Harry Potter and the Lightnings curse- Discontinued

Chapter 12 -Scared, stupid students

Harry and Ginny woke up earlier than everyone else again, and were the first in breakfast, again. Harry had taken to waking up earlier than Ginny to work out, not that she'd complain, she was too busy eyeing the results. The two were rather glad that no Hogwarts students ever woke up before eight o clock. It gave them the chance to speak together on their own, when they weren't talking with the Professors.

Harry was particularly glad that Lupin and Snape agreed to let the past be the past and move on, things would be really awkward for him if he had to choose between the two. The other professors also seemed to like him, they probably remembered him from his school days. Harry was a bit concerned about Lupin, Sirius told him how he worried about other people because he's a werewolf. It didn't really matter to Harry, personally he thought that if a person transforms once a month then it's not really his business.

As long as no one gets hurt then he couldn't really find a problem with it, but he knew that other people wouldn't see it that way. As long as people like the Dursley's or the Malfoys were around then discrimination would exist. Harry and Ginny had finished breakfast and were currently engaging in a conversation with the Professors (except for Lupin who had to go) where they told them all about the incident regarding Hermione's parents.

"The nerve of that girl" Sprout huffed

"I know" Ginny agreed "she should be glad her parents are muggles, if they were wizards then they'd probably permanently stick her to her bed and keep her from coming to school"

"Oh I can imagine that" Harry revelled at the very thought before doing a perfect imitation of a stressed Hermione "please mother, I need to read! Just one book!" The teachers couldn't help but chuckle.

"Honestly" McGonagall spoke "do you know that girl had actually signed up for every class possible?"

"I know Granger seems to be lacking in the common sense department" Snape commented "but you'd think even she would realise that a lot of these classes happen at the same time"

"I tried telling her that" McGonagall replied "I even asked her why she felt it was necessary to take muggle studies when she was in fact muggle born and raised she responded by saying it'd be fascinating to learn about them from a wizards point of view" Everyone collectively sighed "she even requested a time turner from the headmaster so she could make all of her classes. Naturally he asked for my opinion and I made my views on that particular subject quite clear. I had to practically force the girl to take less lessons"

"Oh I wish I could have seen that" Ginny sighed "me and Harry are taking ancient runes, Arithmancy and we wanted to take care of magical creatures as well but we decided we the other two were more important."

"We did however wonder if we could attend during our free periods" Harry added "we do find it interesting and we'd rather like to support Hagrid"

"As long as your homework is done and your grades stay acceptable or above I don't see a problem" McGonagall smiled.

The two soon headed off to their lessons, they were doing brilliant according to their professors. During a free period they went to Hagrids first class, he was ecstatic they were there. They shared a book with Neville after they stopped it from trying to eat him. Hagrid had decided to show the class Hippogriffs, he brought one out for the class to meet.

"Say hello to Buckbeak" Hagrid beamed with pride, he then went on to explain how they're very proud and easily offended creatures. "Who wants to say hello?"

Naturally Harry volunteered, Ginny called dibs after Harry. Harry bowed and made his way over to Buckbeak once he returned the bow. Buckbeak allowed him to pet him, in fact he rather enjoyed it.