A/N: The great filler chapter! Yay! This is a lead up to where the rest of the plot sort of goes. There are some cameos of the hosty type(see what I did there?).

I will hopefully be able to update again by next Friday or Saturday at the earliest.

Enough chatter, enjoy!

Cody and Noah had most of their classes together, so Cody followed Noah through the halls and magic staircases. Noah was stuck wearing generic Hogwarts robes while Cody had new Ravenclaw robes that actually fit him. Their first class was History of Magic.

They arrived a few minutes early. The classroom was lined with bookshelves. A blackboard, a small mirror and a desk were at the head of the room, and the desk was covered in papers. An old wooden spinning chair was behind the desk, and a middle-age looking wizard, who was maybe in his 30's, was sitting in it. He had short brown hair that swept up a little from his face. He was wearing army green, black and white robes. He was using his wand to try and clean up his desk while fixing his hair . He seemed bored.

He looked up and saw his two students. He smiled, with a blinding white smile similar to Professor McLean's, but his was not an evil smile. It was more of a "let's get started!" smile.

"Ah! Welcome, you two," said the Professor. He looked at his watch. "You're early, Class doesn't start for a few minutes."

"Yeah, we were worried about getting lost and being late, so…." Cody replied.

"I already knew where your classroom was, it was a matter of working with the staircases to get here," Noah explained.

"Heh. Yeah."

"Well, I have assigned seating written out, so don't get too comfortable yet. What are your names?" asked the professor.

"Cody Anderson and Noah Wilson, sir," Noah replied before Cody could open his mouth.

"Ok. Cody, you will be sitter at Table 7, over there." He pointed to the window-side of the classroom.

"Cool." Cody crossed the classroom and sat down in his seat. He waved to Noah. Noah rolled his eyes.

"And Noah…" The professor looked at the crest on the young wizard's robes. It was the Hogwarts crest. That meant…

"Are you that student who wasn't Sorted?" he asked Noah,

"Yeah, so?"

"Nothing, nothing.." He wrote something down on his parchment seating chart, then pointed to the front-center table, directly in front of the blackboard. "You sit here, at Table Two."

"Ok…" Noah sat down at the table. It had a nice view, but he couldn't shake the feeling that he was put there special.

He tossed the thought aside as more students started to file in and be assigned seats. Duncan was sat next to Courtney at Table 4. They looked like they would be at each other's throats the whole time, so Don moved them up front to Table 3. Cody, to his silent delight, was table partners with Gwen. Noah, meanwhile, was stuck next to crazy-girl Izzy.

"First-years, welcome to History of Magic, Year 1! I'm Professor Don, but you can call me Don. Or Professor. Or sir." He flashed his blinding white smile.

"Let's begin with the origins of magic, shall we?"

The professor lectured for what seemed like decades before class was over. When it was time to go, Cody packed up his books and walked over to where Noah was doing the same.

"Neat lecture, huh, Noah?" Cody had generally liked the lecture. Maybe it was because he was next to Gwen...

Noah shrugged. "Meh. I already knew most of the stuff he talked about, so I didn't really pay attention. I couldn't pay attention with Izzy constantly whispering something in my ear or touching my hair." Noah shook his head, and the two young wizards exited the classroom and headed to Charms.

Charms was a sort of repeat of History. The teacher, Professor Josh, was teaching them the levitation charm, Wingardium Leviosa, and Noah was the first one to get it right. It only took him one try to get the motion, and the pronunciation correct. His feather floated high above him, and it landed on Eva's head. She sneezed, the feather fell, and she turned to face him.

"Hey, Canada! Land another feather on me, and it'll be the last thing you do," she growled in her British accent.

"Geez, it's just a feather. It can't be as bad as some of the other things you've probably had dropped on your head."

"Oh, it's on!" Eva tried to grab him, and Professor Josh was busy fixing his hair in his full-she mirror. Wow, Noah thought, is every teacher in this school an egomaniac?

Josh looked up. He knew Noah had succeeded. "Well done, Noah! Eva, five points from Gryffindor. Put him down, or it'll become detention." He continued to stare at himself in the mirror.

Eva growled, but put Noah down and crossed her arms. Noah sighed in relief as he watched the rest of the class try, and sometimes fail, to lift their feathers. Courtney was the next person to succeed.

"Well done, Courtney! And it only took five minutes," the professor congratulated.

"But I wanted to be the first one to do it! What did Noah do that I didn't? I deserved it more than him!" she protested, waving her ebony wand frantically, causing her feather to fall. Onto Eva. Again.

"THAT'S IT! YOU'RE BOTH GONNA GET IT!"

Eva lunged at Courtney and Noah. Noah quickly grabbed his wand.

"Stupefy!"

Eva was stunned. She froze and fell onto the floor, her eyes wide open. Everyone else had the same expression.

"Dude! You like, totally stunned her! Awesome!" said Geoff, a blonde Gryffindor. He high-fived Noah.

"Thanks. I saw a third-year use it on some dude who was stalking her."

"Sweet!"

"Well done again, Noah! You are by far my best student. You get an A+ for today."

Everyone started clapping. Noah smiled and Cody beamed, happy for his friend's success.

Despite his sudden aptitude for spell casting, the rest of the day, then week, didn't include a lot of making new friends. He DID make a few, but he also made quite a few enemies.

"Someday, I'll beat you, you little nerd!" yelled Courtney as she walked past him at the end of Charms,

"Who cares how smart you are, if you're not good looking?" inquired Justin, a Slytherin who was constantly surrounded by girls. Noah dubbed him the 'Anti-Noah'.

"All you little nerds are gonna get it one of these days," vowed Duncan, after Naoh had sarcastically made fun of his DIY piercings.

His friends list now included, oddly, Izzy, Eva, Harold, and Gwen. And Owen. The big kid couldn't keep his arms off of Noah. Literally.

And, of course, he still had Cody. They were now almost inseparable. They hadn't known each other for very long, but they were best friends, even if Noah wouldn't care to admit it. He would need him for what would come after the weekend.

Thanks for reading chapter 4! Please review. 'Tis appreciated:-)