Chapter 10-Johns first day
A while later, Harry and John returned to their suite and stacked their bags with the days worth of needed course books and headed off to their first classes: Potions for Harry and Charms for John. When the boys reached the moving staircases, they headed their separate ways as they followed the maps given to them by the parents and this was when Harry found himself in front of the Potions labs door, in the basement of the school, close to the dungeons.
When separating from Harry, John made his way to the second floor corridor and walked down the halls, reaching a foyer that opened out to a courtyard, which was decorated with trees. Turning left he walked four doors down and stopped infront of the class used for charm. There already was the Ravenclaw first years, including Hermione and John went, to stand next her greeted her before starting a conversation.
A little bit later, Susan with a friend showed up and joined the conversation, while waiting for the rest of the class to arrive. 10 minutes later the rest of the Hufflepuffs showed up and the classroom door opened up, showing a small professor who then said, "Very good, everyone inside and take your seats," before moving to allow his students entrance. The class started with a roll call, which had the little Professor squeaking at each famous person child in his class and when he reached John, Professor Flitwick gave an almighty squeal, toppled off his pedestal of million page books and fell out of sight.
Regaining himself, Professor Flitwick then returned to his pedestal and finished the roll. When the roll call was done, the little Professor then said, "Alright everyone open your books and turn to page 3 and read the chapter on the Lumos Charm, you have no time limit," which had the students all shift in their seats to retrieve their books and read the ordered chapter. As they read, the students took down several notes and keywords, that they wished to discuss with the class.
Eventually 1 hour into class, John finally put his book down and noticed that he was the first to do so, so he sat back in his chair reading over his notes to see if there was anything to add. Followed closely behind John were Hermione and Padma, who then did the same as John and waited the rest for the class to finish.
Another thirty minutes later and the whole class was now finished with the chapter, so Pro. Flitwick took control of the class once again and began to answer questions to see if his students: understood the chapter, ask if they need help understanding it or if they could think of effectively utilizing the spell in day to day life. The students showed their professor, that they could think of rather inventive ways of using the Lumos charms, ranging from: using the light to read a book in areas where electronics or open flames are not ideal sources of light to help search for an item in the backs of cupboards where the light never seems to reach.
The Q & A lasted until the end of the class session, so when the bell rang, Pro. Flitwick dismissed his class with the promise to his students that they'll be practicing the charm in their next class. Once out of the class, students checked their time tables and found that the Ravenclaws have Transfiguration with the Gryffindors, meaning that when Harry was waiting outside of the class with Pavarti Patil the twin of Padma and Neville Longbottom.
Noticing the sign, this read: [Students please enter and take a seat; I'll shall be with you shortly]. After reading the sign, Harry, John, Neville and the Patils went inside and sat in the first row, infront of a cat that was perched on the teachers table. As they waited: Harry and John inspected the cat on the teachers table, where they found markings similar to the eye-glasses worn Professor McGonagall and then looked threw an extra book on transfiguration, they had both bought to the class.
Looking threw the books Harry and John, found the subject on the animagus spell, understanding filled them as they read the chapter, before they then lifted their heads and asked, "Professor McGonagall?" to the cat. Meanwhile, Dumbledore had just arrived in the Hospital wing, where a now catatonic Severus Snape lay after a brutal encounter with Harry mental guardian and knowing that he can't have Harry charged with assault, unless he revealed his plans.
As Snape was an integral part in his plans for the wizarding world, Dumbledore checked to see if the coast was clear and finding that it was, he drew his 'Godly' wand and intoned, "Legitimens," entering his pawns shattered mind: to begin the slow process of rebuilding the mind of Severus Snape. Back in the transfiguration classroom (a few minutes earlier), the cat that the Potters spoke to, perked up and then leapt off the table, its form changing in midair until it landed again on the ground, this time as teacher of transfiguration: Professor McGonagall.
Now smiling the Professor said, "Good work boys, 20 points to each of you for your prompt display of researching skills and deduction skills," while in the Great Hall four bulbs dropped 5 of each different colored gemstones into their corresponding lower bulbs, signing the increase in points for all houses and making the amounts: Gryffindor-5, Ravenclaw-10, Hufflepuff-9 and Slytherin-20. Back in class, Hermione watched in shock and upon noticing it, Professor McGonagall states, "It is nothing to worry Miss Granger, I do this with every one of my first year classes, to see if they have any talent in it," calming the girl down.
After a while, Minerva returned to her cat form and continued her test, as several more Ravenclaws entered the classroom and stopped the cat, with many of them knowing that the cat was their Professor from their parents greeted her and sat down. Not long later, the class was filled up with the exception of Ron, who was late as he didn't have his book for class and went back to the Gryffindor dorms to get, but the walk was tiring so he collapsed in his bed and snored his head off.
Another Half hour passed, and finally Ron got to class, mainly because his older brother Percy who had a free period and was getting his supplies ready to spend it in the library, when he heard his brother familiar snores reverberate threw the dorm – he was given another days detention for his tardiness. When the class started, Professor jumped back off the table and began her first year speech on the basics of transfiguration, and any dangers that come with self transfiguration, before directing their attention to their book and ordered, "Take out your books and read chapter 1: Introduction of transfiguration, you have 20 minutes to complete the chapter or you will not practice the spell," she then paused and then continued with, "Another day of detention Mister Weasley," when she heard his loud grumbling about having to read a book.
Within the 20 minute time limit, only the Ravenclaws, Pavarti and the Potters had finished the chapter and were now allowed to practice of transfiguring a match into a needle. While the finished readers were practicing the unfinished Gryffindors save Ron had gotten to the last page of the chapter and was beginning to understand the spell, but Ron however had slumped against his desk, with his book covering his face and those who were near him could hear the heavy but somehow quiet snores coming for him, meaning that he had fallen asleep.
The class however went on with Ron's snores not being heard, as the Gryffindors now joined the rest of the class in practicing the spell and some were very successful, when not a minute later, the whole class was sitting infront of a gleaming silver needle and Ron was still sleeping, a fact that was made clear when Professor went threw the rows to assess the students progress and answer question. When Professor McGonagall got to Ron, she found him head down and heavy snores emitting from his mouth.
Recognizing Ron was sleeping, Professor McGonagall barked, "Mister Weasley," forcing the child in question to jump up and fall from his chair, to the ground where he then looks up and glares at his Professor, seeing the glare Minerva produces her own and remarks, "Well Mister Weasley, if you're in my class I guess that means you can perform the spell," before gesturing to the unchanged match and stated, "Demonstrate it if you please." Seeing it as an order, Ron grinned arrogantly and sat back down, where he proceeded to mispronounce the spell and caused nothing.
This event caused Ron to receive more detentions and Minerva said the she'll owling his mother. Later on the class of over and the students were dismissed for lunch break. After class the Potters and their new friends head into the great hall where: it was decided that school house boundaries were not an issue and sat at the same table, this was backed up by the rules not stating that students could not sit with friends from other houses.
The action itself was met with scorn by the majority of the Purebloods scions, both pureblood rights activists and muggleborn rights activists, but kept there lips sealed in front of the teachers for various reasons, mainly the teachers that were present and they were not the ones to turn a blind eye (Dumbledore and Snape don't promote house unity even if one does actually preach it), so they headed to their own seats and ignored them.