Severus sighed to himself and sent off a headache reliever this wouldn't be the last owl he got about Harry's table today he was sure of it. He was also glad the Mary McDonald hadn't been mad about the Hogsmede refusal.

"Okay, lets start class before any more of the teachers decide that they need to be angry with me over the seating chart." Severus finally said.

Several of the adults turned laughs into coughs.

"I like the seating chart, Mine Sev!" Harry cheered.

This caused laughter from most of the women in the classroom and cooing about how Harry was so cute.

Harry frowned at the children's book in his hand. It was easy for him to read but his Sev wanted him to read it out loud because everyone had said he was the best reader in the class. He was but he didn't want to read out loud! But his Sev had asked him to. He grabbed Usa-chan and held him close as he began reading. His voice was actually loud enough for everyone to hear. When he was done he was awarded points.

"Now as it's Friday it's time for our weekly test." Severus told them. He got moans.

Ron was moaning the loudest he hated test day even if he slowly got better every test his scores were never good enough for his mommy and daddy who fawned over Fred, George, Percy, Charlie and Bill's grades and made him feel stupid. In fact they often forgot he was there. They paid a lot of attention to the other boys and Ginny his little sister but never to him. He was getting angry again. He looked at Harry. Perfect Harry Potter who could do no wrong! THIS WAS ALL HIS FAULT!

"RONALD!"

Ron jumped looking at Snape.

Harry was bawling having dropped Usa-chan who was on fire.

Lily quickly sprang into action putting the fire out and casting every charm she knew that could restore Usa-chan back to normal. Severus had spelled all of Harry's protectors to their seats to stop them from hurting the Weasley and was seething himself.

"Detention and Time out!" He snapped.

"You can't give me both!" Ron protested. He really hated this guy.

"I just did." Severus put Ron in the time out chair.

By this time Harry was hugging a perfect Usa-Chan.

"I thought I wost you, Usa-chan!" Harry cried. "Ronald is a meanie. Oh, I'm so glad you is okay, Usa-chan!"

By the time Ron got out of time out everyone was doing their tests. He had to catch up. The tests were on the tablets and they had choose the right answers the tablet would read the answers to them if they couldn't read themselves meaning that the children had earbuds in their ears. Harry and Hermione were the only ones who didn't. Both of them were reading at almost a third grade level. Harry finished all of his tests on the tablet first and got his written portion. This was the part most of the class was fearing in all their classes today would be the first time they would be doing written tests. Harry had no problem with the written test he just had to stop and sound out a few words in his head then he handed the test in and went to talk to Robert. Hermione finished second of course and settled in to read a book her parents had sent her that was magical and at a third grade reading level she was soon struggling over a few words and frowning deeply.

Slowly one by one others finished Ron was of course last by this time Severus had graded everyone else's tests. He already had a headache from the spelling errors of Dudley, Crabbe and Goyle but Ron's just made it ten times worse just like Mary had warned him. He made a note on the tablet for the teachers and promised them headache relievers. He then graded Ron's work.

"You've all improved drastically." Severus told the class when he was done. "I sent back your tablet results. Look at them now."

Harry grinned at his perfect O. His hand suddenly shot up.

"What it matter if I use big words?" He demanded having read the note. "I am smart and studying really hard to be able to use big words like the big kids and do so know how to spell every word I use."

"I think you misunderstood my comment." Severus sighed. "Ah, no I mixed up yours and Miss. Grangers comments." Severus quickly corrected the problem using his tablet.

Harry re-read what the comment said and grinned happily.

Hermione huffed pouting.

"My apologies, Harry." Severus said, amused.

"It's okay now." Harry assured him.

"Harmony, what does this say?" Ron demanded. They were at the same table.

"I've told you fourty times already my name is Hermione. Her-Mon-Nee." She sighed but took his tablet. "What do you think it says?"

"I think it says that I need to work on spelling." Ron told her.

"Very good, Ron that's exactly what it says." Hermione nodded and passed the tablet back. "Keep up the good work. You actually got an O in the material from the first three days of class this time."

Ron smiled brightly but made sure what she said was true. It was he'd gotten three perfect scores of course his grades went down from there from 100% O to 0% D on the current work but he was proud of his first three days work. Maybe this forming patterns on the brain thing actually worked. He suddenly had a question so he raised his hand.

"Yes, Ronald?" Severus wondered. Ron hardly ever raised his hand in this class.

"Why did we not have a test last class?" He asked.

"Professor McDonald told me to tell you that your letters were your test and she has added your grades to your tablets." Severus explained.

Ron sighed in defeat. He'd needed so much work he'd probably failed but he checked anyway and was shocked.

"I got an A-100% on my letter." his eyes were wide. "For...knowing...what to say and asking for help."

Hermione read the comment and praised him for reading it correctly. She then huffed at her own comment.

Four pages is too much when you will see your parents this weekend.

She guessed Professor McDonald had a point but she just had so much to say and it had all come gushing out when she'd started her letter.

Art class was another one of Harry's favorite classes. He'd been praised more than once in this class. He looked around at all of the people in the class and tried to figure out who to play with.

"What's wrong?" Jamie finally asked.

"I want to play with all my friends." Harry said.

Jamie took a deep breath.

"Neville, Romulus, Orion, Amy, Draco, Dudley, Theo and Hermione get your instruments set up Harry wants to play with all of us!" he yelled.

Harry blushed he guessed that was one way to get all his friends together. He hugged Jamie as a thank you and they ran to join Harry's friends who had quickly obeyed Jamie's orders and were thrilled to be called Harry's friends.

Lily was giggling into her hand and Petunia was shaking her head in exasperation. Sirius was laughing and Remus was just amused and shaking his head.

"He gets it from James." Remus said, lovingly. "I'm sure this would be exactly how James would have acted if he'd had a sibling. But that loudness and stating whatever is on his mind comes from James."

The kids tuned up, went through their warm ups then played all of the songs they knew. At some point Ron had joined him with his flute and actually did perfect until the last song where he hit sour note after sour note prompting them to start over.

"I'm sorry." He said when they were done.

"Why?" Harry wondered. "You're going to get a really good grade on your music test. You should be happy. You've been practicing."

"Uh-huh." Ron nodded eagerly. "With Hermione every night. She hits me with a book when I slack off."

Harry giggled at that and Ron and Hermione blushed.

The teacher was trying to contain a laugh herself as she ushered the kids to their seats.

"Okay, kids, when you're all done with your tests I'm going to teach you how to finger paint." The teacher said, cheerfully. "So lets get started."

They did the tablet test which asked a lot of basic questions like their colors and such. Then a written test then a drawing test.

Harry sat happily drawing Shiva and Vip playing together on the table. His picture wouldn't move until he was done with it of course. So he worked. This portion of the test took the longest for everyone.

Ron was very happy when he got perfect O's on everything except his picture. Apparently, the teacher couldn't make out what it was. He frowned it was supposed to be his family. He needed to work on drawing. He'd add that to his study time with Hermione if she'd let him. She checked his grade and then frowned at his picture moving it this way and that.

"I don't see it." She finally said.

"How can you not see it?" Ron asked exasperatedly. "It's my family."

"Well, there is a lot of red but I can't make out any people, Ronald."

Hermione and Ron bickered all the way to flying class about the picture. Harry wished he knew the Silencing Charm because they were hurting his ears. He slammed his hands over his ears when Ron decided he was going to practice singing. He sounded a lot better than he had at the beginning of the year that was for sure but like their teacher said he still had a long way to go and Harry didn't like his singing. When Ron finally shut up Harry had to get a potion from his mommy and have his knee healed. He and Amy had tried kicking the ball back and forth and he'd tripped the last time because Ron had hit a high note and had sounded terrible. Amy was apologizing left and right about hurting Harry.

"It wasn't you, Amy." Harry said, quietly. "I got hurt because I was trying not to hear Ron."

"Oh," Amy nodded. "Yeah, my ears hurt too."

Flying class seemed to be the only class Ron excelled in though he didn't excel enough to be better than Harry, Jamie, Romulus, and Orion who were holding the top four positions in this class he was tied in fifth with Draco. Neither seemed to pleased by this and kept doing everything they could to outfly each other when given the opportunity.