Chapter 3: First Chances and Expectations
What is the chance we get a professor that looks exactly like
me? Well not exactly. His eyes are green and mine are blue. (a/n: I am taking a
wild guess. Okay?) And danged if I know how he got his hair to look that way.
That hair is not even in style, but from how the girls stare at him, I think it
works on him. I'll have to ask him about that. Sirius and I are going to play
the biggest prank on him ever. It involves our secret weapon—well I
can't tell you now or it would ruin the surprise. It will be this prank's big
debut. Let's just say it will be a blast. Literarily.
James yawned. "I'm gonna go to bed. Come on Sirius, we need to
get extra sleep for tomorrow's lesson. We wouldn't want to fall asleep in DADA,
would we?"
He grinned.
Sirius realized what he was trying to say. He grinned and
said, "Of course we wouldn't. That would be terrible, wouldn't it Moony?"
He nudged Remus and Remus nodded. What they really said was,
"We have to get some sleep, because we have a big day tomorrow. We have got to
be awake to see it happen." "I
understand what you are saying, do you Moony?" As Sirius and Remus were going
up the stairs, James leaned over and gave Lily a quick kiss on the lips.
"Night Lily. Sweet dreams. Just remember that we are going to
have some fun tomorrow. Okay?" said James with a mischievous grin on his face.
"Okay. Night."
Then it hit her.
"James! Stop right there!"
He didn't stop and she ran up the stairs to follow him,
saying, "What do you mean by 'we are going to have some fun tomorrow'? What are
you going to do to the new professor? I mean it James! What are you going to
do?"
"Nothing my sweet. Well nothing serious. Don't you worry your
precious head over it," He said kissing the top of her head and walking into
his dorms and shutting the door in her face.
"It had better be nothing!" she screeched and she stomped down
stairs and to her dorm room.
Harry laughed silently as he watched this encounter in safety.
Well under his—or should I say James', invisibility cloak. He had known that he was going to get
something from them on his first day. Harry just wished he knew what it was.
From the way they were acting it, it had to be something big. He walked to his
new room in silence and draped his cloak over his oak desk, which had nothing
on it. He still didn't have a clue as to what he was going to teach his classes
and unfortunately he had the Gryffindor and Slytherin 7th years
first, which meant that he was going to teach his father, along with Snape.
This was going to be good, but he was still worried.
"I'll just ask them tomorrow what they have already learned
and go from there," he said getting into his king sized bed without bothering
to change his clothes.
The next day during breakfast, Harry was amused to see the
infamous crew sneaking mischievous glances at him, along with the worried glances
from Lily. 'I can't believe they are my parents,' he thought with a sigh,
'they look so young and carefree.' Taylor glanced at him when he sighed.
"You really have a thing for that crew don't you?" she asked,
looking at him curiously.
"What do you mean?"
"You seem to be really interested in that crew. That one that
has James in it, why?"
Harry thought hard for a moment trying to come up with an
excuse and said, " He looks so much like me, and I have never known my family,
that I just can't help wondering about my life."
"Sorry I asked, dear. I didn't mean to bring up any bad
memories," she said with concern on her face.
"Not bad memories, m'dear, only good. If you will excuse me, I
have a class to teach."
"I know. I looked at your schedule. All I have to say is good
luck."
Harry walked away laughing and said over his shoulder, "I have
remarkable luck."
Harry made a quick stop in his room to grab his sneakascope,
just in case. He looked at his clock and saw that it was almost time for his
first class to start. He chuckled when he remembered what Ron, Hermione, and
him had been like with any new teachers—first people in the room and in the
front row. He rushed off to the DADA room to see if he could get there before
the marauders. He checked the Marauder's Map and saw he had a chance if he ran.
He muttered 'mischief managed' and ran to his classroom.
"Made it!" he cried when he reached the room.
He laughed when he saw the looks on the few people's faces
that were in the room. They looked at him as though he were crazy as he pulled
out the sneakascope and set it on his desk. He transfigured it into a small
alarm clock, so James wouldn't realize that he had a clue when something would
be happening. He looked out at the class and saw that the marauders were still
not there. 'Oh well,' he thought, 'I should probably start.' He walked in front
of his desk and perched on the edge.
"Sorry about that, I wanted to get here before James, Sirius,
Remus, and Peter did. From what I have heard they are something to be
frightened of. Correct?" he said looking at the students.
They all got frightened looks on their faces and nodded their
heads. He laughed. Just then the marauders rushed into the room with
mischievous grins on their faces. Harry didn't look worried at that expression,
in fact that expression just made him more relaxed. He smiled at the marauders.
"The infamous marauders, I presume?" they nodded and the grin
was still there, "It is nice to see you all again. By the way, if you didn't
know, I am Professor Harry Larson. But if I hear you call me professor I will
have to hurt you. Any questions?"
A girl sitting next to Lily raised her hand. He pointed at her
and said, "Yes, you, there. I am sorry but I don't know everyone's names. What
is it that you want to know?"
"Um, Profes—wait Harry, um, how, um, old are you? And my name
is Izzy—short for Isabel."
"Not that old actually. I am only nineteen. Thanks for asking
Izzy. Any other questions?"
James raised his hand and feinted an innocent look. Harry
said, "Yes, James, what is it?"
"Well Harry, I just wanted to know what you think of pranks?"
"Me playing them or them being played on me?"
"Them being played on you."
The alarm went off and Harry hit the snooze button. Beginning
to get suspicious at the way he was acting. "I am not the biggest fan of them
being played on me but I really don't mind them. Why?"
The alarm went off again and without even turning around he
picked it up and threw in into his office. You could hear it hit the wall with
a thud. James stood up, faced the class, and simply said, "Because today is the
big debut of the giggle bomb, now equipped with giggle gas, and we decided to
try it out on you."
He turned around and threw it at Harry saying 'Harry Larson'
but it didn't go to Harry. He pointed his wand at it anyways and said, "I do
not believe it is me you want, return to James Potter and Sirius Black
semi-permanently."
The bomb turned around in mid air and exploded in front of
Sirius and James. They looked shocked but started to laugh due to the charm. As
they were rolling around on the floor laughing Sirius managed to say, "How did
HE know the banishing words. We didn't even tell Remus."
"Good prank, you two, I will talk to you after class because
of it. As for class, what have you already learned?"
Snape laughed at that and Harry turned toward him. He gave
Snape a deep stare and Snape shuttered. Harry grinned and said, "Snape, is
there a problem?"
He gulped and replied in a small voice, "No sir."
"Good. But that will be 10 points from the Slytherin house."
That house groaned. " Why?" they asked.
"For disrespecting James
and interrupting my class. Don't do it again and where was I? Ah yes, I
remember. What have you learned previous to this?"
The hour went on from there with people looking at Harry with
a newfound respect. No one had ever been able to reverse an act the marauders
did on them back to the marauders—no one. When the end of class rolled by,
Harry remembered that he hated homework and because of that he didn't assign
anything. He motioned for them to follow him into his office, which was bare
except for a rolling oak desk. Harry didn't want to decorate because he had
nothing to fill it up that wasn't from the future. He sat behind the desk and
gestured and the black cushion chairs in front of it. He laughed at the serious expressions on their faces—they
obviously thought they were going to get in trouble. He smiled and said,
"Relax. You are not in trouble. Unless you want to be?"
They both shook their heads and said, "No, no. We don't want
that."
Harry laughed and said, "That prank was great! I can't believe
you created it. You will have to show it to me some time."
James was the first to regain his composure after Harry showed
his youth. He said, "What do you mean? I mean, why aren't you mad at us?"
Sirius nodded in agreement. Harry slowly said, "I. Like.
Pranks. I do not care that you played one in class, but don't do it again
anytime soon. I don't want to get in trouble with Dumbledore. I don't want him
any more suspicious of me."
He said that last part more to himself. Sirius said, with
disbelief, "You do?"
"Yep. You should get going. You don't want to miss your next
class."
Sirius ran out the door, but James stopped in the doorway. He
turned to Harry and asked, "Harry, how did you know about the giggle bomb? And
how come when I said your name it didn't go to you? Isn't it your name?"
Harry looked at him with a mix of sadness and happiness on his
face. He said, "I can't tell you that, James. You will have to believe me when I
say that that is something better off unknown. You better go now or you will be
late."
James looked at him with curiosity and said, "You're right. I
better get going. See you later, Harry."
But Harry wasn't looking at him. James shut the door behind
him and said, "Something isn't right with him. Too many things about him are
unknown. But I promise myself, I will find out his secrets," and with that he
took off to charms.
A/N: That's it for today!
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