Chapter 4: - Ghosts, Teachers and Students
Yami prodded Yugi awake about 3 am, someone was awake, Yugi looked around sleepily. Harry wasn't in bed. He was sat over by the open window, stroking his snowy owl, Hedgewig. "You ok Harry?" Yugi whispered, not that he had to worry about waking Joey, he'd sleep through an earthquake.
"I'm fine, I just feel out of my league." Harry admitted, "You heard them, talking about me as if I'm some sort of hero."
"What did you do? I mean you're as famous as…my namesake." Yugi quickly thought about what he was going to say then.
"You really don't know?" Yugi shook his head.
"Ryou is pure blood so he told us how he-who-must-not-be-named terrorised the world until about 11 years ago, but he was cut off from telling us too much by the arrival of a very rude blonde, Malfoy, I think, you know, the one who insulted Ron while we were waiting to go into the great hall."
"Well, you heard them calling me 'the-boy-who-lived' right? Apparently, he killed my parents when I was a baby and when he tried to kill me his powers broke. No-one knows how, so I'm sort of hero for doing something I don't even remember."
"That's harsh, to be famous for something you don't remember." Kind of like Yami, but Yami can't remember, Harry was too young to remember. Yugi said, "Tell you what, we're both new here, why don't we help each other out."
"As long as you promise not to call me anything other then Harry." Harry smiled at Yugi who nearly laughed, which was stopped by him sticking his fist in his mouth, and then he agreed to that condition.
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Yugi and the others realised something over the next week, "There are too many damn staircases!" Joey cussed in Japanese, making Harry give him a very odd look, as they walked up staircase number 73. Kari had remembered reading in Hogwarts, A History, that there were one hundred and forty-two staircases in the school in all. They discovered doors that weren't actually doors, or wouldn't open unless you asked, or tickled them, and everything moved around and Yugi had been scared out of his wits when a portrait asked him a question. They had the same lessons as Harry, Ron and Hermione so they stuck together when trying to find their classes.
The ghosts were not much help either, though their resident ghost, Nearly Headless Nick was happy to point them in the right direction, by the time they got to 3rd lesson on the first day, Peeves the Poltergeist was afraid of two things, The Bloody Baron…and Ombre. The yami had finally lost her temper and come out in her spirit form when Kari had been late for class and Peeves had dropped a water bomb on her head, soaking Kari, her books and her stuff.
Peeves had laughed and Ombre had literally kicked his ass all the way across the school and did not stop kicking him until the maximum distance she could travel away from the Millennium Orb, without Kari, was reached, where she stopped and blasted the poltergeist with shadow magic from a distance until she was sure Kari was in class and Peeves was sure he was going to die again.
Though there was something worse then Peeves if Kari wasn't around. The caretaker, Argus Filch, had taken a distinct dislike to Joey and Yugi after they'd made the mistake of being with Harry and Ron on the first morning when they'd been trying to make their way through a door which, unfortunately for them, led to the out-of-bounds corridor, and Filch had been sure they were trying to do it on purpose. Luckily the four boys were saved by Professor Quirrell, who'd been passing.
Filch owned at cat, but it wasn't sleek like Kari's Egyptian Mau or Ryou's Oriental, Mrs Norris was a scrawny, dust coloured creature with bulging lamp-like eyes. She walked the corridors, picking fights with other cats and keeping a watchful eye on the students, just one toe out of line and she'd fetch Filch, who'd appear out of nowhere, more then willing to give a student a punishment. After Mrs Norris had nearly caused Filch to catch her and Ombre using shadow magic to get to class, more then once, Kari really wanted to kick the damn cat.
Then once they got to class they learnt this sort magic wasn't like Shadow Magic and it wasn't just waving wands and saying odd words. Studying night skies every Wednesday at midnight, learning the names of different stars and the movements of the planets. Three times a week, they had Herbology with Professor Sprout, in the greenhouses behind the castle.
The worst lesson was History of Magic, which was taught by a ghost. Professor Binns apparently had fallen asleep and got up to teach next morning…without his body. The ghost droned on and on and Kari often only kept the names straight because she had Ombre to help her. She scribbled names down quickly, often being prodded mentally by Ombre. She had to avoid laughing out loud as Yugi fell asleep on his desk and suddenly sat bolt upright like Yami had scared him awake.
Their charms professor, Professor Flitwick, was even smaller then Yugi with his amulet, and had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. Joey had gotten five points taken from Gryffindor because when Professor Flitwick read Harry's name for the first time in the register, he'd squeaked and toppled off the books, out of sight, causing Joey to laugh his head off.
Professor McGonagall was different again, strict and clever, she'd given them a talking to the moment they'd sat down, as Kari fidgeted with her amulet. "Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts." She'd said, staring at Joey who'd gotten lost from the group and had been even later then they had. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned." She then turned her desk in a pig and back again.
After making a lot of notes, Professor McGonagall had given them matches to turn into needles. By the end of the lesson Kari had given up and was sat glaring at it, half tempted to send the damn match to the shadow realm, while Hermione, who was sat beside her, had gotten her match to change slightly, making it silver and pointy.
The lesson everyone was looking forward to was Defence Against The Dark Arts, but it turned out to be a bit of a joke. Quirrell was useless, and seemed afraid of his own shadow.
Friday was an important day for the group, the first day they found the great hall without getting lost. "Harry!" Kari called, "What have we got today?" Harry poked Ron, as the red head poured sugar on his cereal.
"Ron, what have we got today?"
"Double potions with the Slytherins," Ron replied through a mouthful of food, "Snape's head of Slytherin house; they say he always favours them, we'll find out if it's true." Kari sighed.
Harry looked around, Kari was searching the crowds for someone, he noticed Yugi and Joey were absent from the benches, her eyes wandered over to the Hufflepuff table and she was right, Ryou was missing from it too. She looked over to the Ravenclaw table where Kaiba was never seen without his laptop, which he was forced to 'close it or lose it' during lessons, but was always found with it open at breakfast. Without thinking, Ombre took over and smiled at Harry before walking out the door with a half eaten piece of toast. "I'll meet you in class." She called over her shoulder.
Harry thought about that for a moment, had Kari's eyes been magenta then? And what was with the magic he'd felt when she'd gotten up? He was distracted by the arrival of the post owls.
Ombre frowned as she sensed shadow magic. She raced around to the, luckily, almost empty courtyard, where Yami was being restrained from decking a severely smug Bakura by an angry Joey. "You baka Tomb-robber!" Yami growled, unable to escape Joey's restraining arms.
"You were the one who fell for it, baka Pharaoh!"
"Baka Tomb-robber!"
"Baka Pharaoh!"
"Baka Tomb-robber!"
"Baka Pharaoh!"
"Baka Tomb-robber!" Ombre growled, didn't they realise this was all in English?
"Cut it out both of you!" Ombre growled, her Dark Magician Girl appearing by her side and effectively silencing Bakura's next 'Baka Pharaoh!' "What happened, Joey?"
"Bakura teamed up with Peeves to prank Yugi, by dropping a suit of amour on him, and it only just missed. So now Yami wants to punch Bakura's lights out, and Peeves vanished when you appeared." Ombre smirked at that and Joey was surprised at how evil the girl could look when she'd obviously done something, obviously to the poltergeist. "Do I wanna know what you did to Peeves to scare him?" Ombre shook her head. At that moment Yami worked out how he could escape the grasp of an eleven year old Joey…he took the amulet off, causing Joey to lose his grip as he turned back into a teen. Bakura ripped his off seconds later as Yami threw a punch at him.
Ombre looked at her Dark Magician Girl who nodded and separated the two spirits with magic. Ombre retrieved the amulets and was about to hand them back when she saw someone watching them. The blonde haired boy, Malfroy, from Slytherin, ran off when he realised he'd been spotted. "Put them back on, you idiots." Ombre growled, "You've been seen." Yami glared at Bakura and put his back on, turning back into an eleven year old, Bakura smirked back as he put his own on.
Malfoy gave them all odd looks as they walked into Potions late. Snape took a note of their names and took 2 points each from Gryffindor as Ryou had a different class. Kari growled, the dungeons were hard enough to find without being late as well. "Hey Yugi, first one to shadow game Mouthboy wins."
Yugi teamed up with Joey and Kari teamed up with Hermione, half way across the classroom from Harry and Ron where Snape was hovering like an oversized bat. The Gryffindors were treated to criticism all lesson, while the only student he gave any compliments to was Malfoy, or Mouthboy as he was now dubbed by Joey and the others after Kari had said that to Yugi.
Kari rolled her eyes as at the exact moment Snape told everyone to look at the 'perfect way' Mouthboy had stewed his horned slugs when Neville managed to melt Seamus's cauldron and had been drenched in the potion while everyone else stood on stools and desks. Snape yelled at Neville and spat at Seamus to get him to the hospital wing before rounding on Harry. Kari saw Harry open his mouth to argue after Snape took points off of Gryffindor again and saw Ron kick him behind the cauldron, whispering something.
They climbed the steps an hour later, Ron and Harry went one way, Hermione another and Yugi, Joey and Yugi pretended to notice that Malfroy wasn't following them. Suddenly as they turned a corner, Joey jumped out and scared the boy. Joey smirked, "I thought your dorm was the other way." He asked…nicely. Kari wasn't fooled she'd seen this before.
"I saw that earlier, what kind of freaks are you?" Malfroy asked, sneering, "You're no student, you're adults, I can get you expelled, my father is on the board you know."
"My I?" Ombre asked, repulsed by the boy.
'Go ahead.' They switched and Malfroy quickly backed away from the angry yami, who advanced on him steadily, holding the Millennium Orb in her right hand. Joey knew what was happening but when Yugi and Yami switched, he nervously watched, as they scared the boy half to death, then erased his memories of the morning using their items. One angry spirit he could deal with but Yami and Ombre annoyed at the same time wasn't a good combination.
Malfroy was left looking slightly dazed as they walked the rest of the way to the great hall where it was time for dinner, Joey's stomache growled loudly, and Yami laughed and switched with Yugi again, and his stomache growled, setting Ombre's off, which switched with her hikari. "Still no winner Pharaoh," Were Ombre's parting words, Yugi smiled, this school year was going to be interesting.
"I'm fine, I just feel out of my league." Harry admitted, "You heard them, talking about me as if I'm some sort of hero."
"What did you do? I mean you're as famous as…my namesake." Yugi quickly thought about what he was going to say then.
"You really don't know?" Yugi shook his head.
"Ryou is pure blood so he told us how he-who-must-not-be-named terrorised the world until about 11 years ago, but he was cut off from telling us too much by the arrival of a very rude blonde, Malfoy, I think, you know, the one who insulted Ron while we were waiting to go into the great hall."
"Well, you heard them calling me 'the-boy-who-lived' right? Apparently, he killed my parents when I was a baby and when he tried to kill me his powers broke. No-one knows how, so I'm sort of hero for doing something I don't even remember."
"That's harsh, to be famous for something you don't remember." Kind of like Yami, but Yami can't remember, Harry was too young to remember. Yugi said, "Tell you what, we're both new here, why don't we help each other out."
"As long as you promise not to call me anything other then Harry." Harry smiled at Yugi who nearly laughed, which was stopped by him sticking his fist in his mouth, and then he agreed to that condition.
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Yugi and the others realised something over the next week, "There are too many damn staircases!" Joey cussed in Japanese, making Harry give him a very odd look, as they walked up staircase number 73. Kari had remembered reading in Hogwarts, A History, that there were one hundred and forty-two staircases in the school in all. They discovered doors that weren't actually doors, or wouldn't open unless you asked, or tickled them, and everything moved around and Yugi had been scared out of his wits when a portrait asked him a question. They had the same lessons as Harry, Ron and Hermione so they stuck together when trying to find their classes.
The ghosts were not much help either, though their resident ghost, Nearly Headless Nick was happy to point them in the right direction, by the time they got to 3rd lesson on the first day, Peeves the Poltergeist was afraid of two things, The Bloody Baron…and Ombre. The yami had finally lost her temper and come out in her spirit form when Kari had been late for class and Peeves had dropped a water bomb on her head, soaking Kari, her books and her stuff.
Peeves had laughed and Ombre had literally kicked his ass all the way across the school and did not stop kicking him until the maximum distance she could travel away from the Millennium Orb, without Kari, was reached, where she stopped and blasted the poltergeist with shadow magic from a distance until she was sure Kari was in class and Peeves was sure he was going to die again.
Though there was something worse then Peeves if Kari wasn't around. The caretaker, Argus Filch, had taken a distinct dislike to Joey and Yugi after they'd made the mistake of being with Harry and Ron on the first morning when they'd been trying to make their way through a door which, unfortunately for them, led to the out-of-bounds corridor, and Filch had been sure they were trying to do it on purpose. Luckily the four boys were saved by Professor Quirrell, who'd been passing.
Filch owned at cat, but it wasn't sleek like Kari's Egyptian Mau or Ryou's Oriental, Mrs Norris was a scrawny, dust coloured creature with bulging lamp-like eyes. She walked the corridors, picking fights with other cats and keeping a watchful eye on the students, just one toe out of line and she'd fetch Filch, who'd appear out of nowhere, more then willing to give a student a punishment. After Mrs Norris had nearly caused Filch to catch her and Ombre using shadow magic to get to class, more then once, Kari really wanted to kick the damn cat.
Then once they got to class they learnt this sort magic wasn't like Shadow Magic and it wasn't just waving wands and saying odd words. Studying night skies every Wednesday at midnight, learning the names of different stars and the movements of the planets. Three times a week, they had Herbology with Professor Sprout, in the greenhouses behind the castle.
The worst lesson was History of Magic, which was taught by a ghost. Professor Binns apparently had fallen asleep and got up to teach next morning…without his body. The ghost droned on and on and Kari often only kept the names straight because she had Ombre to help her. She scribbled names down quickly, often being prodded mentally by Ombre. She had to avoid laughing out loud as Yugi fell asleep on his desk and suddenly sat bolt upright like Yami had scared him awake.
Their charms professor, Professor Flitwick, was even smaller then Yugi with his amulet, and had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. Joey had gotten five points taken from Gryffindor because when Professor Flitwick read Harry's name for the first time in the register, he'd squeaked and toppled off the books, out of sight, causing Joey to laugh his head off.
Professor McGonagall was different again, strict and clever, she'd given them a talking to the moment they'd sat down, as Kari fidgeted with her amulet. "Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts." She'd said, staring at Joey who'd gotten lost from the group and had been even later then they had. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned." She then turned her desk in a pig and back again.
After making a lot of notes, Professor McGonagall had given them matches to turn into needles. By the end of the lesson Kari had given up and was sat glaring at it, half tempted to send the damn match to the shadow realm, while Hermione, who was sat beside her, had gotten her match to change slightly, making it silver and pointy.
The lesson everyone was looking forward to was Defence Against The Dark Arts, but it turned out to be a bit of a joke. Quirrell was useless, and seemed afraid of his own shadow.
Friday was an important day for the group, the first day they found the great hall without getting lost. "Harry!" Kari called, "What have we got today?" Harry poked Ron, as the red head poured sugar on his cereal.
"Ron, what have we got today?"
"Double potions with the Slytherins," Ron replied through a mouthful of food, "Snape's head of Slytherin house; they say he always favours them, we'll find out if it's true." Kari sighed.
Harry looked around, Kari was searching the crowds for someone, he noticed Yugi and Joey were absent from the benches, her eyes wandered over to the Hufflepuff table and she was right, Ryou was missing from it too. She looked over to the Ravenclaw table where Kaiba was never seen without his laptop, which he was forced to 'close it or lose it' during lessons, but was always found with it open at breakfast. Without thinking, Ombre took over and smiled at Harry before walking out the door with a half eaten piece of toast. "I'll meet you in class." She called over her shoulder.
Harry thought about that for a moment, had Kari's eyes been magenta then? And what was with the magic he'd felt when she'd gotten up? He was distracted by the arrival of the post owls.
Ombre frowned as she sensed shadow magic. She raced around to the, luckily, almost empty courtyard, where Yami was being restrained from decking a severely smug Bakura by an angry Joey. "You baka Tomb-robber!" Yami growled, unable to escape Joey's restraining arms.
"You were the one who fell for it, baka Pharaoh!"
"Baka Tomb-robber!"
"Baka Pharaoh!"
"Baka Tomb-robber!"
"Baka Pharaoh!"
"Baka Tomb-robber!" Ombre growled, didn't they realise this was all in English?
"Cut it out both of you!" Ombre growled, her Dark Magician Girl appearing by her side and effectively silencing Bakura's next 'Baka Pharaoh!' "What happened, Joey?"
"Bakura teamed up with Peeves to prank Yugi, by dropping a suit of amour on him, and it only just missed. So now Yami wants to punch Bakura's lights out, and Peeves vanished when you appeared." Ombre smirked at that and Joey was surprised at how evil the girl could look when she'd obviously done something, obviously to the poltergeist. "Do I wanna know what you did to Peeves to scare him?" Ombre shook her head. At that moment Yami worked out how he could escape the grasp of an eleven year old Joey…he took the amulet off, causing Joey to lose his grip as he turned back into a teen. Bakura ripped his off seconds later as Yami threw a punch at him.
Ombre looked at her Dark Magician Girl who nodded and separated the two spirits with magic. Ombre retrieved the amulets and was about to hand them back when she saw someone watching them. The blonde haired boy, Malfroy, from Slytherin, ran off when he realised he'd been spotted. "Put them back on, you idiots." Ombre growled, "You've been seen." Yami glared at Bakura and put his back on, turning back into an eleven year old, Bakura smirked back as he put his own on.
Malfoy gave them all odd looks as they walked into Potions late. Snape took a note of their names and took 2 points each from Gryffindor as Ryou had a different class. Kari growled, the dungeons were hard enough to find without being late as well. "Hey Yugi, first one to shadow game Mouthboy wins."
Yugi teamed up with Joey and Kari teamed up with Hermione, half way across the classroom from Harry and Ron where Snape was hovering like an oversized bat. The Gryffindors were treated to criticism all lesson, while the only student he gave any compliments to was Malfoy, or Mouthboy as he was now dubbed by Joey and the others after Kari had said that to Yugi.
Kari rolled her eyes as at the exact moment Snape told everyone to look at the 'perfect way' Mouthboy had stewed his horned slugs when Neville managed to melt Seamus's cauldron and had been drenched in the potion while everyone else stood on stools and desks. Snape yelled at Neville and spat at Seamus to get him to the hospital wing before rounding on Harry. Kari saw Harry open his mouth to argue after Snape took points off of Gryffindor again and saw Ron kick him behind the cauldron, whispering something.
They climbed the steps an hour later, Ron and Harry went one way, Hermione another and Yugi, Joey and Yugi pretended to notice that Malfroy wasn't following them. Suddenly as they turned a corner, Joey jumped out and scared the boy. Joey smirked, "I thought your dorm was the other way." He asked…nicely. Kari wasn't fooled she'd seen this before.
"I saw that earlier, what kind of freaks are you?" Malfroy asked, sneering, "You're no student, you're adults, I can get you expelled, my father is on the board you know."
"My I?" Ombre asked, repulsed by the boy.
'Go ahead.' They switched and Malfroy quickly backed away from the angry yami, who advanced on him steadily, holding the Millennium Orb in her right hand. Joey knew what was happening but when Yugi and Yami switched, he nervously watched, as they scared the boy half to death, then erased his memories of the morning using their items. One angry spirit he could deal with but Yami and Ombre annoyed at the same time wasn't a good combination.
Malfroy was left looking slightly dazed as they walked the rest of the way to the great hall where it was time for dinner, Joey's stomache growled loudly, and Yami laughed and switched with Yugi again, and his stomache growled, setting Ombre's off, which switched with her hikari. "Still no winner Pharaoh," Were Ombre's parting words, Yugi smiled, this school year was going to be interesting.