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"Okay so what exactly am I to do again?" Harry was walking down Diagon Alley with Draco Malfoy in 1976. The Alley itself hadn't changed much. The people in it had changed though. Harry had been accustomed to all the friendly shopkeepers in Diagon Alley over the month that he had stayed there out of school. To him it seemed strange not to have people he knew by face around every corner, but in the same way it was rather comforting.
Both men had had their appearances altered just enough so that their distinctive features were changed. Harry's scar had been covered with a simple cosmetic spell. He and Draco had switched features so that the distinctive Malfoy and Potter look was swapped around a bit. Draco's hair color had been changed to a darker blonde and his skin was made a bit darker as well.
"You," Draco pointed at Harry, "are the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher if we are able to arrange it. If not then you are the Divination Teacher. Dumbledore wasn't sure which one was you since both the teachers were new, men, and only lasted a year. Remember you can't say anything of the future to anyone. You graduated from Stonehenge Academy in er… 1972. You must remember that you are 20 here not 18."
"Why are we using Stonehenge Academy again, I have never heard of it until now?"
"Because Po-er…Holloway it will burn to the ground to Death Eaters in a week. No records are ever found, this way we can get away with not having any records."
"What about recommendations?"
"Are you trying to find a problem in our plan?" Draco whirled around and looked directly into Harry's new marble blue eyes.
"Well we basically have everyone's lives in our hands. I don't want to screw up and oh; not be born!"
"We'll be fine don't worry. Now we have to get a room. Shit!"
"What's wrong, didn't find a problem in the plan now did we, brother dearest?" Harry's eyes were twinkling in amusement at Draco's frustration and the fact that he could make a brother crack, as Harry and Draco were supposed to be brothers.
"Half this money is that new addition collectable crap that Gringott's decided to make!" Both boys now peered into the old leather draw string money bag, and frowned.
"Well fix it!" Harry was not happy at this announcement, causing his trunk to drop out of its levitation with a large bang.
"How Holloway?" Draco sneered at Harry in frustration.
"Like this," Harry raised his wand to do a quick transfiguration but Draco stopped him.
"I," hissed Draco, "meant legally."
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After the money situation was sorted out legally (by fixing the date and look with a quick and indictable illusion charm), Draco and Harry got a room at the Leaky Caldron (both made sure that they had separate beds) and sent a letter off to Dumbledore saying that Harry Holloway was interested in a job as a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher or a Divination teacher. Then after a long day both Harry and Draco dropped off into an exhausted sleep.
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Harry was standing in a white square on the middle of a huge chessboard, and watched Ron fall down to an angry Queen. Ron kept falling and falling until Harry was down into the Chamber of Secrets standing over an unconscious Ginny. Ginny's eyes opened wide and then turned into Cedric's shocked, dead eyes.
Suddenly Cedric's eyes came back to life and starred at Harry in his eyes. Then Cedric turned into Colin Creevey who quickly fell to the ground under the Cruciatus Curse, slowly going insane under the pain. Colin rolled into a ball; dead. From that ball emerged a Dementor who came closer and closer to Harry, who could only scream…
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"Wake up Potter!" Draco was shaking Harry; hard, "are you trying to wake to all of London?"
"Sorry… just a nightmare…" Harry looked dazed, and Draco just sighed.
"Well are you okay? And next time take a Dreamless Sleep potion," Malfoy pulled on a shirt and walked toward the bathroom door, "I get first shower alright? You can have it next time," with that Draco slung his towel over his shoulder and shut the bathroom door, leaving Harry to think about how the hell he got himself in this mess.
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A week had come and gone. Since then Draco and Harry had gotten in a good rhythm. Every other day they switched out who got the shower first. Then they would both go into the wizarding collecting the latest gossip of Voldemort, and putting it together with what they knew would happen to try and find out what Voldemort was doing.
Harry had also gotten a reply back from his letter to Dumbledore. An interview was set up for Friday of that week. Dumbledore also said that he had sent off for Harry Holloway's transcript. Harry smiled smugly, thinking that he had actually tricked Albus Dumbledore (even if it had been Albus' idea in the first place), and Harry went to pick out which robes to where to his interview.
The robes Harry chose in his opinion where the most hideous robes in existence. Polyester hadn't only been a muggle fad as far as clothing went it seemed, because these robes were dark green polyester. The robe was tighter at the top and at the bottom finally billowed out into a flare. Harry would have never bought them if they hadn't of been so popular, and his old robes so out of date. Slipping the robes on and grabbing his wand, Harry made his way to a bus station that headed toward Kings Cross.
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Harry arrived at Hogwarts in good time and made his way to the Headmasters Office. Then he started wondering around aimlessly remembering that he shouldn't know the secret entrance to anything, as he had never supposedly set foot in Hogwarts. Doing his best to look lost and worried, Harry called out for someone and got a house elf to come to his aid quickly.
"Y-yes sir. Are you lost?"
"Just a little. I am looking for the Headmaster's Office to do an interview I am trying to get the new position of either the Divination Teacher or the Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher. Can you show me the way?"
"Certainly sir."
With that the house elf started to march down the corridors back to the Gargoyle Statue that stood in front of Albus' office.
"Here be the Headmaster's Office. Pumpkin Pops."
Suddenly the Gargoyle jumped aside and Harry walked up the stairs trying to stay as calm as possible. He turned around to thank the little elf, but he had already left so Harry finished making his way up the steps. When Harry came to the familiar cherry door he knocked.
"Ah, Mr. Holloway I presume. Come in please and have a seat," Albus' voice was as always warm and welcoming, but Harry could tell that the general trust factor hadn't been established yet.
"Thank you sir," Harry sat in one of two chairs in front of Dumbledore's desk.
"I received your letter, and I understand that you are interested in becoming a Professor here," Dumbledore paused to listen to Harry's response.
"Yes sir that is correct."
"Do you have a preference about what you would wish to teach?"
Harry really didn't want to do Divination, but had to be up at the castle and gain Dumbledore's trust so he said, "I really would like to be a Professor here, it has been my dream for a while. Though I rather do Defense Against the Dark Arts, I know a great deal about Divination, too."
"Alright Mr. Holloway. I had owled off for your transcript earlier this week. Unfortunately, as you may of heard Death Eaters captured to school late last night and have set fire to it."
Harry did his best to look surprised and shocked at the fact, but a smug grin kept wanting to get out.
"No sir I had not heard that! I had heard rumors that it might be attacked, but certainly not that it was attacked!"
The Headmaster eyed Harry down a minute, "I am sorry to say that it was."
"So were you able to get my transcript?"
"No, but if you tell me of your qualifications then I will see what I can do. You see we are starting to have a problem with getting Defense Against the Dark Arts Teachers, but our Divination Teacher just retired, so I don't know how hard it's going to be to find a new one of those."
From there Harry started to talk about his experience with Dark Arts and made up his experience with Divination, both were equally hard to do as Harry had to edit out quite a few things in both respects and add in some more things to make it all tie in together. Once he was finished, Dumbledore nodded and said, "Alright Harry I think that you are best for the position of…"
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A/N- Wow!!! A cliffie, well kinda! I can't decide what position Harry should be in, so you deicide! If there are more people who want Divination I'll do that, but if it's a tie then I decide! So review!
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