Really, really sorry it's late. Life has just been overloading me lately. Work piles crap on me while treating me like crap, I'm trying to get into university, and so forth. So here's the next chapter. And as sorry for not getting this up sooner, I've decided to publish a two-shot I wrote. It's a Harry/Salazar, so if you like that pairing, go read my 'I'm sorry' story.

Enjoy

LAST TIME ON The Feel of Feelings Rewrite

He continued on with his walk, not anxious to return to the orders headcounters. He spotted a chocolate store and with a smile, decided he would go back from his walk empty handed.

AND

"I'm Ray." He declared, again, as he pounced on her. He gave her an expectant look until she answered.

"T-Tamina."

"Great, now I am going to kidnap you and present you to the rest of my menagerie. Okay?" He didn't wait for an answer, just grabbed her wrist and dragged her away.

Chapter 9

"Professor Lupin?" A taller redhead waited for the older man to acknowledge him.

"Yes Ron?"

"Can we talk?"

"Of course." The gentle man gestured to a chair across from him and put his book down. "What do you need?"

"I don't know if you're in contact with Harry or not, but I thought if anyone could get him a letter you could."

Remus tensed and looked guardedly at the sad young man across from him. "No one knows where Harry's is, and our letters are returned unopened."

Ron shook his head. "Hermione sent me a note before she left, so I know you helped them leave. I'm not blind to Dumbledore's ways. But I really need to talk to Harry and the only way I can do that is if I can get a note to him asking he come see me whenever he can."

Remus studied the Weasley in front of him for a few minutes before nodded. "I'll make sure it gets to him."

Ron smiled relieved and pulled out a folded letter. "Thank you, Professor."

Some time later, after her class was let out, Hermione walked into their dorm to see Harry with an unknown girl having a very serious game of Monopoly. Blinking a little unsurely, she decided there wasn't any harm in Harry making new friends and bringing them back to the dorm. She set her bag down near the door and observed the game. It was the girls roll and Hermione was amused at the faces the two players made when she landed on what she guess to be Harry's property.

"Ha! Fifty dollars, give it up." Harry reached across the board with an open hand and a smug grin.

The girl counted up the money she had gathered at the edge of the board and frowned when it wasn't enough. Giving a huff, she reached under her butt and pulled out a pink fifty. Harry gapped as she placed it in his hand.

"What the hell? Are you cheating? Where the hell did this come from?"

"From my savings."

"Under your butt? And when did you put it there?"

"It's not much of a savings if you can see the money," she shrugged self-consciously. "And I put it there while you were feeding your pets."

"I don't think I've even seen someone do that before." The two players jumped at Hermione's comment.

"Mia!" Harry jumped up and skipped over to his sister. "This is Tamina something, I met her in my Soul Magic class."

Hermione nodded to the bouncing male and turned to the still sitting were. "My names Mia Evans, it nice to meet you." She walked over and helped the other girl up.

"Tamina Mane. I hope you don't mind me being here."

"Not at all." Hermione gave the shy girl a reassuring smile. "I'm glad Ray is making friends, and he usually has good taste in friends as well. So really, I'm excited to not be surrounded by males now."

"I'm too mannish for her." Harry flipped a strand of his messy hair imperviously.

The girls stared at him, and in seconds all three were giggling.

"Okay," Hermione put her hand out in a stop motion, but couldn't get the smile off her face. "I don't know how long you two have been here, but I knew my class went long and just let out, have you had supper yet?" At their negative she continued. "Well, we may as well eat here then. School supper is probably over by now."

"I can't cook." Tamina blushed and looked down at her feet.

"That's okay," Hermione waved it off. "The kitchen is Ray's domain anyway, he'll make us something."

And indeed, Harry was already on his way to the kitchen. Half an hour later he came out with plates of spaghetti and placed them on the living room table. The three gathered around the table and was soon joined by Ra and Miri.

"These are your pets?" Tamina paused in eating when the two animals crowded around.

"Yup," Harry gave his dog a meatball. "Aren't they cute?"

The werewolf looked at the grim and griffin sceptically, they were two very dangerous animals.

"The dog is Ra, Ray's, and the cat is Miri, mine."

"Ah."

Tamina didn't stay long after supper, heading back to her own room to go to sleep. Hermione followed her example and Harry did as he did most nights, entertain himself until late.

The next day Harry and Tamina were shocked to once again see each other before Thursday.

"You're in this class too?"

"No," Tamina shook her head. "The teacher is my dad. When I don't have a class I usually come down to help him with his."

"Ah, so you don't suck like I do." He squinted at the man standing in front of the group observing them. "You have his eyes." He tilted his head. "And his nose."

"He's a werewolf too. My entire family is, though my mom and sister's eyes have more of a brown color."

"Welcome." The professor, Professor Mane Harry guessed, smiled at the group. "As you are a rather large group," the students looked around, there were about twenty or so of them; "we are going to do a bubby system. I want you to turn to the person beside you, I don't care which side you prefer, just know your going to be getting in each others personal space."

Harry turned to Tamina. "I know your not in the class, but?" She looked a little unsure, but didn't say no. "If it helps, Mia thinks I might be gay, and I've decided to try it out, so you don't have to worry about me doing anything."

Tamina blinked at him before she brought a hand up to hide a smile. "I'll ask." She walked over to her dad and while the others still chattered around, trying to find their partners, she had a quiet conversation with him. She came back with a smile and gave him a nod as she took her spot beside him.

"Now that you have your partners, we can all start with a nice, warming run." The group stared at him. "Now?" That got them moving.

Some faltered before the professor called a stop, there was one student who actually fainted, but Harry and Tamina made it the whole ten minutes that the professor had them run. Granted, Harry was heavily gasping and feeling like he should join that unconscious student, he lasted.

Tamina rubbed his back, worried, but he kept waving her concerns away.

"Now that you have all warmed up, it's time to stretch. I'll show you what to do and I want you to copy me." Professor Mane led them through a series of stretches that had everyone groaning. "Excellent. A morning run followed by stretches is the best preparation for any day." At the disbelieving looks he laughed. "When you are attacked, you don't have time to warm up or stretch. If you do them every morning however, then you keep in shape and ready." There was scattered nodding. "Now the first thing I'm going to teach you all is hand to hand combat. Once you are proficient in this, I may be able to trust you with sharp pointy objects." The class looked excited at that. "Let's begin."

The professor would show them a move and then the students would try it out on each other. The entire class would admit to surprise that only after learning two moves, they were dismissed from their three hour class.

"It's already five?" Harry blinked at his partner.

"Learning how to defend and fight is a time consuming process." The teacher walked over and answered his question. "Not only do you need to learn it mentally, you need your body to remember it as well."

"Dad, this is Ray Evans." Tamina gestured to Harry, not that she needed to. "We met in Soul Magic class."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Evans."

"I'd say the same if you weren't looking at me like I'm a bug."

The professor laughed at that. "Just got to make sure you're good for my little girl."

"We - we have to go make lunch." A furiously blushing grabbed Harry's wrist and pulled him away from her father. "I'm sorry about that," she told Harry when they were far enough away from her dad. "I don't make a lot of friends so my dad is pretty overprotective."

"S'okay, I've had uglier people stare me down." Tamina looked at him oddly. "So what class do you have after lunch?"

"I have a werewolf class. It's a class that will help us learn all the ins and outs of our species."

"Kinda like when muggles take an English class even though they speak English?"

"Well, I don't really know a lot about muggles, but I think so."

"Okay, what do you want for lunch?"

It took Tamina a moment to respond to the abrupt topic change. "Soup would be good."

"Excellent."

Hermione shared their soup, but Kaeden and Drey ate something hardier, as they had Combat class next.

"Thank you for the soup, Ray." Tamina smiled and hurried out of the dorm to pick up her class books from her own.

Drey and Kaeden had already left, so Harry and Hermione left together when they were ready.

"What do you think our teacher is going to be like?" Harry mussed on the way to class.

Hermione shrugged. "All my teachers have been good teachers, but they are all pretty different."

An elf was writing on a board when they got to class, so they assumed the tall, brunette woman would be their teacher and took seats while observing her. When the class filled up, the elf stopped writing and turned around.

"I'm Professor Rain and I will be your elements teacher for the rest of this year." She stood tall and didn't show much emotion to the class. "I have detailed some control exercises on the board. These will help you gain control and power over your element." She moved so the class could see the board. "I will be here if you have any questions, but the best way to learn your element is to use it. By the end of this year, I expect you all to master at least one of these exercises. For this class and the next class, we will be trying out every one, and after that, you can decide on which work best for you." She pointed to one of the diagrams on the board. "This is the first we will do."