Chapter 15.

                                    

                                          
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MARAUDERS.
Chapter 15.
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  After lunch, Mattheo, Artemis, Frey, Lorenzo, and Theodore head outside the castle to attend their first Care of Magical Creatures lesson. Iris and Tom head to their first Arithmancy lesson. 
  "I'm looking forward to this even more now that I know that Hagrid is our teacher" Mattheo cannot wait to see Hagrid's first day. 
  "As long as he keeps the more lethal creatures until we have a bit more experience under our belts" Frey laughs. 
  Hagrid has been known to befriend deadly creatures; a Cerberus, An alpha Acromantula, he tried to breed a dragon in his wooden hut. Given half the chance he'd have probably tried to make friends with the Basilisk as well.
  Lorenzo turns his nose up as they get closer to the Magical Creature Reserve on the edge of the grounds. "I can smell the place from here" Lorenzo groans. 
  "Enzo, we're nowhere near the Reserve" Artemis tells Lorenzo. They can barely even see it from where they are. 
  "I'm telling you..." Lorenzo has to cover his nose. "...I can smell the place from here" Lorenzo promises. Then it clicks why that could be, and everyone goes quiet. 
  There are still a few days before the full moon, and lessons have helped Lorenzo not to think about what might happen on Friday evening, but an enhanced sense of smell doesn't bode well. 
  "Maybe you just have a keener sense of smell? It doesn't mean anything" Theodore tells his friend, and gives him a clap on the back.
  Lorenzo's mood has soured into a depressed state again.
  Hagrid is already tending to some of the smaller creatures in their pens when the students arrive, and Fang is bounding along happily beside him. 
  "Everyone gather round!" Hagrid booms to the whole class happily. "Got a real treat fer yeh today" Hagrid promises the whole class. 
  "We're going to die" Theodore whispers quietly. Hagrid being excited about a magical creature often means they're extremely dangerous.
  "I cannot believe that this oaf is teaching classes" Draco's snide tone remarks. 
  "They've gotten two downright shabby teachers this year, the school must be running out of money" Pansy Parkinson gives a sickly giggle. 
  "Parkinson, since you don't have anything intelligent to say, why don't you just shut your mouth?!" Mattheo barks at Pansy. 
  Pansy shrieks with anger at Mattheo, it's then that Mattheo notices Imelda smiling at him, he hasn't spoken to her since their kiss last night, and he stormed off chasing Artemis.
  "Ease up, Pansy, he's just messing with you" Imelda nudges her friend with her elbow. "I'm sure that he doesn't mean it" Imelda smiles to Mattheo. 
  "To insult you? No. To put her in her place? Absolutely" Mattheo tells Imelda.
  "Since when are they friends?!" Frey hisses to Artemis. Frey seems to be getting more irate about Mattheo and Imelda than Artemis.