A HUGE big thank you to Lupanari for looking over and editing this chapter!
Whoo! Felling great with chapter eight! Cough... anyway... well here it is the long awaited chapter 8!! I had a little trouble figuring out how to start this one... so if the beginning is a little awkward well... Yea... um thanks to all who reviewed! And for those who didn't well BOOOO! You can have another chance this chapter... right onward!
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Link found his way to his new chamber rather easily, although that was mainly due to the fact he was following the mass of people who he was sitting at the table with. The room itself didn't seem all that impressive and there were a lot of people in it. Link looked around for the beds, realizing he was in a meeting room of sorts. Locating the beds didn't turn out to be too difficult either once he got through the small crowd.
Link looked about the bedroom finding his things laid out on a bed near a window. There was a night stand beside the headboard with the half-filled bottle of water sitting there in the center, just as he had left it in the other room. Shrugging Link went over and finished off the bottle of water wiping his lips from what had dribbled down his chin. Taking a seat beside the stack of books on his bed he decided to organize them and possibly find somewhere in the room to stow them away.
"So what year are you going to be in mate?" Link looked up to the owner of the voice, blinking as a pair of redheads stared down to him.
"Oh... Umm... Some sixth and some fifth..." Link replied after realizing what they were asking.
"Fifth?" the one on the left started
"...and sixth?" the one on the right finished.
Link smiled slightly "Dumbledore thought because... I was taught differently, that the area's I'm better in would be in the sixth, and the area's I need to work on will be in fifth... so I'm taking both years..."
"Ah, well I'm Fred!" the redhead on the left said raising a hand almost as if he was giving a salute.
"I'm George!" the one on the right said copying the motion his brother made.
"Link, pleasure," he said giving a curt nod to the pair.
The twins grinned. "I can tell we'll all be pals by winter!" Fred said somewhat excitedly.
"Yes! And if you need help don't hesitate to ask!" George said with a hint of mischief, making Link think of the Know It All Brothers from back in Kokiri forest. The thought made his smile waver but luckily it went unnoticed by the twins who had turned and walked away satisfied with their introduction.
Going back to his task Link had managed to get the books sorted through in about ten minutes, even through the random people coming over to introduce themselves, and pushed them all under his bed. Stretching as he got up, he went to the window, the sounds from the meeting room slowly weakening.
The moon was a pale crescent resting rather low in the horizon, but he could see it clearly. It was large but not nearly as large as it had been in Hyrule. Opening the window to allow in he cool night air, he allowed himself sometime to relax. Leaning on the window ledge he heaved a sigh, resting his head on his arms. The cold air making him feel oddly tired. Link closed his eyes sniffling a yawn, but keeping his ears open.
"Oh stop, will you!" Ron said resting his head in his palm trying to ward off a headache.
"Well don't you think it's odd that they introduced him with out a last name?" Hermione huffed
"He was the only person there..." Harry said with a sigh. The frizzy haired girl had been going at this ever since dinner ended, she was determined to unravel the mystery of where the new transfer came from.
"Seems nice enough to us," Fred said with George nodding.
"If you're that interested in this guy then go talk to him, not us..." Ron said mumbling into his palm. He stopped abruptly as a thought occurred to him. "You can't seem to get this guy outta your head..." Ron said picking his head up sending a devious smirk to Hermione.
The twins caught on immediately. "You don't think?" George said turning to his identical counterpart.
"I do think so!" Fred dawned the smirk as well.
"You have a crush on the 'mysterious' new kid," the twins said together, causing Hermione to glare at the boys. Ron burst out laughing at the look he was given, while Harry chose that moment to go to bed.
Harry sat on his bed with a sigh before taking notice of the extra bed in the room. Harry had to blink as he saw the very kid Hermione was getting so frustrated with, sleeping on the window pane. Harry shrugged and laid back on his bed, mumbling something about Hermione wanting to interrogate him.
Link sat up upon hearing his name. "All she has to do is ask..." He said cracking his back.
Harry looked over s to the green clad teen stunned, as he closed the window and sat back on his bed as well. 'How could he have heard that?' he had barely made a whisper... "Right... well good night..." Harry said not sure what else to say.
Link didn't respond instead he carefully made a spot beside his pillow with a spare blanket for Navi. The blanket would hide her glow and keep her warm and comfy. "Tomorrow I should look around to see if I can sense any more fairy fountains near by..." Navi whispered softly as she flew from her perch and into the blanket.
"What do you mean you?" Link huffed equally as quiet.
"You have classes don't you? I can handle myself..." she said smirking at the face he made. "Same old worry wart."
"We will go together." Link insisted not going to take no for an answer.
"Hmph... fine..."
Link had gone through half the day already, and Links first opinion of school... was interesting but dull. The 'wizarding clothes' were loose and fit easily over his usual attire, making him feel immensely more at ease. Not being able to carry his sword and shield was one thing, but not being able to wear his armor, would make him feel vulnerable. As of yet no teachers had commented about his hat either.
He had sixth year Divination, which entailed deciphering dreams, and possible prophecies. Any prophesy that was sent as a dream was usually self explanatory, and if not the Goddesses themselves could always further explain... that is if they didn't explain it in the first place. Usually he would be shown images with a voice instructing him, on where to go, and what he was needed to do.
Herbology was interesting, he had never seen so many different plants in one place. This was also a sixth year class. Link found himself immensely interested in the effects these magical plants could have on someone when ingested, applied, or used in some way. Link came out of that class with a smile on his face, mostly due to the fact that there weren't any Deku babas. He was pretty sure those would be classified as magical plants...
He was told to take both fifth and sixth year Care for Magical creatures, then decide which he felt better suited for. The wide array of animals Hagrid had talked about interested Link, Navi having to tell him which would be a threat and which wouldn't. Both times when he was for that class his horse had ran over to him excitedly, getting a few laughs from the tall man. The students who almost got trampled didn't find much humor however....
It wasn't until he started potions that things seemed to drop. Up until that point the biggest problem he had was trying to figure out how to translate the words in the textbooks, which he only recently figured out... running his left hand along the words allowed him to see them in his language. He was told to take fifth year potions, as he had never done anything like this in his life. Immediately he felt as if the teacher was out to get him.
"Well I guess you'll need a partner, Mr..." Snape trailed of causing the teen to tilt his head like a confused puppy.
"Link," he offered
"Not your first, your last name" Snape said snidely.
"I'm not sure I have one," Link said confused.
"How can anyone not have a last name?" a student with long blonde hair shouted out, obviously mocking him.
"Never needed one," Link shrugged "I'm from a small village, we never needed to use the same name for more then one person."
"Must be some back water place..." another student said smirking to the blonde. "Only fifty people there?" he asked with a snort turning to Link.
"I think there was about twenty actually" Link said with a sad smile.
Snape sighed before shaking his head. "Enough! Ten points from Gryffindor for your uncooperation."
Link raised a brow but shrugged it off not entirely sure what the odd man was talking about. He taped the side of his head twice with his pointer a signal he had worked out long ago with Navi. "They have a point system for each of the groups, it's kinda like a competition between the houses. At the end of the year what ever one has the most wins," the fairy whispered.
Snape pointed to a kid across from Link telling them to pair up. The kid looked up to Link nervously but walked over to where he was sitting. The nervous kid gave a quick 'hi' but didn't say any more. After a quick explanation and a few directions that were written on the board, the class was told to prepare a mixture, that, when drank, could increase your physical strength.
"This will be counted to a large portion of your mark so please, do not destroy my classroom tomorrow, when you actually have to begin making these," Snape said looking directly at the nervous kid beside Link.
Link looked to the fidgety kid before pulling out a piece of paper and copying down the directions that were being given by the odd teacher. "I'm Neville..." the kid said as Link copied Snape's last sentence.
"Link, nice to meet you," Link said smiling, unsure what it was about him that made the kid nervous. "Um, so do you know where we're supposed to start with this?" Link asked unsure of what half the stuff was. When the kid shook his head Link sighed and quickly began scribbling down the final direction.
"Mr. Link, are you doodling in my class?" Snape sneered as he walked behind the desk to where he was sitting. He glared down at the blonde teen, who simply raised an eyebrow. After a moment's thought he understood.
"Ah this?" Link said handing the paper he was working on to the man. "I'm still not sure how to translate my writing," Link said honestly.
At this Hermione perked up. "You mean to say you don't really know English?" she asked trying to catch a glimpse of Link's writing.
"Nope," Link smiled shaking his head.
"Well then, you won't mind if I see what you've written?" Snape seemed to spit out. He didn't wait for an answer as he brought out his wand. With a quick flick and unknown words (to Link) the words on the paper morphed to allow the hook nosed teacher to read. After scanning the paper he threw it down in a huff, almost angry that he couldn't punish the teen.
The class ended not thirty seconds after the Snape threw the paper back and every student rose out of their seats eager to leave. Link waved a goodbye to Neville as Hermione came over. "Link would you mind if I borrowed your notes? I didn't quite catch the last bit he said," the frizzy haired girl asked. Ron watching from behind her opened his mouth to speak but only yelped as the girl stomped on his foot.
Link agreed asking if she knew how to translate it like Snape had. When she nodded Link smiled handing the paper over to the girl who eagerly walked away after a quick thank you, wanting nothing more then to study the writing. "Don't let Snape get to you mate," Ron said letting go of his foot. "He pretty mush just hates anyone who isn't in Slytherin."
"Still rather have him over Umbridge..." Harry said as he walked towards them.
"I believe I have her class next..." Link said causing Ron to give him a pitying look. "Is she the teacher for both fifth and sixth?" Link asked looking down to his sheet. When they nodded he sighed. "I don't really like her." 'The way she insulted Hagrid...'
"Don't like her?" Ron said in mock astonishment "that's an understatement!"
"She still doesn't believe the dark lord, Volde..." Harry started but rolled his eyes when Ron seemed to freak out slightly, as if saying the name would make the dark wizard appear in front of them. "'You-Know-Who' is back!" Harry said appalled. He had seen his rebirth and even killed a classmate right in front of him!
"He was there when it happened, and the old toad still won't even teach us anything useful!" Ron threw his arms up proving his point.
Link was suddenly very interested in this 'You-Know-Who' person. Where there was one evil man, there was sure to be another, or perhaps... Gannon and the 'dark lord' were one in the same? But for now he had one more class to attend to, and from the way Ron was describing it... he would have a lot of time to think on this subject..
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Well here's the latest chapter! Hope you enjoyed it, I tried to make Snape seem... well Snape-ish I hope it worked :) sorry for the long wait and the somewhat rushed writing but my job ate my life this week so meh... I've got quite a few things planned for next chapter and I hope I get the time I need to write them all down! Well anyway leave a review! Leave a comment, leave a subjection! No read and run! Anyway until next time! ....
BURNING CLUTCH OUT!