Bad Reputation

Chapter 6

The next morning Rigel was the first one up he saw the other boys in his dorm were still sleeping. he got out of bed quietly and got changed into his uniform with no trouble at all. they only problem was brushing his hair. Rigel began to brush his hair but the brush quickly became tangled in his curls. "come on you stupid brush" he staid struggling. he was so busy with his mess of curls he didn't hear Ron wake up. "what are you doing" Ron asked as he rubbed his eyes. "trying to get my stupid hair to straiten" he said as he felt if he pulled to hard he would end up with a bald spot.  Ron giggled at the sight of the boy fighting with his hair.

it wasn't long after that rest of the dorms occupants woke up and saw Rigel on the floor struggling to get the brush out. " one word of this to anyone boys and you'll all have to sleep with one eye open" he threatened. all that did was simply make the boys laugh harder. when Rigel had finally got the hair brush out he stormed out the room and went to go to his first class. 

Rigel had very little trouble finding his classes thanks to a map Tonks gave him before Hogwarts so he wouldn't get lost and because of this he was usually the first one to arrive which annoyed Hermione Granger a little.

They had to study the night skies through their telescopes every Wednesday at midnight and learn the names of different stars and the movements of the planets. Three times a week they went out to the greenhouses behind the castle to study Herbology, with a dumpy little witch called Professor Sprout who was also the head of Hufflepuff, where they learned how to take care of all the strange plants and fungi, and found out what they were used for.Easily the most boring class was History of Magic, which was the only one taught by a ghost. Professor Binns had been very old indeed when he had fallen asleep in front of the staff room fire and got up next morning to teach, leaving his body behind him. Binns droned on and on while they scribbled down names and dates, and got Emetic the Evil and Uric the Oddball mixed up.

Professor Flitwick, the Charms teacher, was a tiny little wizard who had to stand on a pile of books to see over his desk. At the start of their first class he took the roll call, and when he reached Harry's name he gave an excited squeak and toppled out of sight. this was Rigels favourite class. he was the first one to produce the lumos charm. this caused the professor to send him a smile and annoying Hermione even more.

Professor McGonagall was different. she gave them a talking-to the moment they sat down in her first class."Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts," she said. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."Then she changed her desk into a pig and back again. They were all very impressed and couldn't wait to get started, but soon realized they weren't going to be changing the furniture into animals for a long time.After taking a lot of complicated notes, they were each given a match and started trying to turn it into a needle. By the end of the lesson,only Hermione Granger and Rigel had made any difference to their matchs; Professor McGonagall showed the class how it had gone all silver and pointy and gave Hermione and Rigel a rare smile.

The class everyone had really been looking forward to was Defense Against the Dark Arts, but Quirrell's lessons turned out to be a bit ofa joke. His classroom smelled strongly of garlic, which everyone said was to ward off a vampire he'd met in Romania and was afraid would becoming back to get him one of these days. His turban, he told them, had been given to him by an African prince as a thank-you for getting rid of a troublesome zombie, but they weren't sure they believed this story.For one thing, when Seamus Finnigan asked eagerly to hear how Quirrell had fought off the zombie, Quirrell went pink and started talking about the weather; for another, they had noticed that a funny smell hung around the turban, and the Weasley twins insisted that it was stuffed full of garlic as well, so that Quirrell was protected wherever he went.