Author's Note: In this chapter you will encounter sarcastic marauders, an angry auror, Hagrid with a strange creature, and James looking like an idiot, sort of. Hope you enjoy chapter 2!

Disclaimer: Don't own Harry Potter, or Deathly Hallows wouldn't have been the end.

The room was wide, half filled with twenty-eight big school desks arranged in four rows, the front half had a black board against the wall, a mannequin, a large open area to the left side of the front, and a wide table with books and four stacks of papers on it's surface. Ron ushered them in quickly getting them all to sit in the front three rows. They were surprised to see a kid that couldn't have been out of Hogwarts at his death sit down. Ron nervously went to the front of the room.

"Just as an introduction, in the next three hours you will be brought up to speed by five well respected professionals at their fields. After three of the lectures you will be tested on what you know, in order to be allowed to roam freely you must pass all three along with having a background check from an auror while using veritaserum to assure you tell the truth." Ron rattled off.

"My job is to teach the history of the war, because we have two people who have been dead twenty-four years I will begin at the beginning, and there will be a test. As we all know twenty-four years ago Voldemort was creating chaos. That year a prophecy was made about Voldemort's downfall. Only three people have heard it, but to some affect it said the boy that had been born at the end of July the year before to parents who had defied the dark lord three times would have the power to defeat him." Ron began growing more comfortable.

He continued, "Only two people fit the prophecy, Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom. Voldemort heard about the prophecy and assumed it to be Harry thinking he would be the larger threat. So on October 31 he went to Godric's Hallow, killed James, then Lily, but when he attempted to kill Harry an ancient magic involving sacrifice reversed the spell. It did not kill Voldemort because Voldemort had five horcruxes already, and since he was attempting to make a horcrux with Harry's death Harry was made into the horcrux leaving him with a lightning shaped scar."

"For ten years Voldemort was assumed dead, but reappeared as a shadow of a soul that was being cared for by Quirrel, and was defeated by Harry in his frst year. He was gone for another two, supposedly living in his dead father's old house. At the end of Harry's fourth year Voldemort used harry to resurrect his body, it wasn't until a year later that the ministry found out that Voldemort was really back. That year the D.A., a younger version of the Order was created to fight Voldemort."

"The first year of what became the second war Voldemort regained his large number of death eaters, infiltrated Hogwarts, and at the end of that year Dumbledore died-"

"He was murdered." Sirius interrupted.

Ron looked up questioningly at Dumbledore, who nodded, "Dumbledore was killed on his own orders by a trusted Order member, it was all planned. The Summer following his death Voldemort took over the Ministry using the Imperious Curse, and made attendance at Hogwarts mandatory, put a double agent on our side in the position of Hogwarts headmaster, and replaced the Defense Against dark Arts classes with Dark Arts classes putting deatheaters as teachers. "

"That year should have been me, Harry and Hermione Granger's seventh year, but we skipped and hunted the Horcruxes, the last was at Hogwarts where the final battle began. During the battle Harry went to Voldemort in the dark forest, Harry is the only one who truly knows what happened there, but the horcrux in him was destroyed. In a final dual with Voldemort when all of his Horcruxes were destroyed Harry killed him. Are there any questions?"

"What are Horcruxes?" Fred asked.

"Horcruxes are objects that contain the soul of someone who used the blood of another to seal his soul in the object. While part of your soul is alive you cannot be killed in your body. To destroy a Horcrux you must destroy the object, fiend fire and basilisk blood work, as does Avada Kadavra if it is a human or animal that is the horcrux."

No one raised a hand or spoke out with a question so Ron moved on, "And now for the test, ten easy questions, you have to get eight to pass." With a casual flick of his wand one of the stacks of paper distributed itself to the people in the room. After about ten minutes Ron stopped them and collected the parchment and told them to wait for the next person.

It was less than five minutes before the door open again, this time a woman came in. She was a bit shorter than Ron and her wavy brown hair hung down nearly to her waist, she wore a similar cloak to Ron, only hers was a deep blue. Brushing her hair out of her fast she began talking briskly, "My name is Hermione Gra-, Hermione Weasley, Ron is my husband." She reminded herself, "My job is to teach you about the changes made after the second war, there will be a twenty question test, you will be able to miss only three."

"The minister since the war has been Kingsley Shacklebolt, who in most people's opinion is better than the previous three. Then again, he is the only one who has a brain and isn't being controlled by Voldemort (several people chuckled to her surprise). He and Harry have both put forth tremendous effort to fix what Voldemort destroyed. They actually invented this program so you guys didn't end up dying again."

"Several other things have been changed, most noticeable is that Azkaban is no longer guarded by dementors. Dementors have been deemed inhumane, even for law breakers. Most have been destroyed so only a handful remain. Also, the headmaster of Hogwarts must be decided by the Wizengamont, which now has just thirty people on the committee and is overseen by Kinsley who votes only in case of ties. Current Hogwarts headmaster is Minerva McGonagall, and her assistant in Percy Weasley who is the official in charge of learning quality."

"The last change has to do with the auror department of the ministry. Aurors now act separately from the ministry, and are controlled by Harry potter. Kingsley can give suggestions, but not make any decisions for the Aurors. Your first six months as an Auror you are put with an Auror with seniority, after the six months Harry himself decides whether you would be an asset to the department."

"Some additions are the Conservation of Magical Beings department, which protects the rights of goblins, dragons, all magical animals and house elves. This was a result of heavy abuse of house elves and goblins during the second war, house elves have even been removed from homes they are unwelcome in. Another additions is the Blood-Law, in this law it states you can be jailed for threatening or prejudicing half bloods and mudbloods. Now for the test." She flicked her wand gracefully passing out the tests. She left with their tests soon.

As Hermione left another woman came in, she was shorter than Hermione with long blonde hair that had been pulled back into a ponytail. She seemed a bit spacey, "My name is Luna Lovegood, I am the editor of the Quibbler. I came to share about some new discoveries. And relax, there is no test."

"A few of our discoveries include a new use for dragon blood, also that dragons prefer not being killed and the fangs on most breeds carry a heavy sedative. Also, that the ability to speak parseltongue is controlled by a liquid in a snake's throat, we discovered this by examining a dead basilisk."

"Our biggest discovery has been a charm that reverses the effects of being a werewolf. If worn during the full moon it will either give the wearer control or completely stop the transformation altogether. It is a simple mix of wolfbane, asphdolf root, and wormwood, in a silver pod you wear around your neck. They were in need once Fenrir Greyback's pack decided to avenge his death, most of his pack has been killed. Thank you for listening." Luna said quickly, though she didn't notice Remus was beaming. She left with the same spacey look she had carried in and had held throughout her speech.

After she left no one came in for nearly twenty minutes, in which they mostly talked about how Harry had been before the second war, though mainly it was Sirius and Remus who told James and lily about Peter's treason and Harry's third year. Finally the door opened, and Hagrid walked through pulling a covered cage to the open space at the front of the room. When he had finished he looked up, "Sorry I was late, but the ministry thou' I was up ta somthin' because of th' cage. Anyway, I supposed ta teach ya about the new magical creatures that be dangerous."

He kind of gave a shrug, "There's really only one. Smarter tha' sphinxes, deadlier tha' dragons, faster tha' a grindylow, ministry considers 'em ta be the most dangerous creature. They're actually no tha' bad, cute actually." Fred, the small boy and several of the others who knew Hagrid's idea of cute groaned.

Hagrid ignored them, "They be shinxes." He lifted the blanket off the fair sized cage to reveal a ball of fur, seemingly a black puddle until two grey eyes blinked open. Below the eyes large jaws yawned and the limbs of the creature stretched out from it's tight knit ball. It looked like a simple large feline, large being a huge understatement of the pearly white teeth and claws. Hagrid gently asked something of the creature, in return the creature's back began to shift, the sides pulling away from the body until they formed dragon-like wings that were nearly six feet wide, stretching outside of the cage.

"Shinxes are flyin' felines. They're solitary creatures usually, but are loyal and very protective of anythin' they consider ta be theirs. They are known to be vicious, but what really scares most is they're shape shifters, than can look like any kind of cat, from jaguars, panthers and tigers to house cats." As if on command the cat lost it's wings, became a bit smaller and white stripes covered it's body.

"No matter what shape they take they're balck wit' white markings. This makes keeping track of them nearly impossible, as well as knowin' how many of the critters there are. She turned to a tiger 'cause she's shy, there ya go girl, back to yer true form. Now she wants to meet ye all." Without warning he opened the cage, the black creature walked out gracefully.

The shinx moved towards the marauders who were blocked in by others, and could only stand back. The shinx curled up it's wings trying to calm them, then rubbed against their legs, then it went back, sat at Lily's feet, turned into a house cat and meowed. Lily was shocked, but picked the shinx anyways and began stroking it. Hagrid chuckled, "Now I know where Harry got his appeal to shinxes, Truffles likes him too."

"Truffles?" Lily said questioningly feeling overly sharp claws rest against her skin.

"That's her name," Hafrid answered as the shinx, Truffles, jumped from Lily's arms and sat at Hagrid's feet yowling. He ushered her back in the cage, "Sorry ta leave so soon, but she's hungry and when shinxes are hungry they've been known to-"

"Kill people." Remus finished as Hagrid covered the cage, Hagrid nodded slightly. He left muttering about how the creatures were actually quite gentle.

This pause between presentations was longer than the rest; after half an hour they were joking the final test was one of their patience. Finally Kingsley walked in looking rushed and pointed his wand at books that were scattered around the room which floated to the desks. Moody spoke, "So you're the one teaching us the last part?"

Kingsley shook his head, "No, it's defense against the dark arts. Harry claims that it falls in his jurisdiction so he sent one of his best aurors. This part takes forever to go over so all of the orientations are running late. He should be here soon though."

"You don't know who he sent?" Dora asked.

"I've seen him, but I don't know who he is. Probably some weirdo kid from Durmstang he decided was good enough." Kingsley replied exasperated.

"You don't seem fond of Harry." Remus said softly.

Kingsley stopped moving a minute mulling over the right words, "We just disagree on a lot of things. The mild hatred is a mutual feeling. Then again, when has Harry ever agreed with the Minister of Magic. He says the job poisons the mind. Anyway, the auror should be here soon." With that he left.

They looked at the books on their desks, the title read thus: A Ministry Approved Guide to the Defense Against Dark Arts by Hannah Abbot. The door opened abruptly to reveal the man who had stopped James and Snape's fight. They got a better look at him, his eyes were focused, steely grey, and showed no emotion. His black hair had been retied so it didn't cover his forehead and looked a little more neat. They noticed something new, he had been in a fight.

His already scarred hands had new scabs on them, another scab was on his left cheek bone. Blood shone from his lip as well, it had been bleeding not half an hour before. With a tired expression he lifted his right hand and the young boy who was sitting closest to the door watched his book fly to the man's hands. He shook his head, "I don't know how people think they can learn Defense from books. Let's just get rid of these." His voice was warm to a degree.

He raised his right hand again, this time every book jumped to the air, they flew over to a corner of the room and dropped in a pile in an unceremonious way. He walked to the front of the room and opened his mouth to speak when Snape interrupted, "I don't see why we're needed to be taught about Defense Against the Dark Arts, we were all either Aurors, in the Order, or a teacher on the subject."

"Or in the D.A." The young boy piped in.

"What's the D.A." James asked.

"The D.A. was an organization started at Hogwarts by Harry Potter. The ministry was afraid that Dumbledore was creating a student army, so they gave the Minister something to worry about. The D.A. also did a major part in the final battle, where several members including Fred and Colin here." He motioned towards the boys who beamed with pride.

Sirius looked at him, "I think you're proving our point."

"We already know all there is to know." James added glaring at the man.

The man's smoky eyes met James' charcoal ones, he contemplated a minute, "You are James Potter, right?" James nodded, "Well, if you all feel you know everything there is to know let's have a quick oral quiz, afterwards you decide if you want me to teach you or not before the test. And on this test you can get one out of the twenty questions wrong."

The group gave a general nod of arrogant agreement, "Okay James, since you think you know so much, list the unforgivable curses."

James laughed and broke into the marauder grin, "Easy, Imperious, cruciatus and Avada Kadavra." The room was full of people chuckling at the simple question.

The man was waiting silently, finally he spoke, "And?"

The room grew silent, James looked confused, "I said all three of them."

"There's four now." The man said poker-faced, "Next Question, Moody, what are the three reasons we still use corporeal Patronuses if Dementors aren't a threat?"

Moody answered instantly, "Communication, Identification and…" He stopped, looking confused, "I don't know of a third."

"Next, Remus, who are the three were wolves that have tried to take Fenrir's place since his death?" The man was now smiling as he was proved right.

Remus looked baffled, "Fenrir is dead?"

"Okay, does anyone know the first spell that was purposely performed without a wand?" Everyone shook their heads, "How about the name of the first Auror to be a vampire?"

"Just stop." James said, "Obviously we don't know anything about your questions."

"That's because a lot can happen in seven years. The Dark Arts are forever changing, so the defense against them must change constantly as well. Let's take how you guys died." He pointed to Collin, "You wanted to help save the world so badly you didn't even consider you were in over your head. Fred was distracted by a truly remarkable thing, his brother made a joke. Moody was killed thanks to another's cowardice, and thinking the enemy could never guess his plan. Remus and Dora, overpowered by the Dark Arts."

He moved along the front of the room as he talked, "Lily and James, assumed they were safe when their best friend betrayed them to Voldemort. Sirius, fell into a veil while distracted. Dumbledore died of his own selfishness." They all stared at him as he stood in the direct front, "The only death in here that was heroic was that of Severus Snape who was a double agent for the Order for nearly seventeen years and gave his life to ensure Harry had the chance to kill Voldemort. And you'll all die again if you don't know what I have to tell you."

The room was silent, the man continued, "Three years ago Harry Potter discovered how to use your dominant hand to focus spells through rather than wands. Although not every spell can be done wandless, a great many can along with a few that can only be done without a wand. The first spell he used was accio, though it is best used with very small objects such as books, pencils, parchment and potion ingredients, it was intended to bring your wand to you. You cannot not do wandless spells silently though."

"Expelliarmus and incendio are often used wandless, and Aurors have to be able to perform those three spells wandless along with a stunning spell, a flare, both red and green, and Titiglio. Which leads to the nest thing, Titiglio is a three year old spell, also of Potter's creation and is used wandless. It works with corporal patronuses, the spell is used to knock people off their feet in pursuit or used in a crowded place to ensure safety, or to tell the identity of a person. Titiglio will not work on wizards with a corporal patronus, the patronuses shape will stand between you and the spell."

"The most recent of Potter's creation is one he has said to be ashamed of, it is the fourth unforgivable curse. It is called Death Rings, it is performed wandless, each of your fingers controls a ring of fire around your enemy's body brought by saying Kalen. Pinky controls ankles, ring finger is legs, middle is waist and hands, pointer is arms and chest, thumb is the throat. by saying another word partially in parseltounge and closing the fist you cause the rings to shrink into balls. I will demonstrate."

He made a movement with his hand and the mannequin moved to the front where everyone could see. He held his right hand vertical as if against a wall and whispered, "Kalen." Five rings of fire appeared around the mannequin, he curled each finger experimentally watching the circles throb. When he was satisfied he hissed a word sounding like 'Queesh' and slowly closed his hand. The circles shrank until they cut the mannequin into sixths. He released the spell and used reparo to fix the mannequin. The entire room was wide eyed.

The man looked back to the group, "It's not fun to watch happen to a mannequin, but watching a human go that was is torturous. They die slowly screaming the entire time, and when cut they bleed and pour out guts, it's a bloody mess. The sight will burn your eyes, it can even make them bleed. You will not be taught to perform this, just to recognize it. There is no way to avoid the curse."

"To get to the business of werewolves, Fenrir Greyback who attacked many young wizards and muggles alike was killed during the final battle of the second war. His death caused two things to happen. Nearly half of his followers claimed they were only with him out of fear and have become good citizens. The others have continued their ways, but have not chosen a leader like Fenrir was. The three fighting for the title who have become increasingly dangerous have taken more wolfish names and are Bloodclaw McKinnon, Grislefang Goyle, and Scourge. The Magical Creatures Department has decided that werewolves are now the Aurors' jurisdiction."

"Since the Auror department separated from the Ministry it has had a greater diversity of workers around the world. Vampires have even been brought in as spies, the first of which being Gregor Truve. We even now have several werewolves in the department, which has made being a werewolf socially acceptable. And if I recall correctly the Astronomy teacher at Hogwarts and the Potions teacher at Durmstrang are werewolves."

"Animagi no longer have to be registered with the Ministry, mostly because they found out last year nine Aurors, twelve ministry workers and fourteen other wizards were unregistered and decided there was no point in even trying to keep track. However, you can be fired for not telling your department boss if you're an animagus and your form."

"Well, that's it, any questions?" The man looked around.

Lily waited to be called on, "Is the curse of the Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts job still in effect?"

He nodded, "Yeah, Frank Longbottom who recently recovered from insanity with his wife is the current teacher. Fred?"

"Is Grislefang the same Goyle that we went to school with?" Fred asked.

"Yes, and Draco thought the Weasley's were the wrong crowd." The man rolled his eyes, "Any others?"

"You weren't hurt earlier, how come you are now?" Remus asked.

"I had to go to the Malfoys where fifteen dark wizards and three goblins came back to life. Since there was only three of us we could only capture two of them. It will probably be bad later on," He said grimly.

"What's your name?" James inquired.

As the man went to reply the door opened revealing Kingsley who called, "Ron says the thirteen deatheaters have been spotted. I'll test them." And with that the mysterious man left and they all passed their tests, except Bob Schmarmy, an Irish wizard who spent the entire time peeling and eating a raw potato.

Do you know who the mysterious man is? Send guesses in your replies. Until next time, Lemonbomber out yo.