Full Moon Adventures

A role-play for people with wild imagination and fairly good writing skills, with a new adventure beginning at full moon, we want to create a coherent, adventurous and serious Hogwarts story for others to read and enjoy.

feel free to join, just follow these few rules:
- when you´ve been put into the story there´s no way out… as in we don´t want any person who only writes two posts and then disappears! If you get tired of it, you`ll have to “erase” yourself by writing a piece of work that either kills you or removes you from Hogwarts and the story.
- keep in story line
- write in 3rd person
- HAVE FUN writing and reading!

Ella didn´t exactly qualify into the group of people with personalities that turned them into the “run-away-type”, actually she was more of an “act-first-think-later-type”, which usually got her into a whole lot of trouble. But this time was different… she hadn´t brought this trouble on herself! It was the act of everyone else that had made her forget her deepest instinct, and instead for fighting, she had ran away to hide. Because being an animagus in a Scandinavian county made you a half-being, a half-human/half-animal who didn´t deserve even half the respect a human creature or even an animal had, you´re worth less than the dirt beneath someone’s shoes. Ella was an animagus, she hadn´t known until she turned into a wolf during her first quidditch match for the Swedish team at S.A.M (Scandinavian Academy of Magic). Everyone she trusted and called friend abandoned her, the freak no one wanted to be seen with. Ella fled to the only once she knew would never deny the loyalty and the love that tied them together, her family! Her mum Elizabeth who had defied all prejudices and married the muggle and her true love, Lars, who turned out to be the best dad in the whole world. Elliot, who was Ella´s big brother and the one she´d always look up to, even if he was a muggle and never could quite grasp the fact of living dragons and flying broomsticks. Her muggle twin sister Natasha “Tasha”, Ella´s best friend and hero until the end of time. Her fun loving little sister Hedwig, who where more talented at magic than anyone else she knew. Hugo, her little brother, who seemed to have inherited the same “act-first-think-later-type-gene” that Ella had, but still had the potential to become the family’s greatest wizard… and of course the smallest one, Noah, who despite his lack of magical abilities managed to charm everyone around him with his deep blue eyes and shining smile. They where everything she cared about and now also the only once she had…

“You look a bit tense?”
“Do I?! Can´t imagine why… I mean it´s not much of a deal to leave home for another country and attend a school for magic, all the while praying that no one will discover the secret that could send you right back to the hell you fled from!” Her words where dripping of sarcasm and Elliot couldn´t help but smile a bit as their dad fell silent.
“I´ll miss you, Sis!” Hugo gave her a hug and she felt the warmth inside her chest. What would she do without her family? Well one thing is for sure… she would not have been given the chance to transfer to Hogwarts if it weren’t for them! It was Hedwig´s idea from the beginning… but the tricky things was that even with Ella gone, everyone at S.A.M would recognize Hugo and Hedwig as her siblings and probably would treat them just as bad?! That´s when Natasha asked if there wasn´t any spell that could make everyone at S.A.M to just forget they´ve ever seen Ella. It still made her smile when she remembered the expression on her mums face as Tasha had said it. Within five seconds Elizabeth had cast a spell that erased all students and teachers memories of Ella, almost as if she´d never existed.
“You know we´ll always be here for you?!” Elliot whispered in her ear as he gave her a hug and she smiled at him.
“Yes I do!”
“I was looking forward to play together with you on the team! But I guess I get the chance to be the best now…” Hedwig teased and hugged her older sister.
“You better defend the family honour!” Ella laughed and Hedwig smiled, although her eyes looked sad.
“I´ll miss you, Ella!” Tasha said and Ella met her gaze.
“You know I´ll be back, don´t you?” Ella said as the twins hugged.
Then she bent down and lifted Noah up in the air and gave him a hug too.
“I´ll miss you, little man!” She said and he laughed.
“Promise to bring me a dragon when you get back!” He said and she nodded.
“I´ll do my best.”
After she´d put him back on the floor, she turned to face her dad and got a bit surprised when she noticed there was tears in his eyes.
“I´m so proud over you, sweetheart!” Then he gave her a hug that almost made her feet leave the ground.
“I love you!” She whispered and left the hug to face the huge trunk at her feet, placed a hand on it and stretched the other towards her mum, who were standing beside her. Then Elizabeth turned on the spot and suddenly the living room and the rest of the family disappeared as they were squeezed through a tunnel filled with swirling lights before feeling solid ground under their feet. Ella looked around a saw a sign where she read “Platform 9¾”, there was a huge red locomotive standing there, white smoke billowed from the chimney and hundreds of kids and parents all trying to make their way towards the doors and climb aboard.
“Good luck Ella, and remember to write to me when you get there!” Her mum was of course as worried as ever.
“I will, Mum… don´t worry so much, you`ll get wrinkles!” With a smile she hugged her favourite person in the whole world and the elder woman kissed her forehead.
“I love you!”
“Love you too!” With that she let go of her parent, tightened her grip on the trunk and started to push through the crowd. When she turned to look back, her mum was already gone, back in Sweden!

Life was a funny thing. One moment it was all boring and to gain a little excitement, finding a job aboard seemed like a good idea. The excitement was more than expected. One night and the life was changed completely.
A teenage girl sat on the floor by her bed with a wolf head on her lap, stroking the rest of animal body. Thinking about her life. Once she found Matt Silver, who turned out to be her grandfather in a way, her world crushed down. All she had read in her fantasy books which she loved the most, became reality. Imaginating things was fun, living them - not so much. She was depressed, waking up in nights from nightmare only to find out it was truth in the morning. After her first full moon night, she realised she had to live for her cub, for her mother and for her best friend. None of them knew the real new girl that she was now, it might be a year, but still too soon.
A year of studying magic and auror training.
Charlotte Silver proved to be the best teacher. She was able to work only with a glimpse of magic talent and improve it to full wizarding level of a teenager. Matthew Silver was a well known Chief Auror who taught the girl about their ancestors and train her in various martial as well as combat arts.
A knocking on the door was announcing someone's present. "Come in, Grandpa," called the girl.
"Honey, look what has just come!" called the elder man with a big smile and showed an envelope.
"Mum or Minde?" asked the teenager, her eyes shining happily.
"Erm, none of them this time. It's Hogwarts letter."
"WHAT? Did you pull strings?" she asked suspiciously.
The man laughed. "I do that only at Ministry as Chief Auror and during full moon sessions from our no.ble status. Hogwarts are independent." His smile faded. "You don’t look very happy."
"Well, I know Hogwarts changed after the last war, but humans are still only humans with prejudices."
"And yet I became successful Auror and have a wife who´s beautiful inside out. We had a daughter who died for the right thing and now we have you. I really can’t complain."
The girl sighed and nodded, but before she could get lost in her thoughts a female yell was heard. Then an elder lady rushed into the room.
"Is it true?! Oh honey, I’m so very proud of you." The pride could be seen in the woman’s eyes and the girl knew she was lost. When her grandmother was proud of something it meant a lot.
"I can hardly fit between first years," complained the teenager.
"I believe I taught you more than that," smiled her grandmother.
"Look, get out, make friends and have fun with young people," said the former Auror. "And show them the good and true in us. Only during full moon they should maintain distance," he winked.
"Alright, gimme the letter." Some minutes later the girl spoke again. "Greya is definitely not an owl, a cat nor a rat and I will not leave without her."
"That can be arranged," said the woman.
"Grandma, I don’t want to be some nepotic child."
"Oh don’t worry. Minerva owns me a favor from the war. What I know this woman, it will be a piece of cake for her."
Not able to find any other complains, on the 1st September, the Silver family stood at the train station.

“Excuse me. Is there room for one more? Everywhere else is full!” That wasn´t entirely true but Ella had no intentions on doing this trip alone, and this group of five persons looked nice enough to chat with for a few hours.
“Yeah, sure!” A boy with spiky dark brown hair shot one quick look at her before pushing the boy beside him towards the window and leave room for Ella to sit down.
“Thanks!”
“I´m Joshua by the way, but everyone calls me Josh!” He shook her hand and Ella smiled a bit when noticing the blush on his face.
“Hi, I´m Ella.” The others presented themselves as David, Maya, Cassie and Ryan, before asking where she came from and how she´d decided to attend Hogwarts. Of course Ella couldn´t tell them the truth, but simply told them she was from Sweden but chose to transfer to Hogwarts because of the great reputation the school had, especially since you-know-who was defeated.

As they arrived to Hogsmeade and the train stopped, the others wished her good luck in the sorting ceremony, since she where to stay put at the station as the instructions in her letter had said.
“I´m keeping my fingers crossed for Ravenclaw.” Josh smiled and Ryan nodded.
“Yeah, you´d feel home there!”
“No, she wouldn´t! I´m sure you`ll end up in Gryffindor!” Cassie said and David looked please, but Maya shook her head.
“I have a feeling we`ll be sharing dormitories tonight! But I won´t tell you which house it is… you`ll see for yourself!” Ella smiled at all of them before waving good bye as they disappeared into a horseless carriage that started moving towards the huge castle that reminded of the one she was used to, but not quite as big.

“Miss Ella Wilson?” A voice behind her made her jump and fly around only to see a tall, black-haired witch in dark red robes with black embroidery. Her clear blue eyes and kind smiling face made Ella feel more at ease. “I'm professor Robins. If you please could come with me?” Ella nodded as she for the first time noticed she wasn´t the only transfer student, there was a boy and a girl with a wolf, standing behind the professor. The boy looked haughty and rich, with well-groomed strawberry blonde hair and polished shoes, the girl contrariwise in her worn sneakers and with chocolate brown hair that seemed somewhat wild wavy, it at least had more life than the boy’s flat hairstyle. Her eyes were dark blue and pierced trough Ella with such a depth that she could have sworn she saw something move inside them.

A few minutes later Ella found herself sitting on a three-legged stool with an old, ugly hat on her head. British people are crazy! She slowly thought to herself as the professor, headmistress and the two other transfer students looked at her with interest in their eyes. This cannot be considered normal! How in Merlin’s beard can a hat know in which house I belong?
“Oh this is not a bad head! Not bad at all…” The hat said. Oh, lucky me! thought Ella.
“Filled with honesty and a deep desire to prove herself worthy of others respect.” How can a hat know that? I haven´t told anyone that!
“Intelligent too, logical, but open-minded, I feel a huge deal of optimism and a determination to give everyone a chance to show their true selves. Here is also boldness and a will stronger than most. So where shall I put you? You clearly don´t belong in Slytherin, but maybe Ravenclaw? No, probably not and Gryffindors may be brave but they aren´t as open-minded and faithful as you! There is only one house where you truly belong… HUFFLEPUFF!" Professor Robins removed the hat and Ella stood up, slightly shocked after being categorized. The system in Scandinavia was far softer than this honest and a bit terrifying way of putting everyone where they belonged. Still recovering she barely noticed when the teacher waved her wand and gave her black robes with yellow details, before pointing towards the door.
“Congratulation," said the headmistress. "You may join the dinner in the Great Hall now.” Ella nodded and wandered off and entered what the headmistress had called the Great Hall… and it truly was humongous and beautiful and…
“Ella! Hey, Ella! Over here!” She heard a bright voice and saw a hand wave at her from one of the long tables, it was Maya. Ella walked over to her and sat down to join the rest of the yellow herd and noticed that the other three tables where filled with students in red, green and blue.
“I told you we were going to be friends.” Maya said and Ella smiled at her, something in her voice made it hard not to take the honesty for real.
“Yeah well, if you guys had told me about that hat, I´d turned back home on the platform!” Ella joked and at the same time noticed Josh sitting with the students in blue.
“I don´t have much of luck, do I?!” He screamed and smiled at her.
“Sorry!” She yelled back, but at the same time felt a bit relieved over the nice rescue from his hormones.
“We´re having takeouts next week, if you´re interested?!” Maya suddenly said.
“Takeouts?”
“For the quidditch team! Didn´t you tell me you loved playing?”
“Yeah, I did… Which positions are you casting for?”
“Well, I think Roger, that´s our captain, will redo everyone… but usually the once who played last year makes it again!”
“So how could I possibly get in?” Ella asked both curious and disappointed.
“Well, one of the chasers graduated last year… and I am not planning on doing all the goals by myself!” Maya laughed and Ella smiled at her. Maybe she really had been granted a second chance and a new beginning? At least she knew one thing for sure… she would enjoy for as long as it lasted!

A girl with a wolf behind her, attracted attention from some travellers. She did not like it a bit, she preferred to be invisible, and so she rushed to the tail of the train. An empty compartment was a good hideout from all those people's eyes. Sometimes the girl had a feeling that the fact that she was different could be read on her forehead.
The train set off on the way, a very long one during which the only human occupant closed her eyes, sharpened her hearing and listened to the other students to find out more about the school.
At Hogsmeade she waited for someone to pick her up, just like her Hogwarts letter had said. She looked down at her wolf. "You smell the same as me, right? Chaos," she chuckled as the wolf murmured softly in agreement.
Since the girl did not know for whom to look exactly, she watched the train carefully. It was a nice red polished locomotive, she had never seen one so beautiful and well cared for. She did some steps backwards and bumped into someone.
"I'm sorry," she quickly apologized.
"That can happen to anyone in this rush." The person was a tall woman in her mid forties. When the girl saw her, immediately an opening song from her favourite TV-show started playing in her head. In the times of ancient Gods, warlords and kings, the land cried out for a hero.. She shook her head and concentrated back on the lady in front of her.
"My name is Rebecca Robins, please, follow me, Miss Silver."
The women seemed kind enough, so the girl let go of her boldness, which did not happen often.
"Excuse me, madam, can I have a question? Are you by any chance acquainted with Lucy Lawless?"
The lady laughed heartily.
"I`m afraid not, but it's said that everyone has their double somewhere. By the way, my kids loved Xena very much too." She winked at the student.
On their way they had a little chat, suddenly they stopped.
"There we have another transfer student," she told the girl, then called for an aristocratic looking boy. "Mr. Philip Dante?!" The boy nodded. "Follow me, please." The lady pulled out a list. "Now we need to find out one more student," she looked around. "Ah, there she is." Few more steps were done towards a girl waving to some other students. "Miss Ella Wilson?" The girl jumped in surprise, turned around and nodded. A very small wolfish smell waft from her, but too tiny for a werewolf.
On their way to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the professor introduced herself as Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Rebecca Robins and explained they were going to the headmistress office to get sorted into their houses. She also briefly described how the ceremony worked.

Once in the headmistress office, a three legged stool and an old hat were prepared in front of big desk and mighty chair where transfiguration professor and headmistress Minerva McGonagall waited for the transfer students.
"Now shell we start with your sorting?" asked the headmistress.
All the kids nodded, no one felt like talking aloud.
The DADA professor settled the stool and took the hat. First one to be sorted was the animagus girl, then the sno.bbish boy and when the last student was left…
"Miss Silver, if you sit please."
The hat was placed on the girl's head and became alive. "Hmm, what do we have here?"
A mess.
"Let's clean it then."
I can be strong headed, arrogant and cunning, because I’m lazy, but loyal and just. I’m very intelligent and I like to learn new things, also I value the chivalry and courtesy. I can't be between snakes despite loving green colour the most, and chivalry doesn't seem to be important these days. So, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw?
"GRYFFINDOR!" shouted the hat.
"WHAT?!" yelled the student. "Hat?" No response. "Hello, hat, I think you made a mistake here."
"The hat is never mistaken," said professor Robins, clearing up the hat and stool. "Congratulation," she smiled, giving the girl her new black robes with red and gold niceties.
"Miss Silver?" asked the head of Hogwarts. The only student stood still in a shock, thinking deeply. "Hasky?!"
Hearing her name the girl woke up.
"How is it I'm in Gryffindor? I'm not brave. I only do what's right and I think it through first before I act. I've never done a brave thing." The elder woman raised her eyebrow and pointed to a wolf by the girl's side.
"Oh, that was stupidity. I should have thought about saving mission first."
"Now when we speak about your familiar, I believe Hagrid can keep it while you are in the castle."
"Uh… ermm…"
"Is there a problem?"
"Well, since that night, we haven't spent time separately. Is there a way Greya could stay with me?"
"It is a wolf and I can't let her without supervision."
Grandma said Minerva owed her, so think, Hasky, think! There must be something.
"Only if you promise me no troubles in the castle will be caused by your wolf, it can stay with you, otherwise Hagrid will take care of your pet."
"Deal," smiled the girl broadly. "Thank you very much." She hugged her animal warmly.
"Now about you, Miss Silver. I want to have control over your… period."
Now that sounded horrible, thought the student.
"Every month you will give a report to me or your Head of House, professor Robins." The professor smiled, when Hasky stared at her surprised. Did she say, she's the head of Gryffindor?
"Yes, madam, thank you," the girl bowed to the elder woman and with the other staff member, they left to enjoy the rest of the welcoming feast.

After a few weeks of getting used to life at Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, Ella felt pretty sure she would like it here! Everyone she met in the yellow common room of Hufflepuff acted with great compassion and loyalty towards each other, and Ella knew she could trust every single one of them! Maya had showed her around the castle and she was slowly getting the hang of transporting herself through the corridors, which was a good thing seeing Josh seemed very keen on bumping into her as soon as he got the chance. The quidditch tryouts where over, Ella had made the team as centre chaser with honours and where now always mentioned as soon as the upcoming game was brought up for discussion. The classes probably held a high standard, but as always she found it hard to concentrate for longer than five minutes a time, which already had brought her a detention from professor Slughorn. Even so she found professor Flitwick´s lessons in Charms very interesting and found out she had a natural gift when it came to nailing spells, she had even managed to get an “outstanding” at her latest essay, as the only student in the class. She´d also discovered that professor McGonagall was an animagus and that caused her to tell Maya her secret. Surprisingly for Ella she didn´t care one bit, or at least not in the way the animagus thought she would… Instead she´d seemed amazed and told her friend she´d always dreamt of being able to transform into a bird and soar high over the clouds. But most of Ella´s time was occupied with training at the quidditch field. Her determination to show everyone that she´d earn the spot truthfully and also the revenge from her last “first match” drove her further and harder than anyone else. It was after one if those trainings that her first big adventure at Hogwarts began…

“Nice work team! I think we´re really starting to feel united and if we keep this up Gryffindor won´t stand a chance!” Roger said while grabbing his bat harder to fend off the attacking bludger who wasn´t really aware of the pause in the game.
“Yeah, if you bomb Casillas like you did with me today, we don´t even need to catch the snitch to win!” The keeper Roxanne smiled at Maya, Marcus and Ella.
“Let´s call it a night, shall we?!” Together they landed and started heading towards the changing room, but the centre chaser felt a bit odd, it might have something to do with the full moon that made the wet ground shimmer in silver.
“Where are you going?” Jacob, the other beater, asked when Ella turned left, towards the forbidden forest.
“I just need a minute alone. Could you take my broom?” He nodded and took her Firebolt along with his own and disappeared with the rest of the team. As soon as they were gone the girl ran in to the shadows, and in a flash she changed into a small light gray wolf which took off in a sprint along the outside of the dark trees. Suddenly she heard a howl and before she could think her decision through, she had changed direction and was now heading straight into the forest. Something in her gut told her this probably wasn´t a very wise thing to do, but as always her curiosity took over and she kept on running, like something was calling for her. As the girl reached what she thought must be the middle of the forbidden forest, she slowed down to peek between the trees. She saw a wolf, its gray fur glistering in the pure moonlight, but it was nothing compared to the smaller wolf beside, which hair looked like made of silver. Ella took a few strolls more and noticed that the smaller wolf seemed almost exhausted, as their eyes met she could feel something dangerous, but strangely enough she didn´t feel scared, only content. The newcomer didn´t move, instead she stayed where she was, waiting for the other wolves to take their first steps towards her...

Hasky Silver was not very social person. She chatted here and there but kept a distance from closer relationships. Her paranoia told her not to make friends too soon. If someone found out her true self, she would be doomed. Surprisingly she did not want to go back home yet. So far she liked the school and DADA was her favourite subject. Thanks to her grandfather's training, she was good at it and Robins often called her for assistance. She was really proud of herself. Transfiguration was difficult but very interesting and the determinate student did not leave the class until she figured out how to cast a spell properly. Potions were not hard as long as the process was written on the board or in a book. Otherwise they were hell. Other lessons were better or worse, except for Herbology. Plants had never been her thing. Not that Grandma didn´t try teaching her what she needed to know, but for Hasky it all seemed similar and green. Only strong smells like lavender, mint and vanilla… she could recognize. The rest was a big mystery. One horrible thing all subjects had in common was writing essays. Practice was no problem, writing a scientific text - torture.
And one two-foot long essay awaited its writer. The certain writer needed to clear her mind first so she entered the closest cupboard and took a broomstick and a quaffle. When she was home, Grandfather often took her and her pet out for a ball game.
The wolf was excited, waving its tale like crazy, restlessly jumping around its mistress.
"Yeah, I know, cub," said the girl smiling and practically ran out.
In the air, Hasky let the quaffle drop and her familiar parried it back in different directions. An hour and a half later the flyer noticed she had an audience. She caught the ball and flew down. He was a well build guy and the girl recognized him from common room. Last few days he was desperately checking the notice board. "I didn't mean to interrupt," he apologized.
"No problem, I lost track of time. I have to finish a Charms essay anyway."
"Wait," he called after her. "I didn't see you at quidditch tryouts last week. Don't you like the game?"
"I haven't played quidditch before, only basketball. Anyway, bad day, I had loads of work." In fact she was too shy in front of so many people. She had just been wandering around, watching the other students trying their luck.
"Basketball?"
"Uh," the girl thought how to explain her favourite muggle game. "Take over the ball and shoot for hoops?"
"Oh! You can do wonders with the quaffle."
"It's the only ball I know what to do with."
"The rest will be easy for you. I plan to have another round of tryouts next week. Does Friday afternoon suit you?"
"I think so."
"Great," the boy's face lit up like a hundred candles. "I'm Colin, by the way. Gryffindor`s beater and captain."

And so the next week Hasky became Gryffindor Chaser.
"Ha, I told you!" rejoiced Colin, when the tryouts were over. They also chose a new keeper. A fourth year, who was really tall for his age, but nicely trained. Obviously he had played some sport before.
"Adrian!" called the captain. "Come down, no one will shoot at you until Tuesday!"
"Noobs are so responsible," sighed another beater. "Hasky, I hope you'll join us for today's celebration."
"I'm sorry, Kev, I have Potions essay to do."
"C'mon, it can wait for the weekend."
"We will see."
In the evening the new chaser did attend the celebration. She took a butterbeer, had a chat around with her co-players. But once the night settled down, she disappeared.

Alongside with her wolf, they were running from the castle to the Forbidden Forest. Rounded moon could be seen above the grounds. The girl smiled and near Hagrid's hut, she did a long jump and landed on four legs, but falling down. The canine stopped, turned around ready to play. No alcohol during transformation, could be read from its features. Hasky showed her teeth, and the wolf jumped on her playfully. Then they continued running. Two wolves, one grey and the other smaller silver-like. At the skirt of forest the silver one felt really sick. A long howl was heard. Fortunately they found a little stream of fresh water and the wolf drank like its life depended on it. Suddenly the two animals noticed a movement. Both turned around to see another light grey wolf. She was an animagus, so Hasky showed her teeth once again, this time warning about danger. Once their eyes met, everything went silent. The newcomer did not move. Not because of fear, but curiosity.

Adventure of Friendship

The silver wolf smiled and nodded to the new wolf girl to follow them. The old friends felt hungry, they had not eaten anything since breakfast, because they were looking forward to this. Hunting. Since her first hunt with her grandfather, Hasky loved them all. The feeling of excitement, adrenaline rushing through her body, the fun of group hunt and the sweet reward afterwards when she could finally eat after a whole day. That was amazing. The leader wolf looked at the stranger. Run away - no run away? Partly she hoped "run away" would be the option, because for new hunters it usually was a freaking experiment. Only few enjoyed it right then.
They found a herd of venison. Young ones seemed to be healthy so the silver wolf concentrated on does. She found one with fresh heal of broken leg. The leg did not look good and the group of hunters had their target. The pack got into its position, at howl they all rushed forth. The doe might be injured nevertheless it was fast enough for a great run. The silver one watched the new wolf and had to admit she was doing well. Her eyes sparkled with excitement and obviously she was very playful. Once the doe was in a trap between three wolves, Hasky jumped and bit its neck hard and deep, so the animal did not suffered and was dead soon. The leader ate first, and then the other two joined the feast.
Full stomachs and tiredness took over their bodies and three wolves fell asleep.

In the morning the silver wolf turned back into its human form, looking down at her deeply sleeping companion.
"Let's see if you join us again next moon," she smiled slyly. On one hand the girl had potential of good hunter and it was a real fun yesterday; on the other hand, most people were freaked out of the fact they had been hunting. Hasky did not know who this girl was. She did recognize three wolves, a fox and about four cats animagi in the school. She would not search for this creature when it would be human. The Silver girl was a loner, she had her wolf and that was all that mattered.
Stopping by Hagrid's hut, in a barrel, she cleaned her and Greya's face from blood, got dressed and went back to school.

When Ella opened her eyes the first thing she noticed was a long gray thing sticking out from her face, the next was the pale blue sky and treetops above her head and the cold ground under her body. It took few seconds before she realized what had happened, she was still in her wolf form, a sleep in the woods and she had… hunted! In an instant she flew up and landed on two feet, back as her human self and then she felt her stomach flip over as she flung herself forward and vomited behind a tree… How could she have done such a brutal thing? This was what she´d always been afraid of! That she actually was the monster that everyone at S.A.M thought she was. On weak legs she started to make her way out of the forest and slowly noticed her memory of the hunt wasn´t all disgusting and raw… the thrill and the excitement, how the adrenaline had pumped through her veins, suddenly she felt sick again! Feeling the hunt as a cool thing was almost worse than being disgust by it… She didn´t remember how she managed to get back to the castle, but somehow she did and as she entered the common room everybody stared at her dirty clothes and the leaves in her hair, she just smiled and quickly went to bed, praying that she would wake up and find everything to be a bad dream.

A week later she had managed to repress enough of the incident to not feel the urge to vomit when she thought about it, but still she was curious about those other two wolves. Who were they? As always when she had something in her mind she went out to practise some quidditch. She took off and the wind whistled in her ears and she leaned down over her broom to accelerate even more. Her heading was straight up towards the cloudless sky, when she reached so high that the field below her looked more like a sandwich than an arena, she let go of the quaffle and slowly counted to ten. Then she steered her broom into a steep dive and pushed off after it. About two meters from the ground she caught up with the red ball, securely gripped it and then made an elegant landing.
“Very impressive!” Ella swirled around and saw a girl walking towards her, it was the other transfer student, but she also recognized her from Transfiguration class and as Gryffindor`s centre chaser, the one she would have to knock of the broom tomorrow… if necessary.
“Thanks! Have you booked?”
“What?!” The girl stopped a few steps away.
“Do you have training now? There was no one here so I just went out to practise some diving.” She fired a way a huge smile, but right in the middle her mood changed… behind the girl a wolf came walking and stopped by her side. Ella watched the girl and as their eyes met it felt vaguely familiar.
“You… are you… what??” She totally lost control over her speech and couldn´t do much but stare at the girl, who now seemed quite amused by Ella´s obvious nervousness. Could that girl be an animagus? Was it possible that there were others just like her?!
“I`m sorry but I only understand whole sentences?” The girl gave her a measuring look.
“You have a wolf?!” Still slightly chocked Ella didn´t know what to say or think, the other girl didn´t seem to recognize her.
“Yes…” The girl didn´t appear fooled by Ella´s sudden change of topic.
“I thought only owls, cats and rats where allowed?” Determined to avoid what she really wanted to ask Ella kept on talking.
“Yeah, well as long as Greya doesn’t do anything inappropriate she´s accepted… Mind if I join you?” The girl suddenly asked and nodded towards the broom in her hand.
“Yeah… I mean no, or… sure!” She let an agitated laugh slip through her lips and then took off, with the quaffle in her arms and the girl chasing close behind.

About an hour later they were both feeling kind of tired, the girl had showed Ella what must have been pretty much every manoeuvre she knew. It felt like they had more in common than the eye first noticed, but Ella still didn´t feel quite at ease.
“Why are you doing this? Giving away all your tricks I mean. Don´t you feel like you´re handing a weapon over to an enemy?” Ella yelled at her co-player and in the same time caught the quaffle that came shooting towards the hoop she was protecting.
“Not really… I like playing a game where you have to pay attention rather than win without thinking!” They landed synchronized and Ella shot a glance at the girl.
“You know you don´t stand a chance? Hufflepuff will crush you like a bug!” She smiled teasingly but the lion chaser just shrugged.
“I don´t mind houses, I´m good enough for all of them so I don´t really care who wins or loses. I play because it´s fun and I help you because I believe you have potential, if you keep this up you`ll win whichever team you play for!”
“Well you aren’t too bad yourself!” They laughed and Ella felt a nudge in her stomach. “Would you like to join me and Maya to Hogsmeade on Saturday? It would be nice to get to know you!”
The other player suddenly seemed stunned.
“I don´t know… I have other plans…” she mumbled under her breath. Ella got a feeling the girl was hiding something… or maybe she just was one of those people who couldn´t handle strangers? "I have to go, see ya around." The girl abruptly said before whirling around and almost running towards Gryffindor's changing room.
“Hey wait up! I don´t even know your name!” Ella yelled as she ran after and put a hand on the girl's arm to make her stop, but the Gryffindor shook it off.
"Don’t you ever do that again!" Her eyes got a yellowish shadow. Apparently she was angry, but Ella couldn’t figure out why.
"Please, just tell me your name?"
“You consider me an enemy and you don’t know my name?!" She smiled wickedly. "You have to pay more attention during the match tomorrow." With that, she and the grey wolf sprinted away out of sight and left Ella standing on the middle of the field, with a quaffle in her left hand and her broom in the right, completely convinced something was wrong… suspiciously strange and very dangerous...

Back on her way to the castle a certain student was deep in her thoughts. What does she think?! She knows nothing about me and wants to… get to know me… tse. Hasn't anyone taught her self-preservation?… Hanging out with strangers… We did have fun, but that doesn't mean we MUST be friends… And catching me like that… I was the one who showed her new tricks, she had no right to act like superior…
"YOU!" someone shouted. The Gryffindor turned around to see her seeker.
"What?!"
"You were fraternizing with a Hufflepuff!" The chaser looked completely confused, while her teammate was yelling.
"Don't deny it! I SAW you! You showed her our moves. You betrayed us!" At that moment Hasky did a long wolfish jump and knocked down the screaming boy. Landing on his torso, she was growling through her closed teeth.
"Do NOT you EVER dare to accuse me of something like that again!" Her hands had to be clenched because of her growing claws. Her fangs were already elongated and in times like this she was very grateful for her wild hair that covered her transforming ears.
"ENOUGH!" called a third person. Both heads turned to face the newcomer. It was Colin. He took Hasky by her waist and pulled her up, away from the freaked boy on the ground.
She pulled off. "Why are you humans so touching today?!" The questions seemed to be ignored, despite not being meant rhetorically.
"She!" David pointed his finger to the girl, but talking to his captain. Hard to tell who was the angriest. "She revealed our secret to the enemy!"
"If you want to know the exact meaning of 'enemy' I'll assist you… and stop pointing to me or I'll broke your finger!" Again she was ignored.
"And she was telling that Hufflepuff girl how to get pass us, avoid losing the quaffle and score more and win."
SNAP! The sound of breaking bone filled the empty corridor, followed by "Silencio." The seeker knelt down on his knees holding his hand, screaming silently.
"I warned you," she said plainly, then raised her voice. "Now you egoistic git, LISTEN to ME. I would NOT do that, but if you even consider this, you are the one whom we should be aware of."
"Alright, stop it you two," Colin stepped between them again. "David, go to the hospital wing, have loads of chocolate and rest for tomorrow match." No one moved. "NOW!" The fourth year boy got up and ran away. "And now to you-" the beater turned to face his colleague. He studied her face. "I thought you had blue eyes."
"I do," she responded.
"I would swear they were yellow a while ago."
"Well, I'm one of those people who's mood you can guess from their eyes."
"I have a friend like that, but his eyes change from grey to dark blue, not yellow."
"Hey, I'm a witch, that's not normal from the world I come from. So some eye-colour-changing cannot surprise me here. I thought it was usual in the wizard world."
"Not so often.. Anyway, back to the incident before. I know Spencer talks big a lot, but there must be some seed of truth. What is your point of view?"
"Uh…" Hasky let out a deep breath. She still did not understand what was so bad about playing with other student. "I went out to fly and met this chaser. So we had fun, I taught her how to guard her quaffle better and some handy moves. Look, the girl is one of the best chasers I`ve met. She has excellent speed, great diving and awesome take over, but if she doesn't pass it or shoot for hoops, she can lose the ball too easy, so I showed her how to protect it while flying. They were my moves. My moves, my goods. Strategy is your invention and our team doing, I would NOT talk about it with anyone else except teammates in our changing room."
"Who was it?"
"A chaser from Hufflepuff."
The captain chucked. "Hufflepuff`s team has three chasers, which one."
"Oh, you mean the name… erm," she thought for a while. "Wilson, I think."
Her teammate laughed. "Now we are in deep troubles. Or at least our dear keeper is."
"Why?"
"You are one of few that can get through Adrian, and you passed your knowledge to - what Roger says to be- one of the best players he ever had in team."
"Well, she's really good, and I'm not sorry. Adrian will be fine, he’s a quick study," she shrugged. "But Spencer has to improve himself or he's doomed, he hasn't learned any new moves since I joined. Could it be that he acted like that because he's jealous?"
"Jealous?"
"Of course! Me and Adrian are new in the team, but already better players than him. It always takes him a good hour before he catches the snitch. Isn't there some seeker-guide that he could study from? We always have to save his butt. When's the last time he caught the golden ball?"
"Hasky," said captain in warning voice.
"All I'm saying is that team goes first and weaknesses has to be eliminated."
"You just don't like him."
"After today do you wonder?! By the way, Colin, if he ever does such a stupidity like this again, you'll have to look for a new seeker… and maybe a chaser as well… because HE won't be able to play quidditch again."
"I hope he will be a good boy for his own good," the elder boy smiled down at her. "Anyway, will you join us on Saturday celebration in Hogsmeade?"
"Celebration?"
"Yeah, you know after the match we'll go to Hogsmeade to celebrate victory or to… drink away our grief," he winked mischievously.
She laughed. "I'm not sure."
"Me and Roger, Roger Mayer, we are best friends since we were five, so you can imagine…" another laughed from both of them, "and we made it a tradition, that the team who wins, celebrates at Three Broomsticks, and losers go to Hog's Head… but after few butterbeers, it's one big party."
Suddenly Hasky felt like something was watching her.
"What is it?" asked the beater.
"It's like something is watching us, do you know the feeling?" She took a deep breath but smelled nothing.
Colin looked around. "I don't see anything unusual. Only you, hanging out with a wolf. What's its name anyway?"
"Greya. It is really strange."
"We are at Hogwarts, what's not?" he smiled and knelt down to stroke the animal. "So will you come?"
"You're right… I don't think so, I hate big groups."
They began walking slowly to their common room.
"Fourteen people are not big," continued the boy.
"I don't know the village." Another excuse was found.
"You know what… we'll go right after lunch. Just the two of us and I'll show you around."
"Three."
"What?"
"Greya comes too."
"Oh, of course." He looked down at the wolf. "Sorry, little one, I forgot."
The canine snatched for the boy's arm and Hasky laughed. "Don't forget anymore or she'll bite next time."
"I will remember that. So, will we go?"
The girl sighed. "Alright."
"It's a deal," rejoiced Colin and wrapped his arm around the girl's shoulders.
Humans really love touching , the girl smiled slightly, but did not shook off the arm that wasn't hers.
A pair of big grey eyes had followed the pair until they disappeared behind a corner.
"That will be the chance." The orbs blinked and vanished.

The day had come, the day she had waited, feared and longed for was finally here. As she pulled the bright yellow quidditch uniform over her head, her heart was beating harder and faster than it ever had done before, it almost felt as if it would smash a hole right through her chest and fly out of the body.
“You seem a bit... jumpy?! Are you feeling alright?” Maya fired away a curious smile and Roxanne looked up from the gloves she was just slipping on to give Ella a worried look.
“I´m fine!” She mumbled through her teeth, afraid that something else than words might pop out if she opened it more. No I´m not! I feel like I´m going to faint and my hands are all sweaty and my stomach acts like someone has cast an eat-slug-spell over me...
“It´s okay to be nervous your first match! I was... my panic resulted in 160points to Hufflepuff.” Corey said as she held out the newly polished Firebolt towards Ella.
“160?? How did you manage that?!” Jacob asked so enquiring that he forgot about the swinging bat in his hand and Marcus had to dive onto the floor to avoid a concussion.
“Well, I caught the snitch but I got so surprised I flung it through one of Ravenclaw´s hoops and scored 150+10!” All Hufflepuff’s laughed as a magical voice declared it was five minutes left to throw-off.
“Alright everyone lets kick some lion butt today!” Roger screamed and as the teammates joined in they took their positions to enter the field. “Just take it easy Ella! If you just keep doing what you´ve done on training you`ll do the best first-match in Hogwarts-Chaser-history!” Her captain whispered in her ear as he passed to stand behind her.
“Yeah?! Well this isn´t my first match... and I´m praying really hard this won´t turn out the way that one did!” She answered him while grabbing her broom a bit firmer.
“Well turning into a wolf might scare them off?” Roger smiled and almost before the words left his lips she had swirled around to face him.
“How do you... Who told you??” He nodded towards Maya who gave her a look as to say: I´m-sorry.
“You don´t have to worry about that Ella! You´re still here, aren´t you?” Marcus said in his deep confident voice.
“But... Does everybody know?” Suddenly she wasn´t so sure if this was a good or a bad thing.
“No, not everybody! Just the team... and we support you 110%, as always!” Everybody smiled towards her and as the doors swung open Roxanne squeezed her hand before flying off together, as a floss of seven shining and smiling fireflies.

“Good day all witches and wizards on this roaring day of our first match in this year’s school tournament. Hufflepuff and Gryffindor are ready to face each other in what probably will be one of the toughest games this year!” Ella heard the commentators voice through the wind and tried to pay attention when he rattled the names of the players.
“For Gryffindor we have Captain and beater Knight, and his college Kent, the there chasers Watson, Smith and Silver, keeper Casillas and their controversial seeker Spencer. Defending the honour of Hufflepuff is captain and beater Mayer and his mate O´Neil, the chasers are Rodriquez, Wilson and Fisher, all the while Hartley is guarding the hoops while the small but dangerously fast seeker Lee will do everything in her power to try and catch the snitch.” As Corey´s name was called the two teams had gathered on the ground and the captains shook hands, Ella identifies the opponents with a quick glance. Adrian Casillas was a real tall guy that seemed very well-trained and muscular, the best tactic would probably be to try and change position fast so that his long arms and legs didn´t keep up with the speed. As for the three female chasers they all looked quite flexible and fast, but Ella knew there were few who could keep up with her quick turns and changes of direction. Even so the look of the transfer student with the wild brown hair and usual wolf companion did cause a little flinch in her stomach.
“Are we ready?” Madame Hooch yelled and the fourteen players nodded. Ella grabbed her beloved broom and stomped the ground to try and make it more solid.
“On three then... one... two... BIP!” A whistle and the quaffle was in the air, she didn´t bother about any of the others, she knew that Maya and Marcus already was flying towards the sides, it was her job to get the quaffle!
“Wilson seizes the quaffle and the game is on... looks like the Hufflepuff chasers has worked on their communication a whole lot since last season?!” Ella flew as fast as she could towards the hoops on the other end of the field, as she retrieved a jostle in the side from Silver she passed the quaffle to Marcus.
“A nice handover from Wilson, Smith doesn´t have a chance to snatch it, Rodriguez is keeping to the side, avoiding a bludger from Knight that barely missed. Silver is chasing, she`s almost their... oh a kick, classic!” Ella sees how the quaffle starts to fall and how the Gryffindorer turns her broom downwards, but there is no chance she´s letting this go! You might have taught me a few tricks... but speed is something that comes naturally!
“Oh my god! This is incredible... Wilson grabs the quaffle before Silver even though she was more than 50m off!” She could hear the breaths of someone chasing her but now all that mattered was the athletic keeper ahead. Feint right, aim left, shoot in the middle...
“Wilson scores!! 10-0 to Hufflepuff!!”

An hour later the scoreboard showed 120-70 to Hufflepuff. Centre chaser Silver had done all of Gryffindor´s goals, while Ella had done 9 of Hufflepuff´s, but still their seemed to be no sign of the snitch.
After yet another brilliant tackle by Marcus he received the quaffle and quickly passed it to Maya who took off in full speed towards Casillas. That´s when it happened, Ella saw it coming but could do nothing to prevent the outcome. 10 meters above Maya one of the Gryffindor beaters hit a bludger with perfect aim and almost before Ella had time to scream.
“Maya behind you!!” It hit her with full speed in the back and she was lunged of the broom and fell 20 meters towards the ground where she landed with a crack, barely stirring. While this happened Watson seized the moment of shock to catch the quaffle and head for Roxanne who quickly had to recover from the worry that showed in her face. Ella pushed off, followed by Marcus and Silver... That´s when the second bludger appeared in front of her, but it wasn´t aimed at her, but towards Corey who now was chasing the golden snitch just above the ground, Gryffindor´s seeker was way behind. It´s me or her... winning or loosing... Hufflepuff or Gryffindor... Her decision was made and in the fraction of a second she had changed direction and instead if chasing the quaffle, as a normal chaser, she was chasing a bludger! Just about a half meter before the impact with Corey, Ella threw herself off the broom and into the motion path of the bludger, she could hear a muffled crunching and felt a burning pain at the left side of her ribcage... then everything went black.

“She´s crazy!! Why would someone want to that to themselves?”
“I don´t know... but if she hadn´t done it, we would have lost for sure!” Ella slowly opened her eyes as she could hear the familiar voices of her team members.
“Talking about me I hear?!”
“You saved my butt, big time!” Corey smiled and the others nodded.
“So how did it go?”
“Well in the whole chaos after your flight with the bludger... the snitch got away, and with two chasers out, we didn´t have much to put up against the tree lions from Gryffindor! Lucky for us Corey managed to catch the snitch before it got too bad... so it´s a tie, 270-270!” Roger said, seemingly happy.
“Well next time you might want to think about protecting us instead of watching us get smashed to the ground?! It´s easier to score if you´re conscious you know?” Ella teased and Maya laughed from the bed beside her.
“I´ll think about it ok?” Roger smiled as the giant doors to the hospital wing opened and revealed two freshly showered Gryffindors...

In Gryffindor changing room the team washed and got changed while the captain had his speech.
"Wow, they really kicked our butts", somehow this sounded more cheerful than angry. "Alright guys, we need to train more. That's for sure. And till next week… you David will show me at least five new moves and some serious improvement on your speed. We have two new members and none of them is used to teamwork so we need to do something with that too."
"Why me? Why do you pick on me so much?" Whined the seeker.
"Because he's right," growled Hasky.
"It's you!" yelled David, pointing his finger… again. "Until you came we were fine!"
"I already broke your finger once." The boy pulled his hand away.
"It's not her," Kevin stood up. "If it wasn't for me and Colin to eliminate their chasers we would lost for sure, cos YOU let the snitch slip TWICE."
"You want me out!"
"Stop being such a dramaqueen," said the captain calmly. "We all need to become better from match to match if we want to win and today only proved that. Oh, Kev, next time when we play with Hufflepuff, try to hit their brooms and not players. I really don't want to destroy Roger's team."
"You're the one who knocked down the chaser instead of seeker," laughed the beater. "But maybe it's for the best otherwise we might still be playing because the snitch wouldn't be caught till now." Then the team seeker ran away crying. "Oops."
"Alright everyone," Colin spoke up, "let's have a rest, Kevin you make it up to David, he's a spoiled brat but the best seeker we have... for now. Ladies, Adrian, have a nice day and don't forget about tomorrow's party. Hasky you and me are going to the hospital."
"Why?" asked the said chaser.
"Because our friends are there," he explained.
"I don't have any friends..."
"Ella Wilson?"
"She is not my friend. We met only once. Well, twice if you count the sorting."
"Anyway it would be nice to tell her she did well?!"
Hasky rolled her eyes and got up.

They arrived in hospital wing and Colin opened both wings of the big doors, walking in with broad smile.
"Happy to see you're all conscious again! Great match!"
"Man, you do are loud," smiled Roger and both captains hugged.
"Excuse me," interrupted Ella. "You," she pointed at the Gryffindor beater, "are responsible for hospitalizing us and you," she turned to her own captain, "are OK with it?!"
"Erm, Ella," Maya interrupted. "They're old friends, we know they did not mean it too seriously. Anyway, I have to speak to Kevin," she said pretending to be angry.
"Yeah, well, he was distracted by a fly and had a bad aim," apologized Colin and they all burst into a roaring laugh.
"Now I don't know what's worst, almost breaking my new broom or my backbone." Another wave of laugh followed.
"Well, we came here to make sure you are alright and that you can attend the celebration, or should we leave it for later?"
"No need," responded Roger. "My girls are tough," he smiled proudly. "Anyway," the next look belonged to the Gryffindor chaser. "I haven't seen anyone fly so good at their first match."
"Thanks," the girl responded plainly.
"I think a proper introduction is at place now, so," the boy seemed to be as optimistic and cheerful as Colin. No wonder they were friends. "My name is Roger Mayer, the ladies in the beds are Maya Fisher and Ella Wilson, and here our third chaser Marcus Rodriguez. The small blonde girl is the seeker Corey Lee and the tall one, keeper Roxanne Hartley and of course my mate and beater companion Jake O`Neil."
"Hi all," she waved them, her expression still looked bored. "Hasky Silver be my name."

The two Gryffindors found seats for themselves and they all spend a nice time together, until Madam Pomfrey showed them out, with the excuse that her patients needed a rest.
"Ah, Silver, good you are here, come with me."
The other students looked at each other while the one called, rolled her eyes.
Half an hour later, she was released from the office and on her way back she saw that one of the Hufflepuff chasers was still awake. She came closer to Ella and watched her carefully. Self healing was unconscious, healing Greya was not that hard when Hasky was in her wolf form. Now it was high time to try it as human on a human.
"What is it?" asked Ella, feeling a bit uncomfortable under the curious look.
"Pull up your shirt."
"WHAT?!" the patient cried out, before shooting a glance at Maya to make sure she hadn´t woke her up.
"Pull up your shirt."
"No way!"
Hasky sat down on a chair next to her bed.
"What are you doing?" asked Ella suspiciously.
"Waiting for you to fall asleep."
"Yeah, that'll be real easy with you staring at me like that! What are you on about?"
"Just wanna try to heal you."
"You and heal?" the suspiciousness did not leave her face. "Aren't you a little too inexperienced for that?"
"I come from a muggle family, everything about magic is weird for me, but I think it's normal for mages. Anyway I can always try, can't I?"
"What if something goes wrong?" The Hufflepuff gave Hasky a doubtful look.
"Then nothing will happen." Ella still had doubts, but after a few more seconds she pulled up her shirt and looked at the other girl who stretched her fingers so cracking in the joints was heard. Then she rubbed her palms together and placed them above the chaser's broken ribs.
Hasky saw her co-player’s winced face, healing always hurt, but what confused her was that Ella was driven into sleep. Her wolf had never been sleepy after curing. Well, maybe it was a human thing. When Silver was done, she bent down to the girl's ear and whispered.
"You owe me for this and you will teach me everything about how you manage to speed your broom like that." Then she walked over to the other bed. Maya was already in deep sleep so she tried to wake her up. Tried... but after a few murmurs Hasky gave up and pulled the girl's shirt up herself and repeated the same process.
After a hard match and double healing, the Gryffindor felt really tired, she was ready for bed. The night sky was very clear so she decided to spend the night outside. She picked up Greya who was waiting outside the hospital wing and both went out. Anyone who was looking through the castle´s northen windows could see two wolves heading towards the Forbidden Forest.

Ella woke up with a numb feeling in the region of where she knew the three cracked ribs where, it didn´t hurt anymore and in an instant she remembered how that weird Gryffindor-girl had said she would try and heal her. Had it worked? It sure seemed that way, if not this was just the effect of madam Pomfrey´s elixirs. Slowly she turned her head to the bed beside her and noticed Maya´s chocolate brown hair sticking out from under the thick duvet, Ella had been wondering for some weeks now if it really was possible to breath under such mass of fabric and feathers? Obviously it was... With a smile she instead turned her attention towards the rising sun outside the window and then on to the office in which Madam Pomfrey probably still was asleep, judging by the deep breathing which was heard all the way into the wing. Suddenly Ella remembered the strange moment that had took place the night before, the one when everyone left but Hasky stayed behind to talk about something with the infirmary-witch. Slowly and as silent as she could she slipped down from the bed and walked the few steps towards the door, she took a deep breath begging that the elderly woman was a heavy sleeper, then grabbed the handle and swung open the office door. Inside it was dark and it took a few moments for Ella´s eyes to adjust but when they did she wasn´t disappointed... In the far corner Madam Pomfrey was fast asleep under a midnight blue blanket, but on the desk next to where the curious chaser was standing was a book, open and clearly readable in the fire red light that fell in from the high windows in the room behind. Moving a bit closer she could read the title on the top of the visible page *Werewolf’s transformation* she didn´t read the piece that followed but moved further down the page to the part that was underlined by a neat handwriting... it began with *Controlling the transformation of a werewolf demands skill and tactfulness. It is impossible to completely stop the transformation but there are several ways of keeping it in control. Some clans are able to transform whenever they please. Yet during full moon no werewolf can escape their curse. Nevertheless it is crucial to never...* That´s where Ella stopped reading and instead got lost into her own thoughts. Is it really possible that Hasky is a werewolf? Was I so hyped by the full moon that couldn´t discern a normal wolf from a half-human? But if it`s true... how can that explain the silver fur? I´ve never heard of a werewolf or a wolf with fur of shimmering silver...
“Excuse me! What in the name of Merlin are you doing in my office young lady?” Ella had been so caught up in the mystery of the two wolfs that she had not even heard when Madam Pomfrey woke up and walked up to her.
“I... I was just... gonna ask you if I´m allowed to go now? I feel much better!” Ella gave away a fake smile and with a little jerk with her head the professor sighed and led the way out back into the wing.

After a couple of hours and being examined both once and twice, Ella and Maya were both declared free to leave the hospital. The professor still looked slightly confused by their quick recovery as they walked out the doors and down the stairs to the entrance hall.
“You reckon we`ll be able to sneak out alright tonight?” Ella asked as they walked through the door right of the main staircase and descended the stairs on the other side.
“Absolutely! The teams have done it for years... The teachers doesn´t know about the hidden passage and we´re very careful only to invite the once we trust!” The two girls had now reached the bottom of the stairs, on the wall to the right a painting of a fruit bowl was hanging and on the left side the compassionate looking Helga Hufflepuff smiled at them from out of her circular frame.
“Welcome back girls, I´ve heard you fought very well.”
“It wasn´t that brilliant...”
“Don´t be modest, you´ve earned the attention!” The kind-hearted woman said. “So... to reveal the passage of my noble house I want to know how even though miles may lie between Hufflepuffs, they´re never far apart?”
“Because friendship doesn´t count miles, it´s measured by the heart!” The two chasers smiled and the painting nodded.
“Very good and make sure to never forget it!” Helga Hufflepuff said in her calm voice as her painting opened up and the tunnel behind it appeared. As the two girls entered it the portrait fell into place again, leaving them in total darkness except for the small, but bright yellow light in the end. No matter how many times she walked through the circular tunnel and saw the octagonal common room of Hufflepuff unfold, Ella could never get used to the feeling of safety it lit up inside her heart. Although it was at dungeon level it was as dissimilar as possible from the potions classroom! The otherwise cold stonewalls were dressed in yellow and black hangings and in the middle of the room was a circular fireplace which spread it´s light and warmth into every corner. Along the walls where cosy sofas and armchairs grouped together around small black tables and around the fireplace was large velvet cushions placed to make it possible for the Hufflepuffs to sit down and cuddle in front of the fire. When you stepped into it from the tunnel the doors, which looked much like giant barrel tops, who lead to the dormitories was placed on either side of the room. The boys to the right and the girls to the left and on the opposite side of the room an enormous banner with the Hufflepuff badger hang, each and every day reminding everyone of the importance to show respect and loyalty.
“Come on, we need to get changed before the party!” Maya said and started walking towards the barrel-top-door, as they passed the many groups of weekend free Hufflepuffs who were studying, playing games and reading they were met by smiles and waving, everyone happy to find their two quidditch heroes to be back again. Behind the door a new tunnel began, at the end of it was the girls bathroom and on the way there you passed seven circular doors, one for each year. The second door on the right was the 3rd year dormitory, as Ella and Maya stepped in the light magically was switched on and revealed five large hammocks, each with a huge pillow and a thick yellow duvet. As the feeling of coming home after a long vacation rushed through her body Ella went to her trunk and started digging for some fairly acceptable clothes.

“I probably should have told you that I´m slightly claustrophobic?!” Ella said as she looked down into the slim dark hole into which the rest of her teammates obviously expected her to crawl. “And by slightly a mean a lot!”
“Come on... you`ll be fine!” Corey said and in an attempt to show how easy it was done went into the tunnel first.
“If I get stuck I´ll hate you for the rest of my life...”
“Well that won´t be especially long since you`ll be out of both food and water.”
“Jacob!”
“What? It´s true...” He smiled but Roxanne didn´t look the slightest bit amused.
“Just take a deep breath and do it Ella. If these blokes can get through so can you!” She pointed towards the boys and with a weak smile on her lips Ella went head first into the semi-darkness.

A couple of hours later with her stomach filled with butterbeer and the relieved feeling of surviving her phobia, Ella felt slightly disorientated where she stood inside the Three Broomsticks. She didn´t even notice how Marcus stepped up to her before he grabbed her hand which she was just rising to take another gulp of beer from her newly received bottle.
“Hey! What are you doing?” She watched his big sinewy hand which now transferred heat into hers.
“I wouldn´t drink anymore if I were you!” His deep voice sounded just as serene as always.
“Why not? I´m not drunk!” Ella tried to shake of his grip on the bottle but it was useless, no point in fighting a chaser three times your size when it comes to holding your grip.
“Not yet... but you will be if you don´t stop...”
“Seriously Marcus?! I can take care of myself!” Offended by his overprotection she didn´t notice the glint of embarrassment in his eyes.
“I know! It´s not that... it´s just... I heard Josh Gray slipped a potion into your drink, apparently he´s trying to get alone with you and... well, let’s just say he´s got a pretty bad crush on you!” Ella suddenly noticed an uncertainty she´d never heard in his voice before.
“For real? But how... when?” She shoot a quick glance at the Ravenclaw student who were standing in the other side of the room, by the expression on his face not very happy about how Marcus had approached Ella.
“I don´ know... just don´t drink the beer okay! If I´d had a vote we`d through him out, but he´s an old friend of Maya´s so...” Marcus shrugged and let go of Ella´s hand, suddenly she wished he hadn´t. What´s gotten into me? I´ve never liked Marcus... not that way anyway! He´s just a friend! With real nice body... Don´t even think about it! And beautiful brown eyes... and his hair... ELLA STOP IT NOW!
“Are you okay?” Marcus must have noticed the inner fight that was being battled inside of her.
“I´m fine... I´ll just...” but she had just noticed a shadow outside the pub, a shadow that looked like she wished nothing but to get away from the village! “I have to go... thanks for the rescue!” She shovelled the bottle into Marcus’s chocked hands started walking towards the Gryffindor chaser. The time for answers had come, and this time Ella wouldn´t back down, this time she would uncover the truth!

The forest was her favourite place. At the skirt it was calm, only small animals lived there. Hasky opened her eyes and noticed the sun was high. A chat with centaurs always took a long time. Her stomach growled. Heck, I wish it woud be full moon. She changed form and went to Hagrid's Hut.
"Heya there," greeted the half giant, smiling broadly. "Ev'rythin' alright?"
"Hagrid! Yeah, quiet. Darn, I wonder why I have to be in girl's room," she complained, getting dressed.
"C'mon cub, ya need ter make friends and stuff like that."
"Oh please, you know what I am since the day one."
"WHO ya're matters more than what."
"Wow, that's thoughtful."
"I'm 'fessor 'ere," Hagrid said proudly.
The girl had to smile. "And one of the best."
"Anyway, don' ya go ter Hogsmeade today?"
"Oh darn, I forgot, Colin's gonna kill me. See ya later."
"'Ave a nice date!"
"It's not a date," called Hasky over her shoulder as she sprinted back towards the castle.

She rushed into the Great Hall which was almost empty now so it wasn't hard to find her captain.
"I'm so sorry, let me grab something and we can go."
"Hello to you too," smiled Colin. "No problem. You look like you have been outside all night."
"Wha'?!" she asked chewing her steak. The boy pulled out grass from her robe. "Oh yeah, I was helping Hagrid."
"Easy, we have plenty of time, Hogsmeade is not that big village. And checking at FIlch will take some time anyway."

Once changed into black jeans and hoodie, Hasky took place in the queue to wait with her wolf and schoolmate.
"Do we always have to be checked?"
"Well, depends," smiled her colleague wickedly.
"Care to tell me?"
At that moment someone bumped into her, but managed to catch the falling girl. "Sorry."
"Rog!" called out Colin.
"Hi, mates," greeted the Hufflepuff's captain. "I have to hurry, guys decided to show Ella the shortcut and I'm supposed to meet them on the other side, you know, for cover, but if SOMEONE DOESN'T HURRY UP," he called to Filtch, but received only a stern look, "I won't make it."

Ten minutes later they were ready to go.
"FInally!" exclaimed Roger. "I have to run, see you at WSC."
"Alright," nodded Colin. "Later."
"Enjoy your date." The beater smiled before running off.
"We are NOT on a date!" yelled both Gryffindors.
"WSC?" wondered Hasky.
"Weird Sister's Club. They built it about 5 years ago."
"But you said you went to drink to The Three Broomsticks or Hog's Head."
"That's true, but then we all go and dance at WSC, the wizard world isn't so lame as it used to be you know?!"
"So tell me more about the village."

"… and our last stop, Shrieking Shack."
"It looks like it's gonna collapse any minute," commented the girl.
"It's really old and noone feels like repairing it, cos, well, it's hunted," Colin whispered the last part.
"What?!" laughed teh chaser.
"Yeah, they say that it howls and growls and shakes… sometimes."
Hasky closed her eyes and listened carefully, but nothing could be heard. She was so concentrated that once she heard a loud POP she jumed. "What the hell…?" Then she saw a greenish creature, about three feet tall, with big head, pointed ears and big grey eyes like two tennis balls, dressed in an old t-shirt.
"Nameless is very sorry, Miss," the creature bowed deeply.
"What is it?" she turned to Colin who looked really amused.
"This is house-elf."
"Nameless was sent to serve you, Miss. Nameless's family serves noble Silver weres for centuries."
"WHAT?!"
"Hasky," said the other student calmly. "In every ancient family there are house-elves. And if I'm correct, the Silvers are really ancient. Well, it's also said most of them are werewolves, but well..." he laughed heartily.
The girl tried the most natural smiled she could. "Really? Who would have said..." Then she turned to the elf in front of her. "Look, it's really nice and everything, but I don't need a servant." The elf looked like it would cry soon. "Erm, what did I say wrong? I didn't noticed a house-elf in Grandpa's house."
"They love to serve," explained the captain. "You don't usually see them, just their work. Serving makes them happy."
"Are you kidding?!" wondered the confused chaser.
"Such a shame on me, bad hosue-elf!" sobbed the creature before walking over to the nearest tree and start smashing its head against it.
"What the hell..?!" Hasky quickly jumped to the elf's rescue, grabbed its shirt and pulled it away from more bruising. "What are you doing? STOP it."
"Nameless must be bad house-elf, fired before he got name and started serve."
"No, I didn't mean it like that…"
"Shame on me!" kept crying the elf.
"What am I supposed to do?" asked the girl.
"Keep it," suggested Colin.
"But how, where?"
"You can always send it to help at Hogwarts or your home or mension."
"Mum doesn't know I'm a witch, and if you say, the Silvers always had elves, that means Grandpa must have some in the house too," she thought aloud. "Erm, Nameless?"
"I think you should give him a name," said the boy.
"What's this?" now it was Hasky who was unhappy.
The beater chuckled. "No new house-elf has a name until its master or mistress names him."
"Aright," she sighed deeply. "You," she pointed towards the green creature, "go help at Horwarts, and tomorrow evening, you'll give me a list of names you want to be called and make sure to underline the top five."
"Thank you, Miss," the elf hugged Hasky around her legs, twinkles in its eyes. "Nameless will be good servant." Then it disappeared.
Hasky heard laughing from her schoolmate. "Very funny," she said sarcastically, but she herself was laughing as well. "Now I have to find a book about house-elves."
Colin wrapped his arm around her shoulder and they set off the way to the centre.
"I think a thunderstorm wouldn't have frightened me more than that elf."
"You seemed pretty deep in thoughts when he appeared. But I have to admit I jumped as well," confessed the captain. "But better then the first time I was here."
"What happened?"
"Well, it was rainig, so I and Roger decided to take cover in the shack, but then a thunder was heard and we ran away like scared puppies." They both laughed. "He's a great man. Roger… I mean. We are best friends since we were kids."
"And for how long have you been in love with him?"
"WHAT?" asked Colin, surprised. "How…? Why…?" he stuttered. Hasky kept silent. The boy took a deep breath. "How do you know? I haven't told anyone."
"You know, everyone has a secret and there's always someone who finds out. But you have nothing to be ashamed of. Please, we live in 21st century for Merlin's sake! And how did I find out… Look at you, you take care of yourself from hair to polished shoes. You have a certain grace, that's hard to describe. But what really made me sure was your talking. First, I do feel comfortable around you, which doesn't happen around ordinary boys, you can talk to girls and it's a human thing that people have this soft voice when they are dreamy."
"Oh."
"So will you finally make a move?"
"Are you crazy?! I can't."
"Why?"
"He's my best friend, I can't destroy it by telling him I love him. Heck, I'm more then sure he's into girls."
"Take it slowly, just mention that you prefer boys to girls and then you'll see where it goes."
"I don't know."
"You're a gay, not a half-breed. He won't desert you. YOU just have to trust him."
Colin nodded. "Thanks."
"For what?"
"It feels better that someone knows," he smiled sincerely. "So, let's go to the party and take seats."

An hour later, Hasky needed a rest from the nois and smell of bevarage and sweat. She headed back to the Shrieking Shack where she let her wolf play. At whistle Greya was running to its mistress. "Were you a good girl?" The wolf murmured jumping around playfully.
A cracking of wood made them both stop playing. Hasky sniffed a human. "Show yourself," she growled.
A certain Hufflepuff slowly came out from behind a tree. "Hi," Ella greeted.
"Oh, it's you. I see the healing helped."
"Yes, I… I came to thank you." She took a few more steps.
"Teach me how to speed the broom and we're even."
Ella frowned. "Friendship is based on willingly doing a favor for one anoher, not demanding it. Or do you take everything as business?"
"Friendship?" wondered the Gryffindor. "Who said anything about friendship?"
Ella felt hurt, but did not let it show. "That's what you call the relationship people have when they spend time together, chat, have fun… hunt," the girl accented the last word.
"So it was you," said Hasky without any emotions. "And just so you know... those things stand for us having something in common, it does not mean we have to be friends. You don't know anything about me."
At that moment the Hufflepuff chaser got real fed up of the arrogance, but she was not in her house for nothing. "Are you always like this? So arrogant?"
"Pretty much. It's the best way to get rid of someone."
"Don't you need friends?"
"What's wrong with you and friendship?! I'm in this whole magical world for a year and one can never be careful enough with all those sticks around, so NO, I'm fine on my own." She rollled her eyes and continued. "When you have time for the speeding lesson, let me know." She turned her back on the persistent girl and walked off.
"Hasky!" called Ella. "I think… I think I know what you are?!"
"And I know what YOU are, so…" Suddelny her head started spinning, her breathing got faster and her whole body felt like it had been set on fire. She tumbled down facing the ground, growling, panting, crying, howling.
"HASKY!" yelled Ella rushing towards the other student, but she didn’t reach far... the grey wolf did not let her close to its mistress. Her first impulse was to scream for help, but they were in deserted place and when she saw the girl changing shapes from human to wolf and back the Hufflepuff knew she couldn't call for attention. Even if Hasky was only an animagus, Ella was more than sure she was an unregistered one. A phone! Remembering the goodbye-present she'd received from her mum she stuck her hand into the purse and pulled out a cellphone. But who shall I call? She looked at her list. No, no, definitely not!… Probably the best chance I have?!

The wolf-girl was shaking on the ground barely noticing the world around. She heard her wolf running around her and also someone talking nearby, about the rest, she had no idea...

"Mum? Hi, it's me, Ella! Yeah I'm fine, but my friend's not! I don't know… I think it's a little too late for that?!... Sorry, sure… she's shaking, changes shape, crying - in a way… erm... I really don't know so much about her! She's a transfer student, loves flying... I don't know for sure but maybe she's an animagus, but I'd say werewolf… Come on! Like that matters now?! How can I HELP her??… Search fast! Please… ermm, yeah, I guess it's possible, she said something about being in the magical world for a year, but she's the same grade as me… … … I should have… I can't! She has a wolf familiar that won't let me get closer… of course! Why didn't I think of that??... Thanks! I will... love you!" Ella threw her phone back into the bag and searched for something sweet. Why do I always eat all the chocolate?! Maybe a chewing gum… no. Ah, a honey bar, perfect! The chaser drew her birch wand and pointed it at the wolf.
“PROTEGO!” The shield charm created an invisible wall that prevented the wolf, which was now biting and scratching in midair, from attacking her. That was all Ella needed and she sprinted forward, kneeling down at her friend's head.
"Hasky! Can you hear me? You have to try and eat this." Growling was the only response. "Come on Hasky... please!" A tear was running down her cheek, slightly irritated she whipped it off. "Alright then, if you bite me you'll have to heal me, just so you know." She waited for a moment and just as the shaking girl turned back into human form Ella forced her mouth open and shovelled the honey bar down her throat. That action earned her a bite. Nevertheless, Ella didn't take her eyes from the wolf-human. She watched her choke and then swallow hard. A few moments later, which seemed like hours, The Gryffindor calmed down and stopped changing shapes, only her breathing was still a little fast. The grey wolf stopped attacking Ella, who happily removed the magic barrier and allowed the animal to rush to its mistress arm, whimpering. Hasky sat up, holding her cub, whispering.
"I'm sorry, girl." She cleared her throat and turned to Ella. "What happened?"
"Well, you just dropped to the ground, shaking and growling. I thought you where having a fit or something... I didn't know what to do, so I called Mum.”
"You called your mum?!” interrupted Hasky.
“Yeah, so what?! She's a great witch... and if you haven't noticed, it saved your life!”
“Not life, but maybe few days in hospital.”
"I helped, didn't I?” poinetd out the other chaser and continued. “She told me that this sometimes happens to persons who have to learn magic too fast, their body hasn't fully accommodated all the power and it sort of shortcuts..."
"I had to learn fast…" it was said in whisper. "And you gave me…" she tasted her lips, "honey because…?"
"You needed something sweet, sugar is energy that goes right into your blood system."
"Oh." After a while of pregnant silent she spoke again. "Why does your phone work here?"
"It's Mum's last research. She works for Magical Industries and this is just a prototype. The ministry finally accepted evolution and realized we needed faster communication then owls and fireplaces."
Hasky chuckled. "True… Have I thanked you?"
The other girl stretched out her bleeding hand. "Heal me and we're even." Ella smiled.
The Gryffindor snorted, shaking her head. "Serves me right." She rubbed her palms together and put them above the injured hand.
Ella watched the wound healed with her eyes wide as plates. "Wow."
The sound of three apparations was heard from inside a small group of trees not far away from the two girls and the wolf. Greya immediately jumped in front of Hasky, but Ella leaped in front of both of them, her wand in the newly healed hand, casting the shield charm again.
"Hands up, NOW!" commanded a dark voice as three strangers stepped out on the road. There were two men and a woman, all dressed in black frocks. "Jones, call Team 1, we've got them."
"We have done nothing wrong!" said Ella in a calm but firm voice.
"Shut up! Wands away. Both of you. NOW!"
"Put away your wands first!" demanded Hasky.
"How dare you?!"
"How dare YOU?! Apparating here and commanding us to throw away our wands, while you are aiming for us. Exactly how stupid do you think we are?!"
"Get ready to be hurt!"
"MASON!" called another male's voice as another three newcomers arrived. "Firstly, you have already received a warning for overuse of violence! So it is not a particularly smart move to use it towards SUDENTS!! And secondly, that girl would kick your arse, believe me."
"Grandfather!" greeted Hasky smiling tiredly.
"Hello c-… girls," he smiled back and turned to his Aurors. "Team 3 you are dismissed. Reynolds, contact Team 2 and 4, and all return to Headquarter."
"Yes, sir."
"Amely," he turned to some woman in deep vilet frock. "Prepare glucose."
"NO," interrupted Hasky. "I´ve already been taken care o-o-of," she yawned widely.
"Are you sure you´re alright?" asked the elder men, concerned.
"Just a bit sleepy. The shack looks inviting, so I think I'll have a nap in there, but first, tell me what happened."
"We sensed uncanny magical activity in Hogsmeade location. And now I see you are here. So I assume you forgot to read our last letter."
"Last letter? Oh, OH.. oops," the wolf girl looked really embarassed. "I must be wandering in the forest when it arrived."
"You're always in the forest! Except for lessons and quidditch training," smiled Ella.
The Chief Auror looked at the other student and then back to his granddaughter. "Care to introduce us?"
"Agrh. Gradfather Matthew Silver, this is Ella Wilson my… friend."

The end of Adventure of Friendship

Adventure of Secrets

Ella smiled to herself as Hasky said the word... friend. It felt good to know that all her hard work had paid off... even if it almost had required a trip into the world of ghosts!
“So you´re the one who saved my granddaughter?” The old man measured her with his piercing eyes and Ella felt a bit uncomfortable, something about him made her unsure whether or not he meant well...
“I guess I am?! But my mum helped, without her...” she didn´t want to end the sentence.
“Your mum?!” The auror turned his head as to search for someone he might have missed.
“Oh she´s not here. I used this.” Ella pulled up the cellphone from the bag and showed it to the wizard who seemed quite impressed.
“Is this the new prototype for the WizTecCell?? He asked as he turned the phone in his hand.
“Yeah, my mum is in the research team!”
“Really? Very impressive! I´ve ordered a dozen of them for my troops, but they never seem to be delivered?! Anyways...” He handed her the cell and turned to his grandchild, suddenly the air changed and Ella felt as if she was intruding something very private.
“I´ll wait over there.” She pointed towards the end of the hill where the road into the village took a sharp turn around some trees. Without waiting for an answer she walked away and sat down on a small rock next to a birch, the leaves where starting to turn yellow and at every gust of wind some of them let go off their branch and soared down to the ground.

After a few minutes the two Silvers came walking and Ella stood up.
“You didn´t need to wait!” Hasky murmured, hardly audible.
“I know.” The Gryffindor looked straight into the Hufflepuff´s blue green eyes and nothing more needed to be said.
“Well I guess it´s time for me to leave?! I have more work to do I´m afraid.” The man began a whirling movement but then froze. “Thank you for what you did, Ella. You really are something special, aren´t you?” With that he turned on the spot and disapparated, leaving both girls slightly puzzled.
“So... are you ready to get back?” Ella smiled and attempted to start walking, but Hasky remained where she was. “Come on the others are probably already at WSC!”
“I don´t feel like going. Not that I don`t appreciate what you`ve done, it´s just... I don´t belong there!” Hasky turned her face towards the ground and her wolf immediately came to her side and sat down close to her feet.
“Well I know what that feels like...” Ella whispered but didn´t notice how the Gryffindor suddenly looked curious. “But it doesn´t matter! As long as you´re with friends you belong everywhere, no matter if it´s a place where you usually don´t fit in!” Her voice was confident and although her friend seemed a bit confused it only took a few moments before Hasky shrugged and gave away a weak smile.
“I guess there´s only one way to find out if you´re right or not. But do not push your luck, I'm not a very friendly person!” The Gryffindor student said as they started walking down the road and Ella laughed.
“Yeah well if it´s totally awful you can always go back to your very inviting berth...” At her words Hasky turned her head and just had time to see the Shrieking Shack disappear behind the trees.

“So, what´s up between you and that Silver-girl?” It was Jacob, he had walked up behind her on the way back to the castle with his normal wide grin etched upon the face.
“What do you mean... up between?”
“Well, Marcus said you left in like a half second after he´d told you about what Josh was up to, then you came back an hour later with that Gryffindor...”
“Yeah, so?”
“So... I was just wondering what you were doing.”
“And if I told you it´s none of your business?!”
“Then I would back off! But you would never do that... would you?” He smiled teasingly but before Ella had time to come up with a fairly believable lie Corey caught up with them.
“Stop bugging her!” She punched Jacob in the stomach and he pretended to double in pain.
“Ouch!” Then he stood up and lunched at Corey who pliant jumped away before starting to run with Jacob chasing close behind. The chaser watched her two teammates as the beater reached the seekers hand, he pulled her back and embraced her in a tight hug before leaning down and softly kissed her lips. Those two look like match made from an upper level! How big is the chance to meet your soulmate in the same house and quidditchteam as yourself? Ella shot a quick glance at Marcus who walked a few paces behind her, his long muscular arms in his pockets and the rumpled chestnut brown hair even more unkempt than usual, thanks to the wind. Who are you trying to fool? That is about as likely as you receiving an “outstanding” in potions!
“What are you dreaming about?” A tingling voice abruptly brought Ella back from her, not very unpleasant, daydream.
“Oh nothing special...” Hasky didn´t look persuaded but didn´t ask any more questions. “So, what are you up to tomorrow evening?”
“Quidditch training, why?”
“Well I´ve heard you´re talented at DADA and I could really use some help with nailing the stupefy-spell?!” She tried to look and sound as relaxed and natural as possible.
“Alright then... but I still want you to teach me how to super-speed a broom.” Ella returned the smile from the Gryffindor with a warm feeling in her stomach, friends was something you never could have too many of!
“Shall we say Thursday evening then? We can meet outside the Transfiguration classroom, I know an empty one not far from it. Later we can go to the quidditch pitch. The moon is not full yet, but still big enough to enlighten the field.”
“Sounds like a plan. See you!” They took good bye as they entered the entrance hall and the two teams separated, the Gryffindors continued up the main staircase, while the Hufflepuffs turned right and walked through the door that reviled the stairs leading to their common room.

“Ella, can you please stop doing that?” Maya put down her book for the third time that evening and gave her chaser colleague a stern glance.
“What? Yeah of course, sorry, I´m not aware I´m doing it.” She stopped the tapping with her quill and tried to focus on the essay, but for some reason she had no inspiration what so ever to discuss the different outcomes of the wizard quarrel during the 12th century.
“What´s wrong with you and concentrating?” Maya suddenly asked.
“What do you mean? There´s nothing wrong with me...”
“You know that´s not what I meant! I just can´t understand how you can be so focused on the quidditchfield, it´s almost as if you´re in a different zone or something, but as soon as a book is placed in front of you, it´s like everything else is much more interesting than that!” The brown-eyed girl watched her friend as she shrugged and started tapping again. “Ella!”
“I know, I know... it´s just, something doesn´t feel right!”
“Yeah, like someone seems to have left her brain in the dorm... What´s wrong?”
“I just, it´s just... there´s something going on.”
“The only thing going on is you driving me half insane! What should be going on, is you finishing that essay before you turn into a ghost like professor Binns.” Maya pointed towards the empty parchment that Ella had been staring at for the last two hours.
“I will... I just need a break, I´ll take a walk and stop by the library and pick up some books that might help my inspiration?!” She stood up and her teammate rolled her eyes.
“Whatever! Just get back here so you have time to finish it before supper...” Ella answered with a small nod before disappearing into the exit tunnel.

Strolling down the 4th floor corridor slowly heading towards the library, even though she was quite sure the answer to her problem wasn´t written in any book, Ella was starting to get a little worried. The strange feeling in her stomach made her whole body feel odd and cold, she was sure something was going on, but weather it was a terrible accident or just a regular coryza, she had no idea. Just as she had changed her mind about the library and decided to go back down and try finishing the homework anyway, she heard a terrible scream! Quickly swirling around Ella couldn´t notice anyone else around. Then where did it come from?
“DAMMIT!!” Someone yelled from inside the bathrooms ahead. Without thinking she started running and almost slipped on the floor outside the door as she drew out her wand, grabbed the handle and pushed it down so that the door swung open.
“Anyone here?”
“Yeah... Get me down!” The voice sounded familiar and as she stepped around the cubicles she understood why. Hoisted by her ankles to the roof and provided with a blindfold was... Hasky!
“Merlin´s beard, what in all...”
“Can you get me down or what?!”
“Yeah of course, sorry!” Ella flicked her wand. “Finite Incantatum!” With a crash and a lot of another swearwords Hasky fell down on the floor, the blindfold gone and seemingly okay.
“When I get the one who did this...” she said.
“You know who it was?!” The Hufflepuff asked as she helped the slightly disorientated chaser back to her feet.
“No, but I`ll find out. COUNT ON THAT!” She screamed out the last words as to scare away anyone who might be listening and angrily started to put her clothes on.
“How did it happen then?”
“Well I was having a shower after helping Hagrid in the forest... and when I stepped out of the cubicle everything went black and before I knew it I was hoisted up into the air and I didn´t have one chance to defend myself!” While the Gryffindor had been talking Ella had walked over to the spot to where her friend had pointed out the attack to happen. "Darn, this is embarrassing."
“Hasky! You should probably see this?!” On the floor in a small puddle of water black letters where floating, they read: *I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE! NEXT TIME YOU WON`T STAND A CHANCE!* Ella shot a quick glance at Hasky who had lost most of the colour in her face...
“What are we gonna do?!”

The girl wordlessly dried out the puddle and started pacing.
"The whole staff is bound to secrecy…" she thought aloud. "That leaves some students… there are about 10 animagi, who can smell me -"
"What do you mean?!" wondered Ella.
"Huh?"
"What is it about animagi being able to smell you?!"
"Well, animagi can turn into animals and animals have sharpened senses. And if they train them in their human forms a bit, they can recognize half-breeds."
"But… how… why… what... WHAT?!" stuttered the other student. "How come I don't know that?!"
Hasky smelled something. "Ella, not now." She stopped her friend and stretched her neck, slowly changing her head into a wolf one.
"Merlin's beard…" whispered the Hufflepuff.
"What? I thought you knew," growled deeply the half-human.
"I did… I mean I do, but actually seeing it with my own eyes is a bit… scary."
Still growling Hasky went down, sniffing the place of the dried puddle. Something was not right. Her nose led her to the entrace of girls bathroom. There she smelled a fading scent of blood.
"Of course!" at once she was back on her feet in fully human form. Ella was so frighten by the action that she shriek out. "What?!" a glance was shot at her.
The Hufflepuff's eyes had gone wide. "You scared me! Next time give a signal, please."
"Ah, sorry."
"What did you find?"
"I'm hungry."
"Are you kidding me?!"
"Nope. Let's go to dinner. Before I'll have to leave to the forest... howling."
Ella could only sigh.

Once in the Great Hall, Hasky noticed her captain and keeper having supper with some of Hufflepuff's quidditch team. If she wasn't so angry at herself, she would smile. How could she be so careless?! Grandpa wouldn't be very proud of me.
"Hello, girls," greeted some of the boys.
"Hi everyone," smiled Ella back, while her friend gave only a "hmm".
"Ella, where have you been? You said you would go into the library, but there was no sign of you?" asked Maya reprovingly.
"Hasky was attacked." The other girl kicked her under tha table. "What? They deserve to know, they are our friends."
"She's right," agreed Colin. "What happened?"
The Gryffindor chaser kept silent, loaded plate full with bacon and eggs and started eating. She was still too emberassed to say anything.
Ella sighed again. "We don't know. I found Hasky hanging upside-down in the bathroom on the 4th floor, blindfolded."
"Who would do something like that?" wondered Roger.
"Also…" she received a stern look, but continued the story. "There was a message that next time Hasky wouldn't stand a chance."
The said girl, returned back to her meal, grateful for keeping her secret secret. Then she heard a chattering in other language. "Guys…" No attention. "GUYS!" Adrian and Marcus looked at her. "Just because you speak Spanish doesn't mean I can't understand… and no, I DO NOT want an escort."
"We want to keep you safe," said Marcus.
"That's nice and everything, but next time I'll be prepared."
"Ah, aaah, what do I see here… arguing?" a voice came floating towards them. It took Hasky only one breath to jump on her feet facing the stanger. It was a Ravenclaw student with a shining prefect badge on his chest.
"What do you want?" growled the girl.
"Only following rules, and this," he pointed towards the group, "is against them. Sit at your own table," he commanded the Gryffindors.
"I haven't seen such a rule," said Adrian.
"You will," then the boy left to the teachers table.
"That's it!" rejoiced the chaser, sitting down. "He is IT!"
"What?" wondered five voices together.
"A gay?" asked Colin frightened.
"Eeeew, don't be disgusting, mate," said Marcus.
"A bit of respect here!" frowned Hasky.
"I am," admitted the Gryffindor beater, quietly, staring at his plate.
A deadly silent surrounded them.
"Ehm, you are what?"asked the male chaser tentatively.
"I am a gay," confessed Colin again, this time looking at his schoolmates.
"Oh, I'm sorry," asppologized the guilty boy. "I didn't mean to.. it's just…"
"Shut it, Marcus, before you say something worse," said Ella, her voice disapponted.
At the certain smell the wolf-girl had an urge to jump up again, but when she noticed the little charm professor with him she sat still.
"Alright, kids, what do we have here?" wondered Flitwick.
"This blood-" started Hasky, but was stopped by a kick under the table. Her friend gave her a warning look, shaking her head.
"Is it against rules to sit with other houses?" asked the Hufflepuff beater.
"It depeds. Why do you sit together?"
"Because we are friends?" suggested Maya.
"Then I believe it's alright," approved the professor.
"Oh, c'mon," spoke up the prefect. "They are in different house and different quidditch teams. I wanted to prevent a fight."
"What a bullshit," spat out Roger, shooting a disparaging look to the Ravenclaw.
"Language Mr. Mayer."
"I'm sorry professor, but despite being in different houses, we really are good friends."
"Pierce, next time make sure it is serious," the professor scolded his student.
"There's only the wellbeing of Hogwarts in my heart, sir."
"It's alright, enjoy you meal and be good." The teacher left.
The Ravenclaw gave then a sly smile and left too.
"Ella?" Hasky whispered. "How much do you know about vampires?"

“Vam... vampires?” She had just taken a big bite of the ham and cheese pie and suddenly had trouble swallowing it.
“Yeah...” Hasky looked insistent.
“Except that they feed on blood, turn into bats and dislike garlic and wooden poles... not very much! Why?”
“Because I`m pretty sure there´s more to that haughty prefect than he´s letting on!”
“He´s just big-headed! Sometimes I wonder whether or not the Ravenclaws aren´t starting to get worse than Slytherins?!” She filled her cup with pumpkin juice.
“You´re probably right, but that´s not what I meant. Think about Pierce and... vampires.” Hasky whispered the last word so quite that hardly a mouse could hear, but Ella did. She had just taken a big gulp of the orange drink and turned her head towards Colin. He was showing the others a new spell he´d learned and suspected nothing, but then Hasky said the word vampires and Ella spurted out the whole mouth of juice and drenched him in the flame-coloured liquid.
“Are you saying what I think you´re saying?!” She cried out as Colin dried his face with a napkin.
“I thought I apologized for the bludger?!” He laughed and Ella lost track of time for a second.
“What?”
“I told you it was an accident. I wasn´t aiming for you, was I?”
“Right, sorry.” She gave him a smile and then turned to face Hasky. “We need to talk!” She stood up and the Gryffindor followed without further questions.
“Hey Ella! Where are you going? You´ve barely touched the food and the essay is due tomorrow!” Maya yelled after them.
“I´m not hungry, I´ll be back in a minute...”
The two friends took hiding behind one of the armours that flanked the front doors and Ella turned towards Hasky with a nervous expression on her face.
“Are you saying that that Pierce-guy is vampire?”
“I'm not allowed to [i[say[/i] it, but you are right.”
“I don´t believe you!” Ella crossed her arms as to show how very sceptical she was.
“Why would I lie about something like that?”
“A million reasons...”
“Well, I don´t usually lie so you should consider trusting me on this one!” Hasky sounded a bit hurt and had gotten back the arrogant tone Ella disliked so much.
“I`m not the one with trust-issues and I didn´t accuse you of lying! It´s just... I was under the impressions vamps was... you know?! Too unpredictable to be allowed around humans, at least to be accepted into Hogwarts!”
“That´s what people seem to think about werewolves too...” The Gryffindor definitely was hurt this time and Ella felt real bad about her lack of tactfulness. "Anyway, if they allow my kind to attend, they have to be allowed as well."
“Sorry! I didn´t mean to...” Ella unfolded her arms
“It doesn't matter.” it didn´t look like she meant it but the Hufflepuff decided to drop it, at least for now.
“So... what about the prefect? How can he be a vampire? And how do you know?”
“I told you about sharpened senses?! About the incident in the bathroom?! I smelled a human scent until I reached the entrance, there it was another one, stronger one, the smell of blood!”
“Blood?” Ella felt shivers down her spine.
“Ella, for Merlin's sake, don't tell me you don't know how to recognize a vamp?!” The other girl shook her head. "Alright, we have some serious training ahead of us... You recognize a werewolf because they have a tiny scent of wolf and you recognize a vamp because they have a scent of blood."
“But Hasky... please don´t get mad?! How can Pierce be a vampire? It doesn´t make any sense!”
“He´s still a kid and only partly vamp, but when he reaches adulthood he'll stay that way. I`ve also heard of some human-vampire breeding. Maybe his mother is a normal human and his father a vampire and they got lucky and had an offspring. Even werewolves have bigger chances of having a child with a human than a vamp.” That brought a whole bunch of not so pleasant pictures into Ella´s head and she tried to think of something else.
“Why is he so unfriendly towards you then? You haven´t done anything towards him, have you?!”
“Only existing... at least if you rely on the ancient relations between werewolves and vampires!”
“What do you mean? I´m not exactly an expert in this subject!”
“Let`s just say we go way back... we´re like opposites, born enemies. It's in our nature to eliminate each other, like a wolf and a rabbit. Mostly because of humans, just that neither one of us... Ella?!” Suddenly the entrance hall started to spin and Ella felt how her stomach flipped over and had to push Hasky away so she wouldn´t be hit with the digested leftovers of the pie.
“Ella! Are you okay?” She felt a hand on her shoulder.
“I´m fine...” she tried to shake the hand of, but failed miserably.
“You don´t look so great! Maybe you should sit down?”
“I´m fine!” Dogged she stood up and struggled to stop her hands from shaking.
“I don´t believe you...”
“Well I don´t usually lie either... so you should consider trusting me on this one!” She gave away a weak smile and Hasky returned it, however hesitantly.
“Ella? Ella are you there?” Maya came walking down the hall.
“Over here.” She stepped out behind the armour and waved at her friend who walked up to them.
“Oui, what´s that smell?”
“I guess you don´t want any details?! So let’s just say I think I know why I didn´t have any appetite...” The lie fooled her chaser colleague, but the Gryffindor still looked a bit suspicious.
“Another reason to get you back to the dorms then?! Marcus has promised to lend us the assignment he wrote in History of Magic last year! I don´t think professor Binns will recognize it, he´s to... old! We can just change a few words and then we´re done!” Maya smiled and Ella responded as happy as she could before turning to Hasky.
“We´ll deal with the... bat-problem tomorrow!”
“Sure...” The wolf-girl gave her friend a worried look.
“I´m fine! Stop looking at me as if I were sick, it´s you we have to worry about!”
“Are you coming or what?!” Maya yelled at her from the other side of the hall.
“Yeah!” She faced Hasky again. “We meet outside the library tomorrow after school, maybe we can find some evidence?!” With that turned around, her stomach twitching of fear for her friend and the remembrance of things she never wanted to think about, ever again...

A student was pacing in front of the library impatiently. She was really restless when her brain fully realised the fact of her friend not recognizing vampires.
"Where is she?" she whispered. A wolf murmured near her. "Yup, I'm paranoid again."
At the sign of ash-blonde hair and yellow-black uniform, Hasky let out a deep breath, "Finally."
"Hi," Ella greeted happilly. "I know I'm late, quidditch-training took longer than I expected."
"Splendid, now shell we go?"
"Where?" the Hufflepuff asked seeing her friend going away from the library. "I thought we would search for information about vampires in books."
"Take it more like a lesson. You are the student and I'm the teacher."
"Fine," she said taken back a bit.

Hasky stopped in front of Charms classroom, leaning her ear on the door. "What do you hear?"
"Nothing," answered Ella not really paying attenion.
"Me neither." The Gryffindor entered the room.
"Wait!"
"What?"
The other student let out a deep breath. "What if someone was here?"
"You said you heard nothing."
"I wasn't percieving."
Hasky sighed. "Get in, we have a lot of work to do." Then she locked he door and cast a silencing charm. "This is your favourite class, so I hope you'll have enough inspiration to learn," she teased.
"What now?"
"Pay attention." The girl over to the blackboard and opened it widely. "We have three basic human races, werewolves, humans and vampires." The chalk made three colum.s and wrote those names. "Let's focus on vamps. I never understood why people preferred vamps to weres even when I was just an ordinary human... maybe because of the aristocratic look... anyway... let's start from the beginning. Where do vampires come from?"
"Ermmm, Transylvania?"
Hasky smiled. "That was only Dracula. Practically where every magic comes from... England. You won't find more powerful place. Japan and China have their history as well, but Britannia is the craddle. What are they made from... vamps?"
"Humans."
"Exactly. Once a human is sucked and stupid enough to drink the vampire's blood back, they transform. There's also a theory that it's possible for human woman to have a child, you know, the woman has to be alive so the offspring can grow, but the idea was too... creepy for me to look at it any closer. Now here in Pierce's case we can see it's true... Next step, recognizing a vampire."
"I already told you this yesterday... all I know is that they feed on blood, turn into bats and dislike garlic and wooden poles."
"Oh well, so first they are nosferatus, creatures of the night, nor live or dead, really pale, smell of blood, usually have a snobbish behaviour, and do not eat much of normal food, if any at all. So what do they live on?"
"Blood!"
"Do you know why?"
Ella looked at her friend like she had just grown a second heads. "I've never really thought about that."
"Because blood is the essence of life. Without blood you can't live. It transports oxygen, minerals and other nutritious stuff, regulates your temperature, keeps you alive. This is why vamps need blood. To keep the death living." The Hufflepuff nodded and Hasky kept going. "There's a hierarchy of vampires. Higher levels can change shapes, mostly into bats, but as you surely know Dracula's favourite animal was wolf... now that's really creepy too," Hasky stopped, thinking for a little while about the bizzare idea. "Fortunatelly he's the only one. Anyway, advantages: strenght, speed, smell and hearing. How do defeat them?"
"Ermm... stab their heart."
"By a piece of wood. And?"
The Hufflepuff raised her eyebrows, so her friend made a hand gesture under her head. "Oh, and cut the head off."
"And also let the sun shine," Hasky smiled slyly. "Beheading and sun are the best ways how to get rid of a vamp. Crosses keep them away and the smell of garlic isn't very tempting for them either.
"So when we sumarize it... NEVER drink vampire's blood. Always have a piece of wood around or something sharp to made them a head shorter. You have to be craftier. Use all your special abillities."
"Like what?" Ella looked sceptic.
"In your case... you have a bit of wolf in you, so think about senses for example."
"Smell, hearing... erm... a six sense?"
"You can never improve them to wolf level, not even werewolf, but you are better that just a human."
"How?"
"Practice will be later."
"Alright, now tell me more about your kind."
"It's complicated. There are many of us. You certainly heard many stories about werewolves and only few of them are not true. Some became monsters created by evil to destroy humans, others were blessed by heaven to save them. Some can hold back during full moons, others lose their control completly - usualy low levels, you know, bitten by bitten by bitten etc. And of course many combination in between. Let's go the same way as we went with vamps," she pointed to the last part of the board. "What are we made from?"
"Also humans."
"Those bitten or scratched during full moon. Since werewolves are half-humans they can have cubs, but have only half the change then humans. Also it depends if it's werewolf x werewolf or werewolf x human and in case werewolf x human who is the wolfie male or female. As you know my grandfather is a werewolf," Ella nodded. "Good, but my grandmother is a normal witch and my wolf mother was their child... And I got scratched."
“Ok, I think I can remember that?!” To the Gryffindor's pleasure, her friend seemed to be really interested.
"Good, so how do you recognize a werewolf then?"
"Well, they're not very outgoing, have problem with trusting people, very arrogant..." Hasky bent her head aside and gave her friend a look. "Well it's true...” the other girl smiled foxily.
"Alright, and when you should describe ANY other werewolf not during full moon?"
"Restless, moody, avoidng humans... I don't know much, you're are the first werewolf I've ever met."
"Actually lycans are very people persons. Wolf is a pack animal, so werewolf needs someone around too. It's because of all those prejudices that we do not admit who we are."
"And you?"
The wolf-girl looked down at her familiar. "I have Greya."
"And me," smiled her friend.
"Yeah and about 300 others in whole Hogwarts..." Hasky sat in front of Ella, letting the chalk scribe. "Anyway, again it's the scent, wolfish. We do are restless around full moon and when the emotion are overwhelming, we start changing partly, yellow eyes, fangs, claws..."
"How come you can change anytime you want?"
"Like completely into wolf?" Ella nodded. "Well I happened to belong into one of the noble families."
"WHAT? Noble?"
"Eh well, we have a hierarchy as well. There are three noble families. Gold, Silver and Onyx. We have certain advantages, but the courtesy sucks."
"Again... WHAT?"
"Yeah, tell me about it. So what do we eat?"
"Everything like normal humans, except... I noticed you don't eat side-dish much."
"Hehe, I do prefer rarely made meat," she scratch behind her ear. "Let's move on to advantages and disadvantages."
"Any combination of human & wolf abilities."
"Nicely said," Hasky smiled proudly. "And what can hurt or kill us?"
"Silver bullets!"
The Gryffindor laughed. "Nope, well, bullets can kill us when they're aimed for heart or head. Nobles don't mind silver," she showed her silverbracelet, "and lower levels feel it... it's like garlic for vamps... not very inviting.
"Practically, destroy the heart or head and we are finished. In other parts we have a big advantage in fast regeneration - that I'll show you later. Because of this we are long living creatures. Not immortals, we do die one day.
"Alright so in total: once bitten or scratched by a werewolf, forever werewolf, there is no cure for that. Yes, there do exist some potions to keep lycans steady, but you can't be cured. During full moon, stay in your animal form, it gives you a protection from being turned into a howling beast.
"Now let's work on your special abilities as animagus."
Hasky took an empty glass, cut herself and let the blood pour to it. In the same instant a shadow moved across Ella's face.
“I can't do this!” The Hufflepuff suddenly said and stood up.
“What are you doing?!?”
“I just... can't!” With that she spun around running out the door with Hasky left, almost certain she had seen tears in her friend's eyes as she disappeared.

She ran, she ran through the corridors, knocked her way through the groups of students, so fast that no one wouldn´t notice the moisture in her eyes, all the way hearing voices screaming in her head! MONSTER! FREAK! You don´t belong with us! Get back to where you came from! Don`t you dare come near me, you smell worse than dragon dung! You want us to show what we mean?! While running out the entrance door Ella thought she saw a half dozen wands point towards her face, then a flash of violet light and the pain that shot across her chest. She couldn´t fight it anymore and sobbing she feel to the ground and remained kneeling right at the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

She didn´t know for how long she´d been there, she barely remembered where she was, but suddenly rapid footsteps was heard, followed by four light paws.
“Ella! Is that you? What happened?!” She raised her head and through her red-rimmed eyes she could see Hasky moving towards her.
“Stop! Don´t come any closer!” Her voice sounded shrill and hoarse.
“What´s wrong?” The Gryffindor stopped abruptly, her voice filled with concern.
“Nothing... just go!” When she didn´t move Ella gave her a sharp gaze. “Please!”
“Was it something I said... something I did? I didn´t mean to upset you!”
“You didn´t! I just...” Hasky made an attempt to reach out her arm and place her hand on Ella´s shoulder. “DON`T TOUCH ME!”
“Ella please you gotta tell me what´s going on... I obviously see it´s something!”
“I can´t talk about it because I don´t wanna think about it...” Tears where sill slowly dripping down her cheek and she crouched with her arms closely folded around her knees.
“You are always the one who says friends have the right to know everything... because they love you no matter what! I am your friend Ella... and I want to help you!” Hasky whispered and crouched beside her crying friend.
“There´s nothing you can do... there´s nothing anyone can do... nothing can change what I am...” With that she fell into Hasky´s arms and convulsively grabbed on to her shoulder. Oh great, thought the werewolf sarcastically. Her first impulse was to jump, she really didn't like touching and now someone threw herself into her arms. But when Greya managed to squeeze on her and the other student, the Gryffindor gave up. I guess this is one of those things that belong to 'friendship'?! In the end the girl must admit she had a good feeling comforting her friend. Ella on the other hand shook so much she barely could think at all, but she could feel a hand slowly stroke her back while a voice whispered in her ear.
“Whatever you are... you´re always welcome here! Just look at me...”

“We are worth less than both humans and animals, there is nothing worse than being a half-being! The status of that are right in-between bacteria and the dog poop that´s stuck under your shoes. Everybody hates you, everybody thinks you´re a freak, a monster that ought to be subdued and banned... My classmates took that matter in their own hands...” Hasky squeezed Ella´s shoulder and she gave her friend a weak smile. Two hours had passed since the run from the castle, the first hour she hadn´t been able to tell her much at all, more than discontinuous words and phrases that didn´t really make much sense. It was only the last bunch of minutes that she had managed to calm down enough to try and explain for Hasky how the view on animagus looked like in Scandinavia, and why her past had made her marked and frightened for life.
“I could never have imagined what you´ve been through.”
“Please don´t pity me... that´s really not what I need right now.”
“I don´t pity! I just can´t believe how someone can attack their own friend just because she´s an animagus!”
“Well I can... I could have done the same thing two years ago... Everyone in Scandinavia, especially in Sweden are capable of it, it´s what we´ve been thought since birth... No matter who it is or where you meet them, if you see an animagus, get rid of them fast!”
“Are you serious?!” Hasky sounded absolutely taken of her feet. "It seems like its worst then being a werewolf or vampire."
“I´m afraid so... Turning out to be one myself is the only thing that changed my mind, I´m just glad my family didn´t need as much persuasion.”
“You should be, not many persons have that kinda luck...”
“I know... it´s just, I still feel like a monster sometimes! Guess it´s hard to break prejudices after all?!” She gave away a nervous laugh but the silence that followed was anything but cheerful.
“Prejudices are the worst thing there is!” Hasky suddenly said. “And you shouldn´t feel like a monster... especially since you have a real one sitting next to you!”
“Sorry, I didn´t mean...” Ella began but the Gryffindor put up a hand to silence her.
“I didn´t say I was hurt... I might be a monster`! But Grandpa taught me to accept what I am, and now I´m gonna teach you the same thing!”
“I don´t think it`ll be that easy?!”
“Not with that attitude it won´t! Come on show some fighting spirit... focus like you do on the field!” Ella gave Hasky a long sincere look and then stood up suddenly a determination glimmering in her eyes.
“Lets continue with the sense-lesson?!”
“That´s what I mean...” They laughed and together started walking back to the castle and the charms-classroom.

"I can't teach you how to impove your hearing, you have to learn it yourself by listening and dividing different sounds, so I'm gonna help you with your smell." When a new glass had enough blood in it, Hasky licked her fresh wound few times. "Ah, it stopped bleeding." She stood up and went to the blackboard, taking the chalk and started painting. "Take it like layers. The first one is what you smell at the first breath, usually parfume, then there's clothes and then you have human. Underneath there's a scent of typical human, wolf or blood and then the personal scent. That's the one that, for example, makes dogs being able to recognize their master. But nor I can smell that far. And we need you to get here," she shadowed the layer human/wolf/blood.
"Hasky?" the girl interrupted.
"Hmm?"
"How do you recognize animagi?"
"Oh, their scent is between typical human and personal scent. So now grab the glass, take a deep breath and hold it. Let it sink into your brain."
Ella frowned. "If I didn't like you so much and knew that you want only the best for me, I would run out of here!” The Hufflepuff mumbled but did as she was told, she took one quick sniff and then ran towards the window. "You'll kill me one day, I hope you know that?!"
"Don't be silly. Take some fresh air and again."
"Why? How many times?"
"Until you stop vomiting."

After another twenty minutes Ella got used to the smell of blood.
"Great, now sniff Greya."
"You are weird today, you know that?"
"It really is only for your own good and protection."
"Oh well," she pulled the wolf to her and again took a deep breath. "I smell nettle."
"Yeah, I bathed her this morning. Smell more."
"Yup, I recognize something animal."
"Now again, memorize it."

After half an hour Ella felt ready enough.
"Alright, now try me."
"Huh?"
"You have to recognize half-humans in their human forms. So come on." Hasky sat down on the floor and held still. She really hated when someone got into her personal space, but this time, she knew she had to get over it.
"Citrus parfume."
The Gryffindor chuckled. "Go on."
"Merlin's beard."
"The clothes?"
"How am I suppossed to know what washing powder was used?"
"Smell it."
Ella sniffed few more times. "Vanilla?"
"That's lavender."
"Darn, this is harder then I thought. Oh wait, I think I found it."
"Because you know what to look for."
"You are not helping."
"I am. It's always easier when you know what to look for. Later you'll be able to skip the first three layers and search for animal scent without much effort. Till then I have to torture you a bit. You have to train your smell. On your friends, whereever you get the chance. If I'm not around, turn into wolf and make sure your conclusion was correct. Then start looking for human, wolfish or bloodish scent."
Ella swallowed hard. "Don't worry, I'll be by your side most of the time," she gave a comforting smile to her friend. "By the way, do you remember when I cut myself?" The other student nodded. "Look," she showed the hand where now was only a small puddle of dried blood, which Hasky rubbed away. "Fast self regeneration."

The sky changed colour from cerulean to indigo and stars started to shine.
"Let's go to dinner, it's already late." Hasky said but her friend remained still and quite. "Ella, do you have any question about vamps or us?"
“No it's not that... I just... Thank you!” She gave her friend a hug and then they both walked out the door, heading to the Great Hall.

A week later Ella woke up with a warm feeling in her gut, this day would be a good one, she knew it!
“You look awfully happy today, any particular reason?” It was Maya who asked her as they walked out into the common room.
“Nah, not really... I just have one of those feelings, you know?!” Barely had she said that before a tall athletic boy, with rumpled chestnut brown hair and glimmering eyes came walking towards her.
“Ella, could I talk to you for a minute?” The sound of Marcus deep voice made her heart skip a beat.
“Yeah of course.”
“I´ll wait over there...” Maya smiled and disappeared leaving the two embarrassed chasers behind.
“What was it you wanted to talk about?” She tried to hide her nervousness.
“It´s more of a question... I don´t know how to begin...” His olive-coloured cheeks got a slightly florid tone.
“Just say it, you know I won´t bite?!” He gave her a quick glance, as if he was unsure whether or not he was supposed to laugh.
“The thing is... I really like you...” Ella´s heart started racing. “I´ve never felt this way about a girl before and I was wondering... maybe you would like to come with me to the match on Saturday? And maybe we could go to Hogsmeade together... afterwards I mean?”
“I´d love to!”
“Oh, really??” He sounded surprised.
“Yeah, I... I really like you too!” She felt how warmth spread from her neck to her cheeks. Marcus seemed lost for words and Ella didn´t know what more to say either.
“Well... see you there then?! Don´t forget to bring your *Don`t-let-Ravenclaw-or-Slytherin-win-badge*!” Ella smiled.
“I won´t!” With that they gave each other a long glance and then she walked off towards Maya
“I take it your happiness now officially has a particular reason?!” She smiled teasingly but Ella didn´t mind, because she was completely certain a new sun had been born and its name was Marcus Rodriguez...

The Saturday came and Ella and Marcus went to the match together. His hand found hers just as the Slytherin seeker caught the snitch and derby defeated Ravenclaw with 200-80, but he didn´t let go until they walked into Madame Puddifoot´s and he needed both hands to pull out her chair. They sat there for hours, chatting, drinking tea and eating pastries that made little red hearts bubble up between them. It was like time didn´t exist when they were together, like everything around them stood still, yet at the same time speeded on uncontrollably.

“I´m really sorry to disturb you, sweethearts... but I´m about close up.” It was the little confectioner who had walked up to them and Marcus looked at his watch.
“Oh my... Is that the time? We gotta hurry! It´s something we need to do before returning to Hogwarts...” Ella gave him a curious look but he only answered with a secret look and after putting their cloaks back on, they thanked Madam Puddifoot and left for the whirling road back to the school.

Just as they entered the big gates Marcus turned, not towards the castle, but the lake.
“What are you doing?”
“You`ll see...” He smiled, a bit nervous, and stopped as they reached a little glade, surrounded by trees with the shore of the lake a meter from their feet and the castle raising up towards the starry sky, Ella noticed a guitar laying next to one of the tree trunks.
“What´s this?!”
“A surprise...” He let go of her hand and walked over to the guitar, picking it up he cleared his throat and faced her standing there with the moonlight shimmering in her hair.
“What...” But he silenced her and started playing, and then he started to sing and Ella´s heart quivered.

I want to have you by my side
I want to feel your hand in mine
I want to give you my heart
I want our love to spark

Oh Ella, you´re the sunshine who lights my way
You´re the smile that makes my day
The sweetest girl I´ve ever met
Don´t suppose you want to bet?!

As you smile when you talk
As you laugh when we walk
Your eyes on mine
As the moonlight shine

You´re everything I´ve dreamed about
You never ever pout
The perfect girl has blown away my mind
I will never... leave her side

She was completely taken of her feet, the happiness and absolute compassion she felt for Marcus was too much to bear, there weren´t words enough to describe it.
“I love you...” Whispering the only words she knew that could begin explain what she felt, she walked up to him, placed her arms around him and as their lips met she knew they would be by each other’s sides forever!

The next morning she had to pinch herself several times, just to be sure it wasn´t all a dream, before climbing out of the hammock. She and Marcus! Could it really be for real? She was so absentminded that she didn´t realize she was trying to put her shoes on the wrong foot until Maya pointed it out, then she almost tripped over a little 1st grader who had dropped his wand under the couch in the common room. When they finally reached the Great Hall, without any more accidents, she didn´t pay the slightest attention to what she ate.
“Are you really gonna put sugar on your eggs?!” Maya laughed and gave her the salt shaker instead.
“I...” but more than that she didn´t have time to say before Hasky sat down beside them and loaded a piece of bread with bacon and eggs.
“Ella! Finally woken up I see?!” The wolf-girl teased. "Are you free for some chaser training? I still need to improve the speeding a bit. Let's say at 16.00?"
"Sure."
“Great, also I want to hear every detail about your date... well, maybe not EVERY, but still...” The Gryffindor smiled wickedly. "I have to run, I promised Robins to help prepare the boggart. Enjoy your meal, girls," she grabbed her breakfast and left.
"Boggart?!" Wondered both Hufflepuffs, but Hasky had already vanished.
“Bloody hell!” Maya said and Ella nodded, but still, it had brought her back to reality pretty effectively.

Finally lessons were over for the day and a hard task awaited the Gryffindor student. Get to the other side of the castle for quidditch supplies. She waited for the Ancient Runes classrom to get empty and called her house-elf.
"Goby, can you please check the way to quidditch pitch?"
"As Miss wishes," the elf bowed down deeply. "But Miss must inform Headmistress about attacks."
"Not yet, Goby. I need evidence first."
The little creature left, so Hasky sat deeply in her chair and closed her eyes, thinking about all those not very funny pranks. Her laces retied together and she fell in the middle of Entrance Hall, an armour lost its hammer just when she was passing by, slippery floor, invisible barriers, sudden fall off broomstick, too hot or too cold water in the shower. Two weeks. Two long weeks of constant vigilance. She was really tired. The only time for some quiet peacefull rest was in the forest. No sudent dared to enter the Forbidden Forest and a vampire would not trash his own hands. But how to make stop all the mess in the school?
The house-elf returned. "In second floor is suspicious puddle and Miss Wolfie is waiting outside class."
"Thank you. You may go now." The little creature bowed again and dissapeared.
Hasky sighed and left the classroom. "Let's go have some fun." The familiar murmured happily.

Somewhere on the first floor, they heard a shriek.
"Quickly but carefully," she told Greya and ran. A sobbing was comming from Defence classroom. "Stay," the girl commanded her familiar.
The door to the class were slightly ajar, so she entered and looked around. There she saw an old wooden chest opened, on the other side a boy was crouching in front of something big and hairy. Hasky attacked it wordlessly with a stunning spell. The creature turned around. It looked like something between ape and human with wolfish ear, fangs and claws. He must be kidding, thought the girl before it came to her, shifting shapes. Immediatelly she closed her eyes, because otherwise she knew she would vomit or faint. Something funny, think of something funny... she ordered herself. A vamp... a dancing vamp... a dancing vamp with doggy ears and paws!
"Riddiculus!" The boggart changed again and Hasky sent it back to the chest.
"Th-thank you," stuttered the boy in green-black frock.
The girl sat down next to him. "No problem, what are you doing here anyway?"
"The Ravenclaw prefect offered me 10 sickles if I go here and open this chest. But- but then that werewolf came out."
"You're afraid of lycans?"
"Of course! They are disgusting and harm people."
Hasky felt a pain near her heart. "Not everyone. It always depends on the human personality."
The Slytherin looked at her with wide eyes. "How could you know?"
"I met one when I visited my grandfather at the Ministry-"
"It's Matt Silver, right?"
The girl turned her head so fast that her neck cracked. "Ouch," she massaged the spot. "How do you know him... or me."
"My mother works under him and you are the school quidditch player, I keep track of those."
The Gryffindor chuckled. "Oh. So you see? Your mum must meet some werewolf too. Ask her about these... creatures. What's your name anyway?"
"Alexander Gauisus."
"Nice to meet you," Hasky gave him a warm smile. "Look, I have to go now, quidditch training. And surly you have something better to do then sit in the classroom with a boggart."
The boy shot a look to the chest. "Oh yeah." He stood up and ran out, shouting a goodbye over his shoulder."
So our prefect bribes people to do stupid things, she thought, getting up.

Outside the class, she found her wolf standing still, its back looked like a brush, showing teeth and growling at the ceiling. The wolf-girl smiled slyly, created a water balloon in her hand and threw it up.
A bat fell down on the cold floor where it transformed into a human. "What the bloody hell are you doing?"
"I can ask you the same question." She got up the fifth year guy and pressed him against the wall. "Bribing students, preparing traps for me and trying to make my life in Horgwarts a living hell?"
"You don't belong here."
"Neither do you." Hasky felt herself changing. She looked at her, now claw like, hand.
"Hoho, I think this means taking points."
The Gryffindor put her arm under the prefect's neck, ripped off his badge and threw it to the other side of the corridor. Greya attacked from the left side, but Hasky managed to kicked it away. "Stay back," she created a barrier between the wolf and half-humans. "This," she turned to her schoolmate, "is between you and me, werewolf and vampire."
"As you wish," Pierce said slowly and pushed off the Gryffindor. His teeth enlongated, eyes changed to red and fingers had sharp nails. He reached for his wand, so did his opponent.
"Don't be such a coward," said the girl and cast a reflecting shield on herself. "Wand won't help now."
The boy threw his dear piece of wood away. "You're right. Anyway, I don't need it."
The first move was alway predictable, so Hasky bent down when a fist aimed for her head. Then she kicked him in the stomach and next her knee met his head. The vampire did two steps back.
"I've been looking for a real fight since summer."
Within those five seconds which the girl spent on thinking what should that mean, the guy got behind her and pushed her hard into the wall.
Hasky reprogrammed her inner self to survivor-mode and attacked.

Ella was walking over the schoolyard, making her way to the quidditch pitch, but the closer she got, the stronger her feeling to return grew. It was strange yet familiar, the first time she´d felt this way was...
"Hasky!" She whispered, swirled around and started running back to the castle. She had no idea where she was going, but decided not to argue with her gut.

Flying threw the entrance hall and up the stairs to the first floor she came to an abrupt halt as she noticed Greya, jumping, biting and scratching something invincible. When the girl came closer, she saw a liquid wall behind which two students were fighting. She touched the barrier, but couldn't get through it. She tried some spells although it didn't seem to help at all. Instead Ella bent down and dragged the wolf away, to somehow let the protection-wall calm down. It worked! Suddenly she could see through it, into the other side. There were two beasts, one half-wolf, which she knew pretty well and the other very similar to a certain Ravenclaw prefect, but with red eyes. Her heart almost stopped beating. The werewolf tried to trip the other monster, but it jumped high and knocked down its opponent.
"HASKY!" screamed Ella, her heart racing of fear.

Someone was calling her name. She stopped to look at that someone and saw a terrified face of her friend.The hesitation earned her another hard meeting with the wall. Pierce had his large hand under her neck and his other one scratched the girls jaw deeply. The half-wolf howled, let go of the hand that was suffocating her and used her own ones to hit the enemie's temples hard fast.
"You bloody bastard," she growled and attacked his neck, but was thrown away. Back on her feet and new attack, this time successfully she dug her teeth into his arm breaking a bone.

The Hufflepuff was petrified to panic, both for not being able to do anything to save her friend, but also, and it was hard to admit, out of terror of the two beast. She had never seen Hasky like this, not even when they hunted. This time the fight was full of anger and desire to kill on both sides.

Again Ella tried some spells to break the barrier to get over and stop the battle, but nothing happened.
"I need help," she gasped.
"Miss Wilson?" The student turned around and saw the head of Gryffindor coming towards her.
"Professor?!" She let out a sigh of relief. "Can- can you help me, please?!"
"Oh dear Lord..." Murmured the teacher when she saw the situation in front of them.
"I can't break the barrier." Ella declared, a bit embarrassed. The professor touched the wall.
"Let me try some spells."
"Please, hurry, we need to separate them!" The student said impatiently.
"Miss Wilson-"
"It's the matter of life and death."
"Miss Wilson-"
"We must save them." The Hufflepuff felt her eyes tearing.
"ELLA!" shouted the adult. The girl turned her attention to the older woman. "Stop panicking, I need you to focus."
The student nodded, so Robins took the wolf by its collar and shot a few spells at the liquid wall.

After some time, that seemed like hours, the barrier fell down. At that time, both monsters were on the ground, the boy above the werewolf. He obtained a hard punch to his right cheek, but remained still. Ella took action in her own hands and raised her wand.
“STUPEFY!” She missed, but distracted the two fighters enough, to make Hasky able to free herself from the tight prison and kick the vampire away. She got up and made her move. The terrified student aimed her wand again, this time at her friend.
“Expelliarmus.” With eyes wide as plates she watched the spell returning and hitting her own chest. She flew six feet back, her wand on the ground of her original place. What? How? I just wanted to help! Ella sat on the floor absolutely confused. The Defence Against Dark Arts teacher offered her the free hand to help her up.
”How could she disarm me when she's fighting?"
"That, Miss Wilson, is the Reflecting shield."
"The what?"
"Reflecting shield, advance defence magic." The professor explained. "That girl could take her O.W.L.s from DADA anytime she wants." They both looked at the two fighters. "If she isn't expelled before she`ll get the chance.” The prefect bit deep into the Gryffindor's neck.
"You will vomit, you idiot," growled the half-wolf. And he really did spit the wolf-blood out. Hasky used his unfocused moment and broke his nose. Another series of punches, kicks and hits was served to the nosferatus body.
"Ella, take the wolf and conjure the strongest shield you can." Ordered Robins, giving her the animal. The Hufflepuff took Greya's collar and watched the teacher creating a glowing ball about orange size and colour. "Now!"
The student concentrated hard on her task while the ball floated to the beasts near the classroom. Right in the moment when the werewolf was about to penetrate the Ravenclaw's neck, the orange light stopped between the half-human's bodies.
"Solvo," Said the teacher and a pressure wave from the ball separated them to each side of the corridor, hitting the walls hard. Then windows shattered down on them and other ones were breaking as the wave continued to the humans and Greya. Ella held the shield as long as she could, but with a squirming wolf under her arm, it wasn't easy. She heard another incantation, but didn't know which one exactly. Then she let go and the end of the pressure wave made them fall down on their butts, panting heavily.
"Impressive, Miss Wilson!" Praised the teacher. "That will be 20 points to Hufflepuff."
"For what? I didn't make it." The student looked around and saw they were in a circle without glass.
"To be honest, I underestimate you. With any other student I would fly another 5 feet backwards."
"I still don't get it."
"I needed you to cast the shield so we would avoid the full force of the pressure and be thrown into the wall like those two." She pointed to the bodies lying on the floor, one under a torch, the other under a broken window. "And you kept the shield through almost all the wave, and let me tell you I used the strongest I could."
"Oh, thanks I think."
"Now there are some issues that need to be solved. Please, take care of Miss Silver's familiar." The teacher stood up.
"Professor, please, don't take her away from me!" Pleaded Ella.
"Miss Wilson, I'm afraid it's not in my competence."
"But you are the head of Gryffindor and Hasky is a Gryffindor, surly you can do something?!"
"The future of Miss Silver is up to the Headmistress."
"Professor please, rather take those 20 points back and lose a good word for my friend. You see we have a lot in common."
"Really?" wondered Robins. "I would say you have very different personalities."
"Maybe, but that's a little detail. We both have secrets that shouldn't be revealed and we help each other."
"Miss Wilson, I cannot promise anything right now. We will see in the morning if these students leave or stay." With that last sentence to the Hufflepuff, the teacher went to the exhausted students. What now? asked the girl herself with Greya in her arms.

"To fully human forms, both of you!" someone commanded.
Hasky tried to keep her eyes opened. Her whole body was screaming in agony and some cuts and bruises were still bleeding. She heard a moan from the other side. Pierce could hardly move too.
"If you have so much energy for a fight, you must have enough energy for a small transformation. Move on."
The wolf-girl looked up at the defence teacher who placed her hand on some brick and a small tunnel appeared.
With a deep breathe in, the Gryffindor changed into human. When she looked at one of her favourite professors and saw the disappointment in her eyes, the werewolf felt a pain in her chest.
"Let's go to the Headmistress'," the human took the beasts by the collars of their frocks and practically carried them away.

In the Headmistress's office the professor peeped in.
"May we enter, Madam?"
"Of course, Rebecca. What's wrong?" The teacher pulled in the two students. McGonagall sighed. "We should have expected that sooner or later." She conjured two chairs in front of her desk. "How badly?"
"Till death do them apart. Literally," Robins pushed both fighters into each chair.
"I am calling for their parents." And the former transfiguration teacher left to her room.

A few minutes later the Auror and some aristocratic looking vampire came walking into the office.
"Swear to you magic, you will not lie in this process," demanded the man.
"I swear," said Hasky.
"Pierce?" asked the man again in warning voice.
"I swear, Father."
The wolf-girl watched her grandfather coming to her chair, with the same disappointing look as she had saw before. Her heart cracked.

When everyone was on thier place, Pierce and his father on the right side of headmistress's desk, Hasky and her grandfaher on the left, the DADA professor stood in the back leaning on a cabinet, the head of Hogwarts sat on her mighty chair.
"Explain to us what happened. From the start," said the elder woman. "Miss Silver?"
"I would let our prefect explain why he attacked me in the first place. My story begins when I was hanging upside down in the bathroom."
The principal rised her eyebrow. "So Mr. Duncan, start please."
"During summer me and my human girlfriend were hanging out when a pack of lycans attacked us. two of them held me and made me watch how three others tore Mia in pieces. And one of them was this freak!" he pointed to the Gryffindor sudent, but immediatelly was slapped by his father.
"Language!" he hissed.
"So I promised a revenge for my love."
"I didn't-" started the girl.
"Wait," stopped her the woman. "Mr. Duncan, why do you think it was Miss Silver?"
"About the same hight, brown hair, blue eyes and she's transfer student."
"Was it during full moon?"
"Yes."
"You dolt," the man scolded his son. "She's the SilverWolf."
"Miss Silver, can you please transformate?" told McGonagall.
"Here? Now?" asked the girl desperately.
"Yes."
The student gulped. Being naked in front of four strange people wasn't very inviting. Nevertheless she jumped on her four legs with shining silver fur covering her body. She took her clothes and went to the farthest corner to change back and get dressed.
"Bloody animal," swore the boy. This earnt him another slap from his parent.
Meanwhile Hasky got back to her chair.
"Now you Miss Silver, what happened which led you to today's fight?"
"For the last two weeks there had been traps set for me all over the castle and when a student confirmed that he was used by a certain Ravenclaw prefect, I got p- pretty angry."
"And what happened today?"
"I rescued a first year boy from a boggart and this bloodsucker just happened to be outside watching the whole show."
Suddelny fingers digged into her shoulder. She winced at the pain but did not let out a noise. "Language!" whispered the Auror to her ear.
"Who started this last incident?"
"- She did."
"- I did," answered the students together.
Headmistress sat deeply in her chair watching the culprits carefully. "Well, since this wasn't just a student's fight, but a matter of life, I should expel you both. Mr. Duncan you wanted a vengeance on wrong werewolf, but most importantly a Hogwarts student while you had prefect responsibilities. Miss Silver, instead of telling a staff member about your problems, you decided to solve them by... eliminating a vampire who also was a Hogwarts student."
A dramatic pause followed. Hasky closed her eyes. She should have thought about this before, now she would be kicked out and lose her chance to help her granpa fighting evil officially. What else mattered was her friends she had just made. Everyone would know what a monster she was and everyone would leave her.
"Nor your origin can excuse what you did today, it will cost you 100 house points each," continued the head of Hogwarts. "But because both of you have splendid school result, I suggest a detention. For the rest of school year."
Hasky swollowed hard. That would mean about 8 months!
"Madam McGonagall?" addressed Mr. Duncan. "Please accept my apology for all those troubles. We did not know what our son went through during summer, and I believe a change of place would heal his soul better. We are leaving Hogwarts."
"Don't you want to think about it properly?"
"No, thank you. Miss Silver," Hasky looked at the man surprised, "I am truely sorry. Please forgive us."
The girl was too shocked to respond. A vampire was apologizing to a werewolf?!
"May we use your fireplace, Madam?"
"Of course."
The man dragged his son by the ear to the other room. "Again my deep apology," he said and left.

"What were you thinking?!" the Auror asked his granddaughter angrily. "This is not what I taught you."
"Spending two weeks at instat alert isn't healthy. I got pissed off."
"Language!"
"Sorry. I admit I lost my nerves. The bloods- bloody prefect used other students to humiliate me. That's filthy, unfair, wrong. And what if some innocent got caught in a trap that was ment for me?!"
"If you didn't want to complain, you should have just caught him, not kill him."
"I wouldn't-"
"Oh, you would. I know the feeling. Why do you think I taught you breathing exercises?"
Hasky remained quiet. She was guilty. She started the fight and almost murdered someone... half human, but human nontheless.
"Minerva," said the Auror. "I accept the punishment. Make sure she will remember not to fight anymore. And you young lady, will write me every week."
"Bye Grandpa."
"Minerva, Rebecca, Cub, good bye." And the older werewolf disappeared in the fireplace.
The student looked at the two professors waiting.
"Your detention will start tomorrow in my office," said Robins.
Hasky nodded debating with herself if she should ask a question that really bothered her right now. It would be daring, but better ask then be sorry. "Can I still play Quidditch?"
"- No," denied the principal.
"- Yes," agreed the head of Gryffindor at the same time. She looked at her superior and shrugged... was that a pleading look in those piercing blue eyes?
McGonagall sighed. "Detention is your priority. Otherwise you are free for the game."
"Thank you!" the girl almost screamed in joy.
"Now leave, please."
The student nodded and ran out before anyone would change their minds. On her way down on the spiral stairs she sumarized the last hour of her life. Her whole body was scratched and bruised from the fight, she lost 100 of Gryffindor's points, had detention for the rest of school year, BUT she still could play quidditch and be with her friends. Unless they discover her secret. Only one knew, the one that was most important. Hasky got sad. In her head she could see another disappointing look, this time on Ella's face and it broke her heart completely.

Suddenly something fluffy jumped into her arms. Hasky had a lot to do, not to fall down while catching Greya. The wolf happily licked its mistress ear. "I'm glad to see you too," smiled the girl.
On the last step there was someone sitting in yellow quidditch uniform. The Gryffindor thought hard about what to say. At the end she decided for a simple greeting.
"Hi."
Ella turned around and stood up. "Hi."
It was an awkward moment. Hasky let down her familiar and tried to look anywhere else then at her friend. After all she broke up the silence. "Erm, what are you doing here?"
"Waiting for you. I had Greya with me."
"Oh, yeah obviously... Thanks."
Another pregnant silent.
The wolf-girl took a deep breath and let it out. "I'm sorry."
"No, it's-"
"No, it's not! You were absolutly freaked out... of me." The Hufflepuff wanted to say something... there was nothing to say. "You were. I had it blurred because of the fight, but I saw you and felt your fear. And friends should not be scared of each other, so... I... I understand if you lea-"
"DON'T even think about it." Ella said in strong voice and took her friend into a tight hug.
"I have to," the other girl started crying, holding her pal like her life depended on it. "I am dangerous and a monster and -"
"Shh, you are not. You are my friend. And friends must know each other. The good side and the bad side as well."
Hasky kept babbling into the Hufflepuff's shoulder, but once Ella started stroking the wild hair, the werewolf calmed down. Then she murmured something.
"What was that?" asked the human.
"That you can stroke my hair all days and nights."
"You like it?"
"Uh-huh. Like a doggie."
The girl laughed heartily and pulled her friend away. "You look horrible."
"I'll be fine by the morning. It looks worse then it actually is."
" Then come on now, we still have some time for quidditch practice before sunset."
"And you can tell me about your date," suggested the Gryffindor, smiling.
"Sure. Wanna race?"
"I still have to stopped by our changing room."
"In that case you have to be extra fast."
And all three females ran out of the castle.

“Shall we call it a night? I´m exhausted!” Hasky panted and made a stylish landing in the middle of the field.
“See? That´s what makes me faster than you! I don´t give in for the pain, I embrace it and use it to trigger my muscles and then transfer it to my broom.” With that she swished off and in a few second smiled at her friend from the other side of the stadium and then returned back, just as fast.
“Yeah well, when you're beaten up, remember me to take you out for practice and we'll see what you say afterwards. I really have had enough for today...” Hasky smiled as the Hufflepuff comes flying straight towards her.
“DUCK!!” Hasky throws herself face down but Ella´s speeding broom doesn´t want to stop and with a bang and loads of swearwords, she crashes hard into the solid ground. “Ouch!”
“Ella are you alright?”
“If a displaced elbow counts for alright... I´m great!”
“Seriously?” She moved over to the girl on the ground and indeed, her right arm was twisted in the wrong direction.
“I thing I need to go to the hospital?” Ella´s face was pail and sweaty from pain.
“Come I´ll help you!” Hasky bent down and supported her friend to her feet, but it wasn´t long before the chaser´s knees gave away and she fainted. “Ella? Sweet Merlin, Ella?!”

Barely aware of her surroundings it felt like she was floating in some sort of rubbery fluid, almost as she was swimming but at the same time flying and from far away she heard a voice.
“Madame Pomfrey?!”
“What is it dears?” Steps from somewhere close. “Oh dear, when are they going to ban that terrible game? Oh well, take her here.” Now she could feel someone was carrying her.
“Is she gonna be okay?” Marcus deep voice spoke and Ella felt a pain shot through her heart, she wanted nothing more than to tell him she was alright but she couldn´t get her lips to move, nor her eyes to open.
“Take it easy man, she´s done this before!” Adrian?! How did he get here? Is there anyone else here?!
“Don´t worry, I´ll have her fixed in no time! What happened exactly?”
“Well we where training how to speed-fly and at the last round she couldn´t get her broom to slow down! She crashed and dislocated her elbow and must have hit her head too, otherwise she wouldn’t have fainted?!” Hasky answered immediately and as Ella could hear the infirmary-witch mumble spells hardly audible she drifted off again.

The nest time she woke up her eyes slowly opened just to look straight into a pair that looked like made out of chocolate.
“Marcus... What?”
“Hi, feeling any better?!” He took her left hand, since the right arm hung in a sling around her neck.
“Yeah! But why... how did you get here?”
“Oh me and Adrian was walking down to the pitch to tell you and Hasky that Roger and Colin has decided that we shall have half of our training hours together!”
“Really?!”
“Yeah, isn´t it great?” A broad smile lit up his whole face.
“Super, but why?”
“Apart from the fact that you need as many people around as possible to don´t get hurt?” He laughed as she lightly punched his arm.
“Very funny...”
“No seriously, I think they just want to learn from each other. Our teams have two totally different styles and it´s a great benefit to mix them and get even better!”
“Sounds cool! So when am I allowed out of here?”
“Now... if you feel up to it?!” Madame Pomfrey had come out of her office at the sounds of voices.
“I´m always up for it!” Ella smiled and with Marcus´s help got out of the bed.
“Just take it easy with the arm, you should be able to remove the sling in a couple of days?!” The elderly witch smiled and the couple smiled a thanks before walking out of the wing.
“So... how about some dinner? I hear they serve spareribs tonight...”
“Great!” Together they started to make their way toward the Great Hall but it wasn´t long before running steps and a yell stopped them.

“Ella! Wait up!” Hasky reached them with Greya close behind.
“What´s up... thanks for helping me out by the way!”
“That what friends are for...” The two girls laughed and Marcus cleared his throat.
“I´m gonna walk ahead, see you at dinner?” He gave Ella a quick kiss on the forehead and the Gryffindor rolled her eyes.
“What?!”
“Nothing... You two just look way to perfect for your own good!”
“Yeah right.” Ella said without paying much attention.
“But that wasn´t what I wanted to talk to you about.”
“Well, what was it?” The suddenly concerned tone alerted the Hufflepuff.
“I was just wondering... Who do you think would wanna sabotage your broom?!”

"What?!" wondered Ella.
"Maybe it's nothing, I'm being my usual paranoind self, but still..." she dismissed her prevouis question.
"That gives me the creeps. You all say being an animagus is normal here, and now... no. NO!"
"Oh sorry, I didn't want to freak you out... again. But right now I was talking about quidditch."
Ella sighed. "Maybe."
Both girls went quiet, thinking about the idea.
"Miss Silver?"
Hasky jumped up in surprise. She turned around and saw the head of Gryffindor. "Yes?"
"Tomorrow at eight, in the Divination classroom on the first floor."
"Yes, Madam."
"Oh and Miss Wilson I think it would be good if you came as well."
The Hufflepuff nodded, while her friend gave her a sorry look. "Looking foward to have a detention with me? I'm really sorry."
"Can you stop apologizing, it isn't your fault!"
"I still feel quilty."
"Stop that and let's go have some dinner instead."

During the meal Hasky thought about how to admit her sin to her teammates. She was aware of the fact that she might be out of the team, causing this complications with detentions. The story had to be believable, yet she did not want to lie.
"Hey!" Someone poke her in her ribs. "Anybody home?" asked Kevin.
"Oh sorry, deep in thoughts."
"About?"
"Look at our Gryffindor jar!" yelled Ashley rushing to the rest of teammates. "What is it?! 100 points?!!! That's crazy! Who could be such an idiot!"
At that moment Hasky wished nothing more then that ground would open wide and swallow her.
"Ravenclaw as well," commented Lesley. "And have you noticed that Raven prefect git is nowhere to be seen? That's strange."
"Well, that means a fight between someone from Gryffindor and Duncan," Colin joined the conversation. "But who?"
The werewolf looked at Ella who fortunatelly did not say a word, with complications eating her meal with one hand. Probably thinking about her broom, yet Hasky was glad for her faithfulness.
"Only someone really stupid or really brave," said Jake. "Typical Gryffindor." For that remark he obtained a punch in the arm from his girlfried.
"No, he's right, Corey," Ashley defended the boy. "If I get that someone into my hands..."
"We're lucky they separated house points and quidditch points." Lesley pulled out a sheet of parchment and tapped at it few times. "See, still 270."
The wolf-girl took Ella's hand and looked at the watch. 18:45, finally!
"Guys, I have to go," she said getting up, leaving her stil full plate. "I have to be at Robins's at 1900."
"You really love that subject!" called Kevin laughing.
"I do," Hasky smiled. "But Magical Creatures are more fun." With that she left as fast as she could.

The next evening the girls met in front of Entrace Hall.
"I wonder why she wants you today," thought the Gryffindor aloud.
"I don't mind," smiled Ella. "Marcus is studying Potions anyway. And I'd like to learn some more from Defence. Like that Reflecting shield, for example..."
Hasky laughed. "It's really dificult. It's about controling self energy, creating like second skin and protection charm... I still can't believe I cast it right. It must have been the adrenaline."
They entered the first floor and both the wolf and its mistress froze. Greya started growling.
"What is it?" asked the Hufflepuff.
"What a bloody smell."
"Huh?"
"I mean it literally. Breathe in." Then she noticed a familiar Slytherin boy in front of Divination class. "Alex?"
The boy turned around and a wide smile spred on his face. "Hasky! Hi."
"What are you doing here?" she asked suspiciously.
"Oh, I have an important job here. Professor Robins asked me to check the visitors according to this list," he waved a piece of parchment in front of girls and continued, "and give each of them this flag badge of the country they are from." Hasky peeped into the box now almost empty. Only three badges were left there. Two with British flag and one Irish.
"What visitors?" said the other girl confused.
"Students from overseas."
The wolf-girl started at the door for a while, then she could feel her brain click. "Give us a sec," she told the boy and pushed Ella to the other end of corridor. "She's crazy. Robins went complely insane!"
"What are you talking about?"
"What did you feel, smell, whatever in front of the door of Divination class?"
"Smelled nothing, but I sensed... wildness?" suggested Ella tentatively. "But maybe it was just me."
"You're right. Werewolves and vampires. In the classroom. Together!"
"WHAT?!"
"I don't like it. On one hand, you can train your senses, but on the other hand, I'm really scared for you. I wouldn't let you go in there, but..."
"Robins asked for me."
The Gryffindor sighed deeply. "Listen, I let Greya stay with you all the time, but when you feel something's wrong, turn into a wolf. Don't think twice about it, it could go pretty nasty and I want you to be save. I do not trust vamps one bit."
"You're panicking," said the Hufflepuff, looking her friend up and down. "You're panicking more then me."
"You're in enough trouble because of me. I don't want you to get harm... any more," she pointed to the bandaged arm of her friend.
"I'll be fine," Ella gave her a comforting smile. "Thank you."
"Hey Hasky!" called Alexander. "You're on the list."
The girls looked at each other, understanding the situation that awaited them, and went back to the boy.
"I didn't know you're invited," he said giving them a badge each.
"More like a detention," the Gryffindor gave him a smile. "See ya later."

Once the girls and wolf entered the classroom, the buzz died away and about a half of people knelt down.
"Bloody hell," whispered the wolf-girl quietly. She bent back to her friend and animal. "Both of you stay," she commanded as well as gave a hand gesture.
Hasky took few deep breaths. Here we go. She remembered her grandfather's talking about noble duties and his voice spoke in her head.
Go in front of them. Walk as the ground belongs to you, because it does. The girl straightened herself and proudly went to the podium. Under it she turned to face the crowd.
Face them. Look for Golds. No gold werewolf was present, only one onyx. She skipped the next part then.
Look at each and every one of the weres. All must kneel. She watched them from the right side of the classroom, noticing one human in the shadows of curtains, some vampires were chatting, but them she did not mind. Kneeling werewolves, two vapires, Ella, werewolf, vampire, three werewolves, vampires and the last werewolf in heated discussion with a vampire.
The door burst open and a girl arrived in a hurry. "Oh, sorry," she apologised in an Irish accent and quickly knelt down.
Wait until the last werewolf kneels. Do not bother to draw their attention. You have inferiors for that. Grandafather's voice sounded again so Hasky waited, watching the last one lycan standing. When she heard soft steps from the other side she looked at a young man. It was the Onyx and to her pleasure, with a Spanish badge. He bowed in front of her and went to the chatterbug. He caught him behind his neck, kicked his leg enough to make him drop on his knees and held him down. He himself knelt again.
"What the hell are you doing?! I've already bowed."
"Shut it," ordered the Spanish guy in strong voice, so no other arguing followed.
Once again, the silver werewolf shot a glance to the group and knelt down herself. Slowly she tapped the floor three times. Then one loud tap was heard from the other lycans.
All got up and Hasky let out a deep breath. On her way back to her friend she looked to the Onyx. She smiled and nodded. He repeated the gesture and went back to his place.
Ella stood agape, with eyes wide like plates.
"That went well, for my first time," smiled the girl broadly.
"What was that?" asked the Hufflepuff.
"Courtesy. Welcoming a noble."
"Wow."
"Are you alright?"
"Amazed. I remember you saying something about courtesy, but I didn't expect this."
"Well, you should see the werewolves' sessions. That's something! All three nobles dancing around..."
"I liked that," smiled the other girl once she went back to reality from her amazement.
"I didn't. But being a second noble, blah blah blah, I have to do this. Anyway there's an onyx were."
"The black hair guy with nice figure who crossed the room before?"
"Yup. And Spanish," the werewolf smiled dreamily. "Would you mind-"
"Go," Ella interruped her friend before she could finish the obvious question.
"Will you be alright?"
"Don't worry. Look over there," she pointed to a guy under a window.
"Tall, blond, pale?"
"Yup, he's Swedish."
Hasky debated what to say, but her friend had to learn. "Be careful." Then she squatted down to her wolf. "Stay with Ella."
Watching her shoolmate leave, she turned to the opposite direction.
When she reached a certain guy, drinking a water, she cleared her throat. He spat the liquid back to the cup and bowed.
"My lady."
"Stop it, we already exchanged greetings." At the closer look Hasky almost blushed. He was only a bit taller then she was, very nicely built, shoulder lenght black hair tied in ponytail, and deep really onyx like eyes. A good-looking stranger who seemed familiar in some way. "Gracias por lo antes." Thanks for before.
"¿Hablas español?" Do you speak Spanish? he asked surprised.
"Un poco." A bit.
"Perdón. Mis maneras. Me llamo Javier Casillas." I'm sorry. My manners. My name is Javier Casillas. He smiled once his shock was over.
"Hasky Silver."
"Oye, conoces mi primo Adrian? Está en... Gryffindor." Look, do you know my cousin Adrian? He's in Gryffindor.
That was why this guy appeared so familiar! "Jugamos juntos," We play together. nodded the girl.
"iAdrian, ven aquí enseguida!" Adrian, come here immediately!
WHAT? Adrian and here?!
The said boy arrived with two cups. "Water?" he asked shyly, offering one cup to his teammate. For how tall he was right now he seemed really small. "I'm sorry I haven't greeted before, but I didn't want to disturb the... ceremony. And I was trying to get pass the fact that you are here and... werewolf."
"It's alright," she dismissed the apology, it was her turn to be surprised seeing her keeper here. Maybe even pleasantly, but another student knowing what she was made her worry. "Look-"
"I would rather die than reveal your secret."
"Qué bien," That's great. rejoiced the girl. "Erm.. ¿podemos hablar español, si teneís la paciencia?" Can we speak Spanish, if you have the patiece.
"Claro," Of course. agreed both boys jovialy.
It really was not that bad as she supposed it to be. Both cousins talked slowly and explained when she didn't understand. Surprisingly she was better then she had expected.
Javier told her about his accident about five years ago when he and his other cousin, Adrian's older brother, went to forest for some wood and got bitten. Then Adrian and his family left to Britain to find some help and since then they had stayed, but the boys kept in touch.
Also it was obvious that this werewolf had learnt a lot about himself as a werwolf and noble, and the girl was very glad she had him by her side this day, because welcoming was not all for that night.

Suddenly a wave of discomfort flooded the Silver's body. Somehow she knew it did not belong to her.
She turned around to the Hufflepuff who was frowing now.
"Excusanme, chicos," Excuse me, guys. she said over her shoulder and went to her friend.
"... du är ännu värre än jag trodde, umgås med dem!" Snorted the Swedish vampire. "Missfoster som missfoster antar jag?!"
"Hey!" called Hasky. "Do you really want to watch sunrise with me?"
"You could hardly understand a word."
"Japanese is much more dificult," talked back the werewolf girl. "Apologize."
"Tse."
Then someone stood behind her, human and werewolf, she had to smile. "Any problem, my lady?" asked Javier.
"We will see. So vamp, about the romantic sunrise watching?"
"You can't do that!" he almost yelled in fear.
"Accidents happen. Especially here at Hogwarts."
He snorted again. "Sorry," he spat.
"At least try to make it sound like you mean it."
"I'm sorry, Ella, that I offended you," he bowed to the blond girl and left.
"And they say chivalry died." They laughed, except the Hufflepuff who remained quiet. "Ella?" asked the other girl.
"How could he remember me? There's no way that Mum did something wrong."
"Was the spell ment for half-humans as well?" Javier was interested.
"Excuse me?"
"Well, we absorb some spells differently," explained the onyx werewolf. "Some spell must be cast with much bigger effort like forgeting or oblivious spells... other need only little power and we are under their influence, like unforgivable curses."
"Oh, I didn't know."
"Neither did I," agreed the Gryffindor girl. "Anyway," she turned to her friend. "You are no freak, you know that, right? We already had this discussion. Listen carefully," she looked straight to her friend's blue-green eyes. "If and when you ever think of yourself as a freak, that means you consider me as a bigger one.... I really hope you like me more then that."
"Wait, how do you know what he said? Did you understand?"
"Not a word. I sensed that, just like you sense me when I'm in thouble. I guess it's the friendship thing. Anyway 'freak' is your favourite word when you negatively think of yourself."
"One, two, three..." was heard from the podium. The defece professor stood there, smiling at the crowd. "Thank you for coming. Those who attand our meetings regulary know I have these lessons at the end of school year but due to recent conflict, I chose to arrange this one sooner." She conjured chairs in front of her. "So if you sit please and let the lesson begin. Today it's about tolerance between Ancient clans."
All vampires sat to the right part while the left was empty for werewolves, but noone moved.
"Erm, Javi?" started the second noble.
"Yes, we have to go first, my lady. I recommend first line."
This kind of courtesy really sucks, thought the girl. Once the SilverWolf and OnyxWolf were sitting, the rest of pack joined them.

Hasky was bored during the presentation. She already had heard a lot about vampires and werewolves and love & hate between them. She knew not all vamps were agressive and some were usefull members of society, just like lycans, but still... predjudices. Heck, she could be such a hypocrite sometimes!
Nevertheless she had to admit that Robins was right. They were similar. Connected by the biggest part of existence. Human beings. The Ancients were made of humans. In general they both were feared by humans, hunted by humans, killed humans, saved humans, protected humans, helped humans.
They were strong warriors only with different weapons and abilities. An army made of vamps and weres would be the strongest because of their skills as well as mental development.
They should be friends, not mortal enemies. To work together side by side. To protect human race.
Yes, the young Silver had a lot to think about.

This whole tolerance between vampires and werewolf get-together was something totally knew for Ella and she hadn´t quite decided if it was a good or a bad experience yet. Although she was pretty sure she was going to leave it out from her CV.
“What are you thinking about?” Adrian whispered and she was brought back to reality.
“Oh nothing I was just kinda taking it all in... that´s all.”
“Yeah it is kinda different right?!”
“I would agree to that fact, yes.” She smiled and fell silent. They were sitting in the last row at the left side of the room, due to their noble-duties, Hasky and Javier must go the front. It felt sort of awkward seeing your friend being treated as a royal princess, so different from the normal school environment. But then again, Ella had always known Hasky was something special, maybe not in the way she´d expected, but special and a great friend. She turned her head to the right side of the room and her eyes, like two magnets find iron, zoomed the tall, pale, blonde boy from earlier. Something about him was familiar, maybe it wasn´t so strange? They had after all been in the same house at S.A.M for three years, they were bound to have bumped into each other every now and then. Suddenly he turned his head and their eyes met, his face contorted in disgust.
“En dag kommer jag att hämnas... lita på det!” One day I will get revenge... rely on that! His mouth formed the words and it was only because she was the only one to understand him that she could hear it. To all the others the words just sounded like a whisper of meaningless humming. Ella felt a shiver down her spine, Adrian noticed and followed her gaze.
“Is he bothering you?” He gave the vampire a stern look.
“No!” She gave away a weak smile. “Not yet...” She added in a whisper, so low that not even the sharp-sensed werewolves could hear.

The afterwards party was good. Of course first Hasky and Javier had to make a round and have few words with every member of the wolfish group, but it was interesting. Meanwhile Ella and Adrian seemed to find a nice table and when the Gryffindor chaser heard the word 'quidditch', she knew they wouldn't change a topic for the next hour.
"Miss Silver?"
Hasky turned around to see a vampire with Romanian flag badge. "Yes?"
"Your grandfather saved my mother's life. For that I want to express my loyalty to Silver family."
"Oh," the girl was stuck for a while. Stop being hypocrite and make friends... or at least acquaintances! "Ehm, alright, thank you. Let's try first name terms, shall we?"
"Oh, of course. I'm Silviu."
"Hasky. Nice to meet you," she offered her hand, but instead of shaking it the vampire took it, bent down and placed a kiss... a really cold kiss.
"Can I invite you for a drink?"
The werewolf look at her schoolmates who were in deep conversation, as hand maneuvres said, still about quidditch. Greya rested uder their table and Javier was chatting with some werewolf sisters. Everyone seemed to have fun.
"Let's go. But don't push it."

After half an hour Hasky felt ready to enjoy her resting time with her friends.
"Finally all together," smiled Ella.
"Tell me about it." The werewolf sat havily beside her friend and Greya snuggled to her feet, warming them nicely. "So what did I miss... except quidditch," she teased.
The other two players looked at each other, but as Hasky assumed they did not talk much about anything else.
"Did you know that Adrian is human but his brother is werewolf?" asked the Hufflepuff. Her friend rised her eyebrow. "Oh, you probably did. By the way, what is that noble second and third?"
"That's our... status," explained Hasky. "First noble means gold werewolf. They are the superior to all of us. You usualy recognize them by bright yellow, almost peroxide-like hair colour. Second noble is silver werwolf. We are inferior to Gold, but superior to the rest. We wear silver jewelery, so others can feel us. Our hair colour changes only when we transformate to wolves. Third noble is onyx werewolf. Superior to ordinary lycans but inferior to Gold and Silver. And well, look at Javi."
"He's Spanish, he hardly could be blond," noted the other chaser.
"Talking about me?" arrived the said guy with four bottles of butterbear. "I'm really glad full moon is over," he said and took a long gulp.
Between her three friends Hasky felt safe, comfortable and had more fun then she had had for a long time. No coding was necessarily. Here they sat two lycans, a wolf-animagus and a human openly talking. The room might be filled with thirty other people, but they did not matter.

Exhausted she took good bye of Hasky, Adrian and Javier outside the classroom. The Spanish visitor was going to sleep in the Gryffindor tower before returning to Spain in the morning.
“Are you sure you don´t want us to follow you down? It´s not a problem!” Adrian said and gave her a concerned glance.
“Look guys I´m fine. Besides, the vamp is still in the classroom... he won´t get the chance to hurt me before I´m safe inside the common room!”
“For not being a Gryffindor you´re very brave!” Smiled Javier with his cute accent that reminded so much of Marcus´s it made Ella´s heart skip a beat.
“Nah I wouldn´t say that... she´s more reckless than brave?!” Hasky laughed and gave Ella a light nudge.
“Yeah well, anyhow it´ll be no problem for me to walk two stairs on my own! Except for maybe falling asleep before I get the chance...” She smiled and the others hugged her one by one.
“Sleep well!”
“Yeah, dulces sueños!”
“Going for an all around the world sleep tonight?! God natt!” Ella laughed over her shoulder before turning around the corner and descending the stairs.

Ten minutes later when she was lying in her hammock, slowly rocking back and forth due to her rough tucking, she couldn´t seem to get rid of the feeling that she´d met that Swedish boy somewhere before. But the soporific snoring from Maya, Andrea, Mattie and Ruby worked as sleeping pill and soon she had joined the harmony.

This wasn´t happening! This couldn´t be happening! What on earth was she supposed to do?
With her heart pounding like a whole marching band she ran through the corridors... She had to get away, she had to hide, she couldn´t let them find her. Then suddenly a big guy stepped out in front of her and blocked the way, she tried to sneak around him, but in vain. Ella turned around, a second guy appeared behind her and before she properly could begin considering alternative ways to run she was surrounded by students. Just before they raised their wands, she saw him, the tall vampire was standing amongst the students furthest away, but still close enough to get a look at the freak. Then the first wand was pointed to her chest and before she had time to reach they all started screaming and purple light shot through her like a wave of electricity.

“NO!!” With a scream she flew out of her dream and landed with a hard thud on the floor beside her hammock.
“What on earth is going on?” Ruby dazed asked and sat up to see what had caused the noise.
“Just a dream... no worries!” Ella insured her and stood up as her friend laid back down. Luckily the other three girls still slept like nothing had happened, something Ella tried to convince herself, but unfortunately that didn´t turn out as well as she´d hoped. Something about that dream was bothering her, but she couldn´t quite remember what had happened! She´d been on S.A.M, she recognized the castle, but... the truth hit her like a bolt from the blue and a burning pain shot through her heart.
“Hedwig...” The vampire had been with the group that tortured Ella before she fled the country, he still remembered her, he´d said that he would get revenge and he knew that she had a little sister who was out in the open at S.A.M, easy for him to get to! With panic flooding through her veins Ella started to search in her bag for the cellphone, her hands was shaking and it was hard concentrating when the constant picture of a vampire bending down over her little sister ready to bite, kept showing in her mind. She took a few deep breaths and continued searching, but after ten minutes without luck she was close to tears.

Where is that damn phone?! Suddenly remembering that she´d showed it to Marcus the night before out in the common room, she dropped whatever it was she was holding in her hands and ran out in the tunnel and sprinted to the octagonal room. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Flipping every cushion, looking behind every sofa, searching through all the old parchments and magazines laying around on the tables, Ella slowly went from panicky, to frustrated, to hysteric.
“Please, oh please I have to save her...” Tears stared to stream down her cheeks and sobbing and heaving she started tossing everything she picked up across the room in mere madness.
“Hey, what´s going on?” She could hear a voice, but didn´t take notice, she had to find the phone. “Ella?! What are you doing?” Marcus walked up beside her and placed a hand on her shoulder.
“No don´t... I have to save her!” She shook his hand off and continued with the more and more desperate search.
“Slow down! Save who? Ella please talk to me.” He grabbed her waist and forces her around so that he could see her face.
“Hedwig... the vampire... I can´t find the phone... S.A.M... We have to save her...” The sobbing made it really hard to discern the words and the few he heard didn´t make much sense.
“Come on, take a deep breath, it´s gonna be fine!” He pulled her into a tight hug, it wasn´t till now that she realized he wasn´t wearing anything but his underwear. Even so, his athletic body was warm and as she leaned her head towards his torso she could hear his heart beating. Slowly she regained control over her pulse and tears and when she´d recovered enough to talk normally again she explained the whole thing one more time...

Morning post arrived as well as Hasky's detention. She opened the parchment and sighed.
"What is it?" asked Ella.
"Detention with Pomfrey, from seven to nine."
"That's not that bad."
"Unless you're me."
"How are they going, anyway? Detentions."
"After a week you get used to it. It's like a regular hobby... except no fun. And the only real fun begins to be compicated."
"Why?
"I haven't told the team about detentions. And I know I should have, especially now when we plan to train together-"
"You haven't told them yet?!" asked Ella scandalously.
"Well... so far I've managed to sqeeze in practice before or after detentions..."
The friend shook her head. "What do you plan to tell them?"
The wolf-girl cleared her throat. "Hardly the truth about me. I have to think it properly."
"Hurry up then. You have a match in two weeks."
"I know, I know."
"At least you're free for today's training."
"Yup, that I am," smiled the girl broadly. "Anyway, I've noticed you're all good-moody again. So how it went with your little sis?"
"Awesomly," said the Hufflepuff dreamily. "Mum asured me that she has taught Hedwig some self protection spells, Sis writes me every other day and since the next year she will transfer to Hogwarts."
"Oh no, more Wilsons in the castle." Ella poke her in the ribs. "Kidding. I'm happy for you. At least you know your sister will be save here. Only one werewolf around," she teased some more.

In the Gryffindor changing room, Colin explained new moves he would like to try. Not that the center chaser paid much attention.
"... and then Lesley I would need you here," the captain pointed to the left side of painted quidditch field. "That would mean, Ashley has to move forward and Hasky back- Hello?"
"Huh?" Hasky woke up from her deep thought. "Oh yeah, backwards."
"Are you alright?"
"Ermm... not really," she got up in front of the group. "Guys, I have to tell you something." She started pacing. "Do you remember the losse of 100 points?"
"Who could forget..." commented Ashley sarcastically.
"Wait, WHAT?!" shouted Kevin. "It was you?! How?"
"More like 'why'?" said Colin.
"Do you remember when Ella got me out of bathroom?" Colin and Adrian nodded. "Well, it wasn't just that. There were other not so funny incidents and when a first year was caught up with a boggart, I got angry."
"Because of a first year?" wondered David.
"No. Duncan used other people to have his fun with me and the boggart was ment for me. I lost my nerves and we fought."
"Alright, that means I'll give you hard time on the field," said Ashely who looked really upset.
"And I accept that, if you still want me in the team."
"But that's not all, is it?" asked Colin.
Hasky felt the heat running to her head. "No, it isn't. I got detention till the end of school year."
"WHAT?!" sounded in the room.
"And you can still play?" wondered the captain.
"Yes, but detention goes first."
The beater went next to the blackboard and searched in a big box for something. He pulled out a stack of parchment and left.
"Why did you got such a big punishment for just a school fight?" Lesley was interested. "Anyway Pierce is two years older and more experienced. You must have lost."
"Well, he might be older, but I'm Auror apprentice. I was pissed off, he had too much fun. If it wasn't for Robins, we would have literally kill each other."
"Oh bleeding hell," sighed the keeper. "He was-" he flapped his hands like wings. "Right?"
"Yeah," nodded Hasky.
"He was what?" asked the seeker.
"Erm, mental."

Colin returned back and took his place by the blackboard. "Alright guys, listen. According to your schedules you all finish lessons by 16.00, so I booked practice every day since 16.00 to 18.00. Detentions are usually given in the evening, that means Hasky can attand most of our practice, hopefully all. Anyway big match awaits us soon, so it's good to increase training."
The girl looked at her teammates, noone seemed to have a problem with it. "Thank you."
"Tse, don't thank and rather work hard," said Spencer.
"You're the one to talk."
"Colin, today I want to be in the opposite team than Hasky," said Ashley. "You'll pay for those 100 points," she sticked out her tongue.
"Gladly," smiled the other chaser.
"But what about the match?" asked the third chaser.
"That's true," agreed David. "We can train as much as we can, but if Silver misses the match because of some stupid detention, we won't stand much of a chance."
"Let's hope for the best."
"Or we can give you Felix Felicis," suggested Lesley. "Maybe your detention will be cancelled."
"I would not... probably not use it."

Someone knocked on the door and entered. "'Ello."
"- Hagrid?"
"- Professor?"
"Maya said yer still 'ere. I just wan' ter know abou' da match against Ravenclaw."
Ravenclaw?! wondered Hasky.
The captain browsed through the parchments again. "It will be 17th, since 10am, professor."
"17th it is. I'll need ya in da forest, Cub. After da won match," he winked at the girl and left.
"I would hug him," sighed Colin happily.
"Me too," nodded the chaser. She could play the match... against Ravenclaw... and detention with Hagrid?! "That will be one happy birthday," she whispered to herself smiling widely.

Finally the Gryffindors arrived to the pitch.
"What took you so long?" said Roger.
"Silver here decided that detentions are more fun then quidditch," said the seeker, wrapping an arm around her. She shook it off.
"I did not! It just happened."
"Wanna fill us in?" asked Maya.
"Maybe later, we should start the training," said Colin and pulled out another piece of parchment. "So, let's divide us into two teams. Hasky and Ella have to be in different teams. Erm... Adrian, you must get used to other players, so you will stay with Hasky and Roxanne with Ella. Erm... mmm... Ashley wanted to be in opposite team, so you are with Ella... and the rest I have no idea."
Roger took the parchment. "Let's switch Maya for Ashley, that leaves Marcus and Lesley... you two switch too. It will be interesting to watch Ella against Marcus," he commented slyly and the rest of players laughed.
Colin took the parchment back. "What about you and me-"
"Forget it," protested Kevin. "You two in one team would eleminate the other within five minutes. I'm with Roger and you take Jake."
"Oh fine, where do you want to go?"
"I'm with Ashley about punishing our dear chaser here. You wouldn't do that."
"They are making fun of you?" pointed out Ella to her friend.
"I deserve that."
"Now we have seekers left," said Colin, looking into his notes.
"I'm with Silver," said David.
"Oh great," sighed the said girl. The others look surprised.
"Why?" wondered Roger. "I thought you don't like each other much."
"And that's it," explained the Gryffindor seeker. "If Corey catches the snitch, Silver will lose, and if I catch the snitch, she must be grateful to have me in the team."
"Alright guys, so Ella, Ashley, Lesley, Kevin, Roger, Roxanne and Corey, you have the right side. Me, Hasky, Maya, Marcus, Jake, Adrian and David to the left."
The wolf-girl unlocked the chest with quidditch balls and made Greya lie on it, keeping it closed.
"When you are ready, just whistle," she said to Roger.
"Take positions!" called the Huffepuff captain. "One... two... three... Beep!"
The wolf let go and the training bagan.

Hasky did have hard time, just like Ashley and Kevin promised. Her chaser fellow was always around her and every bludger the beater got on his bat was ment for her. She did not mind as long as she could stay in the team.
After two hours the score was 30:30 which showed evidence of evenness of both teams. Then Hasky smelled something. Sniffing for more, she absentmindedly caught a ball. In her hands she felt metal instead of leather. It was squirming. She looked down and saw a bludger, so she let it go.
Petrol. Burning petrol!
Looking around the girl noticed smoke from Ella's broom.
"EVERYONE, FLY AWAY!" she shouted. Just when her friend was aiming for hoops, Hasky jumped on her, swept her off the broom. Great idea, except... no broomstick and big gravitation. A loud noise was heard behind then and the wolf-girl saw them falling into tribune. "Wolf form, now!"
Just in time Ella changed shapes when Hasky turned protecting the now wolf in her arms, she hit the last row of benches.

It was hard to take a breath that was out. Instinctively she started coughing, until her breath returned.
"Are you alright?" asked Ella now back in human body.
"I guess so, what about you?"
"Thanks to you not a scratch. I owe you."
"Don't mention it," she smiled.
"Why didn't you change?"
"I believed in my fast self regeneration and I still have to keep my secret."
"You could hardly self regenerate a broken neck!" frowned her friend.
"Calm down, we are all fine, I hope." She looked up at few dots flying in the air, getting closer to them.
Suddenly her head started spinning and she was about to vomit. "Ella..." Last bit of will kept her in human form. "Ella, it's happening again." With that she dropped down changing shapes like that one time in Hogsmeade.
"What-? Oh Merlin's beard!" Fortunatelly Ella quickly remembered what to do. "Accio honey bar!"
Meanwhile someone else arrived. "What's going on?"
"Adrian, try to cover her from the others' view. I'll explain later." A snatch was heard followed by a fall and scream.
"ELLA!" shouted the boy.
"Damn, I think I sprained my ankle. Hasky first."
Another sound of rustle near the the lying girl's ears, was too loud. She howled.
"C'mon, stay human," whispered the other girl.
"We don't have much time. Whatever you want to do, hurry!" said Adrian wrestling with his friend on the ground.
"Very well then," sighed Ella and threw the bar down, now wolf's throat of her friend, but her hand got imprisoned between teeth. "Let go," whined the Hufflepuff.

Hasky hardly perceived the world around her. Someone was stradling her, pinning her to the ground. Something else was sticked into her throat. She bit it. It wanted to get out but she did not let it go and pressed her teeth together even more. Then a crack followed. And a scream. A taste of blood. She let go, finally calming down.
"Girls, are you alright?"
"What happened?"
"Are you both alive?"
Too many questions for the girl on the ground. She lazily opened her eyes and saw Adrian above her. Ella on the left side of her head, in tears and a group of people rushing towards them. Taking a deep breath she sat up. "Ella?"
"We are fine. Or will be."
"What happened to your hand?" the girl asked confused.
Eleven students came fast and stood around them.
"I had a bad day," said her friend and whispered. "Later."
"Ella, Hasky, we need to get you to the Hospital wing," said Roger.
"I'm fine. Just a bit tired," said the Gryffindor chaser. "I want to go down to the pitch." She stood up, but her head started spinning. Adrian quickly caught her around her waist. "Alright, I'm a bit dizzy."
"You go," said the keeper to the rest of crowd. "We'll catch up later."
"I don't need to go to hospital," protested Hasky. "Take care of Ella, her leg looks funny."

Down on the field Hasky looked at the splinters of wood. "It still smells like petrol."
Adrian sniffed it. "It's burnt."
The girl looked at her companion. "I wonder who would do that."
"Remember when she couldn't stop the broom a week ago."
"Yeah. And I thought when the vamp's away, we were save."
The keeper squated to the pieces of broomstick. "I seemes like someone filled the inside of handle with petrol and when Ella warmed the broom by fast speeding, it exploded."
"When I get that someone..." growled the chaser.
"You'll do nothing or you'll be expelled for sure. And chill, your eyes are yellow and you have fangs."
"How can I calm down when someone almost killed my friend?!"
"Because then you'll be able to think."
Hasky sighed. "You're right, but still... what time is it anyway?"
"Five to seven."
"Oh bloody hell, I have to go to the Hospital."
"Finally."
"No... I have a detention there." She wanted to run but after few steps her legs gave up and she fell.
"Let's take it slowly," he helped her up on her feet, supporting the exhausted body.

The two players came right when Ella was laid down on a bed. The nurse looked at the new comers.
"Silver, your detention began five minutes ago... what happened?" she asked seeing the student leaning on her teammate.
"I had that magic accomodation problem, but I'll be alright."
"Lie down," she ordered.
"I am alright already."
"Lie down!"
"Yes, Madam." Without further protest the Gryffindor lied on the bed next to her friend.
"Now kids, tell me what happened."
There were murmurs, but noone really knew what to say.
"Well," finally Kevin spoke up. "Ella's broom got... boom."
"Hasky knocked her down just in time," Lesley continued the story. "When the explosion was over we found them both on the tribune. Ella with a sprained ankle and injured hand and Hasky unconscious."
"I was not-"
"Silver, for once stop arguing," said David tiredly.
"I would forbid the brutal game instantly," complained the nurse. "Miss Wilson, hold still." She waved her wand above the chaser's ankle. The sound of straightening leg made all of them wince. "I'm fetching for some pain killer potion."
Once the nurse was away, Roger watched the two girls carefully. "You do need an escort. And no discussion," he added when he saw Hasky taking a breath to say something.
"He's right," agreed Colin. "There still can be traps around the castle and obviously someone wants Ella out."
"Do you think it can be someone from Slytherin?" asked Maya.
"Why Slytherin?"
"Cos we have a match against them in three weeks."
"Probably."
The med-witch came back. She placed one large cup on Hasky's bedside table, a sweet smell of hot chocolate filled the air. The other cup with bright orange colour liquid in it, was for Ella. "Bottoms up."
The Hufflepuff looked disgusted while the other girl drank up happily, but after two gulps she spat it back frowning. "Darn, there's extra sugar!"
The others laughed heartily.
"Alright, so we're gonna make a schedule of your guides," said Colin. "Who wants the first shift?"
"I do," answered both Adrian and Marcus together.
"I am staying with my girlfried," said the Hufflepuff chaser in his deep firm voice.
"I have to," Adrian did not give up. "Erm, I have a Potion homework to do. You can come back in about an hour." He sat on his chaser bed near her legs.
"Fine then." Marcus kissed Ella's lips gently. "Take care."
When both teams left except three student, Madam Pomfrey came with a pile of files. She placed it in front of Hasky. "Today I wanted you to sort healing potions, but I think this will do too. Divide them by years and injuries." With that she left.
"Oh great."
Ella got up and jumped to Hasky on one leg. "Move it."
"What?"
"Move so I can lie down beside you... Or do you want me to jump around all day?!" She hopped on the bed.
"Hey, what about personal space?"
"Oh, shut it." She sit-lied by her friend and took off the bandaged from her hurt hand. "You bit me when I was feeding you with the bar. It's itchy and hurts like hell."
"Oh, sorry." The werewolf rubbed her palms together and took her friend's hand in both of hers. "You know that some of your metacarpal bones are broken, right?"
"No, but I don't wonder. It really hurts."
When the hand was healed, Adrian eyes went wide like two plates. "What?"
"Yup, good as knew," rejoiced Ella moving her fingers.
"Remember when we talked about self regeneration during the tolerance lesson?" He nodded. "Well, I found out I can heal others when I concentrate enough."
"Cool, I have to write that to Javi," he smiled. Then he snatched for a third of the pile. "Let's get to work and you have fifty minutes to explain to me everything that happened early today."
Ella took another third of the pile, and opened the first case. "Wow, this can be interesting."
"Wait guys, what are you doing?" wondered the other girl.
"Helping with detention," answered her friend.
"Are you allowed to?"
"Can she stop us?" smiled the keeper foxily, nodding to the nurse's office. "Come on now, what was all that about shape-shifting?"
And so the girls explain what they knew.

“Good morning ladies!” Jacob walked through the doors with a huge smile on his face.
“Morning Jake... Corey.” The girl came in close after him, carrying a pile of garments.
“I brought you some clean clothes to wear instead of that ones.” She pointed towards the bloody quidditch robe that was hanging over the chair next to Ella´s bed.
“Oh, thanks.”
“I think Ashley was bringing you some too?! I couldn´t get into your tower.” Corey said turning towards Hasky.
“No worries!”
“Do you mind?!” Ella asked in an accusatory tone and Jacob laughed but turned around so she could get dressed.
“Why isn´t Marcus here, I thought he was on guard duty today?!” The Gryffindor asked as her friend got ready.
“Oh yeah he was... but when I found him so tired he tried to get into the girl´s tunnel to get to his dorm, I told him we´d go instead!” Corey smiled just as Ashley came into the wing.
“Tunnel?” She tossed some clothes to Hasky and turned towards the Hufflepuffs with an interested look.
“Yeah?! Our common room is under ground, I though you knew by now?” Jacob chuckled and Ashley shrugged.
“No, I mean, of course I do, it´s just... cool!” They all laughed.
“Are you done yet? This is getting kinda boring.” Jacob sighed as Ella just tied her shoelace and Hasky buttoned the last button in her shirt.
“Ready as we`ll ever be!”
“Not so fast!” Madame Pomfrey walked out of her office and the friends turned, Ella rolling her eyes.
“Now what? You said we could leave first thing in the morning.” Hasky said, pointing at the promise made the night before.
“Oh so I did, but I didn´t say how you would leave.” With that she magically produced a pair of crutches out of thin air and gave them to Ella who looked anything but amused.
“You gotta be kidding me?!” With a sceptical face she gave the witch a glance.
“I thought you, miss Wilson, of all people would know I´m not the kind of person who makes jokes?!”
“Well...”
“In here three times in less than a month and still with no intensions of not coming back... You better stay of that ankle at least till the end of the day, or I´ll keep you in here for good!” The stern tone and piercing eyes made all five students to afraid of protesting and without further exchange of words they left the hospital wing.

“You really ought to get yourself another hobby!” Roger smiled as Ella, on crutches made her way to the table.
“Hey! I didn´t have much of a choice... Madame Pomfrey practically threatened me to use them!” She dropped down beside him and the rest of the group joined them on either side.
“Really?! You think she could be the one who´s sabotaging your broom?” Kevin asked with a little too little joke in his voice to be laughed at.
“You really are stupid sometimes you know that?” Lesley said and gave him worried glance.
“I still think it´s someone from Slytherin, I mean who else could it be?!” Maya said and took a big bite of her sandwich, no one noticed how Hasky, Ella and Adrian exchanged meaningful glances.
“Yeah, you´re probably right! But how can we stop them? It´s not especially lame jokes, I mean you could have been killed!” Colin was just as concerned as all the others and the Hufflepuff chaser suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable.
“I think Marcus has something going on, he was up all night!” Roxanne said and the others turned towards her.
“How do you know?”
“Well I heard something in the common room as I paid a visit to the bathroom last night, when I looked it was Marcus out there casting jinxes or something!” She shrugged, but the others had caught interest.
“Well in that case, we need to help him!” Adrian held and the others nodded.
“Well I am not going down there!” Ashley swiftly said.
“What do you mean... down there?” David wondered.
“I am not going inside those tunnels...I refuse being taken for a mole!” She laughed and the other joined in, but Lesley had just taken a sip of her juice and accidently spurted it all out on Roger.
“Oh no you didn´t...” Picking up a tomato and throwing it back on the chaser the food fight was on.

Ten minutes, fifteen scrambled eggs, seven tomatoes, thirty spoons of porridge and twenty lost points later the two teams took farewell and left for the lessons. They all decided to meet up early in the evening to have time to check all brooms before training. Ella had an empty feeling in her gut as she walked up the stairs for her first class, charms, together with Maya and Kevin who was on his way to the library and had been set on guard duty. The broom that had been blown to pieces was her first broom, the broom she´d received for her twelfth birthday, the one she´d qualified into the Swedish team on, the one she´d played her first match on, the one she´d always remember as her first true love! And now it was gone... As the two chasers took good bye of Kevin and entered the classroom, greeted professor Flitwick and took their places a plan had formed in Ella´s head, the only problem was how to lure Maya so she could set it in motion.

“Has anyone seen Ella or Marcus?” It wasn´t without fear Roger asked the eleven players in front of him the question.
“Oh come on, they´ve probably just sneaked away and.... you know?!”
“Oh Jake please shut up!” Roxanne begged him and the beater fell silent, even though the mischievous smile remained on his face.
“Ella told me she wasn´t feeling very well, so after charms she went off to lie down. I followed her to the common room...” Maya fell silent, she was just as worried for her friend as the rest of them.
“Well she isn´t there now and no one has seen her since.” Corey murmured.
“Yeah and Marcus isn´t down there either... I checked twice!” Jake added.
“Oh they´ll be alright, let´s go down to the pitch! Maybe they just forgot we decided to meet up here?” Lesley tried to stay positive, and as the two teams walked out on the schoolyard they met two 1st graders from Ravenclaw.
“She is so cool! I bet they`ll win the cup!”
“I still think we`ll win... Josh is good!”
“No one beats Ella!”
“One galleon?”
“You´re on!” The two small boys ran pass them and Hasky and Colin exchanged confused looks.
“What in all...” but longer than that no one had time to register before a yellow dot came shooting from the sky and a smiling Ella landed in front of them on.
“What took you so long? I´ve been out here for ages!”
“Are you totally irresponsible or just stupid?! We told you to wait inside!” Hasky was angry but extremely happy to see her friend again.
“I´m anything but that! Look at this...” She showed them her broom, it was yellow with black racing stripes, no one had seen anything like it before.
“Where did you get that?” Roger asked, fascination shining through his voice.
“I´ve made it!”
“What?”
“How?”
“When?” A barrage of questions rained down over her, but she just smiled.
“My mum works for in the research team for the UMC (United Magic Cooperation), her main job is to adapt muggle technology into the magic world, but UMC also has a department that´s working with improvements and registrations of new broom models.”
“So... what´s that got to do with you?” David asked sounding both jealous and amazed at the same time.
“Well last summer I practiced there! Ever since I started playing quidditch I´ve had this vision of a super broom, one that´s matches perfect with the player´s technique. All positions values different abilities in their style, beaters want stabilization, chasers agility and so on...”
“I might be a bit slow?! But I still don´t get it!” Corey said and looked at her friend with curious eyes.
“What I´m saying is that my idea and design of the chaser-broom has been accepted as a prototype! This morning I told Maya I was feeling off, but instead of going to bed I went down to the common room and told Marcus I was gonna try and talk my mum into sending me one. At first he didn´t like the idea but then he agreed it was probably a smart plan since there would be no chance someone would have expected that and managed to sabotage those brooms!”
“So you´re saying you sent an owl to Sweden, and your mum sent a broom back... in less than a day?!” Kevin wasn´t convinced.
“No of course not! I knew she was in London for a conference today so me and Marcus sneaked out through the portal, called her with my WizTecCell and she apparated into Hogsmeade. I told her about what´s been going on and she used her new invention the MagiFax to get hold of the broom.” Smiling at her friends impressed and confused faces she barely could hide the joy she felt inside.
“You really are one of a kind, you know that?!” Roger said.
“Everyone keeps telling me!” Laughing the two teams started walking down to the pitch.

“You took your time?!” Marcus yelled at them as the 13 players walked into the arena.
“Yeah well Ella had to tell us about your usual day!” Hasky smiled, he laughed and landed among the others.
“Cool hey?!”
“You two are crazy!” The couple chuckled and Marcus gave his girlfriend a passionate kiss.
“Oh come on, get a room!” Adrian muttered and the two chasers gave him a stern glance.
“Alright settle down! So, today we are gonna test how our tactic with mixing trainings is working statistically.... Gryffindor need to see if they have improved enough to take down Ravenclaw with one hand tied behind their back, or if we shall change back to normal ways and have separate trainings.” Roger declared and the two teams gathered at the middle of the field.
“Pretend it´s a real game, imagine it´s the final match, Gryffindor Vs Hufflepuff, everything´s at stake, the winner receives the cup!” At Colin´s words everyone stopped the chatter and the silence that fell was so intense you could almost touch it.
“On the count of three... one, two, THREE!” The captain kicked the chest open and the game was on.

One hour later the score was 30-30 and no sign of the snitch. All players were focused to 110%, Ashley jump-kicked the quaffle out of Maya´s grip and quickly passed it to Hasky who skilfully avoided Marcus tackle, when Ella blocked her way she instinctively through it to Lesley who swayed from Jacob`s bludger and threw it with all the force she could manage towards the left hoop. Roxanne misread the toss completely and desperately flung herself, face first, straight into the middle ring and smashed her nose.
“Ro?!” Roger flew over to his injured keeper and the rest of the players stopped in mid-air. “Could someone fetch some napkins, I don´t have my wand?!”
“On my way.” Marcus took off and at the same instant Corey saw something glimmer right under David’s left shoe. Before anyone had time to react she fly started her broom and with a shout of joy she closed her fingers around the golden ball.
“We won!” The Hufflepuff seeker stretched out her hand, as to do a high-five, and David looked absolutely heartbroken.
“But it was time-out, that doesn´t count, we weren´t playing!”
“No one said time-out.” Maya finally returned the high, but Roger was starting to get impatient.
“Where did Marcus go? I thought he understood he had to hurry up?!” Roxanne tried to smile, but with half her face smeared in blood, the result wasn´t near as reassuring as supposed to.
“I´ll go and see.” Ella said and flew off to the changing rooms. “Marcus, you in there?” She jumped of her broom and walked in, it was empty. “Hello?!” Suddenly a muffled scream was heard from outside. “Marcus, is that you?” No answer. Typical him, he´s probably found a magical bug or something?! Giggling to herself she walked out the door and round the corner. “Marcus if you´re there you better answer or I´ll leave you!” Nothing. Just as she was about to turn around and go back to the others and see if he´d taken another way, she noticed something moving in the far end of the yard. Marcus?? Closing in on the moving object she saw Marcus lying on the ground, barely stirring with someone bending over him.
“NO!! GET OF HIM!” She screamed and sprinted toward them, but before she had time to see who the attacker was he/she turned on the spot and vanished. Disapparation within Hogwarts... that´s not possible! Longer than that she didn´t have time to think before noticing Marcus pale white face, and his torso who slowly was heaving up and down, drenched in blood!
“MARCUS!!” She fell down on her knees and grabbed his shoulders. “Marcus please! You have to wake up! Don´t leave me! Please Marcus fight it!” Tears streamed down her cheeks and her voice was thick with cry.
“Ella?!” Light footsteps from behind and a hand on her shoulder. “Ella we need to take him to the hospital!” Hasky´s calm voice comforted her enough to regain control over her breathing.
“What if he dies?!” On that her friend had no answer but they simply fell into each other’s arms and with the help of Jacob, Adrian, Roger and Colin, who all flew towards them when they heard Ella´s scream, took Marcus to the hospital wing...

The trips to the hospital were way too frequent to be comfortable. Once the group entered the nursery Madam Pomfrey rolled her eyes at the sight.
"You all again?"
"Only this time it's not about quidditch," commented Roger.
"Please, Madam Pomfrey, save him," pleaded Ella with tears in her eyes.
"Oh dear, what happened?" asked the med-witch while boys placed their teammate on a bed.
"We don't really know," answered Maya. "We found him like this on the ground. Ella saw someone with him."
"He/she hexed him," said the other Hufflepuff. "And Disapparated."
"Nonsense, no one can Apparate in or out of Hogwarts ground. Mr. Kent, inform headmistress, Mr. O'Neil you go for your head of house, and everybody else, OUT!"
"But-"
"No complains, Miss Wilson."

While everyone was on thier way out, Hasky sneaked to the office. She searched through all those shelves with potions. Ah, Sleeping draught.
Meantime the professors arrived.
"How does it look, Poppy?" asked Headmistress.
"Not good. Someone really wanted to harm this boy. Black magic is hard to heal."
The door creaked again.
"I ran into Mr. Kent who told me what happened," it was the defence teacher. "May I look at the wound?"
"Such a good boy," sobbed professor Sprout. "Why do this things happen to children like him."
"I cannot stop the bleeding," said the nurse desperately.
"Headmistress, I think I know who could help," spoke up Robins.
"You are right," agreed the principal. "Miss Silver." Hasky's heart stopped beating. She was busted, just when she thought she had a nice hiding spot. "Take some pain killing potions and come here."
With the blood running to her face she obeyed.
"Ermm, I'm sorry." Sometimes it's better not to try and explain things.
"What can a werewolf do?" wondered Pomfrey suspiciously. "They can heal themselves like nothing, but others?"
"Let's try it," said McGonagall in firm voice. "Miss Silver, what do you need?"
"No audience and Ella." She gave the potions to the med-witch who slowly and carefully run them down Marcus's throat.
"Be careful," whispered the defence teacher. "I'll wait outside."
Once the staff members were out, Ella rushed in.
"How is it going?" she asked immediately.
"He has lost a lot of blood already," said Pomfrey. "We need to stop the bleeding immediately."
Hasky rubbed her palms together to warm them and gently placed them above the hurt torso. "Yup, something's here." She pushed her hands closer to the skin, but sparkles appeared between them.
"Silver, Headmistress believes in you."
"That's what I'm really scared of."
"What can I do?" asked the Hufflepuff.
"Sit, take his hand and radiate positive energy," said her friend. "Madam Pomfrey, can you lift the curse?"
"I rather fetch for Rebecca, it's her expertise."
"Erm, what?" wondered the other student.¨
"I need to get under the spell. Black or white, it doesn't really matter. Every spell can be broken."
"I'm here," announced the head of Gryffindor. "What exactly do you want me to do?"
"Be sadistic, take Marcus just as an object and extract the spell," explained the wolf-girl.
"It can be dangerous. But I guess it's better than to let him bleed out."
"NO?!" yelled Ella.
"Calm down, Miss Wilson... and believe."
"Easier said then done."
"Ready Hasky?" The student nodded, trying to concentrate all her healing into her hands. "Alright. One... two... three, go."
A horrible squeaking sound echoed the room. Marcus screamed from his dream and at that moment, the werewolf practically buried her hands into the wounds. Silence.
"Are you all alright?" asked the med-witch.
The three other females looked a each other.
"Is it done?" asked Ella.
"Yup, I can touch him without electricity," answered the Gryffindor student. "He's healing."

When no blood was rushing out, Madam Pomfrey checked the boy, so the girl stretched her hands. "Only pieces of darkness," she smiled. "They will expire themselves."
"So he won't die?" happiness appeared in the eyes of the other girl.
"Of course not," assured the nurse. "I was more afraid about whether or not he could be healed without consequences."
"And?"
"He'll be as good as new."
"I see my work is done here," noted the defence teacher with a smile on her face. "I'll tell Headmistress and professor Sprout."
"But no visitors until tomorrow. The boy needs rest," said quickly the nurse, then she turned to the students. "Silver, nice work. You should take a break now."
"No, I want to try and heal him some more."
"If anything goes wrong, I'll be in my office."
When the girls were alone the werewolf called for her house-elf. "Goby?"
"Is here, Miss."
"Can you get me some energy drink?"
"Goby is right back, Miss."
Ella rised her eyebrow at her friend.
"Healing is no fun. It takes energy and bacause of my problem with magic accomodation, I wanted you here. Or in case that I would... wolf out."
"Just be careful, I don't want you to lie here as well."
The elf returned with a can of extra sweet bubbles.
"Oh, great, cheers," sighed the girl and drank it up. Then she rubbed her palms and gently placed them on the muscular male torso.

Ten minutes later, Ella started to be impatient.
"What's taking so long?"
"Except the fact that I'm enjoing it, the fragments of dark magic." The Hufflepuff frowned. "Oh, c'mon. I know my boundaries and you should be flattered that I appreciate your boyfriend's body."
"I'm more worried about those fragments. And thanks... I think."
"Take them like a disappearing flue. No big deal, I hope."
"HASKY!" yelled the student.
"Sorry," laughed her friend. "I'm all black humor now."
Suddenly something was sketching under her touch. She quickly pulled her hands away.
"What is it?" asked Ella.
The other girl studied it carefully. She washed out the bood and saw... runes?!
"Do you have ink and parchment here?" asked the Gryffindor.
"Sure." She handed the items to the other girl.
Hasky quickly rewrote the graphics. "These seem to be only letters. I try to translate them... Erm, R... something... something... A... and this should be L."
"R..AL? Try to decode one of the two left."
"RU.AL or RO.AL."
"ROYAL?"
"Yeah, that could be it."
The girls looked at each other.
"Too many questions are running through my head right now and I have no answer to any of them," said the wolf-girl.
"Likewise."
"Who the heck could use him as parchment?! Sorry, Ella, I need to get out, will you be alright?"

Her head was spinning. She needed fresh air... and grass... and her wolf. Where is she? She was supposed to wait outside the hospital wing. A parchment swallow was flying in the corridor, so she snatched it.
We're waiting NEAR the quidditch pitch.
Adrian + Greya
"Wha-?" Her mind scanned surroundings of the field. "Oh, Marcus." She ran outside.

Finally the pitch could be seen and a wolf rushing to her. They both fell down and Hasky took deep breaths of fresh air, grass and wildness.
"Hey," greeted her teammate. "How did it go?"
"Marcus will live," she smiled.
"You look tired. Did you... heal him?"
"Mostly. You remind me... Marcus had writting on his body. It's english word 'royal' transcripted into runes."
Adrian's eyes went wide. "Oh." There was not much to say to the topic. "Anyway I hope you don't mind that I took Greya with me. I thought she could smell something on the spot of crime."
The girl chuckled. "So nobly said. Well, you did leave me a note and if Greya didn't trust you, she wouldn't go," she smiled scratching the thick wolf hair. "Have you found anything?"
"Nope... Greya was sniffing in a weird cicle, maybe something can be there. But no footprints or anything. Ella was right, somebody really Apparated away."
"No one can Apparate within Hogwarts, not even Harry Potter. It must have been illusion."
"How?"
"You project a certain piece of your mind outside... like a mirror. For example, you think of a bending yourself over Marcus's body, you project it outside and while the projection last you could speed-light ran away or transformate into something tiny."
"How do you... oh, grandfather?"
"Grandfather. Now let's have a look." She got up but had to transform. "Please don't freak out. Half-transformation."
"Está bien."
The girl smiled and changed her head and paws. She let her nose led the way. Again the smell of petrol.
"Greya did the same track," commented the boy.
The girl transformed back. "It's the petrol. Do you have matches or lighter?"
He rised his eyebrows. "First I don't smoke, second we are mages, third do you really want to set it on fire?"
She slapped her forhead. "My bad," they both laughed. "We have to freeze it right after making the fire."
"Fine then. You fire, I freeze."
"Count to three."
"One... two.. three," counted the boy.
"Incendio," she whispered.
"Glacius."
"Woho," she looked at the now steaming smoke. "Someone is even worse in painting than me. I could do better circle."
"Hasky, it's not a circle," he said slowly.
"Huh?"
"Accio broomstick." He hopped on and pulled the girl in front of him. "Look," he pointed down to the burnt grass.
"A crown?!"
"What did you say, was written on Marcus?" he asked rethorically.

Not long after Hasky had left the door opened again, this time it was Corey, Maya and Roxanne who entered, all looking very concerned a frightened.
“How is he?” Maya asked while putting a hand on Ella`s shoulder and glancing at Marcus´s pale face.
“He´s been better, but it could have been worse. Madame Pomfrey says he´ll recover.” The other girls looked relieved. “How about you?” Ella turned towards Roxanne.
“Oh no big deal. David remembered he had his wand in the pocket the whole time so Corey borrowed it and fixed me up in no time.” The keeper tried to smile but Marcus whined in his sleep and there was nothing left to be happy about.
“Girls please, I´ve told you a million times... the patients need to rest!” The nurse had just walked out from her office and the Hufflepuffs sighed.
“Oh well, no excuse for not repeating it... Ella are you coming?!” Corey was the last of the newcomers to stand up and the other two turned as they realised the chaser hadn´t moved.
“No, I´m staying. I wanna be here when he wakes up!” Without so much as looking at her friends she grabbed her boyfriend´s hand and stared into his face.
“But...” Maya began but Roxanne silenced her with a quick glance and even Madame Pomfrey had to give in.
“She can stay, miss Wilson knows the drills of the hospital almost better than me.”
“Ok, good night then.”
“Night.” The three friends left the wing and started walking towards the stairs.
“I´m really worried for her. Imagine all she´s been though, there is only so much a person can take before they break!” Corey murmured and Maya suddenly got all cold and stiff.
“What do you mean? BREAK?!”
“Take it easy! Ella is tough, she`ll handle it and tomorrow we`ll make sure she´s alright!” Roxanne put an arm around the younger girl and gave the seeker a stern glance, Corey shrugged and together they continued down the stairs.

The following morning Marcus woke up, feeling he had been run over by a steamroller. There wasn´t one part of his body that didn´t ache and it was with great effort he opened his eyes and noticed he was in the hospital wing. The second thing he realised was Ella who was sitting in a chair and had fallen asleep with her head on the side of his bed. She really was cute, he couldn´t believe how he´d got so lucky that he deserved a girlfriend like her, but there she was. Slow and painfully he sat up and gently shook her awake.
“What? Did anything happen? Marcus?! You´re here!”
“Yes I am! Missed me?!” Ella flung herself around his neck which resorted in a scream and a jump back.
“Are you soar? Oh I´m so sorry, I didn´t mean to!”
“I know you didn´t... the moment you did I would know you were possessed!” She smiled and smoothly kissed him, careful not to touch him more than necessary.
“I love you!”
“Love you more. What happened by the way?” He asked and Ella sat down again, chocked.
“You don´t remember?”
“Only that I flew off to get some napkins, I heard something outside the changing rooms and the next thing I know I was lying here?!”
“Oh dear, I was hoping you could tell us who attacked you.”
“Attacked? Seriously?! “
“I found you on the ground, bleeding and with someone bending over you, as I ran closer they disapparated!”
“Sure you remember it correctly? You can´t disapparated within Hogwarts!”
“Why does everyone keep telling me that?! I know, ok? It´s not like I was born yesterday! But I know what I saw...”
“Alright, alright, don´t be mad. I know you wouldn´t make something like that up. It´s just... well, impossible!”
“I know... but we`ll have to try and find out who did it, they won´t get away with this!” The silence fell and they got lost in their thoughts. Marcus tried to remember something, anything from last night while Ella where making a mental list on how to find the stranger They were so caught up they barely noticed the light tapping on the window.
“Ella, isn´t that your sisters owl?” Marcus suddenly asked, she turned around and saw Hedwig´s light brown barn owl on the windowsill.
“Oh no!” She stood up and started walking towards the bird, all the while her gut screamed that something was terribly wrong.
“Are you sure it´s her bird? It looks kinda odd.” Marcus said and Ella froze, not daring to turn the handle. Can he see it too? She stared at the owl, something was wrong with it. But it is Hedwig´s, I`d recognize him anywhere! Whatever is wrong I need to find out what it is! With that she drew a deep breath and swung open the window. The owl croaking flew in and landed on Marcus´s headboard.
“Come here Buzz I need to see your letter.” Ella called for it and with hesitation it stretched out the leg and she untied the parchment. As soon as it was free the owl seemed to get relieved and took off out the window faster than the blink of an eye.
“That´s weird...” Was Marcus´s comment as he stared after the bird, but Ella had her eyes on something totally different and quickly tore up the seal, unfolded the letter and started reading.

Hi!
I know I´m supposed to write every other day but I have been so caught up with the half-term exams I haven´t had time to sit down and write. So much is happening and we have quidditch training almost every night. Last Saturday we played against Finland for the first time this year and we smashed them! 300-30!! I wished you could have been there! I did 9 goals I miss playing with you, a lot! I really hope I´ll make the team when I transfer to Hogwarts, if I get sorted into Hufflepuff?! What if I´m not?? We have to be together! Oh anyways I really, really miss you!

Have you heard anything from Mum or Dad? I have... apparently Tasha got moved up one class since she is too smart for her year! I´ve always said she is the better one of us;) Elliot is doing well too, according to Hugo he has a girlfriend, Rebecca... but since it´s from Hugo, I don´t know how much truth it´s in it! Noah wants to know if the dragon will be able to breathe in the carton... he thinks you´re getting him one for Christmas?! I miss them all so much! It just feels so empty not having someone to fight with;)

Anyways, I know that what you really want to know is if something strange or... dangerous has happened! And I´d wish I could tell you all is well, but it´s not! Yesterday Mikaela´s broom exploded while she was 20 meters up in the air... we still don´t know when she´s coming back, but the doctors said she`ll recover! The thing is... after the crash, we realised that it wasn´t her broom that exploded, it was mine, she´d taken the wrong one, they look almost the same but it was mine! I think someone might be after me?!

I don´t want to worry you, I´ve practiced all the spells Mum taught me and I think I´d be able to defend myself if someone attacked?! But I think I´m starting to get paranoid... like someone is watching me, right now when I´m writing this I think I heard footsteps, even though I know I´m totally alone in here, everyone is sleeping and-

The letter ended abruptly, with a line of ink smeared out over the last sentence. Just like Hedwig had turned around with the quill still placed on the parchment. Ella started at the empty space and while she did so words appeared.

If you want to see your sister alive again, you better keep playing the game!

“What´s wrong? Ella talk to me!” Marcus said in a worried tone as he noticed she´s gone all stiff and cold.
“Hedwig...” was all she managed to hiss then several things happened very quickly. The door opened and revealed, Maya, Corey, Hasky, Roxanne and Adrian, at the same time the letter in Ella´s hand squirmed and Marcus´s shirt magically got torn open so the runes where exposed.
“What´s this?” He screamed, but before Ella could answer a burning pain shot through her fingers and when she looked down she saw that they’d melted into the parchment and was now one of the whole. Before anyone could do anything more the letter started burning and so did the runes on Marcus’s torso. With a bang, black smoke appeared and Ella fell to the floor.

"Glacius!" called Adrian. From the fire there was only a steam now.
"You froze him?" wondered the other Gryffindor.
"Yes." Then he whispered to her ear. "The rest is up to you." He turned to the Hufflepuff friends. "Come on girls, we have to inform McGonagall, Robins and probably Sprout as well. Hasky takes care of Pomfrey."
The door closed and Hasky rushed to the bed while the med-witch left her office. "Silver, what happened here?"
"The runes on Marcus body started burning. Adrian froze them and hurried for staff."
The nurse examinated the boy. "Hmm, this is bad. What about Miss Wilson here."
"I'm not very sure. I saw her falling on the floor."
"Her hands are burnt. Wake her up while I go for a cold gel."
The girl knelt to her friend and noticed a piece of parchment on the floor under Marcus's bed. She looked around, noone was watching her, so she took the letter and placed it into her pocket.
"Enervate," she whispered, waking up the other student. "Ella? Are you alright?"
"Huh?" she looked around confused. After a while she woke up completely. "My hands! Marcus?! Hedwig?!"
"Here Miss Wilson," the elder lady handed over a blue sack.
Ella pressed her palms to it, letting out a breath of relief. "Can't you do something?" she asked her friend who sadly shook her head.
"I don't know what to do with that."
"What?"
"Uhh, ermm, when you're cut I know I have to increase the number and fast delivery of thrombocytes to the hurt place and make the skin regenerate. Just like when a bone is broken I have to increase osteocytes. I must start the process, speed up transformation blah blah blah. But with your burnt hands I don't know where to start."
"Oh. Maybe you should study for a healer?"
"I feel more like an Auror. But it's true that when I was a little girl I wanted to be a vet."
They laughed quietly, then the Hufflepuff looked at her boyfriend. "What about him?"
"Well, Adrian froze him, so temporarily he's save now. We are waiting for Headmistress and Robins."
"I thought Madam Pomfrey said that those fragments would expire themselves."
"Yea, she said that. I'll ask when-"
The door opened again and three teachers arrived.
"This is not good, Minerva," sighed the med-witch, still checking the boy. "The spell must be darker then we thought."
"But you said the leftovers should dissapear. What's wrong?" asked the wolf-girl.
"That's why we are here, to find out," answered the defence teacher. "Sometimes it happenes that when the spell is strong enough, the fragments can join together. The new spell is much weaker, but obviously can do a lot of damage. Personaly I haven't seen this case before."

Several long minutes later, the staff finally spoke up.
"We need to get out evey bit of black magic," proclaimed McGonagall. "Are you ready?"
"Is there something I can do?" asked Hasky. Especially when she saw the desperate face of her friend. She felt like she failed her the last time. She should have healed Marcus completely. Something like this would not have happened. Friendship is one strange bond, she said to herself. Ella was her dear friend. She didn't mind Marcus that much, but she knew Ella loved him. So whatever happened with Marcus influenced Ella, and whatever happened with Ella influenced Hasky. Darn, I will get a headache!
"Do you know how to grow new skin?"
"Yes, I healed injuries before."
"And let's say about 50 square inches?"
"Oh..." she thought for a while. "Yeah... yes, I know the basics so... I should be able to do that."
"What?!" yelled the Hufflepuff student. "What are you gonna do to him?!"
"Miss Wilson, this time I really must ask you to wait outside," said the nurse.
"But-"
"Miss Wilson, please." When the headmistress asked, it was hard to oppose.
The head of Hufflepuff took her student and left the infirmary with her.

Once they were alone the principal spoke again.
"Very well then. Poppy, please fetch for potions to fully put Mr. Rodriguez asleep and to help him heal. Then you are removing the skin."
"Re- removing the skin?!" wondered the girl.
"Yes. I am afraid it is the only way. We will be able to see how deeply the spell touched him, so me and Rebecca can find and extract the dark magic. At the end Miss Silver and Poppy will grow the new skin. "
"Sounds fascinating and terrifying," commented the student quietly, still amazed.
And so they made sure Marcus was in deep sleep. Madam Pomfrey started cuting. Since the body was frozen, no blood flowed. But when the removing process was in order, Hasky's limbs began shaking and head spinning. One thing was to be in wolf form and hunt animals, the other to stand here as human looking at a section of human.
"Eat this," the defence teacher offered some candy.
"I'm afraid I would vomit."
"You're defibrillating. Eat or you will faint."
So the student put it in her mounth. It tasted like caramel. At least it was sweet enough. A few seconds later her breath calmed down and she was able to stand on her own.

If Marcus had a nice body without a shirt, it was nothing what he had now without the natural tan cover. She shook her head to send away those teenage thoughts and concentrate on the work.
"It seems like Silver here healed them nicely," said the nurse. "See these?" she pointed to small black spots. "These are the fragments. But they are only superficial." Then she took the removed skin. "Seems like most of the left spell was is the skin."
When McGonagall and Robins got into their part of clearing process, a squeel could be heard with every exctraction. At that moment Hasky was really glad her friend was outside. Her own skin was goosy with standing hair.
"Hopefully we have it all, Madam," said the defence teacher.
"Poppy?"
"My spells say it's clear. Silver?"
"Yes?"
"Use your magic. Touch the muscles. Last time it sparkled when the dark spell was there," explained professor Robins.
"The- the- the- the muscles? Just like that? Oh sweet Merlin." She took a deep breath and slowly pushed her hands to the exposed torso. "No sparkles."
"Good. We can start with the healing," said Madam Pomfrey.

Two hours later and one detention with Flitwick, Hasky tiredly fell on her bed.
"You look really drained out," commented Lesley. "Don't tell me you were flying."
"Let's say that when you help a Ravenclaw prefect leave the school, the shrimp isn't very happy."
"What did he make you to do?"
"Clean his classroom. Twice. Using only Charms spells."
"Ouch. Hey, do you think we will have practice tomorrow."
"We have to if we want to win the match. But probably it will be just us lions."
"You know, I was thinking that if we improve our left-center combo and ease on left-right we could-"
"Lesley... sorry to interrupt, but not now. I need to take a refreshing shower and finish- actually start writing the Potion essay."
"Oh wait." The blond searched through her books and notes. "Here it is," she rejoiced and tossed the pile of six pieces of parchments to her teammate.
Hasky frozed lying, staring agaped. "You know we should have just two of foot-long parchments, right?"
"Yeah, but Confusing Concoction is really interesting."
"Alright, I really thank you for this. I write the essay and that's the end for me. Making potions is fun, writing about them, not so much."
The other girl chuckled. "Oh yeah, fun. Especially when it's me who has to cut the snake skin or snake tales, add snakes eyes or tongues."
Hasky threw a pillow at her friend. "I'm gonna pretend I haven't heard that."
The pillow flew back and the fight began.

Someone entered the room.
"Really girls," said their third roommate. "From time to time Hasky decides to sleep with us and you just have to fight." Jean was a really sweet girl, always willing to help. Somone could concider her for know-it-all, but she only loved studying. Her bright brain helped Hasky several times with Herbology, when all books seemed similar and unimportant. On the bad side, she could be too literal sometimes.
"It's fun before funeral," defended herself the wolf girl. "I mean Potion essay."
"Once I am the prefect, you will have a hard time."
"No we won't," opposed Lesley. "'Cos you love us."
"Fine. Hasky, go do the essay. Lesley, I believe you need to study Runes."
At the last word the certain chaser's good mood was over.

The girl had no idea how she managed to write those two feets of text, because her mind was somewhere else. Suddenly she remembered the letter she took from the floor in hospital wing.
She knew she shouldn't have done that, but curiosity was stronger... and hopefully there would be something which could help to solve the crime towards the Hufflepuffs.
Maybe there was, but written in Swedish.
"Oh dear," sighed the Gryffindor. Then she noticed two types of handwritting. Let's skipt the mystery of foreign language. Maybe there are some words I can remember.
So she run her eyes along the lines.
300-30? Maybe Quiditch.... Hogwarts... Hufflepuff...
... mamma, pappa... Erm, that's mum and dad.... Tasha, Elliot, Hugo, Rebecca, Noah... she wasn't very sure about Rebecca, but the rest was Ella's siblings... Where's Hedwig?
... kvast... 20 meters... Erm, broom and about 65,5 feet. Quidditch again?
That was all she could read from the neat handwriting. From the other one she recognized only the word "syster".
Suddely everything clicked together faster then a lightning bolt. It was letter from Hedwig, Ella's younger sister, and someone had kidnapped her.

Immediatelly Hasky ran out of Gryffindor tower looking for her friend. She knelt to her wolf. "Find Ella."
The animal started sniffing and led the way. Out from the castle to the Black Lake. There she sat.
"Ella!"
Her friend slowly turned around, her face drenched in tears and her hands wrapped up in neat bandages.
"Yes?" The Hufflepuff tried to sweep away the wetness in her eyes.
Hasky pulled out the letter. "Let's skip the moral part and tell me what it is. Till now I thought Marcus was from a royal family and some ex-girlfriend wanted him back. But! If I assume right this letter is from Hedwig and something happened to her."

“She´s been kidnapped... or at least that´s what I think...” She fell silent and Hasky sat down beside her, Greya curling up between the girls.
“How did it happen? When did it happen?”
“I don´t know... all I know is what´s in the letter! I have been trying to get the hold of Mum or Dad by they´re not answering! What if something has happened to them too?!” Ella`s voice broke and she turned her face away from the other girl.
“It´s my part to be paranoid, we`ll figure it out! But first you need to tell me exactly what´s in that letter!”

“... and then Hedwig´s writing just stopped and I stared at the letter... somehow knowing it had to be something more, then the last part appeared, written by someone else than Hedwig!”
“But that´s written in Swedish too right?! That means the kidnapper... whoever that is, must be Swedish!”
“Yay, only 9million suspects, we`ll nail that in a few days...” The words were dripping of sarcasm.
“Well we know neither you, nor your family did it.... that leaves 8`999`992!” The two girls laughed, it felt nice to smile in all the despair that was pressing down on them. “So what did it say?”
“Did what say?” Ella asked absentmindedly.
“The writing that appeared of course! What did it say?”
“Oh, right... If you want to see your sister alive again, you better keep playing the game!” The friends fell silent, Hasky thought about how they could detect the kidnapper, Ella on the other hand was already one step ahead and suddenly flew up on her feet.
“What is it?” The Gryffindor asked, slightly shocked over the abrupt motion.
“I get it... I understand what we need to do to get Hedwig back!“ Then she swirled around and ran, the Gryffindor remained still, not quite recovered from the jolt. Greya gave her an impatient nudge in the side.
“Sorry...” The werewolf stood up and sprinted after Ella with her wolf close behind, it wasn´t until they´d reached Hagrid´s hut that she realized where they were heading... the quidditch field.

“Ella.... wait up... what are you doing?” Hasky breathlessly asked when she finally caught up with her friend just as she was taking out her broom from the Hufflepuff storage.
“Quidditch is the game... I need to keep play quidditch to get Hedwig back!” If Hasky was panting, Ella breathed so hard you could easily get under the impression that she was trying to suck in the whole atmosphere.
“You must be kidding... seriously?!”
“What else could be? I love quidditch... all the accidents has been happening around or while playing quidditch and that´s where I...”
“WHAT?” The girl started to get angry at her friends carelessness.
“That´s where accidently reviled my secret for the first time...”
“It sorta makes sense... but how on earth is that gonna help you find out where Hedwig is? Shouldn´t we be focusing on who kidnapped her?” The Hufflepuff gave her an intense glance.
“Marcus nearly died, my broom exploded and so did Hedwig´s and now her best friend is in hospital for who knows how long?!”
“But that´s what I mean... how can you know whoever did this doesn´t just want you to get up in the air to finish the job once and for all?!”
“Mikaela is Hedwig´s best friend, she had nothing to do with this! Neither did Marcus, yet he is in the hospital with his torso cut open! If you don´t have another plan... I´m ready to take the risk!” Looking slightly terrifying she determinedly climbed onto her broom.
“Ella please! Just think this through...”
“I know I usually rush my acts through, but this is Hedwig we´re talking about, I don´t care if I die as long as she doesn´t get hurt!” With that the Hufflepuff took off and with a low howl Hasky summoned her Firebolt.
“Go and fetch Adrian... make him bring as many as possible...” She told Greya and the wolf ran off. “I just hope they get here in time!”

Hasky cautiously looked and sniffed around. No petrol, no suspicious people around. She got up into the air and carefully made a circle around the pitch. It looked safe. Giving Ella a glance filled with both frustration and excitement she caught up with her friend. Seeing there seemed to be no danger they might just as well use the time of recklessness to improve their speed. The Gryffindor had gone better, much better than before.

"GET DOWN!" a male shouted. "BOTH OF YOU! NOW!!!" It was Roger with the bunch of other quidditch players. Hasky began the descending but Ella hesitated.
“IF YOU MAKE ME ASK ONE MORE TIME I'LL KICK YOU OUT OF THE TEAM!” Suddenly the Hufflepuff was several meters further down than the Gryffindor, who chuckled at her friend and quickly followed. As the two girls landed on the ground and the captain continued. "What the bloody hell are you thinking?! Someone tries to eliminate our teams and you are so careless! You could get hurt! Who are your guards tonight anyway?!" he looked at the group.
"Ella was supposed to wait for me in the library," said Maya.
"And Hasky should be in common room doing Potion essay," responded Lesley.
"Splendid," sighed the Hufflepuff beater still angry. "And yet now here they are, FLYING!"
"Hey! I sent Greya to find you," the wolf-girl defended them.
"You're lucky you did. Even though she scared the hell out of me."
"Well," the other guilty girl spoke up. "Now that you're all here... what about we have some fun?” Hasky noticed her friends restless trampling and constant moving eyes, a sign that usually meant Ella was either anxious, jumpy or angry... maybe all three.
"Only as long as noone gets hurt," commented Adrian. He had a strange mix of fear, anger and relief on his face. "Why did you ran out anyway?"
At that moment the lion's chaser did not know how much to reveal, so she tried it lightly. "Ella got a message from the attacker, that she had to play the game or he would hurt her family. So she thinks the game means quidditch. Honestly I don't think so, but we have to try everything."
The guys looked at each other discussing if they should or should not have a late night game.
"Erm, Hasky?" called Adrian his teammate. "Erm... here." He offered a Snickers bar. "Les said you had a rough day, so when I saw Greya I thought you had your magical problem, so..."
"Oh, that's really sweet. Thank you, but I'm fine." She was surprised by this action and carefullness.
"Oh," he looked... disappointed? "Maybe for later? Just in case."
She had to smile. "Alright, thank you." With that she gratefully took the candy.

"Alright, listen everybody," Colin called for attention. "Since we are all so crazy about Quidditch and we still have circa an hour of daylight we will have a late practice..." A loud cheer echoed in the statium. "BUT for the safety noone will fly higher than the hoops, NOT even for the snitch!" he gave a warning look to the seekers. "We're teaming up according to our houses, except Hasky will switch with Maya. This way it will be two best chaser versus three very good ones. Let's go, hurry up!"

The dusk was comming and noone dared to break the rules Colin set. It was tempting to fly high, but the latest events strengthened self-preservation to each player... even Hasky and Ella managed to stay in the scruff despite their urge to try out the new manoeuvre they had discussed a few days earlier. Nevertheless they controlled the quaffle fairly good and after an hour they had made few goals each. The sun set behind the horrizont, stars started appearing and night creatures climed out of their dens.
The captains called it a night and the teams gathered on the ground.
"Nice work, and we are all alright," smiled Colin.
"Yeah, nice peaceful practice," joined Roger. "Glad to see to have a normal game again."
"And romantic," smiled Corey dreamily looking at her boyfriend. "Watching the sun set..."
"... letting a bludger knock you down..." added Kevin with a grin.
"Well, I was only five feet above the ground, so I enjoyed the nice view."
"Which cost you the snitch," smiled David happily.
"Yeah, we are lucky we haven't been keeping scores," Roxanne said and gave Corey a light push in the side.
Deep down they all knew part of the watching-sun-set was to support Spencer, who was really improving himself, and let him catch the golden ball. They all needed some cheering after the horrible thing which had happened to Marcus.

“Are you sure you´re alright? You look kinda pale.”
“I´m fine.”
“Maybe you have a fever?”
“I said I´m fine Roxanne!”
“Alright... sorry.”
“Where are you going?” Maya asked as Ella stood up.
“Away.”
“If I see you in the air...” Roger began.
“... you won´t!” Without looking back she walked out of the changing room, heading for the Black Lake. Why does everyone have such a hard time understanding why I need to keep playing? Is it so hard to get I care more about my little sister than my own life? How can I possibly figure out a way to save Hedwig if everyone refuses to help me?! Scared and alone she sat down at the shore, leaning against a big oak. Absentmindedly she tried calling her parents using the WizTecCell, but she only got to the voicemail and her message seemed way more important than a recorded voice. For the first time she could remember Ella didn´t have a plan, there wasn´t the slightest little light in the end of the tunnel, everything felt hopeless, she couldn´t even cry! What was wrong with her? For minutes, hours she sat there, she didn´t knew how long. Just sat and watched the dark water, without feelings, without ideas, without inspiration, or the tiniest spark of life... Why couldn´t she just drop down dead, right here, right now, there was no hope anyway!

Suddenly, she didn´t know how or when she got there, Ella found herself in Marcus’s bed. His breathing was deep and steady, his heartbeat calm and slow. His torso was wrapped up in thick bandages and she was very careful not to touch it. Nevertheless his body heat spread an empty serenity over her and with the feeling that the world had disappeared and all that was left was the bed in which they lay, she drifted off into a restless sleep.

“Have you seen Ella today?” Corey asked as she sat down at the Hufflepuff table two days later.
“She´s in the hospital wing...” Maya muttered and filled her bowl with milk and cereals, but didn´t touch any of it.
“I´m worried for her, I´ve never seen her this down before! She´s always so bubbly and happy...” Corey seemed lost in though and Roxanne looked like she was in pain.
“Maybe we should talk to Hasky about it? I´ve always had the feeling those two connected on a different level than the rest of us.”
“Maybe?! But I haven´t seen Hasky since the day before yesterday... What I understood from Colin she and Adrian is up to something.” Maya stirred her milk so the cereals got all slimy.
“You think it has something to do about what she said about that letter?”
“I have no idea... but if we don´t figure something out soon, Ella is gonna be beyond repair!” The three girls fell silent and concentrated on their breakfast, but neither one of them looked especially hungry.
“Good morning ladies! Any news on Marcus?” Jacob entered with his usual smile and gave Corey a soft kiss on the forehead as he sat down beside her.
“Still no change, Madame Pomfrey said it could take weeks before he wakes up from the coma!” Roxanne answered without looking up from her egg.
“And Ella?” They just shook their heads and Jake fell as silent as the rest of them.

In the hospital wing Ella was sitting in a chair next to her boyfriend´s bed, she held his hand in a tight grip and hadn´t taken her eyes of his face since she´d come in. The built-in sun that used to shine next to her heart and light up her life even in the darkest hours seemed to have exploded and left a dark hole too big to fill. Thinking about Mikaela felt like choking, remembering Hedwig like drowning and looking at Marcus felt like burning from the inside, yet she couldn´t stop see their faces flash in front of her eyes and every waking hour she sat by her boyfriend’s bed. Somehow knowing that when he woke up, everything would be okay! But it never seemed to happen... and for every hour that passed, every day that went by, the little tint of hope that still existed inside her went weaker and weaker, soon it would be completely gone and yet there was nothing she could do to prevent it from happening!

On the way to hospital wing, two students were in a heated discussion.
"This is crazy," she sighed.
"Think of it as... canistherapy."
"Oh, yeah. Thanks," The girl rolled her eyes. "How can you be so sure this will work on Marcus?"
"We did our research and it's worth trying. We woke Greya without any problem," assured her the boy.
"She was stupefied, not almost dead. I sometimes do wonder how much this wolfie must love me. Anyway I'm more afraid of your incantation."
"Well, it's not a killing spell, so we can't make him more unconscious."
"Adrian!" she cried scandalously. "You're lucky Ella can't hear you. She would kick your butt."
"She would do at least something. It's not like her... missing classes, bored during quidditch practice, no smile."
"Tell me about it. I really don't understand her. Wasting so much time for a boy."
"Huh?"
"Oh, c'mon, how long do you think their relationship will last? And when they break up -"
"IF they break up," he interrupted.
"- she will be sorry for how stupidly she behaved and what all she had missed."
"I don't know, but I would do the same."
"Erm, what?!"
"If I was so deeply in love, I wouldn't mind skipping a few classes for a person I care about. Like be there when she needs me."
"Oh and how can Marcus need her, huh?" the girl was getting angry. "You know, I think that if Ella radiated at least a bit of positive energy, he would be far awaken now."
"You don't know that."
"I believe that. That's why I'm willing to do this hocus pocus that might cause me a real pain."
In her rage she opened the door loudly.

At the pitiful sight of her friend, the Gryffindor shook her head. "This is a waste of time."
"What do you mean?" asked the other girl whipping her tears away.
"You don't do anything useful. We at least did some research. So if you could leave please, and let us work." The wolf-girl prepared a stool as close to the bed as possible. Then she plopped it a few times to commad her wolf. It jumped on it and with front legs it leant on the bunk, lying down gently touching the boy's arm. Hasky put the hand atop of her familiar.
"I want to help," sobbed the Hufflepuff.
"With what? Add more gloominess into this room?"
"Hasky," said Adrian in a warning voice.
"You know I'm right, Ella. I wouldn't say a word if you were here at least talking about interesting classes and what a fun quidditch practice was. Make him jealous of us. Make him want to wake up. Make him wake up actually. Also you could do some more research about useful spells that could help us fight that bastard. Or write him and find out a little about what he wants, what his intetions are or when you can get Hedwig back. But you did nothing except crying."
The other girl did not say a word, just shot a look to her friend. She was hurt.
"That's harsh," noted the Gryffindor guy.
"That's right." Hasky looked back at the other student. "No leave, please."
Ella shook her head. "What are you gonna to do to him?"
"Oh, Adrian found a nice book, just between Resurrection and Making Zombies."
"Marcus is not dead!"
"Hasky, stop it," said the fourth grader calmly. "This spell is ment for living creatures. It won't harm him."
"But I will."
"Shut it and get ready. Dont't forget nice happy thoughts."
"Wait... me?"
"Well, yes, you're in physical contact with him."
"But 'nice happy thoughts'? That's creepy. Shouldn't it be Ella's job?"
"She's in no condition right now. Just... don't go too descriptive."
"Eww." The wolf-girl leant down to the ear of unconscious boy. "You better wake up or I will help you to the grave." With that she slammed her hand on his chest with all her force. Yes, it hurt like hell, but suddenly Hasky felt the connection.
Somewhere far away she heard a female yell that was shut down by a thud, and Adrian began enchanting. "Light of life, come to us; Light of thought, fill your mind..."
Oh, thoughts... It was not easy to imagine what would make Marcus happy, nevertheless she used her common sense. ... A boy entering the Great Hall for the first time... passing exams... making friends... quidditch... Ella... How far do I have to go here?… chatting... having fun... Oh bloody hell.… kissing... graduating... getting some job... getting married... having kids... having grandkids... Aaand stop!
"... And now answer me from your heart; Do you want to live your life?" the other Gryffindor finished the enchanting.
The first partner in crime was panting heavily, but did not dare to make a loud sound. The other stood still holding his breath and the Hufflepuff student waited impatiently.
"... eh," a cracked voice could be heard. "... yeah," it got a little stronger. "Yes... I... want."
They did it! On three faces appeared the biggest smiles ever. The hand on Greya's head very slowly started stroking the wolf fur. Eyes fluttered several times until eyelids revealed the chocolate orbs.
"Morning," greeted Marcus tiredly.
"YES!" shouted the Gryffindors making a high-five. At the same moment Adrian caught his teammate saving her from falling on the marble floor.
"Don't jump when you're weak," he commented smiling.
"But happy."
"Marcus," whispered Ella. It seemed like her brain worked super slow or she couldn't believe her eyes and ears. Then she smiled and rushed to hug him.
"Hello darling. Missed me?"
"What's happening here?" asked the nurse leaving her office. "Silver, are you alright?"
"Hihi, splendid."
"Are you drugged?"
"Hihi." Sometimes the happiness is all you need to float to seventh heaven.
When Madam Pomfrey saw the cause of light mood she covered her mouth in surprise. "Dear Merlin!"

The door to infirmary opened again, this time for Headmistress and defence teacher.
"We felt a powerful energy and sensing spell led us here," explained professor Robins.
"Mr. Rodriguez, what a pleasant surprise," said McGonagall happily.
"Kids, what happened here?" wondered the med-witch, checking Marcus's body. "The boy looks healthy."
"Hasky and Adrian performed some... thing. What did you do anyway?" asked Ella.
"Hihi. If you knew the thruth you would punish us."
"Tell us what happened otherwise I will punish you for sure," said the principal.
"Well," spoke up the boy. "During my Potion lesson Audry Finch almost fainted and professor Slughorn gave her something similar to coffee and then it hit me. The best way to prevent fainting is to increase the blood pressure."
"As I told Ella once, blood is the life. So with Adrian's assistence I Iearnt how to speed the blood rush."
"So that's why you came here with bleeding nose!" called the nurse.
"Erm, yes. I oversped the blood," admited the girl blushing. "But you wanted to know the thuth."
"Then continue," commanded the former transfiguration teacher.
"And because I needed to cool down for few days we used the time looking into books and we found a spell that can wake up unconscious," Adrian kept explaining.
"In the Restricted Section, I assume."
"It‘s a save spell, only works for living... and we tried that on Greya first."
The wolf murmured in agreement, but did not move, letting Marcus play with its hair.
"Shall we award them or punish them?" asked Robins.
"That will be fifty points to Gryffindor and a week of detention with me," said the head of Hogwarts.
"Be right there, Headmistress." The wolf-girl made two steps but her knees gave up. "Oops."
Again Adrian caught her in time. "Maybe not so right, right?"
"Well, I have double detention in the highest office. I have to move on."
Nothing could sweep off the big grins on youngsters‘ faces. Their friend was alive, awake and alright.

"Is it me or she seemed too cheerful for getting a detention?" asked the Hufflepuff guy.
"I think it’s becoming a second hobby to her," answered his girlfriend, giving him a soft kiss.
"Ehm," the defence teacher cleared her throat. "Mr. Rodriguez, you need to answer a few questions. Let us know when you are ready."
"Sure, thank you, professor."
"I'm not the one you should say thanks to," she smiled and left.
Ella gave a bright grin to her boyfriend. "You can't imagine how happy I am."
"I love you." This earned him another sweet kiss. "Let's get your sister back."

The transformation from half-dead, depressed mental case to the bright, sparkling gal she normally was, happened faster than it took for a bludger to kill a fly. It was hard to guess that it, just a few hours earlier, had looked like Ella was on her way to drop down dead any second, the pale grey face was now vivid and the eyes that had been puffy and red for days, now sparkled from the usual mischievous smile that had yet again appeared on her lips.
“So you think that the game means quidditch?” Marcus asked and at the same time stroked her hair lightly. She had just finished telling him what had happened when he´d been in the coma and now they where discussion what they possibly could do to get Hedwig back.
“Yeah. I mean, what else can it be?! It´s the only thing that makes sense!”
“Maybe... but it also feels kinda weird. What could happen during a match that would make you realize what to do or where to find her? Something isn´t right!” He sat up a little straighter, leaning on the pillows.
“What do you mean?! You have another idea?” Suddenly excited Ella`s gaze pierced Marcus, almost as if she was trying to scan him for information.
“Perhaps... but I don´t know if it´s even possible...” He fell silent and she waited impatiently for him to speak again, but instead of continuing where he left of he said: “I need to speak to professor McGonagall!”
“What? Now? But...”
“Yeah now! There´s something I need to tell her, and ask.”
“Alright then... I´ll go fetch her?!” Ella stood up and started walking towards the door, but just as she was about to place her hand on the handle it flung open.
“Hi there miss Wilson!” It was professor Robins and behind her the headmistress.
“Good day professor, headmistress. I was just about to go see you, Marcus wants to...”
“We know, that´s why we´re here!”
“You know, but, how?”
“Only another privilege of running a school of magic...” professor McGonagall smiled. “Maybe it´s better if you wait outside?” She gave the shocked student a nod and surprised Ella agreed.
“Alright, I´ll go talk to Hasky. Think I owe her an apology?!”
“GIVE HER A HUG FROM ME!” Marcus screamed from inside.
“Yeah right, the next time I want my head ripped off I´ll make sure to deliver your message!” More at ease than she´d been in a long time the Hufflepuff started walking towards the Gryffindor common room.

“I´ve already told you I ain´t got no password!”
“Then I´m afraid you can´t be allowed in.”
“What is this? Some kind of joke... Why use a password anyway? What if you forget it?!” Frustrated Ella gave the fat lady a stern glance.
“Have you lost the password?”
“No of course not! I´ve never had it. I´m a Hufflepuff!” She pointed at the yellow details on her uniform and the portrait shrugged as if to say: Then why are you wasting my time?!
“Need a paw?” The locked out girl swirled around, just to find herself face to face with the person she believed was on the other side of the complacent painting.
“Hasky?!”
“That´s my name, don´t wear it out.”
“Hasky... I´m... I´m sorry!” Ella tried to smile but the stern look on her friend's face took away pretty much all reasons to grin at.
“Sorry for what?!”
“For being such a... such a negative, tear producing, pessimistic, depressed, awfully unhelpful pathetic excuse of a friend!”
“Well, that pretty much erased all my alternatives.” With an agitated laugh Ella couldn´t help herself but spread her arms and hugged the close-encounter-phobic Gryffindor in front of her.
“Thanks so much for saving Marcus! I don´t know what I would do without you!”
“Don´t mention it!” They left the embrace, Hasky looking slightly tense. “I´m sorry too!”
“Why in Merlin´s beard? You´ve done nothing wrong! Have you?!”
“I shouldn’t have been so harsh on you in the hospital.”
“Oh never mind, I needed a go at...”
“No... It's just... was scared, alright?!” The girl got irritated, she had never liked long apologies. Make it short and clear, that her style.
“Scared for what?” Ella felt that this was something the werewolf hadn´t told anyone before and it certainly was with a whole lot of trouble and hesitation that the words left her mouth.
“Grr... scared of loosing you! You are always the one who keeps everything together, always has a plan, never pout just happy and positive all the time and when your... when your spark left I didn´t know how to handle things. I`ve always been the moody, short-tempered one with the bad attitude, like right now, and when I realized I had to be the optimistic fellow with the bright ideas... I couldn’t deal with it... so I snapped... I´m sorry!” The Hufflepuff was completely lost for words and what can you possibly answer to such a story.
“Thanks!” Were all she could press out and then the two girls fell into each other arms again.
“Come on, we need to get down to the pitch!”

“Alright guys, this is the last training before the match so we all need to give 110%!” Colin sounded serious and all players listened carefully.
“We are going to try and act and play with Ravenclaw´s style and technique so that the Gryffindor´s can get a real feeling for how the match will be!” Roger gave his team a nod and they all smiled, this would be fun!
“As Marcus still lies in the Hospital wing and moreover is chatting to the headmistress...” The others exchanged pretended worried looks. “... we will try and imagine him on the field! Therefore I want you...” Colin pointed at his three female chasers. “... to play as we´ve decided, cover, shield and prevent Marcus from taking part in the game!” Lesley gave Hasky a questioning glance and Ashley didn´t seem to persuaded either, but it was time to move and they’d had to figure out what that meant while up in the air.
“Three... two... BEEP!” The game was on, Ella grabbed the quaffle a half fraction of a second before Hasky, but Lesley helped out and soon the ball was in Gryffindor hands. Just as Maya managed to jump-kick the quaffle out of Ashley´s grip and pass it to Ella something happened... One second she saw the big, red leather orb come flying towards her, the next something completely different covered her view...

The Gryffindor chaser watched a large piece of parchment covered her friend's face. David as the closest player caught Ella, hepling her retain the balace back. When he took away the note, her face was all blue. The others had a lot to do not to burst laughing. Not knowing anything, the Hufflepuff took the parchment and obviously got irritated.
"LOOK!" she shouted, showing the message to the teams.

YOU WON'T MAKE IT

"What is it? No, Hedwig, NO!"
The smile disappeared from everyone's faces except one Gryffindor. She sniffed a strong sweet parfume and heard a giggling. Fast she rushed to Ella, took the parchment and flied over the podium, as the sound got stronger. And there under the fourth row she saw someone sneaking out. Elegantly she landed about five feet in front of two student, who were wearing black-blue robes.
"Something you want to tell us?" she asked, faking a friendly smile.
"No," answered the boy, about 15 years old. "We were just... hanging out." He looked towards his partner.
"Yeah, just having fun," confirmed the red-head girl.
"Hm, so killing a student is fun?" Hasky continued, her mates gathering around them.
"We did nothing," protested the red too quickly.
The chaser showed the feathered ink on the parchment. "This is fresh ink, as you can see here and on Ella's face. It's uncommon blue ink. And noone else is around. Do you really want us to search for evidence in your bag?"
The Ravenclaws turned around to run to the opposite direction, but there sat Greya. Their eyes were ticking between the players and wolf.
"Bark," the command was told and the familiar started making noise. Then Hasky moved and let the culprits run away with the wolf chasing their heels.
The players were laughing hard. Even though Greya stopped when they reached the entrace to quidditch pitch, the two Ravenclaws were dashing like mad.
"I haven't heard a wolf bark before," noted Ella.
"No, it's not in their nature. I taught her that."
Then the teammates looked at the blue faced girl, they all began laughing again.

It was weekend... and Quidditch match. Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw.
In the changing room, the captain spoke to his teammates. "Nevous? Yeah me too. So, what I saw during their practice... they don't cooperate with their new members, that means the left wing should remain opened. Also their keeper is weak, they know it, so they may cause troubles in front of their hoops."
"And their seeker is quite a chick," commented Spancer.
"Dave, if you lose the snitch because you'll be cheking out a girl, I swear I'll turn you gay."
The said boy swallowed hard. "I'll be good."

They entered the stadium and made a welcoming circle. Hasky noticed a big trasparent over Hufflepuff's first two rows saying: Go LIONS GO! Also she noticed Marcus sitting next to his girlfriend. This must be the first day they let him out of infirmary. A lot of red flags could be seen between Hufflepuffs as well as Slytherins. There Alexander was jumping in the middle, waving a gold lion in one hand and a red wolf in the other.
Madam Hooch whistled and all players formed a circle. And then the game began...
Red capes let the quaffle go. The girls needed a space, so they got back to Adrian. He caught the leather ball and passed it to Ashley. Here the chasers started their new combo.
From left to right... spin... center... back right... bat position and right... turn... backwards to middle... fast speed and passing to left... jumping spin and middle... left... middle with punching... left spin... middle kick to left... eagle to middle... confusing to right and GOAL! The whole action could take 20 seconds.
"Where's the quaffle?" asked Brian Grason, the commentator. "I heard the bell of goal, but who saw the quaffle?"
"Right through the left hoop, dude!" Marcus yelled with a broad smile.
"You saw that?" wondered Ella. "You weren't there when we trained this move."
"But I'm still a brilliant chaser," teased the boy.
"That you are," agreed the Gryffindor chaser floating above them.
Another goal happened.
"Shouldn't you help them?" said the Hufflepuff girl.
And next sound of bell was heard.
"Obviously they can make it without me." They smiled sincerly. "Alright, let's exam the rivals a bit more."
In that moment the red ball flied to her. She caught it while a blue chaser missed her by a few inches. He was somehow familiar, but smelled like human.
"Hey, say, aren't you Duncan's cousin?"
The boy growled and aimed for her. In his fast speed he ended too high.
"Hasky, left!" shouted Ashley.
From that way another Ravenclaw chaser hurried to her. Then she noticed... "And from the right as well." So she passed the quaffle to Lesley who had noone else than the keeper in her way. Meantime the red center chaser dropped a few feet down, so the rivals had a lot to do to avoid a collision.
"And Gryffindor scores!" called Brian again. "40:0 for Gryffindor!"

The match went on. Ravenclaw did not get a chance to score since they were always blocked not further than in the middle. Only when girls needed space for some of their combos they let the main ball get almost to their hoops. There Hasky passed to Lesley but stayed back.
"Looking bored here," she smiled at Adrian.
"Well, I'm starting to freeze here. No action to warm me up."
The girl gave him a sly smile. "FREE WAY!" she called to her chasers. "If you let them score I'll knock you down of the broom," she said warningly.
The keeper smiled and got ready. "That will be a right shoot."
"What? How can you tell?"
"Well, as a keeper I have to watch other players more than anything else, so I can read their moves."
"Adrian, she's aiming for middle," commented the worried chaser.
"It's right."
And really after few more throwing between players they shot to right.
"Impressed?" teased the boy.
"Very."
"Hasky," said Ashley. "Your turn. I'm really exhausted, I feel so old," she pretended to feel tired. The smile betrayed her seriousness.
Before anyone could notice, Hasky appeared in front of the other keeper, but she passed to Lesley who scored again. Once the quaffle left her hands, the wolf-girl gave Ella thumbs up. Speeding was VERY usefull.
Suddenly Kevin rushed to her and hit the bludger in the last second. "Don't harm my girls, you prat!" he shouted to one of Ravenclaw beaters. "Now we'll show you how to make bludgers useful!" The center chaser notice Colin on the other side, preparing to hit the other metal ball. Kevin's was returning back so the said beater struck it to the keeper, while Colin aimed for the beater who almost got Hasky.
Within five seconds the blue keeper's broom broke in half and one beater was knocked down.
"Thanks," sighed the saved player.
The boy grinned and flied to his captain. "So, mate who do we eliminate now?"
"Erm, not chasers or our ladies will get bored."
"Watching one beater saving two bludgers could be too much fun to destroy."
"And if we get rid of seeker, David will have too easy catch."
"IF he chatches it."
At the end the guys decided to hunt the beater, sometimes made it hard for the raven chasers.
Out of blue, the seekers competed who would reach the grass first. At least it seemed so.
"Girls, KEEP GOING!" yelled the captain.
It was difficult to tear their eyes from the match under them, but they had to continue, no matter what.
BANG echoed the stadium.
"The match ends, that’s for sure," announced the commentator. "But who caught the Golden Snitch? Will Ravenclaw save their honour by making some poits or will this match be even more dreadful for them?"
Silence. The seekers got on their knees panting heavily. Noone else moved.
"Wanna have a date with me?" asked David into the total quiet.
SLAP was the answer.
He started laughing. "YA-HOO!" jumping on his feet he waved his left hand where a tiny pair of wings could be seen.
"He did it?" wondered Kevin.
"He did it." It was Lesley this time.
"He really did it!" shouted Hasky.
With an extra loud cheering the scarlet team landed down in a great group hug.

The team spent all day together, enjoing the victory. Nevertheless the real celebration was set for the evening.
"C'mon Hasky, move on," Lesley hurried her doormate. "Even Jean is ready already."
"But I still have to go to Hagrid."
"What?! NO!" exclaimed the fellow chaser.
"I have a detention with him. It's polite to ask when he would need me."
"That's true," nodded Jean, "but I think that he will be happy for you to get out."
"It's Hagrid!"
"Look, girls," the wolf-girl did not let go of her duty. "I have to. My detentions are reported, I have to attand. Don't worry, I'll be right back." With that she ran outside.

On her way to Hagrid's, someone called her.
"Hey, Hasky, where are you heading?" It was Adrian.
"Just to Hagrid, ask about my detention."
"Erm, can't it wait for later?"
"No, why?"
"Well, it's high time for us to get to The Three Broomsticks."
"I'm only gonna ask when I should be back."
"But-"
The girl had already knocked and entered. "Hi, Hagrid. I'm here..." she looked around and saw a big ribbon, "to ask when I should be back for my detention." She frowned. "Do you have a date or something?" Hagrid was a lagre man, but the bright green tie still could be seen.
"Er... 'ello, Cub. Er, yeah," he laughed a bit forced. "Erm, I come ter Hogsmeade later."
"Alright, so I'll be at The Three Broomstics or WSC."
"I find ya ther'."
Outside Ella had joined the other Gryffindor student. When she saw her friend leaving the hut, she asked immediately. "What in all Merlin’s pants where you doing in there?!"
"People, what's wrong with you. I still have detentions."
"Oh, yeah sure," the Hufflepuff forced the smile as well.
"What is it?" wondered Hasky. "Why do you try to keep me away from Hagrid? Is it because of his date and you knew that?"
"No," answered the keeper too fast.
"Erm, really?" said Ella innocently. "Alright, alright, we did know."
"We did?" asked the boy.
"Yes, we did," said the girl emphasizing the agreement word. "Adrian, you can stop the act now." Then she turned to her friend. "Once we found Hagrid with someone and we promised not to tell anybody."
"Like I am some gossip girl," the Gryffindor rolled her eyes. "Let's go."

The whole Gryffindor quidditch team and Jean were waiting outside the pub.
"Alright, is this some new ritual where we all enter there at once?" asked the center chaser.
"Not sure," shrugged the captain. "Madam Rosmerta told us to wait outside."
"It's cold here, let's go in," suggested Kevin and they all entered... a dark room.
Suddently a yell of "surprise" eachoed the room. People had funny sparkling hats on their heads, whistling and sending confetti into the air. And under the ceiling three big signs said:

CONGRATULATION G. TEAM
DAVID ROCKS
HAPPY B-DAY HASKY

"Wait, how do you know?" asked the wolf-girl around but noone seemed to answer her question. She obtained several "congratulation" and "happy birthday", but not what she wanted to know.
When the mess calmed down a bit, the girl noticed some passerbys or maybe regular guests, the whole Hufflepuff and Gryffindor team, Hagrid and...
"Professor Robins?"
"As the head of house I can celebrate, can't I?" They chuckled. "Happy birthday."
"Thank you."
"So one butterbear on me?"
"Oh, you don't have to."
"I insist."
The student nodded then. They had an interesting chat about Dark Arts, Defence and the teacher was willing to share some of her experience from her days as Auror.

"'Ello, aga'n," greeted Hagrid jovially. He offered a box with that bright green ribbon Hasky had seen before. "Happy b'day."
"Oh, Hagrid, I -"
"I found it ter ot'er nite in forest and then Adrian came ter tell me 'bout this feast."
"Wow, thank you, but really -" It was very uncomfortable for her to accept any gifts from people she barely knew.
"Just open it."
The girl did as she was told. There in the box lied a fist large white rock. "Moon stone?"
"Yeah, I heard it's calmin' or healin' power over... yer kind."
"That's awesome, thank you very much."
"Now yer detention... ter spent this evenin' between youngs 'n' socialiaze."
A laugh was heard behind the big man. "Awesome idea, professor," prized Adrian. "Now please allow me to take her from you." He dragged her to the corner table where only Ella and Marcus sat.
"So," spoke up the birthday girl to her teammate. "Hagrid said it was you who told him about my day. How did you know of all people?"
"Erm, Ella told me?" he tried this excuse and Hasky only smiled.
"Nice try, now tell me the truth? I haven't told anyone, not even Ella. I've always avoided this topic."
He sighed deeply. "Alright, I overheard you, when you said that you would have one happy birthday when we discovered the match against Ravenclaw and your detention with Hagrid. So about a week ago I told our teams and they promised to help me prepare some celebration."
"That's very sweet, thank you guys."
"Why didn't you want to tell me anyway?" asked the other girl.
"Well, it's too soon since the start, we've just got to know each other and having birthday so soon is a big deal to announce. And as you know I'm not very outgoing person."
"For tonight you are," Adrian wrapped his arm around her shoulders.
"By the way, Hasky I owe you one," said Marcus. "Thank you."
"One... hmm... the first time when you were attacked or the second time when you started burning or the third time when we woke you from coma?"

Yes, it was a pleasant night, with loads of fun. And it seemed as if nothing could get better, one more person came. "Hello kids," a man grinned.
"Grandpa!!" exclaimed the wolf-girl.
"Happy birthday, Cub," he hugged his granddaughter warmly. "I was nearby, so I thought I'd say hello."
"Of course, sit with us, Mr. Silver," offered Ella.
"Thank you." When he was seated he gave Hasky her present. An elegant black belt with sheet for wand and a box of sweets from her grandmother. "And this came yesterday," he handed her an envelope. There was a doggy birthday postcard signed by her mother and best friend, promising a special celebration when she got home during summer. The girl's eyes wetted by tears. She missed them both very much.

Seventh hour was coming, so Roger called everyone to WSC for a big dance.
"I humbly ask for the first dance with our birthday girl," said Adrian politly.
"Only if it's slow-rock, otherwise I don't dance."
"Oh, that dance I really would not mind."
"Neither would I," said Marcus seductively to his girlfriend.
The girls looked at each other. "Men."

Oh, it was a great day and night that would be remembered for a long time. Nevertheless the quidditch match and after celebration were realy tiring. So once the students got showered and laid down on their beds, they slept like logs until late morning.

The next morning the Hufflepuff quidditch team didn´t join the merry old fun in the common room until it was almost time for lunch. They´d all celebrated like crazy yesterday and it was more than one who woke up with a nasty headache and soar feet.
“I don´t wanna see another butterbeer for at least a week!” Jake mumbled as he out his arm around Correy who´s eyes where bloodshot with dark shadows under.
“I just wanna go back to bed!” She said and gave away a giant yawn.
“It got pretty late, didn´t it? What time was it? 3...4?”
“I don´t know and I don´t care, jus leave me alone!” Maya stretched out in an armchair and Roxanne laughed at her, but the next second imitated her movements.
“Where is Roger? Isn´t he up yet?”
“He´s up alright, but I have a feeling he will spend most of the day in the bathroom...” The others got a certain interest and Jake continued. “...let´s just say Hagrid had one or two, glasses or bottles, too much last night and it ended in a fire-whisky contest... Roger lost!” He added and the others smiled.
“Poor thing, he can be so foolhardy sometimes!” Roxanne whispered and shot a glance at the door, which lead to the boy´s dormitories and bathroom. The other members of the team had started to notice a certain pull between the keeper and the beater and it wasn´t without teasing comments that Roxanne stood up and regurgitated something about food before disappearing out the corridor to the rest of the castle.
“How are you feeling?” Marcus asked Ella and squeezed her a little harder where they sat in the sofa.
“Ok.” She answered and gave him a weak smile, but the truth was another one. She was in fact fighting an inner battle, trying to decide whether she should, scream, cry, run or remain seated. She could not believe she had let herself have fun, laugh, dance and fool around when her little sister still were kidnap without a single clue to where or who had taken her, they didn´t know who had cursed her and Mikaela´s broom or attacked Marcus, or sent the message.
“Are you sure you´re fine... you look kinda sick?!” Correy asked and gave Ella´s pale face a worried gaze.
“Yeah, I just need some air.” Ella stood up and Marcus did an effort to follow her. “Alone!”
“But...”
“Not now, I need a minute alone!” She tried to look normal and her friends smiled at her as she turned around and walked, the same way as Roxanne, out of the common room.

“Miss Wilson?”
“WHAT?!!” She looked up from the floor which she was staring into, like she was somehow hoping the answer to her misery would be hidden there. “Oh, hi sir! I didn´t mean to sound so rude.” It was professor Flitwick and he shook his head and smiled at her.
“No harm in that Miss Wilson, it´s understandable when you´re going something like what you are right now!” Surprised and not sure whether or not she should thank him she decided to go with grateful.
“Thanks, I think?!”
“It´s ok, maybe it was the wrong thing to say?!” The aging wizard shook his head again, if to try and shake some sense into it. “Anyways, I´m here to deliver a message... Professor McGonagall wants to see you in her office.”
“What? Now?”
“That´s what it sounded like...” Ella flew up on her feet and when she was half way down the corridor the little teacher yelled. “I don´t think you need to be nervous, she sounded quite delighted!” With a little laugh Ella felt the stone lift from her chest and she set of in a run towards the headmistress office.

“Come in!” A harsh, yet comforting voice was heard from the inside of the door she´d just knocked on and with a deep breath Ella walked inside.
“You wanted to see me professor?!”
“That´s right Miss Wilson...” That was the first time Ella could remember she´d seen McGonagall smile, but it didn´t require more than a the fraction of a second before she realized why.
“HEWDIG!!!” With a yell and an indescribable happiness flushing through her veins Ella threw herself over her sister who was sitting in an armchair under the portrait of an old headmaster with a big nose and a long golden beard.
“Jag trodde aldrig jag skulle få se dig igen!” I thought I´d never see you again! They hugged, cried and laughed alternately for a very long time and it wasn´t until the Ella noticed how very pale and thin Hedwig looked that she let go of her.
“Vad hände? Vart var du? Vem gjorde det? Varför?” What happened? Where were you? Who did it? Why? The questions hailed out of her mouth as a waterfall but Hedwig just shook her head.
“I´ll tell you everything Miss Wilson, but first we need to get your sister to the hospital wing. I´m sure you`ll have time to talk more later!” Just as she´d said that the door to the office opened and in stepped madam Pomfrey and professor Robins.
“Alright then Hedwig, ready to go?”
“Jag älskar dig Ella!” I love you Ella! She gave her sister a warm smile and when the door was once again closed she turned to the headmistress.
“So how did you find her??”
“She has been captured inside the Room of Requirement!”
“Inside the what?”
“The Room of Requirement! I´m sure you´ve heard of it?!”
“Yeah sure, but I thought it was just a story, like the one about Harry Potter and the gillyweed?”
“That´s also true!”
“What? Are you serious... Cool!”
“Back to the point.”
“Of course, I´m sorry professor.”
“It seems the room has a magical identical twin at S.A.M I´ve been in contact with your former headmaster, and although he didn´t remember you, he was of course aware of Hedwig´s disappearances and after we´d had a discussion we came to the conclusion that a secret passage between the schools would be the only way for the intruding kidnapper to make his moves.”
“That makes sense, but....”
“But who is it, and why?”
“Exactly.”
“Your guess is as good as mine Miss Wilson. Although we´ve came across some interesting facts that might give us a lead?!”
“May I ask what?”
“Yes you may! Apparently a certain student, Johan Gustafson, disappeared just a few days before Hedwig´s kidnap, the same day as the attack on Marcus...”
“Johan?!” A picture of a tall, blonde boy with a white face, long sharp teeth and a grinning smile shot across Ella´s eyes.
“Miss Wilson?” Professor McGonagall asked worried as Ella sank down to the ground.
“It´s the vampire, the vampire who was here at the meeting, he who helped torture me at S.A.M... he managed to get revenge after all?!”
“That was what we feared...”
“What? You knew?”
“We had our hunches...”
“But why didn´t you tell me? We could have done something! We could have stopped him!” Suddenly angry she stood up and gave her headmistress a stern stare.
“Because it explains only half of the incidences. Johan was most likely the one who hexed yours and your sisters brooms, he was most definitely the one who kidnapped Hedwig and probably also the one who attacked Marcus... but it still doesn´t explain the runes on Marcus´s body, or why he wanted you to keep playing quidditch... what could he have wanted with writing, royal, on your boyfriends chest? It doesn´t make sense and therefore you have to stay low until we find Johan so we can question him!”
“But...”
“Don´t argue with me Miss Wilson! Your sister will stay here from now on, we`ll have her sorted as soon as she´s healed and you make sure to take care of yourself!”
“Yes professor!” It was no use to try and fight, McGonagall had made up her mind.
“You may leave now, go see your sister and then make sure to call your parents, they´re expecting a call from you both!” Ella walked to the door, but just as she placed her hand on the handle the headmistress spoke up again. “Oh, and Ella, your friend Hasky is waiting downstairs, I asked professor Robins to fill her in, I´m sure you have a lot to talk about!” The student turned her head just to get a glimpse of the second smile ever on McGonagall´s face...

She was pacing in the long corridor, up, down, up and down. Even though it was dark and gloomy there, to her it seemed bright, filled with happiness. Finally Ella came down from the round staircase. They smiled at each other.
“Well,” started the wolf-girl. “I came to... I’m... I just want to share the happiness.”
“Can you believe it? Just a few days ago everything was about to end, but now... wow. Marcus is doing better, you destroyed the Ravenclaw team yesterday and now Hedwig’s back! Could life be any more awesome?”
“Well actually...”
“Hold it, forget I asked. I've just got Hedwig back, I can't handle your cynical view on life right now.” Ella fired a teasing smile at her friend.
“Speaking of your sister, what do they plan to do with her?”
“Well, McGonagall was talking about sorting her.”
“WHAT? In the middle of the term?” Ella shrugged. “Hm, maybe they want to make sure, she won’t be kidnapped again, but what will she do here?... You know, Robins can say what she wants about vampires, but right now there’s one I really, REALLY want to turn into dust.”
“I'm thinking exactly the same!” They fell silent, both in their own deep thoughts. “Come with me.” Ella suddenly said.
“Where?”
“To the Hospitall wing. I want you to meet Hedwig.”
“Erm... no,” said the girl slowly.
“Huh? Why not?” wondered theHufflepuff.
“It’s a familly thing and I don’t want to disturb.”
“Nonsense, I was the one asking you, wasn't I? Come on.”
“No.”
“Hasky, stop being such a brat and socialise for once in your life.” Ella watched her friend for a few seconds. She frowned. ”What is it? Your furry thing?” The Gryffindor nodded and the other girl rolled her eyes.
“Look, Ella, our secrets are very different. If we were in Sweden, then yeah, we are on the same boat, but not here in UK.”
“Hasky...”
“No, listen. Here being an animagus is a cool thing. Your friends admire you and if something goes wrong the worst thing that can happen is that you will have to be registrated."
“I am registered!”
“Really?" wondered the other girl. "Nevermind... I, on the other hand, am doomed. The professors are bound to secrecy, that’s alright; but the fact that you and Adrian know is serious enough. It puts you in danger. It already has. Actually I put you in danger, because that vamp git saw you during my detention and decided to have a revenge on your sister."
“But he already had a vendetta on me, we know each other from S.A.M. long before I'd met you!”
“That's not the point, listen... Not that I don’t trust our guys, just not that much. If something goes bad between us and someone betrays me, I could have slayers after me. And you all who know the truth about me, might be in troubles. The less people know the better. Understand?”
“I do.”
“Good,” she thought for a little while. “That was exhausting. Alright, send my regards to Hedwig!” she called over her shoulder, running away.
“Where are you going?”
The wolf-girl stopped. “Look outside,” she smiled. “I would ask you to join, but sister is more important.” With that she rushed away.

The next morning the Hufflepuff quidditch team didn´t join the merry old fun in the common room until it was almost time for lunch. They´d all celebrated like crazy yesterday and it was more than one who woke up with a nasty headache and soar feet.
“I don´t wanna see another butterbeer for at least a week!” Jake mumbled as he put his arm around Correy who´s eyes where bloodshot with dark shadows under.
“I just wanna go back to bed!” She said and gave away a giant yawn.
“It got pretty late, didn´t it? What time was it? 3...4?”
“I don´t know and I don´t care, jus leave me alone!” Maya stretched out in an armchair and Roxanne laughed at her, but the next second imitated her movements.
“Where is Roger? Isn´t he up yet?”
“He´s up alright, but I have a feeling he will spend most of the day in the bathroom...” The others got a certain interest and Jake continued. “...let´s just say Hagrid had one or two, glasses or bottles, too much last night and it ended in a fire-whisky contest... Roger lost!” He added and the others smiled.
“Poor thing, he can be so foolhardy sometimes!” Roxanne whispered and shot a glance at the door, which lead to the boy´s dormitories and bathroom. The other members of the team had started to notice a certain pull between the keeper and the beater and it wasn´t without teasing comments that Roxanne stood up and regurgitated something about food before disappearing out the corridor to the rest of the castle.
“How are you feeling?” Marcus asked Ella and squeezed her a little harder where they sat in the sofa.
“Ok.” She answered and gave him a weak smile, but the truth was very different. She was in fact fighting an inner battle, trying to decide whether she should, scream, cry, run or remain seated. She could not believe she had let herself have fun, laugh, dance and fool around when her little sister still were kidnapped without a single clue to where or who had taken her, they didn´t know who had cursed her and Mikaela´s broom or attacked Marcus, or sent the message.
“Are you sure you´re fine... you look kinda sick?!” Correy asked and gave Ella´s pale face a worried gaze.
“Yeah, I just need some air.” Ella stood up and Marcus did an effort to follow her. “Alone!”
“But...”
“Not now, I need a minute alone!” She tried to look normal and her friends smiled at her as she turned around and walked, the same way as Roxanne, out of the common room.

“Miss Wilson?”
“WHAT?!!” She looked up from the floor which she was staring into, like she was somehow hoping the answer to her misery would be hidden there. “Oh, hi sir! I didn´t mean to sound so rude.” It was professor Flitwick and he shook his head and smiled at her.
“No harm in that Miss Wilson, it´s understandable when you´re going something like what you are right now!” Surprised and not sure whether or not she should thank him she decided to go with grateful.
“Thanks, I think?”
“It´s ok, maybe it was the wrong thing to say.” The aging wizard shook his head again, if to try and shake some sense into it. “Anyways, I´m here to deliver a message... Headmistress McGonagall wants to see you in her office.”
“What? Now?”
“That´s what it sounded like...” Ella flew up on her feet and when she was half way down the corridor the little teacher yelled. “I don´t think you need to be nervous, she sounded quite delighted!” With a little laugh Ella felt the stone lift from her chest and she set of in a run towards the headmistress office.

“Come in!” A harsh, yet comforting voice was heard from the inside of the door she´d just knocked on and with a deep breath Ella walked inside.
“You wanted to see me professor?!”
“That´s right Miss Wilson...” That was the first time Ella could remember she´d seen McGonagall smile, but it didn´t require more than a fraction of a second before she realized why.
“HEWDIG!!!” With a yell and an indescribable happiness flushing through her veins Ella threw herself over her sister who was sitting in an armchair under the portrait of an old headmaster with a big nose and a long golden beard.
“I thought I´d never see you again!” They hugged, cried and laughed alternately for a very long time and it wasn´t until Ella noticed how very pale and thin Hedwig looked, that she let go of her.
“What happened? Where were you? Who did it? Why?” The questions hailed out of her mouth as a waterfall but Hedwig just shook her head.
“I´ll tell you everything Miss Wilson, but first we need to get your sister to the Hospital wing. I´m sure you`ll have time to talk more later!” Just as she´d said that the door to the office opened and madam Pomfrey and professor Robins stepped in.
“Alright then Hedwig, ready to go?”
“I love you, Ella!” She gave her sister a warm smile and when the door was closed once again she turned to the headmistress.
“So how did you find her??”
“She has been captured inside the Room of Requirement.”
“Inside the what?”
“The Room of Requirement! I´m sure you´ve heard of it.”
“Yeah sure, but I thought it was just a story, like the one about Harry Potter and the gillyweed?”
“That´s also true!”
“What? Are you serious... Cool!”
“Back to the point.”
“Of course, I´m sorry professor.”
“It seems the room has a magical identical twin at S.A.M I´ve been in contact with your former headmaster, and although he didn´t remember you, he was of course aware of Hedwig´s disappearance and after we´d had a discussion we came to the conclusion that a secret passage between the schools would be the only way for the intruding kidnapper to make his moves.”
“That makes sense, but....”
“But who is it, and why?”
“Exactly.”
“Your guess is as good as mine Miss Wilson. Although we´ve came across some interesting facts that might give us a lead?!”
“May I ask what?”
“Yes, you may! Apparently a certain student, Johan Gustafson, disappeared just a few days before Hedwig´s kidnap, the same day as the attack on Marcus...”
“Johan?!” A picture of a tall, blonde boy with a white face, long sharp teeth and a grinning smile shot across Ella´s eyes.
“Miss Wilson?” Professor McGonagall asked worried as Ella sank down to the ground.
“It´s the vampire, the vampire who was here at the meeting, he who helped torture me at S.A.M... he managed to get revenge after all?!”
“That was what we feared...”
“What? You knew?”
“We had our hunches...”
“But why didn´t you tell me? We could have done something! We could have stopped him!” Suddenly angry she stood up and gave her headmistress a stern stare.
“Because it explains only half of the incidences. Mr. Gustafson Johan was most likely the one who hexed yours and your sister’s brooms, he was most definitely the one who kidnapped Hedwig and probably also the one who attacked Marcus... but it still doesn´t explain the runes on Marcus´s body, or why he wanted you to keep playing the game... we still are not sure if it really means quidditch or something else. What could he have wanted with writing ‘royal’ on your boyfriend’s chest? It doesn´t make sense and therefore you have to stay low until we find Johan so we can question him!”
“But...”
“Don´t argue with me, Miss Wilson! Your sister will stay here from now on, we`ll have her sorted as soon as she´s healed and you make sure to take care of yourself!”
“Yes, professor!” It was no use to try and fight, McGonagall had made up her mind.
“You may leave now, go see your sister and then make sure to call your parents, they´re expecting a call from you both!” Ella walked to the door, but just as she placed her hand on the handle the headmistress spoke up again. “Oh, and Ella, your friend Miss Silver is waiting downstairs, I asked professor Robins to fill her in, I´m sure you have a lot to talk about!” The student turned her head just to get a glimpse of the second smile ever on McGonagall´s face...

She was pacing in the long corridor, up, down, up and down. Even though it was dark and gloomy there, to her it seemed bright, filled with happiness. Finally Ella came down from the round staircase. They smiled at each other.
“Well,” started the wolf-girl. “I came to... I’m... I just want to share the happiness.”
“Can you believe it? Just a few days ago everything was about to end, but now... wow. Marcus is doing better, you destroyed the Ravenclaw team yesterday and now Hedwig’s back! Could life be any more awesome?”
“Well actually...”
“Hold it, forget I asked. I've just got Hedwig back, I can't handle your cynical view on life right now.” Ella fired a teasing smile at her friend.
“Speaking of your sister, what do they plan to do with her?”
“Well, McGonagall was talking about sorting her.”
“WHAT? In the middle of the term?” Ella shrugged. “Hm, maybe they want to make sure, she won’t be kidnapped again, but what will she do here?... You know, Robins can say what she wants about vampires, but right now there’s one I really, REALLY want to turn into dust.”
“I'm thinking exactly the same!” They fell silent, both in their own deep thoughts. “Come with me.” Ella suddenly said.
“Where?”
“To the Hospitall wing. I want you to meet Hedwig.”
“Erm... no,” said the girl slowly.
“Huh? Why not?” wondered theHufflepuff.
“It’s a familly thing and I don’t want to disturb.”
“Nonsense, I was the one asking you, wasn't I? Come on.”
“No.”
“Hasky, stop being such a brat and socialise for once in your life.” Ella watched her friend for a few seconds. She frowned. ”What is it? Your furry thing?” The Gryffindor nodded and the other girl rolled her eyes.
“Look, Ella, our secrets are very different. If we were in Sweden, then yeah, we are on the same boat, but not here in UK.”
“Hasky...”
“No, listen. Here being an animagus is a cool thing. Your friends admire you and if something goes wrong the worst thing that can happen is that you will have to be registrated."
“I am registered!”
“Really?" wondered the other girl. "Nevermind... I, on the other hand, am doomed. The professors are bound to secrecy, that’s alright; but the fact that you and Adrian know is serious enough. It puts you in danger. It already has. Actually I put you in danger, because that vamp git saw you during my detention and decided to have a revenge on your sister."
“But he already had a vendetta on me, we know each other from S.A.M. long before I'd met you!”
“That's not the point, listen... Not that I don’t trust our guys, just not that much. If something goes bad between us and someone betrays me, I could have slayers after me. And you all who know the truth about me, might be in troubles. The less people know the better. Understand?”
“I do.”
“Good,” she thought for a little while. “That was exhausting. Alright, send my regards to Hedwig!” she called over her shoulder, running away.
“Where are you going?”
The wolf-girl stopped. “Look outside,” she smiled. “I would ask you to join, but sister is more important.” With that she rushed away.

As Ella walked towards the hospital wing it felt like her shoes had wings that made her fly a few centimetres above the floor. She hadn´t felt this light in weeks, no worries in the world, her little sister was safe at Hogwarts and an upcoming game against Slytherin was something to finally look foward to. With a broad smile on her face she pushed the door open.
“Hejsan!” Hello! Hedwig greeted from her bed and Ella´s smile grew even wider.
“Hej, hur mår du?” Hi, how are you feeling? She sat down on the chair next to her sister's bed.
“Bättre! Jag trodde du skulle ta med dig din kompis?” Better! I thought you were bringing your friend?
“Det skulle jag, men hon ville inte komma.” I was, but she wouldn´t come.
“Vaddå då? Vad har du egentligen sagt om mig?!” What do you mean?! What have you really said about me?
“Men ge dig, inget sånt. Hon är lite speciell bara...” Give it a rest, nothing like that. She´s just a bit special...
“Ella, jag vet att hon är en varulv!” Ella, I know she´s a werewolf.
“Jag vet att du vet, men Hasky vet inte att du vet och det var inte rätt läge att berätta att mamma förstod allt och berättade för hela familjen!” I know that you know, but Hasky doesn´t know that you know and it wasn´t the right time to tell her Mum understood everything and told the whole family!
“Men hon fattar väl att vi aldrig skulle säga det till någon, eller?” But she gets we´d never tell anyone, right?
“Nja, jag tror att det är det som är problemet, plus att hon är rädd att alla som vet kommer att hamna i fara på grund av henne.” Well, I think that´s the problem, plus the fact that she´s scared everyone who knows will be in danger because of her.
“Det är bara dumt! Alla behöver någon vid sin sida!” That´s just stupid! You need someone by your side!
“Jag vet! Och hon har ju oss... även fast hon inte vill, eller vet om det.” I know! And she has us... even if she doesn´t want to, or knows about it. They smiled at each other and just as Ella reached out for the glass of water to hand to Hedwig something knocked on the window, or rather someone.
“Let us in!” Marcus screamed and Ella looked up. It was her whole quidditch team, hanging in mid air on their brooms.
“We´re gonna get in so much trouble!” She muttered, shot a quick glance towards madam Pomfrey`s office and when no movement could be detected, she opened the window. Marcus, Maya, Correy, Jacob, Roxanne and Roger all flew in and landed gracefully in front of Hedwig’s bed.
“Hello! Nice to finally meet Wilson Jr!” Jacob teased and stretched out his hand towards the girl in bed who took it with a laugh.
“Nice to meet you too!”
“So you´re the one who is gonna join our support crew for the game?” Roxanne asked and sat down on the nearest empty bed.
“Well, I don´t know about that?!”
“Oh come on, you can´t seriously be considering being sorted into another house, are you? I mean, look at them!” Maya pointed out the window where the Slytherins flew by and just as they passed the seeker lost his balance, bumped into a chaser who dropped the quaffle and had to make a steep dive to retrieve it.
“I see what you mean...” They all laughed but unfortunately the quarrel alerted madam Pomfrey who came running out.
“What in Merlin´s all soggy pants, do you think you’re doing?! OUT!! NOW!!” She didn´t have to ask twice, the six Hufflepuffs departed faster than an elf with fire in the back and Ella smiled to herself. “You can stay ten minutes miss Wilson, but then your sister needs a rest!” The infirmary witch turned around and nodded.
“Alright, thanks.” She disappeared into her office again and the two sisters talked for a bit, but it wasn´t long until Hedwig had fallen asleep. Ella smiled at her, she looked so small and innocent. Carefully she pulled up the duvet so the little one wouldn´t freeze and slowly made her way out to the corridor. It was after she´d quietly closed the door and started to walk the stairs down to the common room that she fully came to terms with Hedwig´s words.
That´s just stupid! Everyone needs someone by their side!
Ella was lucky, she had her whole family, she had her friends and boyfriend and even though there would always be persons who were out to seek a way to destroy the happiness in other people’s lives, the truth remained. Secrets are made to be told, shared and protected... and that is when you know which ones are your true friends and which ones don´t worth even the smallest Knut!

The end of Adventure of Secrets

Adventure of Vampire Issues

Finally the freedom again. And hunger. Great hunger to hunt. But back in her mind, the werewolf knew she had things to do. So quickly the wolfmates caught a hare. It was an old one so the meat was stiff, but strong teeth could take care of that.
It was a night full of sniffing and searching as much of forest's ground as possible. The two wild animals found something what could look like a nest, but deserted for weeks.
When the sun rose, the wolves ran back to the castle. Since they were in the middle of the forest, they hurried as fast as they could to make it in time.
By Hagrid’s Hut the girl tuned back to her human form, cleaned herself and Greya with water from a barrel and got dressed. She made it just in time to have breakfast. Her plate was filled with heaps of bacon and eggs.
“Rough night?”
She looked up to see her friend. Swallowing heavily she responded. “We ran through the forest all night, but not much luck.”
“Well, at least we know the forest is clean.”
“Hm, but what about the rest of the world?” she asked rethoricaly. “How’s your sister?”
“She has to stay in bed for a few more days, but other than that she’s doing well.”
“Miss Silver, Miss Wilson?” The girls looked up to see the defence teacher. “In ten minutes in the first floor Divination classroom.”

Once they entered the classroom, the first thing that shot through Hasky´s mind was the scenery of a wild zoo.
“What are we doing here?” she frowned looking at ten other students who were already inside. She wondered if the others really know each other or they had grouped by instincts. When she saw Ella heading to the three canine-animagi, she was sure it was instinct.
“Thank you for coming,” said Robins. “Due to current events, we need your help as well.”
“How can we help in Rodriguez case?” wondered a red head Ravenclaw boy, who smelled like a fox.
“It’s more like preventing other attacks.”
“But we are just students,” said some Slytherin cat.
Hasky was too tired for stupid comments. She had not had much sleep for the last two days and was beyond ready for bed. “You are just animagi, so shut it and listen,” she replied grumpily.
“What -“
“How -"
“WHAT?!”
“You can’t be so sure about that,” answered another Ravenclaw.
“Paticularly you are some kind of bird, probably eagle, I guess, isn’t that right?” He stared agape. “Yeah,” she rised her eyebrow. “Now let the professor finish without interruption, could you? I really need some sleep.”
“You may think we don’t know, but we do. And because of your advantage I ask your help. Of course it’s voluntary,” continued the teacher.
“Say what you want us to do,” said some Gryffindor girl. Yep, canines rock, smiled the werewolf.
Robins pulled out some badges that looked like prefects' ones. “This is a patrol badge,” she explained. “You are free to browse the entire Hogwarts territory when you need to, but please don’t misuse this for personal pleasure. The point of this patroling is to keep the castle save and report anything suspicious. We have a vampire on the lose.”
“What?!” shouted the Ravenlcaw eagle. “What are we supposed to do when we meet this vampire? The only good thing is to run away as fast as possible.”
“Is he really that dull?” asked Hasky tiredly. “Man, you’re Ravenclaw, use your brain.”
“Miss Silver...” warned the teacher.
“Honestly professor, every animagus should know that nor vamp or lycan can harm them in their animal form. Anyway, as I see, I and Ella are the youngest here, so these guys must have learnt about animagi already. Was some of you paying any attention during the transfiguration lesson?”
Ella cleared her throat and caught her friend by the hood. “Calm down and shut it,” she hissed into her ear.
“I haven’t slept all night, I’m tired and I want to go to bed,” the other girl whinned quietly.
The Hufflepuff wrapped her arm around her shoulders. “Shh, it will be alright.”
“So,” spoke up the professor again. “We chose you because of your ability to change, to use your sharpened senses and as Miss Silver mentioned, to be relatively safe around half-humans.”
“Sharpened senses?” wondered the fox boy. “Like what?”
Hasky looked at her friend desperately. “No, don’t say a thing,” Ella cut her off right from the beginning.
“In your case Mr. Fox, it will be the same like canines and felines. Hearing and smell. As for birds it will be eyesight and of course the ability to fly. Cats will stay in the castle. The rest, you will go to the forest. Under the command of Miss Silver or Miss Wilson.”
The Slytherin tiger applied for a word. “Why should some third years lead us?”
“They know the forest the best. None of you has spent as much time there as Miss Silver.”
“And what about me?” When the wolf-girl heard the same Ravenclaw again, she was about to wolf out.
“Is he really such an idi-“
“Shut it!” Ella interruped her.
“Well, what can a bird do? Hardly being locked in the castle?”
“Just because you saw me transform doesn’t mean you can play being clever.”
“First I prefer the term intelligent, second I didn’t see you I smelled you.”
“Yeah right,” he doubted her every word.
Hasky rolled her eyes. “As you wish.” She pointed to the first person in the line. “Cat, tiger, lion, cat, falcon, eagle, fox, theee dogs and two wolves. Where was I incorrect?” The guys stared in desbelief.
“And our secrets are revealed,” commented a Hufflepuff dog.
“It’s not a secret, it’s advantage.”
“Hasky, I swear I bury you in the bed myslef, just shut up already,” said the tired friend.
“If you’re done, I would like to finish this session,” said the professor. “If you accept this badge, you will become a part of the patrol with all its rights and duties. Also I will want a report every morning.” None of the students bailed.
The two friends took their marks. “Let the fun begin,” commented the werewolf.

“Hey! Hey Ella, wait up!” She stopped and turned around, it was one of the Hufflepuff animagi.
“I don´t really have much time, quidditch training is...” she began but when she saw the expression on the girl's face she fell silent.
“I wanted to tell you something! I´m Andrea by the way, Andrea Fernandez, falcon.” The girl forced a smile and stretched out her hand, Ella shook it.
“Yeah, I know, you´re in Marcus`s year, aren´t you? And captain of the chess club?”
“Yeah, that´s me, but I didn´t seek you up to talk about wizard chess!”
“Well, I didn´t think so either.” When Andrea didn´t say anything Ella continued. “So what is it?”
“In here!” The older girl grabbed the younger ones arm and pulled her into an empty classroom.
“What´s this all about?” Ella asked, beginning to get a bit freaked out. Would this nightmare never end?
“I need to tell you something about him!”
“About him? Him, who?
“Marcus of course."
“What about him? Is he okay, it isn´t something wrong, is it?” Panic started to spread though her body as the Latin-looking girl lowered her voice to a whisper.
“That depends on how you define the difference between okay and wrong...”
“Now you´re scaring me...” Ella felt a shiver down her spine. “Just say it, it´s the tension I can´t bare!” Andrea shot a quick glance over her shoulder, as to make sure no one was there, when that was confirmed she opened her mouth again.
“I know why Marcus had ROYAL written on his chest and I know why the vampire is after him... and you!”

When Ella came down to the pitch an hour later, she had a strange feeling of not being fully there, as if everything she saw and heard were somewhere between dream and reality. Maybe she was coming down with something? Perhaps a fever? Anything that could cause her to hallucinate, because what Andrea had just told her simply could not be true!
“What´s up with you? You`re never late for training!” Correy pointed out and tossed her a pair of gloves.
“Oh, nothing special, just a lot has been going on.” She tried to smile but it was like something were blocking the way.
“Must feel great to have Hedwig here, now you`ll know she´s safe,” Maya said and slightly touched her arm as she passed to get her broom out of the cupboard. Ella didn´t answer but simply shot a quick glance at Marcus who were tying his shoes, before rapidly proceeding to change into her quidditch gear.
“When is she getting sorted anyway? I wanna be there for the... “Jacob began, but Correy effectively silent him with a well directed punch in the gut.
“Madame Pomfrey were talking about letting her leave tomorrow afternoon, so I guess it will happen pretty soon after that?!” She answered absentmindedly and at the same time pulled the yellow sweater over her head.
“Is that why you´re so up in the blue, because you´re worried in which house she`ll end up?” Roxanne, just as worried as ever, wondered and at the same time handing the bats to Roger and Jake.
“What? No, no, I´m happy for her wherever she goes! Hedwig will handle it...” Ella murmured and grabbed her prototype-broom, she didn´t notice the others confused looks and faces, instead she walked out of the changing room onto the field where the Gryffindors were already waiting.
“You took your time! C'mon, you have a match on Saturday, move on!” Colin said eyeing Roger, but it was Marcus who answered.
“Yeah, we have a daydreaming slowpoke amongst us...” he laughed and gently kissed Ella´s lips, but she wasn´t able to respond, luckily Marcus was still smiling so he didn´t notice, but someone else did.

“What´s up?” Hasky whispered to her friend as they carried out the chest with the balls and placed it on the middle of the field.
“Andrea Fernandez...”
“Who?” Hasky interrupted.
“The falcon from Hufflepuff, she..."
“What about her?” Ella started to get annoyed.
“If you would let me finish I´d told you already!”
“Oh, sorry.”
“That´s alright, but she told me that Marcus is really...”
“What are you two chit chatting about, shouldn´t we get on with training before it gets dark? The snakes won´t be smashed that easy you know!” Jake smiled at the two girls who shrugged and bent down to release the bludgers.
“I´ll tell you afterwards! Meet me in the forest behind Hagrid´s hut, we´re gonna start the patrol there anyway.” Ella whispered to the Gryffindor before handing the quaffle to Roger and taking off on her broom...

The Gryffindor was worried about her friend's absentminded attitude and tried to flip her right by going really hard on her during practice, but nothing seemed to turn Ella out of her daydream... or maybe day-mare. So after training and a quick shower she hurried to their point of meeting as fast as she could. The Hufflepuff was already there.
"So?" said Hasky, her wolf behind her. "Start the tale. What's happened today?"
"The girl, Andrea, she told me about Marcus..."
"Alright, what?"
"Will you finally let me finish without interrupting for once?!" The other girl was taken aback. She had never seen Ella this upset. She did not dare to say a word now, just nodded. "Good, thank you. So how... where should I start?"
"From the beginning?" suggested the Gryffindor quietly, not to be scold again.
"Actually it is a tale." The Hufflepuff sat down on a stump and began. "Once upon a time there was a successful archaeologist who specialised in ancient cultures. One day his job led him to Romania, where he was supposed to find a box. It turned out to be a mahogany chest with an engraved writing in ancient Romany. It said something about having a long life, so the man opened the box, which started singing. Inside he saw a wooden dagger and a vial with some kind of liquid. Suddenly there were people around him. Hundreds of them made a circle around the traveller. One who seemed to be the leader... or king, asked for the box. The man made a deal to share what was in the chest, if he could stay with these people and learn their culture. So he stayed for half a year, fell in love with the third daughter of the king and got married. The time to reveal the secret of the chest arrived, so the king and the archaeologist sat in a caravan. The younger of the men took the dagger and looked at it carefully. Then it seemed like the weapon glued itself to his hand and a writing appeared on its handle saying: blood protector, but before he could snatch for the bottle, the elder man took it and drank the liquid. With horror in his eyes, the archaeologist watched the king squirm in pain. When it all stopped, it seemed like someone else was there in the caravan. The king's eyes turned red and skin changed colours from tan to pale. And those teeth! Bright white with long canines. The archaeologist got terrified. Quickly he took his wife and apparated back to his home, to Spain. Years he searched for the answer about what had happened. And the answer was this: 'the third son of the third daughter of the royal vampire is the key'." Ella turned silent, so the other girl dared to speak up.
"What does this have to do with Marcus?"
"He is the third son of the third daughter of a royal vampire. The archeologist is his father, his mother is foreighner and Marcus has two older and one younger siblings."
"Oh." A long puase of silence followed. "And Andrea knows this how?"
"No idea."
"And you believe her?"
"Why not?"
"Because... anyone could have a tale like this, we're in magical world. Any thing is possible."
"Too many coincidents."
"Alright, Ella, being monosyllabic is not your style."
"I'm afraid, okay? I don't know what will happen with Marcus and I don't want to lose him."
The other girl sighed. "What do you think the key-thing means?" Ella shrugged. "I mean, on the dagger there was written blood protector, and if we suppose Macrus is the key to protect the blood, which blood? Human's from vampires, or vampire's from... everything else?"
"I really hope he should slay vampires, for what they did to him."
"Hm... but that's it. Johan didn't kill him. It's a possibility that he was only reminding to Marcus or his father, that they should protect him as the royal protectors of vampire blood." Hasky could almost hear Ella's wheels in head working. Then her eyes shown brightly. "Yes?" she asked, knowing that her friend might have a good theory.
"What if it's up to the key to decide."
"Huh?"
"... he is the key. Marcus is the key. The key that may decide the future of vampires."
"Eliminate," suggested the Gryffindor immediatelly. Both girls chuckled. "Does Marcus know?"
"If he does, he has never shared that with me."
A girl was coming to them.
"Ella, if this is Andrea... if I were you I would ask her, how she can know all that."