Yay for ideas! XD

While writing this chapter, I realized that there was a small problem.. There's a time skip between the flying and charms lessons but it felt too unnatural to include that skip here so soon, when they're still discovering the wizard world. That's why that time skip will take place after the charms class, I'll fill it in with something else, something not following the Harry Potter plot, and the troll will show up like in the book/movie – during the Halloween Night feast. Hermione will run off crying after some other class XP

Looks like this chapter is a bit calmer than usual XP

So yeah, that's it for now XD Enjoy! XP

The usual weirdness may occur :3

As always, Gravitation is NOT MINE. It's Maki Murakami's. That is all.

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Hocus Pocus 3

Yuki looked around the buzzing classroom, trying to ignore Malfoy's snide remarks about practically everyone in the room. He learned a lot about his new temporary classmates and noticed that the people in Slytherin were the nastiest of all the students. Hufflepuffs were mostly friendly, some of them annoyingly shy. Especially all those girls looking over at other boys and giggling in their little groups... But the same could be said about girls from Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, even some from Slytherin. The other houses didn't really interest him all that much. If he wrote fantastic stories, not romance tear-jerkers, he might have been paying attention to everything around him but then again this wasn't some original world. It was a book world and he couldn't just take ideas from it even if he wanted to. He scoffed. Why would he even considered writing something like this? This was a story for little kids, not like the realistic, heart-breaking novels he wrote.

"Hello, everyone!" The professor's voice brought him back to the classroom. 'Finally!' He looked around but couldn't see the owner of the voice. Then he noticed something -no, someone- small climb the stack of books. Now that he looked closer, the books were arranged as if they were some sort of a podium or something. Seeing that their teacher was an old midget, Yuki had a really hard time keeping a straight face. The others were probably expecting as much because no one else seemed to be as surprised as he was.

"Today, we will learn the art of meditation!" He started, "or the ability to make objects fly." 'Interesting.. Now I see why Shuichi was so hyped up before.' Although he didn't really care for magic tricks and such, even Eiri had to admit that he would like to be able to lift objects in the air with a flick of his wrist. He looked over to where Shuichi was sitting. The boy looked as if he'd jump off his seat any second now! It amused him to see the poorly concealed impatience on his cute lover's face.

'Come on, hurry up, hurry up..!' Shuichi just couldn't wait until Professor Flitwick would finally finish his instructions. He didn't want to wait, he knew exactly what he was going to say and it irritated him that he couldn't just grab his wand and try out the spell himself. While looking around at other students and trying to not jump off the seat, he saw something in the corner of his eye that made him forget about the lesson for a moment. Yuki was looking at him and.. Was he smiling or smirking? Or both? But before he could think of the reason for that, the professor finally said the words he wanted to hear so badly, "And don't forget to enunciate. Wingardium leviosa." A huge grin stretched across his face as he grabbed his wand and pulled back his sleeves. 'Alright! This is it!' He was so excited! He's been practising this spell for months in secret! Now all those months of waving his Harry Potter wand around in the hall closet, where Yuki couldn't find him, would finally pay off! He breathed in, did the wrist movement – 'swish and flick' – and recited the spell, just like he'd seen Hermione do so many times before.

"Wingardium leviosa!" Although he was wishing with all his heart for the spell to work, he still couldn't believe it when the feather actually rose up.

"Well done, mister Shindou! Splendid! That was perfect! Five points to Hufflepuff!" Professor Flitwick praised him and Shuichi just couldn't help grinning. After a bit, he noticed Hermione looking at him with that strange expression again. Then he realized that he altered the course of events in this little scene. Hermione did get her feather to levitate (of course) but she wasn't the first student to do so. Shuichi smiled at her slightly, unsure if she was angry at him for taking her place as the best student in the class and, to his relief, she smiled back after a minute and quickly looked away. He didn't have time to think about it when a small 'Boom!' interrupted his thoughts. He looked at Seamus and almost laughed at the charred feather. As everyone else returned to their spell practice, so did he.

When the class ended and all the students left the room, heading to their dorms to put away their books, Shuichi wondered about what happened there. He definitely altered the story, if only just slightly. He knows what's going to happen. He could probably prevent many bad things from happening. If Hermione didn't run off crying to that bathroom, she wouldn't be in danger. If he exposed Voldemort early on, it would be easier to get rid of him.. Probably.. He knows about the Hocruxes! But wait, no, that's too much. The boy laughed quietly to himself. He'll have to talk this over with Yuki. They had the rest of the day free of classes but Shuichi didn't care. He didn't want to make friends with other Hufflepuffs, he wanted to meet with Yuki already! He put away his books and walked outside, in the direction of Hogwarts' green fields, thinking about how he should let Yuki know when they'll meet.

It was a nice day outside. Shuichi lay on the soft grass, under one of the many trees in the courtyard with a small group of Hufflepuffs. They were chatting lazily and the boy's mind started to wander. Before he realized it, Shuichi was floating around in the land of dreams. There was pocky, Hiro, Yuki, even Suguru and K and Sakano and everyone else from the studio. They were just practising for a massive gig they had coming up when suddenly the studio filled with water and they had to swim out into the ocean in their tiny canoe boats to pick up all those grains of cinnamon floating in the water. Shuichi woke up abruptly, as if someone had kicked him and was just about to give out to Yuki for waking him up when he realized where he was. His mood dampened somehow, despite the fantastic possibilities this world had in store for him. It was only his second day at Hogwarts yet he felt as if he'd been here for ever. He felt as if there was a tiny hole in his heart and he knew it was because he missed his bandmates and the crazy manager. And other people from his world. He would've dwelled on it longer but his bladder demanded his immediate attention. Shuichi rose and looked around. Most of the Hufflepuffs were now laying in the sun, silent and content to enjoy this beautiful day before the weather got worse and made lazy afternoons like this one impossible.

Shuichi looked in the mirror and sighed. It's been over a week now! The classes and homework kept him busy during the day but he missed Yuki so much! He hasn't spoken to him in a whole week! How was this even possible? How? Well, that piece of scum called Malfoy, that's how! If only that idiot wouldn't hog HIS Yuki all day, Shuichi would've been able to meet up with him ages ago! But noooo, the Slytherin prince just HAD to have his favourite little 'sidekick' with him! Argh! It drove him nuts! He just wanted to get a hold of Malfoy and kick his stupid little butt for taking the love of his life from him! He would sneak into the Slytherin dorm and leave a note on his bed if he only knew the password! Maybe there was a way to find out.. He just noticed that he's been rinsing his hands for a while now, so he turned the tap off and looked around for something to wipe them with. He almost jumped when the door opened noisily. Shuichi instinctively looked towards it and froze. Speak of the devil.. Of course it had to be Yuki with Malfoy, who else... His lover's eyebrows shot up in surprise when he saw the boy but he quickly smoothed his expression back to the usual cold indifference.

"What are you staring at?" Malfoy scoffed at Shuichi with a sneer.

"I... I, uh, um"

"Pathetic." The nasty Slytherin boy moved past Shuichi, not expecting a coherent reply. The singer blinked in surprise and realized how lucky this little meeting was. 'This is perfect! Malfoy's gone doing his business, I can quickly talk to Yuki now! But what if he overhears us? So I'll just give him the note. He'll get it! Hopefully..' Shuichi dug around his pockets and took out the carefully folded piece of paper he had written days before. He turned his attention back to the boy on his mind and had a mini heart attack when he wasn't there. Yuki was walking away, in the direction of the toilets, and Shuichi still had to give him that note before Malfoy came out!

"AH! WAI-" Shuichi whirled around and tried to tell Eiri to wait but the floor was a bit wet from his dripping hands and the sudden motion threw him completely off-balance, so that he fell face-first onto the hard tiles. It hurt but he had to give Yuki the message no matter what! To his relief, the boy turned around and looked at Shuichi, his face betraying slight worry. Without a word, Shuichi reached out towards the writer with the small note. Eiri stepped up closer and took the paper, then quickly put it away. He looked at Shuichi critically, considering the small bump on his forehead.

"What's this clown doing?" Malfoy asked as he walked to the row of sinks.

"Sleeping on the floor, apparently. Typical Hufflepuff trash." Yuki scoffed and looked away. He went to Malfoy's side and washed his hands.

"Idiot.." Shuichi felt a small stab of pain in his heart at that cold behaviour. 'He has to be like that, that stupid Malfoy's here...' He thought but it didn't really help. When the two were gone, he scrambled to his legs and winced. He must have hit that floor a bit harder than he thought he had because when he stood up, the world seemed to be swimming. Ignoring that moment of dizziness, he walked out of the bathroom, towards the moving stairs. He looked forward to meeting Yuki tonight, they would finally be able to talk without anyone around! Of course Shuichi would make sure that no one was there to catch them. Not even all those paintings would see them! Now that his biggest problem was taken care of, Shuichi felt a lot happier and excited. He decided that, since it looks like they'll be staying here for a while, it was a good time to go make some friends, so he returned to the Hufflepuffs lazying abut outside.

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Oh wow... I really wanted to include the Yuki-Shuichi meeting in this one.. ToT
But, well, I only started that part and realized that this chapter would be far too long... It would have been over 3000 words! XD But writing their encounter on the third floor is fun.. :3

So yeah... There you have it! Terribly sorry for the delay in updating this (and other) story(ies)... But writing fics can be passed off as practising for my English exam.. :3

No idea when anything else will be updated but probably around the end of June cause when's a better time for writing fics than after the exams, when you have almost too much spare time on your hands? XD

See you later then, hope you enjoyed this one! XP