Harry Potter: Raised By Roses

Chapter Nine: First Day of Classes

After leaving the headmaster's office, the siblings all waved goodbye as they went their separate ways for their first classes. History of Magic for Melody, Transfiguration for Krinos, and Potions for Harry. While they didn't have time to change into their cloaks for today's classes, they were definitely gonna wear them from now on.

To say that Melody was bored would be the understatement of the century. Professor Binns turned out to be a ghost. And he was by far one of the most boring professors on the face of magical education.

Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staff room fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him. Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emetic the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up. But his favorite topic seemed to be goblin rebellions.

Melody was thinking that if she had a drachma for every time the ghost brought the subject back to goblin rebellions and goblin wars, she'd have an entire vault full by the end of her first class.

Now, Melody loves to learn, as she does spend most of her time in the library back home. But even her education driven mind was nearly put to sleep by Binns. All he did was drone on and on, never looking away from the board. Melody even noticed how one student even went to the bathroom without telling him, and came back, all without him even noticing because he didn't even turn around. He didn't even get their names right. He called her Melanie Garden during attendance. A close but no cigar situation.

Melody had a strong feeling that she and her brothers were gonna have to do some self-studying for history class.

Krinos was actually enjoying himself quite nicely in Transfiguration. Professor McGonagall was again different. He had been quite right to think she wasn't a teacher to cross. Strict and clever, she gave them a talking-to the moment they sat down in her first class.

"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts," she 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. Krinos was impressed with how he saw that she did that with hardly any concentration. The class were also 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 while. After taking a lot of complicated notes, they were each given a match and started trying to turn it into a needle. By the end of the lesson, only Krinos had made his match turn into a needle. The match was made of wood so it was quite easy for him with his nature abilities. Professor McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and pointy and gave him a rare smile.

Krinos's only problem was trying to adapt to hiding his mystic soul powers. Back home, he would have just waved his hand over the match and he'd have an instant needle. But while here, he had to use a wand. But he did quite like the feeling the wand gave him. It made total sense for him to have total natural elements for it. Between the blood orchid core and the eternal spring wood, he could feel the nature in it. In truth, he wondered what would happen if he combined one of his mystic soul spells with the use of his wand. He'll have to test that theory later with his siblings.

Harry, however, was in the dungeons for Potions. Potions lessons took place down in one of the dungeons. It was colder here than up in the main castle and would have been quite creepy enough without the pickled animals floating in glass jars all around the walls. Snape started the class by taking the roll call and he paused at Harry's name.

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

Draco Malfoy and his friends Crabbe and Goyle sniggered behind their hands.