Halloween approached quicker than Harry had even thought possible. Between practices and classes Harry had full days everyday. Ron and him spent as much time as possible together while Hermione mostly had her nose in a book. Though she was now top of every class, except DADA which Harry held with an iron grip, she didn't have many friends. Most Slytherins avoided her, some just muttering degrading things, the Ravenclaws thought she was too much of a bookworm and she never approached the Puffs. The lions just brushed her off as Slytherin trash and were sometimes worse than the Slytherins.