What did you think of the dream? Kinda weird, right? Well, sorry but there
are gonna be quite a few Lily and James dreams.
~*~*~
Harry and Ron walked down the stairs of the boys' dormitory the next morning and were immediately greeted by a crowd, consisting mostly of girls, in front of the Notice Board.
"What's up with them?" Ron asked with a raised eyebrow.
"They're looking at the information about the Balls," said Ginny.
"Girls," muttered Ron.
"I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear you. What was that, Ron?" inquired Ginny, her eyes narrowed.
"Nothing. Absolutely nothing," Ron said quickly.
"C'mon, Harry, Ginny, let's go down for breakfast," Hermione said, slinging her bag over her shoulder and completely ignoring Ron.
Harry gave Ron a sympathetic look while Ginny gave her brother a you-should- not-have-crossed-her look. Ron turned red and followed the three down to the Great Hall.
~*~*~
Harry was in the middle of eating when a big barn owl landed in front of his plate and dropped a letter before flying away.
"What's that?" asked Ron, his spoon halfway to his mouth.
Harry shrugged and picked it up.
Be at the Lake in five minutes.
Hermione and Ginny raised their eyebrows as they read it over his shoulder. Both were intrigued and suspicious.
"Are you going?" asked Ginny.
"It might be Malfoy, trying to ambush you," said Hermione.
"Don't worry, I can take him on," Harry assured them.
"Yeah but what if he brings all of Slytherin?" said Ron.
"Don't be such a pessimist, Ron. Besides that's highly unlikely, every Slytherin is at their table, even Malfoy," said Ginny, pointing at the Slytherin table, at the other side of the hall.
"Well, there's no reason for me not to go," Harry said before standing up.
"Oh, fine. Just be careful," Hermione cautioned him. "And remember, Transfiguration is our first subject,"
"Yeah, Hermione, I know. I'll see you guys later." Harry waved and walked out of the Great Hall.
~*~*~
Harry looked at his watch. It seemed that the sender of the letter was late.
He heard something moving quickly through the air and he did a handspring just as a spear pierced the ground where he had just been. There was a note dangling at the end.
Hehehe.
Harry tore the note from the spear. He looked around at the trees, not afraid but thoroughly annoyed.
"Dammit, Rei! Can't you say hi like a normal person?!" he shouted.
He heard laughter before seeing his friend jump from tree to tree and finally land beside him.
"Good morning, Harry," Rei said with a broad grin.
Rei was what jealous guys would call a brainless pretty boy, what with his dark blonde hair and light blue eyes. But Rei Nightshadow was anything but brainless. He was still nineteen and already a professor at Hogwarts.
"You could have killed me with that thing!" said Harry, glaring at him.
"No, I wouldn't have. You'd have heard it right away," Rei said as he took the spear from the ground.
Harry couldn't help but smiling at the assumption.
"What time is your first class and who's it with?" he asked.
"In five minutes and it's with the seventh year Ravenclaws," replied Rei, looking at his watch. "So, I'll finally be meeting your girlfriend. Her name's Cho Chang, right?"
"She is not my girlfriend," insisted Harry, blushing.
"Yeah but you want her to be, right?" Rei asked with a sly smile.
Harry stayed quiet and looked away.
Rei laughed and said, "I was right!"
"Shut up, Rei," muttered Harry who was still red.
"Don't worry, Harry. I'll stay quiet," said Rei.
"Whatever,"
"Well, we better go. Wouldn't want to be late for our first classes now, would we?" Rei said as he took another glance at his watch.
Harry nodded and picked his bag from the ground. They both walked to the castle with Rei talking about what he would teach the sixth years.
"I'll see you in my class later, Harry," said Rei when they reached the Great Hall, which was already empty.
"Yeah, bye," said Harry before running to Transfiguration. He only had one more minute left before he would be late.
~*~*~
"Mister Potter, nice of you to join us," McGonagall said dryly as Harry entered the classroom.
"I'm sorry, Professor," Harry mumbled.
"Now, take your seat before I deduct points," said McGonagall.
Draco Malfoy turned in his seat and gave Harry a smug smile. Harry just ignored him and sat down between Hermione and Ron who were seated a chair apart.
"What kept you?" whispered Hermione.
"Later, Hermione," Harry whispered back as McGonagall started discussing about how to turn an inanimate object into an animal.
With that, he fished his quill out his bag and started writing down notes.
~*~*~
"So?" Ron said as soon as they were out of the Transfiguration classroom.
"What?" asked Harry with a raised eyebrow.
"Aren't you going to tell us what kept you?" Ron continued.
"The person who sent the letter," replied Harry.
"Well, who was he?" asked Hermione.
"Professor Nightshadow,"
"The Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?" Hermione raised an eyebrow. "What did he want?"
"Just wanted to confirm that our last teacher was horrible," lied Harry.
He still wasn't ready to tell them that he had trained over the summer. Hermione would have been somewhat envious that he had learned so much and Ron would have asked him endlessly to show him some moves.
"Why couldn't he just ask us during our class?" Ron said, getting his schedule out of his bag.
"Maybe because he was the leader of the DA?" suggested Hermione, frowning.
Harry and Ron were somewhat surprised. That was the first thing Hermione had said to Ron since yesterday.
"Yeah, maybe," said Ron. He looked at his schedule. "We have him after lunch."
"What do we have now?" asked Harry.
"Herbology," Hermione and Ron both answered simultaneously.
Hermione gave no indication that she and Ron had said the same thing at once and started walking a few feet in front of them.
"This sucks! Why did I fail in Potions and Harry didn't? Now I have to take Double Periods every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday," Ron moaned suddenly, glaring at his schedule.
"It's your fault you didn't study," said Harry.
"But you didn't, either," Ron pointed out.
"C'mon. We're going to be late for Herbology if we don't hurry up!" Harry said, quickening his pace and ignoring what Ron said.
"Excuse me, but weren't you the person who turned up late for Transfiguration?" teased Hermione.
"I don't want to be late two times in one day. I think I'll just keep it to one tardiness per day," said Harry.
Both of his friends laughed as they walked out of the castle.
~*~*~
Cho scribbled on her piece of parchment, bored out of her mind, as Binns droned in a monotone about the different ways the Muggles tortured anyone different from themselves, including witches and wizards who had used magic freely in front of the Muggles (of course, the torturing didn't really work since the witch or wizard could just perform a simple spell to stop from being tortured). Even the Ravenclaws had lost their enthusiasm from Defense Against the Dark Arts.
She smiled as she recalled how well Professor Nightshadow or rather Rei had taught them. All of them were on the edge of their seats, waiting for more. Although some of the girls were too busy drooling over him to really listen.
Cho turned her piece of parchment around and paled. It was the pop quiz (on the first day!) Rei had given them about defensive spells. She didn't even know up until now that she hadn't turned it in. She erased the scribbles on the back with her wand and decided to give it to Rei after lunch.
~*~*~
"Is she going to stay mad at me forever?" Ron asked as he and Harry sat at the Gryffindor Table during lunch.
Hermione was sitting at the other end of the table, talking animatedly with Parvati Patil, Lavender Brown and Lavender's other half, Seamus Finnigan, much to Harry's surprise. Hermione and Parvati never seemed to get along.
"I don't know. Why don't you ask her yourself?" said Harry before taking a sip of his orange juice.
"Maybe some other time," said Ron, pushing his food around his plate.
"Maybe you---" Harry stopped himself and sighed.
What was the use? Ron was too hardheaded, occupied and stubborn to listen.
Cho caught his eye from the Ravenclaw table as she talked with her friends. She turned and gave him a dazzling smile.
Harry gave her a small smile, embarrassed that she had almost caught him staring. He downed his last goblet of orange juice before leaving the Great Hall, not really hungry.
~*~*~
Harry arrived at the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom quite early. In fact he was the first person there. Rei wasn't even there yet.
He was sketching something absentmindedly on a piece of parchment when the door opened. He looked up, expecting it to be Rei. His jaw dropped.
"Cho?" he said.
Cho looked in his direction and she blushed slightly before walking over to him.
"Uh.hi, Harry. What are you doing here?" she asked.
"This is my next class," replied Harry.
"Oh,"
"How about you? What are you doing here?" asked Harry.
"I came to return a pop quiz test paper I forgot to turn in," said Cho.
"A pop quiz? On the first day?" Harry asked, appalled.
"Yeah. He just wanted us to identify some spells. But don't worry though. I think he's only giving the tests to the seventh years," Cho assured him.
Harry sighed in relief.
Cho giggled a bit.
"What are you giggling about?" Harry said with a raised eyebrow.
"Nothing. It's just that you looked so relieved,"
"With good reason. I didn't study a thing during the summer,"
"I wouldn't worry if I were you. I heard from a friend of mine that you got an O on your Defense Against the Dark Arts O.W.L.s," Cho smiled.
Harry smiled too.
Cho looked at the sketch on the desk.
"Is that a phoenix?" she asked.
Harry looked at the sketch.
"Yeah. I think so,"
"That's pretty good,"
"Thanks,"
"You two do know that no snogging is allowed in my classroom, right?" came a voice from the doorway.
Harry and Cho were both blushing furiously when they faced Rei.
"Don't be such a prat. Nothing happened," hissed Harry.
"Right," Rei nodded.
Cho handed Rei the test paper, bid Harry and Rei goodbye before walking out of the classroom, still blushing.
"What are you doing here so early, Harry?" asked Rei.
Harry shrugged, still a bit red.
"So how was your first class?" he asked.
"Pretty good," said Rei, leaning on his desk. "Ms. Chang is quite smart, Harry. Pretty, too,"
Harry shrugged again.
"You two would make a great couple," Rei added.
Harry crumpled the piece of parchment he had been sketching on and threw it at Rei. He (Rei) dodged it before picking it up. He looked at the sketch and whistled.
"Pretty good, Harry," praised Rei. "What is it?"
"Cho says it looks like phoenix and I agree," said Harry as he walked over to Rei and looked over his shoulder.
Rei looked at Harry and said, "You always agree with your girlfriend, don't you?"
Harry punched Rei none too lightly on the shoulder.
"Hey, that hurt!"
~*~*~
"Did you have a hand in the sketch?" Destiny asked Fate.
"Kind of. I played with his subconsciousness a bit," said Fate.
"When are you going to fulfill your promise to Merlin?" asked Destiny, walking over to Fate's side of the well.
"Which one? The Shadow?"
Destiny nodded.
"Maybe in a day or two," Fate replied with a shrug.
"So what's Rei going to teach them?" inquired Destiny.
"You know, the usual," said Fate.
~*~*~
"Can anybody mention an advanced spell? Any spell at all would do," Rei said to the class, looking around the room, at the Gryffindors and at the Hufflepuffs.
To no one's surprise, Hermione raised her hand.
"Ms. Granger?"
"The Healing Spell," answered Hermione.
"Yes. The Healing Spell is quite advanced. We'll be studying that later this term. Can anybody else mention another spell? Mr Potter?"
"The Appearance Changing Spell?" Harry said, a bit unsure.
"Very good. Five points to Gryffindor," said Rei. "This is supposed to be for Transfiguration but Professor McGonagall kindly asked me to teach you since it is also a form of defense or stealth. Besides we'll be using it for the Halloween Ball so, of course, you have to know how to do it,"
Hannah Abbott raised her hand.
"You have a question, Ms."
"Hannah Abbott, professor. It said on the Notice Boards that fourth year up to seventh year will be attending the Ball. What will the fourth years and the fifth years do?"
"Please call me Rei since I am far too young to be called professor. I'm not even half Professor McGonagall's age yet. As for your question, they'll be using ordinary costumes, Ms. Abbott," replied Rei. "They've been asked if they want to do extra work or just use costumes and they chose the costumes,"
Everyone laughed.
"Well, I better start teaching you the spell or else the other teachers will be after my blood. This spell's going to be featured in the N.E.W.T.s," said Rei.
"How can you mention the N.E.W.T.s so early? We just finished the O.W.L.s," groaned Dean Thomas.
"Sorry, Mr." Rei looked at Dean expectantly.
"Thomas, sir,"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Thomas. I know how grueling the O.W.L.s can be. So I'll refrain myself from mentioning any major exams unless it's almost the end of the year," said Rei.
Everyone cheered.
"Okay, then. Let's get down to business," Rei said as he rubbed his hands together. "All you need for the spell is yourself, your wand and an image of another person, preferably the same gender. The person you're imagining doesn't need to be real, just have a clear image. Then, raise your wand, concentrate hard on the image and tap your nose with it two times,"
"That's it?" asked Seamus Finnigan.
"Yep. That's it. It's quite simple for an advanced spell, really," Rei grinned. "Wanna see me try it?"
The class nodded eagerly.
Rei concentrated then tapped his nose twice. He then turned into an elderly- looking man, around McGonagall's age.
Everyone cheered.
Rei tapped his nose again and turned back to his normal self.
"Anyone want to try?" he asked. "Mr. Potter, thank you for volunteering,"
Harry glared at Rei before standing up. He hadn't volunteered but Rei, being the idiot he was, he wanted to show off to the class how good Harry was due to him.
He did what Rei had done a few minutes ago but with another image in his head. In a matter of seconds, the class was looking at a brown-haired teen with gray eyes (think Squall from FF VIII).
"Very good, Harry. Take another five points for Gryffindor," said Rei. "You may turn back now and take your seat,"
Harry turned back and went back to his seat at the back.
Rei looked at the class.
"Anyone else want to try? This'll be a good opportunity to win your House some points,"
Everyone raised their hands eagerly.
~*~*~
Hey, guys! It's longer than the usual but I think it's okay. What do you think? Should I keep it as long as this? Or should I go back to the old one?
Anyone who can answer this question will get a part in the next chapter (I need a new character anyways)! Just tell me from which game does this line come from? It'll be a bonus if you tell me who said it!
"I'll kick yer sorry arses so hard that yer gonna kiss the moons!"
Okay, that may be a bit too hard so here's another question. What are Y R P 's real names? Still from a game.
You don't have to answer both but if you do and it's correct, you get extra scenes! Until next time!
angelwings.ÜÜÜÜ
~*~*~
Harry and Ron walked down the stairs of the boys' dormitory the next morning and were immediately greeted by a crowd, consisting mostly of girls, in front of the Notice Board.
"What's up with them?" Ron asked with a raised eyebrow.
"They're looking at the information about the Balls," said Ginny.
"Girls," muttered Ron.
"I'm sorry, I didn't quite hear you. What was that, Ron?" inquired Ginny, her eyes narrowed.
"Nothing. Absolutely nothing," Ron said quickly.
"C'mon, Harry, Ginny, let's go down for breakfast," Hermione said, slinging her bag over her shoulder and completely ignoring Ron.
Harry gave Ron a sympathetic look while Ginny gave her brother a you-should- not-have-crossed-her look. Ron turned red and followed the three down to the Great Hall.
~*~*~
Harry was in the middle of eating when a big barn owl landed in front of his plate and dropped a letter before flying away.
"What's that?" asked Ron, his spoon halfway to his mouth.
Harry shrugged and picked it up.
Be at the Lake in five minutes.
Hermione and Ginny raised their eyebrows as they read it over his shoulder. Both were intrigued and suspicious.
"Are you going?" asked Ginny.
"It might be Malfoy, trying to ambush you," said Hermione.
"Don't worry, I can take him on," Harry assured them.
"Yeah but what if he brings all of Slytherin?" said Ron.
"Don't be such a pessimist, Ron. Besides that's highly unlikely, every Slytherin is at their table, even Malfoy," said Ginny, pointing at the Slytherin table, at the other side of the hall.
"Well, there's no reason for me not to go," Harry said before standing up.
"Oh, fine. Just be careful," Hermione cautioned him. "And remember, Transfiguration is our first subject,"
"Yeah, Hermione, I know. I'll see you guys later." Harry waved and walked out of the Great Hall.
~*~*~
Harry looked at his watch. It seemed that the sender of the letter was late.
He heard something moving quickly through the air and he did a handspring just as a spear pierced the ground where he had just been. There was a note dangling at the end.
Hehehe.
Harry tore the note from the spear. He looked around at the trees, not afraid but thoroughly annoyed.
"Dammit, Rei! Can't you say hi like a normal person?!" he shouted.
He heard laughter before seeing his friend jump from tree to tree and finally land beside him.
"Good morning, Harry," Rei said with a broad grin.
Rei was what jealous guys would call a brainless pretty boy, what with his dark blonde hair and light blue eyes. But Rei Nightshadow was anything but brainless. He was still nineteen and already a professor at Hogwarts.
"You could have killed me with that thing!" said Harry, glaring at him.
"No, I wouldn't have. You'd have heard it right away," Rei said as he took the spear from the ground.
Harry couldn't help but smiling at the assumption.
"What time is your first class and who's it with?" he asked.
"In five minutes and it's with the seventh year Ravenclaws," replied Rei, looking at his watch. "So, I'll finally be meeting your girlfriend. Her name's Cho Chang, right?"
"She is not my girlfriend," insisted Harry, blushing.
"Yeah but you want her to be, right?" Rei asked with a sly smile.
Harry stayed quiet and looked away.
Rei laughed and said, "I was right!"
"Shut up, Rei," muttered Harry who was still red.
"Don't worry, Harry. I'll stay quiet," said Rei.
"Whatever,"
"Well, we better go. Wouldn't want to be late for our first classes now, would we?" Rei said as he took another glance at his watch.
Harry nodded and picked his bag from the ground. They both walked to the castle with Rei talking about what he would teach the sixth years.
"I'll see you in my class later, Harry," said Rei when they reached the Great Hall, which was already empty.
"Yeah, bye," said Harry before running to Transfiguration. He only had one more minute left before he would be late.
~*~*~
"Mister Potter, nice of you to join us," McGonagall said dryly as Harry entered the classroom.
"I'm sorry, Professor," Harry mumbled.
"Now, take your seat before I deduct points," said McGonagall.
Draco Malfoy turned in his seat and gave Harry a smug smile. Harry just ignored him and sat down between Hermione and Ron who were seated a chair apart.
"What kept you?" whispered Hermione.
"Later, Hermione," Harry whispered back as McGonagall started discussing about how to turn an inanimate object into an animal.
With that, he fished his quill out his bag and started writing down notes.
~*~*~
"So?" Ron said as soon as they were out of the Transfiguration classroom.
"What?" asked Harry with a raised eyebrow.
"Aren't you going to tell us what kept you?" Ron continued.
"The person who sent the letter," replied Harry.
"Well, who was he?" asked Hermione.
"Professor Nightshadow,"
"The Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher?" Hermione raised an eyebrow. "What did he want?"
"Just wanted to confirm that our last teacher was horrible," lied Harry.
He still wasn't ready to tell them that he had trained over the summer. Hermione would have been somewhat envious that he had learned so much and Ron would have asked him endlessly to show him some moves.
"Why couldn't he just ask us during our class?" Ron said, getting his schedule out of his bag.
"Maybe because he was the leader of the DA?" suggested Hermione, frowning.
Harry and Ron were somewhat surprised. That was the first thing Hermione had said to Ron since yesterday.
"Yeah, maybe," said Ron. He looked at his schedule. "We have him after lunch."
"What do we have now?" asked Harry.
"Herbology," Hermione and Ron both answered simultaneously.
Hermione gave no indication that she and Ron had said the same thing at once and started walking a few feet in front of them.
"This sucks! Why did I fail in Potions and Harry didn't? Now I have to take Double Periods every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday," Ron moaned suddenly, glaring at his schedule.
"It's your fault you didn't study," said Harry.
"But you didn't, either," Ron pointed out.
"C'mon. We're going to be late for Herbology if we don't hurry up!" Harry said, quickening his pace and ignoring what Ron said.
"Excuse me, but weren't you the person who turned up late for Transfiguration?" teased Hermione.
"I don't want to be late two times in one day. I think I'll just keep it to one tardiness per day," said Harry.
Both of his friends laughed as they walked out of the castle.
~*~*~
Cho scribbled on her piece of parchment, bored out of her mind, as Binns droned in a monotone about the different ways the Muggles tortured anyone different from themselves, including witches and wizards who had used magic freely in front of the Muggles (of course, the torturing didn't really work since the witch or wizard could just perform a simple spell to stop from being tortured). Even the Ravenclaws had lost their enthusiasm from Defense Against the Dark Arts.
She smiled as she recalled how well Professor Nightshadow or rather Rei had taught them. All of them were on the edge of their seats, waiting for more. Although some of the girls were too busy drooling over him to really listen.
Cho turned her piece of parchment around and paled. It was the pop quiz (on the first day!) Rei had given them about defensive spells. She didn't even know up until now that she hadn't turned it in. She erased the scribbles on the back with her wand and decided to give it to Rei after lunch.
~*~*~
"Is she going to stay mad at me forever?" Ron asked as he and Harry sat at the Gryffindor Table during lunch.
Hermione was sitting at the other end of the table, talking animatedly with Parvati Patil, Lavender Brown and Lavender's other half, Seamus Finnigan, much to Harry's surprise. Hermione and Parvati never seemed to get along.
"I don't know. Why don't you ask her yourself?" said Harry before taking a sip of his orange juice.
"Maybe some other time," said Ron, pushing his food around his plate.
"Maybe you---" Harry stopped himself and sighed.
What was the use? Ron was too hardheaded, occupied and stubborn to listen.
Cho caught his eye from the Ravenclaw table as she talked with her friends. She turned and gave him a dazzling smile.
Harry gave her a small smile, embarrassed that she had almost caught him staring. He downed his last goblet of orange juice before leaving the Great Hall, not really hungry.
~*~*~
Harry arrived at the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom quite early. In fact he was the first person there. Rei wasn't even there yet.
He was sketching something absentmindedly on a piece of parchment when the door opened. He looked up, expecting it to be Rei. His jaw dropped.
"Cho?" he said.
Cho looked in his direction and she blushed slightly before walking over to him.
"Uh.hi, Harry. What are you doing here?" she asked.
"This is my next class," replied Harry.
"Oh,"
"How about you? What are you doing here?" asked Harry.
"I came to return a pop quiz test paper I forgot to turn in," said Cho.
"A pop quiz? On the first day?" Harry asked, appalled.
"Yeah. He just wanted us to identify some spells. But don't worry though. I think he's only giving the tests to the seventh years," Cho assured him.
Harry sighed in relief.
Cho giggled a bit.
"What are you giggling about?" Harry said with a raised eyebrow.
"Nothing. It's just that you looked so relieved,"
"With good reason. I didn't study a thing during the summer,"
"I wouldn't worry if I were you. I heard from a friend of mine that you got an O on your Defense Against the Dark Arts O.W.L.s," Cho smiled.
Harry smiled too.
Cho looked at the sketch on the desk.
"Is that a phoenix?" she asked.
Harry looked at the sketch.
"Yeah. I think so,"
"That's pretty good,"
"Thanks,"
"You two do know that no snogging is allowed in my classroom, right?" came a voice from the doorway.
Harry and Cho were both blushing furiously when they faced Rei.
"Don't be such a prat. Nothing happened," hissed Harry.
"Right," Rei nodded.
Cho handed Rei the test paper, bid Harry and Rei goodbye before walking out of the classroom, still blushing.
"What are you doing here so early, Harry?" asked Rei.
Harry shrugged, still a bit red.
"So how was your first class?" he asked.
"Pretty good," said Rei, leaning on his desk. "Ms. Chang is quite smart, Harry. Pretty, too,"
Harry shrugged again.
"You two would make a great couple," Rei added.
Harry crumpled the piece of parchment he had been sketching on and threw it at Rei. He (Rei) dodged it before picking it up. He looked at the sketch and whistled.
"Pretty good, Harry," praised Rei. "What is it?"
"Cho says it looks like phoenix and I agree," said Harry as he walked over to Rei and looked over his shoulder.
Rei looked at Harry and said, "You always agree with your girlfriend, don't you?"
Harry punched Rei none too lightly on the shoulder.
"Hey, that hurt!"
~*~*~
"Did you have a hand in the sketch?" Destiny asked Fate.
"Kind of. I played with his subconsciousness a bit," said Fate.
"When are you going to fulfill your promise to Merlin?" asked Destiny, walking over to Fate's side of the well.
"Which one? The Shadow?"
Destiny nodded.
"Maybe in a day or two," Fate replied with a shrug.
"So what's Rei going to teach them?" inquired Destiny.
"You know, the usual," said Fate.
~*~*~
"Can anybody mention an advanced spell? Any spell at all would do," Rei said to the class, looking around the room, at the Gryffindors and at the Hufflepuffs.
To no one's surprise, Hermione raised her hand.
"Ms. Granger?"
"The Healing Spell," answered Hermione.
"Yes. The Healing Spell is quite advanced. We'll be studying that later this term. Can anybody else mention another spell? Mr Potter?"
"The Appearance Changing Spell?" Harry said, a bit unsure.
"Very good. Five points to Gryffindor," said Rei. "This is supposed to be for Transfiguration but Professor McGonagall kindly asked me to teach you since it is also a form of defense or stealth. Besides we'll be using it for the Halloween Ball so, of course, you have to know how to do it,"
Hannah Abbott raised her hand.
"You have a question, Ms."
"Hannah Abbott, professor. It said on the Notice Boards that fourth year up to seventh year will be attending the Ball. What will the fourth years and the fifth years do?"
"Please call me Rei since I am far too young to be called professor. I'm not even half Professor McGonagall's age yet. As for your question, they'll be using ordinary costumes, Ms. Abbott," replied Rei. "They've been asked if they want to do extra work or just use costumes and they chose the costumes,"
Everyone laughed.
"Well, I better start teaching you the spell or else the other teachers will be after my blood. This spell's going to be featured in the N.E.W.T.s," said Rei.
"How can you mention the N.E.W.T.s so early? We just finished the O.W.L.s," groaned Dean Thomas.
"Sorry, Mr." Rei looked at Dean expectantly.
"Thomas, sir,"
"I'm sorry, Mr. Thomas. I know how grueling the O.W.L.s can be. So I'll refrain myself from mentioning any major exams unless it's almost the end of the year," said Rei.
Everyone cheered.
"Okay, then. Let's get down to business," Rei said as he rubbed his hands together. "All you need for the spell is yourself, your wand and an image of another person, preferably the same gender. The person you're imagining doesn't need to be real, just have a clear image. Then, raise your wand, concentrate hard on the image and tap your nose with it two times,"
"That's it?" asked Seamus Finnigan.
"Yep. That's it. It's quite simple for an advanced spell, really," Rei grinned. "Wanna see me try it?"
The class nodded eagerly.
Rei concentrated then tapped his nose twice. He then turned into an elderly- looking man, around McGonagall's age.
Everyone cheered.
Rei tapped his nose again and turned back to his normal self.
"Anyone want to try?" he asked. "Mr. Potter, thank you for volunteering,"
Harry glared at Rei before standing up. He hadn't volunteered but Rei, being the idiot he was, he wanted to show off to the class how good Harry was due to him.
He did what Rei had done a few minutes ago but with another image in his head. In a matter of seconds, the class was looking at a brown-haired teen with gray eyes (think Squall from FF VIII).
"Very good, Harry. Take another five points for Gryffindor," said Rei. "You may turn back now and take your seat,"
Harry turned back and went back to his seat at the back.
Rei looked at the class.
"Anyone else want to try? This'll be a good opportunity to win your House some points,"
Everyone raised their hands eagerly.
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Hey, guys! It's longer than the usual but I think it's okay. What do you think? Should I keep it as long as this? Or should I go back to the old one?
Anyone who can answer this question will get a part in the next chapter (I need a new character anyways)! Just tell me from which game does this line come from? It'll be a bonus if you tell me who said it!
"I'll kick yer sorry arses so hard that yer gonna kiss the moons!"
Okay, that may be a bit too hard so here's another question. What are Y R P 's real names? Still from a game.
You don't have to answer both but if you do and it's correct, you get extra scenes! Until next time!
angelwings.ÜÜÜÜ