The class crowed into the Herbology green house. It didn't take too long before a young dark haired man came in. "Settle down students." he called, brining a hush to the crowd.
"So that is the famous Neville Longbottom." Ichigo whinned.
"Your not impressed? He is an amazing man! He fought in the second wizarding war and defeated Fenrir Greyback! Then he became a powerful Auror before retiring to become the Herbology teacher." a nearby girl cried out in disbeleif.
"Well gee, that may impress me, if I even understood half of what your saying!" Ichigo snapped.
"Ichigo! I'm sorry." Orihime told the girl, but she just smiled.
"I'll tell you. Fenrir..." she started.
"Quiet in the back of the class!" Neveille called. He smiled when he saw Rose and Albus. They waved to him.
"Professor, before we begin for the year, can you show us the coin?" one kid asked. Many others started requesting the same thing.
"What coin?" snapped Ichigo. Uryu shrugged showing he had no idea. The teacher smiled and nodded, pulling out what looked to be a galleon.
"What's so spechial about that?" Ichigo snapped. Albus looked at them.
"I forget just how much you don't know. That's a Dumbledore's Army coin. It was a club that was in this school many years ago. Neville was once one of the leaders of the club. They were founded by our father, and both of Rosy's parents. It was to learn Defence Against the Dark Arts when Dolores Umbridge and the minister had not allowed us to learn the class. They designed it so we could continue to practice. Then during the war at Hogwarts, the second great Wizarding war, the DA proved vital as the members all fought Voldemort and his men, the Death Eatters." he said with pride. Ichigo blinked.
"That doesnt' really explain much!" Ichigo complained.
"It's some complicated things." Rose interupted, and Albus dropped the subject. 'Something is missing here, I need to figure out what happened all those years ago.' Uryu thought. Neville was an excellent teacher and the students enjoyed his class. Finally after the second double period for the day, the group could leave for lunch. As they came into the Grand Hall, a boy ran up to them.
"I'm looking for Rose Weasly, Albus Potter and Uryu Ishida." he said. Rose looked him over.
"I'm Rose, can we help you?" she asked.
"Professor Slughorn asked me to see if you will join him and his club for lunch today." he said. Rose sighed and nodded.
"Come along Uryu." she said.
"What's going on?" Orihime asked.
"Professor Slughorn has what he calls the Slug Club. It's supposed to be the brightest or most famous students at the school. He's persistant if you don't go, so the easiest thing is to just show up." Rose explained. Ichigo shrugged.
"Have fun then." he said as him, Chad, and Orihime left for the great hall. Uryu didn't look too thrilled about it as he followed Rose and Albus along to the Professor's office.
"So, this Professor Slughorn, who is he?" Uryu asked, wanting information.
"He's not a bad man, the only thing that we don't like about him is the Slug Club of his. He asked James to join in his first year, being the son of Harry Potter and all, and of course James agreed without hesitation. He tried to get me, being Hermionie Granger and Ron Weasly's daugher and Albus to join, butwe both held out for a while. It tock him until last year until we finally caved. THen you have Lily and Hugo, who went immediatly, afraid that he wouldn't leave them alone if they didn't. He usually takes those who he feels are students that have a good head start and have promising futers. Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy is also a member. His father was Draco Malfoy. Him and our fathers hated each other. They still don't like each other, but we get along with Scorpius well enough. He's not that bad. He's in slytherin, like both of his parents were." Rose said.
"It's funny, because Uncle Ron told her not to make friends with him on our first day. He said our Grandpa would never fogive her if she ever married a pure blood as I recall." Albus said. Uryu looked over at Rose.
"What's a pure blood?" he asked.
"They're the families that have only been born in wizarding family's. When someone has no magic and not born into a magic family, they are called a muggle. Sometimes, like you, we have people born with magical ability in muggle families. If they marry someone who comes from a line of wizarding families, they're children are called half-bloods. There are only a few families like that in existance. There is the Black family, Longbottom, Malfoy, used to be our family, the Weasley, and a few others. Our family isn't even a pure blood family anymore. Not many are left. Many people in them were pedjudice against us who aren't from all wizard families. Our Aunt Hermionie was muggle born." said Albus.
"So who exactly is this Harry Potter and what was the first and second wizarding war?" Uryu asked. Rose tock a breath to speak, but suddenly James came running.
"Hey, so you got invited too huh! You must be pretty intellegent to receive an invite on your first day." James said. Uryu looked at him like he was an idiot, angrey that he just lost the chance to learn what he wanted.
"You know on second thought, give Professor Slughorn my ragards." Uryu said. Rose gave him an odd look.
"Where are you going?" she asked.
"There is somewhere I need to go." Uryu said as he left. Uryu moved down the halls, looking for the libray. As he moved along, he came across one hall with a swamp in the corner. A small plaque in front of it read 'In Honor of George Weasley and Memory of Fred Weasley.' Uryu looked at it one more time before continuing along. Finally he arrived at the library and went in.
"Can I help you?" the librarian asked as he entered. It was a large room filled with many books and numerous other things. Uryu looked over at her.
"Yes uhm...I was looking on anything I can find out about the first and second wizarding war, Harry Potter, and Fred and George Weasley." he said, genuinly curious who these two men where as well, now that their names continued to pop up as well. The librarian shock her head.
"I'm sorry but they have all been checked out. Usually the first years will have all of those books for the first few months of school before they're in long enough for anyone else to find them." she said. Uryu cursed.
"Is there anyone who can tell me the story?" Uryu asked. She smiled.
"You must be muggle born. Many of the students here know the story by heart, but if you wish for a real indepth verson, I would suggest the Professors. I beleive Professors McGonogall, Longbottom, and Hagrid were very familar with the boy. Most of the teachers but the Defence Aginst the Dark Arts teachers have even participated in one if not both wars, so they would also be able to help." she said. Uryu looked down and nodded his thanks. Then he looked at his schedual. His next class was transfiguration. He still had at least forty minutes before class started. Taking off at a run down the halls, he arrived at McGonogall's room in ten minutes. She was eatting her lunch when he entered her office.
" , although I perfer my student's to be early, thirty minutes is too much." she said as he came in. Uryu nodded.
"I'm sorry Professor, but I wanted to ask you something." Uryu said. She looked up.
"Well certinaly dear boy, but you've only had two classes so far and it's still only your first day. I don't know what all you would have questions about." she said. Uryu nodded.
"I was hoping you could tell me about the wizarding wars about who Harry Potter, Fred, and George Weasley are." Uryu said. She gestured for Uryu to sit.
"I forgot you wouldn't know about that. Let's see. I guess the story starts with the student Tom Riddle. He was a young wizard who studdied here under the Headmaster Albus Dumbledor." she said. 'Albus!' thought Uryu. "He detested what he called mud-bloods, or a cruel name for those with nonmagic parents, and muggles and felt that only pure-bloods had the right to learn magic. He later tock on the name Voldemort as he rose to power. This started the first Wizarding war. Many great people I knew where killed in this war. He had many followers that were called Death Eatters. I had a group of students before, brillent students at that. They were James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Lily Evens, and a boy nammed Peter Pettegrew. Lily had been friends with a fellow student named Severus Snape." McGonogall said. 'Severus! Sirius, James, and Lily. There can't be a coincidence here.' Uryu thought. "Four of the boys were a group that called themselves the Maruders. Sadley Snape and Lily had a falling out and Lily eventually married James. The two were about to have their first son, a boy named Harry. A profocy was made about the one who would defeat Voldemort, and he assumed it would be Harry. The family went into hidding, Peter was their secrite keeper. Unfortunitaly he was a spy for Voldemort and handed the family over to him. He killed both James, and Lily, but becasue of Lily's sacrifice, he was unable to kill Harry, and the boy became famous as 'The Boy who Lived'. This ended the First Wizarding war. Harry grew up with his Aunt and Uncle, both muggles. The second Wizarding war started when he attended school here for the first time. Him and his two friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger were faced with many tasks, as Voldemort tried to rise back to power. Eventually he succeded. Now Ron Weasley comes from a rillant family. His father Arthor and his mother Molly were both very good students. He was the youngest son, having five older brothers named Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, and George, and a younger sister named Ginny. In their seventh year, they went out to combact Voldemort on their own. The world was falling to chaos and eventually we came to the battle of Hogwarts. We lost many great people. Alastor Moody, Albus Dumbledor, Remus, his wife Tonks, Sirius, Peter, Snape, and finally Fred. There were many causlaties, but the hardest ones were the students. Harry Potter defeated and killed Voldemort just outside of this castle. Him and his friend Ron went on to become famous Arour's, and Miss Granger went on to become an outstanding member of the minestry of Magic, changing the world for us as witches and wizards. I beleive that you'r friends with their children." she said. Uryu nodded.
"I see, so this was an ongoing war between this Voldemort guy and the world that Harry Potter ended because a prophcy singled him out." Uryu summed up. She nodded.
"So what is the swamp that say's 'In memory of Fred Weasley'?" Uryu asked. She looked like she was about to laugh.
"Ah yes, I rember that. You see, we had a problem with the minestry trying to control our school and in an act of rebellion, Fred and George Weasley set up that swamp to annoy them. It was a rather bit of brillant magic and they couldn't get rid of it for the life of them. If you want a better idea of the war's though, I would recomend this." she said. Her want touched a figurine on her desk and it turned into a large heavy book. Uryu looked at it in surprise but tock it from her none-the-less.
"Thankyou for all your help Professor!" he said. With that the bell rang to end lunch, and Uryu got into his seat, stuffing the book in his bag to read later.
Thankyou to karmadella1234 and I'm really glad that you like it. Also thankyou Phantom Claire, and yes I do have plans of adding other Soul Reapers as this story progresses. Also thank you psion53, i'm so glad that this caught your eye. Thankyou all for reading, next chapter soon, I hope to pick up the plot as soon as I can get Uryu and the others informed on what the heck is going on before they arrived! XD