Chapter 2

Disclaimer- I am not a Pathological lier. I have 3 legs. I know Tony Hawk. I own Harry Potter.

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Day 1

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Buzz, Buzz, Buzz. Harry coughed groggily as he reached for his wand to turn off his alarm charm. He got out of bed and performed his morning rituals with any 16 year old boys grumbling. He grabbed his cloak on the way out, as it got cold in a scottish castle, and walked down the stairs to meet Ron and Hermione.

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"I don't see why my study habits are any of your business Hermione!" exclaimed Ron angrily.

"I'm just trying to help you be a better student Ron! NEWTs are only 20 months and 25 days away!" She responded with equal fervor.

"Only you would know the exact amount of months and days 'till NEWTs," He muttered under his breath before responding with, "If I studied as much you wanted from now 'till then I'd have better scores then Dumbledore and you-know-who combined! Even with my bad memory!"

"Well at least then you'd--" she was cut off

"That's enough!" Harry cut in exasperated, "You two bicker like an old married couple! In fact you had an almost identical argument yesterday, I'd call it foreplay if I wasn't so sure that you couldn't last a week as a couple."

Harry chuckled at their expressions, despite having interrupted them like this previously they never stopped looking surprised to be interrupted. In fact maybe it is like foreplay to them, he chuckled inwardly, odd fetish.

Hermione huffed at being interrupted but her analytical mind had just finished processing one of his statements. "Harry, I haven't criticized his," she glanced at Ron as if he should be ashamed. "study habits since OWL's last year."

Harry having no reason to expect otherwise just commented that she was probably right and let the matter drop and walked on to lunch.

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On arrival in the Great Hall Harry was accosted by his oddest friend.

"Worfs getting to you yet Harry?" she asked on her way to the Gryffindor table where she had taken up sitting since the ministry battle. She didn't wait for a response and just skipped over to the unofficial fifth years section and her friend Ginny.

Harry frowned, he hadn't known Luna long, nor was she best friends with him like Hermione or Ron but she didn't often repeat the same odd animals she was famous for without provocation or the right reminder. He brushed it off and just sat down and had a leisurely breakfast with his friends and chatted until it was time for double transfiguration with the Ravenclaws.

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He sat down towards the back with Ron while Hermione sat to the left of Harry with Terry Boot a Ravenclaw he was pretty sure was casual acquaintances with her.

After they had chatted for a minute the bell rang and Professor McGonagall shushed the class and began teaching.

"We'll be starting the basics of human-to-animal transfiguration on both self and others today. Now who can tell me one use of Human-to-Animal transfiguration?"

Harry was confused and raised his hand. He was sure that this had happened before and was having the most bizarre sense of deja vu.

"Yes Mr. Potter?"

"Um. Prof. McGonagall hav--" Harry tried to say but was interrupted.

"You can ask me a personal question once you've answered mine." she cut in sternly.

"Oh, well human-to animal transfiguration can be used to give you the attributes of the animal or parts of an animal you are or have. Like when Viktor turned his head into that of a shark for the second task." He paused, "But prof. McGonagall didn't we learn this yesterday?

She was nodding in approval until he finished speaking and just looked confused. "I'm sorry Mr. Potter but are you feeling well? I mentioned we would be learning this starting tomorrow but other than that I've only mentioned it in passing."

Harry sat in a bit of a daze for a few minutes engrossed in his own thoughts and missing McGonagall's lecture on the pros and cons of human-to animal transfiguration. He was sure he had had this lesson before the parts of the lecture that were actually reaching his brain were word for word what he'd heard yesterday. He thought back to Hermione and Ron's argument in the common room and realized it couldn't be a coincidence.

By the end of the class Harry hadn't even produced hairs on the hand he was supposed to be turning into a cat's and he was as stumped as he had been once he realized that they were even doing the same transfiguration as yesterday too.

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After three more identical to yesterday lessons and a lot of thinking Harry lay in bed feeling more than stumped and a little panicky. Am I crazy or something? Why is today... well not today? Realizing something Harry pulled out his wand, "Tempus." he casted, the date was shown to be Tuesday the 15th 11:23 P.M. Yesterday was the 15th... He thought to himself as he drifted off to sleep.

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AN: Okay for those who care I'm not using any Lexicon schedule just what fits the plot so assume Harry has double transfiguration Tuesdays and the Wednesday he thought it was and then was expecting the day to be the same and just went with the flow. Well tell me what you think and I may address it in a PM or AN or something...