AN: Hello! Waves madly at all the readers Now, yes, I know I haven't been too reliable with updates. In fact, I've been far more reliable in churning out one-shots. Well, here's another little one for you that I wrote one time last week when I was bored in class. Enjoy!

Hermione Granger, Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, sunk into her office chair and buried her face in her hands with a groan.

"Mione, you look like shit!"

Hermione jumped sky-high with a scream. Whipping her wand out, she turned in a circle. "Where are you? Who are you?"

"I'm up here. And put that wand away, you can't hurt me."

Hermione stared up at the ceiling corner. "Harry?"

The transparent ghost-form of Harry Potter grinned and slowly sunk to the floor. "Hello, Mione."

"B…b…but you're dead!" Hermione cried out. "I held you in my arms as you passed on 15 years ago!"

Ghost-Harry shrugged. "And here I am, a ghost."

Hermione slowly sat in her seat, a hand covering her mouth. She just stayed there, staring at her long-dead friend.

"Um, Mione…? You okay?" Harry floated over to her.

Hermione lowered her hand, expression morphing into a scowl. "Am I okay? Am I okay?! No! I'm not!" By now, she was back on her feet, yelling. "You died 15 years ago and suddenly re-appear! Where the heck have you been?"

Harry blinked. "Um…dead?" Hermione let out a scream. "When you die, you get judged." Harry hastily explained. "If you have done everything you need to do, you go on. If not, hello, ghost form. This judgement can take anywhere from a second to a century. Mine took 15 years." Hermione stared at him. "What?"

"It took you fifteen years to be judged. You."

Harry nodded. "Yep."

Hermione sunk back into her seat, teary eyed. "So, what do you need to do?"

Harry suddenly looked down at the ground and mumbled something.

"What?"

Harry huffed. "I need to teach."

Hermione did a very un-Hermione thing. "Huh?"

Harry scowled and crossed his arms. "What I need to do is teach students how to defend themselves. That's all I was told before being thrust here."

"Oh." Hermione blinked. "Great! You're hired."

Harry blinked. "Pardon?"

"I need a DADA teacher. You're here. You're hired." She stood. "Welcome back to Hogwarts."

Harry rolled his eyes. "Great."

Harry decided that he was going to do a Binns and float through the blackboard. The resulting screams could be heard at the other side of the lake and provided hours of entertainment in the staff room.

Harry also found that being a ghost had its advantages when one 7th year got quite nasty and forgot that he was in fact a ghost but remembered after the cutting curse passed straight through the Boy-Who-Now-Was-A-Ghost.

Apart from the disadvantages of not being able to cast magic, Harry's classes were a hit and the students soon agreed that they were the best. Needless to say, Harry's employment was long standing, and he can still be found there today, 200 years later, and is still considered the best and favourite of all students.