Disclosure: I don't own Harry Potter. Wow, that was a creative disclosure.

'This is going to be a long year.' Harry thought.

A/n: Almost done for the night, yay!

Harry and Ginny were shaking with laughter. They had been called to the Professors lounge for an emergency meeting, having to excuse their class early. As it turned out, the Marauders had scared away the Muggle studies Professor. Some how, the four boys had managed to 'accidentally' bring in a niffler each. Well the Professor happened to be wearing silver hoop earrings, thirty copper bracelets on each wrist and a silver sash. The professor had tried to use her wand against the creatures, and it turned into a snake. It went downhill from there. McGonagall was less then amused.

"Harry, Ginny, please refrain from laughing. This is a rather serious situation; we have no one to fill in for that post. What will we do? All of our Professors are rather to busy, or don't know enough about muggles to teach the class." This caused Harry and Ginny to laugh harder; soon they had to lean against each other so they wouldn't fall over.

"I don't know how we will get by." Ginny said, wiping tears of mirth from her eyes. "What will become of our dear charges if they are unable to learn about muggles?"

McGonagall rolled her eyes.

"Yes, well, if any of you know of anyone that would be willing to take up the post, let us know." With that, the meeting was adjourned. Still slightly laughing, Ginny sat straight and turned to face Harry.

"The Marauders are absolutely bloody brilliant, they could give Fred and George a run for their money. My stomach hurts from laughing." Right on queue, Ginny's stomach growled. "Or it could just hurt because I'm hungry. We should head down to the Great Hall." Smiling, Harry followed her.

They had only been in the Great Hall for twenty minutes before something eventful happened. Similar to Ginny's dramatic entrance three week's ago; the heavy wooden doors of the Great Hall flew open. The culprits were a man and woman, both wearing black travelers cloaks. The man was tall with flaming red hair; the woman had bushy brown hair and was tightly clutching a wand in her right hand.

James shook his head in disbelief. So much for security. He turned towards Sirius to ask him what he thought about the two new intruders when Remus stopped him.

"Do you here that?" he asked, glancing around. At first, James glanced around in confusion, wondering what Remus was talking about. Then he heard it; a soft banging noise. It was coming from the heads table. Looking up, James saw Porter hitting his head repeatedly against the table. He pointed this out to the other Marauders.

"Wonder what's eating him." Sirius said, as they continued to watch their Professor. Ginny leaned over and whispered something to him, Porter sat up, glared at her, then returned to hitting his head. Just then, the woman spoke.

"Harry! How dare you leave without a word! Do you have any idea how worried we were!" Standing, Porter slowly walked down to the couple. "Do you have anything to say for yourself?" she asked angrily. (A/n: remember, she is pregnant, so she is a bit more unreasonable then normal.)

"I'm sorry Hermione. I didn't want you to worry. If I had a choice, I wouldn't have left. But I'm here now and I have to finish this year. I promise that I will return home safely. You need to leave, you are in no condition to be here." He said, trying to regain control of the situation. Unfortunately that was impossible with Ron there.

"Go home! There is abso-bloody-lutely no way we're going home mate. You'll just have to deal with us." He said, smiling smugly. Harry glanced up at Ginny, wondering what he was supposed to do, when he realized that she was quietly conversing with Dumbledore.

'Oh no, this can't be good' he thought wearily. Sure enough, he heard Dumbledore say,

"Really, Miss. West? Well this is a bit of good fortune." Turning to Ron and Hermione, he said, "Well Mr. West, Mrs. West, Miss West here has informed me that you two know a great deal about muggles?" Hermione brightened at this. (A/n: A lot of West's in that sentence.)

"Yes Sir. I am a muggle born myself."

"Perfect! Would you be willing to instruct our muggle studies class? Our previous Professor was, er, unable to deal with the energy the class required."

"We would love to teach that class. We would only be able to stay a year though." She said, a bit uncertainly. Dumbledore waved this away, saying that a year would be more then enough time to find a permanent replacement. Turning to Harry he said,

"We should have found you earlier Mr. Porter, than all of our positions would have been filled without a problem." Harry's only response was a heavy sigh.

A/n: Well that is it for this chapter. Remember to read and review. Now that I have all of my characters, I can actually start with the story. I will update tomorrow, so b ready. Now I am getting some much deserved sleep. Night all.

Luv Kt