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Chapter 3 : The Bogart
In the morning, the three woke up to find Peter, sleeping soundly in his bed.
"Should we wake him?" asked Remus.
"Guess we should." said James. He walked over to Peter's bed. "Wormtail… Hey…" he said shaking his friend. "C'mon… we have to go down to breakfast. We have classes today."
"Five more minutes." Peter replied.
"No… Now." James said, as Sirius walked over to Peter's bed and grabbed the end of his comforter. He yanked it off the sleeping Peter and he woke up.
"Hey! That wasn't fair!" Peter retorted.
"Life isn't fair, mate, so get up." Sirius said.
They started walking down to the common room, fixing their robes as they went.
"Hey! Hey guys! Wait up!" Peter said, hustling down the stairs. He was so flustered, he almost tripped on the last one.
"Alright, alright. Calm down." said Remus as he turned around to see Peter trip over the rug on the floor.
"Good morning, boys." said a familiar voice coming from the girls dormitories. Ava, Lana, Delia and Lily were making their way down the stairs into the common room. "You're up bright and early." said Ava.
"Don't want to miss the first day of classes." said Sirius sarcastically. Ava laughed and Sirius smiled.
"Well, lets go then." said Lily as she walked towards the portrait hole.
"Chill, Lily. We still have twenty minutes before we get out programs." said James.
They left the common room, but took their time walking down to the Great Hall. They had just sat down when the owls came swooping in with mail for them. No one had sent any letters to them so they started helping themselves to bacon and eggs of the gigantic platters.
Professor McGonagall soon came around to give them their schedules.
"I see you're taking Ancient Runes, Muggle Studies and Arithmancy, Miss Evans." she said as she made her way down the Gryffindor table.
"That's correct, Professor." Lily replied cheerfully.
"Well, here you go." McGonagall said as she tapped Lily's time table. "And next we have Miss Fields. No extra classes this year?"
"No, Professor." said Ava, sounding a little tired.
"Suit yourself." said McGonagall, tapping Ava's time table. "And I see you have gone along the same lines as Miss Fields, Mr. Potter and Mr. Black."
"That's correct, Professor." said James and Sirius in unison, imitating Lily's response.
"Alright then. Can't expect too much from the three of you." she said smiling, looking from Ava to James and then to Sirius and handing them each a program in turn. "Ahh, Mr. Lupin. I see you, Miss Lipton and Miss Chesterton have each decided to take Muggle Studies and Ancient Runes. Very well. Here are your time tables." she said, tapping three pieces of parchment and handing one to each of them. "Where has Mr. Pettigrew gotten off to?" she asked eying James, Sirius and Remus.
"No idea, Professor." said Remus.
"Very well. Off you go." she said as she shooed them away with her hand. "Oh, and Potter?"
"Yes, Professor?" said James.
"Congratulations on Quidditch Captain. I hope you can pull out another victory for us in the House Cup this year. I have grown accustomed to having that trophy in my office." she said with a smile.
"Thank you, Professor. I'll try my best." replied James. They started to walk towards the giant doors.
"I didn't know you made captain! Why didn't you tell us?" Sirius asked.
"I dunno. I guess it slipped my mind." James said.
"That's a pretty big slip." said Ava.
"What does everyone have first?" asked Lily, trying desperately to change the subject away from Quidditch.
"Herbology." replied Ava.
"Same." said James.
"As do I." chimed in Remus.
"Me too." said Sirius and Lana at the same time.
"Ditto." said Delia.
"Well, I guess we're all going out to the greenhouses." Lily replied. "Who do we have it with?" she asked, looking down at her schedule.
"Looks like Ravenclaw." said Lana.
"Well, lets go." said Ava.
They all walked out into the cool September morning and made their way to the greenhouses. They went through their Herbology lessons with Professor Sprout and the Ravenclaws and then they parted their separate ways. Remus, Lana, Delia and Lily went to Ancient Runes and Ava, James and Sirius made their way to Transfiguration.
"Come on. Let's hurry up. McGonagall will kill us if we're late on the first day!" said James, speeding up.
They made it just in time. They took the only seats available: the ones in the front row. Ava sat down in between James and Sirius.
"How nice of you to join us." Professor McGonagall said.
"Sorry, Professor." the three said in unison.
"Quite alright. Now onto the lesson. Today you will be reviewing how to vanish objects. I will give you each a rabbit and you must vanish it and then bring it back, understood?" she finished as a mumble of "Yes, Professor." went around the room. "Good. Miss Jacobs would you please hand everyone a rabbit?"
"Yes, Professor." Lynne Jacobs said. She walked around the room and gave each person a rabbit. When she reached Sirius, she stopped for a second and sent him a smile. "Hi, Sirius."
"Hey Lynne." Sirius replied sending back a kind smile. She finished giving out the rabbits to everyone. "Still got the charm on the ladies." said Sirius, looking rather pleased with himself. Ava and James looked at each other and rolled their eyes.
"Now I want you to practice with the incantation. I'm sure you're all familiar with it so let's continue on." she finished. The room was filled with no sound, since the seventh years, though there weren't many of them in this class to begin with, had already mastered nonverbal spells. There were a few minutes until the bell rang. Professor McGonagall stopped them. "Miss Jacobs, would you kindly collect the rabbits… or what's left of them…" as she looked over to the boy sitting next to James whose rabbit was missing an ear and its powder puff tail. "I see we have to work on some reviewing before we go any further. Correct, Mr. Shu?"
"Yes, Professor." said the boy. He had jet black hair and dark brown eyes. He was very short compared to James. James knew him well. He was a Hufflepuff beater.
"See you later, Shu." said James said as he left the classroom.
"Later, Potter." Lee said half-heartedly as he packed up his things.
"Where to?" Ava asked, looking at her time table.
"Defense Against the Dark Arts." said James.
"Nice." said Sirius.
They walked together to the DADA classroom. To much dismay, they were taking it with Slytherins.
"The perfect way to destroy a great class." said Delia as she, Lily, Lana and Remus joined them.
"Very true…" Remus replied.
Professor Garadelli entered the classroom. She was by far one of the better looking of the staff. She was young, no older than 23 or 24. She had long chocolate brown hair which was tied up in a neat and elegant bun. Her honey brown eyes scanned over the class.
"Good morning, guys." she said walking briskly to her desk and placing her books on it.
"Good morning Professor Garadelli." the class replied.
"I know it's a bit trivial, but I thought that as a review, we'd go over some simple things. So, I've decided to bring in a bogart."
"Ehh… Could have been worse." whispered Sirius.
"I'm going to need two people to help me bring it in. It's in a trunk in the hall. Do I have any volunteers?" After she finished that last sentence, almost half the boys in the class raised their hands eagerly. All the girls just stared at them and rolled their eyes with looks of disgust on their face.
"How about Mr. Black and Mr. Trent?" she said. The rest of the boys all looked thoroughly disappointed. Blaise Trent walked up to the front of the classroom from the back where he was seated with Malcolm Peterson, Oliver Devon, and Valentina Burry. Sirius walked down the aisle from his seat, giving Blaise a dirty look as he went. Together the two lifted the trunk to the middle of the classroom. "Thank you, boys." she said. "Now, everyone get up from their seats and take their wands out." Everyone stood up and with a wave of her wand, Professor Garadelli vanished all the desks. "Right, then. Who wants to go first?" Many eager hands, mostly boys again, went into the air. "Hmm… How about Mr. Potter?" she said looking at James.
"Sure." he said taking out his wand.
"Do you remember the incantation for the spell?"
"Yes, ma'am." replied James.
"Alright. Wand out. And go." she said as she opened the trunk. What came out made James' start to back up a little bit. It was a gigantic snake.
"R-r-r-edikulus!" James managed to stammer. It didn't really flinch.
"Stronger, Potter!" said Garadelli.
"Redikulus!" The snake's sharp venomous teeth turned to rubber and it shrunk to the size of a garden snake.
"Very good, Mr. Potter. What about Miss Evans next?" Lily nodded and walked in front of the trunk, her wand held out in front of her. "Ready? Now!" she said as she opened the trunk. Out popped McGonagall, looking very grim.
"I'm sorry, Miss Evans, but you received all D's on you NEWTs" Lily looked mortified.
"R-r-r-r…" but that's all she managed to get out.
"Come on, Miss Evans! Try harder!"
"R-r-r-r-edikulus!" she managed.
"Again!"
"R-redikulus!" she said.
"APRIL FOOLS!" the McGonagall bogart said. Lily looked very relieved as she stepped next to James.
"How about Miss Burry next?" Valentina walked up, her wand at her side, a smug look spread across her face. Garadelli opened the trunk and out popped a big black dog, similar to Sirius' anamagi form. The smug look was soon replaced with a look of sheer terror.
"Ha! She's scared of me!" whispered Sirius to James, because it did strike a resemblance to Sirius.
Valentina started shaking. "Re-re-red…" was all she could stammer.
"Come now, Miss Burry! The grim is nothing! Say it like you mean it." No one had ever seen Valentina this scared in her life. Usually, she was with Blaise and she wouldn't be harmed or have anything to worry about, but there was no one there to hide behind.
"Re-re-redikulus!" she said pointing her wand at the grim.
"Again!"
"R-redikulus!" It soon turned into a cute little black puppy.
"Very good!" Garadelli said. A few more people after Valentina went, the bell rang and everyone left.
The rest of the day went by pretty quickly. Lunch was exceptionally fast. Finally, their last class of the day ended. They all walked back to the common room laughing and talking.
"Ahh… First day of school is finished." said Ava as she threw her bag down next to a big comfy chair and plopped down into it, untying her tie and draping it around her neck. "You guys wanna go hang out side by the lake?" she asked wrapping a strand of hair around her finger.
"Definitely." said James as he walked towards the boy's dormitories. "Let me just go put my bag away."
"Yea, I'll come with you guys too." Sirius added, following James up the stairs.
"Count me in." Delia said. She ran up into the girls dorm and put her bag at the foot of her bed. She ran back down and waited at the portrait hole.
"I can't believe you guys are going to relax already! Think of all the homework you have!" Lily protested.
"I can't believe you're even thinking about homework!" said Delia.
"I can." added Sirius. Lily shot him an annoyed glare.
"I think Lily's right guys. If you don't start it now you'll never be done." said Lupin.
"Ok… So, how about you and Lily do homework while the rest of us go out? Good? Good. Now let's go!" said James. The five of them left the common room, Lily and Remus spreading their work out all about the chairs and floor.
A/N : Here's Chapter 3... It was hard thinking of things for people to be afraid of for the bogart without making it sound really cheezy... But yea. I happen to like the next chapter, but you'll have to wait till tomorrow to read it. Review please!