Illuminati
By: KatieRae
Chapter3
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Disclaimer: HARRY POTTER, characters, names, and related indicia are trademarks of and ©Warner Bros. WB SHIELD: TM & ©Warner Bros. Harry Potter Publishing Rights ©J. K. Rowling.
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(A.N. Another chapter! Yay! It has come to my attention that my dates are totally wrong in my story. For this I apologize. I, however, will not be going back to fix it. So Deal! I was un aware of the dates used in the books I have yet to read a year listed in the books if I have just passed over it please tell me where it is so I wont make that mistake in other stories. I am also looking for a beta reader if you know where I can find one let me know. On with the story.)
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Suddenly there was a loud swishing sound and the door blew off its hinges. They looked in side the room to find it empty. The candles out and on their sides and the chalk circle gone.
"Did he make it?"
Dumbledore smiled.
"Yes he did but I wasn't expecting the door to fly off the hinges like that."
"Did potter mess up?"
"No in fact he has already succeeded in his mission."
"What do you mean? Harry just left."
"Do you remember a professor Whale in your fifth year?"
"Yea, Why?"
Harry felt a pull in the back of his head and found himself standing on a hill overlooking a nearby town. The chalk circle was on the ground around him. It had worked. He was in the past. He found the charm for Hogwarts and concentrated hard on it. He closed his eyes and felt a familiar tug behind his navel. He opened his eyes to see Hogwarts before him. Harry walked up to the main doors and knocked three times. A younger Professor McGonagall opened the door.
"In the name of Merlin, James Potter, what are you doing here? The term doesn't start for another two weeks."
She looked very angry.
"I'm afraid you've mistaken me for some one else. My name is Alexander Whale, I'm here to apply for the teaching position."
"OH! I'm sorry. You look so much like one of the students that attends here. But your eyes are different aren't they."
She led him up to the headmaster's office.
"Dumbledore someone is here to apply for the job of DADA professor."
She led Harry in and then left the room.
"Aren't you a bit young to be teaching?"
"No, there have been younger at Hogwarts."
"True, So what is your name?"
"Alexander Whale."
"Do you have your diploma and recommendation papers with you?"
"Yes, Here they are."
Harry pulled out some papers that Dumbledore had given him before he left. He had a fake name diploma and recommendations for the job.
"It all seems to be here. I'll need you to take a exam to make sure you are qualified to teach."
Dumbledore handed Harry a few papers.
"And good luck. If you don't pass I'll have to teach. And I must say I'm a bit to old for that."
Harry smiled and took the papers from him. Within a few minuets Harry had completed the test and handed it back to Dumbledore. He looked over the test with great interest.
"Very Good. You have done better than the last four teachers that have held the position. I was very upset when Mr. Webster retired last year. He had been with us for forty-five years. I was afraid that I would never find some one to take his place. Congratulations you are hired. I have already sent a book list to the students because I was expecting to be teaching it myself. So here is the book list."
Harry took the list from Dumbledore.
"I have business in London to complete before the term begins. Would it be possible that I could get a ticket for the express?"
"Yes of course that would be fine."
Dumbledore rummaged threw a drawer in his desk and pulled out a ticket for the Hogwarts Express.
"Here you go! The train leaves on the first of September."
They bid their adieus and Harry left for Diagon Alley.
Wile Harry had been studding for his trip the others had been getting everything ready for him to go. He now had a hole new wardrobe, (He couldn't walk around Hogwarts dressed as a student.) a new pair of glasses, (No self respected teacher would walk around with glasses held together with spell-o-tape. 'I personally prefer scotch') and a bag full of gold.
'In case you're wandering his glasses are small and rectangular with silver rims.$ Anyway. On with the story.'
Harry walked down Diagon Alley and into Flourish and Blotts. He had picked out the books and was looking for something about Animagus transformations. He found an old volume in the back of the store. It was covered in dust but it was what Harry was looking for. He paid for the books and went to The Leakey Cauldron. He rented a room for the rest of the summer. He was going to take the train to make sure it was not attacked on its way to Hogwarts.
(A.N. OK that's chapter 3. What did you think? Was everybody in character? I know this chapter is kinda short but I'm haven a little trouble with writers block. If you got some good ideas, send them my way, so I can get this story underway! Later,
KatieRae)