This isn't beta-ed yet, so I'm sorry for any mistakes. I also finished writing this all in the previous hours before posting, right after work, and work kills my brain, so if it's a little wierd, sorry. Oncew my beta get this chapter back to me ( she's only just getting it too), I'll replace this with a beta-ed copy. But, I hope you enjoy it anyway...at least I got it out on the day I said I would...
LAST TIME ON The Feel of Feelings Rewrite
Tonks shrugged but didn't move to leave. "My job in the search is to keep an ear open at the ministry. I have today off and everyone knows it'll take an emergency to get me to work on a day off." She shifted, suddenly nervous. "Unless you don't want me here."
"Company would be lovely."
AND
"All done." Harry blinked up at Kaeden innocently.
Kaeden nodded. "Shall we see if your sister is done her exam?"
Harry giggled and started walking. Kaeden shook his head and followed.
Chapter 7
"I hear he's off hiding in the Burmuda Triangle."
"I heard he's off in Bulgaria, learning from Victor Krum."
"But Mitsy at work said she saw him when she was on vacation to Mexico."
"Posh, he's probably hiding the Department of Mysteries learning all he can."
Remus wasn't sure to be grateful that no one was close to guess his cubs whereabouts, laughing at some of the theories, or offended they would actually think Harry would do some of them.
"Well I heard…!"
"Mai?" Harry sang as they entered the bat cave. An irritable mew was their answer. "Was that Miri?"
"Didn't sound like her." Kaeden looked at Ray questionably and Ray gave him the same look back. "Perhaps her mother?"
"Nah," Harry waved the idea off and started wandering the room, searching for whoever moew-ed. He lifted his head from the floor after looking under the couch. "Do you think Ra has learned to meow?"
Kaeden stared at him. "No"
"You sure?" He ducked his head to look under the coffee table.
"Yes." Kaeden watched as Harry threw himself to the floor in front of the other couch.
"Hey, Kae, can you shut the door." Harry wildly waved his hand at the door behind the vampire without looking up.
"Kae?" Kaeden asked as he turned and closed the door as asked.
"Kaeden is too many syllables." Harry reached under the couch.
"It's only two syllables."
"And Kae is only one." Harry seemed to have reached what he wanted and grinned as a cat's yelp came from behind the couch.
Soon after, Hermione, decidedly catty, stood up from behind the cat and lectured Harry in a series of meows. Harry just grinned.
"Mia?" Kaeden asked, staring at the girl with wide eyes.
Hermione stopped meowing and looked at Kaeden like a deer caught in headlights and Harry burst into giggles. She tried explaining, or perhaps lying, about what was happening but once again it came out in meows.
Before Harry could cut in, if he even could stop laughing, The door swung open and Drey traipsed in. The demon froze a couple feet away from the door and stared at Hermione. "Whoa, what happened to her?"
Hermione growled and slashed her wand at the door, causing it to slam shut. She gave all the males a dirty look before retreating back behind the couch. Harry followed her and found an open book on the floor. Hermione seemed to be reading it and as a paw followed a line, she breathed in deeply and the cat features started to recede. Harry giggled, watching as her physical structure changed.
Once she was back to normal she carefully closed the book and stood up. She smoothed her clothes and hair, composing herself. "What I was doing, was working on my animagus abilities. Which, by the way, was why the door was shut."
"We can leave…" Kaeden looked at the female inquiringly.
"No," Hermione answered at the same time Harry dropped himself on a couch. "You can stay. I wasn't planning to practice long anyway and Ray pulling my tail hurt," she winced. "So I'm definitely done now." Kaeden smiled at her and walked to a chair. "So how did your potions go?" She changed the subject.
"Kaeden was done first." Harry informed his sister and the group accept the subject change.
Kaeden nodded in agreement. "My potion turned out rather well. The shade was a little off, but that's because it hasn't aged properly yet."
"Mine's not done." Drey pouted, he would have to go back the next day to finish it.
Harry giggled, bringing attention to him. "Mine came out well. But Drey brought up some interesting questions, so I can't say it's a finished potion anymore." He giggled some more.
"…Oh?" Hermione wasn't sure she wanted to know.
"Yeah," Harry grinned at her innocently. "He wanted to know if a guy changed into a girl can get pregnant." Hermione closed her eyes and massaged the area between her eyes. "And so that got me thinking, can you? Does my potion just change appearance or the whole body?" Harry's eyes sparkled, in much the same way Hermione's did when she found something fascinating.
While Hermione may not have noticed the similarities, she was happy that while he was still giggling, he seemed to be getting better; and being the kind of girl that she was, promptly launched into a conversation on the potion.
Thursday came and went, and soon Friday was upon them.
"Do you think I failed?" Hermione asked her group for the fifty-third time. "I couldn't get the radio to work in Elektromagic's and the cut I healed in healing scared." She started panicking.
Harry was no help, giggling at her plight, either finding her stressing funnier then when in Hogwart's, or not remembering the times in Hogwart's. Drey was sleeping, deeming it to early to actually stay awake, especially when there were no classes. Thus, leaving Kaeden the only one to calm her down.
"Calm down, Mai." Hermione sent the vampire a glare, how dare he tell her to calm down. "There's no possible way to fail these exams. All they are, are placement test to find out what level you are at. The worst that can happen is being placed in a beginner class, not failing."
"Are you implying I got placed in beginner classes?" She asked evilly.
"No," Kaeden's eyes darted to the others in the group. "I'm just saying you can't fail, so you shouldn't worry about doing so."
Hermione continued to eye him evilly, but seemed to let the implied - as she saw it - insult go. Harry's giggling, which had quieted down, all of a sudden burst out of him uncontrollably.
"You know, Mia my sister, when my uncle got stressed, my aunt would make green tea while giving him come hither looks." Harry blinked. "We tended to leave after that, we didn't need to see where that went, we heard enough of it." He shuddered. "That was traumatising." He pulled his legs up to his chest and started rocking. "So wrong." He breathed.
He didn't move from his position even as there was a knock on the dorms door frame. "Ray?" Hermione delicately moved over to him. He turned his face towards her and she saw his right eye twitching like mad.
"I'd prefer 'ban over that." He shuddered again. "It was terrible."
Kaeden came back from answering the door and looked at Hermione with inquiring eyes.
"No!" Harry yelled out and spun to face the vampire. "Don't look at her like that. You don't want to know!" He reached out to shake Kaeden and fell off the back of the chair. "It was horrible." His voice cracked.
"Very well." Kaeden amended, giving Harry a hand up from the floor. "I suppose I wont ask why you said my, rather then our, uncle either." He informed the two awake.
"Oops," Harry mumbled under his breath while Hermione flushed.
"Here," Kaeden handed them both a paper and walked over to Drey. "It was Mr. O'Neil at the door. He dropped off our new schedules." He dropped Drey's onto of him and walked back to his couch corner.
"I passed," Harry gasped, looking up at the two. "Does this mean I have a brain." His lip quivered. "I don't want one."
"Don't worry," Hermione mumbled as she looked over her schedule. "I'm still convinced you head just contains hamsters and wheels."
"…Okay. That works." Harry looked back down at his schedule. "All my classes are the same time they already were…"
"Yes," Kaeden looked up at him. "The times stay the same but the teachers change depending on your level."
"Oh. Well, then who else has Professor Manik for Soul Magic?" Kaeden shook his head, he had a different professor. "What about Drey?"
Hermione grabbed the sleeping demons schedule and glanced down at it. "No, he has Professor Dinca."
"I'm all alone." Harry whispered to himself. He sniffed. "Who will steal notes from?"
Hermione pretend to not hear him and Kaeden asked about Combat class.
"Professor Mane, you?" Kaeden shook his head again. "Where is the love!?" He wailed.
Hermione glanced over his shoulder to look at who he had for Elements. "Sorry Ray, we don't have Elements together either." But before he could wail any harder, she glanced at the next class. "We have Wordless and Motionless Magic with professor Tripe together though."
Kaeden raised a brow, "It's actually surprising you have that class together, I didn't think you're levels were the same."
"It actually kind of makes sense." Hermione shrugged. "I'm good and the wordless but not that great at motionless, while Ray is okay, but not great, in both. So we end up in the middle ground."
Harry sniffed. "At least I'm not all alone in one of my classes. How 'bout potions? I have Professor Garon."
Kaeden nodded. "I as well."
"Drey doesn't." Hermione shook her head.
"Well," Harry pouted, at least I got Kae. And I already know I'm alone in Blood Magic."
Hermione patted his hand, still not sure on Harry's choice in class, but trying to not boss him around anymore, Kaeden had been right. "I'm sure you'll be fine, you've been through worse."
Harry giggled, "No kidding."
Drey took this time to wake.
Monday came to the students great reluctance and the entire group was once again sitting the Cultures classroom. "Now then," Professor Bell's brown eyes scanned the class. "For today's class, we're going to start on vampires. I know many of you know the basics; drink blood, live longer, and so on. But what is generally unknown, is how vampires came to be. Way back when, before any of us were born, magic users still believed, and many still do today, they were better then muggles. So I'm sure you can all accurately guess who magic users used for their experiments.
"Who don't know who, or even what they were trying to achieve, but we know the results. A wizard, as in that time, witch's were decoration, experimenting with blood magic, created the first vampire.
These vampire's, made from muggles, were, of course, the non magical kind. They had an adverse reaction to silver, which is also why it was said vampires had no reflection, mirrors used to be made of silver, and they would burn under the sun and thus did sleep during the day. Yes, Mr. Dimese." She nodded to a student.
"Why do they burn under the sun?"
"Good question." She nodded. "When we don't move for long periods of time, we get a sun burn. But with vampire's, their blood moves incredibly slowly. So not only does the sun burn their skin, it boils their blood." The student looked satisfied so Professer Bell continued on.
"However, even if they had created a better muggle, they wanted to improve them. Thus, how magical vampires were made. Not only did they not have the weakness' of the muggle vampires, but they kept their magic as well.
"Now, as I said ealier, we don't know what the desired result was, but most assume it didn't completely work since a vampire's ability to create blood dies, and thus need to consume blood. Yes, Miss Evans."
Hermione put her hand down, "Why do vampires need to drink blood?"
"They need to drink blood to keep them alive. All vampires, whether made or born, magic or not, have a blood magic array inside of them. As their ability to make blood is destroyed, the array eats the blood they do have and would eventually consume them. So they drink the blood of others to power the array and stay alive."
Ray telling Mia what his aunt and uncle did are actual stress relievers. I searched up the top 25, number twenty-four was drink green tea, and sex was number ten. XD
