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Chapter 2

Gohan stared indignantly at all his friends who were all laughing quite hard about something obviously entertaining that had been said earlier. Almost all of the Z senshi had all gathered at the Son home to celebrate the news that Chi-Chi was pregnant a week after she had found out. The party had gone well; until Bulma had to ask the question Gohan had been dreading she'd ask all night long:

"Gohan, what school are you going to exactly? Your mom only gave me the location, not the name."

That question had caused outbursts from the others who wanted to know why in the world Gohan hadn't told them he was going to a private school in Europe. (Vegeta was the only one who wanted to know why he was wasting his time going to school when he could be training) Gohan had avoided answering their questions for as long as he could-even going as far as to lock himself into the bathroom-but eventually the truth had to come out, and his friends had reacted the way he knew they were going to.

They laughed and they kept on laughing for ten minutes straight. Kuririn had turned blue from the lack of oxygen; Yamcha and Muten Roshi were rolling on the floor; Bulma had tears rolling down her face; (Baby Trunks was laughing too, but obviously because he saw everyone else doing it) and even Vegeta and Piccolo had cracked smiles.

"But it's true!!" Gohan cried, cutting off their laughter and getting their attention once again. "I am going to a school for wizards!!"

"Gohan, that's the most ridiculous thing I've heard all week!" Kuririn said, finally controlling himself to get a sentence or two out. "You can't be a wizard!"

"Why not?!"

"Because magic isn't real," Bulma replied in a sensible tone. "Wizards and witches are just from fairy tales. You can't possibly be going to a school for imaginary beings, can you?"

"But magic is real! And I saw bunches of real wizards with my own eyes!!" Gohan said, trying to convince them. "Why do you think this is harder to believe than my Dad being an alien?!"

"We have proof of that," Bulma said, glancing at Vegeta out of the corner of her eye. "A lot of proof."

Oh, of all the things good and holy…

Gohan felt like tearing his hair out of his head. Why must his friends be so difficult to convince?! They'd believe that an evil alien psychopath was going to destroy the Earth, but they couldn't believe in such a simple thing like magic?!

"You want proof then? Fine!" Gohan said, standing up and marching up stairs to his room, the others watching in surprise.

After a moment to make sure Gohan was well out of earshot, the warriors rounded on Chi-Chi who had been sitting-quite surprisingly-quietly through the whole matter, sipping her tea.

"And you actually believe this too, Chi-Chi?" Yamcha asked, barely able to keep the amazement out of his voice. "I thought for sure you'd put a stop to this madness!"

"Gohan's telling the truth," Chi-Chi said, putting her cup down. "I wouldn't believe it myself, if Professor Dumbledore hadn't come talk to me first. He's a good man and Hogwarts sounds like an absolutely fabulous place to learn!"

"Chi-Chi!" Kuririn hissed, looking stricken. "For all you know, this is some type of scam! They always go after widows or people with unstable emotions!"

Chi-Chi frowned and shook her head. "I am not unstable and I know a liar when I see one! Professor Dumbledore is not lying about magic or the school!"

"How do you know tha-" Bulma was cut off when Gohan came back into the living room, heaving a heavy looking trunk behind him. He dropped the trunk on the floor in front of his friends, opened the lid, and pulled a big stack of books. He dropped the books on the coffee table, took out another box from the trunk, and then closed the lid.

"See?" he said, pointing to the books. "Those are all my course books. I have about five more in the trunk for my own personal reading." He then grabbed the top one, opened it to a page he had marked, and pulled out a stick from the other box.

"What is that, Gohan?" Piccolo asked, peering closely at the stick.

"It's my wand," Gohan replied proudly. "It's made of ebony, it's fifteen and a quarter inches long, and its core is a dragon heartstring. Mr. Ollivander said it's good for charms and curses."

"Oh Kami, they've got you sucked in real good," Bulma sighed, shaking her head in total disbelief.

"Um…You might want to back away," Gohan directed, looking at his wand and then back at the book. "I'm still practicing this one and sometimes my wand backfires. I have gotten the unlocking charm mastered, though!"

Most everyone did back away from the table, a few of the men grumbling under their breath and Bulma looking on with total skepticism.

Gohan cleared his throat and pointed the wand at the red roses that Chi-Chi had received. "Infucatus Viridis!"

Nothing happened to flowers and Gohan frowned, looking at his wand as though it had betrayed him. He was ready for his friends to start laughing again, but not ready for Bulma's shriek.

"EEK!! I'M GREEN!!" she screamed, leaping to her feet and staring at her hands that were now green along with the rest of her body.

Gohan stared sheepishly at his friends, all-except Piccolo-who were now colored green from the toes on up. He fought the urge to laugh out loud when he spotted Vegeta, who now looked remarkably like an asparagus.

"Sorry about that!" Gohan said over the confusion. "I only meant to turn the flowers green-"

"Son Gohan, you turn all of us back to normal right now!" Chi-Chi interrupted. She seemed more upset that she was green than happy that Gohan's magic had worked in some way or another.

"Yeah, turn us back! I can't go on my date looking like this!" Yamcha added. "She'll freak out!"

"This new coloration had better not affect my training, otherwise you are dead, Karrarot spawn," Vegeta threatened, glaring at Gohan.

"Um…" Gohan really didn't know how to break this to them. He had a feeling that they were going to be really angry after this announcement.

"Well? We're waiting!" Bulma said, tapping her foot on the floor and looking quite menacing.

"Um…The fact is…I don't know the counter curse to that spell. I haven't learned it yet." Gohan admitted, scratching the back of his head in the typical Son form.

"WHAT?!!" almost everyone in the room cried at once.

"You mean we're stuck like this forever?!" Kuririn gasped, looking ready to faint.

"No! Not forever!" Gohan said, shaking his head. "I'll learn the counter curse soon!"

"And if you don't?" Vegeta asked, cracking his knuckles in a threatening way.

"The spell will wear off…eventually," Gohan said in a small voice.

Fortunately for the Z senshi, Gohan did learn the counter curse about three hours later, and turned everyone back to their original coloring. Needless to say, the Z senshi didn't need any more demonstrations of Gohan's magic and left to avoid being changed again.

Before she left, Bulma offered to give Chi-Chi and Gohan a ride to London seeing as though she had a meeting there on the same day Gohan had to catch the Hogwart's Express. Chi-Chi accepted the offer at once and she also brought the subject up of shopping for the new baby in London, which made both women squeal like young girls, much to the dislike of Gohan and Vegeta.

A week and three days after the party, Gohan's trunk was packed, his owl (whom he had decided to name Kinto'un, after the cloud) was in his cage, and he and his mother were at King Cross station, trying to find the platform.

"What number did you say it was, Mom?" Gohan asked, turning to look at his mother who was trailing behind him.

"Platform Nine and three quarters," Chi-Chi answered back, her voice rational. "You don't suppose one of the porters would know where it is, do you?"

"Not unless they were a wizard," Gohan stopped and looked at what number his was on. "Here's platform nine and platform ten is over there! Now what do we do?"

"Well, if I remember correctly, Professor Dumbledore said that to get to the platform you had to run through the barrier between platforms nine and ten-"

"What?!" Gohan cried, looking at his mother in shock. It was a good thing they were speaking in Japanese, otherwise they would have been getting even more stares than they were now. "Run through the barrier?! But…But that's dangerous!!"

"You think running into a brick wall is more dangerous than going into outer space to fight a manic alien lizard?!" Chi-Chi cried in exasperation as they walked over to the barrier.

"Not particularly," Gohan replied as he looked over the barrier. It seemed quite solid from this distance. "Should I go first?"

"I suppose so. If it ends up being solid it will hurt you less, after all."

"All right," Gohan gulped, as he pushed his cart towards the barrier. He started to pick up speed as he got closer and closed his eyes right before he hit it. He opened his eyes after he didn't feel any slight pain or hear any crashing noises and found that he was on an entirely different platform. He wheeled his trolley out of the way just as his mother came walking through the barrier, amazement set on her face as well.

"Platform nine and three quarters," Gohan read off one of the signs hanging above. "We did it, Mom!"

Chi-Chi nodded in agreement and said, "Let's go find you a spot, Gohan. There's only ten minutes left until the train leaves."

As they waded through the crowd of students and parents, Gohan watched in amusement as his mother tried to comprehend all that was going on. Professor Dumbledore had only told her the basics of the wizarding world and this must have been a big surprise for her.

Gohan didn't recognize anyone in the crowd from Diagon Alley, but he figured he'd see them at Hogwarts or on the train at least. He and his mother walked to the end of the train and Gohan hoisted his things on board. He dragged his things into one of the compartments closest to the entrance and found it empty, except for another student, which he recognized as Hermione Granger.

She must have seen him as well because she called out, "Gohan! Hello!"

"Hello, Hermione," Gohan replied, remembering to switch into English. "Do you mind if I share the compartment with you? Unless you're sharing it with someone else already."

"It's only Harry and Ron," Hermione said. "And I'm sure they won't mind an extra person in the compartment once they get here."

"Thank you. I'll be back in a few minutes." Gohan said, waving goodbye and walking back to where his mother was standing on the platform.

"You still have a few minutes before the train leaves, Gohan," Chi-Chi reminded, looking at her watch. "You should go get comfortable and find your friends."

"I can do that later," Gohan replied, hopping off the train to stand next to his mother. "…Well, this is it…I'm finally going."

"Oh, Gohan," Chi-Chi sniffled, pulling her son into a tight hug. "You be a good boy at school, all right? I don't want to get any complaints about fights or your powers from the staff."

"I'll miss you, Mom. Take care of yourself and don't let the guys bug you about me going to Hogwarts."

"See you at Christmas, Gohan," Chi-Chi replied, pulling away from her son and patting him on the shoulder. "You're father would have been proud that you're going to school."

"You think so? I thought he wanted me to become a fighter?"

"He wanted both of those, but he'd be proud of you no matter what you did. You do know that, right?" Chi-Chi asked, smiling at her son.

"Yes, I know," Gohan replied, returning the smile. "I'll send you a letter along with Kinto'un when my first week's over and don't worry about me. I'll be fine."

"That's my boy. Now get back on the train." Chi-Chi said, lightly shoving Gohan backs towards his compartment. "I'll wait until you're on your way before I leave."

"You sure you're not going to come running after the train screaming for me to get off it and come back home with you?" Gohan asked, grinning at his mother, who shook her head in an amused way. "You know how to get back to the real world, right?"

"Of course! What do you take me for? I'm you're mother for crying out loud! Now go before I do change my mind!"

"Bye Mom!"

"Goodbye, Gohan!"

As it turned out, Ron and Harry never turned up on the train, to both Hermione's and Ginny's surprise. Ginny said that they had been behind her on the other platform and Hermione had voiced her concerns that the other two boys were avoiding her for some reason or other. Gohan was most concerned about the older boys whereabouts when he saw a flying, blue car outside of his window that matched Ginny's description of her family car. He didn't tell either the girls about it because he didn't want to scare them any more than they already were.

The train ride had been rather uneventful for most of the trip, that is, if you forget the visit Draco Malfoy and his crones paid to them. After he had insulted Harry and Ron, Hermione had told Draco to kindly 'eat dung' and to get out of their compartment before she cursed him. Crabbe and Goyle had cracked their knuckles at that threat-which reminded Gohan greatly of Vegeta in a dangerous mood-but didn't do anything after Hermione threatened to tell Professor McGonagall once she got to the castle.

When they had reached the station, Hermione bade Gohan and Ginny goodbye as they went off with Hagrid for their journey to Hogwarts across the lake. Gohan and Ginny were in the same boat along with two boys by the names of Derek Hince and Jeffery Baracles, who preferred to be called J.B. Gohan made friends with J.B. easily because they shared some of the same interests and it seemed in no time at all that he was standing before the rest of the school, awaiting to be sorted.

"When I call your name, you will put on the hat and sit on the stool to be sorted," Professor McGonagall called, holding out the Sorting Hat. "Avery, Joshua!"

Joshua Avery detached himself from the line of students and stepped forward. McGonagall placed the hat on his head and it only took a few seconds before it called out, "SLYTHERIN!"

One of the four tables in the hall cheered as Joshua went to sit down with them. The next student up "Ayers, Lynette!" was sorted into Ravenclaw.

"What house do you think you'll be in, Gohan?" J.B. asked, turning around to look at Gohan as "Bailey, Viv!" was called up. "I'm hoping for Ravenclaw because that's where my Mum was."

"I don't really mind, as long it's not Slytherin," Gohan said, making a face of disgust.

J.B. nodded, but was called away to be sorted before he could ask another question. It took almost a minute for J.B. to be the first sorted into Gryffindor and then another student went up to the hat.

"What house do you want to be in, Ginny?" Gohan asked, turning around to look at his other friend.

"All of my brothers have been in Gryffindor and so have my parents. I really hope that's where the sorting hat will put me." Ginny replied, looking a little nervous. "I don't know what Mum and Dad would say if I didn't get sorted in there. Are you hoping for a specific house?"

"Not really. My Mom would probably want me to be in Ravenclaw since that where everyone smart is put. I don't know about my Dad…Maybe he'd like me in Hufflepuff, seeing as though that's where all the loyal people go and I'm pretty loyal..."

"Well I hope you'll be happy where ever the sorting hat puts you, Gohan," Ginny said, glancing up as "McDoug, Andrew!" was sorted into Hufflepuff.

"Yeah, hopefully," Gohan muttered, glancing around the Great Hall.

About five minutes later, Professor McGonagall finally called his name. Gohan stepped out of the small line and walked towards the stool. He sat on it and waited as McGonagall placed the hat on his head. After a few seconds, Gohan heard a voice in the back of his head;

Well, well, now…Who have we got here? Son Gohan, eh?

'Um, yes…' Gohan replied, although it felt rather stupid to be talking back to a hat.

Oh, it's not stupid, Mr. Son, and neither are you. You're very smart…Your mother's doing, I suppose? Well, Ravenclaw would be the place for that, but let me see…You have a load of loyalty and a more than healthy amount of courage. You're also very brave and not afraid to sacrifice anything for the well being of your family…Don't like evil very much either, do you?

'Not in the slightest,'Gohan clarified.

The only House that I find suitable for you is GRYFFINDOR!

Gohan heard the hat shout the last name to the whole hall. He took the hat off and walked towards the cheering Gryffindor table. He plopped down next to J.B. and shook hands with some of the older students.

"Well done, Gohan!" Fred Weasley exclaimed, patting him on the back. "We knew you had it in you!"

"Actually," George admitted under his breath. "we had all our fingers crossed under the table and brought one of our good luck charms with us. We thought for sure you'd be a Ravenclaw."

"Thanks…I guess…" Gohan replied as "Weasley, Ginny!" was called and sorted into Gryffindor. There was only one student left in line and he went to Slytherin after the Sorting Hat took a minute or two to decide. Professor McGonagall then took away the Sorting Hat and Professor Dumbledore stood up.

"Welcome, students, to another year of Hogwarts!" Dumbledore said, his blue eyes beaming at all the students in the hall. "I have a few start of the term notices for you that would be best for your well-being if you listened to them. Firstly, all students should take care to note that the Forbidden Forest is exactly how its name states; forbidden."

Gohan noticed that the Weasley twins grinned at each other when Dumbledore said that.

"Secondly, Mr. Filch, the caretaker, has reminded me to remind you that no magic is to be used in the corridors and that several new items have been placed on his list of forbidden objects in the castles.

"Thirdly, Quidditch trails will be held in the second week of the term. Those interested in playing for their house teams should contact Madam Hooch.

"And fourthly, I would like to introduce to you, your new Defense Against The Dark Arts professor, Gilderoy Lockhart."

The blond haired man at the staff table stood up and smiled cheekily to the students. Gohan took notice that it was mostly girls who were clapping for him and that the Slytherin table wasn't clapping at all.

"Now let the feast begin!" Dumbledore called over the applause.

The feast had been amazing and everyone on the Gryffindor table had found it very surprising that Gohan could eat almost everything on the table and still be hungry for dessert.

Gohan had met the other students in his year from Gryffindor, besides J.B. and Ginny. There was Colin Creevy, who was from a Muggle family and he got on Gohan's nerves after only speaking to him for a few minutes. Abianne Maag was a half-blood like J.B. and came from a rich family, but she wasn't snooty about like Draco Malfoy was. Artemus Root was a pure blood and was very entertaining when it came to imitations of Gohan's eating habits. And then there was Clotee Harpern, who was also a pure blood, but she was very shy.

After dinner, Percy Weasley had lead them to Gryffindor tower and showed them where the common room was and their dormitories. Gohan, J.B., and Ginny hung around in the common room after the tour to talk and were interrupted when Harry and Ron finally came through the portrait hole amidst loud cheering and whooping from the older students. Gohan had caught the words 'flying car' and 'Whomping Willow' before he shuffled off the bed, knowing he'd probably hear more about it in the morning.

"What was all the cheering about last night for anyways?" Artemus asked, as he sat down for breakfast. "It woke me up."

"My brother Ron and Harry Potter flew a car into the Whomping Willow," Ginny groaned, face in her hands. "And Professor Dumbledore sent a letter to my Mum about it last night."

"The Whomping Willow?! Are you serious?!" Artemus replied, looking excited, until he saw the grave look on Ginny's face. "Oh dear…"

"What's so bad about that?" Gohan asked, as J.B. sat down next to him.

"Bad about what?" J.B. questioned. "Did I miss something?"

"Not yet, " Artemus said, as the morning post came with hundreds of owls.

Kinto'un landed by Gohan with nothing in his talons, but Gohan offered him something to eat anyway. He was about to pick up his fork and start on his pancakes when Seamus Finnigan called out to the rest of the Gryffindors, "Hey, everyone! Weasley's got himself a Howler!"

Gohan looked up to Ron holding a red envelope with a look of utter terror on his face. Beside him, Harry looked puzzled and Neville was matching Ron's look.

"What's a Howler?" Gohan asked, looking for answers from Ginny, but he found her with her fingers stuffed in her ears and watching her brother open the red envelope.

Suddenly, the whole Hall was filled with Mrs. Weasley's voice, magically magnified so that it was even louder than normal. It was so loud that it made the plates and spoons rattle and probably shook dust of the ceiling. People from other houses were looking around, trying to find who had gotten the Howlers, but Ron had sunken so low in his chair that you could only see his forehead.

"-ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTED-YOUR FATHER'S FACING AN INQUIRY AT WORK, IT'S ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT AND IF YOU PUT ANOTHER TOE OUT OF LINE WE'LL BRING YOU STRAIGHT BACK HOME."

Mrs. Weasley's voice had stopped and a silence fell over the hall as the Howler caught flame and burned into ashes. A few people laughed and eventually the chatter of the Great Hall started up again. Ron had resurfaced above the table and was trying to eat and Hermione had probably told him something along the lines of 'you deserved it' because he was scowling at her.

All Gohan knew after that incident was that Howlers were very bad and that he never, ever wanted his mother to find out about one.

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So ends chapter two! I hope you enjoyed it. Almost all of Gohan's classmates are my original characters. Colin and Ginny are the only ones mentioned from the canon and I just had to go from there.

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