In another time

12 - the one with the duelling

"I was in a Muggle elementary school. Unlike Ted, who as a metamorphmagus, went to an elementary school that is ruled by witches and wizards. It was fun to be out of our world and just be James. And I could talk about a lot of funny Muggle things with Grandpa Arthur. He is fascinated by Muggles." Like too many other days, Lily, James and I sit in the room of requirement. I always narrate my life back in my time and the two just listen. Sometimes, I stutter and James figured some days ago out that his son will have the name Harry.

After some more chatting, we three go back to the Gryffindor common room and Lily directly goes to her friends in one corner. Meanwhile, James and I reach the corner where Sirius and Remus lean over a parchment and James whistles: "Sirius Black over a parchment? Are you sick? Do we have to bring you to the hospital wing?" Sirius slaps his best friend light on the back of his head and I chuckle. "What are you up to?"

"Little J, don't you want to go to our dorm? Or tell something important to Lily?" "Yeah, Padfoot is right. Have you done all your essays?" I try to pretend to be Grandma Molly with my hands on my hips and the Marauders begin to snigger. "After that poor argumentation, I want to know what you are up to! What idea do you have for a possible prank?" The boys stare at each other and Sirius finally sighs: "Fine. Under the condition that you won't pull a prank on us in the future!"

"Are you mental? That is the best 'bout it! But, if I can join your pranks, I reckon that will be fair. Until you are not pulling a prank against me, I will not prank you lot. Now, what are you planning?" "Well, do you see... You know, your prank with the blush gave us a few ideas! We thought if... "

I look at the map and point to James, who is behind a statue, a thumbs up. It can start. "Good morning Minerva!" I must stifle a laugh as Professor Dumbledore comes around the corner and greets McGonagall with a kind smile. "Hello Albus" "Want a sherbet lemon?" He holds the head of Gryffindor a lemon bonbon in front of her face and she freezes slightly. "Well, yes. I..." 

The conversation goes on, but my focus isn't on the two teachers any more.  James and Sirius just passed the Professors talking eagerly about quidditch. I turn to Remus and he nods. We begin to walk after the two boys reach the Great Hall and as we go right in, the whispers start. I reach with my hand for my messy hair and Remus talks to me about quidditch, too. I glance at Remus, who has currently black hair and an arrogant smile on his face. This is bloody brilliant!

"There are two James Potter's and two Sirius Black's!" "Who is the real Potter?" "What did they do this time?" "Where are Joe Potter and Remus Lupin?" "Oh, now we have four handsome Gryffindor!" I sigh, the murmurs are funny, but annoying. It was all really easy. We got out of the Hall in a group of four and are sitting now in Transfiguration. Remus drank another quarter from the potion, and I tried with all my ability to hold my transformed eyes as brown as James'.

"Black, Potter? You are so silent today!" The second McGonagall says that, we all reach into our pockets and Remus claps his hands together. The rat, who is the only one that didn't transform, whispers quietly the spell and soon, half the girls in the class start to blush in a deep red. "Potter?! Black?!" "Yes Professor?" After we all say that in unison, she blinks once. She blinks twice.

"Who is the real Potter?!" "I am, Professor" We both say that in unison once more, although only James and I answer. "James Potter!" "Yes!" Some more people start to blush and some blushes get from the dark shade of red to a lighter tone. "What did you do with our faces?" As Lily asks this, she has a dark red face and Remus, Sirius and Peter snigger in the background. I've to stifle a laugh because my dear Grandpa Potter certainly didn't laugh. Instead, we both just shrug with our shoulders and McGonagall sighs.

"Very well... Now to human transfiguration, you all need to think about the part that you want to transfigure very badly and tip on the point. Like this." She tips her wand against her left eyebrow and the eyebrow turns into small ones. She also changes her hair to a blonde tone and her robes in a dark blue like her green eyes to blue eyes.

At lunchtime knows the whole school about the 2 Blacks and the 2 Potters. And some girls  mostly from the 3rd to 7th year blush deeply during the day. Remus takes another sip of his potion and we walk to the Defence classroom. "Hopefully Lily succeeded!" "Yeah!" When we have to cast a Patronus, we would reveal who is who. I think it is the first time that the Marauders needed help by a girl. Especially help from Lily.

"Okay everyone! Today, we do something different than the patronus - charm! Each student please in groups of two!" We smile and go over to James as Remus stands beside Sirius. Lily sees that Peter is by his own and she wanders to the rat.

"Now, only harmless disarm and stun spells. If I hear or see that one of you casts dangerous or illegal or inappropriate spells and curses, we will have a talk with Headmaster Dumbledore. I would like that the ones that can do nonverbal spells to use this opportunity, but we didn't practice it yet. It will come surely during the year."

I smile. After some changes in the curriculum during the early 2000er, I've already done nonverbal spells during 5th year for the owls. I think "Protego" and a shield charm surrounds me. Prongs murmurs "Stupefy", but I recast the shield charm easily in time. Within minutes, I stupefied and disarmed my Grandpa.

Professor Prod congratulates me and gives Gryffindor some points. I smirk at the rather surprised looking James. After James isn't stunned anymore, I take his wand and levitate it to him. "Show-off" murmurs a girl from Slytherin, but she blushes in a dark red. Peter sniggers and all Marauders grin simultaneously.

"Well, new pairs! The Potter that won the battle, I would like you to duel me for an example of a mixture of nonverbal and verbal spells. I will use spells that are teached until 7th year. And, Mr. Potter, only spells to disarm, not to harm!" I nod with an honest smile as I look at my DADA Professor. We bow and I place a shield charm over me once more.

"Stupefy" "Protego!" roars Prod and I smirk. He points his wand to me, but says nothing. Nonverbal! I recast my shield charm just in time to see a red spark colliding with it. In a row, I set three stunners and one disarm charm which miss him only by a few inches each. He is distracted and I use that second to tip my hair with my wand. Soon, I feel the cold shiver triple down my back and hear one of the two Blacks murmurs: "Disillusion charm! Good one!" I guess that was Remus.

Professor Prod is standing in the middle of the room with a light smile on his face. "Great idea! Disillusion charm." I try to remove a bag which stands on the other side of the Professor. The table just rattles, but that is enough. Prod runs in that direction and I roar: "Petrificus Totalus!" I make myself visible again and see that the spell hit him. I ran to lay my teacher down gently and Sirius, James, Remus, the rat and Lily whistle and clap with huge grins on their faces.