Chapter One; Unanswered Questions

Tobey, Angel, and Carlos headed down to Hogsmeade together with their pockets full of money. First they stopped in Honeydukes and bought lots of chocolates and toffees and they stopped inside the Hog's Head for a quick butterbeer. Tobey even allowed Angel to have a little bit of it. "That's disgusting man, I don't know how you can drink from the same mug that your dog drank out of." Carlos said.

"Statistics show that a dog's mouth is actually cleaner than a human's." Tobey told him with a chuckle.

"How the heck are you always so happy?" Carlos wondered but Tobey just simply shrugged at him.

"I dunno, I guess that I'm just a happy person." He said before taking another sip of his butterbeer while Carlos simply just shook his head with disbelief.

"I wish that I could have your spirit. The groundhog said six more weeks of winter, Valentine's Day is coming up yet I don't have a clue who I'm going to ask to the dance, and to top it all off I still have a lot of homework I need to get done. Figures that our teachers gave us homework over the weekend." He said.

"I know, that's why I finished all of mine on Friday." Tobey told him. "That way I don't have to wait until the last second to get it done. Harry taught that technique to me." He said.

"Yeah I sort of figured that since your brother is as busy as a beaver. I don't have a clue how he manages to work with dragons and horses and still finds time to write music and teach Sunday school." Carlos told him.

"Well Harry puts his teachings above everything else, and his work with dragons comes in second. The other things he just does whenever he finds the time to do them. One thing is for certain is that he's never bored. He also has Teddy and Heather there to keep him company." He said.

"Do you miss them? Your other siblings I mean." Carlos said.

"Yeah I do. Even though I can't see them I love their personalities. Harry's hardworking and determined and Teddy and Heather make me laugh." He told him with another little chuckle.

"Really? What about Eve? What do you think of her?" Carlos asked him.

"Well I'm not going to lie to you because I believe that honesty is the best policy. I love her just as much as I love the rest of my brothers and sisters, but she can be a bit annoying sometimes when she starts acting like a drama queen." He admitted.

"Tell me about it, but she has gotten a lot better about it though, not to mention she's really hot." Carlos began as Tobey laughed again. "Too bad she likes that muggle person though." He said.

"Why? What's wrong with muggles?" Tobey wondered.

"Nothing, I come from a family of muggles remember? I just meant that it's too bad that she likes him because I could ask her to be my Valentine and go to the dance with me." Carlos explained.

"You still could ask her to go with you as a friend." Tobey suggested as Carlos shrugged.

"Yeah, I'll think about it." He said before both boys continued drinking their butterbeer.

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"Alright class today we have a very interesting lesson." Harry began. "Now we're going to do a little bit of reading out of the Bible, but mostly we're going to talk about how science and religion are related." He finished as he wrote those two topics up on the chalkboard and underlined them both making them into two separate columns. "Now we're all here this morning because we believe that God created the world and that Jesus was born into the world so that He could teach us how to live our lives and die for our sins.

So I want you to open up your Bibles to the very first page inside the book of Genesis. Now who would like to read that for me?" he wondered as several hands shot up into the air and he ended up calling on a girl with long brown hair. "Alright Madison go ahead." He told her as she started to read.

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty so God said let there be light and there was light. God separated the light from the darkness and called the light day and the darkness night." She read.

"Very good Madison I'm going to stop you there. It goes on to talk about how God created the waters and separated them from the land and sky and then He created plants and animals. And everyone knows the story of Adam and Eve right? And when I mention the name Eve, I'm not talking about my sister." He said with a grin as the children giggled and laughed. "Who can tell me who Eve was in the Bible?" he asked them as several hands shot up into the air again.

"Alright how about the other Harry over there?" he said calling on another little boy with short black hair and dark brown eyes.

"Eve was the first woman that God created and Adam was the first man." He said as Harry smiled at the little boy and nodded.

"That's right Harry well done. And the Bible says that God created Adam first in His image. Then He removed a rib from him and created a woman which we all know as Eve. So," he began before he turned to write on the board under the word religion. "Christianity teaches us that God is the reason and source for all life forms on earth as well as earth itself." He told them while he wrote it down.

"Now science has another theory that there was a big bang and everything that we know today suddenly came into existence." He said as he wrote the theory down under science. "Now a lot of people witches and wizards and muggles alike say that you either have to believe in one or the other. But I say that one cannot exist without the other. I believe that if there really was a big bang there would have to be someone or something that would have to start it.

Now the truth is that nobody really knows what Adam and Eve looked like and they could have looked like cavemen for all we know. God could have created humans elsewhere other than earth and after He created monkeys and humans sooner or later they could have evolved. The truth is that we just don't know and we won't know until we all get to Heaven. So here is what I want you to do for today, I want you to write down a list of questions that you have.

It could have to do with science or religion or both or even about the first witches and how they became as what we know of today and when they started turning from bad to good. I don't care what you write about I just want to get you thinking about it. Then once you're finished writing your list I want you to break up into groups and start discussing them with each other." He told them as they started shuffling around and getting out their papers and pencils.