Harry's POV

I woke up the next morning, feeling elated and fresh. My face was attacked my something soft and brown and I glanced down only to see Hermione's old cat, Crookshanks, nuzzling my neck. Her fur was soft and smooth and I couldn't help but stroke it.

"Harry, mate, seriously? A cat?" A voice started, and I turned to see Ron who was fully dressed. "And. Crookshanks?"

"Hey, he's a great pet," I said. "Don't let Hermione hear you say anything bad about him either. You know how she got in third year."

"Yeah," Ron replied with a scowl.

"And you wouldn't want that to happen now, would you? Since things are looking up." I snickered and Ron turned away,his ears turning scarlet.

"Hey, do you think the two new girls are in any of our classes?" Ginny asked as we met her and Hermione in the common room. They were alone and there was no sign of the new girls.

"You mean Abby and Vanessa?" Ron asked, grinning.

"Yeah, them," Ginny replied.

"I dunno."
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So far Abby and Vanessa had been in every lesson with us and they seemed friendly. When Ron and I looked for them after a lesson ended though, we could never find them which was odd considering how they had been with us only minutes before. But I guessed it was normal: maybe they just went to get some books from their dorm or something..

When we made our way to transfiguration it was to see a crowd gathered around the professor's desk. People were whispering amongst themselves as though scared of someone overhearing them and Professor McGonagall was standing behind the desk with a very shocked expression on her face. We had the class with the Ravenclaws so when I spotted a head of long dirty blonde hair, I instantly tapped the girl on the shoulder.

"Hello, Harry," Luna said in that dreamy voice of hers."You missed what just happened!"

"What happened?" Ginny asked.

"Those new girls? Abby and Vanessa? They are very....surprising."

"How so?" I asked curiously.

"Abby just transfigured the professor's handbag into a huge snake and then Vanessa spoke to it in this strange language. Seemed like snake language."

"Parseltoungue," I stated.

"And the snake backed away at first but then...."

"Then what?" Hermione asked.

"It came at me. I think that's what Vanessa was telling it to do." she said miserably.

"No way," said Ron.

"Luna, are you sure?" I asked. "I mean why would she want to hurt you?"

"Her head is full of wrackspurts," Luna said as though that explained everything.

"Oh, bloody hell, here we go again," Ron mouthed.

"I'm sure you were imagining it, Luna. She would never hurt you. She's too....nice."

"Nice?" Ginny spat. "Abby just transformed a bag into a snake! And Vanessa was obviously in on it."

"Calm down,Gin," I said gently."Come on, let's find a table." And I led her over to a table at the back. Professor McGonagall had regained her composure and had managed to transfigure the snake back into a bag. Her expression was unreadable.

"That was very advanced transfiguration, Miss Triscot. Well beyond a N.E.W.T student. Well beyond most of the wizards today. How did you learn it?"

"Oh," Abby started. "My dad taught me. He taught me everything I know. I can even transfigure a paper ball into a basilisk but that takes too much work and it doesn't work out half the time." Her expression was almost....smug. But I let it slide. In my book anyone who got something in class before Hermione deserved to be proud of themselves.

Ginny wore an unreadable expression the whole day and when I asked her if anything was wrong, she gave the typical answer,

"Nope, I 'm perfectly fine so don't worry about it." I couldn't help but worry about her. Ever since morning, whenever Abby and Vanesa were around she would make some excuse to go somewhere or wouldn't take any part in our conversations at all.

We found out that Abby and Vanessa were both from America. Abby's mum had died a long time ago so she lived with her dad and he had gone to Hogwarts too. Vanessa lived with her aunt and had no idea who her parents were. To be honest, I felt sorry for them both. They were both incredible people and got along with almost everyone. Vanessa had helped me more then once with Potions much to Hermione's annoyance but I guess that's Hermione for you. We were still having the DA meetings but we hadn't told Abby and Vanessa about it though I was seriously considering it.

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A/N

Thanks for reading!!

I'm so sorry if this was short and nothing much happened either but that's cuz i wanted to show what everyone thinks of the new girls. It'll get better and things will start happening. I promise!

Also it's not like i wrote this at home either! I wrote this chapter in my car so there might be some mistakes as well.

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