Chapter 4
Krum and Others
Joseph sat red eyed at the Ravenclaw table. He had stayed up all night talking and finding out more info about the school, wizards, and anything he could learn to make himself ready for anything that might happen today. BJ came out of nowhere and sat down across from him. "Man you look bad." BJ said as he started grabbing bacon from the plates of food. Joseph didn't respond he was trying to keep his eyes open. Joseph was still awake enough to see Professor Flitwick, the head of the Ravenclaw house, passing out schedules. "Lets see first years," he said as he passed BJ and Joseph handing them their schedules. Joseph seemed to wake up as he examined the sheet of paper.
First Years Monday: Morning: 9:00-10:30 Care of Magical Creatures, w/Hufflepuff. 10:30-12:00 Transfiguration, w/Gryffindor. Afternoon: 1:00-2:30 Herbology, w/Slytherin.
Tuesday: Morning: 9:00-10:30 History of Magic, w/Slytherin. 10:30-12:00 Charms, w/Gryffindor. Afternoon: 1:00-2:30 Potions, w/Hufflepuff.
Wednesday: Morning: 9:00-10:30 Care of Magical Creatures, w/Hufflepuff. 10:30-12:00 Transfiguration, w/Gryffindor. Afternoon: 1:00-2:30 Herbology, w/Slytherin.
Thursday: Morning: 9:00-10:30 History of Magic, w/Slytherin. 10:30-12:00 Charms, w/Gryffindor. Afternoon: 1:00-2:30 Potions, w/Hufflepuff.
Friday: Morning: 9:00-10:30 Muggle Studies, w/Hufflepuff Afternoon: 11:30-2:30 Double Defense Against the Dark Arts, w/Gryffindor.
"Dang they keep us busy," BJ said while stuffing a muffin in his mouth. Joseph was looking over the schedule a few times till he had it memorized. On the other side of the table you could hear Louis telling another first year how to pronounce his name correctly, "Louis the I make's an e sound." Joseph checked his watch in anticipation of going to class, "15 minutes till we have to go." Joseph said enthusiastically.
Fifteen minutes later the Ravenclaw first years as well as the Hufflepuff first years were all gathered around a small hut outside near a huge forest. Joseph had a hard time understanding the professor who happen to be Hagrid the man who lead them across the lake. All he could understand was that they would be taking care of a creature called a small-armed elf, which he did not show them but he did explain in great detail how to take care of it. Too bad Joseph couldn't understand what he was saying and he was glad to hear the bell blast across the field, meaning that they could leave.
Joseph, BJ, and Louis all headed for the transfiguration room in side the main building. Joseph secretly hoped that Josh would sit with him in transfiguration but knowing Josh he wouldn't. BJ, Joseph and Louis all took seats in the back of the room. Professor McGonagall stood in the front of the room waiting for everyone to sit down, Joseph looked for Josh but saw no sign of him. "Hello and welcome all first year students this is Transfiguration if anybody is in the wrong room please tell me." She said brightly. Joseph spotted two people sneaking in the back of the room; it was Josh and some girl he remembered seeing him talking to. "Mr. Thompson. Miss Smith I am glad you could join us." Josh and the girl stopped in their spots and turned around to see Professor McGonagall starring at them. "Uh we were coming from" but she didn't get to finish her sentence. "I don't want to hear excuses Jessica please take your seats and don't be late again," Professor McGonagall said firmly. Josh and Jessica both went and took seats all the way in the back of the room and the lesson proceeded. For the rest of the class they practiced waving their wands and trying to learn an easy spell that was supposta turn a feather into two feathers but the only one who managed to do this was Joseph and BJ. Louis kept turning it into a deformed half feather. BJ tried to help him but Louis swore he knew what he was doing. Joseph kept looking back at Josh to see what he was up to but every time he did he saw Josh talking to Jessica both laughing about something. For a few perinod seconds Joseph thought they were laughing about him. After what felt like to Joseph like ten minutes the bell rang for lunch and Joseph thought happy he could eat was a little disappointed for he like transfiguration. As everyone was leaving the room Joseph tried to catch up to Josh but couldn't catch up Josh had already spotted Emily in the hall way and speed through everyone on his quest to catch up with her. Joseph decided he would find Josh at lunch and walked back to BJ and Louis who were arguing about how to wave your wand properly. "Where did you go Joseph?" BJ asked trying to cut off Louis from talking. "Oh I was trying to catch up to Josh but he went to find some girl." Joseph responded as he kick a piece of trash that was on the ground. "Why do you keep trying to talk to Josh?" said Louis who was waving his wand around wildly. "Oh it's just me and Josh have been friends for almost ten years and I feel like he is my brother that I never had." Joseph said quietly as if the others would not hear. "What's so great about brothers," Louis said as they sat down at the Ravenclaw table. "I have four and all of they are jerks to me." "Hey BJ do you have a brother?" Joseph asked just as BJ had managed to have a half a sandwich in his mouth. "Oh um I have one older brother." BJ said after he swallowed the sandwich half. "But he went to the American school for witchcraft and wizardry." "All my brothers went to Llamantas, school for witchcraft and wizardry, except my oldest brother he was a squib," Louis added. Joseph knew that a squib was a person who had both parents who where both wizards and their child wasn't a wizard or witch. They finished up lunch by hearing how Louis's family was made up of many witches and wizards. Joseph didn't see Josh at all during lunch but decided that tomorrow he would talk to Josh during Charms.
The Bell rang and BJ, Louis, and Joseph all headed to the green house, they had Hebology with Professor Sprout and the netorues Slytherins. Joseph found out how bad the Slytherins could be first hand. All through the class they kept yelling out sarcastic comments and making fun of people. Especially a kid named Chris Mulky who despite his big size didn't do anything when they made fun of his name. Joseph admired his calm nature and good manner. After being properly introduced with the fungus plant and told how to avoid smelling like garbage the bell rang and Joseph made a brake away to the Ravenclaw common room, where he decided to relax on the couch. "Man Joseph you left that class fast," said the familiar voice of BJ. "I was tired." Joseph said as he laid his head down on the edge of the couch. "Well don't forget we have homework for Transfiguration, we have to go to the library and find a spell we could use to transform something." Joseph got himself up of the couch and made his way down to the library feeling tired and frustrated as all the spells in the books he looked at we for advanced students. Until BJ found a book with more first year spells then you could perform. "I'll take the discos spell and you take the demona spell." Said BJ as he slammed the book shut. They headed to the Great Hall to have dinner when Joseph spotted Josh talking with Jessica. "Hi Josh," Joseph said cheerfully. "How is it going?" "Oh hi Joseph." Josh replied not evening looking at Joseph. "So what classes did you have today?" Joseph asked trying to reboot the conversation. "Oh I had a bunch of classes." This time Josh looked at him for a sec but his attention did stay on him; two girls walked by and Josh said hi. "Hey Josh I think it's time we left for dinner." Jessica suggested "Oh ok I'll see ya around Joseph." Josh yelled at him as he walked down the hall towards dinner. Joseph stood their speechless, angry with Jessica, angry with Josh, and finally angry with Louis who yelled out, "BURN!!!" after Josh was out of range. Joseph sat at the Ravenclaw table trying not to think about what happened but it was hard, especially with Louis telling anyone in an earshot of his booming voice. BJ on the other hand remained silent during the whole affair, which Joseph was happy for, he couldn't stand two people bagging on him at once. Joseph went straight to bed after dinner, trying to catch up on the sleep he missed the night before.
The next day began as the other had. Joseph sat at the Ravenclaw table red eyed and hoping that he could sleep during a class today. BJ was eating a pile of food and occasionally he looked up at Joseph and tried to make him laugh by telling him some of his favorite jokes. Louis, who looked like he had slept as much as Joseph, walked in and sat down at the table. But the only difference between Louis and Joseph was the fact that Louis was smiling. "Well, guys today we go to potions," Louis said excitedly. "What's so special about Potions?" BJ piped in. "What, you don't know?" Louis looked stunned as both BJ and Joseph shook their heads. "Please enlighten us Louis." Joseph said bluntly "Well when Harry Potter went to school here he was friends with the potions teacher." Explained Louis "Wait a minute Louis," BJ interrupted, "Professor Krum teaches Potions, and I heard the Harry Potter story ton's of times and he never had a friend named Krum." "BJ I am sorry to smack you down, but you see he had a friend who was married, Hermione Granger, am I ringing any bells yet." BJ sat there with his hand on his chin, looking like he was in deep thought. "Ya, I think your right," he finally said after a good minute or two. Joseph couldn't understand what they were talking about just looked at them. He figured the mystery would be solved during potions class.
The mystery grew in Josephs mind as the day progressed. The more talk he heard from other students the more interested he became in the story of Harry Potter. And it changed from every person he heard it from. One minute Harry was saving the world, the next he was playing Quidditch while his best friends cheered him on. With every new story came unexpected twists and turns in the plot. He found himself wondering how Harry would get out of the mess he found himself in. By lunch Joseph found himself very excited about going to Potions, after all he would get to meet one of the Great Harry Potters friends. As soon as the bell rang announcing afternoon classes Joseph hurried along to class. But he was not the only one; he noticed that many students were rushing through the halls. Joseph and BJ arrived in a musty, foul smelling classroom. They took a seat at a table with a cauldron in the middle. A cacophony of whispers echoed around the room. Joseph could see many different bottles of things like batwings, mice eyes, and toads. "Hello everyone." Joseph looked behind him to see a bushy, brown-eyed witch. "I am Professor Krum." She said as a smile appeared across he face. She walked down to the bottom of the room and faced them. "This is the Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw class." Some of the students nodded their heads. "Now I know this is your first day in potions, but I would like to get started right away and begin our lesson. Please get out your note book and quails." The class sat there looking at her stupidly. "Well please get you stuff out." She said again. Joseph reacted and got his notebook out and quail. During the class Joseph wanted to ask questions about Harry Potter and all the other stories he heard, but was to nervous to ask. The class Bell rang signaling that the class was over. The students shuffled out of the classroom, Joseph was rather disappointed in the potions class. He was felt like he had been let down. BJ on the other hand didn't seem disappointed at all. Joseph figured he was the only one who didn't buy into the hype that everyone else bought into. After dinner that night, Louis, BJ, and Joseph were all in the common room doing homework for potions. "If there is one thing about Professor Krum is that she gives too much homework." BJ said as he wrote something out of a book onto a paper. Joseph, who decided to take a brake from homework, was looking out at the Hogwarts grounds. He was particularly fixed on the lake; its shiny waters drew his eyes to it. Out of the corner of his eye he saw something in the distance. It was a lady, but she was hard to make out. She seemed to have a shiver aura surrounding her, but Joseph didn't have a chance to get a good look at her. She walked into a cabin that was right next to the lake. Joseph turned away to ask BJ if he had seen the lady before, but BJ was auguring with Louis about the answer to number 2. Joseph returned to work on his homework and didn't tell BJ or Louis about what he had seen.
The next two days pasted rather quickly unless you counted Care of Magical Creatures, Where Louis's Long Armed Elf tried to escape into the woods with Louis's books. Friday soon was upon them and they had almost made it through their first week without incident. Joseph had been looking forward to Muggle studies he thought this would be the easiest class, after all he had spend most of his life up to this point as a muggle. Joseph, BJ, and Louis walked into the Muggle studies room, which seemed to horrify Louis. There where 10 rows of desks in the center of the room. "It looks just like a school room." BJ blurted out. Joseph agreed with him, the room reminded him of back home. "Please take your seats," a loud, masculine voice yelled out. Joseph looked across the room to see a fat, stout, short, and to his horror, a women. "I said take your seats" the voice grew louder and meaner. Almost immediately they took seats in the back row. "NO! You will not sit in the back seats together, you tall boy, move to the front row." She pointed a threating finger at BJ. BJ didn't seem to know what to do; he stared at her with a confused look. "What are you stupid move!" BJ got up slowly and moved to the front row. The other students, who were already in the room, didn't even look at her during this spectacle. "Ok now that we are all here, it's time we take roll." Since no one had take roll in their pervious classes, they all looked around at each other. "When I call your name out just say here or present. Adams, Matt.." During the roll call Joseph was starting to feel really uncomfortable. "...Lal, Monty," a small boy in the front row raised his hand "here" he said. "Did I tell you to raise your hand!" She gave Monty a threating look. Monty put his head down on the desk. "Well did I! Answer Me," She yelled even louder. "No." Monty said quickly. She finished her roll call without any other insubordination. "Now my name is Professor Carroll and I am going to assume you all will call me that all this year and the next and the next and then the next." Joseph realize this was only the first day of 4 years with her, disappointed him greatly. "A few of you are asking yourself why do we have to take a muggle studies class, 'I already lived as a muggle.' Well that's a bunch of bull, because now you are wizards and you will never live as a muggle again." She stalked forward and glared at the classroom threating them to talk. "In this class you will be looking forward to studying, acting, and thinking like muggle children. There will be no magic allowed in this classroom and if I see a wand in this room I will make sure you never take it out again." She gave off an evil smile as she said this. "So its up to you if this year goes by pleasantly or roughly." Joseph stirred at her huge brown eyes. Trying not to look away. The rest of the class went slow and when the bell rang people rushed out of that room as if she were about to kill them.
"She was very bitter." Louis said as they ate. Both Joseph and BJ were quite during lunch. Joseph was still trying to intake what professor Carroll had said to them. BJ looked like he was about to throw up. During lunch Louis tried to cheer them up but it was useless. After lunch they headed to Defense Against the Dark Arts. "I heard professor Snape was mean," Louis said as they sat down. Joseph could see Josh across the room he could also hear him. He was bragging to some girls about sleeping in Harry Potters bed so loudly that everyone in the class could hear. Suddenly the door banged open and a tall, black haired man entered. The man moved down to the front of the class and turned around to look at them. "My name is Professor Snape, and I am your Defence against the dark arts professor." He said as he rubbed his hand through his beard. "This class is to prepare you for the real world and anyone.." He stopped and looked at Josh who was still talking about Harry Potters bed. "I suppose that makes you think your special." Snape said to Josh. Josh looked up at him, "Ya it does." Josh replied with a huge grin on his face as if he was taunting Snape into a fight. Snape looked at him with a dark look, "Don't test me boy, you won't like the out come." Josh's grin turned into a frown. "Now be quite." Snape said grimly. Joseph sat their shocked; no teacher has ever yelled at Josh, most of them liked Josh. The rest of the lesson they learned about Bats and how they could be dangerous to us. Joseph couldn't get over the fact that Josh shut up.
Next chapter: The Trials
Krum and Others
Joseph sat red eyed at the Ravenclaw table. He had stayed up all night talking and finding out more info about the school, wizards, and anything he could learn to make himself ready for anything that might happen today. BJ came out of nowhere and sat down across from him. "Man you look bad." BJ said as he started grabbing bacon from the plates of food. Joseph didn't respond he was trying to keep his eyes open. Joseph was still awake enough to see Professor Flitwick, the head of the Ravenclaw house, passing out schedules. "Lets see first years," he said as he passed BJ and Joseph handing them their schedules. Joseph seemed to wake up as he examined the sheet of paper.
First Years Monday: Morning: 9:00-10:30 Care of Magical Creatures, w/Hufflepuff. 10:30-12:00 Transfiguration, w/Gryffindor. Afternoon: 1:00-2:30 Herbology, w/Slytherin.
Tuesday: Morning: 9:00-10:30 History of Magic, w/Slytherin. 10:30-12:00 Charms, w/Gryffindor. Afternoon: 1:00-2:30 Potions, w/Hufflepuff.
Wednesday: Morning: 9:00-10:30 Care of Magical Creatures, w/Hufflepuff. 10:30-12:00 Transfiguration, w/Gryffindor. Afternoon: 1:00-2:30 Herbology, w/Slytherin.
Thursday: Morning: 9:00-10:30 History of Magic, w/Slytherin. 10:30-12:00 Charms, w/Gryffindor. Afternoon: 1:00-2:30 Potions, w/Hufflepuff.
Friday: Morning: 9:00-10:30 Muggle Studies, w/Hufflepuff Afternoon: 11:30-2:30 Double Defense Against the Dark Arts, w/Gryffindor.
"Dang they keep us busy," BJ said while stuffing a muffin in his mouth. Joseph was looking over the schedule a few times till he had it memorized. On the other side of the table you could hear Louis telling another first year how to pronounce his name correctly, "Louis the I make's an e sound." Joseph checked his watch in anticipation of going to class, "15 minutes till we have to go." Joseph said enthusiastically.
Fifteen minutes later the Ravenclaw first years as well as the Hufflepuff first years were all gathered around a small hut outside near a huge forest. Joseph had a hard time understanding the professor who happen to be Hagrid the man who lead them across the lake. All he could understand was that they would be taking care of a creature called a small-armed elf, which he did not show them but he did explain in great detail how to take care of it. Too bad Joseph couldn't understand what he was saying and he was glad to hear the bell blast across the field, meaning that they could leave.
Joseph, BJ, and Louis all headed for the transfiguration room in side the main building. Joseph secretly hoped that Josh would sit with him in transfiguration but knowing Josh he wouldn't. BJ, Joseph and Louis all took seats in the back of the room. Professor McGonagall stood in the front of the room waiting for everyone to sit down, Joseph looked for Josh but saw no sign of him. "Hello and welcome all first year students this is Transfiguration if anybody is in the wrong room please tell me." She said brightly. Joseph spotted two people sneaking in the back of the room; it was Josh and some girl he remembered seeing him talking to. "Mr. Thompson. Miss Smith I am glad you could join us." Josh and the girl stopped in their spots and turned around to see Professor McGonagall starring at them. "Uh we were coming from" but she didn't get to finish her sentence. "I don't want to hear excuses Jessica please take your seats and don't be late again," Professor McGonagall said firmly. Josh and Jessica both went and took seats all the way in the back of the room and the lesson proceeded. For the rest of the class they practiced waving their wands and trying to learn an easy spell that was supposta turn a feather into two feathers but the only one who managed to do this was Joseph and BJ. Louis kept turning it into a deformed half feather. BJ tried to help him but Louis swore he knew what he was doing. Joseph kept looking back at Josh to see what he was up to but every time he did he saw Josh talking to Jessica both laughing about something. For a few perinod seconds Joseph thought they were laughing about him. After what felt like to Joseph like ten minutes the bell rang for lunch and Joseph thought happy he could eat was a little disappointed for he like transfiguration. As everyone was leaving the room Joseph tried to catch up to Josh but couldn't catch up Josh had already spotted Emily in the hall way and speed through everyone on his quest to catch up with her. Joseph decided he would find Josh at lunch and walked back to BJ and Louis who were arguing about how to wave your wand properly. "Where did you go Joseph?" BJ asked trying to cut off Louis from talking. "Oh I was trying to catch up to Josh but he went to find some girl." Joseph responded as he kick a piece of trash that was on the ground. "Why do you keep trying to talk to Josh?" said Louis who was waving his wand around wildly. "Oh it's just me and Josh have been friends for almost ten years and I feel like he is my brother that I never had." Joseph said quietly as if the others would not hear. "What's so great about brothers," Louis said as they sat down at the Ravenclaw table. "I have four and all of they are jerks to me." "Hey BJ do you have a brother?" Joseph asked just as BJ had managed to have a half a sandwich in his mouth. "Oh um I have one older brother." BJ said after he swallowed the sandwich half. "But he went to the American school for witchcraft and wizardry." "All my brothers went to Llamantas, school for witchcraft and wizardry, except my oldest brother he was a squib," Louis added. Joseph knew that a squib was a person who had both parents who where both wizards and their child wasn't a wizard or witch. They finished up lunch by hearing how Louis's family was made up of many witches and wizards. Joseph didn't see Josh at all during lunch but decided that tomorrow he would talk to Josh during Charms.
The Bell rang and BJ, Louis, and Joseph all headed to the green house, they had Hebology with Professor Sprout and the netorues Slytherins. Joseph found out how bad the Slytherins could be first hand. All through the class they kept yelling out sarcastic comments and making fun of people. Especially a kid named Chris Mulky who despite his big size didn't do anything when they made fun of his name. Joseph admired his calm nature and good manner. After being properly introduced with the fungus plant and told how to avoid smelling like garbage the bell rang and Joseph made a brake away to the Ravenclaw common room, where he decided to relax on the couch. "Man Joseph you left that class fast," said the familiar voice of BJ. "I was tired." Joseph said as he laid his head down on the edge of the couch. "Well don't forget we have homework for Transfiguration, we have to go to the library and find a spell we could use to transform something." Joseph got himself up of the couch and made his way down to the library feeling tired and frustrated as all the spells in the books he looked at we for advanced students. Until BJ found a book with more first year spells then you could perform. "I'll take the discos spell and you take the demona spell." Said BJ as he slammed the book shut. They headed to the Great Hall to have dinner when Joseph spotted Josh talking with Jessica. "Hi Josh," Joseph said cheerfully. "How is it going?" "Oh hi Joseph." Josh replied not evening looking at Joseph. "So what classes did you have today?" Joseph asked trying to reboot the conversation. "Oh I had a bunch of classes." This time Josh looked at him for a sec but his attention did stay on him; two girls walked by and Josh said hi. "Hey Josh I think it's time we left for dinner." Jessica suggested "Oh ok I'll see ya around Joseph." Josh yelled at him as he walked down the hall towards dinner. Joseph stood their speechless, angry with Jessica, angry with Josh, and finally angry with Louis who yelled out, "BURN!!!" after Josh was out of range. Joseph sat at the Ravenclaw table trying not to think about what happened but it was hard, especially with Louis telling anyone in an earshot of his booming voice. BJ on the other hand remained silent during the whole affair, which Joseph was happy for, he couldn't stand two people bagging on him at once. Joseph went straight to bed after dinner, trying to catch up on the sleep he missed the night before.
The next day began as the other had. Joseph sat at the Ravenclaw table red eyed and hoping that he could sleep during a class today. BJ was eating a pile of food and occasionally he looked up at Joseph and tried to make him laugh by telling him some of his favorite jokes. Louis, who looked like he had slept as much as Joseph, walked in and sat down at the table. But the only difference between Louis and Joseph was the fact that Louis was smiling. "Well, guys today we go to potions," Louis said excitedly. "What's so special about Potions?" BJ piped in. "What, you don't know?" Louis looked stunned as both BJ and Joseph shook their heads. "Please enlighten us Louis." Joseph said bluntly "Well when Harry Potter went to school here he was friends with the potions teacher." Explained Louis "Wait a minute Louis," BJ interrupted, "Professor Krum teaches Potions, and I heard the Harry Potter story ton's of times and he never had a friend named Krum." "BJ I am sorry to smack you down, but you see he had a friend who was married, Hermione Granger, am I ringing any bells yet." BJ sat there with his hand on his chin, looking like he was in deep thought. "Ya, I think your right," he finally said after a good minute or two. Joseph couldn't understand what they were talking about just looked at them. He figured the mystery would be solved during potions class.
The mystery grew in Josephs mind as the day progressed. The more talk he heard from other students the more interested he became in the story of Harry Potter. And it changed from every person he heard it from. One minute Harry was saving the world, the next he was playing Quidditch while his best friends cheered him on. With every new story came unexpected twists and turns in the plot. He found himself wondering how Harry would get out of the mess he found himself in. By lunch Joseph found himself very excited about going to Potions, after all he would get to meet one of the Great Harry Potters friends. As soon as the bell rang announcing afternoon classes Joseph hurried along to class. But he was not the only one; he noticed that many students were rushing through the halls. Joseph and BJ arrived in a musty, foul smelling classroom. They took a seat at a table with a cauldron in the middle. A cacophony of whispers echoed around the room. Joseph could see many different bottles of things like batwings, mice eyes, and toads. "Hello everyone." Joseph looked behind him to see a bushy, brown-eyed witch. "I am Professor Krum." She said as a smile appeared across he face. She walked down to the bottom of the room and faced them. "This is the Hufflepuff/Ravenclaw class." Some of the students nodded their heads. "Now I know this is your first day in potions, but I would like to get started right away and begin our lesson. Please get out your note book and quails." The class sat there looking at her stupidly. "Well please get you stuff out." She said again. Joseph reacted and got his notebook out and quail. During the class Joseph wanted to ask questions about Harry Potter and all the other stories he heard, but was to nervous to ask. The class Bell rang signaling that the class was over. The students shuffled out of the classroom, Joseph was rather disappointed in the potions class. He was felt like he had been let down. BJ on the other hand didn't seem disappointed at all. Joseph figured he was the only one who didn't buy into the hype that everyone else bought into. After dinner that night, Louis, BJ, and Joseph were all in the common room doing homework for potions. "If there is one thing about Professor Krum is that she gives too much homework." BJ said as he wrote something out of a book onto a paper. Joseph, who decided to take a brake from homework, was looking out at the Hogwarts grounds. He was particularly fixed on the lake; its shiny waters drew his eyes to it. Out of the corner of his eye he saw something in the distance. It was a lady, but she was hard to make out. She seemed to have a shiver aura surrounding her, but Joseph didn't have a chance to get a good look at her. She walked into a cabin that was right next to the lake. Joseph turned away to ask BJ if he had seen the lady before, but BJ was auguring with Louis about the answer to number 2. Joseph returned to work on his homework and didn't tell BJ or Louis about what he had seen.
The next two days pasted rather quickly unless you counted Care of Magical Creatures, Where Louis's Long Armed Elf tried to escape into the woods with Louis's books. Friday soon was upon them and they had almost made it through their first week without incident. Joseph had been looking forward to Muggle studies he thought this would be the easiest class, after all he had spend most of his life up to this point as a muggle. Joseph, BJ, and Louis walked into the Muggle studies room, which seemed to horrify Louis. There where 10 rows of desks in the center of the room. "It looks just like a school room." BJ blurted out. Joseph agreed with him, the room reminded him of back home. "Please take your seats," a loud, masculine voice yelled out. Joseph looked across the room to see a fat, stout, short, and to his horror, a women. "I said take your seats" the voice grew louder and meaner. Almost immediately they took seats in the back row. "NO! You will not sit in the back seats together, you tall boy, move to the front row." She pointed a threating finger at BJ. BJ didn't seem to know what to do; he stared at her with a confused look. "What are you stupid move!" BJ got up slowly and moved to the front row. The other students, who were already in the room, didn't even look at her during this spectacle. "Ok now that we are all here, it's time we take roll." Since no one had take roll in their pervious classes, they all looked around at each other. "When I call your name out just say here or present. Adams, Matt.." During the roll call Joseph was starting to feel really uncomfortable. "...Lal, Monty," a small boy in the front row raised his hand "here" he said. "Did I tell you to raise your hand!" She gave Monty a threating look. Monty put his head down on the desk. "Well did I! Answer Me," She yelled even louder. "No." Monty said quickly. She finished her roll call without any other insubordination. "Now my name is Professor Carroll and I am going to assume you all will call me that all this year and the next and the next and then the next." Joseph realize this was only the first day of 4 years with her, disappointed him greatly. "A few of you are asking yourself why do we have to take a muggle studies class, 'I already lived as a muggle.' Well that's a bunch of bull, because now you are wizards and you will never live as a muggle again." She stalked forward and glared at the classroom threating them to talk. "In this class you will be looking forward to studying, acting, and thinking like muggle children. There will be no magic allowed in this classroom and if I see a wand in this room I will make sure you never take it out again." She gave off an evil smile as she said this. "So its up to you if this year goes by pleasantly or roughly." Joseph stirred at her huge brown eyes. Trying not to look away. The rest of the class went slow and when the bell rang people rushed out of that room as if she were about to kill them.
"She was very bitter." Louis said as they ate. Both Joseph and BJ were quite during lunch. Joseph was still trying to intake what professor Carroll had said to them. BJ looked like he was about to throw up. During lunch Louis tried to cheer them up but it was useless. After lunch they headed to Defense Against the Dark Arts. "I heard professor Snape was mean," Louis said as they sat down. Joseph could see Josh across the room he could also hear him. He was bragging to some girls about sleeping in Harry Potters bed so loudly that everyone in the class could hear. Suddenly the door banged open and a tall, black haired man entered. The man moved down to the front of the class and turned around to look at them. "My name is Professor Snape, and I am your Defence against the dark arts professor." He said as he rubbed his hand through his beard. "This class is to prepare you for the real world and anyone.." He stopped and looked at Josh who was still talking about Harry Potters bed. "I suppose that makes you think your special." Snape said to Josh. Josh looked up at him, "Ya it does." Josh replied with a huge grin on his face as if he was taunting Snape into a fight. Snape looked at him with a dark look, "Don't test me boy, you won't like the out come." Josh's grin turned into a frown. "Now be quite." Snape said grimly. Joseph sat their shocked; no teacher has ever yelled at Josh, most of them liked Josh. The rest of the lesson they learned about Bats and how they could be dangerous to us. Joseph couldn't get over the fact that Josh shut up.
Next chapter: The Trials