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"Hey Wolf! Wake up. Breakfast time!"
Harry opened his eyes to see Jake over his head. Ron was beside him. Harry heard Ron ask, "Why do you call him Wolf?"
"It was the first animal form he took," Jake responded to Ron. "Hey are you going to get up or lay there all day?" he asked noticing Harry was awake.
"Do I have a choice?" Harry asked groggily.
Jake thought for a moment. "No, not really. You don't."
"Then I'm going back to sleep," Harry said turning over. He nearly jumped out of bed when the whole room shook. "Bear I'll kill you for that!" Harry exclaimed trying to calm his racing heartbeat. Jake had made the whole room shake to wake him up. Harry glanced at Ron and saw that he too was scared.
"Now that you're awake, we need to get to the Great Hall. Our schedules are being handed out," Jake said before leaving the room.
"Does he always do that?" Ron asked.
"What? Make the room shake?" Ron nodded. "Yea. Every morning. I'll tell him to stop if it scares you."
"It was actually pretty cool. It's so weird with you being a shapeshifter and all," Ron responded.
"Yea it is. You'll get used to it like I did," Harry said sitting up and stretching. He got out of bed and snapped his fingers to get dressed. Ron gasped as Harry's clothes changed from pajamas to the school uniform. "Like I said, you'll get used to it." Harry said before he and Ron headed out the door down to the common room.
"Hey Wolf. Good night sleep?" he heard someone ask.
Harry looked around and saw Ashley sitting on one of the couches with Caroline and Liz. "Hey Eagle, Cat, Seal. Yea good night's sleep but bad morning awakening."
"Bear woke you up again?" Liz asked trying to loosen up her tie. They were dressed in the school uniforms. "Black is not my color," she said looking at the outfit in disgust.
"I don't think anything is your color, Seal," a voice remarked. Liz turned around and saw Jake walk by. Without thinking she threw an ice ball at him. It hit him right in the chest. "Ow! What was that for?" he asked. Liz rolled her eyes and walked out of the common room.
"What did I do?" he asked the others. They rolled their eyes.
"Come on. Let's go to the Great Hall, I'm hungry," Ron said. They walked out through the portrait of the Fat Lady. Right outside they found Liz.
"I knew you'd be out soon. I didn't know how to get to the Great Hall," she said. They finally made it to the Great Hall and saw Hermione and Matt talking. They walked over to them and sat down. As soon as they sat down, Hermione handed Ron his schedule and looked at the others.
"I looked for your names but I couldn't find them. You should ask Professor McGonagall," she said.
"Potions first thing!" Ron cried out louder than he had intended. He was looking over his schedule. Everyone stared at him. "This is horrible! It's still with the Slytherins!"
"I'll go get our schedules," Caroline said before leaving and walking over to Stacy.
Hermione saw where she went. "That's Professor Miller, the new DADA teacher right?" she asked.
Harry looked where she was looking and nodded. "Yea. She taught us everything about being a shapeshifter," he said while spreading butter on his toast. He was about to take a bite when he felt something on his leg. Looking down he saw Snuffles. "Hey Snuffles. What do you want? Toast?"
Hermione and Ron's head snapped up. "Snuffles is here?" they asked at the same time. Harry nodded as Snuffles walked under the table and greeted them.
"Here! I got our schedules," Caroline said handing each of them their schedules. Harry looked down at his confused by what it was.
"Confused Harry?" he heard someone ask. Looking up, he saw Stacy looking at him. "Ok everyone listen up. The only classes you need to attend are the martial arts, sword fighting, and the other classes that I told you about before. You each have the schedule that the other fifth years have. The time that you don't have the classes that I'll be teaching you, you have free time. During that time, you can go to the classes on your schedule for that time or work on anything else. It's your choice. If you don't attend any of the classes, don't worry. I already taught you everything." Stacy left leaving confused teenagers behind.
"Harry, do you have a class first thing?" Ron asked.
Harry looked down at his schedule. "Nope. I have sword fighting after potions."
"Great!" Ron exclaimed. "Can you go to potions? You know how much Snape gives us trouble."
"I guess I can go. I can impress him by what I already know," Harry responded. "What are you going to do?" he asked the others.
They looked at each other and at the same time smiled and said, "Potions class, here we come!" before laughing.
"This Snape person is the mean one right?" Ashley asked. Harry nodded.
"Not after today," Jake said mysteriously.
Liz looked at him. "Oh no you don't. This is our first day here. We don't need to get expelled!"
"Seal, face the facts! We're here for protection. They can't get rid of us!" Jake explained. Liz couldn't argue with it.
"Seal?" Hermione asked.
"Yea. It's my nickname," Liz answered. "We each have one. It's after the first animal we changed into. I'm Seal, Caroline is Cat, Jake is Bear, Matt is Shark, Ashley is Eagle and Harry is Wolf."
"Oh," Hermione responded before looking down at her watch. "Oh no!" she cried. "We'll be late for potions if we don't quickly get our books now!" Hermione rushed to get up before Harry grabbed her around the arm.
"Don't have a heart attack Hermione," he said letting go of her once she stopped. "I'll get the books. What do we need?"
"We need our potions and transfiguration books," Hermione answered wondering what Harry was up to.
"Is everything in your trunks?" he asked everyone. They nodded. "I'll be right back," and in an instant he was gone.
Hermione and Ron's eyes were wide as well as anyone else's who saw Harry disappear. A few seconds later Harry appeared back carrying eight bags. "Here you go," he said handing the bags to their owners. Inside were their books, parchment, ink, and quills as well as anything else they needed.
"How did you do that?" Hermione asked speechless.
"I teleported. I can do that. Like I told Ron earlier before, you'll have to get used to it," Harry answered laughing at the faces of his friends.
"Can you do that to get us to potions quickly?" Ron asked.
"No, sorry mate." Ron looked disappointed. "I can only do one person at a time. Well, I can do a bunch of people at a time but it takes away a lot of energy which I need right now, but since I saved us a lot of time, we can get their on time if we leave now." Without any more words, everyone was up and out the Great Hall. They quickly ran to Potions. Five minutes before the class started, they walked into the classroom and took their seats. Ron and Hermione sat together, Harry sat with Ashley, Jake sat with Matt and Caroline sat with Liz. The shapeshifters sat in the back because they really didn't need this lesson.
"Potter, 20 points from Gryffindor!" Snape said the second he walked into the door. Harry was confused why he lost points but knew not to talk back. Too bad the others didn't know.
"Twenty points? Why?" they asked.
"We were on time-"
"We were sitting down-"
"What did he do?"
They asked at the same time.
"Silence! 20 more points off for calling out," Snape yelled. The others shut up instantly but not without death glares to him. "Today we will start right in with potions that can remove a person's memory with one drop." Snape droned on for half an hour until they got into making the potion.
"Weasley! 20 points from Gryffindor for your poor excuse for shavings of a unicorn horn." The rest of the class went on like that for the rest of the class until finally the bell rang. Students rushed out of the room and walked to their next class.
"Ron, you and I have transfiguration next," Hermione said looking at her schedule.
"We have sword fighting next," Caroline said.
"This will be fun," Jake remarked sarcastically. "Nothing like killing each other with deadly swords."
"Doesn't it sound like tons of fun?" a voice asked next to them. Spinning around they saw Stacy. "I'm here to bring you to where I will teach you sword fighting. It will be outdoors on the Quidditch pitch. Follow me," she said. Ron and Hermione waved good bye as the others followed Stacy.
"We won't be starting with swords are we?" Ashley asked scared.
"Why not? We don't have a lot of time. If we don't start soon, you won't be ready to fight if necessary," Stacy said. Once at the Quidditch field, they saw a box in the center. "Your swords are in that box." They all gulped. Stacy wouldn't let them hurt each other would she?
Once they were in the middle of the field, they stood in front of Stacy while she went over to the box. She looked in and moved things around until taking about a long and sharp sword. "I want each of you to come to this box and take a sword that you like," she said stepping aside. They each went up and picked out a sword. Harry picked out a sword with an emerald colored handle. It was long and looked sharp.
Stacy went on with the lesson by teaching them striking techniques as well as blocking techniques. They worked through the period without a break. Before they knew it, the period was over and they began martial arts. They finished the sword fighting class without anyone getting hurt.
In martial arts, they learned punches, kicks, moves, and blocks. They worked hard learning everything and started trying them on each other. Harry was fighting Ashley. The fight went on forever until Stacy told them to stop. Quickly the period ended and lunch began. They started to walk away from the pitch until Stacy stopped them.
"That was a very good class. Now if you'd like, After lunch I can teach you to use gymnastics in with your fighting to help, but that would just be extra. Think about it. I'll teach you that after lunch here at the pitch. You're dismissed," she said. Harry thought about it. He really didn't know if he wanted to take the extra course. He didn't know gymnastics.
Instead of heading right to the Great Hall, Harry headed for the Gryffindor common room to change books.
"Hey Wolf!" a voice called from behind him. Turning around, he saw Ashley waving to him and trying to get through the crowded hallway to him. Finally she reached him. "Are you going to the common room?" she asked. Harry nodded. "Good. I'll come with you."
They began walking to the common room. "Crazy class huh?" he asked referring to the sword fighting and martial arts classes.
"Yea. I was afraid that one of those blades were going to hurt me!" Ashley exclaimed.
"Me too," Harry responded. "I didn't think Stacy would make us start to fight each other the first class!"
"That's because we have limited time to learn things," Ashley said. "We can't take the whole year learning these things if we're here to provide protection."
"Yea I guess you're right. What did you think of the potions master?"
"Snape? He was horrible. I can agree when you said you hated him. He really hates Gryffindors doesn't he?"
"He does but I don't know why," Harry said. They reached the Fat Lady.
"Dragon's Blood," they said to the Fat Lady as the portrait swung open.
"Are you going to do that class after lunch with Stacy?" Ashley asked before heading up to the fifth year girl's dormitory.
Harry thought about it for a minute. "I don't know if I will. Are you?"
"Definitely. It might be really useful. It might also be fun. Please join with me?" she asked giving him puppy eyes. "I don't think any of the others are joining. They didn't seem too interested in it. Please join!"
Harry thought about it for a little while until he smiled and shook his head. "You're very good at convincing people what to do," he said.
Ashley looked at him in happiness. "So you'll join with me?" she asked hopeful.
Harry looked at her and said, "Yes I'll join with you."
Ashley practically jumped for joy and ran to hug Harry. "Thank you, thank you, thank you. This will be great," she cried. She finally stood up straight and wiped hair out of eyes. "I have to go and prepare for the afternoon classes now. What do we have?" she asked composed.
Harry took out his schedule. "Divination, and History of Magic but we have the class with Stacy instead of Divination." Harry answered.
Ashley looked at Harry in disgust. 'We have divination? The horror!" she exclaimed putting a hand to her head making Harry laugh.
"I hate divination. The professor always predicts my death every class."
"Oh wait I see it now!" Ashley exclaimed closing her eyes and moving her hands around in front of her. "I see your head on the ground as the result of a badly aimed sword." She opened her eyes and laughed.
Harry laughed with her while walking to the stairs leading to the boy's dormitories. "Let's just hope that that doesn't happen," he said.
"Just stay away from Bear with a sword and you'll be fine," she responded walking to her own dormitories.
"That's true," Harry mumbled. He put his potions book in his trunk and took out his History of Magic book. After making sure he had everything, Harry headed back out of the dorms and down to the common room. Sitting on one of the couches, he waited for Ashley to come out of her room. A few minutes later, Ashley came down the stairs with different robes on. Instead of the school uniform she was wearing a shirt and shorts that she could do gymnastics in and her elemental robe.
"You're not going to wear that are you?" she asked coming down the stairs.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"We're going to a gymnastics fighting class. You need to wear something that you can move in. You can't wear the school uniform. Plus, you'll get hot in that easily," she said.
"Then what should I wear?" Harry asked looking down at his uniform.
"A tee shirt and shorts of course. Wear your elemental robe too. Stacy said we can wear the school uniform or our robes."
Harry looked at her. "Since when did she say that?"
Ashley thought for a moment. "Maybe during a time when you were tired and you forgot. I think you were tired. You can never remember anything when you're tired because you don't concentrate on it. It goes in one ear and out the other," she answered smiling.
"Okay ok," Harry mumbled standing up. In one snap, his clothes changed. His clothes changed to a dark green sleeveless shirt and a pair of khaki shorts. On top was his robe. "Ready?" he asked Ashley.
"Yea. I'm hungry. Let's go to lunch," she responded putting a hand to her stomach.
"Hey Eagle," Harry started. "If we're so powerful, why are we busy learning sword fighting and martial arts?"
Ashley was quiet for a moment. They headed out through the portrait and headed towards the Great Hall. "I don't know, Wolf. It doesn't make sense does it?" Harry shook his head. "You think Stacy isn't telling us something? Something we need to know?"
This time Harry was quiet for a moment. "I really hope if she isn't telling us something, it's not really important. Maybe we really don't need to know it."
Ashley gave Harry a sideways glance. "Why do I get the feeling that you are doubting yourself?"
"Because I know it must be important," Harry answered scratching the back of his neck. Reaching the Great Hall, they opened the doors and walked in. The tables were full. Seeing the rest of the group, they made their way over to them. They sat down in between Matt and Hermione.
Matt looked at them when they sat down. "Change of clothes?" he asked eyeing their clothes.
"Yea. Black uniforms make me hot," Ashley answered.
"Why were you two late?" he asked finishing what was on his plate.
"We had to switch books." Harry said putting some things on his plate.
At the staff table, Professor Dumbledore stood up. The Hall instantly quieted down. "I just need to interrupt this feast for a minute to make a very important announcement," he said. The students looked at him worried. Was it good news or bad news? "This year we will be resume playing Quidditch. The only problem is, the team captains have graduated. The heads of the houses have picked a person and voiced their opinion to others on the team. The team and head of house have agreed to the person to be captain. In Slytherin, the Quidditch captain is Draco Malfoy." There was applause from the Slytherins. "For Hufflepuff, Michael Stevens is captain." Applause from Hufflepuff as well as polite applause from other houses. "For Ravenclaw, Cho Chang is captain." Applause was heard from the tables. Next was Gryffindor. Harry was nervous. Professor McGonagall never talked to him about who would be captain. Harry wanted Fred and George to be captains. They played longer. "And for Gryffindor," Dumbledore said. "The new team captain is none other than Mr. Harry Potter." Harry's jaw dropped. Dumbledore smiled at him. So did Professor McGonagall.
The rest of the team came up to him. "No. I can't be captain," he stated.
"And why would that be?" Fred asked surprised by Harry's reaction.
"Because I haven't played as long as you have," Harry said.
"Yea and next year all of us will be gone except you. We need a captain with experience to direct the new team next year," George said. Harry thought for another reason why he couldn't be captain but couldn't think of any.
"Please be captain Harry," Alicia pleaded.
"Come on Wolf! It would be great!" Ashley exclaimed next to him. Harry looked around at the faces around him. The team was smiling and urging Harry to take the position. Hermione was even smiling. The shapeshifters were excited and wanted him to be captain. Ron was smiling and yelling at Harry for even thinking about whether or not he wanted to be captain.
Harry didn't know what to say except, "Fine, I'll be captain." The crowd around him went wild.
"Now that we have our new captains," Professor Dumbledore began making everyone quiet down and take their seats. "The first match will be this Friday. It will be Gryffindor against Slytherin and we can all expect a good game," he said looking at Harry. "You may all go back to your lunch."
"So the first game is on Friday," Fred said sitting down.
"I can't wait till next year," Ron said to Harry. "Then maybe I'll have a shot at Beater."
Harry looked at him. "Didn't you want to be keeper?" he asked.
"I used to but I like Beater now. Or maybe chaser," he answered in thought.
"Mr. Potter," Professor McGonagall said behind him. Harry turned to look at her. "You need to pick when you want practices. The first game is early in the year. You also need to pick a new Keeper," she said. She had a sparkle in her eyes as if she was happy that Harry took the position.
Harry thought about the days. "Maybe practice and tryouts tomorrow after classes end," Harry suggested.
McGonagall thought about it. "A practice and tryout during the same time? That's a great idea. I'll quickly put you down so the field is reserved. I wish you the best of luck. I want to see the look on Severus' face when we win the cup again," she said before walking away.
He told the team when practice was and made a point to tell Gryffindor in the common room when tryouts were. He didn't want anyone else at their practice. Harry just might have some tricks up his sleeve. Well, he will when he thought of them.
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Thanks for all of you who told me my mistakes. Sorry I made them but I changed them. Cho Chang is now captain of Ravenclaw. I also changed another part. Harry can teleport many people at a time but it takes a lot of energy away from him so he'd rather not do many people. Thanks to those who reviewed! Keep reviewing!!!
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"Hey Wolf! Wake up. Breakfast time!"
Harry opened his eyes to see Jake over his head. Ron was beside him. Harry heard Ron ask, "Why do you call him Wolf?"
"It was the first animal form he took," Jake responded to Ron. "Hey are you going to get up or lay there all day?" he asked noticing Harry was awake.
"Do I have a choice?" Harry asked groggily.
Jake thought for a moment. "No, not really. You don't."
"Then I'm going back to sleep," Harry said turning over. He nearly jumped out of bed when the whole room shook. "Bear I'll kill you for that!" Harry exclaimed trying to calm his racing heartbeat. Jake had made the whole room shake to wake him up. Harry glanced at Ron and saw that he too was scared.
"Now that you're awake, we need to get to the Great Hall. Our schedules are being handed out," Jake said before leaving the room.
"Does he always do that?" Ron asked.
"What? Make the room shake?" Ron nodded. "Yea. Every morning. I'll tell him to stop if it scares you."
"It was actually pretty cool. It's so weird with you being a shapeshifter and all," Ron responded.
"Yea it is. You'll get used to it like I did," Harry said sitting up and stretching. He got out of bed and snapped his fingers to get dressed. Ron gasped as Harry's clothes changed from pajamas to the school uniform. "Like I said, you'll get used to it." Harry said before he and Ron headed out the door down to the common room.
"Hey Wolf. Good night sleep?" he heard someone ask.
Harry looked around and saw Ashley sitting on one of the couches with Caroline and Liz. "Hey Eagle, Cat, Seal. Yea good night's sleep but bad morning awakening."
"Bear woke you up again?" Liz asked trying to loosen up her tie. They were dressed in the school uniforms. "Black is not my color," she said looking at the outfit in disgust.
"I don't think anything is your color, Seal," a voice remarked. Liz turned around and saw Jake walk by. Without thinking she threw an ice ball at him. It hit him right in the chest. "Ow! What was that for?" he asked. Liz rolled her eyes and walked out of the common room.
"What did I do?" he asked the others. They rolled their eyes.
"Come on. Let's go to the Great Hall, I'm hungry," Ron said. They walked out through the portrait of the Fat Lady. Right outside they found Liz.
"I knew you'd be out soon. I didn't know how to get to the Great Hall," she said. They finally made it to the Great Hall and saw Hermione and Matt talking. They walked over to them and sat down. As soon as they sat down, Hermione handed Ron his schedule and looked at the others.
"I looked for your names but I couldn't find them. You should ask Professor McGonagall," she said.
"Potions first thing!" Ron cried out louder than he had intended. He was looking over his schedule. Everyone stared at him. "This is horrible! It's still with the Slytherins!"
"I'll go get our schedules," Caroline said before leaving and walking over to Stacy.
Hermione saw where she went. "That's Professor Miller, the new DADA teacher right?" she asked.
Harry looked where she was looking and nodded. "Yea. She taught us everything about being a shapeshifter," he said while spreading butter on his toast. He was about to take a bite when he felt something on his leg. Looking down he saw Snuffles. "Hey Snuffles. What do you want? Toast?"
Hermione and Ron's head snapped up. "Snuffles is here?" they asked at the same time. Harry nodded as Snuffles walked under the table and greeted them.
"Here! I got our schedules," Caroline said handing each of them their schedules. Harry looked down at his confused by what it was.
"Confused Harry?" he heard someone ask. Looking up, he saw Stacy looking at him. "Ok everyone listen up. The only classes you need to attend are the martial arts, sword fighting, and the other classes that I told you about before. You each have the schedule that the other fifth years have. The time that you don't have the classes that I'll be teaching you, you have free time. During that time, you can go to the classes on your schedule for that time or work on anything else. It's your choice. If you don't attend any of the classes, don't worry. I already taught you everything." Stacy left leaving confused teenagers behind.
"Harry, do you have a class first thing?" Ron asked.
Harry looked down at his schedule. "Nope. I have sword fighting after potions."
"Great!" Ron exclaimed. "Can you go to potions? You know how much Snape gives us trouble."
"I guess I can go. I can impress him by what I already know," Harry responded. "What are you going to do?" he asked the others.
They looked at each other and at the same time smiled and said, "Potions class, here we come!" before laughing.
"This Snape person is the mean one right?" Ashley asked. Harry nodded.
"Not after today," Jake said mysteriously.
Liz looked at him. "Oh no you don't. This is our first day here. We don't need to get expelled!"
"Seal, face the facts! We're here for protection. They can't get rid of us!" Jake explained. Liz couldn't argue with it.
"Seal?" Hermione asked.
"Yea. It's my nickname," Liz answered. "We each have one. It's after the first animal we changed into. I'm Seal, Caroline is Cat, Jake is Bear, Matt is Shark, Ashley is Eagle and Harry is Wolf."
"Oh," Hermione responded before looking down at her watch. "Oh no!" she cried. "We'll be late for potions if we don't quickly get our books now!" Hermione rushed to get up before Harry grabbed her around the arm.
"Don't have a heart attack Hermione," he said letting go of her once she stopped. "I'll get the books. What do we need?"
"We need our potions and transfiguration books," Hermione answered wondering what Harry was up to.
"Is everything in your trunks?" he asked everyone. They nodded. "I'll be right back," and in an instant he was gone.
Hermione and Ron's eyes were wide as well as anyone else's who saw Harry disappear. A few seconds later Harry appeared back carrying eight bags. "Here you go," he said handing the bags to their owners. Inside were their books, parchment, ink, and quills as well as anything else they needed.
"How did you do that?" Hermione asked speechless.
"I teleported. I can do that. Like I told Ron earlier before, you'll have to get used to it," Harry answered laughing at the faces of his friends.
"Can you do that to get us to potions quickly?" Ron asked.
"No, sorry mate." Ron looked disappointed. "I can only do one person at a time. Well, I can do a bunch of people at a time but it takes away a lot of energy which I need right now, but since I saved us a lot of time, we can get their on time if we leave now." Without any more words, everyone was up and out the Great Hall. They quickly ran to Potions. Five minutes before the class started, they walked into the classroom and took their seats. Ron and Hermione sat together, Harry sat with Ashley, Jake sat with Matt and Caroline sat with Liz. The shapeshifters sat in the back because they really didn't need this lesson.
"Potter, 20 points from Gryffindor!" Snape said the second he walked into the door. Harry was confused why he lost points but knew not to talk back. Too bad the others didn't know.
"Twenty points? Why?" they asked.
"We were on time-"
"We were sitting down-"
"What did he do?"
They asked at the same time.
"Silence! 20 more points off for calling out," Snape yelled. The others shut up instantly but not without death glares to him. "Today we will start right in with potions that can remove a person's memory with one drop." Snape droned on for half an hour until they got into making the potion.
"Weasley! 20 points from Gryffindor for your poor excuse for shavings of a unicorn horn." The rest of the class went on like that for the rest of the class until finally the bell rang. Students rushed out of the room and walked to their next class.
"Ron, you and I have transfiguration next," Hermione said looking at her schedule.
"We have sword fighting next," Caroline said.
"This will be fun," Jake remarked sarcastically. "Nothing like killing each other with deadly swords."
"Doesn't it sound like tons of fun?" a voice asked next to them. Spinning around they saw Stacy. "I'm here to bring you to where I will teach you sword fighting. It will be outdoors on the Quidditch pitch. Follow me," she said. Ron and Hermione waved good bye as the others followed Stacy.
"We won't be starting with swords are we?" Ashley asked scared.
"Why not? We don't have a lot of time. If we don't start soon, you won't be ready to fight if necessary," Stacy said. Once at the Quidditch field, they saw a box in the center. "Your swords are in that box." They all gulped. Stacy wouldn't let them hurt each other would she?
Once they were in the middle of the field, they stood in front of Stacy while she went over to the box. She looked in and moved things around until taking about a long and sharp sword. "I want each of you to come to this box and take a sword that you like," she said stepping aside. They each went up and picked out a sword. Harry picked out a sword with an emerald colored handle. It was long and looked sharp.
Stacy went on with the lesson by teaching them striking techniques as well as blocking techniques. They worked through the period without a break. Before they knew it, the period was over and they began martial arts. They finished the sword fighting class without anyone getting hurt.
In martial arts, they learned punches, kicks, moves, and blocks. They worked hard learning everything and started trying them on each other. Harry was fighting Ashley. The fight went on forever until Stacy told them to stop. Quickly the period ended and lunch began. They started to walk away from the pitch until Stacy stopped them.
"That was a very good class. Now if you'd like, After lunch I can teach you to use gymnastics in with your fighting to help, but that would just be extra. Think about it. I'll teach you that after lunch here at the pitch. You're dismissed," she said. Harry thought about it. He really didn't know if he wanted to take the extra course. He didn't know gymnastics.
Instead of heading right to the Great Hall, Harry headed for the Gryffindor common room to change books.
"Hey Wolf!" a voice called from behind him. Turning around, he saw Ashley waving to him and trying to get through the crowded hallway to him. Finally she reached him. "Are you going to the common room?" she asked. Harry nodded. "Good. I'll come with you."
They began walking to the common room. "Crazy class huh?" he asked referring to the sword fighting and martial arts classes.
"Yea. I was afraid that one of those blades were going to hurt me!" Ashley exclaimed.
"Me too," Harry responded. "I didn't think Stacy would make us start to fight each other the first class!"
"That's because we have limited time to learn things," Ashley said. "We can't take the whole year learning these things if we're here to provide protection."
"Yea I guess you're right. What did you think of the potions master?"
"Snape? He was horrible. I can agree when you said you hated him. He really hates Gryffindors doesn't he?"
"He does but I don't know why," Harry said. They reached the Fat Lady.
"Dragon's Blood," they said to the Fat Lady as the portrait swung open.
"Are you going to do that class after lunch with Stacy?" Ashley asked before heading up to the fifth year girl's dormitory.
Harry thought about it for a minute. "I don't know if I will. Are you?"
"Definitely. It might be really useful. It might also be fun. Please join with me?" she asked giving him puppy eyes. "I don't think any of the others are joining. They didn't seem too interested in it. Please join!"
Harry thought about it for a little while until he smiled and shook his head. "You're very good at convincing people what to do," he said.
Ashley looked at him in happiness. "So you'll join with me?" she asked hopeful.
Harry looked at her and said, "Yes I'll join with you."
Ashley practically jumped for joy and ran to hug Harry. "Thank you, thank you, thank you. This will be great," she cried. She finally stood up straight and wiped hair out of eyes. "I have to go and prepare for the afternoon classes now. What do we have?" she asked composed.
Harry took out his schedule. "Divination, and History of Magic but we have the class with Stacy instead of Divination." Harry answered.
Ashley looked at Harry in disgust. 'We have divination? The horror!" she exclaimed putting a hand to her head making Harry laugh.
"I hate divination. The professor always predicts my death every class."
"Oh wait I see it now!" Ashley exclaimed closing her eyes and moving her hands around in front of her. "I see your head on the ground as the result of a badly aimed sword." She opened her eyes and laughed.
Harry laughed with her while walking to the stairs leading to the boy's dormitories. "Let's just hope that that doesn't happen," he said.
"Just stay away from Bear with a sword and you'll be fine," she responded walking to her own dormitories.
"That's true," Harry mumbled. He put his potions book in his trunk and took out his History of Magic book. After making sure he had everything, Harry headed back out of the dorms and down to the common room. Sitting on one of the couches, he waited for Ashley to come out of her room. A few minutes later, Ashley came down the stairs with different robes on. Instead of the school uniform she was wearing a shirt and shorts that she could do gymnastics in and her elemental robe.
"You're not going to wear that are you?" she asked coming down the stairs.
"What do you mean?" he asked.
"We're going to a gymnastics fighting class. You need to wear something that you can move in. You can't wear the school uniform. Plus, you'll get hot in that easily," she said.
"Then what should I wear?" Harry asked looking down at his uniform.
"A tee shirt and shorts of course. Wear your elemental robe too. Stacy said we can wear the school uniform or our robes."
Harry looked at her. "Since when did she say that?"
Ashley thought for a moment. "Maybe during a time when you were tired and you forgot. I think you were tired. You can never remember anything when you're tired because you don't concentrate on it. It goes in one ear and out the other," she answered smiling.
"Okay ok," Harry mumbled standing up. In one snap, his clothes changed. His clothes changed to a dark green sleeveless shirt and a pair of khaki shorts. On top was his robe. "Ready?" he asked Ashley.
"Yea. I'm hungry. Let's go to lunch," she responded putting a hand to her stomach.
"Hey Eagle," Harry started. "If we're so powerful, why are we busy learning sword fighting and martial arts?"
Ashley was quiet for a moment. They headed out through the portrait and headed towards the Great Hall. "I don't know, Wolf. It doesn't make sense does it?" Harry shook his head. "You think Stacy isn't telling us something? Something we need to know?"
This time Harry was quiet for a moment. "I really hope if she isn't telling us something, it's not really important. Maybe we really don't need to know it."
Ashley gave Harry a sideways glance. "Why do I get the feeling that you are doubting yourself?"
"Because I know it must be important," Harry answered scratching the back of his neck. Reaching the Great Hall, they opened the doors and walked in. The tables were full. Seeing the rest of the group, they made their way over to them. They sat down in between Matt and Hermione.
Matt looked at them when they sat down. "Change of clothes?" he asked eyeing their clothes.
"Yea. Black uniforms make me hot," Ashley answered.
"Why were you two late?" he asked finishing what was on his plate.
"We had to switch books." Harry said putting some things on his plate.
At the staff table, Professor Dumbledore stood up. The Hall instantly quieted down. "I just need to interrupt this feast for a minute to make a very important announcement," he said. The students looked at him worried. Was it good news or bad news? "This year we will be resume playing Quidditch. The only problem is, the team captains have graduated. The heads of the houses have picked a person and voiced their opinion to others on the team. The team and head of house have agreed to the person to be captain. In Slytherin, the Quidditch captain is Draco Malfoy." There was applause from the Slytherins. "For Hufflepuff, Michael Stevens is captain." Applause from Hufflepuff as well as polite applause from other houses. "For Ravenclaw, Cho Chang is captain." Applause was heard from the tables. Next was Gryffindor. Harry was nervous. Professor McGonagall never talked to him about who would be captain. Harry wanted Fred and George to be captains. They played longer. "And for Gryffindor," Dumbledore said. "The new team captain is none other than Mr. Harry Potter." Harry's jaw dropped. Dumbledore smiled at him. So did Professor McGonagall.
The rest of the team came up to him. "No. I can't be captain," he stated.
"And why would that be?" Fred asked surprised by Harry's reaction.
"Because I haven't played as long as you have," Harry said.
"Yea and next year all of us will be gone except you. We need a captain with experience to direct the new team next year," George said. Harry thought for another reason why he couldn't be captain but couldn't think of any.
"Please be captain Harry," Alicia pleaded.
"Come on Wolf! It would be great!" Ashley exclaimed next to him. Harry looked around at the faces around him. The team was smiling and urging Harry to take the position. Hermione was even smiling. The shapeshifters were excited and wanted him to be captain. Ron was smiling and yelling at Harry for even thinking about whether or not he wanted to be captain.
Harry didn't know what to say except, "Fine, I'll be captain." The crowd around him went wild.
"Now that we have our new captains," Professor Dumbledore began making everyone quiet down and take their seats. "The first match will be this Friday. It will be Gryffindor against Slytherin and we can all expect a good game," he said looking at Harry. "You may all go back to your lunch."
"So the first game is on Friday," Fred said sitting down.
"I can't wait till next year," Ron said to Harry. "Then maybe I'll have a shot at Beater."
Harry looked at him. "Didn't you want to be keeper?" he asked.
"I used to but I like Beater now. Or maybe chaser," he answered in thought.
"Mr. Potter," Professor McGonagall said behind him. Harry turned to look at her. "You need to pick when you want practices. The first game is early in the year. You also need to pick a new Keeper," she said. She had a sparkle in her eyes as if she was happy that Harry took the position.
Harry thought about the days. "Maybe practice and tryouts tomorrow after classes end," Harry suggested.
McGonagall thought about it. "A practice and tryout during the same time? That's a great idea. I'll quickly put you down so the field is reserved. I wish you the best of luck. I want to see the look on Severus' face when we win the cup again," she said before walking away.
He told the team when practice was and made a point to tell Gryffindor in the common room when tryouts were. He didn't want anyone else at their practice. Harry just might have some tricks up his sleeve. Well, he will when he thought of them.
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Thanks for all of you who told me my mistakes. Sorry I made them but I changed them. Cho Chang is now captain of Ravenclaw. I also changed another part. Harry can teleport many people at a time but it takes a lot of energy away from him so he'd rather not do many people. Thanks to those who reviewed! Keep reviewing!!!