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Well everybody, sorry for the delayed update of chapter five. It's just that I couldn't find the right ending for this chapter. It drove me mad! Hope you'll like !


The Jimmy Potter Stories

Jimmy Goes Hogwarts

Chapter Five

When Jimmy woke up the next morning, he didn't know where he was for a second. He glanced around the room, wondering when and why his mum put so many beds in his room. When he heard the familiar snores of Nicolas, he realised it again.
He was at Hogwarts!
Jimmy looked at his clock. 06:15 AM, classes wouldn't start in at least two hours. For a moment he tried to go back to sleep, but since the summer was still remarkably hot for this time of year, made it Jimmy sweat even more when he crawled back under the sheets.
With a sigh, Jimmy decided to get up and take a shower. Afterwards, he dressed himself in robes and left for the common room.

By the time he entered the common room, it was already 07:00 AM and Jimmy could hear his fellow students wake up in the dorms. Surprisingly, Jimmy found the entire Gryffindor quidditch team, all dressed and soaked with sweat.

"Well, good morning Jimmy!" he heard a familiar voice say and when Jimmy turned around to watch, he saw his cousin Richard sitting in a comfortable chair.

"Morning! Why are you guys up so early?" Jimmy asked as he sunk down in front of Richard's chair.

"I've been wondering about that too!" Jimmy heard another familiar voice grunting and when he looked to the side, he saw Francis Longbottom sitting in the window.

"We've been doing some exercises, down at the Quidditch court!" Richard explained. "I think physical condition is the key to win a Quidditch match. Since all the house teams are equal in ability's, matches tend to last for days. The match between Slytherin and Ravenclaw, last year, even lasted three days! Your physical condition is very important then!"

"Yeah but still, it's the first day of school Rich! We've got plenty of time before our first match!" Donna Jones said.

"Those who lack their training, will end up last!" Richard answered sternly.

Donna shook her head and Jimmy was sure he could hear her mutter "I thought Wood was over active." under her breath.

"So, who is this kid anyway?" a fifth year Jimmy didn't know asked.

Richard smiled. "This is one of my cousins, Jimmy! Jim, that's one of our Chasers, Frankie Bastino."
Jimmy waved to him.
"Next to him sits our third Chaser, Nymph Downey. And those guys," Richard pointed to two extremely muscular fourth years. ", are our Beaters, Toby Pitt and Justin Thaw."

Jimmy said hello to them, before turning to Nymph Downey. "You're actually called Nymph?" he asked surprised.

Nymph started to laugh. "Well, my parents made the big mistake by naming me Nymphodora, but I happen to hate that name so I made everybody call me Nymph instead. Not much of an improvement, but it's better then Nymphodora!" she explained a little disgusted.

"Well, I'm gonna hit the showers!" Donna said and the rest of the team seemed to agree with her as they all followed her up to the dorms. Richard lingered for a bit.

"Slept well, Jimmy?"

Jimmy nodded. "I'm looking forward to the first lessons!" he said enthusiastically.

Richard let out a laugh. "Well, I'm glad you're still looking forward to them!" and he patted on Jimmy's shoulder before heading up to the dorms. At the stairs, he ran into Nicolas, and after a quick greeting, Nicolas joined Jimmy.

"Good morning!" Nicolas called.

"Morning!" Jimmy answered has he watched his cousin, looking wearily at the giant picture of his parents.

"There has to be something we can do about that bloody picture!" Nicolas muttered. "I'm gonna have enough trouble already, knowing that bloody Jeremy-know-it-all will report every single move I make back to mum."
He sat down next to Jimmy.
"You might want to change fathers, but I would be more then happy to change that bloody brother of mine with someone else. Perfect Jeremy-know-it-all, mummies favourite!" Nicolas sneered. "And now I have mum watching me all the time back here!" he said angrily, pointing at the picture.

Jimmy could only agree with him. Having his dad looking down at him all the time made him feel quite uncomfortable. Maybe a part of him had hoped that at least within the school, people would pay less attention to the great Harry Potter but his common sense knew that Harry Potter would be just as famous at Hogwarts, as he was in any other part of the Wizarding world.

While they were waiting for Jessie and Lizzy to arrive, Nicolas and Jimmy thought of many ways to change the picture of their parents. When their nieces were ready, the four of them walked down to the Great Hall for breakfast, enthusiastically talking Jessie into their new task but being lectured by Lizzy, who kept telling them they shouldn't do something against the rules. She wouldn't shut up until Nicolas told her that she would be better off with Jeremy-know-it-all, if she kept lecturing them and Lizzy didn't say anything until they received their timetables from professor Lupin.

"Oh, it's Defense Again the Dark Arts, with the Ravenclaws this morning!" Nicolas said excitedly. "Followed by Transfiguration, with again the Ravenclaws and then Potions in the afternoon, with… ew … the Slytherins!"

"Somehow, I'm not looking forward to Potions, really!" Jimmy said darkly and Lizzy started to tremble as she thought of the description her older cousin gave about the Potions master, who was said to be a monster. Afraid she would faint again, Jimmy quickly changed the subject to the meeting he had with the Gryffindor Quidditch team this morning, but he still catched Lizzy's eyes which kept scanning the Teachers table, probably searching for anything like a 'monster'.

When the bell rang, the four of them hurried off to Defence Against the Dark Arts, bumping into Isaac Longbottom on a deserted corridor who told them he couldn't find the Great Hall. When they arrived at Defence Agains the Dark Arts, they quickly sat down, feeling relieved that professor Lupin hadn't arrived yet.

"Good morning class!" professor Lupin rumbled as he entered the classroom and walked down the room to his desk. "Good morning and welcome at probably the most important subject in your school carrier!"
He put his hands down on the desk and gave his class an impressing look.
"Defence Against the Dark Arts!"

Jimmy felt a shiver running down his spine as Lupin spoke out the words.

"During this class you will learn how to prepare yourself, if you ever may stumble upon Dark Arts. Always remember that the most simple spell, can protect you against the most dangerous curse." Lupin started walking around in front of the class. "How many of you have heard of Expelliarmus?"

A few hands rose in the sky. "Yes, mister Franklin?"

"It's a spell which cause the opponents wand to fly away." Herbert Franklin answered.

Lupin nodded. "Indeed, thank you mister Franklin, ten points for Gryffindor. While using Expelliarmus, you can disarm your opponent. Knowing a spell like this can be very useful. In fact, I can recall the story of a boy who used it against the darkest wizard of all times: Lord Voldemort and survived! Somebody you can think of, miss Zemini?"

"I think, that should be Harry Potter then!" Fleur Zemini said and three tables behind her, Jimmy flushed red.

"Good guess, miss Zemini! That was indeed Harry Potter." Lupin continued. "Ten points for Gryffindor! Harry Potter used this spell while he was being attacked by Lord Voldemort and the spell showed herself very effective, right."
"Alright, and that brings us to another subject we will discuss during this class: Harry Potter. He is the one who defeated Lord Voldemort when he was in his seventh year, saving the school and all her inhabitants as the fight took place right here on our grounds. Potter has done remarkable things when he was in school, and was a Defence Against Dark Arts star himself!"

Jimmy felt not at all comfortable with this news. He was to discuss his own father? How the hell was he supposed to do so? He didn't even know his father!
And then it struck him. He didn't even know his father. In all those eleven years, he barely had a decent conversation with his father.

"But enough about Potter for now. I want to you stand up. Yeah, that's it. Now, repeat after me: EXPELLIARMUS!"

"EXPELLIARMUS!" The class chanted and Lupin looked delighted.

"Alright, one more time. Make sure you pronounce it correctly!"

"EXPELLIARMUS!" the class chanted again and Lupin clapped his hands.

"Alright, very good! Now, split up in pairs and try to disarm your opponent."

Jimmy worked together with Nicolas, as Lizzy and Jessie stood next to them. For the next hour they practiced but only Lizzy seemed to get the spell right at the end of the class.
Lupin congratulated her and awarded Gryffindor with another ten points, which made Lizzy look incredibly fond of her self. When class was over, Jimmy rushed himself out of the room. He saw professor Lupin staring at him but didn't want to talk to him. He felt that this time, his father would be the subject, instead of his grandfather.

It seemed Nicolas, Jessie and Lizzy had decided not to start about the fact that Harry Potter would be a subject within Defence Against the Dark Arts. Jimmy silently thanked them for that. He felt miserable and thought that maybe tonight, he would talk about it with Richard.

Transfiguration, was very different from Defence Against the Dark Arts. Professor Chang was a very strict woman, with narrow eyes that looked very strict most of the time.
When she read out Jimmy's name, she gave him a significant look but continued reading the other names without starting about Jimmy's father.
Jimmy found Transfiguration very difficult. They had to transform matches into needles, but again only Lizzy succeeded, which seemed to annoy Nicolas a lot. He slammed his match with his wand, but only causing it to set on fire, leaving a black burn mark on the table and ended up losing the ten points Lizzy had earned with her transfiguration.
Lizzy felt so insulted by that, she didn't talk to Nicolas during lunch. Nicolas however didn't really seem to mind.

When Jimmy entered the Potions classroom, he felt a little scared. The dungeon was dark and impressive, with all kinds of ingredients stacked in great cabins against the wall. The four of them sat down at a table in the back of the class and waited for the Potions master to enter.
And he did. As a giant bat, professor Snape swept from his office, scaring the first years with his appearance. A loud thud next to Jessie indicated that Lizzy had fainted again but this time, Nicolas, Jessie and Jimmy didn't notice. They were too pre-occupied watching their Potions master, who had thick greasy hair and a very large, thick nose.
He gave all of them a long, nasty look, as if he was enjoying the revolted faces of his students.
"There will be no foolish wand waving or any of that matter in this class!" Professor Snape finally spoke. "Potions, is the more sophisticated side of magic, only for those who are sensitive enough to do so. Within this class you will learn how to brew love, bottle fame, even put a stopper in death."
There was a brief silence before he continued.
"I will not accept anything else then pure devotion in this class. If you are not interested, I suggest you leave now." He said, looking piercingly to Jimmy and Nicolas who had been trying to wake up their cousin.
"Gentlemen, what are your names?" Snape snapped. "No wait, let me guess." He pointed at Nicolas. "You must be a Weasley. Who are your parents?"

Nicolas seemed a little scared by this question. "R-Ron and Hermione Weasley."

"Excuse me?" Snape asked slickly.

"Ron and Hermione Weasley, sir!" Nicolas quickly answered.

"Aha!" Snape looked very fond. "I thought so! Well boy, let's just hope you got your mothers brain. She always reached a mere acceptable level within Potions."

"And you!" he pointed at Jimmy. "Your looks. You must be Potter's son, am I correct?"

Jimmy nodded. "Y-yes sir!"

Snape gave him a nasty look. "I thought so. As for you, boy, I hope you are not as arrogant and self confident as your father was."

Jimmy looked down at the table. "Don't worry about that!" he muttered under his breath.

"What was that?"

"I said you shouldn't have to worry about that, sir!" Jimmy answered quickly.

Satisfied, professor Snape swept back to the front of his class.
"Alright, you will start your potion, recipe is on the blackboard, you can find ingredients in the cupboards against the wall. When you are finished, you will fill a flacon with your potion and put it on my desk!"

Snape flicked his wand and ingredients appeared on the blackboard. The class started rumbling of to get their supplies but then Snape spoke again.

"Oh yes, and I'm expecting five feet of parchment with an essay on the properties of a bezoar, on my desk, the following class!"

The class grunted under this assignment and headed of to work. Jimmy however, kept staring at professor Snape. He was wondering what the professor had meant with what he said about his father.
It wasn't until Lizzy poked him, that he realised that he had been staring. He took one last glance at the Potions master before he returned to his cauldron.

At the end of the lesson, Jimmy turned in his flacon with a feeling of relieve. He had the nasty feeling professor Snape had been following his every move. Jimmy didn't feel at all bad about his potion though, even though it had been the first potion he ever brewed.
Lizzy had fainted three more times, every time as the professor seemed to draw closer to her. Nicolas and Jessie also succeeded in brewing a nice potion, but Jimmy didn't think Nicolas would fail since it was his mother's hobby to experiment with all kinds of potions. Nicolas had often assisted her during her brewing and had become quite handy in brewing himself.
For a guy who forgets all kinds of things, he still is very accurate, Jimmy thought.

The following hours were spend in the library, doing homework. Since Nicolas seemed to be the potion specialist, the essay they had to write for professor Snape was done in a handshake. Nicolas seemed to have learned the properties of all kinds of ingredients the same way he learned talking. Maybe aunt Hermione used the properties of a bezoar to learn Nicolas how to talk, Jimmy thought with a grin on his face. She certainly loved potions enough to do so!
They had to finish another essay for Transfiguration, which was about famous Transfigurations from the last centuries and Lizzy had found several books about it which made writing their essay much easier. Still, writing the Potions and Transfiguration essay, took them quite some time so it wasn't until dinner time they left the library.
Nicolas and Jessie seemed to be in an enthusiastic state about finishing their essays so early. Jimmy thought this would be the only time the two of them actually would finish their essays in time and looked at Lizzy, who got caught up in a book.

"Hey Liz, we are going to dinner you know. You might want to put the book away and just relax for a bit!"

Lizzy nodded. "Yeah I know, but I don't like all the fainting you know. If only I could find something to do about it!"

Jimmy nodded. He could imagine how stupid Lizzy would feel. After all, she kept fainting over everything. That was Lizzy alright. The fainting was something they all learned to live with, every once in a while the four cousins would play a prank on some other family member and then Lizzy would faint if they got angry with them. It always kept them out of trouble and Jimmy never thought Lizzy would actually dislike the fainting. But then again, he never thought she would faint at the sight of a squid or a ghost as well. Things were just a bit different at Hogwarts for now. Jimmy decided to look after Lizzy for a bit, maybe he could help her find something for her fainting problem.

They spent their dinner mostly catching up with their cousins. Nicolas was extremely full of the potion they had to brew during class, telling all his cousins one by one that he and his mother already had done it before so he was sure to get an O. Lizzy, however, told everyone about Transfiguration and her needle. Evelyn, Lizzy's five-year older sister, congratulated her because she learned so quickly and gave Nicolas an angry look when Lizzy told her how hhe lost all the Gryffindor points she earned for her match by his doing.
Sitting in the middle, Jimmy was just silent and enjoying the warmth of having such a big family. Richard sat next to him, with Dylan opposite, and they were discussing the different types of NEWT's they would take this year, since they were both in the seventh year. Opposite Jimmy, next to Dylan, sat Jeremy, Nicolas' older know-it-all brother. Apparently he was lecturing Nicolas for loosing the points Lizzy had earned in Transfiguration. Jimmy smiled at the bored face of Nicolas, who simply kept nodding yes or no but wasn't at all paying attention. Next to Nicolas, sat Jessie, with her older brother Jonah. They were talking about Potions and the Potions master. And opposite those two, sat Evelyn and Lizzy.

Still, Jimmy kept wondering about what his Potions master told him and wanted to start a conversation when Richard got up and called: "Gryffindor team! Change clothes! We're out for practice!"

Richard patted Jimmy on the shoulder and nodded at Nicolas. "Why don't the four of you come down to watch our practice tonight? It'll be fun!" and he winked.
Knowing Richard, Jimmy understood that he would be flying Richard's Lightning tonight and that cheered him up a little.

The cousins and Isaac Longbottom brought their books upstairs and headed of to the Quidditch pitch. When they arrived, the team was already zooming around the field. In the next hour, they watched as the team trained: the Chasers were passing the quaffle to each other and tried to pass the Keeper, Francis Longbottom, who turned out to be an amazing Keeper. At the same time, the Chasers were under attack by two bludgers, and the Gryffindor Beaters did their best to make sure their Chasers wouldn't get hit. A few feet above them, Jimmy saw Richard zooming around and looking for the Snitch. At the same time he kept an eye on his team, to see how the training went. Then, all of sudden Richard literally dove down and turned into a blurry red spot as he went for the Snitch. Fifteen seconds later, Richard flew upwards again, clutching the Snitch in his fist. He released it again and the game continued. This happened two or three times before Richard blew his whistle and got down on the ground as his team assembled around him.

"Nice work team!" he called. "Let's call it an evening!"

Agreeing to that, the team went of to Gryffindor tower. Richard lingered, together with Francis Longbottom and Donna Jones. He waved for the cousins and Isaac Longbottom. When the five of them reached the Seeker, the Chaser and the Keeper, a enormous grin fell over Richards face. He handed over his Lightning to Jimmy.

"Get on boy! Show us some of the Weasley spirit!"

Jimmy made a mental note to say thanks to his cousin, for calling him a Weasley. He was sure that his own name would bring at least Francis Longbottom back into a certain ecstatic state.

Then he got on the broom and kicked off. This was amazing! He had missed flying a lot and felt as if he could take on the world on this super fast Lightning. Soon he was followed by Nicolas and Jessie, who borrowed Francis Longbottom and Donna Jones' brooms. They zoomed around the pitch, in extreme happiness and when Jimmy looked down he saw how Richard apparently took the Snitch.

"First one to get is a winner!" he bellowed before releasing the Snitch.

It flew around them for a while, before zooming away. Jimmy looked at his cousins, gave them a smile and hurried after the Snitch.
Apparently the brooms were equal to each other because Nicolas and Jessie kept awfully close to Jimmy. Then, Jimmy saw how the Snitch went down in a free fall and followed. He felt how he was picking up speed but noticed how the hard, solid ground came closer and closer. He was getting closer to the Snitch, reached out his hand and. Got it!
With a cheer Jimmy turned his broom so he wouldn't hit the ground and soared back to his cousin only a few feet above the ground.

"Looks like the team has a nice replacement when you graduate, Rich!" Francis Longbottom told Richard and Richard nodded.

"Try out for Seeker, next year Jimmy! You might as well be just as good as me!" Richard said winking and Jimmy flushed red.

They chased the Snitch for several times again. Jimmy and Jessie turned out to be most successful in catching it and when they headed back to the castle, Nicolas muttered he was more of a Keeper then a Seeker. Jessie kept mocking Nicolas because he couldn't catch the Snitch and Nicolas hurried up to the boys dorms when they reached the towers. He always had been a bad loser, Jimmy thought.
Jessie and Lizzy left for bed as well, and were closely followed by Francis Longbottom and Donna Jones.
Richard however, sat down by the fire.

"I have the feeling there is something you want to talk about!" he said and Jimmy flushed red.

How does he do those things? He always seems to know when there is something I want to talk about, Jimmy thought.
"Well," he sighed. "It's just that, professor Lupin told us we'll be discussing my dad in class."

"What did you expect then?" Richard asked surprised. "That he would never be mentioned during Defence Against the Dark Arts? The man IS Defence Against the Dark Arts!"

Jimmy nodded. Richard was right. But still. Before he could talk again Richard had taken him in a little hug. When he let go he said:
"Listen Jim, I know how it must feel for you but please try to get used to these kind of things. There are many things within this school that will remind you of your father. Don't let them spoil the fun! And now it would be wise if you went to bed!"

Jimmy nodded again, and again knew that Richard was right. He said goodnight to his cousin and went for bed but lay awake for a very long time.


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