Gone In a Flash Chapter 8: Out of My Office Now!, a harry potter fanfic

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Ms Ronupert Grint: No. The red haired lady is not Tonks. Tonks is in London with everyone else. That is another Metamor- uh. Can't spell it. Might want to look that up before I finish this chapter. The mother is the first in her family line to take that trait, and somehow, she passed it on to her daughter. Though, I will point out that the red hair is her normal hair color. This will be better explained later in this chapter. I've thought about it a little more. Thank you for Triple Loving this chapter! And, you're just going to have to trust me that I'm not J. K. Rowling. I live in America and have only visited London once and that was this past summer for like 4 days. I do wish that I had a British accent. That'd be cool.

DracosPetroleumJellyGal: Can't tell the gender. You'll just have to wait.

AllisonCarroll: The family does have a significant part in the plot, but I haven't really gotten that together. Professor Shelton doesn't have any importance, just to give Harry a job. Plus, when I imagine him, I think that he is a mean teacher, and that makes me think of my biology teacher, Mrs. Shelton. So yeah. He has no significance in the plot. He is sick himself. When I had her never tell Harry that he was sick himself, that was just saying that they will need him to stay longer, but that she wasn't telling Harry just yet.

Yourheartsdesire: You were the first to notice that it wasn't Tonks. Kudos for you! Yes it is all new characters. None that have ever been in the books, giving it a little extra drama for later chapters, when I get to that. Thanks for reviewing!

Soccer101: Dang Plot Bunnies! Lol. Glad my spells undone. I no longer have writer's block. And for that, I give you an extra long chapter! Curiosity. I like curiosity (it gets the best of me. I get impatient and stop reading, which is what I bet quite a few of ya'll did on my last few chapters).

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Chapter 8: Out of my Office Now!

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Harry looked around the Defense teacher's chambers for the first time. He had been here a few times, but not for much. He looked around the room until his gaze finally fell on Ginny, who had just arrived. Hand in hand, they started making their way to the Great Hall. McGonagall told them that the meal would be starting at six, and they could arrive any time after. It was now six-fifteen. He walked around, wondering how to get Professor McGonagall to know he was here. She told him he couldn't just go waltzing in unannounced. As he was standing there, the Great Hall doors swung open to reveal a tired-looking Professor McGonagall.

"Oh thanks goodness you're here! Some of the teachers were starting to doubt whether or not I'd really gotten a replacement. Ah. Miss. Weasley, your hair looks wonderful tonight. Now if the two of you would please follow me…" Professor McGonagall made her way along the wall away from the Great Hall doors until they came upon another, though smaller, wooden door. Professor McGonagall turned to the two who were obviously startled as to why they weren't going in the Great Hall. "Potter, Weasley. This is the door to the Great Hall. It is directly on the Staff Table. Now if you excuse me, I'll go and introduce you."

Professor McGonagall stepped inside the door before poking her head out one last time.

"Oh and Potter? Call me Minerva. Thank you." She stepped back inside the Great Hall leaving Harry and Ginny to look encouragingly at each other. As they stood next to the door, they could hear the room quiet down and every word that Minerva said.

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Lucy looked around her new school. This is where her mother spent six years of her life before… 'Well, she stayed here for six years before having me.' She thought gloomily. She sat and ate with her newest classmates. Lucy looked around and noticed that the Headmistress was not at the front table anymore. Just minutes before she had gone to the front of the Great Hall and been sorted into her new house, Gryffindor. Her mother had been telling her all about the different houses at Hogwarts, namely how she had been in Gryffindor with her best friends, who she hadn't talked to since she left.

Lucy looked at her new classmates. They were all talking to each other about various classes, teachers, assignments, and what seemed most on everyone's mind, the upcoming quidditch game between Gryffindor and Slytherin. Lost in her own thoughts, she didn't notice a blonde girl come and sit next to her.

"Hi. I'm Allison. You're new right? Well, we're in the same year, which means we'll be in the same dorm. Where are you from?" Lucy looked at the girl and noticed she had blonde hair shoulder length and had a slight brown tint in some spots.

"Oh. Hi. I'm Lucy… Uh. Lucy Evans. So you're thirteen too? Well. I'm from America. The South, that is. So, what's it like here? Do you have a lot of friends? Back at my old school, we had six teams, and I was on the Yup-yeah, this is boring." Lucy realized that she was doing what she always does when she gets nervous… rambles.

"Oh it's wonderful here. I have a 7th year sister. She said that a couple of years before she came, Harry Potter (did you hear about him in America?), well, Harry Potter was at Hogwarts. That was before he defeated Voldemort and then died. That was such a tragic story! He's been dead for like…" Lucy took the time while she counted to take in what she was saying. Of course she knew about Harry Potter. Her mother told her all about him. During her last two years, she'd been at school with him… in the same house.

Allison continued to talk but Lucy tuned her out. Allison reminded Lucy of her closest friend in the States, Joann, who never ceased to talk. Lucy looked at the table at the front to notice that the Headmistress was coming in through a side door, talking to someone outside the door.

"Allison? Do you know who she's talking to?" Allison turned her attention to the Head table where she noticed the same thing.

"Uh…no. Oh, she's going to talk. Maybe she'll tell us." Allison and Lucy watched Professor McGonagall step up to the podium and put her wand up to her throat as she started to speak.

"Students! As some of you may know, our very own Professor Shelton must return home. After searching for the perfect replacement, I think I have found someone who I believe is qualified enough to teach. You have all heard of him, though never met him. Without further introduction needed, let me introduce you to your new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Professor Harry Potter." Professor McGonagall smiled as she looked to the door she had previously entered. This announcement caused whispers, gasps, and stares to occur just before the entire Hall erupted in talking about what they couldn't believe was happening. Lucy stared at the new professor in disbelief. The one and only Harry Potter, about whom her mother had told her numerous stories of his first two years of school. Lucy looked at Harry and noticed something she hadn't seen the first time. His eyes. He had her mother's eyes. Or at least, very emerald green eyes. Those were her eyes. Lucy watched as Harry turned around, and pulled out a girl with long, red hair, hazel eyes, and cause yet another round of talk to emerge from the Hall.

"Allison. Who's that girl?" Lucy asked her newly acquainted friend.

"Well, if that really is Harry Potter, then, that would probably be… Oh it can't. They're both supposed to be dead! That looks exactly like Ginny Weasley, Harry Potter's girlfriend. They went out for a few weeks in his sixth year, just before he left. Then when her brother and friend came back without Harry, she ran away and supposedly died. What in the world is going on…?" Lucy looked at her plate and then back at the Head Table in disbelief. (A/N: HaHa. I like that word).

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"Harry Potter."

Harry stepped out and took a few steps before realizing Ginny hadn't followed him. He turned around, grabbed her hand, and continued walking to the center. He'd expected all the whispers, gasps, and stares; he'd even expected that all that, in Hogwarts, would eventually turn into a huge chat amongst the students. What he hadn't expected was that he was causing such turmoil, that none of the teachers could calm them down.

Harry finally made it to the podium and stood in front of a school he hadn't visited in nine years. He looked around the Great Hall and noticed that it was slightly fuller than it was the last year he was there. Then it hit him, his last year, quite a few parents didn't want to send their kids to Hogwarts because of the threat of Voldemort. He smiled when he came upon the Gryffindor table looking at him curiously.

"Uh, hello? Hi. Wow this is so weird. Um. Hi. Well, Minerva introduced me quite well. Yeah. I'm going to be your new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. As you might have thought, I am supposed to be dead. In fact, I've been in the Muggle world for the past, uh, nine years? Yeah. Nine years exactly this Friday…" Harry looked around to see faces of discontent then looked to Ginny for encouragement. "Well, I guess you all deserve the truth. I'm Harry Potter, this is my fiancée, Ginny Weasley." Harry heard a scream come from his left and was almost knocked down as he saw a woman running toward Ginny and him. She had waist-length dirty blonde hair, and eyes of silver, though in a dazed position. At first he had no idea who it was who was hugging him and Ginny, then it dawned on him.

"Harry! GINNY! Eeee! Hermione told me I was interviewing the DADA teacher. She didn't mention anything about it being you!" Luna backed away as she said this, and then leaned back into Ginny to give her long-lost friend another hug. "Oh my gosh! Ginny! I missed you so!" Harry smiled as he realized how happy Ginny was to have her friend again.

Harry turned back to the crowd to explain everything.

"So, you all. You are all the first of the public to know that well I'm alive. I left the wizarding world nine years ago. I couldn't face all of the publicity again. I'd had to put up with it the whole time I was here at Hogwarts; and I might add that most of it was bad, the Ministry not believing me and all. So, I went to live with my Muggle family. I stayed there as happy as I could be for eight years."

At the beginning, the first few weeks, I was okay. But at one point my friend, Ron, sent me a letter telling me that Ginny here had died. Turns out, she ran away because she couldn't stand it. So, last June, I was at my Goddaughter's end-of-school program where I ran into Ginny. And after lot's of reconciling, and meeting back up with Ron and our other friend, Hermione, we got engaged two weeks ago, last week we reconciled with her family, and now, for the first time publicly, I am pleased to announce that she is two months pregnant. Doesn't she look radiant?" Harry stepped away from the podium and walked to Ginny and gave her a big kiss.

Ginny blushed and looked out to the school and gave a slight wave.

"Harry?" Harry turned and saw it was Luna calling him. "May I have a word? Hermione said I could interview you two in private. After you eat of course!"

"Of course Luna. I'll answer anything my favorite reporter asks. As long as you don't…"

"Oh, I won't ask anything like she would. I work for the Quibbler! Puh-lease!" Luna looked hurt and made her way to the chair next to Ginny and Harry. The three ate and talked about their adventures when they were at Hogwarts. Luna filled them in on what would have been Ginny's six and seventh year, when Hogwarts reopened the year after to all previous students who never finished, and the new students as well.

"Well, you see." Luna started. "They put the students who were supposed to be starting their first year in '97, as first years with the '98 first years, and since then, they were all in the same classes. Well, you know that the threat of Voldemort strengthened when you didn't come back to Hogwarts, so it was closed. So they just continued, as it would have been the year before, but with an extra large 1st year group. It was an interesting year. Actually, that's the year that Colin and I started dating. You see, I'm Luna Creevey now."

Luna took out her left hand to show Ginny her ring and they started talking about 'girl stuff', so Harry turned to the professor on his left to notice that it was in fact Neville Longbottom, which he assumed was the Herbology teacher.

"Neville! Hi!" Harry reached over to shake his former classmate's hand. Harry noticed that he was teary-eyed. "What's the matter? I assume that you are the Herbology professor now? That was your best subject." Neville nodded.

"Well… I… I was stunned when I saw you two walk in. Obviously everyone's shocked. Now, the wizarding world has their very own Boy-who-lived-then-died-then-came-back-from-the-dead! Who would have ever believed that? I'm just glad it's Luna doing the story and not that awful, Rita Skeeter lady! She was…" Neville had a look of disgust on his face as he remembered different things she had written about him after Harry left.

"So Harry! You and Ginny are engaged? And expecting! Wow, that's a triple whammy! Come back from the dead, engaged, and pregnant! That's a lot for us normal folk to handle!" Luna finished her dinner and stood up. Turning to Harry she said, "Harry, I will meet you two down in your chambers to complete my interview. I should be there in about fifteen minutes. But there's something I need to do quickly." Luna left the Great Hall and left Harry and Ginny mildly confused.

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HOGWARTS HAS NEW DADA TEACHER: HARRY POTTER?

Sunday, December 3, 2005

By Luna Creevey

Harry Potter: a name most of us have not spoken since the day of his alleged "death". Yesterday, Hogwarts' Headmistress, Minerva McGonagall, announced that their very own Professor Shelton would be leaving on account of an illness in the family. She refused to say who would be replacing the wizened professor, but did say that the press would love to know. After Hermione Granger contacted me, I jumped at the chance to be one of the first to meet the new teacher. I was not the only one surprised to see not only Potter, but also his girlfriend, who we also suspected to be dead, Ginny Weasley emerge from the door.

Nine years ago, the great Harry Potter, a close friend of mine, defeated Voldemort alongside his two friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. When his friends came back, they only arrived with a note explaining that he was not going to be able to come home. The rest of the family suspected that he was dead, though now I know that it was not true. Harry left the wizarding world on his own account. A month later, Ginny Weasley ran away, having her family to find her broom and Harry's Invisibility Cloak.

"I couldn't stand it. I loved him and he was gone. My family and friends were all being too sympathetic. I didn't like it." Ginny said in between a few sobs and tears.

We then found out that Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley ran in to each other at a school function seven years later...

The article went on like that, telling the whole story adding little quotes and tidbits here and there. Harry enjoyed this article about him the most; it was completely true—not one false word in there.

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LATER THAT DAY

"MINERVA! It is very urgent that I talk to him! I am the Minister of Magic!" The most recent Minister walked in the Headmistress' office and demanded that he speak to Harry Potter at once.

"Minister! Please sit down." Minerva transfigured a chair and offered it to him to sit in very patiently. When he refused she got more serious. "Mr. Weasley! It is not long ago that you yourself were agreeing with Mr. Fudge in that Mr. Potter was a very wrong, very delusional and an attention-seeking boy who wanted to scare the world into believing that Voldemort was back. What did you do when the world realized he was right? You hid! Mr. Fudge was impeached and you hid. You stayed with the Ministry, which was trying to hide the fact that they were making huge mistakes. Do not demand that you see the boy you printed lies about when, in fact, he was telling the whole truth!"

Minerva walked behind her desk and sat down. Percy Weasley looked at her astounded that someone would talk to him like that. The last time he had been yelled at like that was when he was announced as Minister and his entire family tried to get him out of office claiming close to the same thing. And his mother was quite the screamer.

Percy paced the room cautiously as he got his next words together. Minerva studied him as he did so and noticed that tears were forming in his eyes as he made faces that were full of confusion if nothing else.

"Headmistress." He was cutoff as he was about to tell Minerva just what he thought.

"Professor McGonagall!" A boy with messy brown hair ran into the room with a Head boy badge pinned to his Gryffindor robes. "The Daily Prophet is outside the doors to the Great Hall demanding an interview with Professor Potter and Ms. Weasley. Professors Longbottom and Tonks are trying to keep them from getting in. They are demanding that they be allowed in." The boy caught his breath after panting what he had been told from Professor Longbottom.

"Mr. Lennox. I will be down there to talk to them, but they are not to be let in, and whatever you, Miss Pené, and the other teachers do, do not let them talk to or see Professor Potter or Ginny. I suggest you tell the staff first then deliver the message to Harry and Ginny." Minerva sat down in her chair and draped her head in her hands.

"Now Minerva! That is too far!" Percy finally got the chance to spoke and he blew it. "The Daily Prophet is a highly respected newspaper. Now why will you allow the Quibbler to interview Mr. Potter but not the Daily Prophet?" And yet again, Minerva interrupted him.

"Percy! What is your problem? Ever since you have been in MY office, you have done nothing but criticize the way I run MY school! If you don't remember, which I've reminded you about already, the Daily Prophet was the paper that printed all the lies about Potter and Professor Dumbledore! Plus, Luna Creevey, the one who wrote the article, was Miss. Weasley's best friend besides Miss Granger, and was quite close to Harry." Minerva walked around her desk and over to Percy who was standing back, as if he was about to be slapped.

"Now, Mr. Weasley. I suggest you get out of my office now."

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A/N: I know I said this would be an extra long chapter, but from now on, the chapters might be a little shorter. My computer's hard drive is going out and I wanted to get this posted before it went out completely and lost it. So I'm probably going to write shorter chapters and post them, hopefully, more frequently.

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I also wanted to add in there near the end Lucy's first day of classes/Harry's first day teaching. This chapter was very hard to write. I finally stopped for a couple of days because I needed to sort out my thoughts. So if you were to stumble across my hot pink notebook, you would find out everything that happens in this story in chronological order starting from 1976 to the future. There are about 10 different timelines some with added stuff, some with markings indicating missing events, and one that is near completion. Plus, it helps me keep my characters straight. When I was writing the last section in this chapter the first time, I didn't realize that I'd accidentally put Luna Longbottom instead of Luna Creevey. I laughed when I realized my mistake. By the way, you will find this out next chapter, but I just wanted to point out that Tonks is teaching Transfiguration.