Chapter 1: A Sense of Wonder
"Hey 'Mione!" yelled a voice from behind Hermione and she spun around to face the two kind smiles of her best friends.
One none other than the savior of the entire wizarding world Harry Potter. The other was a tall, freckled, red headed boy named Ron Weasley. She greeted the boys with a bright, not crooked as it was in their first few years at Hogwarts, smile.
"Hey, have you two gotten your new schedules yet?" she said as the two boys then shared a look.
"Oh good old Hermione Granger, hasn't seen her best friends for the entire summer and the first thing she says is about school." Said Ron with a silly smile which earned him a whack on the head with one of the many books Hermione was already carrying, and a burst of laughter from Harry which also got him the same treatment as Ron.
"I only asked because there is supposed to be a new class on them for the sixth and seventh years, look see." She said as she shoved a bright piece of parchment towards the boys, "It's just a blank spot with a time and a room number."
"Well maybe it's just a mistake and there is no new class." Said Harry
"Goodness Harry don't you think I've already thought of that," she spoke in a tone of disappointment to the boy, "anyway I've asked around all sixth and seventh years I've asked have had it an no one knows what it is."
"Did you ask McGonagall?" asked Ron
"Yes Ronald and she just sent me away."
"Well I'm sure she'll tell us once the feast starts." Said Harry with reassurance.
And so the trio continued to talk about their summers as more of their Gryffindor friends joined them. They were soon all ushered into the great hall and to their selective tables. McGonagall started to speak.
"Students I'm sure your all excited for the new year to come, as am I, but the professors and I need to inform you, especially the first years of all the dangers that have become us in the last year." She then went into a speech about the event of the past year revolving around Dumbledore's death and Harry's defeat of Voldemort, as well as smaller and more familiar things like how no one can travel into the forbidden forest and new teachers.
"And I'm sure all sixth and seventh years are curious about the blank class on your schedules. Well it is not a mistake, there will be a new class, however I cannot say much for the moment, and after the feast I will ask all sixth and seventh years to stay behind for a few moments to discuss it further. So now let us eat and bring in the new school year with magic." Then the meal appeared and dazzled all the first year students, honestly it still made even Hermione Granger smile with a sense of wonder.