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There are at least 12 teachers teaching the first lessons of the day in Hogwarts.

Assumption1: Certain classes may be per house ie. one house one class. Average is two houses per class(as far as I can remember from the books and movie). There may be classes where all four houses attend together (as per unicorn). Therefore I took the average for the first lesson in the morning i.e each class has two house attending.
Exception1: year 6 and 7.Setting the minimum number of class, there are at least two classes (one for 6 one for 7 ).

Final result: Minimum number of teachers teaching the first lesson of the morning.
average: 5(1,2,3,4,5 years) x 2(two house classes)=10 teachers
Exception: 2 (6th-year 7th year)=2 teachers.
Total minimum: 12 teachers

(Is my assumption reasonable? Consider that Hogwarts is a boarding school and not a college. Assuming like traditional boarding schools having the first period mandatory with roll taking and whatnot ( personal experience ). So you won't find a 'first lesson' class without a teacher. And since a teacher cannot be at two places at the same time(magic exception is magic), ergo, the number of 'first lesson' is the minimum number of teachers in a school. )

Note: note that this is the minimum number of teacher in the school. like in real world, there should be more teachers to this minimum number unless all these teachers can teach classes whole day, whole week, or there are lots of free periods in between. How many teachers were there in cannon for a given year? (4 head of house ) and the yearly harryBait, and Trewaly (divination). There must be more than that but since they were unimportant to the plot they were simply not mentioned (my assumption)
 
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There are at least 12 teachers teaching the first lessons of the day in Hogwarts.
Transfiguration- McGonagall
Potions- Snape
Herbology- Sprout
Charms- Flitwick
DADA-?
Ancient Runes- Babbling
Astronomy- Sinistra
Divination- Trelawney
Muggle Studies- Burbage
Care of Magical Creatures- Hagrid
History of Magic- Binns
Flying- Hooch
Arithmancy- Vector
and maybe more.

Now edited and thanks for the AC prof's name and Arithmancy.
 
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How long/often was flying as a course A Thing however? Granted, it has been a while since I read the series (and I've read some fanfiction since then), but I seem to remember flying being more or less an introductory course, not something that really stayed for that long (that might of course also be based on Harry being yoinked out of the class by McGonagall).
 
HP/MGLN - Shooting Star
Harry Potter was running away from his perpetual bullies, his cousin Dudley and his gang. He had enough of a lead to maybe lose them by darting around a corner but quickly doubling back to hide, and for some reason that usually worked with the large trash cans by the kitchen doors. Except that they'd been moved a bit from their usual position today, and as he tried to jump behind them something weird happened. The next thing he knew, he was on the roof, sitting on the chimney.

He was still puzzling this out, and his cousin was still trying to find him, when something made him look up. His eyes went wide as he realized that there was a shooting star in the sky. Except that it had been heading for the horizon, but seemed to have turned. And, against all odds, was heading straight for him.

Unfortunately, he had far less time than he'd thought to determine the safest way to get out of the way of the shooting star, and it impacted him and the chimney only a few seconds later.



Sternschnuppe had been drifting for far too long. He had lost a lot of memory, and sacrificed more to use as raw materials in a desperate attempt to repair himself enough to stop drifting. In many ways he would've preferred to self-terminate, to put himself out of his misery, but self-preservation was second only to the safety of his Lord in his core programming. Not that it had done his former Lord any good, the destruction of Belka tearing his barriers and body to pieces even as it cast Sternschnuppe into the void.

Luckily for him, he had gotten enough jury-rigged to exit the void into a proper star system. Even better, there were mana signatures of some kind on the planet he found himself approaching. On the flip side, he quickly determined that he wasn't prepared for atmospheric re-entry and his shields started to have problems almost immediately due to his depleted energy reserves. Which meant that he was likely to burn up before he ever landed, and there was nothing he could do about it. Six hundred passes over the situation by his self-preservation routines finally determined that he had no chance to survive, and they were ready to pass control on to the 'minimize damage to innocents' directives.

Before that could happen, a wild pulse of mana erupted from the surface of the planet. One that provided just enough energy to restore shields for another few minutes. Instead of self-destructing to prevent damage to the planet, Sternschnuppe found himself locking onto the source of the pulse of mana and following a thread of it back to the source. He needed the energy that had been released to complete repairs and his self-preservation routines weren't going to let him say no. Except that as he approached he realized that he was about to crash into a child.

Attempting to override his course failed, as his self-preservation routines were in full control. They would not be denied the energy available to enact self-repair. That the energy was emanating from a child and his approach was likely to result in the child's death was inconsequential to the routines. They weren't sophisticated enough to realize that the child's death would likely render the energy unavailable either.

But, if the child was the source of the pulse of mana, then the child was a mage. A young one, but that was okay, because it gave Sternschnuppe a last-ditch option to save the child's life.

ALERT: Target designation changed. New designation: Lord.



The entire school had devolved into chaos when the kitchen roof had exploded, only Harry having noticed the shooting star coming down to strike it. But he couldn't tell anyone about it, because he was deep in the rubble of the building, unconscious and encased in a glowing bubble of energy.

Four kitchen staff members, a teacher, and six students had been injured in the explosion. They were all dragged off quickly, and teachers started gathering students into their classes and taking head-counts. It was this chaos that the accidental magic reversal squad found when they arrived, and they immediately sent for emergency backup. Whatever had happened here needed a proper cover-up ASAP, and they weren't equipped for it.

An hour later Dumbledore would finally arrive, after being informed that the only missing child was one Harry Potter. He ensured that the muggles thought that he and those working to clear the destroyed building were experts in search and rescue, and within ten minutes they'd cleared a hole to where young Harry sat in the glowing bubble of energy. They were just in time to hear an ear-splitting inhuman scream, one accompanied by a pulse of energy from the bubble.

Fifteen seconds later, a dark mass of energy streaked in and hit the bubble, only to almost immediately be followed by another inhuman scream. This happened four more times, and then they decided it was done and started excavating more around the bubble while a specialized ambulance was summoned. Occasionally you needed to get someone to Saint Mungo's when magical transportation wasn't an option, and this was one of those times.

Thirty minutes later they'd gotten the bubble of energy out of the hole, but dropped it on the ground in surprise as a final dark mass of energy slammed into it. This time there wasn't a scream so much as a deathly wail, and they'd later find out that the pulse of energy released had been picked up in Australia. It would take the Ministry three years to rebuild their magic detection net after the pulse blew it out.

The group working at the scene recovered surprisingly quickly, though that was mostly due to everyone having snap-cast a shield in time to divert enough of the pulse away from them. Five minutes later, just as they were getting a handle on lifting the bubble of energy again, they were once again surprised when the bubble popped and a fully healthy, if nearly naked, Harry Potter fell out of it. The only thing he was wearing was a faceless watch.



Sternschnuppe gladly dropped into standby mode for now, needing time to recover. His new Lord had barely survived impact and had needed some healing, but in that process an energy leech had been found. Purging that had been unusually beneficial, a new database of spell components have been extracted. Several 'natural skills' and a few security markers had also been found in the leech, all of which had been integrated into his new Lord.

Of course, he was still paying attention to the other mages that had shown up, in order to ensure that they meant his new Lord no harm. So far they seemed to be fine on that front, so he would wait and continue to monitor them for now. He and his Lord needed time to recover from the energy expenditure.



Deep in the Department of Mysteries, the Unspeakables were trying to recover from the damage that the pulse of energy had caused. Many sensitive instruments were going to need to be rebuilt, their entire stock of time turners had shattered, and the veil was acting oddly. In all of this, they merely checked that the Hall of Prophecies wasn't damaged. The protections there had held, and they focused on everything else that was going on instead.

It would be three months before someone got around to doing a deeper examination of the hall, and it would only be then that they realized that something incredibly important had happened. For every single unfulfilled prophecy orb had gone the dark black of a negated prophecy. All, that is, except for a single orb in row ninety-seven. That single orb had gone the dull grey of a fulfilled prophecy, before shattering there on the shelf.
 
Can you read my mind or something? Because I literally got on a MGLN streak three days ago. And is Sternschnuppe an Unison/Intelligent/Armed/Storage/Whatever device?
 
For every single unfulfilled prophecy orb had gone the dark black of a negated prophecy. All, that is, except for a single orb in row ninety-seven. That single orb had gone the dull grey of a fulfilled prophecy, before shattering there on the shelf.
Voldy got eaten I take it, and his death fulfilled the relevant prophecy, even as Sternschnuppe's arrival negated everything else?
Forget derailing canon, we're derailing everything.
 
It would be three months before someone got around to doing a deeper examination of the hall, and it would only be then that they realized that something incredibly important had happened. For every single unfulfilled prophecy orb had gone the dark black of a negated prophecy. All, that is, except for a single orb in row ninety-seven. That single orb had gone the dull grey of a fulfilled prophecy, before shattering there on the shelf.

I imagine that seers the world over have just delivered five solid minutes of profanity, assuming they didn't all die from the feedback of so many prophecies being negated at once. The future is now in flux, and it will be quite some time before things settle down enough for anyone to make any kind of prophecy about anything.
 
I imagine that seers the world over have just delivered five solid minutes of profanity, assuming they didn't all die from the feedback of so many prophecies being negated at once. The future is now in flux, and it will be quite some time before things settle down enough for anyone to make any kind of prophecy about anything.

That actually depends on how the mechanics of prophecy work. Specifically, how bounded the predictions are.

Regarding bounds: I mean in terms of space, both real and dimensional.

How bound to Earth is it? Is it only Earth? Will beings in orbit be out of sight? Or is it out of solar system?

And dimensionally? Is it just that universe? Or are other universes included?
 
Isn't that the same device that would eventually become Hive in Hybrid Hive; Eat Shard? Interesting, to say the least. I wouldn't mind seeing more of this.
 
You know after reading literally hundreds of Harry Potter fanfictions I cant recall EVER seeing this crossover hope to see more... has anyone ever writen a crossover for this before?
 
You know after reading literally hundreds of Harry Potter fanfictions I cant recall EVER seeing this crossover hope to see more... has anyone ever writen a crossover for this before?
I can think of two I've read involving Harry getting a device, neither much like this one. Lupine Horror had a series starting with Reinforced Magic, and there was also Bureau Agent Potter by NHunter, which had him leaving Earth early on.
 
A bit like Reinforce Magic on FF, yet also totally different at the same time as well.

As for Voldy being gone, he is laying in eight pieces, so no, he's still around.
He just lost his main mana source.
Those Deatheater slave marks are probably going in draining mode, constandly.
Still a bit weird no wizard noticed it where slave markings, though.
I mean, they clearly have all the hallmarks of one, including not being able to go against their Lord his commands or being able to kill him.
Always having to listen to him, as well.
 
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Isn't that the same device that would eventually become Hive in Hybrid Hive; Eat Shard? Interesting, to say the least. I wouldn't mind seeing more of this.
No, this is not Versteckte Klinge. Because if I made this Versteckte Klinge then if I ever wrote a full story based on this it would be hard to crossover with Hybrid Hive.
You know after reading literally hundreds of Harry Potter fanfictions I cant recall EVER seeing this crossover hope to see more... has anyone ever writen a crossover for this before?
I'm unhappy with all the existing ones for other reasons. >_>
As for Voldy being gone, he is laying in eight pieces, so no, he's still around.
Eight pieces? Let's count!
  1. Shade
  2. Diary
  3. Ring
  4. Cup
  5. Locket
  6. Diadem
  7. Scar
  8. Nagini - This is happening long before Nagini becomes a Horcrux in 1994.
TLDR: Voldy is 100% gone.
 
I can just sort of imagine the explanation behind how Harry get the device.

"It impaled me, blasted me through a roof, and basically buried me in rubble. So it wasn't so much as finding it, as it finding me... with extreme prejudice."

Not sure how much i want to see it. Most Harry-Nanoha story never quite last too long for a number of reasons. Probably doesn't help the plot that Voldy is gone.
 
Ah. But who knows that Voldemold is gone? And... who canonically "suspects" that he isn't gone, and is fairly unlikely to believe any claims to the contrary without significant proof?
More specifically, who is going to make such a claim? Harry's device probably doesn't know about any guy named "Voldemort." No reason to know that the soul parasite it ate was a fragment of the guy, or that it finished him off in the process. It likely won't even have circumstantial reasons to think this potential threat people are talking about to its new Lord is actually gone. "He tried to kill you, failed, and nobody has seen him since" probably sounds like "Magic went weird yo, but there wasn't a dimensional quake... yet" to a Belkan device, which in turn sounds like "He could be dead, he could be lost in the Dimensional Sea, he could be a ghost, he could be stranded on an alien planet, or he could be about to teleport in with the barrel of an illegally modified M1A4 Abrams main battle tank already aimed at my Lord's head two seconds from now. If not something weirder and/or more dangerous."

Edit: wow, the autocorrupt is strong with this one. I'll come back to fix them all once I'm not on my phone.
EDIT2: Edits complete
 
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I'm unhappy with all the existing ones for other reasons. >_>

I have to agree, while Lupine Horror's Reinforced Magic is not bad, I have my own issues with it. Bureau Agent Potter was new to me, but also doesn't tick all the boxes. Best not to mention the few others...

I'd love to see more of this, and I'm sure many others feel the same...even though I wouldn't necessarily say I'm a huge fan of either source.

For that matter, I've been wanting to write a HP maybe-crossover fic myself for a few years now, but can't find the other-series anymore. I suspect that it would also be an interesting crossover or AU-premise with MGLN, and perhaps other magic-focused universes, though I don't know MGLN well enough to write that one.
The goblins don't talk about it, but the money they use is solidified magic. Harry finds a book about Gringotts (probably also written by a goblin) in the bargain bin that actually explains how it's done in enough detail to quite literally make his own money, along with other related magics.

Some established families may already know this "secret", and use it to perform enchantments with less personal cost (only really useful for non-combat magics e.g. enchantment and other crafts)...but the book was in the bargain bin because the purebloods look down on the goblins and don't bother with primary sources, so while not out of print it doesn't sell well at all. This copy was probably a special order that wasn't paid for....
The problem, of course, is that the concept may actually be better as an AU than a crossover...as I can't find the original source anymore, it's hard to say (and would be difficult to write a crossover without it).

Most magic-using universes say "Magic can't create gold" and are on the gold standard as a way to guarantee reasonably stable value. In this case, that may be what they claim, but the truth of the matter is rather different....
This was the source of the inspiration for coinage being solidified magic.

The original source novels had a magic system where "wizards" had to memorize their spells for each and every casting (so e.g. only one cast before re-learning the spell). The "Create a magic coin" spell is trivial and requires no material components, but the need to memorize it for each casting is prohibitive, so there was a "Make many coins" spell that used a gem as a catalyst (essentially draining the caster's magic); this is often the more commonly-used one. The protagonist didn't have to re-memorize spells, and, somewhere down the line turned out to be "a god"...before finding this out, when he cast the catalyst-based version, he basically wound up creating a firehose-like stream of coins.

It was a pre-industrial, sword-and-sorcery universe, with sailing ships. The magical coins were called "krin", IIRC.

All of the books were freely available online, on the author's website, and ISTR in the form of trilogies, don't remember if it was 2 or 3...but this was some years ago.
 
Eight pieces? Let's count!
  1. Shade
  2. Diary
  3. Ring
  4. Cup
  5. Locket
  6. Diadem
  7. Scar
  8. Nagini - This is happening long before Nagini becomes a Horcrux in 1994.
TLDR: Voldy is 100% gone.
Ghost was the eight one, @CmptrWz and that snippet only toke out the Scar one as far as I know.
Unless you forgot to add a certain line, that is.
 
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Personally i counted 6 pieces of soul going poof in the snippet but there would have been 7 if Voldies totally gone.
Piece 7 was the scar, which went poof in the initial pulse. You might also have missed the last big one (which was probably the shade/ghost, and took a while to arrive).
 
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