Hermione ran down the stairs and in the process tripped over a book laying on the bottom step. Remus quickly caught her causing both of them to fall down onto the floor. Hermione looked up from where she had landed on his chest and blushed. He tucked a curl behind her ear. "Are you alright?" asked Remus. She nodded and stood up when she saw Luna, Ginny, and Lily standing next to them.
James smiled and helped his fellow Marauder up off the floor. Remus rubbed at his elbow and lifted his sleeve to see the beginnings of a carpet burn. He mouthed, 'Owww.'
Hermione pulled out a small bottle from her robe pocket and walked over to the Marauder. She gently rubbed the cream on his burn and then gently blew on his elbow not braking eye contact. Hermione lowered his sleeve and put the bottle back into her pocket. Then she followed the girls out of the common room.
"Oh man, she was totally hitting on you, Moony." James told his fellow Marauder. "I think she likes you." Remus shook his head doubtfully. "Moony don't use your 'condition' as an excuse." Sirius nodded in agreement and Peter violently nodded as well.
"Guys we've barely talked." Remus said, walking down the stairs. "Anyway, once she finds out, it would just be another girl that would run away and have to have Dumbledore erase her memory."
"You just haven't found the right girl yet, like I've found my Lily flower." James said, pushing the Great Hall doors open. The Marauders walked into the hall and took their seats near Lily, Hermione, Luna, and Ginny. "Evans, will you go out with me?" James asked for probably the zillionth time.
Lily looked at the messy haired wizard and said, "In your dreams Potter." Hermione chuckled at the couple. If they only knew what the future held, she thought slyly.
"Oh, I did have a dream and we were dancing at the Halloween Ball. Together. As a couple." He said, his brown eyes shining behind is round glasses. "You wore a lily colored dress and you looked absolutely beautiful." Lily blushed and quickly looked away. "Oh, was that a blush Evans?"
"Shut up Potter." She said, turning back to Luna, Hermione, and Ginny. Ginny and Hermione looked at Lily closely and bit the inner side of their jaws so as not to laugh at their friend but Luna was look at the Slytherin table. There was a boy who have black hair and greyish-blue eyes staring at her. "Who that?" She ask looking at the marauders. "That is my little brother, Regulus. We don't talk a lot after I ran away from home." Said Sirius sadly. "Oh." Then, she turn to her food.
Albus smiled at the three time-travelers and thought, they really were something. He especially loved their carefree nature. He knew that their loved ones would be intrigued once they realized who they were.
Minerva had been informed about Miss. Granger, Miss Lovegood, and Miss. Weasley's time travel to the past. She found it interesting that someone could travel back so far. This year surely would be an interesting one and they were in her house to boot.
The girls and the Marauders quietly walked down the corridors to DADA. Luna, Hermione, and Ginny rolled their eyes. They had learned far advance studies than this. Dumbledore had even had the Dark Arts for the sixth and seventh years, but had the students to make a wizards oath only to only use them as a defense before they entered the class. He, in fact, taught the class.
"This is crazy." Hermione whispered in Ginny's ear. "They haven't had the proper teaching in the Dark Arts and Defense." Ginny nodded in agreement and they took their seats near Lily. "I wonder how far behind they are." Hermione mused aloud and Ginny shrugged her shoulders. "Well, I guess we'll find out soon."
A man with blond hair, pale skin, blue eyes and broad shoulders walked into the class wearing black robes. He smiled at the class. "Hello, I'm Professor Chad and welcome to DADA. Now, today we'll just have some fun. Have any of you ever faced a boggart?"
Ginny and Hermione raised their hands and they looked around the room and saw that only three other students had raised their hands. Hermione and Ginny frowned figuring that, based on that information, the class was only on a third year level. They mentally shook their heads and knew that the teachers here didn't know what they were doing.
"Aright. Miss. Weasley what is a boggart?" asked Professor Chad.
"It's a shadowy figure that shifts into the one thing the person facing it fears most. They like dark places. The one thing that finishes a boggart is laughter." Ginny said. The professor motioned for to continue. "The incantation is Riddikulus." After Ginny had finished answering, Hermione shot her friend a small smile.
"Well Miss. Weasely, you could teach my class." Professor Chad said with a laugh. "Very good. I award Gryffindor House 20 points for that wonderful answer. Everyone, please line up." The students got up and lined up. "Now, I want you to picture what you fear the most and turn it into something funny. Mr. Potter you're up."
James walked up and pulled out his wand. Professor Chad released the boggart. The dark creature slowly shifted into Lily's Animagi form of a white doe. He was going to picture her on the floor, but found it not safe. "Riddikulus!" The doe stood up wearing a red bow.
Sirius walked up and pulled out his wand. The dark creature slowly shifted into a stag motionless on the ground. "Riddikulus!" Sirius said, and it shifted into a chocolate frog.
Remus laughed at the chocolate frog. He stepped up and gripped his wand. The frog shifted into the full moon. Hermione quickly jumped in front of the Lycan. She just couldn't bare for the students to know his secret. The full moon suddenly turned into a Dementor. Hermione knew that the incantation wouldn't repeal this form of a boggart.
"Expecto Patronum!" Hermione yelled, and a slivery form of a wolf shot out of her wand pushing the Dementor back into the trunk. She stuck her wand back into her pocket then turned around and said, "Are alright?" Remus nodded and they walked back to the end of the line.
"Miss Granger, Mr. Lupin please see me after class." Professor Chad told them and they nodded their heads.
The rest of class went by quickly and Ginny, Luna, and Lily didn't get to face the boggart. Professor Chad assigned them to write a paper about the boggart. Remus and Hermione stayed behind after everyone else had left.
"Sit down." He said, and they sat down in the front row waiting for the professor to continue.
"Miss Granger, why did you jump in front of Mr. Lupin?"