I wish I did, but I do not own Yu Yu Hakusho or Harry Potter.
"Harry! Nice talking to you again, mate!" exclaimed Ronal Weasley. Hiei, Harry, andKurama were already well enough to be allowed to leave the wing. Kurama filled everyone in on the past events that had occured. They were all relieved that it was finally over; even Hiei, although he didn't show it.
"I hate to tell you this after all that's happened..." Hermione began, "but our N.E.W.T. exams are on Friday. We have three days to prepare." Koenma had offered that the Urameshi Team leave now that they'd served their purpose, but the kitsune declined, insisting that he should at least take the N.E.W.T.s before leaving school.
"This way I can apply for a job in the magic world if I happen to settle into it," he'd told the Prince of Spirit World. But mainly it was to give Kurama more time with all the students at Hogwarts. He was going to miss them.
"Kurama! I haven't talked to you in forever!" Yusuke and Kuwabara entered the Hospital Wing, as well as Albus Dumbledore, Botan, and Koenma.
"Professor Genkai and Whitney EnLaur have to attend to their classes," the old man explained. "But as you can well see, we were able to break Mr. Urameshi and Mr. Kuwabara's Memory Charm. They are perfectly normal."
"Define normal," Ron said, watching Kuwabara blabber on about how he's got a three-tailed "wittle kitty" from his Care for Magical Creatures class. Everyone laughed.
While everyone was talking to eachother, Harry got up and walked over to Botan. The fox demon wasn't far from the two, so he used his keen senses to listen in.
"Erm... Miss Botan-" the boy began, but the Grim Reaper cut him short.
"Harry, I may be thousands -or more- years old, but I do not look like it," Botan lectured. "Just call me Botan."
"Sorry. Well, Botan... you see to it that the... the dead go where they need to be, right?"
"Bingo! Each and every one!"
"Do you possibly remember a guy named Sirius Black?" the boy looked down slightly, avoiding eye contact. "He was my godfather, so I just wanted to-"
"YOU MEAN TO SAY THAT you're BLACK'S GODSON?" Botan squeeled. Now everyone had stopped talking and was listening to the conversation.
"Well... yeah."
"Oooh, I couldn't forget a character like that even if my job depended on it!" she said, placing her hands on her hips. "As soon as I told Black where he was, he demanded that I, 'bring him to the man who runs this joint.'"
"He demanded that I send him back to the Human World," Koenma put it. "He told us over and over that he had a godkid that need him, but I coudn't send him back. Even though Sirius' death was unexpected, it was going to happen under Voldemort's hand soon enough. I don't enjoy making humans and their families go through such a loss twice."
"So we let Mr. Black be a ghost for a while," Botan went on. "You couldn't him though, unlike Sir Nicholas and those other ghosts your school has, but he could see you. He stayed like that for almost a week."
"What made him stop?" Harry asked.
"He told us that, 'Harry doesn't need a baby-sitter any more,' and that he was ready to join his friends, or something like that."
"Do you..." Everone knew what was going to come next. "Do you remember my parents? Lily and James Potter?"
The Grim Reaper tapped her chin a few times. "Lily and James... Lily and James Potter... hold on just a sec." She pulled out a tiny book and flipped through its pages.
"Yes, here we are!" she announced. "Killed by a death spell, how awful." Botan shut the book with one hand. "Your father came to the Spirit World first, but then your mother joined him not even a minute later. They wanted me to make sure that their son was safe; that's you, I suppose. I told them that you were perfectly fine and well, aside from a scratch on your head. They then said that their deaths had not been in vain, but I remember Mr. Potter complaining when he found out Dumbledore had sent you to live with your mother's relatives. That man and Black are so alive, I'll say. Mrs. Potter was much more polite."
"Oh," Harry said quietly. "I see. Thanks for telling me, Botan."
"I'm here to help!" Botan smiled.
"Speaking of help," Hermione piped in, "I've known you and Ronald long enough to know that you still need loads more preparing for you N.E.W.T. exams. We only have three more days to cram, Harry!"
"I'll help too with whatever I can," Kurama offered.
"Oi, and I thought O.W.L.s were hard..." Ron groaned.
The next three days were spent with a book in hand around the clock. During classes the sixth years would go over their material as thoroughly as possible, and would continue to do so after the classes had finished for the day. Quidditch practices had been canceled for the entire week because of exams. Hardly anyone had time to chat, and when they did, it wouldn't last more than five minutes.
Then, finally, the day of exams came. The sixth years ate their breakfast -most pretty much nibbled at a slice of bread- and waited in the Great Hall. As when the O.W.L.s were given, the longs tables had been removed from the grand room, and a great number of desks and chairs were it their place. Each student took a seat and waited for the writing portion of the test.
Kurama looked around the room. He found Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei seated, and smiled towards them. Each member of the team couldn't help but smile back. It felt wonderful to have Team Urameshi back together again.
"Rules for your N.E.W.T. exams this year are the same as your O.W.L.s from your previous year," Professor McGonnagal explained. "I want no cheating of any sorts. No spelling-error quills, no looking at another's paper, no helping your neighbor or swapping answers, no cheating utensils of any kind, or else you will automatically receive zero credit for the writing portion of the test. Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, ma'am," everyone answered in monotone unision.
She then flicked her wand.Hundreds N.E.W.T. tests appeared, one floating softly onto each student's desk.
"You may begin," her voice boomed through the Great Hall. For the next two hours there was neither talk nor sound amongst the sixth years, besides the constant scritching of quills.
Kurama, although he had missed the first give years of his wizard education, found the test fairly simple. He focused carefully on every problem, being sure not to leave room for error.
Twenty minutes into the test, someone interrupted his thoughts. It was Hiei.
'What an old spell not commonly used anymore?' the fire demon demanded.
'I'm fairly certain that cheating is not allowed on this test, Hiei,' the kitsune told his friend, grinning at his paper. 'This test is just to see how much we've learned while we've been at Hogwarts. And I must admit that I've learned a great deal."
'Hn, like I could think clearly under an Imperius Curse,' Hiei replied.
'I sincerely apologize,' Kurama explained to the fire demon, 'but I will not be assissting you. You know that I am fair, and it simply would not be such to the rest of the sixth year class if I were to give only you an answer.'
'Hn.' The fox demon heard no more, so he went back to the exam. He ended up finishing; barely five minutes before time was up.
Soon after, McGonnagal stood up. "Your time is up." With that the papers disappeared as easily as they'd came. "When I call a subject, I will need all students planning to take the exam to follow me. Everyone else will remain here until we have finished, then I will call another subject. We will do this until every one of you have taken what you need."
"And seeing as Hermione's in this group, that'll be a while," Ron joked.
AN: yay me! I turned in this chapter on time! I'm so proud of myself XD
Not too much to say... it's not the end yet! There's still a little more to go!
And much thanks to Maeleana, Makurayami Ookami, kahuffstix, Krazy Kitsune13, Time and Fate, Marikalay, bluekitsune251, and Jessica for reviewing on Chapter 32. Clearly this one's not as fun, but you can't have action in every word of a story, I guess. Next chapter should be better.