Here's a response to a Review by "Synchro Lover" The Review was: "BUT WHAT ABOUT RON?" My response is that Ron does not, and will not, be included in the story, except in Katja's memories. Any time that she is telling anyone in 1977 about him, he will be called Lèo. Even if Williamson was also a time-traveller, he would not be Ronald Weasley. About the marriage proposal: after the War had ended, but before Hermione went back to school, he asked her to marry him, on the condition that the Wedding occur after she graduated. She of course said "yes"
Chapter 9
Conversations with McGonagall
26 September 1977, 0830
As Katja walked into the Great Hall that morning for breakfast, everyone could tell that something was off. Yes, she seemed to be happier than usual, but she was also paler. Just last night, she and Sirius had spent the night in the room of requirement together, and they had confirmed that they wanted to let people know that they were dating.
Lily was the first to notice, but Alice (whom Katja knew as the future Mrs. Longbottom) also seemed to notice and said something.
"What's up, Katja? You seem a bit cheery today," the young witch prompted.
"Well," Katja started, "Do you remember a couple of weeks ago, I had a run-in with that blonde Slytherin—what's his name—Malfidous or something?"
"Malfoy," Lily supplied. "You lied to him and said that you were dating Sirius. I remember. You were pretty hacked off, I think."
"And she should be," said James who was walking by. "That Malfoy boy is trouble."
Katja said, "That's exactly what le Lys said the last time I talked to her about it."
"Well, what happened, Katja?" asked le Lys (Lily).
"Sirius and I aren't pretending any more. We are actually going out. He asked me a couple of days ago, but we decided to come out and say it today," she said.
"That is so cool. Sirius is such a good-looking guy," said le lys.
"Yeah," said James. "But don't be saying that around me, Evans," James continued jealously. "Now, Evans, now that you're an honorary one of us, I was wondering. Will you finally go out with me?"
"Yes, Potter. But one thing." Lily answered.
"What?" James asked.
"You can't call me 'Evans.' Come here, my dear." she said, pulling James towards her, and then kissing him. Katja noticed the emphasis that Lily had put on the word dear, and she was wondering if Lily truly meant the double meaning. Just then, James said, "Wow!" When everybody looked at him, he said, "I didn't know that would be so ...enjoyable," referring to the kiss he just received. Just then, James looked down at his watch. "Damn, my watch isn't working." he said. Katja just said, "Tempus" and the numbers 0920 flashed in the air. Everybody said, "Wow", and Lily said, "I've never heard of that spell before, but we've got to get to Transfiguration." So they all hurried up to transfiguration, where unfortunately, they were late, and therefore interrupted Professor McGonagall's lesson about another type of cross-species transfiguration.
"You're late. Five points each will be taken from Gryffindor for Messrs. Potter, Lupin, and Black and Ms. Wagner and Ms. Evans. Please get to your seats and turn to page 394 in your textbooks." When they didn't immediately turn to the page McGonagall said, "Please turn to page 394 or it will be detention!" They quickly turned to the page. It was another fascinating class from Professor McGonagall, but Katja was bored; she already knew these things that they were going over in class. She knew that, even with her previous knowledge and skill, this class was hard enough, even for her. Not that she was complaining. That's what she liked about things like this—it was the challenge that made it fun.
Her staring off into space thinking about things caused her to miss the question that McGonagall asked her. "Ms. Wagner? The answer?" McGonagall asked. "I'm sorry, what was the question?"
"I asked what one of the Five Principal Exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration was."
"Food," replied Katja, remembering when she had to explain to Ronald about the Law, and the fact that remarkably, he remembered enough to tell the whole DA in the Room of Requirement. "You cannot produce food from nothing. If you already have food, or know where it is, you can Summon it, Transfigure it into something else, or increase the quantity, but you cannot 'conjure' food."
"Very good, Ms. Wagner. I was about to give you, Mr. Lupin and Mr. Black detention for not paying attention. 10 points to Gryffindor for your answer, 5 points from Gryffindor for not paying attention. You are trying my patience, you three. If you do one more thing to disrupt this class, I will have to take action. See me after class, Ms. Wagner."
Soon class was over, and the only people left in the room were the Marauders, Katja, and McGonagall. "Please leave, Messrs. Potter, Lupin, and Black. I wish to speak with Ms. Wagner." After Katja gave them a discrete "get out of here" hand gesture, they begrudgingly left, and Katja was alone with McGonagall.
"Have a seat, Ms. Wagner," the Professor said. When Katja did so, McGonagall said, "You almost look bored in my class, Ms. Wagner. I was not aware that foreign schools were so advanced that seventh year material is almost like child's play to you."
"They aren't, Professor," Katja responded. "It's just that I've already learned most of the material for at least the first month of term. I've heard some similar lectures before."
"Hmm," Professor McGonagall stated. "I think I have a very simple explanation. I think that you have heard these exact lectures before, and that somehow, you are in our time period. Are you from the future?"
"Yes, I am," said Katja. "But please, don't tell anybody. Not only will the Ministry try to interfere, but various other … transgressions of mine will be noticed, if the Ministry gets involved."
"Such as?" said McGonagall.
"In my time-frame, I was just about to send in my paper work for my Animagus transformation, when I got sent back here."
"You're an Animagus?" asked Professor McGonagall incredulously.
Katja turned into the wolf and back. "I learnt it the summer before my seventh year. Of course, it was a whole year between my sixth and seventh years, but if I tell you that story, I will mess up the timeline."
"Katja," the Professor said. "Are you aware of a Muggle concept called 'Quantum Theory'? I believe that it was discovered not too long ago, and should be common knowledge by the latter part of the Twentieth Century."
"You mean the Fixed-History theory, where the past is not changeable, and therefore when a person goes back in time, they create a new time-line?"
"Yes. I do believe that principal would apply to you. You cannot change the fact that you went back in time. Even if you prevent your counterpart in this timeline from going back in time, there will be no paradox, because this already happened. You are still free to choose your own destiny, Ms. Wagner, but I swear on my magic that I, Professor Minerva Isabelle McGonagall, will not willingly tell another soul about your status as a time-traveller."
"Thank you, Professor."
The rest of the day went fairly normally, with them continuing Patronuses in Charms class, and Katja felt good. Nothing she did would affect her Ron or her Harry from her own time.
That night, she and Sirius went to the Room of Requirement, which made itself into a very good replica of a cross between a cleaned up House of Black and the Burrow. After sitting together in front of the fire for a while, they realised that it was getting late, so they started to go back to the common room. As they were making their way back, a very familiar cat appeared and disappeared in an instant. "Shoot, that's Filch's cat!" they said. "Can you do a Disallusionment Charm, Katja?" Sirius asked. "I think I might," she replied. Just as she was pulling out her wand, the last person in the castle that she wanted to see showed up. It was Filch.
"Doing Magic in the corridors, eh? Out of bed after curfew? I'll have you out this time. My, are we in trouble," he said vindictively. "Follow me."
The caretaker then took them to the office of the person that Katja wanted to see second-least, at least in this situation. They were at Professor McGonagall's office. Filch knocked at the door, and McGonagall came to the door in a tartan dressing gown. Nice to see her clothing style doesn't much change in the next twenty years.
"It is an hour after curfew. What were you doing out of bed at this hour?" she asked.
Katja replied that they were just taking a stroll, and that they had lost track of time. Katja had silently conjured a watch on the way over, making sure to set it at the wrong time. "My watch says it's a half-hour until curfew," Katja claimed.
"I am giving you both a detention tomorrow night, to be served with me. Twenty points will be taken from Gryffindor, be thankful it isn't more. Come here, you two. Disallusion!" McGonagall said. "You know how to cancel this, yes? Go directly to the dormitories."
"That was quick thinking of you to conjure that watch, Katja." Sirius said once they had gotten back to the common room, and cancelled the Disillusionment Charm. Katja thanked him, and went up to bed before realising with dread what tomorrow was.
27 September 1977 1245
The Day of the Full Moon
The next day, Katja started to teach her first-years about logic. After class, Auror Williamson asked her about this, and she reminded him about the Temporal Prime Directive, but that in her first-year, she had to face a logic puzzle to survive a trap set by the professors to protect a very powerful magical object. He seemed to have no problem with this explanation, so he told her to continue on in the next class.
When she came back to his class later that day, she felt a sense of dread. She had a feeling that something bad was going to happen in the class. Her face was even paler today than usual and she was very jumpy. She noticed that Remus was in a similar condition, but had better control of himself. It must be from all of those years of transforming, she thought. Then Auror Williamson came in, mentioning that they were going to take a deeper look at werewolves.
"I know that you studied werewolves in your third year, but this is a N.E.W.T. level class, so we are going to go more in depth about these creatures. Now normally, werewolves are the same as you and I, a normal witch, wizard, or in some rare cases, a Muggle. Katja here could be a werewolf," she paled considerably at this, "and we wouldn't know it until the day of the full moon. Lycanthropy, the curse of the werewolf. Can anyone tell me how it is passed along?"
With a sneer reminiscent of his godson, Severus Snape answered, "It is passed along through a bite from another werewolf, with full strength coming from a transformed werewolf. Only then will the victim be a true werewolf."
"Good, ten points to Slytherin. Now, it is curious that only the bite of a werewolf passes on the Lycanthropy—not a scratch. Also, the curse only affects humans, but only humans still in a human form. If a Animagus is bitten while transformed, that Animagus will not become a werewolf. Why do you think that this is?" he asked the class at large before just deciding to call on Katja.
"There is probably something in the teeth of the werewolf, perhaps a poison that creates some sort of … primordial enhancement of some sort. It would also explain why animals are immune to the bite."
"Why is that," asked Sirius. He seemed to be most interested in the topic, far more interested, by ten-fold than Remus was.
"The animals, if they got it, it would only increase their instincts to a higher degree," Katja said.
Severus chimed in with "Perhaps the reason that only humans feel any repercussions of the bite, is that human skin is too weak to resist it."
Remus countered with, "It's most likely a chemical reaction with the blood, enhanced by the moons force."
For homework, Professor Williamson gave them 2 feet on the theory of lycanthropy, with supporting evidence. Right before Williamson was about to end class, Frank Longbottom asked the question on everybody's mind.
"Sir, when is the next full moon?" he asked.
"Tonight," Williamson replied and then he dismissed the class.
Later, in her third year class, Katja was horrified to find that werewolves were the subject of the lesson there, too. When the class came in, she told them to turn to page 394. She asked the class a very basic question. "What is the difference between an Animagus and a werewolf?"
As nobody answered, she said, "Pity. The correct answer is of course that an Animagus changes by choice, whilst a werewolf does not."
She continued to lecture about werewolves for the rest of the period. "Now for homework, I want 18 inches about werewolves, with emphasis on the way to recognise and defeat them. If you want extra credit on the homework, you will first need to take a wizard's oath with me. The words are on the board." The whole class prepared to do the oath, including Katja and Professor Williamson.
"I swear on my magic that I will not reveal the identity of the werewolf at this school, except to the accused, the Headmaster, Madame Pomfrey, Professor Williamson, Professor Wagner, or the Heads of House" they all intoned. After they finished, a snake-like band wrapped around each of the oath-takers wrists and Katja announced the extra credit. "There are one or more werewolves currently at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Five points will be given for the correct identification of each werewolf. Due to the oath you just took, you cannot talk with any outsiders about this."
After she dismissed the class, Auror Williamson said, "Was that wise, Katja? Now the whole class will know your secret."
"Yes, professor, but not the whole school."
Snape's godson is Draco Malfoy
I own nothing except for the Katja parts of Hermione, and also Auror H. Williamson
