Chapter 26

As Harry sat in an empty compartment of the Hogwarts express waiting for his friends to arrive, he reminisced about how he failed to acquire the Diary horcrux from Ginny Weasley as he didn't know when the Weasley family did their shopping for Hogwarts a so he couldn't do anything about it and so he decided to relieve her of its possession as soon as he could at Hogwarts, as he didn't particularly look forward to fighting a sixty foot long Basilisk.

Harry was interrupted from his musings, when the door of his compartment slid open and a brown blur slammed into him embracing him tightly.

Harry just chuckled and hugged her back saying, " Hey Pads!, I missed you too, I am sorry that I could not meet you in Diagon Alley but my parents were very busy this summer and couldn't take me to Diagon Alley on the day we planned to meet. "

Padma just smiled and said, " not a problem Harry, we will just do that next year. "

So as Harry chatted with Padma about their respective summers they were joined by Daphne, Tracey and Terry, and the time passed quickly as they reachd Hogwarts late in the evening, with his friends buying something from the lunch trolley while Harry munched on the Treacle Tart he had Rosey pack for him and all his friends laughed at his blissful expression as he ate his Treacle tart as they knew his obsession with that and he was particularly enjoying it as his mother had banned it in their house from two weeks as she felt that Harry was eating too much sweet.

They arrived at Hogwarts from Hogsmeade station visit Thestral driven carriages and quickly took seats at their respective House Tables. The sorting took place without any surprises as Ginny Weasley was sorted into Gryffindor and Luna Lovegood was sorted into Ravenclaw.

On first seeing Luna Lovegood, Harry immediately felt protective over the waifish little blonde who reminded Harry of his little sisters with her innocent expression on her cute face with her small raddish earrings and Butterbeer cork necklace. Harry immediately greeted Luna when she reached the Ravenclaw table and bade her to sit beside him.

Luna Lovegood was happy to see someone so happy to see her and happily sat beside him and he introduced himself saying, " Hi, I am Harry Potter and these are my frends Padma Patil and Terry Boot, nice to meet you. " and Luna introduced herself, I am Luna Lovegood and I am happy to meet you and Harry you have surprisingly few Wrackspurts around you Harry, they are small creatures that float around people's ears making them confused. "

Harry just laughed and said, " I make sure to stay away from them. " much to the confusion of his friends and the people around him.

Luna was delighted to see someone agreeing with her and not making fun of her, as even her childhood friend Ginny had stopped being friends with her after the death of her mother when she began believing in these imaginary creatures to stave off the pain and loneliness of her mother's death, so she gave Harry a Butterbeer cok necklace like she wore and said, " take this Harry, I always have a spare with me, and this will keep the Wrackspurts away from you , " and was happy to see that Harry happily wore it around his neck.

As the feast came to an end Dumbledore gave his usual speech to students and bade them all to bed.

The next day Harry woke up and went to the Room of Requirements to continue his magical and Physical training and as he went down for breakfast after showering and taking his backpack he met Professor Flitwick who gave him his schedule for his classed saying, " I was very impressed with your results Harry, it seems that your broke your mother's record, keep it up and continue doing good in your studies. "

Harry got easily bored with the classes as McGonagall was just starting inanimate to animate transfiguration of transfiguring a button into a beetle which Harry had long since mastered.

Harry had already moved to much more complex transfigurations and spent the class transfiguring 50 buttons to beetles and then into butterflies and ten into silver spikes with just ficks of his wand all at once. McGonagall was suitably impressed and awarded him 30 points much to Hermione's jealously as she had began to get incredibly jealous of Harry's talent and also of the fact that she had only gotten 4th rank despite all the time she had spent studying.

Charms was just revision of last year's classes and Potions was nothing he hadn't perfected yet.

History of magic was basically self study for Harry.

Defense against the Dark Arts was not something he was looking forward to as just seeing that prancing fraud made Harry want to slap him silly and Harry was wondering what Dumbledore what potions fumes he was inhaling when he gave the post of teaching such an important subject to such an incompetent fool.

As Harry entered the Defense against the Dark Arts class he immediately wanted to learn how to cast Fiendfyre so that he could burn down the room as the class was covered with portraits of that pillock Lockhart and as the class of Ravenclaws and Gryffindors settled down, that ponce entered the room and swept to the front of the class in a very poor imitation of Professor Snape and introduced himself.

" I am Gilderoy Lockhart, Order Of Merlin third class, honorary member of the Dark Force Defense League and five time winner of Witch Weekly's Most Charming Smile Award,but set that all side I didn't defeat the Bandon Banshee by smiling at her, " he said his lame joke and smiled at the class with his teeth sparkling making most of the girls sigh dreamily at him making Harry sigh in disgust and hearing Padma making the same noise of disgust from beside him, Harry looked at her said, " thank God, you are not one of that Pillocks's fangirls, I don't think I could have beared you sighing dreamily at him all throughout the year. "

The pillock then announced a written quiz on his books and seeing the questions Harry just shook his head and answered;

1. What is Gilderoy Lockhart's favorite color?

Hot pink

2. What is Gilderoy Lockhart's greatest ambition?

Coming out of the closet and announce his sexuality.

49. What do you hope to learn from Gilderoy Lockhart's class?

How this incompetent fool achieved his so called feats when he is not capable of a simple lumos charm and learn his signature Obliviate charm.

Lockhart read through all the papers and Harry saw his face blanch in fear when he read what Harry assumed was his answer sheet.

Lockhart read the answer sheet of Harry Potter and blanched when he read the part about the Obliviate charm and looked up to see Harry Potter looking at him with a malicious smirk on his face just like his mother when she cursed him so that he spent a week in the Hospital wing during his Hogwart's years.

He quickly silenced everyone by releasing a swarm of Cornish Pixies into the room in the name of practical experience and it was absolute mayhem in the classroom as the little blighters acted like bludgers and destroyed everything in the classroom and Lockhart got his wand snatched from him and he ran into his office and closed the door behind him.

Harry was fed up with the class and frustrated and just cast an overpowered area stunning charm, stunning all the pixies and levitated them into the cage and sealed it shut. Harry took his backpack and left the classroom intending on never attending another class of that idiot and using the free time to practise in the Room of Requirements.

In Herbology, they had a class on potting Mandrakes.