Chapter Two: Crazed Morning

The first thing the teachers saw as they entered the Great Hall for breakfast was Harry and his three friends sitting at the table drawing up some sort of schedule of their own. The Dark Lord paused as he walked past and glanced down at the graphs and times tables the teens were making, it looked like a study schedule, and Harry was still writing more with his one hand while his other hand held tight to a cup of coffee. The plans seemed focused to keep Neville and the others from falling behind, when Harry glanced at him he saw the teen looked like he was wide awake as if he was buzzed slightly.

"How much coffee have you drank already?" Seamus asked as Harry turned back to the paper, his friend was not really blinking just writing and discussing the scheduled sessions of study, "Harry how many cups have you had today?"

"Um…eight," Harry said before finishing off the cup in his hand, "Nine," summoning another cup he went to drink it but dropped the cup as he bolted backwards standing up as all three of his friends threw water in his face, sputtering for a moment he wiped the water from his eyes and glared playfully at them, "Okay you do realize this means war right?"

"Three against one seems unfair," Dean pointed out with a grin before he was hanging by his ankles and Seamus was glued to the ceiling and Neville was on the floor laughing as invisible hands tickled him, "Whoa!" looking at Harry he saw the teen twirl his wand once, "Okay we give up."

"You guys are really slow in reaction time do you realize that?" Harry said with a laugh before setting his friends right, sitting back down he glanced at them and grinned suddenly, "Hey guys I just got an idea."

"Oh no," Neville whispered as they all leaned in to listen to the teen talk hurried and whispered as if not wanting anyone to overhear the plan. The teachers all watched as the four students plotted at the table, they really had nothing else to do as the other students had yet to arrive. By the time the four leaned away from each other all four had wicked grins on their face and Harry got a nod from the other three as if agreeing to the plan.

"Okay when did you become smart?" Dean teased which made Harry slap his arm, Seamus and Neville laughed as Harry summoned another cup of coffee, "Ah, the coffee is making you evil my friend."

"If coffee is evil then I embrace the evil happily," Harry said sticking his tongue out at Dean, "You might be my friend but I'd sell you to the devil for a lifetime supply of coffee," that got the others laughing again and he had some bacon with his coffee. Seriously he had two pieces of bacon and three cups of coffee for breakfast.

"Potter," Draco Malfoy said as he walked over to the table, he was with a group of Slytherin's who had come up for breakfast and was surprised to see Harry already at breakfast with the other three boys.

Turning Harry glanced at the blond teen, "Good Morning Malfoy," Harry said before turning his head around once again to look at his friends, "Hey where did my coffee go?" shrugging he summoned another cup and grinned as he sipped it and turned back to Draco, "So what's up?"

"Why are you acting so…not you?" Draco asked blinking at the teen before him, "And what is with the coffee?"

"Try it," Harry said holding out his cup of coffee, "You might enjoy it."

"No thanks," Draco said stepping back, "You have lost your mind," turning he left the area and went to his won table muttering bout how odd Harry was acting.

"I don't think Malfoy's do coffee," Neville said which made Harry laugh and Seamus laughed while Dean smacked his head wondering when they would all snap out of the coffee induced craze, as Harry had gotten Seamus and Neville to both drink coffee with him.

About halfway through breakfast Harry suddenly asked a question that had his friends puzzled, "What's the difference between a sly lion and a loyal snake?" Harry said which made them pause trying to think of the answer.

"I don't know, what is the difference?" Seamus asked which made Harry blink at them.

"If I knew the answer I wouldn't be asking the question," Harry said rolling his eyes before yelping as Ron sent a stinging charm at his back, twisting around to look at the redhead his eyes were hard and seemed deadly, "You little-"

Yet Neville and Dean both grabbed Harry's arms and held him down while Seamus covered his mouth and said calmly, "Harry no killing at breakfast," getting a laugh he let go as did the others and they all looked at Ron with looks saying he had a death wish.

"What do you have first thing?" Neville asked looking at the schedule, "Harry how can you read this thing? It's written in scribbles…"

"That's not scribbles, its Parsletongue," Seamus said getting blinked at by the people around him he shrugged, "Harry's been writing in it for ages now, makes copying his notes a pain in the ass."

"And yet you still learned the bloody language instead of taking your own notes," Harry said rolling his eyes, "Seriously you prerogatives are screwed up."

"Not really, I had you teach me how to read it so I can read the journal you keep," Seamus said which made Harry swat him with a spoon, "It's rather an-ow! Seriously?" he asked raising an eyebrow, "When did you learn how to-ow!"

"Shut up," Harry said eyes darting to Hermione who was listening in, "Back off," he snapped at her before grabbing another cup of coffee and glancing at his friends, "Come on we have Wizarding Politics first thing today."

"Think we'll be able to understand it?" Dean asked as they followed out of the hall.

"If not we'll kidnap a Slytherin," Harry said with a chuckle, "They understand these things just fine."

"Good thing we have you then," Dean said which earned a playful glare, they were at the door to the Great Hall getting waiting for Neville to catch up when Harry smacked him in the head, "Deny it all you like!"

"Oh shut up," Harry said rolling his eyes and leaving the room.