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The next morning was the first day of classes. Harry was taking transfiguration, defense, potions, history, astronomy, charms, divination, runes, and muggle studies. For his first day, he had potions and history in the morning with muggle studies and transfiguration after lunch. He knew that he was in for a long day.

Breakfast, like most meals, consisted of almost anything that could be considered proper to eat at that time of the day. Some first year complained that there were not any pop tarts or coffee, neither of which Harry had heard of before. He stuck with the scrambled eggs, bacon, and some oatmeal. He enjoyed it, but the food on Avalon was better.

He followed Ron to the potions class, and just sat in the center of the front row. Harry noticed Draco walk into the room, but he sat near the back, way from Harry. Harry laughed silently when he remembered tricking Draco on the train.

"Well, I know all of you but one has had the opportunity to learn these answers, since I have taught you this material before, so I won't ask you. Harry Potter, on the other hand, I do not have an understanding of what level he is on. So I have a quiz, for him. If anyone but Harry even raises their hand, you will loose 2 points for their house, each time. Understand?"

Harry should have known that Snape would drill him. When he visited his parents in the underworld, they warned him about Snape.

"Question one. What is the difference between a Surgitum Potion and a Cooriri Potion and what do they do?"

Harry didn't even have to think for a second.

"As far as ingredients and preparation, they are the same. It is a levitating potion. It is referred to as a Cooriri if is high quality."

Snape was surprised, and decided to try a harder question.

"Name three potions, and their main effects, that contain all of the following, in any form. Wormwood, Shark teeth, Aestus leafs, African red poison dart frog skin, and vanilla extract."

'This is too easy,' though Harry.

"Voxarium Optimarum. It makes the drinker's voice sound the best that the his or her vocal cords can manage, how long the effects last depends on the dose. Idem-aciarum makes the drinker's voice the same as the first voice he or she hears. Memorium, the drinker remembers the first thing that he or she hears."

Snape was getting angry, not even his 7th year Slytherin Advanced Potion students knew those three, there were more than three answers, and he had expected Harry to answer with the easiest ones.

'Maybe I can trick him. I'll ask one with no answer.'

"Name and directions for making a potion that removes all spells, curses, jinxes, hexes, potion effects, memory and truth charms?"

Harry almost laughed. He knew that Snape was trying to trick him, however, unlike Snape, he knew of several.

"Omnium-Alium-Finarium. One dry, powdered left-eye of Basilk. One 5 centimeter square piece of Dementor's cloak. Two drops white dolphin blood. 5 liters of pure water. Keep at 200 degrees Celsius for 48 hours, and then allow to cool to 50 degrees Celsius. Evaporate until there is no liquid left, then add two powdered unicorn horns, six diced scales from an adult artic ice dragon, two liters of salt water, 22 percent salt, evaporate again. Let sit two weeks or more, up to a year. A powder will remain. Mix one gram of the powder, one drop of the blood of the person to drink it, and 20 milliliters of cold water. Drop one small scale from a Pacific Ocean Mermaid in just before drinking, drink on a full stomach, and remember not to swallow the scale."

Snape's jaw dropped. It couldn't be, could it? He had never heard of the potion, but could anyone make up instructions that detailed? [[The author can.]]

Somehow time got away from Snape, and class was over. He would have given a homework assignment after the Gryffindore had left, but Dumbledore was standing in the back corner, and he didn't want to give the headmaster, who was once a Gryffindore, a reason to dislike him. Potter either, it occurred to him.



Harry walked with Ron to history as well. This year it was a comprehensive world history, including important muggle and wizard events. Harry didn't know if he was should be amused or scared by the fact that the teacher was a ghost. Harry listened intently, but noticed that many of the others had fallen asleep.



After lunch, Harry went to muggle studies. There were a few other fifth years, but also others ranging from third to seventh, as it was, all muggle studies students have to take the basic muggle life class first, regardless of year, except the few muggle-borns that take the class. On Avalon, they had imported much of the modern muggle technology, including computers, so Harry was ahead in that class too.



His last class of the day was transfiguration.

"This term we will be attempting to turn inanimate objects in to animate objects. For this week, we will start by turning small statues of animals into a live animal of the same size . . . " Harry ignored the rest until she said, "Now you try."

Harry immediately turned the small statue of a deer on his desk to a miniature deer. He looked around, but no one had managed to do so.

"Harry, why aren't you . . . oh" Magonagal noticed that he already had.

"Can you turn it back?"

Harry did.

"Again?"

It was an deer, again.

"Back to a statue, please."

He did so and she gave him something else. It was a statue of a cat, a very small cat. The statue looked only a few centimeters high.

"Can you turn it into a normal size cat?"

Harry did, then caused quite a stir when he turned it from an alley cat into a tiger, before turning it into a miniature statue again. Magonagal asked him to stay after class. Harry waited, and after all the students had left, she addressed him.

"It is obvious that you have already mastered what I intended to spent the entire term on. Have you ever considered becoming an animage?"

Harry smiled before turning into a hawk. He flew a lap around the room, before changing back.

"How about transfiguring your clothing, while it is on you?"

Harry's robes changed color and length a few times, before returning to normal.

Magonagal was getting desperate now, and Harry could tell from her voice.

"Surroundings?"

A few words from Harry and the entire appearance of the room switched to a field, even the walls. The door stood in what looked like a small section of a ruined wall, with only a few blocks of stone remaining that weren't part of the doorframe. There was even a breeze, and the grass moved with it.

Harry spoke, "The walls were an illusion, but the ground was real, and the breeze was a fan that I transfigured into the wall."

"Until further notice, you will have a free period instead of transfiguration. You can go now, change before dinner if you want to."



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