Harry was wrapped up warmly in his green and silver bedsheets, his eyes were closed but he was wide awake, just unwilling to move from his comfort cocoon. He sighed as he pushed his face deeper into the soft pillows, the sounds of the dorm were keeping him from going back to sleep. He could hear someone in the shower, most likely Draco, a quill scratching on parchment, which he hazard a guess was Theo, and Blaise's unmistakable and horrendous snoring. He peaked open a green eye slowly to see that the dorm already had light flooding it, but because their dorms were in the dungeons, the light was a charm on the windows to replicate the actual weather outside. He forced himself to sit up, yawning loudly and rolling his shoulders until they clicked.
"You're awake then?" an amused voice asked, rolling his eyes Harry looked over at Theo.
"What time is it?" he grunted curiously, his closed fists rubbing at his sleep filled eyes.
"Only seven in the morning, we have half an hour before breakfast" Theo responded as he finished up his letter and placed it in his pocket.
"How long have you been up for?" Harry asked as he swung his legs out of the bed and rested his feet on the soft carpet.
"About an hour maybe" Theo said grinning, Harry shook his head at his friend while laughing softly, Theo was the best of the boys at getting up, and Blaise was definitely the worst.
"How long has Draco been the shower?" Harry asked as he pulled his new black jeans up over his thighs, jumping and wiggling his hips, as long as the pants were black the Professors never really fussed over them not being the uniform trousers.
"Like forty minutes" Theo laughed.
"He spends too much time primping" Harry snorted, before crying in triumph when he finally got the last button done up on his white uniform shirt.
"I heard that Riddle!" Draco snapped playfully as he walked into the dorms from the bathrooms, a green towel wrapped around his waist.
"Well who needs to spend that long in the shower?" Harry asked laughing, the sound slightly muffled as his black long sleeved school sweater got stuck over his face before Theo finally freed him.
"I had to dry and style my hair too!" Draco defended himself, but it just sent Harry into a set of helpless giggles.
"Stop laughing at me" Draco demanded.
"Or what?" Harry said as he calmed down, raising an eyebrow at his cousin.
"You don't want to know" Draco sneered as he got dressed, but once the two boys caught eye contact, they both burst into laughter again.
"We should hurry, we only have fifteen minutes before breakfast, and we need to wake Blaise too" Theo said as he did the clasps to his Slytherin robes up.
"Oh this shall be fun" Harry said, a sadistic smirk gracing his lips, a dangerous glint in his eyes as he stared at their sleeping friend.
"What to do, what to do" Draco murmured as he inched closer to Blaise while Harry started rummaging in his trunk.
"Let's go with the classic, it never fails" Harry said grinning widely, as he pulled a small muggle airhorn out and held it up happily, Draco and Theo were laughing softly as they had their wands out and ready.
"Ready?" Harry asked grinning when they nodded eagerly. He placed the airhorn by Blaise's sleeping face and held the top down causing a loud noise to reverberate around their stone walls, Blaise sat up screaming his eyes wide.
"Aguamenti!" Draco and Theo shouted, two jets of clear and pure water sprayed Blaise in the face making the dark skinned boy splutter, laughing the three boys collapsed on the floor.
"Was that really necessary?" Blaise coughed glaring at his friends.
"Yes" Harry said before looking at his soaked friend and laughing again.
"If you stopped being the last one awake, it wouldn't be you getting drenched in the morning" Theo laughed. Harry, Draco and Theo watched in amusement as their friend stumbled to the showers grumpily.
Together the four boys finally made it to breakfast, Blaise stumbling beside them, still complaining about the rude morning wake up. Almost all the Ravenclaws and Slytherins were there already, half of Hufflepuff and only a few Gryffindors. Harry led the way before sitting beside his twin sister, Hermione, who was writing a letter while eating.
"Morning Mione!" Harry said grinning as he grabbed some bacon.
"Morning Harry, you seem happy, Blaise sleep in again?" she asked never taking her eyes on the parchment as she nibbled on some toast.
"Yep" he laughed.
"The usual way?" she asked.
"Of course, it was brilliant" he said sniffing slightly, causing her to laugh.
"What are you doing anyway?" he asked leaning over her shoulder to read the letter.
"Just writing to Mother, I forgot to pack a few reading books" she responded as she pushed him back onto his seat and out of her personal space.
"How are you two so awake?" Blaise groaned as he sat down beside Pansy, who was struggling to stay awake.
"Freaks of nature, the both of them" Pansy grunted resting her head on Blaise's shoulder.
"You will be awake shortly" Luna said softly with a grin as she sipped at her hot tea.
"Why?" Blaise asked, but she didn't need to respond, in that moment that bulk of Gryffindor chose to show up, their raucous laughter and talking shocked both Slytherins into sitting up with pained moans.
"I hate them so much" Blaise muttered as he rubbed his temples.
"Why must they make so much noise?" Pansy sneered.
"They aren't all bad" Harry said, his eyes lighting up as he saw Fred and George entering the Great Hall, a happy and dopey grin stretching across his face.
"Ugh" Hermione gagged as she caught sight of her brother's expression.
"You will never believe what we just heard!" Adrian declared happily, interrupting Harry who had open his mouth to snap at his sister, without waiting for an answer he sat down next to Harry grinning widely.
"Golden boy and his sidekick got two months detention" Miles chortled as he sat down next to his friend.
"How'd you hear that?" Draco asked leaning forward.
"Percy boy was berating them on the way down here" Graham grinned as he showed up with Marcus.
"What happened? Do you know?" Hermione asked.
"Not really, but both boys were trying to say it wasn't their fault, apparently the barrier at Platform 9 ¾ wouldn't let them through." Marcus shrugged.
"We did hear Percy shouting something about flying here though" Adrian said shrugging, all of their curiosity was peaked, they all looked up to see Ron Weasley and Henry Potter sulking at the Gryffindor table with Percy still berating them by the looks of it.
"Would the twins tell you?" Miles asked turning to Harry.
"I can ask if they know" Harry nodded with a smirk, if the twins knew, then he would know shortly, but they didn't know that they would know sooner than they thought.
"Mail is here" Daphne said as she looked up, Harry followed her line of sight as he munched on more bacon, then there was a rushing sound overhead, a hundred or so owls flew in from the top most windows. They swooped down circling the students before dropping letters and packages to their owners, Hedwig and Aristotle landed in front of Harry and Hermione and happily ate some of Harry's bacon. Aristotle only had a letter to Hermione from their parents wishing her luck on her first day back, plus a new homework planner that they had forgotten to get on their trip to Diagon Alley. Hedwig had two letters which Harry ignored for now, instead grabbing the package that had his Charms holiday essay and two of the Lockhart books he had left on his bed by mistake.
"You are hopeless Harry" Hermione said giggling lightly. Suddenly the Gryffindor table went quiet, they looked up to see Ron looking at a red envelope, his face white and mouth slightly open.
"She's… She's sent me a Howler" Ron said faintly, but even as quiet as he was, the entire school heard as they watched on.
"You'd better open it Ron" Henry said shaking in his seat.
"It'll be worse if you don't, my Gran sent me one once, I ignored it, it was horrible" Neville said from opposite the redhead.
"What's a Howler?" Harry heard Dean ask, he was the only Muggle-born in their group, Ron and Neville being purebloods and Henry and Seamus being half-bloods. Seamus broke down into laughter as he tried to explain it to his best friend, Neville took over rolling his eyes, and before long the red envelope had started to smoke at the corners.
"Open it" Neville urged.
"It will all be over in a few minutes" Seamus chuckled as he, Neville, Seamus and everyone else close to them stuffed their fingers in their ears.
"RONALD WEASLEY! HOW DARE YOU!" Mrs Weasley's voice screeched out. Harry and Hermione had identical looks of sadistic amusement as they watched both Ron and Henry flinch back in pain, it was loud enough for the rest of the students, let alone for the two Gryffindors sitting in front of the yelling envelope.
"STEALING THE CAR! I WOULDN'T OF BEEN SURPRISED IF THEY'D EXPELLED YOU! JUST WAIT UNTIL I GET AHOLD OF YOU!" if possible, Ron had gone even whiter at that thought, Harry grinned as he watched Fred and George laughing a few seats down, they had told him how many times they had suffered a Howler, he could only image the pleasure they got from watching Ron suffer it. Percy was glaring at them, Harry had a stray thought that the prefect would sound like his Mother when he was angry.
"I DON'T SUPPOSE YOU STOPPED TO THINK WHAT YOUR FATHER AND I THOUGHT WHEN WE SAW IT GONE!" Harry sniggered again.
"They stole a car?" Draco said as he tried to not laugh.
"Fred said their dad a car that was charmed to fly" Harry recalled, Fred and George had tried to steal it for his birthday, he looked back up when he realised the Howler was still going.
"LETTER FROM DUMBLEDORE LAST NIGHT, I THOUGHT YOUR FATHER WOULD DIE OF SHAME! WE DIDN'T BRING YOU UP TO BEHAVE LIKE THIS, YOU AND HENRY COULD'VE DIED!" ah and the boy wonder had finally been brought up, glancing at the table he saw James sitting there looking mutinous, Lily sitting beside him whispering in his ear.
"I AM ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED! YOUR FATHER'S NOW FACING AN INQUIRY AT WORK AND IT'S ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT! IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE, WE'LL BRING YOU STRAIGHT HOME!" everyone's ears seemed to ring with the sudden silence, she had finally stopped screaming.
"Brilliant" Harry said before he, Hermione and their friends dissolved into laughter, the rest of the school laughed with them, but it wasn't long before everyone went back to breakfast and the normal chatter resumed.
"So the Platform wouldn't let them through, and they decided to steal their Fathers flying car to get to Hogwarts?" Pansy confirmed, Harry nodded as he opened the two letters Hedwig had bought him, one was from his parents wishing him luck and to behave, the second strangely enough was from his Uncle Barty and Uncle Rabastan.
"But why wouldn't the platform let them through?" Daphne asked.
"Well just because that's what they said, doesn't mean it's true" Blaise said.
"Oh it's true" Harry whispered, his green eyes wide in shock as he read the letter from his Uncle's.
"What?" Hermione asked.
"Listen to this" Harry said choking on his laughter before he coughed and read the letter out loud for his friends to hear.
"Hey everyone! It's your favourite Uncles! Barty and Rab!
We wonder if you have found out all the information yet? If you haven't then don't worry we shall supply it!
We were getting bored, being in the manor for so long, there is only so much you can do. So we snuck out after you guys left to catch The Hogwarts Express. Don't worry we were disguised. But we saw Potter and Weasley running late and decided to block the gateway to the Platform! Their faces when they crashed into the solid bricks was just perfect, better than when Rodolphus got stuck in the women's lingerie at the meeting! We then hit them with a compulsion spell, we just wanted them to do something stupid to laugh at, so the spell would make their thoughts seem like even better ideas. But it went even better! They stole a blue Ford Anglia! And flew it! They were also seen by Muggles! It was so much better than we could've hoped for. Severus floo called us last night to tell us all about it, apparently he and Lily Potter caught them after they crashed into the whomping willow!" Harry finished before he burst into hysterical laughter.
"I love those two" Blaise sighed happily.
"I want to grow up to be just like them" Harry nodded with a dreamy expression across his face.
"Brilliant" Theo grinned.
"Legends" Draco murmured with a happy smile.
"Guys, this is serious, and dangerous!" Hermione snapped.
"How?" Harry, Draco Blaise and Theo chorused.
"Barty and Rabastan are like Harry, if they are left to entertain themselves or they get bored they get stupid!" Hermione said.
"Hey!" Harry cried before conceding her point and nodding helplessly.
"If they get reckless then they could get caught, and sent back to Azkaban" she whispered softly.
"Father would just break them back out" Harry dismissed.
"And if that alerts The Ministry or worse Dumbledore that he is alive and well?" she asked snidely.
"Oh" Harry murmured as it sunk in what she was saying.
"Yes, now you get it" she sighed.
"Wouldn't your Father keep an eye on them now for that reason?" Pansy asked.
"Yeah, your brains come from your Father, if you figured it out, then he has too, he will keep them safe and in line" Daphne nodded.
"You can't cage or lock up the truly free, they must be allowed to fly" Luna whispered with a faraway gaze, her blue eyes clouded.
"Vision?" Harry whispered.
"What?" she asked shaking her head, suddenly she was back to normal, well as normal as she could get.
"What did you see?" Draco asked excitedly.
"You can't just ask her that!" "She can't tell you" " Draco!" Hermione, Daphne and Pansy all said at once, overlapping each other. Luna just smiled at them as they bickered over her visions and the rules of magic.
"Hello Professor" Luna smiled as Severus made his way over to them as he handed out the timetables to the Slytherins.
"Miss Lovegood" he nodded a small twitch of lips giving away his amusement as the others argued around her.
"What has set this off?" He asked handing her enough timetables for her and the others.
"My visions again" she giggled lightly, Severus smirked outright, he knew she enjoyed creating chaos as much as Harry, but she was much more subtle about it.
Luna had always struggled the most with her personality and being herself, being teased by other children for her quirky ways, but when she befriended Harry and Hermione everything changed. Suddenly she had friends who loved her, and would argue over what was best for her, and who liked her more. She could be herself without fear of being tormented, they accepted her fully, just two summers ago their families had gone with her and her Father on a trip looking for Exploding Snabberwitch's, they hadn't found any, but they had a fantastic holiday.
"Cambion's, our timetables are here, it's almost time for class" she said, even as soft as her floaty voice was, they all stopped and turned to her.
"What do we have today?" Harry asked grinning at her.
"Transfiguration and then double Herbology with Ravenclaw before lunch" Theo read out.
"Not bad so bad" Harry nodded.
"After lunch is horrible!" Draco groaned.
"Oh Merlin tell me I'm reading this wrong" Blaise pleaded.
"Nope. Double block of Potions with Gryffindors" Harry sighed leaning forward, he proceeded to bang his head on the table.
"And Charms to end the day" Daphne said.
"But double Potions with Gryffindor is bad enough without making it a double block" Harry cried out before pretending to sob on his arms.
"Come on, we have to get to Transfiguration" Hermione sighed as she grabbed Harry's arms and leading the way out of the Great Hall to start their first day of second year.
Hey everyone hope you enjoyed this chapter. Sorry for mistakes, both me and my friend edited it but we may of missed a few. Let me know what you think? Is there anything you want to see this year?
Oh and just to clarify: double block means two lessons back to back of same subject. Double class means two house's for the one class.
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