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Chapter 60: Express Trouble
"Remind me never to be the headmaster during the start of term." Harry told his wife the night before the first of September. When he got to his office that morning he had found a list of things needed to be done the sized of his large office. For a brief second, the thought that Minerva left to get out of this crossed his mind, but was quickly squashed down.
Harry was happy to say he had gotten a lot of it done, things like house elf meeting, staff meeting, staff party, were all easy things to do. Codes were talked about emergency plans went over; rules and regulations were made fun of. Memories shared. They had gone over schedules to make any last minute changes, and discussed time turners in relations to there own classes.
"Harry, how exactly are we going to take our own classes without using the time turner?" Ginny asked as she tiredly climbed into bed.
"All classes are held when you're not teaching, so in those hours that you are, I will be doing my job. From what I was told, we will be working until seven at night, and only given a small amount of homework. Then after we have the kids, we can start using the time turner again and make up any time lost. We might have to go into next summer." Harry explained.
"Another year without our children," Ginny sighed.
"We'll make time, I made sure we get Sundays off with them. Then there are meals, in which they are old enough to come eat with us in the great hall, now. We get an hour break where we are to only do things for ourselves, like sleep or spend time with the kids." Harry felt his eyes droop.
"Okay, night honey." Ginny whispered.
"Night."
Harry felt like he had just fallen asleep when he was jerked awake by some one yelling at him from the floo network in his room.
"Harry!" The male voice called.
"Yeah," Harry said trying to fully wake.
"We have an emergency, get up." The voice Harry now recognized as the Minister of Magic stated urgently. Harry was up in an instant, and so was his wife. "Ginny you go beck to sleep, if I need you I will wake you." Harry said getting dressed. She looked like she was going to argue for a second before she nodded. Harry ran from the room before apperating to his office. The minister stood waiting, looking very nervous.
"What's happened?" Harry asked "I have a couple of spies planted in different areas of death eater camp," the Minster said hurriedly. "Word has spread about an attack planned on platform nine and three quarters to day around the time the train is scheduled to leave."
"It will be full of students..." Harry whispered wide-eyed. "Exactly, we need to do some massive changes...now." The minister exclaimed. "I should contact Minivra..."
"No time, your active headmaster right now, what do you want to do?"
"Get the kids here to safety, obviously. We should not use the train today, so the train staff should be called off. Could we floo everyone here?" Harry asked.
"What about the Muggle Born?" The minister asked.
"Well they will be heading for train station. Our platform has a floo network. Let me get the staff together, we will start writing owls, giving everyone detail to their destination call and time they are to go. We will need to get the Owls out within the hour to make sure everyone gets it." Harry said aloud more to himself then anything.
"Very well. I will go to the ministry and instruct all owls to Hogwarts so that we don't make multiple trips."
"I will wake the staff and get them to the great hall so that we can start." The minister nodded, before he apperated away. Harry held his hand to his throat and cast the sonorous charm, he thought for a second about what he wanted to say before he decided it was simple enough.
"Code Black! I repeat code black. All staff to the Great Hall, all children go back to sleep." With that stopped the spell and grabbed the student lists, the lists of fireplaces hooked to the floo network. He then apperated to the Great Hall to find a bunch of wide-awake teachers wands drawn.
"Wands down, the attack is not on the school but on our students. There is going to be an attack on the Express, so were shutting it down and flooing the students here starting at seven o'clock this morning, so we have four hours before students arrive.
"We need to get owls out, and staff placed in certain areas. Students will be flooing into the four houses, the three fireplaces in the great hall, my office and Miniveras office. I will need someone to go to the train station to get the Muggle born and any students who did not get the message in time to the school."
"I will, that will be a dangerous area." Tonks said, standing up. She immediately tripped over her own feet and landed with an ungraceful flop on the floor. Hermione quickly helped her up and back into her seat.
"Okay, first things first I am going to give you a list of students, they should start arriving at seven and come at five minute intervals. Once you know who is coming through your floo, then you are to check off each student as they arrive. All students who do not show up are to be placed on a list and brought to me. There should be around fifty-five students coming through each floo, at five minutes a piece this should take roughly five hours, which will put us in time for lunch. You will go in shifts, and ministry officials will be coming as well, to help."
Harry quickly wrote an official note that explained the change of plans, and the need to come at certain a time, he did a quick duplicating charm that created over five hundred copies. Harry then handed all nine of the teachers a slip that said what floo they would be in charge of and a list of fifty-five students who needed to come out of it.
"When your done place them in the middle of the table," Harry created a round table for everyone to sit at, "and I will seal them and send them off." The group got to work; the owls lined up to take letters, just as he was at the last letter over three hundred owls swooped in to help. Harry gave them two letters each and explained that this was an emergency. The owls hooted and went on with there work. Three hours later, they had sent all the letters off, and left for bed to get an hour nap. Harry, however did not go back to bed, instead he began making the attendance sheet. Ginny found him in his office sound asleep ten minutes before they were due to start expecting kids. "I'm up." Harry groaned.
"I know, honey. I will take these sheets to the teachers, where should we send the students once they're here?" Ginny asked. "There common rooms, they are to stay out of the way of the fireplace though." Harry answered.
"Great, are you going to work your office?" Harry nodded. Ginny gave him a kiss before heading off to give out the attendance sheets. Harry pulled out his schoolbooks for this year's medical school, and began to read. He had already read three of the five books.
Chapter 60: Express Trouble
"Remind me never to be the headmaster during the start of term." Harry told his wife the night before the first of September. When he got to his office that morning he had found a list of things needed to be done the sized of his large office. For a brief second, the thought that Minerva left to get out of this crossed his mind, but was quickly squashed down.
Harry was happy to say he had gotten a lot of it done, things like house elf meeting, staff meeting, staff party, were all easy things to do. Codes were talked about emergency plans went over; rules and regulations were made fun of. Memories shared. They had gone over schedules to make any last minute changes, and discussed time turners in relations to there own classes.
"Harry, how exactly are we going to take our own classes without using the time turner?" Ginny asked as she tiredly climbed into bed.
"All classes are held when you're not teaching, so in those hours that you are, I will be doing my job. From what I was told, we will be working until seven at night, and only given a small amount of homework. Then after we have the kids, we can start using the time turner again and make up any time lost. We might have to go into next summer." Harry explained.
"Another year without our children," Ginny sighed.
"We'll make time, I made sure we get Sundays off with them. Then there are meals, in which they are old enough to come eat with us in the great hall, now. We get an hour break where we are to only do things for ourselves, like sleep or spend time with the kids." Harry felt his eyes droop.
"Okay, night honey." Ginny whispered.
"Night."
Harry felt like he had just fallen asleep when he was jerked awake by some one yelling at him from the floo network in his room.
"Harry!" The male voice called.
"Yeah," Harry said trying to fully wake.
"We have an emergency, get up." The voice Harry now recognized as the Minister of Magic stated urgently. Harry was up in an instant, and so was his wife. "Ginny you go beck to sleep, if I need you I will wake you." Harry said getting dressed. She looked like she was going to argue for a second before she nodded. Harry ran from the room before apperating to his office. The minister stood waiting, looking very nervous.
"What's happened?" Harry asked "I have a couple of spies planted in different areas of death eater camp," the Minster said hurriedly. "Word has spread about an attack planned on platform nine and three quarters to day around the time the train is scheduled to leave."
"It will be full of students..." Harry whispered wide-eyed. "Exactly, we need to do some massive changes...now." The minister exclaimed. "I should contact Minivra..."
"No time, your active headmaster right now, what do you want to do?"
"Get the kids here to safety, obviously. We should not use the train today, so the train staff should be called off. Could we floo everyone here?" Harry asked.
"What about the Muggle Born?" The minister asked.
"Well they will be heading for train station. Our platform has a floo network. Let me get the staff together, we will start writing owls, giving everyone detail to their destination call and time they are to go. We will need to get the Owls out within the hour to make sure everyone gets it." Harry said aloud more to himself then anything.
"Very well. I will go to the ministry and instruct all owls to Hogwarts so that we don't make multiple trips."
"I will wake the staff and get them to the great hall so that we can start." The minister nodded, before he apperated away. Harry held his hand to his throat and cast the sonorous charm, he thought for a second about what he wanted to say before he decided it was simple enough.
"Code Black! I repeat code black. All staff to the Great Hall, all children go back to sleep." With that stopped the spell and grabbed the student lists, the lists of fireplaces hooked to the floo network. He then apperated to the Great Hall to find a bunch of wide-awake teachers wands drawn.
"Wands down, the attack is not on the school but on our students. There is going to be an attack on the Express, so were shutting it down and flooing the students here starting at seven o'clock this morning, so we have four hours before students arrive.
"We need to get owls out, and staff placed in certain areas. Students will be flooing into the four houses, the three fireplaces in the great hall, my office and Miniveras office. I will need someone to go to the train station to get the Muggle born and any students who did not get the message in time to the school."
"I will, that will be a dangerous area." Tonks said, standing up. She immediately tripped over her own feet and landed with an ungraceful flop on the floor. Hermione quickly helped her up and back into her seat.
"Okay, first things first I am going to give you a list of students, they should start arriving at seven and come at five minute intervals. Once you know who is coming through your floo, then you are to check off each student as they arrive. All students who do not show up are to be placed on a list and brought to me. There should be around fifty-five students coming through each floo, at five minutes a piece this should take roughly five hours, which will put us in time for lunch. You will go in shifts, and ministry officials will be coming as well, to help."
Harry quickly wrote an official note that explained the change of plans, and the need to come at certain a time, he did a quick duplicating charm that created over five hundred copies. Harry then handed all nine of the teachers a slip that said what floo they would be in charge of and a list of fifty-five students who needed to come out of it.
"When your done place them in the middle of the table," Harry created a round table for everyone to sit at, "and I will seal them and send them off." The group got to work; the owls lined up to take letters, just as he was at the last letter over three hundred owls swooped in to help. Harry gave them two letters each and explained that this was an emergency. The owls hooted and went on with there work. Three hours later, they had sent all the letters off, and left for bed to get an hour nap. Harry, however did not go back to bed, instead he began making the attendance sheet. Ginny found him in his office sound asleep ten minutes before they were due to start expecting kids. "I'm up." Harry groaned.
"I know, honey. I will take these sheets to the teachers, where should we send the students once they're here?" Ginny asked. "There common rooms, they are to stay out of the way of the fireplace though." Harry answered.
"Great, are you going to work your office?" Harry nodded. Ginny gave him a kiss before heading off to give out the attendance sheets. Harry pulled out his schoolbooks for this year's medical school, and began to read. He had already read three of the five books.