Translucent Moonlight
By: Grey Wolf
Disclaimer: I don't feel like writing one, go back and read them.
Note: I still have a pic of Drake if anyone wants one. I'm not happy with this chapter, but it's just a broad view of Drake's fist few days.
Dedicated to: Kelly, Damien, IC and Kate my other reviewer
Classes
The first week was hard on Drake, even though he had made friends he still seemed to end up all alone when it came to finding the next class. He was 5 minutes late for Transfiguration but professor McGonagall just glared at him over her glasses and said nothing. He took a seat next to Hermione and began to copy the notes he had missed. Which really was not a lot but still Hermione had already written five pages.
"Today we're gonna learn how to change objects into creatures. This is highly difficult if you don't pay attention. Now take the ruler before you and try to change it into a snake by using the words: Caritus Batiun Snakosis" (a/n: this is made up, I am not a witch okay so I was witch 1 in Macbeth, big deal)
It took up the whole lesson for most of the class to get it down (Drake got it right after 10 minutes a whole 5 minutes before Hermione) and even then most of them looked more like worms than harmless little snakes. Drake sat there, bored to tears, changing his ruler back and forth while some of the students glared at him angrily but he didn't notice.
The next class was history, which somehow he seemed to miss entirely. He came running in, exhausted just as the class ended. He explained that a staircase had moved and that he had become completely lost. Hermione once again gave him her notes from class to copy, though more reluctantly this time (a/n: someone jealous).
He made it to herbology in time but the whole class soon found out that plants didn't like him. The baby flytraps they where tending to bit his finger and then it actually jumped up and bit his nose and wouldn't let go. In the end they had to send him to the hospital wing to get treated for plant bites.
The next few days went better. Drake excelled in Charms and even in Devination, even though he was pretending to be asleep and mutter nonsense when they had to enter a 'dreamlike state'. Lavender seemed particularly taken with his faking, though she didn't know he was faking. All and all the whole class went rather well.
The next class was CMC. This was a fiasco. They where studying the Sphinx now, only they all (four of them) all came up to Drake to be stroked and they would talk amongst themselves about how good Drake was taking care of Teardrop and that he was a good mother and all sorts of nonsense. Hagrid tried in vain to calm them down and to get them to stop fuffing over Drake. In the end the rest of the students all sat down on the grass and listened to Drake talk to the Sphinxes.
When Friday finally came there was only two classed Drake had not yet attended; DADA and potions. One he longed to attend more than ever and one he feared more than anything because it would bring him face to face with his uncle…