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Warning: If you like incompetent McGonagall this chapter isn't for you, in fact, this story isn't for you.

The Great Lina Inverse In:

How Harry Found out His Past Life Was Female

or

Lina Inverse Rides Again

A.K.A.

FATE SUCKS

The Next morning, exceptionally early for Gryffindors, Harry, Ron, and Hermione went down the several stairs to breakfast where the Ravenclaws were already eating and studying. Both Harry and Hermione carried their nearly pristine copies of Voyages with Vampires, still unaware of who exactly would be teaching the class. Harry, though, also carried with him a foot of parchment, already scribbled over with inconsistencies in the book series that was assigned, later he would show this to professor McGonagall. She would, as the Deputy Headmistress, be required to do something if the teacher was using a frauds books as a teaching tool. 'I just hope the McGonagall listens this time, unlike with the stone,' Harry bitterly thought, remembering the possessed defense professor.

As the morning progressed into daylight, instead of the mere demi-glaze called dawn, the Hufflepuffs came out and sat. To some surprise to the Gryffindor trio some sat with the Ravenclaws, apparently talking, debating and studying with them. They only barely noticed when the teachers started coming into the hall a few minutes later. Snape being the last to come into the hall looked slightly peaceful, until he saw the trio of Gryffindors awake and two of them studying. He sneered at them, contempt written upon his sallow features. Professor McGonagall looked upon her lions with pride. At least these three were taking their studies seriously.

Albus Dumbledore looked pensively out towards the trio. He had not since Minerva was a Gryffindor seen so many up and about so early. He had a multitude of compulsion spells in place to prevent it, in fact. He would have to investigate this, for the greater good of course. It wouldn't due for lions to outdo ravens. Someone might notice that the scores for Ravenclaws had been going down for a few generations, and while some might brush it off others would listen.

Harry, Ron and Hermione looked towards the teachers, unsurprised by the sneering Snape, the proud McGonagall, or the pensive Dumbledore. Everything was going according to Harry's Plan which was laid out during the late night discussion they all had. Harry had weakened the compulsions enough that they would register to Dumbledore's machines but not effect anyone much. Ron, to everyone's surprise, had a compulsion to make him care more about chess than homework or making his mother proud. While he still liked chess, he knew that he should make his mother proud before playing. Hermione, whose compulsion would have eventually driven her to fall for Ron, was apparently bisexual. Why Dumbledore had used magic to mess around with her sexuality was a hot topic on the betting tables. The most popular bet being that he wanted Hermione to be a Weasley and stay in the Wizarding World. Fred and George, surprisingly didn't have a compulsion on them. Either the Headmaster was underestimating their talents, or thought they would never have the drive to compete with him. Now the two only wanted to make his life hell. No one should underestimate a Weasley. Percy, who was at first very much against whatever Harry was doing, had a few spells on him. One would increase his desire to bow to authority, another was to bind his magic slightly, the third and final would have driven him to hate Harry. Percy was astonished and angry with the Headmaster, to think that the Headmaster of the school would ever do such a thing. Neville was unsurprised to find most of his active magic bound, and that his passive magic was herbology related. He wanted to write to his gran, but Harry nipped that in the bud. If they were to change the Wizarding World for the better they'd need to do more than get the Headmaster to see the error of his ways.

Harry's plan had three measures to it: 1) unbind the children, 2) investigate the rumor of a DADA curse, and 3) contain and eliminate the corruption of the Wizarding World. So far they were still in phase 1, which meant that phase 2 and 3 would have to wait for a little while, but Rome wasn't built in a day after all. Dumbledore had left the compulsions easy to remove, possibly so it would be easy to add onto the spell. Wizards and witches build an immunity to compulsions with continued use, if they didn't have to power to burn though them. If they had the power the compulsions would be destroyed on their own eventually. The more magic a person has, the harder it is to effect them with a continuous spell.

Professor McGonagall walked sedately towards the Gryffindor trio, three timetables in hand. "Hermione, Ronald, and Harry. Your timetables for this school year, and remember, next year you can have up to three extra classes. Normally I would suggest taking two of them and using one as a free period, but you should take advantage while you can. Also, I would like for you to remember there are a few academic clubs, though attendance is usually Ravenclaws and Slytherins. Please take that into consideration."

The trio looked at each other as she left. "Why didn't we know about the academic clubs?" Hermione asked sullenly, "An academic opportunity could have been lost to us if we hadn't been informed."

"I think it might just be that the other Gryffindors couldn't have cared less before last night," Harry explained, "Think about how many of the Gryffindors had mental blocks or compulsions of some kids before last night. Think about how many in other houses, or even in other groups in Gryffindor than ours, may have these kind of spells on them."

Hermione shuddered at the thought, not being able to learn something new was a fear for her along with failure. Ron and Harry looked at her with awe as they saw what looked like small bolts of lightning clinging to her. She was a strong witch, according to Harry's senses, enough to give Dumbledore a headache, but not enough for a true challenge. There were few mere wizards up to Dumbledore's standards, but no wizard can beat a Sorcerer for shear power. It isn't known why, but while wizards can't do any sorcery, sorcerer's can do wizardry with ease.

Hermione struggled to calm herself down as her lightning raced over her body in diminutive streaks. Harry looked over at Dumbledore who was, fortunately, busy talking to Snape. As he watched them carefully he got an idea. 'Maybe, just maybe, I can get rid of Snape as well as whoever is teaching defense.' Harry looked over to where the defense teacher should have been sitting and saw an empty chair. 'Just maybe.'

Fred and George Weasley knew they were being stubborn. They knew that they, in order to win Harry's heart, were going about it all wrong. That and add the fact that he probably had no interest in dating currently, as he was only 12 years old, meant that they should wait until they could rationally think of a way to fairly win Harry's interest. Until then they would focus on school and their pranking. They were sure they could do both, and if Dumbledore got angry that they were actually doing their school work more power to them.

Lee Jordan knew he had to make sure that George won Harry's Heart, but he also knew he was being petty about it. It wasn't Harry's fault that the twin's had decided to fall for Harry, but he couldn't help but feel like Harry was to blame. He only hoped he didn't do anything too stupid, like claim Harry was a dark wizard or something.

Neville Longbottom knew that he had Harry to thank for his power, but he also wanted to curse him. He had accidentally caused several magical accidents and none of them were very pretty. First he had accidentally caused all the bedding in Gryffindor to turn pink, which would have been okay if he hadn't been trying to help Dean make Seamus wake up. This incident caused Dean to laugh loudly making Seamus awaken. They then found out that Seamus's clothing had also been turned pink, a rather hot pink at that. Seamus was noticeably less than happy about it, and showed it by hexing Dean. When he found out the culprit was Neville all he had to say was, "It's always the quiet ones."

Albus Dumbledore, in his office, found his machines that tracked the compulsions on the students were all blinking along like they were supposed to. 'Perhaps they are outdated?' the headmaster thought with a frown. If he used another on the Longbottom child he wouldn't be able to use anymore. Longbottom was more powerful than most people knew after all. It wouldn't do to have a possible prophetic child to be out from under his control, would it?

Minerva McGonagall looked out at the students and smiled, until she remembered who was the new DADA teacher. Gilderoy Lockhart. She wasn't sure how he was even hired but one toe out of line, or one bad lesson and she would go to the bored of Governors or her name wasn't Minerva McGonagall.

First, a thanks to Lassy D, an anonymous reviewer who made me realize that my writing was getting less detailed, thank you.

Next, I would like to point out that Minerva may be a little OOC in this fiction. Purists may want to realize that so are the rest of them. I used Compulsions which, while over done, actually make sense. Blocks on magic do as well as we can see in the seventh book that Neville is actually a powerful wizard, and we know that spells don't last long after the death of their wizard. Percy also rejoins the Weasley's in the final battle. My thought is this: Dumbledore uses the Elder Wand to cast the spells, and the Elder Wand being the most powerful wand in existence makes sure that the spells continue to work a while after death. Though in this fic the Master of Death is nothing compared to the Sorcerer's or their guild. This isn't to say that Sorcerers and Sorceresses are actually that powerful, but to say that Wizards have allowed themselves to grow weaker while forcing Sorcerers to make their own way in the world, causing them to only grow in power.