Harry Potter and What Happened After - Sahits

desks and split by a large stage, much like the one that had been in the great hall during Harry and
Ron's second year. They walked in and Professor Aquos immediately greeted them by telling them to
put their bags in the back of the room and to come back with only their wands.
Once the whole class was assembled Marc Aquos jumped up on stage and introduced himself, "Hi all,
I'm Marc Aquos, but please, call me Marc."
Everybody nodded, it had been expected.
"Alright, now that we've got that out of the way, lets get to what you came here for, magic." Marc let a
small half grin spread across his face as he pulled out his wand. "Alright, this year is about the most
advanced defensive magic around. I'll be teaching you stuff that most wizards and witches don't even
know about. Some of them, like the unforgivable curses, are absolutely illegal. But as some of us
already know," he looked pointedly at Harry, Ron and Hermione, "we have to break the law sometimes
to save ourselves or others."
With a flick of his wrist he made a large silver humanoid jump out of his wand. It was nearly 7 feet tall
and walked on two legs. It looked like a cross between a man and a bear. Harry recognized it from a
movie the Dersleys had watched once, it was a Wookiee. "The Patronus charm. As you can see mine is
a Wookiee, a fictional character in a series of muggle movies. Professor McGonagall has already told
me that many of you know how to do it, and that's good because it means that we can get to our next
unit faster, but I wanted to make sure." He jumped down from the stage and the Wookiee started after
him. "The Patronus is mainly used as a defense against Dementors, but it can also be used as a guide, as
a message carrier, and as a defense against other dark beings." Marc looked around the room to see if
they understood him, most of them did. "The first thing that you must do is find a happy memory,
something that hasn't been washed away, something that you'll keep with you forever."
The class all seemed to stare off into space as they tried to remember something that was pure
happiness. For almost all the class, most of whom had been in the DA, it was simple. Some of the
students seemed to have some trouble with memories from the final battle though. After a few minuets
the whole class was smiling and it seemed that all of them were ready.
"Alright," Marc said as his Patronus started to fade away, "lets see how many of you can conjure one.
All of you, take out your wands and conjure a Patronus. We'll start with the charm out loud, it's much
easier that way, but then we'll go to silent charms."
There was the sound of wood on cloth as the whole class drew their wands. Then there were shouts of
"Expecto Patronum" and suddenly room was filled with silver beasts. Harry saw his stag and Ginny's
horse start running around the room together, Ron's terrier was leaping up and down as it circled Ron
and Hermione's otter was twisting and turning around it. The other students' Patronuses were dancing
and twisting in the same way.
Normally Harry would have looked over at the Slytherin students to see how badly they were failing,
but now he couldn't do that, most of the Slytherin 6th and 7th years had been either killed, hauled off to
Azkaban or hadn't come back, Slytherin house had in fact been reduced by almost 1/3rd.
Marc was walking around, smiling and making comments here and there. When he got to Harry, Ginny,
Ron and Hermione he looked at there Patronuses and started to laugh. "Harry, I understand I have you
to thank for teaching my students so well."
"Yes sir," said Harry, suddenly a bit self conscious.
"Well, if you taught them the rest of the curriculum as well as you did this than I won't have much work
to do this year." Marc patted Harry heavily on the shoulder and continued on, commenting to Hanna
Abbot on her bear Patronus.