Harry Potter's sister ~~~ Fanfiction

the first hogsmeade trip part 64

Harry returned most of the Lawrence materials to the library and began looking out Werewolf books on the Third Year reading list. He checkout as many as he could.

"Why are you looking out so many Werewolf books?" asked Madam Pince.

"Um… we're going to be covering them in a few months in Defence. I want to be prepared."

"What about your other class topics?" demanded Madam Pince.

"What about them?" said Harry.

"Why aren't you studying them, what is your interest in Werewolves?" she said.

Harry was taken aback for a second. "I have studied for them, and am continuing to do so. But I don't know much about Werewolves, so I'm getting books that are on the reading list so that I'm ready."

Madam Pince seemed to glare down at him in silence. She seemed determined to keep him from taking out these texts.

"Is there a problem?" asked Harry, being direct.

"No." said Madam Pince. She stamped each of the books and gave them to Harry.

The day after the night of the full moon was Halloween, when the first Hogsmeade visit was scheduled. The four Third Years were really excited, their friends in second year all gave them lists for Honeydukes sweet shop and, in Geoffrey's case, Zonko's Joke shop. Harry also promised to get some Butterbeer bottles to bring back.

They arrive in the Great Hall and had breakfast. But Harry realised he forgot his money bag.

"Hurry up Harry, if you're not down in ten minutes Filch won't clear you to go." Said Hermione.

Bearing that in mind he took a shortcut from the Entrance Hall to the Seventh Floor which was only available on a Sunday and hurried back to the Tower.

Miss Granger, Mr Weasley, Mr Longbottom, where is Mr Potter." Said Professor McGonagall a few minutes later.

"Uh he went back up to the Common Room…" Said Neville.

Professor McGonagall rushed off before Neville could elaborate further.

"That was odd, she is really doing that a lot lately." Said Ron. "You know she came into the Practice Room three times yesterday, stuck her head in and then rushed off. It took us until the fourth time to manage to tell her Harry was at Quidditch Practice."

A few minutes later Harry showed up.

"That was fast?" said Hermione.

"It's Sunday." Said Harry "Gryffindor expressway?"

"Oh!" said all his friends. They were all well aware of the shortcut that appeared on Sundays. It was a shame it was so useless because there were no classes that day so there was no need to move so quickly between the Great Hall and the Seventh Floor where Gryffindor Tower was located.

Harry and the others were confirmed as having permission to go by Mr Filch and off they went to the Village. It would be a couple of hours before the teachers realised that Harry's name somehow wound its way onto the Caretaker's list.