Okay, here's chapter 3! I would have uploaded it sooner but I arrived to the US yesterday! :) I just woke up, and...here it goes!

I also want to thank paulinaghost, who has reviewed ALL my existing chapters! ;)

Chapter 3: Mess in Transfigurations

Cody's POV

I woke up early, even before Noah, Owen or Trent. When I saw him sleeping so peacefully I instinctively clenched my teeth. He was making Gwen suffer so much, and there he was, happy and all.

Oh, who am I trying to fool. It was me who was hurt the most! And the worst was I couldn't do anything at all.

I stood up and took my uniform. I was using it for the first time, since yesterday I'd only used my Hogwarts robe and regular clothes. But today I wore my brand-new Ravenclaw uniform, from the robe to the tie and from the shirt to the vest. I quickly changed from my King Kong shirt to my uniform and I stood there quietly, waiting for everyone else to wake up. About ten minutes later, I heard a beep. I would have been stranged, but I'd got used to it over these three years. It was Trent's muggle phone.

"Hum..." he yawned "Good morning everyone."

I huffed and turned my back to him. Then, I could see Noah already changed into his uniform.

"We'd better get moving," I suggested "Breakfast starts in ten minutes."

"Yeah," Noah agreed, quite sleepy.

We got our books for the first lesson of our third grade: Transfiguration. Of course, that one would be a boring, theoretical lesson, highlighting stuff in our textbooks while cranky old Mr. Thrawe yelled at us.

When we met Gwen and Courtney down in the common room, Noah seemed to snap out of his semi-sleep state and became fully awake.

"Hey," he said. I guess it was meant to be directed to both of them, but he was looking at Courtney.

"You feeling better?" Courtney asked. She seemed worried. I wondered why.

I looked at Noah, waiting for an explanation. He only mouthed he'd explain everything later.

We set foot to the Great Hall. It was already crowded with students, but we couldn't see anyone from our grade, except from Heather and, of course, Noelle. When Gwen was about to cross the hallway, Heather stopped in front of her.

"Be careful, Kree," the bossy thirteen-year-old adviced her, "don't even dare to play last year's trick on me. Right, Noelle?"

"Uh...what's right?" the dumb girl asked.

I sighed. I wondered how that girl had made it to the third grade. Probably cheating.

Gwen, however, just smiled.

"Don't worry, Heather," she giggled "I won't."

The Slytherin, however, didn't feel okay with that. She pointed at Gwen's eyes, then hers.

"You. Are. Dead," she breathed.

"Hey, don't you dare-" I started.

Heather laughed mischevously.

"Oh, how funny. Her little geeky boyfriend is coming to rescue!" she laughed.

"He's not my boyfriend," she said "nor he is a geek."

"Whatever. Bye."

I clenched my teeth while Heather and Noelle left. Then Gwen patted my back.

"Thanks, Cody."

"It's nothing," I muttered.

Said this, we all left to the Ravenclaw table, where Trent sat down with Owen. To my dismay, Gwen sat by Trent.

"Hi," he said, smiling.

"Um...hi," she muttered. I could see she was nervous.

"You should try the pancakes," he suggested "They're really good."

"Thanks, I will."

Gwen got a couple of pancakes and an orange juice as she started talking to Trent about their new schoolyear.

Why me, why me?

Courtney's POV

Transfigurations wasn't my best subject. I mean, why should I ever need to turn a needle into a dice? If it was a pen, or a coin, or even a sock, I reckon it could come in handy, but why a dice?

Sometimes I didn't understand cranky old Mr. Thrawe.

I sat in my table, which I shared with Gwen. In front of us, Noah and Cody sat. God, how was I meant to concentrate in the lesson if I had him so close? Well, he was my Potions partner, and the same thing happened in many other subjects. Why? Because we're meant to be friends, that is. Ahh, why me?

Well, we were there with cranky old Mr. Thrawe, who was babbling about how to transfigure a needle into a dice. Easy: just yell a bunch of funny-sounding words and you're done. I guess magic couldn't be easier, could it?

Well, I simply screwed everything up, and I will tell you why.

I grabbed hold of my wand, ready to inchant the needle. I mused the words, but just when I was about to transfigure the needle, Harold ran by me, hitting my arm, and so I accidentally inchanted...Cody's head.

"Oh my gosh!" I cried "Cody, I'm so sorry!"

He couldn't talk since he had no head anymore, but he turned at me. I bet he was angry.

"Cody!" Gwen shrieked.

All the Slytherins started laughing at him, while the Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors looked somewhat concerned.

"What happened to Carl's face?" Lindsay asked "Uh, he does need some makeup..."

Mr. Thrawe looked at him. At first he seemed okay with it, but then looked back at him, scandalized.

"Who did that?" Mr. Thrawe cried.

"I...I did, sir," I muttered "but it was Harold's fault! He was running, and hit me while I was performing the spell..."

Mr. Thrawe turned to Harold.

"Is that true?"

"I...guess so," Harold muttered.

"So then it's your duty to fix it, and to stay after our classes for the clean-up, right?"

"I guess..."

Harold stood up and inchanted Cody's head back, as he glared at me.

After the lesson, I wanted to run away. I didn't want any of my jerk classmates to laugh at me, I'd humilliated Cody enough.

"Hey, good spell," Noah laughed, patting my shoulder.

"SHUT UP!" I cried angrily, and left to the common room, where I had to get my books.

Gwen's POV

When I saw Courtney running upstairs, I decided it would be best to follow her. When we arrived to the common room, it was still empty, since we'd finished our lesson early. Courtney went to our dormitory, and once more I started following her.

"I hate transfigurations!" she fumed while she grabbed her Potions textbook "Cody was mad at me, wasn't he?"

"No, he wasn't mad at you," I said.

"Oh great. Now I humilliated one of my friends in front of the Slytherin jerks, and to just make it better I yelled at Noah. I bet he's mad at me now."

"Come on, no one's mad at you," I tried to cheer her up "Come on, we'll be late if we don't speed up. I bet Cody and Noah are waiting for us now. You know Slughorn is not much of a patient man."

"I know," she sighed "let's go."

When we met the boys at the common room, Noah quickly went to Courtney.

"Hey, Courtney," he started "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-"

"It's okay," she cut him "I'm the one who should apologize. I shouldn't have yelled at you."

I smiled, seeing everything was going fine between them. I then looked at Cody.

"Is your head all right?" I asked.

"Yeah," he said, attempting to sound cool "It's been nothing."

And we were back, all together as if nothing had happened.

Okay, that was the chapter. Poor Cody! x)

Chapter 4 coming either tomorrow or on Thursday!

-Nikki :)