Harry Potter and the Year of Life

By MiSt

Chapter 7: The Beginning of the Mailing

Harry quickly went and looked at them. They were from Hermione and Ron! He opened Ron's first.

Dear Harry,

Hey mate, how's it going? Did you get your O.W.L. results?! Mines were horrîblè! Seriously! And I got accepted, for like NO N.E.W.T. courses! I only got accepted for N.E.W.T.'s Charms, Herbology, DADA, and Tele Magic! My parents are so mad at me… but at least I did better than Fred and George! How did you do mate, I hope we got accepted into the same classes…

Hermione got so mad at me when she saw mine! Did you know, she got accepted for every N.E.W.T. course besides the other four optional N.E.W.T. courses- but she did get into N.E.W.T. Tele Magic! My dad said it was very hard to get accepted for any of the five optional N.E.W.T. courses! I'm really happy with getting accepted to N.E.W.T. Tele Magic! Hope you got accepted into it too!

And they're only making me taking up to 4 N.E.W.T. classes! Well, guess I only got four L and the rest non-N.E.W.T. classes… Hermione got accepted into 8 N.E.W.T. CLASSES! Dad said that was crazily good!

Anyway, Hermione and I are in a location where we can't tell you- so I guess we won't be able to see you! However meet us on August 15 at Diagon Alley!

Well, I gotta go, cya!

Ron

Harry felt a swell of pride in him when he read Ron's letter. So he was better than Ron, even though Ron did get prefect… but that was only because Dumbledore didn't put weight onto his shoulders! Harry felt a gloating pleasure over Ron's letter, but quickly suppressed it- after all, Ron was his best friend, and he didn't want to do what best friends shouldn't do.

He opened Hermione's letters next.

Dear Harry,

Hey Harry! I'm at Ron's house right now, we're in some place in northern England, I can't pinpoint where though, and Ron won't tell me!

I can't believe I did so well on my O.W.L.S.! I'm so happy… but I'm really mad at Ron! He did so badly! How did you do?

I really wanted to get into the Optional N.E.W.T. courses though… they're really, really, hard to get into. I heard from Molly that she was in N.E.W.T. Healing Magic when she went to Hogwarts, and there were only two other people! However she said N.E.W.T. Tele Magic was easier than the rest to get into…

I'm disgraced at Ron though… he's going to take so many Non-N.E.W.T. courses, and he's seriously not even going to have a future! Well, of course grades don't matter that much, but N.E.W.T. courses give you 50 times more information, and make your workload 50 times more harder, than Non-N.E.W.T. courses!

But, whatever, since you can't come over this summer I guess I'll see you at Diagon Alley! Good-bye!

Love,

Hermione

Harry felt especially awesome at Hermione's letter- He had beaten both of his friends! Hah!

Harry smiled to himself. But, he knew that he couldn't start gloating yet- if he was accepted to all those hard courses, he had to prove him worthy of them! So Harry quickly started to study.

However, another letter flew in, and this time the sender was unexpected- it was from Ginny.

Continued soon…