I want to say: I don't own any of the characters except the one that I made up.

Sorry for the long wait, but college life was really busy these past weeks.

AU: Harry met Luna in fourth year.

Chapter 3: first classes

.

The next morning, during breakfast, Professor McGonagall handed out everyone's timetables. When she came at where fourth and fifth years where sitting she stopped.

"I understand that some of you who took Care of Magical Creatures last year stopped that course because of Hagrid. That is why, seeing as there is now another teacher, it has been decided that if any of you would now want to continue the course they can do so. The ones that choose this option will be given an order paper to be send by owl for Flourish and Blotts, so that they are able to order their book for the course." announced Professor McGonagall.

This made everyone think. They did like Care of Magical Creatures when it was not dangerous.

"Do we have to decide now?" asked one of the fourth years.

"No, all of you have until lunch to tell me if you want to continue the course, seeing as it will be given on Tuesdays." answered Professor McGonagall.

After the announcement she went around and gave everyone his or her schedule.

"We have potions, DADA and spells with Slytherin." whined Ron.

"At least we only have Snape this Friday." said Harry.

"Stop whining and just go, classes are about to start." said Hermione.

All three of them stood up and left to go to their first class of the day, Charms.


By lunch Harry was sure he wanted to try Care of Magical Creatures. After what happened last year in the tournament, he realized how important it was to have basic knowledge of the creature you are facing. Having an idea of it weak and strong points could help you fight it.

He went up to Professor McGonagall and asked to take the class. After this he got his ordering form and was told that the class was given tomorrow morning.

"Are you sure you want to take the class?" asked Ron when Harry had walked back to his seat.

"Yeah, I want to take the course." said Harry.

"But what if she is just as bad as Snape?" said Ron.

"I have heard from the third years who had the class today that she the opposite of Snape." said Hermione.

"I will see how it goes, if it is nothing I can just drop it next year." said Harry standing to go to his next class.


After classes Harry was sitting by the lake relaxing. Hermione was with Ron in the library explaining some homework.

"Hey Harry." said someone behind him.

Harry looked up and saw it was Luna with the oldest Snape boy.

"Do you mind if we sat down?" asked Luna.

"No, not at all." answered Harry. "So how have you been Luna? People still bothering you?"

"I'm fine. Even made a new friend. Harry I want to introduce you to my friend Ethan Snape. Ethan this is Harry Potter." said Luna.

"It is nice to meet you." said Ethan, holding out his hand.

Taking it Harry said "Nice to meet you too."

"So how is it living with professor Snape?" asked Harry, after a moment of silence.

"Why do people keep asking that?" said Ethan almost to himself. "He is like any other dad. I mean, he plays games with us, takes us flying, helps if we have any problems."

"So he does not make up really stupid rules, is very strict and insults you when you do something wrong?" said Harry unbelieving that Snape could act like a normal person.

"NO!" exclaimed Ethan. "I really have no idea why everyone thinks that I mean when we were younger and had nightmares we even crawled into dad's bed at night."

Still not believing it Harry dropped the subject and the three of them talked for the rest of the afternoon.

"Ethan, there you are." said a distinguished silky voice from behind them.

"Dad" Ethan said running towards Snape.

"So how has your day been so far? No trouble?" asked Snape.

"It was fun, I learned a lot. I was even able to turn my bird into a clock by the end of class." said Ethan very exited.

"Dad this are my new friends." said Ethan dragging Snape over to where Luna and Harry were still seated.

"Mr. Potter, Miss Lovegood." greeted Snape.

"Good afternoon, professor." both of them greeted.

"Dad?" said Ethan looking unsure.

"Yes Ethan." answered Snape on the nicest tone that they had ever heard.

"Why do people here think that you are so bad? I mean, they keep asking questions about how it is to live with you and when I tell them you are just like any other dad they don't believe it." said Ethan.

"I, I will explain it to you inside. Now come on your mum wants to see you." said Snape.

"Bye guys! See you tomorrow." said Ethan following his dad inside.

"Well that was interesting." said Harry standing up. "I will see you soon Luna, need to go drop my bags of before dinner."

"Bye Harry." said Luna. "Look out for the nargels"


The next morning Harry was walking alone over the grounds towards the border of the forbidden forest, where the Care of Magical Creatures class was held. Arriving he saw that only he and Dean had signed up from Gryffindor. Other than them there where 3 Ravenclaws, including Padma Patil, and 4 Hufflepuffs, three of them were Hannah Abbott, Susan Bones and Ernie Macmillan. From Slytherin only Daphne Greengrass, Blaise Zabine and Theodore Nott showed up.

"Now that we are all here we can start." announced Professor Moonlight.

"My name is Serena Moonlight-Snape you will address me with professor Moonlight, nothing else." she said glancing to everyone.

"Now there are a few rules you will have to follow, if you do not I will throw you out. Some of the animals we will study could be very dangerous if you take the wrong approach. You will be expected to have read the chapter in your book about the magical creature we will be studying before coming to the practical class. When doing this spend extra attention on the part pertaining what not to do around the magical creature. At the beginning of a practical class I will first make you aware of what you are going to do and how to do it. For the people who want to take this course next year you will have to get at least an E for your O.W.L's, but I would advice only people with an O to take the N.E.W.T's class. If you want to do something with Magical Creatres after graduating Hogwarts you will need an O on you N.E.W.T's." said Professor Moonlight.

"One more announcement before we start class. Normally in your fifth year, third year of this class, there are no theoretical classes, but I have read what you have done these past two years and you are behind. Because of this you have the possibility to either learn this on your own or come to the extra review class once a week. In there you will see what you should have seen these past 2 years at a rapid speed. Sign up sheets are posted in your common rooms."

"Now for today you did not have to prepare anything, so listen carefully when I explain what to do and not to do." said Professor Moonlight.

'I am surprised she is nothing like Snape. I wonder what we will see today.' thought Harry.

"You will learn about the golden unicorns the next 3 weeks." said Professor Moonlight.

"I thought they were extinct?" said Greengrass.

"Miss" "Greengrass"

"Miss Greengrass it is not because people have not see a certain creature for a long time, they are extinct. There are quit a lot of them, luckily for all of you one of them is a good friend of mine and has agreed to come today." said Professor Moonlight.

"But if they are considered extinct, why do we have to learn about them?" asked Dean.

"Mr." "Thomas"

"Mr Thomas the ministry adds creatures to the care of magical creature curriculum when a new species is discovered. It only rarely erases a species, this only happens when a certain magical creature has not been seen for at least 500 years. The reason here for is that most rare magical creatures have gone into hiding because of poachers. That is why certain creatures are considered extinct. The only reason why all of you have seen a phoenix, is because fawkes is heavily protected by Headmaster Dumbledore. Others of its kind are in hiding, because the feathers and tears of a phoenix are worth lots of galleons." answered professor Moonlight.

"Now onto the lesson. Golden unicorns are slightly different than there cousins the white unicorn or the winged unicorn, not thought in this class. The white unicorn is the most commonly known unicorn as they can be found in lots of places around the world. As all of you should know the white unicorn are born gold in color. After 2 years they turn silver, which then turns into pure white. They stay like this for the rest of their lives. The golden unicorn is also born gold in color, but their color never changes. This is the reason why poachers, stupid enough to capture unicorns, wait until they are at least 2 years old, you can see the different in species then. While the freely given blood of a white unicorn can only be used in potions, the freely given blood of a golden unicorn, when drank, can protect the drinker for 32h from all magic with a bad intent."

"You mean dark magic?" asked one of the Ravenclaws.

"No. Did you not learn this in DADA? Magic itself is just that, magic. It is what you do with it that defines it as good or bad. This is the reason why even people with a unicorn hair in their wand can perform dark magic, as long as it is not with a bad intention. If it is the wand will start to split. If continued to use for bad prepossess, it will break." Said Professor Moonlight.

Looking into the forest the professor whistled three times.

Nothing seemed to happen.

"What are we waiting for?" asked a Hufflepuff.

Right on that moment, there was a group of six golden unicorns coming out of the forest. Four of them were clearly adults, while the last 2 were smaller. Following Professor Moonlight the class walked towards the golden unicorns. Motioning to the class to stop, a few meters away from the group of unicorns, Professor Moonlight stepped forwards, stopping right next to the unicorns.

"This unicorn is the only female in the group. She is also the mother of the 2 little ones." Said Professor Moonlight pointing to the unicorn closes to the smaller ones.

"You can see that she is female because her horn is smaller then the horn of the male unicorns. The little ones are almost four years old; you can see that there horn starts to peak out. Until a unicorn reaches the age of seven the parents and male family members never leave them alone. Because unicorns life that long there are not many born. Until the age of seven they are vulnerable to be captured. Now all of you can come closer and touch the older unicorns. Another big misunderstanding about unicorns is, that only young girls can touch them. This was seen as a common rule, when a few unicorns preferred the touch of the girls present. This happened because unicorns are attracted to the purest person present at a time, which in most cases are girls. One more rule before you can go near them is only touch the young ones if you have gotten permission. You get permission by bowing to the mother, if she then touches your forehead with her horn you can go and touch them. If she does not, do not go near them." Said Professor Moonlight.

After the rules were put up all of us approached the golden unicorns. By the time class finished only Harry, Susan, Hannah, one boy from Ravenclaw and Greengrass got to touch the small unicorns.

Before Harry got to walk back towards the castle, Professor Moonlight stopped him.

"Mr. Potter I have heard that you and your friend, miss. Lovegood, are friends with my son Ethan. Because of that my husband and I would like to invite you two to have dinner with us next week Saturday. Would you want to come?" asked Professor Moonlight.

'Have dinner with Snape? That is going to be fun.'

"Um, sure?" answers Harry.

"Ok see you then next week, could you maybe extent the invitation towards miss. Lovegood?" said Professor Moonlight.

"Ok, no problem." Answered Harry before heading back towards the castle.

.

So that was the end of chapter 3. Hope you all like it!

.

Poll: do you want nice or bashing Hermione? Review with what you want!

.

The poll is still going. I have the story also posted on AO3. Those reviews also count. Link see my profile.

Please review so I know what you thought about it.

I know from experience that people do not remember to review (I also was one of them), but it is really nice for the writer. Even if it is just to say "continue" or "was good"

.

Next time: Well I am not going to tell, but here is were it will get interesting.

.

This was done with the help of beta mousehounde; Belldandy; cryfar and Alice