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Sorry it took so long for this update!

And now, here's a recap from the previous chapter.

Harry lay in bed just thinking about everything that had occurred. He suddenly heard a noise. He sat up quickly and pulled his wand out and looked around.

"Harry! Harry!"

"Who's there?" Harry called out.

"Harry! Over here! It's Sirius! I'm here with your parents!" called the voice from Harry's silver mirror.

And now! On with the story!

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"What the-? Sirius?" Harry pinched himself to see if he was dreaming. He looked back at the mirror and saw Sirius looking back. He was sweating and looking to the side. Harry couldn't tell where they were.

"Harry, Harry, I'm here with your parents, look we can't talk long." He said.

"Wait Sirius, how is this possible?" Harry asked incredulously.

"Harry, you must understand that there is deeper magic that isn't that well known. Look Harry, Your parents want to talk to you." Sirius said.

"Harry! It's mum! Oh you look so handsome! I love you so much! I w-"she was cut off by James.

"Lils hon, sorry, but he needs to know the important stuff first." James explained. "Harry! Hi!" he said cheerfully, before returning to his serious mode. "Look, don't forget the horcruxes, it's very important, remember them and the note from last year. R.A.B. It's very important to defeat Voldemort and bring us back."

"Bring you back? I though it wasn't possible to bring people back from…" he trailed off.

"being dead?"

"Yeah."

"Remember what Sirius said, deeper magic!" He suddenly looked frantically around. "Look Harry, we need to go, be careful! Take uh whoever your friends are that Sirius talked about. Just be careful! We love you!"

"Oh Harry I love you!" Lily said crying, before vanishing. They had all left Harry sitting at his bed confused in his thoughts, and astonished to talking to his parents after such a long time.

He began to feel his eyelids grow heavier, until they finally shut.

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"You WHAT!" Ron asked with wide eyes. Harry had just told them about the mirror.

"Harry are you sure you weren't just extremely tired?" Hermione thought out loud.

"Yes, now, we need to find out who R.A.B. is!" Harry said, a bit annoyed with Ron and Hermione for not believing him.

"Well, Harry, let's look at the note again. You do still have it right?" Hermione asked hesitantly.

Harry ran up the stairs and tore through his trunk. He finally found it deep at the bottom of his trunk in a pocket of one of his robes.

"Hmm," Hermione examined it for what seemed like hours. She suddenly gasped.

"Harry! How could we have not seen this before?" she said suddenly very excitedly. "It says, 'to the Dark Lord'!"

Harry and Ron stared at her oblivious of what she was saying.

"The Dark Lord! Only Death Eaters call him 'The Dark Lord' right? This must be a Death Eater!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Of course! I've never heard any one else call him that, that wasn't a Death Eater! Hermione you're brilliant!" Harry said.

Hermione blushed a deep shade of crimson, as Ron rolled his eyes.

"Well that narrows it down doesn't it?" Hermione checked the clock. "Oh no! We have 5 more minutes until Transfiguration starts!" She screamed and quickly ran out.

"She's a nutter I tell you." Ron said, chuckling before going after her with Harry.

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"Ugh! I'm so tired! Double potions always beats me out!" Ron exclaimed while stretching in the common room. "Hey Harry! Can we go to your room?" he asked with a newborn excitement.

Harry nodded and they all went into the Heads room. They saw Crystal sitting on the couch by the fire reading a book.

Harry noticed how the fire danced in her sparkling blue eyes and felt his stomach tighten. He shook off the feeling as Hermione suddenly said something.

"Hey Crystal!" Hermione said cheerfully.

Crystal put her book down and smiled. "Hi! I was just doing the reading for homework. Everything is so interesting here!"

"Yeah that's what I thought!" Hermione suddenly gasped. "Are you a muggle-born?" she asked curiously with a hint of excitement.

"Oh yeah! I lived in France since I started school, but I attended grade school nearby. But I am still born from France!" She said proudly.

The boys were confused on how they got to such a topic so quickly. They looked at each other and shrugged before going into Harry's room. While the girls animatedly chatted like best friends.

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The group of four went down stairs for breakfast the next day.

"Yes! It's Saturday! No classes!" Ron said happily.

"Oh no! I forgot! Quidditch tryouts! They are going to be on Wednesday night at 6:00 sharp." Harry said.

"Oh great! I've been looking forward to it!" Ron said. His voice suddenly got low to a whisper. "Hey! Have you noticed that there are practically no Slytherins? Probably went to join Malfoy. That git." He said out of spite.

Hermione shifted her weight uncomfortably.

"Um, I think I'm going to go to the library right now ok?" She said quickly before dashing off.

"Oh, I need to discuss something with Professor Prim." She said, before mysteriously disappearing as well.

"Girls, they are so odd." Ron said, and helped himself to more toast.

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"Ok! Everyone! Please gather here and separate into groups!" Harry called. "Everyone trying out for Beaters go over by the Gryffindor end, Keepers go near the hoops, and Chasers go stay here." He concluded. "And sorry to anybody in hopes of getting seeker, that will be taken by yours truly. Please go to your groups now!" he called.

The group of people broke apart noisily to their designated spots. He went to each section and told them to first practice themselves. He put former Gryffindor team members in charge on each of the "stations".

He first talked to the Beaters.

"Ok! So, can everyone pair up? I'm going to send a few bludgers at each pair, so line up, and try to aim it through this hoop." He then conjured up a hoop.

When he was finally done, he left the Beaters, and went to the Keepers. They all lined up and took turns.

Next was the Chasers. He threw the Quaffle up, and watched them work with each other.

After about an hour passed, he called them all in again.

"Good practice today! Now! We will have different days for tryouts in each spot! Beater tryouts will be on Saturday, Keepers on Sunday, and Chasers on Monday. Thank you and you all can go now!" He finished and headed back to the castle.

He finally finished back at the Head's room and collapsed on the couch to a deep sleep.

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"Oh look! We start Defense today. I wonder what Prim is like." Ron asked out loud.

They entered the class room, and got to their seats.

A tall and young lady walked in. "Please put your books away, you will only need your wands for now." She said. Her voice projected very well throughout the large classroom.

Everyone scrambled as they put their quills and books away excitedly. They could tell it would be a different experience.

"Today we are going to learn a very advanced spell. It is called a 'Patronus'. Normally it would not be taught until much later on in the year, but I feel it is necessary given the current conditions." She said with a bit of bitterness trailing the last few words.

"Now, who can tell me what a Patronus is?" she asked the class.

Harry and Hermione were the only ones that raised their hands. She called on Harry.

"It is a sort of shield against Dementors." Harry said, also finishing bitterly with the word 'dementors.' He had remembered how much trouble they had caused him, and that they were with Voldemort now.

"Of course you would know. Good, thank you. 10 points to Gryffindor." She smiled. "Professor McGonagall has mentioned that you can conjure a complete corpeal Patronus?" she questioned Harry.

Harry nodded.

"Who can explain to me what a corpeal Patronus is?" She asked the class.

Hermione and Harry raised their hands once again. This time Hermione answered.

"A Corpeal Patronus is a Patronus that takes form of an animal." She stated.

"Thank you, another 10 points to Gryffindor." She said. "Now, Mr. Potter, could you please come up front and demonstrate a proper corpeal Patronus?"

Harry nodded and quickly made his way to the front of the room. He could feel everyone's eyes prickling his skin as he walked pass.

He concentrated on when he talked to his parents and Sirius a few days ago. "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" the familiar silver stag erupted from the tip of Harry's wand and pranced up and down the room before fading.

The class clapped along with Professor Prim. She was grinning widely. Harry went back to his seat.

"Thank you Mr. Potter! That was tremendous! Take 50 points to Gryffindor. Outstanding, absolutely outstanding!" she chuckled. It seemed as if she suddenly remembered she had a whole class staring back at her.

She cleared her through before continuing. "Now, the incantation is 'Expecto Patronum' Please repeat with out wands."

"Expecto Patronum."

"Expecto Patronum." The class chanted back at her.

"Good, now, in order for this to actually be accomplished, you need to concentrate deeply on one happy memory. Only one. Now, everyone please take a moment to think of that happy memory." She paused for a few minutes.

"Everyone have their memory? Ah, with the exception of Mr. Potter, please keep concentrating on that happy memory as you take your wands out." Everyone excitedly took their wands out. "Now, concentrate, and repeat, Expecto Patronum"

The class all repeated and watched their wands hopefully. Hermione had gotten a little spark from the tip of her wand, but it quickly faded.

The rest of the class continued the same way, and Hermione had been the only one closest to getting even a little spark from her wand.

"Good job class! We will continue another day, but for homework, practice your Patronus and give one roll of observations on what you practiced. Thank you and that will be all, you are dismissed." She said. "Ah, Mr. Potter, if I could have a word with you?"

Harry walked up to Prim.

"Well good job today! How is it going with the Quidditch team?" She asked.

"I had a practice just yesterday, and I almost have the team picked out." He replied.

"Good, thank you Mr. Potter, lets see you have Transfiguration next right? Well let me give you a note to Minerva explaining your tardy." She said, handing him a piece of paper.

He stalked off to Transfiguration and handed McGonagall the note.

Compared to the 'exciting' DADA class, no one had much interest to what McGonagall was saying that particular day.

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"OK! Hello beaters! Now you will line up, and I will throw a bludger, and it will obviously go towards you. You are to hit it with one of the bats, and hit it through one of the three hoops." Harry called out.

The tryouts for beaters went fairly good, but there was the constant bruising of people when bludgers were misled.

"Good job today! The team will be posted this Wednesday! Thank you!" he said, and dismissed the hopeful kids.

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The rest of the tryouts had gone similar to the beater tryouts, with not much interesting happening.

Harry had seen each player, and finally decided. Since Peakes and Cootes had gotten transferred out, he chose a new set of twins that reminded him of the Weasley twins, but not as superb. It was DJ and Daniel Lows. He had chosen Ron for keeper again, since he was the best of all that had tried out.

With Katie gone, he chose Ginny Weasley, Melissa Solt and Michelle Soie.

Harry had a good feeling about this year's team.

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Obviously anything bad belongs to me, and anything that screams AWESOMENESS! Is the wonderful JK Rowling's. Honestly, it's not that hard ok?

Anyways! Now that the event for school is over, I have more time. But then again, finals are coming up soon.

That thing for school, our group got 3rd place, but it was actually 2nd place, but there was a time limit so we got points docked. Since the juniors were sore losers. But still! We placed & beat the freshmen, sophomores, scrubs, and technically the juniors!

I might take as long or longer for the next update, sorry! And for any parts that seem really weird, sorry, I usually write these late at night, usually around 10-1:00 at night/morning, well, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. ok? So sorry! (again.)

And if I haven't stated this already, this story is going to be pretty long.

Well, enough about all that stuff you probably don't have any idea of, so, to make me stop rambling on about random things, REVIEW! Please! And tell me what you though/think!

(You've noticed by now that I do ramble on and on a lot right? Yeah ok then.)