Chapter 4: Mr. Lockhart's First Class
It was the first day of classes, and Haru, in order to give his new friend Luna more friends decided to introduce her to the 6 free wheeling kids currently known as the Straw Hat kids.
"Lovegood?" asked Tom.
"Are you related to Xenophilius Lovegood by any chance?" asked Yosopp.
Luna nodded, "He's my father." She answered.
"I love the Quibbler!" said Yosopp.
"I know me too!" laughed Tom.
The two sat down and began to talk to her while eating breakfast.
Due to the conversation Haru and the others went to Gryffindor table.
"I have the feeling that Luna won't gain many friends." Said Haru, "I knew at least one of you guys would become a good friend."
"That's a good thing you did bro." said Hina.
Haru smiled.
That was when they got the timetables from Pro. McGonagall.
"So when's your first defense class?" asked Hina.
"Not until tomorrow." Said Haru.
"Tell us how it goes." Said Kaien munching on some toast.
"I think all of us want to know how it goes." Said Nojiko.
They all looked at him talking to Marguerite who looked like she wanted to strangle him.
"He's such a jackass." Said Hina.
"I don't know, he seems charming." Said Hermione.
Everyone stared at Hermione.
"Here." Said Maya giving Hina a small bill.
"Thank you." Said Hina, "I can't believe I won."
"I can't believe you won either." Said Maya.
"What was that about?" asked Hermione.
"Nothing." Said Maya and Hina.
The bet was about whether or not Hermione was clapping because he was a handsome charming person or because she was the studious bookworm she was. It was a joke bet that even Hina thought it was the latter.
"You know Hermione. He reminds me of my dad… in a bad way." Said Maya.
"What do you mean?" asked Hermione.
"Daddy lies all the time. He does to entertain, he does it for fun, he does to cheer up people when they're down. That's the reason why my mom fell in love with him." Explained Maya, "He lies in a good way. I feel the same way Lockhart… but not the same as Daddy. He's a liar, but he does it for fame, he does it to get attention."
"You're really comparing your father to Lockhart?" asked Hermione.
"Yes." Said Maya.
Hermione shook her head and went to class.
"Class isn't for another half hour!" shouted Ron.
"She'll see the truth eventually." Sighed Maya.
The first day of classes was uneventful. But it was the second day of classes which was more important…
The first class of the day, which was Herbology. There they repotted Mandrakes with the Hufflepuffs. There Haru got to talk to some of the Hufflepuff students including Hannah Abbot, Ernie Macmillan and a muggle born named Justin Finch-Fletchley who loaned talked about how he was going to go Eton before he was invited to Hogwarts and how he was looking forwards to Deference Against the Dark Arts because Lockhart was teaching.
"I don't know." Said Haru, "I don't like him."
"Everyone knows you don't like him." Said Hannah, "You flipped him over your shoulder when you first met him."
Haru laughed as he forgot about that.
"The Gryffindors have their first class today." Said Hermione.
"Oh wow, you have to tell us what happens." Said Justin.
"I'm sure word will spread." Said Haru.
And so after lunch the Haru, Ron and Hermione went to class. And the first part of class was a test… about Gilderoy's personal information. Not like how did he defeat this or how he defeated that. It was stuff like what was his favorite color and other things like that.
Haru just doodled during the test and waited for it to be over.
As he was looking though the tests and talked about the answers.
"Now remember my favorite color is lilac." Said Gilderoy, "Also Mr. Potter."
"Share the music itsudatte…" sang Haru listening to a tone dial.
"Mr. Potter!" said Lockhart.
"Share the one dream shinhatte…" sang Haru who began to drum to the beat of the song.
"Pro. Lockhart, he tends to ignore people if they refer to him as Harry Potter." Said Ron.
This earned a laugh from the students who were already begging to see how of a fraud he was.
"Mr. Monkey." Said Gilderoy.
"Yes?" asked Haru taking off his headphones.
"About your test." Said Gilderoy.
"What about it?" asked Haru.
"Your test… you didn't answer anything and not only that but you also drew on the test." Said Gilderoy.
"I felt that answering what your birthday was and what your favorite gift would be pointless in a class that supposed to be about learning how defend one self form monster. It wasn't essential, so I just drew pictures. After all how would this information aid me in a fight against the evil creatures?" Said Haru, many in the class nodding agreement.
This made the teacher laugh, which shocked everyone in class.
"Why yes… that what I was going for. You saw though the test. It was a secret test of character" Said Gilderoy, "20 points to Gryffindor."
"Secret test of character my ass. He realized that with the expectation the girls with a crush on him, they agreed with me." Thought Haru with his eyes twitching.
"Now that the exam is finished, there is something I now must show. A terrible and dangerous creature." Said Gilderoy.
That was when he took out a cage and inside were pixies. That's right pixies.
"Pixies?" asked Seamus.
"That's right, a cluster of fleshly caught Cornish Pixies." Said Lockhart.
That was when he realized them… and immediately they began to wreck havoc!
Students whacked them with books, Neville was almost hung on the chandler if it was for his quick thinking and with his slingshot shot the pixie that held him by his ear. Gilderoy even tired using a spell, but Haru clearly heard the spell, which sounded like "Pesky Pixie Peter no me.". But fortunately it was Hermione who saved the day using a freezing charm.
Needless to say that the rest of the day's classes were canceled.
Haru was telling those that wanted to hear about what happened on the deck of the Thousand Sunny. Which included the whole crew and other who wanted to hear how the class went.
"That… that is the funniest thing I have ever heard." Laughed Hina.
"I know… I know…" laughed Luffy, "Pixies!"
"It is that funny." Said Hermione.
"You still think he's charming?" asked Nojiko.
Hermione began to blush.
"He unleashed Pixies! Pixies!" shouted Tom.
"I would have been hanging from the chandler if I hadn't thought on my feet." Said Neville.
"You're the one who saved us." Said Ron.
Hermione began to blush.
"So, do you think that Lockhart is going to do things like that again?" asked Haru.
"I think he learned the lesson the first time… so hopefully something like that won't happen again like again until he has to leave the school." Said Hancock.
Indeed, he never let loose any sort of creatures in the classroom again. But by this point the "secret test of the character" and the pixie incident had already made around school.
Next Time: The first Quidditch practice of the year goes south right away when it's discovered that Draco is the new Seeker. However it's not as bad for the Gryffindors, but it's worse for the Gryffindor when the Slytherin team learns Draco's fear of a certain 10-year-old pirate girl.