*Transfiguration class room*

Bella stood looking out of the window
"How many first year students do you think will be late this morning?" Bella asks
"Hopefully none, but I guarantee there will be some turning up late, and if young Mr Potter is anything like James he will definitely be late" Minerva said as she arose from her chair and made her way to stand behind Bella.
"He certainly looks like James" Bella smiles feeling the woman's presence behind her.
"Let's hope young Harry isn't as mischievous as James potter."
"And where would the fun be in that" Bella smirks leaning into the older woman, her back pressed against Minerva's front.

Minerva inhaled deeply at the touch, Bella's intoxicating scent filled her nostrils as her hands rested on either side of Bella's hips.
"The students will be here soon" Minerva clears her throat, about to move away.
"No don't move, not yet. There's still 20 minutes before they're due to arrive" Bella said reaching for Minerva's hands and wrapping them around her waist.
Minerva didn't move away, instead she tightened her grip around Bella's waist and rested her head against the taller witch's shoulder.

Bella smiles enjoying the moment, her own hands rested atop of Minerva's and fiddled with the wring on the elder woman's index finger.

A few moments later both witches prepared for the students and watched each child that entered the class. Hermione being one of the first to enter followed by Draco then the others.
All were there and on time, except for two.
Bella turns to Minerva and arches her brow with a slight smirk.
"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree" was all Bella said.

***

Harry and Ron are running through the stone halls to their class. Having finally found it they rush in looking around for the professors who are no where in sight. Harry notices a tabby cat sitting on a desk, and it looked somewhat familiar but where he'd seen it he had no idea.

"Whew, amazing, can you imagine the look on Black's and old McGonagall's face if we were late?" Ron catches his breath.
"Oh I'd imagine they wouldn't look impressed" came the voice of Bellatrix Black, both boys look around to see where the voice came from, to no avail.
Draco looks at the boys then towards Hermione and sniggers, Hermione simply rolls her eyes and carry's on with her work.

The cat jumps off the desk startling the two boys at the sudden movement and transforms into Professor McGonagall. The two boys are simply amazed.

"That was bloody brilliant." Ron said eyes wide in disbelief.
"Thank you for that assessment, Mr. Weasley. Maybe if I were to transfigure Mr. Potter and yourself into a pocketwatch, maybe one of you would be on time."Minerva arched her brow
"We got lost." Harry gulped
"Then perhaps a map?" Bella smirks appearing out of thin air.
"Blimey how'd you do that?" Ron asked shocked.
Bella simply taps the side of her nose, not saying a word
"I trust you don't need a map to find your seats." Minerva adds as the two boys shake their heads and make their way towards their chairs.
"Let the fun begin" Bella whispers, a smirk clear upon her ruby lips.
"Oh good lord, give me strength" Minerva mumbles walking over to her desk where she sat in her chair and Bella happily sat on the edge of her desk watching the students work.

***

"That's it, detention. And I want to see both of you in my office" Minerva snapped at the twins then walked away.
Bella couldn't help the smirk on her face
"seriously boys, you've just came back from the holidays and you've already got caught pranking the first years. How many times must I tell you to not get caught, honestly it's like talking to a wall" Bella rolls her eyes.
"How was we to know she'd show up" George said.
"It's called a look out, one of you keep an eye out for any potential threat to your prank making." Bella said "now I must dash, see you in detention oh and make sure you don't get caught again" Bella smirks as she walks away.
"This is your fault" Fred said looking at his brother " you should of been on look out" he added.
"No I'm better at the pranking, you should of been on lookout"
The pair continued to bicker until they entered Mcgonagall's office.

**Potions class**

"Mr. Potter. Our...new...celebrity. Tell me, what would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood? "Snape asks the boy, Hermione's hand shoots up, earning the attention of Draco and an eye roll from Ron, Harry looks at the girl then back to Snape and shrugs.
"You don't know? Well, let's try again. Where, Mr. Potter, would you look if I asked you to find me a bezoar?" Snape arches his brow waiting for the answer, once again Hermione's hand shoots up.
"don't know, Sir." Harry answers.
"And what is the difference between Monkshood and Wolfsbane?" Snape was beginning to lose his patience.
"I don't know, Sir." Harry answers again, fiddling with his hands under the desk.
"Pity. Clearly, fame isn't everything, is it, Mr. Potter?" Snape's turns his back to the students walking towards his desk he continues with the lesson.

***

In the great hall, Bella took her usual seat between Minerva and Severus.
"How has your day been so far Severus?" Bella smiles.
"Apart from a few ignorant students interrupting my class, it has been fine, so far that is" Snape replied.
"So far ours has been alright, apart from Minnie having to deal with the Weasley twins who attempted to play a few tricks on the first years." Bella sips her drink.
"Reminds me of a few mischievous students from when we attended Hogwarts" Snape cocked his brow at the ravenette.
"I haven't the foggiest idea of what you're talking about" Bella looks elsewhere.

"Oh I do." Minerva pipes in "I remember a group of mischievous students who found it necessary to brake every single rule Hogwarts had, and made it their duty to play tricks on nearly everyone in the school." The elder witch adds, her eyebrow arched perfectly, as she stared at Bella.
"Children will be children, what can you do" Bella smiles innocently, when an explosion caught everyone's attention and Seamus is covered with the remains of his work.

There is laughter amongst the students, Severus mumbles something under his breath, Minerva sighs as Bella chuckles.
Suddenly, a flock of owls start coming into the hall from the rafters above.
"Ah. Mail's here!" Ron said excitedly.
The owls soar by, dropping parcels to students.
One dropping letter, landing in front of Minerva and Bellatrix.
Both women look at one another then Minerva reaches for the letter.
"What does it say?" Bella asks leaning into the older woman.

Hello ladies,

I hope you're both well. The reason for this letter is because myself, Malcolm and the girls would like to invite you over for a late lunch  at 7 o'clock on Saturday night. We really hope you can attend and the girls are excited to see their  favourite aunts.
Hopefully we'll see you Saturday,

lots of love

Patricia, Malcolm and the girls
XX

"How could we refuse the chance to see those adorable little munchkins" Bella smiles leaning her head on Minerva's shoulder.
"We can't" Minerva also smiles at the thought of her adorable little nieces.

Harry sighs having not received any mail then He notices the newspaper Ron has put down.
"Can I borrow this?" Harry asks, Ron simply nods "Thanks." Harry takes the paper and began to read it.
Hermione watches as Neville unwraps a gift. It is a clear ball with gold around it.
"Hey, look! Neville's got a Remembrall!"Seamus points towards the ball.
"I've read about those. When the smoke turns red " just as Hermione said that the smoke began turning red " it means you've forgotten something."the young girl adds.
"The only problem is, I can't remember what I've forgotten." Neville looks from Hermione to the ball.

Harry nudges Ron in the side then shows him the news paper "Hey, Ron, somebody broke into Gringotts. Listen, Believed to be the work of dark witches or wizards unknown, Gringotts goblins, while acknowledging the breach, insist that nothing was taken. The vault in question, number 713, had in fact been emptied earlier that same day. That's odd. That's the vault Hagrid and I went to." Harry looks to Ron who's eyes had widened as he bit his lower lip, he then turned to look at Hermione who narrowed her eyes in thought.

***

Outside at flying practice The students, are lined up in two rows with brooms by their sides. The professor known as Madam Hooch comes down the line. She has short hair and hawk yellow eyes.
"Good afternoon, class."
"Good afternoon, Madam Hooch."
"Welcome to your first flying lesson. Well, what are you waiting for? Everyone step up to the left side of their broomstick. Come on now, hurry up. Stick your right hand over the broom and say, Up!"

The class start saying "Up!" To their brooms but none of them budge apart from Harry's which flies straight into his hands.
Hermione looks at Harry with surprise then glances at her broom.
"You've got to feel it...and Be more confident when you say it" Draco smiles " watch" Draco adds then turns to his broom " up!" The broom flew into his hand.
"I couldn't get it at first but my auntie taught me." The boy smiles. Hermione remains silent looking from Draco to her broom, she took a deep breath "up!" She demanded and the broom flew straight into her hands.
Hermione smiles proudly "thanks"
"Your welcome "Draco returns the smile.

***

"It looks like my little nephew has taken a liking to little miss Granger" Bella smiles watching the children from Minerva's window.
"Oh has he?" Minerva looks up from her work.
"Oh yes, come look for yourself" Bella smiles looking from the window to Minerva who made her way towards Bella.
Minerva looks out of the window to see Draco chatting to a smiling Hermione.

***

Ron looks at Hermione, Harry and Draco and frowns he turns back to his broom and continues to try and get the broom into his hand.
The rest of the class struggle a bit to get their brooms.
"With feeling!" Hooch yells.
Ron took a deep breath then yells "Up!!" His broom flies up and knocks him on the nose "Ow!" Ron held his nose, Harry laughs "Shut up, Harry."

After everyone finally got hold of their broom the professor began to speak
"Now, once you've got hold of your broom, I want you to mount it. And grip it tight, you don't want to be sliding off the end." Hooch says as the Class mounts their brooms. "When I blow my whistle, I want each of you to kick off from the ground, hard. Keep your broom steady, hover for a moment, and then lean forward slightly and touch back down. On my whistle...3...2..." she blows the whistle, And Neville immediately lifts off of the ground The fright was clear on his face.
"Oh..." Neville tries not to fall

"Mr. Longbottom."professor Hooch raises her voice slightly.
"Neville, what are you doing?" Hermione looks to the boy as he began rising further from the ground.
"M-M-Mr. Longbottom Mr. Longbottom!" The professor attempts to stop the boy as he whizzes past.
"AHH!" Neville yells trying very hard to stay on his broom.
"Mr. Longbottom!" The elder witch yells as
Neville soars further away "Down! Down! Ahhhh!" The boy yells
"Neville!" Harry shouts, eyes wide as he watches Neville who calls for help.
"Come back down this instant!" Hooch yells.

"What is all that shouting?!" Bella frowns as she moves from behind Minerva and once again looks out the window to see Neville soaring through the sky and hits a wall, conking along it and then swooping off. All the while, he is screaming. He begins to zoom back towards the group of students.

"Good grief!" Bella said as she watches Hooch reach for her wand to stop him.
But when Neville approaches The students scatter and Hooch dives out of the way. Neville goes through the scatter and up a tower.

"Oh good lord" Bella mumbles as she then began mumbling a few words under her breath.
"What on earth is going on Bella?" Minerva said as she arose from her desk.
Bella continues to mumble words her eyes never leaving the boy.
"What are you doing?"
"Trying not to kill him" Bella snaps as she returns her focus back to the boy who was now out of her sight. Bella closes her eyes and the volume of her mumbling increased.

Neville zooms past a statue of a man with a sharp spear finding he suddenly had no control of his broom whatsoever as it flew straight lowering towards the ground slowly.
"Oh good Merlin let him know how to land" Minerva mutters as she watches from her window. She knew what Bella was upto but she could only do so much due to her being in a tower and him out of sight.

Neville screams as the broom lowers to the floor the speed of the broom decreases as it neared the floor.
"Move your legs for heaven sakes" Minerva mutters as she watches his rather bumpy landing.
Bella sighs as she comes behind the woman
"Well it wasn't the best landing I've done but at least he's alive" Bella mutters as she watches Hooch run towards the boy.
"He'll probably have a minor fracture or break if he is really lucky he'll be unharmed but I doubt it" Bella adds slightly out of breath.
"I didn't mean to snap at you by the way, sorry" Bella mumbles, Minerva just about heard it, she turns her head and simply smiles at the younger woman.

***

"Everyone out of the way!" Hooch yells as She runs through the group, and they scatter."Come on, get up."

Neville groans in pain

"Oh, oh, oh, oh dear. It's a broken wrist. Tch, tch, tch. Good boy, come on now, up you get." Hooch says as a girl reaches down and grabs Neville's Remembrall, which has fallen. Hooch begins to lead Neville away with her.
"Everyone's to keep their feet firmly on the ground while I take Mr. Longbottom to the hospital wing. Understand? If I see a single broom in the air, the one riding it will find themselves out of Hogwarts before they can say, Quidditch." Hooch said as she takes Neville inside.

"Did you see his face? Maybe if the fat lump had given this a squeeze, he'd have remembered to fall on his fat ass." A girl with short black hair laughs.
"Give it here, Parkinson" Harry frownes.
"Nope, I think I'll leave it somewhere for Longbottom to find." The girl said then hops on broom and soars around the group, "Draco, How 'bout up on the roof??" Pansy grins.

Draco looks from Pansy to Hermione who shakes her head he then looks back to Pansy.
"Just bring it back" Draco yells.
"And where's the fun in that" Pansy smirks as she Soars off and hovers high in the sky.
"What's the matter, Potter can't fly? " Pansy grins evilly.

Harry in anger grabs his broom and runs to get on it however Hermione stops him.
"Harry, no! You heard what Madam Hooch said! Besides, you don't even know how to fly." Hermione informs the boy who flew off anyway. "What an idiot." Hermione watches the boy fly away. Draco couldn't help but snigger at the girls words.

Harry is now in the air, across from Pansy.
"Give it here, Pansy or I'll... I'll knock you off your broom!"
"Oh is that so" the girl laughs "you know Harry if you want it, you only have to ask nicely and I'll throw it to you" Pansy smiles innocently.

"Can I please have the ball" Harry asks nicely
"Sure" Pansy smiles " catch" she adds then throws the Remembrall no where near Harry.
"Whoops, I'm afraid my aim isn't very good" she grins. Harry glares at her then zooms after the ball, speeding towards a tower. Just as he is about to hit a window, from which McGonagall and Bella are watching, he catches it, and then heads back to the group.
"Oh, that was wicked, Harry." Ron smiles just as Mcgonagall appears.
The professor showed no emotion what so ever.
"Harry Potter! Follow me. " Minerva demands and Harry sullenly follows her whilst Pansy laughs.

"I don't know what you're laughing at Parkinson! You're coming with me." A not so happy looking Bellatrix appears behind her earning a few gasps from other students.
"Professor Black" Pansy gulps.
"Make sure you keep up, I don't like waiting" Bella said as she walks away, Pansy trying her best to keep up.