Harry, Ron and Hermoine were hustled and bustled as they fought
to get off the train. At last Harry felt the cool air as he
entered the outside, they heard a familiar voice.
"Com alon', com alon'!"
"Hi Hagrid!!!" The group managed to shout as they got
into a carriage, which Harry had always thought was drawn by an
invisible horse. After about 5 minutes of the horse-less ride
everyone reached Hogwarts. As Harry entered the great hall he
felt the odd tingle of magic around him, some people were talking
excitedly, and others were looking worried. Harry was just
thinking that this was about Voldemort when he looked up at the
teacher's table.
He gasped.
"What?" Ron looked at Harry anxiously. "Look"
Breathed Harry "It's Its Sirius and Lupin" Both Ron and
Hermoine gasped "Wow". Sirius saw the three of them and
waved. They all waved back and settled down at the Gryffindor
table, Harry was still gazing at Sirius. "What will he
teach?" He said finally. "I dunno" Both Hermoine
and Ron said together "What about Lupin?"
"Hey!" Said Harry suddenly "Where's Snape?"
Snape was his least favorite teacher at Hogwarts
"Oh" Said Ron "Who cares?"
"Might have fallen back to the death eaters" Said
Harry.
"Oh, yeah" Said Hermoine quickly "The password to
our common room is 'bonanza'" Harry and Ron nodded, and
Harry looked back up to Sirius and Lupin, who were sitting
together, talking with rather mischievous grin on their faces.
"They seem to be enjoying themselves" Commented Harry.
"Well," Said Ron "They were the best mischief
makers the schools ever seen They were even better than Fred and
George-um sorry Harry" Harry, who had been thinking of his
father was trying to keep a normal face
"That's okay"
Professor Mcgonagall stood up "Well, what can I say?"
She said "Eat up!" The Plates in front of Harry
suddenly filled up. Everyone began piling food onto their plates,
except the Gryffindor Ghost- Nick who was watching them sadly.
After the final desserts had been cleared off the off the plates
Professor McGonagall stood up again. "Now finally I have
two, well three more announcements to make.
First you are probably wondering who the new Defence Against The
Dark Arts teacher is.
Well let me introduce Professor Lupin, who's taught here before.
Secondly, Professor Snape is on some umm, Business, so I
introduce to you your new potions teacher Professor Black"
There were some murmurs around the hall "POTIONS!?!"
said Harry, shocked "Finally if you are wondering where
Professor Dumbledore is. He is helping to stop You Know Who
coming back to what he did before but, rest assured. You will be
safe whilst these two (she pointed to Sirius and Lupin) are here.
Now off you go to bed!" Everyone got up of their chairs and
made their ways to the common rooms. Sirius passed a note to
Harry as he went to the teachers staff room. Harry waited until
he arrived at the Gryffindor common room until he read the
letter. "Bonanza" He said quickly to the fat lady and
with Ron and Hermoine sat down at a table and unfolded the note.
Dear Harry
Meet Remus and me in the astronomy tower at 9 O'clock. Don't
bother bringing Hermoine or Ron
Sirius
"Nice letter" Said Ron.
"Yeah" Said Harry
"We'd better go to bed, Ron" Said Hermoine
"Good luck Harry"
"Bye" Said Harry thinking what Sirius and Lupin wanted.
He went and got his invisibility cloak, looked at his watch,
which read 8:30 and set off for the astronomy tower. It took
Harry twenty minutes to reach the tower and when he arrived he
was completely alone. He threw off the cloak. Harry waited for
five minutes but then something happened to tear his mind away
from the time. Some muffled sounds were coming out of the thin
air. "Hey! That was my toe!" "Oh it's ages since
I've been in one of these OW" Two people landed on the
floor just behind Harry. It was Sirius and Remus.
"Umm boo?" Said Sirius and Harry laughed, but then
said, "Why did you want me to come up here?"
"Ah" Said Lupin "Oh" Said Sirius
"Well" They said together
Harry had been talking and laughing for about two hours. The talk
was mainly about what Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs had
been up to when they were at Hogwarts. Then the talk had turned
to a main focus on Prongs (Which was of course, Harry's Father)
"Well" Said Harry "I'd better get going" He
started to get up.
"Yeah, I suppose so" Said Sirius lightly- "but
Harry" "
Yeah?" Said Harry
"Umm if you want to" Said Sirius "Me and Moony
would err like you, and Ron of course to go out with us when it's
a full moon" "WHAT?!?!" Harry half yelled
"And get us killed?"
"No" Said Remus "We can teach you- if you want-
how to turn into Animagi" Harry Gasped. "You-you
can?" Sirius and Remus beamed at each other "Well, yeah
I would, and I bet Ron would too!" Feeling excited, Harry
bid goodbye to Sirius and Remus and made his way back to the
Gryffindor common room. As he expected, Ron wasn't awake when he
arrived. Harry got into bed, and fell asleep almost at once.
Harry woke up the next morning, feeling very sleepy. But seeing
that everyone else in his dormitory were down at the great hall
having breakfast, Harry got dressed and made his way there. Harry
went over to the Gryffindor table and sat in his usual spot
between Ron and Hermoine. Quickly, but quietly he began to tell
them what happened the night before. When he got to the end Ron
and Hermoine gasped- rewarding them with frowns from fellow
Gryffindors along the table. "Cool!" Exclaimed Ron.
Hermoine couldn't speak. "W-W-Well that-that is v, very
dangerous! You could be killed!" Ron and Harry just grinned.
The first lesson of the day was Care of Magical Creatures. No one
really liked this lesson- only Harry and the group pretended to
like them, as Hagrid (the teacher) was their friend.
"All Rig' Everyon'?" He said in his usual, booming
voice "Today will be tamin' wil' Borsom" He pulled out
some weird, disgusting, green, slimy and one-eyed creature inside
a jar. Some of the girls screamed.
"Um? How do we tame them?" Asked Harry, half backing
off as Hagrid unscrewed the lid of the jar. "
Well," Said Hagrid Gruffly "You jus' hafta feed em' and
be kind to em'" The Borsom crept down onto the ground.
Nearly everyone started to back away.
"I will not tame them" came the drawling voice of Draco
Malfoy "What's the point?"
"Yer' gonna tame em' or its detention!" Said Hagrid
even more gruffly. Harry took some cereal from Hagrid and held it
out so a Borsom could sniff it, Harry quickly threw the cereal
down and the Borsom quickly gulped it down, then bounded up to
Harry and rubbed it's head on his robes. Harry (not wanting slime
on his robes) pulled away. This was obviously a huge insult to
the creature. It's eye In the middle of its head turned bright
red. Suddenly, it pounced. "Ipedimanta!" Harry shouted,
with his wand outstretched. The Borsom froze in mid air.
"Close one 'arry" Said Hagrid, grinning.
After thirty more minutes of the action packed Care of Magical
Creatures lesson, Harry and the group made their way back up to
the Gryffindor common room, as they had some free time but were
stopped by Sirius halfway. "Ah, I wanted to see you lot what
are you going to do?" "Yeah we'll do it" Said Ron
quickly "But Hermoine"
"Don't worry" Said Sirius "I thought Hermoine
wouldn't want to-"
"Of course I do!" Hermoine snapped.
"Oh, Okay" Said Sirius, Half taken aback "See you
at potions then"
"Bye" Said the group, as Sirius wondered off. Hermoine
didn't join the game of Gobstones that Harry and Ron were
playing.
"It's the OWL's this year!" She said, marching off to
the Library.
"I don't know" Said Ron miserably "She works too
hard"
"Probably wants everyone to know that she's a good
prefect" Said Harry. The next lesson of the day was
Divination- Hermoine's was Arithmacy. Harry and Ron made their
way up lots and lots of staircases, panting. They finally reached
the ladder that read 'Divination'. Divination was Harry's most
boring subject- most of it was just people making up things. Ron
climbed the ladder first. Following Ron, Harry emerged in the
deeply perfumed room. This scent had always made Harry very
sleepy, he slumped into a chair next to Ron. "Welcome,
Class" Came a misty voice-which came from Professor
Trelawney (the divination teacher) everyone jumped. "We will
not delay in seeing the future, so please open your books at page
111" Came the misty voice. Harry looked down on the page he
opened. It was all about stars and reading them. He groaned.
"Is something the matter?" Asked the professor. "
Um no" Said Harry "But this space stuff really gets to
me... we had planets last year." A few people sniggered.
"Space is a second most important place to study!"
Snapped professor Trelawney
"Oh" Said Harry quickly "Sorry, I thought that was
left to astronomy" There was a slight pink tinge in the
professor's cheeks. "Lets not delay any more!" She said
finally
"Please study your books and write down your star" This
took hours. The way to find out your star was ask your partner
about yourself. "I'm a Brave?" Harry was asking.
"Course you are!" Replied Ron "You beat You Know
Who!" "Am I good with ladies?" Asked Harry
"Umm Definitely NOT!" Said Ron. "Phew" Said
Harry "finally- I'm finished!" "So what's your
star?" Asked Ron. "Oh I dunno- it says Star of
Oferation or something better copy it down though" After
another Hour the lesson was finally over. "Home Work!"
Said Professor Trelawney almost happily "Read up the next
three pages of the book and copy down your future for two
weeks" "Oh for gods sake" Ron muttered, angrily.
Harry and Ron made there way down to the great hall, where they
would have lunch. Hermoine was already sitting at the table, so
they joined her- Sitting next to Fred and George.
"Hey Harry" Said Fred after a while "Isn't
Professor Black your godfather?"
"Yeah" Said Harry "Why?"
"Well, his potions lessons are really good." Said Fred
"Instead of taking points off Gryffindors, like Snape did,
He takes points off Slytherins!"
"When's our next lesson?" Asked Ron "You should
know, Hermoine, You memorise the time-table"
"Tomorrow" Said Hermoine. Harry, Ron and Hermoine sat
through the rest of the dinner muttering about which animal they
would change into.
After lunch it was Tranfiguration, led by the head of Gryffindor
house, Professor MgGonagall. After the summer holidays, Harry
always seemed to have trouble with this subject. So he tried and
tried to turn his Rat into a frog but it didn't seem to want to
change. Harry was relieved to see that everyone around him
(except Hermoine) was having problems too. "Well" Said
the Professor "The only person who transfigured the rat
right was Hermoine. Well done "
Hermoine blushed deeply. Ron muttered angrily under his breath.
The next lesson was charms. Harry and the group were making their
way up a trick staircase (They had jumped the hidden hole) when
they bumped into Draco Malfoy.
"Watch where you're going" He said coldly "I
suppose you're looking forward to your godfather's lesson"
"Probably" Said Harry coolly "You haven't got
Snape, or Crabbe and Goyle to stick up for you now have
you?"
"So you'd better watch out" Butted in Ron
"Well," Said Harry Sarcasticly "Nice seeing you-
goodbye!" They walked off to Charms. The Charms lesson (in
which they had to make a cushion invisible) went very quickly. As
he left the classroom Harry was looking forward to some free time
up at the Common room when he was stopped by Remus (Professor
Lupin) "Oh, there you lot are!" He said "Look
we'll start teaching you- the- you know what tomorrow night at
9:00 in the Potions Dungeon Ok?" The group nodded, bid
goodbye to Remus, and started their way up a staircase, when Ron
stopped abruptly and gasped. "Look" He kind of hissed
"What are these markings?" Harry and Hermoine bent down
to look at the markings.
"I wonder what that means?" Asked Hermoine
"What?" Harry and Ron were looking at her intently.
"You normally inform us with facts from Hogwarts a
History" Said Ron. "Yes" Replied Hermoine
"But this isn't even in Hogwarts a history- it's weird"
"D'ya reckon we should go to McGonagall?" Asked Ron,
curiously. "No" Said Harry after a second "Lets go
to Sirius or Remus" "Good Idea" Said Ron. The
Group made their way back up to the Gryffindor common room, they
would ask Sirius tomorrow at Potions but it was fun to talk about
what the signs could be.
