Alexander woke the next morning as he had every morning in his new quarters, his arms wrapped tightly around the waist of his girlfriend. It was a wonderful way to wake but not one to last as they had things to get done. A quick kiss after changing and he and Hermione were jogging down to the castle grounds. Stretching, they then head off for a few laps around the lake.

They'd just finished their 4th when they spotted Remus heading down to them, so called out, "Morning!"

"It isn't morning until the sun is fully up," came the reply.

Certain he wouldn't be joining them; the teens simply continued their run, 6 more laps. Forgoing the swim, they then made their way over to where the werewolf was sitting, a steaming mug of coffee in his hands, "Not a morning person then?"

"Oh I love them, whilst I'm still in bed," Remus watched in abject horror as the Gryffindors began going through various martial arts forms, "What on earth are you doing?"

"At the moment? Taekwondo"

"Why?"

Hermione laughed as she answered, "So that we can finish a battle without the need of our weapon. I'm not getting my butt handed to me by Thurhot again."

"Goblin training? Impressive," the man said honestly, "Now what was it that you wanted to discuss with me?"

"Well we were going to tell you everything personally but seeing at how little security there is here, we've decided to let Sirius explain it to you," Lex handed over a scrap of parchment from his pocket between forms, "He's living there, it's Severus' home so be careful not to break anything or he'll break us."

"And Padfoot is going to tell me something that I'm meant to believe?"

"Yes"

Remus nodded, not truly understanding but trusting enough, "Very well. I'll go see the old mutt tonight, after classes. I'm going back inside, have fun with this."

"We will"

A few hours later at breakfast, the teens sat at Gryffindor and looked over their timetables, "Potions, second years, followed by a double with the third years."

"Severus is sitting in on those two right?"

"Yeah, and the other two for those years, make them certain that we're in charge," Hermione said happily through her meal.

"Now what are you two chatting about?" Faye asked as she slumped into the chair across from them.

"Classes," was all that they would say.

Remus walked past, handing out timetables, "Good morning everyone."

"Good morning"

"I'm pleased that some lions know what an appropriate time of the day is," he shot jokingly at Lex and Mia.

"You could have joined us, running gets your blood pumping," Alexander replied quickly.

The werewolf gave a barking laugh, "I'd have a heart attack but thank you anyway."

"Probably," the couple said back.

Their Head of House grumbled lightly as he head further down the table, leaving 4 laughing teens behind him. When breakfast was almost over, the demigods got up, "See you guys later."

"Yeah, see you," Neville and Faye replied, knowing that their friends were up to something.

Lex and Mia walked over to Ravenclaw table, as it was their 2nd years with Hufflepuff, and collected Luna, "Good morning Luna, how are you this fine morning?"

"Fine, Professor Flitwick spoke to me last night, and he said he'll be investigating it to the fullest," the blonde witch told her friends as they head to the potions classroom, "Are you both sitting in on the class today?"

"In a way, in a way," Hermione said lightly, "You'd best wait out here for the others out here but be sure to get a seat up the front okay? See you inside."

"Bye"

As soon as they were inside, the couple got everything ready. They'd already decided they weren't going to use Severus' teaching methods, though effective to those who knew what they were doing, it impeded the students who were less confident. But they also knew that potions was one of the only subjects taught at Hogwarts where a screw-up could get your partner and the others in the room killed, so there wouldn't be any butterflies and lollipops around either.

On the board was the instructions for the Swelling Solution that all second years were taught, only thing was there was no name to it. It was the same type of test that Severus had given them their first lesson and it would also show who in the class had actually read ahead in their studies.

They were just finished setting things up when Severus walked in, "Ready then?"

"Yep"

"Then go get your students"