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Impossible

Six of Crows Hogwarts AU

Jesper had always wondered what Kaz Brekker’s patronus was.

Perhaps a lion? A larger-than-Nagini sized snake? A sea creature? A massive dementor which would eat up it’s own kind?

Today would be the day Jesper would find out. And he was pumped.

In fact, he was so excited, Jesper got to the DADA class early. And he was never early. Jesper was either right on time—boarderline late—or fully late.

There was only a couple kids waiting patiently in the class when Jesper got there.

A petite Slytherin girl with a long braid, two Gryffindor’s, a hulking guy with blond hair, a girl sat next to him, and a cute curly haired Hufflepuff.

And, speaking of the devil himself, Kaz Brekker in his blue and bronze uniform.

After Harry Potter graduated, the professors thought it would be best to mix up all the houses into classes instead of just two houses in a class together.

So, Jesper knew all of the students sat in the class.

The bronze skinned Slytherin was Inej Ghafa, a small but ferocious girl. Jesper had made the mistake of misjudging her in their second year. He had walked away with a deflated ego and a fear of bats.

The two Gryffindor’s were Nina Zenik and Matthias Helvar. Jesper shivered as he remembered their earlier years at Hogwarts.

In those times, before Year 5, Jesper didn’t know whether those two were dating or fighting.

He either saw them cuddling and flirting together with a professor chewing them out for something like a prank or, them bickering and pranking each other like they despised each other and a professor chewing them out for being disruptive.

This Year Seven, and last year at Hogwarts, the two of them seemed to have settled on one of the two modes: their couple mode which seemed to relieve the entire school, including—and especially—the professors.

Jesper sat down next to the cute Hufflepuff, Wylan Van Eck.

Jesper remembered that he had thought the kid to be a spineless, typical rich kid.

He had started disliking the kid in Year 1 when he saw him sucking up to the professors and going the extra mile to get extra credit.

However, in Year 3, Jesper had been voicing his opinions about Wylan with Kaz. Something along the lines about “no matter how cute he is, he’s still a goody two shoes!”

Kaz had put him in his place and told Jesper that Wylan had a dead mother and an abusive father.

Jesper’s opinions about the kid had changed overnight.

But, he still didn’t know how Kaz knew so much about Wylan’s parents.

And Kaz Brekker. The brooding, ex-crush, hatstall.

Jesper and Kaz had met on the train on the way to Hogwarts. Kaz had been alone in a compartment and Jesper had stumbled across it in search of his own.

In the short time it took to get to Hogwarts, Jesper and Kaz had bonded and Jesper was hoping that they’d get sorted into the same house.

Kaz wanted to be in Slytherin. Jesper wanted Gryffindor but wouldn’t mind wearing green if it meant him and Kaz would be together and in the same house.

Kaz was called up before Jesper to the Sorting Hat and, for many minutes, the Hat said nothing.

Jesper and all the other First Years waited patiently for the Hat to call out one of the four houses.

The Hat never did for those seemingly endless minutes.

All it did was mutter to itself. “Slytherin or Ravenclaw? Ravenclaw or Slytherin?”

One minutes, and the Hat was leaning more to Slytherin. Then, the next minute he was for Ravenclaw.

The whole Hall had been silent, even the professors glancing at one another and wondering when the Sorting Hat would just choose Kaz’s house already.

“Very intelligent indeed, a mind like no other. Yet cunning and you’d do well in Slytherin...”

Kaz had looked absolutely furious at the Hat; up there on the stool with all eyes on him.

Eventually, after ten gruelling minutes, the Hat had finally shouted “Ravenclaw!” and Kaz had finally been able to hop off the stool quickly, his tie turning the Ravenclaw colours.

That had been the moment Jesper knew him and Kaz would not be in the same house. Surely he wouldn’t get into Ravenclaw, the smartest House.

And Jesper had been right. It had taken the Hat a measly 2 minutes, compared to Kaz’s ten, to choose Slytherin for him, almost placing him in Hufflepuff which wouldn't have been so bad since he could have gotten to dorm with Wylan.

Eventually, all the students managed to trickle into the DADA class, no conversation erupting except for the quiet giggles coming from the pair of Gryffindor’s flirting with each other.

Then, came the moment of truth when Professor Nazyalensky walked in and the classroom went dead silent in anticipation.

“Good afternoon class,” she said, pacing around the room, her hands behind her back. It was as if she were prowling for a classmate to prey on. “I hope you’re ready for one of the most difficult charms you will ever learn in all of your years. The Patronus Charm. Some of you may never even learn what your Patronus’ are.”

A hand shot up. “Then why are you teaching it to us?” It was Nina.

“Because, Miss. Zenik,” Nazyalensky snapped, glaring at the Gryffindor girl. “This is Defence Against the Dark Arts and I am supposed to be teaching you how to defend yourself.”

“I swear,” Jesper heard Nina hiss to Matthias, “that woman has it out for me.”

Nazyalensky began prowling once again. “This charm helps the caster eliminate Dementors, soul sucking creatures. In order to cast it, one must simply think of a happy memory and say ‘Expecto Patronum’.”

Nazyalensky walked to the board and wrote down the pronunciation and the wand movement.

“Can you do it, Professor?” Inej asked from the back of the classroom. Her head was titled slightly and she looked mildly interested.

“Of course I can,” Nazyalensky sniffed. She pulled out her wand, waving it in a circular motion and said a simple “Expecto Patronum”.

A massive, silvery, giant squid erupted from the tip of her wand.

The class gasped at the sight of the massive creature which seemed to swim in air, flying above the classroom like a shooting star.

After a couple more questions about her own patronus, Nazyalensky had the class try for themselves. She had said that she doubted at least one person could cast a full, corporal, patronus, and Jesper was planning to prove her wrong.

It seemed Nina was too, her face scrunched up in concentration.

“You’re supposed to think of a happy moment, Miss. Zenik, not a terrible nightmare!”

A flash of silver caught Jesper’s eyes and a pretty, silvery, crow burst out of Inej’s wand, flying high and circling around Nazyalensky’s squid.

The whole class seemed to stop what they were doing to glance over at Inej and then at the majestic bird soaring above the classroom.

“Very well done, Miss. Ghafa.” Nazyalensky said, nodding her approval. “Perhaps you could teach Miss. Zenik how you managed —”

“— I can do it just fine, thanks.” Nina snapped, glaring at Nazyalensky before yelling, “Expecto Patronum” and a silvery crow flew out of her wand as well.

Nina looked smugly at the professor, twirling her wand around her fingers idly before shoving it into her brown hair for safe keeping.

Wylan Van Eck came next, calling out a weak Expecto Patronum with a silvery wisp floating out. He tried again and a crow burst out, ruffling Wylan’s curls.

Jesper watched as Wylan’s pretty blue eyes widened as the three crows met up in the air, seeming to silently communicate with one another.

Jesper glanced over at Kaz who was stood silently in the corner, his eyes shut calmly, his wand out. A small trickle of silver was smoking out of the top of Kaz’s dark wand.

Matthias’ came out next in an explosion of silver, the crow seemingly larger than life, crying out a massive caw as it took flight.

Nazyalensky seemed utterly floored. She had stopped stalking around the room and was like a little kid again, watching in awe as four almost identical patronus’ came out of four different people’s wands.

Seemingly one of the most hardest, most difficult spells to master, was preformed by four Seventh Years.

Jesper had never seen Nazyalensky shocked by anything. She either had seen it already or expected it beforehand.

Jesper shut his own eyes in concentration and excitement, wanting to see his own corporal patronus, remembering the day his father had taught him his first spell and how to shoot the spell accurately. It had been the Jelly-Legs Jinx and Jesper remembered feeling ecstatic when it hit right in the bullseye his dad had made from cardboard.

He felt the moment and it’s happiness bubble up within him, filling him with excitement and adrenaline.

“Expecto Patronum!” He felt something come out of his wand, the pure strength of it forcing Jesper to take a step back.

Jesper opened his eyes and just managed to glimpse his own crow taking flight and grouping with the others.

“This has got to be a practical joke.” Nazyalensky exclaimed, raising her wand and beginning to hurtle a multitude of spells, trying to vanish the five crows.

Only, the crows stayed put. And they weren’t a practical joke.

Jesper’s eyes slid to Kaz still in the corner.

“Never in all my years teaching have I seen five students cast the Patronus Charm!” Nazyalensky exclaimed, still trying to shoot at the birds with harmless spells. “Never! It’s simply impossible!”

Then, without a sound, or incantation from Kaz, a grand, incredible silver crow flew out of the tip of Kaz’s wand, emitting a massive shriek that had everyone in the classroom covering their ears.

That’s when Jesper saw Kaz’s grin. “When people say impossible, they usually mean improbable.”

For those who haven’t read the Shadow and Bone trilogy, that last quote was from Siege and Storm. I was trying to find a good SoC or CK quote for it but found that one instead.

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