcasm.

Harry, Ron and Hermione approached us at that point.

"Who are these people" said Ron, pointing at Stefan and Magda.

"Nice to meet you too" replied Magda bluntly.

"They are new students from Sweden- Stefan and Magda. Magda is in our year and Stefan is a fourth year and Demelza's boyfriend-" I started

"He's not my boyfriend!" snapped Demelza

I rolled my eyes. "Really, Luna's right, why don't you two just get it on already", and everyone except them laughed.

"Anyway" said Hermione, "we came to tell you that Malfoy was back in class today, and of course he milked his bandaged arm. Snape had Harry and Ron basically make his potion for him".

"Malfoy did say something interesting though" said Harry, "about Sirius Black, who, in case you don't know, was seen by a Muggle somewhere near here this morning-"

"We do know" I interrupted "We read the Daily Prophet. What did Malfoy say though?"

"He said that if he was me, he'd try and catch Black and that he'd want revenge. But what for? Black's not done anything to me yet"

I bit my lip, wondering if I should tell Harry about Black betraying his parents. But before I could, the bell rang.

"We've got Lupin now, see you guys later" Hermione said.

Demelza, Amy, Andrew, Magda and I headed to Transfiguration, while Luna went to Charms.

Transfiguration was one of the more difficult forms of magic, but it was one that I was beginning to have a lot of success in. Like Demelza in Potions, I was the best in our class at this subject.

Today we were supposed to be turning animals into water goblets, and like with the matches into needles at the start of the last year, I was the only one in the class to have any success. It was a pretty funny lesson though, with various consequences emerging from everyone else's failed attempts. Professor McGonagall walked around the class asking each pair to attempt the spell, Vera Verto, for everyone to see. We each had a raven in front of us to use. I had no idea how some of the results occurred from a spell that was created for such a specific purpose.

Andrew turned his hair black, Mary's raven caught on fire, one of Amy's table legs snapped off, Magda's raven flew away and out of the room, and Demelza vanished Professor McGonagall's hat. Those are just some of the best examples. I was the last person to try, and my raven turned into a box of tissues, which, despite it not being a water goblet, was by far the best result of anyone in the class, so McGonagall awarded 20 points to Gryffindor. She instructed everyone else to write an essay on the correct way to perform the spell, and said that she expected them to practice and that it would be obvious in the next lesson if they hadn't.

"That was ridiculous, second years shouldn't be set spells like that, it's clearly far too advanced for us" complained Demelza as we were walking downstairs for dinner.

"I didn't think it was such a big deal" I replied

"Not everyone's as perfect as you Ginny" said Amy, and I was reminded of the embarrassing moment last year where I insulted Amy's use of makeup. This was hardly a fair assessment though.

"Hey, I never said I was perfect, nor do I believe so! I'm rubbish at Potions, you all know that! Plus, at least it made for a funny class."

"Yeah, but that's not worth it when it results in us being set a huge amount of homework" said Andrew.

When we got to the Great Hall though, we saw the third year Gryffindors all talking excitedly about something. We sat down next to Harry, Ron and Hermione.

"What's everyone so happy about?" I asked

"Lupin, he's brilliant" said Ron

They then proceeded to tell us all about their lesson, in which they'd tackled a boggart, a creature which assumes the shape of your worst fear. The best part of it was undoubtedly what happened when Neville had his turn. The boggart had turned into Professor Snape, who Neville had proceeded to dress in his grandmothers clothes! While Snape being Neville's worst fear showed just how horrible the man was, he being forced to wear Augusta's clothes was certainly a hilarious moment, and made the stuff that happened in our Transfiguration class look tame!

Harry was disappointed that he hadn't been allowed a turn.

"Why?" I asked him "Isn't it obvious why he didn't let you do it? The boggart would have become You Know Who wouldn't it?"

"No" replied Harry. "I did think of him at first, but then I remembered the Dementors"

"So your worst fear is fear itself. Interesting. I'm sure You Know Who would be very glad to know he isn't your worst fear, despite the encounters you've already had with him" I said

"I didn't get to do it either" said Hermione

I giggled "Hermione, for you it would have been so boring. It would just have been an essay without top marks on it"

Hermione scowled as we all laughed.