Harry Potter and the Book of Impossibility

Chapter 9 - The Marauders Room.

 

After breakfast, they went to the house of Hagrid, to have Care of Magical Creatures.

Hagrid was waiting for them, Fawkes, Dumbledore’s phoenix, was also there, Harry could guess was their next project was. Phoenixes.

 

"Good morning class, tired from last night?" Hagrid said. The class nodded

"You enjoyed it?" The class nodded again.

"We’ll be studying Phoenixes next few lessons, say Hi to Fawkes, professor Dumbledore’s Phoenix. Please open Fantastic Beast & Where To Find Them on page 32 and read it."

 

Harry got his book, glad he didn’t had to use The Monster Book Of Monsters, and began to read the text about Phoenixes.

 

"Professor Dumbledore is one of the few people who domesticated a Phoenix, it’s really hard to do it.

Phoenixes can carry very heavy things, not because it’s strong, but everything that he tries to carry, becomes very light."

Harry thought of the time that he was carried out of the Chamber of Secrets, he remembered feeling very light.

"It’s song is magical, it gives hope and energy to those who do good things, and it frightens those who do bad things."

Harry remembered hearing the song last year, when he fought Voldemort. It gave him strength, and Voldemort wasn’t exactly glad to hear it.

"It’s tears have the most powerful healing power, then anything else in the world, except for unicorn blood. It only gives tears to somebody who’s serving it self, or it’s master."

Harry remembered Fawkes healing him, when the basilisk’s fang entered his arm, and it’s poison run through his blood. He would have died if it wasn’t for Fawkes.

"Phoenixes can disappear and reappear at will, also in places where wizards can’t, like Hogwarts."

Fawkes must have disappeared from Dumbledore’s study, and reappeared in the Chamber of Secrets, bringing the sorting hat with it, Harry thought.

 

They spent the rest of the lesson taking notes of the Phoenix.

Fawkes disappeared suddenly, and reappeared a minute later, with a bowl of berries, it was hungry.

 

Fawkes wanted to show that he could carry heavy things, and carried a frightened Hagrid over his own house and back. Everybody laughed at the white face of Hagrid, he couldn’t remember anything carrying him, because nothing could.

 

After lunch they went to Transfiguration, they were starting on plant-animal transfiguration.

They had to transfigure a leaf of an oak into a lady bird. Everybody failed, except Harry and of course Hermione. Harry menaced to give the leaf a red shield with twelve black spots on it.

Hermione almost made a full colony of perfect lady birds. She got top marks, Harry got a compliment, and everybody except Hermione had to make a perfect lady bird as homework.

 

History of Magic was very boring, this year, they were studying the history of Hogwarts, within every detail. They were listening the whole lesson to professor Binns, who was telling them about how Hogwarts was founded.

It wasn’t such a bad lesson as all the others, until Binns pronounced that their end of the term exam would be naming Headmasters of Hogwarts, the time they were in charge also had to be named, their hobbies, and the famous students under their regime. But happily they didn’t start on that yet.

 

After dinner, they went to the common room.

They didn’t have homework yet, so they were playing chess, Exploding Snap and other games. Suddenly something entered Harry’s mind, something he has been dying for to try.

"I must tell you something Ron and Hermione, Karlien already knows.

I got this present form Sirius last summer, it is a key to a special room, made by him and my father. It’s right here in the common room, but nobody knows about it. It’s not even on the Marauders map. But we’ll have to wait until eleven o’clock, because nobody else can know about it."

"Why didn’t you tell use before?" Ron asked.

"Because I forgot about it."

"What does the key looks like?" Hermione asked.

"Like a key, you know, a thing you put into a door to open it." Said Harry

"Yes yes, I know what a key is, but I was wondering if it also looked like a key, that’s all." She said.

"If you want to see it, I can show you, come with me." Said Harry.

And they followed him to their privet dorm.

 

Harry opened his cupboard, and got the key out of a little box.

Everybody looked at it, "That’s all?" Hermione said.

"Yes, and the only thing you have to do is hold it in your hand, put your wand to a special brick in the wall and say something. It doesn’t work like a normal key. They must have taken a random object to use as a key, and it turned out to be a key."

 

When it was a quarter past eleven, they returned to the common room, which was totally empty.

Harry had used the marauders map to make sure there were no ghosts looking, or teachers heading for the tower to make sure everybody went to bed. The Gryffindor head boy and girl were also in their dorm. Sirius was in Remus’ study, Hagrid was visiting Dumbledore and Snape was in his laboratory, McGonagall was in her study and Filch was chasing Peeves, the poltergeist.

But when he looked closer, he saw somebody familiar, also in Dumbledore’s office.

The little dot on the Map said Arabella Figg.

"What?" Harry said a little to loud, but nobody who wasn’t supposed to hear him, heard him. Only Ron, Hermione and Karlien heard him.

"What’s wrong?" Karlien said.

"You remember that muggle woman with all the cats in our neighbourhood?" He said.

"Uhh… yes… I do remember somebody like that, an old women?"

"Yes, that one. She’s in Dumbledore’s office, look it says Arabella Figg. That’s her!" He said.

"What? I really thought she was a muggle!" Karlien said.

"Arabella Figg? You don’t know here? She’s a famous witch, she’s Dumbledore’s wife!" Ron said.

"Does Dumbledore has a wife?" Harry said.

"Why not? He’s also just a human man who can fall in love with somebody," Hermione said, "but how do you two know her if you thought she was a muggle?"

"She lives in our neighbourhood, she’s been my baby-sitter when the Dursleys were gone, she always acted horrible to me, maybe she didn’t meant it that way, I didn’t really like being with her, but it was always better than the Dursleys." Said Harry.

"She’s a very good witch, almost as good as Dumbledore." Ron said.

"Yes, and a very good actress." Harry said.

 

"Talking about cat-lovers, Hermione where’s Crookshanks?"

"I dunno, I think she’s with all the other cats, there’s something like the owl wing, but than for cats. And since she can’t enter our dorm, she’s staying there," She said, "and DON’T call me a cat-lover, because I’m not, I’m a Ron-lover." She blushed and Ron gave her a kiss on her cheek.

"I’ll never call you a cat-lover, house-elf-lover." Everybody except Hermione laughed.

"Okay, mister spider-lover." She said. Everybody laughed again, but now it was Ron’s turn not to laugh.

Harry knocked on his shoulders, and Ron finally started to laugh a bit.

 

"Back to business, the Gryffindor picture… ah, there it is." Said Harry, and they walked towards it.

Harry hit him in his nose, and the picture moved aside.

"I’ve been practising on hitting… best dreams… Malfoy, you know what I mean?"

 

They entered the room. It was small, 1 by 2 meter, and it was dark.

"Lumos" They all said, and four light beams lightened the room. There was nothing in it. This was the part his father discovered, now they were searching for the part his father made.

"Point me" Harry said, he used Hermione discovery which he used in the maze during the third task of the Triwizard Tournament.

His wand pointed north, so he concluded were the east-wall was.

"Now look for a brick on this wall, that has another colour than the others." He said.

Ron found it.

"Here it is," he said, "what now?"

 

Harry held the key in his hand, put his wand on the brick and said "reduaram", nothing happened.

"What now?" Karlien asked.

"Let’s look for another brick." Hermione suggested.

"You’re right," Harry said, "we don’t give up yet."

 

This time, Karlien found the brick.

Harry did the procedure again, and this time it worked. The wall opened, and there was a room, rather big, 4 by 5, and 2 meter high.

There were a lot of things in it.

Schoolbooks, old robes, an old dress robe of James, A piece of parchment with all sorts of expressions of Snape, very funny, and there was a book, written by James and Sirius, it explained how they became Animagus.

"Wow, I’m going to use that!" Harry said.

"Are you planning to be an Animagus?" Hermione said. "That’s really hard you know, but I don’t say it’s a bad idea!"

"Cool! I’ve always wanted to be one!" Ron said.

"I’ve already tried to become one, but it failed." Karlien said.

"Which animal did you tried to be?" Harry asked curious.

"A Phoenix, but becoming a magical creature is even more difficult then becoming a normal animal," Said Karlien, "Only one person managed to become a magical creature Animagus. It was the Dark Wizard Grindelwalt, he could become a dragon. And there are rumours that Slytherin could be a basilisk, and that he made a mistake once, and never became a wizard again."

"Slytherin? A basilisk? So if those rumours are correct, the basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets could be Slytherin?" Ron said.

"Yes, and I killed Slytherin if that’s true," Harry said, "Wow, first Voldemort, than Slytherin, who was even worse than Voldemort, I seem to be very lucky!"

"Yes, you certainly are a striking person." Karlien said.

"Well, I already knew that, I’m you boyfriend, remember?" said Harry. Everybody laughed, once again without somebody, this time it was Karlien.

"Which animal did you wanted to become? A flobberworm?" Karlien said, "That’s the only animal that’s comparable to you." Every lay on the ground, having pain from all the laughing, this time it was Harry who didn’t laugh. All four of them had to remain silence once now, House-elf, cat and Ron-lover-Hermione, Spider-lover-Ron, Harry’s-girlfriend-Karlien and flobberworm-Harry.

 

They stayed in the Marauders room for an hour, Ron was reading notes written about Snape in class, Harry read Lily’s love-letters to James, Hermione read an old schoolbook, the transfiguration book of the sixth years and Karlien read an Essay for Muggle-studies, it was about sailing in the Netherlands.

 

Next Monday.

Their first week of school was over. And the weekend was over too, way to soon, thought Harry, because they spent a lot of fun time in the Marauders room.

After breakfast, they had Potions, which was horrible, as always. They had to make a potion to turn objects like desks, quills, just everything into an animal. Snape became furious with Neville, because he accidentally spilled his potion on Snape’s shoe, which turned into a wasp, Snape stood on it, and well… you know what wasps do when you stand on them. Snape cried from pain. Neville had to stay after the lesson, and he had to remove a wasp nest from the forbidden forest, find the queen, and take her wings to Snape, without magic. Wasp queen wings are really valuable as a potion ingredient.

 

Domestic Science however was lot better, Winky was just getting her baby, and all the house-elves were standing around her and Dobby, they waited five minutes and Dobby came to the class, showing the baby, which was called Harry, after Harry.

It looked just like a human baby, it didn’t look like a house-elf at all.

"He will look like a house-elf when he’s older," Dobby said proud of his own baby, "Today, the girls will play with him, and the boys will be preparing baby food, which is the same as human baby food. Girls, please open your books on page 45, boys, you will open on page 65." The lesson was much fun. Harry -the baby- had a lot of fun with the girls, the girls themselves had a great time too. When Harry - the baby- ate the food, made by Seamus, he didn’t like it, neither he liked Ron’s food. Neville’s however, was delicious, he ate all of it, and he burped, Lavender was crying from happiness, she loved babies, especially when they do cute things like burping, she couldn’t keep her emotions for her self. The next hour, Winky wanted her baby back.

They students started on tonight’s dinner, they had to prepare hamburgers, lettuce, mayonnaise, ketchup, and more

"This just looks like McDonalds." Hermione said.

"What are you talking about? McDonalds? Is that some stupid muggle that looks like a hamburger?" Ron said.

"McDonalds is a very famous muggle hamburger shop all over the world. In some city’s they have a McDonalds on every corner of the street, it’s all just fast-food. I’m not saying it isn’t delicious, because it really is delicious. It’s just that it’s to popular, some people eat it with breakfast, lunch, dinner and as a snack, day after day, week after week, year after year, and you know… it’s not very healthy. I always went there with birthday party’s of my friends."

"Tell me about it, it is Dudley’s favourite place, when we went there, I always got one single piece of bread with cheese taken from home, and he got seven Happy Meals, five Big Mac’s and three milkshakes, and that was his appetiser, his real meal and dessert still had to come," Harry said, "I’ve never eaten one single piece of food from McDonalds."

"I’ll take you to a McDonalds when we go to the movies." Karlien promised.

"Okay. By the way, do you already know where we have to stay when we’re in Holland?" Harry asked.

"I think my family invites us to stay at their place." Karlien said.

 

When they went to the Great Hall, their hamburgers were already served, they were delicious.

After dinner, the whole Great Hall except the Slytherins burst into a spontaneous applause for tonight’s cooks. The Gryffindor fifth years were blushing furious. The meals the other students had made last week, weren’t very good, some of it was disgusting, like the Food made by the Seventh years, the meat was still raw, and the vegetables weren’t cleaned enough. The Gryffindor fifth years seemed to be a miracle class, but that might be because of the help of Neville, and Dobby always did extra his best when Harry Potter was around, all of that together, made their meals delicious.

 

The next morning they got a message from Hagrid.

 

Harry, Karlien, Hermione and all the Weasleys,

 

I’ve been talking to professor Dumbledore, and he agrees with the barbecue thing, but we have to use magic fire, because of the safety, my house is made from wood you know.

I’m going to Hogsmeade today to buy all the food, Karlien gave a list with things to buy. Please come to my house at 5 o’clock, then we go prepare for dinner.

 

Ps. I’ve invited two other people, I hope you don’t mind, but I’m sure you will like them to be there with us.

 

Hagrid.

 

"Great!" Ron said, and he went to tell Fred, George and Ginny.

 

At five o’clock, they left the castle and walked to Hagrid’s little wooden house.

There was a long table with a lot of meat on it, there even was a tube of ordinary muggle Ketchup and mayonnaise.

Hagrid wasn’t there yet.

 

Then they heard the front door of the castle open, and Hagrid came out of it, followed by Sirius and Remus.

 

"Great!, they are going to barbecue with us!" Harry said. And they said hello to Sirius and Remus.

 

"So, where’s that barbecue you took with you?" Hagrid asked.

"Damn, now you mention it, we’ve forgotten it upstairs. Wait, I’ll get it." Harry said.

"Accio" he said, concentrating on the barbecue they put in one of the cupboards in the little kitchen in their dorm. Just like he concentrated on his Firebolt, during the second task last year.

Nothing happened yet, but after a minute, the barbecue came flying through the air.

Harry caught it, "Here it is." He said.

 

They started a fire in the barbecue, and began to fry the meat.

"Is there any news on Voldemort yet?" Harry asked Sirius.

"Yes there is, but the ministry doesn’t want to tell the world yet." Sirius said.

"There are some people missing, muggles. And there has been one person killed by a death-eater, he killed himself, and I think you know who I mean, Wormtail. Lucius Malfoy is in Azkaban, and the ministry is planning a trial on him, they used Verisaserum on him, he told the ministry everything, Percy, who’s now Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, is really nervous, he has to decide what to do with him, and his son. I’ve heard rumours that he’s planning on giving Lucius The Kiss, and to give Draco a life sentence in Azkaban. I really hope he kisses him, because he’s the one who tortured my parents to death, I saw him doing it myself, but nobody believed me, because they thought I was a death-eater myself." Said Sirius.

"Lucius Malfoy killed your parents? I hope he gets the Kiss, I also hope his son , Draco, gets the kiss." Ron said.

"Why would you want him to be kissed?" Remus asked.

"Haven’t you heard what he did to us last summer?" Hermione said.

"Yes I did…" but Harry interrupted him, "He tried to ‘Kiss’ us too!" Harry yelled.

"Yes, your right, I didn’t thought of it that way, but now I do." Remus said.

"But I don’t think either of them will be kissed, because there are three people who have to agree with it, all of them, very important people. Fudge, Percy and Dumbledore, there has to be a majority, and I’m not sure whether Percy will follow Fudge or Dumbledore. I’m sure Fudge will agree with it, and Dumbledore won’t, so it depends on Percy."

 

The barbecue followed more pleasant, it was interesting to talk about the Malfoys’ penalty, but there were a lot, more interesting, subjects to talk about, like Quidditch. Hermione was reserve chaser, so she enjoyed the talk too. Sirius was a great fan of Quidditch and Remus was reserve keeper when he was at Hogwarts, he loved Quidditch too.

 

"I’m going to start the training tomorrow, the other houses won’t start for a month, so we have plenty of time to train. Fred, George, can you ask the girls to come to the Quidditch field tomorrow morning, five o’clock?" said Harry.

"What?!?!?! 5 o’clock?!?!?! I’ll be sleeping then!" Fred complained.

"Not if you go to bed when you have to, which is eleven o’clock. Did you seriously thought I didn’t know you were sneaking out at night?" Harry said.

"I didn’t think you were watching us every night" George said, sounding angry, because Harry spied on them.

"Other discussion," Sirius said, "Moony, do you know something to talk about?"

"No I don’t Padfoot."

Fred and George gasped.

"Why do you call your self Padfoot and Moony? And you just mentioned some Wormtail, why?" They said together.

"That’s how we called each other when we were at Hogwarts." Remus asked.

"You don’t happen to know some guy named Prongs, do you?" George asked.

"Prongs? Prongs is dead, he is Harry’s father, but how do you know about that?" Sirius asked.

"You don’t happen to know something about the Marauders Map, do you?" Fred asked.

"How do you know about that map?" Sirius and Remus asked astonished.

"We were the ones that gave it to Harry, but does that mean that Harry’s father, you two and that guy called Wormtail created the map? Who’s Wormtail by the way?" George asked.

"Wormtail is Peter Pettigrew, and yes, we created the map, but how did you get the map in the first place?" Remus said, acting like a strict teacher.

"A friend gave it to us." George lied. Remus and Sirius believed it, to Harry’s relieve.

"Don’t tell anyone, will you?" Sirius asked.

"I was just going to ask you the same thing, but yes, we won’t tell" George said, deeply impressed with them, and Harry’s father.

 

Next morning, Harry and his gang got up very early, Ron got with them, because he begged Harry to make him reserve seeker, Harry finally agreed, but also said that Ron had to train hard, because he had to learn a lot.

The other players were already in the common room, George was sleeping in Angelina’s lap, and Fred had a very big uncontrollable yawn.

Alicia and Katie were talking about boys.

Suddenly Neville come in the room.

"Hi Neville! Thanks you made it, so early. Everybody, this is Neville, and he’s very good at Domestic Science, so I asked him if he could sew our names on our robes, that would make it very special, because no other team has that." Said Harry.

"Is Dean coming too?" He asked.

"Yes, he getting dressed." Right when Neville said that, Dean showed up, "Morning." He said.

"Morning," Harry said, "This is Dean, and he’s good at drawing, so he’ll design appropriate characters and will draw a lion on our robes. He and Neville will team up to do that. I don’t want you to tell it to anybody, I would like to keep it as a surprise."

 

Neville and Dean discussed for a moment, then Dean got a piece of parchment, and drew a beautiful lion, and wrote all the names of the players and reserve players.

When he was finished, he showed it to Harry, he agreed with it, and gave Neville permission to sew it on the Quidditch Robes.

"Neiaan" he said, pointing his wand to Harry’s chess, which wore the robe. Suddenly, there was a moving lion on his robe, and his name, in beautiful gold curly characters, on his back, ‘Harry Potter, Seeker’.

Harry was satisfied, and Neville did the same with the other robes.

When he was ready, Harry gave Neville and Dean a pair of Quidditch robes, which they could wear during the game. They were really glad with it, because only players got the honour of wearing original Quidditch robes.

 

The team went to the Quidditch field, the sun was already rising, and it wasn’t very cold, it was a very niece temperature to train.

Harry summoned the balls, and they started to train. Katie and Alicia were training Hermione, who was better than Alicia and Katie, so it was more like: ‘Hermione was training Katie and Alicia’. Angelina was training Karlien, who also needed no training. Soon Karlien, Hermione and the other chasers were training special moves, like Harry had ordered them to do.

 

Harry was training Ron to be seeker, Ron wasn’t very good as Karlien and Hermione, but better than Malfoy.

Harry was showing Ron how to make high speed on his Nimbus 3001.

Then Harry released the Snitch, and it took Ron five minutes to catch it. He was good, but nothing compared to Harry.

When Ron learned enough, they also went on training special moves, Harry had soon mastered the Wronski Feint, Ron still had trouble with it, and crashed almost into the grass.

 

After training, they went to have breakfast, without anybody seeing their robes. And they followed their usual schedule.