The Doctor fell and hit the wooden floor with a thud.
"Sorry. Did not mean to do that." He Apologized closing the doors of the TARDIS and walking into view.
"Wait, did I miss the sorting?" He asked sadly.
He looked at the TARDIS.
"When I said fashionably late I didn't mean it literally." He whispered to the blue box.
He looked around. Everyone was looking at him.
"Oi. it's impolite to stare. There hundreds of kids here did your parents not teach you any manners?" The Doctor scorned sitting down in the one empty seat at the staff table.
"Yes I almost forgot." Albus said.
"I would like to announce your new Astronomy Professor. The Doctor has kindly agreed to fill in for Professor Sinistra who seemed to quit quite suddenly." The Headmaster went on.
"Hello everyone." The Doctor said loudly and excitedly waving to them like a child.
A few Slytherins snickered.
"Oi that's rude, don't laugh at me. Yeah I heard that. That's unfair you wouldn't laugh at Severus or Minerva." He chided.
A few more laughs from the Slytherins.
"Right you lot. I'm a professor now you can't treat me like that." He pointed to the Slytherin table.
"Settle down please." Albus chuckled.
"Now then… let the feast… begin." He said.
Heaps of amazing food appeared on all of the tables. Multiple Roasts, Fried Chicken, fries, hamburgers, mash potatoes, pumpkin juice, and assortments of fruit were just some of what had appeared. The Doctor smiled brightly when he found he had a plate and a bowel. The plate piled high with fish fingers and the bowl filled to the brim with custard. His goblet had filled filled with pumpkin juice as the rest had.
He looked over to Severus Snape who he was sitting next to. Snape slowly looked at him.
"Need something Doctor?" He asked in a tone that was neither friendly nor hostile.
"No sorry… I was just thinking... You remind me of a friend I used to have. Sorry it's the…" He trailed off pointing to his nose sadly.
"Very touching." Snape hissed.
"Oi it's not my fault you both have huge honkers." The Doctor said.
Snape turned back to his meal. The Doctor began to eat his meal as the school ghosts began to appear. He looked around smiling.
The Doctor allowed himself to stay still. He'd love to explore the past of this world but he was more interested in watching Harry's growth. Though his duties as the astronomy teacher did keep him occupied sometimes more than he would have liked.
It was late at night and the Doctor sat against the TARDIS reading one of his favorite books. The Hobbit. He took off Amy's reading glasses and looked at them. Just thinking of Amy and Rory made his stomach tighten uncomfortably. Sometimes he could still feel the heartbreak.
There was a loud clatter pulling in from his thoughts. The Doctor looked up at the staircase. Who was in the Astronomy Tower at this time at night? The Doctor knew exactly who it was. To get this far without being seen it could only have been two people.
He took a small detour and came around behind them. "Hello." He said to the Weasley twins
No response. They had the map, but the Doctor had his wit. "You want to know something about that handy map of yours?" He asked.
"It has a flaw. It can be tricked if you're smart enough." The Doctor said.
"For example, the map can't tell my real name can it?" He asked knowing that it couldn't.
It was designed superbly but, the Doctor had used a mix of power from the TARDIS, a time turner, and an iron rod that channeled controlled magic to create a small, harmless, almost unnoticeable, time distortion. It didn't really have an effect on day to day activities being only a few seconds behind but to the map that one room was doing things slower than the rest and that wasn't something the marauders had considered. So the map was a few seconds off in this room.
This allowed the Doctor to sneak up behind the the boys before the map could warn them that he was behind them. "Hah. Gotcha."
The two boys whirled around and looked at him. "Wicked." George said impressed with the Doctor's ability to outsmart the map.
"How did you do that? You're not a wizard." Fred asked.
"Which gives me the advantage wouldn't you say? You've never tried to pull a school prank on someone who wasn't a wizard." He said.
"Let's see, what was the prank today, dung bombs? Filibuster Fireworks? Shave my head when I'm asleep?" The Doctor asked clapping his hands together.
"Listen boys you aren't in trouble. I honestly understand the idea of peace and quiet being boring." He said.
"So I'll let you off easy this time and just maybe if you ask nicely I'll join you on one of your endeavors," The Doctor said.
"No way. You serious?" Fred asked.
"No, being serious is boring, but there's a difference between serious and truthful, and I am being truthful. Now off to bed both of you before I change my mind." The Doctor said.
The twins hurried off out of the tower, probably not toward the common room. The Doctor knew that much for sure. He walked back to continue reading Hobbit. He didn't know how long he had been reading but when he looked back up Mrs. Norris was standing across from him.
She hissed at him. The Doctor understood what she was saying, he rolled his eyes before responding.
"You at least could say hello before accusing me of helping students break rules." The Doctor said.
The cat hissed again and bared her teeth at him.
"Oi, you want to go there? I'm rude, what about you? Your owner's a grumpy janitor, and you're his grumpy cat. Now shove off, and go chase a rat or something." The Doctor said.
"Just don't chase any fat grey ones that look old!" The Doctor yelled remembering Scabbers.
As Mrs, Norris left, the Doctor went back to his book. He pulled out the Sonic Screwdriver and used it on the book. The Ink on the book changed. He was trying to make his own version of the Marauders Map but he still hadn't perfected it. The map was there and so were the inhabitants but they didn't have names nor did it say what they were doing.
"Maybe I could convince those two to let me study that map." He said. He kept finding that magic and science were more closely related than he would have thought.