AN: Chapter 4 here!
SpazzyHypy: Don't worry, I put Hotaru in Gryffindor! I don't really think she should be in Slytherin, because it's not like she's evil, she's just. . .dark.
Firefly of Saturn and Kara: Thanks for reviewing! Good reviews make me feel warm 'n' fuzzy inside! ^^
Mae: Don't worry, the Senshi will show up first in this chapter, and when they find out where she is (which will happen pretty soon) they'll arrive at Hogwarts.
Please note that many characters may be OOC, especially Pansy Parkinson, who will end up good friends with Hotaru and Hermione. Let me just say I don't like all the inter-house wars.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Harry Potter
Of Witches, Wizards and Royalty
Chapter 4 - Lessons and Timetables and a Senshi Search
Hotaru woke as the early morning sun shone into her eyes. She had forgotten to close the drapes on her four poster. Rubbing her eyes, she sat up on her bed.
"Rise and shine, Hotaru!" A voice said. Hotaru opened sleepy eyes and saw Hermione looking as tired as she was.
"Morning. . ." Hotaru muttered, wanting desperately to lie down and go back to sleep. Instead, she opted for getting dressed and going downstairs.
The common room was empty except for Harry and Ron sitting by the fireplace.
"Ron! Wakey wakey!" Hotaru shouted. Ron jumped up, making Harry wake too.
"What!? I didn't do nothin'!" Harry mumbled, looking around.
"Oh, come on! You don't want to miss breakfast, do you?" Hermione said smiling. When the word 'breakfast' was said, Harry and Ron sped off as a sleepy Neville wandered down.
"Eh, where's the fire?" He said.
*~*~*
Hermione, Hotaru and Neville walked through the corridors to the Great Hall. Hermione was looking nervous about her first day and Neville was just short of terrified. Hotaru however, was lost in her own little world. They were just passing some of the portraits on the walls when she stopped. A gallery devoted to something called 'Silver Millennium'. As she walked, she saw single portraits. The ice-blue haired girl, Athena of Mercury, a golden skinned blonde, Aphrodite of Venus, the pigtailed girl, Serenity of the Moon, a woman with the same 'buns and pigtails' hair design, but with silvery lavender hair, Queen Serenity of the Moon, the girl with red and black hair, Aris of Mars, and the brunette with the electric skin, Juno of Jupiter. They were all Princesses, with the obvious exception of Queen Serenity.
"Hotaru?" Hermione said. Hotaru had stopped and was just looking at the portraits.
There were more. The man who was in her dream, the one with Princess Serenity, he was Prince Endymion of Earth. There was also the sandy blonde that looked like a boy, Hera of Uranus, the aqua haired girl who had skin the same colour as the sea, Amphitrite of Neptune, the forest green haired woman with the garnet staff, Demeter of Pluto. But the one that shocked her the most was one that read 'Persephone of Saturn', for Persephone looked exactly the same as Hotaru. There was also one of all of them, but that was ignored.
"Hotaru. . ." Hermione said, her voice faltering when she saw the portrait of Persephone. "Wow, she looks just like you. . ."
"That's the thing. You see, I've. . .you promise not to tell?" Hotaru said.
"Promise."
"Well, I've been having dreams lately. One was where I was destroying something called Pharaoh Ninety and another was where we were stood on the Moon, overlooking the Earth, me and all of those Princesses in the portraits. And you see that man, Endymion? Well, he was stood with those two, Princess Serenity and Queen Serenity. I think he was getting married to the Princess.
"What!? You know, this could mean this is a part of your past! Like, a past life, or something!" Hermione said, rushing Hotaru towards the Great Hall.
"Yeah, I guess it could be. . ." She said as they entered the massive room. As they sat down with the others, Hotaru noticed her brother Fred talking to her.
"Here are your timetables. I feel sorry for you, you have Double Potions with Professor Snape and the Slytherins." Fred muttered, handing Hotaru a stack of timetables. She took one and passed the rest to the other first years.
"Professor Snape?" Harry asked.
"Head of Slytherin House. He favours his own Slytherin students over, oh, the rest of the world. . ." George said, scowling.
"Yes!" Hermione said.
"What?" Harry, Hotaru and the Weasleys asked in unison, looking at Hermione.
"We don't have Geography or English!" She said happily.
"Oh, I know how you feel. I hated Geography and English was just as bad." Harry grinned.
"Yeah, too much explaining and spelling! It was way too much to write every lesson."
"Erm, what are those?" Ron asked.
"Oh! Well, I lived with my aunt and uncle who sent me to Primary School. It's like, a school you go to from being three, four or even five years old up until you're eleven." Harry explained.
"And I come from a muggle family, meaning we knew nothing about magic other than what was in our imagination and I got sent to Primary School. We have lessons like History of Magic, but it's just World History, I think science would be like Potions and there may be a bit of mathematics and science in Transfiguration, but I don't know." Hermione said.
At that moment, a group of owls came flying into the hall, dropping parcels off for people. Percy received an edition of the Daily Prophet, a wizarding newspaper, and Neville got a remembrall, because he was quite forgetful at times. The owls took off after delivering things and the Great Hall quietened down again.
They ate in silence for a while after that, until the other students began to file out of the Great Hall. Hermione, Ron, Hotaru and Neville joined the group heading downstairs.
"It says Potions is in Dungeons 1, wherever that is." Hotaru said, looking at her timetable, nearly bumping into a girl with curly gold hair and dark eyes. "Oh, sorry!"
"Oh, don't worry. Are you first years?" She said. Hermione nodded.
"Me too, I'm Pansy Parkinson, from Slytherin. You're all Gryffindors, aren't you? You're in Potions, I'll show you the way." She said, and the group followed her down to the darkest and coldest parts of the school.
"Here we are, Dungeons 1." She said, and they entered.
The first thing they noticed was the steam rising from each cauldron sat on a fire. That and the four boys sat inside already; Blaise Zabini, Draco Malfoy and his bodyguards Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle.
"Oh look. Gryffindor scum." Malfoy sneered.
"Drop it, Draco." Pansy warned as she sat down on one four seater bench with Hermione and Hotaru. She had picked behind Malfoy and his group. Ron, Harry and Neville sat behind the girls.
"Eww, Pansy, don't even think of setting foot in the common room now! You've been contaminated by Gryffindor filth!" Blaise laughed.
"I said drop it!" Pansy shouted.
"Pansy, don't listen to them. They're just a bunch of immature boys." Hotaru said, glaring at Zabini and Malfoy. "They aren't worth your anger."
The boys were spared a witty comeback by the rest of the class filing inside with the teacher. Dean Thomas ended up sitting with the girls because Seamus Finnigan was sat with Harry, Ron and Neville.
"Good morning class. Potions is one of the hardest classes in the school, and I have a feeling that some of you will not pass the end-of-year exams, let alone the Potions OWL's, and you certainly wont pass if you're going to ignore what the teacher is saying, Mr Potter." Harry put down his quill and blushed as the class stared at him.
"Tell me, Potter, if you have time to take notes while I'm talking, you obviously know the answers to these. What do you get if you add powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"
Harry shrugged, clearly embarrassed.
"Let's try another. Where would you find a bezoar?"
"I don't know, sir." Harry muttered.
"Tut tut. Maybe I should keep you behind and make you copy down notes on 1000 Magical Herbs and Fungi. What is the difference between monkshood and wolfbane?"
"Don't know. Try somebody else." This set the class off into a fit of giggles.
"10 points from Gryffindor for your cheek. If you add powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood you get a sleeping potion so strong it is called the Draught of Living Death, a bezoar is a stone taking from the stomach of a goat and it will cure most poisons, and as for monkshood and wolfbane, they are the same plant that also goes by the name of aconite. Well? Why aren't you copying this down?"
The rest of the lesson passed slowly. Hotaru, Hermione, Pansy and Dean were trying to ignore Malfoy and Zabini calling them stupid, mudbloods, tarts and girly girls. This offended most of them, but they had to visibly restrain Dean because he was trying to throttle Zabini after he called Dean a girl.
Hotaru was tempted to just let go of the arm lock she had on Dean. Zabini kept turning round, looking at her and saying something to Malfoy. It was beginning to not only get on her nerves, but it was freaking her out. In the end, she just ignored it and got on with copying down her notes.
*~*~*
"What a nightmare! Homework on the first lesson of the first day!" Ron moaned. "It's been one lesson of Potions and I don't like it."
"I don't think it's too bad. I was just freaked out because that Blaise Zabini kept looking over at me when he was talking to that Draco." Hotaru said. Ron smirked.
"Aw, has ickle 'Taru got a boyfriend?" Ron teased. "Who is it? Malfoy or Zabini? You could do better than either of those. . .Slytherins." He said the word with a look of disgust on his face.
"Ron! I don't have a boyfriend!" Hotaru shouted, softly punching him in the arm.
The rest just sighed as an argument broke out.
"What do we have next. . .Transfiguration! Come on, you don't want to be late, do you?" Hermione said, running off.
"Hey, wait for us!" The others shouted and ran off after her.
*~*~*
Meanwhile, in another time and place, a group of girls watched a woman search for something.
"Puu, have you found Taru-chan yet?" A small girl with red eyes and pink hair in a rabbit-ears style asked.
"No, Small Lady. And I've checked numerous dimensions for her."
"I hope she's alright." A girl with turquoise hair said, cuddling closer to the blonde that was holding her.
"Don't worry Michiru-chan, Setsuna will find Hotaru safe and sound and the Senshi will be complete again."
"I hope so." The girl called Michiru said.
Setsuna lowered her time key, exhausted. "I'm afraid we wont find her tonight. I'm far too tired."
Chibi-Usa and a blonde with a hair style almost exactly the same left.
"Sayonara Small Lady. Usagi, I'll check again in the morning. Make sure Chibi-Usa gets some rest." Setsuna said as the two girls went on their way home.
"I guess it's just us again. . ." The blonde, Haruka, said.
"Yes. Well, I'm off to bed. Goodnight, I'll see you all in the morning."
"Goodnight Setsuna." Haruka and Michiru said, and went to their bedroom. Each of them fell asleep as soon as their heads hit their pillows, but none of their slumber was in any way dreamless.
*~*~*
"Transfiguration is not an easy subject to master. Whilst I will help you with your spellwork, I can not guarantee that not all of you will have the ability to change one thing into another." Professor McGonagall said to the silent class. She had explained the subject on the black board behind her and was now in the process of giving each student in her class a matchstick.
"By the end of this lesson, I hope some of you will have been able to transfigure this matchstick into a pin." She said. "Now, off you go."
And so, with the guide of a textbook, the class began their first practical lesson. Hotaru had managed to make her matchstick silver, but that was it. She had done better than some others. Ron hadn't done anything to his, Harry had got a splinter from his and Neville had snapped his. Hermione, however, had gotten hers lovely and silver and pointy, and even by the end of the lesson she was the only one who had managed to finish with a pin, and Professor McGonagall gave her ten points for Gryffindor.
"Wow, that was a good lesson, I think." Hermione said brightly at break. Harry and Ron weren't talking to her.
"Yeah, I thought it was OK too. Caput Draconis." Hotaru smiled as they walked into the common room.
The first thing they noticed was everybody crowding around the notice board.
"What's this about?" Seamus said, pushing through and making room for the others.
"Flying lessons, with the Slytherins!? Oh great, I always wanted to make a fool of myself on a broom in front of Malfoy, it's been my lifelong dream. . ." Harry muttered as he read, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Flying? As in, on a broom? No way!" Neville said, a look of fear on his face.
"Oh come on, it can't be that bad!" Hermione said, her voice betraying her own nervousness.
"Well, I guess we have to do it, so we might as well enjoy it." Ron said gloomily.
"Well, I wont enjoy it! Knowing me, I'd probably fall off!" Neville said.
"Isn't there a way to get out of it?" Hotaru moaned. "I don't want to do flying lessons with Slytherin! If it was just Gryffindors, I'd be fine."
"So, when are these flying lessons?" Dean asked.
"After break!?" Seamus shouted as he read. "It says here 'All Gryffindor and Slytherin students are to report to the fields outside after break for their first flying lesson!'"
"Oh, great. This is bloody brilliant, this is. Flying. Slytherins. Take me to the Hospital Wing, I've been diagnosed with Slytherinophobia. . ." Ron said, walking like a zombie out of the common room.
"Oh no you don't! There's no such thing as Slytherinophobia! And the only place you're going is onto the field! Come on!" Hotaru said, grabbing his arm and dragging him out while the others followed.
"No! Wait! I've got. . .vertigo! And high places wont make it better!" Ron said, trying to find a way out of this cruel punishment.
"Oh really?" Hotaru said, pulling him to a window. "See how high up we are? High places wont make it better. . .ha!" She said.
'Whoever came up with flying lessons should be shot. . .' Harry thought as he walked down the many staircases. 'Because this is just too mean. . .'
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Previews:
"It must have been fifteen foot up at least!"
"And he only got a broken wrist!"
Students began to talk about what had just happened. Neville had been rushed to the Hospital Wing after his fall. Draco Malfoy, however, picked up a clear glass ball from the grass.
"Look, it's that remembrall! He should have been holding it, then he'd remember not to drop it for anybody to pick up. . .hey, this'd be a great decoration for a tree!" He said, loud enough for everybody to hear.
"Give it back, Malfoy!" Harry said, hand outstretched.
"Sure, Potter. If you can get it, that is!" Malfoy said, jumping on his broom and flying up above the Forbidden Forest. "What's the matter? Too scared to get it yourself?"
"Right, that's it! I've had enough of your mouth, and there's no Crabbe and Goyle up there to save your scrawny little neck now!" Harry yelled, flying up after the blonde.
"So? Hey, Potter, let's see how good a catcher you are!" And with that, Malfoy flung the remembrall across the trees, and Harry dived.
*~*~*
"It's a surprise you're not dead, or in the Hospital Wing yourself after that. But Gryffindor need a Seeker for Quidditch, and I think you would be the best choice for the position. Now, you mustn't tell anybody about this, because first years aren't allowed on the House Team. But I think in you're case, we can make an exception." Professor McGonagall said. "We'll have to get you a good broom though. Potter, meet Wood. Oliver Wood is the Keeper and captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team."
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Remember, review and the next chapter will be up real soon!
SpazzyHypy: Don't worry, I put Hotaru in Gryffindor! I don't really think she should be in Slytherin, because it's not like she's evil, she's just. . .dark.
Firefly of Saturn and Kara: Thanks for reviewing! Good reviews make me feel warm 'n' fuzzy inside! ^^
Mae: Don't worry, the Senshi will show up first in this chapter, and when they find out where she is (which will happen pretty soon) they'll arrive at Hogwarts.
Please note that many characters may be OOC, especially Pansy Parkinson, who will end up good friends with Hotaru and Hermione. Let me just say I don't like all the inter-house wars.
Disclaimer: I don't own Sailor Moon or Harry Potter
Of Witches, Wizards and Royalty
Chapter 4 - Lessons and Timetables and a Senshi Search
Hotaru woke as the early morning sun shone into her eyes. She had forgotten to close the drapes on her four poster. Rubbing her eyes, she sat up on her bed.
"Rise and shine, Hotaru!" A voice said. Hotaru opened sleepy eyes and saw Hermione looking as tired as she was.
"Morning. . ." Hotaru muttered, wanting desperately to lie down and go back to sleep. Instead, she opted for getting dressed and going downstairs.
The common room was empty except for Harry and Ron sitting by the fireplace.
"Ron! Wakey wakey!" Hotaru shouted. Ron jumped up, making Harry wake too.
"What!? I didn't do nothin'!" Harry mumbled, looking around.
"Oh, come on! You don't want to miss breakfast, do you?" Hermione said smiling. When the word 'breakfast' was said, Harry and Ron sped off as a sleepy Neville wandered down.
"Eh, where's the fire?" He said.
*~*~*
Hermione, Hotaru and Neville walked through the corridors to the Great Hall. Hermione was looking nervous about her first day and Neville was just short of terrified. Hotaru however, was lost in her own little world. They were just passing some of the portraits on the walls when she stopped. A gallery devoted to something called 'Silver Millennium'. As she walked, she saw single portraits. The ice-blue haired girl, Athena of Mercury, a golden skinned blonde, Aphrodite of Venus, the pigtailed girl, Serenity of the Moon, a woman with the same 'buns and pigtails' hair design, but with silvery lavender hair, Queen Serenity of the Moon, the girl with red and black hair, Aris of Mars, and the brunette with the electric skin, Juno of Jupiter. They were all Princesses, with the obvious exception of Queen Serenity.
"Hotaru?" Hermione said. Hotaru had stopped and was just looking at the portraits.
There were more. The man who was in her dream, the one with Princess Serenity, he was Prince Endymion of Earth. There was also the sandy blonde that looked like a boy, Hera of Uranus, the aqua haired girl who had skin the same colour as the sea, Amphitrite of Neptune, the forest green haired woman with the garnet staff, Demeter of Pluto. But the one that shocked her the most was one that read 'Persephone of Saturn', for Persephone looked exactly the same as Hotaru. There was also one of all of them, but that was ignored.
"Hotaru. . ." Hermione said, her voice faltering when she saw the portrait of Persephone. "Wow, she looks just like you. . ."
"That's the thing. You see, I've. . .you promise not to tell?" Hotaru said.
"Promise."
"Well, I've been having dreams lately. One was where I was destroying something called Pharaoh Ninety and another was where we were stood on the Moon, overlooking the Earth, me and all of those Princesses in the portraits. And you see that man, Endymion? Well, he was stood with those two, Princess Serenity and Queen Serenity. I think he was getting married to the Princess.
"What!? You know, this could mean this is a part of your past! Like, a past life, or something!" Hermione said, rushing Hotaru towards the Great Hall.
"Yeah, I guess it could be. . ." She said as they entered the massive room. As they sat down with the others, Hotaru noticed her brother Fred talking to her.
"Here are your timetables. I feel sorry for you, you have Double Potions with Professor Snape and the Slytherins." Fred muttered, handing Hotaru a stack of timetables. She took one and passed the rest to the other first years.
"Professor Snape?" Harry asked.
"Head of Slytherin House. He favours his own Slytherin students over, oh, the rest of the world. . ." George said, scowling.
"Yes!" Hermione said.
"What?" Harry, Hotaru and the Weasleys asked in unison, looking at Hermione.
"We don't have Geography or English!" She said happily.
"Oh, I know how you feel. I hated Geography and English was just as bad." Harry grinned.
"Yeah, too much explaining and spelling! It was way too much to write every lesson."
"Erm, what are those?" Ron asked.
"Oh! Well, I lived with my aunt and uncle who sent me to Primary School. It's like, a school you go to from being three, four or even five years old up until you're eleven." Harry explained.
"And I come from a muggle family, meaning we knew nothing about magic other than what was in our imagination and I got sent to Primary School. We have lessons like History of Magic, but it's just World History, I think science would be like Potions and there may be a bit of mathematics and science in Transfiguration, but I don't know." Hermione said.
At that moment, a group of owls came flying into the hall, dropping parcels off for people. Percy received an edition of the Daily Prophet, a wizarding newspaper, and Neville got a remembrall, because he was quite forgetful at times. The owls took off after delivering things and the Great Hall quietened down again.
They ate in silence for a while after that, until the other students began to file out of the Great Hall. Hermione, Ron, Hotaru and Neville joined the group heading downstairs.
"It says Potions is in Dungeons 1, wherever that is." Hotaru said, looking at her timetable, nearly bumping into a girl with curly gold hair and dark eyes. "Oh, sorry!"
"Oh, don't worry. Are you first years?" She said. Hermione nodded.
"Me too, I'm Pansy Parkinson, from Slytherin. You're all Gryffindors, aren't you? You're in Potions, I'll show you the way." She said, and the group followed her down to the darkest and coldest parts of the school.
"Here we are, Dungeons 1." She said, and they entered.
The first thing they noticed was the steam rising from each cauldron sat on a fire. That and the four boys sat inside already; Blaise Zabini, Draco Malfoy and his bodyguards Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle.
"Oh look. Gryffindor scum." Malfoy sneered.
"Drop it, Draco." Pansy warned as she sat down on one four seater bench with Hermione and Hotaru. She had picked behind Malfoy and his group. Ron, Harry and Neville sat behind the girls.
"Eww, Pansy, don't even think of setting foot in the common room now! You've been contaminated by Gryffindor filth!" Blaise laughed.
"I said drop it!" Pansy shouted.
"Pansy, don't listen to them. They're just a bunch of immature boys." Hotaru said, glaring at Zabini and Malfoy. "They aren't worth your anger."
The boys were spared a witty comeback by the rest of the class filing inside with the teacher. Dean Thomas ended up sitting with the girls because Seamus Finnigan was sat with Harry, Ron and Neville.
"Good morning class. Potions is one of the hardest classes in the school, and I have a feeling that some of you will not pass the end-of-year exams, let alone the Potions OWL's, and you certainly wont pass if you're going to ignore what the teacher is saying, Mr Potter." Harry put down his quill and blushed as the class stared at him.
"Tell me, Potter, if you have time to take notes while I'm talking, you obviously know the answers to these. What do you get if you add powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"
Harry shrugged, clearly embarrassed.
"Let's try another. Where would you find a bezoar?"
"I don't know, sir." Harry muttered.
"Tut tut. Maybe I should keep you behind and make you copy down notes on 1000 Magical Herbs and Fungi. What is the difference between monkshood and wolfbane?"
"Don't know. Try somebody else." This set the class off into a fit of giggles.
"10 points from Gryffindor for your cheek. If you add powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood you get a sleeping potion so strong it is called the Draught of Living Death, a bezoar is a stone taking from the stomach of a goat and it will cure most poisons, and as for monkshood and wolfbane, they are the same plant that also goes by the name of aconite. Well? Why aren't you copying this down?"
The rest of the lesson passed slowly. Hotaru, Hermione, Pansy and Dean were trying to ignore Malfoy and Zabini calling them stupid, mudbloods, tarts and girly girls. This offended most of them, but they had to visibly restrain Dean because he was trying to throttle Zabini after he called Dean a girl.
Hotaru was tempted to just let go of the arm lock she had on Dean. Zabini kept turning round, looking at her and saying something to Malfoy. It was beginning to not only get on her nerves, but it was freaking her out. In the end, she just ignored it and got on with copying down her notes.
*~*~*
"What a nightmare! Homework on the first lesson of the first day!" Ron moaned. "It's been one lesson of Potions and I don't like it."
"I don't think it's too bad. I was just freaked out because that Blaise Zabini kept looking over at me when he was talking to that Draco." Hotaru said. Ron smirked.
"Aw, has ickle 'Taru got a boyfriend?" Ron teased. "Who is it? Malfoy or Zabini? You could do better than either of those. . .Slytherins." He said the word with a look of disgust on his face.
"Ron! I don't have a boyfriend!" Hotaru shouted, softly punching him in the arm.
The rest just sighed as an argument broke out.
"What do we have next. . .Transfiguration! Come on, you don't want to be late, do you?" Hermione said, running off.
"Hey, wait for us!" The others shouted and ran off after her.
*~*~*
Meanwhile, in another time and place, a group of girls watched a woman search for something.
"Puu, have you found Taru-chan yet?" A small girl with red eyes and pink hair in a rabbit-ears style asked.
"No, Small Lady. And I've checked numerous dimensions for her."
"I hope she's alright." A girl with turquoise hair said, cuddling closer to the blonde that was holding her.
"Don't worry Michiru-chan, Setsuna will find Hotaru safe and sound and the Senshi will be complete again."
"I hope so." The girl called Michiru said.
Setsuna lowered her time key, exhausted. "I'm afraid we wont find her tonight. I'm far too tired."
Chibi-Usa and a blonde with a hair style almost exactly the same left.
"Sayonara Small Lady. Usagi, I'll check again in the morning. Make sure Chibi-Usa gets some rest." Setsuna said as the two girls went on their way home.
"I guess it's just us again. . ." The blonde, Haruka, said.
"Yes. Well, I'm off to bed. Goodnight, I'll see you all in the morning."
"Goodnight Setsuna." Haruka and Michiru said, and went to their bedroom. Each of them fell asleep as soon as their heads hit their pillows, but none of their slumber was in any way dreamless.
*~*~*
"Transfiguration is not an easy subject to master. Whilst I will help you with your spellwork, I can not guarantee that not all of you will have the ability to change one thing into another." Professor McGonagall said to the silent class. She had explained the subject on the black board behind her and was now in the process of giving each student in her class a matchstick.
"By the end of this lesson, I hope some of you will have been able to transfigure this matchstick into a pin." She said. "Now, off you go."
And so, with the guide of a textbook, the class began their first practical lesson. Hotaru had managed to make her matchstick silver, but that was it. She had done better than some others. Ron hadn't done anything to his, Harry had got a splinter from his and Neville had snapped his. Hermione, however, had gotten hers lovely and silver and pointy, and even by the end of the lesson she was the only one who had managed to finish with a pin, and Professor McGonagall gave her ten points for Gryffindor.
"Wow, that was a good lesson, I think." Hermione said brightly at break. Harry and Ron weren't talking to her.
"Yeah, I thought it was OK too. Caput Draconis." Hotaru smiled as they walked into the common room.
The first thing they noticed was everybody crowding around the notice board.
"What's this about?" Seamus said, pushing through and making room for the others.
"Flying lessons, with the Slytherins!? Oh great, I always wanted to make a fool of myself on a broom in front of Malfoy, it's been my lifelong dream. . ." Harry muttered as he read, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
"Flying? As in, on a broom? No way!" Neville said, a look of fear on his face.
"Oh come on, it can't be that bad!" Hermione said, her voice betraying her own nervousness.
"Well, I guess we have to do it, so we might as well enjoy it." Ron said gloomily.
"Well, I wont enjoy it! Knowing me, I'd probably fall off!" Neville said.
"Isn't there a way to get out of it?" Hotaru moaned. "I don't want to do flying lessons with Slytherin! If it was just Gryffindors, I'd be fine."
"So, when are these flying lessons?" Dean asked.
"After break!?" Seamus shouted as he read. "It says here 'All Gryffindor and Slytherin students are to report to the fields outside after break for their first flying lesson!'"
"Oh, great. This is bloody brilliant, this is. Flying. Slytherins. Take me to the Hospital Wing, I've been diagnosed with Slytherinophobia. . ." Ron said, walking like a zombie out of the common room.
"Oh no you don't! There's no such thing as Slytherinophobia! And the only place you're going is onto the field! Come on!" Hotaru said, grabbing his arm and dragging him out while the others followed.
"No! Wait! I've got. . .vertigo! And high places wont make it better!" Ron said, trying to find a way out of this cruel punishment.
"Oh really?" Hotaru said, pulling him to a window. "See how high up we are? High places wont make it better. . .ha!" She said.
'Whoever came up with flying lessons should be shot. . .' Harry thought as he walked down the many staircases. 'Because this is just too mean. . .'
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R&R please!
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Previews:
"It must have been fifteen foot up at least!"
"And he only got a broken wrist!"
Students began to talk about what had just happened. Neville had been rushed to the Hospital Wing after his fall. Draco Malfoy, however, picked up a clear glass ball from the grass.
"Look, it's that remembrall! He should have been holding it, then he'd remember not to drop it for anybody to pick up. . .hey, this'd be a great decoration for a tree!" He said, loud enough for everybody to hear.
"Give it back, Malfoy!" Harry said, hand outstretched.
"Sure, Potter. If you can get it, that is!" Malfoy said, jumping on his broom and flying up above the Forbidden Forest. "What's the matter? Too scared to get it yourself?"
"Right, that's it! I've had enough of your mouth, and there's no Crabbe and Goyle up there to save your scrawny little neck now!" Harry yelled, flying up after the blonde.
"So? Hey, Potter, let's see how good a catcher you are!" And with that, Malfoy flung the remembrall across the trees, and Harry dived.
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"It's a surprise you're not dead, or in the Hospital Wing yourself after that. But Gryffindor need a Seeker for Quidditch, and I think you would be the best choice for the position. Now, you mustn't tell anybody about this, because first years aren't allowed on the House Team. But I think in you're case, we can make an exception." Professor McGonagall said. "We'll have to get you a good broom though. Potter, meet Wood. Oliver Wood is the Keeper and captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team."
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