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Janna walked through the common room, the fire was crackling like old newspaper bring blown in the wind, she spotted an elf sitting by the fire sewing a pillow that must have burst, since it had been compressed with too much stuffing. The elf's ears twitched and slowly the wide eyed creature looked at Janna who waved shy.

The elf then jumped slightly "Oh, I'm sorry... I'm not going to hurt you," Janna said "I'm just watching your needlework"

    "Oh no, no. Winky isn't scared of you Miss. Winky is shocked to meet you Miss." The Elf then scratched her nose, which looked like a squashed tomato, she then lifted herself up and came to Janna, her hands fiddling nervously over her stomach "Is it true?" Winky then gestured for Janna to come closer, which Janna abided to "is it true you're the werewolf that Mistress McGonagall has told the House elves of?"

    "Yes... Do all the teachers know?" Janna asked, the elf stared at her with large eyes that were blinking few times.

   "Only the most important ones..." Winky whispered, staring at Janna's neck, supposedly the scar at Janna's neck, she then lunged at  Janna's arm and weeped.

   "Winky cannot tell, Winky cannot tell!" Wailed the small elf Janna then patted the elf's back, sitting on the floor with the small creature.

   "What can you not tell?" Janna asked, the elf blinked her eyes wet with tears before wiping them with her rag that she wore as a small dress.

    "The locket... Kreacher said not to tell, but if Winky was still with Winky's master Winky will tell, yes, Winky will" Winky nodded, squeaking to Janna while holding Janna's hand and hopping on her toes.

    "My locket..." Janna then pulled out the emerald coloured locket which was framed with silver, she had been left it by a mysterious messenger in summer of last year "you know who left this with me last year?"

Winky then hopped happily again on her toes, jumping with Janna's hand "yes, yes, yes. It was Kreacher, mean old Kreacher... Coming here and asking about Mistress Julianna" Winky then pointed at the locket with a long skinny finger "Kreacher is your elf, The once Noble House of Black... Kreacher says bad things about Mistress so Winky hits Kreacher with a frying pan when Kreacher comes to the kitchens"

    "How do I call him?" Janna asked, knowing a little bit about house elves from her books that she bought from the libraries in Diagon Alley.

   "Mistress just calls Kreacher's name." Winky drew circles on Janna's wrist where her scars were "Winky will come if Mistress calls Winky too! Maybe Winky can show Mistress how to cover these nicely"

    "Thank you, Winky" Janna smiled, Winky then let go of Janna's hand, staring at Janna's locket. Winky then hopped onto Janna's knee and tucked the locket away behind Janna's collar.

   "Mistress must be careful with Mistress' name, bad people still live" Winky whispered, then she hopped off Janna's leg "May I go now?"

   "Yes, you may" Janna smiled, Winky then giggled at Janna before running back to her pillow and needle. Janna walked up the stairs to the dorms still feeling the circles on her wrists, the strokes were calming, especially since that bit of her arm was always tense from monthly pains.

   "Hey!" Orion called from the boys' dorms, Janna turned quickly to see the boys with sticks that had a cup of some sort in their hands, that Janna had seen in the bathrooms once.

   "What are you three doing?" Janna asked, looking at the strange sticks.

   "We've found a way to get someone up the ramp" Orion then rolled the sticks to Janna, she picked one up and pocked the rubbery cup "just don't touch that" Orion said Janna then wiped her finger on her robe.

   "What do I do with them?" Janna asked, pressing the cup onto the wall and seeing it stick.

    "You use the plungers to pull yourself up the ramp when you walk up the steps" Juno explained, Janna yanked the plunger off the wall and stepped onto the step. This was followed by the loud horn that made the boys fall off the steps, the stairs turned into a smooth stone ramp with lifted steeply.

   "Won't magic unstick it?" Janna asked as she toed the ramp. The boys shrugged, Janna sighed and then stuck the plunger onto the ramp, it stuck there, even when she attempted to pull it off. Janna then pulled herself into the ramp, then upwards she went, the second plunger was then slammed onto the stone and Janna pulled herself up again.

The boys began to reach out as Janna took the third pull up. The ramp then began to form creases at the bottom of the ramp like a man's forehead when he frowned. Janna tried to pin the plunger to made a fourth pull by the crease made the plunger pop off the stone. Janna yelped but was caught at her wrist by the boys who pulled her into the corridor. Janna laughed as she then sat up after lying on Juno's chest, the ramp settled again into the stone steps it was before.

   "You're going to need a better invention than these things" Janna said, holding up a plunger. The boys laughed, Jake patted Janna on the back.

   "Well, at least this one worked" Jake nodded, helping Janna up "welcome to the boys dorm" the four of then walked through the hall of doors.

Janna sniffed the air "What's that smell?" She asked as they passed the fifth year door. The gnarly smell gave her a small headache as an oniony smell attacked her senses.

   "That is the smell of men" Orion then took in a whiff of air "who don't shower... because they're men" Orion lead Janna through an open door at then end of the hallway. "This is slightly cleaner, for our lady"

    "You should see the girl dorms, they are far more dirty than this" Janna chuckled, the four of them sat on a bed by the window, in the corner of the room sat Yann who wasn't too interested in the boys when he glanced up, but when he saw Janna he looked up again.

   "You do know girls aren't allowed in the boys' dorms" Yann stated, Janna stared at him, the boys then scoffed at Yann.

   "Yann, mind your own bloody business, Janna is our lady friend and she comes with us where ever we go" Jake called across the room, Yann shrugged.

   "You'll lose Gryffindor points if she's found here" Yann said in a you-should-have-known-this tone while he read his homework on his bed.

   "Well, while you're there blabbering on where I should go, I'll earn us points again like the last time, Yann" Janna alluded to the Herbology lesson, he scoffed and rolled his eyes.

   "Just ignore him" Juno muttered, as the group then huddled around a piece of parchment.