Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

Chapter 27
The first two days of classes seriously made Harry rethink his statement to Ginny about being back. He
received more homework in those two days than he ever had in a week of classes.
For Herbology he was supposed to list all the magical plants that could be used medicinally, and what
those uses were.
For Potions he had to write an Essay on medicinal and healing potions; and Professor Slughorn had
said that they would have to make a randomly chosen potion on Friday.
In Transfiguration Professor Molly Aquos had started class by telling everybody to call her Professor
Molly or just Molly so they could avoid confusion with her husband. Then she had told them that they
wouldn't be learning anything new this year, just practicing using transfiguration for self defense and to
conceal one's self. She had told them to come back on Thursday with a different face on; literally, they
were supposed to transfigure their faces to be completely different.
Charms was a different story. Professor Flitwick had said that not only would the 7th years be doing
intensive training in various concealment and protection charms, but they would also be helping to put
some of the school's spells back. Harry had raised his hand and asked what spells were missing and
whether or not the stair's spells were on the fritz. Professor Flitwick had mumbled something about
telling the students what spells would be needed later and then had jumped off the chair and started
teaching them a spell to make wizard buildings invisible to Muggles. They were each given a model of
a house and told to make it "vanish to Muggle eyes." When Ron asked how they were supposed to
know if it worked Professor Flitwick had merely said that he would know.
Harry, Ginny Ron, and even Hermione, had searched through the library for all known medicinal
plants. Luckily they had been able to complete quite a bit of their essays on healing potions at the same
time.
Harry was still having a bit of a problem transfiguring his face so that there was no trace of his former
self left, he was having particular difficulty with his scar. When he had asked Hermione about it she
had told him to ask Ginny to cover it with makeup.
"Aren't we supposed to use magic?" Ron asked.
"She never said that we couldn't use makeup," Hermione said, "She just said that we were supposed to
completely conceal our features."
Ron stared at her for nearly a minute with his mouth slightly open. Hermione leaned in and kissed him
softly before turning back to her book.
Harry was a bit amazed also, he had never known Hermione to take a short cut, but he didn't mind. He
supposed that he could always argue that in a situation where he needed to conceal his features he
would go with the fastest way. And if he was having trouble with a feature it was better to cover it with
makeup than to obsess about using magic.
Harry looked at his watch as he finished with the last book that they had found on medicinal plants.
"It's nearly one o'clock," he yawned, suddenly tired. He put his head down on the book and closed his
eyes, "wake me up when it's over."
"When what's over?" asked Ginny as she slowly rubbed his back/
"All of it," he said as he took off his glasses and put them in his robe pocket.
"Ok," said Ginny as she went back to reading.