A Trip to Hogwarts: The First Day
by littlewiccan
Dawn and Hermione sat next to each other in their first class of the day, Wiccan Studies. None of the others were taking this class, except for Ginny. The class comprised of all girls and Neville sat and chatted while they waited for their teachers to begin.

“Excuse me, guys can you quite down,” Willow said as everyone quieted and turned their attention to Willow and Tara, “I’m Ms. Rosenburg and…..”

“And I’m Ms.Maclay. Welcome to Wiccan Studies.”

“So for your first lesson why don’t we learn about telekinesis and maybe if you’re lucky we’ll teach you how to float a pencil,” Willow beamed as Tara moved towards the board and the pair began their lecturer.

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“That was so cool,” Dawn gushed as she walked with Hermione to their next class.

“What was so cool?” Connor asked as he Harry and Ron joined the group.

“Willow,” Hermione replied, “She used telekinesis to float a pencil.”

“Wicked,” Ron said.

“So how was your first class?” Dawn asked the boys.

“Interesting,” Harry said, “Ron and I are taking Muggle Studies with Professor Jenkins.”
“She kept talking about the evils of men and a guy named Xander giving her a happy,” Seamus said joining the conversation.

“You don’t think her sex life will be on the test?” Ron asked, worriedly as the others laughed in response.

“I doubt it,” Harry replied.

“Didn’t she teach you anything?” Hermione asked.

“It was really just an introduction to the class. I don’t think she likes me,” Ron said, “She told me my hair reminded her of someone she once turned into a troll.”

“That’s never a good sign,” Dawn joked as she turned towards Connor, “What about you?”

“I had History of Magic with Giles.”

“And?”

“I fell asleep.”

Dawn smiled and laughed.

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A little while later Harry, Ron, Hermione, Dawn, and Connor, all sat together in the dungeon where the potions classes were held.

“It’s going to be hard getting on without Snape to torture us this year,” Harry joked to Ron.

“No worries we still have Mafloy,” Ron said nodding his head towards the bleach blonde in the corner. Harry laughed.

“Hello everyone,” Fred said, cheerily in the front of the room, “My name is Winfred Burkle but you can just call me Fred. This is Potions 5th year. I’ve never made a potion before but Professor Snape said he’d send me his lesson plans and in the mean time I think I can figure out some things for us to do. How about we go around the room and introduce ourselves.”

A few groans could be heard around the class room.

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All the desks had been pushed aside and the entire class was sitting in circle on the floor surrounding Fred.

“Okay, so the principals of centripetal force should allow me to take this cup of water,” Fred said, holding it up and then placing it on a metal plate attached to a string, “And spin it over my head in a circle without it spilling. Everyone ready?”

They all nodded and Fred began to spin the cup over her head like a lasso. Two slytherin girls shrieked and hid under a desk afraid their hair might get wet. But they eventually came out when they saw no water was coming out. That’s when Fred lowered the cup and placed it on the floor, stopping the demonstration. Everyone applauded.

“That was bloody brilliant,” Ron stated.

“No, it wasn’t it was magic,” Mafloy scoffed.

“Nope, it was physics,” Fred said with a smile, “Okay, everybody put your desks back.”

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“So how was your first class?” Wesley asked Fred.

“Great. You?”

“Fine, except I’m afraid transfiguration it isn’t the most interesting subject in the world and one student accidentally turned his book into a goat but then that….”

“A goat?” Fred giggled.

“It was quite funny.” Wesley smiled.

“Maybe you can show me how to do that sometime,” Fred ventured.

“Well, if you like you’re welcomed to join my class one day,” Wesley said, completely missing the point.

“Yeah, that’d be great,” dissapointment in her voice

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“What’s next?” Connor asked Dawn as they were leaving Herbology.

“Care of Magical Creatures and then Defense Against the Dark Arts.”

“Us too,” Ron said, coming over with Harry.

“Cool,” Connor said.

“I think Hermione is with us too,” Dawn mentioned and watched as Ron’s face bighted a little.

“How was Divition?” Hermione asked Ron and Harry when she finally joined the group outside.

“Alright I guess, I;m not too sure about the teachers though,” Ron said.

“Why?”

“Well, Professor Chase kept predicting everyone was going to die and then she went into a trance of some sort. It was weird,” Ron commented.

“Do you think she had another vision?” Dawn whispered in Connor’s ear, so the others wouldn’t hear their conversation.

“I don’t know but I think maybe after classes we should go talk to them see what up.”

Dawn just nodded as Xander and Gunn began the class.

“So I’m Xander.”

“And I’m Gunn.”

“And this is Care of Magical Creatures.”

“I still don’t get why we’re teaching them to take care of them instead of kill em,” Gunn hissed at Xander, who just shrugged.

“Okay so today we’re gonna learn about a creature called a diracawl. So does anyone know what in can do?”

Hermione raised her hand and Gunn called on her, “It can escape danger by vanishing into a burst of feathers.”

“Good,” Xander said, “It is also unable to…….”

“Xander,” Gunn whispered.

“What?” Xander said out of the corner of his mouth, hoping none of the students would realize they didn’t know what they were doing.

“It’s gone.”

“What?!”

“It’s gone,” Gunn said, removing the cloth they had been using to hide the bird in its cage. Now the cage was empty and all that remained was a pile of blue feathers.

Everyone heard a pop and looked over to see a blue feathered bird.

“There it is,” Gunn said.

“Shh, be very very quiet. I’m hunting diracawls,” Xander said in his best Elmer Fudd, impersonation, as he began to sneak up towards the creature. When he was close enough he jumped forward but missed because the bird disappeared again causing Xander to land face first in a pile of feathers.

“There it is,” Gunn yelled as her ran after it Xander following him. The class watched as they ran into the woods and out of sight.

About 10 minutes later Gunn and Xander ran out of the woods. The bird was now chasing them. It kept squawking and every time it was close enough it snapped its beak trying to bite them.

“I’ve been fighting vamps my whole life and I’m going to get done in by big bird,” Gunn yelled to Xander as they ran.

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“What did you see?” Buffy asked Cordelia as she, Cordy, Angel, and Spike all walked down to the infirmary to visit Xander and Gunn.

“It was weird like I was seeing something that happened in the past through someone else’s eyes and then it was back to future time.”

“Who’s?” Spike asked.

“I don’t know. The whole thing was kinda of foggy and blurry. The only thing that was clear was the end. I was pulled out of some kinda of bowl with some liquid in it. It was in an office. There were books and a bird, a big bird.”

“We didn’t get attacked by Big Bird,” Gunn said. He had over heard the last bit of the conversation.

“Not the Muppet, dumb ass, “Cordy replied as they all sat down joining the others.

“Did you have another vision?” Wesley asked.

“Yeah.”

“What kind of bird?” Giles inquired, “Did it look like this?” He held up a picture of Fawx, the phoenix Dumbledore owned.

“That’s it.”

“I think I know where to go then,” Giles said, “This belongs to Dumbledore; I assume your vision took place in his office. I’ll talk to him about it later.”

“Okay, now will someone please explain to me what happened to you two?” Buffy asked, slightly bemused. Xander and Gunn both sat on in their cots each with a few small cuts and scraps. Not to mention Xander had a few blue feathers stuck in his hair.

“Yeah, how exactly do you get beat up by a bleeding bird?” Spike asked.

“Hey, it was a big bird,” Xander exclaimed, “Besides it had magic powers or something.”

“Diracawls, nasty creatures,” Madame Pomfrey said, “You’re lucky one of the students wasn’t hurt. What were you thinking; bringing in an animal the ministry gave a XXX danger rating? Especially one that can disappear and reappear whenever it pleases? Someone could have been killed?”

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