Author's Note:

Let's see now.. Nothing much to say here.. XP

Chapter two of 'Hocus Pocus' XP

Sorry for any mistakes in the Harry Potter storyline I might make! .

Fangirls and fanboys, please don't kill me... .

Oh yeah, warning: Random changes of POV XP I'd mark them somehow but, having read over it, I noticed that some of them are pretty unnoticeable.. XP Ah well, you'll know 'em when you see 'em... Hopefully... XP

Disclaimer: I don't own Gravitation. If I did, it wouldn't be nearly as good and fun as it is now. This wonderful creation belongs to Maki Murakami. She's the Gravitation goddess.

Chapter Two

The morning light fell into the brightly decorated yellow dorm and onto a certain singer's eyes, bringing him back from the wonderful world of dreams. He didn't feel like getting up though. For some reason, Shuichi felt really, really tired. 'I'll call in sick today... Bet my voice is shot too, they can get by without me for a day...' He thought and reached out to the bedside table, looking for his cell phone. The table was closer than he remembered for some reason and he hit the lamp, which rolled off the furniture and broke. He didn't hear it shattering to minuscule pieces though, for which Shuichi was grateful. Maybe he could fix it before Yuki woke up... 'Oh no, Yuki!' He though, already panicking as to how he'd explain the broken lamp to the writer if the noise woke him up. Shuichi rolled back on the bed to lie down on Yuki's chest, pretending to be asleep, but he fell right off the bed. "Ouch..." He finally opened his eyes fully and looked around him. 'This... Isn't our bedroom... Or even our house... It doesn't even look like Japan!' Shuichi started panicking now but before this panic of his could get way out of control, the memories of previous day flashed before his eyes. 'Huh... Oh yeah... So that's why I feel so tired and sluggish... We ran into that thingy in the morning but it was already evening when we arrived.. Weird...' He thought, then got up to his feet and hoped he didn't wake any of the other Hufflepuffs up. 'That's strange.. Why isn't anyone here? Are they all up already?' The boy thought and looked at the clock over the door. '12.23' 'Huh? Wow, I guess even clocks at Hogwarts run out of batteries sometimes...' Then the large handle of the clock moved and Shuichi realized that the clock was right on time... And that he was in deep trouble for over sleeping so late. 'Why didn't any of the other boys wake me up? Aren't Hufflepuff people supposed to be NICE and FRIENDLY? Gaaaah! I'm so dead!' He was running around the room like a headless chicken and when the clock changed to show that it was already twenty to one. He finally threw himself at his trunk to get some clothes and quickly run to class, maybe if it was some nice teacher, he'd get away with it? When he got dressed and cleaned himself up, Shuichi grabbed his time table from the bedside table and looked what class he was late for... And almost fainted from shock. '12.30-13.30 – Potions'. Yes.. The first day of school.. And he had to oversleep.. And it had to be THAT lesson he had to wake up for... He couldn't skip it – waiting until half past one would drive him crazy. 'I'm only... Fifteen... Minutes late... Maybe he's in a good mood today...?' Deciding to take his chances with the harsh potions master, Shuichi got his book bag and ran down out of the dormitory and down the stairs as fast as he could. Only it seemed like the moving stairs had a mind of their own and wanted to make Shuichi even later for his potions class, moving oh so slowly. He was losing it and even considered just jumping down the few hundred metres. What's the worst that could happen? He survived Rage, didn't he? And maybe then he wouldn't be in so much trouble if he got into an accident like that? But before he could make up his mind, the slow, slow stairs finally touched to the stable, connected flight of stairs that led to the bottom. Now he only had to run down a couple more flights of stairs, through the few doors, more stairs that led to the dungeons and some more doors. But what's that to Shuichi?

The black door to the potions classroom suddenly burst open with such force that it left a dent in the wall – a stone wall -, interrupting Professor Snape in the middle of his lecture about the class rules, to reveal a black haired boy gasping for air. Shuichi. 'Of course he'd be late... And it seems like this teacher isn't the kind to let something like that go...' Yuki smirked and wondered what the professor would do. Shuichi was on the floor now, on all fours, trying desperately to gasp in air, keep from passing out and explain him being so late to the teacher.

"I- gasp gasp pant pant – I was – pant gasp pant – I-I – Gasp pant wheeze pant gasp- I'm so so—pant gasp- - so sor- pant- sorry I'm- - -gasp gasp wheeze" And so on. A good few minutes passed, during which no one in the class spoke. They were all watching poor Shuichi struggle to breathe and explain to the most strict teacher in the entire school why he was so late. During these few minutes, Professor Snape didn't do or say anything but just watched the boy suffer, already thinking of a suitable punishment for him. When Shuichi finally regained some of his speaking ability, enough to say a few words without having to fight for oxygen, he shouted out "I'm so sorry" pant "I'm late, Professor Snape!" pant pant "I'm so, so, so sorry! I overslept" pant "I promise this will never happen again, please spare my life!" He shouted at the end. This seemed to have somehow amused the sadistic teacher – as well as Shuichi's sadistic lover.

"Mister Shindou... You will find that I never, under any circumstances tolerate being late. And especially not it you're" He paused to look at his watch "twenty nine and a half minutes late. Your behaviour is inexcusable, mister Shindou, and you will be punished severely for it. Stay back after class. Now go take a seat somewhere." Shuichi gulped and got up to sit in the back row, then stopped as Professor Snape added as an afterthought "No, actually, you can sit here, next to miss Granger, away from your chatty buddies. Maybe you'll actually learn something." He said doubtfully. Shuichi sighed and moved from the back row to switch places with some unfortunate Griffindor – Harry Potter - who was moved to the back of the classroom. He dropped down onto the seat noisily, earning a reproachful glare from their teacher. And another minus in the tab under his name. 'Oh well' He thought 'hopefully, I won't have much more time here to make Professor Snape despise me...'

They didn't do much cooking in that class, most of it was just some boring talk about classroom rules. Stuff like 'no drinking or eating the potion ingredients', 'no throwing spells', 'no putting frogs under each others' shirts', the usual. Shuichi tuned out for most of it, playing music in his head. It was just sooo dull and boring! Wasn't this supposed to be a school of witchcraft and wizardry? Shuichi wanted to do something magical, cast a spell! Brew a potion! And not sit in the classroom where he couldn't even chat with someone to pass the time because the teacher was so strict. And watched all his students like a hawk. Or more like a lion searching for prey. He was just in the middle of playing 'Please Help Me' in his head when all of a sudden, the track was interrupted by an angry voice calling out to Shuichi "What- Do you think you're doing, mister Shindou?"

"Huh? Hwa-" Shuichi opened his eyes and found the dark clothed figure standing above him, too close for comfort. He snapped his attention to the fuming teacher looming over him. "Oh no..." He thought – or at least thought that he did, the words left his lips before he could stop it and, even though they were barely a whisper, the whole class could hear them.

"'Oh no' is right, mister Shindou, you've just earned yourself a whole month of detention and caused Hufflepuff to lose twenty-five points. All the Hufflepuffs in the room groaned and Shuichi knew he was really in trouble – not only with his teacher, but also with his house mates. And it was only the first class he'd attended! He only wondered what he did now to be punished like this – just closing his eyes for a few seconds wouldn't be enough for a whole month of detention and twenty five – twenty five! - points to be taken off his house! "So would you care to tell us what exactly you were doing in my class, mister Shindou?" Snape's voice tore him out of his pondering.

"Umm.. That is.. You see, I was.. Well, I just closed my eyes for a second.. And.. That's it really..." Shuichi replied truthfully, confused. Maybe the potions master thought he was sleeping? Maybe he'll lessen the terrible punishment some since his offence was so light? The murderous look on his teacher's face burst that small bubble of hope he'd conjured up.

"That's not what I meant, mister Shindou. I meant that this isn't a music class" He said, stressing the word with disgust, "So humming loudly – or at all – is not permitted in this potions classroom. Another five points off Hufflepuff for your lack of competence, mister Shindou. Now pay._attention. I will not repeat myself for someone like you and should you cause an accident and blow yourself up because you were too busy humming in my class to listen to instructions, I will not be held responsible." The professor turned back around and renewed his lecture on his way back towards his large desks that held piles of potions books on it. When he finished the lecture, he called up two students to hand these books to everyone in the classroom. "Now, since we still have half an hour of class time left, you will attempt to brew a simple potion in the remainder of this class. The potion that I was telling you about in detail just now." He added, looking pointedly at Shuichi. The boy gulped and felt tears gathering at the corners of his eyes. Why? Why did he have to be so humiliated on his first day here? Why? In this amazing and magical school, when he should be having the time of his life playing with magic before having to go back to his own world, he instead would have to suffer through this? He was wasting his time at Hogwarts! 'No,' he thought, attempting to calm himself, 'I will have fun and I will enjoy my visit to this wonderful world! Nothing and no one can stop me! Not even if Voldemort himself showed up, could he stop me from making the most out of my stay here! No way!' With this thought in mind, Shuichi opened his new – well, new to him... - book on a random page and attempted to read through the instructions for a potion. He almost started crying again when he couldn't understand a word in the whole recipe.

"Open your books up on page five. Since this is your first attempt at making a potion, you will work in pairs. Team up with someone and begin. You have time until the end of this class."

Shuichi sighed with relief – he had his book open on page 287, for really advanced students. And they could work in pairs! That means that maybe the person he teamed up with would know what they were doing! He looked around the room happily and his smile faded when he saw that people were pairing up and he didn't know anyone there. Yuki was with some Slytherin – actually, not just 'some' Slytherin but Draco Malfoy! Shuichi felt jealousy squeeze his heart and he almost slammed Malfoy into a wall when he saw how friendly he was getting with his Yuki. Almost because he was stopped by a Gryffindor girl, oblivious to what he was about to do.

"Hello, Shuichi, I'm Hermione. You want to work together?" Hermione Granger asked him and successfully restored the singer's spirits back to full.

"Yes! I'd love to!" He said, happy and relieved that he had someone to work with. And Hermione Granger, no less! She was the best student in their year, there was no doubt that he'd do well if she was to be his partner! So he grabbed a cauldron and listened to the instruction Hermione gave him.

When the half hour passed, professor Snape made one final round of the teams to see how their potions worked out. He always picked the best potion and awarded the winner five points, unless it wasn't very good but just the best in all the other failed brews. He walked up to Shuichi and Hermione and examined their potion carefully. It was almost perfect. No matter how much he didn't want to, he had to admit that this was the best potion in their class. "Well done. 5 points to Gryffindor and Hufflepuff." He said curtly. "Class dismissed." He announced and the students gathered their things, heading to the Great Hall for their lunch. "Not. You." He said to Shuichi just as he was about to exit the classroom. 'So close...' Shuichi closed his eyes and sighed in defiance. He turned around and walked down to Snape's desk to receive his punishment. And a looooong lecture, no doubt...

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Author's Notes:

Well, there it is then XP

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