Chapter 7: First day of School
Renesmee POV
I am so glad that I'm in the same house as everyone else! Harry, Ginny, Ron and Hermione are also Gryffindor, so we are starting to make good friends. Jacob especially seems to enjoy their company. Something about them just seems so adventurous!
I am sharing a dormitory with the other sixth year Gryffindor girls: Ginny, Maggie, Danielle and Tara.
The first class I had was potions. Our teacher picked lab partners for us, so we had no choice. Poor Tara ended up with a big mean Slytherin boy as her partner. (I have noticed that Gryffindor and Slytherin are clearly enemies.)
I am partnered up with Maggie, and very glad to be. She seems quite smart and should be able to help me well. The more we learn the better, because we need to be able to protect ourselves against the Volturi's mega-army.
Jacob and Ginny were put together. That's good too, Ginny is very nice.
Professor Slughorn gave us all projects to do in our pairs. We have to brew Quirtinkle Potion, which is said to grant one the ability to fly. It also boosts your mood. This will be our only project this term, as it takes 2 weeks to make the potion. We will also have to work on it at night, because the potion's effect is much better that way.
I disguised my excitement as interest in flying, but secretly I was just eager to do anything that might give us an advantage in the fight. I shivered at the thought of two schools this size facing us.
After potions we had a Defense Against The Dark Arts lesson. This was trickier than the potions, because there was no "recipe" to follow. We were being taught to duel, which would be even more useful in battle than potions. Edward never wanted to teach me to fight, but he couldn't stop me if it was a subject in school.
The teacher wanted to test out how well Jacob and I could duel. I was asked to try duel against Quinton Blake, a boy from Hufflepuff. I won hands down, even though he probably wasn't much of a competition.
Professor Lupin was impressed. He said I had a natural talent. Jacob also did astonishingly well. I was surprised how many jinxes he remembered; he had obviously studied more than I thought. Dueling seems to be an instinct of us magical creatures.
At lunch we sat with Ginny, Harry, Ron and Hermione. They are proving to be good friends that we can trust.
"You guys are really good at Defense Against the Dark Arts!" Ginny said to me and Jacob.
Ron smirked.
"You should have seen them, Ron," Ginny said. "I bet they could probably take you down."
"Actually……I was thinking……." She said. "They are so good already, and they have hardly even practiced. "If they did practice more…..just think what they could do! They could help us fight off You-Know-Who, and they could-"
"Ginny!" Harry yelled. "You've said too much! How do we know they can be trusted? They might be working with Voldemort for all you know!"
"Of course not," Ginny said, sounding stubborn. "Do you think anyone to do with You-Know-Who would be sorted into Gryffindor?"
After a long silence, Harry responded. "No, I guess you're right."
"Ummm….excuse me," Jacob said. "Can we please be told what's going on?"