Hogwarts The Next Generation: A New Beginning

CHAPTER TEN: Self Hatred

CHAPTER TEN: Self Hatred

Our schedule’s has been very hectic for the past few days considering the amount of sleep we got for late night researches, spell practicing, and homework and other stuff. But it was all worth it anyway the research work got us ahead of class sometimes, like in Potions, D.A.D.A and History of Magic.

It was a Friday, so staying up later tonight wouldn’t be a problem for us considering that there were no classes the next day.

“C’mon guys let’s go History of Magic’s up next.” Scorpius said standing up

“History of Magic?” said James who seemed happy now “Great I needed more sleep anyway.”

I stood up now from chair with Scorpius and hit James’ arm “You can’t sleep at History of Magic!”

“Why not?” James whined “I always do, and besides we’ve only been sleeping for like five or four hours a night for the past couple of days!”

“Shh! Not so loud you two,” Scorpius scolded as we started to get to our next class “And Alexia is right James, you can’t sleep in History of Magic, just for the next few days at least.”

“Why?”

“Because,” I explained “Our next lessons will be about the Wizarding Wars, we need to pay attention.”

“But we research every bloody night about it!” James whined again and Scorpius and I both hit him so he would shut up

“We would need more information wouldn’t we?” said Scorpius

“And in this class we could ask questions, and since we’re learning about it might as well deduct research time at night.”

And at that James finally agreed and we got to our next class.

When we got to the classroom the three of us sat up front, took out our quill and some parchment and got ready for some note taking, a thing that only the three of us were doing our other classmates thought we were out of our mind when they saw what we were about to do. Professor Binns came and started the class.

“For today and the next few days we shall be learning about the Wizarding Wars,” Professor Binns started, as we was speaking James was almost falling asleep but I kicked him by the shin and he immediately sat up awake. “We shall first study of the First Wizarding war of course,”

“Well duh.” I heard James mutter and I shot him a glare which he mumble a ‘Sorry’ for and we went back to listening.

“The conflict known as the Death Eater Rebellion, Dark Rebellion, Wizarding War, and later the First Wizarding War, was a major conflict with foundations as early as the 1940s, but officially beginning in 1970 and ending abruptly in 1981. It marked the original "reign" of the Dark Lord. The Dark Lord's rebellion occurred with the help of his Death Eaters, Dark wizards and witches who served him and brought terror to both Muggle and magical innocents. They were opposed by the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix, an organization founded by Albus Dumbledore that would play a crucial role in both of The Dark Lord’s defeats.” Professor Binns explained in his dull voice, I noticed that he didn’t use ‘The Dark Lord’s’ name “Voldemort” I know that people feared calling him by name but what’s the use? I mean he’s dead why call him “The Dark Lord”?

I was going to ask James and tell him to ask Binns why he can’t just simple address Voldemort well by the name Voldemort, but I knew that people would think James is really conceited by asking that question considering that his father was The Chosen One and the one who killed Voldemort. So instead I turned to Scorpius who was listening attentively.