Silverlining

Chapter four-
Harry’s first day at was nothing like he had expected. It was spent very much like it would have had he returned to school, moving from one room to another taking notes and listening to lectures, except for that fact that Harry didn’t know anyone. It’s not as if he thought he would be allowed to go chasing after death eaters his first day, he thought it would be well different.
Finally it was time to break for lunch, all day he had heard his fellow trainees making the same comments, that is when they weren’t talking about him. Harry was used to being talked about and ignored them until he was walking to the entrance to meet Ron for lunch and a tall heavy set man about two years older than him stepped in front of him and said,
“Who would think that the famous Harry Potter would need to go through training, you should be head of the department by now shouldn’t you Potter? After all you are the Boy who Lived, The Chosen one and all that nonsense.”
Harry felt the heat rise in his face and tried to control his anger. He did not want to get into a brawl on his first day. He stepped sideways and tried to past the man but he stuck out his arm and blocked Harry’s way.
Through gritted teeth Harry said “Please move your arm.”
By this time a small crowd had gathered to watch.
“Oh Potty, asked me please I guess I should move” a few of the on lookers laughed
“Move you bloody arm before I move it for you” Harry said pulling out his wand.
The man laughed “I know all about you Potter, you let others risk their necks to save you and then take the credit. I don’t see any of your little friends here now to save you. Did your little fan club dessert you after they figured out you let their friends and family die?”
“I said move or I will move you” The man did not move so Harry said “Levicorpus” and the man was suspended in the air by his foot fighting desperately to keep his robes from revealing too much.
Unfortunately Digby chose this moment to enter the hall “What is going on here, Mr. Potter let him down this moment, what are you in primary school. Come with me to my office Potter, Mr. Barrett don’t look so smug I accept you to report to me right after your lunch.”
Harry berated himself for losing his temper, just as his life was going right he had let some stupid prat geode him into a fight. Harry glanced toward the desk he had been assigned to the morning and thought at least he wouldn’t have much to pack.
“Sit please Mr. Potter” Digby said as the entered his office and pointed to the chair in front of his desk. The office was covered floor to ceiling with newspaper clippings and wanted posters except for one wall that was filled by a very large map with red and blue pins stuck over it. Harry felt very much like he had in his first year when Professor McGonagall had called him to her office after seeing him fly his broom to retrieve Neville’s rememberall, he had no hope that this would turn out as well as that had. “It seems that you have meant our resident trouble maker, Mr. Barrett feels it his duty to harass new comers, and I am afraid you being who you are you are going to attract some extra attention both good and bad.”
Harry wasn’t sure how to respond to this, so he said the first thing that came to his mind. “Are you going to fire me sir?”
“No Harry, not today but I would recommend advise you do try to keep your temper and remember what are old friend Madeye used to say constant vigilance.”
“Yes Sir” Harry replied relieved
“Now you better go have some lunch, training is going to get tougher this afternoon.”
Harry hurried to meet Ron
“Where in the bloody hell have you been? You were supposed to be here fifteen minutes ago.”
“Don’t harp on me Ron” Harry said and told him about his run in with Barrett.
“Gee mate, you seem to make friends any where you go” Ron said sarcastically
They spent the rest of their lunch ranting about their jobs. It turned out that George had tried to test some more products on Ron without his knowledge, and Ron had spent the morning with steam pouring out of all his openings, according to Ron this made it very uncomfortable to sit.
Harry’s afternoon did improve they were sent into practical recreations on a course set up in the Ministry. By the end of the day Harry was exhausted. When he returned to Grimmauld place he was happy to see Kreacher had prepared dinner. He still had some book he had to read before training the next day. Ron was late coming home that night, George had insisted that they go to the Leaky for drinks, so Harry was sitting at the table papers spread out across it studying when Ron entered.
“Woo, you gave me a start there for a moment I thought Hermione was home. What is all that there anyways” Ron said peering of his shoulder.
Harry rubbed his eyes “It turns out Auror training isn’t all chasing after the death eaters we have to learn all about dark magic so we know what were up against, and then learn the defensive spells for it.”
Ron shook his head “Glad I didn’t go then, I am not ready to start studying again, though if I see another spreadsheet I may go mad”
Harry laughed and said “That’s a long walk off a short pier”
Ron looked at him quizzically “Huh?”
“It’s a muggle saying, it means you are already close to being mad.”
“Well that doesn’t make any since.” Ron replied
Instead of explain again Harry just laughed and went back to his work.

Sitting at the Gryffindor table with Hermione and Luna, Ginny looked up as the owls delivered that morning mail. It had been two weeks since that start if the term and she had only heard from Harry four times. She had written to him with the upcoming Hogsmeade weekends the previous day and was hoping to hear from him. She was not disappointed as Geath landed in front of her with two letters, one for her and one for Hermione. She quickly removed them and handed Hermione hers, and eagerly read Harry’s. It was great news he would be able to make it to visit Hogsmeade in that weekend, he told her as much about work as he could and said he couldn’t wait to see her. A wide grin broke out on Ginny’s face and she looked up to see a similar one on Hermione’s.
They both said at the same time “They’re coming” and laughed
‘I’m beginning to forget what Ron looks like” Hermione said jokingly
“Oh then let you remind you he is about seven feet tall covered in freckles and has these huge feet that he is constantly tripping over” Ginny replied
“Thanks for the lovely description; shall I do one of Harry?”
“No I think I’ll pass this time what is our schedule today?”
“Let’s see” Hermione said pulling out her schedule “We have double transfiguration and then double potions, not a bad morning”
“Yes potions should be a blast. If Pansy Parkinson quotes one more line from that Skeeter hag’s book I am going to throttle her.”
“She doesn’t it because, she knows it bothers you. You should just ignore her.”
“Easy for you to say Hermione, it’s not your boyfriend there running their mouths about”
“True, but you are forgetting that I am mentioned in that book, and it makes several disturbing suggestions about me and my best friend.”
They left the hall to go to class, looking forward to the weekend.