I'm so sorry for the late update! I didn't mean to pull it this long!
I hope you can enjoy this chapter to some extent at least but I haven't given up on this fic! It'll take longer than expected now because I hate how school is going now. But- I will finish this ^^
'It looks like it's alright on Al's side. . ' Ed made a quick mental note after seeing Al walk away with the ginger before leaving the hall.
"What were you thinking?!" Pansy hissed at Ed and was practically nose to nose when Ed turned around. Ed- likewise- hissed right back at her.
"What can you possibly be referring to? And when were we close enough for you to invade my personal space?" Ed wrinkled his nose and stepped to the side.
Pansy furrowed her brows and dramatically clenched her fists and made a big dramatic show of looking disgusted. "You. You should know better than to break the rules and sit with other people from other houses." She purposely bent down and hissed at Ed.
Ed frowned. Why did he still have the damned height disadvantages again? Ugh, time to go back to using the elevator boots again. Shoot.
"Where does it specifically state that I can't sit with other houses? Just that I'm not allowed to sit at other tables right?" Ed had to hold himself back before doing something he would regret. This was not the first time that she had royally pissed him off. Just because she was Draco's fiance, she thought she had the right to go around and order Ed because he was associated with Draco. Dream on.
"Almost late," Crabbe grunted.
Ed rolled his eyes and pushed Pansy out of the way and caught up with Draco. He could still hear Pansy complaining in the back about his manners but Ed just ignored her.
"I don't see why I must be 'courteous' to someone who almost got me late over some stupid thing like sitting together with my brother."
He quickened his pace and the three other Slytherin boys followed his lead- no way were they going to slow down so Pansy could catch up.
When they reached the classroom, Ed saw Snape glaring at the door as if counting down before they made it to class.
Ed and Draco sat together at the front row and watched as Snape continued on glaring at the door- waiting for the rest of his house members to slip in.
When the rest of the Slytherins arrived 1 minute late, Snape gave them the sharpest and most venom-holding glare and continued glaring until they took a seat. The Hufflepuffs in the back looked smug and some smirked at their tardiness.
Ed purposely glanced away when Pansy tried to glare at him even more. She bit her lip and exhaled deeply before taking a seat at another table. Draco also avoided her glare.
"Now class, let's see how much you remember from last year- hopefully last year's class has not gone over your heads after summers of absolute relaxation," Snape looked down from his crooked nose and addressed mostly the Hufflepuffs in the back.
Before passing out the test to Ed, Snape made it a point to stare at at Ed with a displeased look before dropping a parchment with the assessment questions before moving on to Draco. Not like the Fullmetal Alchemist cared about what he thought. Looking down at the parchment, Ed found it decently easy. Surprisingly, Snape really didn't mean to trip them up and all the questions were really from the last year.
There were a lot of the quill scratching on the parchments and judging by how much of the scratching Ed heard, he was able to deduce that they were from the other students scratching out their answers. Ed thought it was simple enough but hearing the kids groan and continue scratching made him realize how much the kids really hated the potions class. 'Or they just really forgot.'
"Times up," Snape sneered and purposely started from the back of the room to start picking up the assessment sheets. Ed saw from his peripheral vision the Slytherin students trying to sneak in one or two more words onto their answer sheets.
After Snape plucked Ed's test from the table, he made a show of arranging the papers so they were in a neat pile. Then he looked down at them again and sneered, "I wonder how many of your dunderheads actually passed the assessment.
"Today, I will refrain from starting the lesson and I'd rather expect you dunderheads to look over the first section first and be prepared to answer some of my questions for the next class," Snape turned to place the stack on his table.
Draco tapped once on the table with his index finger to draw Ed's attention and when they locked eyes, Draco gestured to Snape walking towards his desk and shook his head while lightly sighing.
'It didn't go well I suppose,' Ed quickly caught onto the message and furrowed his brows to show that he was confused.
Draco opened his eyes in shock and pointed at Ed while signaling a thumbs up. Ed smirked and nodded. Draco groaned quietly.
"You're lucky you can easily remember things. . ." Draco slouched and groaned. Charms and Transfiguration were a complete mess. The only one to actually succeed was Ed- not too surprisingly.
"It's just that you guys aren't serious enough about classes I believe. Plus, it really isn't that difficult at all. I mean, it's basically formulas."
Draco looked at Ed as if he sprouted another head. 'What?!'
Before he could kindly tell Ed that there must be something wrong with him again, he heard the unmistakeable voice Potter and the words "autograph."
He turned on his heels, his eyes glistened and he marched on to that direction. Well, that's what he would have done if not for the fact the Ed was staring at him and a vice grip on his wrist.
"And what do you think you'll be doing?"
"Err, I thought that I heard down thing interesting going on there so why not?" Draco grinned nervously.
Ed hummed and cocked a brow up. Draco gestured to the direction he heard the voice and motioned to the smaller boy that he should follow.
When they arrived, there was Harry Potter, a first year and a bunch of other kids with Al standing by the first year's side.
Before Ed could call out to Al, Pansy popped up by Draco's side.
"What's this? Did I hear that the famous Harry Potter is giving autographs?! Wow, what a deal," she snickered and commented rather rudely in a loud voice that could catch attention. Which it did.
Harry blushed and tried to defend himself while Pansy stood with a self accomplished aura around herself.
"No- that's - I-" Harry pathetically tried to stutter out an excuse for himself. The first year frowned but also looked embarrassed. Al almost rolled his eyes at the immaturity.
"Colin, it's alright, hold on," Al frowned and turned to face the very immature Slytherins in the corner- they must be why people think of the Slytherins badly!
But before he could do anything, the crowd parted and what emerged was Lockhart and Al was pretty certain that he heard Harry curse under his breath.
"Oh my, what is this? Giving out autographs Harry Potter?"
"No sir, this is a misu-" Al tried to help defend Harry but Lockhart didn't give him the time.
"Well, how's this, you can take a picture of both Harry and I and we can both sign it!"
Colin blushed and nodded furiously. He fumbled with his camera and took a quick snap and thanked Lockhart and Harry as he stuttered.
"Would you like one too?" Lockhart chuckled and addressed Al who shook his head and muttered a quiet refusal. Lockhart raised both his eyebrows and gave a tiny shrug- as if wondering why anybody could refuse to get his signature.
"Let's go," Ed declared and turned around. It was such a sad sight that he didn't even watch to watch. And the way how that. . .that. . .girl acted. Draco nodded and followed after Ed but not after turning around to look at the group of people one more time.
Al watched as Ed stomped off with Draco trailing behind. Then he ushered Colin after he was done with the picture to move on to the next class.
"Those Sytherins weren't very nice, " Ginny popped up at Al's side while he tried to get away from the crowd.
"Huh? Well, it was just that one girl from Slytherin. The crowd was made up of a variety of students," Al defended. "Only a little of the Slytherins actually said anything too. I noticed that most of them just walked off."
Ginny cocked her head to the side. "I guess that's true. You sure are perceptive Al! You were practically acing all the subjects too. I wonder how you do that. . ."
"Its not much but I wonder when people will stop being so mean about Slytherins and when the mean ones will stop being so mean.. ."
Colin blushed, "I'm so excited to have this printed! I can't wait to show Harry Potter the results!"
"Ugh. . .I really dreaded this. . .I was kinda hoping we could skip this guy's class, " Ed groaned as the Slytherins stood in front of Defense Against Dark Arts.
"Do you want to bet that he doesn't do half of the things he said he did?"
"My father says that he doesn't act like he is capable of doing all that!"
All the Slytherins hushed when Lockhart sauntered over to the doorway, "My, my! Come, come! Why are you just huddled outside? You don't need any mental preparation because even though I am a fairly famous person- understatement!- you can just treat me like any of your professors!"
Ed rolled his eyes and ignored the glittery man and took a seat at the back- there was no way he was going to sit that close to the stupid professor. The other Slytherins also started piling in from the back.
"I certainly don't bite!" The man flashed his rows of white teeth to the first few rows of students who gave him their own grimaces in return.
"Alright! So, I was disappointed at the Gryffindor's evaluation with only one person getting full score, but I'd love to see if you guys studied a bit more!" Lockhart beamed. Draco smirked and lightly jabbed Ed.
"I don't think it's the fact that they didn't study but I think it's something stupid that Lockhart put together. . ." Ed groaned when he saw Lockhart grab 5 stacks of paper and start passing them out. The first few people who got it showed a face of absolute horror. Ed grimaced.
Finally, Lockhart reached them in the back, "Now now, if you read my books like you were told to, it shouldn't be that difficult!"
Ed felt his jaw drop. The questions had nothing to do with the subject! Only some friggen obsessive fan of his would know what his favorite color, his ambition and so on were!
'Who does he think he is?'
"Tut, tut, tut, not much better I see. You guys have to read carefully!" Lockhart sighed. The majority of the class rolled their eyes.
"Narcissistic. . ." Ed grumbled as Lockhart listed questions most of them got wrong.
"But! It's always difficult to remember things you've read from the summer, I understand," Lockhart condescendingly added while he approached his table again.
"Alright, so as your teacher, I am to teach you to not fear this creatures of the dark and to teach you spells to defend yourselves. . . We are going to have to start of simple today- with these!" Lockhart jerked off the cloth that was covering a cage on this desk.
The Slytherins in the front row cringed and pushed themselves further back into their chair and grimaced in disgust at the tiny pixies making ugly faces in the cage. Ed almost hit his head against the table. Really? Pixies? Funny. They were small and but they looked ridiculous with their hair colors and their faces.
"Now, now, you don't have to push yourselves away, in fact, don't be afraid of these at all! I had a little run in with them earlier, but no fear! That was just a slip of tongue! Here, let's see how you make of them!" Lockhart beamed and opened up the cage. Immediately, the Slytherins lept up and stood on their chairs and started ducking from the fairies.
"Eek! Wha-what are they!" Pansy shrieked when the fairy snatched her wand and threw it to the side. Another fairy with shocking green hair went and started pulling her hair. "Ouch! Ma-Make it stop!" She growled and reached to pull off the fairy.
"Well, they are called- Cornish Pixies!" Lockhart exclaimed as he ducked a screeching pixie that was thrown by Pansy. He beamed as he watched the struggling Slytherins. "Here, let me help! Peskipiksi Pesternomi!" Lockhart exclaimed confidently but nothing happened. Ed jumped from the table to avoid a pixie and saw how Lockhart's face fell. Ed pondered over the spell before deciding to try it. He rolled up the sleeve of the robe and pointed it at the pixies- "Peskipiksi Pesternomi!"
One of the pixies giggled and smacked him in the face.
"Why you-"
"Well well! Guess my wand- isn't - cooperating with me right now!" Lockhart yelped when the pixies grabbed his wand and flew around with it. The Slytherins were frantically trying to reach and grab the pesky pixies flying in the air.
"SAVED BY THE BELL!" The Slytherins quickly filed out of the room once they heard the bell- Lockhart did the same and ducked out.
"H-here, do your best to take care of them! This will be a challenge for you but it's also a way to refresh your memory of spells!" He nervously chuckled and closed the door.
Draco's jaw dropped and he froze for a brief second but had to start moving before he got caught by the pixies again.
Blaise Zabini ducked and groaned, "Why am I stuck with you guys?" He ducked beneath one of the seats. His wand was somewhere lost in the room after a mischievous pixie tossed it.
Crabbe and Goyle struggled with pulling off the pixies clinging onto their robes. Ed pounced on the teacher's desk and started rifling through the papers on the desk.
"Wait- what are you doing?" Draco stumbled and the pixies threw themselves onto him. "Hey- quit it!"
"Hey Draco! Try 'Arresto Momentum', It should slow down the pixies!" Ed suggested after rifling throught the pages.
"Ah-aresto momentum!" Draco stuttered and tried to keep his wand steady but the pixies kept giggling and continued on flying just as fast.
"How would you expect someone to know a spell right off the bat?!" Blaise exasperatedly shouted after he poked his head out.
Ed rolled his eyes, "Arresto Momentum!" He confidently called and pointed to a group of pixies. He grumbled when it only worked against one of the pixies. "Not good enough. . ." He quickly leapt and grabbed the slower pixie and shoved it into the cage.
"Hey! You guys remember the petrifying spells right? That's probably good enough."
"Wai-what?" "Huh?" Draco and Blaise both yelped after hearing Ed's order.
But Crabbe and Goyle only nodded and proceeded to call out "Petrificus Totalus" and pick up the fallen pixies. Draco looked on baffled at the rate Crabbe and Goyle were taking out pixies.
"Petrificus Totalus," Ed drawled and helped Draco up. "Wow, you are sure rusty in your spell skills," he snickered and brought the cage to Crabbe and Goyle who had finished petrifying the pixies.
"S-shut it! Its only the beginning of the year, tch. . . Anyways, that Lockhart sure isn't responsible enough. That was a lame move," Draco rolled his eyes and the rest of the Slytherins exited the room.
"Yea, that professor is certainly not certified to be one. . ." Blaise snickered.
"Yea, it sure comes off as a surprise in why Dumbledore even hired him, " Ed rolled his eyes.
Draco's attention was turned away by Crabbe's action of shoving his wand back into his robe.
'Wait, how did they get so much better in spell casting?'
A.N
Alright, that's it for now! I might edit it again tomorrow morning and I apologize , you are the only one to bring up the fact that I am missing a chapter I believe O.o I'm so sorry, I'll sum it up quick:
-Dumbledore shows up at Ed's place and shows a bit of his fancy magic (just summoning a parchment and transfiguring it)
-Dumbledore also originally sent Ed and Al mail 6 and 5 years prior but no response and Ed tells him that their mother is no longer alive
-Ed urges Dumbledore to let him get shopping for materials first so he can learn right away
-Ed gets a wand: Phoenix feathers, 12 ¾ inches and Pliable which is good for transfiguration (He makes a bit of a mess at the shop too)
-Dumbledore ends up paying ^^
I would post the chapter but then I'll have to switch things around so I'll hold off on that first- and once again, sorry for the late update! And don't worry! I don't see that as a flame at all!
Thanks Guest and tiara123458 for telling me to update ^^ I didn't forget but couldn't pull myself to get to it - and as for grammar, I shall do my best!
Thanks goodgirl275 for your kind statement, you make me blush ^^ and I have no idea how to write a Ravenclaw class honestly and I am horrid at riddles so that's why I ruled that one out and I'll consider your idea, I hate him too XD
It'll happen soon Evinco! This book I'm planning some serious Ed and Al action XD
.3950, I just thought putting Al in Gryffindor would be slightly more easier for me and for my ideas on this book ^^ But I agree with you! And no no, Al is no longer in his armor but his feelings of being trapped are still with him.
