Carpe Diem: Second Year Revision

by Alec6427/NecessaryEvil

Disclaimer: Truth is I wish I owned these characters, but I only own the ones that don't come from somewhere else.

Chapter Five:

The Summons Master

On the Monday of their second week back the students of Draconis House woke up feeling refreshed and ready for another day of lessons. Because the house hadn't be taken into account when the class schedules had been made the house had their lessons on the first period of a day each teacher would have had free otherwise and because their house was so small and had so few per year the students of all ages had the same lessons leading to lessons that ranged from the simplest review to the most difficult spells Harry had ever attempted.

This Monday the House made its way down to breakfast Jess and Jennifer chatting away with each other, William pretending to ignored them, but keeping his gaze on Jennifer, Fred and George thinking up pranks to do during breakfast, Ernie and April chatting about if they should sit with their old Hufflepuff table, Jeremy trying to get William's attention away from Jennifer, Colin trying to figure out why his camera wasn't working, leaving Harry to choose between walking with Ron and walking with Cho, either one would be left alone if he wasn't walking with them. His mind thought back to his mental victory with the compromise of the emblem and he figured out, "Hey Ron come on," he walked over to Cho who was looking sad, he poked her shoulder she turned to look at him and her face brightened, "Hello Cho,"

"Hi Harry,"

"Oh god I think I'm going to be sick," Ron muttered, Harry shot him a poisonous look.

"You want some company?"

"Yeah that would be nice, everyone here seems to be old friends or a bit off," she said this last part as Colin's camera flashed in his face, "It'd be nice to have someone to talk with,"

"This is Ron,"

"Weasely right,"

"How did you guess," Ron said sarcastically running his fingers through his Weasely red hair.

All three of them had a good laugh at that, they made their way to the Great Hall and when they arrived he noticed Ron looking around for something, "Hermione has an early class doesn't she?" he whispered in Ron's ear, he nodded and sat down in disappointment and Cho and Harry sat down next to him. The food appeared on their table and they began tucking in, Ron looked over at Harry and asked between bites, "What's...our...first....class?"

Harry dug out his schedule and said, "Summoning,"

Ron smiled, "Wonder what the new teacher is like?" this would be their first summoning class, "Hope he's cool as he looks,"

Harry looked down at the Head Table and spotted Professor Connors chatting animatedly with a very annoyed looking Lockhart. Connors was not the average teacher he was about 6'2" had dirty blonde messy hair, was pretty well built with tanned skin, he didn't wear the basic black robe, but instead dressed like a muggle with black jeans, a black t-shirt, and a red over shirt that went down a little past his hip. Harry had to agree with Ron, the new teacher did seem cool.

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For once it seemed appearances were not being deceiving the first thing that Professor Connors said when they entered the classroom was, "I do not want to fail anyone, I do not derive pleasure from exerting my power on my students, you will all pass with at least a C, but I do hope you will all get a A by the end of the year seeing as how Summoning skills can be very useful in wilderness conditions, getting potions ingredients, and even in wizards duels,"

Everyone looked at him excitedly as they took out their books, he looked back and motioned for them to put their books away, "You will find that there are a great many things you cannot find in a book,"

"Bet Hermione went postal when he said that to the Gryfindors," Harry whispered to Cho who was sitting right next to him, he knew better than to make fun of Hermione to Ron when he was missing her like he was, but for his joke he was rewarded with a giggle from Cho which caused him to smile a little.

"Yes, Ms. Granger did explode when I told her that fact," Professor Connors said obviously having over heard Harry's comment, "Do you have a problem with not using a book?"

"Not in the slightest sir," Harry said a huge grin spreading across his face as he consider the greatness of not carrying 'The Huge Book of Summoning' around with him for the rest of the year.

"Now the basic Summons spell is the hat trick, so take off your cap, tap the edge and say Gibberish," as he demonstrated he pulled a rabbit out of his cap and then when he put back in and snapped his fingers it was gone, "Now you try,"

They spent the rest of the class Summoning and sending back bunnies and chasing down the pair that April and Ernie had lost control of and stuffing them unceremoniously back into their respective caps. At the end of class Professor Connors told them all that they would also find it rare to have homework from him, this brought about a cheer.

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Unfortunately it seemed that most of the teachers didn't share Professor Connors position on homework and they piled with enough to last them the week by the end of the day, but Harry had other things than homework in mind as he went down to his room grabbed his Nimbus 2000 and ran out of the Dorms and down to the Quidditch closely followed by his two practice partners; Ron and Cho. Harry and Cho had been nearly inseparable during the day, Ron hadn't minded because he was busy listening to Fred and George's tales of mischief. Now the three of them had to practice their actual positions for the first time since tryouts, though that's not saying much since tryouts had been the day before, but being stuck in an unnatural position to you seemed to turn seconds into years.

Harry watched Cho fly around searching for the Snitch and he was entranced by the smooth movements and the ease at which she turned, with her raven black hair fanning out behind her she seemed to be an angel soaring through the air on dark wings. He was so out of it that he didn't even notice the Snitch cuddle up inside his hand until Ron blew the whistle and yelled, "Congratulations Harry," Harry snapped out of it and looked at his hand and almost laughed out loud at the Snitch holding onto his hand using its miniature wings as arms, it looked like it was trying to stay warm. The rest of the session was spent with Harry and Cho trying to get the Quaffle past Ron and into the goal which they did quite frequently going faster than he could on his old battered second hand broom.

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Harry couldn't sleep again so he made his way out to the balcony where he once again found Cho. They talked for awhile until the beauty of the lake came up again, "Its even more beautiful from the ground," Cho stated.

Harry smiled, "Then lets get a better view. Accio broom, Accio cloak," Harry's Nimbus and his Invisibility Cloak zoomed into his hand he climbed on the broom and offered his hand to Cho who smiled took it and got on the broom behind him, holding onto him to make sure she didn't fall off, he smiled, pulling the cloak over the both of them and pushing off and heading towards the shore of the lake.

Harry returned to the dorm around three the next morning and went to sleep.

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A/N: This will go somewhere sometime soon. Just a little slow start. Have to have Cho be a little closer to Harry and have a little more on William before I get into anything serious, which I was going to do this chapter but my fingers wouldn't let me cuz they had other ideas.