The Provisional Laws of Acquired Behavior or Learning
Authors Note: Who remembers the UK Sonic Comics when grunge and leather jackets were in fashion? Because that's the general era Maurice is growing up in.
Because no one reads profiles anymore: Chaos Reality Runner is being rewritten BUT IT IS NOT MY CURRENT PRIORITY this fic is.
On the subject of spoilers: I write for my own enjoyment and like any author making you all squirm adds to that enjoyment, tremendously.

Disclaimer: I don't at this time own any published work of Sega or JK Rowling, if I did I'd gut the current Sonic fandom and only allow literate people to contribute cutting the fandom back by 90% and improving the quality by the same percentage.

September 2nd 1991 – Great Hall - Lunch
Near collapsing onto the bench next to Susan, Maurice pinched the bridge of his nose and rubbed his eyes determinedly not thinking on the previous lesson. Susan was in a similar state.
Maurice had a thought through the malaise "Sue? History's basically all theory and you've got photographic memory so why were you even in the class?"
Susan went ramrod straight on the bench "That is a good question" Maurice blinked at Susan stumbled to her feet "Sue?"
"How likely is it you think if I ask Flitwick to let me test out of History as fast as I can?"
Maurice grinned shamelessly though tiredly waving one hand in a dizzy peace sign and propping his head on the table with the other "When you get your Newt in History next week thanks to my suggestion I expect free tutoring"
Susan answered his grin with a grin of her own and fearlessly strode up to the head table to find Professor Flitwick.

Charms Classroom 2E Ravenclaw & Gryffindor
"Welcome first years to Charms in this class we will be learning to change the properties of a object, for example," The Professor swished his wand at the steaming mug on his desk and clearly enunciated a spell "Wingardium Leviosa" the mug began to float and landed softly in Professor Flitwick grasp, "I just charmed a mug to take on a aspect of air allowing it to temporarily float in the air"
Professor Flitwick took a sip from the mug "Of course we will all be starting with feathers if we have enough time at the end of the lesson we'll take a bash at colouring charms"
In conclusion Professor Filius Flitwick was the sort of scatterbrained professor that was really fun to be around for everyone… Apart from Maurice who glared murder at the laughing Susan his blue hair now bright neon orange courtesy of her wand work, what's more Maurice was certain she'd done it on purpose. By the end of the lesson Flitwick had corrected the damage and Maurice was eager beyond belief to leave, least not because casting colouring spells with his bracer was like painting a small detailed image of a flower the size of a coin with a paint roller.
Coincidentally and on a totally unrelated note the next class were baffled at Professor Flitwick's classroom redesign which looked like something out of a Woodstock hippies festival.
"Well think of it this way, you can always do interior design?" For that comment Susan spent the rest of the lesson with pink skin and black and yellow hair she laughed it off, the gall of the woman.

Transfiguration Classroom 1B Ravenclaw & Gryffindor
"Welcome students to the most dangerous magical discipline and witch or wizard can hope to attempt, My name is Lucretia Prewett née Black and as there are two Professor Prewett's in school you may call me Professor Lucretia." The witches smile transitioned into a less pleasant expression as she spoke belying the seriousness of the topic.
"For your first day we'll go over what not to do assisted by these lovely slides ever so generously donated to us by St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries"
Professor Prewett moved to the back of the classroom closing the curtains to dim the light and started up a projector.
"For example! Here students, is the very reason we do not attempt to use transfiguration to give aquatic animals legs" Maurice flinched at the image projected on the blackboard then realized with creeping horror that Professor Lucretia had three stacks of slides beside her.
"Observe students how the man eating killer whales which were granted mild sapience by the initial bridging of the aqua-terra divide and granted the legs of a large feline proceeded to assault the people of the Australasian Antarctic Mapping Expedition between 1911 and 1914. All in all a ill fated attempt made by British and Australian wizards to create aquatic war mounts as a alternative to easily startled elephants and horses. It is believed that their goal was to create the creatures and have them be 'discovered' by the British Muggles for use in the First World War against Germany"
After you managed to shake off sarcasm strewn lecture on the Dangers Of Transfiguration(TM) and accompanied nightmare fuel slides Lucretia Prewett was a exceedingly competent teacher, she handed out chopsticks then showed the class how to change them from wood to metal. Professor Lucretia spent the lesson going around the students correcting pronunciation.
One thing she emphasized stuck with them "In sixth year you'll be expected to do all your spells silently. I do not expect you to start now but if you do start trying this now after you've mastered a spell it will help significantly in the following years" It was a testament to her force of personality that all the students managed the transfiguration by the end of the lesson though still practicing to get to the point of silent casting.
She held one student behind a Ravenclaw who hadn't made any progress nor even the smallest spark.
All in all Maurice had enjoyed the impromptu history lesson having grown up on documentary gems like 'The Occult History of the Third Reich' and films like 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' and 'The Alien Trilogy' thanks to a lifetime of sneaking into London cinemas. Susan however had been stiff faced for the majority of the lecture.
"Sue? You ok?" asked Maurice "That little show at the start didn't scare you did it?"
Susan grimaced "It was a bit graphic for first years wasn't it" she was surprised by Maurice's response. "I don't think so I've seen scarier films and some of the things I was taught in school where way worse than that"
"Really?"
Maurice felt a bit flatfooted, were the purely magical really that isolated from the non-magicals? "Well yeah, history lessons at my school was always really detailed, I remember when a group of kids at my school thought drawing swastikas everywhere was cool, the head teacher came down on the whole year like a ton of bricks, the entire school ended up watching this film all about concentration camps during world war two, sure over half the students had nightmares for weeks but not one parent complained. Especially as long as no one thought being a Nazi was 'cool' anymore"
Susan looked thoughtful though a bit green "I guess…" Maurice resolved then and there to take Susan to the cinemas come the next available opportunity.

Astronomy Tower Ravenclaw & Slytherin
Maurice withheld a smirk at the puffing Ravenclaws unused to climbing the winding staircase to the top of the astronomy tower. Maurice mentally congratulated the person who scheduled the previous class on the bottom floor, with the next class on the 6th and left nary 5 minutes for the students to traverse the distance, all the while carrying awkwardly shaped telescopes and books.
Susan, not quite as tired as the other first years only carrying a telescope case, spotted his smug smirk and debated pushing him down the stairs an expression on her face which broadcast that sentiment.
A peace offering came in the form of Maurice sacrificing his jumper to Susan to shield her a bit more from the brisk evening winds in the high tower.
The centre of the tower was dominated by a large bronze moving model of the solar system spinning ever so slowly on differentiating axis's in a gyroscopic path.
Maurice observed as a group of students in Slytherin green approached the other arriving Ravenclaws, the leader with black hair, blueish grey eyes and wearing a green ascot in place of a Slytherin tie introduced himself.
"Hello, I am Roger Malone it seems that we are sharing this lesson this evening…" Roger trailed off meaningfully expecting a response.
"Susan Bones"
"Maurice Bluewind"
The expression on his face Maurice noted was a bit plastic as though rehearsed "So very nice to meet my fellow students on amicable terms, I'm afraid some of the other members of my house seem to subscribe to that ridiculously outdated notion of blood purity, alienating many of their school mates, you can trust however that I am not amongst that number"
Susan holds her head high "I had heard that Slytherin was changing its ideology, nice to see it wasn't all talk."
Maurice interjects hiding his discomfit "I haven't seen a trace of bigotry but to be fair its only the first day, we still have a entire year to get through"
Roger smiled knowingly "A wait and see approach how wise of you, your own views on this matter?"
Maurice met the boys gaze evenly "If someone hits me I'll hit back, probably harder too"
Rogers smile widened "I hope we can enjoy our school years if not in peace then on neutral terms please excuse me."
Roger greeted the rest of the Ravenclaws as Susan and Maurice looked on.
"I don't like him"
"Maurice" Susan scolded
"I can't help it I feel greasy just talking with him" The way Roger has spoken was almost practiced and certainly staged.
Susan quietly spoke careful to not be overheard by the rest of the year "Roger is part of the Malone family, the entire family follows the lead of Tiberius Ogden a political giant in the Wizengamot"
"So he's a politician in the making? That explains a whole lot" The hoity-toity way of speaking to foist connections reeked of political manoeuvring and it made Maurice uneasy to see that expression on his eleven year old classmate.
"Possibly but the family tend to offer and draw support to the commons"
And just why did that make the hair on the back of his neck rise. "Meaning?.."
"Meaning" Susan emphasized "That the family members tend to find out a lot of interesting things that the wouldn't otherwise"
"You mean that they're Ogden's spies?"
Susan shushed him not that they'd been talking above a soft whisper in the first place.
"Not in as many words, they believe in a slogan of 'law that benefits all' it made them really unpopular for years because they included beings, but this decade with the decline of pureblood rhetoric they've started to gain a lot of interest"
Maurice sighed "Its not that I don't approve but I didn't expect to get involved in politics so soon, I'm eleven!"
"You've kept up so far haven't you, It's not like you'll get a choice though, with the way things have been going if our generation doesn't care we'll end up backsliding at least that's what my aunt says"
"Politics" Maurice groaned in belated agreement, his initial curiosity of the magical world had resulted in a bit of a bibliophile phase and while Maurice didn't have a eidetic memory like Sue he remembered important stuff when it came up.
Just then the Professor Aurora Sinistra arrived.
"Hello students I am Professor Sinistra firstly I want to apologize about the timetabling error we actually start at 20 minutes past 4, I don't expect you to sprint from the basement to the top of the highest tower in Hogwarts carrying telescopes. Today we'll go over assembly and maintenance of telescopes but first a short introduction to astronomy."
Professor Sinistra walked over to a cupboard and levitated out over a dozen voluminous large beanbags and setting them all in a large circle around the floating planetarium.
"Pick a seat students and we'll begin"
"I like this class already" muttered Maurice to Susan sinking into a bean bag next to her.
Once settled Professor Sinistra pointed her wand toward the spinning gyroscope simultaneously causing it to light up and for blackout curtains to fall around the balcony.
"Astronomy, the study of the celestial array, the vast expanse of space and the limitless universe as a entity. On its own one can use it for navigation even under the strongest of wards as unlike compasses or navigation spells the light of the stars cannot be altered or obscured by any magic known to man. When combined with potions one can create and empower powerful elixirs, when combined with runes one can create spells that endure for hundreds of years, combined with Arithmancy one can even divine the future, Alchemy requires it. Spell creation begins and ends with astronomy knowing what constellation a spell was created under will increase its power when cast."
A wand movement and the ceiling erupted into stars one started to glow blue at Professor Sinistra prompting. "Sirius A, the brightest star visible from Earth physical light spells like Lumos have been tied to this stars light since the dawn of time when ancient mankind named it as the brightest star in the sky. Only when you can locate and identify the real stars will you be able to incorporate them into your spells and enchantments. In the future you may come across a spell with a unknown astrological tie, that is simply because the star or constellation was unrecorded or the knowledge was lost to history. As astrologers it's our job to rediscover those celestial ties or forge new ones."
The lesson went so well that the entire class was startled when a third year Ravenclaw intruded "Sorry to interrupt Professor but our timetable.."
Professor Sinistra pulled herself out of her beanbag and checked the time with a spell "Mr. Jordan? Gracious is that the time already? First years its time to pack up now I'm afraid we've overrun a little that's my next class outside" the room slowly illuminated with the gyroscope dimming though the curtains remained closed.
Maurice mutinously stretched and slumped back into the beanbag which as he'd discovered by chance had a build in warming charm for cold weather Susan rolled her eyes at Maurice's act and calmly turfed the bluenet onto the floor earning a betrayed look.
Professor Sinistra chuckled "To be young again"
Lee Jordan didn't chuckle he just rolled his eyes and muttered "Before or after you tagged the beanbags with anti-theft charms?"

On the way back to the common room to return their telescopes and books Maurice stretched "Well we've go three hours till curfew at 8 what do you want to do"
A first year Slytherin with black hair and blue eyes spoke up "Why don't we go to the lake? My name is Sophie"
"Maurice"
"Susan, you didn't see it earlier today?"
Sophie shook her head "There was a mix up in Slytherin common rooms with the luggage, the whole house spent the day fixing things up all hands on board really I didn't get the chance to explore at all"
Maurice nodded with a grin plucking the telescope from Susan's hands "Lets not waste time then I'll get these to our common room in no time flat" for the first time that day Maurice revved leaving a afterimage and wind shear that ruffling Susan and Sophie's hair into a frizzy mess and leaving them gaping in amazement.
"Did.. Did you know he could do that?" spoke Roger as he wrestled his hair back into compliance.
"He said he could run fast using controlled accidental magic when he was younger, I thought he was exaggerating…" Susan gazed after the blur trailing off thoughtfully.