As the weeks flew past they realised it had been easier with Dumbledore gone and had permanently for the moment anyway confined him to his office. As far as the staff knew he was still meditating for health reasons and was not to be disturbed while he worked things out. They had oddly learned to just deal with the fact that he wasn't there and cope. Harry and Luna were woken in the trunk bedroom very early by Dobby who had come to call them so that they would be back in their own beds before everyone woke up. They would have another two hours in bed before they would need to wake up as they usually did when he woke them up. "Thanks Dobby for calling us again we really do have the best elves in the entire world" said Harry happily hugging the now blushing elf before the said elf received an even larger hug from a brightly smiling Luna. They had agreed that every second day they would sleep in the trunk together to keep the intimate aspects of their marriage alive and on every second day Dobby would call them before it was time to wake up. So far they hadn't been caught and it was refreshing as well as highly thrilling to get to spend so much intimate time together and still do exceptionally well in their classes.

"Luna I have purposefully left this room full of furniture but blank of any accessories so that you can design it putting anything you think would suit it inside. You can decide what colour the walls are going to be should you wish to change the colours of them as I won't mind at all if you do. Also you can come in here any time you want to as long as you let me know somehow that you are in here. It has been weeks and I feel we should start putting personal touches on the room by now don't you agree?" said Harry addressing both Luna and Dobby as he got out of bed. "Lord Harry is too kind and may I say he and Lady Luna are the best masters or Lords in the world to me too" said Dobby before hugging Harry and Luna then leaving them to get ready. Luna was most surprised but delighted by his offer. "Harry thank you for saying this to me and of course the same can be said for my room. I have something to tell you" she said looking quite nervous.

"I'm not ready for children!" Harry blurted out before he could stop himself and went extremely red in his face. "What? Oh I'm so sorry I guess I phrased that wrong Harry. I don't want children either right now which is why I take a contraceptive potion each day. No I am just nervous because I was reading Rowena's diary and she talks about a spell I was thinking we could all use. It's called visitans praeteritum have you heard of it?" she asked him seriously. "Luna you looked very nervous but I am delighted you are always taking precautions as am I of course. No I haven't heard of it what does it do?" he asked her curiously. "Well it enables you to go back to a random time in the past bringing with you only what you have on your person and to change a maximum of two things when you get wherever it is the spell sends you. While in the past we could do magic without it being traced and I thought it might be good to try it out. Also when we come back things will be the same for us but their might be some minor differences in our lives depending on what we choose to change. I'm just nervous you might not like it" she said while deep in thought. "Luna I think it would be stupid to pass up an opportunity like this. This Friday night we will cast the spell in the room of requirements. I'll inform Hermione and you inform Neville. I love you" he said kissing her as he left the room. He had been thinking about it since she mentioned it and knew just what he was going to do depending of course on where the spell took them.

Had he not been so tired from just being woken up he'd have realised that today was Friday. She laughed at his tired error and arranged for them to meet up in the Room of Requirement later on. She told him about it telepathically. Elsewhere Snape was confused as to why Draco had been so careless in class since the other week. He'd checked for wandless or wordless magic with or without a wand in every class since and found none. Was he really so scared of his father it was causing him to panic in his classes. He'd been disgusted to find out that Dumbledore had asked Draco to meddle in these new kids lives simply because he wouldn't do it. Going into the boys dorms he checked on the new boy and saw he was sound asleep. Casting a silencing spell over Draco's bed he cast the imperious on the boy making him wake up, drink a potion to clear his system while preventing anyone from ever poisoning him against his will and go back to sleep all before removing the spell and himself. Hopefully Draco would be better soon.

He was not aware Harry had pretended to sleep seeing it all but saying nothing. When Harry woke up he was greeted by a shocking site. Draco had punched Crabbe and Goyle and looked angrier then ever before storming over to him. "Potter! I have no idea what the old goats problem is but I will not spy on you for him so if you wish to get me in trouble you may tell him this otherwise shut your damn mouth! I am sick of his ridiculous demands I swear to god he's like Voldermort. His obsession with you is rather creepy the old goat I mean. Don't let him get to you yeah? I swear to god Longbottom is going to pay for his stunt in potions yesterday. I left with blue bloody hands because of him the pig! I can't believe that Lovegood bitch gave my jewellery gift to those ungrateful pigs a few weeks ago. I only discovered today where they were gone as she'd not been wearing them. I will get her to see sense even if it is by force!" he said smiling evilly. Harry grabbed Draco by the throat shocking everyone in the room. "Say that again Malfoy I dare you! You will leave Lovegood alone or suffer the consequences now don't ever let me here you talk about her in such disgusting terms again" he said finishing with a shocking punch to his face.

Draco stumbled backwards. "What the hell is your problem? Let me guess you want to fuck the batty bitch too? Well I've got news for you it ain't gonna happen buddy!" sneered Draco dangerously. "Well Draco I've got news for you I happen to know her husband and he wouldn't be too happy with you saying these things" said Harry leaving smugly. The reason that they'd decided to not demand rooms together as a married couple was to not draw too much unnecessary attention to themselves while studying. So by living in their normal houses it deflected attention from them altogether. Besides which they could also meet up in the trunk like they did last night so it didn't matter. Draco cleaned his bloody nose furiously. How dare Harry insinuate that she had a husband when he knew she did not. Harry was obviously her friend and so wanted to protect her but to lie about her having a husband was low even for a Slytherin. It would seem that even with the various spells people had on him removed Draco was still a cunt to everyone all the time.

Snape was in the common room readjusting a shelf that had fallen down and looked back to normal again after weeks of looking silly each day much to his relief. "Potter good morning how are things with your classmates this morning?" he enquired causally. "Well Draco punched Crabbe and Goyle and insulted my friend so I punched him. He needed to be put back in line sir. I won't take crap like that from the likes of him. I mean we're all pureblood but we don't all need to act like him because of it. He needs to grow up! Sorry sir I'm rambling too much I'll see you later!" he said hurrying out the door where Hermione had exited. "What's this I hear about you punching Malfoy Harry!? You can't sink to his level every time Harry!" she said sounding exacerbating. "Hey stop that! He insulted Luna and I won't stand for that from him or anyone really!" said Harry now slightly annoyed for being chastised because he'd protected Luna. "Oh I didn't know that sorry. Of course you would be defending her. Did you hear about tonight? Luna just told me and said she's already told Neville for you" said Hermione smirking. "Yes she did. I wonder where it will send us?" he inquired rhetorically.

They made there way to breakfast where Blaise was now standing in front of where Luna was sitting. Harry diverted over to Luna and sat down in front of her totally ignoring Blaise. "Good morning Luna my friend how are you?" he asked her much to the annoyance of Blaise. "Luna.." Blaise started but was stopped by her. "Blaise! What do you want? Stop sending me damn sentimental rubbish and just ask me whatever the hell you want to! Harry wait there for me. Blaise and I are just going to talk in the hall one moment" she said pulling a shocked Blaise into the hall. "I've had enough of your stupid games now what do you want or did Malfoy ask you to come here? He is not as careful as he thinks he is!" she snapped angrily. "What? No uh he didn't ask me to come here. I am here because I choose to be. I am sorry about the stuff I was just delivering them they weren't actually from me. I obviously wasn't careful enough and you must have seen me as you know I sent them" he replied nervously. "You idiot I know you didn't send them. You tell Malfoy either he confronts me himself or my husband will go after him and I will not be there to stop him!" she fumed slapping him before returning to Harry.

"I've told Blaise if Draco doesn't confront me himself my husband will go after him and I won't be able to stop him. So either Draco comes to me or you go to him!" she said enthusiastically. "I've already dealt with him this morning for bad mouthing you so he'll probably just go to you himself" said Harry casting a quick notice me not and kissing her senseless on the table before removing it and returning to Slytherin smiling and leaving a very breathless blushing wife behind him. When he returned Blaise was quietly asking Hermione who Luna's husband was and she told him it wasn't her place to say who it was only Luna's.

Neville had just been told about the spell and was also wondering where they'd be going tonight. He wondered what they'd do for time as they could stay wherever they'd been sent as long as they wanted to. He was however worried they'd be missed in this time and place. He finished breakfast and headed off to Transfigurations with Luna. It would seem that this year Slytherin's were to have some of their core classes with Hufflepuff as a way of inter house unity. The Gryffindor's would have herbology and Transfigurations with the Ravenclaw's but would have Charms and Potions with the Slytherin's. He sat beside Luna who looked only too happy to see him. She explained all that had happened with Draco and Blaise to Neville who seemed most interested. Draco would sure get more then he bargained for should he ever decide to come looking. McGonagall entered to tell them they would be transfiguring books into fully functional trunks. They could have them appear as ornate or as simple as they wanted them to as long as they got them right.

"Now everyone is to take it in turns while we go around the room. Mr Longbottom begin if you please. Very good five points to Gryffindor. For your nice simple trunk although I do feel you could have made a better one but for some reason have restrained yourself. Don't do that again please. Now lets see who to put next um yes ok Miss Lovegood you can go next please. Wow what a beautiful ornate trunk. Ten points to Ravenclaw" said McGonagall delighted that her students were improving immensely since last year. Both Longbottom and Lovegood were doing exceptionally well she'd have to consider maybe asking them to do some more complex transfigurations assignments in the future. Next they had herbology. Everyone was looking more closely at Neville in this class which really didn't bother him. He was surprised when people became annoyed as he didn't follow the teachers instructions but got the same if not better results. Sprout herself who had been watching him in fascination had never considered that doing things his way would get better results then she had so she approached him.

"Class dismissed and thank you. Have a great day. Longbottom stay behind a moment please. I noticed you didn't follow my instructions and I am rather concerned about that. Don't worry this is not a punishment or anything. I mean to say I am very proud of your absolute dedication to herbology and I know this will be early but I don't care as you're obviously so extremely talented. I was wondering if you would consider possibly apprenticing under me in order to take the teaching exam in the future to enable to you teach herbology then. I'd love an insight into how you come to your remarkable results and would love the ability for us to share together all we know. You will able to tell me all you know in a teaching role and I will be able to do the same. I do have a confession to make however and it is that your brilliant abilities are not simply the reason I have chosen you" she said looking intently at him.

"Wow Professor I'd never considered this as a career I mean I just love to do it. I am amazed by your offer. What was the other reason you chose me then?" he asked her curiously. "Well in truth I'd like to be able to retire from teaching herbology so I could go and teach healing here which is an old course from years ago using the plants from the herbology class. By studying you today you are more then ready to teach but I feel we need the qualification anyway. If you prefer you could go and take the teaching exam straight away and then simply tell me or teach me all you know that choice is really up to you. I just feel we could be a brilliant team together. Tell you what, what do you have Tuesday morning at ten am?" she said enthusiastically as Neville's face lit up with joy. "I have potions from nine until ten and a break from ten till twelve before lunch but I finish Tuesday at six pm" said Neville seriously. "Well come down to the greenhouses at that time on Tuesday but before you come prepare a lesson plan. You are going to teach my first year class and I will be telling them I have to see to an appointment at that time on Tuesdays so for the foreseeable future you will be taking their lessons on a Tuesday and it will only be for the first year students. I will receive permission from Dumbledore when he's out of meditation hopefully by next week." She jumped as a letter appeared on the table beside her in "Dumbledore's" handwriting. "One moment Longbottom It's from the Headmaster. Could you please check on my mandora flowers in the back as I read this one moment. They are not growing this year and I simply can't figure out why" she said while snatching up the letter. He agreed and set to work smiling at his handy work with the letter.

Pomona, I am not the smartest wizard of the age for nothing. Yes I am in meditation at the moment but that does not mean I do not know what you are thinking presently. I believe it would be very admirable for Neville John Longbottom to teach all first year classes for you( for the moment anyway). Please show this letter to Minerva as I want him to be able to prepare his lesson plans and she could help him. He is to complete all homework assignments and when handing them in complete demonstrations for both Charms and Transfigurations personally for the said teachers in their office. Also get Luna Marie Lovegood to visit Minerva as I want the same things for her in terms of Herbology and Transfigurations. She is to teach all first years charms classes for the moment also.

I also order that all of our new students be assessed by The Ministry immediately to see where their strengths lie. I have studied the new students progress and have seen that they do in fact become rather embarrassed and hold back a lot in classes and I feel that this test will perhaps tell us why that is. It is almost as though they are afraid of outshining anyone in the class and I don't want that for them. If they are that talented then of course they should be teaching despite their age. For long enough we have had incompetent teachers in certain areas and it is about time we did a reshuffling of current staffs schedules. After this you are personally to accompany them all to the Ministry for their tests. We could do with an up and coming healing programme and I want you to personally work with Neville and Poppy on this. I am very excited about the opportunities this can afford the school. With the Ministry adding on the new extra eighth year for safety purposes we need all the help we can get.

Hopefully if the "new teachers" (permitting they pass all the exams of course) teach the first to fourth years in their subjects it means that the core teachers such as yourself can teach only newt classes from fourth to seventh year. This will give you more time to focus solely on the new healing programme as I would wish you to be at the forefront of that working in close proximities with Poppy when she can spare her time. I would love to be able to have you tell people it was your idea to start up this class once again to bring more variety to our wondrous school.

If these students are successful they may have living quarters here along with their new jobs. I am so very proud of you Pomona as you have done me well over the years and for that reason you and the other staff will be getting a permanent fifty percent pay rise so mote it be. I am proud of you all and it's about time I started actually showing that. I do have another reason for my suggestions however as I am determined to have the worlds best Magical Academy and I am very confident that if we work together we can succeed. Well done everyone, Signed Albus Percival Wolfrick Brian Dumbledore, Order of Merlin 1st class, Supreme Mugwump and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot.

She smiled brightly calling Neville over. "Professor I have changed your soil for you and the plants are set to grow in three days. I've expelled the bag of soil you had and replaced it with replicated healthy soil from the other bags. Your soil had been contaminated by a potion I am guessing someone spilled it on the soil by accident. I wanted to talk to you Professor as I remembered something that might interest you just now. I have a job working as a Herbology Dr one evening a week in the new Herbology Place in Hogsmeade and I was thinking if you like I can bring my work with me to school and together we can all three of us that is make healing these plants beneficial. Also I could bring elements of diagnosing the plants to my classes sometimes for anyone who might be interested" said Neville proudly. "Longbottom I am amazed. Yes that will be beneficial to us in the future now come with me please and note you are excused from all classes today. Please go and find Ms Lovegood and our new students Mr Potter and Miss Longbottom and meet me back at Professor McGonagall's office. Now off you go" she said smiling brightly. "Thank you Professor!" he said running off excitedly to find the others.

He quickly found them all. "What is this about Neville?" they asked him. "Suffice it to say that "Dumbledore" wrote Pomona a letter and we are all heading to the Ministry now for teaching tests and should we succeed we shall be able to teach all OWL subjects here. Pomona will be teaching all NEWTS as well as a newly revived healing course. If we get the jobs here it means we can live here together teaching as spouses. I have also given all the staff a permanent fifty percent raise to automatically come from his vault and as he really did write the letter he can't lie and say he didn't" said Neville proudly. Hermione reacted first charging at and kissing Neville passionately. "Neville you wonderful man. We could make such changes to how people are taught here at school oh how exciting a professor I'd never thought of that!" she said smiling so brightly he though her face might burst in two. They arrived at McGonagall's office to find Pomona, Filius and Minerva waiting for them. "You are all exceptional students and I am delighted Dumbledore has noticed it as well. It will be an honour to work beside you should the tests be successful" said Minerva brightly. "Congratulations on having his permission to do this as you have all been exceptional in your classes and the break from so much teaching would mean each of us can focus more on expanding our knowledge for the years we will be teaching. I am such a proud person right now!" squealed Filius in joy.

They left for the Ministry with Pomona in the floo. When they arrived Harry nearly laughed as there were signs everywhere stating to call the Ministry if you saw either Harry or Hermione anywhere. They all passed by without much notice being given to them. They boarded the lift and headed to the Department of Educational Decree. They all got out and approached the desk. "Good afternoon I have students with me who are prepared to take the teaching exams and will be waiting afterwards for their results if you don't mind. I must ask are they still as long as they were when I was taking my exams years ago?" asked Pomona smiling politely at the lady behind the desk. "No Ma'am the test only takes one hour to complete now. We use a practical approach to the test. It is obvious to us that these students do well in the literary aspects of the course or else they would not be here on recommendation of Albus Dumbledore himself so they just need to prove they have the actual practical elements to back up their work. I mean as we all know anyone can answer questions the real test is in showing yourself practically. I'll take them all this way please!" said the lady politely before leading them off to a separate chamber where four different instructors waited.

This test was meant to appear simple as there were little instructions given but it was more difficult then it had been initially thought to be. "Ok we will each mention a subject and you are to display one practical element for the subject which is of your own choice. We will grade you as we go!" said the main lady. As potions was the most time consuming and often difficult it was the first one mentioned. Hermione thought hard about what she wished to make and decided that to make something difficult would better showcase her talents. She chose the difficult Felix Felisis. She set up her station with all the ingredients and began cutting the livers dragonskull. Once that was done she added it to the now simmering cauldron while adding in two measures of standard ingredient. She stirred it five times clockwise, three times anti clockwise and added in three drops of essence of cowbane. She left it to simmer for five minutes while she ground up three strealers and two bats wings in her pestle and mortar. She then held her wand firmly aimed at the cauldron while adding in two exact measures of the essence from the pestle and mortar. She then boiled her potion for exactly two and three quarter minutes before switching off her cauldron and bottling the potion for examination.

Neville had made essence of dittany, Harry had chosen to make his favourite potion the draught of the living dead while Luna chose to make amortentia. The next practical was for Transfigurations whereby a box full of items was placed in the centre of the room. You had to pick one item of your choice and transfigure it any way you chose. Everyone else seemed to pick their items easily but Harry took his time picking his item. Finally he found a rather striking menorah and removed it from the box. He already knew what he was going to do with it and so the instructors looked at him in interest when he moved to the far left and away from most people. Placing the menorah in the centre of the room he backed off at a distance and turned around saying some rather complex words while using equally complex wand movements which would take ages for any normal person to do. It took a total of five minutes worth of complex wording for him to be finished. Once finished gone was the menorah but in it's place was a beautiful two story Georgian home. The examiners were speechless as they explored the inside of the fully furnished and designed home. "Mr Potter if we may can we ask to keep this here like this? It will show our other students what they need to work towards should they wish to teach in this field. Next of course was the charms demonstration as someone chosen by the examiners who came into the room for this purpose.

Luna decided to change the sex of this person and their personality making the gorgeous man into a stunning female no easy feat I can assure you. After adding charms to make "her" converse solely in Italian she changed back the man and obliviated him of the entire experience. The examiners were left stunned by the ease at which she did the charms. Everyone else did well also but she was outstanding. "I tell you we've not had someone that fantastic in here since Rowena Ravenclaw herself well done Miss Potter!" they all said encouraging her to smile wider. After ages of testing all the subjects came the last one herbology at which Neville aced. He successful planted an indoor self sufficient arboretum with a complete waterfall and instructed the examiners that they could move it and place it anywhere as it was set to grow different plants according to what season it was. They had told him to transfer it now to the main atrium as the final part of the test concluded. They were all exhausted after the trying tests but relieved to have them finished. They left the office where Pamona was eagerly waiting them. Each person was congratulated and supplied with not only four certificates each qualifying each of them to teach the main subjects but a written offer of immediate work from "Dumbledore" with a magically binding contract he could never dispute as he'd signed it himself.

They were never more proud of Neville with his brilliant charms work he was able to fool everyone into thinking and believing that Dumbledore had offered them work via a magically binding contract for the next twenty years. Which they did of course sign and as it had been stored in the legal department of affairs he couldn't possibly ever deny it. Besides which he'd hand delivered it but had to return to his meditations. Man Neville was good. Hermione was shocked as she had been given the full job of teaching potions to all years and Snape had been fired on Dumbledore's orders of course. Neville had been given the job of teaching herbology to all the years meaning that Pomona could focus solely on her healing course and work with him. He was extremely excited. Because of Snape's firing Hermione realised Dumbledore had made her the head of house. Neville had also been made the head of Hufflepuff a responsibility that Pomona Sprout was only too happy to offload if it meant she could work her way towards success in the medical field.

Luna was given the full title of charms teacher and head of her own house while Filius was instructed to take Defence Against the Dark Arts with Bill Weasley and they were to co teach. Bill would do all of the theory and curse breaking work while Filious taught the rare art of duelling in a safe environment. He would be holding mini tournaments and it made him feel young and spritely and he was honoured he'd been given the opportunity. I mean asides from the four new teachers Bill had been his star pupil and to get to work with someone as amazing as him would be great. Harry of course got the Transfigurations and head of Gryffindor house job. McGonagall would be the new Headmaster. It would seem not only did Albus give them jobs and have them sign the contract he'd also resigned officially in person in the Ministry. Filius was delighted because he also got promoted to vice head of the school. They were so ecstatic they couldn't believe it. All Neville had wanted was some recognition for their extraordinary talent he hadn't necessarily gone into this saying great lets get jobs. It would seem as Founders they were for the moment anyway right where they should be.

That night they would be sleeping in their dorms before they moved out permanently tomorrow. They all headed into the room of requirements as Hermione asked the room for it to only take one hour for them to be missing while they returned to the past. A silver hour glass appeared on the wall moving extremely slowly to show it had worked. Harry dimmed the lights while drew some runes on the floor. Hermione lit nine candles in a circle in which they all stood in the centre. "Now remember guys we may only change two things where we are going and no one will be able to see us or prove we've done anything. Are we all ready?" Neville had some vials in his pockets while Harry had the marauders map in his pockets. Hermione had included in her pockets a camera to record and take pictures of whatever they saw wherever they went and Luna included some parchment and a quill on her person to take notes of what she saw. As they were all ready she said the spell everything around them swirling quickly in a huge blur making them all dizzy. When they finally stopped they opened there eyes slowly. "WHAT THE HELL?" Harry shouted before fainting out cold.