Chapter One:
"Hello, everyone how are you all today? Welcome to Muggle Studies! Since this is a required class for fifth years I'm going to make it extra fun this year! Headmaster Dumbledore has let me send you all to muggle schools for the year! Isn't this exciting?!" the new energetic teacher at Hogwarts exclaims excitedly as she bounces around at the front of Great Hall.
All of the students stare at her in shock, none of them sure what to make of her or her stupid assignment. All of the fifth year students were gathered in the Great Hall for this announcement and they were all dreading being fifth years at the moment.
"We will be sending all of you to muggle schools around England in groups of five! You will attend the muggle school for five days a week and attend extra tiny magical lessons for an hour after school every day and on Saturdays!" the teacher then adds.
None of the students really know her name since she said it in such a high pitched and hyper voice. It sounded something like Professor High Lander?
"Can you believe she's making us go to muggle schools and do extra hours of school? This teacher is completely crazy!" a whisper sounds somewhere in the room but it seems the teacher didn't hear it.
"Anyways, we will now randomly pick names of fifth year students out of this box! You may or may not be with some of your House mates so you'll either have to get along with each other or will the muggles at your school! Good luck!" she finishes before handing a large silver box to Dumbledore.
"I will now pick out names from the right side of this box. The second side has a name of a school and that is the school the group of five will be attending. Please pay attention since after each group of five is called they will get their magically generated transfer papers," Dumbledore says, a twinkle in his eyes.
One by one Dumbledore lists of the groups of students and the schools they'll be going to. The group of fifth years without assignments was dwindling.
"The next group will contain… Draco Malfoy… David Loosebeer… Blaise Zabini… Serena Hallsworth… and Harry Potter," Dumbledore announces and the room goes silent in shock. Three Slytherins paired up with Harry Potter, it was shocking! Especially since one of the Slytherins was Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter's worst enemy (at Hogwarts at least).
Harry's POV (will stay this way unless I put otherwise – even if it's a scene switch):
I stared at Dumbledore in shock. This couldn't be right; there is no way I had to go to school with Malfoy! I vaguely heard a school being called, but couldn't seem to understand the words coming from the Headmaster's mouth. I slowly make my way to the front with the other four that will be attending the same muggle school as me.
After retrieving my transfer papers I make my way back over to Ron and Hermione who ended up at the same school as each other… lucky idiots…
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"Harry, are you going to be okay?" Hermione asks worriedly as I flop down on the couch in the Gryffindor common room an hour later.
"I'll be fine, Mione," I mumbles unhappily as I watch the other fifth years heading up to the dorms to pack.
"We really should start packing… The train leaves early tomorrow… Try and get some sleep tonight, Harry," Hermione says motherly as she slowly leaves and heads upstairs to the girls dormitory.
After a moment Ron pulls me up from the couch and we head to the boys dormitory. Both of us pack in silence, Ron giving me worried glances occasionally.
"I'm going to get some sleep… 'Night, Ron," I mutter after I finish packing and then strip down to my boxers before climbing under the blankets of my bed.
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"Harry, I can't believe you slept in! We're going to be late!" Hermione shouts as the three of us rush down the dirt path towards the carriages that would bring them to the train. We got there just as they were about to leave.
"I'm so glad you three got here on time! I totally forgot to bring my list with me so we probably would have forgotten you," the new – and probably Canadian or American based on her accent – teacher says with a giggle and leads us to a carriage that's empty.
The ride to the train goes by quickly as I stare up at the sky. I don't want to have to go to a school with Malfoy and Zabini; they'll just make my life even more miserable. At least I won't have to worry about Dudley though; there isn't a chance I'll be at his school.
Just then I realize I hadn't checked what school I was going to. The transfer papers were locked away in my trunk so I'll have to wait till I get off the train to really know. Still, there's a one in a thousand chance that I'll be with Dudley.
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"I'm going to be staying where?" I shout angrily at the new teacher who I still didn't know the name of.
"You'll be staying at your Aunt and Uncle's house, of course! I can't believe you ended up at your cousin's school, but it works out great since its one less place we'll have to rent for you to stay at!" the teacher giggles happily before pushing me towards the bus that would take me and my other four school mates to the town I hated the most.
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The next thing I knew I was standing in front of number four Privet Drive, my trunk in one hand and Hedwig's cage in the other. I sigh before placing my trunk on the ground beside me and knocking rapidly on the wooden door.
"Coming!" the angry voice of my uncle shouts as I hear him rush to the door and pull it open. "Oh, it's only you," he snarls. "I heard you'd be coming to stay with us for the year but I was hoping you wouldn't be here so soon. It's enough to have to see you during the summer…" I sigh as I watch him waddle off back into the house, the door left open for me to enter.
After I finished putting my things in my bedroom – well really its Dudley's junk room – I head downstairs to make dinner since I'm sure it was expected. I slowly make dinner for my 'family' and put large helpings on three plates with a small portion on the fourth. After dinner I ate a few of the leftovers and then washed the dishes before heading back upstairs for the rest of the night. Tomorrow I started school, and I would need a long restful sleep to deal with it.