Yo waddup ma dudes here's another chapter for ya
As you can see I changed the title cos why not
Enjoy, I guess

Nico's POV

After everything that had happened that weekend, I was glad to have a good, long, dreamless sleep. Luckily, I woke up before the others, so they couldn't laugh at me again for… well, getting zapped out of the air. I still didn't know what had happened exactly yesterday, but I decided to move on. The weekend was over, and the professors weren't going to go easy on me.

When I heard Mulciber waking up, I went into superspeed. I was almost done with my shoes when I heard his awful sleepy voice, 'Look who's up early. Going for a flight? I wouldn't, if I were you-'

'You're not, though,' I interrupted.

'-you might get zapped out of the air again,' He went on like he hadn't heard me. 'God, that was funny.'

'Shut up, Mulciber.'

'Oh,' Mulciber exclaimed, 'look who's getting mouthy! You hear that, Snape?'

I now noticed Snape was up, too. Ever since our debate, he only hung out with these guys, and he totally ignored me. I asked him a question about the homework last week, and he just stared somewhere in front of him. Some friend.

I locked eyes with him, and for a second, he seemed apologetic. Then, he averted his eyes. I rolled my eyes; how could he have changed so much so quickly?

I finished tying my shoelaces and got up. 'Bye, di Angelo, see you at DADA, try staying on the ground.'

I sighed, would the whole year go like this? I hoped not. Not that hoping would help.

When I got to the great hall, I saw Bianca and Roxanne, thank god. It was eight o'clock, not for them to get up this early. They usually came around half past eight or later.

'Hey,' I said, sitting next to my sister.

'Hey, Nico, sleep okay?'

'Yeah, fine,' Oh no, here it came. Bianca was going all motherly on me again.

'Your arm doesn't hurt?'

'It isn't broken anymore, so no.'

'No dreams?' I shook my head 'Headaches?'

'Italy, calm down, Little Italy is fine.' Roxanne said, while buttering her toast.

'You could also call me Rome, it isn't as big as Italy itself, but still important. Plus, it sounds better.' Roxanne nodded as if she was thinking it over.

'Nico, if you are hurting somewhere, you'll tell me, won't you?'

'So, you can smother me all day long? Seriously, Bianc, I'm not five anymore.'

'In my head you are.'

'Oh, do you have a photo of Rome when he was just a little mountain? Before he became such a big city?'

'Okay, never mind, that sounds weird.'

'No, I like it. I'm gonna keep it.' Roxanne tried to throw a strawberry in her mouth, but she missed completely, and Bianca and I laughed. Roxanne kept trying until she got one in her mouth, and when she stopped, the whole floor was full of strawberries.

'So, what did you think of the homework?' Roxanne asked casually, as if she hadn't just spilled at least a dozen strawberries.

'The… homework?' I asked. How could I forget about this? 'Did we have homework?'

Bianca and Roxanne both stared at me, I had never not done my homework before. 'Yeah, for DADA.' Bianca said worried. Great, now she was only going to smother me more.

'I…I didn't do it.'

'You're screwed, Rome.' Roxanne said.

After breakfast, we went to DADA. We had it with the Hufflepuffs, and I just sat in the back and rolled my wand over in my hands for an hour and a half. It was almost Halloween, and we still hadn't learned a single spell. Professor Whitehart said if we learned a spell, and then accidentally used it, we might hurt ourselves. I thought that was ridiculous, because if we ever needed a spell one would learn in DADA, we didn't know it, and we weren't stupid, we wouldn't accidentally use the killing curse on ourselves the way Professor Whitehart once had. While I was thinking that over, I saw Avery and Rosier have a wand fight, then I realised they would be stupid enough to accidentally kill or curse each other. Not that that would be the worst thing in the world.

This lesson, Whitehart was telling another story again. Luckily for me, she didn't check the homework. I seriously doubted any of us would get a good grade on our exams, we didn't know any spells or counter curses or whatever. Maybe the exam was just filling in the holes in the stories that Professor Whitehart told us. Probably not, though. I didn't listen to a word Whitehart said. After about an hour, I swear I could hear someone snoring. Not that I blamed them. DADA was supposed to be fun, but the lessons from Professor Whitehart were even more boring than from Professor Binns, an actual ghost. He was one of the only ghost that didn't bother Bianca or me. Probably because he had no idea he even was a ghost. Story has it he just woke up one day as a ghost, but never stopped teaching. How could you not realize you've turned into a ghost? It seemed impossible to me, you should notice when you can't pick stuff up anymore or maybe that you weren't walking, you were floating.

The lessons was finally over, and we went to Herbology, yay. The only good thing about Herbology was that I had it with the Ravenclaws, so that meant I would see Ryan again. Our first Charms class, I was sitting alone when he suddenly sat down next to me. I was so surprised, I swear I just stared at him for a good minute.

'Hey, I'm Ryan Clarke,' He had said. When I didn't reply, he went on, 'And your name is…'

'Nico. Nico di Angelo.'

'Cool.'

I hadn't made much conversation that first day, but he kept asking me all kinds of questions. He also really needed help with the spell we were learning, he still isn't very good in Charms.

'Angel!'

I smiled broadly, Ryan was the only one who called me that. 'Hi, Ryan.'

'You ready for another amazing lesson of Herbology with the best Ravenclaw anyone could wish for and all these plants who loathe you?'

'Can't wait.'

Bianca and Roxanne stood next to me and Ryan, I think Roxanne had a little crush on him. I got it, with his brown hair and light blue eyes. I felt kind of bad for Roxanne, though, because Ryan treated her like a sister.

'Where are our plants?' Bianca asked, I don't think she minded much that they were gone.

We all looked around but couldn't find them. A few seconds later, Professor Sprout walked in.

'You must be asking yourselves where your plants are. Well, they're gone,' Everyone started murmuring, some happy, some not so happy. Ryan looked absolutely devastated. 'From now on, we will be moving to the less fun stuff, the book. Everyone has it with them, I hope?' Again, she was answered by students murmuring. 'Great, now we'll have to get back to the castle. We can hardly read texts out of the book here, now can we?'

A Ravenclaw girl I didn't knew the name of raised her hand. 'Yes?'

'Will we have more plants to take care of later in the year?'

'We probably will.' Nice answer.

All of us went back to the castle, with much noise. Professor Sprout didn't care, though. The rest of the lesson, which was now a quarter shorter, we learned about Devil's Snare, a plant which hated the sun. I could relate, I got burned when I was in the sun too long, too.

After class was over, Ryan and I walked to lunch together. After lunch, I would have Potions with the Gryffindors, I already couldn't wait. Potions was one of the subjects I was actually good at, it came natural for me. Plus, seeing James and Sirius screw up was always fun. They had gotten better, but so had the rest of the class.

'What do you have next period?' I asked Ryan.

'Uhh, History of Magic. I still don't know the difference between Emeric the Eagle and Elfric the Evil.'

'You mean Emeric the Evil and Elfric the Eager.' I laughed.

'Yeah, Emeric the Evil an Elfric the Eagle.'

'Elfric the Eager.'

'What?'

'It's the Eager, not the Eagle.'

'That's what I said. Elfric the Eagle.'

'God, Ryan, you're never going to pass.'

'Watch me.' We'd arrived at the great hall and he walked backways. Then, after a few steps, he walked into someone, and quickly turned around to walk normal again.

'Good job, Ryan.'

'See ya later, angel.'

Bianca and Roxanne, who were walking behind me, giggled. 'Shut up,' I replied, and we sat down to have lunch.

'All right, you won't have to get so defensive,' Roxanne smiled.

'Funny, your best friend is a Ravenclaw…'

'Well, he's not really my best friend.'

'And our arch enemy is a Ravenclaw.'

'Yeah, I guess so… Wait a second, your arch enemy?'

'Yeah, we met her yesterday,' Roxanne said, as if it was normal to have someone you've known for one day be your arch enemy, 'and because of her, we had to go to Professor McGonagall's office.'

'For real?'

'Uhuh, she was being mean to Lily and me, then Roxanne made a comment back and McGonagall overheard.'

'What did she say?'

'She said I shouldn't talk to other students that way, and if she bothers us again, we should come to her. Like I'm gonna to do that, that stupid Ravenclaw will think I'm weak.'

'She already knows I am.'

'What's her name?' I thought the story was amusing, only girls could hate each other this much after just one conversation.

'Alexa Rowell, she's the one who asked if we would ever come back to the greenhouses during Herbology.'

'She seemed real mean.'

'She is! She called us evil because we are in Slytherin,' Bianca whimpered. 'By the way, I forgot to ask yesterday, who is You-Know-Who?'

'You-you don't who You-Know-Who is?' Roxanne looked ever more surprised than when she found out we didn't know what Quidditch was.

'No, is that bad?'

'I don't know who it is either.'

'Sometimes it seems like you two are from a whole different planet.'

'Just tell us.'

'I can't say his name here, can I?'

'Why not?' This was ridiculous, why was she scared of a name?

'Nobody says his name, that's why everyone calls him You-Know-Who. Most people know who you mean by that.'

'Well, we don't.'

'Come on, time for Potions.' It seemed like Roxanne really didn't want to talk about it. Of course, Bianca and I weren't just going to let it go.

'Just tells us his name, already!' Bianca insisted.

'I'll tell you later.'

During Potions, we made a Wideye Potion. Remus and I kept joking we would put it in each other's pumpkin juice. Another thing I didn't understand about wizards, or all Englanders, how could they like pumpkin juice? It tasted horrible and had little chunks of pumpkin in it. I couldn't stand the stuff.

Anyway, like every fun Potions class, James did something wrong. Sirius' potion was almost flawless, and I was very proud of him for that.

'How can it be wrong? What did I do this time?' James complained.

'Your cauldron is too cold.'

'What? No, I specifically remembered to make sure it was the right heat after what happened two weeks ago.'

'Well, it says medium temperature here and your cauldron is on the lowest temperature you can get. Nice going, James,' Sirius said snickering.

'Yeah, laugh, you'll do something wrong, too. I'm sure of it.'

'Mr. Potter, that's no way to talk to your fellow students,' Professor Slughorn suddenly stood next to James, none of us had seen him coming.

'That looks wonderful, Nico, great job!'

'Thank, sir,' I smiled and Professor Slughorn walked to the other side of the classroom again.

'Thanks for the warning,' James muttered annoyed.

'No problem,' I answered sarcastically, which only made James look more annoyed.

'By the way, Remus,' I started asking, 'who is You-Know-Who?'

The two girls in front of us turned around and looked at me in horror. I looked confused back at them, and then at Remus. Why was everyone so afraid for some guy? What did he do?

'He's an evil wizard. Killed a lot of wizards and muggles. We don't talk about him often,' Remus waved the question away.

'What's his real name?'

Remus got red. 'All right, I'll tell you,' Then he whispered in my ear. 'Voldemort.'

'Vol-' I started to say out loud.

'Don't!' Remus kicked my shin. 'Why do you think everyone calls him You-Know-Who?'

'I don't know, because you can't pronounce his real name?' I guessed. 'By the way, that totally didn't hurt or anything,' I rubbed my shin.

'Sorry, but if you'd said it out loud, everyone would probably think your one of his followers. Although, I bet even they don't dare speak his name.'

'What house was he in?' Remus looked at the ground. 'He went to Hogwarts, right?'

'Yeah, yeah he did.'

'So, what house was he in?'

'Slytherin,' Remus mumbled.

'Is that why that guy we were with on the train-'

'Peter,' Remus interrupted.

'Yeah, Peter. Is that why he said Slytherin was for the bad wizards and witches?' Remus nodded. 'And is that why that Ravenclaw girl said Bianca and Roxanne are evil because they're in Slytherin?'

'Yeah, wait, what happened with Bianca and Roxanne?'

'They made an enemy yesterday. Seriously, how can girls hate each other so quickly?'

'You hated your roommates since your first encounter with them, didn't you?'

'Yeah, but could this Ravenclaw girl really be so bad?'

'They'll probably make up soon. How is it going with your roommates, by the way?'

'Awful, as usual. This morning, Mulciber made fun of me again because I fell out of the air Saturday.'

'Seriously? That sucks, Nico.'

'Yeah, it does. You'd think they would've at least asked me how I was doing or come visit me or something. But, no no no, they immediately have to make fun of me again,' It really sucked that I had them as my roommates, I would have to survive seven years with these people.

'I'm sure it'll get-' Remus didn't get to finish his sentence because at that moment, something blew up. In a matter of seconds, the whole classroom filled with purple smoke, it smelled disgusting.

Kind of a sucky chapter, I know, but I'm very busy with school and stuff so oh well
Stupid exams are coming up...
Anyway, have a wonderful day and see ya later
Oh and comments are always welcome

-CTM-