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Harry Potter and his Sixth Year

Chapter Eight: New Classes

When Sirius came home that night, everyone was asleep. He had thought that at Lily might be up to scold him about having a student-teacher relationship. Even thought it was probably going to be a casual thing, for a casual guy.

A week after Sirius was brought from the "Darkness" as they liked to call it, the family, which includes the Potters plus Sirius, started to work on the animagus potion, which they liked to call "the find the animal inside you potion."

Harry was the one who was doing the actual work by adding the proper ingredients, at the correct time in the proper proportion and cutting style. While he was making the potion there was always an adult present, it reminded him of science in primary school when they had to do an experiment always with an adult present. The adult in the room, normally James or Sirius, as they had made the potion once before, would tell him if he sliced the ingredient the wrong way, if it wasn't the right ingredient, if he skipped a step, or if he was adding the wrong ingredient. This helped Harry's potion making skills because he had never been taught the proper way to cut certain ingredients.

James even questioned him once if Snape had taught the "fine art of potion making".

Harry replied, "Not really, all he did was put the potion up on the board, tell us a little bit about it, had us make it, only helped the Slytherins, then gave them homework from the potions text about how the ingredients work together."

James wasn't surprised that Snape wasn't a good teacher, Snape never appeared to have patience with kids, he could only act like he was in control by staring them down or by questioning their knowledge. So one night when James was talking to Lily he said, "Lils, I think we need to add potion making to the lessons Harry has to learn. Snape didn't teach him the basics about potions, he probably thought that all the pure or half bloods would know the basics and let the muggle borns fail so he wouldn't have to deal with them."

"James you know that Severus was never like those evil Slytherins."

"But he called you the bad word for a muggle born."

"Yes he did, but only after I started being friendly to you. He was my friend, but he thought that there could only be you or him, and when he made me choose, I chose you because I know you wouldn't limit my talents or friends."

"Oh," James said looking a little put out, "we still need to teach Harry properly in potions, that way he can either retake his O.W.L. potions exam or get a good grade during he N.E.W.T.s."

"We can do that, now who do you propose to teach him that?"

"Well you, Lily, I mean Sirius and I were lucky we didn't mess up during the animagus potion, and we only passed our potions exams because you helped us. Plus, you always wanted to be a teacher, and now you can do that and not be judged. Not to mention, it would give you some quality time with our son."

"I guess I will teach him the 'fine art of potion making' as you say."

"Awesome, we also need to teach him some hand-to-hand fighting, dueling, and healing. I think I'll take dueling, Sirius can teach him hand-to-hand, Siri always did like to do things the dirty way, and Mariah can teach him how to heal the elfish way."

"Good idea, we should make up a schedule for Harry, each day he can work on a different skill."

"Okay, but I think we should give him Saturday and Sunday off, that way it will be just like he is at school, working five days a week."

"Alright, on Mondays Mariah can teach him to heal, then on Tuesdays Sirius can teach him to fight, you take Wednesdays, I'll take Thursdays, then on Friday we can each take him for a little while if we need to."

"Sounds good to me, I'll talk to Padfoot about the plan and you can talk to Mariah about it and catch up on your gossip."

"That is one thing I miss about school, there was always some juicy gossip going around."

"You girls are always so confusing. Who really cares about who was going with who when you were in fourth year? Nothing happened then."

"Well it gives us something to talk about. All guys cared about then were sports, and not all girls followed quidditch."

"Oh," James said dumbly.

"Lets go down to dinner and tell Harry of the new plans," Lily said that, then kissed James passionately as she had not kissed him like that since Harry and Sirius had arrived, the took his hand and lead him to family dining room.

When they got down the dining room, Harry and Sirius were already sitting there complaining about how Lily and James should hurry up and get to dinner in a timely fashion. "Aw, Lils can't we just let them complain about not eating and go back upstairs and continue what you started?"

"No, that would be mean, how about we sit down to dinner, and tell the two starving little children about the new plans. Then and only then can we go back upstairs to what I started."

"Yay!" James replied.

"But, you can't rush through dinner, nor can you make me or the boys rush, and we can't forget to tell them about the new plans."

"That's going to take for ever."

"You need to learn to be patient, or we may not go back to what we started."

"Darn, then lets get this long, boring dinner over with."

When both the Queen and the King of the elven world were sitting in their respective seats the house-elves came out with the food. All three of the boys wolfed down their dinners as Harry and Sirius were hungry, and James just wanted to get dinner done. Lily just looked amused and ate her dinner as if she was the a slow tortoise compared the men. After all four of them were done eating, Lily brought up the subject about Harry's new subjects. "Harry, one of the reasons you were brought to elfish world was to train. James, Sirius, Mariah, and I will each teach you in a subject. James will teach you to duel as you have not had any proper instruction in a duel. Sirius will teach you hand-to-hand combat incase you are with out your wand and you are struggling with your elfish magic. Mariah will teach you elfish healing, which you will probably master very easily as you seem to be very inline with your inner elf. I will teach you how to properly brew potions, as James thinks you haven't had proper instruction from Snape. Also, you and I will continue on our way to becoming animagi"

"Every day you will be working on a different aspect. Mariah will be teaching you on Mondays, on Tuesdays you will be with Siri, on Wednesday you will be with me, Thursdays will be with your mother, and on Fridays we can all work together on your animagus training," James continued for his wife.