"Harry! Get in quick! Everybody's waiting! Just give Arthur your trunk and move!" Mrs. Weasley said impatiently.

Harry quickly got into the back seat of Mr. Weasley's blue car, and wedged himself beside Ron.

"Hey mate, how are you feeling?" asked Ron.

Harry let out a little laugh, "Oh, just wonderful! My girlfriend, or should I say ex-girlfriend, died, and my best friend is going out with my arch enemy's lackey. I'm just peachy!"

"Sorry, mate." Ron said. Harry just turned away.

"Harry, I don't think you should talk about my boyfriend in that way. As long as I'm happy, you should be happy. I didn't like Luna much, but I didn't try to take her away from you, did I?" Hermione said.

"Shut up, morons. You should take advice from George and I. We always agree on the girls we date." Fred said, with a laugh.

"I'm sorry Harry, I liked Luna. I'm also sad that she died." Ginny sympathized.

"We're here everyone. Let's go…the Express will come any minute!" Mr. Weasley called from the front. One by one, everyone got out and retrieved their belongings. One by one, they slipped through Platform 9 ¾. One by one, they got on the Hogwarts Express.

Harry, Ron, Ginny, Neville and Lavender sat sinlently in there compartment, waiting for the food trolley. Hermione had left to visit Crabbe.

"So guys, how was your summer?" asked Lavender. Ron looked at her, and grinned.

"Great! It was fun! The only bad thing was Hermione hooked up with that toad, Crabbe, and Luna unexpectedly died!" replied Ron brightly.

"I know, it sucks, eh?" Lavender asked, lowered her bright green eyes, and fiddling with her short denim skirt. Lavender had changed over the summer, and it seemed Ron had noticed. She lost her baby fat, making her face look a lot better, and she had grown taller. She looked like a model. Harry sighed and tuned Ron and Lavender's animated conversation out. Suddenly, the compartment door opened, and Hermione came in, looking confused.

"What's wrong, Hermy?" asked Ginny.

"Crabbe's acting really weird…I think I might break up with him. I don't even know why I liked him in the first place…he's a slytherin, after all." Hermione replied.

Harry sighed and slowly started dozing off.

"Harry, wake up! We're here!" Neville said, gently pushing Harry. Harry roused himself and quickly changed into his robes. He got off the train and followed Neville as the wound their way to the welcome feast. Harry sat down beside Ron and Hermione, and waiting for Dumbledore to begin his speech. Dumbledore drawled on and on about various rules, introduced the teachers and sorted the first-years, while Harry, Ron and Hermione whispered amongst themselves.

"Oh, and before we begin our feast, I'd like everyone to take a minute, to mourn the loss of Miss Luna Lovegood, a special student who passed away this summer." Dumbledore said. Once the minute was done, he finally said, "Let the feast begin."

Harry lay in his bed, thinking about earlier. Everyone was laughing and eating, telling stories about the summer. Everything would have been amazing, if only Harry didn't feel so empty. Empty, because he didn't have a girlfriend. No one to take out on dates, no one to hug, no one to kiss. No one, Harry thought with a smile, to discuss the existance of crumple-horned snorkacks. Why did she have to leave him? He had loved her with all his heart, poured his soul into his relationship. She was his first, and by the the looks of it, last love. Harry could never love like he had loved Luna. She was irreplacable.

Harry dragged his way to his least favourite class, Potions. He sat beside Ron and Hermione, and stared at sickle Snape. As usual, his dirty slothes hung limply on his body, and his greasy hair was stringy.

"Okay class, today we will be working on the Vice Versa potion. Can anyone tell me what this potion does?" Snape drawled when everyone was settled in their seats. Hermione's hand shot up straight in the air. Snape rolled his eyes.

"Yes, Granger?" Snape asked.

"The Vice Versa Potion is a potion that enables the drinker to transform into the opposite sex for the day. It's antidote is to add 4 ground Black Beetle Eyes." Hermione recited.

"5 points for the know-it-all house, Gryffindor." Snape said nastily, as Hermione scowled. "The ingredients are on the board. It may be the first day, but there I will not tolerate any slacking off." he finished.

Harry quickly memorized the ingredients and went to get them from the cupboard.

2 Billyweed Stings

1 ½ ounces of Bubotuber Pus

14 grams of finely chopped Chinese Chomping Cabbage

¼ ground crocodile heart

3 cups of Erumpent Fluid

2 Rose Petals

7 cups of water

14 drops of Pomegranite Juice

Harry quickly returned to his table and quietly started making his potion. He was oddly silent, as noticed by his friends. This was because he was thinking of Luna. One day, when they were randomely talking about Snape, Luna said that Snape would make a toad of a girl, and that they should slip a bit of Vice Versa potion into Snape's pumpkin juice. Thinking of Luna made his heart ache.

After potions, the day went by quickly. In Divination, Proffessor Trelawney acting all mystical again, saying things like 'It's time to move on' and 'To get over the past, you need to live in the present…' and odd phrases like that. Other than that, the classes were fun.

Harry watched as Hermione entered through the portrait-hole, and as she she plunked herself in a soft armchair across from Harry and Ron.

"Hermy, you didn't bring any of your homework...you didn't even bring anything at all, for that matter...what's wrong?" asked Ron.

Hermione glared at Ron, but then sighed. "I broke up with Crabbe." she said.

Harry and Ron both smiled widely. "We knew it! A Gryffindor-Slytherin relationship will never work. EVER. Crabbe is a Slytherin. He has nothing to offer to a brave, loyal Gryffindor." said Harry proudly.

"Well, it depends on the guy. I believe you, Haughty-Harry-Potter-The-Great, was nearly a Slytherin. I guess as a part Slytherin, you and Ginny will never work out, huh?" Hermione said curtly.

"Shut up." said Harry, blushing from being ashamed that he couldn't come up with a witty comeback and from the embarrassment of the Ginny comment.

"What was that? Harry has no chance with me? That's not true. Hermy, you're just bitter because Crabbe was too crabby to give you the time of day!" Ginny said appearing out of nowhere. She chuckled at her own dry pun.

"For you information, Crabbe and I are no more. I broke up with him earlier at Hogsmeade." said Hermione tartly.

"Yay! I mean…uh, what happened?" asked Ginny.

"Well, we met up in the library, and I told him it was over. Even if he looked different, man, Crabbe is still the same dim-witted freak. He just sat there, grunted and said 'Whaa?' I said 'Do you want me to spell it out? We are over. O-V-E-R, over.' Do you think I was a little too harsh?" asked Hermione worriedly.

Ron, Harry and Ginny exchanged gleeful glances. "Oh no…he deserved it!"

Hermione rolled her eyes and went up to bed. Ginny followed slowly, while Harry and Ron started their homework.

"Hey…Harry, do you think Lavender and I have a chance together?" asked Ron shyly.

"Oh no! You too?! Dean Thomas asked me today for a good pick-up line…afterwards, I heard Lavender gushing about how sweet Dean was…" said Harry.

"Lavender likes pick-up lines? Sweet!" said Ron interestedly, "Which one did you tell Dean? I don't want to say the same one."

"Uhh…it was the classic, the did-it-hurt-when-you-fell-from-heaven one." replied Harry deitractedly, trying to finish a DADA essay.

"Okay…Oh! I know one. Be back in a flash, Harry!" Ron said, jumping up to join Lavender, who was with her friend Parvati Patil. Harry could faintly hear Ron asking if Lavender was tired. Harry rolled his eyes.

"Uh, no…why would I be tired?" asked Lavender.

"Because, girl, you've been running through my mind all day. See you." said Ron brightly, as he left.

"Ron has never looked at you before, and now he's all you've-been-running-through-my-mind-all-day!" said Parvati.

"Well, it was sweet anyway. And Ron doesn't look half bad." said Lavender thoughfully.

Ron heard what Lavender said, and for the rest of the night, he wore a huge grin.