A special thanks to Arwen-Evenstar-Elf for being my first reviewer!

Werewolf777 too!

So! From last chapter!

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.

So basically, Quidditch tryouts finally took place! Now more stuff can happen!

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"OF COURSE! HOW COULD WE HAVE BEEN SO STUPID?" Hermione suddenly screamed from reading her very thick book. She had disturbed the quiet from the Head's common room.

"Erm Hermione, no offense, but… what the bloody hell are you talking about?" Ron said.

"R.A.B.! Remember Sirius? His last name!" Hermione said excitedly as Harry suddenly jerked up from his homework.

"Sirius Black? What does that have to do with anything?" Ron asked obviously puzzled.

"Honestly Ron! His brother! Regulus! Regulus A. Black! He was a Death Eater! It has to be him! Remember? Sirius had said that He was killed on Voldemort's orders!" She said excitedly while slightly quivering at saying the name.

"HERMIONE! That's brilliant! It must be that something Sirius hadn't seen in his own brother!" Harry replied excitedly as well. He suddenly ran up to her and gave her a great hug.

Hermione's cheeks turned a deep crimson shade, as Ron scowled while watching. Harry then ran to his room and shut the door.

"Oh he's up to something!" Ron said while grinning, forgetting what Harry had done.

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"We start Potions today! Harry! You can't use Snape's book because it was for last year!" Hermione said happily.

Unfortunately for her, the sixth year book was much like the seventh year book, and he had already studied the book from cover to cover, and practically memorized everything.

"Ah! Harry! M'boy! How has your summer been? Good I hope! Listen! I'm having a welcome back party and you can bring a friend! How about it? How about you Miss Granger? You too Mr. Weasley!" Slughorn asked in his usual cheerful manner.

Ron was surprised that Slughorn had asked him, but was happy that he did.

"Well! It is going to be this Saturday! Hope you all can come!" He said, and walked away.

"So do you guys want to go?" Ron asked perkily.

"Hmm, I guess, I've been so stressed lately and I have no idea why! I guess this party will be fun." Hermione said uncertainly.

"Who are you guys bringing?" Harry asked, but was cut off by the bell.

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"Wow! This week went by fast! Seems like just yesterday it was Monday and now its Friday! Oh I almost forgot! Who are you going to bring to the party?" Ron asked.

"I think I'll just go by myself. You?" Hermione responded.

"Yeah same here." Ron said.

"Hey where is Harry?" Hermione asked while flipping through a magazine on the common room couch.

Meanwhile…

Harry had noticed the radiant glow that Crystal gave off in the Head's room when he was resting on the couch. She was stroking the fire and was in a thought mode.

"Hey Crystal, are you going to Slughorn's party tomorrow?" Harry suddenly asked.

Crystal snapped up from her train of thought.

"No, I didn't get invited." She said.

"Oh, wantgowifme?" Harry asked before thinking.

"Pardon?" She asked.

Harry gulped. "Want to go with me?" he said slowly. "As friends of course! I don't think you want to be all by yourself on Saturday night!"

"Sure! I guess it would be fun." She replied smiling.

Harry went back to the common room in a trance.

"Er mate, you ok?" Ron asked.

"Yeah." Harry snapped back from his trance.

"Who you taking?" Ron asked.

"Oh, Crystal." He said absentmindedly.

"Really? That's great Harry!" Hermione said, beaming.

"Oh no! It isn't like that, just going as friends because she didn't get invited." He replied.

"Mmhmm suuure mate!" Ron said before bursting from laughter.

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It was the day of the welcome back party, and it seemed as though everyone would be going.

"Hey where is it going to be?" Ron asked.

"Should be Potion's room, that's where it always was last year." Hermione replied. She glanced at the clock.

"Hmm.. time flies! Want to head over there now?" Ron asked.

"Sure." Hermione responded.

Ron and Hermione made their way out of the portrait and walked to the Potion's room.

It was completely transformed, so that you couldn't tell it was the regular, boring and small Potion's room. It had a large sign that said 'WELCOME BACK!' in colorful letters, and music was being projected from a radio.

"Wow, this is ruddy awesome." Ron said.

They saw Ginny, Neville, and the rest of the 'Slug Club'.

"Hey where's Harry?" Ron asked.

"Oh, erm…" she looked around.

"Over there! With Crystal!" she said.

They walked over to Crystal and Harry who were chatting with Professor Slughorn.

"Ah! Hello Mr. Weasley and Miss Granger! You're just in time! I was just asking Mr. Potter and Miss Collier what their ambitions were after Hogwarts!" Slughorn said merrily.

"Well, I wanted to be an auror to get Voldemort back for all that he has done." Harry said carefully.

They flinched at hearing his name.

"Ah, yes of course, wouldn't have expected less." Slughorn replied. "How about you Miss Collier?"

"I think I would want to be a professor, perhaps at Hogwarts. That way I would be able to return to this wonderful castle, I do enjoy it." She said.

"Ah! An excellent choice as well!" he exclaimed. "Mr. Weasley?"

"Oh, I want to be an auror as well."

"Me too." Hermione said.

"So! Three aurors and one professor? Great ambitions!" Professor Slughorn said. He made it apparent that he was happy that they would be trying for jobs of great power.

At 11:00 p.m. the party ended and the group of four returned to their dormitories for a wonderful sleep.

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It was a lovely Sunday morning and Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Crystal were eating breakfast in the Great Hall.

A little girl came up to Crystal and said, "um, Crystal Collier? The headmistress would like to see you."

"Thank you. Hmm, I wonder what she wants." Crystal said, before walking away to the Headmistress' office.

"Hello Miss Collier. I would like to discuss something with you. Professor Slughorn has informed me that you have ambitions to become a professor? Well I have been considering opening new classes to give the students different experiences that will help them later, and also as an extracurricular. This would be an experience to help you, and also consider offering a job for you here, after Hogwarts." McGonagall said.

"Oh um, what were you thinking of?" Crystal asked.

"If possible, I was thinking of some language classes that can help. Seeing as how there are so many different languages being used nowadays, and messages that need to be translated. If you could, I would like to ask you to teach French. However, these lessons may take up some of your free periods." McGonagall said.

"I think that would be ok with me." She replied.

"Great! Of course, you aren't just doing this for nothing. You will be receiving five galleons per lesson." McGonagall said.

"Oh, thank you. But I do just enjoy teaching, its something I have discovered as a child." Crystal said.

"Ok then, thank you. The French would be Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in your free period before lunch. It will be held in my classroom if that is ok with you."

"Fine by me."

"Ok, thank you and that will be all. You may leave." McGonagall said.

"Professor, if I may ask, what other languages are you going to be having?" Crystal asked.

"French, Latin, Italian, and Russian." She replied. "Students will be required to choose one."

"Oh, ok thanks Professor!" Crystal said before exiting.

"Hey Crystal, what are you doing?" Harry asked, coming out of his room.

Crystal explained what had happened at her meeting with McGonagall.

"Wow! Th-" Harry was cut off by a sudden opening of the head's door.

Ron and Hermione entered, knowing the password.

"Hey Crystal, what did McGonagall talk to you about?" Hermione asked.

Crystal explained it once again to Hermione and Ron.

Hermione squealed.

"That is so wonderful Crystal! Hey Harry! Ron! We should all take it!" Hermione said excitedly.

"I will if Harry does." Ron said.

"NO way." Harry said. Hermione scowled.

"McGonagall said that it would be important later on in deciphering messages and stuff. Also that it could help to become closer to the end of you-know-who." Crystal said, with a slight smile.

"Alright, alright, I'm in." Harry said.

"Same here." Ron said.

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A week passed by quicker that Crystal had expected, and it was Monday once again, the day of the first French lesson.

She went a little earlier to the classroom to prepare. She noticed that the books were all piled up on the teacher's desk in the front. She also saw the sign up sheet and saw that many kids had signed up for it.

The bell rang and students began filing into the classroom. She saw Hermione, Ron, and Harry come in and wave, and she nodded back smiling.

Most of the students looked very much younger, and no Slytherin's showed up, which was to Crystal's pleasure.

"Well Hello, My name is Crystal Collier. I will be teaching French to you. Professor McGonagall has given me the right to deduct points and provide detentions if necessary. Now, I have taken the liberty in purchasing new French books for you all, it is 10 galleons each, please have the money turned in my Friday. If you have it now, please bring it up now and tell me your name." She said in a professional voice.

Several kids walked up and paid.

"Thank you. Now, in this classroom, you will call me Mademoiselle Collier. You can choose your own names, of course they need to be French, and write them on a piece of parchment along with your real name with your House." She said.

"First, come pick your books up." She said, and handed out the books.

"I will give you 5 minutes to write your information. If you need help in the selection of your name, you may check on page xi of your book, where it has a list."

Crystal waited for 5 minutes as she saw students getting parchment out and writing down their information.

Finally students started bringing the slips of parchment up to her.

"We will first begin with the basics. Now, open you book to page one." She said.

The noise of turning pages filled the room.

"To formally say 'Hello' one would say, Bonjour. If you want to say 'Hi' informally, one would say Salut. To ask how one is doing formally, you simply ask, Comment allez vous? Informally, it is Ca va? Please repeat after me. Bonjour, Comment allez vous?"

"Bonjour, Comment allez vous?"

"No, you need to say it with a French accent, say the 'r' with your throat. Try it again." She said.

Everyone tried to say the 'r' the write way, which caused several people to laugh at how weird it sounded.

"Good, now to respond, you may say, Je suis comme ci, comme ca. Which is, I am ok. You can also respond with Je suis bon(ne), which is I am good. So turn to your partner, and start with hello, ask how they are, then respond to it."

The class filled with voices once again.

"wh-" Crystal was cut off when the bell rang. "Ok, that's it for today, just work on saying your 'r' s ok? Thank you." She said, as people began to file out.

"Wow Crystal! That was so fun!" Hermione said, walking to the front of the classroom.

"Come on, let's go to lunch." Ron said.

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"ugh! this is just infuriating! What did Regulus have that could have been a horcrux? Do you remember anything at all? Anything Sirius might have mentioned?" Hermione asked in a frustrated voice, looking up from a thick book.

Harry thought for awhile, "Actually, there is something, but it belonged to his dad. It was the large gold ring that had the Black crest on it. I remember Kreacher was going to steal it, but Sirius got it back, telling me whose it was."

Hermione's eyes flashed excitedly.

Harry gasped, "That can't be a horcrux can it? Ugh! It's worth a try! Let's go ask McGonagall if we can go take a little visit to Sirius' house!"

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To Arwen-Evenstar-Elf Harry just had to be seeker and that was the best way that I could make him seeker. Thanks for telling me! I'll try to avoid it next time!

Ok I know Hogwarts probably is the least likely place to start teaching languages, but it is important later on in the story.

Well, sorry it took so long, I've been having minor writers block, and also a Lily & James fanfic that has been clouding around in my head, check it out if you want to! Anyways, my finals are coming to an end, and so is school, so updates should be coming sooner. Please review! (: