Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley were behind on their homework. Again.
Earlier that day, their friend, Hermione Granger, had gone down to visit Hagrid, only to find out that he wasn't there, after, apparently, at least half an hour of knocking. They'd started to worry, seeing as he'd only been back from the giants for a week and then he was gone again. What if Umbridge had sacked him already?
"Hagrid can't have been sacked yet, Ron." Hermione said, knitting more elf hats, having already finished her homework. "He hasn't even taught a class this year! Umbridge has absolutely no reason to sack him."
"Apart from hating half-breeds."
"Well, yes... but she has no legitimate reason."
Harry and Ron continued with their homework, the occasional correction coming from Hermione. Around an hour before dinnertime, Professor McGonagall appeared in the portrait hole of the Gryffindor common room.
"Attention Gryffindor students!" She shouted over the combined noise of everyone. They soon quietened down. "You will all be required in the Great Hall at the start of dinner tonight. There will be a feast held, similar to the one at the start of the year. Make sure you are there. On time." She announced, leaving as soon as she'd finished.
After a moment or two, the chatter started up again.
"A feast? Normally there's a notice up for weeks before something like this." Hermione said, more to herself than anyone else.
"Why's there a feast tonight? Today's not important like the first years getting sorted, or Halloween, or the end of year feast." Harry questioned.
"Maybe Hagrid really was sacked, and they're announcing it tonight." Ron said, reminding them of their conversation earlier.
"Don't be stupid Ron, that's nothing to throw a feast over. And Harry, that's the wrong 'there'." Hermione said, reading through his essay.
The rest of the hour was spent re-writing their essays, with Hermione's help.
Harry and Ron left the common room later than they should have.
Hermione had gone ahead with Ron's sister, Ginevra Weasley, or Ginny as she preferred to be called, the boys staying behind to finish writing their conclusions. The time had slipped by quicker than they expected, it was already five minutes after dinner would normally start, and they were only just leaving the common room.
"Harry, mate, we're so dead."
Harry nodded in response, leading Ron through all the short cuts he knew. "Behind that tapestry!", "Down those trick stairs", "No, not that way, that door's just a wall pretending". The Marauder's map really was helpful.
When they'd made it to the Entrance Hall, they were only ten minutes late, which was not bad, considering if they had taken the 'normal' way, they would have been at least fifteen minutes, if not more. As they ran through the Entrance Hall, towards the Great Hall, Harry noticed Professor McGonagall had opened the front door, and was talking to Hagrid (maybe he wasn't sacked after all!). From the two seconds he could see past Hagrid, Harry swore he saw at least twenty people, all in plain Hogwarts robes, though they looked far too old to be first years, more like fifth years, maybe even sixth. Why did they come so late anyway? The school year had started over two months ago!
Harry and Ron snuck past the door to the Great Hall, which was thankfully open, and over to the Gryffindor table, taking the two empty seats that Hermione had saved for them. Luckily no one really seemed to notice their late arrival, Dumbledore finishing whatever speech he made and sitting down.
"So, what'd we miss?" Ron asked Hermione once the Great Hall started to fill with chatter for a moment.
"Not much, surprisingly, we're just waiting for McGonagall to- Hagrid!" Hermione said, jumping up from the table. "Where've you been? You'd only been back for a week and then you'd disappeared again! Those two were starting to think you'd gotten sacked already." She pointed towards Harry and Ron. The boys both giving her affronted looks, as if they hadn't been wondering that the whole afternoon.
"You'll see in a min, 'ermione." Hagrid said, patting her on the shoulder, practically forcing her to sit down, then left towards the staff table.
"Hagrid really needs to realise how strong he is, if I hadn't sat down when I did, I would have collapsed!" Hermione complained.
"Hagrid needs to realise a lot of things Hermione, like how just because a creature's dangerous, doesn't mean it's interesting."
Just then, Professor McGonagall came bursting though the, door (Harry didn't know how she was able to burst through a door that was already open, but she did, somehow), twenty-three people (three adults and twenty students), following her. One of the adults looked a lot like Snape, but seemed to be annoyed in the way Sirius did when he had to stay cooped up at Grimmauld Place, like he didn't want to be here. Which shouldn't have been as good at describing that as it was.
McGonagall lead them all the way up to the staff table, then left through one of the side doors, bringing back a three legged stool and the Sorting Hat.
"Students of Hogwarts, and teachers, of course, I would like you all to welcome class 1-A of U.A., a hero school in Japan. They're here to learn with us until June, so please, make them feel at home here. Though, please take note, they're not like you or I." Dumbledore said, after McGonagall had come back with the Sorting Hat.
"Not like you or I? What's he on about?" Ron whispered.
"I think he might mean, that they're muggles, Ron." Hermione whispered back.
"Muggles? How come they're here then?" Harry asked.
"I don't know, we'll have to find out later." Hermione said. "Although, Dumbledore said they're from a hero school in Japan, so they must have quirks. Maybe their quirks work similar enough to our magic?"
"Quirks? What're quirks?" Ron whispered.
"I'll explain later."
AN:
WOooOO~O! First chapter with a Hogwarts point of view, instead of a My Hero one.
Next chapter's the sorting.