Hadrian Romanoff and the Beginning

Chapter-7

Everyone - Hadrian, Natasha, Clint, Sirius, Remus, Tony, Bruce, Pepper, Darcy, Loki, Thor, and Jane - were gathered together in Hadrian's room. Hadrian sat on the bed with his mom, Pepper, and Darcy while the others had to settle for the floor - except for Loki who had enough sense of mind to conjure a chair for himself.

Being passed around the room was his Hogwarts letter and supply list, slightly crinkled from being handled by so many people.

"This is it?" Jane asked in confusion. "I admit to not knowing much about magical schooling but this doesn't seem to be a lot. Especially the required items for Potions."

Sirius shifted. "The list is supposed to just have the basics but it barely covers that and for muggle raised it's even worse since they don't have the basics needed for the basics."

"And it's not that the muggle raised get a different list than others since they believe Hadrian to be muggleborn and I know that Lily had the same list that we did." Remus said. "Not only that but it looks like a few things have been taken off completely and weren't replaced by updated versions. We needed three more Potions books, ones that explained the different processes. Ingredient preparation, magical properties of the materials used, differences between stirring clockwise or counter clockwise, things like that."

"Yeah, but don't first generations over there get a visit from one of the teachers? Shouldn't they have asked about doing that with Hadrian?" Darcy questioned.

"Maybe, maybe not. It depends on whether or not they're aware of when magical schooling starts in America. Who knows?"

"What about Harry Potter's letter?" Bruce brought up.

"I'm not sure," Remus admitted. "Since Hadrian is technically still Harry Potter I had expected for him to receive two letters but Hogwarts might see it as them being the same person so only one was needed. Or a letter was sent to where Hadrian was last considered 'Harry' in a way. There's no way to know for sure unless we saw the Book of Students or talked to Professor McGonagall."

Natasha read over the list again despite having it memorized. "Are these books available here or will Hadrian need to go to Diagon Alley?"

"They should be. He'll still need to drop by Madam Malkin's to get the Hogwarts issued robes though." Sirius said.

"Aw, man, I'm gonna have to wear a uniform." Hadrian complained.

"You've known that for years, Champ. Suck it up." Hadrian stuck his tongue out at Tony in response.

"Enough about the boring stuff, what are we going to do for holiday breaks?" Darcy asked excitedly. "Because I already have the best idea for Halloween."

Hadrian paled.

"I'll need to know as well to plan accordingly." Pepper said.

"Well there's winter break in December to January. I'm not sure about the dates as they change sometimes." Sirius said.

Pepper nodded, jotting it down in a notepad that had appeared out of nowhere. Sirius checked her over for signs of a wand. "And what about school events and family days?"

"Oh, they don't have those."

"What."

Sirius grinned wryly. "You heard me right."

"So you're saying that a boarding school where children are away from home for months on end doesn't have planned visits or school events that families might attend?" Natasha asked, as close to disbelief as they had ever heard from her.

"Witches and wizards who went there don't even know that other schools do that so they don't think much of it. I didn't even know until Hadrian started school." Sirius explained. "The muggles might bring it up during the home visits but are told that they wouldn't be able to even see the school much less enter it."