~The next morning...

"Wake up you dinks." Rafe yelled, shaking us violently. "How the hell did you two fall asleep out here? In the cold?" He asked with a lifted brow. Apparently our hands were still intertwined. "Before you two start hogging I'm gonna go." Rafe commented while rolling his eyes, then walked away.

I smiled at Devin, whose cheeks once again turned red. He quickly pulled his hand away before getting up and stretching. I looked at my hand, which felt empty and cold.

I wanted to feel that spark-like feeling again.

I quickly shook my head and did what Devin did, then noticed the sun was just rising.

"Are we allowed to be up this early?" I asked Rafe, who was rummaging through his cabinet.

"It's already past 5:30 AM, so yes." He answered once he plopped down onto his bed, his clothes on one hand. I nodded before sitting down on my bed, Devin yawning once he was on his bed.

"Can I look at your wands? I'm curious what wands you guys have, actually." Rafe asked, standing up and walking towards me, Devin doing the same afterwards.

We placed all three of our wands on our bed, the tips almost touching, which coincidentally formed a sort of triangle.

I noticed Rafe's wand kinda looked like a twig, though it was shorter than mine and Devin. It had a crooked shaft, while Devin's and mind had straight shafts.

The only difference between mine and Devin's is that his is brown and slightly shorter than mine, while mine is black and had some words carved onto the tip and the handle.

"Of course I'd have the shortest wand out of all three of us." He rolled his eyes, picking up his wand and walking away. I didn't understand the point of that, honestly.

Surely the length of your wand doesn't define who you are, right?

Anyways, we decided to take an early shower. Rafe, being the confident bastard he is, used one of the open stalls. The more shy and reserved ones, like me and Devin, used the closed stalls.

Honestly, part of me kind of wished we could share a bathroom, although that sounded ridiculous, it's what my heart sort of desired.

Once we were done showering and eating our breakfast, we rushed to our first class. Apparently Professor Sinigan hates it when students arrive late to his Defence Against the Dark Arts class.

We actually managed to arrive as Oliver had instructed us, 10 minutes early.

"Oh what do we have here? Or who do we have here?" Asked the male, rather built teacher. He looked like he could wrestle bears. 10 bears, in fact.

We quickly took our seats, like usual Devin sat next to me while Hazel and Rafe sat together. Devin's been acting strange the entire morning.

He's refused to talk to me, let alone make eye contact with me!

What had happened last night probably made him feel weird... I guess it's kind of my fault too. The itchy feeling got the best of me, honestly.

"Ah yes, the Slytherins are once again late." The Professor stated once 10 minutes passed and all of the Gryffindors were inside the classroom. This professor didn't seem to be scared of the Slytherin students, actually. In fact, he looks like he's got something brewed up in that head of his.

Probably a few ways to punish the Slytherin students.

The rest of the students from the house stated earlier, around 7 of them actually, walked in as if they owned the damn place. It's only been about 3 days, they can't be this cocky already!

"So you Slytherins think you own the school, do you?" The professor stated, eyeing all 7 of the students, one of them being Goyle. "You think just because Salazar happens to be the principal, and happens to be the head of Slytherin, you could just waltz into my class as if nothing mattered, eh?" He continued, growing more and more angry every word.

The aura coming from him grew stronger and stronger, and it was a murderous aura.

"That's enough Professor Diablo, we don't need you to kill any more students." Professor Snape, otherwise known as Serpio Snape II, came in. As soon as Professor Snape mentioned the murdering of students, everyone in the room turned from nervous to petrified.

"Yes Professor Snape, but they deserve some form of punishment, no?" Professor Diablo continued, his voice containing poison as he glared at all 7 students, who were obviously shaking in fear. "Yes, but you may not physically harm the students, Professor Diablo, otherwise you'll be sent to Azkaban. You're on your last warning, remember?" Professor Snape warned the latter, who let out a huff.

Azkaban? Is that some kind of prison?

Wait... Professor Snape said 'We don't need you to kill any more students...' earlier... That means he killed students before! There's no way that's real. Seriously, they wouldn't let someone like him actually kill anyone.

Professor Snape finally left the room after a few minutes of silence. For a short while, I wondered why he was even in the room. "Now, for your punishment..." Professor Diablo stated with an evil grin. "I want all 7 of you to walk to the front of the room. Now." He instructed, that demonic, fierce tone is now back in his voice.

The 7 students quickly ran to the front of the room, standing in a horizontal line fearfully. "Hixulbus!" Chanted Professor Diablo loudly. We watched a pink of light shoot out from the tip of his straight wand, which split into 7 thinner lights and blasted all 7 students at once.

At first, nothing happened.

That was until a few of their hands began moving, while the others had their legs moving. "What's happening?!" Exclaimed one of the students, confused and scared. Soon they were all dancing uncontrollably. Some of them tapping in an Irish way, some of them spinning like a ballet, some of them doing random, nonsensical moves.

"You will be dancing until I am satisfied, then we shall start our class." Said the teacher, who was smirking triumphantly. I am so glad we came early. Not only is this teacher insanely... insane, he's also very strict. I couldn't help but laugh at the dancing group in-front of us, so did the rest of us.

After 10 minutes had passed, Professor Diablo chanted 'Solvo' which cured all 7 of them at once. He cured 7 peoples at once! I almost died curing one person!

How powerful is Professor Diablo...? Is that why he wasn't scared of the Slytherin students?

Is it because he's far more powerful than Professor Salazar...?

"Alright so, my full name is Diabolus Rapientem, born from a family of Pure-Blood wizards. You may call me Professor Diablo. Although I am born from a family of Pure-Blood wizards, I am strictly against discrimination of any kind. Whether it be you're dating someone of the same sex, you're a muggle, or even a squid. Yes, I will teach a squid how to defend himself against the dark arts, because with that knowledge he could save his friends." He explained before pausing and turning towards us.

"If I hear any form of discrimination in my classroom, the punishment will be far more severe than what you've witnessed. Understood?" He continued, furrowing his brows at us. I actually have goose-bumps when he warned us about what he hates, while also having shivers running up and down my spine at least 10 times.

Everyone nodded, even the ones who were panting from exhaustion. Poor guys, it's only the first class of the day and they're tired already! They deserved it though.

"To start our lesson today, I'll be teaching all of you lots about the 7 Death Curses. Now, some of your parents may have taught you about the 3 unforgivable curses. The Torture curse, the Death curse, and the Cruciatus curse. What many does not know, is that there are 4 more curses. These ones are named, The Forbidden Curses." He began teaching, then wrote down all 7 curses on the blackboard.

"The Curse of Invisibility, the Trap Curse, the Insanity Curse and finally, Heaven's curse." He continued, explaining each and every single curse. He didn't teach us how to cast the spells, though he did tell us all 7 spells require the darkest of intention, born from the most vengeful of hearts. He told us that if we were to cast the Death curse on him now, all he'd feel is a teeny little mosquito bite.

The first three curses were easy to understand, the last 4 however...

The curse of Invisibility, it turns someone invisible. However, it also erases everyone's memory of said person. At the same time, the person slowly fades out of existence. They can interact with physical objects, but they only have 5 hours before they completely disappear from existence. The only way to counter this is to force at least one person to remember the one who was cursed, just like that, they will return, along with the memories of the others.

The Trap Curse is far more dangerous. What it does is that it traps anyone inside the nearest mirror, or even a small piece of glass. If said mirror is shattered, the person dies. It's that simple, yet it's dangerous. The caster could easily cast this spell and trap someone in a mirror, then smash said mirror or piece of glass and immediately rid of them.

The weakness of this curse however, is that if there's a mirror near the caster or the target, the target could easily move from one mirror to another, therefore saving his life. One way to counter this is through Solvo, but the caster of the cure spell will be asleep for 3 weeks as all of their energy is drained. Plus, a simple Incendio could incinerate the curer, because their body is ridiculously weak at that time.

The Insanity Curse, is exactly like it's name. It forces a person to relive a very, very dark time. If the person happens to have no dark time, it will create one. Such as a friend betraying one another, murdering each other. The target will slowly go insane as the image repeats, meanwhile everyone around him may think he's already insane as he will be screaming. If this spell is cast from far, they could easily ruin someone's life.

This spell requires a ridiculous amount of energy to cast, and a lot of concentration. It is also cured through Solvo, though caster will only be unconscious for 3 days, as it does not involve pulling someone from one dimension to another.

Finally, Heaven's Curse.

Professor Diablo told us that he had experienced this curse before, but he miraculously survived it. He lifted his shirt slightly to show the scar it left behind, though his sculpted torso was a tad bit distracting...

Turns out, if you survive either the Death Curse or the Heaven's Curse, you'll receive a cool scar where you were hit!

He described it as heavenly. At first, a bright blast of light hits you. Soon, you'll feel nothing but pure pleasure and relaxation, hence the name Heaven's Curse. Your wand slowly breaks, you'll push away anyone who tries to help you as the feelings intensify.

But what you don't know is that your body slowly shuts down, until you're merely a corpse.

He explained his loved one saved him, but stopped right there. He never told us the counter-curse. He did tell us that the last 4 curses are meant as torture spells, to torture everyone who loves the target, as they will watch their loved one die very slowly, if performed correctly.

As soon as he finished explaining the 7 Death Curses, the small alarm clock on his desk, which I hadn't even noticed earlier, rang.

Said alarm clock was actually the complete opposite of its owner. It was a cute little green frog clock. The owner however, is everything but cute. He is sexy though.

"Well, that's all for today. If anyone else is late to my class after this, you'll regret it more than these Slytherins did. Class dismissed." He warned before turning his back against us and making his way into his office.

He was scary as heck earlier, then his stories actually interested me, then he turned back to scary. Though the Slytherins did receive karma for what they did yesterday. I was actually quite interested in the Heaven's Curse.

Not because I wanted to cast it!

I wanted to learn the counter-curse for it. I wanted to learn how to cure it.

Hazel, Rafe, Devin and I managed to make it to the greenhouse we were assigned to early as well.

While we walked, Hazel explained there used to only be 3 greenhouses, a fourth greenhouse was added just a few decades earlier since new herbs and plants were discovered.

When I asked how she knew about all this, she told me 'Simply because I read more books than all of you combined.' Which kind of offended me, I've read quite a lot of books but she might be right. Her entire house might be a humongous library...

"Good Evening children, I am Professor Sproutons McDaffodils, you may call me Professor Sprout. During your first two years of being in this school, I will be teaching you Herbology in this specific greenhouse. Then you will move to the greenhouse to your left for your 3rd and 4th year, then move again for your 5th and 6th year. The last greenhouse is only for those who decide to take a 7th year in Hogwarts." She explained once everyone had arrived on time, including the Slytherins.

Pretty sure the Slytherins were scarred and scared by Professor Diablo.

I suppose that's a good thing, now they won't be late. Plus they wouldn't dare cause trouble in class. Professor Sprout looks nice, kind of like an old lady. In fact, she's the same height as me! Which is pretty short.

Who knows, maybe all of these plants are under her command. If she's angered, one of these might turn into a giant purple head with teeth and devour students...

"For your very first class, I will introduce to you the 10 herbs you will be studying for this whole year. Focus in all of my classes if you want to pass both Herbology and Potions. Herbology and Potions are connected, as you need herbs to brew potions." She continued talking, flicking her wand.

We watched as 10 different colored boxes slowly floated onto the super long table we were facing.

"The very first plant you'll be learning about is Dittanies," She started off, taping the left-most box and revealing a simple-looking green plant.

"Asphodels, Wormwoods, Aconites, Mandrakes, Nettles, Aphrodaisies, Dweebleroots, Lavendrites and Molies. " She tapped each box, causing every single one to disappear. Except for the box containing this weird baby-like plant with leaves as hair. Before I could ask why that plant was kept in a glass box, Professor Sprout continued talking, "For your first year, you'll be learning all about regular-sized plants. As you advanced, the plants you'll learn about will grow in size, uses and fatalities." She added before flicking her wand again, causing the plants to float upwards and return to their original places.

For our first lesson, Professor Sprout taught us where to find each herb and how to grow them. Turns out, some herbs are only found in certain places in the Wizarding World, as an example, Aphrodaisies only grow in the Forbidden Forest.

That's actually a good thing though since the name 'Aphrodaisy' has the word 'Aphro' in it, which is short for aphrodisiac. The word aphrodisiac means a food or drink that induces love, or sometimes sexual desires. If this plant was a common plant... Things could go very wrong.

I learned the meaning of the word when reading one of the dictionaries Warden brought home but never read. I think it was a Greek dictionary. I just flipped randomly and happened to see the long word, which for some unknown reason actually interested me.

Anyways, back to the present.

Once Herbology was over, it was time for Charms again. The charms subject teaches young wizards spells that adds a new property to an item, or a living creature if you desire. It's actually pretty cool! Though the there's a lot of incantations and hand movements need to be precise, you could alter things! We learned there's a spell that alters memories, there's a spell that changes colours, there's even a spell that can improve moods!

We only learned one spell yesterday. Though only one, it was still great. We learned the levitation charm yesterday, which was actually quite complicated. The spell itself was annoyingly hard to cast, since we had to get both the incantation and the movements right.

Hazel was first to do it right, levitating her feather first, then it was Devin, me being the third to actually succeed and Rafe being the last of us 4. One of our classmates managed to make the feather explode in his face, which earned laughs from the Slytherins.

Everyone here seems to fear said house but so far I haven't seen them do anything insanely bad...

Maybe it's because it's only the first day.

Classes flew by just as quick as it did yesterday, except today we had one less class to attend. "Well, more free time for us then." Rafe commented with a huge grin, "Let's go visit that huge garden Professor Sprout was talking about!" Exclaimed Rafe excitedly.

"Uh... You three go. I... I want to go to the school library. I want to learn more about my family, actually." I smiled politely, declining Rafe's invitation, who frowned exaggeratedly. "I suppose I too would like to go to the garden. I'm slowly getting bored of the library-I've read half of the books in it!" Cried Hazel in mock annoyance.

How does she even have time to read half of the books in that humongous library?!

"I-I'll come with you, Jamieson." Devin stated with a shy smile, I nodded. Just me and Devin in a quiet place... Surrounded by a heck-ton of books. That sounds amazing.

The walk towards the library was actually quite... Nice.

The path we took was quiet, for some reason. The halls were empty, which kinda spooked me. I thought there was an assembly, so I asked one of the ghosts who were minding their own business. Apparently the only assembly we'll be attending is tomorrow morning's daily assembly.

Huh...

Why are the halls empty then?

That question was bugging me for quite a while until I realize Devin and I were practically glued together. I made an abrupt stop, which earned me a curious look from the boy next to me.

"Can I... Can I do something?" I asked, feeling my cheeks burn slightly. The heat was increasing every second, actually. He nodded slowly, giving me permission to do what I wanted to. With a sheepish smile, I grabbed is hand and linked our fingers before continuing my walk.

I honestly don't know what's happening right now, but this felt nice. Surely there can't be anything wrong with this, right? Just two innocent, 11 years old boys, holding their hands while walking down an empty hall.

After a few more minutes of walking, we finally reached the library. There's a few students in the library, who glanced our way and stared for quite a bit. I didn't understand why, but once we were in the old library, I unlinked our hands and began searching for books that could tell me a bit about my family.

I had to ignore an annoying craving while searching though... A craving to hold Devin's hand again.

"Hazel probably would've known where to search." Devin spoke after a few minutes of searching. We've searched about 5 bookshelves, and there's about 50 more. I think.

"Yeah... Then again she's only read half of the entire library." I added, earning a nod from him. "I'll search at the back." He said before walking away.

There's a tonne of books in this entire place

There's comics, textbooks, magazines, dictionaries, maps... There's everything! There's even super-old newspapers.

Wait a minute...

Newspapers!

Surely my ancestors appeared in newspapers. All of the newspapers in this library actually look brand new, there's probably a spell that makes something immune to the effects of time. I think that makes sense.

Let's see...

I began by searching for newspapers of the 19's.

Aha!

I've found an entire stack of newspapers of the 1990's. I began flipping through all of them and eventually landed on 1995...

"Cedric Diggory is the new champion of the Triwizard tournament!" The headline popped out, with the picture of said man on the side actually moving. At this point, I was no longer surprised by moving pictures.

"Cedric Diggory!" I whispered his name in shock. He's one of the few peoples who appeared in my dreams! I don't have those dreams anymore for some reason, but I remember them clearly.

Lord Voldemort, Professor Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy, Ronald Weasley, Hermione Granger... Harry Potter.

I frantically searched in the rest of the newspapers and finally I found one, also in the 1990's, the giant headline reads, "Harry James Potter has defeated Voldemort!" with picture of said man on the said. Except this time the picture actually had colours.

I watched as said student grinned widely with his friends next to him. The orange-haired man next to him looked a lot like Rafe, while the woman to his right looked a lot like Hazel. Then there's Cedric, standing behind him with a humongous grin.

They all had blood trailing down their head, bruises here and there, tears on their clothes...

"The 2nd Wizarding War has officially ended, thanks to one of the legends of Hogwarts..." I began reading the article. So apparently, the quadro group worked together and defeated the most powerful dark wizard of their time, Lord Voldemort, otherwise known as Tom Riddleton.

So this is Harry Potter...

Harry Potter, Cedric Diggory, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger.

Before I could continue my research about my family, I heard the sounds of spells being casted. I know it sounds ridiculous but every time someone casts a spell, I could hear either a 'Bzzt', a 'Whoosh' or some sort of fire-like sound in the distance.

I began running towards Devin before someone pulled me aside, hard. "Be quiet." Said person commanded in a hushed voice as I peeked behind the bookshelf. "Devin!" I whispered in shock as I saw Devin defending himself against not one, but three Slytherin wizards!

"You think you're so good now huh? Being part of the Gryffindor house. We'll teach you a lesson for betraying us!" Hissed one of the students with pure anger.

"I caught him!" The stranger next to me yelled as he grabbed both of my arms, locking me and pushing me forwards. "Jamieson Potter. You think just cuz' you're a Potter we'd be scared of you? Well you're wrong! You Potters are no longer the powerhouses of this school. We are." The same furious wizard hissed at me.

Devin's fearful expression turned into that of a petrified one.

Shoot, I can't let them hurt Devin! I've seen what the one of the unforgivable curses do, if they're willing to cast a torture curse... There's nothing they wouldn't do.

"You better surrender yourself little Dev', before your boyfriend tastes an entirely new world of pain." The one who locked me tight threatened menacingly. Devin's face burned for a very short while before he lowered his wand and willingly walked towards me.

"That's a good boy." Laughed the one who was angry just a few seconds ago. Hearing him call Devin that actually got my blood boiling. Devin suddenly picked up speed and ran towards me, then forcefully grabbed my shoulder.

Out of the blue, I felt my world spinning endlessly. It felt like my whole world just turned upside down, inside out, felt like I made a million turns. I also felt like I was flying at super high speed!

An accurate depiction would be riding on a roller-coaster at maximum speed times 100, with a ton of loops.

I've never ride a roller-coaster, actually.

First it was endless spins, then I actually had trouble breathing. As if I was underwater. I felt my eyeballs being shoved back, way back into the sockets, I felt as if my arms detached and re-attached. First it was nauseating, then it was somewhat painful, then it turned into numbness.

We ended up just outside the herbology greenhouses, which were filled with students. All 4 of them, actually. We also landed right in-front of Hazel, Rafe and a few of their friends, while the four Slytherin students ended up a few feet away from us.. "Whoah. Where'd you come from?" Asked Rafe, completely surprised.

I didn't bother asking why they're here instead of in the garden, mainly because I was trying not to puke.

Devin and I successfully avoided puking, the 4 Slytherin seniors on the other hand...

They were puking everywhere. By the time they were done, Devin and I had already calmed down.

Actually, no. As soon as they were done, my blood began boiling again. We actually interrupted all 4 herbology classes since all of the students were basically watching us.

"You filthy Malfoy! Are you trying to get us killed?!" One of them spat angrily, ignoring everyone else around us. "Yes. I pretty much was trying to kill you by doing something even I don't know!" He yelled back angrily, his fists clenching tightly.

"You little prick!" The angry Slytherin growled before casting a spell at Devin, who deflected it. Barely.

That's it.

A whole new wave of energy came over me and I began chanting something, unconsciously.

"Columna flamma, ego concalo tibi!" I chanted with pure anger, moving my wand downwards then upwards. The ground around us began shaking, causing the four students to lose balance. 8 large holes opened up around them.

A few seconds later, flames shot out from said pillars, surrounding them completely as the tip of my wand glowed a bright flaming red-orange colour. The sweet sounds of them screaming in fear was music to my ears.

Though had it not been Hazel, they would've burned to death.

The snatched my wand, effectively cancelling my spell. The ground returned to normal, no holes. Though two of the students were rolling on the ground while the other two screamed as they tried to put out the fire. "Where in the hell did you learn that?!" Hazel exclaimed, looking at me in shock and curiosity. I was speechless at what I just did.

I swear to God I didn't do that! At least I didn't know how to do it...

That was pretty cool though.

"Jamieson H. Potter and Devin D. Malfoy. To my office, right now!" Yelled Professor McGonagall from far before storming back into the castle as the other four Slytherins ran away in fear. I could tell the Slytherins in the greenhouses were also shocked.

As we began walking, Rafe began clapping, joined by Hazel afterwards.

Soon the entire open area was filled with claps and cheers. I don't know why they were clapping for us, I just know we're both in trouble, and it's my fault.

The last thing I want is to get Devin in trouble...