Harry Potter 60

4

Flying lessons and Weasleys

Erus woke up at six again and sat up. He stretched a bit before getting up from bed. He groaned quietly as he realized every class this day would be with the Gryffindors.

'Someone kill me.'

-o-

Erus stood outside the Transfiguration classroom, which was his first class, around 8.20. The class did not begin until 8.30 but he was not so interested going around and exploring the school as Draco and Blaise had done. Hermione was sitting next to him, reading her book. Her hair was soft and framed her face perfectly. She now only had a few locks in her hair but other than that she looked great. Both Pansy and Millicent had been jealous, jealous in a nice way, and Erus had seen several other girls in the different Houses had looked at Hermione in jealousy during breakfast. Except for the Gryffindors firsties; they had glared.

The raven-haired boy fingered on the ring Severus had given him in his boredom. Just knowing he would spend the whole day with Gryffindors made him want to throw up and his irritation grew more and more.

"Your magic is spiking," Hermione calmly informed him.

Erus closed his eyes and took a deep breath. No use making the whole class terrified because he was in a bad mood.

-o-

Minerva McGonagall thought herself to be a fair and stern witch. As she observed the first years in Gryffindor and Slytherin she noted immediately that the Gryffindors were loud and not paying attention as usual. She sighed inwardly at that; unfortunately, that was not unusual behaviour from students in her House.

She was sitting on her desk, in her Animagus form. The whole class must have believed it was just an ordinary cat. That was until she looked at that Riddle boy.

He was staring right at her. While his friends chatted the boy's attention was only on her with a curios expression. McGonagall narrowed her eyes a bit and Erus... smirked. He made a thumb-up for her and turned as the Malfoy asked him something.

McGonagall blinked. The boy saw through her Animagus form? That was impressive for an eleven-year old. As she thought they had been left alone enough she changed back. As expected, some girls shrieked of fright and some of the students stared at her. Erus just looked bored. McGonagall let a smile grace her lips and said:

"Welcome to Transfiguration. If you don't like this class and don't listen to me, you will walk out of that door and never come back."

'Nice beginning,' Erus thought as several students flinched.

-o-

"Man, she is a tough professor!" Draco exclaimed as they were walking down the path to Hagrid's hut and their next class, Care of Magical Creatures.

Hermione agreed to some point, adding she was only stern but Erus was silent. He was thinking about McGonagall being able to become an Animagus. He had read a bit about them, but he had never seen one for real. He wondered what it would take to become one.

Their Care of Magical Creatures was horrible. Hagrid was extra rude against Erus, Hermione and Blaise. They still had about unicorns but the man had no unicorns with him this time. Instead he gave them a set of questions to do. Erus sighed as he finished the questions; they had been too easy and too boring. He got up and walked over to Hagrid.

"I'm done professor," he said and gave the man his parchments.

Hagrid snapped them out of the boy's hands and put it in a brief-case where he kept his other things.

"You can go," the man muttered.

Erus picked up his things and said 'Later' to his friends before began walking up to the castle.