YYF14: Okay, here's the chapter where they have some of their classes. DAtDA is in this chapter, as well as Potions. Oh, and responding to two reviews I got recently, I did think Gryffendor was spelled with a 'y' not an 'i'. I just messed that up once in an earlier chapter. And, this IS non yaoi. I think it's called shounen ai, what I'm doing. I have a pairing which I set up in an earlier story, and if you didn't bother reading the others, you probably should, because this is a series, and there might be references to things you might not remember. There, now that I've got that over with, on with the chapter!
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First Classes
About an hour later, the boys started to wake up, one by one. Harry woke first, followed by Ron, Yusuke, and Koenma.
When they exited the common room, heading for breakfast, Yusuke brought Puu with him. Koenma raised an eyebrow.
"Yusuke? Are you sure that's a good idea?"
"Well, I can't leave him up here. I'll let him go to the Owlery after breakfast. Oh, and your headband's slipping."
Koenma quickly fixed his headband, and ran to catch up with Yusuke.
The girls at the Gryffendor table had quickly gotten over Puu, and now were slightly annoyed that Yusuke had brought him.
Harry, Ron and Hermione were wondering what classes they would have. Harry broke away from the conversation, looking over at the new students. Koenma still wasn't eating. Now Harry was concerned. Not worried yet, just concerned. He knew how hard a day at Hogwarts was. If Koenma still didn't eat at lunch, he considered telling someone.
Koenma still seemed to be having a good time with Yusuke, though. It was so confusing. Maybe he'd be better off telling Ron and Hermione now.
"Harry? Are you okay?"
Harry looked back at his friends. He decided against telling them now. He should wait until the next meal to see.
"It's nothing. Look, here's McGonagall with our schedules."
Ron quickly skimmed through his schedule, grumbling about having double Potions with the Slytherins.
"We always get double Potions with Slytherins, Ron," Hermione said matter-of-factly. "It's no use grumbling about it."
The three compared their schedules, having all their classes until lunch the same, then having different ones after.
"Hey, Yusuke," Harry called. "Can we see you and Koenma's schedules?"
Yusuke passed them down, letting the three others realize they had their morning classes with the new students. Harry handed back the schedules, saying this.
Yusuke smiled. "I guess we won't get lost first day, then."
After breakfast, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Yusuke, and Koenma headed off towards the dungeons for Potions.
"So, what's the teacher like?" Yusuke asked. Hermione shivered.
"Try to stay on his good side," she replied.
"Like he has one," Ron muttered.
They entered the classroom, sitting next to each other in the back row. The Slytherins and other Gryffendors filed in, taking their seats. Malfoy entered, noticing the new students. His eyes glinted, making Koenma a little nervous.
'Please don't sit near me, please don't sit near me…'
But of course, as fate would have it, Malfoy sat in the seat right in front of Koenma. He sat on it backwards, glaring at Koenma and Yusuke.
"So, how do you two like Hogwarts so far?" he asked. Neither responded. Malfoy looked at Koenma.
"Did you learn how to walk yet?" he asked.
"I got down here, didn't I?" Koenma replied, glaring at Malfoy.
Harry and Ron exchanged glances. Maybe their friend didn't understand how big a threat Malfoy was.
But luckily for them, Snape entered the room, stopping all conversation.
"Welcome back to Potions," he said softly, his eyes scanning the room, landing on the two new students. "Or… it could just be welcome, in two of your cases."
Yusuke kept a blank face. Teachers had always tried to intimidate him in his experience, and the best thing to do was ignore them. He saw out of the corner of his eye Koenma was following his example. Good. Now the teacher had nothing on them. Yet.
"Today we will be making a sleeping potion. The instructions will be on the board, the ingredients in the cupboard or your own potion sets. Get to work."
Yusuke quickly skimmed over the ingredients. There weren't that many. He focused on the first one: boomslang skin. He looked at his ingredients. None. Probably some in the closet, then. He went over and started to collect the needed ingredients.
Koenma had a different strategy. He first found the items he needed that were in his set, then proceeded to get the rest from the cupboard.
'Okay, stir it clockwise for five minutes, counter for ten. This is gonna be boring,' Yusuke thought, but did as the instructions said. It wouldn't do to get on a teachers' bad side by not doing something the way they wanted on the first day.
He looked over at Koenma, who seemed totally absorbed by what he was doing. Yusuke knew it wasn't because it was interesting, which it wasn't, it was because the instructions were tricky. He hoped they both at least did something acceptable. This teacher didn't seem to be the kind that got pleased easy.
"Time's up! Stop what you are doing and sit down," Snape ordered fifteen minutes later.
He then began to walk up and down the aisles, studying each students' cauldron, and giving them a grade. He stopped in front of Yusuke, quietly studying his cauldron. The mixture inside looked like a purplish fluid. Disgusting in Yusuke's opinion.
"Good for a beginner," Snape said quietly. "B."
Yusuke let a small bit of surprise show on his face. A 'B' on his first grade? That was more than he expected.
Snape moved on to Koenma, and looked at the cauldron. The fluid in it seemed more violet than purple. Snape seemed surprised.
"Very good. A." He moved on to Harry.
Yusuke looked over at Koenma, who was staring at his own cauldron in shock. He hadn't expected to get an 'A' on his first grade.
Malfoy turned around in his seat and glared at Koenma. Malfoy had only managed a 'B', and he was jealous of a newcomer getting a better grade than him.
"How'd you do it, Mudblood?" he asked.
Yusuke glared at Malfoy, but Harry's eyes widened.
"Malfoy! Don't call him that! How do you know he's even half magic?" Harry hissed.
"He had to have some magic in him to get here, but he definitely doesn't seem to be a pureblood."
Koenma was confused. "What are you talking about?"
Malfoy rolled his eyes. "Idiot." He turned around and sat in his seat correctly as Snape walked to the front of the classroom.
"Well, it seems most of you got an 'A' or a 'B'," Snape said softly. "Now, the bell's about to ring. You are dismissed."
The students filed out of the room just as the bell rang.
"Okay, next is Defense Against the Dark Arts," Harry said to Yusuke and Koenma, leading them towards the classroom. "I wonder who the new teacher is."
Yusuke looked confused. "New teacher?"
Ron nodded. "Yeah. Every year we get a new one. They never seem to be able to stay for more than one year."
Yusuke shrugged and followed them the rest of the way to the room.
As they entered, the teacher stood from his desk and greeted them. Harry thought there was something familiar about the teacher, but didn't say a word.
The Gryffendors had the class with the Huffelpuffs. Yusuke and Koenma were thankful for this.
"Welcome, everyone. My name is Professor Black, and I am the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher this year."
'Black? Wait a minute! It's Sirius!' Harry thought.
Professor Black smiled, knowing that Harry had figured it out.
"Today we will be learning how to defend ourselves against boggarts," he said. "Please get into a single file line and I will open the closet door. When I do, you will come forward one by one, point your wand at whatever the boggart turns into, and say 'ridikulus'. Understand?"
The students nodded, doing as they were told.
"What exactly is a boggart?" Yusuke asked.
"It's a creature that turns into whatever your worst fear is," Harry replied.
Yusuke and Koenma exchanged glances. This wasn't good…
"Ready? Now!" Professor Black pointed his wand at the closet door, unlocking it. The students heard a faint groaning noise, and the first person in line, a Huffelpuff, stepped forward.
The boggart came out of the closet as a ghost, groaning and making strange noises. The girl pointed her wand at it and whispered, "Ridikulus."
The boggart froze, then turned into a cat wearing makeup. The girl giggled, and the next person in line came forward.
On it went, until Harry, Yusuke, and Koenma were the last ones in the line. Harry stepped forward, and the boggart started to turn into a dementor. But before it could finish the transformation, Harry pointed his wand and it and cried, "Ridikulus!"
The dementor turned into a small dog, barking its head off. Yusuke stepped forward, wand at the ready, knowing what would appear.
The dog paused, staring at Yusuke. Then it started to grow, turning into Atsuko. Yusuke shivered, but pointed his wand at it and whispered, "Ridikulus."
'Atsuko' didn't disappear, though. 'She' walked up to Yusuke, a stone cold finger tracing his cheek. Yusuke trembled, but managed to get the spell out again.
This time, the image wavered, giving Yusuke more confidence. He said the spell again, louder this time, making the image change into a mad Keiko.
Yusuke sighed in relief, moving to let Koenma take his turn. Koenma stepped forward, knowing what it would be.
A King Enma appeared. Not as big as the real one, but still very big.
Koenma held out his wand, ready to perform the spell, but before he could say a word, the King Enma held up a hand, a blue light appearing. Koenma's eyes widened.
"No! Ridikulus!" he shouted, and the boggart disappeared, returning to the closet.
Professor Black blinked. That had been an… interesting class. But about what the last two boys' boggarts had turned into… he needed to find out who those people were.
"Class dismissed," he announced. The class started to gather up their things, but the professor beckoned Yusuke and Koenma over.
"I'm not sure if it's my business, but I would like to know what your boggarts turned into. The images didn't seem to be normal things that kids are afraid of."
Yusuke and Koenma exchanged glances. They didn't think they should tell. After all, they had only known this teacher for one class period. Not very long.
"It was nothing," Yusuke muttered, and gathered up his things. Koenma said nothing but did the same.
Professor Black sighed. He knew that the boggarts had turned into a person that they had known, but he didn't know what relationship they had with the students. Maybe he'd inform Dumbledore about this…
The bell rang and the students headed out, Harry leading his friends outside to the greenhouses for Herbology.
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YYF14: Well, hope you guys liked that chapter. Were any of you expecting Sirius to be the teacher? Next chapter's gonna be pretty long, too. I promise to update soon, and review if you wish!
