03/12/2008 21:16:00

A/N- READ THIS!!! Sorry it took so long to update guys! I've been really busy and I'm running out of ideas for the story, so review!! I also won't be updating for a while, because I'm still really busy and won't have much time to write more chapters. Tell me what you think of this and give me suggestions please!

Disclaimer: Me do not own Harry Potter! Me have not good enough inglish!

Harry made it to Defense on time the next day. Remus woke him up the morning, much to the other Marauders' disapproval, as they left as soon as he woke up, clearly not wanting to be seen with him. Apparently, if he was unpopular with the Marauders, he was unpopular with their fans, which was unfortunately most of the school. Harry shrugged off the Marauders coolness towards him, figuring that they would warm up to him eventually, and continued to get ready. He'd had another dreamless sleep that night, but was starting to worry that the nightmares would start again. Maybe it was because he was so exhausted that he had no nightmares or visions, but he was sure that he was becoming more energetic every day. Like this morning, Harry had no trouble getting up after Remus woke him.

After Harry had finished getting ready for the day, he made his way down to the common room to meet Lily. He found her standing by the portrait hole waiting for him.

"I've been waiting here for ages, Harry! What took you so long?" she demanded as soon as he approached her.

"I just took my time, that's all. Is there something wrong with that?" he responded. It was the truth, he had taken his time this morning.

Lily just sighed and dragged Harry down to the Great Hall. It seems Harry was right about his speculating that he was unpopular with the Marauders, because it seems that there was most of girls glaring at him and Lily, as well as a couple of boys, who hero-warship them, during breakfast.

"I understand why they're glaring at me, but why are they glaring at you?" Harry asked.

"Because Potter won't go out with any of the girls, and he ignores the guys, so that he can concentrate on trying, and failing, at getting me on a date with him." She explained in a bored tone. "Come on, we should get to Defense. Just ignore the stares, they just have no life."

Harry followed Lily to the Defense room, and they sat down at their seats. The ones at the front, of course. Soon all the students had come and sat down, so Prof. Haddison started the class.

"Today we will start dueling, especially since Mr. Porter is on time today." Cheers erupt in room, but are silenced quickly by a wave of Haddison's hand. "Now we will split into pairs, that I will choose, and do short duels to see what we need to work on. Now Potter will be paired with Evans, Porter with Black, Lupin with Snape, Bones with Vance, Yaxley with Fenwick and Diggle with Meadows. Now join your partner in a space in the room and begin. Remember, no Dark magic or aggressive spells. Disarming, stunning, minor Jinxes and Hexes, and protection spells only."

There was rustling in the classroom as the students found their partner and an empty space in the room. Harry merely followed Sirius to a space where they took up their stances and waited for Haddison's signal.

When the Professor shouted "Begin!", the class erupted into shouts.

"Expelliarmus!" shouted Sirius quickly. Harry instinctively created a shield, and Sirius' spell bounced harmlessly off. Harry retaliated with his own disarming spell, which Sirius effortlessly evaded. They continued exchanging spells until Haddison yelled, "Stop!"

The room grew silent as he spoke. "Good, good. This class is quite advanced, but to duel in a life threatening situation is much different. I noticed that certain students are better at dueling than others, and I would like those two students to demonstrate for me. This demonstration is merely an example of what a duel would look like if there were no restrictions other than no Dark magic. Would Porter and Black please be the demonstrators?"

Sirius and Harry made their way to the center and took their positions once again. Prof. Haddison called, "Go!", and they started to duel.

Sirius got the first spell off, throwing "Stupefy" at Harry. Harry dodged and returned with "Impedimenta". Sirius blocked with a shield charm, then sent the Bat-Bogey hex at Harry. Harry ducked out of the way and countered with Petrificus Totalus. They continued to exchange spells when Harry was finally able to hit Sirius in the chest with "Impedimenta!". Sirius flew back and hit the desks behind him. As he flew backwards, Harry had a horrible flashback of Sirius falling through the veil, but he quickly shook his head to clear away the memory. Sirius got up and hit Harry with a tripping spell when Harry tried to dodge the stunning spell he had cast moments before. Sirius had a look of triumph as he pointed his wand at the fallen Harry.

Thinking quickly, Harry shouted, "Reducto!" and pointed his wand at the desk beside Sirius. The desk exploded and Sirius had to duck to avoid the pieces. As Sirius tried to dodge the splinters, Harry stunned Sirius with "Stupefy!".

Prof. Haddison was nodding his head in approval. He walked over to where Sirius lay, and said, "Enervate."

Sirius woke up and looked around him. He noticed that he was on the floor and that Porter was standing a few meters in front of him with a blank expression on his face. Sirius realized that he lost, so he scowled as he approached his friends. He turned to look at Porter and acknowledged that his blank look had turned to one of amusement. This just mad Sirius angrier and he turned back to the Marauders.

"Very good, Black and Porter, that was an excellent duel. 10 points to Gryffindor. Class dismissed, though I would like to talk to Porter. I would like everyone to be prepared for next class, as we will be dueling similar to that." Prof. Haddison said once the class had settled down from the duel.

Harry walked over to Prof. Haddison once most of the class had exited the room.

"Ah, Porter. You have excellent dueling skills. I was wrong about you. When you came here, I thought you were going to be a problem in this class, but I see you're quite competent in this class. But I'm also afraid that I must give you a detention for destroying school property. You will report back here Friday at 8 pm for your detention. Don't worry though, you'll only be organizing some stuff for me. You may go." He said, with a small smile.

Harry was fuming by the time Haddison had finished talking. He'd admit that he was shocked that Haddison was apologizing to him for being a git, but then he gives him a detention! What's with that. Harry nodded his head and stalked out of the room. Lily was waiting just outside the door for him.

"You look mad." She observed. "What did he tell you?"

"At first he was just congratulating me on the duel, then he decided that I have to have a detention because I blew up the desk!"

"That's hardly fair. It was a good duel, though. Where did you learn that?"

"We had a teacher in our old school that made a dueling club for us and I joined." I wasn't a lie, but not the whole truth either.

"Oh. Anyway, we have divination next. Come on, I'll show you were it is. The teacher is Prof. Seemore."

Harry groaned and followed Lily up to the divination class room. Harry really hoped that Prof. Seemore wasn't like Trelawney.

Once everyone was sitting in the room, Prof. Seemore started the class.

"Welcome Harry Porter," she said, "I foresaw your arrival." Harry rolled his eyes, knowing that Seemore was very similar to Trelawney.

"Err… Thanks." Harry responded.

"We are reading tea leaves now, so you may pair up with miss Evans. Class, sit across from your partner and take their cup. Do not be afraid to use your books to decipher the leaves." She said in a mystical voice. Harry noticed that while she sounded and acted like Trelawney, she looked nothing like her. She had dark brown hair tied back in a ponytail and was wearing a simple blue robe.

Harry took Lily's cup and flipped through the divination book. The brown residue looked like brown mush to Harry.

"Well this looks like a lot of brown mush to me. I can't make out anything in this cup, you must be really bad at divination if someone else can't even read your future." Harry joked.

Lily snorted, but tried to pass it off as a cough. Unfortunately, she wasn't as experienced as Ron, because she caught the attention of Prof. Seemore.

"Let's see your cup, Miss Evans." Her voice was slightly less mystical then before. Harry figured she wasn't as clueless as Trelawney.

Lily passed the cup to Seemore. She looked in the cup, and all of a sudden looked very similar to Trelawney whenever she read Harry's future.

"Oh dear boy! Oh no! I'm so sorry, but you have the Grim!" she said theatrically. The class gasped and looked at Harry in horror. Harry however merely rolled his eyes, then opened his eyes in mock horror. He was far to used to Trelawney for this to be a surprise.

After class, Lily decided to be a detective.

"How come your not worried? You had the Grim in your cup!" she demanded.

"My old divination predicted my death every class, yet I haven't died yet. Funny isn't it? Having your death predicted, yet never die." He explained. Lily just rolled her eyes and they headed down to the Great Hall for lunch.

After lunch they had Charms with Flitwick. Harry was surprised that they where working on the Aquamenti charm. Harry easily conjured water from the tip of his wand. Lily succeeded soon after, followed by Remus, James and Sirius. By the end of the class, the only person who failed to conjure water was Peter.

Lily stopped Harry after class, obviously wanting to discuss something.

"Good work in class, Harry. Anyway, I have Ancient Runes now, but you have a free period. Do you want meet in the Library after to do that Charms essay about defensive charms?" she asked hurriedly.

"Sure. I was planning on going to the Library anyway. See you in a bit."

Lily started walking away and only turned to wave back at Harry. Harry just shook his head and started to make his way to the Library.

A/N- Review! And I know that Haddison's attitude has changed, but I'm lazy and it's easier to make him somewhat nice in the story. Sorry and REVIEW!!!