The bell rang and all the students sat in the Mythology classroom. The two teachers hadn't shown up yet and the students were completely rambunctious. Ron and Hermione were holding hands and talking, Harry was yelling at some blonde kid, and Ginny was staring at the ceiling. A huge gust of wind blew the door open and papers everywhere. The walls began to shake and dust fell from the ceiling. The lights flickered then went off as a thick smoke covered the room. The door slammed shut in the darkness, and a loud maniacal laughter rang throughout the room. The lights shot on in full blast, blinding the room, and then relaxed into a light glow. Pat and Kat stood in front of the class, grinning wildly. "Alrighty peoples, grab your books and follow us outside, we're gonna study a dragon today." The class just kinda sat in shock. "Let's move people!" Pat called out in a military voice. The class sluggishly got out of their seats and headed outside, following Kat while her counterpart slid away.
They reached a clearing and stood around. The blonde kid, who was teasing Harry, groaned. "They led us to absolutely nothing. These teachers are morons." Kat called out a name in elfish and soon an ice blue dragon flew down from the sky, landing directly in front of the blonde kid.
"Malfoy, watch who you talk down to." Malfoy grumbled and stood back up and dusted himself off, after falling from the impact of the dragon landing by him. The dragon blew smoke at him as Kathryn opened her book and taught the kids about how dragons came into being.
Soon the bell rang and the students filed back in. Harry and his friends walked around the corner just as he thought of something. "Did anyone see Professor Kirkman when we were studying the dragon?" Ron and Hermione shook their heads.
"No Harry, mabie we should check again." The three moved back around, and saw Kat talking to the dragon.
"Ah, isn't it nice knowing what Malfoy's saying when he doesn't realize it?" The dragon laughed, and transformed back into Patricia.
"Oh yeah, he got all red." Patricia stated, laughing.
"Just like the good old days, Remus, Sirius, James, and Lily would be proud." The blonde nodded in agreement, gently rubbing her Celtic ring.
"Yeah, I miss them. Well Remus is still here." She smiled and they headed back inside. Harry and his group turned back to the main doors, in shock.
"They knew Mum and Dad." Hermione put her hand, sympathetically around Harry's arm.
"C'mon, let's get to lunch; the day's only half over."
Harry tried to concentrate on his crystal ball but instead, he just kept thinking about the new teachers knowing his parents. Professor Trelawney went off on how Harry was gonna die, yet again, as everyone sniggered. Pat stood in the corner, laughing and shaking her head. The professor waved her hand and hit her crystal ball, and she teetered after it. Pat moved out from the shadow of the wall. "Anyways kiddo's, how about we try something else?" Pavarti and her little friends grumbled and everyone else just looked bored, but Harry's head snapped up. "You, laughing girl, come here." Pavarti looked up and walked forward slowly. "Ok, turn around and close your eyes." The girl did as told and Pat walked over to the rest of the class. She picked Ron and told him to stand behind her. He looked totally confused, but went on ahead. "Ok Pavarti, tell me what you sense." Pavarti's eyes closed tighter and she tried to concentrate. "No, no, no. Relax, let your mind clear, and breathe in and out. Lower your shoulders girl, I'm not gonna have someone beat you over the head or anything. Relax; imagine a calm forest and a lightly babbling brook." Finally the girl was relaxed and Ron stepped forward.
"Ron, get away from me." Pavarti shouted.
"And that's seeing." Pat said, grinning just as the bell rang.
Kathryn stood, grinning, next to a perturbed Snape. "Ok everyone, let's try an insanity potion. Take some milkweed and larcust. Crush it gently and add water so that a green liquid is seen, then pour that into your cauldron. Now pour in some coke." Kat grinned and put her index finger to her arm and pushed her thumb down while yelling.
"COKE!!!" Everyone looked at her funny but she just kept on grinning.
The potions were ready and tested on rats. Most of the rats went psycho but Ron's got sick.
"Weasley, you're a buffoon, you added too much coke."
"Dude, Cuz, leave the kid alone, not like you were perfect when you were their age." Snape's face went white.
"I told you not to bring up the past while you're here."
"Aww, but you were so cute and evil back then." She stated, while pinching his cheeks. He pushed her off him as he heard the class giggle.
Malfoy and his cronies wandered around the hall towards the great hall. "Those teachers are such friggen morons, and so childish. They're probably dumber than Weasley." They all chuckled till they heard footsteps behind them. Malfoy slowly turned around and ended up face to face with Pat.
"Malfoy, to my office now, you know where that is, I saw your little note." She pulled her hand out pf the pocket of her robes and unfolded a piece of paper. Inside it read: "Sirius is dead, long live the Dark Lord." Her face was shadowed as she tossed it into the air and spat fire onto it. "You're in deep." She turned on her heel, a sullen Malfoy behind her.
Kathryn came into Patricia's office to see Malfoy cleaning bat guano off of the windows. Kat giggled. "Pat, you cruel person you." Her friend smiled back, and then looked at Malfoy.
"Am I still too childish, Malfoy?" Go to your tower; report back to me at 20 hundred hours tomorrow." A disgruntled Malfoy stalked out of the room, smelling of guano. Pat glared at him, and watched as he closed the door, then looked up at Kat, handing over the note. Kathryn read it, and then nodded gravely. "I caught him talking trash about us too."
"Will he ever go to the light?" Pat shook her head.
"I'm startin to doubt it." She finished her writing and slammed her book closed. "Go on to bed, I'll be up in a few moments." Kathryn squeezed her friend's shoulder sympathetically and walked up the stairs to the sleeping quarters.
Harry slipped out of bed silently. He slid into his slippers and shuffled down stairs and out the portrait hole. He just had to figure out the connection between the new teachers and his parents. Because of his height, he now had to duck down in order to fit under the invisibility cloak. The slippers quietly scuffed the floor till they stopped in front of the door to mythology. Inside, he heard the soft crying of a female. Gently and slowly he pushed the door open and peered in. In her usual chair, sat Patricia, holding a picture frame and crying softly. As he entered the door, her sobs stopped and she stiffened. In a hoarse voice, she whispered, "Harry?" The boy slowly closed the door and pulled off his cloak.
"Yeah, you won't tell will you?" Pat turned to him and shook her head.
"Nah, I won't tell. Now lemme guess… You wanna know how I know your family?" Harry nodded, astonished. "Well, you see, Kathryn and I were foreign exchange students here once. We met James and Lily, and the guys. Kathryn dated Remus for a while till this Oldie Moldy Voldie crap, and I… I was with… Sirius…." Harry's jaw dropped.
"You do know…."
"Yeah, I know he passed through the curtain." She sighed and ran her finger over the frame of the picture, and then handed it to Harry. Inside was the moving image of Pat and Sirius, holding each other. On her left hand ring finger, was a diamond ring. "That was taken the day before graduation. Sirius had asked me to marry him in 3 years. I told him I would." She closed her eyes and sighed. "But that's enough with the past. Harry, I found this when I went to help Remus clean out your parents' house." She reached into her drawer and pulled out a box, and handed it to him. He opened it, and inside, was a locket. On one side was a picture of him, in the middle was a picture of his mom, and on the other side, was his dad's picture. He looked up at his teacher. "Thanks. This means a lot." Pat smiled.
"Go to bed young man. Tomorrow's a big day." Harry nodded and left, feeling better.