Chapter 9

Walking around in the muggle world gives me a feeling of superiority. I can do anything, I can command someone to hand over everything he has, I can turn them into a chair or a pig. I can even imperio them to kill themselves. No wonder the wizards of this world think muggles below them. But sociopathic thoughts aside today I have a very important mission.

I need to solve my money problems, I gifted Harry a firebolt for his birthday, feeling a bit bad for him not getting one because of me, which was a sweet 600 galleons. So, my meagre collections from the ROR are already near half.

I have been scouting for the last few months, obviously I'm not going to earn the money through fair means, so I've found someone with no magical presence around him.

One Octav Botnar, the owner of Nissan UK, an 80-year-old Romanian national who earned his millions in the automotive industry. He has no next of kin with only a wife just as old as him, Marcela Botnav.

Currently they are fighting the British government for tax exile reasons, so he's here in the UK. I spent 2 weeks looking to overtake someone's fortune with the least amount of public reaction. The fruit of my hunt was Octav Botnar.

I scouted his house before and he only lives with his wife and a few helpers.

It's currently around 10 in the night, I find an empty alley and apparate outside a fairly large estate in Worthington, a quiet seaside town in Sussex. I cast a fairly strong disillusion charm on myself and make my way inside.

Nothing is an obstacle to me, guards they just ignore me, locked doors, a wave of my wand and they open. Negotiating my way through the house I finally reached a room with 2 people sleeping inside. Octav and Marcella.

I peek inside their minds. Huh they plan on opening a foundation with all their wealth, well that's not happening.

I started tweaking their memories. Now they will leave all their wealth to me. Well, my muggle identity, also called Peter Pettigrew. I got all the necessary papers to set it up in the last few weeks.

Now they will agree with the British government to pay the 24 million for tax fraud reasons, then transfer over all their wealth to me. Discreetly obviously, there will be no big announcements. They will continue to live here, their social life will be dead now, never going out meeting people etc

I will move into one of their houses in London, well my house now.

Looking at their health I don't think they will live long, at most another decade so I will leave them be.

Not only did I change their memories but cast a powerful imperio in both of them, to control them obviously.

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The quidditch world cup final is in a couple weeks. Sirius has duties as an Auror and Harry has gone to the Weasley's for a few weeks. Now I know that in canon a bunch of death eaters attack the event. My aim is to somehow catch a few of them. I need to know what Voldemort will do without me.

Even capturing them and handing them over to the ministry will be good, increasing my fame and reducing a few of Voldemort's supporters.

I am with these thoughts when an owl pecks on the window of my new house. Hmm who would send me a letter. I open the window and the owl comes in. I detach the letter from its feet and give it a few pieces of turkey bacon I was nibbling on before.

The letter has Hogwarts seal on it, a bit curious I open the letter.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Headmaster Albus Dumbledore

Dear Mr Pettigrew,

We are pleased to inform you that the vacancy for Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has arisen.

Professor Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts, is of the opinion that your expertise in magic would be a valuable asset to our school.

The position requires a witch or wizard of outstanding ability in the field of defensive magic, with a proven track record of instilling courage and resilience in young witches and wizards.

We would be honoured to have you join our esteemed faculty and impart your knowledge and experience to the next generation of witches and wizards.

If you are interested in this position, please write a letter to Professor Dumbledore by tomorrow.

We trust you will find Hogwarts a most rewarding place to work.

Sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall

Deputy Headmistress

What the hell.

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Next day I'm in front of the main gate at Hogwarts, early in the morning.

I had spent yesterday racking my brain as to why I would be offered this job. I have no idea why they would do it. I don't have any public history of being a gifted mage. All of Peter's life was average. The only thing of note would be where people believe that Sirius and I fought off a dozen death eaters. Do I even want to become a teacher.

Wasn't moody supposed to take this job, well a disguised Barty Crouch jr. has canon changed so much.

After that I received another shorter informal letter from Dumbledore himself asking to meet him at Hogwarts, so here I am now.

Professor McGonagall is there to greet me.

"Hello Mr. Pettigrew, it's nice to see you after so many years" she smiles at me.

"Thank you professor and it's nice to see you to" I smile back.

We start walking side by side towards the school.

"I must tell you how happy I was to hear the news that you were alive and well"

"It's good to finally be back" I respond.

We weave our way through the castle making small talk, McGonagall and Peter never had a deep connection, even during his time at Hogwarts Peter was just a normal if not a bit underwhelming student for her.

After some time, we reach Dumbledore's office.

"Lemon pop" Professor McGonagall gives the gargoyle outside the password and we move in.

Dumbledore is sitting on his throne like chair. He gets up and greets me.

"Thank you for coming on such short notice, Mr Pettigrew. Thank you, Professor McGonagall, for receiving him."

"It's no problem, Professor" I reply to the headmaster as we sit down on our seats, McGonagall nods to Dumbledore and leaves the office to give us some privacy.

"I must say I was surprised, shocked even to receive the letter yesterday, why me?" I say, looking at him.

"I will not lie and say that you were the first or even second choice my boy, the fact is that I haven't been able to find someone to fill the post. You were in fact number 4 on the list" he smiles at me. I see the humour and smile back.

"Not a good list when I'm number 4, huh"

"You underestimate yourself; you had decent grades while at Hogwarts, you fought off multiple wizards and survived being hunted for over a decade, you surely have enough merit to be a teacher at Hogwarts"

Our talk continues for over another hour. Dumbledore subtly testing my knowledge during the impromptu interview and I guess I passed as I do end up getting the job.

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I go straight to the Hogwarts library after my meeting/interview with Dumbledore. I ended up accepting his offer, frankly I have nothing to do, I could go on a bender, explore the world etc which I will do in the future but right now I need to be near the main characters, near the story, only after Voldemort is gone can I truly be free.

So here I am in the library going over the text books and materials for all 7 years at Hogwarts. I would have had to finalise the books for all the years but since all the letters have already been sent to the students along with book lists, I already have a set of books to work with, they must be good as Dumbledore had chosen them.

I also discussed a lot of other details with Dumbledore, the schedule, timetable, pay, holidays etc. The workload is extremely large. The typical Hogwarts day looks like this:

08:00-09:00: - Breakfast

09:00-10:10: - 1st Period

10:10-10:30: - Break

10:30-11:40: - 2nd Period

11:40-12:40: - Lunch

12:40-01:50: - 3rd Period

01:50-02:10: - Break

02:10-03:20: - 4th Period

03:20-03:30: - Break

03:30-04:40: - 5th Period.

Night classes are from 10-11 (Astronomy), with dinner being 08:00-09:00 p.m.

So, with 5 working days a week, that's 25 classes per week. Now years 1 to 5 have classes twice a week with one other house. Thats 5x2x2, 20, years 6 and 7 also have classes twice a week and those are combined, 2+2, 4. In total I will have 24 classes a week.

That means only 1 free period all week. In short, I will be working 9-5, 5 days a week that's excluding any time for homework, assignments etc. I refused Dumbledore right there but he convinced me back.

At least the pay is good, I will start out at 2800 galleons a year. I don't need the money but still it's one of the highest paying jobs in the wizarding world. Even someone who has worked for decades in the ministry only gets 1-2k galleons per year.

I will need to learn the ropes, so I have asked to come back tomorrow to meet with Professor McGonagall, hopefully she will give me a few tips and tricks.

I had planned to laze around till the quidditch cup final, now I have to come up with lesson plans for all 7 years at Hogwarts in 3 weeks. Why the hell did I agree to this, a thought crosses my mind and I smile.

It will be good to be back, after the first few weeks of terror, the rest of my previous stay at Hogwarts was quite enjoyable. Most of my old 'Partners' will be my students now. Dumbledore has no idea what kind of monster he has invited to Hogwarts.

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Harry was buzzing after the quidditch world cup final, Victor Krum is such a good player but Ireland were a well-oiled machine. A smile comes to his face as he remembers the match as he lies in bed in the tent at the venue.

He, Sirius and Peter came to watch the match with the Weasley's, although Sirius was hardly with them throughout the event, performing his duties as an Auror. He was out working even now, Peter giving him company.

He still can't believe that he has the same broom as those international players, although Ron seemed to envy the firebolt Peter gave him, he offered to share so it should be okay. He should thank Peter again when he sees him.

He hears a shout outside and his eyes open fully. Mr. Weasley quickly walks inside the tent with Hermione and Ginny, shouting "Quickly get up every one, quick"

"What's the matter" he asks, Ron is also up beside him.

"No time Harry, just grab a jacket, quickly everyone"

He does as told and they quickly make their way out of the tent. That's where he sees them, Sirius had told him a little about them, how they dressed etc, they were death eaters. Levitating muggles and destroying the camps.

"You lot get into the woods and stick together, I'll come and fetch you after it is sorted" says Mr. Weasley as he runs after Bill, Charlie and Percy who are already running towards the commotion.

"Okay everyone stick together" Fred and George take the lead, each holding one of Ginny's hands as they start walking towards the woods.

Harry, Ron and Hermione follow them. As they go deeper into the woods Harry only has one thought on his mind, are Sirius and Peter safe.

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I am under the invisibility cloak right now, tailing Harry and the kids.

I came along with Sirius and Harry to watch the quidditch cup final, it was an okay enough experience. After that I accompanied Sirius for a bit as he made his rounds, he really was happy to be back as an Auror.

I had left him a few hours ago and hidden inside the cloak waiting for the show to start.

Now as I see the kids running deeper into the forest, I whisper "Avenseguim", pointing my wand at the small pebble in my hand. Then levitate the pebble and use a sticking charm to stick it to Harry's pyjamas.

That will help me track where they are later now, I need to deal with some death eaters.

I quickly make my way towards the whole commotion. The death eaters and the ministry are having a stand off. The death eaters have control of a few muggles, children and adults, so the ministry workers and Aurors can't attack them.

I was mapping and observing the whole venue so I quickly counted and surely all the asshole blood purists are here.

I make my way behind them and cast the anti apparition charm on the whole area, it's quite a complicated bit of magic I learned just for this special occasion.

Everyone can instantly tell that anti apparition wards have been set up as a tension appears on everyone's face. They can feel my magic pressing down on them.

I use "accio" to pull the muggles towards me. I put them behind myself and take off the cloak. All the blood purists and ministry workers, which include Sirius and the Weasley's, turn to look at me with surprise.

No words are spoken, the supremacist's have deduced that I'm the one who put up the ward, to escape they need to deal with me.

All of them raise their wands towards me at different speeds but I am faster. My wand whistles in the air making the ground under them move, some of them lose their balance. The ones who didn't fire off multiple spells at me, I raise a wall in front of me using transfiguration. It starts expanding on both sides curving towards them. While I raise the ground under me so the top half of my body is above the wall I initially raised.

I had hoped that their eyes would follow the walls trying to encompass them which they thankfully are. I quickly fired off multiple stunners at them. Some of them are able to defend themselves, those who can't fall to the ground unconscious.

There were initially 11 of them, now 6 remain. They again send a salvo of spells at me. I cast a "protego" to defend myself.

While holding the shield with the wand in my right hand. I raise my left and attempt something I have tried desperately to do since coming to this world. Thankfully I was able to do it a few months ago.

I use wandless magic to summon one of them towards me. It doesn't fully work as I did cast it wandless and on a fully grown wizard trying to resist it but he does fly a few meters towards me and falls down.

That is enough to break the concentration of the others. As I quickly cancel my shield and send another flurry of stunners at them. This time another 3 fall.

I start running towards my right as the last 3 again start focusing their spell fire on me. One of them aims a bombarda in front of me which sends debris flying everywhere, I'm thrown against the direction I was running in, disoriented a bit, I am still thankfully able to raise an earth wall between myself and the attackers.

Okay fuck this, I have been trying to take it easy on them, making sure not to hurt them, only using stunners.

I cast a powerful banishing charm on the wall in front of me, which sends rocks flying at them.

Two of them are hit and fall down screaming, probably breaking some bones there. Two stunners quickly follow and they are unconscious.

The last person standing is quaking in his boots, I start walking towards him. He tries to fire a few spells at me, all of which I deflect.

A quick stunner sends him to the ground as well.

Hmm that was easier than I thought.

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