This was a story on my old account, but I decided to move all those stories to this account.
It was the summer before Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger's fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. One day, some very strange letters, bearing some very strange news, went out to every single student currently attending Hogwarts:
Dear Student and Parent/Guardian:
We feel it would be necessary to inform you that, due to unusual circumstances, every current faculty member working at Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry has been replaced, and will not be working at the school for the entire year. We apologize for any inconveniences this has brought upon. The new headmaster's name is Michael Scott.
Thank you for your understanding,
Mafalda Hopkirk
Harry stood in his room, in number 12 Grimmauld Place, staring dumbfounded-ly at the letter, his best friend, Ron, doing exactly the same.
Finally, the speechless silence was broken by their other friend, Hermione, bursting into the room, "Did you . . ?" she asked, holding up her copy of the letter.
The other two nodded, their mouths still hung open in shock.
Then Ron's siblings, and their other friends, Fred, George, and Ginny, all burst in the room.
"Have you read this letter!" Fred burst out.
The three of them nodded.
"Do you think it could be, like, a joke, or something?" Ron asked, nervously.
"I dunno," Hermione breathed, "I suppose we'll find out eventually, though."
"Who is this Michael Scott, anyway?" George asked, "I mean, have any of you ever heard of him?"
"No." Ron and Harry answered, as the others shook their heads.
They all stood there silent, looking at each other, until Ginny finally opened her mouth, "Mum!" and she turned and ran out of the room, the others close behind her.
When they all got downstairs, Mrs. Weasley was cooking dinner.
"What is it?" she asked, looking at their distraught faces.
"Have you read this letter!" George said, handing his mum the letter.
Her eyes ran over it and she said, "Oh, yes, I heard."
"So it's true, then?" Ron asked, "No one we know will be at the school!"
"I'm afraid so," Mrs. Weasley said, understandingly, "Dumbledore thought it would be best if he handed over the entire staff to work for the ministry for the year, so Fudge would dismiss his theories of Dumbledore building an army. It would be impossible for him to turn the students against the ministry, if he was nowhere near the students, and working for the ministry, you see."
"But what about this Michael Scott guy?" Ginny asked, "Who's he? And who'll be the rest of the teachers?"
"Oh, not just the teachers, dear," Mrs. Weasley corrected her, "the entire staff, the caretaker, the librarian, everyone. All of the new staff members were working in the same office before they all got these jobs. I don't think anyone's heard of this Michael Scott. But don't worry, he was chosen by Dumbledore, and screened by the ministry, so if he was good enough for both of them, he'll probably be a good headmaster."
"I sure hope so." Ron said, but the expression on his face said that he was very unsure.
Later, when the six teenagers were together in Ron and Harry's room, they discussed the new staff and new headmaster.
"Do you really think this Michael Scott person will be a good headmaster?" Hermione asked.
"Well," Harry answered, "he couldn't possibly be as good as Dumbledore."
"I'm just glad these people won't be a bunch of blokes from the ministry," Ron commented.
"Yeah," Fred agreed, "I suppose anything's better than that."
"But isn't it just a little weird that they all came from the same office?" Ginny said, "I mean, an entire office in a paper company, in a small town across the ocean, all of them happen to be wizards, and all of them decide suddenly to Europe, all accepting jobs at the same place? It's just . . . weird."
"Yeah, but you heard mum," George said, "The paper company was founded by wizards, and they only hired wizards. When their branch of the paper company closed [A/N: Knock on wood] they all needed jobs at the same time, so Dumbledore invited them all to work at Hogwarts, and they all accepted. It is a bit strange, yes, but there's really nothing we can do about it."
The last few days before they left for Hogwarts, all any of them could think of was what the new teachers would be like. Fred and George kept trying to think of the positive: no more Snape or Filch, but the negative would stare them in the face: no more Dumbledore or Hagrid. They also didn't know if the new teachers would be much better than Filch or Snape.
Because of the new teachers, Ron and Harry decided to take all the same classes as Hermione, so they could face the new teachers together, and this included taking Arithmancy and Muggle Studies. Hermione, in turn, decided to go back to divination and Care of Magical Creatures, with Ron and Harry.
When the fateful day finally came, they all found themselves at Kings Cross Station, almost afraid to board the train.
When they eventually did say their good-byes and get on, Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny found themselves in a compartment with their other friend, Neville Longbottom, and a girl, who only Ginny had met before, and who seemed very odd, named Luna Lovegood.
The chatter on the train had been very wild and all about the new teachers.
"My father reckons they'll all be a bunch of oafs, since they were picked by Dumbledore," they heard Draco Malfoy, a nemesis to Harry and his friends, say very loudly.
They ignored him this time, for, though they trusted Dumbledore's judgment, they didn't know for sure the staff members would not be oafs.
They also heard a rumor that the new teachers would all be trolls. Something made them suspect Fred and George were behind this rumor.
When the train stopped, every single student got out nervously and very slowly. When they did get out, they heard a voice yell, "First years this way!" and, though they knew it wouldn't be, they were still a bit disappointed the voice wasn't Hagrid's.
Harry, Ron, and Hermione couldn't tell much about the man, since they were sort of far away and it was dark out, except that he was old, bald, had no facial hair, was much thinner than Hagrid, and not nearly as tall. Because of his American accent, they guessed he was one of the workers from the paper company.
They all turned and headed to the carriages that took them up to the castle, having no idea what to expect.
When they walked into the Great Hall, the first thing they noticed was the man sitting in the chair they normally saw Dumbledore sitting in. he was not wearing normal wizard robes, but instead a muggle business suit. His hair was dark brown and combed. He was much younger than Dumbledore. He also had a big, excited, and somewhat goofy grin plastered to his face.
When they were all sitting down, the front doors opened, and a noticeably pretty woman, with curly reddish-blonde hair, who was also wearing muggle clothes, a maroon pencil skirt and a light pink and white striped blouse, strode in, carrying the sorting hat, about fifty eleven year olds following her.
During the sorting, they noticed that the woman also had an American accent.
When the sorting was finally over, and the American witch had taken her seat next to the man in the headmaster's chair, that man stood up, the same smile still on his face.
heres my impression of andy doing an impression of a baby: pwease weview! :]
