The Gift From Death

Chapter 24: First year Part 13

6th, August, 1998. 7.30pm...

In the kitchen Hermione turned to the two boys.

"Are we going to show the whole day or just before we went through the trap door?" she asked.

"I was going to show it from where I figured out about Hagrid and the Dragons egg." Harry said. "It seemed logical as that day nothing really happened untill the afternoon." he explained.

"Seems good enough to me." Ron said.

"Okay." Hermione agreed.

"And from there I'll show the rest of what happened." Harry added sulkily. "Your not going to like it. No one is."

They went back through to the living room and Harry changed the memory.

"Okay everyone things are going to speed up from here." he announced, "This ones from the day after we finished our first year exams." he explained as the memory started.

When the ghost of Professor Binns told them to put down their quills and roll up their parchment, Harry couldn't help cheering with the rest.

"You wouldn't be normal if you could!" Charlie exclaimed.

"That was far easier than I thought it would be," said Hermione,

"Of course that's what you say." Ron smiled fondly. Hermione rolled her eyes.

as they joined the crowds flocking out into the sunny grounds. "I needn't have learnt about the 1637 Werewolf Code of Conduct"

Everyone's jaw fell open.

"I don't even remember what that was about!" Remus cried. "And I was a bloody werewolf!"

"or the uprising of Elfric the Eager."

Hermione always liked to go through their exam papers afterwards,

"Sounds familiar, doesn't it?" Sirius said, looking pointedly at Remus.

"What?" he asked innocently.

"You alway done our heads in after any exams or tests." James replied. Remus just smirked.

"And how do you know I wasn't doing it just to annoy you as payback for you doing it to me all year?" James and Sirius pouted as Remus grinned and the others snickered.

but Ron said this made him feel ill, so they wandered down to the lake and flopped under a tree.

"Ahh." James sighed. "Much better."

The Weasley twins and Lee Jordan

"Brilliant. They should be up to something fun!" James grinned.

were tickling the tentacles of the giant squid,

"Oh, we must've done that a million times!" Fred exclaimed.

"He likes it." George nodded.

which was basking in the warm shallows.