Home Again
Henry ( Harry) found himself floating through a tunnel watching all of his memories most he had tried hard to forget over the years. The tunnel of memories as he called it seemed to take forever to end, but finally it went blurry and then he found himself standing in front of Hogwarts. " Home at last" he thought to himself as he started walking towards the castle. It felt wonderful to be back at Hogwarts again without all the guards and curses at entrances. He walked through the main door he felt magic run through him, even though he was from the future Hogwarts still recognized him.
Now he needed someone to lead him to the Headmasters office, of course he knew the way already but people would get suspicious if he found his way on his own and guessed the password. It didn't take long to find someone it was just the person he found made him feel a little nervous it was his father James.
" Um... excuse me um... could you show me the headmasters office please" Henry could smack himself for the way he was acting, James must think he is pathetic.
"Sure I was just heading there now, just follow me" said James.
"So whats your name?" asked James.
" It's Henry, Henry Porter, and may I ask what your name is?" replied Henry.
"James Potter at your service" said James.
" It is nice to meet you Mr. Potter" said Henry.
"Call me James, Mr. Potter makes me feel old" answered James.
Even though it was a polite conversation Harry noticed that James was holding his wand in his pocket, making sure he was ready to defend himself if he needed to. After all he couldn't blame him, they were on the verge of war. Harry also noticed they were taking the long way to the Headmasters office and James was asking more and more questions.
" So what is your business here Henry?" James asked.
" I will be applying for to DADA job that I believe is opened" said Henry.
" You look a little young to teach, how old are you exactly?" asked James.
Harry sighed he knew this question would come up sooner or later. "I am 18 years old, but before you start, I do have a lot of experience fighting the Dark Arts"he said. " It won't be me you have to prove it to Henry, Dumbledore will be the one you have to convince" said James as they stopped in front of the gargoyle that guarded the headmasters office. James walked closer to the gargoyle and whispered the password ( Life saver) so Henry couldn't hear it.
When Henry entered the office he saw his mother holding his three week old self, sitting on the other side of the room was Severus Snape looking as grumpy as ever glaring at James and baby Harry. Finally there sitting at his desk was Albus Dumbledore who was looking at him curiously.
"Who might you be young man?" asked Dumbledore. "My name is Henry Porter sir and I'm here to apply for the Defense Against the Dark Arts job' said Henry.
" Terrific! Mr. Porter I have been looking for a descent Defense teacher for a while now, lets see how skilled you are shall we?" said Dumbledore as he took out a bowl that looked like a pensive. " It works just like a pensive, just take your wand up to your forehead and concentrate on all your knowledge of Defense Against the Dark Arts then once you are done place your wand tip on the surface of the bowl" said Dumbledore. Henry did so and the bowl started glowing brighter and brighter until it lit the whole room. After a few minutes it dimmed and Henry saw everyone in the room stare at him in shock. " What? " was all Henry could say. "Mr. Porter this is what you would call a knowledge meter, the brighter it glows the more knowledge you have and I haven't seen anyone get the meter that bright before, not even myself has yet to do it" explained Dumbledore. " So do I get the job?" asked Henry. " Just one more thing you must prove your dueling skills, so you will duel one of our best duelers, that is Severus Snape" said Dumbledore. Snape glared at Henry " We'll soon see if your knowledge matches your skills Mr. Porter" said Snape as he got into his dueling position. " Albus maybe I should test Henry after all we all now how Snape duels, he cheats, if wouldn't be fair to allow him to duel Henry" said James. " With all do respect James how would the Headmaster know if were I skilled in defensive dueling against a unfair opponent such as a Death Eater if played against a fair opponent?" asked Henry. James thought about what Henry said, smirked and said to Snape "hear that Snape Henry thinks your a cheater to". "James sit down and be quiet" yelled Lily. " Alright alright now this is how it is going to work, you both may use all the spells you know except for any fatal ones, I will watch the duel and Mr. Porter if you have enough skills you will have the job, let the duel begin" said Dumbledore.
As Henry suspected Snape sent the first volley of curses, But one spell he didn't suspect was...
(AN: I was thinking about leaving it here but I just couldn't)
"Serpensortia!"yelled Snape. A 10 foot king cobra came out of Snapes wand and quickly made it's way towards Henry. Henry mean while was trying to make difficult decision.
"Do I reveal that I am a parsalmouth or wait until later?" Henry looked at everyone in the room and he could tell in there eyes that they wouldn't trust him if they knew he was a Parsalmouth so only one thing left to do.
"Serpensortia magicism" then out of Henry's wand came a huge snake called a Coreollass snake a cuisine to the basilisk. The Coreollass and the Cobra in circled each other staring the other down. When suddenly the Coreollass's eyes began to glow and the cobra was placed into a unbreakable trance.
Henry fired off another spell to banish the cobra and called back his snake as well."What never seen a magical snake before?" asked Henry with a smirk.
The dual continued, Snape kept on offense sending every curse, charm, spell and jinks Henry's way. But no matter what Snape did Henry always found a way to counter it, although Henry had to give Snape credit he was coping with spells and curses that Harry had invented in the future. But the dual soon came a end and it was a tie. Snape soon realized that the young man in front of him knew exactly what he was doing, his range of spells was massive and very powerful. So he reasoned that if this boy beat him at his own game he would never hear the end of it. So he concentrated all his magic a managed to make a wandless stunner to knock Henry unconsciousness, and unfortunately for him it took all his energy causing him to pass out as well.
Dumbledore ran to revive Severus while James went to awake Henry, but found him already awake. " How did you wake up that stunner would have knocked you out for hours?" asked James. "I have developed a resistants to wandless magic attacks, that as you said was a strong one so it only worked for a few seconds" said Henry. James stared at him in shock for a moment before asking "can you teach me?".
Henry laughed and said "We'll see".
Dumbledore walked over with a smile on his face and that ever annoying twinkle in his eyes. "I must sat Mr. Porter you are incredibly skilled for someone your age so I am pleased to inform you that you are the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor.
(There done finally! I know Lily wasn't in this one that much but worry she will be in the next chapter. R&R!)