Chapter 3: Face to Face…Finally!
After a colossal battle between me and Jade involving chopsticks at breakfast, we were given our schedules by our respective heads of house. Mine was as follows:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday -
-breakfast-
Transfiguration- One hour
Gryffindor
Slytherin
Defense Against The Dark Arts- Two hours
Slytherin
Ravenclaw
-lunch-
-Flying Lessons-
Slytherin- Group B
Hufflepuff- Group B
Ravenclaw- Group B
Gryffindor- Group B
Note: Due to the fact that there are more first years than I can keep track of in each house, the first years in each house will be broken up into groups. Group A will be the bulk of each house's first year students.
Since the Groups B will be the minority of the first years in each house, all of Groups B will have lessons together. Also, after the third week of school, flying lessons will be completed. The extra time in your schedules will be taken up by free hours.
-Sincerely
Madam Hooch
-dinner-
Tuesday and Thursday
-breakfast-
Potions- first class for single hour, rest of the year is two.
Slytherin
Gryffindor
Charms- first class for single hour, rest of the year is two.
Slytherin
Ravenclaw
History of Magic- one hour
2nd and 1st year Slytherin
-lunch-
Transfiguration- two hours
Gryffindor
Slytherin
-free time- two hours
-dinner-
I was rather pleased to see that we weren't always placed with Gryffindor…though that meant that we wouldn't see Bri as much during the day. I couldn't wait for flying lessons…they sounded like fun and I'm fairly sure that the whole gang was in a B Group.
"Transfiguration will be interesting…" Bri said.
"Indeed it will…I can't wait, 'tis a class we have together! Me, you, and Fuzzy." I was wriggling in my seat.
"Awww…I have Potions first thing in the morning with Jade…" Shelina whined.
I patted her on the back and said, "Meh, cheer up Shippou, at least you don't have to put up with Draco!"
She immediately began to glare across the Hall at said boy. He had apparently struck a rather large nerve…it made me hesitate for all of two seconds to tease her about her height. Not that I was going to at the moment…but still.
We all parted ways to go to our classes, Fuzzy insisted that I link arms with her again and we skipped up to Transfiguration with Bri rolling her eyes and trailing behind us.
We watched as McGonagall demonstrated an Animagus transformation by changing into a cat and as Harry and Ron were late to class. It only got interesting when McGonagall told us to try to turn a needle into a nail. Don't ask me how, but my misfired spell managed to turn Bri's hair pink. McGonagall took points off of Slytherin but I didn't notice. I was to busy laughing at Bri's expression. McGonagall couldn't figure out how I'd done what I had and thus couldn't get it off. It was later found that Madam Pomfrey couldn't dispel my spell either…Bri showed up to dinner with purely black hair…I think she dyed it.
I digress…that was supposed to come later in the story.
Defense Against The Dark Arts wasn't very impressive…the three of us, (Jade, Fuzzy, me) knew that Quirell was a bad guy, but we didn't want to disturb the timeline…then we wouldn't know all the fun things that were going to happen in the future. Still…I was tempted to spitball the back of his head, and thus Voldy. We had another encounter with Draco just before flying lessons started for us…he was whining because Harry had out-flown him. He did try to gloat about Harry supposedly being expelled, but at that point I giggled and there was an encounter with Shelina. She was standing behind Bri and so Draco couldn't see her. He thought it was safe to make a midget joke to get us riled up but Shelina attempted to attack him again before he could get to the punch line thus he ran off before she could get him.
Flying lessons were interesting…or not. Nothing happened of much interest. Shelina and Jade got into a racing contest after we were allowed to fly around. Shelina crashed into a tree and Jade crashed into me. It earned all three of us detention even though I didn't do anything…I was the victim damnit! Ah well, at least it was just polishing brooms for an hour on Saturday. Heh…only a day in school and in trouble already! Shelina had a detention in the real world for being late to her fourth hour too.
Lunch was uninteresting as well as dinner. We all went to bed after doing some homework and had a day of school in the real world. All five of us had the same first hour class, some kid named Harvey Pottinger was absent from first hour that day. 'Twas social so I didn't really blame him, social can be a bore. We got homework, did it, and went to bed. I know, I was barely able to stay awake that day because everything was so monotonous. Once I had fallen asleep, I woke up in my four-poster bed as I was now accustomed to. I did the morning routine and went down to breakfast with Fuzzy. We sat at the end of the Hufflepuff table today and watched as Harry got his broom. I'm fairly sure that Snape was seeing red when he found out about Harry's place on the quiditch team but that's just me.
I digress; I was off topic again…I do that a lot ne? Me and Fuzzy decided to ninja under the table and accidentally scared some third year into spilling pumpkin juice all over herself. Speaking of, pumpkin juice is really good. I had thought it would be icky but it really isn't.
Potions with Gryffindor. This was something I was not looking forward to because of what I knew was going to happen. We got to the dungeons and walked into the classroom at the same time as Harry though Bri wasn't there yet. Fuzzy apparently decided that this was as good a time as any to finally 'meet' him and she began conversation.
"Hello! My name's Fuzzy and this here is Spoof."
"Hi, I'm Harry. Nice to meet you two." He replied.
Bri ran into the classroom right as Snape swooped out of his backroom. He gave his 'Stopper in death…etc.' speech, humiliated Harry, and gave us very strict rules of what not to do in his classroom. One of which was don't breath too loud. I rolled my eyes at him as I was allowed to do…I was a Slytherin after all, and did not get into trouble for many things. Snape scowled at us at the end of class and assigned twelve inches of classroom etiquette. I was just going to write a twelve inch paper on rules and such and copy it for every class that demanded one. Flitwick's essay was going to be fun to write…I laughed evilly in my mind.
When class was over, me and Fuzzy looked at each other, nodded, and got into our stances. As the class filed out of the classroom, we stood still until…we began to Macarena out of the classroom. Bri was pointing and laughing at us…as well as shaking her head thinking we were weird. She left us to our dance and Snape retreated into his backroom again. But not before he raised an astonished eyebrow at us.
We had Charms with Ravenclaw, and thus, with Jade. This would be rather interesting…or so I thought…Flitwick went on about safety and rules for three-quarters of an hour before we decided to point out a flaw in his pillow plan.
I raised my hand and was called on, "Professor, what happens if a misfired charm sets a pillow on fire?"
He considered this, "Then…well. I would probably put it out with a water charm of some sort. Any other questions?"
Jade got a glint in her eye and raised her hand, "Professor, what if the water charm makes all the pillows and such soggy and waterlogged? It would make everything harder to charm…also, what if some misguided bookworm decided to try to dry out the pillows with a heating charm that they learned in their free time? Then that would probably either start all the pillows on fire or possibly explode them. Then there would be soggy goose down all over the place."
Flitwick looked stricken at the thought of having to clean that up, even with magic. There were a -lot- of pillows in the room…
Fuzzy caught on to our ploy and raised her hand, "Professor, what if a student is allergic to goose down? Then they might get hives…or they could swell up, or someone could have asthma and the dust from the exploded pillows, provided they dried some, would make the kid have and asthma attack…"
Flitwick looked at a loss but was saved by the class ending.
"Alright class, I want six inches on classroom dangers and how to counteract them on my desk by Friday. Dismissed!"
We high-fived each other and left.
Next was History of Magic. I groaned when I realized this and prepared for a nice looong nap. If Binns was as boring in what I considered real life at the moment as he was in the books, this would be a very…well, boring, class.
Guess what? I was right, it was boring. At least I think so, because me and Fuzzy fell asleep within the first five minutes of class. I think I might have heard something about goblin wars, but one can never be too sure when one is half asleep. Speaking of sleeping…it makes me wonder why we didn't dream back into the 'real world' during Binns' class…ah well. It wouldn't do to dwell upon it. We'd probably be back tonight anyway.
We all, except for Bri of course because she thought it was stupid, Macarena-ed at lunch. We got odd looks but it was fun none-the-less.
Transfiguration was next…once again with Gryffindor. We were seeing a lot of Bri today…ah well. Another chance to talk to Harry and recruit him into our hare…um. Never mind, 'tis just another chance to talk to friends.
Bri and Fuzzy and me all walked to Transfiguration together, me and Fuzzy linked again, though not skipping this time. We encountered Harry in the hallways near the Transfiguration room and we shouted for him to join us. Ron was mysteriously absent…I wonder where he went? Weren't they supposed to be friends? Anyway, I digress.
"Hey Harry, how's it going?" I said once he got within speaking distance.
"You didn't let Snape get you down did you? He may seem tough, but he didn't kill me when I tackle hugged him the other day, so he can't be all bad…" Fuzzy said the last bit between giggles.
"I can't believe you would hug the greasy git…" Harry replied.
"Meh, he's not that bad…" I was interrupted by Ron who had apparently been standing in the classroom waiting for Harry to get there.
"The overgrown bat is just as bad as he seems…what's wrong with you girl!" He exclaimed.
"The name's Sarah…more commonly known as Fuzzy. Spoof is next to me and Bri is next to her. Not girl, Fuzzy." Fuzzy was just short of glaring spears of fire at Ron. I do admit, he was being a jerk. Bri had been silent until now, but she apparently decided to add her two cents,
"I agree with Fuzzy, he's really not that bad once you get past his outer shell…and his inner shell too I suppose…and his inner-inner shell…and so on."
Ron glared at the three of us and said, "Come on Harry, let's leave the Slytherins and the Snape-lover to their rot."
Harry looked at us apologetically as he was dragged away by Ron.
"What a bastard…" Fuzzy glared across the room at Ron as he turned his back to us.
"I'll say…though I must admit that Snape isn't very nice…he's my favorite character in the books…" I said.
"I don't like him at all…I was just defending you two." Bri said matter-of-factly.
Sometime in this little drama of ours, five minutes had past and it was at this moment McGonagall chose to walk in. The lesson was rather boring with the usual happening. Or rather…what would become the usual. Hermione answered all the questions correctly and was the first to complete that day's objective. The class ended uneventfully with instructions to practice.
After Transfiguration was over, we had free time until dinner and then bed. We all fell asleep as usual and woke up in our real world.
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I woke up and I felt a constriction around my neck…Tyth was wrapped around my neck where she'd been sleeping that night…in Hogwarts. I shot out of bed and ran to the window just to make sure I wasn't under some sort of illusion. I wasn't, my dream/other dimension snake was in MY world…with me. This was somewhat odd, I decided to talk with everyone at school that morning but in the meantime, I had about three minutes to take my shower or not take one at all…but the bus would be here in about fifteen minutes. I lived in the next town, my school was the closest to my house but it was a twenty minute straight drive from home to school.
I digress…
Once at school, I traveled to my locker and to my first hour class. Which happened to be social again. This time, Harvey Pottinger was present…and to Jade's, Bri's, Fuzzy's, Shelina's, and my astonishment, he was extremely familiar.
He had his back to us as Shelina poked him in the back. Sure enough, it was indeed Harry Potter who swung around to face us. We stared at each other for a moment, then Jade asked the blatantly obvious question, "What are you doing here!"
-End Chapter 3-
TBC…
Ok, I would have written more, but there is the matter of what time it is and the fact that mum is yelling at me to go to bed. I'll start on chapter four right away. I won't have anymore bonus things for a little while…at least not until there is need of them again.
I thank everyone for the reviews, I didn't think I was going to get any…but that's okay because this story is written for my and my friend's enjoyment. Anyway, watch as this story develops a plotline! -gasp-
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-Spoof