The Path to Judge Chapter 2, a harry potter fanfic

Ok so here is the revised chapter 2. Enjoy.

Chapter Two: And the Classes Begin

The Great Hall filled quickly the next morning, everyone ready for the start of the new school year. Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way to their usual seats. Everyone waited as their Head of Houses delivered the schedules to their students as they proceeded to eat breakfast.

"Mr. Potter." Harry looked over his shoulder to see McGonagall behind him. "You'll be pleased to know the changes have been made. Also, Ms. Granger, I would ask you to lend Harry a hand with his studies. He'll need the help if he is to catch up to this year's studies." Hermione and Harry nodded as they took their schedules and looked them over while Ron looked to them questioningly.

"Harry, what was she talking about?" Harry looked up and showed him his time sheet.

"I'm not taking Divination this year. I got some advice to switch to Runes from Padfoot since my mother was very good at the subject. Thought I might give it a shot instead of always having my death predicted." Ron frowned but nodded.

"I guess. Hey, you guys have Foreign Magics first thing this morning! It doesn't say with who though. I got Divination." Harry and Hermione smiled and hurried to finish their breakfast.

"Are you sure this is a good idea? I mean, this seems a bit extreme my friend." A cloaked woman asked the Judge Magister as the man waited for his first class.

"Don't worry about it, Kiri. I am merely showing them what a judge can do. It should prove to them not to cross me." The cloaked woman nodded.

"Very well. Where's Tink?" behind his helm Gabranth smirked.

"Delivering a message to the staff and students."

"Excuse me!" A small ball of light entered the great hall and shouted as it reached the staff table. Tink's shout went unheard, causing a tick mark to form on her forehead in annoyance. Taking a deep breath, she lifted a finger.

BANG

The entire great hall jumped at the explosion and Tink smiled. "HEY LISTEN UP!" Everyone turned to the front where Tink was smirking. "Thank you. Now, I would like to deliver a message from Judge Magister Gabranth to all the staff and students. We would like to apologize in advance for any and all disturbances, explosions and potential cries of surprise that may happen throughout the year. Also, to the students that will be learning from us, please note that we are not responsible for your screw ups if you can't listen to instructions. For those who have Foreign Magics first thing this morning, please meet out at the Quidditch field for class. Thank you and see you all in class!" the fairy vanished in a burst of light. Harry looked to Hermione and vice versa before both hurried for the common room to gather their books.

"So, Tink, you delivered the message?" Kiri asked as she watched the fairy smirk and cross her arms.

"Of course I did! Did you really think I wouldn't be able to do it?" Kiri chuckled, a cloud of mist leaving the shadows of her hood.

"Of course not. I just want to see how many of them don't listen to you." Kiri turned towards the castle to see a group of kids walking onto the field. "Ah, they've arrived my dear. I guess I better leave now. I hope you'll come back to see us during Christmas. Have fun." The cloaked woman exploded into mist before the very eyes of the students, leaving them stunned.

"Good morning everyone." Tink called out with a smile. Once entire class assembled, Tink gave a kind smile. "I know your all wondering what we're doing here but trust me when I say that it will all become clear soon. Now, I'm going to take roll. While that is going on, I want you all to fill out this form." With a snap of her fingers, a single sheet of parchment appeared in everyone's hands while a table the length of one found in the Great Hall appeared before them.

Harry looked over the form with an understanding eye. The form was simple with only a few questions, the main one asking to list all of the styles the person filling the form out wanted to learn. Harry and Hermione walked up to the table and started to fill out the form with the many other students. Once Tink had finished the attendance she waited for everyone to finish up with their forms before speaking again.

"Alright everyone, if you are finished just place them on the table. It's time to show you what you might be dealing with." Tink turned around and snapped her fingers, everyone watching as a giant slab of earth shot up from the ground. Tink smirked and quickly retreated from the hundred foot tall slab of earth.

"Amazing! A creature so small being able to summon such a large object!" A random Ravenclaw called out.

"Such is the power of Fairies." Everyone looked around for the muffled voice. "Up here." Everyone looked to the top of the giant slab to see their teacher standing atop of the earth. He crouched and jumped landing before an entire class of shocked teens. "Fairies have great control over nature, able to turn the most harmless flower into a deadly weapon should it be needed. Now, who here believes I can cleave this wall of earth in half without using any spells?" All the purebloods rose their hands while a few half bloods did as well.

"Professor, to do something like that would need inhuman strength! I mean no offense but I highly doubt you could do it." Hermione called out and Gabranth chuckled.

"What's your name?'

"Hermione Granger, Professor."

"I see. Well, Ms. Granger, your right, it would take inhuman strength to cleave such a thing. However, you are also wrong." It was so fast everyone almost missed it as Gabranth swiftly turned, unsheathing his sword and slashed vertically down the middle. He turned and sheathed his sword as a loud bang was heard and the exact area he slashed was suddenly gone, showing a clean cut all the way through.

"Can anyone tell me how I just did that?" the Judge asked the class and everyone shook their heads. He smirked beneath his helmet. "What about you Ms. Granger?" The girl shook her head. "Very well. What I had done was I channeled my magic into my sword and used it to sharpen my sword. My magic was able to make my sword so sharp that what you see behind me is the result."

"Now, for the rest of the class period I will answer any questions you might have and give some demonstrations of the many magics I know. Also, you will address me as Your Honor or by my title. Now, who has the first question?" And thus began the new year. The entire class started asking questions. Asking to see something they might be learning or something that could be possible with what he had shown. Gabranth answered each and every question, even asking some of his own to some of the students.

When the class was close to ending, Gabranth turned to the two halves of earth and with a single snap of his own fingers, the two halves exploded while Tink created a barrier to protect the students from the falling debris.

"I will see you all next Monday in our assigned classroom. I want everyone to study their books. However, do NOT attempt any of the magic until our next class. Now hurry along." The class dispersed slowly as Gabranth looked to Tink, who had taken up a spot on the table. "So, what do we got?"

"Well, a large group has shown interest in the weapon arts. A few people have chosen the Asian Mind Arts, the Granger girl one of them. Oh, wow, someone chose German Alchemy that could be interesting. Another group chose Japanese Sealing and oh my!"

"What is it?" Tink looked up with a smirk.

"Two of them are taking on multiple arts. They will be busy with us." Gabranth came and picked up the two forms that Tink was reading and the Judge read the two lists.

"Well, these two will be an interesting pair to teach. Arcane, White, Black, Aer and Sealing arts. I get the distinct feeling an old friend of ours is the reason behind these different arts for the two." Tink nodded and returned to looking through the forms, frowning when she reached another student's form. "Shadow Arts." Gabranth looked over his shoulder at the tiny girl.

"Remember Tink, there is no such thing as Dark and Light when it comes to magic, only the user is defined as Dark or Light. Now, have any chosen creature magic?" Tink nodded.

"A few have chosen plant, elf and fairy magic." Gabranth nodded.

"Very well, we shall take care of those starting next week."

Harry and Hermione reached the dungeons where Ron and Potion classes awaited them. Ron spotted them and frowned. "What kept you guys!?" Harry and Hermione blinked in confusion and looked to each other then back at Ron.

"Ron, we just got out of class. Honestly, you don't know what you're missing by not taking this class." Hermione told him and Ron's face twisted in disgust.

"I wouldn't learn any magic not ours. Now come on before Snape decides to take points from us." Harry rolled his eyes and followed the two into the classroom. Harry took his spot next to Hermione just as Snape walked into the classroom.

"Take out your books and turn to two hundred and ten." Snape snarled at the class as he approached his desk. He turned to the class and glared at the entire class before landing on Harry Potter. "POTTER!"

"Yes sir?" And thus class began as it had the last few years.

Harry, Hermione and Ron walked into the Great Hall for dinner that day and were joined in by the twins.

"You three," Fred began.

"Are in for," George cut in.

"A very good DADA Class." The two finished together. Harry grinned at the twin's habit of speaking.

"How's that?" Ron asked before shoving a whole bunch of food into his mouth. The twins grinned before speaking once more.

"Well, our dear brother,"

"You'll just have to wait and see."

"His class was amazing though, wasn't it?"

"Aye, my hansom twin, it was very informative."

"Too true, Fred, too true."

"Anyway, how did your Foreign Magics go?" Harry chuckled as Hermione went into a complete explanation of the class while he looked around the Great Hall. His eyes landed on Judge Gabranth talking to Dumbledore. Harry saw the old wizard frowning more and more before finally nodding. The Judge Magister quickly made his way out of the Great Hall.

"Harry?" The boy turned to Hermione and saw her and the twins looking at him with curious stares.

"Huh what?"

"We asked what subjects you took for your Foreign Magic." Harry rubbed the back of his neck.

"Oh, sorry about that. I chose White, Black and Green Mage Magicks from Japan." The three nodded while Ron froze in place, his fork inches from his mouth.

"Fred and I are taking Hindu Mind Arts."

"I'm taking Mind Magic Arts of Asia." Hermione repeated the class she had told Harry and Ron while they were on the train. The twins looked to Ron and saw him with a disgusted scowl.

"I'm not taking the useless course. Just means more work." Harry rolled his eyes as he ate his meal. "Oh well, I can't wait till Friday though. We'll finally get to see just what has the two of you praising Moody for anyway." The group sighed and the night carried on.

It was Friday afternoon and the fourth year Gryffindor and Slytherin students were finally getting to their Defense Against the Dark Arts class. Moody limped into class with his usual scowl on his face as everyone started to remove their books. "Put those away. You won't need them." Moody barked out as he reached the front of the classroom. He turned to the class with a roll of parchment and started to call off names. He paused as he called Harry's and looked at the boy for a few seconds before continuing.

"Alright everyone, from the notes that Lupin left me it seems that you've covered Dark Creatures but not very many curses. So this year, I will be bringing you up to speed. You have to know what you could possibly be up against should another Dark Lord rise to power. CONSTANT VIGILANCE!" The man roared and the entire class jumped. "That is the key to everything. Being aware of your surroundings can save your life."

"Now, today, we'll be covering a few curses. Can anyone tell me what curses were used during Voldemort's," the entire class save Harry flinched at the name, "last reign of power?" Hermione's hand shot up from the desk. Moody looked to her with his normal eye as his magical one looked to the parchment in his hands. "Yes?"

"The Unforgivable Three, Professor." Moody nodded.

"Ms. Granger I presume?" The girl nodded. "Professor Lupin spoke very highly of you Ms. Granger. Calls you the brightest witch of your year." Hermione blushed as Moody placed the roll of parchment on the desk. "You are correct of course. Now, who can tell me which curses are considered the Unforgivables?" A few hands shot up and Moody chose one at random which happened to be Ron.

"The Imperius Curse." Moody nodded again with a wicked smirk.

"Ah yes, the controlling curse. I suspect you're Arthur Weasley's boy so it's no wonder you would know that curse. It gave the Ministry a lot of trouble during the war. Being able to control someone's mind was a favorite pastime of the Death Eaters." Moody brought out a jar and everyone saw three spiders crawling around inside it. Moody reached in and grabbed on of the spiders before enlarging it a bit. "Imperio." Moody started to have the spider do all sorts of tricks making the children laugh before he sent the spider falling to it's death from an open window.

"Think it's funny do you?" Moody growled. "Being able to control someone's mind and have them commit a murder for you and frame them or even send them jumping to their deaths make it funny? What if that was you? I could turn each and every one of you all against each other and then we'll see just how funny it could be!" He shouted to the class, getting his point across. "Now, who knows another one?" Moody saw a hesitant hand raise from Neville and nodded. "You behind Ms. Granger. Go ahead."

"The . . . pain curse. Cruciatus Curse." Every eye turned to Neville and Moody nodded.

"You must be Neville Longbottom, correct?" The boy nodded. "I knew your parents, boy. Terrible what happened to them. They were great Aurors, some of the best. Took many Death Eaters with them." Moody reached into the jar once again and enlarged the spider before pointing his wand at it. "Crucio!" The man growled and the spider started screeching in pain, rolling onto its back. The entire class watched for what seemed like minutes but was only barely half a minute before Hermione yelled out.

"Professor stop!" Moody looked up and saw Neville with his hands gripping the desk with everything he had. Moody stopped the curse and banished the spider to god knows where.

"Pain! Unimaginable pain. That is what this curse does. In the old days, this was used as punishment in the household and as a way of torture before the Ministry classified it as an Unforgivable. Now, there is one more. Who can tell… Yes Ms. Granger?"

"The Killing Curse. Avada Kedavra." Moody nodded and pulled out the last spider just as he had done to the other two and pointed his wand at the spider.

"Avada Kedavra." The man growled and everyone watched as a green light hit the spider and it fell to the desk unmoving. "A painless and quick death, that is all that this curse offers those that are on the receiving end. However, it takes great power and intent to cast this curse. Any of you can cast it at me now and I doubt I'd get so much as a nosebleed. However, with the right amount of power you can kill your target. It's quick, painless and unblockable. The only person that has survived the curse is sitting right in front of me." Everyone's look turned to Harry as Moody banished the spider.

"Why am I showing you all of this? Because you have to know. The Ministry believes that no one will use these curses but I am not so stupid. I am teaching you all of this because you've got to know. You have to see what you would be up against. You... NEED TO PUT THAT AWAY WHEN I AM SPEAKING MS BROWN!" Moody roared at the girl and she jumped, putting the magazine she was showing to Pavarti away in her bag. "Constant Vigilance is the key to it all. Now, I want everyone to stand up and move to the back of the room. For the rest of the class period, I will cast the Imperius Curse on you so you can tell what it feels like and learn to fight it off." Everyone stood and moved but Hermione jumped out of her seat with a shocked look.

"But Professor! It's against the law! Surely you'd-"

"Ms. Granger I have Dumbledore's and Judge Magister Gabranth's permission to do this. However, if you don't wish to participate, there is the door." Moody pointed to the door while Hermione blushed, muttering something under her breath before joining Harry and Ron at the back of the room. "Now, I will call you all up one at a time and will cast the Imperius. Try to resist it if you can everyone."

The class went on, Moody making everyone do ridiculous acts making everyone laugh silently. Once Harry was called up Moody looked to the boy with a pointed glance. "Are you ready, Potter?" Harry nodded and Moody pointed his wand at the boy. "Imperio."

"Jump on the desk." Harry heard a voice in the back of his mind tell him before another spoke up. 'What's the point? What good would it do?' "Jump on the DESK!" Harry gritted his teeth together, resisting the urge to be commanded. For what felt like hours but were only a minute, Harry tried to fight off the curse, struggling to keep his body under his control. Moody smirked to the boy and lifted the curse after two more minutes of watching the boy fight it.

"Very good, Potter." Moody muttered and looked to the rest of the class. "Did you all see what Potter has just done? He nearly beat the Imperius Curse while the rest of you put up little to no fight! If I were to cast it on Potter again, he would shake the curse off even faster then he did his first time!" The class continued on with everyone going under the curse a few more times until class had ended. "Five points to Gryffindor for each correct answer and another ten for your good work Potter on fight the Imperius. Mr. Longbottom, please stay with me, lad." The class emptied and Harry, Ron and Hermione made their way down to the great hall for dinner.

"That was excellent! I can't wait for the next class. Harry, how did you resist the curse so greatly?" Hermione asked the boy and he shrugged.

"I'm not sure Hermione. Listen, I'll meet you two in the great hall later for dinner. I'm going to go send a letter out with Hedwig and then I might study one of my mage books." Harry hurried off for the owlery while Hermione and Ron headed for the dormitory.

"War Chief Ragnok!" Griphook burst into the room with sweat covering his face. The goblin behind the desk looked up with a glare and put his quill to the side.

"What is it Griphook?" the goblin held up a roll of parchment.

"You need to take a look at this sire. Four vaults have just been reactivated after I started a heritage test for Harry James Potter. I ran the test three times and the results came up the same." He handed the parchment to the head goblin and watched as Ragnok read it, his eyes going wide with each second that passed. "Close the bank! Get everyone that is not an employee out of here right NOW!" Griphook nodded and rushed out of the room as Ragnok looked over the inheritance of Harry James Potter.

"All hell is going to break loose if this gets out to the public. Amazing though that he would be a descendant of all four of them." Ragnok got out of his chair and started for the lobby. He watched as warrior goblins escorted (threw) wizards and witches out of the bank before everything settled and looked around. "GRIPHOOK!" The goblin came running to the leader and bowed. "Come, we must visit the vaults to check on the activations. This cannot be made public for some time." Griphook nodded and followed Ragnok to the cart.

So that's chapter two as promised. Feel free to ask any questions you may have.