She was beginning to wish all her children were as well behaved as Harry as Ron was once again not working. He was in fact letting his sister do his work. She marched over and put a stop to that at once. Returning the girl to her mother and putting Ron in another time out. She could tell this was already going to be a long day for the children.
Finally, the end of class came.
"I did the best didn't I, Professor?" Hermione demanded snootily.
"Actually, no." McDonald replied. "Harry did the best because he kept practicing. He had everything perfect on his first try but wanted his writing to be better."
Hermione was angry and glared at the one called Harry Potter.
"you said, he." Hermione stated, pointing at Harry. "But that's a girl."
"No, I'm positive Harry is a boy." McDonald said, looking at the tiny little cross dresser who was standing near the front of the class. "There is nothing wrong with a boy who feels the need to dress as a girl."
"P-O-T-I-O-N-S..." Harry said, letting them hear his voice. Usa-chan his bunny was poking out of his backpack. "Po...sh...ins...POTIONS!"
He was suddenly bouncing up and down and rushing toward the doors.
"POTIONS!"
James laughed as he caught his son and pulled him into his arms.
"Is that your next class, Harry?" He asked.
Harry nodded beaming he showed him the schedule.
"Yep, that's Potions. You're so smart." Harry beamed even brighter as his daddy rubbed his hand into his head. "I know you're excited but you have to stay with the group okay, Harry? Weren't you assigned a Slytherin buddy that you had to stay with?"
"No." Orion said, standing at James' feet with Jamie, and Romulus, his arms behind his head. "Fessor Snape said our prefect was possed to pair us up but she didn't."
As if on cue a girl burst into the room. She looked to be seventeen she quickly looked around.
"Slytherin first years to me!" they scrambled to line up in front of her. She looked at her tablet. "Okay, Malfoy pairs with Greengrass..." She moved the kids to their partners. "and finally, Black pairs with... AH! Oh, no I lost the kid Professor Snape told me to keep an extra eye on!"
"Er..." James chuckled and held Harry out. "This kid?"
"AH!" the Prefect lit up. "Are you Harry Potter?" she asked the child who nodded. "Then yes." she took Harry and put him with Orion. "Okay, Black here is your partner, Potter..." Harry tilted his head to the side.
"Harry says you need to call him Harry because he's not used to people calling him his last name and wont know to answer." Jamie said, tugging on the Prefects skirt until she looked at him. "He also said, there is two of us so we wont know who you're talking to at all."
"Oh, yes, I suppose that's true." the Prefect said. "Okay, Harry, you are to stay with Orion okay?" Harry nodded. "Now Slytherins, you don't have to hold hands but please stay with your partners and follow me to Potions."
"YAY!" Harry cheered.
"You have pretty red hair." Jamie told the Prefect and got a fist to his head for his troubles. "She does, daddy."
"I noticed." James chuckled.
"Like father like son." Sirius laughed loudly.
Remus was smiling and Lily just rolled her eyes as suddenly two male prefects and another female Prefect came bursting in all looking at their watches.
"Ravenclaws over here!" The second female Prefect called. Then did a count. "Full count...Follow me."
"Gryffindors, line up!" One of the boys called.
"Hufflepuffs this way please." The second boy called.
With that the Prefects lead the kids down to Potions. The kids had trouble on the stairs but they all did okay except Neville Longbottom who almost fell near the bottom of the steps going to the dungeons. His partner Lavender Brown caught him and kept him up right. He thanked her shyly.
"SEV!" Harry cried running to the door.
"Hey!" His Prefect caught him around the waist and set him back with Orion. "I changed my mind. You two have to hold hands!"
Orion beamed and took Harry's hand.
The door opened.
"No need for that, Nott." Severus drawled glaring pointedly at Orion who dropped Harry's hand at once. "Harry has decided this is going to be his favorite class and is in a rush to get here that's all."
"More like he wants to see his favorite person." Remus chuckled pointing.
Sure enough Harry had attached himself to Severus' leg.
"In!" Severus ordered. "Help the children find their proper seats, Prefects."
The Prefects quickly set about doing so. Prefect Nott had a hard time as she tried to pry Harry away from Severus. She finally won when Harry's watch beeped and he had to use his inhaler so he had to let go. She picked him up and set him in his seat. The clapped her hands together in a job well done.
"You are dismissed, Prefect Nott."
"I would go, Sir." She replied. "But Harry had a bunny poking out of his backpack and now it isn't there."
Harry searched his backpack and began crying.
Severus was annoyed.
"USA-CHAN!"
"Accio, Harry Potter's Usa-Chan!" Lily cried flicking her wand as she knelt at Harry's side trying to calm him. James and Jamie were with her. It flew out Ron Weasley's backpack and into her hand. "Here you go, Harry, see. Here's Usa-chan."
Harry grabbed his bunny and hugged it tightly to him. They slowly got Harry calmed down then he couldn't breathe so James helped him with his inhalor.
Ron on the other hand was getting scolded by Severus while Molly tried to laugh it off as kids being kids.
"Detention, Ronald Weasley." Severus snapped. "We do not take other peoples toys."
"He not have toys in class!" Ron argued back.
"It was in his backpack." Jamie stated. "He wasn playn wif it durin class. So it's okay."
"That's correct." Severus stated. "Everyone except Ronald Weasley gets play time now."
The Prefects had fled together. The kids all cheered.
"Consider this part of your detention Ronald Weasley." Severus took the boys arm gently and lead him to the front of the room. "You have to practice your letters while everyone else does playtime and don't forget you still owe me another detention for using foul language before you were sorted. "
Harry hugged Usa-chan. Why would anyone try to take his usa-chan away from him? He didn't understand Why was that Ron boy being mean to him? he didn't understand that either there was something he understood. Play time meant that he could have Sev comfort him. He ran to the man and smashed into his legs.
Severus sighed looking down. Sure enough there was Harry looking up at him with tearfilled eyes. He couldn't resist he picked the boy up and went to sit at his desk. Harry probably just wanted him to hold him he'd get some paperwork done and keep an eye on Ron. This worked for a long time then Harry decided he was calm enough to start talking all about his English class. Severus listened and even made a few comments so as to let Harry know that he was paying attention.
Finally, a bell rang and Severus had the kids go back to their seats. He began explaining what they would do in this class.
"What is Theory?" Hermione demanded.
"You will raise your hand in my class Hermione Granger and wait for me to call on you." Severus drawled. "Theory is the instructions on how to do something." He looked at the class. "I think you are to young to learn theory seeing as most of you can't even read." He got nods from the class. "see you all agree. Well, we shall start with something easy."
So he spent the class teaching them the importance of cleaning their cauldrons properly.
Cauldron Cleaning-1
Hermione was upset when Harry finished first and demanded loudly that she did the best. Severus took great pleasure in telling her why she hadn't done the best and what she had done wrong. Then showed them all Harry's cauldron and praised him for what he'd done right though he did make a few suggestions on how Harry could improve. Hermione was not pleased why were the Professors saying that the crossdresser was better than her when she was the best and smartest. She'd always been the best and smartest at her play school and she refused to believe that anyone could be better and smarter than her. It just wasn't possible! It wasn't!
Ron did the worst of all mostly because he didn't want to participate. Even Dudley was participating though he had no idea what was going on. At one point Ron threw his cauldron and it smashed into Harry's head. Harry hit the table and his nose began bleeding. He began crying. Dudley acted at once and tried to repay the favor his cauldron was only inches from Ron's head when Severus stopped him and told him to sit down. Dudley did as told.
Lily, James and Jamie were trying to calm Harry down. Lily had a cloth held to Harry's nose and had his head tilted backward gently speaking loving words to her son. Jamie got usa-chan and hugged Harry. James rotated between loving his son and glaring at Ron Weasley. When Harry's nose had stopped bleeding he helped Harry swallow his special Headache Reliever Potion and kissed his hair several times.
"That boy broke my sons nose!" Lily raged, then cooed over Harry. "I'm sorry if mommy yelling scared you, Harry. Mommy is not mad at you."
Harry nodded and clung to Usa-chan and Jamie.
"Okay, Mommy is going to cast a healing charm on you now." Lily said, softly. "It's going to hurt but Daddy will hold you after okay?"
Harry sniffled he didn't like pain but nodded. His mommy flicked her wand and his nose cracked and it did hurt and there was more blood but he tried not to cry this time he didn't want everyone to think he was baby. He'd cried a lot today. When the bleeding was stopped his daddy picked him up and fussed over him for a long time while Sev was arguing with Molly Weasley over having Ron suspended for hurting another student. During this Ginny had retrieved Ron's cauldron and was diligently cleaning it. Harry didn't mean to but he fell asleep in his daddy's arms.
