Harry was awakened the next morning by a horribly familiar snoring sound from the end of the dormitory. It took him a few seconds before remembering that Dudley Dursley is at Hogwarts as a wizard, and that he is a Gryffindor like him.
Dragging himself up, Harry get dressed and poked his head into Ron's cubicle to see his friend still sleeping. "Ron, wake up", he said. But Ron didn't stir. "Captain Potter assigning Liutenant Weasley to wake up. It's MORNING!"
Ron groaned a little, and turned away.
Harry grinned, and grabbed a pillow from his bed before throwing it to Ron. It hit him on the head.
"Wha..." he murmured and blinked at Harry.
"Rise and shine, Ronald Weasley. Or you'll get a two-hour lecture about lateness from Miss Know-It-All-And-Newly-Appointed-Prefect", said Harry.
Ron grinned and sat up, yawning and stretching himself. Seamus Finnigan, who had just awakened, went to Harry. "Aren't you going to wake that cousin of yours up? I tried but he won't get up."
Harry smiled, and went to Dudley's bed (Which, by the way, sank so low at his weight) and looked at his cousin. "There are two ways you can wake Dudley up. One is by being all syrupy- which is only used by his mom- and the other is like this......." Harry bent until his mouth was an inch from Dudley's left ear and bellowed, "DUDLEY! WAKE UP YOU FAT PIG!"
Dudley jumped- and i mean jumped. The four-poster bed nearly cracked when he landed back on it. He looked at Harry with a mixed expression of anger and alarmed.
"It's breakfast time, Dudders", Harry said casually, trying to stop himself from laughing. "Get dressed- with your school robes, I mean- andbring along your books. Lessons starts today."
"What?" Dudley muttered. "But the first day is supposed to be the orientation day, not lessons!"
"this is not Smeltings, Dudley", Harry replied patiently. "Now get up. You're gonna be late for breakfast. I'll wait for you, but only for today. You'll have to find you ways around on your own by tomorrow."
Dudley looked as if he's going to cry. Seamus, as a Prefect, bade him to hurry up, and he forced himself to. Harry and Ron went down to the Gryffindor common room to see Hermione waiting.
When Dudley finally was ready, they went down to the Great Hall for breakfast. For the first time since he was there Dudley actually ate three plates of bacon and eggs. Harry looked at Ron and Hermione with a grin. "What did I tell you?" he whispered. "Dudley can never resist food."
Just as Harry finished saying that, Dudley gave a loud, terrified squeak and crashed from his seat. "Dudley! What's the matter?" Harry asked.
"Ow-Owls!" he squealed. "Lots of them!"
It was time for the morning post, and Hundreds of owls flew into the Hall bearing parcels and letters for their owners. Neville Lonbottom, an accident-proned boy with memory problems in Harry's year, had a large parcel dropped on his plate of porridge by a large barn owl.
"It's the morning post Dudley", Hermione explained. "Here we got our letters and things by owls. They're like postmen in Muggle-world, see?"
"Trust Hermione to explain everything", Ron grinned at her. "Good thing you're born Muggle!"
"What's this 'Muggle' you're talking about??" Dudley asked crossly. "Can't you just call it 'human'?"
'Well, Muggle is a polite way in our worl to call a wizard or witch from a non-magic family, like yours", said Ron. "The impolite way is MUD-BLOOD!"
'Ron, stop it", Hermione said sharply. "Oh, here's Professor McGonagall. I think she's going to give us our time tables. I can't wait to start Defence Against The Dark Arts. It's pity Remus is not our teacher. Wonder how's the new teacher going to be?"
McGonagall indeed gave them their timetables, and told Dudley not to forget to write his name on whichever extra class he's taking. "What are the extra classes?" he asked.
"You have to go to at least two other classes aside from Transfiguration, Charms, Defence Against the Dark Arts, Astronomy, Herbology and Potions", said Hermione. "You can choose whichever you want. Harry and Ron is in Divination and all of us took Care of Magical Creatures-"
"-And Hermione took all the other three classes, case you'd like to know", said Ron.
"So what'll you pick?" asked Harry, hoping that Dudley won't join the same class as he.
He got his wish, as Dudley, meaning to be independent, muttered, "Muggle Studies and Care of Magical Creatures."