Harry placed his tea on a table that was next to Wisdom. "Wisdom, I have just recently learned the most delightful spell. Would you care to join me in a bit of mental exercise?"
Her grin was almost as wide as Harry's. "I haven't combined them yet, but I believe I can help out with deployment."
Harry snapped his fingers.
Snow fell. It didn't drift one flake at a time. Three feet of snow smashed into Wrath, avoiding all other people, buildings, and ducks.
To his credit, Wrath was still standing as an elegant butler would... until he saw everyone start summoning snowballs.
Harry leaned over to Padma. "Use a rope to pull the snow in, and then SNAP it off to launch it forward. No wand needed and you get two hands. The machine gun technique is much harder, but we can practice it later." He waved his arm and Wrath's shirt gained some red and white circles with numbers in them.
He grinned. "Wrath, you may wish to start running. You are allowed to retaliate only by building walls and throwing snowballs by hand."
Susan was grinning even as she tried to give a bit of help. "Shouldn't you let him do the snowball thing you do back?" Harry shook his head. "Don't underestimate my Wrath. We have been together a long time, but even I am not always able to beat him." He grinned. "But then again, who wants to play fair? EVERYONE START LAUNCHING!"
It got harder to throw snow after a few hours because watching tiny ducks hurl snow at a running skeletal butler was surprisingly humorous to the group.
Everyone collapsed into comfy chairs. Wrath was once again behind Harry on his right, although there was still some snow in his wild black hair.
Harry grinned. "Thanks for letting us wind down, Wrath."
The tall being smiled, somehow seeming warm. "Of course, Master. I know how stressful it was with that ghost of a teacher. You never were a fan of ghosts to begin with." Hannah giggled. "Yeah, I figured you were letting us hit you. I know I saw you move really fast when Terry tried to poke Harry with a pillow."
Susan was idly practicing her thread control by juggling some snowballs. "He still got us. Each one he threw hit his mark."
Padma grinned. "Yeah, but it is more fun to do stupid stuff like this with friends, you know? And I'm sure Wrath wouldn't want to be stuck out in the darkness all the time."
Wrath gave a grin that showed sharp teeth. "Actually, it is pretty soothing. I find the darkness to be quite a friend." His smile became much less shark-like. "And I did enjoy spending time with the Master. Now that he has companions, we have both gotten a chance to spend some time alone. It was nice."
Harry grinned and tossed his empty tea cup at the being. "Pratt." Wrath caught the cup expertly, which then vanished. "Indeed sir."
Terry sighed. "Man, this class is taking forever. How much longer is it?"
Harry looked at Jim.
"Quack."
He nodded. "Jim says we have been in here for 8 minutes so far." Seeing the horrified looks on everyones face, he grinned. "Well, we can always head to someone else's mind. I think Hermione's is only twice normal time rate cause of all the stuff in there." He looked toward Padma. "Of course, I would vote for Padma's world. Cute animals? Of course!"
Hermione sighed. "I think I will go work on my mind world actually. I want to show you guys what I did when it is finished, and I am not there yet. At least this class time won't go to waste." Susan shrugged. "I feel up for some baby animals."
Terry Headed toward the door with a P on it. "Fine by me. Any kittens Padma?"
Harry laughed. "You guys just don't even know."
THANKFULLY Professor Binns' class was over. Clearly this ghost should move on... not one sentence differed from the text.
Harry stretched, before joining his friends and leading as they opened paintings and slid around invisible walls while heading to Defense against the Dark Arts. "Well, History is a loss, but I KNOW this one should be interesting. Maybe they have duels and stuff?"
Susan shrugged. "Don't know much about Professor Quirrell really. He has that odd turban and smells like garlic. Something about vampires I heard." Hannah chipped in. "He has a really bad stutter too. Hope he has lots of written stuff for us to look at."
"Ok, so we all agree that today was a waste of all of our time, yes?"
Angry, sad, and other such nods went around the group.
Quirrell stuttered so bad that he may as well have just pretended to be mute. The entire classroom (Round, with a low roof) was filled with the smell of onions, garlic, and even compost. Harry's eyes had started watering.
Hermione couldn't even try and answer questions because half the time no one even realized the strange wizard had ASKED something.
Harry sighed. "We have to bring this up. It is just... URGH. I know, maybe we can ask if we can just take our OWL's test early." Ordinary Wizarding Levels were required by law for wizards and witches to own wands and use magic, so they couldn't just skip the class.
Hannah bit her lip. "Would we be able to pass it?"
Harry grinned. "After Wisdom tutors you? No way you would get less than an E. Probably get an O, no doubt." He sighed, some of the energy leaving him... "Can't do the same with DADA... DaDa? Merlin that is a terrible initialism. Anyway, can't skip Papa class or test out until we can understand the teacher and make sure he is actually as incompetent as he seems."
None of the group noticed a turban moving away in anger around the corner.
Harry sighed. "I guess we should bring this up with our heads of houses first. It will probably get up to Professor McGonagall pretty quickly after that." Susan looked at Hermione. "Weren't you trying that speech to text spell during class? How did that go?" If anything, she looked MORE downtrodden. "It actually WROTE 'mumblemumble' all over. I have NO idea what that crazy man wrote." Harry patted her shoulder. "Well, we have time for books and stuff. Why don't we..." Wait. 'Quack.'
'Thanks for the heads up. Think I should do something?' 'Quack.'
'Yeah, good point. We will head up there.' "Everything green Harry?" Padma was a bit closer than Harry expected.
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