A.N: I haven't done multi-chapter fanfics before, so there may need to be a few kinks to work out. Also, I'm really bad at updating in a timely manner but I'll try. Reviews are really appreciated so I can improve my writing, and enjoy!

The next day was Tuesday. I always rather liked Tuesdays because things that start with T are obviously the coolest thing in the universe. I woke up at five o'clock in the morning because the last time I'd gone flying people had not been very happy so I decided it would be a good idea to fly around when people weren't awake. I flew up to the top of the tallest tower to examine the view. It was actually quite amazing. I've seen many views before; some of them better than others, but this was definitely one of the best. I stayed up there for a pretty long time, until I heard someone yell, "Hey, there's a boy up there!" Oops.

A woman started screaming at me. "You there! Get down here right now!"

I rolled my eyes. People were so annoying. It's not like I was doing anything dangerous. I dived off the tower, getting several screams from the growing crowd of onlookers. Of course I started leveling off almost immediately, and as I got closer to the ground I did a couple loop-de-loops, unable to keep from showing off. Then I crashed into the ground, rolled about three feet and stood up, covered in dirt, grinning.

"I meant to do that." I said. Landings had never been my strong point. The woman grabbed my arm, pulling me away and muttering something like, "Completely irresponsible! Never have I seen anything-! How could someone!" She seemed to have some strange speech impediment that didn't allow her to finish her sentences, but I didn't mention it, because that would have been rude.

"Where are you taking me?" I asked.

"To the headmasters' office." She said, with barely concealed anger.

"Why?" I asked.

"Oh, you know why." She said.

"Actually I don't. Otherwise I wouldn't have asked." I said, slightly confused.

"Don't you take that tone with me, young man!"

"I'm not taking any sort of tone. I just asked a question!"

"You know what you did wrong. How could you not?"

"I'm telling you, I don't. I literally do not know what I did wrong."

"For heaven's sake, you were on the top of the tower!"

"Wait, that isn't allowed? Well that's a stupid rule! Climbing on towers is fun. I think you should change that rule!" I crossed my arms and pouted.

She sighed audibly and said, "I don't know why I bother."

I wasn't sure whether she was talking to me or an invisible ghost, but I decided since she didn't seem to be waiting for a reply, it was probably an invisible ghost. She had let go of my arm by now and I was following behind her as she led me to the headmasters' office. It seemed to be a long way away, which was really annoying because I hate walking but now didn't really seem the time to try and fly because I think the people at this school really had a thing against flying or something. Finally we made it to a staircase with some gargoyles where the woman stopped. I still didn't know her name, but there'd never really been a time to ask. I noticed a dark spot on the wall and decided to go over and investigate. It was shaped strangely like a porpoise. Not a dolphin. Porpoises and dolphins have very distinctive and different looks and this spot was definitely porpoise shaped. However I didn't have time to observe it more closely because the woman called me back over in a very annoyed voice.

"You don't have to yell." I muttered.

"You weren't listening! If you don't want me to yell you should pay attention when I talk to you." She glared at me.

"I was busy!" I threw my hands up indignantly.

She rolled her eyes and said, "Follow me." I followed her up the steps to a door, which she knocked on.

"Come in!"

The first thing I saw was a young man sitting at the desk with his feet up. The woman glared at him and he put them down sheepishly.

"You're the headmaster?" I asked in disbelief. He nodded. "Oh…I thought you'd be older. And fatter. And have more of a beard." I shrugged. "We can't always have what we want though so it's cool."

He laughed. The woman glared at me and then him. He laughed again. "It's quite all right, Verity. Most people have that reaction when they meet me. In fact, I remember you expressing a similar opinion when we first met."

She blushed, but all she said was, "Professor Mallow, not Verity."

"Fine. Professor Mallow, why are you here?"

"He was climbing on one of the towers! And then, to make matters worse, he flew off, nearly killing himself crashing into the ground."

I rolled my eyes. "Excuse me; let's get a few things straight. I did not 'nearly kill myself', I simply had a few difficulties with my landing. Besides, I've been flying since I was three, and I was in no danger at all. Actually, that was one of my better landings." I crossed my arms and huffed angrily. The headmaster laughed, throwing his head back.

"Sir, I don't think this is a laughing matter!" Professor Mallow said. She really had something against flying. Probably a traumatic childhood event. The headmaster turned to me.

"So you like flying?"

I nodded.

"Have you ever heard of Quidditch?"

"Oh yeah, of course I have. The silly game with brooms and such? Yeah I think it's kinda stupid. I would never play anything like that."

"Oh. Well. Never mind then." He said.

"Can I go then? I'm probably missing all my classes and it's only my first day so I wanted to see what all the classes are like but now I can't." I glared at Professor Mallow.

"It's only 6. None of the classes have started yet." She said with a sniff.

"Oh. That's really awkward. Just pretend I didn't say any of that."

The headmaster looked at me. "Yes, you can go. Just try not to climb up anymore towers."

"Okay!" I said, going back down the stairs to find Roxie; the only one of the people I'd met on the train to be in the same house as me. It was good that the headmaster had only told me not to climb towers, because that I could promise not to do. Of course, I was still going to fly up towers because he hadn't said anything about that. I found Roxie in the Gryffindor common room.

"Hey." I said,

She looked up at me. "Oh, Hey."

"So what's your first class?"

"I have Care of Magical Creatures."

"Cool…um…I think I may have lost my schedule."

She rolled her eyes. "I have it. John asked me to keep it for you because you left it in the fireplace. Luckily the fire hadn't been started yet, but I think I should keep it from now on so you don't destroy it."

After a long pause I asked, "Who's John?"

"One of the prefects."

Another long pause followed as I tried to figure things out. "So…you have my schedule, so that means you know what my first class is."

"Yeah, it's the same as mine. And we've got to go right now if we don't want to be late." She stood up and I followed her out of the common room. We walked for a pretty long time without saying anything, which was rather boring. So, of course, I had to start a conversation.

"Have you ever seen an invisible squirrel?" I asked.

Roxie stared at me with a very puzzled expression on her face. "Isn't the point of invisible things that you aren't supposed to see them?"

"Well, yeah, but some people can see invisible things. I mean, at least I can."

"Are you sure?"

"Well, my dad said they were hallucinations, and my teacher said they were hallucinations, and my doctor said they were hallucinations, but they never saw what I saw so how would they know if they were hallucinations or not?"

Roxie sighed. "Let's talk about something else."

"Like tortucks!" I said happily.

"What's a tortuck?" she asked, wrinkling her nose.

"It's a cross between a duck and a tortoise!" I said excitedly. "See, they have duck bills and wings and two duck feet, but then they also have shells and two tortoise feet and a tortoise tail. They're basically the most amazing thing in the universe, because they can fly but also they can hide in their shells and they can peck people so they're pretty great. But also unfortunately they are invisible and so nobody believes they are real which is very sad because they can never see how amazing tortucks are." I stopped, breathing heavily.

"We're here." Roxie said, pulling open the door to a classroom.

"Oh, really? That went fast." I said. We slid into seats at the back of the classroom. A woman stood at the front of the room. "Welcome class, to Care of Magical Creatures." She made a whole speech about the class, but I wasn't paying attention because I was thinking about my pet tortuck Josh. Hopefully my brother was taking good care of him. Finally I heard the teacher say, "Any questions?" I raised my hand. "Yes, Mr…"

"I'm Achillies. And I was wondering if we would get to see any magical animals and like pet them and stuff."

"We may observe some animals that are not dangerous, such as flobberworms."

I raised my hand again.

"Yes, Achillies?" She said.

"What about dragons?" I asked

"What did I just say?"

"That we would observe not dangerous animals, I know. I'm not deaf. But dragons aren't dangerous. They're cute."

"Dragons are some of the most dangerous creatures in the magical world. First years would most definitely not be allowed anywhere near dragons ever, and that is final."

"But dragons breathe fire, and fire is cool!"

"Achillies, this discussion is over."

"But I'm not done talking! It's very rude to cut someone off in the middle of a conversation."

"If you say one more word I'm going to give you a detention!"

"Why?" I asked.

"Okay that's it! Detention!"

"Hey, wait, I was just asking why I wasn't allowed to talk! I think you're really mean!"

"Do you want me to send you to the headmaster's office?"

"I wouldn't mind that actually. He was cooler than you last time I met him!"

"Then go!" She pointed to the door.

"Fine!" I stomped out of the classroom. Well. That was awkward. My first class of the day and I was already going to see the headmaster-for the second time. Then again, no one would know if I didn't actually go to the headmaster's office, so I might as well go exploring. Of course, the logical place to go was the Forbidden Forest. Hopefully there was something actually cool in there and it wasn't just forbidden because of really dangerous extremely deadly monsters. That kind of thing is so boring.