Hally Potter

Chapter Nine

Professor Snape

The one professor I've been warned about is Professor Snape. I've only ever heard him be described as cold, calculating, precise, sarcastic, and bitter. He's the head of Slytherin and definitely favors them. My first class with him is today, my second class, actually. This is why the upper years are giving me warnings and rules right now at breakfast.

Even the twins have snuck over and sat next to me, telling me about the countless times they've lost house points in his class. After they have finished another story and I stop laughing at their nonsense, Professor McGonagall comes over and asks them to go to their table. I wave bye to them and continue eating my plate of fruit.

'Can we go a little early so i can thank Professor Flitwick?' I write after finishing about half my plate. My group nods, and we clean our table as we head to the Charms classroom. As we arrive, most of my group stays outside the class, taking as Akemi and I walk in. "Professor Florwick! Hally has something she would like to say," Akemi says, drawing his attention.

Professor Flitwick welcomes us in, and I pull my wand out of my robe pocket, 'Thank you so much for this,' I say, nodding to my wand. He smiles wide and claps, "Glad it arrived in quick time," he says. "No need to thank me, go ahead and take your seats, girls," he says as the bell to class rings. I smiled at him one last time before sitting down next to Akemi. The class flew by because Flitwick was finally able to ask me questions and allow me to answer.

My group gathers our books as Dorian walks over to us, "Hello," he signs. I signed hi back before asking him about the special wand. 'Why don't you have one of these?' I ask frowning as we all walk to the potions classroom. 'Cost too much. I've been trying to save up, though!' he writes on his notebook. I frown, 'you wanna take turns with mine?' I ask handing it over. He smiles softly and takes it, 'you can use it for potions class, I have no clue what I'm doing here,' I write in my notebook I still carry as we walk in. He nods and sits with his friend at a table.

I sit at the closest ravenclaw table near him, and Zuri joins me at the table. Zuri starts to talk but is interrupted by the professor walking in. "Sit down!" He scolds walking to the front of the class. The entire class he spends scolding and yelling at everyone, everyone except me. He ignored me the entire class and didn't even look in my direction.

My group walks out of the class, everyone either frowning or confused as we walk to the History of Magic classroom. "Why the long faces?" Fred asks, stumbling upon our group. I tilt my head, wondering the same. "Snape," Akemi answers, making the rest of the group nod. "Oh," George says. 'Why are you here?' I write in my notebook. The boys read it, "Prof Binns was scolding us," Fred says, rubbing his neck. "Where's your wand?" George asks, looking me in my eyes.

Dorian taps his shoulder before using my wand to write, 'she's letting me borrow it, well she did. Want it back for this class?' I think before writing to him thst he can keep it til the end of lunch. The twins look at him before slowly nodding, "Got it, well have fun with Binny," Fred says before waving goodbye and tugging George towards the end of the hall. I wave bye to them both before heading into class, praying I don't fall asleep out of boredom.

Fortunately, I don't fall asleep, Unfortunately, it was still very boring, I think to myself as I walk out of the room with my friends. "Ugh, when will Binns leave," Akemi says, slugging as we walk to the Great Hall for lunch. We laugh at the girl while sitting down at our table, "Oo! Hal, you have to try the spaghetti!" Mai says, seeing my group sit down. I place a scoop onto my plate and write 'Hello' to her. "Hiya, it's so good," she says, putting multiple scoops on her plate before grabbing garlic bread.

"Wait, Hal.. Did you lose your wand?" Kimiko asks from down the table, I shake my head and point to the Hufflepuff table. "She let Dorian borrow it. She felt bad," Akemi explains, making me nod my head. "For real?" Sebastian asks from near Kimiko. I nod before grabbing my notebook, 'It wasn't fair, I just showed up and was gifted one and he has been saving to buy one,' it reads as I pass it down to them. They read it before thanking me and going back to their group after I smiled big to them.

"For our free periods, wanna go to the library? Read up on more sign language books?" Zuri asks. I nod excitedly before prewriting a note to Dorian and one to the twins. Dorian's note reads, 'Keep the wand til dinner. From now on me and you are taking turns.' And then the twins reads, 'My group will be in the library learning more sign, Dorian is keeping my wand for a little. Try not to get in more trouble.'

After both are written, I drop them off at the respectable tables, Dorian first. When he reads it, he thanked me profusely. I smile to hum before waving goodbye and walking to the Gryffindor table. I drop the note to the twins and sit next to Harry. "Hi Hal," Hermione says as both boys have shoved their mouths full. I wave smiling to the girl, 'How's your classes been so far?' I write before passing it to her.

"Well, I've been doing good," She answers before pausing. "Those two nimrods however.." She says, trailing off. After she finishes, I look to Harry and tilt my head. "I was late to McGonagalls... and Snape hates me. But for no reason!" He explains. I nod before grabbing my notebook back, 'He just ignored me the whole time,' I write before heading it to the trio. They read it and look up at me in shock, I shrug before seeing Akemi walking over.

'My group will be in the library, studying sign, for our three free periods. Feel free to join us.' I write before hugging Harry and waving bye to Hermione and Ron. They nod, waving bye as I meet Akemi halfway, and we hook arms and skip off to the library. When we arrive, we politely wave hello to the librarian before sitting near the back and starting to study.

Sometime during our studying, my brother and other group of friends join. I make sure everyone knows everyone before we carry on. "Wait, Hally, your friends with my brothers?" Ron asked after seeing their names written in Mt notebook. I pull my notebook out of sight before nodding, "she sat with them on the train," Akemi explains for me. I nod, turning back to Zuri.

A little after the trio joined us, Dorian and one of his friends joined us. 'This is Navy' He writes using our wand, we all wave and sign hello. "Hello, nice to meet you all," she says, smiling all big. "So what we doing in here?" She asks, "learning sign for Dorian and Hally," Akemi says, patting a seat next to her. Navy sits in the seat, "Ooo, I can help," she volunteers, making me smile and nod before going back to studying.

We keep practicing until the librarian informs us that dinner is being served, we thank her and pack our stuff before heading to the Great Hall. "Love you," Harry whispers as we hug bye, I hug him tighter before letting him go. We then head to our tables with our friend groups. I sit down and see breakfast for dinner, French toast and waffles are the main courses that are being served. I grab a piece of French toast and drizzle syrup on it before cutting it up.

Dinner flies by with us talking about our favorite classes and teacher. Towards the end, when everyone was finishing up, Dorian walked back over. 'Here you go, thanks so much, Hally.' He writes using my wand. 'No need to thank me, anytime you wanna use it just let me know' I write after he hands me the wand. He smiles, and I wave bye as he walks to his friend group.

"Thanks for that, really. He has been wanting one for years, but it's costly, and my parents want him to use a hearing aid instead." Sebastian tells me. I frown, 'I wonder who got me mine if it's costly' I write as we clean our stuff up. The group shrugs, and we head back to the library to study more until curfew.