So, based off responses, I'm rewriting this in third person. And this is still kind of filler, but it's mostly to set up the background. To help, I'm going to be posting the next couple of chapters very soon. They will also be quite short but more background.

Chapter 4 – Leo

Homework Aplenty

September 2009

Leo plopped down in the armchair by the fireplace. Oh, how he loves that armchair. His friends and sister sat down in various places around his chair. And now, he knew, it was time to ruin the evening for them. "Well, unless we want detention again for not turning in our homework, we'd better get started on that essay Binns assigned."

"What's it on again?" Lyra, of course, hadn't been paying attention in class. But Leo knew that this was just how she was. It was a right miracle how she did so well in school.

"12 inches on the importance of the Goblin Rebellion of 1357 from both wizarding and goblin perspectives." Like any textbook written by wizards would have the goblin perspective. Leo sometimes wondered if Binns had gone mental when he came back as a ghost. Honestly, assigning something like this to first years. Downright crazy.

"Ugh. Why do we have to take this stupid class? It has no use. None at all." Lyra did have a point there. Leo himself couldn't think of a single career that actually would require a N.E.W.T. in History of Magic.

Teddy on the other hand seemed to be enjoying his detention free record. "Complaining about it isn't going to make it finish itself. Let's get started. I want to sleep tonight." As the only one who cared about schoolwork in the slightest, Leo knew Teddy had been up very late the night before trying to finish his homework after spending all afternoon and evening with the rest of them. Though, come to think of it, he's the only one who didn't get a detention for unfinished homework today.

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O'Malley was the first to ask a question after they each had written the topic on the top of a roll of parchment. "How am I supposed to give the goblin perspective when the only time I've ever even seen one was for about five minutes in Gringotts while my parents exchanged muggle money for wizarding?" Thinking about that, Leo realized that he and Lyra hadn't ever seen goblins before either. Their mum had never taken them with her when she had to go to Gringotts.

Lyra was the one to answer. "Ask Leo. He'll be able to quote Binns' lecture word for word." Sometimes, Leo just wanted to strangle his sister. But then he would remember that he loved her too much to live without her.

"Really?"

"I've got a good memory." And of course Lyra had to tell everyone else about it. Leo cursed her inability to keep her mouth shut.

"Don't worry mate. I'm not going to complain. But maybe you could start by explaining what actually happened in the Goblin Rebellion of," taking a peek at the top of his paper, "1357?" All Leo could think was that, as a muggle-born, one would expect O'Malley to be interested in learning about wizarding history. But no. Muggle-borns don't care about it anymore than wizards do. Which meant even O'Malley sleeps through History of Magic.

"Alright. It started with..." Leo began, as he recited what Binns had told them just that morning in History of Magic.

By the end of the night, Leo was ready to jinx someone. Having a good memory did not turn him into a walking textbook so people wouldn't have to check their textbooks for the answers. At least they had all finished it. No detention tomorrow!

While rewriting this, I decided that rather than keep this chapter as a jumbled mess of random events, I'm going to several really short chapters to keep the events separate and include different povs. So 4 really short chapters after this one for background. Then the mystery of their father. But I'm going to post them super fast since they're so short.