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The Bat of Gryffindor Tower.

Chapter 34: Of Halloween, Werewolves, and Quidditch

Summary:

Sirius Black takes a bath, Jason doesn't have a good time, Snape teaches a class, and Jason casts his first Patronus... "You can use Wandless Magic, Jason."

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"What do you mean?" Ron asked. "This guy escapes Azkaban and tells you that he's your Godfather so you just believe him?"

"No." Harry said. "Jason And Dick believe him, and that's good enough for me."

"So where do you stand on Scabbers?" Ron asked.

"If Jason says that he's Peter Pettigrew." Harry said. "Then I believe him."

Ron punched Harry in the face causing his nose to bleed.

Jason grabbed Ron’s hand when he went to punch Harry again, so Ron punched Jason with his free hand instead.

Jason spit blood onto the floor and said. "That was your one free shot for the year. Do you really want to do it again?"

Ron said. "You've thrown Scabbers to the wolves!"

"I'm a Grim actually." Sirius said, raising his hand sheepishly.

"Shut up!" Ron yelled and went to punch Jason again.

Jason grabbed Ron’s elbow with his own elbow and spun him into his other elbow before he put Ron in a sleeper hold and said. "Maybe you will be able to think clearer after your nap." And he dropped Ron when he was asleep.

"Now." Jason asked, standing up and brushing himself off. "What are we going to tell him when he wakes up?"

Alfred walked over to Harry and fixed his broken nose with a flick of his wand. With a second flick he cleaned up the blood.

"Allow me." Dick said. pulling out some smelling salts.

A few moments later Ron came to.

"Hey Ron" Dick said. "You may not know this, but Scabbers was a guy who changed into a rat. Soooo... I'd be less worried about the fact that everyone is against Scabbers and more worried about the fact that you were allowing a fully grown man to sleep with you."

At that moment comprehension crossed Ron’s face, and he let out a shrill scream that made everyone cringe... until Jason smacked him upside his head.

Ginny looked like she was going to be sick, and the twins looked like they had just seen the best prank ever pulled off in pranking history.

"I don't mean to bother anyone." Sirius said. "But it's been nearly 12 years since I've had a proper bath, and the fleas are killing me." He scratched the back of his head.

Ginny puked involuntarily.


Later.

After they took care of the vomit, Jason said. "I require a bathroom, make it the best you've got, also a fresh pair of robes, an overcoat or trench coat, and a pocket watch."

"Why all that stuff?" Sirius asked.

"Because you've been treated like vermin for the past twelve years." Jason said. "It's time for you to get something for your troubles."

The Room of Requirements switched to a very nice bathroom with all the comforts anymore could ever want. Jason handed him some basilisk armor. And the clothes, coat, and pocket watch came out of nowhere.

They walked to the sitting room and waited, while Sirius took a proper shower for the first time in twelve years.

"Don't you think it's odd waiting for him to shower?" Hermione asked.

"Would you rather him change into a Grim and run off after Pettigrew?" Bruce asked. "Trust me, there are only a handful of things that are weirder."

"Whatever you say." Hermione said.

They waited for about an hour before Sirius came out of the bathroom.

"You know." Ginny said. "Under all that grime you are actually quite good looking." Then she blushed. "Did that sound as weird as I thought it did?"

"Definitely." The twins said in unison.

"It's so embarrassing." Ginny said through her hands covering her face.

"Actually I'm quite flattered." Sirius said. "It gives me hope."

Ginny brought her hands down to reveal her face was as red as her hair.

"Does anyone know who's bathroom that is?" Sirius asked.

"No." Harry said. "Isn't it the schools."

"No. The Room of Requirements doesn't work like that. If you require something like that it has to use magic to replicate it. For all we know that bathroom could be a replica of Dumbledore’s bathroom. Which if that's the case I feel sorry for him."

"Why's that?" Neville asked.


Meanwhile at Malfoy manor.

Lucius Malfoy walked into his large bathroom to take a rather long bath, but when he got there, he saw that his bathroom was a mess. There was muddy, filthy water in the tub, there was grime on the floor and stubble and hair in the sink. He went to puke in the toilet but when he looked in the toilet saw that someone had forgotten to flush.


Back at Hogwarts.

"No reason." Sirius said, he took the pocket watch out of his pocket and looked at it before saying, "look at the time, you might want to start getting ready for the Halloween feast."

"Will you be okay?" Harry asked.

"I have so much to tell you about your parents." Sirius said. "I will be okay."

"We will offer you a place to stay." Bruce said.

"Thank you. After this whole affair is over, I have a place I can go to."

With that they split into two groups and went their separate ways. The students went to Gryffindor tower and got ready for the Halloween feast.


The Great Hall.

The feast was amazing, the decorations immaculate. Jason was on his third helping when his sixth sense began acting up. He ducked and felt the breeze made by a person’s hand going over him, he slid under the table and grabbed the assailants’ feet and pulled them causing the assailant to fall. Jason pushed the assailant away and crawled out from under the table to see Goyel on the ground.

Then he felt Crabbe stomp on his back and pin him to the floor.

"Well, well." Malfoy said amused by the situation. "The infamous Jason Todd at my mercy."

"What are you doing Malfoy!" Hermione said.

"Shut up Mudblood." Malfoy said. "We are going to do whatever we want to Todd."

"What about the teachers?" Neville asked squeamishly.

"Do you see any teachers here?" Malfoy laughed. "Fudge has them all occupied elsewhere. And now we have poor little Todd. Helpless."

Jason heard that word repeat in his ears and he flashed back to a cold concrete floor in a warehouse in Ethiopia. His hands cuffed behind his back, beaten with a crowbar until Joker thought he was unconscious, leaving him to crawl to the locked door only to be killed by an explosion that ended with him being here.

Rolling over, Jason caused Crabbe to lose his balance before grabbing Crabbe’s foot, twisting until it broke.

Jumping up, he grabbed Malfoy by the throat. "Never again will I be helpless!" He snarled before pushing Malfoy over Crabbe's bulk and picked Goyel up and smashed him down on Malfoy before he grabbed his stomach and ran to the closest boy's bathroom.


Later.

After Jason had regretted eating three plates at the feast. Leaving the bathroom, he saw Hermione.

“Hello Jason.” She said. “Are you okay?”

“Fine.” Jason said.

“People who are fine don’t have panic attacks, break people’s legs, and say things like “Never again will I be helpless!”.” Hermione said deepening her voice to sound more like Jason.

“Ha, ha. Very funny.”

“Do you want to talk about it?”

“Not really.”

“Okay. Well, I’ll be here when you want to talk about.”

“Thanks.”

“You’re welcome. Do you want to go back to the Common Room?”

“Yeah, let’s go.”

They made their way up to Gryffindor Tower. When they were halfway to the tower, they heard a terrible scream, and he used his grapple launcher to get them the rest of the way upstairs as quickly as possible.

Hermione held her hand to her mouth since she didn’t like moving at any kind of high speed while Jason ran to the portrait of the fat lady and saw that she was gone, and her frame was destroyed. He searched for her and found her a short while later.

"What happened?" He asked.

"It was terrible." The fat lady said. "It was so truly terrible."

"What was so terrible?" Jason asked.

"It was like looking at a ghost of the past." She said.

"Who was it?" Jason asked, almost losing his temper.

"Peter Pettigrew!" She yelled.

By this time a group of students and teachers had made their way to him.

"Peter Pettigrew?" Dean said. "Isn't he supposed to be dead."

"Yeah." Seamus joined in. "Wasn't it supposed to be Sirius black?"

Dumbledore pushed through the crowd and said. "My dear lady, tell us what happened."

"It was terrible Headmaster." The fat lady began. "He came up and said that he needed to get into the common room. I asked him for the password. He told me the password for last month, and I said that it was wrong. He got furious and his eyes became filled with a terrible anger. He told me that if I didn't let him in, he would make me regret it."

"Did he say why he wanted to get in?" Dumbledore asked.

"He said that he had work to do and failure was not an option." The fat lady said. "When I denied him entry he showed me a knife, he said that he didn't want to use it, but he would. When I still refused, he attacked me. A few minutes later Mr. Todd showed up."

Jason felt everyone's eyes on him. "Jason did you see anything?" Dumbledore asked.

"I heard the screams and ran up, but I didn't see anything." Jason said truthfully.

"Everyone to the Great Hall?" Dumbledore ordered.

The students were ushered to the great hall where the tables and benches were moved, and the floor was covered in big purple marshmallow like sleeping bags.

Jason, Neville, Harry, Ron, Hermione, the Weasley twins, the Patil Twins, Luna, and Ginny found sleeping bags and found a nice corner to sleep in. They stayed up talking in hushed tones about Pettigrew, after a while they all drifted to sleep.

If not for all of the Teachers walking the halls, Jason would have been scouring the halls, looking for Pettigrew.


The next morning.

Draco woke up still angry at Todd for making a fool out of him last night. He was a Malfoy, and everyone knew that Malfoy's always won. Todd should have laid there and allowed him his time to shine, but no. The stupid Mudblood had to save himself from his clutches.

Draco walked over to Jason and pointed his wand at them. Too bad he wasn't a Parsletongue like potter, then he could tell the snake to attack Todd when he woke up. "Serpensotia."

Neville was the first person to wake up in their group. He wished that he wasn't as scared as he was, but there was a long black snake curled up waiting for someone. He slid away, and got out of his sleeping bag. "Harry! Hermione!" He whispered.

Hermione was awoken from Somnus embrace by Neville who sounded scared. A scared Neville was nothing new, He probably had a nightmare or something. Then she Heard a faint Hissing. Was harry speaking Parsletongue in his sleep? She looked up, and not five feet from her was a snake, coiled and ready to strike at a moment’s notice.

Harry woke up to the feeling of being shaken awake. "What is it?" He mumbled. Hermione pointed at something, and he saw her pointing at a black snake.

The trio woke everyone else, but when they went to touch Jason, the snake would move closer to him, and move to strike. Hermione grabbed her wand, and pointed it towards the snake, but the snake opened its mouth, and made like it was going to strike Jason.

Jason woke up the next morning to see a long black snake curled up and waiting to strike. He saw that his friends were staring at him and Hermione said with tears in her eyes. "We're so sorry Jason. We all panicked, and whenever we tried to do anything, the snake tried to attack you."

Jason grabbed his wand and shoved it into the snake’s mouth when it tried to attack him. He held it off and said. "Someone unzip my sleeping bag!"

Neville and Parvati ran over to Jason and unzipped his sleeping bag, and he crawled out, keeping the snake at arms distance. "Someone grab my knives!" He yelled. By this time there was a rather large crowd gathered around.

Neville and Parvati each grabbed a knife. "Throw them in the air!" Jason yelled. When they did so he let go of his wand and grabbed his knives as they came down, pointing them at the snake. "Harry." He said. "Can you ask the snake to leave or something?"

"Leave this placcce." Harry said in Parseltongue.

The snake looked at Harry and said. "Why ssshould I? There are ssso many tasssty thingsss to try."

"That guy with the knivesss killed a basssilisssk and usssed itsss teeth and bonesss to make weaponssss." Harry said.

"Ssso he'sss dangerousss?" The snake asked.

"Yesss." Harry replied. "Very dangerousss. He also fought off a mountain troll, a hoard of Acromantulasss, and Dementorsss."

"He'sss very dangerousss." The snake said. "I'll leave now."

"You do that." Harry said. "But firssst tell usss who summoned you."

"The boy with the blonde hair." The snake said. "He really doesssn't like the one who isss very dangerousss. He doesssn't ssspeak sssnake but I got the messssssage."

"What wasss the messssssage?" Harry asked.

"Kill." The snake said. With that the snake slithered out of the great hall, and into the Forbidden Forest to live out the rest of his life.

Jason sunk to his knees completely wiped out. "I don't know about you guys, but that was scary."

The Group nodded. They had never seen Jason so tired before, let alone mention that he was scared.


Later.

Jason was walking to Professor Lupins class when he saw Harry leaving. "Hey Harry." Jason said.

"Morning Jason." Harry replied. "Are you having lessons on how to stop Dementors with Professor Lupin as well?"

"Yup." Jason said. "You just finished?"

"Yeah." Harry said. "Hope you do well."

"Thanks." Jason said. "See you on the Quidditch pitch."

"The game isn't for three days though." Harry said.

"Yeah." Jason said. "But if I say that I'll meet you on the Quidditch pitch then that means that I'll survive long enough to play Quidditch."

"Oh." Harry said caught off guard. "Okay then. See you on the Quidditch pitch."

Jason went into Professor Lupins class. "Have you been practicing." Lupin asked.

"Yes." Jason said.

"Good." Lupin said. "Now I want you to think about the Dementors. Think about the fear they instilled, not the fear of being helpless. I want you to be afraid of the Dementors themselves. That way we can use the boggart."

"Okay." Jason said. "Let's do this."

Lupin lifted the lid to the trunk and the ghostly visage of a Dementor came floating out. Jason thought about the first time he tried on the Robin suit, he let the happiness of that moment engulf him and when he was completely engulfed by the feeling, he pointed his wand at the Dementor and said. "Expecto Patronum." A white shield erupted from his wand. A few seconds later the Dementor broke through the shield, causing Jason to faint.

Jason was laying on the floor of the Warehouse in Ethiopia. Joker was standing over him, crowbar in hand. Joker went to swing, but Jason broke free from his handcuffs, pulling his Basilisk blade to him, and stabbing at the Joker who jumped away.

Lupin’s senses told him to jump just a second too early, and he was able to get away from Jason’s blade. “Jason! It’s me! It’s professor Lupin!”

Jason jumped at Lupin again only for Jason to run headfirst into Lupin’s desk, knocking himself out. Remus feared that had Jason not, Remus would be dead now. What could Jason have seen that sent him into such a rage?

When Jason woke up, he saw Professor Lupin helping him up.

"What did I do?" Jason asked.

"No Don't apologize." Lupin said. "You did well. What happy memory did you use?"

"When my dad adopted me." Jason said. It was a half-truth, but still a half-truth was better than a full lie.

"Is there another memory you could use?" Lupin asked.

"There is this one from last year. It's when Parvati was released from the hospital wing. After being petrified for a while." Jason said. "That was a very happy moment for me."

"Try that one." Lupin said.

Jason stood and thought about the day that Parvati was released from the hospital wing last year. He nodded. Professor Lupin unlatched the trunk and the Dementor came out. Jason let the memory of him holding Parvati envelope him and he said. "Expecto Patronum." The Dementor was repelled. Jason allowed his memory to become thoughts of all his friends, and he thought about how many times he'd helped them and that he was so happy that they were safe again, suddenly the shield became a steppe polecat and snarled at the Dementor, who began backing away. The polecat launched itself at the Dementor and attacked it, ripping pieces of its robe and biting it on its hand before running up and scratching at its face before the Dementor ran back into the trunk.

"Well done." Lupin said after he locked the trunk. "It would appear that the memory of Ms. Patil was very effective."

"It wasn't just Parvati." Jason smiled. "It was all my friends, I saw all the times that we were there for each other, and that gave me the strength I needed. I could feel the feeling of helplessness closing in on me, until I saw my friends, and they helped me overcome it."

"I see." Lupin said. "Your patronus appears to be a polecat. They can be quite vicious."

"Let's hope so." Jason said the smile grew bigger on his face.


The next week.

Jason went to Defense against the Dark Arts and saw a very angry looking Snape.

"Get in here and take your seat Todd!" Snape snarled.

Jason strolled to his seat and sat down, taking his time to annoy Snape as much as possible in the seconds that it took to get to his seat.

"Now. Open your textbooks to page 394."

"But sir." Hermione said. "We haven't reached that chapter yet, we were supposed to study..."

"Ten points from Gryffindor!" Snape yelled. "Now can anyone tell me the differences between a wolf and a werewolf?"

Hermione raised her hand.

"No one?" Snape asked.

"Please sir." Hermione said. "The difference between a wolf and a werewolf is..."

"The next time I want an insufferable know-it-all…" Snape snapped. "…I'll be sure to ask you Ms. Granger! But until then you will speak only when spoken to. Am I understood!"

"Yes." Hermione said before collapsing in a fit of tears.

"You didn't have to do that!" Ron and Harry yelled in unison. "You wanted an answer, and she gave you an answer."

"Ten points each from Gryffindor!" Snape yelled.

Jason stood up and yelled. "SHUT THE HELL UP YOU PALE, PASTY SKINNED BASTARD! Will you just stop taking your aggression for your past out on your students? You blame Harry for his dad's shortcomings as a kid, you blame Neville because you don't have the patience to take him to the side and help him, you act like Malfoys nanny because you’re afraid of his dad for whatever reason, and you hate anyone who has morals and a brain! Just shut the fuck up and be a decent teacher for once in your miserably pathetic life!"

Snape looked like he was going to have an aneurysm, the veins in his forehead and throat were pulsing. He saw red and before he knew what he was doing he grabbed his wand and went to cast a spell, but Jason was faster and cast. "Protego." Followed by. "Expelliarmus."

Jason caught Snape's wand and pointed his wand at Malfoy, whose wand came flying to him as well. "Anyone else!?" Jason practically snarled.

Everyone else looked at their textbooks.

"You will give Malfoy and myself our wands back!" Snape demanded.

"On one condition." Jason said. "You treat your students better."

"Or how about I give you detention for an indefinite amount of time?" Snape asked.

Jason threw a throwing knife at Snape. It stuck in the table. "I don't care what you do to me!" He yelled. "But you will treat all of your students equal. You won't treat the Slytherin house better than any other house, you won't treat the Gryffindor House worse than any other house, you will reward and discipline every student the same as the next, you won't hate Harry and Neville, or else the next one goes through your eye."

Snape saw the blood lust in Jason's eyes, he was serious. Then his eyes softened and he walked to Snape and gave him his wand back, before throwing Malfoys wand at Malfoy who caught it and cast. "Serpensortia!"

The wand shot rubber snakes from the tip.

After class Jason walked up to Snape and said. "I'm sorry Professor. I never realized the amount of stress you are under and I just lashed out. You have to teach a bunch of idiot first years how to make potions, then you have to teach at least six more classes, followed by cleaning up after your students, which means that you spend between 15 and 20 hours doing potions related material, so that means that you have four hours to eat and sleep if you get the chance, and you have people like Neville who are so nervous that you are going to yell at him that he messes up, and Seamus who blows up everything within a ten foot radius, and me who thought that I was helping my fellow classmates only to cause you more grief that you don't have time for. I don't expect forgiveness, but I am sorry."

With that Jason left.


The Quidditch game.

The rain was so bad that even the spells that Jason had put on his goggles to keep the water off wasn't working. They had been playing for twenty minutes when Harry saw the snitch and was chasing after it. Jason saw Cedric Diggory on Harry's tail and hit a Bludger towards him. The Bludger gave Harry just enough time to grab the snitch, but he fell off of his broom and let go of the snitch because...

"DEMENTORS!" A girl shrieked at the same time Harry fell off.

Jason spun around and saw dementors, he reacted as quickly as he could. He shot his grapple launcher at Harry and caught his leg, Unfortunately Jason slid from his broom clutching it with one leg. He retracted the grapple and began pulling Harry to him, then pulled out his wand and let the memories of his friends flood over him before yelling. "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" From his wand a magnificent polecat erupted and shot towards the Dementors chasing them away.

Jason grabbed Harry and undid the grapple before pointing it towards the largest hoop and shot it at the largest hoop, it caught hold and he pulled himself to the hoop. Once there, a large gust of wind knocked them off of Jason's broom and Jason yelled in rage as gravity took effect.

They made it to the ground by a miracle, where Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Madam Pomfrey were waiting for them.

"MOVE!" Jason yelled as he carried Harry off the field and towards the hospital wing.

On his way there he ran into Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyel.

"Get out of my way Malfoy." Jason snarled.

"Out of the way!" Madam Pomfrey yelled.

"No." Malfoy said defiantly. "No more Potter works for me."

"Take Harry." Jason said giving Harry to Madam Pomfrey. "I'll handle those three." He took off his Quidditch uniform which was sopping wet and said. "You think that your father's influence gives you free reign to do whatever you want?"

"No." Malfoy smiled evilly. "I know it does."

Jason felt something wake up inside him, his eyesight worsened and his sense of smell increased considerably to the point where he could smell the product in Malfoy’s hair. His reflexes were enhanced even more than they already were, and he jumped to the wall, and jumped over Malfoy, landing behind Crabbe and kicked his leg breaking it at the kneecap.

Crabbe yelled in pain and Jason grabbed his head and smashed it into the wall. He ducked when Goyel tried to punch him and he grabbed Goyel by his arm and broke it over his shoulder, before he vaulted over Goyel before pushing him into the wall and punching him in the face breaking his nose.

"Why are you so determined to stop us!" Malfoy demanded. “We are Purebloods! We are your betters! You should roll over and let us do as we please!”

"I don't know." Jason said, stalking over to Malfoy, fury and rage rolling off his shoulders, creating a cloak of rage and fury. "Why are you so determined to be a fucking nuisance?"

"I'm better than everyone, I'm superior, I'm a pureblood!" Malfoy shouted. "Being pure blood automatically makes me better. Why do you love all of the filthy mudbloods and half-bloods."

"Because." Jason said. "I'd rather have a Muggle born by my side any day of the week than some airhead pure blood supremacist who thinks they are a god."

"Why don't you crave more power?" Malfoy asked backing away.

"Because. Power corrupts." Jason said. "I don't need power to rule; I need power to protect, and I have all the power I could ever want. Look at you, you’re backing away from me because I scare you. I have all power here."

"Protecting is for the weak." Malfoy blathered. "You are strong, join us."

"No." Jason said flatly. “Why would I want to join a group of people who think sleeping with their family to keep the line “pure”? That’s not purity. That’s inbreeding and leads to all sorts of disabilities and deformities. Why would I want to be part of that?”

"Then I'll make you beg for death." Malfoy said pulling out his wand.

Jason grabbed Malfoy by his robes and threw him face first into the wall. "The day I beg for death is the day you are made king of the world." He said before walking away. “A day that I will make sure never comes to pass.” He added.


The Hospital Wing.

Harry woke up in the hospital wing. The last thing he remembered was catching the snitch, then he heard his mother’s scream, and passed out. Looking around he saw his friends gathered around him. "Where's Jason?" He asked.

"He carried you off field and gave you to Madam Pomfrey." Alicia said.

"We found these." Ron said pulling out two bundles.

It was the remnants of two broken nimbuses.

"Did Jason's broom break because he was trying to save me?" Harry asked.

The silence gave him his answer.

"I'll pay him back." Harry said. "I'll buy him the newest broom out there."

"You'll do no such thing!" Jason yelled pushing the doors to the hospital wing open.

"I'm the reason your broom got broken." Harry said.

"I could care less about that broom." Jason said harshly. "A broom can be replaced. A living, breathing person can't."

"Dumbledore was furious." Hermione said, changing the topic. "He started chewing the Dementors out when Jason took you off the field. I don't think that I've ever seen him so angry."

The door opened and Professors Dumbledore, McGonagall, and Snape came in, along with Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyel on stretchers.

Once they put them in the beds, Snape looked at Jason and said. "What happened Todd." Showing him his Quidditch robes from the floor.

"They tried to prevent Madam Pomfrey and myself from getting Harry here." Jason said.

"So naturally that meant you had to beat them senseless." Snape said.

"Harry was injured. So yes." Jason said.

"I won't take points from Gryffindor or Slytherin, so long as Madam Pomfrey can corroborate your story. As for the Slytherin, I feel that they have received sufficient punishment for their crimes." Snape said.

Madam Pomfrey told Snape what Jason said happened did indeed happen. So Snape didn't take points.

McGonagall, however, took ten points from each of them for fighting in the halls, and an additional twenty points from the three Slytherin students for endangering a student in critical condition.

Madam Pomfrey also disciplined the three Slytherin students by using muggle healing chemicals, given to her by Jason, to treat their wounds. Since they did not know what iodine did, they were calm until they felt the burning and the stinging of the iodine. The whole experience scarred her so much that she had Jason administer the iodine to them on his own, which Jason enjoyed immensely.


The next day.

Jason went to Defense against the Dark Arts class. He sat beside Harry, pulled his homework on Werewolves out, ready to turn it in, and when Lupin came in the class visibly relaxed.

"Good morning." Lupin said. "How was the class with Professor Snape?"

"He made Hermione cry." Lavender Brown said.

"Jason chewed him out." Padma, wearing Parvati’s robes, said.

"He made us write two feet of parchment on werewolves." Ron complained.

"It sounds exciting." Lupin said. "Don't worry though, you won't have to write the essays, and if you have you won't have to turn it in."

Everyone but Hermione let out a sigh in relief.

"But. If you would like extra credit for your essays, then I will take them as extra credit."

Hermione seemed to perk up after that.

After class both Harry and Jason were asked to stay behind.

"Harry, Jason, do you know why you are affected so terribly by the Dementors?" Lupin asked.

Both shook their heads.

"It's because the both of you have experienced things that were so terrible that others can’t understand, no matter how well meaning their intentions." Lupin said. "Harry, you witnessed your mother’s death. Jason, your parents abandoned you to the streets. Both of these are things that most people couldn't even imagine. So it is no wonder why the Dementors effect you so."

They thought about this for a while, until Lupin said. "Jason, I know what you did when you Summoned your wand to your hand."

"What is it?" Jason asked.

"Wandless magic." Lupin said. "It's fairly rare, but you did indeed preform wandless magic."