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With a large amount of awe and 15 points for Gryffindor the class ended and everyone began packing up their things and making their way out.

"Mr. Potter!" Professor Flitwick squeaked as he made his way towards the duos desk. "That was the most fantastic display of magic I've ever seen from a first year! You show great promise here!"

"Thank you Professor, but without Hermione here I wouldn't have been able to do it!" Harry said with a sideways grin at Hermione.

"Now that's not true Harry!" Hermione said with a light punch and a laugh to his shoulder.

"Sure it is!" He said faking pain from the mock hit. "If you hadn't fixed my pronunciation then I would probably have ended up like Ron in the back with those scorch marks on his face." Harry joked.

"All of this aside, I would like the two of you to stay back after class tomorrow. While that was a fantastic display of magic, I have never seen anything like that on the first day. Which both worries and excites me! Anyway, on with you two, we will work out the details tomorrow!" Professor Flitwick said with visible excitement.

"Okay Professor." The two said simultaneously. They grabbed their things and stepped out the door.

"What do you think he wants with us?" Harry asked.

"I don't know, maybe he has more books for us like Professor McGonagall." Hermione said raising her shoulders.

"Or maybe he is going to teach us some awesome new charms!" Harry said with a giant grin.

"Maybe, He…" Hermione said but was cut off by a loud "Oi" from behind them.

Ron was rushing up to the two of them, it seemed he had stuck around after class waiting for them.

"How'd ya do that Harry! That was amazing!" He said with excitement.

"I don't know I just said it the way Hermione told me to." Harry responded with little care. The redhead was beginning to annoy him.

"Hmph." the redhead said, glancing at Hermione. "Well what did he keep you after class for?" He asked Harry.

"Well he kept us both after class Ron." Hermione said.

"I asked Harry." Ron said with a snap knocking her bag off her shoulder.

Harry came to a complete stop. Hermione had tears in her eyes. He bent down and picked her things up putting them back in the bag and handed it to her. "Hermione head on to the library I will meet you there, Ron and I have something to discuss." He said with a mean glint in his eye.

"Now Harry.." Hermione started with a sniffle.

"Don't worry I will be right behind you shortly." Harry said. Hermione nodded her head in affirmation and made her way quickly to the library.

Once Hermione was out of earshot Harry turned and looked at Ron.

"Whew I thought she would never leave. What a know it all. I mean have you seen her in class?" Ron said looking down the corridor after her shaking his head.

"I think you misunderstand why I sent her away." Harry said getting angrier and angrier with every word Ron spoke. Setting his things down he pushed Ron up against the wall, Ron hit his head on the stone with audible pain. Spilling his things on the ground.

"Wha what was that for!" Ron yelled struggling against Harry to no avail.

"No! You don't speak, I speak, you listen." Harry growled at him.

"Now I get it, it's pretty obvious, you are trying very hard to become my friend. I can see that, you are attempting to talk to me every chance you get. But that is simply not going to happen." Harry said shoving Ron against the wall again.

"Guh." Ron grunted "But why!" He said eyes starting to shine with tears.

"Because of how you treat my friend." Harry said.

"Her? Really?" Ron said.

"You must be stupid." Harry responded as he shoved him again. "I said, and this is the last time I will say it. This is because of how you treat my friend."

"What do ya mean! I was just trying to talk to you!" Ron said starting to panic, Harry had yet to let him away from the wall.

"Yes I can see that, but after this, I will no longer respond to you. I will no longer acknowledge you, even if we are in the same class, sitting at the same table, forced to pair up in a project, never. Do you understand." Harry said with one last push.

Ron grunted again, "What can I do to make this better Harry!"

"The first thing you can do is apologize to Hermione." Harry said letting Ron go from the wall.

"I will do that now." Ron said rubbing his head.

"No! Not now, you will not go to the library. You will wait until dinner, and you will apologize publicly." Harry said dusting off his robes.

"In front of everyone!" Ron said turning white.

"In front of everyone." Harry affirmed.

"That will make you my friend?" Ron asked hopefully.

"Absolutely not, that is just the right thing to do." Harry responded coldly, picking up his things and making his way down the corridor.

"Will we ever be friends!" Ron called after him.

"Maybe someday. But certainly not today." Harry said.

"Wait Harry! What else, what else can I do!" Ron shouted. His voice echoed in the corridor, but the only thing he heard in response was Harry's fading footsteps.


Harry made his way to the spot he and Hermione frequented in the library to find his one friend surrounded by a fort of books sniffling loudly. Madam Prince did not look amused. Grabbing a chair Harry pulled himself up next to Hermione.

"Your defences seem to have a flaw." He said smiling. "Normally there are four walls but you seem to have forgotten one."

Hermione looked up at him with red watery eyes but seemed to be fighting a grin. So Harry kept going.

"Now there is a thought!" Harry said wiping a tear from her face and showing it to her. "We can use these to make a moat!" That almost did it. She seemed to be having a harder time keeping that frown going. Harry jumped up and grabbed an owl bookend from a nearby bookshelf, sitting back down he held it sideways in one hand and making "boat on the water" motions with it. "Then we just need some alligators! Or Crocodiles! Then it would be almost perfect!" He said with a triumphant smile.

That did it, she was smiling again. Wiping her red eyes with her robe sleeve she looked at Harry.

"Bu..but that's an owl." She said shakily still smiling.

"It's all I saw, had to improvise." Harry said with a shrug.

With a sniffle Hermione leaned across the small gap between them grabbing him in a hug, burying her face in his shoulder. "Thank you Harry." She said muffled into his shoulder.

"What was that!" Harry said laughing. "I can't hear you!"

Raising her face from his shoulder she whispered "Thank you Harry."

The Duo took some time for studying and reading whatever they fancied as they waited for dinner. When dinner time rolled around. They made their way to the Great Hall. Harry wondered if Ron would do as he asked. Sitting down the food and plates popped up as usual and as usual everything looked and smelled fantastic. Just as Harry had filled his plate. He heard a loud "Huuuu Hemmmm".

Harry and Hermione looked up to see Ron standing on his seat. His face almost as red as his hair. Which was quite a feat.

"Excuse me everyone. I would like your attention." Ron Shouted.

The Great Hall became silent except for a few murmurs. With that Ron seemed to lose some nerve and looked over to where Harry and Hermione were sitting. He seems to steel himself and turned back to everyone. "Since I have gotten here I have not been kind to one particular classmate of mine. I just want to say, Hermione Granger, I am terribly sorry, I hope you can forgive me." He said looking right at Hermione. "Uhhh that's all, thanks." He said and sat back down, hanging his head, looking like he was trying to vanish.

After a few short moments the Great Hall returned to normalcy as everyone moved on from that odd display from a first year.

Hermione looked at Harry knowingly. "That was you wasn't it." She said looking embarrassed.

"Of course it was." Harry said standing up smiling at her. Harry walked over to where Ron was sitting and clapped his hand on his shoulder. Ron jumped in his seat.

"Ha..Harry! I thought you were not talking to me." he said.

"That took some guts, I am glad you did the right thing. I honestly didn't think you would." Harry said.

"Yea I just felt terrible, I spent the whole time from when you uh.. Talked to me till now thinking about what you said. You were right I was being a jerk, and knocking her stuff down like that, was not nice." He responded looking ashamed.

"I can see you mean that." Harry said.

"Does that mean?" Ron started looking hopeful.

"Not yet, that's a good start though Ron." Harry said and made his way back to his spot with Hermione.

"What was that about?" Hermione asked.

"Well I gave him some advice on how he could go about making what he did right, and he took it. So I went over to tell him that I approved." He responded.

"Well thank you again Harry." She said with another smile. She picked up her fork and paused. "He is not going to start hanging out with us is he?" She asked.

"Not yet, maybe someday." Harry said taking a bite of his food.

Hermione seemed to accept that and they finished up their dinner, again being some of the first done they made their way to the common room to relax and try to nap before their first Astronomy class.

Astronomy came and went without a fuss. Professor Sinistra seemed nice enough, and the topic was of course interesting! Who was not into space these days!

After the class ended the duo along with the rest of the class quickly made it back to their dorms for some much needed sleep.


Harry woke early again for his morning exercise which went well, he was still appreciating the scenery, it was much better than looking at house after house like he was used to back home. Once he was finished he returned to the castle for his morning routine. After breakfast was Potions and Harry was extremely excited about this. He loved potions, and he heard that Professor Snape was one of the best Potions masters in the world! But everyone other than he and Hermione seemed worried. Harry had heard the rumblings from the other students but did not quite believe them. After all, yes Snape had a perpetual scowl but there was no way all the rumours were true about him. Some were saying he was a vampire! Though Harry had not seen him outside the castle yet. So maybe that one was true? Harry didn't know. But he came prepared. He packed his bag with all the potions books he could fit, he planned on asking Professor Snape which authors he recommended. Hoping that maybe he would be as kind as Professor McGonagall and provide him with more material.

The class stood outside the door until it was exactly time to start. The door swung open wide and the students filed in. Snape immediately started in on a probably practiced speech, Harry couldn't help but smile.

"Potter! What are you smiling at, do you find something I said amusing!" Snape said with a lot more mirth than Harry was expecting.

Smile faltering Harry replied. "Uh no Sir, I just really love this subject."

"Really now, we shall see." Snape replied. After which he rattled off questions that no first year student would have known, and to everyone's surprise Harry answered all of them correctly. As he finished the impromptu quiz he looked over toward Hermione, she was looking proud. That made Harry smile again.

"5 Points from Gryffindor." Snape snarled, claiming that Harry must have cheated.

The class went on, and Harry was discouraged, this was his favourite subject and he thought that Snape may actually hate him. Luckily the first potion that the class was to brew was one that Harry had a good amount of practice making. He and Hermione paired up and made a perfect potion together for which Snape awarded them full points, though he did not seem happy about it. By Noon the class let out and Harry glumly made his way with Hermione towards lunch. One thing was sure, Harry was very much looking forward to Charms after lunch.

As the last of the class left the potions dungeon Professor Snape took another look at the potion Harry and Hermione made. Setting it down on his desk he made his way towards the door, as he opened the door he looked back at his desk, and with a look of disgust he said. "6 Points to Gryffindor."


A.N. Thank you for reading! Hope you enjoyed!