A/N- I'd like to thank all of my reviewers but especially Dead-Luthien, who has reviewed every chapter, thank you, thanks to all of you and here is the next installment. Oh and by the why, Dead-Luthien, the school and their parents won't find out for a few my chapters but it is coming. This took a week to type since I only had in between classes and lunch.

Chapter 5: First Day

"Wake up James!" Violet shook her brother awake "Everyone else already went down for breakfast."

"I'm awake," said James, who didn't sound very awake. He took a very fast shower, put on his uniform and got all his stuff together. Violet was waiting in the living room for him.

"First day of home coming week and today we don't need our robes, just our uniform, thank god, it's so hot today…." Violet started mumbling to herself.

"Oh ok" he shrugged off his robe and he and his sister walked down to catch the last 15 minutes of breakfast. It was slightly weird walking into the Great Hall and seeing everyone without his or her robes. He managed to find Brad at the Gryffindor table and went to plop down beside him. Violet sat across from him next to Amber.

"Hey guys" After many hellos he turned towards Amber "Don't forget we have a prefects meeting tonight at 7 in Manny and mine's rooms, can you tell the other 5 Gryffindor prefects?"

"Sure, oh Manny was looking for you earlier to talk about the prefects meeting"

"Thanks" James ate quickly and then walked over to the Slytherin table. He found Manny and sat down next to her. She looked over at him and jumped.

"James! Don't do that!"

James grinned "Sorry. You wanted to talk to me?"

"Yeah.What are we covering at tonight's prefects meeting?"

"Patrolling schedules, home coming and Hogsmeade trips"

"Ok so this will probably be a long one, should we tell everyone that?"

"Probably, have you told your prefects yet?"

"Yeah, now I'm going to go tell the Hufflepuff prefects, can you tell the Ravenclaw prefects?

"Yeah, no problem" James lowered his voice to a whisper "Come find me when you get your schedule so we can compare" With that he walked towards the Ravenclaw table to tell the prefects about the meeting. He made it back to the table right as Professor McGonagall began to pass out and make schedules. It took her a while to get to him.

"Mr. Potter, I see you are taking Potions, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, History of Magic, Charms and Herbology correct?

"Yes"

"Well, here you go" she tapped a piece of paper and his schedule appeared. She then moved on to Brad. When she was finished with his, he walked over to James.

"Trade?" They switched schedules to see how many classes they had together.

"We have Potions, Herbology, DADA, History of Magic, and Transfiguration together." James commented as he handed Brad his schedule back.

"This year should be fun," said Brad

"I'm sure it will be"

"I believe Head Girl wishes to talk to you" James looked at Brad like he was crazy until Brad pointed at Manny who was standing behind James. "See you in a few minutes"

"Yeah see you in Transfiguration" James said as Brad walked away. He turns to face Manny. "So what are you taking this year?"

"Potions, DADA, History of Magic, Transfiguration, Divination, and Astronomy"

"We have four classes together"

"Cool, well let's go to Transfiguration, can't be late on our first day"

"Would you like to sit with me and Brad?"

"Sure" Manny smiled at James as they walked into the class and sat down at a table with Brad.

"Welcome to 7th year Transfiguration. This class is extremely difficult so I advise that you stay on top of your work. Today we will review what we have learned…"

"I bet Transfiguration will be one of our harder classes this year" commented Brad as he, James and Manny walked towards DADA.

"Who's the DADA teacher this year? They weren't at the feast," said James. Right then Violet came out of the DADA classroom looking kind of irritated.

"James!"

"What Violet?"

"You'll never guess who the new teacher is!"

"Who?"

"Go and see big bro, but be prepared to be shocked" James walked into the room in front of Brad and Manny. When he saw who the new teacher was he dropped his bag in shock.

"Dad! What are you doing here!"

"Well Professor Dumbledore needed a DADA teacher and offered me the job about a week ago. I wanted to surprise you guys," Harry explained

"Well it worked, I'm very surprised"

"Are you mad?"

"No, just surprised. Bout time we found a good teacher." James and Harry grinned. Harry ruffled James' hair. "Now go sit down James"

"Yes sir, Professor Potter."

Brad shook his head. "This is going to be interesting"

James, Manny and Brad all sat at a table in the front of the room. Manny leaned over to whisper in James ear after seeing Harry raise his eyebrows towards them.

"This is going to be weird"

"Why do you say that?"

"Your dad is the DADA teacher and my dad is the Potions teacher"

"Oh. This will be interesting. What should we do?"

"Be careful around our parents. Maybe we shouldn't sit together in Potions, at least not yet."

"Ok"

"James, your dad is so cool! This will be fun," said Brad excitedly

"I like your dad a lot, it's different that he calls students by their first names but I like that," said Manny grinning at James.

Brad had noticed since Transfiguration that those two were acting funny but he'd wait till later to ask James about it.

They walked into the Great Hall together. Once there, Manny left to join Matt and Stephen at the Slytherin table. Brad and James sat near Amber, Violet, Brett, Henry and Molly.

"So, who's the new DADA teacher?" asked Molly who had that class next.

"My dad," James and Violet said at the same time.

"Uncle Harry?" Molly looked stunned

"Yeah, but he seems to be a good teacher, so don't worry," commented Violet. James and Brad nodded in agreement.

"Amber, what do you have next?" asked James

"History of Magic and then I'm done for the day."

"Brad and I have Potions and then were also done. How was your Potions class?"

"Malfoy's his normal self, 'the mini Weasley's are back I see' and all that stuff, the usual"

"Great, well Brad, lets go, don't want to be late," James rolled his eyes and he and Brad walked towards the dungeons.

They were a few minutes early and only Manny was there. Brad and James sat at the table behind her. The rest of the class slowly trickled in. There were 13 people in total, 5 Slytherins, 4 Gryffindors, 2 Ravenclaws, and 2 Hufflepuffs. A fellow Gryffindor, Jon Creevy (Colin's son) came over to James.

"Your owl delivered this to the Great Hall right after you left"

"Thanks Jon," said James. Brad looks over at James.

"Who's it from?"

"It says 'from Uncle Ron'. Wonder what it is."

"Well open it" James opened it and read the note in his head.

'James,

Hope your dad didn't scare you too bad with his new job. I wanted to remind you that Neville and Luna's oldest son Marco is getting married this weekend and our families (yours, mine, Fred and George's) are all going. Your Aunt Hermione and I will pick you guys up at noon on Sunday. The wedding doesn't start till 5:00 pm but if you promise not to tell your father, I'll take you guys to Hogsmeade to get lots of sweets. Your dad will be late so we'll meet up with him at 4:00 and head to Neville and Luna's house. I know Brad's family is going but if he wants to come to Hogsmeade with us, he's more than welcome. And tell Brad, your sister and your cousins that they can bring dates or friends. Same goes for you, see you then,'

Uncle Ron

James passed the note to Brad to let him read.

"So, you gonna bring a date," asked Brad

"Who would I bring?"

"Manny maybe?" James looked shocked

"W-Why would I do that?"

"James, I'm your best friend, you can't keep stuff from me, I know everything. Plus, you made it super obvious."

"How?"

"She sat with us in Transfiguration and DADA instead of with Stephen and Matt. Since she hated your guts I figured something must have happen with you two and you were getting along."

"Oh" was all James said, possibly because Professor Malfoy had just walked in.

Brad leaned over to whisper to James.

"So you gonna ask her?

"I might"

"Mr. Potter, Mr. Wood, already causing a disruption, 10 points from Gryffindor. Now our lesson today will be review as it is the first day back."

Manny and James managed to go through the entire period pretending they hated each other. When class was over, Manny went to hang out with Matt and Stephen while Brad and James looked for Amber and their other 6th year friends.