HP & Knight of The Light
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Harry Potter, but I do own some of my made up character.
Thanks to all my reviewers.
The Announcement
The Hogwart's Express slowed down with a loud annoying screeching noise. Eventually the train stopped at the station where horse-less carriages awaited the 2nd year and above to be ridden to Hogwarts, but to the new 1st years they had to ride a boat across Hogwart's lake to arrive at Hogwarts.
Harry and the most of the prefects exited the cartridge in a group and exited the train with the rest of the crowd of students. He didn't even bother to search for his red-headed "friend" instead he caught up with Malfoy and entered a carriage with him. There were two other students one a male with pale blond hair who he didn't know and the other a female with dark brown hair, he also didn't know who this was. The horse-less ride to Hogwarts was dull, all was silent no one even tried to strike up a conversation.
When the carriage stopped the doors opened on their own. Harry and the rest of the carriage riders got out the others walked up the steps to the entrance of the grand castle, but Harry just enjoyed the site of the castle. Harry was still amazed after 4 years of being at Hogwarts the magnificence of the castle after dark. Of course Harry couldn't get a great view for being so close to the castle itself, but it still looked fantastic.
Hogwarts castle stood well over well over 10 stories tall(Hey I don't know the real height and if this seems exasgerated to you then make up your own height and leave it from there) and had many towers the branched off from the main structure. The castle was now surrounded by darkness and would almost perfectly blend into the backround if it weren't for the bright lights that were lit up all the windows from inside. The castle was like the medevial time castle and made of stone. It was very intimidating to look at.
Harry passed by the gigantic entrance that when closed held a enormous double wooden door. With the rest of the majority of the students, Harry led himself to the Great Hall passing another set of gigantic doors and seated himself by the very end of the Gryffindor table nearest to the staff's table. The rest of the seats around Harry was quickly taken up by the hungry students that were excitedly chatting with theirs friends catching up on lost time. 10 minutes after Harry arrived, the door of the Great Hall closed, waiting to be opened in dramatic fashion done every year for the new students.
20 minutes later after the doors of the Great Hall were closed it was once again opened. Through the door walked Deputy Headmistress and Transfiguration teacher, Minerva Mcgonnagol, leading in tow of about 100 nervous first years. When she stopped the students she walked up to stand in front of the staff's table and by the stool that seated the sorting hat. When she reached her destination the sorting hat began to sing.
b Ah hell I tried to make a rhyme crap but I just can't so you'll just have to do without it. I swear that J.K. Rowling probably spends an hour a day just trying to make up the stupid rhymes of the crap hat. Mumble, mumble. /b
After the song was finished all four houses plus the staff clapped politely. Mcgonnagol then gave her instruction on how she was going to call out their names and that they were supposed to come up.
Skip all the names
The last ones to be sorted was a male Jack Zolimo as a Slytherin. There were about 35 students that went into Gryffindor this year, close to 30 went in Ravenclaw, another 30 went in Hufflepuff, and only 10 went into Slytherin. Harry felt that this was bad for Slytherin, Harry believed that because of the little number of Slytherin that they would be picked on by Gryffindor. After the sorting ceremony Dumbledore stood for his usual speech.
"Welcome newcomers and returning students of Hogwarts. First let me say that the Forbidden Forest is once again forbidden. Do not enter the forest under any cause unless accompanied by a teacher. The forest is a dangerous place now even more since the dark times have aroused. Remember that Lord Voldemort," gasps arouse from the crowd, "has rose once again." Stated Dumbledore. "Know that dark times are upon us, therefore no students shall remain outside by 9 pm any caught outside shall receive punishment. The student may even face suspension. Alas on lighter note Quidditch has resumed," many including Harry cheered, "and Gryffindor shall have to defend their cup I believe," Dumbledore looked at the Gryffindor side with a twinkle amidst the Slytherins' 'boos,' "Let us welcome the new teachers then start to hand out the badges. Please welcome returning Triwizard challenger, Ms. Fleur Delacour as your new Defense Against Dark Arts professor." Their were many cheers coming mainly from the male population of the students with very few coming from the females, obviously brewing in their jealousy, following the pale blonds path.
Fleur Delacour was part Veela, a female race amongst the Magical World that was incredibly beautiful, but when angered they transformed into fierce half human half bird creature that was ale to shoot fire. Whether a quarter Veela had the same ability to transform was unknown, but it was clear that the beauty of a Veela shown through even though more then half of her blood was human.
"The other new," started off Dumbledore after the cheers subsided, "professor shall take over Potions, for Prof. Snape has family matters to take over-" Cheers arouse from almost all the houses except from Slytherin. It was well known that Prof. Snape was not well liked among all except the Slytherins who he favored. Harry was the only Gryffindor to not cheer for he knew what Snape was doing, and Harry sure felt sorry for Snape. So he didn't think cheering him to a task where his life is at stake was appropriate. For Snape was spying for Dumbledore using a polyjuice potion to pose as one of Voldemort's followers. Who he was posing as not even Harry knew. Dumbledore eventually brought up loud and right sparks from his wand clearly thinking the same thing as Harry. "The new professor taking Prof. Snape's place will be Mudungus Fletcher." Polite clapping followed his entrance.
He was about 5 '11 and had a broad shoulder. He had pale blond hair that camouflaged his specks of white hair well, and his eyes were dark blue. Not many knew of him at Hogwarts, but Harry knew him well enough for he was one of Harry's trainers. The 2nd trainer was Arabella Figgs the lady who posed as the old lady that was the Dursley's neighbor by polyjuice for nearly 14 years.
The 3rd of his trainers was Leon Delth. He was 45 and had a job as a bounty hunter. He captured many death eaters and had a high price on his head by the dark lord. His job was exciting and very profitable in the past, and usually wouldn't be hired to train a kid. But ever since the dark lord fell a decade and a half ago, most of the death eaters were captured by aurors, rarely getting him hired to capture any death eaters. He was still good at what he did, knowing how to track down people, namely deatheaters, through detective work and knew a lot of tricks of the trade but he was a bit rusty. The last of the three was Craig Spencer. He was originally from America, but transferred to England 5 years before Voldemort's previous demise, and stayed at England after that keeping his occupation as an Auror, Wizard Law Enforcer.
Harry did not too enthusiastically clap for his former trainer. To be precise he was more grumbling about how the potions class was gonna be. Harry did however show his respect by clapping up till when Fletcher went up to the staff's table and was seated. After that Dumbledore's last two announcements were made.
"Well now that the new teachers are filled in I would like to introduce a new optional class, it shall be a dueling class, and the class will be hosted by me." Dumbledore emphasized this by waving his arm to himself amongst the murmuring. "Now the class starts next month at a date yet to be chosen. The last announcement to be made is the presentations of our new prefects, quidditch captian and Headboy and Headgirl. I shall call out their name and they shall arise and walk up to Prof. Mcgonnagol for their rightful badges."
"For the prefect badges given to the new prefects of Slytherin," stated Dumbledore, "Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinsaw of the 5th year, Kevin Spade and Padma Patil for 5th year Ravenclaw, Jonas Denom and Jewels Huprey for the 5th year Hufflepuff, and Harry Potter and Hermione Granger for the 5th year Gryffindor."
All the rightful candidates rose from their rightful seat except Harry. It seemed Hermione was at the far end of the Gryffindor table and Harry waited until she walked by him till he got up. (Quite the guy for dramatics isn't he.) He saw Draco smirk at his antics, and heard many people start staring at him exchanging gossips to each other on his change. It was amazing how the once enemies were only friendly rivals. If it weren't for Draco staying over Hogwarts at summer Harry would have never reached this agreement from Malfoy.
Flashback
Over the last few days of summer when Harry was at Hogwarts training with Mcgonnagol, Draco Malfoy seemed to have found out about Animagus lessons. He bursted into Mcgonnagol's class and demanded that he be put up for training to. It seems that he already read up all the books upon the Animagus theory that Harry had to read at the beginning of Harry's training so Draco in that sense wasn't too far behind. Draco's form when later tested was a Hungarian Horntail. This was a relief to Mcgonnagol since training two of the nearly same Animagus was much more easier then training different ones. After two lessons Harry and Draco seemed to reach an unsaid agreement to at least be civil to let the time fly by sense neither actually liked being around each others presence but had to.
As the time passed Harry tried to strike up a conversation with Draco at lunchtime because he was bored, his first attempt was met with a snide remark, then after he tried and tried some more Harry got Draco to laugh a little. They traded laughing remarks about each other and their friends. As long as Draco didn't say "mudblood," an extremely offensive word to a witch or a wizard having a muggle parent, Harry didn't seem to mind some of the remarks. Harry learned to cool his temper down too, with Draco he learned that having a cool and uncaring poker face showed more strength then showing your temper. He learned that even though Draco seemed cruel in some cases, it didn't mean he wanted to support the ultimate evil. That was why he refused to join Voldemort. By the end of summer Harry got along with Draco pretty well, but they agreed to keep up appearances in front of most people excluding Harry's closest friends.
Harry was brought out of thought, by the filling of cold metal in his hand. He looked up to see Mcgonnagol's proud face, and looked down into his hand to see a Hogwart's coat-of-arm like metallic object with a large P in the middle. It was a prefect's badge, he recognized from Percy, a former prefect from the Weasley's, shining his badge over and over again. Harry then walked back to his seat, which wasn't a far walk indeed and sat down. Next Dumbledore called up the Quidditch captains.
"Next we shall announce the new Quidditch captains this year. Now there is no badge for this title but we ask you to stand when we call your name please. For Slytherin 6th year Mr. Fense Preile shall be taking the graduated captains place, for Ravenclaw, the new captain due to the former captains resignation Mr. Polse Henrick of the 6th year, for Hufflepuff, due to unfortunate circumstances, the new Quidditch captain is 5th year Erica Stevens," Dumbledore said this with much more grief because of the remembrance of Cedric Diggory's death the former Hufflepuff's captian, "And lastly for Gryffindor because of the former captains graduation 7th year Angela Johnson!"
The rightful people stood bowed to their own houses. They got pats on the backs and congrat's from many. When the captains were seated, Dumbledore called out the names for the Headboy and the Headgirl.
"For the Headboy, is Ravenclaw's own Roger Williams! Also for the Headgirl position is Gryffindor's Alicia Spinnet!"
Cheers arouse from both houses following their Headboy or Headgirl's walk up to the staff's table. The other houses politely clapped for the other house. The cheers didn't stop until Alicia and Roger got their badges and sat back down.
"And finally for our feast my last word is! I am sorry Mr. Weasley for the delay!" This was said to Ron who all throughout the feast presumably was mourning and complaining about the wait. Laughs arouse from the tables and Ron turned red and tucked his head in shame. With those words a massive feast appeared in front of Hogwarts students. Harry like many others grabbed food from the middle of the table and started consuming his food. Occasionally Harry heard "How did Harry Potter change so much" and the usual but he ignored it. By the time Dumbledore called for silence once again, Harry was stuffed full. The foods or whatever was left of it disappeared from the plates leaving the table clean.
"Will the prefects lead the first years up to their common room and lead them up to their dorm." Stated Dumbledore.
Harry stood up and stated "Will all the 1st year boys follow me. Don't delay it's a long climb up the stairs and I know you want to be on your way." He led his group to the common room, frequently giving advises such as, "Watch out for the trick steps you can get stuck in it for quite some time unless your strong enough to pull yourself out or have help." Also "Watch out for our school's poltergeist he is a tricky one he is, don't listen to any advise he gives you if your lost, he'll probably make it worse. If you are lost try to ask a painting for the direction." With the usual "If you need help in anything from finding directions, playing pranks on teachers, or if your just need someone to talk to I'm here. I might be busy with Quidditch practice or other things, but try and ask. Also my last advice, the Gryffindor is known for their rivalry with the Slytherin's, but if you argue or group up against a Slytherin and I find it as your at fault, I will take away points and maybe even give detention. I do not tolerate on picking on others, pranks I allow," Harry added with a smirk causing a few nervous laughs, " but I do allow self-defense, any questions?" The 1st years asked him all sorts of question from "How tall are you?" to "Is Snape really the teacher who doesn't wash his hair?" By the time the group reached the common room Harry became somewhat like a role model or a big brother to the 1st year boys.
Harry led them in front of the two stairways and said, "The left is the stairways for the boys, and the right is for the girls, now you are to only go to the BOYS staircase. Unless one of you is a girl in disguise as a boy you may not ever enter the girls staircase. If I find you I will resort to punishment unless it is not your fault at hand. I don't know how that's possible but hey it could happen. Also if I don't catch you, chances are the girls will and may God help you if they do. I don't know what they'll do you since I never had the blessings of going up there myself. Now follow me." Harry said with a laugh.
Harry led the boys up their dorm and explained, "This will be your dorm for the rest of the year and most likely for the rest of your stay at Hogwarts. Find your bed, but choose wisely because you will keep that bed for good. Unless your roommates agree to switch that is. Now good luck at have a nice sleep."
With that Harry walked down the staircases and into the common room. He entered and sat down on the chair by the fire without even noticing anyone else in the room. He sighed loudly. That was exhausting.
"Tired Harry?" a voice called out.
Harry jumped at looked around the common room he noticed that Alicia Spinnet the new Headgirl was there along with Hermione. Harry realized it was Hermione who called out.
"Yeah I guess." he replied back. He added, "What are you two doing down here?"
"Nothing really why are you?"
"No reason" Harry lied. Truth was Harry didn't want to see that weasel of a friend of his, and he was bitter now that he remembered that jealous ass. He was brewing in anger at the thought that he was friends with him and thinking what to do about his friendship that he had with the weasel.
"Your getting better at lying Harry but your still not good enough to fool your friend for 4 years Harry." Remarked Hermione.
"Well then lets just say it's something personal and that I don't want to talk about it Hermione" Harry replied back a bit annoyed at her nosiness.
"Oh okay, I'm sorry but I'm here if you want to talk." Hermione replied back sounding a bit hurt while heading to the girl's staircase.
Harry didn't want Hermione to feel hurt yet he thought it would be better she just left out of her business so he let her just leave. When Hermione was gone for more then a minute he asked, "How about you Alicia what's your reason."
Alicia was more or less surprised by Harry's response but felt that if it was a personal matter and that she shouldn't interfere, "I just wanted to sit in the common room in peace why is that a problem?" she replied sharply as if daring him to say it is.
"No it's not, you want your peace I want mine, so lets keep it." With that Harry and Alicia stopped their talk completely. Alicia, even though she stopped the conversation with Harry, still had her thoughts on Harry. She wondered what made him change so much, not just the physical change but his sudden hint of coldness towards his best friend. The cute little 4th year she saw last year was so different from this year's Harry. An hour later by 11 o'clock Alicia decided to turn in. She sat up and walked to the staircases and stopped.
"Oh yeah, congrats' Harry on being a prefect and goodnight." She didn't hear any response and thought that he might be ignoring her and walked up hurt into her room, washed up, and slept. In reality though Harry was not ignoring her, he was already long asleep by the time Alicia said her last remark.
I think I'm gonna make the shipping a H/Al sorry for those who hate it. I can still make this a H/Hr but I go for the rare ships that have do with Harry, like H/Al or H/Fl.
Also on where Harry trained it's a secret, the location will serve no purpose so I didn't add it, but if it's so important lets just say somewhere in the wilderness of Canada.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything from Harry Potter, but I do own some of my made up character.
Thanks to all my reviewers.
The Announcement
The Hogwart's Express slowed down with a loud annoying screeching noise. Eventually the train stopped at the station where horse-less carriages awaited the 2nd year and above to be ridden to Hogwarts, but to the new 1st years they had to ride a boat across Hogwart's lake to arrive at Hogwarts.
Harry and the most of the prefects exited the cartridge in a group and exited the train with the rest of the crowd of students. He didn't even bother to search for his red-headed "friend" instead he caught up with Malfoy and entered a carriage with him. There were two other students one a male with pale blond hair who he didn't know and the other a female with dark brown hair, he also didn't know who this was. The horse-less ride to Hogwarts was dull, all was silent no one even tried to strike up a conversation.
When the carriage stopped the doors opened on their own. Harry and the rest of the carriage riders got out the others walked up the steps to the entrance of the grand castle, but Harry just enjoyed the site of the castle. Harry was still amazed after 4 years of being at Hogwarts the magnificence of the castle after dark. Of course Harry couldn't get a great view for being so close to the castle itself, but it still looked fantastic.
Hogwarts castle stood well over well over 10 stories tall(Hey I don't know the real height and if this seems exasgerated to you then make up your own height and leave it from there) and had many towers the branched off from the main structure. The castle was now surrounded by darkness and would almost perfectly blend into the backround if it weren't for the bright lights that were lit up all the windows from inside. The castle was like the medevial time castle and made of stone. It was very intimidating to look at.
Harry passed by the gigantic entrance that when closed held a enormous double wooden door. With the rest of the majority of the students, Harry led himself to the Great Hall passing another set of gigantic doors and seated himself by the very end of the Gryffindor table nearest to the staff's table. The rest of the seats around Harry was quickly taken up by the hungry students that were excitedly chatting with theirs friends catching up on lost time. 10 minutes after Harry arrived, the door of the Great Hall closed, waiting to be opened in dramatic fashion done every year for the new students.
20 minutes later after the doors of the Great Hall were closed it was once again opened. Through the door walked Deputy Headmistress and Transfiguration teacher, Minerva Mcgonnagol, leading in tow of about 100 nervous first years. When she stopped the students she walked up to stand in front of the staff's table and by the stool that seated the sorting hat. When she reached her destination the sorting hat began to sing.
b Ah hell I tried to make a rhyme crap but I just can't so you'll just have to do without it. I swear that J.K. Rowling probably spends an hour a day just trying to make up the stupid rhymes of the crap hat. Mumble, mumble. /b
After the song was finished all four houses plus the staff clapped politely. Mcgonnagol then gave her instruction on how she was going to call out their names and that they were supposed to come up.
Skip all the names
The last ones to be sorted was a male Jack Zolimo as a Slytherin. There were about 35 students that went into Gryffindor this year, close to 30 went in Ravenclaw, another 30 went in Hufflepuff, and only 10 went into Slytherin. Harry felt that this was bad for Slytherin, Harry believed that because of the little number of Slytherin that they would be picked on by Gryffindor. After the sorting ceremony Dumbledore stood for his usual speech.
"Welcome newcomers and returning students of Hogwarts. First let me say that the Forbidden Forest is once again forbidden. Do not enter the forest under any cause unless accompanied by a teacher. The forest is a dangerous place now even more since the dark times have aroused. Remember that Lord Voldemort," gasps arouse from the crowd, "has rose once again." Stated Dumbledore. "Know that dark times are upon us, therefore no students shall remain outside by 9 pm any caught outside shall receive punishment. The student may even face suspension. Alas on lighter note Quidditch has resumed," many including Harry cheered, "and Gryffindor shall have to defend their cup I believe," Dumbledore looked at the Gryffindor side with a twinkle amidst the Slytherins' 'boos,' "Let us welcome the new teachers then start to hand out the badges. Please welcome returning Triwizard challenger, Ms. Fleur Delacour as your new Defense Against Dark Arts professor." Their were many cheers coming mainly from the male population of the students with very few coming from the females, obviously brewing in their jealousy, following the pale blonds path.
Fleur Delacour was part Veela, a female race amongst the Magical World that was incredibly beautiful, but when angered they transformed into fierce half human half bird creature that was ale to shoot fire. Whether a quarter Veela had the same ability to transform was unknown, but it was clear that the beauty of a Veela shown through even though more then half of her blood was human.
"The other new," started off Dumbledore after the cheers subsided, "professor shall take over Potions, for Prof. Snape has family matters to take over-" Cheers arouse from almost all the houses except from Slytherin. It was well known that Prof. Snape was not well liked among all except the Slytherins who he favored. Harry was the only Gryffindor to not cheer for he knew what Snape was doing, and Harry sure felt sorry for Snape. So he didn't think cheering him to a task where his life is at stake was appropriate. For Snape was spying for Dumbledore using a polyjuice potion to pose as one of Voldemort's followers. Who he was posing as not even Harry knew. Dumbledore eventually brought up loud and right sparks from his wand clearly thinking the same thing as Harry. "The new professor taking Prof. Snape's place will be Mudungus Fletcher." Polite clapping followed his entrance.
He was about 5 '11 and had a broad shoulder. He had pale blond hair that camouflaged his specks of white hair well, and his eyes were dark blue. Not many knew of him at Hogwarts, but Harry knew him well enough for he was one of Harry's trainers. The 2nd trainer was Arabella Figgs the lady who posed as the old lady that was the Dursley's neighbor by polyjuice for nearly 14 years.
The 3rd of his trainers was Leon Delth. He was 45 and had a job as a bounty hunter. He captured many death eaters and had a high price on his head by the dark lord. His job was exciting and very profitable in the past, and usually wouldn't be hired to train a kid. But ever since the dark lord fell a decade and a half ago, most of the death eaters were captured by aurors, rarely getting him hired to capture any death eaters. He was still good at what he did, knowing how to track down people, namely deatheaters, through detective work and knew a lot of tricks of the trade but he was a bit rusty. The last of the three was Craig Spencer. He was originally from America, but transferred to England 5 years before Voldemort's previous demise, and stayed at England after that keeping his occupation as an Auror, Wizard Law Enforcer.
Harry did not too enthusiastically clap for his former trainer. To be precise he was more grumbling about how the potions class was gonna be. Harry did however show his respect by clapping up till when Fletcher went up to the staff's table and was seated. After that Dumbledore's last two announcements were made.
"Well now that the new teachers are filled in I would like to introduce a new optional class, it shall be a dueling class, and the class will be hosted by me." Dumbledore emphasized this by waving his arm to himself amongst the murmuring. "Now the class starts next month at a date yet to be chosen. The last announcement to be made is the presentations of our new prefects, quidditch captian and Headboy and Headgirl. I shall call out their name and they shall arise and walk up to Prof. Mcgonnagol for their rightful badges."
"For the prefect badges given to the new prefects of Slytherin," stated Dumbledore, "Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinsaw of the 5th year, Kevin Spade and Padma Patil for 5th year Ravenclaw, Jonas Denom and Jewels Huprey for the 5th year Hufflepuff, and Harry Potter and Hermione Granger for the 5th year Gryffindor."
All the rightful candidates rose from their rightful seat except Harry. It seemed Hermione was at the far end of the Gryffindor table and Harry waited until she walked by him till he got up. (Quite the guy for dramatics isn't he.) He saw Draco smirk at his antics, and heard many people start staring at him exchanging gossips to each other on his change. It was amazing how the once enemies were only friendly rivals. If it weren't for Draco staying over Hogwarts at summer Harry would have never reached this agreement from Malfoy.
Flashback
Over the last few days of summer when Harry was at Hogwarts training with Mcgonnagol, Draco Malfoy seemed to have found out about Animagus lessons. He bursted into Mcgonnagol's class and demanded that he be put up for training to. It seems that he already read up all the books upon the Animagus theory that Harry had to read at the beginning of Harry's training so Draco in that sense wasn't too far behind. Draco's form when later tested was a Hungarian Horntail. This was a relief to Mcgonnagol since training two of the nearly same Animagus was much more easier then training different ones. After two lessons Harry and Draco seemed to reach an unsaid agreement to at least be civil to let the time fly by sense neither actually liked being around each others presence but had to.
As the time passed Harry tried to strike up a conversation with Draco at lunchtime because he was bored, his first attempt was met with a snide remark, then after he tried and tried some more Harry got Draco to laugh a little. They traded laughing remarks about each other and their friends. As long as Draco didn't say "mudblood," an extremely offensive word to a witch or a wizard having a muggle parent, Harry didn't seem to mind some of the remarks. Harry learned to cool his temper down too, with Draco he learned that having a cool and uncaring poker face showed more strength then showing your temper. He learned that even though Draco seemed cruel in some cases, it didn't mean he wanted to support the ultimate evil. That was why he refused to join Voldemort. By the end of summer Harry got along with Draco pretty well, but they agreed to keep up appearances in front of most people excluding Harry's closest friends.
Harry was brought out of thought, by the filling of cold metal in his hand. He looked up to see Mcgonnagol's proud face, and looked down into his hand to see a Hogwart's coat-of-arm like metallic object with a large P in the middle. It was a prefect's badge, he recognized from Percy, a former prefect from the Weasley's, shining his badge over and over again. Harry then walked back to his seat, which wasn't a far walk indeed and sat down. Next Dumbledore called up the Quidditch captains.
"Next we shall announce the new Quidditch captains this year. Now there is no badge for this title but we ask you to stand when we call your name please. For Slytherin 6th year Mr. Fense Preile shall be taking the graduated captains place, for Ravenclaw, the new captain due to the former captains resignation Mr. Polse Henrick of the 6th year, for Hufflepuff, due to unfortunate circumstances, the new Quidditch captain is 5th year Erica Stevens," Dumbledore said this with much more grief because of the remembrance of Cedric Diggory's death the former Hufflepuff's captian, "And lastly for Gryffindor because of the former captains graduation 7th year Angela Johnson!"
The rightful people stood bowed to their own houses. They got pats on the backs and congrat's from many. When the captains were seated, Dumbledore called out the names for the Headboy and the Headgirl.
"For the Headboy, is Ravenclaw's own Roger Williams! Also for the Headgirl position is Gryffindor's Alicia Spinnet!"
Cheers arouse from both houses following their Headboy or Headgirl's walk up to the staff's table. The other houses politely clapped for the other house. The cheers didn't stop until Alicia and Roger got their badges and sat back down.
"And finally for our feast my last word is! I am sorry Mr. Weasley for the delay!" This was said to Ron who all throughout the feast presumably was mourning and complaining about the wait. Laughs arouse from the tables and Ron turned red and tucked his head in shame. With those words a massive feast appeared in front of Hogwarts students. Harry like many others grabbed food from the middle of the table and started consuming his food. Occasionally Harry heard "How did Harry Potter change so much" and the usual but he ignored it. By the time Dumbledore called for silence once again, Harry was stuffed full. The foods or whatever was left of it disappeared from the plates leaving the table clean.
"Will the prefects lead the first years up to their common room and lead them up to their dorm." Stated Dumbledore.
Harry stood up and stated "Will all the 1st year boys follow me. Don't delay it's a long climb up the stairs and I know you want to be on your way." He led his group to the common room, frequently giving advises such as, "Watch out for the trick steps you can get stuck in it for quite some time unless your strong enough to pull yourself out or have help." Also "Watch out for our school's poltergeist he is a tricky one he is, don't listen to any advise he gives you if your lost, he'll probably make it worse. If you are lost try to ask a painting for the direction." With the usual "If you need help in anything from finding directions, playing pranks on teachers, or if your just need someone to talk to I'm here. I might be busy with Quidditch practice or other things, but try and ask. Also my last advice, the Gryffindor is known for their rivalry with the Slytherin's, but if you argue or group up against a Slytherin and I find it as your at fault, I will take away points and maybe even give detention. I do not tolerate on picking on others, pranks I allow," Harry added with a smirk causing a few nervous laughs, " but I do allow self-defense, any questions?" The 1st years asked him all sorts of question from "How tall are you?" to "Is Snape really the teacher who doesn't wash his hair?" By the time the group reached the common room Harry became somewhat like a role model or a big brother to the 1st year boys.
Harry led them in front of the two stairways and said, "The left is the stairways for the boys, and the right is for the girls, now you are to only go to the BOYS staircase. Unless one of you is a girl in disguise as a boy you may not ever enter the girls staircase. If I find you I will resort to punishment unless it is not your fault at hand. I don't know how that's possible but hey it could happen. Also if I don't catch you, chances are the girls will and may God help you if they do. I don't know what they'll do you since I never had the blessings of going up there myself. Now follow me." Harry said with a laugh.
Harry led the boys up their dorm and explained, "This will be your dorm for the rest of the year and most likely for the rest of your stay at Hogwarts. Find your bed, but choose wisely because you will keep that bed for good. Unless your roommates agree to switch that is. Now good luck at have a nice sleep."
With that Harry walked down the staircases and into the common room. He entered and sat down on the chair by the fire without even noticing anyone else in the room. He sighed loudly. That was exhausting.
"Tired Harry?" a voice called out.
Harry jumped at looked around the common room he noticed that Alicia Spinnet the new Headgirl was there along with Hermione. Harry realized it was Hermione who called out.
"Yeah I guess." he replied back. He added, "What are you two doing down here?"
"Nothing really why are you?"
"No reason" Harry lied. Truth was Harry didn't want to see that weasel of a friend of his, and he was bitter now that he remembered that jealous ass. He was brewing in anger at the thought that he was friends with him and thinking what to do about his friendship that he had with the weasel.
"Your getting better at lying Harry but your still not good enough to fool your friend for 4 years Harry." Remarked Hermione.
"Well then lets just say it's something personal and that I don't want to talk about it Hermione" Harry replied back a bit annoyed at her nosiness.
"Oh okay, I'm sorry but I'm here if you want to talk." Hermione replied back sounding a bit hurt while heading to the girl's staircase.
Harry didn't want Hermione to feel hurt yet he thought it would be better she just left out of her business so he let her just leave. When Hermione was gone for more then a minute he asked, "How about you Alicia what's your reason."
Alicia was more or less surprised by Harry's response but felt that if it was a personal matter and that she shouldn't interfere, "I just wanted to sit in the common room in peace why is that a problem?" she replied sharply as if daring him to say it is.
"No it's not, you want your peace I want mine, so lets keep it." With that Harry and Alicia stopped their talk completely. Alicia, even though she stopped the conversation with Harry, still had her thoughts on Harry. She wondered what made him change so much, not just the physical change but his sudden hint of coldness towards his best friend. The cute little 4th year she saw last year was so different from this year's Harry. An hour later by 11 o'clock Alicia decided to turn in. She sat up and walked to the staircases and stopped.
"Oh yeah, congrats' Harry on being a prefect and goodnight." She didn't hear any response and thought that he might be ignoring her and walked up hurt into her room, washed up, and slept. In reality though Harry was not ignoring her, he was already long asleep by the time Alicia said her last remark.
I think I'm gonna make the shipping a H/Al sorry for those who hate it. I can still make this a H/Hr but I go for the rare ships that have do with Harry, like H/Al or H/Fl.
Also on where Harry trained it's a secret, the location will serve no purpose so I didn't add it, but if it's so important lets just say somewhere in the wilderness of Canada.