Chapter 3
The next morning, Lee woke up to a loud banging and noticed that it was coming from the door.
"Who's there?" Matt asked from his bed.
"Zach." The voice said, Zach was a 7th year boy, "What are you guys doing?"
"What the fuck do you think we're doing, Zach? We were fucking sleeping before you woke us up." Craig yelled from his bed.
"Well, one of you should look at a clock because your class started 20 minutes ago." Zach replied.
The four boys all cussed under their breath as they slide out of bed and quickly started to put on their robes. Charlie unlocked the door and Zach came in and told them, "Did nobody set an alarm?"
"Isn't that fucking obvious?" Craig pointed out.
"How'd you even know we were still asleep?" Matt asked.
"McGonagall asked me to check out why all of her Hufflepuff boys were missing."
"Shit." Charlie said. "We just had to be given Transfiguration on the first day of school."
"Oh, yeah, here's your class schedule." Zach said, handing Matt a piece of paper as he was throwing stuff into his bag.
"It's not just Transfiguration, its double Transfiguration!" Matt told them.
"What the hell does that mean?" Lee asked.
"It means its two sessions of Transfiguration back to back. So we get to sit through a 4 hour session of Transfiguration every Monday morning." Matt replied.
"That is some major bullshit." Craig announced, who is not a happy camper in the morning, "At least tell me the rest of the day is easy."
"After lunch we got potions and Charms…and guess what -" Matt started saying.
"I swear," Craig replied, "if you're going to say that we have Astronomy on Monday night, I'm going to freak the fuck out."
"Let's go, fuckers." Charlie said, leading the three other boys as they ran out of the room, down the stairwell, through the Common Room, and down the empty hallways.
When they reached the main staircase Craig asked, "Came we grab some grub first?"
"No." Matt replied as they waited for the staircase to fall into place.
"Dude, I'm fucking starving."
"Well I'm more scared of McGonagall than of not eating till lunch." Matt replied as they ran down the stairs.
"I second that shit." Charlie replied as they started running down the Transfiguration hallway.
Kate was listening to McGonagall go over the information they learned last year when she heard people running down the hall, checking doors, and then the door to the classroom opened and there stood Craig and Lee. They both looked around and Craig led the other three boys into the room and to the four sets reserved for the Hufflepuff boys.
McGonagall watched the boys find their seats and then said, "I would expect better from four 6th years."
"I'm sorry, professor." Matt explained. "We forgot to set an alarm."
"Do you believe that that is an acceptable excuse?" She asked.
Lee noticed Matt was about to apologize again so Lee just replied, "Yes."
"If you believe that is an acceptable excuse, then you are excused." She said before continuing her lesson. Matt nudged Lee and gave him a thumbs up for speaking up to McGonagall.
Lee followed along to what McGonagall was teaching and knew most of it. He just needed to learn a couple spells that Lucius never thought him and memorize a few formulas that he skipped over in the books he read. When McGonagall finished her lector, she let the student's practice their spells and Matt taught Lee the rest of the spells he didn't know.
Finally, class was over and everyone started leaving, but McGonagall asked Lee to stay behind. Matt just patted him on the shoulder as he and Lori were the last ones to leave the room.
Lee walked over to McGonagall's desk and she told him, "I was impressed by what you already know. You seem to have a firm grasp on both the spell and math side of the material. If you would, could you tell me what your family taught you?"
"Yes, ma'am. I learned Transfiguration and Potions primarily. My uncle was big into protection and taught me a lot of offensive and defensive spells."
"What of charms?"
"Just the regular ones that people use."
"History?"
"Nothing really." He told her, but in reality he knew a lot of history. The only difference is the fact that he probably learned about the history from one side while the history taught here was from the other side.
"Herbology?"
"None, ma'am."
"Astrology?"
"Nothing at all."
"What did you chose as your electives?"
"Just Arithmancy."
"That is considered the hardest elective. May I ask why you chose them?"
"We had a large library and we had lots of books on magical limitations and other subsidies of Arithmancy."
"Did you learn any other subjects?"
"Not any you teach here." Lee said offhand without realizing it.
"What do you mean?"
"Um…I read a lot about Alchemy."
"Really?" She asked.
"Yeah, my grandpa was big into it." Lee said. Voldemort had taught Lee a lot about Alchemy because Voldemort always wanted to have the Sorcerer's stone.
"How much do you know?"
"Some." He replied.
"Dumbledore is thinking about having a weekend class on Alchemy, but he needed to make sure there was enough interest. Would you be interested?"
Would I be interested in being able to be in the same room as Dumbledore, enabling me to view his movements, tactics, and gaining his trust? All while learning about Alchemy from the unquestioned leading practitioner of Alchemy in history? "Yes, ma'am. I would be very interested."
"Good. Now, you have lunch right now, and if I'm correct you will be going to Potions after this."
"Yes, ma'am. Thank you." Lee said as he walked out of the room.
So far, so good. I've made it in without any trouble. I haven't made a ruckus and I've been placed in a group of friends that I can use as cover when I need to get away. I got put in Hufflepuff, which means that no one will ever expect me of doing anything bad because no one ever remembers Hufflepuff. I've got some fun friends, some rumor friends that love telling rumors, and all of them have fluid minds that I can look through whenever I need. And now, I've got a way to be right under Dumbledore's nose and build his trust. This just couldn't get better…