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Chapter 5
The next morning, Harry, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione are sitting at the Gryffindor table.
"Look at our time table!" Ron exclaims.
"Potions with the Slytherin's." Hermione says, not annoyed yet not excited.
"Hey it could be fun." Harry says. "Remember Malfoy isn't treating us the same, and Snape…" Harry pauses at the name. Snape was his potions teacher for most of his life at Hogwarts except for his 6th year, when he was the teacher for Defense against the Dark Arts.
Harry had seen Voldemort kill Prof. Snape with his very eyes, and had witnessed Prof. Snape's memories. He wasn't the man Harry had thought he was.
Am odd silence fell across the group, until Hermione cleared her throat.
"We should get going, wouldn't want to be late." The friends pick up their bags and walk to the front hall. Ron has his arm around Hermione's shoulder, and Harry and Ginny are holding hands.
They walk down to the dungeons and to the potions room. When they turn the corner, the end of the line of students is disappearing into the classroom.
They hurry into the classroom and sit down in their seats, Harry with Ron, and Hermione with Ginny. Prof. Slughorn is sitting at the desk, and the chalk is writing the task on the board.
The students scramble around the classroom, collecting the ingredients for their potions. At the end of the lesson, Hermione's potion is obviously the best. As the students file out of the room, Malfoy walks by the four friends.
"Nice potion, Hermione." Malfoy says without a trace of venom in his voice.
"T-thank you…D-Draco." Hermione stutters.
Malfoy nods his head, and walks out of the room, Ron glaring at him. As soon as his cloak disappears around the corner, Ron places his arm around Hermione's shoulder and kisses her on the cheek, as if he were afraid that he would loose her if he didn't.
Harry takes Ginny's hand and they walk out of the room, giving their friends some quality alone time. They walk to their next classroom and wait for Hermione and Ron outside the Transfiguration classroom.
"Ginny?" Harry asks after a few moments of silence.
Ginny looks up at Harry, and smiles. "Yes Harry?"
"I've been…thinking…" He pauses, as Ginny's smile falters. "We've been spending a lot of time together, and I was wondering if that meant…"
Ginny lets go of Harry's hand, and steps back so she can look him fully in the face. Harry takes a deep breath.
"I was wondering if you wanted to become a couple again."
Ginny doesn't say anything for a few minutes. "Ever since…last summer I've been…hoping…dreaming…that you'd suggest this."
Ginny slides her arms around Harry and hugs him. Hermione and Ron walk around the corner and freeze, watching their two friends. Ginny pulls back, as if feeling their stares.
Without saying a word, the four friends walk into the classroom and take their seats. A silver tabby cat sits on Prof. McGonagall's desk. The cat has black marking around her eyes, in the outline of a square.
When the whole class is settled, the silver tabby leaps from the table. When its paws reach the cold floor, Prof. McGonagall stands in its place.
Her black hair is held back in a tight bun. And she's wearing glasses in the shape of the cat's markings.
"Class, take out your wands." Prof. McGonagall orders. "We will be practicing the basic spells for Transfiguration."
Prof. McGonagall pulls out a cage full of mice. A young woman at the front of the room coos to them.
"Since you seem so fond of them, you can pass them out to your classmates." Prof. McGonagall says briskly.
The student nods her head, and gently picks up the cage and hands a mouse to each student.
When the student finishes handing out the mice and sits down with her own, Prof. McGonagall continues.
"You will have the whole class to change the colour of your mouse, from grey to yellow. You may begin."
Hermione immediately picks up her wand and promptly changes her mouse's colour to yellow. Little by little, the other students remember the spell and turn their mouse yellow. All except Ron's, who's mouse turned a strange purple colour.
The four friends spend the first day back practicing the basics of each subject. By the end of the day their minds are buzzing with information.
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