It was after the feast and three out of five boys in Gryffindor's sixth year were asleep. Harry's eyes were open and so were Neville's. It seemed that each realized the other was awake for both opened the curtains and turned to face each other.
"Harry, why weren't you at the train? I know that Dumbledore didn't reallly need your help with the thestrals."
"I'll tell you, but you have to swear you won't tell anyone else." Harry hesitated. "Well, remember how Voldemort is after me and such? He got past my last line of protection so they took me, Ron and Hermione to the castle. We've been here most of the summer. Remember, don't tell anyone." He didn't feel like talking about the death of the Dursleys so he left it at that.
Neville nodded and the two boys went to sleep.
"Get off me! I wanna go back to bed. The pink inflatable spiders are coming. RUN!" Harry, Seamus, Neville, and Dean were in the process of waking Ron up. He was thrashing around under the covers and his previously indistinct mumblings about slugs and bubotubers had turned into full-fledged yelling about his greatest fear. Finally Seamus filled a cup with ice-cold water and and poured it on Ron's face while slapping him. Needless to say all five were in the common room heading to breakfast on time.
Professer McGonagall was passing out time-tables when the trio sat down. Hermione looked excited to being starting classes well Ron and Harry were both looking as thought they had eaten something off the bottom of their shoes.
"We have Defense Against the Dark Arts first! That will be exciting, I can't wait to see how Diggory teaches! Then we have Double Potions, with the Slytherins too." At this Ron made a gagging noise and Harry pretended to vomit. Hermione looked at them disapprovingly and continued reading the schedule.
"After lunch we have History of Magic. I do hope it's more interesting than Professor Binns made it and I hope Professor Trepur is nice." Ron promptly cut into this statement.
"She could be evil, though. You never can tell."
Harry burst out laughing. Ron and Hermione gave him a funny look.
"Ron is a trained monkey! This is so funny." Hermione smiled but Ron glared at him. Noticing this look Harry stifled his laughter with a piece of toast. "Sorry mate," he said, spraying the table with breadcrumbs.
"Then we have a free period." Hermione continued, brushing bits of toast off her robes. "I think that this will be an interesting day. I'll meet you in Potions Harry. Bye! Come on Ron!" Hermione and Ron left and Harry went towards Dumbledore's office.
Ron and Hermione arrived in the Defense classroom. It was very dark and looked rather eerie.
Ron whispered apprehensively, "Hermione, who do we have this with again?"
"Ravenclaws Ron! Weren't you listening to me?"
They both took seats at the back of the classroom. Amos Diggory walked to the front of the classroom and surveyed the students with a rather bored expression. "This is a class where you shall learn how to defend yourself against the growing dangers of the world. Lord Voldemort is back and you must be prepared. This is a hands-on class. Begin."
The entire room was filled with blinding white light. Nothing could be seen.
"Whoever can dim the light wins." Diggory said clearly.
Quickly students started casting spells and Hermione managed to get a darkness spell so that the room could be seen. It was in horrible condition. All the random hexes had hit furniture and students alike. The entire room was in a wreck and several of the students needed to be sent to the hospital wing.
"See how when we panic our wits leave us? Ten points to Ms. Granger and five points from anybody who hit a student. Class is dismissed."
The class went out the door and everyone was talking excitedly. Hermione had to take Ron to the hospital wing because someone had hit him with a freezing charm that didn't seem too keen on wearing off. And though she wasn't sure, she had a feeling his left foot had been the victim of a tickling charm because it was the only part of his body that was moving.
When Hermione finally made it to Potions she sat next to Harry. Quickly she explained where Ron was and then listened to Professor Snape as he instructed them on what to do in their first dull lesson.
As they walked to lunch Hermione told Harry all about the first Defense Against the Dark Arts lesson.
"It was amazing Harry! He had this blinding light and we couldn't see a thing! We had to stop it and when the lights dimmed down the room was a wreck! I got ten points for getting rid of the light and everyone who hit a student with a curse got five points taken off. But it really was a fascinating lesson and I do wish you could've come."
"You used the darkening charm right?" Harry asked and Hermione nodded. They sat down to a wonderful lunch while discussing how else they could have stopped the light.
Authors Note: I was very hyper today well writting reveiwer responses. I would like to take this time to say that Desipoplover13 is the reason my story is so good. Go reveiw her story! After all, with out her the sorting hat song would of sucked! My dog has smelly gas so I'm going to leave the room now. Ta-ta
Actionmaster: I guess it wouldn't be as fun if you lived there. Do you have a theme song? You so shoul! I know I'am weird. I like to think of my oddness as an endearing qualitie. My sorting hat song is only okay because I have a beta reader to fix it and all that. She made it a lot longer. Your reveiw made me laugh. It would of brightened up my day but my day was already great! I went shopping and got a cute mini skirt. Go now my faithful rescuer, the world needs you! (Theme song starts playing and you run off)
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Leviyl: I am hyper, oh so hyper, and witty, and gay! I am updateing as fast as I can! Its a team effort thoguh. First I actually have to sit down and write a chapter, then I send it to my beta reader. She has to sit down and fix everything. Then I have to post it after I write my reveiwer responses. However, I am very motivated by reveiws!