So here's the story that you guys wanted with the amount of favorites and follows that you guys dropped while I was on vacation.
Now this story there will be boring parts just because it will all be needed to be the foundation for the rest of the story or some crap like that.
Anyway, thank you for all the support on the first chapter so here's the second one!
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"Oh bloody hell." Ron groaned as he looked at his schedule.
"Wut?" Harry asked as he peppered his scrambled eggs.
"We've got Double Potions with Snape." Ron sighed as he speared some bacon with his fork, "Starting off the first day right I guess?"
Harry shrugged as he continued to eat his breakfast, the Great Hall filling up with students and teachers to enjoy a hearty meal before starting off their day.
He noticed coming in from the distance and sitting down with an irritated sigh in front of them, her robes in a ruffled mess.
"What happened to you Hermione?" Ron asked as he checked his watch, "You're usually the first one here. What took you so long?"
"Professor Zhu's fanboys." Hermione growled as she set down her bag and grabbed some eggs, jam, and toast, "I couldn't get through the corridors since they pretty much blocked it off with the amount of people that were there."
"Blimey she's so popular already." Ron said in surprise, taking a look at the entrance, "It hasn't even been a day yet and she's already got a fan base already. Shame that we don't have her until Friday."
"Well it's a big nuisance." Hermione huffed in irritation, "I can't get anywhere with all of them roaming the hallways for her."
"True that." Fred said as he sat down with George, "We were half-tempted to throw in a couple of Dungbombs to clear the way before Professor McGonagall came."
"Anyway," George said as he managed to grab Katie, Angelina, and Alicia three seats down, "Me and Fred managed to get Madam Hooch to let us borrow the Quidditch Field so we could do unofficial matches between the houses."
"Seriously?" Katie sighed in relief, "I was about to say that the whole summer of thinking up new tactics was going to be completely useless."
"I know that Wood told you to take care of the team Kate but that's a bit much yeah?" Fred joked as he grabbed some nearby bacon, "Like, just tone it down a bit yeah?"
"Anyway, have you talked with the other House Captains about this?" Ron asked his brothers as they were starting on their breakfast, "Seeing as how we really can't have an unofficial game with only one team."
"Of course we did you nitwit." Fred rolled his eyes, "Plus, they were pretty much down for it either way seeing as how much they hate us-"
"They would want to play against us anyway." George finished with half of his mouth full of hash browns, "All we need to do now is get a Keeper and we'll be set."
"Why don't I be Keeper?" Ron exclaimed excitedly, "You've played against me back at home so you've seen what I can do."
"Yeah and we think it's a bloody mess." Fred said as he took a swig of his pumpkin juice, "I'd rather put Errol as a Keeper and he'd probably do better than you mate."
"But it's either me or Cormac and you know it." Ron argued as he pointed to the jockey Gryffindor flirting with a third-year, "I don't like the guy one bit but he's good on a broom."
Fred and George looked at each other for a split moment before looking at Ron, "Good point."
"So does that mean I'm Keeper?" Ron asked earnestly.
"Yeah." Fred groaned as he received a confirmation from Katie, the Captain of the House Team, "You're in. Just don't suck too badly little brother."
"Yes!"
A loud group of chatter came from the entrance of the Great Halls as the group looked to see Professor Zhu entering with an aura of fresh air, the halls quieting down significantly as everyone looked at the foreign teacher.
"Good morning everyone." Zhu smiled while waving towards the Great Halls, "I hope that you all are ready for class."
All of the houses erupted into a passionate cheer as Professor Zhu giggled and took a seat next to Hagrid before engaging in a conversation while simultaneously enjoying their breakfast.
"There she is mate." Fred joked while nudging Harry on the side with his elbow, "The love of your dreams in the flesh."
"But I thought that it was that one Asian Ravenclaw girl that he favored." George said as he pointed towards the respective house table, "Isn't that right Harry?"
"Yes. I mean no!" Harry said at first before he realized what he had said, "Wait, how did you-"
The sound of the bell tower ringing signaled that the first of the classes were starting in a couple of minutes and the sound of scraping benches sounded off both excited and disgruntled students heading off to their classes.
"Lets go Harry." Ron groaned as he tapped Harry on his shoulder, "The sooner that we finish Potions then the faster we can get ready for the new Professor."
"Alright." Harry said as he shoveled the last of his eggs into his mouth before wiping his face clean with his sleeve, "See you later Hermione at Transfiguration."
Hermione merely gave them a small wave goodbye with her nose buried in a book still while trying to enjoy a piece of toast messily smeared with jam.
Harry and Ron talked a bit of what had happened during the Quidditch World Cup as they made their way down to the dungeons for their double period of Potions with one of the shittiest Professors in the school.
Harry opened the door to see the room filled with Gryffindors and Slytherins chattering amongst their houses with Professor Snape nowhere in sight.
"Well that's a surprise innit?" Ron said as he and Harry took a seat next to Seamus and Lee, "For once that bastard isn't here when we come in."
"He's actually late this time mate." Seamus said as he looked up at the clock, "I think this is the first time that Snape's ever been late to class and that's a shocker even for him."
"Let's hope that he doesn't show up so we won't have to deal with with him for the rest of the period." Ron joked before the doors fly open and in walked Professor Snape with his signature brooding expression, "Oh bloody hell."
"You and your fat mouth." Harry said as he smacked Ron above the head.
"Welcome back to Potions." Snape said boredly as he walked towards the front of the room with his hands behind his back, stopping at the board before grabbing a chalk and started to scribble something out, "Have your summer assignments in front of your desk ready to be picked up while you begin on your first major grade assignment of the year."
The room collectively groaned before Snape barked with his back still turned, "Or would you all prefer a 12-inch parchment due at the end of class on everything you were supposed to learn over the summer?!"
The class instantly quieted down, even the Slytherins knew that even they had a limit not to push with their Head of House.
"Know, to start off the class, you will be doing a relatively simple potion." Snape said as he suddenly whipped around and threw the piece of chalk at a Gryffindor who had been mocking him, "Five points from Gryffindor for their cheekiness."
The Slytherins snickered at the misfortune of the boy that had been caught before Snape moved away from the board and presented them their assignment.
"It's a simple yet powerful concoction of a cold medicine." Snape said while smacking at the board with a ruler, "After seeing as how some of you were shivering like wet dogs yesterday in the Great Halls despite knowing several spells that would warm you up, I realized that having fewer students in my class due to a measly cold would dampen my reputation as well as the school."
"But Professor Zhu dried us off with her weird magic." Lavender said aloud, "So why would we need to know how to brew it now?"
"Another five points from Gryffindor for speaking out of turn and disrespecting another Professor's magic." Snape said coldly before staring down Lavender with his signature gaze, "Because Ms. Brown, Professor Zhu will not always be there wipe away your sniffles and warm you up and so that you can treat your own lazy self whenever you get sick!"
"Blimey, I've never seen Snape defend another teacher before." Ron whispered to Harry, "Not only that but he was actually late on the first day."
"Yeah." Harry whispered as he took out his Potion ingredients, "Always thought of him as a shrewd bastard that only thought of himself."
"Now, follow the instructions and you should be able to accomplish the task with ease. In fact it should take you no more than an hour." Snape said as he went onto the second board and scribbled a few things, "Once you're done, you can start on the five inch parchment of the influences on Potions as a whole with the introduction of new ingredients due to foreign alliances due next Monday."
The whole class talked amongst each other before heating up their cauldrons and prepping their ingredients to start on their brews while Snape walked around, supervising while picking up homework.
45 minutes later
"Pass me a bit of Bezoar won't you Harry?" Ron said as he stirred the steaming concoction, "I think I've just about finished this up."
"Are you serious Weasley?" Draco sneered as he was mixing his nearly done potion, "I can smell that pungent smell all the way from over here! That smells more like dragon dung than an actual potion!"
"Ignore him Ron." Harry said as he sprinkled a bit of his last ingredient after finely chopping it, "Let's just finish this up and get started on the parchment already."
"But I bet that your trousers smelled just as bad Potty." Draco swooned mockingly, "Those bad Death Eaters must of broke through your packed shabby tent while you were huddling around a fire trying to warm yourself up?"
"At least my mother doesn't look like she's constantly sniffing terrible under her nostril." Harry retorted while shooting the Slytherin a look, "Bet she had fun trying to breathe through all the cheap cologne that you and your father bathe in."
"How dare you Potter!" Draco snarled as he tried to whipped out his wand before a firm hand stopped him, the former looking up to see Professor Snape looking down at him, "Umm, Professor-"
"No magic inside the classroom without my permission Draco. As for you," Snape brooded as he looked over to Harry, the latter expecting a punishment, "Continue working on your brew Potter."
"What?"
"Did you not hear me Potter?" Snape questioned with a raised eyebrow while turning to face him, "Or would you prefer it if I took points away for your insolence?"
"No Professor."
Snape whipped his cape and proceeded to monitor the rest of the classroom that was starting on their essays.
"Okay, something's definitely wrong with Snape." Ron said as he checked behind his shoulder, "He'd usually give us detention or even take some points away from us whenever this usually happened."
"Let's just finish up and get ready to meet whatever beast Hagrid has in store for us." Harry said as he poured his brew into a vial before corking it and cleaned up his workplace.
A few hours later
"Come on over you all." Hagrid bellowed as he rested his hand atop of a rocking crate, "Hurry up now. Time's a wastin!"
"How much you want to bet that, that thing in their can kill us in an instant." Ron said as he and Harry made their way down towards their class, which consisted of Gryffindors and Ravenclaws.
"Knowing Hagrid, probably." Harry said as he caught sight of Cho talking amongst her group of friends, "We'll be lucky if it doesn't maim us when we try to feed it."
"Gather around folks!" Hagrid shouted as the whole class managed to make an uneven semi-circle around him and the rattling boxes, "Bit of a special treat for you all today. I managed to wrangle these away from the German breeder in Diagon Alley for a great price for a lesson that will last us for a couple of months at least."
"So how many legs does it have this time Hagrid?" Ron joked with the half-giant man, "Or is it like the Flobberworms we had to take care of last time?"
"Four legs Ron." Hagrid said as he broke open the top of the box with a single hand and pulled out a brownish pup baring its teeth while yapping at Hagrid, trying to bite at his meaty fingers but to no avail.
Several of the girls in the classroom sighed in awe as they try to move over each other to get a closer look at the adorable puppy with the guys looking on in curiosity.
"Now you lot may be thinking that this is just a regular pup isn't it?" Hagrid said as he looked around, "But it's one of the rarest and maybe the most mysterious beasts ever recorded in history?"
"So what is it called?" Padma asked, a question that most of the class had been wanting to ask.
"This here lass, is a Blink Dog." Hagrid said while passing the pup around, "Well it's more of a pup now but you're going to raise it till it gets bigger and see if you can train it."
"Why is it called that?"
A loud sonic chirp coming from the pup before it blinked out of existence and appeared right around Hagrid's feet, plopping down in exhaustion before Hagrid grabbed it before it could jump again.
"Because it can Apparate at will to a certain radius around it." Hagrid said as he quickly strapped a collar onto it, the restraint glowing a blinding color while showing some runes inscribed into it before eventually dying down, "Now you can easily stop that by having this here collar strapped around its neck so it doesn't jump away when you ain't looking. Ministry of Magic barely found out about these beauties a month ago when one came onto its radar and they found its breeder."
"Wicked." Ron said as he tried to get a better look but couldn't with the amount of people crowding around it, "You think that we'll be able to keep it after we train it?"
"I doubt it." Harry shook his head as Hagrid passed out the pups to the already established groups, "If these things can teleport at any second, imagine what we could do if we were to properly train it?"
"Good point." Ron nodded as he, Seamus, Dean, Harry, and Neville became a group and they accepted a pup from Hagrid.
"Now that I've given you all your companions for the next few months, your first assignment's pretty easy!" Hagrid said as he packed up the box and brought out some food and small toys, "Get to know your pup because you'll be seeing it grow up right before your very eyes."
"Wicked." Ron said as he picked up the pup and brought it face to face with him, "What should we name you? Merlin maybe? Or Ron Jr.?"
The pup responded promptly by letting loose a tinted yellow stream of piss onto Ron's robes, causing the redhead to toss the pup over to Seamus, who tossed it over to Dean, who handed it over to Neville, who tried to get a good look at the pup's face before the latter was covered in the pup's scent.
Harry finally took the pup away from the rest of his group members and it it finally stopped peeing while looking up at him in curiosity, yapping once and then twice as if asking him a question.
"Um, hello there?" Harry said while holding the dog far away incase it wanted to pee again.
Surprisingly, the pup tilted it's head and barked cutely before licking at Harry's hand earnestly before barking again.
"I think it likes you Harry." Cho said from behind him, carrying her own pup in her arms.
"Really?" Harry asked while bringing the pup a bit closer just to have it lick his face several times with slobber and wag his tongue and tail in excitement, "Never mind it does."
"Since it's taken a liking to you Harry, why don't you name it?" Dean said as he cleaned his hands and rubbed his jacket down with a towel, "Only be fair right guys?"
"Give it something tough mate. Like Scorcher!" Seamus grinned as he looked at the pup in Harry's hands, "Maybe Boomer perhaps?"
"He's not one of your fire bombs Seamus." Dean joked while punching his buddy in the arm, "Something simple, like Buddy!"
"Well he ain't much of a buddy." Neville groaned as he washed his hands clean of piss.
"I still think Ron Jr. is a good name." Ron argued before Harry turned the pup's genitalia onto the redhead, "Okay never mind!"
Harry turned to the pup back towards him and tried to think of a name. His mind cycled through several ideas but he couldn't put a finger on just one.
Then, he noticed a bit of a scar on the pup's head that resembled something very similar. Very similar indeed.
"I'm going to name you, Bolt." Harry said in finale while setting the pup down, "You remind me of someone and you sure as hell as fast as one."
Bolt barked in agreement while running around Harry in circles.
"He certainly does like you alright." Cho giggled while rubbing her own pup's belly, "You might just be a good father."
"Really?!" Harry exclaimed as he turned around in surprise just to trip on a stray rock that happened to be there, causing the boy who lived to promptly land on his rear.
The group of boys broke out in howls of laughter as Cho giggled with Bolt barking excitedly before jumping onto him and licking his face.
"See you around Harry." Cho smiled as she waved him goodbye and went back to join her group.
"Geroff me!" Harry grunted as he managed to force the dog off of him and he stood up while wiping the slobber off his face robes, "Bolt you slobbery mutt."
Bolt merely barked in agreement.
Several hours later
"Man I'm beat." Ron groaned as he plopped down on the seat, "If I have to listen to Professor Binns go on about the Goblin Revolution one more time, I swear I'll go mental!"
"Can't blame you." Harry said as he took the seat beside him, "Well look at it this way, we can clear all of that away when we go to Professor Moody's class."
"Great man he is!"
"Better than Lupin almost!"
"Who is?" Ron asked as he watched the twins sit down next to him, "Are you talking about Moody?"
"Damn right we are." Fred grinned as he grabbed some mash potatoes, "The man is a bloody genius!"
"You'll know what we're talking about once you start his class." George grinned as he grabbed some ham from a nearby plate.
Ron pulled out his schedule and double-checked before groaning, "Damn, we don't have him until Thursday!"
"Sucks for you mate." Fred grinned as he peppered his mash potatoes and slathered it in gravy, "I figured that the crazy bastard would just show how many people he sent to Azkaban and a few stories but man, he was so bloody cool."
"God damn it." Ron groaned as he banged his head onto the table, "Why do we always get the short end of the straw?"
As soon as he said that, Hermione came in and plopped down in the seat in front of them, fuming to the absolute brim.
"Speaking about the short end of the stick," Ron joked before Hermione gave him a death stare, "Where've you been Hermione? The new Professor's fanboys block your path again?"
"I constantly hear them bickering everywhere about how pretty Professor Zhu is and oh how cool she is and what not!" Hermione groaned into her hands in annoyance, "I can barely concentrate at all and it's infuriating!"
"Is that really true Miss Granger?"
The group jumped as they looked behind Hermione to see Professor Zhu gazing down at her worryingly.
"Professor-"
"I'm terribly sorry that my admirers were causing you so much trouble." Zhu cooed as she brought Hermione into her bosom and stroked her hair gently, "If it makes you feel any better, know that I'll do my best to stop them and that you can ask me for anything in return."
"Anything?!" Fred and George shouted at the same time with eager faces.
"Just for you Miss Granger." Zhu smiled before planting a small kiss onto the top of her head, "Ten points to Gryffindor for putting up with my presence and fanboys. I'll do my best to take care of them."
"Thank you?" Hermione said in confusion as Professor Zhu patted her on the cheek gently and walked up to the staff table with a considerable amount of people's eyes trailing her but not before giving Harry a wave, wink, and air kiss all in one.
Harry blushed at the gesture before sinking down into his seat with all of the death glares sent his way from both his housemates as well as the other houses.
"Blimey Harry, I don't whether to feel jealous or happy for you mate." Ron shook his head as he looked around and saw all of the stares directed at him, "But cheer up. We have Moody on Thursday and Professor Zhu on Friday!"
"Yeah and the whole school on my behind after dinner."
"Oh what could go wrong?"
-X-
Sorry for the long wait but school started up and I'm getting shit ready and enjoying the last bit of my summer.
The next 1 or 2 chapters will be a bit boring until we get to the part that the schools arrive and what not.
Until then, I'll be working my best and hardest trying to make this story a success.
P.s Shoutout to AquaEclipse for catching my mistake and causing me to do a light touch up to the 2 chapters.
This is DaiNightcore signing off with a good song and it has been an honor writing for you all.
