doing actual work at school
Alexander never slept better. A full meal, surrounded by friends. Alexander felt at home.
Of course, his sleep had to be interrupted by the thing he actually came to Hogwarts for. Education.
"Alexander, wake up, you're going to miss the food." John was shaking him awake.
"Food?" He stirred awake. He opened his eyes and they met with John's eyes. Pretty.
"Yes, food, now come on we'll be late," Lafayette said from they bed. They was already dressed and ready to go.
"Dressed to impress, I see," said Alex. "What, some special lady you met in your short time here?"
"Yes, actually. That Angelica Schuyler, very pretty, maybe I can flirt my way into her graces?"
John and Alex laughed.
The trio made their way to the Great Hall. They met with the Schuyler Sisters and Hercules. Apparently, the students were supposed to sit with their house, but John was having none of that.
"Segregation," he said scathingly. "Is one of the stupidest things I ever heard. Who cares what they say, I want to sit with my friends."
They found a spot, at the end of the Gryffindor table. They ate their breakfast, talked, and compared schedules. Lafayette complained about the bread.
"Ew, this toast. Back in France, we have the best, flaky, warm baguettes," they said.
"I bet you sure did have fun shoving those baguettes up your ass," retorted Alex. They laughed.
"Oh, so witty and original of you, Alexander! Telling someone to shove something up their ass! Never heard it before," Angelica said. Oh, Angelica. Sarcastic, witty, pretty, and savage as fuck.
"I can see why you're not in Hufflepuff," said Eliza.
It was a shame that they weren't all in the same classes. Alexander had the same classes with John and Lafayette (obviously, they were in the same house). He had Herbology with the Hufflepuffs, flying and potions with Hercules, and Defense Against the Dark Arts and Astronomy with the Ravenclaws. Transfiguration, History of Magic, and Charms he had with his own house.
While they were talking, Thomas Jefferson walked by, accompanied with Aaron Burr and James Madison. Burr? Hanging out with Jefferson? Honestly, Alex was disappointed.
"What the hell are you guys doing sitting together? You know you're supposed to sit with your own house," Jefferson said. "Honestly, no respect for your house," he muttered. Asshole.
"I will fight you!" said Alexander. There are millions, no trillions of nerves in the human body and some people have the ability to just get on every single one of them.
"Hold on, Hold on!" Someone yelled. Prefect Washington. "Jefferson, back off. Go to your own table!"
"Oh, shit that's my table," Alex thought he heard Washington mutter. "You're going to lose points for our house, or I thought you had respect for your own house."
"Who is that," Lafayette said appreciatively.
"Some prefect," said John.
"What the hell is a prefect," asked Lafayette.
"They basically babysit us. Kinda like a mom or dad friend," said Angelica.
"I would love to have him call me daddy," said Lafayette.
John choked on his pumpkin juice.
Monday
First, they had Charms, taught by Professor Filius Flitwick. He was very nice, and tolerant of Alexander and his friend's 'nanigans. While they were there, John and Alex got time to tease Lafayette about virtually everything.
"So, how did your escapades with Angelica go," John asked Lafayette once, while Flitwick was teaching them about Levitation.
"It's no hope! You didn't warn me," said Lafayette. "Why didn't you guys warn me?"
"We thought it would be funny," said Alex.
When they were practicing the levitation charm, Lafayette levitated Alex's books to hit them on the head.
Next, they had History of Magic. Eternally boring.
Alexander tried his best to listen to pay attention, but John kept passing notes to Alexander.
"You-Know-Who was the supreme monarch of the wizarding world......."
This is so boring, Alex, the note read. Alexander loved the way John signed his name.
"As you should know, the Ministry of Magic broke off from You-Know-Who's reign......"
Yeah, but I should probably pay attention. I want to have a future, you know? Alex wrote back. He did need to do well in school, he didn't have any rich family members to depend on.
"In the Battle of Yorktown, the last major battle between You-Know-Who and the Ministry of Magic......"
Come on Alex! You're probably going to ace this! Let me tell you about quidditch or something, John's note said.
"You-Know-Who is not dead, and his whereabouts are unknown. Some may speculate that he....."
Okay then, Alex replied. He couldn't say no to John. Never. He was helpless.
They had lunch with the Revolutionary Crew (Lafayette invited the Schuyler sisters into their group, and they agreed).
McGonagall made an announcement. "The Third Floor is off limits, unless you want to die a horrible and painful death."
"You should go there sometime," said Angelica.
"If I'm going, I'm dragging your sisters with me."
No hope, Lafayette mouthed from across the table.
"You know what I don't understand," said Lafayette one time. "How you and John, and Peggy and Herc became virtually attacked at the hip. I mean, I've known John longer than you, and he's never looked at me like that!"
John blushed. "Peggy and Herc?" he asked.
"Yes, Peggy and Herc," they said. "Quick to take the attention off of you, huh? No, but Peggy and Herc have been sneaking around, finding secrets, just ruining people's lives in all."
"Ruining people's lives? I'm kinda proud of them," said Angelica.
Next, they had Transfiguration, taught by Professor McGonagall.
"I thought she was supposed to do Headmistress stuff," said Alex.
"I think she keeps teaching Transfig cause she likes doing that," said John. "And then when she's really busy with Headmistress stuff, someone else will step in."
That class they learned about the Transfiguration alphabet. It was also the first class Alexander got in trouble for.
"Five points from Gryffindor for speaking out of turn and being disrespectful."
"But I didn't even-"
"Mr. Hamilton."
"Yes, maam."
Lafayette clapped him on the back during passing period. "Good job with that, I'm surprised that it took so long for you to get in trouble."
"You are the worst."
Defense Against the Dark Arts! Sounds fun right? It's like learning to kill people, but simultaneously learning how to not be killed. Well, you would be able to learn those things if you had a competent teacher.
Unfortunately, Alexander and his friends did not.
The class was taught by a Charles Lee.
Arrogant, anti-charismatic, basically a national embarrassment Charles Lee, Alexander thought. Charles Lee was horrible at his job. He was obsessed with himself, maybe even more than Lafayette, and thought he was so good at what he did. He wasn't.
10 minutes in, and Alexander was sick of it.
"Excuse me," he said, raising his hand. "When are you going to stop praising yourself, and maybe teach us? About Defense Against the Dark Arts? Or are you so incompetent that you don't know how to do that, either?"
"Alexander," Angelica murmured warningly. But she was in Ravenclaw? Didn't her house want to learn about stuff, not deal with Lee's praises.
"I'm sorry, first year," Lee spit out. "But I'll have you know that I have received the Order of Merlin award, the Third Class award, the ........."
He droned on and on. Alexander was outlining his side of the debate in his head, when he felt a hand on his arm.
"Alexander," John said. "Not now. I know that he's a polymath, a massive pain in the ass, but don't get in trouble for something so stupid like this."
Alexander emerged from that class relatively unscathed, with losing only a few (50) house points.
Tuesday
Alexander woke up in time for the mail. It was quite magnificent, with owls flying everywhere dropping packages off to students. Alexander actually got a package. It contained a silvery, shimmery cloak.
"Oh, that's an invisibility cloak!" said Angelica when she first saw it. Peggy and Hercules stared at it with their mouths open. They started whispering to each other frantically. Lord knows what they were talking about.
"That's nice, but who the fuck sent it to me," said Alexander. He didn't have any relatives other than his mother, brother and his mom was too poor- oh, it was from his mother.
"From your mother and friends on St. Croix," Alexander read from a note. "I found this when looking through your father's things. I assumed it was magical so I sent it to you. Love from me and Philip. Don't forgot to write."
"That's pretty awesome," noted John.
"Yeah."
They had Charms first, again.
Next, they had Herbology with the Hufflepuffs. It was taught by a Neville Longbottom. A bit clumsy, but endearing nonetheless.
That class was very hands on, and they worked repotting some plants. While they worked, Eliza, John, Lafayette, and Alex discussed uses for the invisibility cloak.
"You could use it to spy on the girls in the bathroom," Alexander said. John looked dejected at this, Lafayette laughed, and Eliza swatted his arm.
"You can be such a fuckboy sometimes," she said. "Use it for what you love a lot, maybe even more than John. Use it to sneak into the restricted section in the library."
"Eliza, we've known you for what? 2 days now, and we've been such a bad influence on you," said John.
"I didn't learn to kick ass from you, I learned it from my sister," she said affectionately.
Of course.
Herbology was pretty good. Alex managed to win some points for Gryffindor by being an absolute know-it-all.
"Can any of you tell me what a mandrake is?" Professor Longbottom said once.
Cue the 20 minute lecture about mandrakes, courtesy of Alexander Hamilton.
Professor Longbottom looked a bit taken back by this, but then, "You remind me of a friend of mine. Ten points to Gryffindor."
It was nice to not be completely hated by a teacher for once, Alexander thought.
Lunch. The usual. They discussed Quidditch tryouts.
"There are a lot of spots open on the teams," said Angelica. "They had to let first years try out. Try outs are next week."
Transfiguration. The usual. Gryffindor actually gained points. Because Lafayette already learned the material in Beauxbatons.
"Oh, where would you be without me?" he said dramatically at the end of class.
Fucking drama queen.
DADA, horrible as usual. Alexander didn't lose as many points as last time (he lost 45). He figured that he should just zone out during class, and pass by just cramming from textbooks.
"20 points from Gryffindor for not paying attention!"
Yeah.
Wednesday
Wednesday was basically the same as Tuesday, but with Astronomy at midnight.
"I'm so fucking tired," John said at one point. He looked over to Alex. Alexander looked fine, like he was fully rested and could go another 2 days. "How are you- how are you-"
"So awake?" Alex said.
"Yeah, that...."
"I'm used to not sleeping."
"Well, I'm not. Mind if I sleep and copy everything from you later?"
"Na, go ahead."
They spent the rest of the class curled up next to each other.
Thursday
Another day like Tuesday, except they had flying with the Slytherins. John was perfect at flying (of course).
"How did you do so well on your first try?" Alex asked him.
"Back in South Carolina, we used to fly around all the time," John said.
"Cheater."
Lafayette was also amazing.
"Back in France-"
"Lafayette, you must understand that NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT WHAT YOU DID IN FRANCE," Hercules yelled.
"You love me," Lafayette said sweetly.
"I will regret the day we met for the rest of my days-"
"You love me."
"You know how to speak French," Jefferson asked Lafayette at one point.
"Yeah, he's fluent in French like YOU ARE FLUENT IN TALKING SHIT JEFFERSON."
"Alexander, calm down."
Alexander was passable with his flying skills. Even that was a bit of an exaggeration.
"Dude, you are shit at flying," Hercules said one time. It wasn't fair. Almost all of his friends were amazing at it and he was shit at flying.
"I hate you."
"You love me."
"I hate you."
Friday
They had Potions with the Slytherins first. It was taught by Professor Samuel Seabury. Seabury was the most incompetent, uneducated, little piece of shit Alexander had ever met. It was a double block, too. Double the pain.
So, Alexander did what he did best. Contradict Seabury's every move, threaten to fight him, and start a completely irrelevant class discussion that took up the better part of the period.
"Mr. Hamilton, if you know so much about Potion, why don't you teach this class," Seabury said mockingly.
Alexander stood up and made his way to the front of the class. "I was wondering when you were going to say that. So, I'll talk about bezoars today. Bezoars are-"
"Mr. Hamilton, go back to your seat."
"Are you sure, I mean I can probably get this lecture through and maybe start on aconite-"
"SIT DOWN!"
Gryffindor lost all of their House Points by the end of that class.
"We made it through the week!" John said, as they were going to bed.
"Fuck you talking about, I already got like 5 detentions from Seabury and lost almost all of our house points one time," Alex replied.
"Shut up and go to sleep. I need my beauty sleep. And you guys, you guys really need your beauty sleep," said Lafayette.
John and Alex threw a pillow at them.
"SORRY TO BRUISE YOUR OH-SO-PERFECT FACE, GLIBERT."