I'm back! So a lot of you have been telling me I need to update more so I will this week (NO SCHOOL!) I'm looking at colleges Sunday-Wednesday so I won't be on here, bc I don't need my parents looking over my shoulder. So without further ado (idek what that was)

Harry's POV

The day was promising to be dull and boring that morning at breakfast was something else entirely. Breakfast was going by normally until an owl dropped a red envelope in front of Erza. "Metalhead, sand boy, Wendy, Mira, Luna, Lisanna, come here!" Natsu rattled off the names of their friends. They all rushed over and Malfoy paled.

"That's a howler. It's going to start yelling at us in front of everybody," he explained weakly.

"So what? Gramps does it all the time at home," Gray shrugged it off and ripped open the letter.

You brats, someone's voice filled the air. Is it possible for you to go anywhere without getting in trouble? From what Erza told me you haven't been that well behaved. And you Lucy, Lucy squeaked as the voice started to address her, I expected something like that from Natsu or Gray, not from you! But I am also proud of you for standing up for your friends, as is the Fairy Tail way. At that the exchange students were cheering and Lucy just looked relieved. Before I leave there's one more thing I want to talk about. Natsu, the voice grew menacing again, Evelyn, Gray, and Erza, if there is any property damage from any of you, you'll be playing my punishment game. I have more than enough paperwork to deal with from the magic council thanks to you brats. I don't need more. After that the voice faded.

"I don't wanna play the punishment game," Evelyn whimpered.

"Is the property damage that bad?" I asked in shock. Lucy sighed as she started to explain.

"Natsu once blew up half a port fighting someone who kidnapped me and disgraced the name of Fairy Tail. Natsu, Erza, Evelyn, and Gray blew up a meeting hall, destroyed another school, and have caused damage to multiple more buildings." Evelyn giggled at something she was thinking about.

"I cause considerable less damage than that flame head," Gray scoffed.

"Careful how you talk about my brother ice prick," Evelyn warned. "Besides if I remember correctly all of us cause a lot of damage."

"Relax Evie, this ice cube can't do shit," Natsu promised his sister.

"Are you forgetting the whole dragonoid fiasco?" Gray fired back. Natsu scowled and launched himself at the black haired boy.

'That wasn't even my fault!" Natsu cried. "If anything it was yours for making me go through all of that Gray!"

"If you had remembered to keep your promise then I wouldn't have had to do anything," Gray argued. The fight continued and it was attracting lots of attention. Gray started to say something and pressed his fist against his other hand but Erza had the fight broken up after that. All of the things they were referring to made me more confused than ever. I could see Hermione was thinking the same thing.

"Some things never change," Happy smiled and Charle sighed and shook her head.

"I don't think there was ever a time when the two of them got along," the flying, black cat said.

"Hem hem," a girly-sounding cough was heard behind them. "Is there a problem here?" the pink toad asked sweetly.

"No, thank you for your concern Professor," Lisanna cut in before anyone else could reply. She gave them one more look before making her way up to the staff table.

"Toad faced bitch," Evelyn muttered causing rounds of laughter to explode from everyone. I was staring at them in confusion. Even after all the fighting they were still friends.

"Your school must be amazing," I said as they all turned to look at me. "If all of you get along like this. It must be a lot different than Hogwarts." They beamed with looks of pride on their faces.

"Yeah, it's the best," Wendy agreed before the group dwindled as everyone went back to their tables.

After breakfast the rest of the day was fairly uneventful. We had our first lesson with Professor Grubbly-Plank. No matter what anyone says Hagrid is a better teacher. The exchange students had all gathered together and I heard Natsu say something like, "I want to set these on fire." Hermione, Ron, and I locked eyes at that and I could tell Hermione was adding it to her mental list of everything weird about them. After that lesson was over with, we went into the greenhouse for herbology.

While on our way there I was stopped by Ernie Macmillan and Luna who confirmed their support for me as we were walking.

"How are you guys doing?" Luna asked the exchange students.

"Same as always, all of them are going at each other," Lucy replied.

"Obviously," Luna giggled. "We're from Fairy Tail."

"At least some people believe you right?" Gray asked me as we were walking to the greenhouses.

"Sure, hey Luce?" At the use of her nickname Natsu glared and Evelyn rolled her eyes.

"I apologize for my brother's behavior. It's his special nickname for her," the younger teenager explained.

"Oh, are you going to Umbridge's detention?"

"It's not like I have a choice," she sighed. Herbology passed and we all made our way down to dinner. Five minutes before five, Lucy and I walked to Umbridge's office to get our detention started with.

"Come in," a sickly sweet voice said through the door. Lucy looked horrified at the room and I couldn't blame her, not really. Everything was lacy and pink. Vases of dried flowers rested on white, lace doilies and plates with moving cats on them covered a wall. "Good evening Miss Heartfilia, Mr. Potter," she greeted us.

"Evening," I muttered. Working up the courage, I asked if I could skip detention and make it up another time since there were keeper tryouts on Friday and Angelina had lectured me about being there.

"Oh no. Oh no, no, no. This is your punishment for spreading evil, nasty, attention-seeking stories, Mr. Potter, and punishments certainly cannot be adjusted to suit the guilty one's convenience." As she continued talking Lucy was glaring at her in anger and I was silently hoping she would keep her mouth shut so she wouldn't get into more trouble. "Now both of you are going to be doing lines for me. Not with your own quill, but with one of my special ones. I want you to write 'I must not tell lies,' Mr. Potter. For you Miss Heartfilia, I want you to write 'I must keep my temper.' You'll be writing until the message sinks in."

"There's no ink," Lucy pointed out.

"You won't need any ink," Umbridge gave a nasty smile as we began writing. The blonde exchange student hissed in pain while I shot her a worried glance. She smiled back at me before continuing; if she was in pain she didn't acknowledge it. Instead I saw her smirk, the thoughts going through her head obviously made her happy about something. I realized it had already occurred to her that she was writing with her own blood and she was smiling about it for some reason.

"Come here," Umbridge cut the silence after what felt like hours. Hands," she requested and we held them out. "I don't seem to have made an impression yet. Well we'll just have to try again tomorrow won't we? You may go," she dismissed and we walked out.

"What were you smiling about?" I asked Lucy as we made our way to the Gryffindor common room.

"Just thinking about my friends' reactions," she mused as she told the fat lady our password. Evelyn had implied that Natsu was slightly possessive so I guessed that meant he was protective over her too, although he seemed to be protective over all of his friends.

As soon as we walked in we were bombarded with questions from our friends. Hermione and Ron were asking me how it went while Natsu, Erza, Gray, and Evelyn were crowding around Lucy.

"Lucy," Natsu asked slowly meeting her eyes. "Why do you smell like blood?" Her triumphant grin showed that that was what she had been looking forward to.