UP TO NO GOOD
Ch.3
MAGICAL LAW
The next morning came and found Anthony and Aaron together in the Great Hall for breakfast, being joined by the twins. They were all talking excitedly about the year, the new teacher and Fred and George were asking questions left and right.
"You two sure are curious about where all the secret passages in the castle are." Said Aaron after George asked another question about them and where they were. He just grinned back at him and then looked over at Fred. Anthony snorted and shook his head slowly.
"They're Fred and George, of course they want to know where all the secret passages are." He looked over at his two close friends and went on in a very amused voice. "You probably want to know them so you can get away from where you pull off your pranks at., aren't you?"
This time Fred answered with no trace of embarrassment in his voice as he did so. "Of course, did you expect us to use them to get to class on time or something?" he shook his head and laughed loudly along with his twin. Aaron sighed and laughed along with them as he muttered "Should have known." He turned his head to look over towards the front of the hall and then spoke again. "Looks like McGonagal's passing out the schedules."
She came to them and handed all four of them theirs before moving on swiftly to finish handing the rest of them out. Anthony and Aaron looked down and grinned as they saw their class schedule. "We have Magical Law first thing at 9 in the morning.but it's a triple!" exclaimed Anthony in a half happy, half disappointed voice. A groan came from beside him as Aaron read down and saw what he had next.
"I have double potions at 2!" He groaned that out as well, even as Anthony laughed. Seeing the time, he spoke. "We better hurry or we won't make it to Magical Law." He began to shovel down his food as Aaron joined him. As they stood to go, Fred and George got up and piped in. "Our first class doesn't start till 10, so we'll go with you."
Fred added in as they left the hall. "We wanted to see who he is, if he can do that to Snape." Apparently, it did not take long to realize just what kind of idiot Snape was, even before they had his class. The group left the hall chatting about the secret passages, Snape being a git and especially the new teacher. Anthony grinned as they neared the door. "This is going to be a great class, I can feel it."
Stopping before the door to the room, they walked in to find just about no one there since they had wanted to come early to get a better look at the new teacher. There were only about a dozen or so places in the class with a large, heavy book at each desk entitled simply Magical Law. But Professor Jacobson was already sitting at his own large desk in the back, the room being decorated with various Magical Law devices and books. He stood up to walk over to them and smiled, and when he spoke, they stared.
"Good morning gentleman. Who might you four be?" He asked politely as he began to shake their hands. As they were introduced, he looked at Fred and George curiously. Fred spoke "We're not in your class, just came with them. Come on George."
With that, they bolted. Even the remaining two continued to stare at him. A tilt of his head and he spoke again in a rather bemused voice. "What, afraid the American is going to steal your soul or something?" He seemed to be able to read right through them, a laugh as he shook his head slowly. "No more different than your other teachers, I assure you."
As he said the last, the rest of the class filed in. He went to shake hands and introduce himself to each of them as if he were the host of a party and not the teacher. After they all had entered and taken seats, he returned to the front and grinned to them all. "Welcome to Magical Law. I am your teacher, Dan Jacobson. I served in the American Army as an internal Auror for my ministry for about ten years until I moved to Britain. I served as a British Auror for another twenty until I had to retire thanks to the Death Eaters." He patted his leg as he said that and shook his head slowly.
He grinned at them and stretched out his arms widely to encompass the whole class. "And now I am a Hogwarts teacher." The class laughed as they saw him do that and he turned to go sit back at his desk, propping his feet up casually on it. "Now open your books to chapter 1: Jurisdiction: When and where you can enforce.." A collective groan from the students as they all opened their books, perhaps this class wasn't going to be so great after all. * * * * * * * * * * * *
After 3 hours both of them came out of the class, only happy about it being over. Aaron groaned in annoyance as they walked down towards the Great Hall for lunch and shook his head "What is wrong with that guy? All we did was boring book work. About when we could do magic and where and all that crap. Honestly, I wish I had signed up for Muggle Studies after all."
Anthony felt the same as he did, shrugging though as they walked into the great hall and sat down at the end of the Gryffindor table. Putting down his book and sighing. "And all of this homework!" he exclaimed. "Honestly, three feet about proper procedures and where you can do magical law enforcement. A list of at least two hundred spells that can be used in subduing a criminal and then a description of each! Four rolls of parchment on the legal responsibilities of enforcing magical law." He sighed and shook his head. "My God this is a lot!"
Aaron poked him with his quill as he threw his own load down on the table beside him. "Don't you start, it was your idea in the first place!" said Aaron angrily as they sat at the table and grabbed some food to eat quickly, Aaron had a class to go to in a few minutes.
"Don't start, you picked him the same time I did!" responded Anthony as he began to eat his sandwich. Both looking quite annoyed at all they would have to do to turn in by the next time they had his class in two days. After only a minute or two, Aaron walked out to go to his Potions class. Anthony had a larger break before his own next class, Charms.
As Aaron walked out, Fred and George walked in right past him and headed over towards him grinning happily. Apparently, there first class had been quite a success. Due to how much of a success it looked like, he spoke to them amusedly. "Alright, what did you do?"
"Us?" exclaimed Fred as they both tried to look shocked and innocent while neither succeeded. He had known them since they were born, after all. He just stared at them before George finally gave it up and shrugged.
"We haven't done anything yet" he answered. Fred chimed in right afterwards. "We are still deciding how best to disrupt classes."
"We wouldn't want to waste a grand show for a class we liked." Spoke George right after Fred had with a nod from Fred in agreement to that.
"And we still are trying to cause the most chaos at once with our currently limited resources." Fred came back with. "Your first Hogsmeade weekend is not very far away, could you pick a few things up for us?" He asked with as innocent a smile as he could.
Anthony knew better than to trust that smile, a laugh as he looked between the two of them. "Just promise me that you won't associate me with this or use them on me and I'll get you whatever I can." He would end up regretting that later, he was sure. But when they did it, it would be spectacular. He was extremely sure of that since he knew them so well.
He sighed, it would be interesting either way. * * * * * * * * * * * *
Fred grinned at Anthony after he had finished writing down the rather substantial list they had asked for. Standing up with his twin and waving at Anthony as they turned to go get ready for the second class of the day. Of course it had to be Potions with Professor Snape. Anthony had already warned them about him, so of course the twins had taken it to heart and had gotten as prepared as they could for it.
That was why, when they reached the dungeons where Snape's class was, they were wearing Gryffindor scarves, hats, and gloves all decked out in Gryffindor color. Even there Gryffindor patches had been magically changed for the lion to move around. Which made them an island of color in the rather drab dungeon and the others who wore only there black robes and regular patches for their houses. Snape was already in the class and turned to look at the two who entered and just stared at them, unable to do anything more for quite a few moments. Snape looked like he might spit venom at them just because of their audacious appearance. "Five points for being late to class. Get to your seats or I will have to deduct more points." He snapped at the two of them as they walked in and he motioned towards the seats. The fact of the matter was, they were both early and knew it but quickly sat down.
Just as he said that and was looking at them, a Slytherin walked in behind him and made for another seat. George sprang up and said. "He's later than us." He protested and pointed to the still standing Slytherin who turned to look at him.
Snape sneered at George as he stood there, still pointing at the motionless Slytherin and then spoke "Five more points for tattling Mr. Weasley."
George looked on the point of explosion and continued to stand there pointing at the spot the Slytherin was no longer standing in, instead sitting down a few feet away looking smugly towards him as he sat. Snape continued to sneer, even wider now as he spoke again. "If you would like, I could make it an even fifty points."
Fred quickly grabbed George and tugged him down hard into his chair before Snape could carry out his threat. They both looked daggers at Snape and the tall, stocky Slytherin whom they soon learned from Snape speaking to him was Evan Montague. Snape went to the front and pulled out his wand before speaking. "Today we will see how you do by making a potion to cause boils. The directions are on the blackboard." As he said that, he waved his wand and the directions appeared. "The ingredients are in the cupboards." He flicked his wand again and the cupboards filled with the items needed. "Follow the instructions exactly. You have one hour. Begin." With that, he turned around towards his desk.
Fred and George were sitting at the same desk, of course, and were talking even as they worked on preparing the potion. Watching Snape on the far side correcting Montague on how to do something quietly and then move farther away and exclaim loudly about the poor work of a Gryffindor who had made the same mistake as Montague. After they saw Snape's back turned George whispered to his brother. "Well now we know which class to go after first."
"Indeed we do, George. Now, I have an idea. This is what we have to do."
Ch.3
MAGICAL LAW
The next morning came and found Anthony and Aaron together in the Great Hall for breakfast, being joined by the twins. They were all talking excitedly about the year, the new teacher and Fred and George were asking questions left and right.
"You two sure are curious about where all the secret passages in the castle are." Said Aaron after George asked another question about them and where they were. He just grinned back at him and then looked over at Fred. Anthony snorted and shook his head slowly.
"They're Fred and George, of course they want to know where all the secret passages are." He looked over at his two close friends and went on in a very amused voice. "You probably want to know them so you can get away from where you pull off your pranks at., aren't you?"
This time Fred answered with no trace of embarrassment in his voice as he did so. "Of course, did you expect us to use them to get to class on time or something?" he shook his head and laughed loudly along with his twin. Aaron sighed and laughed along with them as he muttered "Should have known." He turned his head to look over towards the front of the hall and then spoke again. "Looks like McGonagal's passing out the schedules."
She came to them and handed all four of them theirs before moving on swiftly to finish handing the rest of them out. Anthony and Aaron looked down and grinned as they saw their class schedule. "We have Magical Law first thing at 9 in the morning.but it's a triple!" exclaimed Anthony in a half happy, half disappointed voice. A groan came from beside him as Aaron read down and saw what he had next.
"I have double potions at 2!" He groaned that out as well, even as Anthony laughed. Seeing the time, he spoke. "We better hurry or we won't make it to Magical Law." He began to shovel down his food as Aaron joined him. As they stood to go, Fred and George got up and piped in. "Our first class doesn't start till 10, so we'll go with you."
Fred added in as they left the hall. "We wanted to see who he is, if he can do that to Snape." Apparently, it did not take long to realize just what kind of idiot Snape was, even before they had his class. The group left the hall chatting about the secret passages, Snape being a git and especially the new teacher. Anthony grinned as they neared the door. "This is going to be a great class, I can feel it."
Stopping before the door to the room, they walked in to find just about no one there since they had wanted to come early to get a better look at the new teacher. There were only about a dozen or so places in the class with a large, heavy book at each desk entitled simply Magical Law. But Professor Jacobson was already sitting at his own large desk in the back, the room being decorated with various Magical Law devices and books. He stood up to walk over to them and smiled, and when he spoke, they stared.
"Good morning gentleman. Who might you four be?" He asked politely as he began to shake their hands. As they were introduced, he looked at Fred and George curiously. Fred spoke "We're not in your class, just came with them. Come on George."
With that, they bolted. Even the remaining two continued to stare at him. A tilt of his head and he spoke again in a rather bemused voice. "What, afraid the American is going to steal your soul or something?" He seemed to be able to read right through them, a laugh as he shook his head slowly. "No more different than your other teachers, I assure you."
As he said the last, the rest of the class filed in. He went to shake hands and introduce himself to each of them as if he were the host of a party and not the teacher. After they all had entered and taken seats, he returned to the front and grinned to them all. "Welcome to Magical Law. I am your teacher, Dan Jacobson. I served in the American Army as an internal Auror for my ministry for about ten years until I moved to Britain. I served as a British Auror for another twenty until I had to retire thanks to the Death Eaters." He patted his leg as he said that and shook his head slowly.
He grinned at them and stretched out his arms widely to encompass the whole class. "And now I am a Hogwarts teacher." The class laughed as they saw him do that and he turned to go sit back at his desk, propping his feet up casually on it. "Now open your books to chapter 1: Jurisdiction: When and where you can enforce.." A collective groan from the students as they all opened their books, perhaps this class wasn't going to be so great after all. * * * * * * * * * * * *
After 3 hours both of them came out of the class, only happy about it being over. Aaron groaned in annoyance as they walked down towards the Great Hall for lunch and shook his head "What is wrong with that guy? All we did was boring book work. About when we could do magic and where and all that crap. Honestly, I wish I had signed up for Muggle Studies after all."
Anthony felt the same as he did, shrugging though as they walked into the great hall and sat down at the end of the Gryffindor table. Putting down his book and sighing. "And all of this homework!" he exclaimed. "Honestly, three feet about proper procedures and where you can do magical law enforcement. A list of at least two hundred spells that can be used in subduing a criminal and then a description of each! Four rolls of parchment on the legal responsibilities of enforcing magical law." He sighed and shook his head. "My God this is a lot!"
Aaron poked him with his quill as he threw his own load down on the table beside him. "Don't you start, it was your idea in the first place!" said Aaron angrily as they sat at the table and grabbed some food to eat quickly, Aaron had a class to go to in a few minutes.
"Don't start, you picked him the same time I did!" responded Anthony as he began to eat his sandwich. Both looking quite annoyed at all they would have to do to turn in by the next time they had his class in two days. After only a minute or two, Aaron walked out to go to his Potions class. Anthony had a larger break before his own next class, Charms.
As Aaron walked out, Fred and George walked in right past him and headed over towards him grinning happily. Apparently, there first class had been quite a success. Due to how much of a success it looked like, he spoke to them amusedly. "Alright, what did you do?"
"Us?" exclaimed Fred as they both tried to look shocked and innocent while neither succeeded. He had known them since they were born, after all. He just stared at them before George finally gave it up and shrugged.
"We haven't done anything yet" he answered. Fred chimed in right afterwards. "We are still deciding how best to disrupt classes."
"We wouldn't want to waste a grand show for a class we liked." Spoke George right after Fred had with a nod from Fred in agreement to that.
"And we still are trying to cause the most chaos at once with our currently limited resources." Fred came back with. "Your first Hogsmeade weekend is not very far away, could you pick a few things up for us?" He asked with as innocent a smile as he could.
Anthony knew better than to trust that smile, a laugh as he looked between the two of them. "Just promise me that you won't associate me with this or use them on me and I'll get you whatever I can." He would end up regretting that later, he was sure. But when they did it, it would be spectacular. He was extremely sure of that since he knew them so well.
He sighed, it would be interesting either way. * * * * * * * * * * * *
Fred grinned at Anthony after he had finished writing down the rather substantial list they had asked for. Standing up with his twin and waving at Anthony as they turned to go get ready for the second class of the day. Of course it had to be Potions with Professor Snape. Anthony had already warned them about him, so of course the twins had taken it to heart and had gotten as prepared as they could for it.
That was why, when they reached the dungeons where Snape's class was, they were wearing Gryffindor scarves, hats, and gloves all decked out in Gryffindor color. Even there Gryffindor patches had been magically changed for the lion to move around. Which made them an island of color in the rather drab dungeon and the others who wore only there black robes and regular patches for their houses. Snape was already in the class and turned to look at the two who entered and just stared at them, unable to do anything more for quite a few moments. Snape looked like he might spit venom at them just because of their audacious appearance. "Five points for being late to class. Get to your seats or I will have to deduct more points." He snapped at the two of them as they walked in and he motioned towards the seats. The fact of the matter was, they were both early and knew it but quickly sat down.
Just as he said that and was looking at them, a Slytherin walked in behind him and made for another seat. George sprang up and said. "He's later than us." He protested and pointed to the still standing Slytherin who turned to look at him.
Snape sneered at George as he stood there, still pointing at the motionless Slytherin and then spoke "Five more points for tattling Mr. Weasley."
George looked on the point of explosion and continued to stand there pointing at the spot the Slytherin was no longer standing in, instead sitting down a few feet away looking smugly towards him as he sat. Snape continued to sneer, even wider now as he spoke again. "If you would like, I could make it an even fifty points."
Fred quickly grabbed George and tugged him down hard into his chair before Snape could carry out his threat. They both looked daggers at Snape and the tall, stocky Slytherin whom they soon learned from Snape speaking to him was Evan Montague. Snape went to the front and pulled out his wand before speaking. "Today we will see how you do by making a potion to cause boils. The directions are on the blackboard." As he said that, he waved his wand and the directions appeared. "The ingredients are in the cupboards." He flicked his wand again and the cupboards filled with the items needed. "Follow the instructions exactly. You have one hour. Begin." With that, he turned around towards his desk.
Fred and George were sitting at the same desk, of course, and were talking even as they worked on preparing the potion. Watching Snape on the far side correcting Montague on how to do something quietly and then move farther away and exclaim loudly about the poor work of a Gryffindor who had made the same mistake as Montague. After they saw Snape's back turned George whispered to his brother. "Well now we know which class to go after first."
"Indeed we do, George. Now, I have an idea. This is what we have to do."