Chapter Thirty-Eight:
Daphne and Luna come up to visit at lunch. The three women devour their meals, making Harry and Orion look away so the girls don't see them laughing. After lunch, Harry carries her up to the Rune classroom.
Again, they encounter issues. The seventh years have spent the lunch period discussing how they are being showed up by these two brats. Now is the time to confront the "kids".
Harry can feel a shift in the room. Professor Babbling is out in the hall, but he decides that the room must be silenced. He sets a noisemaker of the Twins in the doorway and walks back to his wife. The group walks up to them and starts in.
"What can we do for you?" Hermione asks, carefully. She is heavily pregnant and will have to keep Harry calm if they pick on them. If they mess with her and the kids, she knows that Harry is going to go off and it will not be pretty.
"Why must you two ruin our last year? Isn't it enough that you are the most famous couple in the school? You have to jump a grade and start bringing our grades down."
Harry shoots a blast of power at the noisemaker in the door, waking the professor. Babbling comes in and warns the kids away.
"Leave Harry and Hermione alone. They have proved themselves both in the classroom and on the battlefield. I would think that you would learn from them, but I guess your delicate feelings have been hurt.
They did all the work and tests for sixth year during the summer, even with all of the weddings that they went to. Could you have done that? A whole year's worth of work and tests in the course of three months? Now sit down before I start handing out detentions." The class passes and they all travel down to T-frig.
Hermione sits at the table and feels a chill creep up her spine. She casts a shield on her and Harry. It comes out like a dome and closes them over in a transparent bubble. She then starts to scan the group, who is even more hostile from Babbling's dressing down.
"Hermione, what's up?" Harry asks, worried.
"They are not done. Someone is going to try something. I know James is covering for the time being, but you and I know we are more powerful than he is." She tells him about the chill and Harry pulls her closer.
"Alright. We are going to discuss testing out or private tutoring until we can test out. I am not going to let you or our children be put in danger for our studies or our want to be here." He growls and hugs her tightly. She nods as James Potter walks into the classroom and feels the same hostile intentions. Sirius had asked him to cover this period's class, because he wanted to test a thought of the class beginning to be hostile to Harry and Hermione. He may not be as powerful as his kids or smart as his wife, but he has surprisingly strong instincts, which has been passed onto Harry.
The class seems to be focused on Harry and Hermione and mad to boot. This will not do. He sets an assignment on Animangus transformation. They are to read about the process and start meditating. He knows that Harry is a natural animangus and Hermione has a form as well. This might make things more difficult for them. As parents and educators, the adults are all happy with their achievements, but his son and daughter are notably showing up the seventh years in all of their classes.
He is worried for his daughter's condition if one of those kids get set off. He needs to discuss this with them and the other professors. James decides to almost ignore his son and daughter. He'll explain after class, but he feels it is safer. The tension calms down and he is able to get through without his son going ballistic. When the room clears, James comes over to talk to Harry and Hermione.
"I am sorry that I didn't call on you, but I saw it would stoke those jerks' ire some more. I would like to talk with your other professors about private tutoring. It seems that they think that because Hermione is preggers, she can't respond as well."
"Yeah, but she has a great memory. Then again, I have been holding back because I don't want to hurt anyone." Harry grumbles.
"James, I think we should until the twins are born. Then again, we might be able to test out of some of the classes, even now." Hermione tells the Potter men.
"Let's hold off on that for now. Study on your own for the next week. We will reassess then. I will not sign off on you two testing out until the twins are born. It will still be a couple months early. You are supposed to be reducing your stress, not adding to it. I am sure that the other kids will be better to you by then." James is already plotting on how to achieve his plan.
