Chapter 12: The Dementor Repellent

Oliver: Hey Harry. So, I was thinking, since Dementors want to feast on you, and it's the reason we lost that last game, I was thinking…I mean, I don't want to, since you're a great Seeker, but for the sake of the team…

Harry: Professor Lupin's gonna teach me how to fight dementors.

Oliver: …would you like to be team captain when I leave?

Harry: What?

Oliver: You're right, Angelina should get it before you. Anyway, how's the hunt for a new broom going?

Harry: Hermione got my new Firebolt confiscated the day I got it.

Oliver: WHAT?! That bitch…

Harry: Something about it maybe being jinxed by Sirius Black.

Oliver: THAT…sounds reasonable?

Harry: Wood, are you okay?

Oliver: …I mean, you've played on a jinxed broomstick before, right?

Harry: Look, if you want me to get it back, you may need to ask McGonagall about it.

Oliver: You're right. It's time for Sean Biggerstaff to show her my Biggerstaff *leaves*

Ron: Why do I get the feeling this is going to end in a very Seamus way?

Seamus: Should I let Madam Pomfrey know when I get there?

Harry: Classes haven't even started yet. How did you hurt yourself already?

Seamus: Well, I was trying an alternative to the Alohomora charm, and, well, long story short *drops his pants, revealing a lock from a door around his dick*

Harry: That'd be right. Come on Ron, we've got Divination.

*at Divination*

Trelawney: Okay students, we are now moving on from tea leaves…

Class: HOORAY!

Trelawney: …and moving on to palm reading.

Hermione: Um, Professor?

Trelawney: Yes child?

Hermione: How the fuck are you supposed to learn anything about the future from someone's hand?

Dean: Especially Seamus's. I'm pretty sure his hands have third degree friction burns.

Trelawney: Oh, it's quite easy really *grabbing Harry's hand* See, this is the life line, and…oh, yours is so short.

Harry: We're still doing that, are we?

*later, after Defence against the Dark Arts*

Harry: So, about those dementor fighting lessons…

Lupin: Oh, you were serious about them?

Harry: You weren't?

Lupin: Well, it's not like we can just grab one of them and ask them to stand still while you viciously assault it. Besides, isn't there another teacher you could ask?

Harry: The only other teacher that might be able to help is McGonagall, and I'm not asking her because I'm still kinda miffed at her for taking my Firebolt.

Lupin: *muttering* Damn it Sirius, I told you not to draw attention to yourself.

Harry: What was that?

Lupin: Err…how's Thursday for you? Great, see you then *pushes Harry out of the classroom*

Ron: What was that about?

Harry: Dunno. Maybe he's still sick.

Hermione: *eye twitch* Yes…of course.

Harry: Did you hear anything?

Ron: No I did not. Let's go to lunch.

Hermione: Guess you're ignoring me then *Harry and Ron flip her off as they go past* Oh, real mature assholes.

*Thursday night*

Harry: Hi Professor.

Lupin: What the…oh yes, Harry. Please, come in *holding down the lid of a trunk*

Harry: What's in there?

Lupin: Oh, this? It's a dementor.

Harry: You got one to agree?

Lupin: Hell no, that's why I had to cram it in the case.

Harry: Wait, WHAT?!

Lupin: The spell you need is Expecto Patronum. Think happy thoughts, and good luck *opens the chest*

Harry: God damn it *holds his wand out*

Dementor: Noms for me. Come to me.

Lily: *echoey voice* NO! Don't kill my baby.

Voldemort: *echoey voice* Come on, let me kill your baby. And don't even think of pulling some deus ex machina crap on me.

*later*

Harry: *getting off the floor* Well, that was unpleasant.

Lupin: Ready for round two?

Harry: What? *Lupin opens the case* Son of a bitch.

Dementor: Gimme my noms.

James: Lily, take Harry and run.

Lily: But what about you?

James: Don't worry, I can take him.

Voldemort: Avada Kedavra *flash of green before Harry blacks out*

*later*

Harry: *waking up again* I swear, if you do that one more time…

Lupin: I actually haven't put it away this time.

Dementor: My noms. MINE!

Harry: Son of a fuck. Expecto Patronum *silver flash flies out of Harry's wand, hitting the dementor*

Dementor: Noms hurt me. Noms no fun anymore *flies out window*

Lupin: Wait, you succeeded? Err…I mean, congratulations, you did it.

Harry: Well, it was that, or lose a soul. I know what I prefer. Also, I heard my father that time.

Lupin: You heard James?

Harry: You knew him?

Lupin: Oh, yeah, quite well. I mean, the shenanigans we got up to, I'm honestly surprised McGonagall hasn't retired yet…

Harry: Which means you knew Sirius Black.

Lupin: Oh…Harry, I don't know where this is going, but…

Harry: Don't worry, I'm not going to confront him.

Lupin: Oh thank God.

Harry: I'm just going to send Hedwig to the place he would most likely be and get him to sign my Hogsmeade permission slip.

Lupin: That seems incredibly stupid. You don't need to go to Hogsmeade to experience all its wonders. Here, I've got a bottle of Butterbeer for you. You wouldn't have had that yet.

Harry: Nah, I've had it.

Lupin: Really? You've had something that's strictly forbidden from being brought into the castle?

Harry: *eye twitch* Ron brought it back.

Lupin: Really? He was smart enough to smuggle contraband into the school?

Harry: Err…I mean Hermione?

Lupin: The straight O student who never breaks any rules?

Harry: …Neville?

Lupin: Come on Harry, how stupid do you think I am?

Harry: …gotta go *runs out before Lupin can stop him*

*after the next Transfiguration class*

Harry: So, Professor, about my Firebolt…

McGonagall: You can't have it back yet.

Harry: Okay, yeah, sure, but…uh…how about now?

McGonagall: No.

Harry: Now?

McGonagall: No.

Harry: Now?

McGonagall: If you ask one more time, I'll do what I did to Oliver Wood to you.

Seamus: Don't do it dude. Even I don't want my dick that messed up.

Harry: So…that's a no then?

McGonagall: *glaring furiously* You know what? Take it *pulls out Firebolt* Sure, it might still be jinxed, but if it will shut you up, I don't fucking care.

Harry: *takes broomstick* Glad to see you agree.

*outside the Gryffindor Common Room*

Neville: I swear I'm a Gryffindor student. You must have seen me come out this morning.

Cadogan: A likely story. What kind of student forgets my list of passwords?

Harry: What sort of portrait guard has thirty seven passwords that somehow spread evenly across the week?

Cadogan: Oh, you think you know it?

Harry: Oddsbodikins.

Cadogan: Hmpf, lucky guess *opens*

Harry: Come on Neville *walks into Common Room, only to hear the portrait slam behind him* What the?

Cadogan: We just crossed into the next password, which he doesn't know.

Neville: Harry, help *silence* Harry?

*in Common Room*

Harry: Well, I got my Firebolt back.

Hermione: See, I told you you'd get it back once they de-cursed it.

Harry: I never said they did that.

Hermione: Wait, does that mean…

Harry: So, how have you been getting to all your classes? You've managed to avoid missing a single one, despite them being in different places at the same time.

Hermione: Well, you see…

Ron: Hermione *holds up a sheet* What. The fuck. Is this? *Harry and Hermione see blood stain with a ginger hair stuck in it*

Hermione: Oh shit…