"Harry! Harry!" Mrs. Weasley shouted disturbing Harry from his peaceful dreams.
"Wha-..." Harry said just beginning to stir.
"O.W.L. results are in" she said with excitement.
"Ohhhh noooo" Harry groaned miserably as he arose and put his glasses.
"Here you go Harry" she said as she tossed him his results.
DADA-O
Potions-A
Transfiguration-E
Charms-E
Divination-P
Care of Magical Creatures-O
History of Magic-A "Harry, with the exception of Divination, which is a crock to begin with, you have excellent grades!" Remus said enthusiastically over Harry's shoulder. Mrs. Weasley gave Remus a scowl, "Harry, you seem to have another piece of parchment attached" she informed him. 'How did I not notice that' he wondered. He shrugged it off and flipped the parchment over.

Dear Mr. Potter, we are pleased to inform you that you
And several others in your year that did incredibly well
Will be taking the Advance N.E.W.T. Defense Against
The Dark Arts. We are also pleased to announce you have
received the highest O.W.L. In this class since your parents
time and beyond.
Thank you and enjoy your holidays,
Minerva McGonagall.
"Congratulations Harry!" Remus announced once again over Harry's shoulder. "I'll warn you though, this is a very difficult class, your father, your mother, Sirius and I all took this class in our sixth year as well, it is by far the toughest class you will take in Hogwarts." Remus informed him.
"Thanks for the pep talk professor" Harry said sarcastically. Remus gave a hearty and appreciating laugh and patted Harry on the shoulder.
"Let's go down to the mess hall Harry, I'm sure there are some people you may want to share your exam grades with. Harry nodded in anticipation of hearing how he did, compared to Ron and Hermione. He did not have to wait for Hermione for the second the door open he heard a loud thud. Harry looked behind the door and Hermione was sprawled on the ground.
"Hermione, are you al-." Harry asked worriedly.
"Fine Harry, just a bit of a spill, O.W.L. scores are in! "Hermione said excitedly. She continued to inform him she got O's and E's on all of her classes with the exception of potions in which she received an A. In return, Harry shared all this grades even his P ("Harry, a P! I know it's a stupid class but still, a P?!").
"Shall we go and see Ron?" she asked and it was quite obvious she was not asking as she had already begun skipping to his room before Harry answered.
"Ron! The O.W.L. scores are in! What did you get?????" Hermione asked anxiously.
"I got a P in potions" Ron gulped. All of a sudden the notice the large smears of black ink on his face.
"Ron! What happened??" Hermione asked in a very Mrs. Weasley like tone.
"It turns out, Dumbledore put some sort of charm on it, when you try and change your score by bewitching it, it squirts ink at you until your parents see it. Mum is furious with me." Ron seemed paler than usual even with the black ink smears.
"I did get one of these though" He said in a considerably cheerier tone as he held up his form of acceptance to the advance N.E.W.T. class.
"Oh me too," Hermione said as she dug around in her pockets and finally fished it out.
"Harry, we all know you've got one...Right?" Ron said meekly as he prayed Harry got one so not to upset him. Harry nodded,
"My letter said that I got the highest grade in D.A.D.A. since "your parents time and beyond."" Harry said gleefully.
"Well done Harry" Ron complimented him.
"Harry that's incredible, to think of the hundreds of thousands of people who have taken this test; that you did better then them! I mean I'm not surprised its just that-."
"Hermione, enough!" Harry and Ron shouted. With that, they headed down to the mess hall where they were greeted by Remus and Mr. and Mrs. Weasley.
"Harry, Ron, Hermione, Molly has just informed me you have all gotten into the advance N.E.W.T. class, congratulations!" Mr. Weasley exclaimed supportively.
"Thank you", they all said in return.
"Who else do you think made it into this class?" Harry asked them. Harry looked to both Hermione and Ron, Hermione shrugged.
"Idwnoibtotsoplgtn" Ron mumbled, bits of bacon spewing out with each bite. Ron could tell by the baffled expressions they did not understand him.
"I said, 'I don't know, I bet lots of people got in" Ron said in a tone like they were thick for not understanding.
"Anyway, shall we go to your apparation lessons?" Mr. Weasley asked. They all nodded in agreement and with that they started towards the door with out even noticing Ginny joining them.
"Hey Gin" Ron said in a bright voice. Hermione and Harry greeted her as well.
"I'll be in your D.A.D.A. class next year", she said casually, she could no longer conceal her joy as she allowed the grin to dance with her lips and turn the corners to the sky.
"Holy shit!" Ron muttered after 1 minute of gawking.
"Ronald Weasley! If I ever hear you say something to that caliber again, you will not being leaving your room until your 40!" Mrs. Weasley said infuriated, even Mr. Weasley seemed pretty intimidated by the shouting. Harry turned to Ron and Ron was trembling in fear, and was silent almost the entire way to McGonagall's while Ginny, Hermione, and Harry spoke excitedly about it.
"That's brilliant Gin! I'm sure you'll be the only 5th year in the class!" Harry said enthusiastically.
"Really Ginny, I'm sure this is the first time that there will be a fifth year in this class. I bet you that many of the people from D.A. we'll have gotten in to that class, but surely not many 5th years at all!" Hermione said in awe.
"Luna got in as well she sent me an owl this morning." Ginny said just as calm as when she announced her being in the class.
"That must be it, I'm sure everyone who came to the Department of Mysteries will be there" Hermione said matter-of-factly.
"Anyway Harry have u thought about your N.E.W.T. classes next year? I'm taking all N.E.W.T. classes except Arithmancy and Muggle studies. I had to fight myself tooth and nail to not take those classes at that high of a level but my other classes will prove to be more useful and more time consuming." Hermione informed him. 'That's Hermione all right, fighting her self "tooth and nail" for 2 classes' Harry thought.
"We'll be back to pick you up in 2 and a half hours" Remus said jerking Harry from his thoughts. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny all strolled into the shop while Ginny did a surprisingly accurate impression of Ron being yelled at by Mrs. Weasley. Harry had to stifle his laughs so not to upset Ron, whose ears were turning the deepest shade of red Harry thought possible.
"I wonder where Miss McGonagall is" Ginny pondered aloud.
"Right here, sorry about that I was in storage, any way call me Brianna, leave McGonagall to my mother" she said with her normal sweet smile.
"Okay then shall we begin, Hermione, don't forget to cast the spell I showed you last night before you try right?" Hermione nodded.
"Okay, Ginny, step forward please, now, try and apparate to the bow we worked with yesterday, with out using your wand, you may still say the incantation though, and by the way, all of you, congratulations on your Advance N.E.W.T. class, my mother sent me an owl about it I'm quite impressed. Right then Ginny, step up," Ginny did so as Hermione held her wand.
"Binkinus apparatus" Ginny recited, and with a loud crack she disappeared and reappeared about 30 feet from where she originally stood, leaving Harry, Ron, and Hermione with stunned and impressed looks on their faces.
"Very good Ginny, now apparate to the next square closest to you," Ginny did as she was told, she said the incantation, and with another crack, she reappeared in that square. "Good girl; now apparate back here, to where you started, this time, don't use the incantation. Ginny closed her eyes, and the look of calmness and tranquility changed to struggle and frustration.
"I can't" she said almost out of breath, then said the spell and reappeared to her starting point with a look of defeat on her face.
"Ginny, how did it feel trying it without a wand?" Brianna asked.
"It...It felt like I was try to...get out of body and run here, but it was like there was an invisible shield that I couldn't...penetrate." Ginny said getting progressively quieter until the word 'penetrate' was a mere whisper.
"Well explained, this is because, you imagined your self walking there yes, in your mind has that been how you've been doing this?" Brianna asked curiously. Ginny nodded looking like she was about to cry.
"That will work fine with using the spell, a spell will do what it's told, what it was created to do. Translating this in to casting a spell with out words is different. You need to think the words; you need to see it happen in your mind. This spell it exactly like a muscle; you need to work it, Ginny, that wall requires muscle of the spell, it was like you trying to lift a tree trunk the muggle way. She informed them as she paced the room.
"Now everyone line up in front of a different column" she instructed. They all did as they were told.
"Now do what we did yesterday, use your wands and incantations 5 times, there and back counts as 1 time. Then, try its with out your wands, if that gets easy, try without the words. I don't believe that any one will get that far today" she said sweetly. Over the next hour, Hermione felt much more confident in her casting of this spell then she had the previous day. Every once and a while, Brianna would shout encouraging phrases such as 'Very good!' and "that a boy/girl'.
"Now I think we will have some fun. We are going to have a relay. First, you must apparate to the First Square in your column, then the next, then and so on until you reach the final square, at which point u will reverse the process. The first person to finish will get a special treat" She said mysteriously. "Alright, on my whistle, three, two, one" the seconds the word 'one left her lips he blew the whistle. Hermione was on Ginny's coat tails while Ron was having trouble and swearing between each attempt. Harry was less then a second behind Hermione when he hit the last box 'I've almost got it' was his only thought, mid-way back he'd surpassed Hermione but was still not within the reach of Ginny, she had finished. With the exception of Ron, no one felt too bad about how they'd done.
"Brianna, how come I did so lousy during the relay compared to what I doing earlier? Ron asked.
"Apparating with speed and regular apparating, you need to be able to get a major amount of concentration. Ginny, I assume while doing those "errands" for your brothers you had to do them quite quickly on occasions" Ginny nodded.
""Your test will be on several factors. First, your speed, how fast you can apparate. Second, apparating some where miles away without injury to your self or others, finally, it will be precision apparating, these boxes you've been going to and form are about 8 ft by 8 ft, on the test, what you will need to land on are squares about 3 ft by 3ft. We will work on a different one of these every day after an initial 30 minute practice of just going box to box as we did today. Have a nice night, get some sleep, your bodies need rest to do this day after day especially in the beginning." On that last note, she apparated her self out of the room and left her 4 pupils.
"If we all work hard enough I'm sure we'll pass" Hermione said brightly.
"Ron, your mom shouldn't be here for another half an hour, I'll treat everyone to some ice cream" Harry said happily, at first Ron was apprehensive but when everyone else agreed he agreed as well. Harry ordered a vanilla ice cream-Sunday topped with Berty-Botts-Every-Flavored Beans. After the first few bites he ended up eating around them then just picking them off, they all assumed Harry ate a few not so pleasant flavored beans. Ginny had fire ice cream, it was enchanted with a flame that would make the ice cream hot but keep it frozen, and she seemed to be enjoying it. Hermione got a strawberry ice cream cone, and Ron got an ice cream cone of chocolate frogs all frozen together covered in crumbs of cauldron cakes, and by the looks of it your weren't sure if he just threw it at his mouth or ate it.
That night Harry and Ron laid awake reading the book Fred and George gave them. 'You must cast the spell of your inner animal'
"Is it just me, or does that sound like an advertisement for some kind of cologne?" Ron asked Harry, they both shrugged and continued to read. 'The words to view the inner animal of yourself are 'Buscar la animales', when the spell is cast, you will see a cloud of smoke, inside this cloud will be your animal, which only you can see.'
"Okay Harry, give it a go" Ron said nervously.
"Buscar la animales" Harry said in a voice, bold enough t be effective, but quit enough to wake others. Wisps of smoking began flowing out of his wand until they gathered in a median between the roof and floor. Inside this cloud of smoke, Harry saw a lion! But next to the lion, he also saw...a...pronged deer(a male deer for those who don't know)
"Bloody hell Ron!" Harry shouted
"Harry shut up!" Ron urged.
"I have two animals, Ron, two!" Harry said excitedly.
"Harry, you're a Bi-animagus, that's rare, there only about 7 in the world!" Ron said in awe.
"What are you?" Ron asked.
"I'm a lion which I guess is from being an heir of Gryffindor, and also...also...I'm prongs" Harry choked
"Wicked Harry! That cool let me have a go!" Ron said in excitement. Ron repeated the same steps as Harry did before and Harry saw Ron stare into the cloud like he was entranced. Seconds later Ron snapped out of it.
"I'm one too! I'm one too!" Ron said jumping around.
"Ron, shut up!" Harry said listening for any stirred movement in the walls around.
"I'm a phoenix! Can you believe it Harry, a phoenix! Also I'm a wolf! This is the happiest day of my life! I still can't get over it Harry, a phoenix!" Ron said happily, and Harry felt happy as well.
"Can you believe it, we're both Bi-animagus it's insane, I can't believe it I mean that means us two, 16 year old students make up a large percentage of the bi-animagus population. It's incredible!" Ron said enthusiastically. Harry agreed. 'I need to ask Dumbledore about this there is definitely something strange about this' Harry thought making a mental note.
"We better get some sleep though Harry, we have apparation lessons again tomorrow. G' night Harry" Ron said and with that the two alleged Bi- animagus went wearily in to the silent night.
"Harry! Harry! Harry! Wake up!" Ron screamed. "Someone in the order has been killed!" Hermione cried.