Harry awoke early the next morning, grabbed his clothes and toothbrush and headed for the showers.

He had just stepped out of the shower stall barefoot and shirtless with a towel around his long hair when Ron and the rest of the boys from their year walked into the bathroom in various states of undress.

"Careful," Ron said snidely, "He might get attracted to one of you. He thinks that's normal you know."

It was just then that Dean accidentally tripped and knocked into Ron, causing the red head to fall into the sink. "Whoops, sorry Ron." Dean said sarcastically.

"You know Ron, there's nothing abnormal about love, no matter what the people's genders are." Seamus said, eyeing the red head.

Ron looked at the other three boys in the room and when he realized that all of them continued to agree with Seamus and back Harry and his fathers, he stormed into one of the shower stalls and the magic could be felt as he warded the door and silenced the stall.

"I don't know why he's being such a jerk," Dean commented. "None of the rest of his family is that way. Even his parents are happy for you, or at least that's what Ginny said."

Harry shrugged and made his way to the sink to finish getting ready for the day. After his teeth were brushed and he had finished dressing, he headed for Hermione's room to wait for her.

Just as he stepped up to her portrait door to knock, it swung open and Hermione stepped out, looking absolutely beautiful.

"Good morning," she said, leaning in to give Harry and peck on the lips.

"Morning," he said with a smile.

"Did Ron try anything last night?" she asked, slightly worried.

"He moved everyone elses' beds away from his and put all kinds of silencing charms up around his bed, but other than that, last night was fine. He started in on me again this morning, but Dean fell into him and then Seamus shut him up." Harry explained.

"Good. I was hoping that maybe with everyone else on your side, he would wise up, but if he won't, at least you have friends behind you who will shut him up." Hermione said, happy that Ron seemed to be the only pig headed Gryffindor.

The pair walked to breakfast together without incident and enjoyed their meal before heading to their first Defense class of the year.

When they had finished breakfast and made their way to class, they were surprised to see both Remus and Sirius sitting behind the teacher's desk at the front of the classroom.

Harry started toward the desk, but the lesson was starting soon, so Remus motioned for him to take his seat beside Hermione.

After the bell rang and all the students were in their seats Remus cleared his throat and began to speak, "You have not had the best Defense teachers over the years, so this year I am forced to teach you the majority of the material that you should have learned over the past 5 years, as well as the material for this year, if you are to pass your NEWTS. I have enlisted the help of Professor Black, so that we can work on a more rigorous schedule and hopefully get you caught up."

He paused and looked around the room, and most of the students seemed impressed. "This is the reason that you will find double Defense Against the Dark Arts on your schedules on Mondays, Wednesday and Fridays and a regular class on Tuesday and Thursdays. Normally the schedule would be reversed with only two double classes per week, but the entire staff felt the need to prepare you for the real world was extremely important, so here we are," Remus finished with a smile. "Professor Black would you like to say anything?"

Sirius stood with a grin and said, "I'll be assisting Professor Lupin in most of your classes as well as a few of the younger years, and I'll take over his classes when he is indisposed once a month. By the time summer vacation rolls around, you guys are going to know this material forward and backward, Moony and I will make sure of it."

Sirius was quickly shut up by an elbow to the ribs from Remus, who took back over the class and explained to the students that they would start out with a week long review of first year defense and go from there with a week of review from each year so that the Professors could get a good idea of what the students did and did not know, and what they would need to focus the most on.

Remus passed out a quiz on basic first year defense knowledge and the entire classed had finished it in about 10 minutes, and almost everyone got the full 100 points.

"Good, good. At least we're not going to have to spend much time reviewing first year material. It seems Professor Quirrell was a decent teacher, even if he was an evil bastard," Remus said with a bit of a laugh. "Well still do an over view of the most important things that you learned in first year."

The rest of the class went equally well and as the rest of the class filed out, Harry headed for his fathers' desk and hugged them both. "It's weird, going from being with the two of you 24/7 to only seeing you at meals and in class. Can we have dinner in your rooms tonight?" he asked.

"I'm sure I can be convinced to serve all of us in our rooms. Why don't you bring Hermione too?" Remus suggested.

Harry looked back at Hermione who was waiting for him, and she nodded, confirming that she had overheard the conversation and would accompany him to dinner with his dads.

"Sure," Harry said. "See you at dinner time."

Harry and Hermione continued on with their day, having a free period before lunch, which they chose to use to review their first year DADA work by the lake. They quizzed each other on basic spells and then practiced their dueling stances together, and before they knew it the hour was up and they were headed back to the castle for lunch.

After a lunch of thick sandwiches and crisps, they made their way to the dungeons for Potions class with Professors Snape. The class went almost the entire period without a hitch, until Harry mumbled something to Hermione that Professor Snape took to be an insult to him and took 10 points away from Gryffindor.

After potions they had double Charms and then had the rest of the evening off to study before dinner.