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   "What ugly scars you have" Mocked a high pitched voice "I bet you scare away all the people and you've come to cry here... Or make fun of lonesome Moaning Myrtle" a small girl floated before Janna, she jumped back in surprise keeping her hand over her neck.

   "You're-you're a ghost?" Janna titled her head, reaching out her hand to touch Myrtle's robes.

    "Don't touch me!" Myrtle hissed, slapping at Janna hand like an angry viper. Janna pulled back, letting go of her nape to hold her slapped hand, revealing her scars on her wrists. Myrtle came floating to Janna, staring at Janna's scars "I've seen scars like that before... On a boy from long ago... Remus Lupin..." Myrtle then giggled, holding her hands to her cheek and looking over Janna's head "ah, those pretty boys, especially Sirius Black" Myrtle chortled, "I remember him" the ghost then floated to the window "when he was in his seventh year he came to the bathroom, he was dirty and cold... I remember watching from my toilet as he took off his shirt..." Myrtle swooned "his skin was marked with scars... And when he came here after escaping Azkaban he looked almost like a ghost... It could have fooled me—"

   "Yes, I'm sure that is an interesting story" Janna interjected, she didn't want so much information in just two days. Myrtle narrowed her eyes at Janna through her round spectacles "may I bring my friends to come meet you"

   "Meet me? Who on Earth would want to meet me?!" Myrtle spat at Janna, she backed away from the door as she tried to stand the high pitch of the girls voice. Janna stuck her hand out the door.

Across the corridor the boys heard a violent shrill of a young girl as a hand waved for them to come to the bathroom, the three off them ran to the bathroom. As they skidded to the door a ghost wearing old Ravenclaw robes and round glasses was shouting at Janna who was holding her ears.

    "Oh" Myrtle halted her screaming as she saw the boys come in, Janna slowly stood up "are these your friends?" Myrtle then puckered her lips, laced her arms and let her chin rest on her shoulder, showing off the one side of her face.

    "Yes" Janna shook her head and looked at the boys "I don't think anyone's in here... She might have scared them out or something"

Myrtle floated down to Orion and put her face right by his "if I were alive I would be all for—" Myrtle then cutely put her finger on his chest "—you"

    "Jokes on you, sweetheart" Orion gently pulled Myrtle's hand off his tie "I like my girls living" Janna held a laugh in which ended in a scoff, Myrtle shrieked at Janna who had to hold her ears again, the ghost then shot into the air and swan dived into a toilet, letting the water splash all around her, narrowly missing Janna.

    "Well, mate, you definitely pulled her heartstrings" Jake patted Orion's shoulder, he was still staring at the spot where Myrtle was with his top lip lifted at a corner.

   "She might be going down the drains to find me a grease ball for us to share" Orion shrugged, Janna went closer to the toilet.

   "I wonder where those pipes lead" Janna queried  just as she titled herself to the toilet Myrtle had dove into, bubbles floated from the water which was swirling and twirling like a ballerina.

   "To the Black Lake—" Jake's eye went bright and he smirked briskly  "hey, maybe we should investigate the Black Lake for the Giant Squid that—" A bell interrupted Jake, as though also knowing that the four might get caught in another adventure where they would get lost or be attacked by a ghost or Poltergeist.

The four of them shot out of the bathroom and skidded around the corner to get their bags from their dorms. As their robes flew Juno put his arms out like he was flying, Janna loved running, just the feeling of maybe being able to move faster than time itself.

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The small gaggle of Gryffindor first years huddled with their bags and timetables, trying to figure out where the Herbology classroom would be. Most of the group were girls who all yelled at each other, trying to decide where the classroom would be situated. All while the girls argued Janna, Orion, Jake and Juno sat by the railing waiting for the girls to figure out where to be.

    "Who even understands girls?" Jake asked the three next to him as they passed along a box of Bertie Bottes Every Flavoured Jelly Beans "Maybe girls can understand girls"

Janna shook her head "I don't understand them, their voices are too high pitched" The boys chuckled, Janna then looked at the paintings, she noted they could talk and move around in frames other than their own "Maybe we should ask the painting where to go"

   "Argh, paintings don't like being bothered with" Jake swayed his hand "my house has a few hundred in them... And none of them are helpful, at all"

Janna still went towards a painting here a couple of dogs were playing poker at a large green table. She knocked on the canvas and the dogs barked at her "Sorry, sorry" Janna then looked at all of them as the dogs put down their cards "can you help us find the Herbology classroom?"

A large shaggy black dog let out a bark that sounded like a chuckle, he then took a swing of a red liquid and slammed the bottle onto the table "You are firsties, hey boys, it's September!" Yelled a bulldog, the whole group of dogs raised their glasses and the black dog raised his bottle.

   "Hey hold on, we need help!" Janna leaned to the canvas.

    "Alright, I'll help you... Just wait a moment, I need to find my feet" The black dog then lifted himself from the table and revealed his royal flush to the dogs. The black dog then leaned to the frame "now what's your name little girl?"

    "I'm Julianna Black... But Janna's fine" Janna said to the dog, he grinned, baring his yellowing teeth.

    "Good to know this Janna is fine but is there a simpler name I can call you by?" The black dog asked, smoothing his shaggy black hair over his head, the thick black fur unfurled onto itself under his paw moving out of his eyes.

    "Janna, I'm called by Janna"

    "My name is Snuffles, Janna" The black dog then took the bottle from the table again and swung his head back, taking a few more gulps of the liquor. Yet again he slammed the bottle to the table's edge "Follow me, I know a way to those buildings" Snuffles said as he leapt out of the dog poker painting to a landscape of a vineyard with many workers picking grapes.

    "Hey, I have help!" Janna yelled to her fellow Gryffindors "follow me!"

The dogs at the poker table watched the first years rush past, the retriever wearing a monocle spoke "Who was the poor child conversing with?". The bulldog in the waistcoat shrugged "I don't know, she must be a batty child or some sort of human defect"

A student's shoulder brushed the frame, moving the frame slightly, as the painting shook in its frame swaying the glass bottle Snuffles left behind to fall off the edge of the table, before it hit the floor the bottle eroded into dust and along with the Royal flush, the dust fell out the bottom of the painting's frame, tattering on the stone step below.