Chapter 7: My First Week of School
Naruto wakes up early for his first day of school at Hogwarts. He switches from his pjs into his now updated school robes and grabs his supplies ready to start a new beginning. He heads out of his dorm and see's Hermione outside. Smiling, he goes up to her and greets her, "Morning Hermione," he said. Hermione turns to see Naruto and she too greets him, "Morning Naruto, are you ready to start your first year at Hogwarts?" she asked excitedly. Naruto nods in agreement, but then Hermione asks: "Where's Harry and Ron?" "I think the two are still sleeping," Naruto said. Hermione takes in what she heard and she says this: "Well, I'm sure they'll wake up before class starts, come then we have plenty of time to go over the material before class starts" Hermione said and the two walked to the Great Hall together.
Great Hall- Morning Time
The two talked about what they are excited to learn for their first year, and as they entered the Great Hall, the two found a table and sat side by side going over the material, while eating breakfast. They decided to go over the potions material first as that is their first class of the day. Both Naruto and Hermione took note of what they're likely going to learn such as knowing what certain ingredients are and where they're located along with how it's used. To be honest, this has been the first time Naruto has ever been interested in academics as back in Konoha, he wouldn't show interest in boring stuff outside of learning ninjutsu and stuff like that. The two continued to go over the material before heading to their first class.
Potions Class
The class was located in the dungeons, and for the first few minutes of class, Professor Snape gave the class a run down of what they will be learning, and from what Naruto could tell, the Professor really doesn't like teaching this class as indicated by his tone and all that jazz. Naruto remembered that Professor Snape would rather teach Defense Against the Dark Arts instead of potions, so maybe that's why Snape is acting like this. Snape tells the class to go to page fifteen from the textbook as they begin the lesson, and so Naruto took notes on the ingredients and recipes from the book. Snape asks Naruto to answer a question for the class, "Mr. Uzumaki, would you mind telling the class what shrivelfig is used for?" Naruto responds, "It's a magical plant found in Abyssinia, and when skinned its liquid inside is used for potions such as Shrinking Solution and the Elixir to Induce." Snape nodded in approval and said "you respond quickly and correctly…impressive."
Snape gave the class a final lesson for the day. He instructs the class to make a cure for boils potion and for this lesson, they need to partner up with someone to make the potion with an approving grade. Naruto partners up with Hermione and the two head to their station, while the others do the same. As they work on the potion, the two took the time to get to know each other as well. "So Naruto, tell me about yourself" Hermione asked the blonde wizard. Naruto looks at her, "Nothing much really except that I learned I was a wizard about a few weeks ago," he said surprising Hermione. He further explains, "to be honest, I didn't learn about being a wizard until now given that I'm an orphan, but growing up back home… I wasn't liked by many," which saddens Hermione given that wizards and witches are hated by most muggles. But what she's about to learn will shock her. "I was treated like a monster instead of a human being, I didn't know why considering they would always beat and torture me whenever I ask… and the worst part is that when I ask the people, that don't hate me, about who my parents were, they were either silent or they gave me cryptic answers" Naruto said to Hermione, as she looks like she's on the verge of tears hearing the story. "Looking back, everyday from my village felt like hell… maybe I was a cursed child or something… maybe they knew I was a wizard… I often ask myself if my parents abandoned me because I was a wizard or did they die for me? I can never tell" Naruto states. Hermione placed her hand on his shoulder, "don't worry Naruto you got me, Harry, and Ron… we're a family no matter what" she said with a sad smile, Naruto looked at her and smiled sadly, "thank you Hermione" he said softly.
The two got back to work on the potion and managed to finish first with the best grade. Soon the rest of the class finished as well, although one such group managed to finish with an accident, and it was Neville Longbottom and his partner.
Transfiguration Class
Now Naruto's next class was transfiguration. As Naruto sat next to Hermione, the professor of the class introduces herself. The professor, Minerva McGonagall, goes over the concepts of transfiguration by talking about the four types such as transformation, vanishment, conjuration, and untransfiguration. The class itself was pretty complex, as the textbook explaining the concepts still made it hard to understand. Twenty minutes go by as Professor McGonagall talks about transformation by showing an animagus, which actually interests Naruto as that reminds of him of the transformation jutsu except this time you can only turn into animals. Soon Harry and Ron arrive at class although they're pretty late, they just don't know it yet.
"Whew, we made it, can you imagine the look of old McGonagall's face if we are late?" Ron said to Harry. As if on cue, McGonagall jumps off the table as a cat and transforms back to her human self, surprising the two boys. "That was bloody brilliant" said Ron. "Thank you for that assessment Mr. Weasley, maybe if I were to transfigure either Mr. Potter or yourself as a pocket watch, maybe one of you would be on time" the professor retorted. "We got lost," Harry responded. "Then perhaps a map? I trust you don't need one to find your seats" she said, to which the two boys nodded and found somewhere to sit. The two sat behind Naruto and Hermione, and class resumed. The professor gave the class an assignment where they turn a match into a needle, and so far only Hermione was able to do it, impressing McGonagall.
Friday- Lunch Time
It has been about a few days in the first week of term. Naruto has gone to almost all his classes with the exception of the flying class. In his Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he learned spells such as Lumos, Nox, Periculum, and Vermillious (an advanced form of Verdillious). Naruto later learns that Snape hates Harry Potter for some reason he doesn't know. Anyways with all that happened this week, Naruto can't wait to relax as the weekend is coming up along with the fact that he'll soon be learning to fly on a broomstick.
As Naruto and his friends sit down at the Great Hall for some lunch, a boy from their house was trying to turn his drink into rum which failed miserably as it exploded on him instead. While everybody laughed, the owls came flying through the hall delivering parcels and such. Harry notices a newspaper with an interesting headline. Naruto and Hermione noticed that Neville got a remembrall, to which Neville states that he doesn't know what he had forgotten (which was his robes). Now back to Harry and the newspaper, "hey guys, somebody broke into Gringotts-" Harry said. The others look at him "listen, believed to be the work of dark witches or wizards unknown, Gringotts Goblins, while acknowledging the breach, insists that nothing was taken. The vault in question, number 713 had in fact been emptied earlier that same day" Harry spoke. Naruto was shocked, "713? Wasn't that the vault you, me, and Hagrid went to?" Naruto asked to which Harry nods. The four look at each other before reading more from the article.
