Title: Harry Potter and The Children Of Fate
Disclaimer: I've enchanted this story so that I don't own it.
Just Like Old Times
On Thursday the third year Gryffindors and Slytherins had double Potions. Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville were yawning due to another night of nightmares about things that they never did tell anyone. However, Professor Snape failed to open his door and soon even Harry was worried about the Professor.
" Do you think he's sick?" Hermione asked, looking at the door.
" Don't know!" Harry said.
Meanwhile the eight had their own set of problems. Samuel was hiding his face on the top of the table which had a cage with a white rabbit. Lily was laughing her head off and the rest were shaking their heads.
" I don't think that anyone has ever been given detention for turning their father into a white rabbit!" said Jessica.
" Ya especially one so fluffy and cute," said Narcissa. " Oh look the Professor is twitching his nose."
" He's telling you that you're a dead wizard once he gets turned back to normal," Samantha told her brother. " And I agree. Your like, so dead!"
" Can I ask what cell in Azkaban they give for wizards that turn their parents into rabbits?" asked Jessica. " Because I think dear old Samuel here will be in one for a hundred years."
" No, two hundred," said Peter.
Samuel looked up at his siblings, scowling.
" I'm in trouble and your cracking jokes about it!" Samuel said. " I wonder if Dumbledore is going to have me clean the trophy room for fifty years."
" I'm wondering if the Potions students know that Professor Snape's missing?" asked Nathan.
To answer his question, the portrait opened and the third year Gryffindors returned, all muttering about the missing Potions Professor.
" I think Snape's cracked!" said Ron. " Not showing up to make Harry's life miserable, now that's something new!"
" Ya, first time."
" I'm going to kill Samuel for making me miss teaching my class," Snape, the rabbit told Samantha. " Can that idiot of a brother of yours change me back?"
" Shu!" hissed Samantha. " We've got to wait until we can take you to the Headmaster."
" Well it better be soon!" Snape hissed.
The Potions class turned to look at Samantha, but she turned her back so that no one could see the cage. However, Dean walked over to it.
" Nice rabbit, Snape!" he said. " Of course you know that you can't have one."
" You know what this means," said Seamus. " I get to serve rabbit stew."
Snape the rabbit started to make a lot of noise.
" Get him out of here!" Nathan said. " Before something horrible happens and we've got a lot to answer for."
And they bolted, before the Gryffindors could even reach them.
All eight of them hid in the library until the lunch bell rang. Normally they would head off, but they didn't trust leaving Professor Snape alone. Not with the Gryffindors wanting to serve him up on a plate.
" How are we going to reach the Headmaster?" asked Narcissa. " If the Gryffindors see him, they'll eat him."
" Eat who?" asked the voice of Ginny, so suddenly that it made them all jump.
She frowned.
" Sorry!"
" That's all right," Samantha told her. " So what do you need?"
" Well I came back from Defense Against the Dark Arts, which you guys didn't show up for, and Madam Pince said that she saw you all huddled together. So what's going on?"
They all drew away so that Ginny could see the rabbit.
" Cool rabbit!" Ginny commented. " However, it doesn't answer the question as to why you all weren't in Professor Lupin's class."
" Well…um-"
" My brother turned Professor Snape into a rabbit!" Samantha blurted out.
Ginny stared.
" My sister is telling the truth," Samuel told her. " I just lost my temper with him and poof, he turned into a white rabbit. I'm now going to be so dead. And I mean so dead that for the Ministry to put me into Azkaban, they'll have to dig me up."
" Ya, because mum will kill you!"
Samuel groaned, then said, " Don't remind me!"
" Do you know that what you did is so wrong on so many levels," said Peter.
Ginny grinned at them.
" So that's why Snape didn't show up for double Potions."
They all nodded.
" And do you know what's the worst of it all?" Samuel said.
" What?" asked Nathan.
" I like him better this way," he answered.
They all laughed.
" Why are we going to see Professor Lupin?" Samuel asked when lunch was over.
" So that he'll be able to get hold of Dumbledore," Samantha replied. " Anyway, this will give Dumbledore a good laugh."
" Ya, along with everyone else!"
" Well at least its better then being sent to Azkaban," Jessica pointed out.
They went to the staff room because they knew that this was where the third years would be learning how to tackle a Boggart. They knocked and Professor Lupin told them to enter.
" Oh there you all are!" he told them, upon entering.
" Yes…were sorry for not showing up this morning, but we've run into a slight problem."
Lupin looked at them.
" Well you remember Harry inflating his aunt and all that?"
" Yes!"
" Well our brother did something a lot worse," Jessica told him. " You know this morning when Professor Snape didn't arrive for double Potions?"
" Yes!" Lupin repeated.
They all looked at each other, then Samantha put the cage on the table.
" MybrotherturnedProfessorSnapeintoawhiterabbit!" Samantha said very quickly and in one breath.
Lupin stared at them.
" Could you repeat that line, and please a little slower."
" My brother turned Professor Snape into a white rabbit!" Samantha repeated.
The Gryffindors all looked at each other, then burst out laughing. Samuel went so red that he put Ron Weasley to shame.
" What are we going to do?" asked Narcissa, when the laughter had stopped.
" I need to get hold of the Headmaster and Poppy," Lupin said, grinning. " However, I must admit that this is the most impressive form of Transfiguration that I've ever seen."
" I'm so dead!" Samuel repeated, over a fresh wave of laughter.
When Dumbledore arrived and saw his Potions Master in his new form, he chuckled. Poppy clucked at Samuel as though he had done something so wrong that she would never forgive him, and shook her head at the Headmaster.
" What is so funny?" she asked the Headmaster.
" Oh nothing, Poppy," Dumbledore told her, still chuckling. " Its just that his new title should be Professor Snape, the fluffy white rabbit."
The Gryffindors that were still around, were laughing at what the Headmaster had said.
" I'm going!" Samuel told them.
His siblings looked at him.
" And where do you think your going?" Samantha asked him.
" To find a hole in which you can bury me in," Samuel answered. " Because when dad turns back to normal I'm going to be so grounded-like forever."
" Oh no your not!" Jessica said. " He'll calm down!"
Samuel gave her a look.
On Saturday Poppy managed to turn Professor Snape back to normal. Of course, Colin got a picture of the Professor, something that the Professor didn't know about. He duplicated it and soon everyone had a copy of it. They would laugh at him as he passed, then when he asked them to tell him what was so funny, they would all deny anything. Meanwhile the eight were working on their plan to get inside the first groups dreams.
" Okay, we'll go into Professor Lupin's dream and see what's going on," said Lily. " Then we'll go into Sirius's then finally Ron's. After that, we'll be ready for the next batch."
" Okay!"
Several hours later, Lily took out a sheet of parchment and started to say the spell. In a flash of silver light, all eight of them were gone.