Chapter 11: Albus`s Muggle lessons

"Okay Al, so before you go to a muggle school your gana need to learn some basic muggle information and how to use some of their tools." Harry told Albus, as he stood in front of him, in Albus`s room, with a bag full of muggle items.

"Are you gana show me some cool muggle stuff like the ones at the carnival?" Albus asked excitedly.

"Well no, I`m gana show you some basic muggle stuff, stuff your gana need for school and for living in the muggle world in the future."

Albus sighed. "Okay."

Harry goes into his bag and took out a pencil.

"Wow! What is that?" Albus exclaims excitedly.

"It's called a pencil." Harry told Albus. "It-"

"What does it do?" Albus asked.

"You can write with it, like you would a quill. Only you don't need any ink."

"Really?"

"Yeah and you can erase what you write too."

"No way!" Albus said excitedly.

"Here I'll show you." Harry took some parchment out of his desk draw and wrote his name on the parchment with the pencil. Then he turn the pencil upside down and erased his name.

"Wow! That is awesome! "Albus exclaimed. "Muggle stuff is so cool!"

"If you like that, you`ll love this." Harry goes into his bag and pulled out a white box with four rectangular wholes on the top. In front was two line a weird thing and on the bottom was two dials with numbers on it.

"Merlin`s Beard! What is that!? It looks like a robot!" Albus exclaimed.

"This is what the muggles call a mini toaster. Its how the muggles make toast. You put your bread into either of the spots on the top. Then push this spring thing on the lines on the side down. Then turn the dial the side of your that you put your bread into. Turn it up to four and it pops up and dinks when it's done."

"No way! Can we try it out?" Albus asked.

"Yeah sure."

Harry and Albus head into the kitchen. Harry carrying the toaster.

"What in the world is that?" Ginny asked.

"It's called a mini toaster, it's a muggle product." Albus told Ginny.

"And what are you two planning to do with that?" Ginny asked.

Harry places the toaster on the kitchen counter and plugs it in. "were gana make toast, the muggle way."

"This I have to see."

Harry performs the process of making toast with the toaster as Ginny and Albus watch in amazement.

Days passed and Harry continued to teach Albus all the important things he knew about the muggle world. Basic world history, British history, math, science. After 8 months he decided Al was really to go to King Hennery primary school.

"Dad? What if they don't like me?" Albus asked his Dad as they drove to the school, Ginny had to go to work early.

"Don't be silly, they`ll love you." Harry told Albus.

"What if I don't know enough information?"

"Then you`ll learn while you're at school. Albus trust me you`ll be fine."

Albus shake his head no. "I don't want to go. I`m not ready, I know it."

"Your gana be fine, Al. Just-"

"What if I get in there and I just forget everything you taught me? What if I accidentally say something related to wizards? What if-"

"What if you relax and make lots of new friends and learn a new way of life. A life that's suitable for you. Albus you're a great kid even without powers."

They landed the car by the woods near the school. Then Harry and Albus walked to the school together. The school looked nothing like Hogwarts. The school was a small rectangular shaped building with a British flag in the front. The outside of the building was made of red bricks. In the windows of the school were kid`s drawings and cute school related stickers.

Albus and Harry walked into Mrs. Johnson`s fifth grade class.

All eyes were on them.

"Oh you must be our new student, Albus." The teacher said smiling at Albus.

Albus smiled back and nodded nervously.

"He is a little nervous, "Harry started.

Albus rolled his eyes. Dad seriously don't. You're making things worse. He thought.

Harry looked toward the class. "So if you kids, could be nice to him it would be appreciated." Harry continued. "Albus is really a great kid once you get to know him-"

"Did you just say Al butt?" some huge kid with pale skin and a black Mohawk shouted. "Ha ha the new kids name is al butt. ha ha ha ha."

The whole class began to laugh too.

"What kinda name is that?" One boy said to his friend.

"Ha ha Al Butt! Ha ha!" other kid laughed.

"Children Enough! This is not how we welcome a new student!" The teacher yelled.

Harry tried to hug Albus but he pushed him away.

"Albus!" Harry called.

"Just stop! I told you this was a bad idea!" Albus yelled. Than he ran out of the classroom as fast as he could. Harry followed after him, but he was obviously no longer as fast as used to be. Albus ran to the front door and then ran out.

Albus sat under a tree in the front and started to cry. When his father finally caught up to him. Harry was out of breathe.

"My god are you trying to give me a heart attack!?"

"I`m not going back in there and you can make me."

"Albus, you have to go back. They just don't know you yet." My Dad told me. "I`m sure once they get to know you I'll make a lot of friends. "

"You're wrong!" Albus yelled now standing up. "It's just like at Hogwarts, people didn't like me their either. Only at least at Hogwarts I had some friends. Here I have nobody and I'll have nobody! Cause I'm a freak! I`m a freak in my world and I`ll be a freak in this world!

"Albus, don't say that."

"'Albus, don't say that.' " He said mocking his father. "It's the truth! I've always been a freak I wasn't born the famous Harry Potter, born destined for greatness! I was born to be this- this…"

Albus plopped back onto the ground, he couldn't even finish his sentence, he was crying to hard.

Harry sat next to me. "Please believe me I know how you feel. But just go back in there I promise you everything will be alright."

Albus ignored him.

"What's going on?" Ginny`s voice sounded from behind them.

Harry and Albus turned behind them and see Ginny standing in there in her black suit dress and high heel black shoes. She ran over to Albus and hugged him under the tree and she strokes his hair.

"Ginny, what are you doing here? I thought you had work." Harry said.

"I`m on my lunch break, I figured I'd come see how Albus was doing at his new school. A good thing I did! look at him he`s a wreck!" Ginny looked down at Albus. "Oh you poor baby."

"They made fun of me, mum." Albus said between sobs. Trying to sound even sadder then he felt, hoping she`d feel so bad she`d let him stay home. "They called me Al butt the whole class was laughing! It was horrible!"

"You poor thing!" Ginny exclaimed. "how about this," Mom`s voice sounding happy now. "We`ll go home, get you all cleaned up. Then we`ll go out for some ice cream just the three of us."

Albus gave her a smile.

"Ginny, he has to go to school."

"Why, harry? What could he learn here that could possibly useful to him, he lives in our world?"

"But when he's older he can't live in our world any more. "Harry told them. "He isn't gana be able to get a job or have his own home in our world."

"Harry, don't say that." Ginny ordered, appalled he would say such things in front of Albus.

"Ginny, you know it's true, people are small minded when it comes to squibs. They think squibs have magic but are just can't understand how to use it. Therefore they think squibs are stupid and wouldn't be able to understand how to do a job or do anything.

"But he isn't like that, he had powers once." Ginny argued.

"You think that's gana change the way people see him. He has to be able to live in this world and in a muggle school he can learn how to do it!"

After that Harry got Ginny on his side. They both agreed it was best for Albus to go back to school. But to make things easier on Albus they put him in another fifth grade class.