I DO NOT OWN MAXIMUM RIDE OR HARRY POTTER

"Did you see his hand?" Harry said. I was making my way down the stairs with Nudge and Angel when I herd his voice.

"Yah, it looked like it was dead."

"Who's hand?" I asked coming into the room and sitting at the table eating the breakfast that had been set out.

"Dumbledore's." Hermione said.

"What do you think happened?" Ron asked.

"There are curses that could have done that." Hermione said.

"So, what is Hogwarts like? Is it really a castle? And what are the teachers like? And do they give you a lot of homework, or is it all practising the spell? And how many kids are in my year and-" Nudge asked. She suddenly stopped. Angel must have had something to do with it. Angle just smiled and started to eat her toast.

"It's the best, though I wont be normal at all. None of our years were." Harry said.

"What do you mean?" Angel asked biting into her toast.

"Our first year, there was the Stone and Quirlle dying. Next there was the Chamber of Secrets and Lockhart losing his memory. Then Sirius and the dementors, and then in our fourth year the Triwizard tournament and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named coming back. The Umbridge and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named again. Who knows what will happen this year?" Ron said looking up at the ceiling with a distracted look on his face.

"Okay what stone and who's Umbridge and what's the Triwizard tournament and-" Angel shoved a bunch of balled up toast into Nudge's mouth to shut her up.

"Why does Nudge have toast in her mouth?" Gazzy asked as he, Fang and Iggy came down the stairs.

"She does?" Iggy said with a smirk, sitting down. "Talked to much now she can't talk at all?"

"What did she want?" Fang asked coolly. Ron, Harry and Hermione began to tell their stories about their pervious years. And I thought that we got into trouble. They were so distracted that it wasn't until there was a loud hoot from outside the door that anybody noticed the six owl at the window.

"Oh my god! Those must be the Hogwarts owls!" Hermione said in a shrill voice. Ron and Harry rolled their eyes as Hermione got up and opened the window. Three of the owls flew to Harry, Ron and Hermione. Two flew to me. I opened the letters.

Dear Miss Ride,

You and your flock are asked to buy the following items for the school year. Your new Wizarding Card (like a muggle bank card) is in the following letter as well as a form that you, Iggy, Fang will need to fill out.

Your Truly,

Professor Minerva McGonagall, Deputy Headmistress

In the other envelope there was three Wiz Cards and three forms. They were for what courses we would like to take at Hogwarts.

"What we gonna take?" Fang asked.

"Oh so that's what that is, I thought it was a blank piece of paper." Iggy said.

"Shut up Ig." Fang and I said at the same time. I ended up taking the same courses as Harry and Ron, except I decided to take Care of Magical Creatures. Fang and Iggy took the same as me.

"Yes, I got 7 O.W.Ls." Ron said punching the air. "How you two do?"

"Same 7." Harry said. Ron looked over his shoulder.

"Knew you'd get top in Defence Against Dark Arts." Ron said punching Harry in the arm. "We've done alright haven't we?"

"Well done!" said Mrs. Weasley said proudly, ruffling Ron's hair. "Seven O.W.L.'s that's more then Fred and George got all together!"

"Hermione?" said Ginny tentatively, for Hermione still hadn't turned around. "How did you do?"

"I- not bad." said Hermione in a small voice.

"Oh come off it," said Ron, striding over whipping her results out of her hands. "Yep, ten 'Outstandings' and one 'Exceeds Expectations' in Defence Against Dark Arts." He looked down at her, half-amused, half-exasperated. "Your actually disappointed, aren't you?"

Hermione shook her head, but Harry laughed.

"Well, we're N.E.W.T students now!" Ron said. "Mom are there anymore sausages left?"

BURP!

"GAZZY!" The flock yelled at the same time.

"Sorry." He said, not looking it at all.

"I'll take that as a no." Ron said.