Harry Potter & the Honeychurch Institute of Magic
By Darkmoore
The party lasts until the small hours of the morning and almost all of the boys have went to bed and no one noticed someone's pet cat sneak out of the tower. A black cat with green eyes and a tuft of white fur above his right eye that has very similar marking to a certain panther known only as Shadow.
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Chapter Twelve: The Halloween Celebration
The next week after the first Quidditch match had been a rather interesting one. It was almost time for the Halloween Celebration, which is one of the major events of the school year. When Harry went to Hogwarts, they had a great feast on that day, but here at Honeychurch, they had more. There was a feast, of course, but afterward the staff and the students would go out after sunset into the great clearing just inside the forest and there they would light a great bonfire and have the retelling of one of the many murders that happened in the castle during its history. At this week's staff meeting he learned what this year's celebration would entail.
"This year," began the Headmistress, "we are going to have the retelling of the grisly murder of one of our resident ghosts, Jude Larson. He was murdered here in the castle in 1387, which of course was before the school was founded. It seems that Lord Honeychurch, who had been offended by Jude's father, murdered the young man, had him butchered, cooked and served up to his own father's dinner table. This led to a blood feud between the two families which lasted until the Larson family was all but destroyed. Of course, a full telling of the story will have to wait until Halloween, which shall be expertly done by Professor Parker Thorne and by Jude Larson himself."
Ever since his untimely death, Harry also learned, Jude has been roaming the halls of the school looking for his bones which are said to be hidden in a secret room somewhere in the castle. However, they had never been found, even after extensive searches were conducted on the ghost's behalf.
For Harry, Halloween had not been a favorite holiday, for it was the anniversary of his parent's death. Voldemort had a liking for special wizarding events to do his major killing on and Halloween was one of the biggest of the year. Harry remembered it well the first year he had discovered where his parents had been buried. Aunt Petunia had refused to tell him for years where they were and Albus Dumbledore had also kept this information a secret, for his own protection. Harry never understood why keeping that secret from him was for his own protection, but adults can sometimes have strange ideas about what will upset a child. Luckily, Remus Lupin shared Harry's ideas about visiting James' and Lily's graves and told him where to find them.
This year Halloween fell on a Thursday and due to the celebration that night's Astronomy class was cancelled as well the next morning's classes. Making the fifth years very happy, Harry had threatened them with a five foot essay, he was only teasing, but they didn't know that.
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That night after an exquisite meal in the dining hall, everyone made their way down to the great clearing for the lighting of the bonfire and telling of the grim historical murder, or as Fitzy called it, an over glorified ghost story. However, the celebration was going rather well, Harry thought. The lighting of the bonfire had gone off without anyone getting burned and he was having an excellent time in the company of both Vesta and Fitzy. In fact the retelling of the murder was so riveting that Fitzy grabbed and clung onto Harry's arm several times during the night. Harry, of course, never saw Vesta throwing daggers through her eyes at her best friend's blatant attempts at Harry's attention.
The only thing Harry thought was how Professor Binns, his old History of Magic teacher at Hogwarts, could learn a thing or two about reciting history from these two.
It wasn't until past midnight that any trouble started and Professor Proctor had taken care of it. It seems, that several seventh years had gotten their hands on a bottle of Firewhiskey and were about to have themselves a grand old time, when they were discovered with it.
"Gentlemen, what are you thinking?" bellowed Botolf, "this is the cheapest whiskey I have ever seen, it'll rot your insides out. If your going to sneak it in, at least get something that doesn't cost three knuts."
The transfiguration professor was about to continue on this vein until he noticed that Professor Angus Evanston had overheard them and had come over to investigate.
"And furthermore gentlemen, you will all be serving detention with me tomorrow night in this infraction of school rules." said Botolf in a hurry to cover his earlier comments. Satisfied the elderly deputy headmaster moved along. Both Harry and Fitzy thought it was funny, but Vesta was very disapproving of the alcohol.
Later on, Harry noticed two members of the Brutus Quidditch team sneaking off and he suspected another bottle of the whiskey had been obtained. So he followed them into the forest and he thought he had lost the two young men when he heard them talking.
"Chet, we can't do this here, someone might catch us." said Michael Gerard.
"Don't worry we won't get caught, no one saw us walking away from the enclosure." replied Chester Stahl, in a husky voice.
Then Harry wasn't sure what he heard, but he had the distinct impression that someone was being thoroughly snogged.
"Chet, we've got to stop this now. You know if Proctor finds us what he'd do." Michael said.
"There is no school rule against two students dating each other, especially when they are of age like we are."
"I know that, but he'll still try to have us expelled and if that doesn't work, remember what he did to two other blokes from a couple of years ago? He made their lives hell until they graduated. Besides he's our team sponsor, he's sure to take us off the team." said a worried Michael before once more letting himself be snogged by his boyfriend.
"Professor Potter would never stand for it. He would never allow Quidditch to suffer when he's worked so hard to bring it back to the school." said Chester as his lips found their way onto Michael's neck. "Besides," Chester continued, "I hear that most professional players are gay anyway and Potter knows a lot of them, so I bet he wouldn't mind."
Truth was Harry wouldn't have minded, he didn't care who anyone fell in love with as long as they were happy and in this case, of legal age of consent.
"You think Krum's gay?"
"Are you kidding? Did you see the way he was looking at Emily during the tryouts? He looked like he wanted to eat her up." Chester said with a chuckle. "She probably would have let him too."
It was at this point that Harry shifted his weight and broke a twig lying on the ground, causing the two boys to react. Quickly Harry shifted into one of his animagus forms and allowed the two to see him.
"It's just a cat." breathed Michael.
"Yeah, one of the younger years must have brought it with them. Now where were we?"
Then the two boys smiled at each other and once again claimed each other's lips in a moment of young love while Harry stood guard so they weren't discovered and thinking to him self, 'Proctor wouldn't allow this? I wonder why?'
A few minutes later when the sounds Harry was hearing changed from simple kissing to something a little more risky, he resumed human form and started muttering to himself loudly so they would here.
"Now, where did that cat get off to?" he said as he pretended to look for a stray cat, that the boys had seen earlier and then pretended to suddenly find them. "Mr. Stahl, Mr. Gerard have you seen a black cat around here tonight, one seems to have gone missing."
The two boys were a bit frightened but said they saw one earlier, but didn't know where it had gotten to.
"Just as well, I suspect that it can take care of itself. What are you two doing out here in the dark?" Harry asked wondering what kind of answer he would get.
"Nothing professor." replied Michael a bit on the ashen side.
"Wouldn't have another bottle of that firewhiskey would you?" asked Harry in his best McGonagall face.
"No sir," the two boys chorused.
"Pity, I would have loved to hear Professor Proctor explain to you the medical problems caused by cheap whiskey." Harry said, causing the two to smile in relief. "Come on you two; let's get back to the bonfire."
As the three made their way back to the great clearing, Harry made a mental note, 'let's see what happens if I partner them up in class?'
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The next day as most of the school slept in late, including the staff. When he awoke and got ready for his day Harry went to his office to rework his afternoon Defense class agenda. 'I think new partners are in order today.' he thought to himself mischievously.
After he had it all worked out, Harry went down to have breakfast, 'Or perhaps it was lunch, after all it is almost noon,' he thought. Went he arrived, it was indeed breakfast he found in his plate and sat down quickly and tucked in. As he ate breakfast, he ventured to have a conversation with Professor Sangeorge, he wanted to know if she was angry with him, as her demeanor from the night before was a bit cold in his opinion.
"Vesta," he opened with a bit of trepidation, "I was wondering if I could possibly ask you something."
Immediately she was intrigued and responded, "Yes, Harry, what can I do for you today?"
"Last night, did I accidentally do something to upset you? You seemed to go rather cold and distant half way through the evening."
"What?" Vesta said quickly and then thought like mad to come up with an explanation, "Oh no, it was the seventh years, they knew better than to try to bring a bottle of Firewhiskey to the Halloween Celebration. I was mearly aggravated with their audacity."
"Brilliant," said Harry relieved, "I thought maybe it had been something I said…" however, he was cut off as the end of lunch bell rang, "I had better get up to my class room, I have a double class with the sixth and seventh years now."
"Do try to not give them too long of an essay this week, your giving them hand cramps." said Vesta with a small smile.
"I'll try." Harry replied with a big smile.
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"Alright everyone, so far you've been doing great work on your Patronus charms, but today we're going to do something a little bit different." announced Harry to his class. "I'm going to divide you up into pairs and you'll be working together in this pair for the remainder of the term. When I call the name of a seventh year student, please find your sixth year partner and sit together."
"Ms. Dodd you're with Ms. Gamble."
"Mr. Flannery you're with Ms. Simmons." Daithi Flannery looked at the girl and then looked down shyly, but was rather pleased with Harry's choice of a partner for him.
"Mr. Griswold you're with Mr. Tarrington-Smyth."
"Mr. Molenov you're with Mr. Nethery."
"Ms. Moorehouse you're with Mr. Kotorwas." Theo thanked his lucky stars, he was just paired with one of the hottest girls in school.
"Ms. O'Donnell you're with Ms. Vaughn."
"Mr. Robertson you're with Ms. Byrd."
"Mr. Stahl you're with Mr. Gerard." The two boys quickly found each other and sat.
"Lastly, Ms. Van Doren, since there are more seventh years than sixth years, I'm going to put you in the group with Mr. Molenov and Mr. Nethery." All three groaned, but did as they were told.
When everyone was in their new position Harry continued, "Now I want everyone to take a few moments to calm yourself and to concentrate on whatever happy memory you have and then cast your charm."
Across the room Harry heard several different "Expecto Patronum" incantations, but still yet no corporeal Patronus had emerged, though several did have large clouds of silvery smoke to show for their efforts.
"Excellent, everyone is doing better now. Now I want one member of the each team to coach your partner, give them a little encouragement. Even though when with a real Dementor, it's much harder to cast, but the first time period is the hardest of all. Once you've done that, then you know you can do it again."
As he walked the room Harry looked over to the corner where Mr. Stahl and Mr. Gerard were and distinctly saw Mr. Stahl mouth the words 'I love you' or was it 'olive juice' to his partner.
Moments later Mr. Gerard produced the first solid Patronus in the class. From his wand tip emerged a large silver bear that stood 7 feet tall on his hind legs and then promptly disappeared back in to silver vapor.
"Excellent Mr. Gerard, I knew you had it in you, Brilliant." exclaimed Harry at his student with praise.
Michael Gerard stood dumbstruck for a moment, he had done it he had his happy memory.
To Be Continued…
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Author's Note: To everyone who reviewed, thanks again...
kensai2 wrote are you going to continue the acceptance letter fic?
Answer - Yes, I am, I was working on another chapter of it, but like I said before writer's block hit me. Then when I was unclogged, I wrote two chaps for this story and started thinking of two whole new fics besides.
athenakitty wrote Will there be another new teacher at Honeychurch? Does Honeychurch have a lbrary?
Answer - Yes, Honeychurch has a library. Fronia Thorne, besides being the Muggle Studies professor is the school librarian.
Kandice wrote - Yes, Viktor and Ron are hilarious and it's good that they're friends in this fic. So big points for that one. The chapter here honestly enough needed a bit more action or comedy to it. It was rather dragging somewhere in the middle of the game. (No one fell off their brooms or...ran into something :D ) ALthough I now adore the Sirius portrait! It was a brilliant idea and he's just hilarious with the small little lines he gets in every other chapter or so. In all, it was a good chapter, but maybe next Quidditch game you also include more...something? Great job, though!
Answer - I'll give you that one without argument. It was 3 am and I couldn't stop writing and I had it in my mind "I must post tonight!!!" I don't know why, I had just posted chapter 10.
Bill wrote I definitely would like to see that information. It really helps me 'get into' the story when I know who everyone is. :-) I am really enjoying this story so far.
Answer - Well thats one vote for a side story. Anyone else?
James wrote I think you should continue this fic (he is refering to Will Beagle & the Acceptance Letters). You could have Will's mother find more info about Harry and how she reacts. or you could write letters between mother and son.
Answer - Actually, I am planning on a second chapter called "Dear Mum" but I haven't gotten it posted yet. In fact I'm already working on it.
LadyLilyPotter wrote Please update this fic again soon (you already update a lot though) i really like it. I'm glad theres another school Harry's teaching at, Hogwarts is a bit cliche, it's in loads of fics!! Thanks for sharing!!
Answer - Thanks Lily! I took a look at your fanfiction profile, if you notice I did write a small fic called "You, Me & Moaning Myrtle," that you might like to look at while waiting for the next chapter to come out.
TuxedoMac wrote this is a wonderful peace of work. normaly i don't go for after horgworts fic but i think what really sold me of yours was 1. the fact its not right after but its not to far after he graduated. 2. its not hogworts. with those things plus all hes doing with the kids thats just wonderful. i really like this fic alot and hope to read more as you come up with it.
Answer - Well, I usually fly by the seat of my pants writing like mad to get a chapter posted. :) In this story Harry turned 23 and he's only been unemployed for a short time before getting this job. But I'm glad you liked my story.
By Darkmoore
The party lasts until the small hours of the morning and almost all of the boys have went to bed and no one noticed someone's pet cat sneak out of the tower. A black cat with green eyes and a tuft of white fur above his right eye that has very similar marking to a certain panther known only as Shadow.
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Chapter Twelve: The Halloween Celebration
The next week after the first Quidditch match had been a rather interesting one. It was almost time for the Halloween Celebration, which is one of the major events of the school year. When Harry went to Hogwarts, they had a great feast on that day, but here at Honeychurch, they had more. There was a feast, of course, but afterward the staff and the students would go out after sunset into the great clearing just inside the forest and there they would light a great bonfire and have the retelling of one of the many murders that happened in the castle during its history. At this week's staff meeting he learned what this year's celebration would entail.
"This year," began the Headmistress, "we are going to have the retelling of the grisly murder of one of our resident ghosts, Jude Larson. He was murdered here in the castle in 1387, which of course was before the school was founded. It seems that Lord Honeychurch, who had been offended by Jude's father, murdered the young man, had him butchered, cooked and served up to his own father's dinner table. This led to a blood feud between the two families which lasted until the Larson family was all but destroyed. Of course, a full telling of the story will have to wait until Halloween, which shall be expertly done by Professor Parker Thorne and by Jude Larson himself."
Ever since his untimely death, Harry also learned, Jude has been roaming the halls of the school looking for his bones which are said to be hidden in a secret room somewhere in the castle. However, they had never been found, even after extensive searches were conducted on the ghost's behalf.
For Harry, Halloween had not been a favorite holiday, for it was the anniversary of his parent's death. Voldemort had a liking for special wizarding events to do his major killing on and Halloween was one of the biggest of the year. Harry remembered it well the first year he had discovered where his parents had been buried. Aunt Petunia had refused to tell him for years where they were and Albus Dumbledore had also kept this information a secret, for his own protection. Harry never understood why keeping that secret from him was for his own protection, but adults can sometimes have strange ideas about what will upset a child. Luckily, Remus Lupin shared Harry's ideas about visiting James' and Lily's graves and told him where to find them.
This year Halloween fell on a Thursday and due to the celebration that night's Astronomy class was cancelled as well the next morning's classes. Making the fifth years very happy, Harry had threatened them with a five foot essay, he was only teasing, but they didn't know that.
* * * * *
That night after an exquisite meal in the dining hall, everyone made their way down to the great clearing for the lighting of the bonfire and telling of the grim historical murder, or as Fitzy called it, an over glorified ghost story. However, the celebration was going rather well, Harry thought. The lighting of the bonfire had gone off without anyone getting burned and he was having an excellent time in the company of both Vesta and Fitzy. In fact the retelling of the murder was so riveting that Fitzy grabbed and clung onto Harry's arm several times during the night. Harry, of course, never saw Vesta throwing daggers through her eyes at her best friend's blatant attempts at Harry's attention.
The only thing Harry thought was how Professor Binns, his old History of Magic teacher at Hogwarts, could learn a thing or two about reciting history from these two.
It wasn't until past midnight that any trouble started and Professor Proctor had taken care of it. It seems, that several seventh years had gotten their hands on a bottle of Firewhiskey and were about to have themselves a grand old time, when they were discovered with it.
"Gentlemen, what are you thinking?" bellowed Botolf, "this is the cheapest whiskey I have ever seen, it'll rot your insides out. If your going to sneak it in, at least get something that doesn't cost three knuts."
The transfiguration professor was about to continue on this vein until he noticed that Professor Angus Evanston had overheard them and had come over to investigate.
"And furthermore gentlemen, you will all be serving detention with me tomorrow night in this infraction of school rules." said Botolf in a hurry to cover his earlier comments. Satisfied the elderly deputy headmaster moved along. Both Harry and Fitzy thought it was funny, but Vesta was very disapproving of the alcohol.
Later on, Harry noticed two members of the Brutus Quidditch team sneaking off and he suspected another bottle of the whiskey had been obtained. So he followed them into the forest and he thought he had lost the two young men when he heard them talking.
"Chet, we can't do this here, someone might catch us." said Michael Gerard.
"Don't worry we won't get caught, no one saw us walking away from the enclosure." replied Chester Stahl, in a husky voice.
Then Harry wasn't sure what he heard, but he had the distinct impression that someone was being thoroughly snogged.
"Chet, we've got to stop this now. You know if Proctor finds us what he'd do." Michael said.
"There is no school rule against two students dating each other, especially when they are of age like we are."
"I know that, but he'll still try to have us expelled and if that doesn't work, remember what he did to two other blokes from a couple of years ago? He made their lives hell until they graduated. Besides he's our team sponsor, he's sure to take us off the team." said a worried Michael before once more letting himself be snogged by his boyfriend.
"Professor Potter would never stand for it. He would never allow Quidditch to suffer when he's worked so hard to bring it back to the school." said Chester as his lips found their way onto Michael's neck. "Besides," Chester continued, "I hear that most professional players are gay anyway and Potter knows a lot of them, so I bet he wouldn't mind."
Truth was Harry wouldn't have minded, he didn't care who anyone fell in love with as long as they were happy and in this case, of legal age of consent.
"You think Krum's gay?"
"Are you kidding? Did you see the way he was looking at Emily during the tryouts? He looked like he wanted to eat her up." Chester said with a chuckle. "She probably would have let him too."
It was at this point that Harry shifted his weight and broke a twig lying on the ground, causing the two boys to react. Quickly Harry shifted into one of his animagus forms and allowed the two to see him.
"It's just a cat." breathed Michael.
"Yeah, one of the younger years must have brought it with them. Now where were we?"
Then the two boys smiled at each other and once again claimed each other's lips in a moment of young love while Harry stood guard so they weren't discovered and thinking to him self, 'Proctor wouldn't allow this? I wonder why?'
A few minutes later when the sounds Harry was hearing changed from simple kissing to something a little more risky, he resumed human form and started muttering to himself loudly so they would here.
"Now, where did that cat get off to?" he said as he pretended to look for a stray cat, that the boys had seen earlier and then pretended to suddenly find them. "Mr. Stahl, Mr. Gerard have you seen a black cat around here tonight, one seems to have gone missing."
The two boys were a bit frightened but said they saw one earlier, but didn't know where it had gotten to.
"Just as well, I suspect that it can take care of itself. What are you two doing out here in the dark?" Harry asked wondering what kind of answer he would get.
"Nothing professor." replied Michael a bit on the ashen side.
"Wouldn't have another bottle of that firewhiskey would you?" asked Harry in his best McGonagall face.
"No sir," the two boys chorused.
"Pity, I would have loved to hear Professor Proctor explain to you the medical problems caused by cheap whiskey." Harry said, causing the two to smile in relief. "Come on you two; let's get back to the bonfire."
As the three made their way back to the great clearing, Harry made a mental note, 'let's see what happens if I partner them up in class?'
* * * * *
The next day as most of the school slept in late, including the staff. When he awoke and got ready for his day Harry went to his office to rework his afternoon Defense class agenda. 'I think new partners are in order today.' he thought to himself mischievously.
After he had it all worked out, Harry went down to have breakfast, 'Or perhaps it was lunch, after all it is almost noon,' he thought. Went he arrived, it was indeed breakfast he found in his plate and sat down quickly and tucked in. As he ate breakfast, he ventured to have a conversation with Professor Sangeorge, he wanted to know if she was angry with him, as her demeanor from the night before was a bit cold in his opinion.
"Vesta," he opened with a bit of trepidation, "I was wondering if I could possibly ask you something."
Immediately she was intrigued and responded, "Yes, Harry, what can I do for you today?"
"Last night, did I accidentally do something to upset you? You seemed to go rather cold and distant half way through the evening."
"What?" Vesta said quickly and then thought like mad to come up with an explanation, "Oh no, it was the seventh years, they knew better than to try to bring a bottle of Firewhiskey to the Halloween Celebration. I was mearly aggravated with their audacity."
"Brilliant," said Harry relieved, "I thought maybe it had been something I said…" however, he was cut off as the end of lunch bell rang, "I had better get up to my class room, I have a double class with the sixth and seventh years now."
"Do try to not give them too long of an essay this week, your giving them hand cramps." said Vesta with a small smile.
"I'll try." Harry replied with a big smile.
* * * * *
"Alright everyone, so far you've been doing great work on your Patronus charms, but today we're going to do something a little bit different." announced Harry to his class. "I'm going to divide you up into pairs and you'll be working together in this pair for the remainder of the term. When I call the name of a seventh year student, please find your sixth year partner and sit together."
"Ms. Dodd you're with Ms. Gamble."
"Mr. Flannery you're with Ms. Simmons." Daithi Flannery looked at the girl and then looked down shyly, but was rather pleased with Harry's choice of a partner for him.
"Mr. Griswold you're with Mr. Tarrington-Smyth."
"Mr. Molenov you're with Mr. Nethery."
"Ms. Moorehouse you're with Mr. Kotorwas." Theo thanked his lucky stars, he was just paired with one of the hottest girls in school.
"Ms. O'Donnell you're with Ms. Vaughn."
"Mr. Robertson you're with Ms. Byrd."
"Mr. Stahl you're with Mr. Gerard." The two boys quickly found each other and sat.
"Lastly, Ms. Van Doren, since there are more seventh years than sixth years, I'm going to put you in the group with Mr. Molenov and Mr. Nethery." All three groaned, but did as they were told.
When everyone was in their new position Harry continued, "Now I want everyone to take a few moments to calm yourself and to concentrate on whatever happy memory you have and then cast your charm."
Across the room Harry heard several different "Expecto Patronum" incantations, but still yet no corporeal Patronus had emerged, though several did have large clouds of silvery smoke to show for their efforts.
"Excellent, everyone is doing better now. Now I want one member of the each team to coach your partner, give them a little encouragement. Even though when with a real Dementor, it's much harder to cast, but the first time period is the hardest of all. Once you've done that, then you know you can do it again."
As he walked the room Harry looked over to the corner where Mr. Stahl and Mr. Gerard were and distinctly saw Mr. Stahl mouth the words 'I love you' or was it 'olive juice' to his partner.
Moments later Mr. Gerard produced the first solid Patronus in the class. From his wand tip emerged a large silver bear that stood 7 feet tall on his hind legs and then promptly disappeared back in to silver vapor.
"Excellent Mr. Gerard, I knew you had it in you, Brilliant." exclaimed Harry at his student with praise.
Michael Gerard stood dumbstruck for a moment, he had done it he had his happy memory.
To Be Continued…
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Author's Note: To everyone who reviewed, thanks again...
kensai2 wrote are you going to continue the acceptance letter fic?
Answer - Yes, I am, I was working on another chapter of it, but like I said before writer's block hit me. Then when I was unclogged, I wrote two chaps for this story and started thinking of two whole new fics besides.
athenakitty wrote Will there be another new teacher at Honeychurch? Does Honeychurch have a lbrary?
Answer - Yes, Honeychurch has a library. Fronia Thorne, besides being the Muggle Studies professor is the school librarian.
Kandice wrote - Yes, Viktor and Ron are hilarious and it's good that they're friends in this fic. So big points for that one. The chapter here honestly enough needed a bit more action or comedy to it. It was rather dragging somewhere in the middle of the game. (No one fell off their brooms or...ran into something :D ) ALthough I now adore the Sirius portrait! It was a brilliant idea and he's just hilarious with the small little lines he gets in every other chapter or so. In all, it was a good chapter, but maybe next Quidditch game you also include more...something? Great job, though!
Answer - I'll give you that one without argument. It was 3 am and I couldn't stop writing and I had it in my mind "I must post tonight!!!" I don't know why, I had just posted chapter 10.
Bill wrote I definitely would like to see that information. It really helps me 'get into' the story when I know who everyone is. :-) I am really enjoying this story so far.
Answer - Well thats one vote for a side story. Anyone else?
James wrote I think you should continue this fic (he is refering to Will Beagle & the Acceptance Letters). You could have Will's mother find more info about Harry and how she reacts. or you could write letters between mother and son.
Answer - Actually, I am planning on a second chapter called "Dear Mum" but I haven't gotten it posted yet. In fact I'm already working on it.
LadyLilyPotter wrote Please update this fic again soon (you already update a lot though) i really like it. I'm glad theres another school Harry's teaching at, Hogwarts is a bit cliche, it's in loads of fics!! Thanks for sharing!!
Answer - Thanks Lily! I took a look at your fanfiction profile, if you notice I did write a small fic called "You, Me & Moaning Myrtle," that you might like to look at while waiting for the next chapter to come out.
TuxedoMac wrote this is a wonderful peace of work. normaly i don't go for after horgworts fic but i think what really sold me of yours was 1. the fact its not right after but its not to far after he graduated. 2. its not hogworts. with those things plus all hes doing with the kids thats just wonderful. i really like this fic alot and hope to read more as you come up with it.
Answer - Well, I usually fly by the seat of my pants writing like mad to get a chapter posted. :) In this story Harry turned 23 and he's only been unemployed for a short time before getting this job. But I'm glad you liked my story.