Chapter Two
"Afternoon everyone. I'm glad to see no one is in a working mood, as I for one have had quite enough of school for one year." Hermione addressed her class with a wink, and was met with wide grins. She usually made them work hard, but always tried to make things as interesting and fun as possible.
"So what are we going to do today Professor?" Christopher the Ravenclaw prefect asked curiously.
"Ah, Christopher, always so eager to learn…" She teased him lightly.
"Well today we'll be extending our usual final five minutes of fun and games." Hermione said referring to her practice of quizzing her most advanced class in the form of a Muggle game show, complete with an illuminated score board, which she now conjured out of the air as she spoke.
"But today, things will be a little different. Anna's been in the lead by twenty points for three weeks, and it looks like she might just sweep the mystery prize to be presented at graduation, but I'm giving you all one last chance to gain a few points…though I'll be awarding the questions a little differently today. In fact, I've noticed there's definitely been one thing lacking in our little game show this last year…I need a glamorous assistant, sadly, my guest today refused to wear the sequinned dress I had all picked out…" She sighed dramatically as he students laughed.
"So, I agreed to hand over the reigns today to a guest host, and act as the glamorous assistant." She said smiling.
"So, who's our quiz master going to be today?" Josh asked.
"Well, why don't you take a look for yourself…time to get rid of the invisibility cloak…" She shouted to the back of the room. Her students all turned in amazement that someone had an invisibility cloak, knowing how rare they were, but their jaws dropped as they recognised the man now holding the cloak.
"Oh my god!" Tim exclaimed.
"Harry Potter!" Lu whispered in amazement.
Hermione laughed out loud to see her students' reactions to Harry's visit. She knew that for once they'd be shocked into almost silence. It wasn't often that Harry came out and about in the Wizarding world without convincing disguises. Harry looked up and smiled his trademark dazzling grin at her, and walking to the front of the class, jumped so he was sitting on the desk next to her.
"They always this quiet `Mione?" He asked loudly, and was elbowed in the ribs.
"Sorry…Professor Granger?" He said with a grin as the students giggled to hear Professor Granger referred to as `Mione, and to see the famous Harry Potter getting told off by her.
Hermione laughed at her class and the twinkle in Harry's eye.
"No, they're definitely not usually this quiet, give them a minute and you'll be hiding behind my desk Potter." She teased.
Harry stood and looked at her assessingly.
"Is that a challenge Granger?" He said as she stood and they looked at each other eye to eye, mischievous glints in their eyes.
"Of course! You know you can't resist a challenge."
"Is that right, Professor?" He said.
Harry turned to the class then, who were sitting delighted to overhear the banter between two of the most famous individuals in the Wizarding world. The girls suddenly wanting to be Professor Granger more than ever before, both for her pluck and humour, and her current proximity to Harry Potter, who would have been the object of their affection had he not been famous, simply for his amazing good looks, and runaway hair.
The boys who had idolised Harry Potter since birth, for his famous fights against Voldemort, and his victory in the final battle seven years before were delighted to find that their hero was down to earth and funny as well as the most powerful wizard since Albus Dumbledore.
Tom finally spoke up.
"So Mr. Potter is our new quizmaster then?" He asked with a grin.
Harry looked horrified.
"Oh god, call me Harry, no one's called me Mr. Potter since Snape, and I don't need to go back to those memories!" He chuckled, and the class laughed appreciatively having been through their own ordeals with Snape for the first three years of Hogwarts before he had taken a job in the Ministry of Magic.
"And yes, it seems I've been convinced to come in and act as your host, sadly Professor Granger also refused to wear the sequinned assistant dress, but I'm sure I'll cope…" He said as Hermione playfully whacked him in the arm.
Anna watched Professor Granger and Harry smile at each other and a sense of relief flooded through her. They had the same kind of relationship she and Josh had, and from reading books on recent Defence against the Dark Arts she knew they'd been friends since the first year of school, and they were obviously still close and got along well, maybe she didn't need to worry about her and Josh's friendship.