Hey, I know its been a long time but I was having MAJOR writers block! Well this is chapter 4 of Kitten's Padfoot.
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter!
The beginning will take place where the chapter left off. Just to clear up the couples:
Sirius/Hermione
Harry/Jen
Remus/Sabrina
James/Lily
Chapter 4: First Day of Class
"What the bloody hell was that!" Sirius exclaimed refering to the exchange between Harry and Hermione.
"Huh?" said Harry, clueless as to what Sirius was talking about.
"What was that whole, 'Night Leo!" he said in a high girl voice, " 'Night Kitten!" he said in a voice imitating Harry.
"That? That was nothing." Harry said to Sirius
"Nothing my arse! Are you two like, together? And what's with those nicknames?" Sirius asked. He was extremely jealous of what he had seen happen between the two new students.
"We're best friends! Have been since 1st year. Hey, and do we ask about your stupid nicknames? Ours happen to have special meanings that only one other person know besides Hermione and myself." Harry said anrgy and tired of having to answer all these questions.
Sirius felt kind of embarrassed. He had jumped to comclusions. "Sorry mate. You two just looked pretty cozy there for a second." He said with an apologetic grin on his face. "So whose this other person?"
Harry got a little depressed now, "The other person is our best friend, Stripes or Ron. Hence the password to the tower, Hermione and I got to pick it." Just them he had to ask something. "Why did you flip anyway?"
"I dunno, I just did. I guess I felt kinda jealous," he said with his head down. By now Remus and Peter had retreated up to the boys dorms.
"Why would you be jealous?" after a couple of minutes it finally clicked, "Oh! Well, if you like her, by all means, ask her out! But just to let you know, when it comes to Hermione, I go straight into big brother mode! You should have seen the last guy who hurt her. Let's just say," pause for dramatic effect, "no one expects a future generation from him." And with that last parting word, Harry departed to the dorm.
Leaving a pale faced, scared shitless, Sirius.
The Next Morning
Hermione woke up early this morning, excited for classes to finally start. She quietly, as not to disturb her new friends, grabbed pair of tight fit jeans, a white wife-beater and her school robe. She learned that in the past Hogwarts, students were allowed to dress casually.
She walked into the bathroom and turned on the shower. After 10 minutes in the shower she jumped out and dressed in the clothes she had gathered for the day. She went back into the dorm and started to apply a light amount of make-up. As she was leavign the dorm to go down to the common room, the rest of the girls were coming out of the shower. So with her bookbag in hand, she made her way down stairs.
Harry got up that morning with the satisfaction that he scared the shit out of his godfather when he told Sirius about what he had dome to Hermione's ex-boyfriend. Or rather, what he and Ron had done. During the Christmas Holiday in 6th year, Hermione had written to them saying that she went to visit her muggle boyfriend, Chris as a surprise Christmas present and what did she find? She found him in his bedroom…shagging her best friend, Claudia. When the boys heard this they came to Hermione as fast as they possibly could. Hermione had been glad to have them there to support her. One day while Hermione had gone to the store, he and Ron had taken a till trip to see this, Chris. Well, when they were done with him, they left and called the paramedics from a pay phone. Hermione had been angry with them, but none the less she felt loved. That they cared so much for her that they would paralyze a boy from the neck down just for cheating on her.
Harry got up early and quietly made his way to the bathroom. He took a quick shower and dressed in a white wife-beater and jeans. He threw on a school robe and made his way to the common room. At this time, the Marauders bar James were getting up.
Harry and Hermione stepped into the common room at the exact same time. The took one look at the other and fell into a fit of laughter. They were just getting out of this fit as everyone entered the common room.
"Matching outfits! How adorable!" squealed Sirius in a sickly-sweet voice that reminded Harry and Hermione so much of Pansy Parkinson.
"We didn't mean to do it! We must warn you, we are two peas in a pod. The best of friends. Watch this! Harry close your eyes!" Hermione instructed Harry. He did as a was told, closed his eyes and turned away facing the opposite direction.
Then Hermione went and whispered him Sirius' ear. Very much to his liking. "Punch me in the shoulder," Sirius looked curious and shocked at her request. "Just do it and give me all you got!"
Sirius shook his head and whispered back, "I'm not gunna hurt you."
"Trust me, I can take it! After what I've been through, this will be nothing." She whispered back. He gave her a disbelieveing look and pulled back his arm.
Everyone else, were very curious as to what she had asked Sirius to do. Then they all gasped as Sirius punched her in the shoulder this such a forced that would have knocked anyone else over, but she was still standing, she didn't even flinch. At the exact same moment Sirius' fist came into contact with Hermione's shoulder, Harry let out an agonizing moan and clutched his shoulder.
Everyone was amazed at the connection between the two. They shared something that made them feel what the other person felt. Harry turned around to glare at Hermione. "What did you do!" He moaned in pain. He lifted his hand to see a big black and blue bruise forming. Everyone was shell-shocked.
Hermione said, "Oh suck it up! You've been in more pain than this! Come here." He walked towards her and she laid her hand on his shoulder. Two seconds later she lifted her hand to show a completely healed shoulder. No bruise, nothing. Remus, Jen, Sirius, Sabrina and Peter were dumbfounded.
After the scene in the common room, they made their way down to breakfast. When Sirius, Remus and Peter made it to the Great Hall, they sauntered down to the middle to the table where James and Lily were seated.
"Good morning boys!", Lily said cheerfully.
"Morning Guys." James said with a yawn.
Everyone else said good morning to the couple as well. Since James and Lily were sitting next to each other, Hermione and Harry sat across from them, Sirius next to Hermione. Then Remus sat next to James and Sabrina sat on the other side of Remus. Petter sat on Lily's other side.
After breakfast their first class was Defense Against the Dark Arts. The walked into the familiar classroom and took seats all around each other. Then with a 'BANG' the door burst open and in came a tall man. He resembled a drill sergeant with his buzz cut and army boots.
"Now, I understand we have some new meat. You girl," he said pointing to Hermione," I wanna see how well you duel! Malfoy, get up here."
"Professor Stryker! You can't do that! She's new here and Malfoy's the best and dirtiest, might I add, dueler in the class!" Sirius shouted. Along with protests from the rest of the Gryffindors.
"Guy's it's okay. I can handle it," she said passing a secret wink to Harry.
She went up to the front of the room where Lucius Malfoy was waiting. He and Draco were spitting images of each other. Same slicked back bleach-blonde hair, same cold, silver eyes. Except Draco was a little taller.
They faced each other, brought their wands up, bowed turned around and walked to the other side of the classroom. "Anything goes! Just be prepared to be up in the hospital wing Miss Grey. 1, 2, 3!"
As soon as he said three. Lucius screamed, "Expelliarmus!" Thus, causing Hermione to loose her wand. "Ha, she hasn't even said anything!" Lucius gloated.
Just then, Hermione raised her wandless arm and screamed, "Diffindo." At this deep cuts started administering themselves all over Malfoy's body.
The class was flabbergasted. They had never heard of any seventh year ever being able to do wandless magic. Hell, even their teachers couldn't do it, except Dumbledore.
With the little strength he had left, Malfoy uttered, "Boggartium." This conjured at boggart from the tip of his wand. The boggart immediately looked for what Hermione was the most afraid. It shaped itself into a dementor. Hermione had been secretly terrified of them ever since the train and the quidditch match in thrid year. But since she never got to face the boggart in Professor Lupin's class nobody new.
When she saw the dementor she screamed, "Expecto Patronum!". Out of the tip of her wand came charging, a beautiful silver lioness, causing the dementor/boggart to disappear, as well as the corprol patronus that had the whole class, bar Harry speechess.
