Chapter 2 THE START OF SCHOOL

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 A/N: Thanks for reviewing - I now have 5 reviews! So here is the second chapter.

hermionegreen: In answer to your question, this story is based after OotP although it might not seem like it for a while.

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Harry sat on the soft double bed in room 15 at the Leaky Cauldron looking through his books trying to find some spells that would be effective in a duel, so far he had found only two new ones, the WildFire Summon and LightningBolt Summon, and to be used had be summoned and then fired with the Strike, but had found many South American equivalents to what he had learned so far.

He decided to head out to the public owlery to find Hedwig and send a letter to the order to let him know where he was (he hadn't bothered letting anyone know where he was in case he got sent back to the Dursley's) and if they could take him to Kings Cross the next morning to catch the Hogwarts Express.

Hi,

I was wondering if I could get a ride to Kings Cross station tomorrow, I am at the Leaky Cauldron room #15.

Thanks Guys

Harry

Harry tied the letter to Hedwig's leg and said, "Take this to the Order okay?" Hedwig nipped him affectionately on the finger and flew off.

Harry then decided to the Quidditch Shop and get himself a new broom, as his Firebolt was one of the many things that the Dursley's burnt, as he entered the shop an assistant came over and asked him what he was after.

"I'm after a new broom, what have you got?" Harry told him.

"Oh, we just recently got a new model of broom called the Thunderbird, it is said to be even better than the firebolt!" The assistant told him excitedly. Harry walked over to look at it and gasped, it was the best broom he had ever seen.

It was dark and polished with long twigs at the back shaped very aerodynamically and on the side near the back it had Thunderbird engraved with the numbers 0001 below it.

"How much is it?" Harry asked.

"300 Galleons, it's on special as it's the first one." The assistant replied

"I'll take it!" Harry exclaimed as he handed over the coins from his magically shrunk wallet.

"This looks all in order Mister Potter" the assistant said handing over the shiny new broom.

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As Harry walked back into the Leaky Cauldron Tom came rushing over and handed him two letters, one with the Hogwarts crest and the other with Dumbledore's neat curly handwriting, "Thanks Tom" Harry called to him on way back to his room.

Harry opened the Hogwarts letter first and saw a little not with his book list reading:

Dear Harry,

I have lifted the Quidditch ban from you so you are now back on the team.

From Professor Dumbledore

"Yes!!!" Yelled Harry as he read the note, he could play Quidditch on the House Team with the new Thunderbird, nobody could possibly beat him now!

Harry quickly read through the booklist and decided to go buy his books and other stuff (cauldron, gloves, potion kit) after he had read the letter from the Order.

Dear Harry,

Next time if you're going to leave the Dursley's please let us know where you are, your friends thought you had been kidnapped or something!

Mad-Eye Moody and Tonks are going to give you a ride to the station. Kingsley Shacklebolt and Remus Lupin will accompany you on the train (for protection).

Enjoy the rest of your day.

The Order of the Phoenix

'Cool' thought Harry as he read the letter, Remus was going to be on the train again.

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The next morning at 10:00 AM Tom came and woke Harry up, saying that Tonks and Moody were out the front

"Thanks Tom" Harry said as he got up and quickly got changed into his robes, grabbed his trunk and Hedwig's cage and set off to meet Tonks and Moody and get to the station.

"Hi Harry! We're here to take you to the train" said Tonks, whose hair today was almost an exact replica of Harry's.

Moody just grunted hello and told Harry to follow him outside, once there Moody raised his wand up in the air and suddenly a huge triple-decker bus painted purple appeared.

"Hi and welcome to the-" The conductor was cut off as Moody glared at him and said "Kings Cross station" before leading Harry and Tonks to a few chairs near the back.

"We'll be there soon so just relax and enjoy the ride" Tonks said as the Knight Bus took off.

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When they reached the station they said their goodbyes as Remus and Kingsley came up and led him onto the platform and accompanied him to the back carriage where Ron and Hermione were waiting, and much to Harry's Luna Lovegood and Ginny were there also.

"Hi Guys, what you been up to?" Harry said as he sat down next to Hermione.

"Not much really, but Dad got a promotion in the ministry, much to Percy's annoyance, he is now head of the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts office and he just got Crouch's job." Ron said, scowling at Percy's name, he still hadn't forgiven him for what he did last year.

(A/N: I can't remember Crouch's job, someone please tell me in a review or whatever)

For the most of the train ride nothing much happened until when Malfoy and his Cronies showed up, but before he could utter a single word he was hit by several hexes.

"Tarantallegra!"

"Furnunculus!"

"Engorgio!" This was aimed at Malfoy's nose

"Rictusempra!"

"Serpente Aparece" Yelled Harry as a huge black snake came out his wand, "Wrap around his legs" Harry then said in Parseltongue.

Malfoy watched in horror as the snake wound around his legs and stared at Malfoy face to face before hissing at him and vanishing.

When Malfoy left everyone looked at Harry.

"What was that spell, I've never heard it before? Though it works the same as Serpensortia." Hermione said.

"It was a South American spell, they named their spells in Portuguese rather than Latin or English" Harry replied, while twirling his new wand, which Ron happened to notice.

 "Hey Harry, you have a new wand! What happened to your old one?"

"The Dursley's burnt it with all my other stuff, including my firebolt, but I got a new wand and broom, this new wand is very special according to Ollivander.  The new broom I got was a Thunderbird" Harry said as he got the broomstick out of the overhead compartment.

Ron's eyes boggled as he saw the new broom, Harry was pretty sure Ron would start drooling any second now so he put it back into the compartment and said, "So you like it?"

"Yes" said Ron, once he had snapped out of his almost trance-like state, "It is the best broom I've ever seen, can I have a ride when we get to school?"

"Sure" Ron looked ecstatic at the prospect of flying the new Thunderbird.

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When they arrived they Ron, Hermione and Harry took one carriage drawn by the Thestrals while Luna and Ginny went into a different one with a girl Harry had never seen before.

The trio entered the great hall and sat down near the front of the Gryffindor table to watch the sorting.

Professor McGonagall went through the list until in the end there were 4 new Gryffindors, 6 new Ravenclaws, 5 new Hufflepuffs and only 1 new Slytherin.

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A/N: That's the end of that chapter, I got six reviews for the fist one so thanks to EVERYONE who reviewed. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

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