Chapter Three- First Day of Term
"Misty! Misty, wake up!"
Misty groaned as her eyes slowly opened. Hermione was standing over her. Misty glared at her.
"Whaddyawant?" she slurred, half asleep. "It's too early to get up, 'Mione!"
"Classes start in half an hour! Come on, get up, get dressed, it's time for breakfast!" Hermione, Misty decided, was far to cheerful in the morning. That couldn't be normal.
"I don't eat this early," Misty sighed. Hermione looked at the clock, puzzled. "If it's before noon, it's early!" Hermione rolled her eyes and swung her bag over her shoulder.
"Come on! We're all waiting for you! I thought you'd be up hours ago!" Misty gave her a Who-Do-You-Think-You're-Joking? look before climbing out of bed. "I'll be downstairs with the guys!" Hermione stomped down the stairs and out of sight. Misty sighed and pulled on a black sweater and bluejeans to wear under her Hogwarts robes, which she slid over her head. She half-heartedly ran a brush through her hair, grabbed her bag, and made her way down to the Common Room.
"About time!" Harry teased as she appeared. Misty promptly flipped him off before turning to Ron and Hermione.
"We ready to go? God, I can't believe you woke me up half an hour early!" Hermione rolled her eyes again. Ron and Harry grinned at her before they all headed down to the Great Hall. Misty watched in disgust as the three of them piled their plates with scrambled eggs, toast, sausage, and other breakfast-y foods. Ron couldn't understand anyone hating food of any kind, which he pointed out to her.
"Then you're gonna be really confused by me!" Misty muttered as she looked down at the schedule she had just been handed. "Looks like we've got Potions first-" she raised an eyebrow Harry, who had swore loudly. "-with Professor Snape. Hey, that wouldn't be Severus Snape, would it?" A mischievious streak appeared in her eyes. "Oh, this is going to be F-U-N, isn't it?"
"Don't be so sure," Ron told her seriously. "It's a living nightmare! I'm just glad I dropped it after last year!" Not altogether convinced, Misty made her way with Harry and Hermione down to the dungeons.
"Black, is it?" Snape glanced up at her from the list of students at his desk.
"Yes, sir!" Misty replied happily. Snape smirked and made a note next to her name.
Misty found out rather quickly that Potions classes were, as Ron said, not at all fun an hour later as the students worked on brewing a Babbling Beverage. Snape sneered at her potion before vanishing it, claiming that it was too runny. The same thing happened to Harry. They both recieved zeroes for the day. At the end of the class, they were all assigned a roll of parchment on the uses of said potion.
"Don't you just hate it when they give you homework first day?" Harry said angrily as they left the dungeons.
"At least we have Professor Lupin next hour!" Hermione said happily as they met up with Ron. "Oh, I wonder what we're doing today..."
As soon as Remus entered the classroom, everyone burst into applause except the Slytherins.
"Great to have you back, sir!" Dean Thomas exclaimed. Remus beamed.
"Thank-you, Dean! It's great to be back!"
"It's great not to have a toad for a teacher!" someone pointed out. Most everyone laughed at that, including Remus.
"Now, today is going to be quite easy," he told them as they settled down. "I want each of you to pair up with another student and practice the hexes and curses you already know, as well as the blocks. This is just to see how much you already know." Misty went with Hermione, and Harry went with Ron.
"Okay, keep in mind I only learned about all of this a few weeks ago," Misty said nervously.
"Don't worry, you'll be fine. RICTUSEMPRA!" Hermione cried. A flash of silver light shot out of her wand at Misty, who doubled over, laughing.
"M-ma-make it stop!" she wheezed. Hermione quickly waved her wand, and the charm was lifted.
"Sorry, Misty," Hermione giggled.
"Please be gentle, Jesus is not yet finished with me!" Misty moaned. Far too soon for anyone's liking, the bell rang.
"Mystilla!" Remus called, beckoning her over to him.
"What is it?" she asked as she walked over to his desk. Harry, Ron, and Hermione stood by the door, waiting for her.
"You know how you said last night that teachers were going to have to take extra classes?" Misty nodded. "Well, I've been told to inform you that tonight you will come back here for Defense Against the Dark Arts lessons with me tonight. How does seven sound for you?"
"It's a date!" Misty smiled at him and turned to leave the room. "See ya then!"
"Bye, Remus!" Harry called.
"That's 'Professor' to you!" Remus joked as they walked out.
"What now?" Hermione asked.
The rest of the day went by smoothly, albeit slightly boring. Before you knew it, classes for the day were over. After dinner, Misty said goodbye to her new friends and made her way to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.