Chapter 86 - 86- Sh*t and Yay

Harry's POV

After the sorting was done- Astoria is Slytherin Yay (cause it is easier to do tests), and everyone was about to finish eating, and move to desert, Harry decided to take off to see Luna, as he did everything he wanted to do.

1) listened to the sorting hat's new song- after last year he was a fan

2) made sure Lupin is the new Defense teacher- he is

3) eaten- as he was starving

The only thing that confused him is the absence of Professor Snape, but he assumed the potion's professor might be helping madam Poppy with all the students the Dementors affected extremely badly.

Just as he was about to leave his chair, the doors of the grand hall opened with a bang.

'I swear, the only reason they close those doors are for grand entrance'

From it came three out of his top five of least favorite people, the Potter family.

'What the f*ck are they doing here?'

At this point Dumbledore rouse from his chair.

"I'm sorry to interrupt while you are eating, but if I may have a moment of your attention" the headmaster said merrily, even though Harry saw some of the students didn't listen and continued to eat (*cough Ron cough*), but the food just disappeared from the tables.

"I would like to present to you, before the desserts, our new teachers- In the care of magical creatures, I'm happy to announce Hagrid will become the new Professor."

The clapping was slow and only some of the students clapped, probably because, even though Hagrid is a nice person, he wasn't the best person to become a teacher, as he isn't the smartest, nor does he know how to teach regular students - he is better off teaching gifted students who love animals- like Luna. "As for the Defence position," Dumbledore continued "let me introduce to you - Remus Lupin."

Again, the clapping wasn't much.

This time, probably because of the unkept look he had, and the last two years of terrible defense teachers.

"Thirdly, for the muggle studies class, I'm thrilled to tell you that for the first time since 1746, we once again have a muggleborn teach this class. Please welcome Lili Potter nè Evens."

This time he saw most of the school clapping as hard as possible, except for some of the more idiotic Slytherin, those who have not even one cunning bone in their body.

"Lastly, as you know, the criminal Sirius Black escaped Azkaban, and while the ministry decided to send the Dementors to protect us, we also got human defender, please welcome Lord James Potter, who will stay this year in Hogwarts for as long as we have need for him."

This time the clapping was the loudest, as the entire school went crazy, the racist pure bloods happy the defender is from a 'pure noble house', the racist muggleborn are happy it is someone who married one of theirs, and those who didn't care about blood were happy there is someone other then soul sucking demons defending them.

The only one who was seething was Harry, as having both Remus, who he never liked in the books, and the Potter couple, whose light he wished to see leave from their eyes, wasn't an option he thought about before.

Letting the clapping die down on its own, Dumbledore then told them about the regular rules and to keep away from the dementors before letting the desserts come up.

Harry quietly rouse from the chair and left the grand hall in the bathroom direction, as to not get any attention, having no wish whatsoever to talk to anyone right now except Luna.

As he left the grand hall and went in the direction of the hospital wing, one of the few people who wasn't in the hall walked toward him.

"Mister Peverell, what a lucky coincident." Professor Snape called "Just the boy I was looking for."

"Hello professor, How was your summer?" He asked politely

"Would have been better if I didn't have to work on all the needed forms for you." The crooked nose man snarked.

Harry immediately understood why the professor was looking for him, he was about to give him the time turner.

Walking quietly, as to not anger the one who was about to give him one of the most incredible devices created by magical people, they quickly reached Snape's office.

"Have a sit." The professor said

"What I'm about to give you is something that I promised never to give to one of my Students without them know the dangers, and even then, never for an idiotic reason like being able to be in more classes." He then took out of his pocket a metal box and opened it, showing Harry the Time Turner, it looked like a tiny, golden hourglass, but Harry could almost feel its incredibility.

"This is a Time Turner, as I know you grew up with muggles, you can think of it as a time machine." The Slytherin head of house waited for a big exchange that never came, confirming his hypothesis about the boy being aware about the magical artifact before the conversation

"Now, I can only give this to you as not only we didn't give it to anyone else this year, but I also said you are going to be my helper."

The first sentence made Harry almost jump in joy, as it meant he was right and the polyjuice incident last year prevented three chances for the Gryffindor bookworm from having the chance to experience time travel.

The second part made him weary.

"What exactly would I need to do as your helper?"

"You would get every day a later about the exact minutes I needed some one to put ingredients and swirl the potion I'm working about, to do that, as the potion is extremely delicate, you would also have to learn everything there is to know about the potion."

"That's it?" Harry was surprised, as he assumed it was more in the direction of drinking experimental potions.

"No."

'Of course not, if it was he would just have a couple of sixth years do it for extra credit, it's not like he know I have studied potions to master level.'

"You will also have to sit with me every Saturday and tell me about the progress you did in creating the cure for the blood curse, after all, Basitill asked me to keep him updated about your progress."

That made Harry raise his right eyebrow, as he could tell the man was lying, and if you can tell a spy is lying it means he doesn't even try to hide it.

"I agree" he said reaching for the Time Turner.

"I'm not finished, now I will tell you about the dangers of traveling back in time."

Harry could guess them, but instead of saying it, he let the man continue

"Traveling back in time have dangers you can't imagine, first of all, if you accidentally do something to your past self, or do something that would cause your past self to somehow not to travel back like it was supposed to do, you will make the world n be stuck in an endless loop, dooming us all.

Secondly, even if you avoided destroying the time line, the hours you spend in the past are continuing your growth, thus making you older then you are, and eventually, shortening your life span."

Harry wasn't really fearing any of those possibilities, as while the first fear was somewhat justified, if regular wizards, who has as much sense as a five year old who ate a metric ton worth of candies, can keep the time line safe, he was sure he can.

As for the second fear, not only does magic makes you live longer and the more powerful you are, the longer you might live, he also has in his possession the philosopher's stone that grants a person more years to live.

And even if he didn't have all of that, he isn't really losing one or two years in the future, as he will still live them, just in the past.

"I understand." He said reaching to the box, this time the professor doesn't stop him and just sigh.

"I hope you do."

After that, they left the office, Snape to give the first year's Slytherin his monologue, and Harry to finally visit Luna.