Crazy trouble with love
Minerva and Harry
Series: Harry Potter
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-potions class, Monday morning-
"Zzzzz." Harry snored from lack of sleep before a book landed on his head. "AH!" he cried out looking around and saw the irritated look on Snape's face.
"Getting some sleep mister potter?" He glared. "If you are eager to sleep in my class then you must know the answer to 'what ingredient doesn't cause an explosion in a healing prothal?' "
Harry gulped and saw all eyes on him and tried taking a guess. "Um….Cats eyes?"
"Incorrect mister Potter, it was salamanders blood." Snape glared before walking to a really out cold Ron. "Wake up mister Weasley!"
He brought another book over with his wand and dropped it, making Ron jump up and look around while holding his chest.
"AAGGHH!" He yelled in fright. "Um….is this lunch?"
"No. It's potions class and 50 points from Gryffindor from sleeping in my class." Snape growled before returning to the board. "Class, today we'll be experimenting with a rare, but dangerous potion. And we will be having one of the other teachers assisting us."
The door opened and a black cat came in.
"Professor?" Harry asked the cat. "Professor Mcgonagall?"
The cat stopped at the desk before slowly growing and reforming into the head of his house. "Correct Mister Potter, and I have come here to make sure the potion being shown today will not be abused or mishandled in any way, shape or form."
"Especially a certain someone." Snape said looking at Rin and Neville with a glare.
Mcgonagall coughed to get his attention as he walked behind the desk and got a cauldron out before waving his wand and opening the large book near him.
"Now this potion requires a lot of dragon's blood and a steady hand so." Snape glared. "Keep quiet or this potion will explode."
The students gulped as a jar of dragon's blood floated over and dumped its contents along with some….unicorn blood...and basilisk venom. Oh did I forget he also placed some human liver in the cauldron?
"Ugh!" Ron gagged while playing with his wand. "That's disgusting."
"This, mister Weasley, shows all of you that this potion requires ingredients that are used in rather dark magic. That is why we will be showing it and you will learn that going to such lengths for this is a grave mistake." spoke Mcgonagall.
Ron sighed before accidentally throwing the wand into the cauldron. "...oops?"
"Mister Weasley!" spoke Mcgonagall while Snape glared at the student. Only for it to start growing like a soufflé.
"Minerva, we need to contain it." spoke Snape raising his wand.
"Agreed." She nodded while raising her wand at the growing potion concoction. "Mister Potter get the students to safety now!"
Harry nodded as the the students started backing up and and making a run through the door while Harry made sure everyone got out as the teachers started making a translucent dome around the bubbling cauldron. The potions contents started looking like a small dome roof before cracking a little, releasing a blue gas that slowly engulfed the dome.
Both teachers held their wands out while streams of magic that kept the dome, but the gas was expanding inside and making it harder to push down. Just as the spell started weakening the gas began to seep out of the now forming cracks.
"It's about to explode!" Ron yelled while hiding inside a cauldron.
"Mister Weasley! Get out!" ordered Mcgonagall who tried pouring more magic into the stream.
Just then the dome cracked and shattered as the soufflé like concoction turned red before exploding.
BABOOM!
The class outside covered their ears from the sounds of it while seeing smoke seep out from under the door.
Most of the students opened the door with nervousness. They slowly walked in and surveyed the damage, especially the now destroyed cauldron in the center of the room. The tables were blown to the side while they spotted two bodies laying on the floor. One was a knocked out Snape and the other….a young girl with a green dress. She had long brown hair sprayed out across the floor and seemed to be a few years older than the students.
"Who's the girl?" Malfoy asked confused.
Harry walked over and crouched down beside her and lightly shook her shoulder. "Hey, hey, you alright?"
The girl moaned a little before slowly getting up. "I'm fine Mister Potter. Just a little shaky from the blast." she blinked and rubbed her throat. "That's odd, my voice is different."
"P-Professor!" Harry said with wide eyes. "Y-Your…"
"What? Other than my voice, I feel fine. Great even. Like I'm a brand...new….person….." she stopped while taking in her body. "My body...It's….younger!"
Some of the students that heard her fainted while others were in disbelief. As for Ron..he didn't believe it.
"I don't believe you!" Ron yelled in frustration.
"Ron! Look at her!" chastised Hermione. "It's right there and besides, she's still head of our house."
"Yea right. And I'm a glutton." He retorted while other students including Harry whistled. "What are you whistling about?"
Harry held a hand out and let Mcgonagall grab his hand as he helped her up. "You sure you feel alright professor?"
"I'm fine Mister Potter." She said getting her balance back. "I'm not that helpless."
"Uh, professor? I think Professor Snape is unconscious." spoke Neville who didn't see the potions master stir at all.
"Or he's dead." Harry joked slightly. "Yea that was stupid."
"Mister Malfoy and Mister Weasley will take him to Madam Pomfrey." spoke Mcgonagall. "The rest of you will help me clean up this mess."
Both boys grumbled while picking Snape up and leaving the room, as the others started cleaning the mess up.
(One cleaning later)
"Alright, that takes care of one problem." spoke the professor who looked over her form. "Now I just need to explain this to Albus."
"Professor." Harry asked while carrying a book of potions. "I found the side effects for the potion."
"Well there's no need for that, other than making me young, it seems everything else is normal." she sighed while stretching. "My body hasn't felt this good in ages."
Harry looked at her still concerned. "Should I help you professor?"
"No, you and the rest of the students just go to your next class, while I go to the headmaster regarding this incident."
"Yes professor." Harry nodded before asking her something. "Professor? How old are you right now?"
"Hmm, from the looks of things, I'd say around 17 or 18." she replied.
"Oh. I thought you looked nineteen or twenty." Harry blushed in embarrassment before walking out of the classroom.
'Heh, if he was that sincere with all the witches around here, he'd really take after his father.' Minerva laughed inwardly. "Now I need to break the news to Albus."
-Albus Dumbledore's office-
Said headmaster was enjoying some lemon drops before spotting his door open up by a girl who was wearing Minerva's robes and seemed like she belonged in her final year here.
"Oh?" He decided to tease her. "Are you the daughter of Minerva?"
"No." She glared lightly. "It's me Minerva."
Albus blinked and adjusted his spectacles. "Well, you do look like her, but I would need proof if you are telling the truth."
She grinned. "How about the time you had a bullet to the knee back in World War II."
"Minerva? What happened?" he asked in surprise.
"A potion explosion, courtesy of mister Weasley's wand making the concoction volatile." She said.
"Hmmm, well that is an obstacle. Adding a sudden change or a potion without preparations can cause who knows what. So other than regressing in age, have you felt anything else? Odd feelings, tingling?
"Well. Just some issues with my ears but it could be from the blast." Minerva admitted.
"Well I'll take a look at the potion and see if I can determine if there is a way to reverse it."
Minerva nodded before leaving the room.
"Ka?" The phoenix asked in its own language, not that a well versed headmaster couldn't understand.
"Yes it is quite the misfortune, but this might be a nice time away from her teachings. She's worked a long time here, so waiting to find a cure can hold off, at least for now."
"Ka Ka!" It yelled while looking at the candy.
Albus grabbed a lemon drop before tossing it to his pet.
"Ka!" The bird cooed while gulping down the candy.
With Minerva, as she walked down the hall, she stopped and suddenly realized if she was this age again, could she manage to keep teaching?
"Professor!" Harry called out. "Ron has been turned into a weasel!"
"What happened Mister Potter?" she asked with a groan.
"I don't know. When he came back from the infantry, he just started growing fur and shrinking." Harry panted. "Is this an after effect?"
"No, my guess is he and Mister Malfoy got into a spat." she sighed. "Madam Pomfrey should be able to fix it in no time."
Harry nodded before asking something. "Professor? Um….did anyone look at you strangely?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well...you are kind of…" He blushed. "Beautiful so...I thought…."
"Oooh, you thought some of the boys would be leering at me, right?" she guessed with a smile.
Harry nodded with a blush. "Sorry professor."
"No no, it's quite alright. I might have attracted a few eyes, but nothing like that." she smiled. 'Impressive. His own teacher becomes young and he's worried about her. You truly are a good child Harry.'
"Um Professor? Were you...in a relationship when you were younger...I mean when you were actually younger...sorry." Harry blushed with a stutter.
"No need to be sorry Mister Potter. To answer your question, yes, I did tend to have a few relationship, but nothing serious. What brought on these questions?" she asked back.
"Well….I thought you were...married or something." He said. "Since you do have a motherly air to you…"
She smiled and patted his back. "Thank you Mister Potter, but I've been single for a LONG time."
Harry nodded before walking away. "See you tomorrow in class professor."
She nodded while tapping her chin. 'Hmm, I have the knowledge to teach, but I doubt they'd take me serious as a teenager. I can try to go about my week until we find an antidote, or take some time to enjoy being this young again.'
(Next day)
"Morning professor." Harry smiled walking into the classroom. "Um….why are you wearing a student's robes?"
"Well I've decided to take this time to take a small vacation." she replied. "And luckily they had the right size for me with some extra robes in the back."
Harry looked a little confused. "A vacation? Don't you have to teach?"
As she was about to answer, Ron, who was back to normal, came in and glared irrationally at Minerva. "Is something the matter Mister Weasley?"
"Why are you here weasel Queen?" He yelled while everyone looked at him like he just lost his mind, or whatever mind he hand left. "Git you oversized mongoose."
"Ron, what are you doing?" asked Harry while looking at his friend like he lost his mind.
"Getting rid of the weasel queen. The scourge of the eleven seas of milk!" He yelled. "And I have this holy wand!" He pulled out a carrot.
"Oh dear, looks like Mister Weasley is rather….loopy from the medicine." Minerva told Harry.
"Wow...never knew you can get like that from medicine." Harry said as Ron started jumping around like a rabbit while making car sounds.
"Demon chickens are God!"
"Shouldn't we do something?" Hermione asked their teacher.
"Monkey butts!" Ron yelled while kicking Hermione on the butt, resulting in him getting a black eye. "Ow! The mud monster stole my soul!"
"Allow me." spoke Minerva holding her wand out. "Stupefy."
"Gah!" Ron gasped before getting blasted into a wall by a red blast. "This tastes like chicken!"
"Professor? Wasn't that a bit excessive?" spoke Harry.
"Not really." She said like it was no big deal. "Besides Mister Weasley is going to be fine."
"Bones are cheese." Ron moaned before fainting.
"Wait, if you plan on taking a break, who will be filling in for you?" asked Hermione.
"Well Peeves could teach you." She grumbled the last part.
"That doesn't sound good." remarked Harry. "I mean, isn't that the opposite of what a teacher should be?"
"True, but then they might appreciate having a teacher with better morals than one that has none." Minerva grinned.
That's when said ghost floated into the room and stood behind the desk.
"Attention! Class is starting and," he pointed to Ron. "Mister face in the wall is going to be the testing dummy for exploding spells."
Malfoy snickered before Peeves pointed at him. "And so will Mister Snickers over there."
The students, minus the three, pointed there wands at the two. "Bombada explodas!"
"GAH!"
"Cheese!"
The three left the room as they heard various screams started emanated from the two boys.
(Timeskip)
Two weeks went buy and a cure wasn't found at all. Minerva started to tutor Harry, who asked her one day, and she started feeling more relaxed around him. Oh and Ron is still insane from the medicine. Apparently, the effects would last for three weeks so, under Albus recommendation, Rin was sent home for both his safety and safety of the other students. Especially after he started stripping in the great hall and doing the chicken dance with a pig's head on his own head. Many students and teachers were scarred that day.
Right now Minerva was enjoying a book in the common room besides Hermione.
"So professor?" She asked. "Is it true that Witches used broomsticks to fight demons in the dark age?"
"Oh yes, back then they were basically prototypes of wands and had to be used to channel magic. But as time passed, they learned how to do it through smaller pieces of wood and the broomsticks were resorted to as a back up transportation, but no one really uses one anymore, besides Quidditch."
"Wow….that's sad. There should be a section of the ministry that uses brooms for spells." Hermione said with interest.
"Trust me, it's more fun to ride a broom then hold it like a wand." smiled Minerva.
"Professor!" Yelled Harry as he ran into the doom...with cat ears? "I have cat ears!"
"Well what happened?"
"Malfoy cursed me with a caticus maximus curse and I don't know how to get them off." Harry said while his ears drooped.
Minerva smiled and stood up before drawing her wand. "Not to worry, I can fix this."
"Please hurry. I think I'm growing a tail!" Harry cried out as a small tail started forming and poking out of his pants. "Too late…"
"Ooh." Hermione reached out and lightly rubbed her fingers against it.
"Hermione!" Harry blushed. "Stop touching that!"
"Sorry!" she pulled back. "I couldn't help it." she chuckled.
"Yea and Hookshanks is a dog." Harry frowned with sarcasm.
"Hold still. Reducio earrusy." Minerva shot a gold spark out that touched Harry's nose before the ears and tail disappeared. "There we go."
"Thank you professor." Harry smiled before hugging her. "You're a lifesaver."
Minerva chuckled and patted his back. "It's alright, I'm still your teacher at heart. It's my job to help all my students learn and improve on different obstacles."
"Professor." He smiled. "I have something for you." He raised his wand. "Presenta gifta!" A large present landed on the floor in a puff of smoke. "Open it professor."
"Oh? What's this?" she crouched down and started tearing the wrapper off before opening the box. What she found was a masterpiece, a red and gold scarf which looked like it was woven with real yak fur. It also had her name embroidered on the the cloth.
"Like it professor?" Harry smiled. "I kind of...made it for you, since you were a great teacher and witch."
"Aww." Minerva pulled it out before wrapping it around her neck and hugged Harry. "Thank you Harry."
"Anything for my favorite professor." Harry smiled with a light blush.
Hermione noticed while Minerva went back to her seat. "Hey Harry, I forgot to go over the assignment, can you give me a hand?"
"Sure Mione." He said using his nickname while walking towards her.
"This way." Hermione walked away till they were on the other side of the room.
"Um? Where's the assignment?" He asked confused.
"There isn't one. I just needed to get you over here to ask you something. Do you….have a crush on Minerva?" she asked.
Harry blushed. "N-No. Why did you say that Mione?"
"Because you blushed when she hugged you."
Harry looked at her before sighing. "You're right...I have a crush on her…"
"Harry! You know she's our teacher, and this is only temporary. What will you do when she goes back to normal? Right now both of you are friends, but if you try to go farther you might get hurt."
Harry looked down at the floor. "Even so...I can't get rid of these feelings. It's just….I never felt like this before due to...my 'family'." He shook his fist at the 'family' part. "I know it's wrong, and I get she won't stay young forever, but she's beautiful, smart, has lots of wisdom, and overall a great girl to be around."
Hermione looked at Harry and sighed. "If that's your answer, I guess I can except that." she patted his back. "Just be careful when….you know."
"MIONE!" He blushed red. "That's embarrassing!"
"I meant when she becomes our teacher again!" she whispered. "And keep your voice down, I don't think you want every single person to hear."
"Oh….sorry." He blushed with embarrassment. "Kind of forgot about the others here."
"Now before you go over and tell her, maybe take it easy. Like maybe take a walk together. See if you want to spend more time together or you don't think it doesn't click."
Harry nodded. "Only if you help keep Malfoy away. I don't need another set of cat ears again."
"Alright, I'll be the chaperone on your little date." she snickered.
Harry lightly glared as he walked towards Minerva and sat besides her. "Professor?"
"Yes Harry?"
"Um...can we...um...hang out sometime?" He blushed.
"Oh? How do you mean?" she asked.
"...like….a..date.." He blushed redder. "If you don't mind doing something like that with a student?"
Minerva looked at him in surprise before growing serious. "Mister Potter, you do know a student and teacher cannot have a close relationship like that, right?"
Harry nodded. "But I remember seeing some muggle teachers doing that with their students."
"Well I have no intention of going against the rules."
Harry looked down. "Not even if I pretend to not being a student?" 'Please don't say no!'
Minerva saw the look and touched the scarf around her neck. "However…."
Harry looked up with hope. 'Professor.'
"Technically at the moment, I'm not a teacher, I'm a regular student here. So if we did say…..go for a walk? It wouldn't be against the rules." she smiled.
Harry smiled with joy before hugging her. "Thank you Minerva." 'Yes.'
'Ooh, he's stronger than I thought.' Minerva spoke in her head as Harry let go. "Just remember, don't get too excited, right now I'm still an older girl here, and will be expecting respect."
"Yes Minerva." He smiled. "I won't forget."
"Now, let's go take a walk around the lake, today seems just right to test out your gift." she smiled before standing up.
"Ok." He smiled before opening the door for her. "Lady's first."
"My, what a gentleman." she teased before walking out with Harry following.
(At the lake side)
"Minerva...I mean professor." Harry blushed while holding her hand. "It's a nice day right?"
"Well a bit breezy, but the scarf helps." she smiled. "And someone seems forward holding my hand."
"Oh." He blushed. "You don't mind, right?"
"Well no, but be mindful that some girls will think you're moving too fast. Let them make the first move." she advised.
"Yes professor." He smiled. "Just a question. Why are witches more famous than wizards...not being sexist or anything."
"Well that's because when witches were being seen in the human world, it was more easier to blame woman as being evil while leaving the men as saviors and less likely to hurt others. So you're not being sexist, back then humans were the sexist ones."
"Aren't we all humans? With or without magic we are still humans right?"
"Well I mean humans without magic, the ones who were extremely paranoid." she clarified.
"...like my uncle and aunt…" He frowned. 'God damn it...I messed up.'
"Sadly, yes." she sighed.
Harry pondered something. "Professor. If I wasn't raised with them? Would I have been raised with...you?"
"Well, sadly no. You see, if you didn't go to them, chances are you would have gone to a friends family your parents knew, like Mister Longbottom for instance."
"Oh." Harry frowned slightly. "It would have been nice having a mother like you...professor."
She could detect the sadness in his words and scooted closer before pulling him into a hug.
"...thank you professor." He smiled. He hugged her back while slowly relaxing.
Just as they relaxed… Something spooked them. It was a squirrel.
It snacked on a nut while the two of them shared a laugh.
"That was funny." Harry laughed. "Being scared by a squirrel."
"Didn't expect that." Minerva laughed.
"Yea." He laughed harder. Only for another squirrel to jump on his head. "Ok...am I a human squirrel magnet or something?"
"Looks like it." she chuckled. Only for a squirrel to crawl on her robes.
"Same goes for you professor." Harry chuckled as more squirrels appeared. "Ok how many squirrels are there here?!"
"I'm just as surprised as you are." she remarked looking at them all.
"Got any nuts?" The leader...asked.
"That squirrel just talked. Is that normal professor?" Harry said with wide eyes.
"I said do you have any nuts." The leader growled irritated.
"Uh, no we do not." spoke Minerva.
The leader frowned before pointing to Harry. "Not even his?"
Harry's eyes widened and crossed his legs while Minerva frowned. "We don't have any nuts."
"...aw." He frowned before they left. But now before running at Harry and attacking his face with their tails.
"AH!" he fell back and rolled around to try and swat them away.
"NNUUTTTSSS!" They yelled before biting his face.
"AAHHHH! GET THEM OFF!" Harry yelled while trying to get them away from his face.
"STUPEFY!" cried Minerva blasting some of them off and started firing several at the rodents.
"Gah! RETREAT!" The leader yelled before the squirrels ran for the trees. "You won the battle but the war rages on!"
Harry panted and sat up. "Is that normal?"
"I don't know. Never heard of talking squirrels before." She pondered. "Must be muggles trying to create a magical equivalent to a familiar?"
"Well, sorry if they ruined this peaceful moment." he apologized.
"It's fine." She said patting Harry's head. "It's just a freak occurrence."
"I take it you wanna go back?"
"Yes." She said. "But don't think this time was ruined, I enjoyed it."
"Really? Even after I got attacked by crazy squirrels?" He chuckled slightly. 'Note to self bring nuts next time I'm here...to avoid getting attacked.'
"Well at least now you can say you made a girl laugh on a date." she teased.
"True." Harry chuckled. "So should we...do this again sometime professor?"
"Well don't get your hopes up Mister Potter, by that time I might be back to teaching."
Harry slumped slightly. "Still it would be fun." 'Even if you change back…'
Both of them walked away from the lake and headed back up to the school.
(Back in the dorms)
"Harry." Hermione said as they walked into the room. "What happened? You're covered in scrapes and fur."
"Trust me, you don't wanna know."
Hermione shrugged. "If you say so," she pulled him towards her and whispered. "Did she like it?"
"Yeah, she said it was good." he nodded.
"That's great!" She smiled. "But...did you learn anything about her...personality wise?"
"Other than what we already know, not much."
"Oh." She said rubbing his head. "So you didn't say anything that might hurt your chances?"
"Well I suggested we might be able to do another one, but she said it wouldn't work cause she might be back to normal by then."
Hermione sighed. "Then tell her how you feel through something you are passionate about...like music."
"Music?"
"Well can you play a guitar?" She asked before transmorphic a chair into a silver guitar.
"...a little?" 'No!'
"Then go play it to her. She would really be happy to have some music." Hermione smiled with a expression of cuteness he couldn't resist.
"Alright alright." he relented as he picked up the instrument.
(Two seconds later)
"Sorry Mione. I can't it's too silly." Harry blushed.
"Then the only thing I can think of is just go up to her and tell her."
"But-"
"No buts!" She glared. "Just go up and tell her or you will be stuck in the friend circle forever."
Harry sighed and shook his head. "Alright, I'll give it a shot."
Hermione grinned. "Go get her...liger."
Harry turned and headed out of the common room to try and find her. He saw her sitting on a chair reading a book on potions.
"Harry?" Minerva asked looking from her book. "What's the matter? Another cat ear spell?"
"No, uh...Minerva? Can I tell you something?"
"Sure Harry." She said putting her book down. "You can tell me anything."
He gulped and took in a deep breath before he saw Dumbledore walking towards them.
"Am I interrupting something?" He asked. "If so, I'm sorry, but I came to inform Minerva of something important."
"What is it Albus?" Minerva asked while Harry blushed from the interruption. "Did you find a cure?"
"Sadly, no. We tried to come up with a cure, but nothing worked. It seems you're stuck like this and will age normally, just starting over from when you were a student."
Both looked at him in shock with Harry internally jumping up and down with joy at the news.
"Oh and Snape apparently...shrunk to child size." Albus said with a hint of amusement. "Anyways, continue what you were doing." he turned and walked away.
"Harry." Minerva asked turning her head to him. "What was it you were about to say?"
Harry calmed down and smiled. "I just wanted to say…..that I hope we get that second date soon."
Minerva sighed. "Well. I just hope you bring a packed lunch Harry."
"Don't worry, I'll make sure this time we don't get anymore squirrels." he joked.
She chuckled. "Yes. And if they do come I will stupefy them."
He smiled before turning and walking off. 'I'll tell her, but maybe we should wait. And pray no more squirrels come by.'