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Chapter 4: Professor Carter
James walked into his dormitory, followed silently by Remus, Sirius, and Peter. Plopping down into the nearest arm chair her sighed "Urg, I hate the first day back."
"I feel you, Prongsy" agreed Sirius glaring at a couple of first years until they moved out of their seats, allowing him to sit across from James.
"Yeah" said Peter sitting cross-legged on the ground.
"Well I happen to like the first day, you get to know the course outline and meet the new teachers"
"Yeah, you would Moons" grumbled Sirius.
"You can't say you didn't enjoy any of today. What about Carter's class, he seems like he know what he doing, maybe we'll actually learn something useful this year."
"I dunno," replied a thoughtful looking James "He seems nice, and he seems to know his stuff, but…"
"But what?"
"I dunno, Padfoot, just something about him, like how did he know about the Giggle Bomb, we only finished naming it yesterday, and we haven't told anyone"
"I'd forgotten about that, but perhaps he over heard us or something"
"Padfoot, how would he have heard us?"
"I dunno…"
"Guys, we just met him, do you honestly think that we're going to know the inner workings of his mind an hour after we meet him" said Remus scoffing slightly " Now, Carter was the only one who didn't give us a ton of homework, so lets get started on Williams' essay"
Friday dawned bright, Harry sat in the Great Hall looking at the swarms of students. He watched silently as his father sat next to the one-day professor Lupin. He longed to be the one sitting next to his father, talking and laughing, enjoying life without a constant reminder of the real world. He got to his feet as the bell rang, and walked swiftly to his first class of the day. His father's class.
"Good Morning class" He said cheerfully
"Good Morning Professor" The class intoned
He grinned "Come on now that wasn't very enthusiastic! Be excited" He looked around at a sea of bored faces. " Oh come on, its Friday. Just think of what awaits you. Two whole days of procrastination! Two whole days to laze about in the wonderful September sun!"
The class just looked back at him blankly. "Well ok if class is so boring why don't you tell me what you would like to do this class"
They seemed to perk at this. 'Maybe' Harry thought grinning to himself. However know body raised their hand.
He turned to his father "Mr. Potter"
"Yes Professor?"
"If you were in class right now what would you be doing, besides sleeping"
James grinned "Playing quidditch, sir"
"Quidditch eh?" Harry looked thoughtful. He turned to the rest of the class "Does everyone know how to fly?" Affirmative nods met his gaze "Excellent! Already then, everyone please gather your things, and follow me."
He walked out of the classroom followed by his students. He turned to his class "If any of you have your own broom please retrieve it and meet the rest of the class of the quidditch pitch. And please, do hurry"
James, Sirius, Remus, Lily, Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Balthazar Zambini and Lind Caperson all turned and walked toward their dormitories.
When James, Sirius, Remus and Lily reached the Quidditch pitch they saw they classmates in two lines.
"Ahh, now that every one is here we can start." Said Harry summoning his firebolt (which he had transfigured to look like a clean sweep).
"In a real life battle situation the person with the more powerful, complex spells does not always win. Knowing every spell in the world isn't going to help you if you're too out of shape to dodge a simple stunner. And you never know when someone is going to fire a hex at you." He paused "I'm not telling you to be paranoid, just prepared. Since Mr. Potter suggested quidditch, we're going to practice dodging on a broom. This can be a very useful skill, if you are in a duel or are captured, a broom is sometimes a very good means of escape. That, however does not mean that your opponent is going to stop hexing you. You'll need to be able to dodge."
"So we're going to play a game. A wizard version of Doge Ball. I will divide you into two teams, Black and Blue. You will shoot spells at each other using these wands" He passed a box of wands around. "They will only fire colored lights, no matter what incantation you mutter. When stuck with a light you turn a very wonderful shade of orange. After being struck you will land. Last person remaining wins. Questions? No? Ok, Teams. Mr. Potter Blue Team. Mr. Black Black Team. Mr. Lupin Blue Team. Mr. Pettigrew Black Team. Ms Anderson Blue Team. Ms Evans Black Team. Ms Johnson Blue team. Mr. Malfoy Black Team. Mr. Zambini Blue team. Mr. Snape Black Team. Mr. Nott Blue Team. Ms. Narissa Black Black Team. Ms. Bellatrix Black Blue team. Ms Caperson Black Team." Harry said as he conjured a very large net that floated across the pitch "Just in case"
"That was the coolest lesson ever" panted James as he and the rest of the marauders plus Lilly walked back to Gryffindor tower.
"Definitely" agreed Sirius
"Yeah" said Peter
"Did you see Malfoy's face when I hexed him" laughed Sirius "He looked like he was going to explode!"
"It was great" Peter agreed
"Yes, yes it was fabulous. Can we go now. We do have a class to get to"
"Right you are Evans!" Exclaimed James "Come now, we can't miss Professor Binns' wonderful lecture on yet another goblin rebellion" Lilly huffed and walked out of the common room.
Sirius laughed "Come on Evans, no one cares about that class. everyone just sleeps anyways. Why should we bother."
"Sirius" said a incredulously Remus "You cannot skip class, again!"
"Oh come on Moony" pleaded James. At Remus' frown he added "Ok what if you go, and Sirius, Peter and I won't. That way we won't miss anything, you can tell us"
"Fine" huffed Remus "But Peter has to go, he's failing"
"Yeah well it's a dumb class," muttered Peter angrily
"No, you have to go."
"Fine" said Peter as he and Remus walked out the portrait hole.
Sirius turned to James "Alright Jamie what should we do now"
James grinned "Kitchens?"
"Kitchens!"
An: Sorry guys, I kept meaning to update. I'm not so good at it I'll try to be better at it. I'm going to start writing the next chapter tomorrow!
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