The five of them sat down around Peter.

"Hey guys, what's eating you?"

"Oh, nothing," replied Teri absently.

"Transfiguration is going to be tough," added Remus.

'Oh," said Peter looking relieved that no one had been hurt, "I thought it would be something like another kid getting beaten by the Whomping Willow."

"No, no nothing like that Pete," said Sirius between mouthfuls. "But we do need to get up to the mountain. It needs a good cleaning."

James took notice of the conversation going on around him and added, "Padfoot, the last time you cleaned anything you were like five. I was there, and that was only because there was a smudge of dirt on your broom."

"Well, I never said I was going to do it, now did I?"

Lily stood up, told them she was going to study for Charms, and walked up to her and Teri's room.

When she got there, she sat down and cried.

"Lily, sweetheart, tell me what's wrong."

"Oh, Teri," cried Lily throwing herself into her friends arms. "I don't know what to do. More and more keep leaving to cry, and it's entirely my fault."

"Never think that Lils, it's never been your fault. Voldemort is just trying to get to you."

"But it's working."

"Lily, if you really want to do something, I'll go with you to the study every night, and we can practice dueling, and spells. That way as soon as we leave school we'll be able to catch that bastard."

Lily sniffed and nodded.

"Now here's a tissue, blow your nose and we'll get you cleaned up."

Teri gathered their books and together they headed to Charms.

The next day in Transfiguration, everyone dressed in exercise clothes; even McGonagall, a stranger sight was never seen. For the muggle-born or half- half's this meant regular gym clothes, but for most of the purebreds this meant robes. McGonagall gave the purebreds muggle gym clothes, and began the first lecture.

"When you are working out in the field, you will be in plain view of muggles. This means you wear muggle clothes. If you don't like it you may leave. For those of you who do not own any muggle clothes, the school with provide clothes for you. Now for our first lesson we will be learning evasive tactics, dodging. Your best defense against a curse is not to get hit. Now you will be running first, this entire unit is based on your agility. "

McGonagall led them to the Quidditch pitch where they ran five kilometers, then stretched as McGonagall explained to them the things they would be doing, running around cones, rolling, and pairing up to practice stunning and dodging.

It was hard, sweaty work. Those who had played sports, magical or otherwise did the best, but everyone managed to complete the exercises. There was little talking; everyone too occupied to think of anything else.

"Okay, that was very good for the first day. But we still have work to do; we will be doing the same thing tomorrow. Do not for get the clothes you need to change."

The entire class walked to the locker rooms.

Since half of the class was on a Quidditch team, the appearance of the changing areas were not anything other than what they were used to, but for the rest of the class the spacious rooms with individual showers, hundred galleon toilets, and two meter by one meter lockers was a bit of a shock.

Professor McGonagall stood between the doors and said, "Those of you not on one of the house teams have been assigned lockers with your names on them, please store your gear there. The items will be cleaned and returned fresh by the time we have our next class. Please change and return to the castle when you have finished getting dressed, your next class starts in fifteen minutes."

"Wow Teri, I didn't know that these locker rooms were so nice. Why didn't you tell me... I might have been more amiable to coming down here with you."

"Hahahaha! Lily you always do know how to lighten the mood."