The next morning, Harry was awakened by April.

"Harry! Come with me! I know it's early, but I don't want to go down to the Great Hall alone, and I'm hungry!"

Very groggy, Harry got up and came with her. He threw on a robe and didn't really know what was going on. There was only a little light coming from the windows.

When they got to the Great Hall, Hermoine was the only one up.

"Hermoine, what in the hell are you doing up so early?"

"Actually, Harry, I'm usually up this early, especially on the first day of classes. I only wake up later with you and Ron when we've been up late breaking rules."

April started giggling at this. Both Harry and Hermoine looked at her, aghast at anyone who could laugh so early.

"What's so funny?" They said in unison.

"What exactly is 'breaking rules late at night'?" April said.

"What… oh! Nothing like that!" Hermoine said, blushing.

Hermione realized April was a new addition to their group. What were they going to do? She hadn't experienced anything they had. How could they even talk around her? Let alone, what could they let her know?

"Oooh." April said, trailing off. She went to get some toast.

"Harry... is she... trustworthy?" Hermoine asked quietly, eyeing April, who was looking at the ceiling as she nibbled on toast.

"I believe so. Dumbledore and McGonagall said so. She's not so bad..." Harry said, eyeing April as well.

At that moment, a few owls flew through the windows, dropping off a magazine for Hermoine, and one snowy white owl stopped near Harry.

"'Ullo, Hedwig." Harry said.

Hedwig affectionately nipped off two of Harry's fingers.

"Hermoine, since when did mail come this early?"

"It has before, when I've been up earlier. They'll drop off a few things, as professors are usually here by this hour, in order to be at classes earlier." She nodded at Professors Flitwick and Sprout, each eating heartily and chatting at the head table. "The bulk of the mail arrives when the rest of the students are eating."

"Hmm, never knew that..." Harry said, sitting down and helping himself to a plate of English slop. "By the way, Hermoine, what magazine is that?"

"Oh!" Hermoine said, swallowing her toast. "It's Herpetology Monthly. I decided to get it because I've heard the 6th year of Care of Magical Creatures deals mostly with herpetology, so I thought I'd be better caught up with this. "

"Leave it to Hermoine to spend money to learn more. Herpetology is like frogs and reptiles and things, right?" Harry asked, munching some bacon.

"Correct."

"Er... Hermoine… Hagrid teaches Care of Magical Creatures. Do dragons count as reptiles…?"

"I hadn't thought of that, but Hagrid wouldn't do someth--"

Hermoine was interrupted by April.

"Is herpetology the study of herpes?"

Hermoine and Harry sputtered their food. And that was the beginning of the school year with April.

... To be continued.

Note: All characters copyright to J.K. Rowling as usual. Sorry for the offenses I'm sure were issued in this story. R&R please! Stay classy! (That would be copyright to Will Ferrell?) Sorry for the short chapter, but no one reads this anyway, so shh!

(Revised 11/24/07)