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Gred and Forge against the NEWT DADA class – sidestory to “Let's Try That Again, Shall We?”

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Sidestory (Omake) for a fanfiction “Let's Try That Again, Shall We?” in the Harry Potter fandom.

My first fanfiction (and yes, English is only my third natural language, and I learned three computer programming languages before it).

Originally appeared in a comment to the story on Ficwad.

Notes:

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This story is a sidestory for “Let's Try That Again, Shall We?” by Circaea.

By inheritance, this story leans on the Harry Potter series which I’m pretty sure (I seem to have misplaced my exemplar of her book) was authored by J.K.Rowling and may have trademarks associated with it.


(now, with legal B.S. out of the way.....) (this is actually a quote from the kernel’s dev/rnd.c by tytso)

The story text and author’s notes below are copied as-is from the original posting. This licence, disclaimer and notes is new for the AO3 where it’s set up as separate work. It may make sense to read her story first, up to chapter 28 “Notes and Conversations”.

(See the end of the work for more notes.)

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   ┌───────┐
   │ OMAKE │
   └───────┘

Next day, in Defence Against the Dark Arts class.

“Ladies and Gentlemen, today we’re having two assistants during the practical part of the lesson… well, during the lesson, that is.” The class perked up at that. “I present to you…

“… the brothers Weasley!” – Groaning went through the room. Charlie wondered what the two (and the weird teacher!) were up to this time, whereas a particularily loud-mouth Gryffindor shouted what they were to learn from _second-years_ out of all things! Professor Eeles merely countered “well, you’re a NEWT level class, so you’re supposed to be better than them, right?”

To which the loud-mouth readily agreed, while Charlie became wary.

“Today’s exercise: everyone takes a school broom – no hurrying, I will assign them – and goes up in the air. I will provide pellets of mud into the air, and you, gentlemen and -ladies, are to hit each other with these while maintaining a shield charm. If you’re hit, you will come down. The whole of the class is up against the Weasley brothers, well all three of them to make it even.”

Laughter.


• _.,-=~=-,._ • Later, on the Quidditch pitch • _.,-=~=-,._ •

Charlie had managed to keep up his shield charm while flying, but had been absolutely no help in hitting. Tonks had her first “official” encounter with the Twins and couldn’t help but be amazed – while she had been an Auror, she didn’t cheat, but they managed to distract her and Forge got her in the back while strengthening her shield against Gred and Charlie in the front – before she, or anyone else, for that matter, knew he couldn’t aim while maintaing a shield. The rest of the class was fair game after that, and a particularily loud-mouth (well, no longer…) Gryffindor was docked in no less than seven mud pellets. Gred and Forge made a good job out of it while not neglecting _their_ own basic level shield charm (some of the class used higher-level ones, but couldn’t hold them up long enough in the end).

On the ground, Professor Eeles tried to conceal his laughter while Professor Dumbledore – as usual seeming to appear out of thin air when there was fun to watch – didn’t even attempt to. He did, however, assign fifty points to Gryffindor for a lesson well taught.

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   │ The End │
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Notes:

Wow, I think I just wrote my first piece of fanfiction, even if it’s set in the “Let's Try That Again, Shall We?” universe, not the Potterverse. If you want, I’ll put up disclaimer and licence. I didn’t particularily care whether the NEWT class was all houses combined, Tonks had “officially” met the Twins before or was only a sixth-year at that point (and didn’t bother looking it up), just wanted to get the idea out.

Have fun!