"That was by far the strangest lesson ever." Neo chimed as he and Allie caught up with Ricky and Anna.

"Yeah," Anna peeked around Ricky to look at Neo, "My mom's a bit…eccentric."

"That was your mom?" Neo asked.

"Yeah." Anna nodded.

"Funny," Neo nudged Ricky out of his thoughts, "Ricky's mum teaches here."

"I told her." Ricky mumbled absentmindedly.

"Hi, I'm Anna." The American introduced herself to Neo and Allie. Neo smiled and waved back, and Allie just glanced at her out of the corner of her eye. Ricky frowned, Allie had been standoffish and cold the past year, he wanted his friend back.

"Bye." Allie snapped at the three, before she went towards the Potions classroom.

"Did I say something wrong?" Anna asked.

"Nah, she's a Slytherin." Neo shrugged it off. Anna raised an eyebrow, "What?" Neo asked, "Doesn't your school have different houses?" He asked, Anna shook her head, "Seriously?" he began to go into a heated ramble about the different houses. Ricky could tell the history of the houses overwhelmed Anna, and though she looked uncomfortable, she seemed to be entranced by Neo's rant.

As they walked into Transfiguration, Ricky gave a small waist high waved to his mother who glanced up as the students piled in. Her fingers were trembling, and she looked out of it as her waved two fingers at Ricky. The girl from the Mediterranean school who looked like she'd rather be anywhere but there sat in a back desk and glowered as students walked in. Ricky quickly walked past her to a window seat, Neo sat next to him and Anna sat in the desk next to them.

"Good morning, class." Phoenix didn't raise from her seat to greet them, "Let's see, I've got a few familiar faces-"

"Hello, Professor Weasley!" Neo called from the back, earning a few snickers from the Hogwarts students and confused, slightly off put stares from the others.

Phoenix smiled, "Yes, hello Mister Selwyn. Now, as I've said every year, Transfiguration is a powerful, sometimes dangerous subject."

"Any goofing off will get you kicked out that door." Ricky and Neo whispered together as Phoenix spoke it to the class.

Phoenix closed her mouth slowly, raising her eyebrow at her son and his friend, "And you will not return." she said once she was sure they wouldn't interrupt her again. "Now," she pushed herself up, "As Mister Selwyn has blurted out," the chalk behind her moved across the thin blackboard at the front of the room, "My name is Professor Weasley and this year you will be learning spells like transforming a dinner plate into a mushroom, the Gemino Curse, and several others. First," Phoenix walked down the aisle, "I would like you to take out your textbooks and copy down the first spell "Boletum", it's properties," Ricky tuned his mother out as she walked back up to the front of the room, "Any work you do not complete in the next hour will be homework." Ricky quickly pulled out a quill and some parchment, his text book already open on his lap.

"I want the first weekend free," Ricky told himself, "Especially since I'm head of the Quidditch team, I've got to hold tryouts." Ricky frowned as he looked over the mushroom spell. There was no logical need to have mushrooms with the flick of a wand, it seemed ridiculous. However, he was not one to question his mothers teaching, she may tend to favorite Gryffindor over the other houses, but she was very strict and fair to all the houses.

"Miss Genio, is there a reason you have not gotten to work?" Ricky glanced back at the Mediterranean girl, his mother was standing at the end of the girls desk, hands on her hips. The girl's scowl only soured more as she slowly sat up and with the flick of her finger the book flew open. Her chocolate brown eyes never faltering as they nearly stared his mother down.

Ricky held back a grimace, the wind picking up outside, "Just ignore her." he told himself, the wind dying as he turned back to his work. Ricky felt his head swimming as his quill scribbled over the parchment, when he glanced across the aisle at Anna he noticed she was writing with a small metal tube his mother and grandfather had called a pen.

"A quill you don't dip in ink." His mother had said in order to explain it to a confused Ricky. He honestly didn't know why his mother bothered to try and raise him like he was a half-blood or muggle born if he was just going to stay concealed in the magical world for the rest of his life.

Anna twirled the pen in her fingers, she clicked one end and the other disappeared, "Mr. Weasley, if you'd kindly stop looking at Miss Smith and get back to your notes," His mother said warningly, Anna's cheeks burned as she clicked her pen again. Ricky glanced at his mother who frowned. Ricky sighed and turned back to his work, the rest of the class went silently, and Ricky was thankful when the bell rang for third block.

"Ugh," Neo yawned, "I hate taking notes in there." He stretched.

"She's incapable of teaching." The Mediterranean girl snapped as she flounced past them. Ricky felt Neo's arms around him to keep him from lunging at the girl who didn't even so much as turn her head.

"Trotting brat." Ricky snarled, but he quickly smiled as Anna walked up to them.

"Where are you boys headed next?" she asked.

"Potions with," Neo glanced at his timesheet, "Professor Stacey?" Anna paled and frowned.

"That's my dad." She mumbled.

"Both your parents are professors?" Ricky asked, "I thought your dad wanted to-"

"He did it to try and get mom back." Anna frowned, "Anyways, if you see my sister there, tell her I said "hi"." Anna waved as she walked away, her black skirt swishing around her knees.

"I wonder where this potions is." Neo chewed his lip as he looked over the timesheet.

"It's down in the kitchen hallway." Cli said popping up from seemingly nowhere, Neo nearly jumped out of his skin as he glared at his twin.

"Why is it down there?" Ricky asked.

"Apparently this Professor Stacey likes to experiment on students." Cli shivered.

"Or, he doesn't want people blowing things up, and since there is actually windows that can open and away from the rest of the castle, there's a less likely chance of injury." Ricky suggested.

"Or if a kid gets poisoned he has an excuse for letting them die." Neo grinned and Cli frowned at the cheap trick to scare him.

"Or it's because my father is an anti-social prick who only thinks about himself." A red haired girl leaning against the stone wall huffed. "Hey, I'm Beth."

"Anna's sister, right?" Ricky asked, Neo and Cli looked at him confused, but Beth's grin only widened as she nodded, "She says "hi"." Ricky relayed. Where as Anna looked nothing like her mother, Beth looked just like her, from the bright red hair to the green eyes.

"You said your father is anti-social?" Cli asked in the awkward silence that followed, the four stood in the food portrait filled hallway.

"Yeah, total dick." Beth huffed, "Left mum "just cause"." She scoffed. Ricky raised an eyebrow, with how sensitive and gentle Anna had seemed, he expected the same thing from Beth. But Beth seemed much rougher, more confident-a just a touch frightening. Her voice wasn't heavily accented as he expected either, but she didn't have the stuffed nose sound Anna had. She also seemed much healthier than her sickly twin, Ricky was over all shocked at the dramatic difference between the two.

"Of course my mum and Uncle Draco are no different." Ricky reminded himself.

"Anyways." Beth said, scuffing her feet on the floor, "I was just leaving that class, I hope to see you boys later."

"This year I think we're brewing sleeping, sleepless, death, bone re-grow, as well as poisons and antidotes." A Mexican girl spoke up, talking to a boy next to her.

"Death?" Cli asked her, "That's sixth year stuff here." the girl either didn't care or had no comment as she shrugged.

"Who are you?" Ricky asked.

"Zelda." The girl introduced, "Zelda Zaldivar." she had long, wavy black hair and black eyes.

"Do you even know this professor?" Ricky asked accusingly.

"No, but my cousin had his class before this block." Her voice was heavily accented, and very slow as if struggling to form the words, "he said there's hardly any homework, if he doesn't want to grade it he can be sure as hell we don't want to do it." Zelda picked at her finger nails.

"Awesome." Ricky and Neo shared a grin.

"Why?" Zelda's eyes narrowed.

"Trying to clear up my weekend to announce Quidditch tryouts." Ricky explained.

"You play Quidditch?" Zelda asked, raising an eyebrow almost accusingly.

"Duh." Neo seemed unamused as the door opened and students piled in. "Ricky's been Keeper forever, best one out there." Neo slapped his back proudly.

"Sit wherever, I guess." The professor said as they all squeezed in. The room was large, with several windows, fireplaces, and tables. Against the back wall sat cupboards filled to the brim with supplies and utensils. Ricky, Cli, Neo and Zelda (uninvited) all sat at a large square table, Ricky and Zeldaseparating the brothers. Ricky knew from experience not to let them stand beside each other in potions. When Ricky finally got a glance at Professor Stacey, he understood where Anna got her looks. Where Beth was an exact copy of Professor Smith, Anna was an exact copy of Professor Stacey.

Stacey glanced around before he spoke again, "I'm not going to bother with names or introductions, my name is on your schedule and some of you know each other and some of you don't. Oh well. For your final this year you will be poisoning a victim and then bringing them back with an antidote you will make in this class." Professor Stacey explained, "If you fail," he trailed off and left it at that. "Today you will be doing something fairly easy, a sleep potion. Instructions on page forty-five of your books, ingredients in the back in alphabetical order." Stacey sat at his desk, "You will finish before class ends and try it out on a fellow classmate." Ricky ignored Stacey as he went to the back to look for a bottle of Flobberworm Mucus.

"Watch where you're going, Weasley." A large body slammed into his shoulder. Geoffrey Finn, a Ravenclaw Beater, grinned sinisterly over his shoulder. Ricky growled, the wind picking up and blowing dead leaves against the window.

"Just stay out of my way, Finn." Ricky growled, grabbing a bottle of Flobberworm Mucus and walking back to his table. Since the potion was a low level, simple potion they'd made in previous years with Professor Slughorn, most of the Hogwarts students were finished relatively quickly. However, the Outback students finished just as quickly and they watched as Professor Stacey walked around.

"I hear he does this every year." Zelda whispered to the three of them, "Kinda scares everyone into doing their best, I guess."

"Why?" Cli asked.

"If you get cocky, or just plain make it wrong, he'll leave you on the ground asleep or writhing till he thinks a "message" has sunken in about how serious potions is-"

"Black eyes," Professor Stacey snapped, "Since you're so keen on talking, pick your poison and your victim." Zelda took a deep breath through her nose, she took her time strolling around the classroom looking at the different potions and then the brewer. She skipped over a few people, Ricky assumed she knew them and their talents in potions, however she hovered over a few people from Hogwarts that Ricky knew were awful at potions. Rigby Crowe, a Gryffindor, looked like he were about to pass out as Zelda's fingers hovered over his vial. She pulled away and quickly strode over to Ricky, snatching up his potion.

"This one." She said bravely.

"Very well." Professor Stacey shrugged, "You," he nodded to Ricky, "Red head. Give her the potion and catch her." By the time he'd gotten it out Zelda had already downed the potion. Ricky's eyes widened and he let out a strangled cry as Zelda collapsed into his arms. He caught her easily, however, hearing a crack, he prayed her head didn't smack the table. Professor Stacey walked over, standing before Ricky and the sleeping, dead weight Zelda.

"If brewed correctly, she'll be awake in a few minutes, you may lay her down." Professor Stacey waved.

"But what if it's not-"

"If you doubt your own potion you should not be in this class." Professor Stacey snapped. Ricky wanted to snap something about how happy Professor Smith seemed without him, but figured that would end badly for the entire class. Slowly, Ricky lowered to his knees, he gently laid Zeldadown on the ground. "Pick your poison."


"What a complete nutter!" Allie hissed at lunch, she marched over to the Gryffindor table when she'd spotted Beth and Anna sitting with Ricky and Neo. "If someone hadn't brewed it right-"

"Then you shouldn't have been in the class." Ricky and Neo finished. Ricky glanced across the Hall to Cli who was talking to Zelda and a boy (who Ricky assumed was her cousin with the similar black hair, only curly and warmer-brown eyes).

"Didn't he do it with your class too?" Beth asked.

"Yes, but," Allie huffed, clearly embarrassed, "We had Slytherins and Ravenclaws in our class, all of us are capable-"

"Marcus Stonebridge is not capable of anything except looking like the child of a pig and a troll." Neo grinned.

"He made a perfectly fine potion," Allie defended, "I was out for only five minutes."

"You took Stonebridge's potion?" Ricky demanded, for some reason, the idea did not sit well with him. He knew all too well that Stonebridge hated Ricky and Allie, he'd always been cruel to the two. Allie only scoffed and ignored him, "Allie Kingston-"

"Fred Rick Lucius Weasley." Allie hissed back, she had tears in her eyes.

"God, she's been so emotional lately." Ricky wanted to whisper to himself, but if Allie had heard he'd never live it down. Instead he bit his tongue hard enough to draw blood, but not hard enough for him to feel in his angered state. Why was he angry again?

"Well," Neo stood up, "Beth and I will be headed to "Endurance", and Anna you remember where we told you Divination is, right?" He said trying to diffuse the tension. Anna nodded quickly and waved goodbye, Neo and Beth quickly followed after her. Allie looked like she was going to say something, but thought better of it and closed her mouth. She turned and walked out of the Great Hall. Ricky sighed and pushed the rest of his lunch away, he stood up and grabbed his bag.

Walking out to the flat grounds just outside the castle walls where the greenhouses were, Ricky caught up with Neo and Beth. A small Mexican styled hut sat out in the middle of the flat grounds. Ricky caught sight of Miss Genio, he kept away from her, and instead chatted with Beth and Neo.

"So, you two have the same schedule?" Beth asked.

"Yep." Neo answered.

"Don't you two get tired of each other?" She asked.

"Me and him have had the same schedule since our first year, and we share a dormitory-" Ricky explained.

"I see Dominique coming down." Neo noted.

"So we kind of put up with each other." Ricky shrugged, instinctively catching his cousin as she latched onto his back. "This is my cousin, Dominique." he introduced, "Dominique, this is Beth, she's from the Outback."

"Hi." Dominique smiled politely.

"Hey." Beth grinned.

"Our family is extensive." Dominique explained, "There's loads of us running around."

"How many exactly?" Beth inquired.

"Ten of us." Ricky answered, "Eleven if you would count my cousin, Scorpius."

"Holy-"

"Hola, silencio por favor." A dark skinned man with trimmed brown hair and dull blue eyes, "Step inside, welcome to Endurance." Neo, Beth, Dominique and Ricky shared a look of confusion as they stepped in the small shack with the other students. Inside the shack opened up to a large rectangular room, the floor was wooden and several colored lines ran along floor.

"What exactly is Endurance?" A student from Outback asked.

"If one of my students would demonstrate?" The professor asked, "Phoenix, what about you?" Neo, Dominique, and Ricky watched shocked as the scowling girl stepped up.

"Genio's name is Phoenix?" Neo asked shocked.

"Pure coincidence." Ricky assured as Phoenix Genio began to run around the perimeter of the room. She came back and stood at their professors side.

"Show these foreign boys how a real Auror trains." He beamed. Phoenix seemed emotionless and unflinching as an obstacle course appeared. As she expertly weaved through the course, their professor spoke up, "My name is Sir Willow. Endurance is a class that will push your physical limits. If any dark creature should attack you, spells and curses alone will not save you." Phoenix finished the course and stood by Sir Willow, hands on her hips, "Record time, Miss Genio." Phoenix scoffed and blew the hair out of her face.


I'm cutting this chapter short...

So I'm guessing some people didn't read any of Phoenix Malfoy otherwise they'd known that the reason why the previous was 19 year later was because it was the EPILOUGE to Phoenix Malfoy.

19 years later was the epilouge for the BOOK, it just so happens that since the Quidditch World Cup happened so close to uploading I decided to upload that before the Epilouge (other wise this story would jump to 19 years later then back a couple of years to the World Cup)

Anyways I'm cutting it short because i've lost all motivation to write...

Today my dad called me and my sister worthless and retarded...he was yelling and throwing things and...My mom wouldn't even help...she just left...