"Mr. Potter if you and Mr. Black paid half of much time on your studies as you do on girls I have no doubt that you would be able to pass your O.W.L.s with outstandings." Professor McGonagall sighed as she looked at the two boys. She couldn't help but smile inwardly at their attempts to justify their time management skills and why they had couldn't spend as much time studying. Normally she didn't have favorite students but James Potter and his friends were close. As was Lily Evans. They were all such good kids.
Minerva rubbed her eyes as she sat and watched her class doing the days work. And there in the middle of the class was the cause of her constant flashback to days gone by. The constant reminder of a few of her favorite students. They weren't all the best academically. Each of them had their strong points. And their differences from each other were what drew them together as a group and strengthened their friendship.
Harry James Potter, the spiting image of his father with the eyes of his mother the living ghost of James and Lily. He and his friends were just as troublesome as the marauders had been.
"Mr. Potter if you and Mr. Weasley would pay attention more often in your classes you wouldn't need to bother Miss Granger as much." The strange sense of déjà vu returned yet again. It had become an almost everyday occurrence when Harry, Ron, and Hermione were involved. Nor was she the only one of the professors to be pick up on all the similarities in the kids of then and now.
It seems that history was set on repeating itself once again. Minerva wasn't sure if she was capable of going through it all over again. It had broken her heart when she heard about James and Lily being murdered by He-who-must-not-be-named. Then Sirius Black being killed, now here they were another great war has broken out. Hopefully it would be the last. She would try her hardest to protect as many as she could. And she would die a thousand times over before she let any more harm befall Harry and his friends. This time it would all end differently. Voldemort had greatly misjudged them all one too many times.
