The Tales of Hogwarts

Harry Potter VI

It was good to be back in the burrow, even though Ginny was lay in bed ill. Harry sat on the large comfy sofa and yawned. It had been a long night, what with a trip to Mungos and then to the ministry of magic to pick up Percy.

"So what this Neville told us about you finding a piece of paper then ?" Ron asked from the other side of the table. The rest of the family were asleep, apart from Mrs Weasly who was tending to Ginny, and now only Hermione, Ron and Harry himself were still awake.

"Dobby had it, Neville says it looks like a resurrection spell." And before the words could finish coming out of his mouth Hermione jumped in.

"Do you have it with you ?" She questioned. Harry pulled the sheet of parchment from his pocket. He had kept it with him ever since he had found it.

"Yeah," He said and at that Hermione was abandoning her game of Wizards chess with Ron and had taken the paper from Harry's hand.

"This -is- a resurrection spell, but why would Dobby have it with him." Hermione said.

"Maybe he found it ?" Ron questioned.

"That's true," Hermione answered, "But who dropped it ?"

***

Harry was very alarmed to find that on arrival back from the burrow that they only had two weeks until there NEWT exams. Harry stared down at the time table given to him as he arrived and saw that his first exam would be Transfiguration, something that they hadn't had much time to study. He then had Charms and finally Defence against the dark arts.

"This is terrible !" Hermione said as she read on the other side of the Griffindor table, "I've got Muggle studies first and then Charms and then Defence against the dark arts and then potions, and it's all in the space of two weeks."

Harry noticed that it wasn't just he and Hermione that were panicking. Although Ron kept a cool head about the matter many of the other 6th years didn't seem to be taking it at all well.

In Harry's first lesson, Charms, three of the Griffindor girl burst into tears halfway through and as there was no teacher they left crying and (according to Dean Thomus) cried all the way until lunch time.

And then again in Transfiguration, everyone walked round demanding that people tell them things and then when they didn't get an answer, stormed off.

"The next few weeks are going to be hell, "Lavender told Harry as the left Transfiguration, Harry noticed the look she was giving him and answered quickly.

"Sure looks that way."