Lessons are needed
Things got quiet in the wizarding world. Their were so few death eaters left, that they had stopped doing anything. The werewolves that had been cured, took their rightful places in society. The Old family heads returning. The werewolf laws had made them pariahs, they now knew the sting of bigotry. New treaties were signed with the Goblins and centaurs. Life was good.
The group of kids had grown, the Greengrass Sisters were regularly found at Potter manor as was Lee Jordan And Luna Lovegood. Luna being the youngest of the group Had recently watched her mother die in front of her in a potions accident. She was with Draco most of the time, The two were almost as close as Harry and Hermione. The Original Five. Had mastered spells and charms, They had also begun taking muggle style defense classes. The were also becoming adept with weapons, Both Harry and Hermione were wicked with swords, the other three could use a Bow with deadly accuracy. They really want to learn warding and spell creation,. So a teacher in ancient Runes was sought out also one for arithrimancy and history. It would be months before these classes would start. It didn't stop Harry and Hermione from reading ahead. Harry loved runes, He made a trip to Diagon Alley with out telling anyone, to get a rune kit. Needless to say no one was real happy with him upon his return. Hermione was worse than the Adults.
But as with all childhood adventures this passed. Harry was scribing a rune set one afternoon, Whe his letter from Hogwarts appeared, it was brought to him by a scruffy looking old barn owl with a bad attitude. Being almost a year older Hermione had received hers just before her birthday also.
Rather than just send refusal letters they all decided to go and see Headmistress McGonagall. If they could get only the classes they wanted it would be good to experience, the larger group dynamic and make some new friends.
Harry liked the Headmistress, They wanted a chance to test out of what they could.
The group scored like this. Harry, Hermione, Neville And Draco all got O's in charms, transfiguration and Defense, Harry set the record all time for defense.
Dudley got EE i n everything but defense he scored a high O . None of them had taken herbology so they would be needing that, While the fearsome Five as some had started calling them Would take advanced runes and Arithramancy. Daphene Greengrass Had scored O"s in all subjects to OWL level and would be taking almost all sixth year courses.