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Now on with the story, and sorry in advance for the short chapter.
Hermione had left the hall a few seconds after Sirius had returned leaving Ron with a plateful of food, she knew that he would want some time to talk to him alone. After consulting her timetable to check that they had DADA next she hurried off to find him.
Since the day when Harry had made the densaugo spell Draco fired at them freeze in mid air she had been in the library trying to figure out what it was. Of course she had a vague idea with her knowledge preened from various books over the past five years, but being Hermione she wanted to make sure her theory was correct. It was this theory that she kept going over in her head until she finally caught up with him near moaning myrtle's bathroom.
"Harry" she called hoping that he would stop. Which he did, "hi 'Mione what's up?" he asked turning round to look at her. "I have been thinking about that day when you stopped the spell from hitting me, and I have a theory as to what it could be. I mean it just has to be it there's no other logical explanation, I remember reading about something like this in '1001 supposedly unexplainable magical incidents' by Benevolentia Me it was a fascinating book and incidents like this have happened to you before haven't they I mean when you blew up your aunt in third year. Of course we'll have to speak to Lupin as it was in defence or maybe Professor Flitwick would be a better choice" she rambled rather quickly. Whilst she was doing this Harry noted how cute she was when she was excited about something 'no this is your friend one of your best friends' he though to himself sternly "Hermione, what are you on about?" he asked holding her shoulder in an attempt to stop her rambling. "Oh yes of course I should of explained how stupid of me I think it was will magic" she started quickly again, "Hermione I've known you five years and you are not stupid just a bit over excited sometimes one thing you are definitely not is stupid." At this comment she started blushing before grabbing his hand and pulling him towards the DADA class "come on if we hurry we might get to see Lupin before class begins."
They soon got to the classroom but when they got inside they did not see Lupin, instead sitting at the teacher's desk looking as though he owned the room was Nairret. "Mr Potter I thought that my family and I had taught you better manners than that, remind me what was rule number five." He said silkily smirking as he started formulating a plan in his head about what will happen for the lesson. "Rule number five, manners are paramount, you will not enter any room except your own without knocking first." Harry sighed, Niarret was very fond off rules for the first week of his training Harry had to memorize at least twenty rules and then sub rules for each rule. "Ahh so you haven't forgotten, now out you go and try again, you to Ms Granger if you please." he finished in the same tone. Harry knew from previous experience that he would not get anywhere with Niarret until he got this correct. Sighing he turned and went to walk out as he did so he remembered rule five sub two be chivalrous - ladies first. So he opened the door and let Hermione exit first, before closing the door behind him. He looked back to see a nod of approval by Niarret. When they were both outside Hermione turned to Harry and asked, "Is he always like that?" "Nah" Harry sighed "he's usually much worse" he finished giving her a lopsided grin. He raised his fist and knocked on the door twice and waited. Niarret's voice came through the door in the same silky voice "Come in" so again Harry held the door open for Hermione and closed it behind him. He waited while Niarret spent time reading a few of the scrolls on his desk. After a few minutes of silence Hermione spoke, "Excuse me sir…" was as far as she got as Niarret looked up and said, "Mr Potter rule 5 sub rule 3 recite." Harry sighed again, "Rule 5 sub rule 3 You will not speak to an elder unless spoken to" "Good, now try again out you both go" Niarret seemed to be enjoying himself as he shot Harry an amused smile. After going through the routine again they waited for Niarret to speak, "Now how can I help you Ms Granger?" "We wanted to see Professor Lupin." She said politely, "Well I am afraid Professor Lupin is not here, and your lesson is about to start so if you could line up outside and wait for your classmates please." He smiled.
About five minutes later when the rest of the class had joined them, Niarret came out of the class, "Good Morning class, now when you enter the room I want you to line up at the back in silence you may enter." Once everyone was lined up he continued, "Ok my name is Niarret but you will call me sir, when I call your name you will go to the first unattended desk starting in the first row on the left hand side. Mr Malfoy," Niarret instructed from the front of the class. Malfoy swaggered forward to his desk and sat down. Niarret carried on calling the boys' names all of them sat at their desks till finally Niarret said, "Mr Potter" Harry walked to his desk but did not sit down instead he stood behind the left chair and waited. This earned him confused looks from the Gryffindors and sniggers from the Slytherins. "Now ladies when I call your name you will go through the same procedure, Ms Parkinson." Again the girls walked forward to their seats and sat down till the last girls was called forward, "Ms Granger" Hermione walked forward to meet Harry who took her left hand bowed slightly and kissed it and said "Ms Granger" before pulling out her seat. Again causing the confused looks and sniggers, but this time Hermione blushed and Niarret smiled. "Excellent twenty points to Gryffindor. Everyone should have done something similar to Mr Potter because, MANNERS MATTER." Niarret said in a similar fashion to Moody's CONSTANT VIGILANCE. "Now on days where Professor Lupin can not attend classes I will be teaching you manners. This will be once maybe twice a month, the person who you are sitting next to will be your partner in this class. Now these scrolls have the rules that you will be learning and following. Memorize them starting now." He said as he distributed the scrolls. Harry looked down at his and saw that it was the same as those he had already learned with a few additional ones on how to deal with peers. "Also" he continued, "these badges of your houses will monitor your performance, you can only take them off when you sleep and are using the bathrooms."
Forty-five minutes later Harry Hermione Ron and Lavender (who was Ron's partner) were making their way to transfiguration class. "Err Harry can I ask you something?" Lavender asked. "Of course Ms Brown" he replied pointing to his badge so Ron knew why he was acting this way. "Ok Mr Potter" Lavender smiled, " I was just wondering how you knew what he wanted us to do in class" "Oh that's easy, Ms Granger and I met Niarret before class and he made sure we followed these rules." Harry said thinking to himself, ' Well it is an abbreviated version of the truth but she doesn't have to know that.' The rest of the talk was about how Malfoy had lost 15 points due to his "atrocious manners".
Once inside the transfiguration class those who were present in manners class followed their rules, "What is going on here?" McGonagall asked. No one answered, "Well Mr Longbottom?" After explaining what was going on McGonagall nodded "Very well, now in this class we are going to be studying Animagi in more depth, I will be casting a spell to see who has the potential to be an Animagus and those students will have extra lessons on Monday and Wednesday at 5 pm with my assistant Eniram. Any one caught messing around in my class will leave and never come back, now that said Ms Granger if you could come with me please. The rest of you start making notes on Animagi from page 25 of your books" As Hermione stood up both Ron and Harry did to as this was one of their rules to follow.
McGonagall led Hermione in to a separate room and explained to Hermione, "Now I am going to cast a spell, this will if you have the Animagus potential you will glow blue and the glow will show us your form, it may tickle are you ready?" Hermione nodded "very well, Animus Me Revelo" Hermione did in fact glow blue but her glow separated in to three forms, an owl, a peregrine falcon and a unicorn which surprised McGonagall very much. After everyone else had been seen, (Lavender was a butterfly, Neville had two forms, a bear and a cat, Ron also had two forms, a Hobby Flacon and a fox, unsurprisingly Draco was a snake.) it was Harry's turn when he got in the room, McGonagall went through the same speech, after which Harry said he already could turn in to his forms, a lion, a Peregrine falcon and a unicorn were the only ones he showed her. "Ver.. Ah hem very well Potter you can join the lessons perhaps they will help you speed up your transformations, incidentally who taught you Animagi?" McGonagall asked, Harry smiled and simply said, "Your assistant Professor."
Soon it was time for morning break, the trio students left together when Harry remembered he had left his book behind, so he went to get it. While they were waiting for Harry, Ron asked Hermione something, "Err...Hermione" "Yes Ron" "Would you… I mean will you" "Oh Ron spit it out" Hermione said, "Hermionewouldyougotothehalloweenpartywithme?" Ron blurted out, "Sorry Ron can you repeat that?" Ron took a deep breath; "Would you go to the Halloween Party with me?" he asked waiting for an answer. "Yes Ron I will" Hermione said thinking to herself, 'it's not like the person I want to go with would ask me anyway' at the same time Ron was thinking 'Yes I've got a date with Hermione. I knew she liked me' Harry returned moments later and they made their way to break.
A/N how many saw that coming then? Keep your reviews and suggestions coming in please I like to know what people think of my story / chapters. By the way Benevelentia Me is Latin for will magic. Just incase you wanted to know I used this online translator: http://www.24hourtranslations.co.uk/cgi-bin/latdict.pl