(The Potters and the Prisoner of Azkaban, act three, chapter six)

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Professor Snape came walking in to Remus' classroom with quite the dramatic entrance, closing all the windows as he passed them, making the whole room at least a few shades darker and more depressing since it kept the sunlight from lighting up the room. "Turn to page three hundred and ninety four." He ordered. 

Most of the students in the room followed it, knowing that they were not going to get an explanation on why it was Professor Snape standing on Lupin's spot, teaching his class.

"Yeah, where is Remus?" Rebekah wondered.

"Excuse me, sir, where is Professor Lupin?" Harry asked in confusion that the rest of the class shared. 

"That's not your concern, is it Potter?" Snape asked the young Potter boy as he started walking between the rows of the desk the third-years were sitting at. "Suffice it to say that your professor finds himself incapable of teaching at present. Turn to page three hundred and ninety four."

Snape stopped walking when he stood next to the projector that he would need to use to teach the class on a special subject that he had picked out for them.

Ron, who was slowly leafing through the pages of his Defence Against the Dark Arts book, hadn't seen it coming that Snape used a simple spell to get the youngest Weasley boy on the right page. It was taking him to long. At least that was what Snape thought. 

"Werewolves?" Ron Weasley asked with surprise, knowing that it was not the subject they were working with last lesson with Professor Lupin.

"But, sir, we've just begun learning about Red Caps and Hinkypunks. We're not meant to start nocturnal beasts for weeks." Hermione spoke, appearing in the seat next to Harry.

"Quiet." Snape told her, already annoyed with her and it was only the start of the lesson.

"When did she come in? Did you see her come in?" Ron asked his best friend, not having having noticed that Nora had sat down next to him. Harry shook his head in reply, but the Potter looked even more confused to Ron when he saw his sister sitting next to the read head.

Ron gasped when he turned to look at Nora. "Where the bloody hell do you two keep coming from?" He whisper - yelled at her.

"Okay, but seriously, how do they do that?" Caroline asked, starting to creep out more every time they randomly appeared in the room.

"I don't know, but she definitely going to say something to mess with his head." Kol let out a laugh.

"It's a bit like vampires using there speed, isn't it?" Jeremy asked.

"What do you mean?" Stefan asked in confusion.

"Well, I mean, a vampire can just" Jeremy clicked his fingers. "appear like that in front of you. I don't know hos they do it, but I just know it's brilliant."

"Everything is brilliant coming from these two." Sirius spoke, wishing that he could've used the Time Turner in his time to prank people. however he was proud of his daughter that she wasn't only using it to get more classes, but also to prank students, and sometimes even Filch.

"I don't know what you are talking about, Ronald. I have been here for the last five minutes." Nora casually spoke, going through the pages of her own book to the page that Snape wanted to explain.

"And Hermione?"

"Also." Nora replied. "Are you sure that you're feeling well? We could go to Madam Pomfrey to get you checked up?" Nora offered. 

Ron shook his head.

"Everything better than staying in this room. I finally was enjoying DADA for a year and then this one shows up." She looked sideways at Snape, who hadn't heard what she had said.

Ron also turned to Snape for a second, making the two girls who had come in later, share a grin.

"Now which one of you can tell me the difference between an Animagus and a werewolf?" Snape asked, walking back to the front of the class again, while the projector showed them all drawings made of werewolves. "No one?" Snape asked, already knowing that Hermione's hand was up in the air to answer his question. "How disappointing." He spoke, still ignoring her.

"Please, sir, an Animagus is a wizard who elects to turn into an animal. A werewolf has no choice in the matter. With each full moon when he transforms he no longer remember who he is. He'd kill his best friend if he crossed his path. Furthermore, the werewolf responds only to the call of its own kind." Hermione informed the class.

Malfoy let out a howl, one quite familiar to one of a werewolf. 

"Thank you, Mr. Malfoy! Thatis the second time you have spokenout of turn, Miss Granger. Tellme. Are you incapable ofrestraining yourself? Or do youtake pride in being aninsufferable know-it-all? Five points from Gryffindor!"

"You asked us a question and she knows the answer! Why ask if you don't want to be told?" Ron asked, defending a very red from embarrassment, Hermione. His eyes flicked towards Hermione, who stood nearby, her face flushed a deep shade of crimson, both from embarrassment and the weight of the attention suddenly thrown her way.

"She's just trying to help! You wanted to know, but the moment someone tells you, you act like it's a problem!" Nora spoke up with anger as well.

Harry's mouth was starting to open, when Snape said. "Detention, both of you."

"Detention sucks." Caroline muttered.

"And they literally just stood up for a friend that he offended, what's wrong with that?" Elena questioned.

"As an antidote for your ignorance and on my desk by Monday morning, two rolls of parchment on the werewolf with particular emphasis on recognizing it." Snape announced their homework and almost directly after he did, groans were heard all around Lupin's classroom.

"Sir, it's Quidditch tomorrow." Harry spoke, hoping that Snape would let them take longer for their task, but especially Harry knew that Snape was not going to change anything for the Gryffindors.

"Then, I suggest you take extra care, Mr. Potter, loss of limb will not excuse you. Page three hundred and ninety four." Professor Snape spoke leaning over Harry and Hermione's desk. 

"A loss of a head will definitely give Snape an excuse to not teach anymore. Like ever." Nora whispered to Ron, who let out a small laugh, but it quickly disappeared again when the two looked down on the paper that Harry had just received from Malfoy with a drawing of Harry failing tomorrow.

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It wasn't just Snape's work that was was disappointing them, it was also the weather the next day, more specifically during the Quidditch game against the Hufflepuff.

Elijah let out a sigh, already not having a good feeling on how this game was gonna end.

"I hope everything is gonna be fine." Bonnie spoke, looking at the pouring rain and lighting on the screen.

"Well, we already know that's not gonna happen." Damon spoke, making the Mikaelson glare at him for making Elijah and themselves even more worried for Nora and Harry.

Umbrellas were flying around the pitch and it was storming like crazy. The only great thing that was happening, was that they were winning. Nora had scored 7 times already, making her score 70 points of the Gryffindor's points of today's game, but they were only 20 points ahead of Hufflepuff, since it was 120 - 100. 

Nora was making her way over to another hoop, having no idea that on the other side of the pitch, a person of her own team, Alicia's broom's had caught fire. It had quickly been put out by George, who had passed by her. 

Nora was hoping that Harry would find the Snitch rather fast. Don't get her wrong, she loved playing Quidditch, and she was loving the game now, but the weather was not really helping them win in any way. She was sure that she would be sick tomorrow.

The Quaffle easily went through one of the hoops since it was almost impossible to see where the balls of the game were. So the Hufflepuff Keeper hadn't even seen her coming. Luckily for Gryffindor, Lee had seen the goal, making it 130 - 100.

But everything went wrong when Nora's head shot up in confusion and worry as she saw Cedric and Harry fly higher and higher. She just stared for a few minutes before following after the boys quickly, knowing that Angelina and Alicia would be fine without her for a few minutes, since she saw two Dementors making their way over to them, but the boys kept going for the Snitch, Cedric hadn't noticed the big lighting above him, striking him and making him fall down at a fast pace.

"Cedric!" Nora yelled, wanting to go after him, but she stopped when something caught her - and Harry - off guard. The same thing as from the cup in Divination class was shining brightly above them.

"Nope. Nope. Nope. You two should go back with him." Kol spoke, the excited feeling that he had for the game long gone.

When it disappeared again, the Snitch flew right in front of Harry's face, making the Potter boy follow behind it as fast as he could.

"Oh, Harry." Lily whispered with worry knowing what was following his decision.

"Harry!" Nora screamed as she saw him going even more higher and most definitely out of sight of the audience. Her brother didn't hear her, so she headed after him. They went up so high that even Harry knew that something was wrong now. Both of the Potters' brooms handles were starting to freeze from the cold that the Dementors gave off.

An umbrella kept circling around them as the Potters came to a stop at the same height as each other. Harry who hadn't even noticed his sister had followed him quickly threw her a worried look when a Dementor passed right in bof them.

"Come on." Nora yelled, nodding her head to her left, signally Harry to follow him. She wasn't sure if he had seen her gesture, but he definitely followed behind her. But again they had to stop when a Dementor appeared out of nowhere right in front of Nora.

She quickly went right and so did Harry, but the two had now two Dementors following after them as they rushed back down in a straight line.

And again they were out of luck, when four Dementors appeared below them and starting to do the same as they were doing in the train. Alone this time the two didn't have a seat supporting from falling. Now they were hundreds of meters up in the air. Naturally it didn't take them long to start going down, but not even fully conscious anymore.

Luckily Dumbledore was fast enough to soften the fall for one of them.

"That's not good." Elena spoke, worried eyes on the screen.

"Which one of them kept falling?" Elijah questioned. It was just as hard to see in real life as it was on screen apparently , because he had no idea that it was his daughter falling down further or Harry.

"Are they okay?" Finn asked.

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"He looks a bit peaky, doesn't he?" Harry heard Ron's voice from above him.

"Peaky?" One of the twins' voice, Fred, came from his right.

"What'd you expect?" George asked him, his voice also to his right. "They fell over 100 feet."

"Yeah, Ron, let's walk you off the Astronomy Tower." Fred continued, but Harry heard the worry in his face as his eyes slowly started to open and close.

"And see what you look like." George finished. 

"Probably a right sight better than her normally does." Harry spoke as a jokes, making the ones standing around his bed let out a chuckle when they saw Ron's offended face.

"How are you feeling?" Hermione asked, sitting on the chair right in between the two occupied beds that were placed next to each other.

"You gave us a right good scare there mate." George's voice came from somewhere behind Ron, but Harry couldn't see him, so he assumed that George was sitting down, since Ron is not yet taller than him.

"Where is Nora?" Harry asked as he put on his glasses that had been laying on the little table right next to his bed. "What happened?"

"Well, you both fell off your brooms, mate." Ron replied.

"Really?" Harry replied with sarcasm as he looked around for Nora, not seeing her anywhere in sight. "I mean the match. Who won?"

"No one blames you, Harry." Hermione started as she stood up from her chair. "The Dementors aren't supposed to come inside the grounds. Dumbledore is furious. As soon as he saved you, he sent them straight off."

Harry let out a sigh from dissapointment.

"There is something else you should know too, Harry." Ron spoke and Harry glanced his eyes down at the thing that was wrapped in Ron's arms. "When you fell, your brooms, they sort of blew into the Whomping Willow and well, it's,-" Ron didn't even finished his words when he showed his best friend the two broken brooms.

Harry looked away from the brooms, not even wanting to look at it. It was one of the only things that meant a big lot to the Potter twins.

"Nora's gonna lose her mind when she sees it." George went on.

"Scrap that. She's gonna have a mental breakdown." Klaus spoke through the room and for once many agreed with him.

"A broken broom and a lost game." Rebekah spoke.

"Double breakdown." Kol added.

"At least Harry is already fine. That's good." Stefan spoke and many in the room nodded in agreement.

"Where is Nora?" Harry repeated again.

"Well." Hermione softly spoke as she moved from the chair and out of the way so that Harry could look to his right where his sister was laying on the bed, several students hanging above her as well, with Fred and Daisy sitting on the side of her bed. "Dumbledore was able to catch you, but he wasn't able to do the same for Nora."

"Is she-" Harry asked, already fearing the worst as he looked at the sight of his sister.

"Don't worry," Hermione quickly shook her head, not even wanting to know what bad thing Harry was thinking that had happened to his sister. "she's supposed to be waking up soon. You were just earlier. Fred caught her before she could reach the ground." Hermione informed him.

"Thank you." Harry thanked the twin sitting on the bed for saving his sister.

"Oh, thank God." Elijah let out a breath of relief.

"I think Elijah had almost fainted if he didn't know any sooner." Caroline whispered to Bonnie.

"I can't blame him. I mean if it was my child in danger like I would've already fainted again." Bonnie whispered back.

"Anytime." Fred spoke, worriedly looking down on Nora's face, where a scratch was formed right next to her lighting form scar.

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The half of act three!

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Posted: September 21, 2024 

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