Disclaimer : All characters belongs to J. K. Rowlings. All were kidnapped in the dawn, and are not used to make money. They will be returned when I'm done.
See, don't own so don't sue, unless you're interested in my teddy bears collection...
Besides this work will contain people out of character since I am definitely not JK Rowlings, and some strange sentences since I'm French. Not to forget it's an AU... Still here?
So, on with the show...
This is the sequel to The Sale
Chapter 1 – Trouble magnets
In his first year, Harry James Potter refused Draco Malefoy's offer of friendship. He opposed Lord Voldemort's try to steal the Philosopher Stone, angering the Lord of the Underworld.
In his second year, Harry James Potter killed the basilic Voldemort had bred from the egg to be a weapon of mass destruction. The fact that it was in self defense, as Harry was supposed to be the demonstration of the basilic's power, to punish him for the Philosopher Stone, left Voldemort to reimburse the advances he had already perceived. Voldemort's anger grew to hatred.
He was not pleased, none at all, and managed to escape only because Sirius, seeing Lucius at his side hesitated before cursing him.
In third year, Remus, who had resigned to take care of Erwan who had been injured during a raid, became Harry James Potter's Defense Against the Dark Arts' teacher. Sirius, depressed by Lucius' betrayal and his unability to stop him, resigned and joined Remus. Severus, who was already teaching potions was overjoyced. Erwan, once healed, became Madam Pomphrey's assistant.
Everything went well after that, if one doesn't stop to look at the yearly confrontations between Harry James Potter and Lord Voldemort. Till this fateful day, one month after the beginning of Harry James Potter's sixth year.
It was a fine mid-morning, and Remus was back from a little visit he had paid to Hagrid's acromantula, who, to everyone's surprise, took a liking to him on sight. He stopped humming to listen intently, and there it was, the muffled sound of somebody crying in a transversal corridor.
Upon a careful inspection, he found a sobbing first year, huddled in a corner.
"Hey" he gently said, kneeling in front of the little girl, "what happened?"
"I'm lost! I went to the bathroom after my first class, and when I get out, it was another corridor I didn't know! Each time I tried to find my way, I ended up back right here!"
"Where were you trying to go?"
"Charms." She sniffed.
Remus smiled and got to his feet, extending his hand to the girl. "Come, I'll show you. It's just an illusion charm, you have to walk right through the wall to exit." He pulled her up and through the wall they went, till they reached the entrance hall.
"Don't worry, the corridors like to play this trick on pupils. I gather you didn't want to go to charms, did you?"
"No" she sighed, "it's so complicated! I was thinking on how good it would be if I could just stay outside." She confessed, blushing.
Remus laughed. "Don't worry, the same thing happened to me about potions, when I studied here. Your secret is safe with me! Look, the charms classroom, I'll talk to professor Flitwick, so he won't scold you. Allright?"
"More than allright you mean!" she replied excitedly.
He knocked on the door and entered, the girl peeking from behind his shoulder. "Professor? I found this little girl lost in the never ending corridor."
"Ah, miss Frostspoon, do come in." Flitwick waved her in before turning towards Remus. "Thank you, professor Lupin."
Remus nodded and turned to leave. He was passing the last desk when he heard Flitwick chastisising a student. "Miss Hardgrave, may I remind you that we are not studying the glamouri charm? Glamoris purgis!"
Remus' breath hitched as the charm hit him, the student having dodged. He stumbled a bit before regaining his footing. Flitwick was horrified. "Oh, professor Lupin, I'm so sorry! I was not aiming at you!"
"It's alright, accidents happen!" Remus said without turning, "I'd better leave before something else happens!" he laughed a little before exiting the classroom. As he was closing the door, he heard Flitwick giving miss Hardgrave two weeks of detention.
He swiftly made his way towards the quarters he shared with his husband. Upon entering, he sank on the sofa and burried his face in his hands. "Just what we needed!"
Feeling restless, he jumped on his feet and paced the room. That was how Erwan found him when he entered their rooms.
"Remus? What happened? You missed dinner, you know."
When Remus turned towardshim, Erwan's face fell.
"How?"
"Glamor Purgis, of course! What else? Frankly, Erwan!"
"Hush, you're hysterical."
"And I don't have good reason to? How am I supposed to appear before Dumbledore and the students now?"
"Calm down, we will find a solution, don't worry."
A sniff. "We should tell the others. It's all my fault."
A hug "It's not, there was no way you could have prevented it. Go and draw yourself a nice hot bath, I'll floo Sirius and Severus."
As his husband busied himself in the bathroom, Erwan threw a pinch of floo powder in the fire. "Sirius and Severus' rooms, emergency!" he yelled.
A few seconds later he emerged in front of a half naked Sirius snogging an equally disclosed Severus. Both were shocked to see him, but quickly recovered as Erwan explained Remus' predicament.
"Oh shit!" swore Sirius while hastily throwing on the first piece of clothing he found, which happened to be Severus' shirt.
"That's quite an understatment, love." His husband answered, tugging Sirius' tee shirt down. Both flooed back with Erwan and arrived just in time to heard a knock at the door.
"Remus, are you here? It's Albus, is everything alright? You were not at dinner, do you need to see Madam Pomfrey?"
Sirius and Severus went to sit in front of the fireplace while Erwan answered the door. "It's nothing, Headmaster, Remus idjust a little tired, I'm gonna ask the elves for a slight meal and put him to bed. Sorry for the disturbance."
"Think nothing of it, dear boy. I'm glad everything is well, have a nice night, boys." He frowned a little as he turned towards the door, wondering why Sirius and Severus were here if Remus was tired. 'I hope they're not planning something. Last time was... well, it was at their graduation.' He thought, shivering a little at the remembrance of the infamous animalia prank, and more at the idea of a repeat.
"Good night" the three innocently chorused.
As soon as te door closed, and they couldsee Albus' departure thanks to a spying charm Sirius casted on the door, Remus, a nineteen years old Remus exited from the bathing room.
"I hope one of you remember the spell Lily used to enhance the glamour, or I'm dead!" he sat dejectedly near his husband, entertwining their hands.
"Don't you mean we're dead? Anyway, I don't remember." Winced Sirius.
"I remember only a word out of three..." Severus slowly stated.
"We're doomed." Erwan pointed glumily.
Remus sighed heavily. "There's no way they'll believe I'm sick..."
Silence crept on the four defeated men. Suddenly Sirius snickered.
"I fail to see what you find so funny, Sirius!" huffed Remus.
"It's just something I remembered Dumbledore said after we had explained everything to him in his office."
"And?" prompted Severus.
"He said that when I was in trouble, I really was in trouble!"
"So what you say is that I'm a trouble magnet, like you?" Remus was towering above a siting Sirius.
"Not at all, just that you too have a knack to find trouble. You should sit and breathe deeply."
"I don't need you to tell me how to react" by this time Remus had his wand out. "Perhaps I should submit you to the Glamor Purgis too, to see how you would react!" As soon as the words left his mouth, his eyes bulged.
"Oh no,nononononono!" he moaned. "I didn't, I'm sorry!" A glowering nineteen years old Severus , who had stepped in front of Sirius in order to protect him fell on the sofa.
"Uh, guys?" tentatively asked Erwan, interrupting the glaring contest being held between Severus and Remus, "You're not going to kill each other, right?"
Severus sighed deeply and looked at a fidgetting Erwan. "Not yet, why?"
"Could it wait till Siri and I went to retrieve a few books from the library? Maybe we'll find the solution."
"And if we don't?"a worried Sirius enquired.
"Then we'll go and see Dumbledore." Severus stated.
"But what about the ministry? We agreed to hide it from them because we didn't want to be locked away..."
"We could always make him take a wizzard oath to ensure his silence before we tell him anything."
"Ok, for now, Erwan and Sirius deal with the library, Remus and me will write the oath we want Dumbledore to take if we don't find answers." Severus stood up and went to Remus "Where do you keep the parchment and ink?"
Reassured, the two men left for the library. They came back with a wide selection of books. After studying them carefully, and finding nothing, they went bak for more. In th middle of the night, Remus stood up from his seat. He cleared his throat to attractthe other's attention. As soon as they were all looking at him, he began "I think that Sirius and Erwan should go to bed. They'll be the only ones able to fool the Headmaster and give the lessons. With a little glamour, they should be able to pass as Severus and myself."
"But..." Remus held a hand to stop Erwan.
"The concentration necessary to hold a glamour to change our age would be too much. Besides, we're much too thin and skinny. We would have too much trouble remembering our broader build. Seeing us squeezing in some places we shouldn't be able to would kind of deter the usefulness of a glamour, don't you think?"
"And what will the two of you do?"
"We will stay here and try to find something in the few books we haven't already gone through."
The three others looked at each others before nodding reluctantly. Erwan and Sirius left their mates to their studies after a few 'good night' and 'good work' kisses.
The next morning, when they awoke, they found both Remus and Severus asleep in their chairs. Chuckling, they casted the glamour spell on each other before going to the Great Hall for breakfast.