Two days after Remus' transformation was the first flying lessons for the EM, who had their classes together. Teddy was left with Remus for the lessons as he had said he was afraid of heights, even though one could easily see that he didn't want to leave the child with someone unknown to him.
Considering Harry's flying record, he thought it would be the best to leave him with Remus so that his half brother... godson... whatever was not left alone with someone new as he had only warmed up to the EM as of now.
The Gryffindors and Slytherins were standing side by side, waiting for further instructions on the subject. "Now everyone stretch out their arms and say up!" Hooch said and everyone followed whatever she said.
A few brooms flew up to them immediately, namely Harry, James, Sirius and Ron. For some others like Harmony, it came after a few tries. For the rest though, like Lily and Severus, the old school brooms acted like they were having a fit and were rolling on the ground, making the students to pick them up manually.
"Good. Now sit on them and hold them while I check your positioning." she said and went through the long lines of students, trying to adjust the grasps and positioning. After what felt like forever, she came to a rest and said "Now that you are all adjusted, lean forward slowly and lift your brooms up slightly." she said patiently.
'Well... she never instructed this clearly in my first year... did she?' Harry thought as he followed the instructions, fighting his urge to do stunts on his broom right then. Suddenly, everyone heard a scream and some laughter and turned around, only to sight two Slytherins pulling at a Gryffindor girl's broom and saw it fall.
Luckily for her though, the broom was just hovering about 5 feet from the air and escaped with a sprained ankle. "Everyone lower yourselves down and wait for me to comeback after taking her to the medical wing." she said and left with the whimpering girl, who turned out to be Lily.
The two Slytherins were laughing and turned to the others asked "Anyone up for a game of Chase? Whoever catches us and gets the girl's charm from our hands wins" they said, looking around for anyone daring to challenge them.
James and Harry shot one look at the two and stepped up. "We are in." they said in unison with deathly calm voices that scared many people. "Then come and get it!" the Slytherin said as he shot up in the air, James and Harry on his tail. James quickly caught up with the boy and wrestled for the charm and finally succeeded in getting it, only to be knocked down by the other.
Harry quickly sped down at the free falling charm and caught it in the last second and quickly lifted up before he kissed the ground. The crowd of Gryffindors were cheering at the feat while Sirius, Ron and Harmony shook their heads fondly at the show off and Severus, a small chuckle.
No one realised two Professors heading their way until they had to nearly shout at the student to keep quiet. "Good. Now that everyone have quietened down, may I ask Mr. Potter and Mr. Parker to come with me for a second?" McGonagall asked and the two boys silently followed her, the two winking at the rest of their friends.
The two came to the common room later after the lessons were over with their faces hung down in what seemed like shame. "Detention?" Remus asked and the two solemnly nodded. "The charm? Lily was asking about it." Harmony asked. "We gave it to her on the way here. Detention at 8 with Minnie." James said.
Harmony raised an eyebrow at this. She knew that the two were hiding something from them but decided not to pry right now. "Um... better head to the library to finish our homework" Peter said and they headed to the library and finished their homework before heading to dinner.
After dinner, the duo left to Minnie's office, waiting for their 'detention'. A few minutes later, a boy, who looked like a 7th year came in. "You called me Professor?" he asked. "Yes I did Mr. Norman. I had found two boys with great potential wanted to know if they can try out this week during the trials." she asked and told him whatever happened.
"Sure Professor. They can try out this week along with the others. Though this will be a secret. If I get my whole team before I try out these two, I will keep them as reserves. Else, I will give them the positions." Matthew said.
"Good. Almost time for curfew. Better not be late to bed boys." Minnie said and the boys rushed to their dorms quickly. The tryouts happened and everything went well, Harry and James were declared as reserves since they were just first years and then everything was well until the first match between the Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs on Halloween.
The whole crowd that had come to witness the match were cheering out loud for the match to start. The commentator of the match was Jordan, Harry noticed. 'Is he like Lee? If he is, then it is going to be fun' Harry thought as the Gryffindor players were called out. He was also secretly hoping that nothing bad will happen at the same time as Halloween always a bad omen for him.
"And here comes The captain Matthew Norman, chaser; June and Jade smith, chasers; Fabian Prewett, beater and his brother Gideon, also a beater; Michael Wood, keeper and finally Frank Longbottom as the seeker! This is Frankie's first match. Lets see how it goes!" Jack Jordan said.
As soon as the positions were taken, Madam Hooch let out the snitch and the quaffle and blew the whistle, signalling the match to start. The game was going on well and the seekers were about to catch the snitch when there was a sudden bang that sounded all over the pitch, covering it in dust.
Everyone started screaming madly at the sudden interference, no one except the EM noticed the message the dust had created, only two were able to read it though. "Is that some kind of... notice or warning?" James asked.
Remus had paled the second he had read it, followed by Harry as the two dragged their friends away from the pitch the moments the dust started to clear, leaving the body of Frank Longbottom in its wake, unconscious with a bleeding head. They rushed to the library in a hurry. "What did the dust say?" Peter asked. Remus not wanting to answer, turned to Harry.
"It was written in Greek. It said something about the 'werewolf' to come and help it or else it would start hurting everyone close to him" Harry explained. 'And I thought this Halloween would go without any incidents' thought the trio.
The trio then silently turned towards Sirius, asking a silent question about this incident, only to receive a negative answer. "We will wait out for a while to investigate then. We can't just jump into conclusions and all. We will wait and watch for the next clue." Lily said and they all nodded in affirmative.
From then on, the EM became highly alert, watching anyone who was acting in a queer way and noticed that Professor Race was acting a little strangely. The ZS also conducted occasional meetings in order to find out the culprit and to also discuss about their status in each others' worlds.
One of the news they received was that they had found the missing Potter, who unfortunately turned out to be a certain Malfoy, who was also gender bent apparently and so was half the time a girl under the name Marlene and a boy under the name Drake and hence renamed himself as Marlene Drake Potter, who mate was still unknown.
One downfall for the quidditch fans was that all the matches were cancelled for the year due to the accident. On the other hand, there was the occasion where Teddy uttered his first word which was Hawwy, on his birthday, when there was a small party held for him.
There was another attack during Christmas, similar to the one that happened on Halloween and this time with the message "Bring the wolf soon or more would die." This had scared the shit out of Remus as he felt responsible for Frank and the unknown Ravenclaw still being in coma.
They finally managed to find the culprit, who was in fact a trapped ghost (who knew that ghosts could be trapped?) who could only be freed by a werewolf and was trapped by a certain DADA teacher who was caught red handed.
With the matter resolved, the gang had a normal year afterwards, as normal as it could be with pranksters all around. Soon it was time for leaving Hogwarts and they promised to keep in touch with each other over the holidays and parted ways at the station, the trio and Teddy were living with James while the others were at their respective homes.
And that was step one on the plan of ruining Dumbledore that was complete. (They had collected evidence against him after all after spying on him)
A/N: And that was the 19th chapter people! There will be a bonus chapter and then Part 1 is complete. It is mostly a seven part book or 8 idk. Hope you all liked it! All comments and criticism accepted and appreciated!
Thank you all for reading!
Rasi10 signing off
Published on 11 August 2018
