Chapter 24

It was soon time to go back to school. Everyone was excited for a new year. There were rumors about the new DATDAs teacher. It seemed that most people knew it was going to be James Potter. A lot of people felt the same way about it. That James was too young to be teacher, but everyone knew there was nothing they could do about it.

"Alek are you sure you want to stay alone?" Albus asked as they sat down in a cart."

"Yes. I think I'd be over whelmed if there were so many people in here with us. I know I'm going to have to deal with being around a lot of people once we get to school, but I want it to be just us for a while."

"I understand. I like spending time with you," Albus said. "Is it still hard, I mean with your parents?"

"Yeah. I still don't want to talk about it, but if I ever feel like talking about it I'll come with you," Alek told him.

"Okay. You know I'm always here for you," Albus said.

"I know and I'm grateful for that," Alek said.

"But hey, you'll be able to see the Therstals." Albus said.

"Yeah. I hope you never seen them," Alek said.

"Yeah that would be nice," Albus agreed.

"I won't let it happen I lost my family. I refuse to lose you too," Alek said. "I'll protect you from everyhing and anyone that wishes you harm. You don't have to worry, about anything."

"Okay. I'll feel safe then. If I now you're going to be protecting me, why worry right/?" Albus asked with a smile.

"I'm not kidding. I'd kill or die for you."

"W-what? I don't want that. You can't just kill someone and I don't know what I'd do if you died because of me. Please don't do that," Albus said, almost in tears in his eyes. "Please, promise me you won't die for me unless there's no other option."

"Alright, I promise I'll do my best to keep you safe and sound and stay alive. I can't think of anything that would cause me to die for you, so cheer up,"

"Yeah that 's true. And I can fight too, since I got all of that training form the tournament I can fight it some thing happens. But we should be safe here. No one's attacked Hogwarts since the last war. I can't see them attacking it again," Albus said. "So we shouldn't have to deal with that. We're safe here."

"I hope you're right,' Alek said.

"I know I'm right," Albus said. "I mean, I hope I'm right too."

"Let's not dwell on such things. How well do you think James will do? I can't see him not showing some bias against Slytherins. It's clear that he doesn't like them," Alek said. "I mean I doubt he would be too bad, at least not against the first few years. I don't now what he'll do with people close to his own age that might even know more than he does."

"He was learning new magic with my dad over the summer so he can be a good at more spells so he can teach the older students. James is working really hard on being a good teacher," Albus said. "I mean, he's getting good at spells but I'm not sure how good he is at teaching. Well, in his army he was able to teach people well enough."

"I guess that's true," Alek said. "I just don't like your brother because I know he hates me," Alek said.

"Not anymore than he hates Scorpius. He just doesn't like his family dating Slyttherins." Albus said. "But that doesn't mean he won't be a good teacher to Slytherins. He might push them harder, but that'll just make them stronger, so maybe he won't try as hard to teach them? I know my brother will be a good teacher."

"That makes one of us," Alek said.

"Oh just give him a chance," Albus said.

"I'll give him a chance, but it's a small one," Alek said.

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"it's so cool! You're married to a teacher!"Rosa said. "And the rest of you, you're cousin is a teacher!"

Chloe blushed some. "Y-yeah. It's nice to be able to see James everyday. I was worried I would only see him on breaks. He said he wanted to be an auror, so I thought he'd be out doing dangerous situations. I'm happy he's teaching and not in dangerous places."

"Yeah it'll be nice to not worry about him," Roses said.

"My boyfriend is working over seas in Russia. He won't tell me what he's doing, saying it's secret. He promises to write and come visit he can," Rosa said with a sigh. "I don't even know if I should be worried or not."

"I'm sure he just doesn't want to worry you,"Dominique said.

"But that's what worries me,"Rosa said with a sigh.

"Just because he can't tell you about it, doesn't mean that it's something dangerous. He might be a spy or something like that," Roxanne suggested.

Dominique laughed. "Yeah, something like that."

"See you don't need to worry at all,"Roxanne said.

"That's nice to say, but I can't help but worry about him," Rosa said.

"Well I'm sure he'll write you soon," Rose said.

"Well my boyfriend is off working with magical beasts, but he's going to visit me every time we have visits to Hogsmead," Molly said,

"Can you go that long without sex?" Roxanne laughed.

"Hey let's not talk about my sex life," Molly said. "But I lasted all summer without it."

"Must've been hard," Dominique said with a laugh.

"Shove it," Molly said. "Don't make me leave."

"Oh come on. It's just a joke," Roxanne said. "No one wants you to leave."

"You better not make me leave," Molly said. "I don't want to run into any guys that want to have sex. I'm against sex with random people anymore."

"I think that's good for you," Roxanne said."I never liked you sleeping around. I think it's better if you only slept with one person."

"There's nothing wrong with sleeping around," Molly pointed out.

"If you say so. I just think it's better to stay with one guy," Roxanne said.

"Just drop it," Molly said.

"Fine. Fine,"Roxanne said.

"What do you think about James being a teacher this year?" Dominique asked.

"I think it's crazy," Roxanne asked. "I mean, he's not much older than us and he's going to be a teacher."

"Yeah. It'll be so weird taking notes and working on spells and everything from James," Rose said.

"I'm not sure he'll be a fine teacher,"Rosa said.

"You say that, but you're not related to him,"Rose pointed out.

"You're right. I guess it would be odd for you if you're related to your teacher," Rosa said.

"Oh!" Roxanne said as the food tray came down here. Roxanne bought a bunch for everyone. "Thank you!" She handed out the candy for everyone.

"Thank you Roxanne," Rosa said, the others said the same.

"So about James, I'm worried he'll have too much work to do and get over whelmed. He's never done anything like the work of a teacher," Dominique said.

"Yeah there'll be lots of homework to grade, and lesson plans and all of that stuff," Roxanne said.

"He has us to help him! Or least Chloe can help him," Dominique said

"I don't know how much help I'll be able to do. I'll have my own work to do," Chloe said.

"And I'm sure James will get you pregnant," Rose said with a laugh.

"What? No way!" Chloe said. "I'm still too young to be a mother!" Everyone laughed. "Just because I'm married to James doesn't mean we'll have kids any time soon."

"But you'll be so close," Roxanne teased. "I'm sure you and James will-"

"Shut up Roxanne," Chloe protested. Again, everyone, minus Chloe, laughed.

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The train soon stopped and everyone was getting off the train. Soon everyone dispersed to their houses' table. Chloe thought it was odd to see James sitting with the teachers. He looked so young amongst the older teachers. She looked over all of the table. It looked like almost all the teachers were the same as last year. The DATDAs was obviously, but the potions, and charms teachers were different. She didn't think there was any problems, but they were all way over James' age.

She wondered how her husband felt being the youngest teacher. There was also the old curse that the DATDAs teacher, but that hadn't been the case in a long time. It just crossed her mind. James would be able to keep teaching for a long time.

It was fun to watch the little first years get sorted. Most of them seemed so happy to get into their house. There were a few that cried when they heard where they were sorted. One of them was little girl, who had been dead set to be in Slytherin but got put into Gryfindor.

"It's okay," Chloe told her. "Gryffindor is a great houses to be in."

"No isn't. My family has been in Slytherin for generations. They're going to be so angry with me." The girl started crying. "They're going to send me a howeler. It's going to be horrible."

"You need to stay brave. The hat thinks you're brave, so you must be brave," Chloe said with a smile. "Even if your parents don't understand, if they love you, they'll still love you.''

"But what if they disown me or something?" the girl cried.

"I'm sure they won't. And if they do, there's places for people have disowned them can go during the summer," Chloe explained. "There were a lot of people whose family doesn't like or understand things are. You just have to brave, like a lion."

"Are you sure? I'm scared people won't like me in Gryffindor because my family fought in the last big battle in the last and killed some people. They were put into Azaban, and they're still there. I was raised by my grandparents. Oh why am I telling you all of this?"

"You can tell me about anything. My name is Chloe. I can be your protector. If any one messes with you, just let be know and I'll take care of it. My husband is the DATDA teacher."

"My name is Kara Goyle," Kara said.

"Goyle? Are you friends with Scorpius?" Chloe asked.

"Not really. Our ages were just too far apart," Kara said. "It's worse that our parents want us to get married. I don't want to marry Scorpius. Besides he has a girlfriend already right?"

"Yeah. Scorpius is dating my sister-in-law, Lily. I think they're cute together."

"And Scorpius' family is okay with him dating Lily?"

"Not that I know of. You'd have to ask Scorpius about it. Still welcome to Gyrfffindor.

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