Fresh meat

A highly profound man stood at the heat of his class room, he was smiling awaiting for a new batch of students to walk through the class room door ready for the strenuous process he would use on them to sort the poor from the good, the good from the great and the great from the extraordinary.

Little did he know that this year his own limits would be pushed. James Potter was barely 22 years old, he had graduated his own healing classes with such honours that he had been sought after by many different hospitals. His own professor had seen such a potential in him that he had asked him to consider becoming a professor himself. James decided on doing a bit of both. Teaching in the week and working at St Mungos at the weekend as a consultant. He could of course deny neither field his excellence.

This year he had a very big class starting with him. 30 people to sort through. A third would drop out by the end of the week and a further half of whats left by the end of a month. The majority after that would be the serious ones whom were in it for the long hall.
The class poured in and found seats. James gazed at each student, already picking out a few drongos whom he doubted would even last the day. That one there for instance already had his back turned and was chatting up on of the females. Wait! No that was Sirius, his best mate.

"Black!" James ordered. "Get out of my classroom and get back to the ministry. Moody will be flipping his lid."

"Sorry mate, just checking out the Newbies."

"OUT!" James said, shooing him away before Sirius started up with girls uniform thing. "Excuse him, he's just the college idiot. Now I want you to all stand up and when I call your name from the register I wish for you to take the next seat available starting from the front."

"Is it not a bit childish to be putting us in alphabetical order?" A female questioned. James looked up at her. She was a delicate red head with sharp green eyes.

"And may I ask your name?" He asked.

"Evans, Lily Evans." She replied.

"Ah Miss Evans." He looked down his profile of each student. "Outstanding in every OWL taken, same in all your NEWTs. Hogwarts prefect and head girl 2 years ago. A year taken out to travel and study. You enjoy reading, drawing and you are a Sagittarius. I believe I have a wonderful seat here at the front for you. See I reserve it each year for special students who manage to tick me off. CONGRATULATIONS." He started sarcastically. "Most occupants manage at least an hour before I place them there." She gawked at him it was obvious that Lily Evans was used to getting her own way. She took the seat with a hurumph. The rest of the students took their seats after that, no questions asked. James loved making an example of someone.

But then so did Lily Evans.

"Can you please take your textbooks of magical maladies and turn to pages 24 and 25." James said turning and writing the page numbers on the board. "Now before I start I would like to introduce myself. I am James Potter and I will be seeing you all through your healer training. I myself was a student here just 2 years ago. I finished a year early and now I work here and St Mungos..." He paused looking around. "Miss Evans is there a reason why you haven't even got your text book out let alone turned to the correct pages? And don't say that you feel unwell as I can tell you are not." James gave her a piercing stare.

"I don't need it." She said leaning back and folding her arms. First one to bite the dust James grinned to himself.

"Leaving already are we?" He smirked.

"Don't count yourself that lucky." She replied her deep emerald eyes not leaving his own bold hazel ones. "I just don't need it."

"So class it seems that Miss Evans, merely 19 years of age, already knows everything there is to know about magical maladies." He challenged.

"Not everything." She said. He grinned in triumph. "Just everything in that book." His grin faltered.

"Let's see then." The class stared in astonishment as the professor started firing questions at this know it all girl and she in return fired back answers, not even having to think about them. "Ok. So miss Evans, if you know everything why are you here?" He asked exasperated.

"I have travelled the world spending only a few days in each country learning different cultures, different medicines and magical cures. I probably know more about medicine then all you professors put together. I need one thing and that would be a qualification to practice medicine. Now Potter I am not normally one to talk to a teacher this way but I lost all respect for you when I was a mere third year and you and your moronic friends thought it would be funny to Jinx my glasses so they wouldn't actually work and so they were stuck and I couldn't remove them." Sniggers were heard through out the class. "Yeah it was real funny walking round for a whole day having people trip you until you finally find someone whom would help. A real hoot!"

"Miss Evans, as truly sorry as I am about how immature I was at 15, I would like to remind you that I am your teacher and therefore my authority will not be undermined in anyway what so ever. And seeing as you deem yourself so capable of being independent, here you can have your first assignment to get on quietly with. Meanwhile I shall start the rest of the class with notes to prepare them for it. They will need to be ready for when they start it in 3 weeks time."

3 weeks sure was a lot of note taking time, Lily thought as she looked unsurely down at the assignment. In seeing them she sat up confidently flicking her long red hair behind her and straightening her glasses. She took her quill out and started scribbling away.

James was watching from the corner of his eye. The girl was insufferable, how could she know as much as him before she had even started? He glanced into the corner of the room where his friend Remus Lupin sat. Remus was an assessor, he assessed the ability of the students and the professor silently and did the colleges report. Needless to say James had never received a bad report.

"Miss Evans, how is that assignment coming along?" Professor Potter asked at the end of the lesson. Lily was scratching away on a piece of parchment.

"Ow I finished that then minutes ago." She said passing him a roll of parchment, which was at least 3 foot of the smallest handwriting he had ever seen. "I believe everything is there. You can keep this as well if you wish?" She handed him a sketch of what appeared to be himself teaching. He looked at her stunned.

"Impossible, how could you have finished so quickly?"

"Sir I have been studying muggle and magical medicine since I was seven years old. That assignment was not exactly brain surgery, although I could give you an even lengthier assignment on that if you wanted?"

"Class dismissed. I want you to have read chapter one as well please." He called not taking his eyes off the red head whom was walking arrogantly out of the door.

"She's rather eccentric that one." Remus said walking up to James. "I remember she tutored Pete in seventh year. Excellent at charms. I think you handled her really well though." James was still standing gobsmacked. "Although I think she handled you even better. Man never did I think I'd see the day James Potter was outwitted and by a student none the less. Black will get a kick out of this." As Remus continued to babble on, James continued to stare at the door in disbelief.

This had to be a nightmare.

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