Hey guys! Omg I feel terrible for not updating in a couple of weeks. After winter break ended, I got really busy with school (finals are next week) and gymnastics (I got 8th place in all-around). So yeah. I'm focusing more on my gang AU but I won't publish until I'm significantly ahead so I'm less stressed out about it. Enjoy!

Natsu POV

The day got off to a pretty boring start. There were no fights, for the time being, with the ice cube and no one seemed to be stirring up trouble. History of Magic was a boring class. After glancing around the room I noticed that even Evelyn, Lucy, and Erza's eyes had glazed over. Hermione was the only one who seemed to be actively paying attention. To keep myself entertained I made shapes with fire under my desk and prayed no one would see. Lucky for me, everyone in the class seemed asleep or zoned out. When the class finally ended Hermione had to shake Ron out of his nap that he'd taken. "Potions with the slytherins next," Harry announced and Ron groaned.

"I think potions will be fun," Lucy decided. "It can't be much different than cooking can it?"

"Snape will make it hell," Ron warned us. "He hates all gryffindors and he only likes people from his house." As we walked down to the dungeons we saw Lisanna and Wendy heading up from their class.

"How was potions?" Erza asked. Wendy said it was fine but was pulled away by Lisanna before she could say anything else. Happy looked disappointed that his talk with Charle was cut short.

"Cheer up, buddy," I comforted. "You can talk to her at lunch."

"Aye!" Happy cried enthusiastically as he flew next to my head.

When we walked into the dungeon Evelyn and I gagged. It reeked of mildew and potion ingredients.

"It smells terrible," Evelyn complained.

"You'll get used to it," Harry assured her. When we were seated the rest of the slytherins came marching in and took their seats. Mirajane, Gajeel, and Draco broke off to sit with us as we compared what our lessons had been like. Lily and Happy struck up a discussion. From my hearing I could tell they were comparing their days and thoughts.

"Settle down," the potions professor said, immediately getting the class under control. He rambled on about some sort of exams that I ignored, I was fine until Gray hit me on the side of the head, inadvertently telling me to pay attention.

"What?" I yelled at him, interrupting the whole class.

"Salamander, shut up and sit down," Gajeel growled. I glared back but sat once Erza gave me an impatient look. "We're sorry," he apologized to Snape. After he droned on and on, instructions and ingredients appeared on the chalkboard. Lucy had already paired up with Erza, Mira had joined one of the gryffindor girls, and Draco and Gajeel had sat next to each other.

"Oh come on!" I yelled. "I don't want to work with the stripper!" Evelyn slapped a hand over my mouth, muffling my cries of protest.

"You'll work with me and Gray, Natsu. Relax otherwise I'll have Erza beat you up." At the threat I sobered up but I still wasn't happy about the arrangements. Surprisingly it wasn't going terribly. Snape prowled through the scattered students, scaring some of the Gryffindors but it didn't bother me until he started picking on Harry.

"Tell me Potter, can you read?" Snape whispered softly. The majority of the slytherins in the room snickered. Just as I was about to Harry's defense Gray pulled my scarf so I stayed seated.

"He's being-"

"I know," Gray cut off. "But we can't get into that much trouble. This isn't Fairy Tail."

"Listen to him Natsu," Evelyn advised. "If you don't when we get back you might have to play Master's punishment game. He said if we cause any unreasonable trouble we'd have to play it." My eyes widened and I sat down and remained relatively well behaved for the most part.

When the class ended we submitted a flask for grading while Harry was fuming over the fact that Snape got rid of his potion so he wouldn't receive a grade for it. Harry complained about Snape all the way to the Great Hall for lunch.

The mages from Fairy Tail stopped listening and we had our own conversation, mostly reminiscing about home and what would be going on there now. "Well no property damage because Natsu's not there," Lucy thought out loud. There were snickers from the other mages in response to that, while I tried to defend myself.

"What do you mean property damage?" Hermione asked, appalled at that fact.

"Natsu's stupid so he blows everything up," Happy explained cheerfully.

"Watch it pal," Natsu growled. "I proved I was smart in the Grand Magic Games."

"You were the cause of property damage there too, and you made Gajeel go MIA," Lily reminded.

"He was asking for it," I grumbled remembering how he had called me a moron in the middle of our fight with Sting and Rogue. Before we reached the lunch table we were ambushed by the rest of our friends who filled us in on their day. When they started talking about their divination class howls of laughter erupted from the group causing everyone in the hall to look at us.

"Oh, yeah and the smell in the room is terrible so you're going to have to deal with that," Wendy added and Evelyn and I shared a look.

"Great," Evelyn exclaimed sarcasm dripping from her voice, "just what I wanted! As if the dungeons weren't bad enough."

"The smell's bad but it's not that terrible," Harry repeated and we stopped our conversation and stared at him.

"We have sensitive noses," Wendy revealed.

"Can we sit down? I'm hungry," I complained, dragging all of us to the gryffindor table.

Once we sat down we were bombarded with questions from the other Gryffindors. "Why are you friends with the slytherins?" someone demanded.

"They're our friends, we can't just not talk to them!" I shot back. "You people here are weird. You're all nakama aren't you? So what if someone comes from different families or has a different personality? You all live together don't you?" The mages from Fairy Tail were giving me impressed looks and the rest of the hall fell into silence. Several minutes later they started talking again.

"How's divination?" Lucy asked Hermione. In response the brunette snorted.

"It's a waste of time if you ask me and the teacher is a fraud. The class is supposed to be about predicting the future but it's utter nonsense." Lucy pondered that for a moment before continuing the conversation with Hermione about books.

"I'll take you to the library sometime. You'd love it," Hermione promised and Lucy grinned.

"It looks like Lucy isn't the only weird one here, is she Natsu?" Happy not so covertly whispered into his best friend's ear.

"Shut up, you shitty cat!" Lucy yelled.

Yeah...I wanted to reference the GMG arc since that was essentially the same argument, with Gajeel saying that Natsu wasn't smart so I had to throw that in there. It probably doesn't flow too great, but it had to be said. But see you guys soon!