Chapter 1

"Morning everyone" said Ron Weasley as he was crawling out of his four poster bed. "Morning Ron, how'd you sleep on your first night at Hogwarts as a fourth year," said Harry. "Actually pretty to good surprisingly." The boys in their dorm were all getting ready for breakfast in the Great Hall. When the boys were finally all done getting ready they started for the Great Hall. As Ron and Harry were walking towards the Great Hall, they saw a girl with curly brown hair not far ahead of them. As soon as they saw the girl they ran ahead to catch up with her.

Finally they reached the Great Hall at last. "Students, sit down I have a few announcements to Say before we dig into this wonderful meal prepared by our wonderful house-elves" Professor Dumbledore said while motioning for everyone to sit down. "We are here to enjoy and fellowship with our fellow witches and wizards. I would like to start off the second feast of this year with a toast to begin this year with a wonderful start. Also a few announcements we will be taking a trip to hogsmeade in exactly a week from now, also there were a lot of talk going around about Professor Lupin retiring well he was thinking about it but decided not to and wanted to stay for the new fourth years. Those are all the announcements I had to talk about so please enjoy the meal and dig in!" "Thank you Dumbledore for that wonderful talk y'er got there and also I will be the new care of magical creature's teacher this year like last year" said Hagrid. Now you guys can get back to eating

"How was your time at the Dursley's household over break Harry?" "Pretty bad Hermione they wouldn't let me do anything and that made me feed Dudley while rubbing his feet and EW he had a wart on his toe the size of Gilderoy Lockhart and a pimple the size of Viktor Krum. How was your break from school Hermione?" Pretty good I got my schoolbooks early and read them all over break so now I know everything we will learn this school year. Isn't that amazing, now I will be ahead of the rest of the students in my classes. Well, enough of my story how about you Ron how was your break?" "My break was okay, but my dad got demoted at his job in the ministry of magic, so that means we won't get as much money and we weren't getting enough money in the first place so we are poorer than before" said Ron trying to fight back his tears. "Aww I feel so bad for you Ron if you want I can give you some galleons from my Gringotts vault if you want" said Harry feeling very sorry for his friend. "Hey you guys I know this is off topic but can you guys stay at Hogwarts over the Christmas break? I am asking this because ever since my father got demoted he said he can't pay for my food or presents over the break." Asked Ron to both of his friends "Sure" said Harry and Hermione at the same time staring at each other in shock and just quickly managed to snigger at the statement.

"Alright students you guys can now go to your first class of the year. Fourth years you guys can go to your first class which is divination with Professor Trelawny." Said Professor Dumbledore while motioning for the fourth years to leave the Great Hall. "Alright see you in Divination" said Ron while scurrying off. So Harry and Hermione set off for Divination.