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Sliver of Melody-Thank you! I've corrected that
Hornet394-I would have had them teach foreign language, but there are only five days in a week and I really needed there to be a Gym. Clint and Natasha are teaching English because there really wasn't anything else left, and Clint was reading a book in the post-credit scene of the Avengers...Yeah...Also, EVERYONE teaches Gym (which'll be in the next chapter)
hprareslashfan-Dumbledore, his motives and goals will a be adressed later in the story
Disclaimer: I known nothing except my own original ideas and OCs
Chapter 6: Class
Apparently Bill was right; Snape did start becoming more brutal after the first week of class. Thankfully the sixth year NEWT potions class only met twice a week, for an hour on Monday and for two on Tuesday, so not too many points were taken. Snape had the class brew potions like the Draught of Living Death and Felix Felicis and then write long essays about the use and history of the potion. Snape also gave the class a lot of writing assignment where he asked them what potion they would use in a given situation and they had to describe in detail how to make the potion, what its uses were and how they intended to get the required ingredients. Each assignment could be no less than three rolls of parchment and they were graded with bias as the Slytherins almost always got "O" and on a rare occasion "EE". Not to mention the fact that Bella already had detention with Snape. DADA was another nightmare class. Not only was Professor Blanchet boring, but he was also rude and clearly not a people person. When he wasn't droning on about curses and jinxes, he was lecturing/yelling at the class to behave or threating them. Asides from those two classes, the rest of the NEWT classes weren't too bad, sure they came with a lot of homework, but they were generally interesting. In Transfiguration they were reviewing Vanishment, or making things go into non-being, and learning about Conjuration, or bringing things into being. So far Bella and Hermione had both succeeded in conjuring a glass and parchment among other things. In Charms they were learning the Aguamenti Charm and in Herbology they were working with far more complex and dangerous plants. Arithmancy and Ancient Runes also became more difficult as the numbers were more complicated and they were translating text-excerpts for Ancient Runes. Even Astronomy was more difficult. Regardless, the majority of the students were enjoying their studies. The only class that student's really hadn't formed opinions on yet was the Muggle Class, since they hadn't really learned anything yet. But when Bella, Dean, Seamus, Neville, Hermione and Susan walked into Muggle Class-Science-on Monday afternoon it was clear that classes were about to start for real,
"Good afternoon everyone," Bruce said standing up in front of the class that currently held forty students, "If everyone could please stand up. Since we're going to be splitting the class it will be easier if everyone is standing so that we can organize the students by knowledge level so we can help the kids who need it more. Alright so," Bruce said looking at the chart that had just the names of all the students who scored poorly on the test. It was actually funny, most of the kids got scores below 50% then the remain group scored in the 90% range, "Gregory Goyle," Bruce said motioning to the seat in the front, "Vincent Crabbe,"
"I bet you that all the purebloods will end up in the front, the Slytherins in the front front, then the half-bloods and then the muggle-borns and a few half-bloods, like you, will be sent to the other classroom," Dean whispered to Bella and Seamus as Bruce called out names,
"Suckers bet," Seamus whispered back and Bella hummed in agreement. By the time Bruce was finished calling out names only Dean, Bella, Hermione, Justin, Anthony, Megan Jones, Mandy Brocklehurst, Kevin Entwhistle and Oliver Rivers were left standing,
"Alright, you 9 are coming with me to the other classroom," Tony said walking towards the door with the remaining students following him, "Alrighty," Tony said drawing out the all, "since you guys actually know some science you can sit wherever you want," As soon as the words left Tony's mouth two cliques were formed. They weren't totally cliques per-say, since they weren't cold or mean to each other, but it became DA vs. Non-DA. Bella and Hermione sat next to each other and Dean, Justin and Anthony sat behind them. There was a space then Kevin and Oliver in the front then Megan and Mandy behind them, "Okay, so how 'bout we all start by saying something about ourselves and giving introductions for my sake. I'll go first. I'm Anthony Stark, but my friends call me Tony, and I love to invent things, tease Mr Rogers and play pranks. Your turn," Tony said motioning to Hermione,
"Um…I'm Hermione Granger and, um, I have a cat named Crookshanks, I hate black pudding and I like the colour yellow,"
"Good to know,"
"I'm Mirabelle Potter, but I just go by Bella, I love to read and play Quidditch and I think that Crookshanks is a genius cat who's genius is only matched by his mistress," Bella said with a cheeky grin,
"Bella!" Hermione hissed glaring at her friend,
"What? I speak the truth and nothing but the truth,"
"Okay then," Tony said chuckling at the slight reminder of Clint's attitude,
"I'm Kevin Entwhistle and I like jacket potatoes,"
"I'm Oliver River and I hope to get onto the Ravenclaw Quidditch team and don't like mint humbugs,"
"I'm Anthony Goldstein, I like hanging out with my friends, the colour gold and I don't like it when people bully the younger years,"
"I don't like bullies either," Tony said, "I like your name by the way,"
"Thanks,"
"Err…I'm Justin Finch-Fletchy, I like football (A/N soccer for us North Americans :)) and both my parents are muggle,"
"I am Dean Thomas, I like Astronomy, hunting, I love football and I am the tallest kid in our year!" Dean said with pride,
"Well congratulations on being tall, Dean. What a feat!" Bella said sarcastically,
"You know Bella you do wonders for my self-esteem,"
"Anything for a friend," Bella replied grinning. Tony laughed and sat down on the desk at the front of the class,
"Alrigthy so…Yes Dean?" Tony asked seeing the boy's hand shoot up,
"Professor Awesome, I have question,"
"Go ahead," Tony said happy that someone called him Professor Awesome,
"I read that you're Iron Man and that you need an Arc Reactor to survive. How do they work here? Technology doesn't work here,"
"Excellent question!" Tony said, "Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick found a spell allows technology to work,"
"Wait so like our iPods will work now?" Mandy asked excitedly,
"Probably, but you should ask either Professor McGonagall or Professor Flitwick," Tony was relieved when no one asked if the others were the Avengers and decided to start the lesson. Tony handed out the syllabus and told the class that they would be beginning with Earth Science and that would start with the Earth's Matter. The rest of the class was spent taking notes from the presentation Tony and Bruce had prepared and looking at models of the Earth and the tectonic plates. At the end of the class Tony handed out a sheet of paper with their assignment on it. The class was to read chapter 4 of the textbook that Tony had handed out earlier and answer all the review questions. Tony also informed the class that Bruce would be teaching them next week before dismissing the class.
"Tony!" Steve groaned,
"What?"
"Tell us!"
"Tell you what?"
"Seriously, we all want to know about Mirabelle!" Bruce said,
"She seems very nice," Tony said with a smirk, loving that he was pushing the others' buttons,
"STARK! Tell me about my daughter NOW!" Natasha demanded dangerously,
"Fine, Fine. She goes by Bella, as you already knew, she likes to read, play Quidditch and thinks her friend's cat is a genius,"
"What?" Jane asked confused,
"That's what she said," Tony said, "Anyways, she's smart and sarcastic like both her parents, but she's got a bit Clint's teasing streak. That's all I know," Tony said. Tony didn't know much but everyone, even the usually unreadable Natasha, was happy to know just a little bit about the girl they had missed for years,
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When Bella joined her friends under the large oak tree by the lake it was five o'clock. She had spent the last two hours sorting rotten flobberworms from good ones for potions ingredients, without protective gloves,
"What did you get detention for?" Susan asked after Hermione had cast a spell so that the spot that the toothless worm that bit Bella would stop stinging. Bella shrugged,
"Apparently I insulted him,"
"Ooo, what did you do?" Seamus asked interested,
"Bella didn't do anything," Hermione said stiffly,
"Okay, I'm slightly confused," Dean confessed,
"Snape takes my existence as a personal insult,"
"Then why don't you have detention all the time,"
"Because McGonagall would catch on," Bella said,
"Have you ever considered telling her the Snape's unfairly giving you detention?" Neville asked,
"Nope,"
"Why not?" Hermione asked disapprovingly,
"What can McGonagall do? Dumbledore's headmaster, not McGonagall. Besides would she even believe me?"
"I think so," Susan said,
"Yeah," Dean agreed, "She's got a soft spot for you and Mione," Hermione grinned knowingly at Bella before saying,
"You're too proud to go to her,"
"I am not!"
"How long have I known you?" Hermione asked rhetorically, "You don't like asking for help, you like to deal with things on your own," Bella sighed, knowing she would lose any argument she started,
"You're right I am proud. But that's not the whole reason," Bella confessed, "At the Dursley's I had to take care of myself, I didn't get to be a kid. If I go to McGonagall I'll feel like I'm becoming weak and needy. Also, I'll admit, I'm scared," Bella said pulling her legs to her chest, "McGonagall is like, I don't know, a grandmother to me. And if I go to her I'll feel as if I'm bringing her into something that isn't her problem and I'm afraid that she'll be disappointed in me for not being able to deal with things on my own,"
"Even Merlin had help," Seamus reminded quietly,
"I don't think McGonagall would be disappointed in you for asking for help," Susan said,
"It takes a strong person to pretend everything is alright when it's not, and a stronger person to admit it's all gone to hell and ask for help," Hermione reminded sagely. Bella sighed,
"I've only gotten one detention so far, but if it escalates to more than one a week from Snape, I'll go to Professor McGonagall. Fair?
"Enough,"
"Let's stop talking about the bat of the dungeon," Seamus said lying back in the grass,
"What do you want to talk about then, Seamus?" Neville asked. Bella smirked a Slytherin smirk,
"I'm pretty sure I saw Cormac McLaggen chatting up our Hermione yesterday,"
"WHAT! Bloody hell!" Seamus exclaimed bolting up from his spot in the grass, "You can't date that guy, Mia! He's an arrogant pig! How can you be dating that thing?"
"I'm not dating him!" Hermione shrieked,
"But Bella,"
"Don't you know her by now? She's a shit-disturber,"
"Yeah you're right…Wait did you just call her a shit-disturber?" Bella, Susan, Dean and Neville erupted into laughter while Seamus looked intrigued by Hermione's comment and Hermione was blushing bright red.
On Thursday morning at breakfast Bella found herself walking up to the staff table to speak to McGonagall. When McGonagall saw Bella she sighed,
"I'm sorry, Pepper, but it appears one of my students need something,"
"Oh no problem," McGonagall turned to Bella,
"Miss Potter please tell me that this isn't about someone stealing your underwear again?" This statement caught the attention of the Avengers, who all managed to subtly look and listen into the conversation without being noticed,
"No, I don't think anyone is going to be trying that one again, since I threatened to impale Bobby Alexander with a fork last time he tried to steal my undies," Bella replied brightly,
"God," Natasha whispered to Clint, "She was your cheek,"
"What do you need then?" McGonagall asked,
"Graham Montague, the captain of the Slytherin Quidditch team, gave Angelina a note from Professor Snape saying that the Slytherin team is to have the pitch on Saturday morning, when Angelina booked it. I'm not sure if the note is legitimate, because they've come up with a letter from Professor Snape when we had the pitch booked before. And I'm not sure if anyone other than Madam Hooch can change the pitch booking," McGonagall pursed her lips,
"Only Madam Hooch can change the pitch bookings. I will speak to her and Professor Snape,"
"And one more thing, will our muggle electronic devices work here now?" McGonagall smiled
"Yes. But keep it to yourself please; Headmaster Dumbledore will be announcing that at dinner tonight,"
"Okay. Thank you," Bella said before hurrying off to re-join her friends at the Gryffindor table and to tell Angelina that the pitch was still theirs,
"That's Bella Potter, right?" Pepper asked, trying to make it seem as if you wasn't a hundred percent sure who she was, since, not counting the testing period, Pepper and Steve had only "met" her the previous day,
"Yes, she's a sweet girl, fiery but sweet," McGonagall said fondly. Along with Hermione, Bella was McGonagall's favourite student,
"What did you mean by someone stealing her underwear?" Clint asked masking the anger at the thought of some boy going through his daughter's underwear drawer,
"One of the immature third year boys dared another third year to steal Miss Potter's underwear when Miss Potter was in the first year, but since boys can't go into the girls' dormitory, the boy tried to bribe one of the girls to get the underwear for him. But he ended up asking Katie Bell, a second year who was friends with Miss Potter. Miss Bell told Miss Potter. And after Miss Potter threatened bodily harm to the boy, after giving him a black eye, it became a tradition where some idiot boy would try and steal Miss Potter's underwear. Last year it was Robert Alexander and Miss Potter threated to impale him or anyone else who attempted to steal her underwear with a fork,"
"Wow," Steve said. McGonagall smiled,
"My thoughts exactly,"
"That was completely unnecessary, Bella," Hermione scolded as the two girls walked into the Muggle Class,
"So you're saying that you wouldn't have done the same?"
"No!" Hermione said,
"What's going on?" Neville asked as him, Susan, Dean and Seamus approached the group,
"I'm sure you wouldn't, Mo, I'm sure," Bella said disbelievingly,
"You broke his hand and,"
"Whose hand did Bella break?"
"I didn't break his hand,"
"Whose hand did Bella break?" Seamus repeated a little louder than the first time,
"Yes you did!"
"WHOSE HAND DID BELLA BREAK!" Seamus yelled, causing the whole class and Clint and Natasha who were coming down for their office to stare at the group of six in the back of the class,
"I didn't break anybody's hand!" Bella said annoyed, "I broke his wrist! There's a difference!"
"Who, Bella, whose wrist did you break," Seamus asked again,
"Some seventh year Hufflepuff that groped my arse," Bella hissed. Susan turned to Hermione,
"You're mad at her for breaking the arsehole that touched her arse?"
"No," Hermione said, "I'm not really mad, but what she did after that was completely unnecessary,"
"What did she do?" Someone from the class called out,
"She told him that if he ever so much as looked at her again that she would cut off a key organ in reproduction and feed it to Hagrid's dog, Fang, then she told him that she'd also cut off his ears,"
"Naturally, Bella said this much more scarily and used more inappropriate language," Dean said with a smirk,
"I'll admit I went a bit far, but I was angry and I don't think he'll be feeling up any girls butt for a long long time," Bella said happily,
"Did you get detention?"
"No, Professor Sinistra showed up and we told her what happened. I lost Gryffindor ten points, but we had gotten twenty points in Arithmancy, so yeah, but the Hufflepuff's got detention and is suspended from activities for the rest of the year," Bella informed the class,
"Alright then!" Clint said a tight edge in his voice at the thought of some boy touching his daughter's bum, "The following people are going to go with Ms Romanova to the other room: Hannah Abbot, Mandy Brocklehurst, Kevin Entwhistle, Justin Flinch-Fletchy, Anthony Goldstine, Hermione Granger, Wayne Hopkins, Megan Jones, Mirabelle-sorry-Bella Potter, Olivier Rivers, Dean Thomas and Blaise Zabini," Everyone turned surprised to the Slytherin who's only response was,
"I like to read,"
Natasha didn't run her classes like the others, she was far more serious. So the moment the class was seated Natasha handed out a syllabus and gave each kid a copy of The Lord of the Flies and a packet,
"You are expected to read this book and answer the questions mostly out of class since most of the class period will go to discussing the book and giving individual interpretations of the book. Today were going to talk a little about the author William Golding and a bit about the world when this book was written," The 12 students followed along as Natasha talked briefly about William Golding and the book and afterwards were told to read the first chapter of the book,
"Any comments?" Natasha asked after the students had finished reading,
"Jack seems like a total jerk," Mandy commented,
"I don't think that order is going to last," Blaise commented,
"Oh, why?" Natasha asked,
"Well for one, they're still kids, and children are impulsive and often follow their instincts. And when the other boys taunt Piggy, they show immaturity and cruelty which might be foreshadowing,"
"Nice theory. Does anyone have anything to add? Bella?"
"Jack really seems angry that he wasn't elected leader and the mention of killing next time and the thought of killing possibly becoming easy to them is disconcerting," Natasha smiled at Bella. She looked at the time before saying,
"Your homework is to read and answer the questions for chapters one thru three. Class dismissed,"
Bella was quiet walking out of the class. She had been feeling an odd pull to each of her Muggle teachers, but it was particularly strong that day. Even though Bella wasn't one too quickly and blindly trust, she felt as if she could trust the nine muggle teachers, especially Mr Barton and Ms Romanova. She felt as if she knew them, but she was sure she hadn't ever met them before. What weirded out Bella the most was the fact that walking out of the classroom she had felt to urge to hug Ms Romanova. When Bella confided this in Hermione later that night Hermione suggested that Bella's magical core might have sensed a connection to the nine Americans. Hermione promised to research magical bonds a let Bella know of her findings. Bella had thought that she'd feel weird around the Muggle teachers since she now thought that she might have a magical bond with them, but she didn't. The knowledge that she shared a bond with these people comforted Bella. And that is what scared her shitless.
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Also I could like you opinnions on pairings. While romance is not the main focus in the story, depending on how it pans out romance might be involved I've tossed around ideas of all of the following pairings. Let me know what you like and what you think is insane:
Bruce/Tonks
Charlie/Tonks
Steve/Amelia
Seamus/Hermione
Neville/Bella
Dean/Bella
(And the really weird one)
Blaise/Bella or Blaise/Bella friendship
Tell me what you think!