Love Lost is Love Gained
Chapter 10: Welcome to Hogwarts
Artemis looked up at her eyes met the most beautiful old castle she'd ever laid eyes on. It looked like a picture from an architecture magazine, with high turrets and towers, mountains and a wild looking forest cradled it from the small quaint looking town, which was bustling with movement. "This is Hogwarts?" she asked, still staring around at her new surroundings.
"This is Hogwarts," Dumbledore said, reaching down to help her up. He pulled her with amazing strength for a man his age, and she was firmly on her feet, though her head was still spinning slightly. "Follow me please." He began to walk up the roads that lead to the monstrous oak front doors of the school. As soon as they were up the stairs and into the entrance hall Hermione walked up next to her and asked, "So, what do you think?"
"Come on boys," Mrs. Weasley yelled up the stairs. Harry and Ron were sitting in his room talking about Hermione, and where they thought she was.
"What do you want Mum?" Ron shouted back.
"We have to go!"
"We're we going?"
"Honestly Ron, you are thick for a Prefect, get down here, I'm not going to shout anymore." Ron shrugged and walked down the stairs, Harry followed.
When Ron was a few steps in front of his mother he asked, "Where are we going?"
"We have to go to Grimmauld Place."
"Why," Harry demanded. "We don't need to go there."
"Harry, dear, I know it's hard, but you're not safe here. It's the only place."
"Why can't we go to the school? Why can't we go anywhere but there?"
"Dumbledore is busy at the school, as are a lot of the other teachers, we can't go there. Come on now, to the fire." Harry and Ron obeyed, following Mrs. Weasley to the fire, where Ginny was already standing.
"Who else is going to be there?" Harry asked, not wanting to be in the house alone.
"Mad Eye might, Kingsley and Tonks will be there later."
"What about Lupin, where's he?"
"Remus has business with Dumbledore at the school. No more questions," she snapped. "Now, you know what to do. I'll be there in a little while, now go!" Pushing Ron forward. He grabbed a handful of glittering sand from a small jar on the mantle, yelled "12 Grimmauld Place" as he threw the sand into the fire and disappeared. Harry and Ginny did the same.
"This is amazing," Artemis remarked, marveling at the painting in the corridors. "This is actually where school is taught? It's like an art museum." Hermione laughed, as she and Artemis walked down the hall together; Dumbledore had to depart to go to an emergency meeting. "So where are we staying?"
"Well, I was originally going to stay in my dorm and you in the Room of Requirement. But I don't think it's a good idea to leave you by yourself, so I'll be staying in the Room of Requirement with you."
"When do I get sorted," she asked examining a tapestry that looked several hundred years old.
"Well, I'd assume during the ceremony. I mean, I think the hat only sorts during it." Just then Dumbledore came striding down the hall toward them.
"Ah, there you two are. Artemis, I've arranged for you to meet all you're tutors in the Great Hall."
"How many tutors do I have? I thought it was going to be you and Hermione."
"You have quite a few tutors, and luckily they took time out of their summers and duty's for the Order to help you. It is of utmost importance that you be taught. Because of Voldemort, as I explained earlier. Well, come on now. We don't want to keep them waiting." Artemis and Hermione followed Dumbledore down the corridors and back into the entrance hall, Artemis turned to make her way back to the front of the castle, but Dumbledore and Hermione turned into another door to the left. He opened the large doors and they walked into a large and bright hall, it had only one table at the far end, and was decorated with banners along the walls. "Professors," Dumbledore said as they advanced the table, "This is our new student, who you are tutoring, Artemis Black, you are all familiar with her history and why it is so urgent that she is educated in our world. Artemis," he said looking at her, "these are your tutors, Remus Lupin," he said motioning to Lupin, who waved, "Minerva McGonagall, Severus Snape, Charlie Weasley, Professor Vector, Professor Flitwick and of course, you know Hermione." As he said every name he pointed to each teacher, who either smile or waved at her, at least all smiled and waved, except for Snape, who looked at her as if he would like nothing more than to see her burn.
"You're tutoring will start today," Dumbledore said. "You have a schedule, each day you will be tutored by three teachers, and Hermione. Every other day you will switch off teachers, today will be Professors Snape, McGonagall and Lupin, and tomorrow will be Professors Vector, Flitwick and Charlie Weasley. I am afraid to say that the teachers will only be here for two hours on their day, so if you need help with an assignment you will have to ask Hermione. The only two who will be here longer than two hours, will be Professor Lupin and Professor Vector, Author's Note: Okay, in this story Professor Vector is a girl who will be staying here to supervise you. I myself will not be here for most of the time, but I trust you will find it suitable. The sorting is on September 1st." he turned to address the teachers, "You have until then to help her as much as you can, and I trust that you all realize how important this is. But I don't think it will be much of a problem, due to her heritage she should excel. Now, I'm sorry but I must depart." He turned back to Artemis and said, "You're first class today will be Professor Snape, in Potions." He then turned around and with a crack he was gone.
"Wait," said Hermione. You can't Apparate inside the Hogwarts grounds."
"Miss Granger," said Professor McGonagall, "Desperate times call for desperate measures. We have lifted the charm that disables you from Apperating, and Disapperating, because of all the work we need to do for the Order, it would simply take to much time to use Floo Powder, or any other type of transportation. Now, your things, Miss Black, are in the room of Requirement, you will need your cauldron and textbook to start your class with Professor Snape. Miss Granger; please show her to the Room of Requirement, I trust that given your escapades last year, you know where it is." Hermione smile guiltily and nodded, walking out of the hall and beckoning Artemis to follow.
"What's the deal with that Snape guy?" Artemis asked once she was certain they were out of earshot of the teachers, "He gave me the look of death."
"Oh, well" Hermione hesitated, "You see, your dad and him hated each other. It's the same thing with Ha- another student. It's really not that fair, if he hated your parents, odds are he'll hate you."
"I never even met my father, how can he judge me? I mean, he doesn't know me. He hasn't even spoken to me."
"Yeah, it isn't fair. But as long as you do well in his class he should have no reason to be unfair to you." Hermione stopped in the middle of a hall, next to an empty wall and across from a tapestry with trolls in tutus.
"What are we doing?" Artemis asked looking around, half expecting to see a door or something.
"Okay, we have to walk past the wall three times, while thinking about what you need. So, think about a place to stay, that has our stuff. Got that?" Artemis nodded, and followed Hermione in her pacing past the bare wall; after their third time all of a sudden a large oak door appeared in front of them.
"Is this it?" she asked, marveling at the newly materialized door.
"Yep," Hermione said, pushing the door open. They entered a large, cathedral ceiling, room. Inside were two large canopy beds on opposite walls, between the two were a large fire place with a couch and coffee table. Lining the rest of the walls were hundreds of books, on every subject imaginable.
"Are you the one who wanted the art work?" asked Hermione looking at one of the walls, which was lined with beautiful black and white photographs; Artemis nodded, joining her.
"Where's our stuff?" Artemis asked, looking around. The next thing she knew large piles of packages were on both of their beds. Looking through her pile, Artemis unearthed her cauldron, along with the book specified on her book list, and several jars of potion ingredients. "So," Artemis asked again, "what are you going to do when I'm in classes?"
"Well, I'm probably going to spend most of the time in the library, but Professor Vector said I could take some extra Arithmancy classes, because I don't think I did myself justice on that O.W.L. And, Dumbledore said that I'm going to get my O.W.L results in a few days! That's almost a month earlier than everyone else! I can't wait to see what I got. Aside from that, I could probably tag along in some of your classes, well not this one; you have to meet the teachers by yourself. But I can review for my N.E.W.T's and get some extra practice. I just hope that the library is open, Dumbledore never said if Madam Pince was here or not, I just really hope I can get in."
Artemis was double checking her list to make sure she had everything, she didn't want to make a bad impression for a teacher who she thought already hated her. "Well," she said, "I'd better go. Where's his class room at?" Before Hermione could answer a map of the school landed on her bed, and had small stars on each of the classrooms she had to go to. "I'd better go, I don't want to be late," Hermione nodded, she was reading a book off the shelf; Artemis picked up her cauldron, which was filled with supplies, and made her way out of the Room of Requirement.natja
777777777777777777777777777777777777777777777