13Disclaimer - None of this belongs to me, except for Lieren/Lo, Gwendolyn/Gwen, all characters that you do NOT recognize and the plot. ::bows slightly and sits down::
A/N: This story has different views, I think you can tell when we are focusing on Lieren, Gwen, Harry, Hermione, or Ron. I bet y'all are smart folks! ::smiles widely:: Thank you and Goodnight!
Just Another Year
After dinner, which was unusually uneventful, the five trudged back to the common room to start on their homework. Lieren and Gwen didn't have much to do. The teachers had excused Gwen from the homework because it was unimportant and they knew she could easily catch up. Lieren, obviously, didn't have homework. Harry and Ron had just about every class together so they were off in a corner studying.. Every class except for the first, some students were in need of tutoring, so Harry and Hermione decided to volunteer. Harry dropped Care of Magical Creatures to tutor, and Hermione tutored after dinner. He was supposed to be tutoring another 5th year, he just didn't know who...or so he thought, she was someone new, and he was putting the pieces together slowly...
Gwen and Lo sat at the table that Harry and Ron were doing their homework at. Gwen and Harry occasionally had to help Ron with the odd subject or two. When Ron was finally finished he threw his quill down and exclaimed -
"Alright! I've had enough!. Thanks for helping me you guys," He smiled at Gwen and Harry. "I'm going to bed. I'll see you all tomorrow. G'night, Harry..Gwen...Lo...Where's Hermione?"
"She's tutoring. She doesn't usually come back until 10ish. You know Hermione...she's always putting studies first," Gwen laughed.
"Alright, well if your still up when she gets back tell her I said 'G'night' too, K?" The others nodded.
Ron walked up the steps to his dormitory.
"Y'know what? I'm tired too. I think I'll be going to bed now. Well, actually I just want to read, but still!" Lo laughed. She knew how that was.
"G'night Harry, G'night Lo," Gwen yawned. "Don't stay up too late." Gwen playfully pushed Lo. They smiled at each other, and then Lo stole a small glance at Harry. My does he look cute...Lo thought.
And with that, Gwen went to read.
Lieren and Harry chatted for quite some time...
"So...what took you so long to get here?" Harry got straight to the point.
"Well, my parents didn't tell me until my uncle had them tell me, because my magic was getting out of control. My grandma usually did a spell that kept my magic from acting up. Well anyways, she was on some sort of work thing, and she needs to perform the spell every three months, and it had been six months since she did it last and I finally caught myself doing magic when I wished that everyone would shut up, my brothers were getting really loud and annoying and I had a bad day at school, and all of a sudden it was quiet. I could see their mouths moving but no sound was coming out. My parents noticed and they finally told me I was a witch. My uncle had them send me here, so I could learn magic."
"Wow. Why did they keep it hidden from you?"
"My mom wanted me to live a normal muggle life because she didn't want me to feel torn between worlds. She was really surprised when I told her I wanted to be a witch."
"But...isn't there a school in America?"
"Yeah, but remember, I live in Canada. So either way I was leaving the country and my parents just decided to send me here with my uncle."
"Who's your uncle?"
"Professor Dumbledore."
Harry laughed, "Haha, that's awesome. I bet you get to come here for free then don't you?"
Lo nodded.
"Well, that's pretty cool, you get to save your money for other things."
"Yeah, I guess so. I'm just worried I won't catch up. But I think I understand a lot of spells already. I read the entire charms book, the standard one, and I could do all of the spells, so my uncle just placed me in Advanced Charms 5th year."
"Well, that's good. I guess you won't be needing me to teach you too much."
"What do you mean?"
"They didn't tell you?"
"Tell me what?"
"Well, aren't you going to have a tutor before all your classes in the day?"
"Yeah...how did you know?"
"Because I'll be the one tutoring you. I thought I could drop Potions when I signed up...but they wouldn't let me. They said the only class I could drop was Care of Magical Creatures. I apologized to Hagrid over and over again."
"Your friends with Hagrid?" Lo exclaimed.
"Yeah, good friends too. You know him?"
Lo nodded.
"How?"
"Well he brought me here to the school."
"I should have known. Isn't he the greatest?"
Lo nodded again, "I've only had some small talk with him, y'know, when we were coming across the lake, but he seems awesome. I can't wait to get to know him."
Harry glanced down at his watch. It was only 9:45...if they were gone for only half an hour, they wouldn't miss out on too much sleep...and besides, tutoring started at 9...and they had a whole hour so Harry decided, if Lo was up to it, that they should -
"Go visit Hagrid?"
Lo was startled, she had been lost in her thoughts. "What did you say?"
"I said, 'Do you want to go visit Hagrid'"
Lo looked somewhat confused, "But, I thought curfew was 10."
"True, but it's only 9:50." (A/N: give it 5 minutes for the conversation to happen.)
"Okay, so it's only 9:50. But still, it would take atleast 10 minutes to get down there, and then we'd have to turn right around, and we'd still be out 10 minutes after curfew."
Harry grinned. Lo figured he must have something she didn't know about. Harry turned and ran upstairs. He was down within a minute holding something behind his back.
"What's that you've got?" Lo inquired.
"Erm...well, its an Invisibility Cloak." and with those words he swung the cloak over his shoulders. Lo gasped.
"Oh wow. Can both of us fit under that?"
Harry just pulled her off the couch and slung the cloak around her shoulders too.
"This is amazing," Lo breathed.
In no time at all they were at Hagrid's hut, knocking on his door.
"Who's there?"
"It's me, Hagrid, open up, please."
Harry and Lo stepped into the cabin and Harry pulled the cloak off them.
"Oh, hello, Lo!"
"Hello, Hagrid. How are you?"
"I'm a'righ'. What brings you two down here, eh?"
"Oh, we were up in the common room, everyone else was either upstairs or at the library, finishing up tutoring, and you came up, so we decided to come and visit you."
Hagrid smiled, "Thanks, it was good of yeh ter come an' see me. Can I get yeh somethin'?"
"A glass of pumpkin juice would be nice, Hagrid," Lo said politely.
"A'righ' then."
The three of them chatted for a bit, Hagrid and Harry telling Lo some other things about school Gwen had not mentioned. At 10:30 Hagrid shooed them off to the castle.
"Well, it was nice to have yeh come down. It's too bad yeh aren't in my classes no more."
Harry looked slightly guilty, "I'm sorry Hagr-"
"I'm jus' playin', Harry. I know yeh didn't purp'sely do it." Hagrid grinned down at the two.
"Okay then, Hagrid. We'll come by soon."
The two disappeared under the cloak and walked briskly back up to the school. When they entered the common room, they plopped back down on the couch.
"So, what kind of sports are there in the magical world?"
"Well, there's Quidditch - "
"I already know about Quidditch. Siri-" Lo stopped herself. She couldn't let anyone know about Sirius, by the way he told it, he was notorious in the wizarding world.
"Who?"
"Cyrus and Remus told me about it on the train. I love it. I think I'd either be a good Beater or Keeper. Both of them sound like something I'd do. But I'm leaning towards Keeper because when I was little I was on a soccer team, I was goalie."
"Remus? Remus Lupin?"
"Um, yeah. How do you know him?"
"Well, last year he was our Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, and now I live with him over the summer."
Lo looked shocked, "My, my, this is a small world."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, Cyrus and I stayed at his house when Diagon Ally was closed down for two days. He's such a sweetheart."
"Cyrus...That name sounds so familiar. What's he look like?"
Lo hesitated, then she figured it couldn't hurt, "Well, he's got long black hair, well, he did when I met him, he got it cut at Diagon Ally. And he used to go here..."
"Sirius?"
Lo looked startled again. She tried to cover up her surprise but Harry just continued to babble.
"Sirius Black? He's my Godfather!"
"...are - are you sure?"
Harry nodded, "Yes I'm sure."
They launched into conversation, and discussed things that you normal hear best friends talking about. The two seemed to be getting there quite fast...