Harry and Sirius, The Relationship Between
Chapter four - Sneaking Out
The next morning, Harry, Ron, and Sean woke up a bit late due to their tardiness to go to sleep last night. The three of them quickly put on their robes and headed to the Great Hall for breakfast. When they got there, they found a seat close to Hermione who was eating her toast and reading a book. She noticed their arrival and greeted them.
"Well, you guys are early," said Hermione sarcastically.
"Oh, don't start Hermione," said Ron.
"Start what? You guys should've known better than to wake up late the first day," said Hermione.
"Oh brother," said Harry.
Harry tried to change the subject.
"So, what do we have first?"
"Care of Magical Creature with the Ravenclaws," said Sean.
"Great, we can talk to Hagrid and see how he's doing," said Harry excitedly.
"Yes! We don't have it with those damn Slytherins this year," said Ron with a mouthful of eggs.
"Yeah, but we still have to deal with them in potions," said Hermione.
"Aww, that's rotten luck. Four years spent in potions stuck with the Slytherins and now it's about to turn into five years, this is getting insufferable," said Ron.
"Well, at least we have something to tease Malfoy about now," said Harry. "The egg expert."
"Harry, you have that all wrong," he paused. "That's Malfoy, the eggster extraordinaire," said Ron.
They all burst into laughter at that comment.
"So, what's after Care of Magical Creature?" asked Harry.
"Charms," said Hermione.
"Oh, talk about potions, we have it first thing after lunch," said Ron in disgust.
"Great, what a great way to start a school year," said Harry dully.
They finished up their bit of toast and headed toward the grounds to Hagrid's hut. Hagrid was waiting for the class to arrive in front of his hut. When they saw Hagrid, they noticed that he looked like he cried all morning. In fact, he looked like he was about to burst into tears any moment. Hagrid saw them and managed to muffle a "hey" to them. After all the Gryffindors and Ravenclaws arrived, Hagrid began the lesson. He went to get the creature for their lesson today.
"Hope it's not something that bites, burns, or tries to eat our fingers off," said Ron.
"Ron, shut it," snapped Hermione.
Hagrid came out a minute later with a creature that Ron, Harry, and Hermione never wanted to encounter again, not to mention that they've become quite familiar with it. Their mouths were wide opened.
"What's going on?" asked Sean, puzzled at the way they were acting.
In front of their eyes was a creature that is the size of a large owl and it can certainly bite your finger off. One of its special qualities is easily spotted, as it was so noticeable. That special quality is that it happens to have three heads.
"Fluffy," Ron manage to choke out.
"Did it shrink?" asked Harry.
"Fluffy? Who's Fluffy?" asked Sean confusedly.
Harry and Ron ignored Sean's questions. Instead, Hermione started to explain who Fluffy is to Sean.
People were whispering now, "Fluffy, you don't mean that dog that Harry faced the first year? No, no, no, it can't be. I heard that it was suppose to be huge, not small."
"Alright, quiet down everyone. I know you all are wondering if this is Fluffy. No, it is not Fluffy because three-headed dogs do not shrink nor do they get small for any reason. This is Nuffy, another three-headed dog," said Hagrid.
"Nuffy," exclaimed Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
Everyone was whispering once again.
"Quiet down. I will explain if you all would stop talking," said Hagrid.
"Nuffy is Fluffy's pup, it was born during the summer holidays. I thought it would be a mighty interesting lesson to learn about Nuffy and his kind. Now, you should all know that three-headed dogs do not need another mate to reproduce. They are asexual. All young pups eat raw meat dipped in horse blood mixed with cabbage and sliced onion.
"Eww, gross," said a Ravenclaw girl.
"Oh, that's why Hagrid looked teary this morning. He must have been slicing onions," said Hermione.
For the rest of the lesson, they took notes on Nuffy and learned that he was very in common with his mother err...or father...or both. Oh, lets just say his parent Fluffy. By the end of class, almost everyone was in tears because they had to help feed Nuffy his food. After the lesson was over, Hagrid wanted to have a word with Harry.
"So Harry, how ya holdn' up?" asked Hagrid.
"Great, so far," answered Harry.
"Look, come to me hut tomorrow after ya defense class. I want to give ya sommet and have some tea. Bring Ron, Hermione and err...Sean if ya want to," said Hagrid.
During the lesson, Hagrid had noticed Harry's new friend and decided to invite him too.
Harry left the Hogwarts ground and joined his friends to return to the castle for charms class. They took the first few seats in front of the class. Prof. Flitwick as usual welcomed the class joyously and as usual was standing on a pile of books due to his scarce height.
"Today, we will be learning how to duplicate objects, meaning making copies of a certain object," said Prof. Flitwick.
"Now everyone repeat after me. Duplicio!" said Prof. Flitwick.
He showed them an example by making one quill into two when he said, "Duplicio quill!"
When charms was over, the four of them headed to lunch, something that many of them had been looking forward to all day.
"Boy, am I starving," exclaimed Ron.
"Go figure," said Hermione.
Harry told them about meeting Hagrid tomorrow after their DADA's class. A moment later, Fred and George joined them at the Gryffindor table.
"So, how were your lessons?" asked George.
"It was fine. We haven't lost any points yet," said Ron.
"We probably will after lunch," said Harry sadly.
"Why?" asked Sean.
"Because Prof. Snape teaches potions and he favors Slytherins and just loves to take as much points from Gryffindor as possible. So, try to not give him reasons to do that. Although, I'm sure he would find ways to takes points even if we didn't do anything wrong. He's very good at it, that slimy git," said Ron.
"Well, sorry about your next lesson, but we had a great DADA's lesson with the Prof.," said Fred.
"Who is it?" asked the four of them eagerly.
"Sorry, but we won't and can't tell you," said Fred.
"Why?" asked Harry.
"Because, the Prof. said that he wanted the students to find out when they attend his class. Don't worry, you'll like him," said George.
Lunch was over. Soon, they headed down to the dungeons for their most dreaded class, potions. As they enter the dungeons, a cold breeze caused them to shiver. They took their usual seats in the back of the class as far away from Snape as possible. Soon after the bell rang, Snape entered his classroom and as usual, he spoke in his bitter voice. In potions class, they had to make a new potion. Neville spilled his on Crabbe and Goyle, for which prompted Snape to take 10 points from Gryffindor.
"No wonder you guys hate Snape so much," said Sean after potions class was over.
They returned to the common room to start on their essay given by Prof. Snape.
"First day of class and Snape gave us an essay that needs to be two parchments long," said Ron.
Not too long after, they headed down to the Great Hall for dinner. They saw Fred and George each with a girl next to them; they were saying good-bye before sitting down at the Gryffindor table.
"Who were those girls you two were with?" asked Ron.
"Our girlfriends," answered George, smirking.
"Looks like our hair care plan worked," said Fred.
"Hair plan?" said Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
"Yep, you guys heard right. I said hair plan."
"Oh, I get it. You guys did that to your hair to try and get with girls," said Ron.
"Pretty smart, huh?" said George.
"No, it's not smart. It's dumb, the girls you meet will probably like you for your new look. Once they get bored of it, they won't stick around. You need to be yourself," argued Hermione.
"Hermione, leave them alone. If that's what they want to do, then so be it," said Sean.
That night after dinner, Ron and Harry ate a lot. They were very tired and sleepy, so they decided to go to the boy's dormitories earlier. Sean, on the other hand, wasn't sleepy.
"You guys go ahead, I'll be up in a while," said Sean to Harry and Ron.
In the middle of the night, Harry awoke suddenly. Assuming that Sean had gone to bed, Harry reluctantly got out of bed to check. He had a strange feeling that something was not right. He went over to Sean's bed and found that Sean wasn't there.
"He should be in bed already. It is very late," thought Harry.
So, Harry decided to see if Sean was still in the common room. In return, he found that the common room was empty. Everyone had gone to sleep . . . except for Sean. Harry went back to the dormitories; he wanted to tell Ron what was going on. Then he looked out the window, he saw someone, someone that looked inconceivably like Sean. That someone was walking into the forest. Harry didn't want to sneak out and get in trouble on the first day. But Sean was his friend; he had to go look for him. Harry decided to wake Ron up.
"Huh . . . wha . . . What's going on?" asked Ron.
"Sean's gone," said Harry.
"What do you mean gone? Sean's right there on his bed," said Ron.
"Huh! He wasn't there before," said Harry.
"What's going on guys? Go back to sleep," said Sean.
"Ron, I'll tell you all about it tomorrow," whispered Harry.
So, they returned to sleep but Harry couldn't sleep. He couldn't help but to think that the person he saw walking into the forest was Sean. What was he doing out there this late? Harry wanted to tell Hermione tomorrow about it, he had a weird feeling about Sean...
"Harry, wake up," said Ron.
"Where's Sean?" asked Harry.
"He's already down in the Great Hall," answered Ron.
"Good. Look, why don't you go down to the common room, get Hermione and wait for me there? I'll be down in a sec," said Harry.
"Alright," answered Ron.
Harry put on his robe and went down to the common room. Ron and Hermione were waiting for him in the corner.
"Harry, why did you tell us to meet here?" asked Hermione.
"I called you guys to tell you about what happened last night," said Harry.
"What happened?" asked Hermione.
"Nothing happened. You were probably dreaming," said Ron, not wanting to miss breakfast.
"I know what I saw, Ron! Sean was out of his bed," said Harry.
" He could've went to the bathroom or something," said Hermione.
"I don't think he went to the bathroom. I believe he went to the forbidden forest," said Harry.
"You're not even sure," said Ron.
"I'm not sure, but don't you think it's a bit suspicious for Sean to be out of bed that late?" asked Harry. "I know, I'll just tell Sirius about it. Maybe he can help us."
