Chapter 10 – First day of class, can't be that bad can it?
The prefect was quickly healed by Lily who had orbed down to her son and his new friends with Albus, Minerva and the Head of House Hufflepuff, Pomona Sprout. Minerva and Albus quickly set about casting diagnostic spells on the area and the castle wards specifically to ascertain just how the two Demons had managed to infiltrate the school while Lily, after healing the prefect, and Professor Sprout took the students statements of the attack. All of the first years spoke of the prefects bravery to the two professors who, along with Professor Dumbledore and McGonagall (who reminded Harry to call them so telepathically upon their arrival to his statement to his Head of House and mother) turned to the fifth year with an impressed look on their faces.
"Well done Mr. Cooper, that was a very brave and noble act, befitting of my very own House Gryffindor. 20 points to Hufflepuff" said Minerva.
"I agree Professor McGonagall, that was a very brave thing to do, especially against two beings of unknown power due to their breaching of the wards with ease. 10 more points for Hufflepuff. Professor McGonagall, Mr. Cooper would you wish to accompany myself to the Great Hall for breakfast, I find myself with a hankering for a St. Louis Slinger" he said conversationally before setting off, his bewildered wife and an ecstatic prefect behind him. Professor Potter (as Harry, Wyatt and now Hermione were told to refer to Lily as, as had Marlene asked them to call her Professor McKinnon) left the first years with their Head of House, stating how she needed to leave and inform her sisters of the Demon attack. That left the group with Professor Sprout who began to lead them to the Great Hall.
"I am very proud of all of you. You each showed the qualities of a true Hufflepuff, levelheadedness in dire situations and loyalty above all. I am very proud of each and every one of you and am awarding 10 points to each of you for your actions today" she stated before as she walks, showing them to the Hufflepuff table and handing them their timetables.
The Timetables they were handed goes as follows:
Monday
9:00 – 10:30 DADA (R) Classroom 104
10:30 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:30 Herbology Theory (S) Classroom 102
11:30 –1:00 Wiccan Magic (R, G, S) Classroom 3D
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 2:45 Transfiguration (G) Classroom 1B
2:45 – 3:30 Charms (G) Classroom 2E
3:30 – 4:15 Spare
4:15 – 6:15 Dinner
6:15 - 10:00 Spare
Tuesday
9:00 – 10:30 Transfiguration (G) Classroom 1B
10:30 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:30 DADA (R) Classroom 104
11:30 –1:00 Herbology Practical(S) Greenhouse One
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 Potions (R) Dungeon Room 1
3:30 – 4:15 Spare
4:15 – 6:15 Dinner
6:15 - 10:00 Spare
Wednesday
9:00 – 10:30 Charms (G) Classroom 2E
10:30 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:30 History of Magic (S) Classroom 4F
11:30 –1:00 Spare
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 Demonology Classroom 3D
3:30 – 4:15 Wiccan Magic (R, G, S) Classroom 3D
4:15 – 6:15 Dinner
6:15 - 10:00 Spare
Thursday
9:00 – 10:30 Potions (R) Dungeon Room 1
10:30 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:30 DADA (R) Classroom 104
11:30 –1:00 History of Magic (S)
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 4:15 Spare
4:15 – 6:15 Dinner
6:15 - 10:00 Spare
Friday
9:00 – 10:30 Potions (R) Dungeon Room 1
10:30 – 10:35 Break
10:35 – 11:30 Wiccan Magic (R, G, S) Classroom 3D
11:30 –1:00 Games / Flying (R) Flying Pitch
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 Demonology Classroom 3D
3:30 – 4:15 Spare
4:15 – 6:15 Dinner
6:15 – 7:45 Spare
7:45 – 8:30 Astronomy Astronomy Tower
8:30 – 10:00 Spare
"So who else has Wiccan Magic class on their schedule?" Hermione asks, looking up from her schedule. Harry, Susan and Hannah raise their hands. Dumbledore stood at his podium and cleared his throat, gaining the attention of the student body.
"I seem to have forgot to mention one detail last night in our welcoming feast. For those of you who are studying your NEWTS, any spares you have will be taken up by extra Wiccan Magic class though you will be unable to take Demonology as a credited course, you are though more than welcome to have private lessons with Professor Potter and her sisters on weekend mornings if they are available, which they have all promised to do so to the best of their abilities. As you are aware, Professor Potters sisters are the Charmed Ones and they have their own responsibilities as the protectors of the Magical World from Evil and sometimes emergency situations arise that will need to be dealt with immediately and therefore you should take heed that sometimes, you will be unable to use the arranged session and will therefore be re-arranged for another time." Professor Dumbledore then went back to his seat at the Head table and finished his breakfast.
Harry and his classmates, after finishing their breakfast were approached by a fifth year prefect who introduced herself as Kelly Samuels. She led the first years to their first class and told them that she would take them between classes and show them around while they were walking to their next classes.
"Hufflepuff is the only House in Hogwarts that do this, it was actually brought in by Professor Sprout when she became the head of Hufflepuff to help the new students find their way around the castle. After each class of yours I will meet you there and take you to your next class for this first week and the duties will rotate between all prefects and other older students who kindly volunteer their time in the House, then you are also aware who you can go to for help if needed and there's always a friendly face in the corridor. " Kelly said as she walked up to the second floor with the first years trailing behind her.
"What is DADA class and whats it like?" Hermione asked eagerly, a small glint in her earthy eyes.
"DADA is the abbreviation of Defence Against the Dark Arts. Throughout your first year you won't be really going much into depth, just learning about minor magical creatures and how to defend against them and learning some pretty small spells. I wouldn't worry too much, Professor Quirrell taught me Muggle Studies in Third Year before his sabbatical last year and he's knowledgeable, a former Ravenclaw if I believe" The fifth year prefect said before stopping outside a door and leaving them with instructions to their next class which is
"The first one on your right as you go around the corner. I'll meet you outside there and show you the way to your next class before I go for my break. The other fifth year prefect you all met last night, Gabriel will take over for the other half of the day. I'll see you all later!" Kelly said, flashing a smile to the group and a friendly wave to the group, and a small curtsy to Harry before rushing to her own class.
"You're not making people curtsy to you are you now Potter? Just wait until my mom hears about this" a teasing voice could be heard behind the group who stood looking in the direction Kelly ran off. Turning around Harry saw his cousin and his fellow first years behind him.
"You dare, there's a reason I'm the Boy-Who-Lived. Why don't you come and find out?" Harry says semi-threatening and teasing tone of voice.
"Does he know who he's talking to?! The Most Ancient and Noble House of Bones stand behind you Harry" Susan says, drawing her wand discreetly. Harry burst out laughing, soon followed by Wyatt and Hermione and Draco.
"Susan, Hannah, Megan, Ernie, Justin, Wayne I'd like you to meet my older cousin, Wyatt Halliwell. Wyatt, these are mine and Hermione's fellow classmates." Harry says once his laughter subsides.
"These are my classmates. Draco you already know, Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein, Michael Corner, Lisa Turpin, Isobel MacDougal, Padma Patil and Sue Li"
"Padma Patil did you say? Are you aware of our contract?" Harry says fearfully.
"Yes but last night I had initiated a Soul Bond, what happens now?" Padma says, knowing that a contract as old as this would possibly take her life for the breaching of the contract.
"Don't worry, when I was in Gringotts last I had looked over each marriage contract and every stipulation talks of how if the contracted persons form a Soul Bond then their contract is void. I formed a Soul Bond yesterday for the House of Potter. Seeing as I am first and foremost a Potter, if I had a contract with the House of Potter, that would have been dissolved. Fortunately the contract for Ravenclaw has a clause that if the current heir or Lord's main House is another, such as mine being Pendragon-Le Fey with it being the Royal House, instead of my birth House of Potter, then the Lady of said House will be the Lady of Ravenclaw also. It's the same with all of my contracts actually, except for the contracts for House Black, who's future lady is our fellow first year and Slytherin student Daphne Greengrass, and House Hufflepuff, who's future lady is Ginevra Weasley, our fellow first year and member of Gryffindor House."
The group of first years got to know each other, with Draco explaining how Ravenclaw's system to help the first years around the castle is to teach them the locator spell 'Point Me', which they then proceeded to teach to the Hufflepuffs. The door they stood behind opened and a slight looking man who wore a purple turban wrapped around his head opened the door and ushered the class inside. Harry however refused to step inside the class and Wyatt followed suit, knowing his Cousin has a just reason for doing so.
"Mr P. ? Won't you please come inside?" the man stuttered.
"POTTER?!" a voice shouted before the turban flew from the professors head and the students behind him, looking on at the scene screamed in terror. They had screamed as growing on the back of Professor Quirrell's head is another face, with blood red eyes and a menacing scowl on his enraged face.
'Finally I can get my revenge' thought the man whose face was attached to Quirrell's, who Harry, after delving a touch deeper into his mind unnoticed, realised was his attempted murderer and his parent's killer, Tom Marvolo Riddle, aka Lord Voldemort himself.
"Hello Tom! It's been a while, did you miss me?" Harry says tauntingly, while Telepathically telling Wyatt to orb the class to safety at Halliwell Manor, and telling his mother to stay away from his classroom and he will handle the threat himself.
Wyatt waved his hands upwards and the class orbed away and he quickly followed after saying
"Good luck Harry". Voldemort smirked and said, with an glare towards his nemesis
"He'll need it".
"Why do you think that Tom? Shouldn't you need all the luck you can get? After all wasn't it I who destroyed you last time we came across each other?" Voldemort growled and shouted at Quirrel
"KILL HIM!" Quirrell swished around, wand brandished in hand and flicked it, sending a beam of pure black towards the hero, who rolled out of the way and flung his arm outward, sending a desk flying into the possessed man. This being his first day of classes, Harry hasn't had the chance to learn any Wizarding Magic as of yet, and so has to rely on his Wiccan Magic to defend himself. Luck would have it however that, as we know, Harry is quite the powerful individual in terms of his Wiccan Magic and so has plenty of opportunity to defend himself and even go on the offensive. Harry conjured a strong wind to blow around the two.
"Are you sure you want to go up against me Professor? As you can see, this won't be a walk in the park for either of us I believe." Quirrell narrowed his eyes and with a
"Now" from his Lord, he flicked his wand several times, each one sending a different curse or hex to the young first year. Harry manipulated the wind that he had summoned to rip apart each spell sent his way. Voldemort screamed in fury and Quirrell roared the words
"AVADA KEDAVRA!" A rush of green light flew towards Harry, who rolled out the way
"Now that was below the belt! Sending the Killing Curse flying towards me for a second time in my life. What's that about?" Harry said tauntingly before swirling his hand and flicking it outward, a whip made of fire following his movement and wrapping around Quirrell's wrist, burning the man and forcing him to drop his wand.
Harry flicked his arm towards himself and bringing the man towards him before he connects to his Aunt Phoebe, levitates and roundhouse kicks the man. As Harry lands however the possessed professor charges forward and tackles him. The professor, wraps his hands around the young ones throat, however he screamed in pure pain and agony and let go. As the man took his hands away Harry noticed his skin was glowing a pure gold and Quirrell's hands started to crumble to ash. Voldemort screamed in rage and suddenly Quirrel crumpled to the ground as the rest of his body turned to ash and a ghostlike form rose and formed the body of Tom Riddle before he had been vanquished, a tall and handsome man with a menacing expression stuck on his face.
"So, Potter, tell me. Do you like the feeling of having blood on your hands? Do you like knowing that you killed a man?" Voldemort said with a smile. Harry's eyes widened in realisation that it is true, whether it was intentional or not, he had just killed the Defence of the Dark Arts professor.
"Don't think like that Harry! You didn't kill Professor Quirrell; the protection that was left by myself defended you. It sensed the presence of the man who tried to kill you and activated itself, it wasn't you who killed Quirrell, it was me darling" a voice said behind the spirit, who turned around in astonishment.
"How? How did you survive? I killed you?!" Voldemort roared.
"Looks like you're not as good as you thought you were Tom. How many times have I beat you now? Isn't this the fourth time?" Lily taunted as she walked around him and wrapped an arm around her son and brandished her wand at the wraith who snarled and turned his body to mist and his face becoming like it had on the professors body before smashing through a window and flying away, retreating for the moment, knowing that now Lily Potter is back, so would her husband be the same and that proved a challenge for his plans of a return.
When Voldemort landed in a small cave not far from Hogwarts he formed back into a full bodied form and sat on a rock, ideas forming and tearing themselves apart in his mind. As he sat there however, he'd soon noticed that two people had joined him, one of these being a very familiar to the self proclaimed Dark Lord.
"Abraxus! How have you been? How's little Luci?" Voldemort said jovially, this man and his son's sister-in-law, Bellatrix Black (formerly Lestrange before she had divorced the eldest brother when he broke a term of the pre-nuptial agreement) being his most loyal followers and the woman his lover before his 'demise' and her imprisonment in 'Azkaban'. Though he supposes that she wouldn't be either of those now as the potions his best friend's son had been feeding her to make her loyal and in love with the older man had been stopped now. Bellatrix had once been very close to her cousin Sirius until he reached Hogwarts and became a Gryffindor while she was a Slytherin and so she distanced herself from him publicly and when her younger sister Narcissa (who was also on a heavy dose from Lucius, which according to rumour, she has recently broke free of and took her son, the Malfoy Scion, and became a Black once more) saw her chance and started her on the same course as herself under Lucius' orders.
"Vold, I've been well thank you, I'm sure you've caught wind of Narcissa taking my traitorous grandson away from Lucius and the family title. She must have cottoned on to the fact Lucius was potioning her and the bitch escaped. Though I don't think you've learnt much else of recent events, such as the fact that the Potters have been returned to life in a way, the Potter parents are Whitelighters, the opposite of my own part Darklighter identity and the brat has been raised by the strongest force for Good in the world for the past 7 years, The Charmed Ones.
"Fortunately The Powers That Be, the ruling Power of all creation under God himself, have decided that since The Elders, the leaders of the Good, have granted Lily Potter, who is in actuality a Halliwell and a Charmed One herself, and the eldest Halliwell sister, Pruedence, their lives and Powers and Magic back that the scales have tipped too far in favour of Good and so has returned many of our fallen comrades and fallen adversaries of The Charmed Ones their lives, Power and Magic back as well. The Source of All Evil himself has asked for me to find you and bring you to him so we may ally ourselves with him and be rid of the Potters and The Charmed Ones once and for all!"
(A/N:Hi everyone. First off, I know I do this every chapter but i cannot apologise for making you all wait so long for this chapter. I want to thank A School Of Magic forum for posting this very helpful timetable for the First Year Hufflepuffs which can be found here thread/66/hufflepuff-timetables . As you can see mine does differ slightly to accommodate the two new classes. I can't make any promises of when the next chapter is going to be here, but I wanted to get Voldemort from the castle quite quickly as you can see, I'm making him much less of a threat right here, cause right now he really isn't much to be scared of, but now that he's teamed up with The Source and other such nasties from Charmed, we may well see a much stronger opposition facing our heroes. I will promise that the next chapter however will feature the others betrothed to our dear Harry that haven't been introduced. Thank you all for your wonderful reviews, follows and favourites of not just my little story but myself as well, it really means alot to me, and to be totally honest, is the only thing keeping me going in writing, so as not to disappoint you guys. See you all soon :)
P.S: Sorry for those of you who were notified about a new chapter only find it missing, I noticed that my class schedule was severely untidy and messed up so I took the chapter down to sort it out and tidy it. I have just recently been given an unconditional offer to do my 3rd year at University so again, my chapters will be infrequent but that's because I want you guys to have my best work possible. Hope you enjoyed this chapter!)