Chapter One; Back to School

It was very busy around the Potter and Weasley household. It was full of hustle and bustle while they started packing their bags to get ready for another year at Hogwarts. Richie was getting very excited to see Beethoven again since he hadn't seen him for a few months since Hagrid took him. Ron and Hermione, who had felt very sorry for their son that he had to lose his dog, had bought him a brightly colored green frog at Diagon Alley for him that he had named Croaker.

Even though Richie still desperately missed him and loved him very much, he agreed with his parents on the fact that Croaker was a lot easier to take care of. Both families met at King's Cross station. Luna, Myrtle, DJ, and Brianna also met them there followed by Dudley and his son.

"Dudley?" Harry questioned him with disbelief. "What are you doing here?"

"This is my son Howie, he's starting his first year at Hogwarts." He explained while he looked down at him and put his hand upon his shoulder and rested it there. If Harry didn't know any better he would have assumed they were twins. Myrtle smiled sweetly at him.

"Hullo, nice to meet you Howie. My name is Myrtle Longbottom." She said as she reached out and shook his hand.

"Hi." He said shyly while turning his head away from her and blushing beet red.

"Do you want to share a compartment with me and my friends Miley, Justine, and Melissa? It's Melissa's first year as well, and Miley's a muggleborn like you." She explained.

"Sure." Howie agreed with a grin. That's when all of a sudden another young girl with dark hair, light green eyes, and a pointed nose showed up.

"I hate filthy mudbbloods, you lot are unworthy to study electricity let alone magic." She told him with a snort.

"Pay no attention to her Howie!" Myrtle snapped while she turned to look back at the other girl with a scowl as Molly and Mia held their living baby dolls tightly inside their arms and Harry bent down to hug and kiss his children goodbye.

"Who's that bitch?" Ron muttered to Hermione. "Is she another relative of Malfoy's?" he wondered.

"No, don't be ridiculous." Hermione began. "She's Justine's sister." She explained.

"Oh." He began simply. "Poor girl." He finished before he turned to step inside the Hogwarts Express with everyone else.

After the train pulled out in front of the castle as usual the sorting began. Ron and Hermione were pleasantly surprised when Howie Dursley got sorted into Gryffindor, however they weren't the least bit surprised when Erin Matthews (the girl who had been bullying him at the station) was sorted into Slytherin. Even after Ron found out that not all Slytherins were evil, that didn't stop them from being evil altogether.

Melissa Parker got sorted into Hufflepuff while James Potter (as it came as no surprise to them) was sorted into Gryffindor as well. Then after the sorting was over the feast began. Although Lucy finally knew someone almost her age being sorted into Slytherin, even Brianna agreed that she would rather have to fight a dragon than be friends with her, which was saying a lot since she had a rather large fear of dragons.

After the feast James followed Lilly and Howie to the Gryffindor common room. Lilly, having met Howie's older sister at muggle school a few years before never dreamed that she would be in the presence of another Dursley and actually enjoying it. All three of them said goodnight to each other before Lilly climbed the stairs to the girl's dormitory while James and Howie went to be with the other boys.

The next morning after breakfast classes begun. Myrtle was rather surprised that she would be having her first potions lesson with the Gryffindors, especially since most of them were in their first year. James and Howie being among them. However before she had time to greet them properly and ask what they had been doing there, their professor arrived.

"Good morning class and welcome to your first potions class. As most of you already know, I am your professor, Professor Dodger. However what you don't know is that all of your curriculum for this year has been changed so all of you can be able to learn about these potions and master brewing them. The headmaster and headmistress have agreed for this year it is for the best." She explained when suddenly whispers broke out among them.

"Lilly Potter, please come up here." Casey said loudly when Lilly slowly turned her head around away from James and looked up at her before she slowly stood up and walked up to the front of the room. "Now let's see how much you remember and how much you have been practicing over the summer." She began. "Even though you will learn more about them this year, tell me what is the proper potion for being able to keep yourself under control when you become a werewolf." She said.

"So that's why the teacher called her up there, she should know all about that,.. her father's one." One of the other students said before they tilted their head backs and started to howl .

"Knock it off!" Howie yelled.

"Thank you Howie, ten points to Gryffindor for sticking up for her, and ten points from Ravenclaw for your ridiculous, childish behavior." Casey said before turning her attention back to Lilly. "Go ahead Lilly." She told her.

"The wolfsbane potion." She responded.

"Right, another ten points to Gryffindor." Casey told her with a nod of her head. "Anyway, this year we will begin our lessons with vampires. Now can you tell me the way in which somebody comes a vampire?" she asked her.

"I think it happens after they die, and they are resurrected with the resurrection chant." Lilly said.

"Once again that is correct. Ten more points to Gryffindor. You may sit down now." Casey told her as she sent her back to her seat. "Now unfortunately there is a reason that this process is absolutely forbidden. For becoming a vampire is a lot like transforming into a werewolf. You don't have any knowledge of who you are or what's going on." She explained with a shake of her head.

"Not to mention your body has been decaying from lying in the ground, and you will burn up into flames if you are in the sunlight for too long. However, if one does manage to become a vampire, the invisibility potion will help it, the only downside is that the effects only last for a short period of time. Anyway, for the rest of the class I want you to read pages two-hundred through two-hundred and thirty and copy down the different ways werewolves and vampires are, and the things that they have in common.

Then for homework I want you to write me an essay about it and start collecting the ingredients for the invisibility potion. Are there any questions before we get started?" she asked when all of a sudden Myrtle's hand shot up into the air. "Yes Myrtle?" she questioned with a nod of her head gestured in her direction.

"Why has the curriculum suddenly been changed? We were supposed to be learning about the sleeping and swelling solution this year." She said.

"You will later in the year, but as I said, both the headmaster and headmistress have instructed me to go over this first. Now, are there any more questions?" she asked when suddenly everyone just exchanged glances with each other and the room went silent. "Good, you may begin." She said as there came the sound of everyone opening up their books and quills scribbling a crossed their pieces of parchment.

Later on after the lesson, James, Lilly, Sheela, Jeremy, and Chase gathered inside a group together. "That was a really odd lesson wasn't it?" Jeremy questioned.

"Yeah,.. it was weird. We never had anything like that before, and to share it with the first years,.." Lilly began before she looked over at her brother. "No offense." She quickly added.

"I just wonder why she would do something like that." Chase said.

"Well, I've got a theory." Sheela began. "But it really is too soon to really say, so I'm going down to the library during free period to find out." She said before she walked away.

"It's scary how much she's like her mother." James said while Lilly nodded in agreement.

"Too much." She said.