Ch.15 The Most Horrible Thing He Could Think Of

A few hours after Harry sobered up a bit Harry took his leave and headed back home. The walk took excessively longer than usual because he kept getting distracted by shinny things and things that looked like they would taste good (a lot of them didn't, he found out) Once he did get home around two in the mourning Ginny and Sirius where waiting up for him.

"So how did it go?" Sirius was the first to ask

Harry gave him a blank stare and then a lopsided grin creeped on to his face "I smoked pot with my dad…it was awesome!..do we have any chips?" he made a b-line for the kitchen.

"Man Moony must have gotten a hold of the good stuff this time." Sirius said to himself.

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The Marauders had sobered up the next morning and that's when they came to realize their current situation

"What do you think Prof. Patterson is going to make us do or do to us?" Remus asked nervously

"I don't know…but…but it can't be all that bad I mean we can get him in trouble too right?" Sirius said

"Not without incriminating our selves Padfoot, he's really got our balls in a vice. I say we wait and see what he's going to do or have us do and then we worry about whether or not we get our selves expelled…I mean it could be nothing right? Maybe he'll just want us to babysit that barmy uncle of his or something."

"That is a good point Prongs"

"See Moony agrees, and he's always right" Remus just rolled his eyes. "Come on, let's go sneak back into the tower and get this smell off of us before Lily gets up I've got a date with her today and I don't want to mess it up by smelling like pot around her."

MONDAY

"…And that class is why good Flying skills aren't just for quidditch players" Harry finished. The class just looked at him blankly.

"What?"

"Sir…you just strolled in here and said "And that class is why Flying skills aren't just for quidditch players" you didn't actually teach anything" A Gryffindor girl said.

Harry stared "Really?" the whole class nodded. "I could have sworn I gave you the whole lecture…your sure I didn't?" the Class nodded again.

"Class started only a minute ago. Look at the clock." Lily offered.

Harry turned his attention to the clock on the wall it was only 8:31. He screwed his eyes shut and smacked the side of his head "Sorry about that. I must have been practicing it in my head on the way here and confused myself" he smiled. The class looked uneasy but took the explanation anyhow. "Anyway I should just start over, yes?" they still looked uneasy but nodded again for him to go on. "First an exercise! Everyone go back to your dorms and drop off your things and change into some clothes you don't mind getting dirty. And meet me out on the quidditch pitch in five minutes. Those of you who have your own brooms bring them with you."

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Lily and James headed off to their dorm with the rest of their class mates

"You be excited, you live and breathe quidditch and flying." Lily said. James just kept quiet not really listening.

"Is something wrong?"

"Wh…What?" James stammered snapping out of it

"We get to have a flying lesson for DADA class today and you seem really bummed about it. Who are you and what have you done with my boyfriend!?"

"Oh…Oh it's nothing Lil's I was just distracted that's all"

"Ok…"

"Lily can I ask you something?"

"What?"

"Does Prof. Patterson seem strange…er than usual today?"

"I have to admit about five minutes ago was pretty weird even for him"

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"Okay, class those of you who do not have brooms go pick on out from the quidditch shed over there" Harry said as he pointed toward the far end of the pitch "lets wait a few minutes for any stragglers and then we'll get started"

"Harry what are we doing out here anyway?" Remus asked

"Sometimes Dark wizards like to take advantage of you while you're in flight, something as simple as a stunning charm can be quite deadly if you're up high enough. Which is why we're going to go over the importance of good flying skills today"

"Sweet!" James and Sirius said in unison.

The rest of the class slowly made their way back to the middle of the pitch as Harry began giving the rest of the class the same lecture.

"…So I'm going to charm the ground here and make it all nice and soft so no one gets hurt. And I'm going to fire mild stunning charms up in the air randomly and you guys will fly around and try to dodge them. The charm will only last a few seconds if you're hit and try not to go up more than 30 feet or so. Don't need any one ending up in the hospital win do we?"

The class got on their brooms and started to fly around aimlessly. Harry knocked a Slytherin boy off his broom with deadly accuracy with in the first five seconds. The boy fell to the ground but quickly got back up and back on his broom. Then Harry got a couple of Gryffindor girls, and another Slytherin boy who faltered but didn't fall. He clipped the tail of Remus' broom and made it spin a few times but he managed to hold on. He even got Sirius and lily to fall to the ground.

"Good, keep your center of balance but try harder to dodge the spells. If I were a death eater I'd be hurling something much worse at you. You're best off dodging and not getting hit at all." Harry called out so everyone could hear him. "Okay everyone come back down and come over here"

The class did as they were told. "Alright we're are going to do something a little different I'm going to do the exact same thing but instead of jest looking out for the charms I want you to fly in a serpentine pattern and zigzag instead of flying in a straight line like you just where. This will make it much harder for me to aim at you"

Everybody mounted their brooms again, kicked off the ground and did as instructed. Harry still got quite a few of them to fall he even made James and Sirius the Star Quidditch players of Hogwarts falter a few times even with their expert maneuvering skills. After about ten minutes of this Harry called the class back down.

"Alright class, like I said before. And that's why good flying skills aren't just for Quidditch players. Now let's get back to the castle so you lot can put away your brooms and change back into your uniforms. Afterword I'd like us all to meet back in my class room for the remainder of the lecture."

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"Hay Prongs where do you think Patterson learn to aim like that? The guy even managed to hit us a few times" Sirius whispered to James on their way back to the dorm.

"I don't know Padfoot he was pretty good. He might be able to give Flitwick a run for his gallons on the dulling floor though. What do you think?"

"I don't know either. I still think the guy is a little suspicious. I mean how did he know all that stuff about You Know Who? I don't think the ministry even knows that mush about You Know Who." Sirius pondered

"You remember what my dad said about the ministry right Padfoot?"

"That their corrupt? And the only people in the ministry you can really trust is the Auror department and the misuse of muggle artifact department. And to even take them with a grain of salt?"

"Right. But this guy still could be bad news if we don't watch ourselves, we still don't know what favor he's going to ask us to do later. And who ever said he wasn't playing "I'll put your mind at ease about me by telling you something about the Dark Lord that he doesn't want anyone to know even though I'm really a deatheater game?" hmmm?"

"Do you really think that's what he was trying to do?"

"I wouldn't put it past a DADA teacher Padfoot."

That's when Remus decided to make his presents known "are you sure he's not just some Auror who went goofy after getting captured and tortured or something so they put him in a teaching position? That seems way more plausible to me. Although I do agree the DADA teacher are usually up to something. Man why doesn't Dumbledore do a background check or something on new teachers?"

"My dad says the ministry usually dumps some idiot on Dumbledore to fill the position at the end of summer brake because no one else will take it. Dumbledore really doesn't have much say in the matter." James cut in.

"I guess that kind of makes sense"

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Once the class got settled back in to their seats Harry continued to lecture portion of the class and finished within in 10 minutes because the Slytherins where to tiered to interrupt him with snotty comments.

"Alright no homework besides reading chapter five in your book tonight. Mr. Potter, Mr. Black, and Mr. Lupin see me after class I have something for the three of you to do for me the rest of class is dismissed…oh and Mr. Snape I would like to speak with you later come by my office after lunch alright."

The Marauders approached Harry's desk as the rest of the class filed out.

"So what are you going to make us do?" James asked.

Harry looked at them for a long time "…I want you and your little friend Peter (he said Peter's name with clear distaste) to lay off Mr. Snape"

"WHAT?" Sirius shouted

"Oh come off of it. It's not like I asked you to be best mates with the guy. Just don't torture him is all I'm asking, It's not like you have much of a choice any way." The Marauders started to sulk "I didn't say you had to stop pranking others or your special Friday night meetings in the ROR did I? I think this is a pretty good deal"

"Alright, we'll lay off Snape" Remus sighed because James and Sirius were still sulking

"Even if he talks to Lily? Mr. Potter?" Harry prompted looking James' direction.

"Even if he talks to Lily" James reluctantly agreed

"Good now off to your next period"