2. Class

Rose's face was full of shock. She couldn't believe what the Sorting Hat had just said. Rose walked over to the Slytherin table and joined her housemates. I looked at her and I swore she was about to cry.

"It's okay," I mouth to her.

She nodded. Hopefully this separation will not affect our classes. I really wanted to learn magic with Rose. We needed to be together for at least one class.

At the end of the feast, Scorpius and I follow the prefects to the common room.

Scorpius gave me a confused look. "Where's the common room?"

"Beats me," I tell him.

"It's near the kitchen, behind a portrait of a fruit bowl." She pushed through the crowd so she can talk with us. "Oh, and my name is Artemis. Artemis Wood." She has long, brown hair.

"This is Scorpius Malfoy, and I'm Albus Potter."

We continue to the basement, and finally arrive in front of the portrait.

"Scrumptious servings," the prefect said. The portrait swung open, revealing a tunnel leading to the common room. One after the other, the Hufflepuffs filed into the tunnel. Scorpius was already in the common room by the time I got to the tunnel.

"Al, hurry up! you gotta see this!" He screamed.

I crawled through the tunnel and took a glance at the common room. Yellow and black drapes fell all over the common room. Big chairs and other furniture covered the common room making the room relaxing.

There are more tunnels leading to the dormitories. Scorpius, Artemis, and I plop down on the sofa. We talk for a few minuets then Professor Hamilton, Head of House and Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, gives us our schedules. She was very young. Probably the youngest professor in the history of Hogwarts. When she gave me my schedule, I saw that we have Defense Against the Dark Arts and History of Magic with the Slytherins, which means I have classes with Rose. Maybe this year won't be too bad.

The next day, Scorpius and Artemis beat me to the Great Hall for breakfast. I join them at the table and we talk about classes.

"How do you think Defense Against the Dark Arts is going to go today?" Artemis asks.

"I dunno. But I hope we start learning spells immediately. I want to learn to duel," Scorpius says.

"Why so I could just beat you?" I reply.

We all share a laugh. I glance at the schedule to see that we have History of Magic right after Defense Against the Dark Arts.

"Ugh. Do we really have to take History of Magic. I really don't want to," I say.

"Tell me about it," Scorpius says.

"I dunno. I think it might be interesting. We're going to learn about the Second Wizard War, which all of our parents were a part of, so we'll probably ace that class," Artemis giggles.

When we leave the Great Hall, Rose comes up to me. I give her a hug.

"Not to be pushy, but how's Slytherin?" I ask.

She just stares at me. "It's whatever. I mean, I like the green and all, but I rather be in Gryffindor," She says.

"Have you met any new people?"

"Actually, yeah. I met this boy. He seems really nice."

I'm happy for Rose. I didn't want her to be alone. I'm glad she had someone to talk to.

She started walking to class. "Are you coming, Al?"

"Right behind you."

I eventually catch up with Scorpius and Artemis. We take a seat with the Hufflepuffs in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. Professor Hamilton took roll call and started the lesson. We were to partner up and begin attempting the spell Expelliarmus. Scorpius and I partnered up and went to a corner of the room.

"Al, I bet I can disarm you in one try," Scorpius says.

"One Galleon, you're on!" I didn't think Scorpius was a good as he thinks he is. I was sure he wouldn't cast it on his first try.

I took a dueling stance. Scorpius did as well. He took aim and casted.

"Expelliarmus!"

My wand flew out of my hand. I was astonished.

Scorpius laughed. "That'll be one Galleon please."

I sarcastically laughed. I paid him the money and took my turn. I disarmed him as well on the first try. We moved on to more disarming spells. Artemis was doing great as well. Rose and her partner were practicing as well. It looked like her partner was struggling with Expelliarmus.

Professor Hamilton called out and the whole class stopped dueling. She then said something the shocked everybody.

"Next week, we will have our first graded duel of the year. I wish to have Albus Potter duel Artemis Wood." Artemis and I exchanged looks. We knew that this was going to be a fun duel.

Professor Hamilton had one more announcement to make before class was over. "Any students wishing to try out for the Dueling Club, please meet in the Great Hall after classes at four." Artemis, Scorpius, and I all nodded. We love dueling.

Defense Against the Dark Arts is now one of my favorite classes. Class let out, and we headed to the Great Hall for lunch. We received some information about Dueling Club from a fifth year Gryffindor. Apparently, there are house teams just like Quidditch.

"We'll make the team for sure!" Scorpius exclaimed.

"Yeah. Then we really will be the best duelers in Hufflepuff," I say.

We laugh and make our way to History of Magic. We try to make the walk last as long as possible because we are not looking forward to History. When we got to the classroom, the majority of the class is already there. Good, I thought.

When the our professor came out of his office, my jaw dropped.

"Uncle Percy?" I ask.

"Hello, Albus. Except here in class, you have to call me Professor Weasley."

"Yes, sir." I chuckle. "I though you were at the Ministry."

"I was but Professor McGonagall said she needed a History teacher, so I happily obliged."

I couldn't get any luckier. My uncle was my teacher. This class would be quite easy now.

Rose greeted our uncle the same. We both took our seats, and the lesson began.

"Our first lesson will, oddly enough, connect to Defense Against the Dark Arts," Uncle Percy said. Everyone was listening now. "Yes for the first couple weeks we will be covering dark wizards. Can anyone name the two we will be studying?"

Many students raise their hands. He calls on a Slytherin named Stephanie Matthews.

"Obviously, Voldemort and Grindlewald," she said in her high, annoying voice.

"Correct. Five points to Slytherin. For the first week, we will discuss You-Know-Who."

He lectured about both the First and Second Wizard War and how the majority of our parents helped in the downfall of the Dark Lord. I knew all this of course due to the fact that my dad was the one who killed Voldemort, but I glanced at Rose and she seemed glued to this lecture, like it was some brand new television episode.

At the end of class, I went up to Rose to talk.

"Rose, so is History you're new favorite class?"

"It always has been. History is just so interesting. It's like a movie, but real!"

She went and sped up with the other Slytherins. I was glad she finally accpeted that she was a Slytherin.

Suddenly, Artemis pulled my arm. "Come on! We have to get to Dueling Club!"

A/N: And Chapter 2 comes to a close. Please keep reading and reviewing. From here on out, the time is going to start to skip. Just a heads up

~Psycho