So Harry and Ron boarded the Hogwarts Express eager to finally start their magical education (I do use the word education loosely). Ron being from a large family had already heard stories of Hogwarts and everything that happens there.
The old witch with the tea trolley had just come around and Harry had bought a little bit of everything for Ron and himself. Harry just opened up his chocolate frog and glanced at his card.
"Dang, I got another Dumbledore," Harry sighed popping the chocolate frog into his mouth.
"I got Morgana again, I only have about six of her," Ron said throwing the card aside.
As they talked and joked some more a bushy haired girl and a short round-faced boy opened the compartment.
"Have any of you seen Neville's toad?" The bushy hair girl asked loudly
Harry looked up and replied "Neville! I havn't seen you since my birthday, you've lost Trevor again have you?"
"Hey Harry, sad to say that I have," Neville replied with a slight grin. "Oh, and this is Hermione."
Harry stood up and shook Hermione's hand.
"Nice to meet you," She said
"No need to be so formal," Harry said with a smile. "Might as well sit down you two, you know Trevor has a habit of showing up once we stop looking,"
"I guess you're right Harry," Neville gave in and sat down.
As if by magic Trevor hopped into the compartment as Hermione shut the door. The toad jumped up onto Neville and Harry let out a laugh.
"See I told you," Harry said between laughs
Neville smiled, "I guess I should know better than to doubt the great Harry Potter!" His voice was oozing with sarcasm.
So the rest of the trip was uneventful, they talked to Hermione about the wizarding world, Hermione in turn told Ron and Neville about the muggle world, Harry being a half-blood helped explain some concepts in terms they could understand.
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The sorting was uneventful, Harry, Ron, Neville, and Hermione all ended up in Gryffindor. They then followed one of the prefects, who happened to be Ron's brother Percy, to the tower.
"The password is "expedite"" Percy stated in a pompous way.
The first years than entered the common room, staring at the pure beauty of it.
"Girl's dormitories to the left, boy's to the right," Percy stated with authority
After talking for a while longer Harry, Ron, and Hermione said goodnight, Hermione went to the left while Harry and Ron went to the right.
"It's gonna be different, being away from home now isn't it Harry?" Ron said missing his home
"It will be different," Harry started, "But think of it as life's next great adventure,"
Ron opened his mouth to reply but all the came out was a yawn.
"Guess it's time to go to bed," Ron said, "Night Harry,"
"Night Ron,"
And with that the two boys fell asleep.
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The next day the group got their schedules from their head of house, Professor McGonagall.
"Looks like we've got Defense Against the Dark Arts first thing today," Hermione said looking at the paper in front of her.
"This is gonna be good," Said Ron, "Fred and George told me it's the best class they've ever had,"
"I hope so, Defense could easily be boring, and what if we had to read from a book the whole time?" Harry said with a false shudder, "I'd want out of that class as soon as possible,"
The trio laughed for a moment before heading off to the Defense class room.
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They arrived at the classroom with plenty of time took seats towards the front. After several minutes of waiting a man walked out of the office in the back.
"Hello students, I'm Professor Riddle, but you may address me as Professor Tom if you would like," The man of almost sixty fix said, "I will be instructing you in Defense Against the Dark Arts,"
Harry looked at the man with admiration; he had heard stories about him from his father. Riddle had been a legendary auror before taking a severing curse to his neck and nearly bled to death. Safe to say he got out after that and decided to pursue a project for a couple of years. After that he decided to train young witches and wizards in the art of defense.
"And with that I announce to you that this will be my last year at Hogwarts," Professor Tom said sadly.
The faces of the class dropped into a frown.
"Don't worry though students, this year my replacement will be observing classes and learning to teach, I give you Professor R.J. Lupin!" Professor Tom said as Remus removed his Disillusionment Charm and stood.
"I'm Professor Lupin and as of next year I will be your DADA teacher but for now I'm just an assistant," Lupin said with a smile and a wink meant only for Harry.
After a class filled with introductions and what the class would be about Harry, Ron, and Hermione hurried to their next class, potions.
"I am Professor Snape, I will be teaching you the art of brewing potions, it is a dangerous art as one false move could ruin a potion and potentially kill the drinker," Snape said with an evil smile.
"Potter, where would one find a bezoar?" Snape snapped at Harry.
Harry had been warned by his father that Snape would be harsh to him, the advice he offered was this, study up on potions and look him straight in the eye.
Looking directly into Snape's eyes Harry answered, "You'd find it in the stomach of a goat, or if you needed one right now I imagine you have one in your cupboard," Harry smirked at that.
I forgot to mention, James had also told Harry not to take Hogwarts to seriously and to play a prank or make a joke or two every now and then.
Snape smiled for a brief moment when he looked into Harry's eyes but scowled at the joke.
"That will be ten points from Gryffindor Mr. Potter, I expect that you won't have any cheek in my classroom again,"
With that, Snape continued to quiz the Gryffindors harshly, Harry knew that Snape had won the battle but he would win the war.
So what do you think? Thanks to everyone who reviewed, added to alerts, or favorited, it gives me motivation to turn out chapters faster. I won't be able to update until late Thursday so I compressed the two chapters I had planned into one. Hopefully it will fit together, I had to cut a few parts.
