Chapter Sixteen

The next morning, Draco managed to convince Harry to eat breakfast in the Great Hall. So when they had gotten through with their morning trek around the lake, Draco dragged Harry into the Great Hall.

The Great Hall was just more than half full when they walked through the door side by side. Harry forced himself not to look up at the teacher's table and blush as he walked to the Gryffindor table. Draco caught this and giggled slightly. He got a green eyed glare in return.

"I don't know how I let you talk me into this," Harry mumbled as Draco pushed him into his seat and then sat down beside him. "This is the Gryffindor table, you know."

"I don't care. Rather be with you Gryffindorks than over there with the Junior Death Eaters," Draco grinned at him, filling his plate. The Gryffindors around him glared. He just smiled sweetly at them. "So, you going back to classes today?"

"I don't know. What do we have?" Harry replied, grabbing a muffin from the middle of the table.

"Double C.o.M.C. and Double Divination this morning," was his answer. "Then Double Potions in the afternoon."

"Great. Slytherins all day long," Harry groaned. Draco glared his friend. "When's the next D.A.D.A. class?"

"Uh..." Draco racked his brain for a few moments before answering, "Thursday after Double Div."

"So tomorrow, then?" Harry grinned, amused that his friend didn't know what day it was.

"Oh, shut up. I memorised the timetables according to the day. That doesn't mean I should know what day it is," Draco stuck his tongue out childishly.

"Yes it does," Harry grinned, picking a blueberry from the top of his muffin.

"No...just shut up," Draco glared.

"Harry! You're back from the Hospital Wing," Ginny smiled as she and Neville sat down.

"Yeah," Harry bit into his muffin. Draco saw that this was the only thing that Harry'd planned on eating, so he started filling his friend's plate.

Ginny and Neville laughed when Harry glared at him.

"You're going to eat this if I have to force feed you myself," Draco threatened, reminding Harry of Molly Weasley. Apparently Ginny thought so too.

"You sound like mum."

As he and Hermione sat down, Ron agreed vehemently with his sister.

"Two and a half months and you're just like her," Ron shook his head at the blonde.

"Much rather be your mother than mine," Draco shrugged. "Mine's a bitch."

"I'm not arguing with that," Harry grinned, ignoring the food on his plate as he took another bite of his blueberry muffin.

"Well, that's not very nice," Seamus said as he reached over and grabbed a slice of toast from Harry's plate, seeing as he wasn't eating it. Dean elbowed him. "Ow, Dean!"

"Get your own food, you big Irish twat," Dean told his boyfriend.

"Big as in, how?" Draco leaned over towards Seamus and Dean and raised an eyebrow suggestively.

"Aw, Draco!" Hermione, Harry, and Ron groaned.

"What? I'm interested!" Draco smirked innocently.

"You perv," Hermione shook her head at the blonde boy.

"I'll tell you later, Draco," Seamus winked, earning a grin from the Slytherin.

"Over my dead body," Dean glared at his lover.

"Over your sexy body," Seamus grinned, flirting shamelessly with his boyfriend. Dean just rolled his eyes and again began eating.

"Aw, jeez! Not at the breakfast table," Ginny groaned. Seamus just flashed a grin at her.

***

Hagrid waved as the Quad walked towards his hut for class. "'Arry! Sorry I didn't come visit yeh in the 'Ospital Wing."

"That's okay, Hagrid. I was asleep most of the time," Harry smiled at the half-Giant.

"Well, I'm glad eh a'right," Hagrid scooped him up in a bear hug.

"Ergh...Thanks, Hagrid," Harry wheezed. He shot a glare at Draco as he snickered.

"So, Hagrid, what have you brought for class?" Hermione asked.

"That's a surprise," Hagrid's smile shown through his beard.

The four seventh years glanced nervously at each other as the other Gryffindor and Slytherin seventh years trudged over. They did not look happy to be there.

"Are yeh all 'ere?" Hagrid glanced around. "Come on then."

The students walked behind the C.o.M.C. professor to the pen behind his hut. The entire class gasped as they saw the creatures Hagrid had brought.

"Augurey!" Seamus exclaimed in delight.

"That's right," Hagrid smiled.

"Irish phoenixes," Draco breathed, staring at the bird.

"Wow, Hagrid," Hermione grinned.

The entire class was in awe. Even the Slytherins had nothing bad to say about Hagrid's new pets. Several of the birds started to trill.

"Come on, then. Les take 'em out of ther," Hagrid said, moving towards the greenish-black birds.

***

"That was prolly your best lesson yet, Hagrid!" Ron exclaimed as the Quad and Hagrid herded the Augurey into the pen.

"I love phoenixes," Harry said as Hagrid turn pink.

"The Headmaster asked me to teach about creatures that aren't likely to explode or bite," Hagrid looked at them sheepishly.

"So what are you planning for the next class, then?" Draco asked the half-Giant.

"I don't know yet. I'll hafta find somethin as intrestin as the Augurey," Hagrid told the blonde.

They all stopped talking as every one of the Augurey started crying in their warbled voices. Hermione looked up, the guys doing the same. For the first time since they'd been outside, they noticed the layer of clouds in the sky. Harry had to cover his ears as the birds got louder.

In the distance, lightning flashed and minutes later came the roll of thunder.

***

"Wow, it looks like we made it in just in time!" Draco pointed out the window as he, Ron, and Harry sat down in the Divination classroom.

"Dear god, I hope we're not reading entrails," Ron choked, directing the other two's attentions to the dead animals lying on each table.

"Ew, gross!" Harry exclaimed. Draco covered his mouth and gagged, almost to the point where he as throwing up.

"If you throw up on me, I'm going to hurt you," Ron warned the Slytherin boy.

"If he throws up on you, you'll throw up on me, and I'll throw up on him, and then he'll throw up on you…do you see the pattern?" Harry raised on eyebrow.

"At least this horrid perfume is covering the smell of the carcasses," Seamus pointed out as Dean gagged as well.

"I think I'd be better off without the perfume," Ron muttered as Trelawney 'floated' into the room.

"Good morning class," The Bat spoke. "Today we will be reading entrails of these animals."

She took one of the animals, a magically enhanced rat, and split it open with a knife. It's guts just barely kept inside as she lifted the 'flap' with a sickening squelch.

Draco threw up. It became a domino effect, and everyone ended up loosing his or her breakfast. Harry was grossed out to find the colour of blueberries in his.

Trelawney sighed, being the only unaffected one and said," This happens every time. Go on, get out then."

There was a mad rush to the trap door.

***

"That's disgusting!" Hermione exclaimed as the Quad sat down for lunch.

"I know! You should have been there," Ron exclaimed. "I only threw up because Blondie could keep his down."

"Oh, c'mon! And don't call me that!"

"Would you two shut it? I've got a headache," Harry groaned, rubbing his temples.

Everyone stopped talking as the Headmaster stood up.

"Now, I know I don't usually do Lunch announcements, but I have good reason. I would like to welcome Remus Lupin, who is returning as our D.A.D.A. teacher!"

The applause was tremendous as the werewolf stood. Gryffindor was by far the loudest, and Slytherin wasn't clapping at all. Albus held up his hands for silence.

"As the older students will remember, Professor Lupin is a werewolf. I assure you, he is completely harmless, as Professor Snape makes the Wolfsbane Potion for him. That will be all."

Food appeared on the tables, making some of the Gryffindor and Slytherin Divination students groan.

"That is why I am glad I don't take Divination," Hermione laughed as the three boys pushed the food away from themselves.

***

"You sure you're up to it?"

"Yeah. I'm going to go to his class," Harry answered his friend.

"Okay. Look, what do you want me to tell him? Do you want to meet him tonight, or later on?" Draco asked, walking backwards to keep facing the Boy-Who-Lived.

Harry sighed. "Tell him…tell him to give me until Friday night. I need a bit longer."

"'Kay. Friday night, then. Want me to tell him you miss him?" Draco teased.

"You're a ponce."

"Eh, not my fault," Draco shrugged.

"You are so weird. I'm going to start calling you Wendelin," Harry muttered.

"What?"

"I said, 'I'm going to start calling you Wendelin'," Harry answered.

"Why?" Draco asked.

"Because you're weird," Harry replied.

"Why am I weird?"

"I don't know. I guess you were born that way," Harry shrugged, turning the corner.

"If you ask me, I think you're the one that's weird," Draco shot back.

"Eh," Harry shrugged.

End Chapter Sixteen

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