A/N: The herbology lesson in this chapter is made up because it doesn't have herbology in the first HP book. Enjoy!
Chapter 5: Making Friends
Jason and the other boy ran down the hallway to herbology.
"Hey, where are you headed?" asked Jason
"Herbology" said the boy
"What's your name? We seem to have lots of classes together. Not to mention detention."
"Nevil Longbottom."
"Really? You don't have a long bottom. Just kidding. I'm Jason Fox. Come on, let's get to Herbology before we get more detention." They turned the corner and snuck into the greenhouse just as the last of the students were filing in.
"Today we will be pulling off seed pods and collecting the seeds form the sparkafus plant. Does anybody know why we would do that?" asked professor Sprout. A girl with long, bushy, brown hair and big front teeth answered.
"So it can be used in various potions."
"Very good Miss Granger! 10 points to griffindor. Yes, we are gathering them for the fifth year's potions class." professor Sprout demonstrated how to get the seeds from the pods and the pods from the plant to prune it. All the first years started to prune and gather the seeds. Some of the kids were good at getting the seeds and others pretty much ruined the plants. Marcus was really good though. He did all four of the plants on his table and so did Nevil.
"Well done Mr. Jones and Mr. Longbottom. Another 10 points to griffindor. Time is up everybody! Put your seed pots up here and we will continue next lesson." professor Sprout dismissed everybody and Jason rushed out of the greenhouse
"Yeesh, that was hard." said Jason.
"Really? Me and Marcus did it really well." said Nevile.
"MM hm," Jason was not even listening. He looked to see what they had next. "Cool! We have flying lessons next!"
"Wait," Something just dawned on Jason. "Flying lessons? What's that supposed to mean?"
"You fly. On brooms." said Nevile with a smile.
"Really? Cool!" said Jason and Marcus said in unison.
They walked onto a large field. About 25-30 brooms were lined up in two lines. Every one walked up behind one. A few minutes later, the class started.
"Welcome to broom flying, year 1. Okay, every one, get beside a broom." said Madam Hooch.
"Who is that boy over there?" said Jason. He pointed to a boy with jet black hair, who was talking to a red headed boy standing next to him.
"That's... holy crap! That's Harry Potter!" said Nevile in a whisper.
"Hey Jason, we've seen him before. On the train, and in the hall before we were sorted. I think he's in the same house as us!" said Marcus, also in a whisper.
"I think we should get some more dirt on him. You know, follow him around. We have every class with him."
"Seriously? Like a stalker?" said Marcus, who was very surprised.
"Yeah, it'll be fun."
"WHAT are you three boys doing?" Madam Hooch appeared in front of them. She looked very annoyed. The boys turned beet red.
The boys walked up to their brooms. Luckily for them, no one had started yet. Apparently, they were all listening to Madam Hooch yell at them. Every one started. Jason, Marcus, and Nevile followed their lead.
"UP!" yelled Marcus. The broom came zooming up to his hand. So did Harry's broom. Marcus made a mental note of that.
"Now then, on my whistle, you will- MR. LONGBOTTOM put that broom down this minute!" yelled Madam Hooch. Nevil was hovering about 6 feet of the ground. Then he went soaring upward and did a couple of barrel rolls, then flew past a torch holder on the top of the roof. He fell off of that onto a pitch fork looking thing sticking out from the side of the building. Finally he fell to the ground. Madam Hooch rushed over to him.
"Oh, ooh, ooh, ah, it looks like a broken wrist. Nobody get on your broom while I take Mr. Longbottom here to the hospital wing." said Madam Hooch. Jason spotted somthing on the ground.
"The rememberall." said Jason. Nevil had gotten it earlier that morning. Jason quickly took a clear plastic ball from his pocket and switched the gold ring on the rememberall and put it on the plastic one and set back on the ground and walked away just in time for Malfoy to come over to pick up.
"Maybe if the fat lump gave this a squeez, he would have remembered to fall on his fat ass." said Malfoy. Harry came over and demanded that Malfoy give it to him. Malfoy did some fancy tricks with his broom and was up in the air. And so was Harry. Marcus was about to get on his broom when Jason stopped him and held out the real rememberall.
"So they're fighting over a fake one? Ha!" After a while Harry finally got the rememberall and landed. Then professor Magonogall came out and called Harry over. Harry put the rememberall into his bag. Jason walked over casually and took the fake rememberall.
Later that night, Jason and Marcus went to go visit Nevile the hospital wing. Eventually, they convinced Madam Pomfery they would only take 5 minutes and gave Nevile his rememberall.
After that they went to put spiders in the girls bathroom.
"Lumos!" said Jason.
"How did you know that spell?" asked Marcus.
"Professor Magonagll showed me it. Pretty cool huh?" They entered the girls bathroom and started to release the spiders. Then Jason tripped over a bag that the contents was strewn over the floor.
"God damnit. Ouch, that hurt. Who's there?" asked Jason. There was no response. Jason backed up slowly and bumped into someone. Or something. Jason turned around in a panic and fired.
"STUPIFY!" he yelled. Two black blobs flew through the air and landed on the ground. Two red heads groaned and sat up.
"That's a good spell you got there mate. We're Fred and George Weasly. No doubt you have met our younger brother Ron."
"Oh, yeah, he was the kid who was worrying about fighting troll the first day." said Marcus.
"Yeah, I told him that. We like to torment him a lot." said Fred. "So, what brings you to the girls bathroom? We were blowing up a toilet for our sister Ginny"
"How...sweet. We were releasing spiders." said Jason.
"Pleasure to met other pranksters." said George. After finishing their pranks, Jason. Marcus, Fred and George headed back to the griffindor common room.
It was a very eventful day.