"Harry?" Cho asked looking at him.
"Hi." Harry said. Cho grinned and hugged him.
"I didn't know if anyone was ok. I was sent to China at the end of the term and-"
"Cho!" Lee said. Cho stopped and looked at her aunt,
"Sorry." Cho said, "Um, why are you, you haven't taken your NEWTs, why are you an auror?"
"April." Harry said with a smile. Cho looked at April who was in discussion with Lee about something, Cho hugged him again.
"Oh, it's so good to see you." Cho said. Harry smiled.
"It's good to see you as well." Harry said, "So you're an auror" Harry said pointing to Cho's black robes.
"Yeah, I'm training. I really want to have those robes," Cho pointed to Lee's robes, which were a very dark red and had the head of a dragon on the bottom corner of them. "I got all Os for my NEWTs so the Chinese ministry took me on without me having to take the Chinese equivalency tests." Cho said, she was obviously happy about it.
"Did you see what happened at the end of last year?" Harry asked, curious as to whether Cho actually saw it. Cho's expression fell.
"With Dumbledore?" she asked quietly. Harry nodded. "Yeah. I was taking Jenny to that room you told me to when that lady caught us. How is Jenny?"
"She's good." Harry said, "She went to Hogwarts but I'll get her out if she has the slightest bit of trouble." Cho gave him a slight smile.
"Have you ever wondered if we could have that kind of thing?" Cho asked looking at Harry.
"I love Jenny, Cho, nothing will make me feel otherwise." Harry said. Cho sighed
"I know but have you ever wondered what it would be like if I had gone with you to the Yule ball instead of with Cedric?" Cho asked.
"I used to." Harry said. Cho looked at Harry for a while and smiled, Lee got up and called Cho over to the door.
"Well, I think I should get going with my aunt." Cho said.
"Look after yourself." Harry said.
"Thanks, you to." Cho said. She gave Harry a quick hug and then left with Lee. April turned to look at Harry.
"Harry, I need to tell you about what you will have to do now that I'm your mentor. You will be following me everywhere unless you are on a break or after the day but you live with me so you will be spending all your time in my presence. You will accompany me to raids, meeting, journeys and you will do everything I say. Every two months you will have an assessment by the head auror, me, to see how much you have learnt. You must pass every assessment in order to get your full auror's robes. The course should be three years but I will attempt to teach you in less then a year provided you will study hard."
"Anything to rid the world of Voldemort." Harry said. "Besides it's not like I'll have anything else to do. I'm not allowed out, I don't have my quidditch anymore and all my friends are at school" Harry said glumly.
"Good, now, I have to go and see Fudge. I'll be taking control of the country so there's a chance that you will have to pretend to be me sometimes, take Polyjuice potion and so on." April said.
"Can I do that?" Harry asked slightly amazed. April smiled and put a hand on his arm as she stood up.
"I believe you can. Seeing as who your parents were. I think you'll be a very good auror." April said. "Now, put your hood up. You must always keep that up because we cannot afford to let anyone see our trainees."
"Who else is a trainee auror?" Harry asked pulling his hood up and following April out.
"I'm not allowed to tell you." April said.
"But you're head Auror!" Harry said. April laughed.
"I'll tell you at home then, it's too risky here." April said.
"Welcome to Dark arts." Said Grout with disdain, "I am highly against this part of the school curriculum but your headmaster insists that I teach dark arts to you and so I will try." Ron looked at Hermione. She was staring at her text book and frowning. "This subject involves a lot of feeling. Those who are best at the Dark arts will be those who hate so I think that only a few of you will excel at this subject while others will not be as good, particularly those of you who have chosen the path of the light." Grout said, choosing his words carefully. Avery, who stood in the corner, didn't pick up on this subtle reference to Harry and Dumbledore. He just stood watching Grout speak. Ron thought that everything anyone was saying was going in one ear and out the other.
"Urgh, Ron look." Hermione said pointing at a diagram of someone being turned inside out. Ron looked and scowled.
"Miss. Granger, would you kindly pay attention in class."
"Sorry sir" Hermione said closing the book and looking up.
"Thank you." He said. "As I was saying, we will be working on unforgivable curses. I will not be teaching you these, but the Headmaster's right hand servant will be teaching you. Bellatrix Lestrange." A few people cowered back in fear. "She will be here in a few moments and I warn you to listen to every word that she has to say for doing otherwise can result in very unpleasant experiences" Grout said. He squirmed slightly like he knew what they were.
"Thank you Grout." Said Bellatrix, coming into the classroom. "In fact, the dark lord has asked me to take over this class so Grout, you are excused from the job though you may teach those in the third year and below." Grout looked slightly shocked at this. Bellatrix gave him an evil smile. "Leave now." Grout flicked his wand and all his things went into his bag. He picked it up and left the room. Lavender bit her lip and held onto Dean's hand tightly.
"Now that we've gotten rid of that oaf, Avery, you may go and attend to the half breed in the care of magical creatures class." Bellatrix said. Hermione started shaking and Ron went red. "Now, let me see who's in this class." Bellatrix gazed over the list of names in front of her and then looked at the students. Malfoy and a group of Slytherins were whispering amongst themselves. Bellatrix smirked then her gaze went to a group of pathetic looking Hufflepuffs, there were only two Hufflepuffs in the Seventh year and three Ravenclaws. Her gaze finally came to Ron and Hermione and she bared her teeth
"Red hair, freckles." She looked at Hermione, "aren't you supposed to have bushy hair and big teeth?" Hermione put a hand to her straight smooth hair self consciously. "You two will definitely not be good at this class, all Gryffindors out!" she said pointing to the door.
"Even us?" Dean asked pointing to himself and Lavender.
"Yes, all Gryffindors, I will not teach those who are whole and brave of heart" Bellatrix said, "Now get your ugly faces out of here before I curse you." They rushed out of the classroom with the Slytherins sniggering at them.
"Did she call me ugly?" Lavender asked pouting slightly. Dean put an arm around Lavender's shoulders.
"Don't worry, you're very pretty." Dean said.
"Come on, lets get back to the common room before anyone comes and curses us" Hermione said.
"Ok." Dean said. They quickly got back to the dormitory. They had decided that they'd all share the boys dormitories seeing as there were four of them and ten beds and everyone could get to the boys dormitories. Lavender had complained on the first night that she felt slightly odd without Pavarti in the room as well, Hermione had to admit that it wasn't the same without the two gossiping into the late hours of the night. Ron sat on his bed.
"I didn't want to be in that class anyway." He said.
"I know. Can you believe she just kicked us out because we're Gryffindors?" Hermione asked.
"It is a bit wrong of her."
"She's Bellatrix Lestrange!" Ron said like everyone had forgotten.
"Hermione miss!" screamed a house elf running into the room. Hermione turned around just as it jumped into her arms. Crookshanks came chasing after the elf light a orange lightning bolt.
"Castra?" Hermione asked. "Crookshanks, no. He's a good house elf." Crookshanks jumped onto her bed and paced on it. Hermione put the house elf on Ron's bed. "What's wrong?"
"Mr. Harry Potter sir would like to know how you are. He wanted me to give you this." Castra gave Hermione a letter.
"What does it say?" Ron asked.
"Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Jenny" Hermione read. She looked at Lavender and Dean, who were listening as well, "Started training, met loads of important people. April is the new minister of magic. Got to do some work for her, passed my apparating test. I've met Cho, Padma, Pavarti-"
"Oh, how is she?" Lavender asked. Hermione looked at her.
"It's a letter Lavender, it's not Harry, anyway, I've met Cho, Padma, Pavarti, Seamus, Neville and Katie. They're all ok, Pavarti's scar isn't as obvious as it used to be, she's been taking potions to get rid of them. Who's returned to Hogwarts? There must only be four seventh years. Well, write to me and tell me how you are. Love you all and miss you guys a lot, Harry. Kiss kiss" Hermione read.
"So what are we going to write back?" Dean asked.
"We?" Lavender asked. Hermione got out her quill and some parchment.
"Ok, what shall we write?" She asked.
"Just say some stuff about what school's like." Lavender said.
"Oh, tell him Jenny's doing great. She doesn't want us to tell him about the bullying." Ron said.
"What bullying?" Hermione asked.
"Emma, she's been bullying Jenny apparently." Ron said, "I talked to Ginny about it. Jenny's being really hush hush about it. She won't fight back because Emma's Harry's sister."
"Oh god, we have to do something." Hermione said.
"Yeah but what? Dean and I can't exactly get to the Girls dorms can we?" Ron said. He looked at Dean and they exchanged an idea.
"Hermione, Lavender." Dean said.
"Fine, but I'm not very good at solving conflicts." Hermione said,
"Neither am I. I just talk about them." Lavender said.
"Just talk to Jenny." Ron said. Hermione nodded and quickly scribbled the letter and gave it to Castra.
"Give that to Harry." Hermione said. Castra nodded and left the room. He gave Crookshanks an evil look, causing the cat to hiss at him. "Strange." Hermione said commenting on her cat.
A/N:-PROFESSOR LESTRANGE....hahahaha....sorry, I'm in a wierd mood and I'm rereading this as i post. I must have gone crazy. hehe. Anyway, so that was one of their first days at school. It's relitively calm but will get worse. spesh for the Gryffindors. I'll try and update more but I'm currently reading Gone With The Wind and I have a cool idea for a Harry Potter story. But it's 1011 pages long and i'm gonna try and finish it before i go back to school. Anyway, Review Replies will be for like the last 3 chapters....joy (!)
Bloomz baby: God, i know what you mean bout that stupid song. there's a ride in korea that's exactly like that, i hate it's a small world after all. Yes, Emma is in Gryffindor. She's a Gryffindor by descent, like Gryffindor's heir but she's EVIL!! mwahahahaaa. I will post more soon :D
isane-elf-girl13: Lots of updates are fun aren't they? but annoying to have to read through sometimes.
uhhhhh dude: Cho and Harry will be working together but they aren't partners, as you see, Cho is part of the chinese ministry and HArry's part of the english one. An author alert is an email that is sent to you everytime the chosen author updates. So if I were on your author alert list, you would have gotten an email as soon as i posted this chapter.
blink gurl017: Double updates...I'll do two more tonight, when i get back from my grandparents house....so that'dd be 3 in one day. Maybe, i'm not sure, depends how i feel and how i'm getting on with the other stories...and if i can tear myself away from Gone with the Wind