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"I mean did you see his reaction?! He clearly knows something. All the teachers do! They just aren't telling us a thing!" Hermione was shouting in the distance as every year group changed classes for the last period.
"It was weird." I heard Harry and then heard a bunch of doors opening.
"Come on in, children!" Sprout.
"Welcome, year fours!" Lockhart.
"HURRY UP, WE HAVEN'T GOT ALL DAY!" Snape.
And so on.
"Oh I do hope you have a good reason for your tardiness!" McGonagall. MCGONAGALL! I sprinted down a couple hallways, passing basically everyone who was late and sitting in my chair quickly without saying a word.

"Thomas,...Malfoy, Goyle, Zabini, Pevensie...L/n-" McGonagall read my name on the list. "Didn't see her come in..."
"I'm here, Professor." I called from my seat and watched her spin on her heal and face me.
"Where did you- How did you- I didn't see you come in?"
Harry slid next to me and sat down at our table.
"I've been here since the bell rung, Professor." I lied and hoped someone would lie along with me.
"Is this true, Thomas?" She asked Dean and he looked at me with wide eyes.
'I got you football tickets, remember?' I mouthed, *reminding* him of the generous birthday gift I got for him, hoping it would be enough for him to lie for me.
"Uh-Yeah, yes she was. Definitely. Absolutely. Yes...Walked in with her."
"Hm. Very well. Everyone get seated and we will start in a few minutes." She eyed me before going to her desk and finishing off the rest of the register.

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"How did you get here before us?" Harry asked me as we both got our equipment out.
"I ran as fast as I could, like, really fast."
"Cool... I'm so jealous of you and your awesome werewolf abilities."
"Heh, cheers."
'𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒘𝒐𝒍𝒇 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒌𝒔.'

"Class, could I have your attention please?" The chatter stopped and everyone watched McGonagall.
"Right, now today, we will be transforming animals into water goblets."
'Oh, not again.' I heard an unusual voice and saw a bird on McGonagall's desk.
"That's disturbing."
"What is?" Harry whispered to me and I pointed at the bird. "Oh... Did it speak?"
"Mhm."
"One-" McGonagall tapped her wand next to the bird after every count. "Two, three. Vera Verto." And the bird changed into a cup. Well, water goblet. It was a crystal clear one, too! I half expected it to have feathers.
"Woah..." The whole class was taken by surprise.
"CHANGE ME BACK! PLEASE!" The bird-the water goblet, was shaking every now and then.
"This is horrific.." I looked around at everyone's happy faces. "It's basically torture!"
"Torture? It doesn't hurt the animals, Y/n." McGonagall stood in front of me.
"Really? Then why is the bird-" I stopped myself from sounding like a nutcase by saying I could hear it speaking. "Uh-Why is the water goblet shaking so much? Because the bird doesn't enjoy it!"
"Okay, let's see what the bird has to say." She changed the bird back to...a bird. "Do you like being transfigured?" The class- everyone but me and Harry- erupted in laughter.
'No!'
"See? It can't speak."
'𝑵𝒐 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒂 𝒇𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏..'
LOVE YOU MCGONAGALL, SORRY TO PORTRAY YOU THIS WAY. STORY PURPOSES I GUESS

"Now, it's your turn. Who would like to go first?"
I immediately let my head flop on to the table. I don't want to hurt an animal. Okay I've done it before but that was LIFE or DEATH.

"Ah, Mr Weasley. You've brought your own pet to class, remember, one, two, vera verto."
"Isn't his wand broken?" I whispered to Harry.
"This isn't gonna go well. Poor Scabbers." He replied.
"That rat literally has no emotion." We watched as Ron tapped his wand three times near his pet.
"Vera Verto!" Scabbers turned... Well he turned alright. Instead of the nice, clear cup that McGonagall got, Ron had changed his pet into a half cup half rat. The bottom of the cup was glass, but the top, actual dip part, and the handle was rat, the handle being Scabbers' tail.
"What on earth?" I questioned and heard Harry laughing beside me. Followed by the rest of the class laughing.
"That wand needs replacing, Mr Weasley!"
'𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌? 𝑰𝒕'𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒚 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒍𝒍-𝒐-𝒕𝒂𝒑𝒆.'
McGonagall changed Scabbers back into a rat and walked off.
"Yes, Miss Granger?"
I saw Hermione's hand drop from the air.
"I asked Professor Binns but the lesson ended before he could tell us anything..." Hermione began. "So I was wondering maybe you could...tell us anything about the chamber of secrets."
McGonagall stared wide eyed at Hermione for a moment before responding.