Harry Potter and the Book of the Scribe, Part 1: the Sorcerer's Stone... Chapter 6

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The dinner banquet was a bit too much for Harry and Topaz. There was too much food, and it was making them uneasy, so they actually didn't eat a lot. While no one at Silver Haven never went hungry, the orphanage didn't have keep a lot of food on hand. So, yeah, the two were a bit overwhelmed by the sheer amount of food.

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Topaz managed to convince Prof. McGonagall to let her stay in the Gryffindor dorm. So her things were already in the Gryffindor's girl dorm.

All of the new Gryffindor students got a crimson and gold tie. Topaz took one and said she could use her book to change the colors when she has to move from House to House, she even gave them a demonstration.

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When Harry was unpacking, he noticed that there was an extra book in his suitcase. He pulled it out, it was the Midnight Lantern. 'How'd this get in there?' Harry couldn't help but wonder. He noticed a slip of paper inside the book, so he pulled it out and read what was on it. The words were written in red crayon.

"To Hawy and Topas,

We wantd 2 mak sur u had somthing 2 remembr us bak at Silver Haven. So, wen u lok at this bok u wil no that we wil b reding this bok with u 2. "

At the bottom of the letter was a list of names. Most were misspelt, but Harry knew who they were. He smiled and knew he needed to show this to his sister.

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The entire Gryffindor House walked towards the Dinning Hall.

"Miss Shakespeare," said a familiar voice. Both Harry and Topaz turned to the smiling Occult Professor. The red haired man handed seven sheets of paper to Topaz and said "This is your school schedule Miss Shakespeare. Each sheet is one day, the day is listed at the top." The Soul Twins looked over the list.

Both were quiet surprised that there were no overlapping classes, no double classes, and all were neatly written. "Ummm, how long did did this take?" Harry couldn't help but ask as Topaz tucked the pages into her book (The Book of the Scribe).

Prof. Animarum chuckled and said with a smile "Took me all night. I actually didn't even realized I did until my alarm sounded." The Soul Twins looked at the teacher with a weird look, he seemed a little too cheery for someone who was was up the entire night.

The hooked nosed professor with oily back hair grabbed ahold of Prof. Animarum blood red braid (that almost reached his waist), pulling it a bit, and said sternly "Jason, what were you told about letting that strange side of yours show?"

The Occult teacher chuckled and said "I know, I know, but it was fun making that schedule. You know what they said about time flying when you're having fun."

The dark haired professor yanked the braid, nearly making Prof. Animarum off balance, and said "You are suppose to be tired and irritable after staying up all night, NOT cheery and happy."

"Oh, really? Wonder if that's why you're a bit of a grouch, Severus," the Occult professor said with a smile.

With that the dark hair professor hit the red haired professor over the head and stormed into the Dinning Hall.

"Ouch, penalty for unnecessary roughness," said Iyes, whom was leaning on a nearby wall. Turns out the tendril-like hair WERE actually tendrils, one of the strands/tendril was holding out what looks to be a penalty card used in sports and another was trying to cover a snicker Iyes was trying to hide.

"Was that to me or Severus?" Prof. Animarum asked as he rubbed his head.

Iyes hid the card in the rest of the tendrils and said "Both." The Occult professor chuckled and said "Should have seen that coming, huh?" Iyes nodded.

Neither Harry nor Topaz knew what to say, or knew what was going on. Were Prof. Animarum and (the two quickly look through their new schedules) Prof. Snape friends or was something else going on between them?

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The first day of classes were really weird for the Soul Twins. While they were able to see each other between classes, they only had one class together today. Gryffindor and Slytherin had Potions right now, unfortunately for the two, Topaz was a Slytherin for this class, and apparently Prof. Snape hated Harry for some reason.

Another thing that seem to peeve the twins in this class was the fact that Topaz was paired with Malfoy. The amber eyed girl decided to bury her nose in the potion book and just do the assignment. Some of the other student wondered how Topaz knew what Malfoy was "trying" to put into the cauldron without even looking up from her book to snatch the item and switching the amount of the ingredient and/or switching out the ingredient itself. Harry had to be the only student in the class who wasn't glancing at her from time to time.

"Eyes on your own cauldrons! I do not want EVERYONE a bad grade for today," Snape snapped at the students. "Miss Shakespeare, I said eye on your cauldron," the professor stated when he walked up to her table.

Without looking up from the book she was reading, Topaz stated almost in a monotone "I can SEE it just fine. Malfoy if you put those newt eyes in the potion, you're going to mess it up and end up with fur instead of hair." Snape looked at the blond, whom WAS about to drop a teaspoon of newt eyes in the potion.

Okay, how on earth did she know THAT when her eyes never left the book? To Harry, this was normal.

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"Glad today's over," Ron stated as he and the Soul Twins sat in the Gryffindor House's lounge. Today was one of the days that Topaz slept in the Gryffindor House.

"At least ya didn't have ta sit next ta Malfoy during Potions. Tha cologne he was wearing reeked," the amber eyed girl stated.

"That smell was him? I thought that was your cauldron," Harry stated in surprise.

"Seriously? I'm pretty sure that you're not suppose to wear that kind if stuff when making potions, messes up your sense of smell," Ron stated with a scrawl before adding "I'm surprised that Snape didn't say anything about it."

"He's probably playing favorites," the Soul Twins stated in unison.

Ron couldn't help but think that his two new friends did the twin thing really well. They already explained to him that they shared their birthday and that they weren't blood related. Ron knew something was up with the two, but he wasn't going to push them to tell him. After all, he liked the two.

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The next morning...

"Morning first year students of Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw. I am Professor Jason Animarum, and I will be teaching all of the Occult classes," the odd-eyed man said happily as the last of the first years took a seat. The professor's right blue eye sparkled happily while his left black eye simply reflected the entire group of first years.

Today was the first Occult class for the first years. This class had to be the ONLY class that ALL four of the Houses took at the same time. It was kind of weird.

Well, at least the classroom they were in was big enough to hold the four groups of first years. * With that smile still on his face, Prof. Animarum said "In this class you will learn about making agreeable Contracts(1) with some of the creatures of the Magical World."

A hand shot up. Prof. Animarum told the student to speak the question.

"Isn't this class also about summoning daemons?" the student asked.

"Yes, you will be learning how to do that, but none of you first-years are even allowed to learn how until your second year, AFTER you all learn to make a proper contract," Prof. Animarum stated closing his right blue eye, keeping his left black eye open, and then added "If I or any of the staff here find that any of you first-years ARE trying to summon a daemon of any kind, even a low-level one, you WILL get detention for the entire year and you WILL lose 400 points from your House. Summoning daemons without a proper contract is an absolute disaster waiting to happen. Understand?"

Everyone gulped and nodded.

Prof. Animarum closed his left black eye, opened his right blue eye, and said "Good, now lets start our first lesson. Everyone, take out a notebook and copy everything I write on the board. All of you are going to need these notes for your homework."

All of the first-years did so.

Suddenly, The floor next to Prof. Animarum's desk started rippling, almost like water. A clay head that was shaped somewhat like an Eastern Dragon with a monocle over his left eye and stringy, silver hair appeared out of the ripples. The rest of the clay creature swam out of the ripples. Its body was also that of an Eastern Dragon. The clay dragon was as long as an average man, and roughly the same height as one too. Harry and Topaz recognized that clay figure immediately!

Without looking away from the board, Prof. Animarum asked rather casually "Vague, is that you?" The clay dragon tapped its claws on the ground as the ripples faded as soon as the clay dragon's tail was completely through. The odd-eyed professor turned to the clay dragon and said "Good timing, but you could've used the door you know, it wasn't locked." The clay dragon shrugged.

"Everyone, this is Vague. As you can see, somewhat, Vague is a Golem (2)," Prof. Animarum said with a smile and added "Vague'll be helping out during class and around the school. And a little warning, Vague is quiet intellegent, so trying to trick him is something I highly recommend you NOT do. Unless any of you want to get completely humiliated."

The clay dragon, Vague, glaced at all of the first-year students. His eyes landed on the Soul Twins.

"Alright, now that that's out of the way, back to class," Prof. Animarum stated as he turned back to the board. Vague decided to lay in the one of corner of the room up front. The Golem's eyes were completely focused on Harry and Topaz, the two's images reflected on the monocle the clay dragon was wearing.

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A dark shadow floated across the ground.

"What are YOU doing here? At this time of day?" Snape asked the shadow the moment he spotted it.

The shadowed figure peeked from under its hood to look at the Potion Master. "Hm? You're not... Wait, what the hell are you doing here then?" Snape snapped at the shadow cloaked figure. A whisper tickled the Potion teacher's ears.

Snape calmed down and said "He's in in the middle of class right now, but he'll know you're here in a moment or so." Then he called Iyse.

The Eyes and Ears of Hogwarts appeared out of nowhere. "How odd for ya ta call me Severus, oh?" Iyse said as soon as the non-human saw the two. "I'ma guessin' ya want ta talk ta Jason ASAP," the green eyed figure said with more of a smirk then a smile, before saying to the shadow "I'll tell'm ya're here, but ya're gunna have ta keep outa sight."

With that, Iyse vanished.

Snape turned to the shadow, only to find that it was gone. 'That message must be very important to make THEM to appear like that in broad daylight,' the Potion Master thought as he continued on his way.

He knew something big was going to happen.

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'Crap!' Harry thought as his eyes started to tingle. An Aura Sight Flare Up, just what he needed during class.

'Huh?' Harry thought when he saw what his eyes were telling him. Prof. Animarum had a really stange aura surrounding him. The aura was human, but at the same time it wasn't.

"Mr. Kel, stop passing notes to Ms. Telly. Mr. Potter, please keep your eyes on the board. And Mr. Malfoy, try to actually write what's on the board." Prof. Animarum suddenly said, not even turning to see everyone was doing what he was saying. Vague's tail flicked a bit.

Harry blinked and wrote what was on the board. The dark haired boy couldn't help but think that the professor KNEW about his Aura Sight. 'Naa, there's no way he would know about that. The only one who knows about that is Topaz,' Harry thought as he wrote the next line. Maybe his mind's playing tricks on him.

Prof. Animarum smirked as he drew a diagram on another board. His dark eye gleamed a mysterious glint.

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To be Continued...

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1) This kind of Contract is basically an agreement between the two parties, in this case, a wizard or witch makes an agreement with a mythical creature.

2) A Golem is a creature made out of clay into which life has been injected by magical means. The Hebrew word Golem means something incomplete or unfinished, as in the verse (Psalms 139:16) referring to the human embryo: "Thine eyes did see mine unfinished substance (golmi)." Golems can be any form or shape, so long as they are made from some type of Earth.