The day went by fairly smoothly. After Charms came History of Magic, and then lunch. After lunch, came Potions, where the day went downhill a bit. The grease-haired boy was, of course in Slytherin, so he was in Potions with us, to Kyo's dismay. "Forty-five minutes of Slytherinized hell" as James had taken to calling it. Professor Cuthbert was the potions teacher, so the class itself was not the worst of the period. The Slytherins had taken to the tradition of Gryffindor vs. Slytherin and were taunting some and picking on others. One boy had even stolen Heather Punicci's glasses and was holding them high above her head when the professor wasn't watching. Heather was crying slightly. A simple yet well placed hex got Heather her spectacles back. I did a little bow for the couple of students who were watching as the bell rang for class to end. I gathered my books and headed for Defense Against the Dark Arts.
James, Sirius, Remus, Kyo, Lily, and I stood outside the classroom and joked around waiting for the class room to open. Kyo, Lily and Remus couldn't stop laughing at a squib joke James had just told as the classroom door creaked open. The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor invited us into the classroom and the six of us took seats in the far corner. Professor Donovan was the most enthusiastic teacher we were unlucky enough to get. It seemed that she was just a little bit too obsessed with the Dark Arts or Defense thereof. Both Kyo and I became the slightest bit spooked by her over exaggerated gestures and the odd stare she gave the class when she talked in her mystifying voice.
The class was over (luckily) in forty-five minutes, and class let out for the rest of the day. Most of the Hogwarts students mulled about in their respective common rooms, or headed outside to enjoy the weather. Our group dropped our books off in our dorms and adjourned to the outside grounds.
"That wasn't so bad" Remus commented as we walked toward the beech tree we had deemed our hangout. He seemed to be feeling much better than he had this morning, and was even smiling at random people that we passed.
"It wasn't for you, that's for sure" Sirius replied sitting down under the shade of the tree's long branches. "You're not the one she was staring at almost the whole class…"
"Gave me the creeps" I cut in. Her stare had been a bit spooky. I shivered as if someone had just put ice cubes down my back.
"Well if you hadn't been talking the entire period, perhaps she wouldn't have stared at you four." Lily said, pointing at Sirius, James, Kyo, and I. "We might not have gotten homework either if it hadn't been for your mouths!" With that, she pulled her Defense against the Dark Arts book out and began looking up the spell Professor Donovan had told us to do a bit of work on. Every now and then she would look up from her book and either roll her eyes or tut, tut, tut us as we spoke about this afternoon's classes.
Dinnertime rolled around and the feast was just as big as the start of term one. Everyone ate to their fill and then headed up to the common room to work on homework they had received for Monday.
"I've already done my homework." Lily continued to say as the crowd of Gryffindors piled through the portrait hole. "I don't have to do my homework because I've already done it!"
It wasn't until James told her to shut up that she stopped talking. We were all very relieved when she climbed the stairs in a huff and slammed the dormitory door behind her, making our quills shift in the ink bottles. The homework for the first school day was easy, as logic would have foretold, so the five of the group still remaining finished quickly, leaving the rest of the evening for talking and other random pleasures.