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The ring
Harry woke up the next morning later than he would have liked. He had only ten minutes before classes started. Great way to start the day, Harry thought. He hurriedly dressed and grabbed his books and ran to meet Ron and Hermione. He found them walking out of the great hall.
"Here's your course list Harry." Ron shoved a piece of paper into Harry's hands. "Were going to be late, where were you, sleeping I'll bet."
"You really need to start the year off on time Harry." Hermione said in a disapproving sort of voice. Harry frowned.
"You should have woken me up!" he said to Ron. "Come on lets go I don't want to be late for Sirius." They rushed off to care of magical creatures. They caught up to Dean and Seams who were talking about Sirius's trail.
"Well he really is innocent, Professor Lupin was his defense too."
"It is weird though we have an ex-convict teaching us." Ron Harry and Hermione laughed a continued out to the paddock where Hagrid had taught them how to deal with horribly freakish creatures. But Sirius had managed to round up several winged horses for their first lesson.
"Hello everyone, " Sirius said, everyone went quiet. Harry was amazed, but apparently Sirius had the same gift as Snape when it came to getting peoples attention, " I am Professor Black. And yes I am innocent just in case you are wondering," he put in at the slightly frightened looks the girls were giving him. The boys however were excited about being taught buy a convicted murder, "now I don't know who all of you are so when I call you name stand up and tell me something about you." It had some how leaked out that the three new Professors were huge pranksters in their Hogwarts days, and most of the boys ended up telling him about the pranks they had pulled. Sirius would laugh about the ones on the Slytherins and about Snape in a dress from third year. He wondered why Remus had never told him about that. It was shown to the students early that Remus Sirius and "Arabella" didn't like Snape at all, and he positively loathed them. When they had finished with that Sirius spoke again.
"This year we are going to be learning about various mythological creatures and their magical properties. If you'll look over here we have some winged horses. They are very good-natured yet very difficult to tame, they may let you pet them, but they will very rarely allow a person to ride them. Does anyone know of the last person to successfully tame a winged horse?" Sirius asked. Hermione's hand immediately shot up, knocking over Ron. Sirius laughed.
"I'll take that as a yes, Hermione, enlighten us." Sirius said laughing.
"the last person to tame a winged horse was Hercules, a wizard believed by many muggles to be a god. He had a horse named Pegasus."
"correct, five points to Gryffindor." Sirius said smiling.
The rest of the lesson went very well. Harry was happy that the class liked Sirius so much. Many had left talking about how cool he was. Harry managed to tell Sirius congratulations on doing so well with his first class before rushing off to history of magic to be bored to death. Thankfully they had ended goblin rebellions, and had started learning about the beginning of the ministry of magic. Ron didn't seem to like this subject very much. Harry decided that Ron probably knew a lot about the ministry because his dad and brother worked there. They hurried to the great hall, as they were all hungry. Harry sat down next to Ginny.
"how were your first classes, gin.?" Harry asked her.
"fine, Sirius is a great teacher I have him right after you, and I'm glad because I have arithmancy before that and professor vector gave us a load of work and it put me into a not-so-good mood."
"oh, well I hope my crazy godfather cheered you up." Ginny nodded. Harry smiled and turned to listen to Ron and Hermione who were arguing about something pointless, when professor Dumbledore stood.
"I'm sure you know that Quidditch will be played this year, but practices will be held no later than 6 o' clock. I know that three teams need new players so tryouts will be held next week, on Monday for the Gryffindors and Tuesday for the Slytherins and Wednesday for Hufflepuffs. If you have any questions contact your head of house." Dumbledore sat down.
After eating Ron and Harry left Hermione at arithmancy and headed up to divination. It seemed that professor Trelawny lived to predict Harry's death. She managed to predict in the first thirty seconds of the class. Harry walked in the room and tripped over his shoe and professor Trelawny rushed over to him.
"oh young one, it is sad to say, but… one who falls upon entering a room, will be the first to die." She said. Harry felt that she had made this up but decided not to ask her about it. He spent the rest of the class suppressing his almost uncontrollable laughter at the task they had been set. They were once again crystal ball gazing and as usual couldn't see a thing; Ron preferred to think that they were just very good at predicting when fog would come. Harry was very glad to leave. He had been looking forward to potions with "Arabella". He found Hermione waiting by the front stairs and started down with her.
"so Harry, is are you excited? I hope Cindy, I mean Arabella's class is as good as Sirius's." Hermione said.
"yeah so do I, cuz if it isn't I'll be in the middle of their bickering for days. You know, they are a lot like you and Ron." Harry said. Hermione hit Harry jokingly on the shoulder. Ron just shook his head. They arrived in the potions classroom and took seats in the front row. Harry smiled. This was the first time he had ever purposefully sat in the front in potions. Harry sat down and saw Cindy coming out of her office. She ran over to him and ruffled his hair.
"hey!" he said to her, "it takes me forever to get it that tame now you messed it up!"
"har har. Like you really try to comb you hair. Know introduce me to your friends." She said smiling at Ron and Hermione.
"oh! This is Ron, and this is Hermione," Harry said gesturing appropriately. Cindy nodded.
" I have heard so much about you to, from Harry Sirius and Remus, I guess I'm the last to meet you two." She looked over at Harry. "where's Ginny? is she not in your year?" she asked Harry. Harry shook his head.
"she's a fourth year, she's in muggle studies now." Cindy nodded. she ruffled Harry's hair one last time before walking back to her desk to start class.
"hello, I am professor Figg I will be your potions teacher until Snape (she said the word like it was a swear word) sees fit to return." The Gryffindors were looking happy, but the Slytherins were looking at her in disgust, strangely she smiled at that, " I am going to teach you about truth potions this year." she went on to tell them about truth potions and gave them a ten-inch essay. Harry thought that she was a lot like Mc Gonnagal in class, but out of class she was carefree and joking. After everyone left class he Ron and Hermione stayed behind.
"you gave us homework on our first night!" Ron said.
"Ron!" Hermione hissed, "That was rude." Cindy smiled.
"well that is the way I run my class Ron." She said Ron shook his head.
"you'll have to excuse my sorry excuse for a friend from the way he is acting." Harry said.
"hey!"
"no I like this one, he reminds me of Sirius." Cindy said laughing," you two go down to dinner I want to talk to Harry for a sec." Hermione dragged Ron out and left Harry alone with Cindy. "ok Harry I have your order ring to give you." She pulled a ring out of her pocket and slipped it on Harry's finger. "see test it out on me." Cindy held out her and Harry shook it, his ring glowed green.
"cool!"
"yup now go on to dinner, I bet Ron and thermion want to know what this was all about." Harry nodded and ran off. He found Ron and Hermione waiting outside the hall, Ginny was standing next to them. Harry gave her a hug and smiled at her. There it was again ,that feeling, he didn't know what is was, but it was there and stronger than ever.
"so Harry what did she want?" Ron asked him as they walked into the great hall.
"huh? Oh she wanted to give me my order ring, look." Harry showed them the ring she had given him. "look I want to try it on you guys." Harry sat down at the Gryffindor table next to Ginny and Ron and Hermione on Ron's other side.
"well how does it work?" Ron asked. Harry slipped the ring around his finger.
"if I shake your hand or come in contact with you it turns a certain color depending on what you are to me." Harry answered him. "here…" Harry held out his hand and Ron shrugged and took it. The ring glowed a deep blue. Harry smiled, this was good.
"see, that means you are a loyal and true friend!" Harry exclaimed. Ron smiled.
"really! Cool! Yup that's me!"
"hey I want to try it!" Hermione cut in, "here Harry." She walked over and gave him a hug. The ring glowed the same blue as it had with Ron. Hermione looked thoroughly please. She turned to Ron and gave him an "I'm still better than you" look before turning back to Harry.
"so you and Ginny try it! I want to see what happens." Hermione said.
"ok, come here gin." Harry walked over and gave her a hug. But the ring didn't glow blue like it had with Ron and Hermione. Instead it glowed red. Harry gasped, and Ron and Hermione looked over at him. He pulled away from Ginny.
"huh? Hey what's wrong, what color was the ring, did I do something bad?" Ginny said frantically. She was very worried about Harry's reaction. "Hermione Ron, what color was the ring, Harry?"
"red, the ring was red, but I don't know what it means." Hermione said worriedly. Harry was still staring at his ring he pulled it off his finger and examined it closely hoping nothing was wrong with it. It was a little hard to think that the person that they need was right in front of them the whole time. He shoved the ring in his pocket and turned to Ginny.
"gin, come with me." with that he dragged a very confused Ginny away from the Gryffindor table up to where Sirius was sitting at the high table. He knew it was not the best thing to do, rushing up there in the middle of dinner, for the second time in two days too, but he felt that this couldn't wait. Harry ran over to Sirius and Remus.
"Sir, Rem…"
"it is Proffesors Lupin and Black right now Harry." They corrected.
"not now guys, we need to talk, now! Trust mew this is important and I have questions and I need answers, come on!" they nodded.
"we'll come with, but this better not be a prank paws cuz if it is, you're in for it, let's go." Sirius said. Remus followed. Harry turned around, they would probably need Cindy too.
"professor Figg," Harry said, "you need to come too."
"alright, lets go." So they left. Harry dragging a now frightened Ginny out of the great hall, followed by three very confused Proffesors. To make things worse, they now had the attention of the entire hall. Once they got out of the great hall Harry led them up to Sirius's office. They all sat down still confused. Harry really didn't know how to start, thankfully, Sirius spoke up.
"Harry what did you drag us out here for?" Harry looked directly at him.
"you told me I had to come to you immediately, and well, I found her."
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