Disclaimer: You go JK Rowling. Only about half these characters are mine. I admit that the rest are yours.

Dinner that night at the Dursley's was a rather silent affair. Petunia told Vernon all about the meeting with the teachers and he was livid.

"How dare they!" He yelled, his face slowly turning from red to purple. "How dare they come here and tell us how to raise the boy! Last I checked we were his guardians and that means that they have to listen to us. Not the other way around."

"Too true," Petunia sniffed. "I couldn't have said it better myself."

Harry was sent to his cupboard without any supper as punishment but he didn't care. He couldn't get over the fact that his teachers had come all the way to his house just to persuade Aunt Petunia to let him into the accelerated program. It made him feel, well, special. And cared about. He couldn't remember a time in his life when someone had ever gone out of their way like that just to do something for him. He was too happy to even feel hungry and he liked it. Happy wasn't a feeling that he had a lot.

As he pulled off his glasses and climbed into bed something Mr. Lupin had said struck him as odd. Why would Mr. Lupin have said anything about his parents? "Maybe he knew my mom and dad," Harry thought, but he squashed it as soon as he thought it. "No, there's no way. They died a long time ago." There was no point in getting his hopes up, it made him too sad when they came crashing back down.

He put his glasses down on his bedside table and settled in beneath the covers. He wondered, for the millionth time, what his parents had been like. What did they look like? What kind of house did they live in? What did his father do for a living? Did his mother have a job or did she just stay at home and clean things like Aunt Petunia? If they were alive, would he have had siblings? Where were they going when they got hit by the car and why didn't he die too? And how does a car crash give you a lighting bolt shaped scar? He fell asleep with all those questions spinning around his head.

The next day in school Miss Anderson smiled brightly at him when he came into school.

"Harry!" She said excitedly. "I assume your aunt and uncle told you that they decided to sign the form after all." Harry nodded. He could barely speak he was so excited and nervous about meeting Mr. Lupin.

"Thank you so much for doing that," he finally managed to get out. She smiled even bigger.

"It was my pleasure," she told him. And she meant it.

Elena was excited too.
"So you're going to be in the honors class with us? That's awesome! I'm so glad." Harry couldn't help but smile. He was smiling more today than he had all week. It made Miss Anderson's entire heart glad when she saw that.

After recess, Seth, Elena, Sophie, Harry, and Anna went to a small classroom next door for the second half of the day. It was time for their first lesson with Mr. Lupin and they were all more than a little apprehensive. They didn't know it but Remus was slightly apprehensive too. He wanted all the students to like him but the one he cared the most about was Harry. He had made a promise that he was going to help Harry and he was going to keep that promise no matter what.

When the kids came in he knew immediately which one was Harry. He would have known even if Elizabeth hadn't shown him the picture. The kid was a spitting image of James at ten. Same face, same messy black hair, same glasses, they were so similar it was slightly unnerving. But then, then there were those eyes. Lily had had the most beautiful eyes in the world and seeing them on her son's face made him miss her even more. He shook his head to clear his thoughts and turned around to face his new students.

"Hello everyone. It's so nice to meet you," he smiled warmly and they couldn't help but smile back. He was so friendly and so inviting that you couldn't help but like him.

"I would say I'll call attendance but there are so few of you that seems silly. So how about instead I'll call on you and you can tell me something interesting about yourself. Sound good?"

"Only if you tell us something interesting first," Sophie answered. He laughed.

"That sounds fair. Alright, let's see, I went to boarding school. Is that interesting enough?" Sophie thought about it.

"It's a little boring," she said truthfully.

"Let me rephrase it then. I went to boarding school in a castle." Sophie's eyes lit up.

"Did you really?" She asked. He nodded.

"There were towers and everything."

"Wow. I want to go there." Remus laughed and looked away.

"Alright who's next?"

Seth's hand shot in the air.
"I have a pet turtle that I caught myself this summer. His name is Shell."

"A pet turtle huh? That's pretty cool." Seth nodded.

"He's the best pet in the whole world" he said, very seriously.

"Nun-uh!" Piped up Sophie. "My dog is better. I put a little pink bandana on her yesterday and she looked so cute! I love her so much."

"You have a dog?" Remus asked. She nodded.

"Uh-huh, a little white terrier named Princess." Remus smiled.

"Cute. Anna do you have any pets?" Anna shook her head.

"No, but in two months I'll have a baby brother."

"Wow, so you're going to be a big sister?" He asked, sitting down on top of his desk. She nodded, her eyes sparkling.

"I'm so excited! I'm going to get to help dress him and feed him and everything. My mom said so."

"Babies are gross," Seth interjected.

"No," Anna retorted. "Babies are cute. And they smell nice." Remus decided to cut in.

"Okay," he said, "Who haven't we heard from?" Elena raised her hand.

"I'm a brat." She announced. Everyone looked at her, slightly confused.

"Well, a military brat that is. My dad is in the army." She explained. Remus smiled to himself, "A kid who likes word play at ten. No wonder she's in this program."

"I bet you have to move a lot." He said to her. She nodded.

"All the time. I get so sick of being the new kid."

"I can imagine." He said sympathetically.

"Is that why you're new this year?" Seth asked. She nodded. He nodded back.

"How many schools have you been to?" He asked.

"Six," she said gloomily. "That's five too many if you ask me."

Remus for the most part ignored this conversation and looked around at the five students. His eyes settled on Harry. He had promised himself that he wasn't going to do anything weird like single Harry out or stare at him or anything. But as he took in the tattered baggy clothes and taped glasses, his eyes went immediately to his forehead and he stared at the lightning bolt shaped scar. When he looked at it, all he could see was Voldemort pointing a wand at baby Harry and it made his blood boil. He took a deep breath.

"Harry," he said softly. "We haven't heard from you yet."

Harry looked up at his teacher and stuttered,
"There's-there's nothing interesting about me."

When Remus heard this his heart broke. He was already upset that Harry was so clearly unloved, underfed, and unaware of how special he truly was. "If only he knew," he thought to himself. "If only he knew that he was magic and that he defeated the most powerful wizard of all time at only a year old. If he knew that then he would never never say that." The class looked up at Remus, waiting for him to say something.

"I'm sure that's not true." He countered finally. "Do you have any pets?"

"No." Harry answered.

"Hobbies?"

"No."

"Do you play any sports?"

"I'm not really allowed."

"Okay," Remus said, trying to come up with other things to ask. "Well what's your favorite TV show?"

"I can't watch TV," Harry admitted.

"You can't watch TV?" Seth asked incredulously. Harry shook his head.

"What do you do for fun?" Seth wondered. Harry faltered.

"I, I, um, sometimes, get to play with broken toys that Dudley doesn't want. Or I read books." He seemed embarrassed at having admitted to that.

"I like to read books too." Remus said kindly. "And you know what? So does Miss Anderson. She and I met at a book shop actually."

Harry could hardly believe this new teacher. He was expecting to get mocked or ridiculed because he played with broken toys and read books instead of watching TV. But no, Mr. Lupin could relate. He liked to read too! Harry smiled shyly at his new teacher who winked back before addressing the other four kids.

"Alright guys. It was great to learn more about you all but now it's time to get down to business. Don't worry we'll start slow. I thought we could begin by reviewing our multiplication tables up to twelve."

They did math for a while but then it was time for language arts. Remus pulled out a short stack of novels.

"This is the book we're going to be reading together. It's called A Wrinkle in Time. Has anyone read it before?" The kids shook their heads no.

"Good, then it will be new for all of us." He handed a copy to each student, pausing very briefly when he got to Harry to smile at him again.

As Harry opened to the first page he thought about how awful it would be if his aunt hadn't finally agreed to sign his form. It was only the first day and he already loved this new class.

A/N: I hope you guys liked this chapter! I'll try to put the next chapter up as soon as I can but in the meantime I'd like to respond to some of your reviews.

Hi: I did like your story. Quite a lot actually :) To answer your questions: I love suggestions ( I put a suggestion someone made into this chapter actually), I believe you are my new favorite reviewer (of course I just love reviews period), I will gladly respond to you, and I don't really know how often I update. I would like to say it's every week or something regular like that but it's not. I can update four times in one weekend and then not again for several weeks or I can update once every few days like a normal person. I'm pretty busy so it all depends on how much homework I have and all that good stuff. I seriously laughed out loud when I read your review though. Thank you for that :]]

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