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Chapter 3: Classes and Professors

The next morning James was awakened by a loud buzzing noise. He looked around him and saw that the other boys were awakening and like him, shared a confused look.

The buzzing sound stopped and the boys looked at the time.

"That must be the wake up alarm." Remus said. "It's already 6:30am. We should hurry if we want to take baths and make it to breakfast."

"Okay" groaned Sirius "I get first dibs on the shower."

With that he hopped out of bed with Peter at his heels.

"Looks like it's just you and me then." Said James giving Remus a grin. "They'll be at least ten minutes. Let's go explore a little more."

"Alright" Remus agreed.

The two boys wandered the stairs and into the common room.

Kali was sitting in front of the fire, deep in thought. She looked up as James and Remus entered the room.

"Hey James." She greeted. She turned to Remus and said, "My name is Kali Ryan. I'm James' cousin."

"Remus Lupin, mice to meet you."

"James," Kali said turning to her cousin, "what happened yesterday that got Lily so mad at you?"

"Snape," James snarled his rivals name "he came into our compartment and you know how I can't stand him. I overheard him the other day telling Rabastan Lestrange that the one thing he couldn't stand about Hogwarts was that Dumbledore allowed- and I quote 'mudbloods and half breeds like Potter's cousin in'. Mum was there so I couldn't get to him but when I saw him I just flared up."

"Oh" Kali said "thank you for standing up for me and I'll tell Lily what the fight was about. She thinks that you just went off on Snape for interrupting your conversation. Well I better go back up. The others should be done with their baths by now. See you later James. Nice meeting you Remus."

Kali walked up the stairs and out of sight.

"Wow," Remus breathed. "You never told me that you had such a cute cousin."

"Hey!" James exclaimed "she'd like my sister!"

"Sorry but she's amazing. I've never seen anyone so beautiful."

"I'll tell her later."

"No you won't! I'll hex you into seventh year!"

"Try and stop me" James laughed. "Besides, you don't know any hexes."

"James..."

"Oh alright Lupin. I was just joshing you. Your secret is safe with me. Let's go see if Sirius and Peter are done with their baths."

Lily Evans felt nervous. Today classes would start and she would start to learn magic and learn how to become a witch. She felt her stomach turning and could barely eat her breakfast.

"You know Lily," Kali said "James really isn't that bad. That boy he punched yesterday is always saying horrible things about muggles and half bloods. James was defending me because he heard Snape say something about me the other day. He is really a great guy."

"Kali," Lily began "I know he is your cousin and all and maybe he was defending you but the other boy didn't even get a word in. Potter just hit him. I just don't think that I can get along with someone like him. I firmly believe that talking things out is the best way to deal with problems."

"Okay Lily. If that's the way you feel but please just don't put me in a compromising position. I love James like a brother. He's the only one I can say has always been there for me."

"Oh Kali! I would never do that to you. I'm sure Potter knows that I don't like him and he will leave me alone end of story."

With that both girls turned back to their breakfasts.

James, Sirius, Peter, and Remus rushed into breakfast ten minutes before it ended. They sat down in front of the first year girls and began shoveling food into their mouths as fast as they could.

Out of the corner of his eye, James saw Lily giving him a disgusted look.

Then the morning mail came.

James received a letter from his parents congratulating him on making Gryffindor he also got one from his Aunt Katy and Uncle Dan, Kali's parents. He looked over at her and saw that she had gotten two letters also. As a gift his parents ordered him a weekly subscription to Crazy for Quidditch, a popular Quidditch magazine as well as a large box of chocolate frogs.

Peter and Remus got mail similar to his but sitting in front of Sirius was a red letter- a howler.

Sirius slowly opened the letter and-

Sirius Black! You are a disgrace to the name of Black! A Gryffindor? How could you? The sham! You must go to Dumbledore immediately and get into Slytherine even Ravenclaw would be better. If you don't I don't see how I can ever look at you again. You may as well not even call yourself my son! If you don't get a house change then don't bother coming home!

The letter ripped itself up and burst into flames.

"Well" said Sirius with a smile on his face. "I got the reaction I wanted from the old bat."

Just then a girl with thick black hair and heavy eyelids covering her sharp blue eyes got up from the Slytherin table flanked by a girl with straw straight blond hair and an older boy with wide shoulders who looked a bit like a Neanderthal.

The girl and her friends stopped right in front of Sirius.

"Hello cousin dear." Said the girl with black hair. "Now that you are a mighty Gryffindor, you think you are too good for your family. I'm hurt you didn't even come say hello to Narcissa and me. And I thought we were your favorite cousins."

Sirius choked out a laugh, "You two? My favorite cousins? I hate you with every bone in my body Bellatrix. If I could I would hex you into oblivion right now!"

Bellatrix's eyes darkened from beneath their heavy lids. "You just wait Sirius, you are in a house filled with mudbloods and half bloods. You'll get what's coming for you if you don't take Aunt Cassandra's advice. Switch houses Sirius. Become one of us, its not too late." She let out a high pitch laugh. The blonde girl, Narcissa, who was next to her laughed along and said,

"Sirius dear, your mum is so disappointed in you. We've already gotten owls from our mum telling us how grateful they are that we know are places are in Slytherin. Do as your mum says if you know what's good for you."

Sirius frowned "I never want to be with you. You are evil and nothing good will ever come to you."

Bellatrix stepped forward and snarled "Watch your step cousin dear or you and your mudblood friends will pay. There is a dark lord emerging. He is gaining power fast and he will whip out all the mudbloods and their friends. Just watch, all your friends will peri-"

Sirius stood up and grabbed Bellatrix by the collar of her Slytherin robe. "Watch what you say about my friends Bella. I would hate to have to embarrass you, a third year, by hexing the daylights out of you."

The burly boy standing next to Bellatrix grabbed Sirius' arm and began squeezing it until he released his grip on Bellatrix. Then he growled "Don't ever lay a Bella again or you'll have me to answer."

He saw Professor McGonagall looking in their direction and released Sirius. Then he, Bellatrix, and Narcissa turned and headed back to the Slytherin table.

"Wow," James said "I didn't know you had family that goes here."

"I didn't tell you because they are horrible people. Bellatrix and Narcissa are sisters. Bella is a third year and Narcissa is a fifth year and a Slytherin prefect. They have another sister Andromeda who is a sixth year. She is a prefect too but in Ravenclaw. She is my favorite cousin, my favorite person in the family actually. Her parents were upset that she wasn't in Slytherin but Gryffindor is even worse."

"I'm so sorry mat. I didn't know it was like that for you. Who was that guy?" Remus asked quietly.

"I really don't know but judging from the way he leaped to defend Bella, I'm guessing that they are going out."

"Well," said James, "we had better hurry up and get to class."

The boys agreed and stood up. Peter tripped on the bench and fell flat on his face splattering food everywhere. Sirius, Remus, and James and helped their friend up laughing about what a klutz Peter was. The somber mood from a few minutes earlier was forgotten.

"Lily! Hurry up or we are going to be late for our first class!" Kali said to Lily who was busy running a comb through her hair.

"I'm going as fast I can. If that klutz Pettigrew had been more careful and hadn't gotten milk in my hair we would be on time. Okay! I'm ready."

The five girls ran as fast as they could to Professor Binns' classroom. They were cutting it very close.

When they got to class they found that most of the good seats were taken. They were forced to sit in the second row in back of a group of giggling first year Hufflepuffs and in front of the first year Gryffindor boys.

"Cutting it a little close aren't we girls." James said as the girls took their seats.

"We would be here on time if Lily didn't take so long getting ready." Samantha quipped.

"Hey it's not my fault that Peter got me all messy this morning." Lily defended.

"Quite down class." A low monotone voice said.

Lily looked in surprise. A ghost was standing at the front of the room.

"Hello," said the ghost, "My name is Professor Binns and I am going to be your magical history teacher this year."

The professor then launched into his lesson about Merlin, the first real wizard.

Lily tried her best to take notes but found it almost impossible to pay attention when Shayla and Peter were talking on one side of her, Samantha, Riley, and Kali were passing a note back and forth, and James and Sirius were spitting spit wads at the first year Hufflepuff boys.

Lily looked at Remus who had his head bent and was taking notes.

I'll just ask Remus if I can borrow his notes later. Lily thought to herself and started doodling and a piece of spare parchment.

Two hours later class let out and the first year Hufflepuffs went to Herbology while the Gryffindors set out for their first Potions lesson with the Slytherins.

"Wow" James said to Sirius as they exited Professor Binns' room, "that was the most boring class ever! Binns is a total nutter. He just kept talking and talking he didn't even look up when Molly Thatcher screamed when we hit her with a wad!"

"I am really excited about Potions." Sirius stated "I have always been interested in making my own potions but I hear that Professor Samson is really hard."

"Isn't he the head of Slytherin house?" James asked.

"Yep I hope he doesn't favor them too much."

The boys entered the room and found a table with Remus and Peter. James watched as Kali led the girls to the table next to them.

"James is a genius." She said "I want to be able to cheat off of him if I need to."

Lily shot her a disapproving look. Then she glared at James.

"The girl seems to be a little stuck up James." Whispered Sirius.

"She isn't really like that. I can tell."

Remus and Peter started making kissing noises.

"SILENCE" a loud voice echoed through the room. A tall thin man stood at the front of the classroom. He had thin brown hair and a long mustache. "My name is Professor Samson. I am the potions master here at Hogwarts. My class is not an easy one. I do not have any patience with stupidity and I do not appreciate it when students talk when I am speaking. Therefore, I will split you up into pairs, a girl and a boy. You will have to be in the same house since you will need to help each other with homework. The list of groups will be posted at the end of class. Now let us begin our lesson."

The students spent their first class memorizing the ingredients for a hair growing potion. When they were done they began their homework: an essay on the uses of toad stool.

"This class is horrible!" James exclaimed as he and the other boys left class two hours later.

"I liked it." Sirius said "why don't you and Remus go see who our partners are going to be and Peter and I will save us some good seats for lunch."

James walked over to the wall where the list was posted next to his name was... LI LY EVANS.

"Maybe this class won't be so bad after all." James said to Remus who smiled.

"I'm with Kali." Remus said with a smile.

"Don't try anything funny with her." James warned with a laugh.

"Peter is with Shayla and Sirius is with Samantha and Riley. Probably because there are five girls and only four boys."

"Lucky Sirius" James laughed and the two boys walked down the corridor to lunch.

"James Potter," Lily moaned miserably, "I can't believe that I am stuck with him for a lab partner!"

The five girls were seated at the Gryffindor table during lunch.

"Hey! That's my cousin you're talking about" Kali laughed. She thought the whole pairing situation was really funny. "Besides, I think that Professor Samson did a fine job with the pairings."

"You're only saying that because you are with Remus and he is a nice, normal boy."

"Aw Lils, it's not that bad. James looks like a really nice person." Riley said.

"I can't believe that we get to be partners with Sirius Black. Riley, he is so cute!" Samantha exclaimed.

"Are boys the only thing you think about?" Shayla asked with a sly smile.

"Well, yeah." Samantha admitted with a guilty smile. "Except when I'm thinking about food!"

The girls broke into laughter again.

"I can't believe that I got paired with Peter." Shayla said with a dreamy expression on her face. "I don't know why but I'm really drawn to him."

"I don't know why." Riley said as she stuck her tongue out, "He looks sort of odd to me."

"Hey!" Lily defended "Shayla has the right to like whomever she wishes."

"I agree with Lily." Kali said. "Besides, I am sure that Peter is a very nice boy."

Just then the four Gryffindor boys entered the Great Hall. They were laughing and joking like they had known each other their whole lives instead of just one day. The boys took seats next to the girls.

"Hey Evans," James said with a grin, "I guess we're going to be potions partners this year."

"It looks that way." Lily coolly. "I want you to know that I am really serious about doing well at this school and I won't tolerate any fooling around Potter."

"Holy Merlin! Evans you sound like a professor!" Sirius laughed.

Lily shot her a cold glare and stood up. "Well girls, I think that I've officially lost my appetite. I want to go familiarize my self with the library. Save me a seat in class." Then she turned and walked out of the Great Hall.

"Wow!" Peter said "She really hates you James."

"She doesn't hate James, she just doesn't know him." Kali said

"Well she'll get to know me a lot better this year." James said with a cocky grin.

"And you two will get to know me a whole lot better too." Sirius said as he put his arms around Riley and Samantha.

The group of Gryffindors all started to laugh.

Kali looked towards the door Lily had just walked through. 'If only she would give the guys a chance.' She thought wistfully before rejoining in the laughter.

After lunch the Gryffindors set out to have their first Transfiguration lesson. Lily was already seated in the front row when the eight other first year Gryffindors showed up seconds before the bell rang.

The girls went to go sit in the front with Lily while the boys found seats towards the back of the room.

Professor McGonagall swept into the room as soon as the bell rang. "Hello class and welcome to first year Transfiguration. I know you all have met me so I will skip the introduction and go straight to your lesson. Today we will be practicing wand movements. Wand movements and incantations work together. If you don't have the right hand movements, your spell won't work. The first wand movement is the swish and flick." She demonstrated the movement. "Now I would like you all to practice this movement for the rest of the class." She went to her desk and began sifting through a pile of papers.

Lily started swishing and flicking, trying to imitate the motions that her professor had used.

James and Sirius, however had decided to use their wands as swords and were battling each other to the great amusement of Peter. Remus pretended not to see them. James had Sirius in a corner, Sirius tried to jump out of the way but ended up tripping over an end table, spilling ink and quills all over the floor.

"Mr. Potter and Mr. Black! How dare you interrupt my class!" McGonagall said furiously. "You two will serve detention with me tomorrow night at seven sharp!"

"Aw, Professor I can clean up the mess." James said. Then he took out his wand, waved it while saying an incantation and the mess was cleared immediately. "Little trick my dad showed me for when my mum bugged me about my messy room." He winked at Lily who turned bright red, to his delight, and turned her back to him.

"That was very nice Mr. Potter but you still have detention." McGonagall walked back to her desk and to her work.

"Hey," Sirius whispered "I'll bet a galleon that we just set the record for the getting the fastest detention."

James laughed and the two friends went back to work.