P.S: Did another twist here…The Harry Potter bit is set after book 4 but Remus Lupin is still teaching.

I have to say thanks to my friend, waterbender16. She helped me with my story and gave me ideas! Go and check out her stories!

Disclaimer: Nope. They are still not mine *cries*.


New Experiences

I was woken by the sunlight shinning through the windows of the boys dormitory. I sat up and found Harry stood by Ron's bed, trying to wake him up. He looked up and saw me getting out of bed.

"Morning Darren! I was just going to wake you up after him." He turned to Ron again and shook him but he just moaned and fell back to sleep.

"Morning, do you need any help here?" I asked.

"Nah, kicking him usually does the trick." He said as he swung his foot into Ron's stomach.

"Owch! What was that for?" Ron yelled and woke up instantly.

"For waking you up obviously. Time for breakkie." I laughed at the two of them. We got changed quickly and went down to the Great Hall. We found Hermione there and joined her.

"Took you guys long enough. You will have to hurry; lesson starts in 20 minute's time." She said so we ate quickly and went for our lessons.

"What is our first lesson?" I asked Harry as we walked down the corridor.

"It's DADA." He answered.

"DADA?"

"Oh it was the shortening for defense against the dark arts. You will see when we get there."


"Hi class how was your holiday? Mine was brilliant. So, today we are going to recap the spell 'Riddikulus' since I presume you might forget over the holiday." The teacher said. He was in his mid thirties and looked just like an ordinary teacher. No wizards hat, no robes. He spotted me.

"Huh I see you are new here…I am professor Lupin. Your name?" He asked.

"Darren, sir."

"Since you are new you can be the first one who faces the boggart. Come over here. Now everybody gather around!"

Lupin told me briefly what I had to do. He then told me to stand in front of the closet with my wand. I was nervous. Lupin cast a spell on the closet and the door swung open. Something popped out and started to transform in front of me. I held my wand tighter. My eyes widened when I saw what it had transformed into. It was Mr. Tiny. He was holding his heart shape watch grinning at me evily. I heard some giggles in the crowd, behind me.

"Scared of your grandfather there?" A voice shouted and I reckoned it was Malfoy. I ignored him. I concentrated and shouted. "Riddikulus!" A flash came out from my want and the heart shape watch which Mr. Tiny was holding transformed slowly into a giant spider. It was a bigger version of Madame Octa. It grew bigger and swallowed Mr. Tiny in a second. I smirked. It would be fun if it really happens in the actual world. I reached out wanting to touch it but I remembered that everyone was watching so I quickly retracted my hand. I looked around the crowd. Everyone was muttering and staring at me in disbelief; "who would like spiders?"

"Bloody hell. I think I've just shit my pants…" I heard Ron mutter and I stifled a smirk. The lesson ended with everyone practicing the spell.


It was lunchtime now and me, Harry, Ron and Hermione were having lunch together.

"Darren do you know how to fly on a broom stick?" Ron asked while stuffing his mouth with bread.

"Flying? On a broom stick?" I raised an eye bow.

"Guess not then from your reaction. Oh yeah Harry! You can teach Darren how to fly on a broom stick after lunch!"

"Oh that's a good idea, Darren do you want to?" Harry asked.

"Yes of course!" I had always wanted to fly on a broom stick ever since I was little. After lunch we went to the courtyard. Harry lent his broom stick to me.

"So first thing to do is…" Harry thought for a moment. "Oh yes, place your hand on top of the broom stick and say 'up'."

"Up." I said as the broom stick went up into my hand. "Woah."

"Wow it took me about 100 times to get the bloody thing into my hand! How'd you do it?" Ron exclaimed at the side of me.

"Because he is smarter than you, idiot." Hermione retorted at my other side.

"Now put that in between your legs."Harry continued. I did what I was told. I started floating upwards with the broom stick. I panicked.

"Now try and balance yourself!" Harry yelled from below. It went floating for 3 or 4 stories high and stopped. I balanced myself, making sure I was steady on the broom stick. You see, one good thing about being a vampire is that you have a better balance than humans. Making sure I wouldn't fall off, I leaned forward, trying to make it go forward and left and right. I soon got the hang of it and started to fly around slowly. I got faster and faster and went every where around Hogwarts. I can fly! Vampire in the sky! "Weeeeeeheeeee!" I shouted. I was enjoying myself. After a while I went back down the courtyard since I didn't want Harry and the others to wait for me for a long amount of time.

"Wow you are amazing at flying! You should be in the Quidditch team." Ron said in amazement.

"Quidditch?" I asked as I passed the broom stick back to Harry.

"Oh it's a ball game we play on broom sticks. There's a Quidditch tryout after school…do you want to go?" Harry asked. Sure I wanted to go but I remembered that I was not here to enjoy myself.

"Sorry….I'm not really interested."

"It's ok, lessons start in a minute, we better go!"


The next lesson was care about magical creatures with Hagrid. I recognized he was the giant man that took me to Dumbledore yesterday.

"Today we're going to learn about a species of spider called 'Hornsprog'."

Hagrid took out a cage covered with a piece of cloth. He took the cloth off and inside the cage laid a spider. It was green and had yellow spots on it. The weirdest thing about it was that it had small horns sticking out all over its body. Seba would sure want to have a look at it.

"They can only be found in the dark forest. They are extremely intelligent and can control people's mind for 5 minutes by biting them."

"What will happen after 5 minutes?" Hermione asked.

"They will die instantly. No antidote has been researched to cure the effects of the poison yet." Hagrid said. "Now everyone gather in a circle so I can let you have a better look."

He took the cage and walked along us, letting us take a closer look at it. When he was in front of Ron, some stupid boys behind him were messing about and a boy was being pushed out of the circle. He bashed into Hagrid and he lost his grip on the cage and it hit the floor heavily. The cage door opened and the spider crawled out. Everyone screamed and moved back. Only Ron stood still because the spider crawled on his shoe and up his body.

"Oh my…" Ron started trembling and fell backwards onto the floor. At that moment we all thought that he had been bitten but afterwards we realized that he had just fainted because of terror. The spider crawled off him. Everyone near Ron screamed again, pushing each other in order to get further away from the spider. But one unlucky girl that was being pushed and fell onto her hands and knees in front of the spider. It jumped onto her shoulder immediately, and crawled beside her neck.

"Don't move!" Hagrid shouted. I could tell by the spider's movement that it was going to bite her. There was no time, I had to do something. I ran towards the girl and passed Hagrid. "What the…." Hagrid shouted but I ignored him. I stopped in front of the girl and started whistling. I used a flute to control Madame Octa in the cirque, but since I didn't have one now, I just had to whistle.

"Hi beauty..." I said in my mind, continuing my whistling. The Spider stopped and looked at me. It is working. "Come over here…don't be frightened…I won't hurt you…" I kept whistling and I reached my hand out to it slowly. It hesitated for a moment, but slowly, it jumped on my hand, up my arm and settled on my shoulder. "Good…you are the most beautiful creature I've ever seen…" I picked the cage up from the floor and let the spider in. I closed the cage door and I stopped whistling. I looked around and found everyone was gazing at me in complete astonishment. I ignored the gazes, walked over to Hagrid and passed the cage over to him.

"How…"

"I got a special way for spiders." I cut in before he could ask.

"You are full of mystery Darren." Harry said as I rejoined the crowd. I just shrugged.

"Let our lesson end here…I need to take Ron to the hospital wing." Hagrid announced.


The day went by quickly and me, Harry and the others were having our dinner in the Great Hall.

"Was that true, I mean did you really, make the spider get back in the cage when I fainted?" I nodded in respond.

"How'd you do that?"

"My friend, who performed in a circus with spiders, taught me it." That will explain everything. As we were eating, someone tapped me on my shoulder and I turned around. I recognized it was the girl from the 'spider incident' today.

"Can I help you?" I asked.

"Er…em…I just want to say thank you for what happen today…you saved my life."

"Oh that's nothing. I was just doing what I could do. Oh, by the way…what's your name?"

"Arlene."

"Mine is Darren…I think you probably know that already. Nice to know you anyway." I shook hands with her. She blushed.

"Well I should probably go now…see you Darren." She walked away quickly, face still blushing.

"Looks like Darren has a fan already on his first day at school…" Ron teased at my side. I just shrugged and went back to eat my food.

After dinner I found Dumbledore waiting for me at the entrance of the Great Hall. "May I have a word with you Darren?" I nodded and followed him to his office. I found Mr. Crepsley in there.

"Took you long enough to get here, have a nice trip by foot?" I teased.

"How is your first day at Hogwarts then Darren?" Mr. Crepsley asked, ignoring my teasing.

"Fun! There was lots of new stuff that I never seen before! I learnt about a spider…"

Mr. Crepsley cut in. "I am not asking you about that you idiot. I am asking you about anything or anyone you found strange in the school."

"Oh…No…" I muttered, my mood dropping.

"I guess Darren should go back to the Dormitory now. It's getting quite late. I have provided a coffin in the dungeon for you Mr. Crepsley. I will show you the way." Dumbledore said.

"Ok then…" I said as I walked towards the door.

"Darren!" Mr. Crepsley shouted as I opened the door.

"What." I turned around, sounding annoyed.

"Remember we are not here to mess about! Keep an eye on everything, and be alert at all times!"

I rolled my eyes. "Yeah sure whatever." I walked out the door and slammed it shut behind me. Does he ever know how to enjoy himself here? Chill out, old man!


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The next update will probably be a little bit later since my holiday has ended…school again :(