I don't own Harry Potter, just having a bit of fun

Sorry for taking so long, I have been really busy with things. I am also moving my update day to Sunday from now on.

Chapter Thirteen

Harry and the others walked down to Hagrid's Hut. The half-giant had invited them for Sunday lunch. And since they weren't doing anything else they had decided it might be nice to go and see him. Harry had tried to bring Percy along with then, as he wanted to get to know the older teen, but he had something else that he needed to do and had backed out. The twins had overheard and decided to join them all since they were free.

Hagrid smiled as he saw them all walk towards his hut, "Afternoon all," Hagrid called out with a wave of his hand.

They smiled at him as Hermione said, "Thank you for inviting us down," the others nodding in agreement.

"You're welcome," Hagrid grinned back letting them all into his hut, and out of the cold December air. Christmas was coming and the Great Hall was decorated, ready for the Holidays.

They all piled into the small hut, each of them sharing a chair, or something so they could all sit down, their group wasn't exactly small. Hagrid served them all some tea and let them all take a cake from the large platter he had.

"Thank you," they smiled at him.

"How are you enjoying school?" Hagrid asked them all.

"It's great, there is so much to learn, and I don't know if there will be enough time to learn it all in," Hermione exclaimed, she was excited for the new knowledge they would be acquiring over the years.

Draco gave a chuckle, "I know, there is so much to learn, but we have seven years to learn most of it and then the rest of our lives to learn even more," he reminded her.

"I know, just sometimes it feels as though there just isn't enough time to do so," Hermione smiled back at him.

"I know," Harry agreed with her, some of the others nodding, while the rest rolled their eyes, muttering something about Ravenclaws.

"Though really I would love to learn more about Cerberus', they are so awesome," Fred said, dropping a hint glancing at Hagrid out of the corner of his eye.

Hagrid looked at him, a little puzzled, "Why would you want to know about them?" he asked. It wasn't something that was taught about at Hogwarts, that was for the Care of Magical Creatures Mastery level.

"I'm just curious as to how they are raised," Fred gave a little shrug.

"Well, they can be hard at times, Fluffy was," he said as he began to tell Fred a little of what he knew, "Fluffy, well you have to learn what soothes each animal. Each one is different, even if they are the same species," he smiled at the end as he looked between them.

"It has a name?" Dean said with wide eyes. He hadn't seen the large beast, but to know that it was in the school, well it was a little scary.

"How…" Hagrid puzzled and then shook his head, "You should stay away from what he is guarding. It is nothing that you need to know about, it's between Dumbledore and Flamel," he told them all, a stern look on his face, finger wagging at them.

"Okay Hagrid, we only came across him by accident. We just wanted to know more about them, they are fascinating creatures," Hermione said, an innocent look on her face.

"All right then," Hagrid nodded and added, "now eat up," he smiled.

They all shared a look. Fred and George had stopped by Hagrid's for tea before. And they had been given cakes as well. They were Rock Cakes, and they all had a feeling that they had been made out of rocks. One of them would distract Hagrid, so one by one they could feed Fang their cakes, the large dog enjoyed them.

"I don't know if it would be a good idea for them to have Fluffy in the school," Daphne said softly.

"Fluffy wouldn't really hurt anyone unless they were trying to get to what she is guarding," Hagrid Reassured her, "If you stay away then you'll be fine."

"All right, we will," they all agreed, each of them making the promise.

"So, what're your favorite lessons?" Hagrid asked them, beginning to drink his tea.

"I love Charms," Hermione and Harry said together, they looked at each other and laughed.

Draco snorted a little as he said, "Sorry but Potions is my favorite, Professor Snape may be hard, but at least he knows what he is doing."

"That's more because he is your Godfather," Harry pointed out to the blond. His response was to stick out his tongue.

"Transfiguration is mine," Dean said, "And not just because she is my head of house, I just really love the lessons," he smiled as he saw the looks he was getting.

"We have too many to count!" the twins shouted, laughing as Fang began to bark at them.

Neville smiled as he said, "I love Herbology, I do extra work with Professor Sprout as well, she says I have a gift for it," he told them all.

"Brilliant," Susan said looking at Neville, "I still love Charms, so I'm with Harry and Hermione on that," she giggled.

"So you each have your favorite lessons then," Hagrid smiled as they carried on talking softly.

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"Right, I think it's time to head back to the castle now, dinner should start soon," Hagrid told them all as he looked outside a couple of hours later and saw the sun had gone down.

They all nodded and got up as they saw that it was dark outside. Hagrid led the way back to the castle since he would be having dinner in the Great Hall. It wasn't often that he would have dinner in his hut. They walked into the Great Hall and smiled as they sat down at the fifth table and waited for dinner to be served.

"Well, tomorrow is Monday and as far as I know we don't have any homework to do," Hermione said as she pulled out her planner and looked over the assignments that they had been given.

"We've done all ours," Fred said, gesturing to himself and his twin. The two of them had been doing their homework as soon as they got it since they had become friends with the first year group. Much to Percy's pleasure, the twin's grade had gone up as well. Though now the three brothers were trying to persuade Ron to actually put some effort into his schoolwork and homework.

"Hello," Percy said walking over to them. Harry had ordered him to join them for dinner since he had to decline the invitation to lunch at Hagrid's.

"Hey," Harry smiled as the older teen sat down with them, Oliver quickly joining them as well.

"Hey, hope you don't mind me joining you as well?" the Gryffindor Quidditch captain smiled.

"It's fine, we were just talking about our homework and if there was anything else that we needed to do before Monday. Though Hermione has told us that we are all caught up," Daphne told him, a soft smile on her face.

"Thanks," Oliver smiled to them all and then asked, "So who's idea was it to get the first years up in the air. I've been told that it was one of you lot?"

"It was Hermione mainly, with a bit of Harry added," Fred answered smiling.

"Yeah, they took the idea and ran with it. Next thing we know there are posters in the dorms telling us about the first year Quidditch," George grinned.

"Thanks, it will help us Captains in the end. I've found one that could have potential to become another great Keeper," Oliver grinned back at one of the twins.

"I want to try for seeker when I get to second year," Harry said as Draco and Dean nodded as well, all three had made plans to try out for their house Quidditch teams next year.

"You were good," Oliver had to admit to them looking at Draco, "You'd make a good chaser, beater or even seeker, an almost all round player," he told the blond. Oliver had been able to watch them all in the air as they practiced over the last week.

Draco grinned, "Thank you," he nodded, "Finally," he said as the meal was served.

The group quickly ate their dinner, talking about a few mundane things. They all wanted to go to their room so they could discuss what they had learned from Hagrid. Harry and the others felt a little bad about tricking him since he was such a nice person. Hermione had a need to know everything, and she was usually right in needing to know, as it might just come in handy later on.

Dinner was over and Harry stood up, "Right, I'm going to our room, anyone else coming?" he asked them all.

Most of them stood up, as Percy said, "I have to get a book from the library and then I'll come and join you."

"All right then," Hermione said, getting up with the last of them.

They headed towards their room, talking softly to each other. They reached the room and walked in., Harry went over to his desk and sat down, "Right," he said watching the others all find a place to sit.

"So far we've learned that the Cerberus' names is Fluffy and that she belongs to Hagrid. He has borrowed Fluffy's guarding abilities to Dumbledore and another person called Flamel." Hermione went over the facts that they had learned so far.

They all nodded, "The name does sound familiar to me," Fred said, George, nodding in agreement.

"So," Harry said softly, looking at the twins, "If you can think of anything else that make sure to tell us."

The twins nodded in agreement, "Of course. Maybe we can ask Percy as well, he tends to know the more obscure things to do with Magic," George looked at his brother.

"Yeah," Fred nodded.

"Okay, we have that down, now," Hermione said thinking for a moment, "Next thing, we'll have to research as well to find this name. I know I've read it somewhere. I have my reading list from the start of school. So I should be able to find it if I go through the books again," she said.

"I think we can all have a look through them, we should be able to find them faster," Dean suggested.

"Good idea," Hermione smiled as she

Harry took one and looked it over, "I suggest that we take a couple of the books each, take them home over the Holidays and read through them, seeing if we can find the book," he said looking up from the list.

"Yeah, listgood idea, otherwise we'll be looking at the same books over and over again," Dean smiled taking one of listsand looking through it.

"You read a lot don't you Hermione," George said as he picked up one as well, looking wide eyed at the long list.

Hermione couldn't help the little blush on her face as she smiled shyly, "I love reading, whether it's fact or fiction."

"I think most of us in the group dol," Harry said, Draco nodded his head, "Luna does as well.".

"Right," Daphne said with a little shake of her head pulling out a pen and began to mark down on her copy what books she would take out from the library.

George saw what she was doing, "Put them all down on the table for a moment," he waiting for the pieces of parchment to be put down. He cast a charm and what Daphne had marked on hers was now on all of them in a green colour.

"Right, each of us now has a colour. When we mark off a book on our own paper, it will appear on the others," George said as they all picked the parchments back up.

"Right," Fred nodded adding, "We'll do it one at a time. So Hermione first, then Harry, Draco, Dean, Neville, Susan, myself and then George. Pick four first and then we'll go around until they have all been marked off. You know, I think we'll leave a couple for Percy as well, though not that many. He has his OWLS this year, so he needs some time to study," he grinned.

The group nodded in agreement and began to mark down which books they would be reading. They looked up after half an hour when Percy joined them in the room. He was quickly told what they were doing, and what had happened on the third floor.. The Prefect wasn't happy that they had been there, but he understood that there was no other choice for them when the stairs had gone wonky.

The problem with the stairs had taken the teachers and headmaster a week to sort out. The charms on them had been weakened had been the excuse that the students had been give. It had been a pain for everyone trying to find different routes to their classes that didn't take them to the Grand Staircase while the charms were recast.. Percy had been skeptical about the excuse of the charms failing, and had been trying to see if he could find out what had really happened. He wanted to make sure that it didn't happen again. A lot of students had been afraid when the stiars had moved when they had been on them..

"Okay," Hermione said as the last book was blocked out on her list, "It might take a little while to get through this list. We are breaking up for the holidays in two weeks, so I think we have enough time to try and get at least one of them done before we leave, and another one or two while we are away" she smiled.

Dean groaned a little, he wasn't that much of a fan of reading, "all right, I think it might be a good idea, and please don't quiz us on what we're reading. Don't forget that I know you Hermione Jane Granger," he said with a pretend annoyed look on his face.

Hermione just grinned at him and giggled, "Well it will be fun, at least you'll be able to learn something that normally you wouldn't have."

"We know, but it's still going to be hard," Daphne said, as she looked at her list, "some of them are about subjects that I don't enjoy, or even like, so it will be hard."

Hermione nodded in agreement, "I know, but I have faith in you all."

"Some of them I have read before, it might be nice to refresh my memory," Percy said, a gentle smile on his face.

"Thank you for joining in with us, I know you most likely would rather tell a teacher what we are doing," Harry said to Percy, his voice sincere.

Percy smiled to them, "You have all explained your reasons for doing things this way. They are good ones, though I do think we should try at least to talk to a teacher. I don't mind helping because I have a feeling that they won't listen unless you have proof. . You've got a feeling that Quirrell is up to something, os the more information that you have the better chance you have at being able to stop it and getting a teacher to actually listen to you."

With a smile they all started to go over their lessons for the last week. Percy was answering any of their questions, though most of them came from Hermione. The others did join in, but not as much as she did. It was nice to have a bit of a relaxing day, though most days were like that for the group of first years. Percy would often come to the room so they could all talk like this. He enjoyed helping them, and the fact that Fred and George were doing their best, made him smile proudly at them. Percy knew that they worked hard with their jokes, the two knew a few things that some seventh years were only just starting to learn.

Thank you for the awesome reviews. You guys are amazing! I do hope you have enjoyed this chapter as well. And for those that like Percy in this story. He was only supposed to be in it for a few moments, and now, well, he's joined Harry and his group.