Hi all of you faithful people. I am so glad that you like my story! I hope that you like this chapter as much as the last. I don't own anything except for new characters and new spells, which I made myself.
Caden walked up the flight of steps until he reached a room with a bright purple door and a sign in golden glitter letters that said CHARMS. Caden walked through the door nervously and found a seat in the middle row next to his new friends, Tina and Marco.
"I hear she's tough." Whispered Marco.
"Yeah, I heard that too. My dad said that she loves to give out homework." Said Caden.
"Don't be such whiners. I'm sure she has a good reason for all the things that she does." Said Tina, sounding very much like a younger Hermione.
The bell rung again for the beginning of class and Hermione came walking in swiftly, leaving behind a gust of wind that smelled of fresh roses and strawberries.
"Hello class! Welcome to your first Charms lesson. I'm Professor Granger as you may have noticed on the board." Said Hermione pointing towards the board with her name in big red and gold letters.
"I will not have any horse play or any disrespectfulness in my class. Please come up one at a time to fetch your homework journals. Please only use them for my class. As you may notice they talk. They say these things to help you remember to do your work. If you wish to not use them, then you will surely forget to study." Said Hermione, passing a light blue book to Caden.
When he went to go and sit down, his book had his name written in twisty neat writing on the front cover and his house name written underneath. Caden Potter, Hufflepuff, Professor Sprout.
When everyone had a book, Hermione erased the board with a tap of her wand and she tapped it again and in neat bold print there were notes on how to move your wand for a certain spell.
"Please everyone take out your wands and a piece of parchment a quill and please copy down those notes. I'll be coming around with a feather and we shall be learning the levitating spell called, Windgardium Leviosa." Said Hermione walking around with a box of feathers with loads left over.
"Ok, to do this and any other spell for that matter is a hand movement called the swish and flick. All together now." Said Hermione, enthusiastically.
While she was walking around, Harry came rushing in with Annabelle.
"Excuse me students." Hermione said quickly pushing Harry out the door.
'What's dad doing here? I thought he had a class.' Caden said to himself.
(HALLWAY)
"What's wrong? Is everything alright?" Hermione asked, taking Annabelle.
"No, I just lost the subject to my class. A bat, I need to get it back as soon as possible or this school will be known for it's unusual number of vampires." Said Harry, holding a stitch in his side.
"So you want me to watch Annabelle for you?" asked Hermione, putting her down and letting her wander into the classroom.
"Could you please, Hermione just this once for the sake of a good friend?" Harry asked pleadingly.
"Of course Harry. I'll bring her back during lunch if that's alright?" asked Hermione.
"Um, sure. I'll send a student down later with her bag and her play pin." Said Harry, running down the hall.
Hermione went back into her class and saw that Caden was out of his seat. The students gasped and thought that he was going to be in trouble but she did nothing and went back to teaching.
"What was that all about? She's not Annabelle's mother is she?" asked Tina.
"Of course not. I'm Annie's brother and Professor Potter is our father." Said Caden, letting go of Annabelle.
No more questions were asked.
"Now for this to work you must say this spell correctly. Wind- gar-dium Le-vi-osa." Hermione said.
"Now you try, and the first to get their feather in the air will have no homework for tonight." Said Hermione, smiling broadly at all the disappointed faces.
There was a lot of murmur and then Hermione heard someone cry and went up to Caden.
"Caden, where's Annabelle?" she asked worriedly.
"I think one of the Ravenclaw's took her up with them." Said Caden, looking behind him at the bleacher like arrangements.
Hermione heard another cry and said, "Accio Annabelle." Annabelle came softly back to Hermione's arms and felt comfortable there.
Finally after ten minuets of no luck, Tina had gotten her feather off of the table.
"Well done. It seems as though Miss Gonzalez has done it! No homework for you tonight." Hermione said happily, putting Annabelle on her other hip.
When Hermione had walked away to put out a fire that a kid had started Tina leaned in towards her friends.
"I told you she was a wonderful professor. Why don't you guys ever believe me? I'll help you with your homework tonight in the common room." Tina whispered softly.
Caden and Marco looked at her with sour faces but had no choice but to accept this offer. They wrote it down in their homework reminders. The books shouted, "All play and no work makes a sorry one!"
The class ended with only three people with no homework. Tina and Marco went ahead to History of Magic. Caden didn't have that class with them; he was going to Muggle studies. As he was about to leave he heard Hermione talking to his sister.
"Gosh you're a pretty little thing. You have no idea how lucky you are to have Harry as your father. He's so sweet and kind. No wonder Alyssa fell in love with him, I mean any girl would have done the same. I wish you were my daughter." Said Hermione, playing with her small little blond curls.
Caden stepped out of the darkness.
"You like my father don't you?" He asked straightforward, like Harry, never beating around the bush.
"Why would you say that?" Hermione asked with a nervous hiccup.
"I was on my way out and I heard you talking to my sister. Why didn't you ever tell him that you fancied him? I'm sure that I would have been your son now, instead of my mum's." said Caden, picking up Annabelle.
"I guess you have a point but I was going out with Ron at the time. And when he left me for Lavender I went looking for Harry. The next day I found out that he and your mum had gotten together and they looked quite happy and I didn't want to ruin it." Said Hermione.
'I can't believe that I'm spilling my private life to an 11 year old.' Hermione said to herself.
"If you want I can try and get dad to fall in love with you. Then you'll have dad and Annie and I'll have a mum." Said Caden, very proud with himself.
"You know way to much for someone so young. Just like your father." Said Hermione.
"So, Professor Granger. Do we have a deal?" He asked, worried he was going to be late for class.
"Yes we have a deal. Promise you'll do your true best to help me. Let me get you a note, I know how Professor Williams can get." Said Hermione getting out purple parchment and a blue inked quill.
'Dear Jennifer, Please excuse Mr. Potter's lateness. I kept him after class to talk about some important matters. It won't happen again. Please send him to Professor Potter's class 10 minutes before his next class. He will be expecting him. Professor Hermione Granger.'
Hermione tapped it with her wand to seal it.
"Here you go. Now get along then." Said Hermione, shooing him off.
As he ran down the hall Hermione couldn't stop herself from smiling at all the memories that bounced into her mind every time she saw Caden.
'I can't believe that my love life is in the hands of my targets son. What is my world coming to.' Exclaimed Hermione to herself.
The rest of the afternoon went quite well. Caden was sent to his father's office to fetch some things for Hermione so that she could take care of Annabelle for the afternoon. Harry still couldn't catch the bat; he was in the trophy room, trying to persuade Peeves to give him the bloody bat.
"Give me the bloody bat Peeves! This is a very serious matter, if I can't get the bat the whole school will be swarming with vampire children. Do you honestly want that?" asked Harry, tapping one foot.
"Here little pot head, take your wittle batty watty." Peeves said and zooming off.
Harry caught the bat just in time before it headed into the Transfiguration classroom. He made it back to his class in time to see his son.
"Do you need some help there?" Asked Harry, taking to other end of the pin.
"Thanks dad. I was wondering, is it possible for you to fall in love with someone at this school?" Caden asked slyly.
"I might, why are you so interested?" Harry asked as they turned a corner.
"I was just courious. Will you tell me who it is?" asked Caden, hopefully.
"No, it's none of your business." Harry snapped.
They walked the rest of the way in silence. When they reached Hermione's class she was in the middle of teaching her class the door opening charm. Alohamora.
"Excuse me class." Said Hermione, rushing into the hallway.
"You know Harry you are of age, you could have done the feather light charm. It always works." Hermione stated, sounding very much like her younger self.
"I guess I forgot. I'll come by to get her 5 minuets before lunch so that we can all walk down together. And Caden, you should go down to the dungeons. I think you have double potions with the Gryffindor's." said Harry, patting him on the back.
"Ok dad. I'll be seeing you tonight before I go to bed then." Said Caden, walking down the corridor to find potions.
"He's a sweet boy." Hermione said, after 1 minuet.
"Thank you. I think you should get back to your class, seems as though someone's stirring up trouble." Harry stated, watching a blue book fly around the room.
Hermione cursed under her breath and ran back into the classroom. Harry walked slowly back to his class in hopes that his 1-hour break would start before he got to class. And sure enough it did. Instead of taking a right he made a left towards the teachers lounge.
"Ah, the sweet life of a Hogwarts teacher." Said Harry, walking into a room with couches and chairs and a big table.
"How were your first classes of the year Harry?" asked Professor Pearson.
"They went quite well. Except when I lost my bat, I had to run all over the school looking for it. It turns out that Peeves had it and was swinging it about in the trophy room." Harry said, plopping down on a soft couch.
"Would you like a butterbeer? We're going to have a meeting in a moment and you look like you could use a pick me up." Odet said.
"Thank you. What meeting?" Asked Harry sitting upright.
"We are going to be discussing the first ball of the year and other school activities." Stated Odet, passing Harry a warm butterbeer.
Harry didn't know what to say. He took a swig of his warm creamy drink and felt relaxed. McGonagall walked in and the meeting began.
"I think the children should have a winter ball. You know with ice and snow as the theme. The girls and guys dress in nice dress robes. The colors must only be light colors in order for the whole frost thing to work out." Said Odet, playing with a strand of her blue lined hair.
"That sounds nice. Any other suggestions? I also wouldn't mind having a new years ball." Said McGonagall.
No one had anything else to say. So it was decided, they were to have a winter ball the second the first snow fell at Hogwarts. It was up to Harry to talk to the prefects and the heads. He posted signs in every common room and sent them all letters.
It was finally lunch. Harry walked to Hermione's class and saw that she was waiting for him with Annabelle on her hip.
"So was she much trouble?" asked Harry, taking Annabelle on their way to the Great Hall.
"No, not at all. I can't wait to have children, I could be the perfect mum." Hermione said lightly.
Harry smiled and they talked about how absolutely terrible the Slytherins were this year. When they reached the Great Hall they were surprised to see so many students had already turned up for lunch. It seems like Dumbledore would like to make an announcement when they found their seats.
"Students. For a treat this year I think we should have a play. But it is under the control of Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout. They will choose the play and choose who they think is up to the challenge of learning lines before New years when the play will be held." Said Dumbledore, despite the little whispers from the students.
"Now just two things to say. Let's eat." Exclaimed Dumbledore.
Nice little sandwiches with no crusts came up and some steak and kidney pie. Over at the Hufflepuff table Caden was eating a watercress sandwich and some black gooey stuff that smelled great.
"Your dad hangs around with Professor Granger a lot doesn't he?" Asked Tina, swallowing a bit of SK pie.
"They were best friends since they were at this school and they haven't talked since I was born." Said Caden, watching his dad talk to Hermione happily.
Caden also noticed that her lipstick was now deep red for 'love'.
"I think I've enjoyed Charms, Transfiguration, and DADA the most. The potions was the worst class ever, I never want to have to stay in that room that long again." Said Marco.
"I really enjoyed Transfiguration. I think I would like to study to become an animagus. My grandfather was one; he turned into a stag. According to dad." Said Caden, going back to his friends.
"Wicked! I think we should all become one. Of course when we get older, I wouldn't mind being a wolf or a cat like McGonagall." Said Tina, as the food disappeared and cupcakes and puddings came up.
"Let's make names for ourselves. Kind of like a secret group, I watched it on a Muggle show at home with Annabelle. I would like to be 'Snow paws' since I want to be a fox." Caden said, very proud of his name.
"I want to be a cat so my name is 'Whiskers'." Said Tina, eating a vanilla cupcake.
"How about 'Wings' I want to be an owl. Or maybe 'Tails' I wouldn't mind being a dog either." Said Marco, helping himself to lemon pudding.
"Then it's decided. When we send each other notes, we use our new names. Whiskers, Tails and I'm changing my name to Whitetip." Said Caden, putting his hand in the middle of the table.
Tina and Marco put their hands in to.
"All for one, and one for all!" they exclaimed.
Seems as though a new group was started at Hogwarts and their name was The Charmers.
A/N: WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THIS CHAPTER? I PERSONALLY THOUGHT THAT IT WAS ALL-RIGHT. I COULDN'T THINK OF ANOTHER NAME TO CALL THEM WITHOUT COPIYING SO I NAMED THEM THE CHARMERS. WHO DOES HARRY HAVE IN MIND, WILL THEY BE FOUND BEFORE THE WINTER BALL?
-JENNIFER
Caden walked up the flight of steps until he reached a room with a bright purple door and a sign in golden glitter letters that said CHARMS. Caden walked through the door nervously and found a seat in the middle row next to his new friends, Tina and Marco.
"I hear she's tough." Whispered Marco.
"Yeah, I heard that too. My dad said that she loves to give out homework." Said Caden.
"Don't be such whiners. I'm sure she has a good reason for all the things that she does." Said Tina, sounding very much like a younger Hermione.
The bell rung again for the beginning of class and Hermione came walking in swiftly, leaving behind a gust of wind that smelled of fresh roses and strawberries.
"Hello class! Welcome to your first Charms lesson. I'm Professor Granger as you may have noticed on the board." Said Hermione pointing towards the board with her name in big red and gold letters.
"I will not have any horse play or any disrespectfulness in my class. Please come up one at a time to fetch your homework journals. Please only use them for my class. As you may notice they talk. They say these things to help you remember to do your work. If you wish to not use them, then you will surely forget to study." Said Hermione, passing a light blue book to Caden.
When he went to go and sit down, his book had his name written in twisty neat writing on the front cover and his house name written underneath. Caden Potter, Hufflepuff, Professor Sprout.
When everyone had a book, Hermione erased the board with a tap of her wand and she tapped it again and in neat bold print there were notes on how to move your wand for a certain spell.
"Please everyone take out your wands and a piece of parchment a quill and please copy down those notes. I'll be coming around with a feather and we shall be learning the levitating spell called, Windgardium Leviosa." Said Hermione walking around with a box of feathers with loads left over.
"Ok, to do this and any other spell for that matter is a hand movement called the swish and flick. All together now." Said Hermione, enthusiastically.
While she was walking around, Harry came rushing in with Annabelle.
"Excuse me students." Hermione said quickly pushing Harry out the door.
'What's dad doing here? I thought he had a class.' Caden said to himself.
(HALLWAY)
"What's wrong? Is everything alright?" Hermione asked, taking Annabelle.
"No, I just lost the subject to my class. A bat, I need to get it back as soon as possible or this school will be known for it's unusual number of vampires." Said Harry, holding a stitch in his side.
"So you want me to watch Annabelle for you?" asked Hermione, putting her down and letting her wander into the classroom.
"Could you please, Hermione just this once for the sake of a good friend?" Harry asked pleadingly.
"Of course Harry. I'll bring her back during lunch if that's alright?" asked Hermione.
"Um, sure. I'll send a student down later with her bag and her play pin." Said Harry, running down the hall.
Hermione went back into her class and saw that Caden was out of his seat. The students gasped and thought that he was going to be in trouble but she did nothing and went back to teaching.
"What was that all about? She's not Annabelle's mother is she?" asked Tina.
"Of course not. I'm Annie's brother and Professor Potter is our father." Said Caden, letting go of Annabelle.
No more questions were asked.
"Now for this to work you must say this spell correctly. Wind- gar-dium Le-vi-osa." Hermione said.
"Now you try, and the first to get their feather in the air will have no homework for tonight." Said Hermione, smiling broadly at all the disappointed faces.
There was a lot of murmur and then Hermione heard someone cry and went up to Caden.
"Caden, where's Annabelle?" she asked worriedly.
"I think one of the Ravenclaw's took her up with them." Said Caden, looking behind him at the bleacher like arrangements.
Hermione heard another cry and said, "Accio Annabelle." Annabelle came softly back to Hermione's arms and felt comfortable there.
Finally after ten minuets of no luck, Tina had gotten her feather off of the table.
"Well done. It seems as though Miss Gonzalez has done it! No homework for you tonight." Hermione said happily, putting Annabelle on her other hip.
When Hermione had walked away to put out a fire that a kid had started Tina leaned in towards her friends.
"I told you she was a wonderful professor. Why don't you guys ever believe me? I'll help you with your homework tonight in the common room." Tina whispered softly.
Caden and Marco looked at her with sour faces but had no choice but to accept this offer. They wrote it down in their homework reminders. The books shouted, "All play and no work makes a sorry one!"
The class ended with only three people with no homework. Tina and Marco went ahead to History of Magic. Caden didn't have that class with them; he was going to Muggle studies. As he was about to leave he heard Hermione talking to his sister.
"Gosh you're a pretty little thing. You have no idea how lucky you are to have Harry as your father. He's so sweet and kind. No wonder Alyssa fell in love with him, I mean any girl would have done the same. I wish you were my daughter." Said Hermione, playing with her small little blond curls.
Caden stepped out of the darkness.
"You like my father don't you?" He asked straightforward, like Harry, never beating around the bush.
"Why would you say that?" Hermione asked with a nervous hiccup.
"I was on my way out and I heard you talking to my sister. Why didn't you ever tell him that you fancied him? I'm sure that I would have been your son now, instead of my mum's." said Caden, picking up Annabelle.
"I guess you have a point but I was going out with Ron at the time. And when he left me for Lavender I went looking for Harry. The next day I found out that he and your mum had gotten together and they looked quite happy and I didn't want to ruin it." Said Hermione.
'I can't believe that I'm spilling my private life to an 11 year old.' Hermione said to herself.
"If you want I can try and get dad to fall in love with you. Then you'll have dad and Annie and I'll have a mum." Said Caden, very proud with himself.
"You know way to much for someone so young. Just like your father." Said Hermione.
"So, Professor Granger. Do we have a deal?" He asked, worried he was going to be late for class.
"Yes we have a deal. Promise you'll do your true best to help me. Let me get you a note, I know how Professor Williams can get." Said Hermione getting out purple parchment and a blue inked quill.
'Dear Jennifer, Please excuse Mr. Potter's lateness. I kept him after class to talk about some important matters. It won't happen again. Please send him to Professor Potter's class 10 minutes before his next class. He will be expecting him. Professor Hermione Granger.'
Hermione tapped it with her wand to seal it.
"Here you go. Now get along then." Said Hermione, shooing him off.
As he ran down the hall Hermione couldn't stop herself from smiling at all the memories that bounced into her mind every time she saw Caden.
'I can't believe that my love life is in the hands of my targets son. What is my world coming to.' Exclaimed Hermione to herself.
The rest of the afternoon went quite well. Caden was sent to his father's office to fetch some things for Hermione so that she could take care of Annabelle for the afternoon. Harry still couldn't catch the bat; he was in the trophy room, trying to persuade Peeves to give him the bloody bat.
"Give me the bloody bat Peeves! This is a very serious matter, if I can't get the bat the whole school will be swarming with vampire children. Do you honestly want that?" asked Harry, tapping one foot.
"Here little pot head, take your wittle batty watty." Peeves said and zooming off.
Harry caught the bat just in time before it headed into the Transfiguration classroom. He made it back to his class in time to see his son.
"Do you need some help there?" Asked Harry, taking to other end of the pin.
"Thanks dad. I was wondering, is it possible for you to fall in love with someone at this school?" Caden asked slyly.
"I might, why are you so interested?" Harry asked as they turned a corner.
"I was just courious. Will you tell me who it is?" asked Caden, hopefully.
"No, it's none of your business." Harry snapped.
They walked the rest of the way in silence. When they reached Hermione's class she was in the middle of teaching her class the door opening charm. Alohamora.
"Excuse me class." Said Hermione, rushing into the hallway.
"You know Harry you are of age, you could have done the feather light charm. It always works." Hermione stated, sounding very much like her younger self.
"I guess I forgot. I'll come by to get her 5 minuets before lunch so that we can all walk down together. And Caden, you should go down to the dungeons. I think you have double potions with the Gryffindor's." said Harry, patting him on the back.
"Ok dad. I'll be seeing you tonight before I go to bed then." Said Caden, walking down the corridor to find potions.
"He's a sweet boy." Hermione said, after 1 minuet.
"Thank you. I think you should get back to your class, seems as though someone's stirring up trouble." Harry stated, watching a blue book fly around the room.
Hermione cursed under her breath and ran back into the classroom. Harry walked slowly back to his class in hopes that his 1-hour break would start before he got to class. And sure enough it did. Instead of taking a right he made a left towards the teachers lounge.
"Ah, the sweet life of a Hogwarts teacher." Said Harry, walking into a room with couches and chairs and a big table.
"How were your first classes of the year Harry?" asked Professor Pearson.
"They went quite well. Except when I lost my bat, I had to run all over the school looking for it. It turns out that Peeves had it and was swinging it about in the trophy room." Harry said, plopping down on a soft couch.
"Would you like a butterbeer? We're going to have a meeting in a moment and you look like you could use a pick me up." Odet said.
"Thank you. What meeting?" Asked Harry sitting upright.
"We are going to be discussing the first ball of the year and other school activities." Stated Odet, passing Harry a warm butterbeer.
Harry didn't know what to say. He took a swig of his warm creamy drink and felt relaxed. McGonagall walked in and the meeting began.
"I think the children should have a winter ball. You know with ice and snow as the theme. The girls and guys dress in nice dress robes. The colors must only be light colors in order for the whole frost thing to work out." Said Odet, playing with a strand of her blue lined hair.
"That sounds nice. Any other suggestions? I also wouldn't mind having a new years ball." Said McGonagall.
No one had anything else to say. So it was decided, they were to have a winter ball the second the first snow fell at Hogwarts. It was up to Harry to talk to the prefects and the heads. He posted signs in every common room and sent them all letters.
It was finally lunch. Harry walked to Hermione's class and saw that she was waiting for him with Annabelle on her hip.
"So was she much trouble?" asked Harry, taking Annabelle on their way to the Great Hall.
"No, not at all. I can't wait to have children, I could be the perfect mum." Hermione said lightly.
Harry smiled and they talked about how absolutely terrible the Slytherins were this year. When they reached the Great Hall they were surprised to see so many students had already turned up for lunch. It seems like Dumbledore would like to make an announcement when they found their seats.
"Students. For a treat this year I think we should have a play. But it is under the control of Professor McGonagall and Professor Sprout. They will choose the play and choose who they think is up to the challenge of learning lines before New years when the play will be held." Said Dumbledore, despite the little whispers from the students.
"Now just two things to say. Let's eat." Exclaimed Dumbledore.
Nice little sandwiches with no crusts came up and some steak and kidney pie. Over at the Hufflepuff table Caden was eating a watercress sandwich and some black gooey stuff that smelled great.
"Your dad hangs around with Professor Granger a lot doesn't he?" Asked Tina, swallowing a bit of SK pie.
"They were best friends since they were at this school and they haven't talked since I was born." Said Caden, watching his dad talk to Hermione happily.
Caden also noticed that her lipstick was now deep red for 'love'.
"I think I've enjoyed Charms, Transfiguration, and DADA the most. The potions was the worst class ever, I never want to have to stay in that room that long again." Said Marco.
"I really enjoyed Transfiguration. I think I would like to study to become an animagus. My grandfather was one; he turned into a stag. According to dad." Said Caden, going back to his friends.
"Wicked! I think we should all become one. Of course when we get older, I wouldn't mind being a wolf or a cat like McGonagall." Said Tina, as the food disappeared and cupcakes and puddings came up.
"Let's make names for ourselves. Kind of like a secret group, I watched it on a Muggle show at home with Annabelle. I would like to be 'Snow paws' since I want to be a fox." Caden said, very proud of his name.
"I want to be a cat so my name is 'Whiskers'." Said Tina, eating a vanilla cupcake.
"How about 'Wings' I want to be an owl. Or maybe 'Tails' I wouldn't mind being a dog either." Said Marco, helping himself to lemon pudding.
"Then it's decided. When we send each other notes, we use our new names. Whiskers, Tails and I'm changing my name to Whitetip." Said Caden, putting his hand in the middle of the table.
Tina and Marco put their hands in to.
"All for one, and one for all!" they exclaimed.
Seems as though a new group was started at Hogwarts and their name was The Charmers.
A/N: WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THIS CHAPTER? I PERSONALLY THOUGHT THAT IT WAS ALL-RIGHT. I COULDN'T THINK OF ANOTHER NAME TO CALL THEM WITHOUT COPIYING SO I NAMED THEM THE CHARMERS. WHO DOES HARRY HAVE IN MIND, WILL THEY BE FOUND BEFORE THE WINTER BALL?
-JENNIFER