After the first week, Harry was delighted as his private tutors started showing up after normal classes were over. He and Catherine Parker agreed that his idea to recreate the Marauder's Map was an excellent idea for a project to have him learning more new magic. He called Remus and Sirius and together they wrote the list of spells they had used to create the original. Harry immediately set himself to researching and learning the new spells. He got done with his Hogwarts classes and then did the homework for his classes for about two hours. Then to his great delight the tutors Sirius hired arrived and he got two hours of lessons The thing he liked best about his lessons was that while he might have homework in the form of spell research or a project to prepare for he never had papers to write.
The first teacher to arrive was Winry after checking his magic levels (still a little low), Winry started teaching him first aid. The lessons weren't just a review of the muggle first aid he'd learned at S-C but also the introduction of some basic healing spells and spells meant to diagnose and stabilize a critical patient until a trained healer could arrive.
Walter arrived two days later and together they laughed about Snape's idea of teaching potions. Walter helped Harry outline a plan for the study group so Snape's shortfalls as a teacher could be addressed.
The next night George arrived, much to Harry's delight. They had a furious fencing duel in the room of requirement and George made sure that Harry was coping well with the stress of the constant being in the view of the public that came with being a celebrity. He gave Harry an outline of what to expect once Rachel was off medical leave. She would be coming to keep Harry's martial arts up and help him with his advanced transfiguration. Harry requested that those be done not in the evening but in the morning on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. George also informed Harry that that would be the total of his extra lessons at least until the start of next term. As long as his grades were good both with Hogwarts and his tutors he might get more tutors next term.
At the end of the second week Harry used his dad's cloak and slipped into the Slytherin dorm. Harry set up the pranks for the protection of the Slytherin first year's that were his friends belongings. All of them giggled when two days later a dozen Slytherins were sporting mouse noses, whiskers, and ears that for a week that Madame Pomfrey was unable to dispel. Snape while furious about the prank was even more furious to discover the reason for the prank and the "nosy" Slytherins ended up with detention all term.
Three weeks into term the older students of the school were puzzled and four weeks in they were positively dumbfounded. Professor Snape was generally hated by every house but his own; mostly due to the fact the man was unfairness personified in class and out. But for some reason he had ceased insulting his students in class. (Although outside of it he was as insulting as ever.) He was, however, giving out points (very rarely) and taking them away (frequently) with an even handedness that was actually in line with the school rules, and no one could figure out why.
Rodger Davies noticed however that during class Snape would gather up as if to pour his previously normal vitriol over a student but he would get a pained expression and would suddenly clam up.
The Slytherins were concerned over what had happened to their Head of House and were very concerned about how they would gain the House cup at this rate. A few of the more enterprising members of fifth and sixth years decided that there was no help for it, if they wanted the house cup they would have to earn it. They bullied the younger years to achieve that end, not that many of the first years required it.
By the end of September the majority of the first years who had participated had decided that the weekend study sessions were wonderful. They were helpful, informative and fun. Keeping one's mouth shut on insults about blood purity or house was a small price to pay when you got so much help. They were learning how to structure essays, how to reason their way through a homework problem, how to properly prepare potion ingredients, and how to resolve conflicts between them. Snacks were usually served late in the meeting just when hunger started to hit and while not a large amount it was usually just enough to tide one over until dinner in the Great Hall.
The study group guidance committee was made up of Susan Bones and Dean Thomas of Gryffindor, Draco Malfoy and Millicent Bullstrode of Slytherin, Hannah Abbott and Justin Finch-Fletchley of Hufflepuff and Lisa Turpin and Terry Boot of Ravenclaw. Although Zacharias Smith had run against him, Harry got the overall elected position. The group decided that Harry's position should hold for a year but that the committee members from the houses would be chosen at the beginning of each school term. The teachers took turns being faculty monitor but found their presence wasn't really needed. Harry's demonstration at the first meeting made it clear that the rules would be enforced and not by a teacher.
Harry thought he had completed the Marauder's Map version 2.0 as the third week of October came to an end. It was time to test and see if he had done it. He was in the mostly deserted common room, taking out his wand he touched the parchment and said, "I solemnly swear I am up to no good." He smiled with delight as the map drew itself . His eyes sparkled as he observed the dots moving about . He smiled to see a purple unnamed dots that indicated the house elves . Humans were black. Familiars and pets were green.
Next he decided to test the improvements. "Enlarge Hufflepuff ." The map showing the whole castle shrank and the section that centered on Hufflepuff enlarged. It was now easier to see the names the dots indicated. Names were appearing next to the pets now. "Enlarge Ravenclaw." Well that worked. "Enlarge the dungeons." Harry was very pleased to see that the spell that would fill in areas of the castle he had not been too was doing its job. If he had the map he would not get lost anywhere in the castle.
Now to see if the upgraded spell that gave passwords would work, "Enlarge Headmaster's tower." He could see that Dumbledore was pacing around his office he tapped his wand on the symbol that marked the gargoyle that guarded the Headmaster's quarters. "Password" sure enough pumpkin pasties appeared. As he returned the map to the state where it showed the whole school, he noticed that the Room of Requirement didn't appear and the map didn't show the Chamber of Secrets either. He figure that Salazar had set secrecy spells on the chamber and that the Room's changing nature made it hard to map. He would have to find or create additional spells for those areas.