Hey guys. Chapter five is up. Updates will, unfortunately, be slow going, as I need to focus on school and work right now. But, I will update at every chance. Just keep reviewing and I'll keep updating! The more reviews I get, the faster I'll update.

But, enough of that. Disclaimer's still the same as last time. I don't own the Harry Potter world. I just visit there when my world is boring. (Which seems to be happening quite a bit lately.)

Chapter Five: The Start of Term

The pattern was set that first day of Muggle Training, as Harry preferred to call it.

Every morning, Harry would get up at five thirty, get dressed and head downstairs to have tea with Remus and Kallie. Then for two hours, Harry and Kallie would spend time outside, training. At eight, the duo would have breakfast with the rest of the house members. After breakfast, Harry, Ron, Ginny, Hermione, Neville and Luna would all work on their summer homework.

Usually, after lunch, the six would sit in the living room, playing games. More often then not, Ron challenging everyone who set foot in the room to a game of Wizarding Chess, while the others would play Exploding Snap.

Then after dinner, Ron and Hermione would sneak off, thinking that no one knew they were together; and Neville and Luna would walk around outside. At those points, Harry and Ginny would normally sit in the living room and read or sit and talk.

Because of those talks and the time they would spend together, Harry and Ginny grew closer. Ginny got fully over her shyness around Harry and they began to trust each other.

Two weeks after Harry started his training, he and Kallie talked about asking the other five to join them. When it was decided, Harry sought them out and asked them. Ron, Hermione and Ginny eagerly said yes. Neville and Luna decided to test it out and see if they were interested in doing it over the school year.

So, after that, the six friends got to work on training. Neville seemed to enjoy himself, but towards the beginning of the term, he and Luna both decided that it wasn't something for them. No hard feelings to any of them.

And so, the 'fearsome foursome' worked hard at advancing their skills.

Three days before the term started, the four sixth years sat and looked at their chosen courses for the next year. All four of them had decided to take Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts and Care of Magical Creatures. In addition, Harry had also decided to take Transfiguration and Potions. Neville also decided on Potions and Herbology. Ron was going to take Transfiguration and Herbology. Hermione was going to be taking Astrology and Transfiguration.

With that decided the four sixth years, as well as Ginny and Luna, headed to Diagon Alley with Mrs Weasley. Once there, she set them out to do their shopping with the promise to be safe and careful. Harry knew, without being told, that there were several Order members around Diagon Alley, watching out for the teenagers. But, for some reason, that didn't bother him anymore.

The rest of the summer break was spent running around Headquarters, trying to get everything packed. Even with three days of packing, as per usual, Ron and Harry were running behind on the morning of the first of September.

They got a compartment on the train and sat there talking and playing games, waiting to be able to put their robes on for another year at Hogwarts.

The train ride was, as previous years went, uneventful. Unless you call the yearly visit from Malfoy and company eventful.

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The first few weeks of school went by quickly. Harry still had training with the others in the morning, with Professor Daniels. And his classes were harder than any other year. By far, his favorite class was Defense Against the Dark Arts, with Professor Daniels; Trans-figuration coming in second. That year, they were focusing on human transfiguration, which was the class Harry was waiting for. Ever since he found out that his father and his best friends had become Animagi, Harry had wanted to learn how to do it, if he could.

When he brought that up to his three best friends, they took a quick interest.

"Wonder what animal I'd be?" Ron asked, biting his lip.

"I don't know... your Animagus form reflects your personality. So, who knows? Maybe you'll be a squirrel." Ginny said, laughing.

Ron sent a glare towards his little sister, and then grinned.

"I think we should try to do it."

"Ginny's right." Ron agreed. "Wonder if we could do it?"

"Hermione, do you think you could look it up in the library?" Harry asked, eyeing her.

"I could try. But with all this homework, I'm not sure how long it will take."

"I'll ask Remus and see if he remembers what books the others looked in."

"But do you think he'd know? Or remember? I mean, didn't the others surprise him with the Animagus stuff?" Ron asked, looking around the ring of friends.

They were sitting in their favorite spots by the common room fire. They had been adopted as 'their spots' sometime the year before.

"Ron, I think that had to have been the most intelligent thing you've said in the whole time that I've known you." Harry remarked, laughing with the two girls.

Ron started to turn pink, and then said, "Well, its true isn't it?"

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Yeah, I know. I said it would be a long chapter, but I was suddenly struck with an idea. And it doesn't happen often, so I've decided to embrace it. I'll try to do a double update, but I'm not guaranteeing anything...

Now, to thank my reviewers:

Cherry and the Wolf- I'm glad that had you gigglying... which isn't a word by the way, LITTLE sister... anywhoo, here you go, another chapter...

Jojo- hey, thanks for the review... I'm glad you thought it was a good start... I wasn't too sure myself, as I'm not too great at starting stuff, but hey, I tried, right?

volleypickle16- thanks for the review!

Anyways, I also wanted to tell you guys: I started a story with my sister, Yoshikuni-Miharu, called The Muggle Way. You should go read it, its good... and I'm not just saying that because I helped write it... lol... now that that's done, time to post!

'Til next time!

Alex