This chapter kind of skips around to show you how Luffy and Nami are handling their Hogwarts classes. I hope it's enjoyable. Also next chapter we find another crew mate! See endnotes for more information.

"Get up, get up, get up" Luffy shouted jumping on Nami's bed. "First day of mystery school!"

Nami and the other boys groaned pitifully into their pillows.

"Shut it, Potter," someone, probably Dean Thomas but it was hard to tell under all the blankets, muttered. "The sun isn't even up all the way yet."

"Get up!" Luffy said prodding Nami in the side. "Time for breakfast! And then MAGIC!"

Nami groaned but sat up unwillingly. Luffy seeing that his navigator was finally awake bounced to the bathroom to get ready.

"He better not be like this every day," Seamus muttered darkly watching the green-eyed boy go.

Nami yawned widely and stretched his arms up above his head. "He's just excited," Nami said weakly, defending his captain. "He'll settle down when he learns classes aren't as fun as he hopes they will be."

All Nami received in return were soft snores. Reluctantly the redhead pulled himself out of his nice warm bed, sparing only a brief thought to how he got there, and padded into the bathroom to get ready for the day.

They were, of course, one of the first few people at breakfast. Thankfully the food was already on the table because Luffy made a beeline toward a pile of breakfast sausages and eggs. Nami carefully filled his own plate and guarded it jealously against his captain's wandering hands.

Nami finished his breakfast just as the bulk of the students began pouring into the Great Hall.

"Look there, next to the red-headed kid," Nami heard someone say. "It's him, Harry Potter."

Luffy, who either didn't hear the whispers or didn't care, just kept eating. Nami wondered how long his captain would last before he addressed the situation that surrounded his name.

"Luffy, I need to borrow your owl to send a letter to Robin," Nami said pulling a piece of parchment and a quill from his bag.

"Mmh prmbhm," Luffy said through a mouth full of food.

"Swallow first," Nami said rolling his eyes.

"That's disgusting," Hermione said slipping into a seat not far from the Strawhats. She grimaced as she watched Luffy gorge himself on food .

"You get used to it," Nami said carelessly. His focus was on the letter to Robin. If Robin had been 'awake' for some time, why hadn't the girl said anything to him? Nami was going to find out, one way or another.

"I don't think that's possible," Hermione said still watching Luffy eat. Nami glanced up quickly and felt sympathy for the girl, watching Luffy eat was was often terrible but hard to look away from for some sick reason.

"Just look away," Nami suggested. "The more you watch the worse it gets."

"Ack, ack!"

With practiced ease, the redhead smacked Luffy on the back three times until the choking stopped.

"Wow, thanks, Nami!" Luffy said brightly as if he hadn't just choked on six pieces of toast.

"Eat slower you idiot!" Nami shouted bringing his fist down on top of Luffy's head.

"Nami's so mean!" Luffy said through a mouthful of toast.

"Nami? I thought your name was Ron?" Hermione asked, finally filling her plate.

The redhead just shrugged and signed his name on the parchment. "It is, but so is Nami."

"Nami's so mean!" He paused. Nami? That name … why did he know that name?

"Oi! Where are you going? The table is that way!"

He stopped and scowled. "Someone moved the table," he muttered turning the opposite direction to walk to the table.

Luffy shoved his schedule into his bag not bothering to look at it. Nami had glanced at the former rubber boy's schedule and determined they had all the same classes and told Luffy to just follow him. Probably for the best, because Luffy was much more interested in exploring the castle than going to class.

There were a hundred and forty-two staircases at Hogwarts: wide, sweeping ones; narrow, rickety ones; some that led somewhere different on a Friday; some with a vanishing step halfway up that you had to remember to jump. Then there were doors that wouldn't open unless you asked politely, or tickled them in exactly the right place, and doors that weren't really doors at all, but solid walls just pretending. It was also very hard to remember where anything was, because it all seemed to move around a lot. The people in the portraits kept going to visit each other, and by the end of the first day Luffy was sure the coats of armor could walk.

Luffy had never been one for school. In his previous life, the green eyed boy didn't remember ever going to school, Makino had taught him had to read and write until he met his brothers and then Sabo taught him maths, until his death. In his new life with the Dursleys Luffy had learned more, although the teachers wouldn't know it. Luffy had learned early it was easier to do worse than his cousin Dudley than have his aunt and uncle yell at him.

Still, the classes at Mystery Magic School were more interesting, sometimes. Astronomy, a class they had on Wednesday nights, Nami liked but Luffy had more fun spinning the telescope than using it.

Herbology had been a difficult class. It started off well enough until Luffy wandered too close to a plant that decided he looked good enough to eat. It took Professor Sprout nearly an hour to pry the boy from the plant's vines. Luffy had given the plant a wide berth since.

Charms had been fun. The little professor, Flitwicky or something Nami had told him, had fallen off the stacks of books he was standing on when he called Luffy's name during roll call. Luffy had laughed and that made the Hermy? Hernenime? girl frown at him.

Transfiguration had been … interesting.

"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts," Professor McGonagall said. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."

Then she changed her desk into a pig and back again. They were all very impressed and couldn't wait to get started, but soon realized they weren't going to be changing the furniture into animals for a long time.

"Any questions?" Professor McGonagall asked looking for her first-year class.

Luffy's hand shot straight up into the air making Nami jump. Luffy had asked a series of questions since class started. Some of them vaguely intelligent, ("Is there a spell to make people stretchy?") and some not so much ("This is boring can I take a nap?") and Nami hoped this question was going to be one of the vaguely intelligent ones. Nami had grown up in a house of Gryffindors. His entire family had been in the lion house while Professor McGonagall was head. He had heard stories.

"Can we transrefrigerate food?" Luffy asked deadly serious.

The professor paused, and raised an eyebrow at her student. "That is a good question, Mr. Potter," McGonagall said lightly. "The term is transfigure, of course, but to answer your question it depends on what you mean when you say transfigure food. Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration, which we will get to at a later date, food cannot be outright created from nothing, it can be multiplied if one already has some food to multiply, it can be enlarged or the food can be summoned if one knows the approximate location and is fairly sure the food will still be there. It should also be noted that while food cannot be conjured, consumable liquids such as sauces and potable water can be."

Luffy nodded along as the professor explained and when she finished and asked him if that answered his question Luffy nodded. "How do I learn to summon food?"

Nami's eyes widened in horror. If Luffy learned to summon food….

"You will learn that in your charms class, Mr. Potter," Professor McGonagall said. "But considering the mess you make at meals, it might be best if you … did not."

Nami nodded empathically.

"Now, moving onto our lesson for today," the professor said. After taking a lot of complicated notes, they were each given a match and started trying to turn it into a needle. At the end of the lesson only Hermione had managed to make a difference in hers.

"Stupid match," Luffy muttered poking the match stick with his wand sulkily. Beside him Nami huffed and crossed his arms, still not having managed to do anything with his match either.

Luffy bounced in his seat happily. This class was supposed to be fun. Defense Against the Dark Arts, it sounded like a fighting class! Nami's older brothers, the twins, had warned the boys not to get their hopes up as the professor had been a let down but Luffy remained hopeful, at least until the smell got to him.

"It smells in here," Luffy said raising his hand.

Professor Quirrell blinked in surprise and stuttered out a long story about a vampire and a hag that left Luffy stary eyed until the end of class when Nami said he didn't believe him.

"He was terrified Luffy," Nami said trying to make his captain understand. "There's no way that man met a vampire or hag without dying of fright."

"Aww, are you sure?" Luffy whined.

"I'm sure."

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The real problem came with potions.

Luffy had never met Professor Snape before. In fact, other than a single comment at the start of the term feast Luffy had never even mentioned the potions professor. Luffy and Nami both soon found, that didn't matter because Professor Snape hated Luffy.

Luffy and Nami had taken seats next to each other, as they had in every class. Nami shivered and rubbed at his arms to try and warm them up. Potions class was in the dungeons and the room was colder than any other part of the castle.

"How are you not cold?" Nami hissed, giving Luffy a dark look.

"Eh? Those eyes are looking at us," Luffy said ignoring what Nami had asked. Instead, he pointed across the room at a jar that held strange blue eyes that did seem to be staring at Luffy and Nami.

"Gross," Nami said looking away from the eyes.

Professor Snape stalked into the room with his robes flaring dramatically behind him. Luffy ooed softly, Nami had warned him about Snape and promised to hurt him if the pint-sized captain did anything to draw the man's ire.

Snape, like Flitwick, started the class by taking the roll call, and like Flitwick, he paused at Luffy's name but he managed to stay upright unlike the tiny professor.

"Ah, yes," he said softly, "Harry Potter. Our new—celebrity."

Draco Malfoy and his friends sniggered behind their hands from across the room. Snape finished calling the names and looked up at the class.

"You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making," he began. He spoke in barely more than a whisper, but they caught every word—like Professor McGonagall, Snape had the gift of keeping a class silent without effort. "As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic. I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses… I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death—if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach."

Silence followed this little speech. Luffy grinned widely staring at the professor in awe, that sounds so cool.

"Potter!" said Snape suddenly. "What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"

Luffy cocked his head to the side and shrugged. "Dunno," he said simply. Luffy had never even heard of those words before.

Off to the side, Luffy saw the Hermyione girl's hand shoot up into the air.

Snape's lips curled into a sneer.

"Tut, tut—fame clearly isn't everything."

He ignored Hermione's hand.

"Let's try again. Potter, where would you look if I told you to find me a bezoar?"

Hermione stretched her hand as high into the air as it would go without her leaving her seat, but Luffy just shook his head he didn't have the faintest idea what a bezoar was. He ignored Malfoy, who was shaking with laughter.

"I don't know what that is," Luffy said cheerfully.

Snape was still ignoring Hermione's quivering hand.

"What is the difference, Potter, between monkshood and wolfsbane?"

"Geeze," Luffy said scratching his lip under his nose. "I don't know, professor. Why don't you ask her instead?" Luffy jerked his thumb to the side where Hermione stood with her hand raised.

A few people laughed and Snape was not pleased.

"Sit down," he snapped at Hermione. "For your information, Potter, asphodel, and wormwood make a sleeping potion so powerful it is known as the Draught of Living Death. A bezoar is a stone taken from the stomach of a goat and it will save you from most poisons. As for monkshood and wolfsbane, they are the same plant, which also goes by the name of aconite. Well? Why aren't you all copying that down?"

There was a sudden rummaging for quills and parchment. Over the noise, Snape said, "And a point will be taken from Gryffindor House for your cheek, Potter."

Luffy shrugged and tried to copy down what the professor had said. Snape sure had cool entrances and speeches but the guy was a real jerk.

SBS

Fun stuff time! For first some administrative matters. Things start going off book after this chapter. The last...IDK four-ish chapters have been pretty by the book but we are past that now. Sure there might be familiar scenes but really once we introduce more of the crew we get to the fun stuff.

Okay also, I'm offering a kind of...contest almost? The first person who can correctly guess who Zoro was reincarnated as before the next chapter(chapter 14) comes out will win a chance to help shape my Sunny and Merry 'verse, but choosing the one reincarnation I have yet to decide.

Question time! Most questions revolved around Sanji. Sanji will always be Sanji, the cook who loves women. Even if Sanji is reincarnated as a girl, Sanji would still love women, it's just how he is.

Concerning Sanji and Nami, that you will just have to wait and see.

Anyway, that's all for now. Happy guessing and I'll see you all at Chapter 14.