AN: Well, here's the next chapter. I still don't own Harry Potter. I do own this fic though, so don't steal it. I will EAT you if you do. :D


Al walked up to the Gryffindor common room along with all the other first years. There were five boys and five girls. They all seemed small and nervous. He supposed he must look like he was nervous about Hogwarts and everything. He was actually quite excited now he knew he was in Gryffindor. The one thing spoiling the moment was his brother. Not in the way he normally spoilt things. He normally spoilt things by being sarcastic and annoying, now he was spoiling it by being quiet and withdrawn. And there was something about the fifth years he was hanging around with that just didn't seem to make sense. He hated every minute of not knowing what was going on, he needed to know! He didn't even hear the password as he stumbled through the portrait hole into the common room. He ignored the prefect that had lead them up telling them about how good the common room was for studying and walked up the boys' stairs and into the first years' dormitory. He was in bed way before any of the others had finished talking to the prefect and asking him questions about the school. Al would only have stayed to ask questions if the prefect knew about James. What Al didn't know was that the prefect was actually the girl who had punched him just before the start of year speech by Professor McGonagall. Downstairs, Lucia Greyback dragged James into an unused classroom for a beating.

The next day at breakfast when Professor Slughorn handed out timetables, Al was the last one to receive a copy. He'd half expected to have to look at someone else's copy because there hadn't been enough. He got one and, after reading it through a few times, he found that he had Charms first. Charms was the main subject he'd been looking forward to. Everyone expected him to be the best at DADA, like his father and brother, but he didn't see what was so good about it. The only spell he really needed when someone attacked him was the body bind curse, and they weren't going to learn that until something like third year, by which time he'd have learned it anyway, like his aunt. He didn't eat anything at breakfast because he wanted to find out where his brother had gone. Al had followed him for about five minutes when it became clear that James was just going to his next lesson. It was only when Al was back at the breakfast table in time for everyone to go to lessons. He trudged off to charms, using the marauder's map to check up on his brother as much as he was using it to get to class.

After about five minutes of taking five steps, checking the map to see if James was still in the Divination room and taking another few steps he finally got to the charms classroom. He was five minutes late but no one else was in the classroom except Professor Flitwick who looked up and smiled. "Hello, you're Harry Potter's son? Welcome to Hogwarts. You're the only person here. The others have evidently got lost, please step in. You seem to know your way around Hogwarts so you can have ten minutes individual teaching at the start of every lesson while we wait. Get your wand out!"

Al spent the next five minutes practicing the levitating charm until Rosie Weasly showed up. She jumped up and down with excitement when she saw Al performing Wingardium Leviosa perfectly on the feather Professor Flitwick had conjured up out of nothing for him. "Oh wow, Professor, when are we going to learn that?" She exclaimed, sounding incredibly like her aunt. "I really really want to learn that spell! It's the first one my mother did!"

After that the rest of the class arrived, looking sheepish and lost. He hated the was everyone in his year tried to look extra lost and scared so they'd get house points or something, because the moment he had been sorted into Gryffindor, this place had felt like home. About half an hour after the class was supposed to start, Professor Flitwick started lecturing them on what Charms was and what it was for. Al was the only one who had actually done any learning that lesson. He was loving Hogwarts already.


Well, how was that? That was the longest chapter I've written for a fic! It proves I'm getting better through writing for at least ten minutes every day!

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-gets out teacher gun-