You're supposed to give gifts on Purim so here is my gift to my readers. Enjoy! This chapter is purely for some crew interaction, not going to lie.

As it turned out. Professor McGonagall was not a woman easily impressed. Even with an unconscious mountain troll at their feet, the fierce woman was ready to expel the lot of them, especially after Luffy's terrible attempts at lying. Zoro finally slapped a hand over the former-rubber-boy's mouth and Hermione did the talking.

Nami hadn't expected the lies to come so easily to the goody-two-shoes but Hermione had lied and evidently, McGonagall bought it. Snape seemed ready to spit fire when he saw two of his Slytherin's had been mixed up in the whole thing. Professor Snape had slowly resigned himself to Zabini's behavior but Malfoy was a blow.

Brook watched with a fond smile on his face and offered to walk the bunch back to their different common rooms after a few points had been awarded for "sheer dumb luck." Thankfully the other professors were in too much shock to stop the music professor from shooing his crewmates from the scene in the bathroom.

Brook knew something had happened beyond the troll. Hermione was quickly becoming a regular with the small crew but the appearance of Draco Malfoy was very different and Brook hoped that meant that they had sound another Straw Hat. Brook led the kids, who were more tired than anything, to the floor with the magical room that they used as their meeting place. Brook knew that all of the kids had seen this room, but when he urged it to become the Merry-Go he noticed a new reaction.

Draco Malfoy gasped softly and hesitantly reached out and brushed a hand against the wood of the ship. "Where are we?" He asked no one in particular. "How is this possible?"

"The magic boat room!" Luffy cheered running for his special seat on Merry's head.

"This room was the Sunny, too," Sanji muttered still running a hand over the familiar wooden railing of the Straw Hat's first ship. "I remember now."

"Yohoho," Brook laughed. "The Come-and-Go room is capable of many great things."

"Brook," Sanji said turning to look at the skeleton and squinted distrustfully at the skeletal musician not looking very skeletal. "Were you reborn too?"

"Dumbledare put a spell on him to make him look normal!" Luffy shouted from his special seat. 4

"Professor Dumbledore," Hermione corrected absentmindedly. She had followed Professor Brook and had held her tongue when instead of taking them to their dormitories the professor instead leads them to the room where they had all spent the night after the sham of a duel and the run-in with the three-headed dog. Hermione had never been more confused in her life. She had been inches from being beaten to death by a troll, then Harry, Ron, and Blaise rushed in and fought the troll, and they didn't even think to use magic! Then Draco Malfoy appeared out of nowhere and acted like he was a completely different person.

Harry, Ron, and Blaise acted like Draco had always been this way. Even when Draco had reacted so strangely to Ron's shout to stop arguing. No one even blinked an eye. Even now, the four students and Professor Brook had a strange familiarity between them that didn't make much sense to the girl.

"What is going on here?" Hermione shouted. "What were you thinking! Going after the troll like that? You could have been killed!" Tears began to well up in Hermione's eyes. "What is this place? Why are you all so strange?" Hermione dropped to the ground near the ship's railing and covered her eyes and cried. It had been a tough day for the young girl and all she wanted was a cup of tea and to go to bed.

"Don't cry, love," Sanji swooned fluttering around helplessly. The Come-and-Go-Room couldn't provide food so Sanji was unable to try and sooth the upset girl that way. "Did one of these brute's upset you? What did you do to the Hermione-chan?" Sanji demanded as he turned on Zoro angrily.

"I didn't do anything, stupid love cook," Zoro grunted. The swordsman had been watching the girl steadily grow more upset and attributed it to after battle shock.

"If you did anything to upset her, I swear I'll -" Sanji growled.

"Shut up!" Nami shouted as he stepped between the arguing boys. The redhead gave them both a sharp shove.

"N-nami?" Sanji said in a choked voice. The swordsman sniggered hatefully when as the blond twitched and stared at the redhead in horror. It appeared Sanji had finally noticed Nami.

Nami ignored the blond and looked at Luffy who was watching the scene with a wide grin. "Captain, what do we do about Hermione?"

Luffy paused his rocking back and forth as he watched Sanji twitch and mutter to himself. The pirate crew captain scrunched up his face and squinted at Hermione from his seat. The girl looked exhausted and frustrated but the boy made a loud "hmmm" noise and hopped down from his seat and moved to sit in front of the girl.

Luffy stared at her until Hermione stared back and the two sat in silence for a moment while Luffy looked at her hard. Nami shifted uncomfortably. The rest of the crew puttered around in the background but everyone jumped when Luffy sighed.

"I don't think 'mione is asleep but she is our friend," Luffy declared poking the girl in the cheek. Hermione scowled and batted Luffy's finger away. "We all died," Luffy said plainly.

Nami slapped a hand over his face and groaned.

Thankfully Hermione grasped the idea of reincarnation easily. The girl was skeptical until Brook stepped in and the girl's overwhelming respect for authority nudged her to this side of believing. It was probably harder for Hermione to understand that her new friends were pirates then it was to believe in reincarnation.

"But pirates are bad!" Hermione cried. "When pirates were still around they did all kinds of terrible things. They killed people and stole things! How could you be like that?"

"We aren't," Luffy had said. "We're after adventure and freedom!"

"But that's not what pirates do!" Hermione shouted. The frizzy-haired girl looked like she was ready to shake Luffy until his head came off. Nami sympathized.

"It's what we do," Luffy said simply. The green-eyed boy stuck his pinky up his nose and dug around looking bored and entirely unconcerned.

In the background, Nami could still hear Sanji muttering. Every so often the redhead could catch Sanji staring at him with sad soulful eyes before the blond would march away muttering and twitching. Nami rolled his eyes, he really needed to sit down with Sanji and talk about this.

"You aren't going to win," Zoro said from where he had stretched out on the deck. "Luffy and the rest of us have our ideas of what piracy means. We weren't the typical crew even if we did engage in traditional pirate behavior from time to time."

"We declared war on the world government once," Luffy offered when it looked like Hermione was going to ask what he meant. "And Nami has us steal lots of treasure."

Nami ignored the glare Hermione sent his way.

"At least this explains the names," Hermione said, mostly to herself. "Luffy," she said pointing to the captain. "Captain?"

Luffy grinned and nodded. During the explanation, Nami and Brook had explained who everyone was and what they had done on the crew.

"Zoro?" Hermione asked, unsure, as she pointed to the dark-skinned boy. "Swordsman? Why does a pirate crew even need a swordsman?"

Zoro grunted and Nami rolled his eyes. "Zoro is also the first-mate, I don't think it was ever really said, but that's basically what he does," Nami explained.

"Nami," Hermione said with surety. "You were the navigator? And you were a girl before?"

Nami nodded and everyone ignored Sanji's anguished shout.

"He's Sanji, the cook? Really?" Hermione asked distastefully.

Sanji snapped out of his mood and practically danced to where Hermione had been settled into a folding chair the room provided. "That's me~ my darling!" Sanji said swooning.

Hermione grimaced at the blond's behavior. Draco Malfoy had been very mean to Hermione since they started Hogwarts and it was strange to see the bullying pureblood act this way.

"And Professor Brook was your musician?" Hermione asked looking at the professor. "And he used to be a skeleton."

"Correction, I still am a skeleton," Brook said cheerfully from the piano the room had conjured for him.

Hermione took a deep fortifying breath and look at Luffy. "Anything you want to tell me?" She said putting her hand on her face. "I can't take much more of this."

"Oh, Robin!" Luffy shouted excitedly. "She's coming to school next year."

"Robin~" Sanji swoons. "We know where she is?"

"She's a year younger than us now," Nami explained. "She'll join us next year."

"Hmm, that's different," Sanji said, slipping back into his serious demeanor. "Robin was a few years older than the rest of us before. I wonder if that means Franky will be younger too."

"Who is Franky?" Hermione asked. She hadn't heard that name before.

"Shipwright, cyborg," Zoro answered easily with a small smirk. He had seen how Hermione reacted to some of the other eccentric members of the crew and wanted to see her reaction to Franky.

"Of course he is," Hermione muttered to herself. "A cyborg. What else could be he Hermione? There is already a skeleton, why not a cyborg."

"Maybe we should wait to tell her about Chopper and the devil fruits," Nami muttered watching the logical girl mutter angrily to herself. Nami thoughtfully slapped a hand over Luffy's mouth when the pint-sized captain looked ready to tell Hermione just that.

"But wait! If this is reincarnation, how can you all remember?" Hermione asked. "How long have you been able to remember? Is this life just a straight continuation of your previous ones? What about Draco? He had a completely different personality before!"

Nami shrugged and he saw the others doing the same. "We just remember. Luffy and I've remembered for a long time, Zoro and Sanji both remembered here at school, so it's pretty random," Nami said thoughtfully. "Oh Robin knew from a young age, didn't she Luffy."

"Un," the captain nodded remembering the talk he had with the young blond.

"Sanji what made you remember?" Luffy asked his cook. Sanji was the newest Straw Hat to 'wake up'.

The blond frowned and tapped his heel on the deck. "I was following you because I saw you leave the great hall instead of following the prefects," Sanji said thinking. "I remember smelling the troll and then a scream." Sanji shrugged helplessly. "I can't remember anything between that and walking into the bathroom."

"And as for my personality before," Sanji frowned. "It's not gone, I'm not an entirely different person. I'm the same man I was before the troll I just know more now. It's hard to explain, but that's it."

Hermione scowled at the less than helpful answer but Brook stepped in before they could begin speaking again.

"I need to get you all back to your common rooms," Brook said sadly. "Or Professor McGonagall will have my hide, not that I have any, skull joke!"

The kids all groaned but reluctantly allowed themselves to be lead out of the Come-and-Go-Room and back to their common rooms.

Severus Snape was not having a good year. This terrible, no good, bad year was made worse by two of his Slytherins insisting on behaving in a very unslytherin like manner. The day after the troll incident, the group of five students was found crowded together at the Gryffindor table. The inclusion of Blaise Zabini wasn't new, the dark-skinned boy had long since become a regular fixture with Harry Potter and Ron Weasley, the newest Slytherin to join them was what raised eyebrows.

Draco Malfoy was sitting at the table as if he had been there since day one. He seemed openly antagonistic to the other Slytherin at the table while he tolerated Harry Potter and seemed to almost pamper Ron Weasley.

It was enough to make more than one head turn and to make several students to a double take when they saw it. That didn't stop the crew from having a great time and celebrating that another crewmate had returned to them.

Nami had made use of Luffy's owl and alerted Robin to Sanji's awakening. Hermione had been all but adopted by the crew which kept the Gryffindor mean girls at bay. All in all, things were good for the crew, but a mystery still lurked under the surface.

"What happened to Snape's leg?" Nami asked as he watched the scowling professor limp to the head table.

"Dunno," Zoro grunted elbowing Luffy in the side. The pint-sized captain ignored his swordsman and continued vying for the food on his plate. "He was like that last night when he showed up at the bathroom with the rest of the professors."

"I didn't notice," Nami admitted.

"He's in a worse mood than usual," Sanji said. "He took two points off from some Slytherin third years this morning." The blond had received more than his fair share of strange looks today. His overnight personality change was

Nami's eyebrows went up in surprise. Snape never took points off from his own house. "That explains why he took points off for my tie being crooked when I ran into him earlier."

"Maybe he was playing with Barky," Luffy added blinking innocently. Luffy liked Barky he was fun, he needed to go back and play with him. Dogs needed exercise, didn't they? Well, Luffy needed a training partner so it would all work out.

"Barky?" Nami asked. "Do you mean the three-headed dog?"

Luffy nodded excitedly.

"Why would he play with that monster?" Nami asked confused then shook his head Snape wouldn't play with anything let alone a giant three-headed monster. "Why would he go anywhere near it? The professors went after the troll and it was supposed to be in the dungeons."

"Maybe it has something to do with the trap door?" Hermione suggested meekly. The frizzy-haired girl had been subdued since the troll. She was overwhelmed with the entire situation. When she had woken up that morning, Luffy and Nami (Hermione couldn't believe she was using their nicknames) had been waiting for her. When she had asked why they waited Luffy had looked at her like she was stupid and said it was because they were friends.

"We should ask Brook," Zoro said jerking his head up at the head table. As a professor, the musician was able to get more information than the rest of them could. "He's a teacher, so he might know."

"There's a trap door?!" Luffy shouted, of course, the boy hadn't seen the trap door he had been far too focused on the giant three-headed dog and the impending fight to notice anything else. Nami pounced and shoved his hand over Luffy's mouth.

"Shut up!" Nami hissed. The redhead looked around to see if anyone had noticed what Luffy had said. The last thing they needed was Percy overhearing that. "We aren't supposed to know about the trap door, idiot. Shut up!"

Thankfully the noise of the Great Hall and the students inside it was more than enough to cover up their conversation and everyone was used to Luffy's outbursts by now.

Luffy mumbled something from behind Nami's hand but the redhead ignored him. "Look, with the dog and the trapdoor, there is obviously something going on here," Nami said, there was only one reason to guard something so heavily. The redhead paused to imagine all the treasure that could be hidden in the school and then shook his head. "But the Great Hall is not the place for this, what if someone overhears and beats up to the treasure?!"

"Treshurr!" Luffy mumbled from behind Nami's hand. Nami rolled his eyes and pulled his hand away.

"Nami is right!" Sanji said automatically like he would have back on the Sunny. "Would you like more juice, Nami darling?" Sanji took the pitcher from Dean Thomas' hands acting on instinct more than anything. "It's not as good as something I could have made but it's decent enough."

The black boy gave he Slytherin a strange look, he had been irritated and confused when Sanji had sat next to him that morning for breakfast but when Harry and the others had included him as easily as anyone, Dean had bit his tongue. Now though, he was irritated again. "Hey! I was using that!" Dean complained.

Sanji ignored the boy and poured Nami more juice when the redhead nodded absentmindedly. Nami sipped at his drink and looked up at Professor Snape. Something was going on in this school and Nami had a bad feeling that the Straw Hat Pirates were going to end up in the middle of it all.