Chapter Twelve- The Patronus

The new term started with new units in all subjects. Alice met with Minerva in private to discuss something that has been bothering her for a couple of weeks. Alice then met with Remus to thank him for the Firebolt. They even set up a time when they could meet for her defense lessons against dementors. On top of it all she had Quidditch practices a couple of nights a week to get ready for their next match. She barely had enough time to do her homework each night.

Tuesday was her first anti-dementor lesson. She headed to the History of Magic classroom where she knew that Professor Lupin was waiting for her. Alice pushed open the door to the classroom. She walked into the classroom with her wand in her pocket. Is back was turned to her. He was looking at a big trunk. "Remus, what are you looking at?"

"Alice, in this trunk is a boggart. It is going to help me teach you how to repel dementors."

"Okay, what is the spell, Remus?"

"The spell is called the Patronus charm. It is a very difficult spell, Alice. I need to warn you it might just be too hard for you."

"What do I need to do, Remus?"

Professor Lupin took a deep breath before answering. "Repeat after me, Alice, Expecto Patronum."

"Expecto Patronum."

"Very good, Alice. Now think of a very happy memory very powerful memory."

Alice nodded her head as she closed her eyes. She tried to think of a powerful happy memory. Finally she landed on the first time she rode a broom. "I got it."

"Good, are you ready. One, two, three." Professor Lupin opened the trunk and released the boggart. The boggart dementor floated up in front of her.

"Expecto…expecto…expecto…" wall all she could get out before she fainted.

Alice woke up a few moments later to Remus leaning over me. "Are you okay, Alice?" He handed her a bar of chocolate. "Out of curiosity what was your happy memory?"

"The first time I rode a broom."

"Not nearly good enough, Alice. Think of another one."

Once again Alice closed her eyes to see if she can think of a happier memory. "Okay I've got one."

"Ready one, two three." He lifted the lid of the trunk and the boggart flew up.

"Expecto… expecto…expecto." This time instead of hearing her mother's voice she heard her father's.

"Are you alright?"

"I heard my dad. He was telling my mother to take us and run."

"You heard James? What was your memory this time?"

"Meeting you Remus. Knowing that I had someone else that actually cares about me."

"Are you sure you want to try again?"

"Yes, I am, Remus."

The third time Remus opened the lid to trunk to let the boggart out. Alice lifted her wand again. "Expecto patronum." A small white whips shot out of her wand, and the boggart dementor was back in the trunk.

"Very good, Alice. Now you need to get to bed. Before you go here is a piece of chocolate."

Alice left the classroom and headed back to the common room. The common room was quiet with the fire dying down. She headed up to the third year girls dorm. She quietly got ready for bed and fell asleep in her four-poster. She was so tired that she had to get some rest. She wanted to be ready for her classes the next morning. She was lucky enough to not have visions while she slept.

The next morning Alice was one of the first ones awake even though she was the last one asleep. She met Jasper in the common room before they went to breakfast. "How did your first anti-dementor lessons go?"

"It was tiring, Jazz."

Together they walked down to the Great Hall. There were only a couple of people at each of the four tables. Jasper and Alice sat down at the Gryffindor table. Food appeared on their plates in front of them. While they were eating the rest of Gryffindor house came down. The sky above them was slowly changing from a dull pink to a blue sky. Finally Jasper and Alice left to get ready for their morning classes. After getting their books they headed to Ancient Ruins.

All that they did was read and learn how muggles use ruins. Jasper and Alice headed to their next class, which was Transfiguration. Professor McGonagall taught them about turning animals into furniture. Jasper and Alice were the only ones who were able to turn a mouse into a chair. Finally the bell rang again to tell the students to head to their next class, which was Arithmancy.

In Arithmancy they learned about magical cores. They learned that there was a spell that shows them the number of their magical core. The class was told that they would learn what their magical cores were the next class. The bell rang to single the end of class. The whole class went to lunch.

Alice had a two more anti-dementor lessons. She had gotten so much better at the Patronus charm. She was rarely fainting now. At the end of one of her lessons she asked Remus what was under a dementor's hood. At first he was reluctant to answer, but than gave a brief description of what he believed was under a dementor's hood. Finally she left the classroom and headed back to Gryffindor tower. When she climbed through the portrait hole she heard two people arguing about Ron's rat Scabbers and Hermione's cat Crookshanks.

Alice sighed as she walked over to the table where Jasper was sitting at. "Did you hear? Ron thinks that his rat his gone and that Crookshanks ate the rat."

"Jazz, we will find out if Scabbers is truly gone by the end of the year."

"What do you think, Ali?"

Alice smiled slightly. "I don't think that Crookshanks ate Scabbers." She tuned out her friends arguing.

Please review. What do you think? Did you like Alice's first two happy memories? I don't own Twilight or Harry Potter. I am very busy with schoolwork right now. What do you think Minerva and Alice talked about? Put your guesses in the box below. If you have a suggestion with what they talked about please put them in the box below as well.