Through the Looking Glass 7

Classes, Stories, and Boggarts

Or in which Harry asks about a change in menu, gets some stuff from Lupin, and learns some more stuff.

No Wonderland just yet. Chapter 9 or 13… Rolling a d20 for it. Even= 13 Odd= 9…And it is a 7! Chapter 9 will have Harry's first foray into Wonderland!

Pardon any missing L's, spaces… What else does this keyboard miss?

Spaces are missed on normal keyboards, pretty much just L's.

Yeah. Pointing out misspellings does help.

Anyways, Summon Bloodline, not that you HP readers care about a Naruto/Final Fantasy fic, won't be updated until Through the Looking Glass catches up… In other words, two chapters of this then I'll post Summon Bloodline 9.

And flipped flopped letters happens too!

On with the show!

Through the Looking Glass Chapter 7: Classes, Stories, and Boggarts

9:30 AM 9/2/1993 Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Headmaster's Office

Harry looked around the room as he waited on the aging headmaster.

He should retire. Alice murmured. He holds three positions of major power. I'd be amazed if he gets more that a few hours seep each night.

'Heads of Houses help him here.' Harry thought as he got up and went over to Fawkes. The bird had saved his life twice. "I wonder what he likes to eat." Harry said aloud.

"He loves berries, namely blueberries." Albus Dumbledore said surprising Harry.

"Headmaster!" Harry wondered how he had snuck up on him.

"You said you wanted to talk to me?"

"Um, yeah." Harry said "This summer I stayed in Diagon Alley." Dumbledore nodded at this. "I found several places to eat that served foreign food, like Asian, and American."

"Hmm-mm." Dumbledore indicated for Harry to continue.

"I took Hermoine and Ginny to one of the Asian places to eat when we met and they really liked it and they asked me to ask you if you could get the workers here to make it, if I get the recipes."

"If you can get the recipes, I will try." Dumbledore said, surprised when Harry pulled a medium sized book out of his robes.

"There you go." Harry placed the book on the Headmaster's desk.

"You believed I would do it?" Dumbledore turned his gaze to the boy.

"Yes, sir, I did." Harry replied respectively.

"Very well, it'll be a few days before it will be served." Dumbledore smiled at Harry's grin.

"Thank you, sir." Harry said before standing and leaving.

10:30 AM Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry DADA Class Room

Everyone was eager to see what the new DADA was like, Harry in particular. Remus Lupin had a reputation among the darker part of Diagon Alley, one as a good man and a better teacher. If not for his Furry Problem, he would've been a very coveted tutor.

Not that anyone, bar Harry, in that class knew.

"Good morning, class." The shabby looking professor said. "You can put your books away; will be taking a field trip." He smiled.

The students looked at each other but did as the adult asked, because adults know all… NOT!

"Follow me." He left the room, the students followed like the obedient sheep they are. They came across Peeves who was putting a piece of chewing gum into a keyhole. He caught sight of Lupin. "Loony, Loopy, Lupin!" He sang. "Loony. Loopy, Lupin"

"Please take the gum out of the keyhole, Peeves." Lupin asked. "Otherwise Mr. Filch won't be able to get to his brooms."

He continued to sing, "Loony, Loopy, Lupin. Loony, Loopy, Lupin. Loony, Loopy, Lupin."

The students looked at the professor who was smiling slightly. "Watch, Wadiwasi!" The gum shot out of the keyhole with the speed and force of a bullet, straight up Peeves' left nostril. He sped off cursing. "Moving on." The werewolf was still smiling. The students began to truly like him.

They came to a room with many soft chairs and sofas, and a wardrobe. It had only one occupant, Professor Snape, the Potions Master. He was seated reading a copy of Potions Weekly, The dark haired man glared at Lupin, who seemed unaffected. Snape got up to leave; the wardrobe shuddered causing the students to worry. "Would you like to stay and watch, Severus?"

"No, I would not. Longbottom's wand causes mayhem wherever he goes." He sneered.

"Hmm. Actually I'd like for him to help me with the first part of the lesson." Lupin said calmly. Snape left.

"Don't worry all that is in the wardrobe is a boggart." Lupin said, as though to calm people down, the wizard raised seemed to become more worried. "Can anyone tell me what a boggart is?" he asked, Harry and Hermoine's hands went up. "Harry?"

"A boggart is a shape shifter that takes the form of your worst fear." Harry said.

"Very good." Lupin said. "Now, can anyone tell me what advantage we have over the boggart?" The wardrobe wobbled, Lupin hit it with a spell to stabilize it. This time he called on Hermoine.

"We have numbers." Hermoine said. "It won't know what to turn into."

"Excellent." Lupin smiled. "Now, the spell to repel a boggart is simple. The incantation is Riddikulus." Several smile at the word. "Say it."

"Riddikulus." The class said in a monotone voice.

"Now, the word alone won't do you any good." He started. "You must picture your worst fear as something amusing."

"What?" Ron asked. "What do you mean something amusing?"

Lupin looked at him. "One that can make you laugh, that is what can destroy a boggart."

"So laughter can destroy?" Harry asked.

"Yes, it can." Lupin smiled.

"Huh." Harry became quiet again. He couldn't wait until class was over. He knew that Remus Lupin had been a friend of his parents.

"Neville?" Lupin indicated the boy to come forward. "Now what is your worst fear?"

Neville murmured something.

"I'm sorry I didn't quite get that." Lupin said, which was a lie, due to Lupin's super werewolf hearing

"Professor Snape." Neville said so that the rest of the class could hear.

"Ah." Lupin said. "Now, I believe you live with your grandmother?"

"I don't want it to turn into her either!" Neville exclaimed.

"No, no." Lupin said "Now what does she usually wear? A green dress, I believe?" Lupin prompted the timid boy.

"Ye-yes, and a pointed hat with a vulture on top." Neville said. "And a large red hand bag!"

"Excellent." Lupin smiled. "Now focus on that and cast the spell when I open the door." Lupin did immediately.

"Riddikulus!" Neville yelled as Professor Snape stepped out of the wardrobe. The boggart was blasted back as its clothes were changed into what Augusta Longbottom usually wore. The class laughed as the hand bag swung back and forth, the boggart looked for a new target.

"Lavender, your turn." The girl came up and changed her target, then Pavarti, then Ron who removed the legs off of a giant spider, Harry managed to slip in before Lupin could interfere, the room's temperature dropped quickly. "Riddikulus!" The Dementor fell apart to reveal a totem pole of garden gnomes. Several people snickered. Lupin in front of the boggart stepped before anyone else could face it and put it back into the wardrobe. "Very good, Harry. Most people wouldn't have been able to fight a boggart that turned into a Dementor." He paused and looked around. "Five points to every one who fought the boggart and Hermoine and ten to Harry for being able to face that. Class dismissed."

Everyone, bar Harry, left. "Professor Lupin?" Harry asked. "You were going to stop me from facing it." It was a statement, not a question.

"Yes, I was." Lupin replied, not bothering to lie. "I believed that your worst fear would be Voldemort, not a Dementor."

"Logical, but I only thought of Voldemort for a fraction of a moment before the Dementor came to mind." Harry looked into Lupin's eyes. "Also, when I was at Diagon Alley, I came across the Holly and the Ivy, I was told that you were one of my father's best friends."

"Yes I was." Lupin said.

"Do you think Black betrayed them?" Harry said. "Since he was my dad's best friend as well, you would know him."

Lupin looked at Harry for a moment. "Yes, I knew Sirius Black. I do not know whether or not he betrayed your parents." He said after a few moments.

"Perhaps I should rephrase that." Harry paused. "Knowing him as you did, would you believe, if you had left for the last few years of the War, would've believed people telling you that Black betrayed my parents?"

"…" Lupin thought for a moment. "No, I wouldn't have."

"If I find a way to check his innocence would you help me?" Harry asked.

Lupin stared at him. "You would help a conv-"

"Sirius Black never got a trial, therefore can't be a "convicted" criminal." Harry snapped.

"…" Lupin was quiet. "I'll help you. If you can find him." Lupin's eyes were dead. "Find Black and I'll help."

Harry grinned. "Thanks!" He left for his next class.

1 PM Potions Classroom

Potions class was hell. Snape had heard about Neville's boggart, as such was in a foul mood. Even the Slytherins were feeling his wrath, though so much less so than the Gryffindors.

3 PM Hallway Outside of Transfiguration Classroom

"We should tell McGonagall about Snape." Ron declared.

"What can she do about it?" Harry asked.

"She should be able to do something!" Ron replied.

"Snape's been this way for years, Ron." Harry said. "People have told her, and he's still here."

Ron glared. "I'm saying something. Even if you are too much of a coward too, Potter." He snapped.

The door opened. "And what as Professor Snape done this time?" Minerva McGonagall said. "Besides being cruel." She said more or less dismissing Ron's concerns.

Ron gulped, but said nothing.

"I will speak to him." McGonagall said. "Now in."

4 PM Library

"I can't believe she's just going to talk to him!" Ron seethed. "She's the Deputy Headmistress!"

"Deputy not the actual Headmistress." Elisha pointed out. "She can't really do much. Firing teachers is one of the things she can't do."

"What?" Ron said. "And why are you three here?" He gestured to his sister and the two Ravenclaws. The Ravenclaw pair looked at each other.

"Studying." Elisha said in a dead pan voice. "Duh. Luna and I met Harry over break, and we got to know each other."

"And Harry saved me." Ginny said. "So the three of us has every right to be here."

"Ron, the company I keep is my choice, not yours." Harry said. "Elisha, Ginny, and Luna can stay."

"And me?" Neville spoke up.

"And you Neville." Harry was concerned that Neville would be that unconfident. "You're allowed to leave at anytime if you don't want to be here."

"You think you're so good, Potter!" Ron's voice rose. "Just because you managed to beat your boggart doesn't mean you're all powerful!"

"What's hi-?" Elisha started.

"Dementor." Hermoine said.

"Wow." Elisha said. She knew her boggart, not that she would ever admit that her worst fear was White Bunny Clowns with Bazookas.

"Ron." Harry started. "I know I'm not all-powerful. Alright? I faced my fear, nothing more, the fact that my fear changed from Voldemor- Oh for God's sake! It's just a bloody name!" Harry said standing up. "A name!"

"Names can have power, Harry." Elisha said.

Ron smirked.

"Though most of the spells I know that need names usually only affect the person that has the name." Elisha continued causing Ron to scowl.

"You would know all about Dark Magic, wouldn't you?" Ron said.

"Dark Magic? The ones I know are healing magic." Elisha said sitting up straight. "As in magic that usually makes people better?"

"There is no such thing!" Ron said. "Magic like that is Dark!" He yelled not noticing the Head Librarian behind him.

"Mother won't let me learn magic that is designed to harm people." Elisha narrowed her eyes. "Or at least ones that I wouldn't be able to find here."

"Liar." Ron said.

"Mr. Weasley, if you cannot keep quiet, then leave." Madame Pince said.

Ron glared at her before grabbing his things and storming out.

He's going to be a problem Alice said.

"We should go to dinner." Elisha said.

"Yes, before Ron gets there and makes me lose my appetite." Ginny said.

7 PM Gryffindor Common Room

Harry groaned. 'Why won't he shut up?' Colin Creevey was chattering on, about nothing and everything at the same time.

He's keeping Weasley away. Alice pointed out.

"Hey Colin?" Harry said.

"Yes, Harry?" The boy said.

"Do you mind going away, I'm not feeling well." Harry said.

"Do you need to go to the Hospital Wing?" Colin asked.

"No, I just need some rest, that's all." Harry said. "Long day."

"Sleep well, Harry!" Colin said.

"You too, Colin." Harry said going up to bed.

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