Harry Potter and the Forgotten Friends

Chapter Six: Back to School

The weekend had been great for Harry. He had been away for the Dursley's all weekend. He had ate well for a change and had some fun without thinking he would be beat to a pulp by Dudley and his friends. He had also been to the mall, and seen a movie. Two great days… but those days would have to end someday right? And that day came… Monday. He would have to go back to school with that old Miss. Snape and it's Aunt and Uncle when school was over. But lucky for him, he had his one friend by his side.

A light flicked on the upstairs in the Black's house. The sound of feet was then heard coming across the stairs and a door opening. "Riley. Harry. Kids, you have to get up. School is going to start in about half an hour." Arabella said, as she opened the kids' door and looked over at the two sleeping kids. She rolled her eyes, knowing that they were awake. For, she could hear Riley silently laughing and Harry, well she couldn't hear anything over Riley's "silent" laughing.

Arabella smirked and walked over across the room and looked down at Riley's bed. She grabbed the pillow off of Riley's head, only to have Riley shut her eyes quickly. Arabella sighed, and threw the pillow onto the ground. Riley still didn't move, and Harry shifted in his bed. Arabella rolled her eyes.

'Kids are hopeless.' She thought to herself, as she thought of a plan to wake the two up. "Oh well. I tried to wake Riley up. I guess the big box that is sitting down in the kitchen, will just have to be sent back to Alexis." Arabella said, leaving the room laughing at her 'not true' plan. As she closed the door, things started to come to action in the bedroom.

"Alexis sent me something… I wonder what it is." Riley said, as she flung the covers off her bed. She smiled and sat up in her bed. She slowly got out of bed and started walking, but soon enough she landed on the ground with a loud 'thump'. She turned her head, only to come face to face with Harry looking confused.

"What happened to you?" Harry asked, as he reached for his glasses on the top of nightstand then looked over at Riley. Riley smiled, trying to look innocent but failed. Riley then stood up, looking down at Harry.

"My friend, Alexis, she sent me a present. Come on!" Riley said, jumping up and down. Harry laughed, at the crazy girl. "I'm going to get dressed then come down, and see what you got." Harry said. Riley nodded, and raced out of the room, and out of sight. Harry sighed and shook his head. He quickly got dressed and walked downstairs, only to meet Riley half way up the stairs looking depressed. Harry gave her a quizzical look and she tried to smile at him.

"It was just a joke. My mom did that so I would get out of bed, and then you would wake up as well and then, guess where we have to go again… back to school!" Riley yelled, her face going red in the face. Harry looked at her.

"You have to be kidding. Not her again!" Harry said, looking around darkly. Riley laughed, and continued up the stairs.

"My mom's in the kitchen, making breakfast. You can go down there, I'll be there in a moment, and I have to get out of these Pyjama's." Riley said, as she opened her bedroom door. Harry nodded and continued down the stairs. Harry opened the kitchen door and the smell of waffles and pancakes greeted him.

"Hi Harry," Arabella said, as she started to take up the waffles and pancakes and put them onto a plate and handed it to Harry. "So are you ready to go back to that school?" Arabella asked, as she turned the tap water on, and grabbed a sponge. In reply Harry gave her a mixed look – between a dark look and a look like you swallowed a bug. Arabella laughed at the look, and muttered a 'Kids today, and school don't mix', Harry heard that and started laughing as well. Right then, Riley entered the kitchen door, and looked at the two laughing people.

"Here are your pancakes, Riley." Arabella said, as she gave the plate of pancakes to Riley. Riley looked at them, grabbed a fork and sat down beside Harry. Arabella turned the tap water off, and left the kitchen. Riley watched her mom leave, and turned over to Harry.

"I have to tell you something, when we leave for school. It's about what I found down in the basement… it's odd, and spooky!" Riley whispered. Harry nodded; "What do you think it is?" Harry asked her, as he popped some pancakes into his mouth. Riley was about to answer, when the kitchen door opened again, and in walked Sirius and Arabella. Riley then went back to her pancakes and Harry followed suit.

The two adults looked at the quiet kids, and raised an eyebrow to them. They then walked over to the kitchen, and turned the tap water on, and started 'cleaning' the dishes, when they were really talking about what these kids had yet to find out. Harry and Riley ate in silence, and as soon as they were finished, they raced over to the two adults and raced out of the room.

Riley and Harry ran down the hall of the house, and over to the front door. "Come on Harry. We're going to be late for school!" Riley shouted, as she looked up at the clock that read '8:45am'. The two quickly put their shoes on and grabbed their bags and made a grab for the door handle. They managed to open the door, and were just about to leave the house, when a voice stopped them.

They turned around slowly to come face to face with Sirius. "Kids… do you want a ride to school?" He asked, finishing up his waffle. Riley looked over at Harry, who was giving her a confused look. Riley then turned back to her dad.


"Um… it's OK dad. I have to tell Harry something before we get to school. I'll see you after school, bye." Riley said, as she grabbed Harry and dragged him out of the door, and closed it behind her. Arabella appeared from behind the door and looked at Sirius, and he looked at her.

"Harry's going to find out. They're both smart, and will eventually be able to put it together, to figure out there past." Sirius said, as he looked back at the closed door. Arabella sighed, "What will we do if they figure it out. Remember what Dumbledore told us?" Arabella said, looking at Sirius. Sirius nodded, and walked over and opened the door to his study, followed closely by Arabella.

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"Riley? What is it you want to tell me, and why couldn't we ride to school with your dad?" Harry asked, as Riley stopped pushing him down the driveway. Riley then stopped and looked straight at Harry, who stared back at her. "Well…" Harry asked, breaking the eye contact with Riley.

"It's about what I found in the basement last night. I found some things that are really weird," Riley started, as she started walking down the street with Harry. "Last night, I was down in the basement. I found this trunk in the corner of the basement, it was covered in spider webs and the gold trim around the trunk had these odd designs. The weirdest thing was what was inside the trunk. There were these black bathrobes with a red trim around the edges of it. After taking the bathrobes out, there were these old books about people in the early eighteen hundreds. After all the books there was this red picture album. The first picture in the book was my mom around the age of eleven. She was wearing one of those bathrobes I was just telling you about, with a little black hat on her head, and a black and white stick in her hand. Also, as I flipped through the pages, I saw nothing that would make anyone cry. Most pictures in the album were all of her, a young girl with red hair, and four other boys, one was my father… and the other three were most likely their friends. The thing was the other girls' eyes, reminded me of your eyes, for some reason. And, one of the other boys' hair looked like yours, along with most everything else. The thing that confused me was that the picture was waving at me. But, I think that it was just my imagination." Riley finished off; she looked around realizing they were at the school already.

"Well… that's sure odd." Harry said, thinking about what Riley had just told her. "We can talk about this at recess and lunch if you want. We're probably going to get detention, again." Harry said, as the warning bell rang from the school, which brought Riley back to her senses.

"Harry, we have to get going!" Riley yelled, as she started running into the school grounds, followed closely by Harry.

The two ran through the grounds, and onto the parking lot, and threw the school door open. They ran down the hall, and stooped abruptly in front of the classroom door. Riley opened the door, and walked inside. Everyone in the class turned to look at Harry and Riley. Miss. Snape turned and glared over at the two, right then the final bell rang. She stalked over to the two and glared down at them.

"Mr. Potter. Miss. Black," She sneered. "Welcome back, our little trouble celebrities. Now, sit down and take your seats before I give you detention." She sneered. Harry and Riley sighed and took their seats in the classroom. Harry was still sitting in the back of the class, while Riley was still sitting beside Dudley.

"Now… after Potter and Black's little outburst of return, back to what we are doing. You all know what is on the test. It's on Time Tables, percentage and Algebra," Miss. Snape said in a cold tone as she made her way over to her desk and picked up a stack of papers. "You will all use your own paper and your own pencils. Go getting up through the test, and no talking either. Any of that, your test will be ripped up and a mark of zero will be given." Miss. Snape said, as she starting passing out the test. Riley threw her hand up in the air, and Miss. Snape glared at her.

"What is it Black?" She spat, as she stalked over to Rileys' desk and looked at her. "It's your fault you were suspended, Miss. Black, along with Mr. Potter. So, do the test and deal with it." Miss. Snape sneered, and slammed the test onto Riley's desk. She then continued on passing the tests, to the others. Riley flipped her test over and stared blankly at the test.

1) 3x + 15= 90. ( __x)

2) 6(6) + 2= ___

…

…

…

67) 23/100= __%

Riley stared at the paper. 'What am I going to do? I barely know any of this… she planned this. I wonder how Harry is doing?' Riley thought to herself as she looked up from her test and looked over at Miss. Snape. She was sitting at her desk, reading a book and every now and then she would look around and glare at the students.

Harry looked down at his test, then over at Riley, who's back was too him. 'This can't be that hard. I remember bits of this from last year. Hopefully I can remember this.' Harry thought as he took out his pencil, and started thinking about what he learned the previous years. 'I'll outsmart that Miss. Snape on this test. I'm smarter then she thinks.' Harry thought as he started scribbling down answers on his papers.

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The end of the day came pretty soon. The test took everyone from nine am till ten twenty-five am. Miss. Snape barked at everyone saying that they wouldn't be able to go and have recess until everyone had finished the test. The only people that weren't done the test were none other then Dudley and his little gang. Harry had to keep from laughing, knowing that he was smarter then Dudley was enough to make him content.

By the time Dudley and his gang was finished it was almost eleven o'clock. By that time, everyone around Dudley and them were starting to get annoyed with each other, while Miss. Snape was starting to get annoyed with them. Dudley then stood up and gave his test to Miss. Snape.

"Is that everyone?" She asked, as her small eyes darted to every students, as they all nodded.

They then moved on to English, where they were going to start a Novel Study on a book they had recently read. Every student took out a book, except Harry. Living with the Dursley's, he never had had any good books to read. Riley had a book with her, which she usually carried a book in her backpack anyways. The book was none other then a Full House book. She then looked over at Harry who was sitting at his desk looking at the ceiling. Riley dug back in her bag and grabbed a book.

"Harry!" Riley whispered. Harry looked over at her. Riley smiled and through a book over at Harry, who caught it, surprised. He mouthed thanks and looked down at the cover of the book. The book was the first Lord of the Rings.

The day pasted by all right, well… as good as it could get in Miss. Snape's class. They read the books until lunchtime, and after lunch they went onto French, Science and Geography. After a long two and a half hours of boring work, the home bell rang, signalling that school was over.

Riley and Harry left the classroom, soon after the bell had rung. Miss. Snape had many problems with everyone and had given them all homework piled high for the night.

"This is way to much homework. Hopefully, I'll have my dad and mom to help me. I'll stop by your house later today and help you." Riley said, as they walked out of the class and down to their lockers. Harry nodded. The two soon reached their lockers and grabbed their bags and managed to dump about four textbooks into the bags.

The two closed their lockers up, and walked down the hall discussing all the homework that they had and how they would manage to get through it, and that evil and awful test that they had to go through today.

"I bet you I failed." Harry said, as they started across the field, leading to the gates leading out of the school.

"I bet I got zero. I'm bad at Math, and when I haven't learned it… well, that's self explanatory." Riley said. She shifted her backpack. The two walked the rest of the way until they reached the corner separating their ways about school, homework and anything that they did in between school hours.

"Well… looks like I'll see you tomorrow," Harry started off, as he pointed to the left. "If I don't come to school tomorrow, don't forget about me!" Harry laughed, as he looked at Riley who was laughing as well.

"Don't worry… you'll be at school tomorrow." Riley said, in a mysterious voice. Harry looked at her oddly. Riley laughed, and swung around on the street post until her back was to Harry. "You'll see…" She said, as she started walking down the street, leaving Harry behind.

Harry then started walking down Privet Drive, going to his least favourite place in the whole neighbourhood. Number Four, Privet Drive, The Dursley's house. Harry walked down the street, in his own little world, thinking about what Riley was talking about, and why Harry would be at school no matter what. Harry was so deep in thought that he didn't even realize that he had pasted his house. He realized that he had pasted the house, when he looked up to see he was at number ten.

"You're losing it, Potter. You can't even pay attention enough to see what house you were at." He muttered to himself, as he walked back, past all the other houses.

He walked along the sidewalk, scolding himself for being so stupid. He stopped at the front of the house, and started making his way up to the driveway. He looked up at the front door, only to see a girl standing there. Harry stopped, and looked at the girl, in utter confusion.

"Hey… who are you?" Harry asked, as he got his confidence back.

The girl turned and looked at him. She had messy brown hair like Riley's, but it was pulled back into a half ponytail. She had light bluish-grey eyes, and she was wearing an outfit that could rival Riley's any day.  The girl smiled at Harry, and then began to speak.

"Hi! My name is…"

To Be Continued…

Sorry, but it's another Cliffhanger! You'll find out who it is in the next chapter, unless you can guess who it is. Anyways, to continue this on, I need at least twenty (or more) reviews to continue. That means only three reviews, OK? So, R&R!