Draco and Harry's first acquaintance
Harry woke up to see the sun shining in through the windows. He rubbed his eyes open and reached over to his nightstand for his glasses. When he put them on he saw that Ron had already gotten up.
Harry got dressed and walked down to the common room. Hermione was already up and reading, and Ron was still nowhere in sight.
"Where's Ron?" Harry asked Hermione.
"I don't know. I haven't seen anyone up after me." She replied.
"Oh, later." Harry said leaving the common room and making his way toward the Great Hall. On the way down he saw that few people were up this early for classes weren't going to start for another two hours. As he walked, he came across a mirror shaped picture, and thinking of Jenna he ran up to it to make sure that he looked okay.
Harry tried to flatten down his hair, but received no luck. He decided to give up and continued on his search for Ron.
Where can Ron be this early? Harry wondered. When he finally reached the Great Hall he saw Ron sitting there studying the Griffyndor table.
"Ron?" Harry asked now approaching him. "Ron? What have you been up to?"
When Ron still hadn't even taken notice that Harry was there, Harry started to shake Ron violently.
"RON??? ARE YOU THERE RON?"
"What do you want?" Asked Ron shaking Harry off of him.
"I want to know why my best friend got up so early, so early that you got up before Hermione on the first day of school!"
"I couldn't sleep okay."
"Well why didn't you wake me?"
"I don't know."
"Ron you're not really giving me any information, I'm trying to help you."
"Help me? Why would I need help?"
"Because you're acting really strange. Was it something you ate last night?" Harry joked.
"Oh shutup Harry." Ron laughed.
"Want to go visit Hagrid, he's probably getting ready to teach his Care of Magical Creatures lesson."
"Sure."
They started heading down out of the castle when they noticed that ghosts were guarding the entrance. One being the Bloody Barren, and the other Peeves the poltergeist.
"Oh no we're never going to get past them." Said Ron also noticing the ghosts.
"Lets go out another entrance." Harry suggested.
"I bet you that all of the other entrances are all being guarded too."
"Should we just wait till we have a Care of Magical Creatures class with him?"
"Yeah, wonder if ghosts would be able to see through your invisibility cloak Harry?"
"Probably, that's most likely why the ghosts are guarding the entrances and exits, because Dumbledore knows I have one and probably doesn't want me to leave the castle."
"Well yeah, with the Prophecy and all…"
"Lets just go back to the common room till breakfast gets served." Said Harry and they started back.
They walked up the changing stairs and skipped over the fake step that Neville always misses, and came across Sir Cardigan's picture.
"Face me in a duel?" He asked.
"How bout not?" Ron replied and they continued down the hall to the fat lady's picture.
"Password?"
"Pumpernickel."
The fat lady's picture swung back and let Ron and Harry through. This time when they entered it they saw more people, mostly girls, getting up and trying to get themselves ready.
"I haven't really been up this early to see all them scurrying around like this!" Ron joked.
Harry laughed and noticed the little girl who was called first to the hat last night. She looked confused at why the other girls were trying to make themselves look all pretty. She shrugged her shoulders and decided to give it up. She saw Ron and Harry and started to make her way toward them.
"I don't know why they care so much about how they look, they are all so pretty anyways. I'm Kate by the way, and you're HARRY POTTER!"
"Yeah, hello Kate, this is Ron."
"Oh, hello! I'm so exited to go here, I can't wait to start my classes, that's the reason that I'm even up right now or else I wouldn't have gotten out of bed until five minutes before my first class starts!"
"That's what we usually do." Harry laughed.
She smiled at Harry still in disbelief that she was actually meeting him.
"I'm so glad the hat put me in Griffyndor. I was afraid that it was going to put me in Slytherin."
"Believe me so were we when we were first years." Ron replied.
"Um Harry whose that girl over there reading in the corner? I've seen you talking with her."
"Oh her, that's Hermione a book worm!" Harry joked.
"Really? I love books too, well not all books, some are really boring, but anything with magic I just love to read about! It was nice meeting you Harry, and Ron, but I must go talk to Hermione!" She said excitedly.
"Well it looks as though Hermione just found herself a new best friend." Said Ron when Kate had left.
Harry laughed at this remark and then went over to Lee and his group of friends.
"Hiya Harry! I heard that you are the new Griffyndor captain!!!"
"Yeah!" Harry replied.
"I always knew you would be! How many positions do you have to fill?"
"Two chasers, and a beater."
"Well good luck mate."
"Thanx Lee."
"How's your firebolt going?"
"Ha, it's going great."
"OOO does Malfoy know?" Shane asked.
"Not yet, or else he would have had something to say about that. I wonder why Dumbledore is still letting Draco, Crabbe, and Goyal stay in our school when their parents are death eaters."
"Yeah me to! But I'm glad that he came this year because then we wouldn't have gotten the chance to see what his face is going to look like when he hears that you're captain of the Griffyndor Quidditch team!" Shane screamed and everyone started to laugh at the images they were all imagining of Malfoy.
"Oh and remember when he made fun of me about the dementors, and how I fainted? Well this year I get to make fun of him and his girlish scream!" Harry laughed.
"Harry no, don't sink down to his level!" Said Hermione who had just made her way over.
"Oh come on Hermione let him live a little." Lee complained.
"You know what Lee, you are a bad influence on Harry, I mean Malfoy's really going to be trying to keep in his temper this year with you being captain, but you just got to act like anything he says doesn't bother you because that will get him even more mad. Now that's a site to see." Hermione lectured.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, where's your new best friend Hermione?" Ron wondered.
"Oh Kate! She's so cool! I mean she may look quiet, but she is the most fun person to talk to, especially about books which you two dim wits don't bother to even lay your eyes on."
"Hey! I've been reading that Occumlecy book." Harry backfired.
"What is that book number one in which you've read on your own accord? Come on, let's go down to the Great Hall, they are bound to be serving breakfast now."
"Breakfast sounds great! I'm starving!" Lee jumped out. So they all got up and headed toward the exit. They made their way to the Great Hall, and Hermione was right, breakfast was being served and they had first dibs.
They all ran and sat down at the spot which looked as though it had the best selection of food. They all began to hoard everything that was in site.
"Man boys are so grotesque." Hermione observed. All of them had too much food in their mouths to try to even fight back, so they didn't even try.
Within five more minutes, the door swung open and Jenna walked in with a couple of Hufflepuff girls. Feeling embarrassed about how he must look right about now, Harry swallowed what was in his mouth and wiped his mouth on his sleeve. Ron must have felt the same way because he reacted just as Harry had.
"I wonder what classes we are having today, I wish for none to be with Slytherin, hopefully (Hermione saw Ron and Harry's reaction towards Jenna's entrance) it will be with HUFFLEPUFF!" Hermione joked.
"Shutup Hermione." Said Ron not noticing that Harry had also made himself look more presentable. "You know you always find some way to pick on me!"
"I wasn't only directing it to you Ron." At these words Harry stamped his foot on Hermione's and shook his head back and forth as to not indicate that he had taken any notice to the Hufflepuff's.
"What do you mean, not only directing it toward me?" Ron wondered.
"Oh never mind Ron, you're too slow to get any jokes."
"Oh now I'm slow am I?"
"Guys lets try not to fight on our first day, save some for tomorrow." Harry put in because Hermione and Ron never stop arguing about things.
Professor McGonagall came by the Griffyndor table and was handing out schedules to all of the people who were there. Ron ran up first to get his schedule. Harry and Hermione followed.
"Well we all have the first class together. Defense Against the Dark Arts and guess who we're with Ron?"
"HUFFLEPUFF!" Ron answered quickly and he became in a much better mood.
"Hermione you really should be a bit more nice to Ron."
"Oh come on Harry, I just point out the obvious, now let's go and get a head start to our first class."
Hermione jumped up and started out of the Great Hall. Harry and Ron followed and when Harry looked back he could have sworn that he caught a glimpse of Jenna's eye staring back at him. Harry turned nervously away and couldn't help but smile to himself, she's in the class with me in which I'm best at, it can't get any better than this!
"Well I don't know why you're so happy Harry." Ron chuckled.
"Oh I just miss being able to use magic is all, and we haven't had a real Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson in over a year."
"True, well except the lessons you taught us Harry, you were a great teacher."
"Thanks." They went and got their books and then headed toward the north corridor and made their way down to Moody's classroom. They were still about fifteen minutes early so they decided to relook over their schedules.
Harry's schedule included:
DATDA
Transfiguration
Lunch
Care of Magical Creatures
Occumlecy at 8:00
He had all of his classes with both of Ron and Hermione today, that is except for Occumlecy. Hermione had a couple more classes than the other two, but she said she was thinking of not continuing them because they didn't have anything to do with becoming Ministress of Magic.
More people started to crowd around the classroom door. Harry checked his new watch, (which Hagrid had given him for his birthday seeing as he never replaced the one which stopped working in his 4th year) to see that class was going to start within another two minutes.
"Where's Moody?" Asked Hermione anxiously.
Just as she finished saying that, they heard clunk, clunk, clunk, coming towards the door and Moody let them all in.
Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way to their normal seats.
"Oh not this year Potter, Granger, and Weasly, I have made a seating arrangement for you all." Everyone in the classroom groaned at this as they all made their way to stand in the back of the classroom. Harry noticed Jenna already standing back there. "Now I'm setting you together in pairs. The person you are paired up with will be your partner for the rest of the year, unless I feel it necessary to move you. You will be casting many different spells on your partner so don't try and get to close." He then laughed at his own remark and began the seating arrangement.
"Weasly, and Granger here." Said Moody pointing to a table by the door. Ron and Hermione gave Harry a look like, oh no, who are you going to be partnered with! Before sitting down.
"Seamus and Ralph here," Moody said as he pointed to the right table in the back. He made his way to most of the people in the classroom and now there were only three tables left right in the front. Why did he leave me away from Hermione and Ron? Oh please put me with Jenna, please, please.
"Hefler and White go to the table on the right. Hmm… I don't like this last arrangement I had made. And I have one more in my classroom, than this says. Who are you?" Moody asked Jenna as he used his magical eye to look her up and down.
"Why I'm Jenna, Jenna Fiore, I transferred from Drumstrang."
"You any good in defending yourself?"
"Well I-I know how to do many dark spells yes." Jenna replied too afraid to look Moody directly in the eyes.
"Dark spells, what the hell do they teach you over there in Drumstrang? Well Kakaroff was a death eater himself so you probably know how to do spells but don't know how to defend yourself. So you are going to need an experienced partner then?"
"Well I-I guess so." She looked down at her feet embarrassed at what was happening.
"Well I was going to put you with Longbottom, but seeing as he won't do you much good I'm going to put you with our best student with this and he has the best knowledge in this subject for he has had to use many of these spells in real life might I add."
Jenna nodded down to herself as he changed something on his parchment and spit in the garbage nearby.
"Alright, you and Potter go in the center table, and Neville go with Dean and Niko to the left table." Moody grunted and made his way back toward the front of the classroom. Clunk, clunk, clunk.
"Now I hear that you are all one year behind, which is bad because Voldemort has come back and you have no knowledge of how to protect yourself now do you?" Many flinched at the sound of Voldemort's name and then they mumbled, "no" as to respond to Moody. "Well I also hear that there was a group last year who went behind school rules to practice the Defense Against the Dark Arts, am I right Potter?"
Harry looked down at his fingertips; oh no he had heard about Dumbledore's Army!
"Potter I don't believe you answered my question, now was there a group who—"
"Yes Professor, yes there was and it was called the DA."
"Now who was in charge of this school breaking?"
"I was sir."
"Why did you teach other students how to defend themselves Potter when you yourself had no authority to be doing so?"
"Well sir," said Harry now looking into Moody's frightening eyes, "Professor Umbridge wasn't teaching us anything, she wouldn't let us practice anything we read about. Since there were things in which I experienced that other's hadn't my friends and I decided to make this group incase we ever came across the situation where we would need to use the defense mechanism's."
"Nice answer Potter. Now why hadn't all of you done this because it makes me need to teach you all more! One whole year lost. Do you know how much you can learn in a year? Well this year you will know. Wands out."
The whole class looked at Harry and then at Moody before taking out their wands.
"Now I don't know if you've heard but the dementors have been let out from a spot which was supposed to be charmed so as not to have anyone let them free except for the one who cast the charm. Obviously Voldemort can figure out how to get anything he wants, well except he's still never gotten Potter killed yet, but otherwise anything that he's wanted he has gotten. (Harry's stomach sank as he thought, how could he be so calm when he says that?) So now the dementors are on his side so we will all need to know how to do the Patronous spell then. I heard that all of the members from the DA already know how to do this, and, Fiore did Kakaroff teach you this?"
"No we were ne—"
"Alright then the spell is simple. You concentrate on something happy and then yell Expecto Partonum! A silver wisp should come out of your wands today, and when you master this spell, your silver wisp should take a specific form and be able to take out the dementors. But the more the dementors the harder it is quarrel the spell. And I will also bring in some Boggarts to practice on for they are the closest things that we can get to a real dementor. Alright, Potter, get up here."
Harry stood up knowing what he was going to have to do next. He walked in front of Moody and waited for him to tell Harry what to do.
"Alright Harry show your classmates how to do a Patronous spell. Now before you do it what form does yours usually take?"
"A stag, it's always a stag."
"Alright then go on."
Harry tried to concentrate on something happy. He then thought of how happy he was that he was able to sit next to Jenna and be her partner for the rest of the year.
"EXPECTO PARTONUM!" Harry yelled and out of his wand came a beautiful stag, which galloped around the classroom a couple of times before disappearing. The whole class looked in awe at Harry's stag, and then they all became exited to try it themselves.
"Now Potter has also done this to real dementors and almost got expelled because he had to protect himself over one summer by using this against two dementors which tried to kiss him. Now Potter, tell me the difference of doing it for a real dementor rather than just now."
"Err… well when I just did it there was no pressure, or any cold feeling or bad memories burning in my ears. When I do it to a real dementor I feel all of those things and it's harder to concentrate on something happy, when everything happy is being sucked out of me."
"Exactly, now what is the most amount of dementors that you have used this against?" Harry thought of the time in his third year where he took out at least twenty dementors.
"The first time I was able to really produce the Patronous spell I had taken out at least twenty dementors."
"When? How old were you?"
"Err…" Harry shot a look back at Ron and Hermione and then decided to answer, "In my third year, when Sirius had-" this was when Harry had been the happiest in his whole life, he thought he was going to leave the Dursley's forever then. "-When Sirius had encountered me, and then Lupin had turned into his werewolf form and Sirius went after him and I saw all of the dementors crowding around Sirius so Hermione and I ran over to help. (Harry then realized that he couldn't tell the whole class about how Hermione and him had gone back in time so he decided to change a few things around about his experience.) I saw the dementors about to kiss my godfather so I had no choice but to use the spell, it took me about three tries before I got it, then the spell took so much from me that I had fainted, and ended up in the hospital with Hermione who had also fainted from the dementors effect on her." Harry then was sick of answering questions and decided to just look back down at his fingers.
"Well there you have it, I know some people are going to get this faster than others, Potter was one of the ones who was able to get this fast as he was a third year, very young, and so you should all be able to do it. We have to condemn our time because there is so much in which we need to cover this year. So now everyone practice the Patronous spell with your partner."
"Harry you really did all that?" Jenna asked him as they started to work together.
"Yeah… well here you want to practice it?"
"You're braver than I thought." She continued her thought disregarding Harry's last comment. Harry smiled at her and she smiled back. Nothing can ruin this moment now! Harry thought, just as Moody checked his watch to say,
"Alright, class is up. I have you all every day of the week for the year because this class is crucial, so I'll see you tomorrow."
Harry then got up disappointed that class was ending, but exited about being able to see Jenna everyday.
"Jenna come here!" Yelled Susan Bones from Hufflepuff.
"Well I guess I'll see you tomorrow," she said to Harry and then left to join her friends.
"What a lesson for you Harry." Said Hermione as she approached Harry.
"I felt so embarrassed. I just wanted him to stop questioning me." Harry told Ron and Hermione after they were out of earshot from Moody.
"Yeah it took up basically our whole class! I wanted to practice the spell!" Hermione replied.
"You two are lucky that you get to be partners." Harry told them trying to look miserable although he felt so happy with his partner.
"We're lucky! You get to be partners with Jenna! You always get EV—" But then Ron stopped himself from saying 'everything' because the truth was that with all the good that Harry receives, he also receives ten times that in pain. "—Every girl!" Ron saved himself. Wow Ron that's save number two toward Harry. Good job. He thought to himself.
"Oh yeah I get every girl Ron. Plus she doesn't even like me. The only girl that I have ever gotten has been Cho Chang, and I didn't have any fun when I was with her. I was always trying to figure out what to say, and how to say it just so she wouldn't think less of me."
"Yeah… well where are we off to next?" Ron wondered.
"Transfiguration, and then lunch." Hermione answered.
"Wonder what we are going to have to transfigure today." Ron wondered.
"Well we are probably going to have a quick review over everything that we've learned from the previous years as we do every year, then who knows." Hermione responded.
They headed down the west corridor toward their Transfiguration classroom.
Everyone was already inside, so they rushed in and took their normal seats along the benches of desks.
"Hermione are we late?" Ron whispered across a row to Hermione.
"No, they are all just early." She whispered back.
A gray cat with black markings on its face was sitting on Professor McGonagall's desk. The cat then turned into Professor McGonagall now seeing that everyone who was in her class was present. Harry, Ron, and Hermione had this class with the Slytherin's, and Malfoy had sat a few rows back from Harry and Ron. Neither of them said anything to each other being in the presence of a teacher.
"Hello class."
"Hello Professor McGonagall." The class mumbled back.
"You are all now at a N.E.W.T. level so you all better be on your best attention because this class isn't easy. Today we will be reviewing what we did in our first three years. When I see you on Thursday, we will go over everything we did in your forth and fifth years. Well what are you waiting for? You have so much work to accomplish this period. The supplies are in the back of the room. If you have any questions ask your partner."
Harry turned to Ron, " I'll get the first year supplies and you get the second year supplies and when we are finished with those we'll go and get our third year supplies." Ron nodded in acceptance as they both made their way to the back of the room. They both had to take several trips back to their desk before they had everything they needed for the first two years.
"Where do you want to start?" Harry asked Ron.
"Uhh… how about we just start from they easier stuff and work our way up."
"Alright, err… would that be turning matches into needles right?"
"Sure." So they both grabbed themselves a match and turned it into a needle no problem. Then they worked their way through their first year and onto their second with turning something into a water goblet by tapping their wands three times and saying,
"FERAVERTO!"
Ron had had trouble on this spell when he tried to turn Scabbers into a water goblet. Instead it had turned into a goblet shaped thing with hair and a tail. Ron's wand had also been broken then too.
When they finished their second year Harry checked his watch to see that they only had fifteen minutes to complete everything that they had learned in their third year. So they both rushed all around the back of the room to get their supplies.
When they had gotten everything they quickly went through all of the stuff which they felt was most important first. When they had five more little transfigurations left Professor McGonagall announced to clean up for class was over. Harry and Ron quickly cleaned up their things because they were so hungry and they just wanted to get to lunch. Hermione was too into what she was doing to pick up her things so she just told her partner Sally-Anne that she would clean up everything when she was done with everything. Her partner gave no fight and just left the classroom.
"Hermione come on me and Harry are starving!" Ron burst out toward her.
"You guys go ahead, I have to finish all my years!"
"Why which one are you on?"
"I'm on my third, but only half way there." She told them.
"See you then." Said Ron as he dragged Harry out of the room with him. Just as soon as they left the classroom a familiar voice snickered at them,
"Why if it isn't the famous duo Harry Potter and Ronald Weasly."
"Shut your face Malfoy." Said Harry turning to face him.
"Or what Potter? Don't forget I'm a prefect and you're not."
"Well don't you understand that I'm a Quidditch captain and you're not." Harry fought back.
"You-you're lying!" Said Malfoy his eyes widening and his face going if possible, more pale.
"Oh I wouldn't be too sure about that one Malfoy, you see you have just got to accept the fact that I'm better than you are at Quidditch."
"I still don't believe you, come on Crabbe, Goyal, lets go."
"Oh Malfoy where are you going? I wanted to hear a replay of your girlish scream!" Ron shouted at them.
Malfoy squinted his eyes and scrunched his nose at them before taking off. Ron and Harry both turned to face each other and then couldn't stop laughing.
"Oh man did we show him! Too bad Hermione wasn't here!" Ron shrieked.
"Yeah I know!' Harry laughed. They both made their way to the Great Hall and couldn't stop laughing.
Author's Note: Whew! Eight pages on Microsoft word! EIGHT PAGES! Single spaced and everything! Sheesh! I was going to write the whole day in one chapter, but then it would be really long and you guys wouldn't get to read another chapter for a while so you know I had to change this chapter's title from The First Day to what it is now. Next chappie we are again with Slytherin and we meet up with Hagrid and Harry has his first Occumlecy lesson with Dumbledore, that is if that all fits into one chapter. EIGHT PAGES!!!!! Sorry I can't believe myself Hehe. NE who I hope you are enjoying this book I'm writing and PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE review! You have been slackers lately and I don't feel the love like the love I'm receiving from Harry and Ron my lova's! Well ditch Ron and go for those big green eyes of Harry! HUH… Daydreaming…. ****drools**** = P Well keep reading and if you don't review guess what's going to happen, you're worst nightmare!! Mwhahaha! Try to get the reviews up to fifty people! That's the first goal! Enjoy!