Chapter 1
"Welcome, students, to another wonderful year here at Hogwarts. A note to first years, the forbidden forest is as the name states, forbidden, and Mr. Filch has requested I mention that all man-eating plants are banned from anywhere but the potions storehouses. Now, enjoy the feast! Dig in!"
It was the start of a new year at Hogwarts, and Professor Mcgonagall, the Headmaster and ex-transfiguration teacher, had just finished her start of the term speech. The sorting hat had had a wonderful song this year, and each house had welcomed a brilliant bunch of new students. Among them, Gryffindor received Albus Potter, Rose Weasley, and Teddy Lupin, and Slytherin Scorpius Malfoy, (though the Sorting Hat deeply considered putting him in Ravenclaw.)
"So, Al, what do you think of this food? Great stuff isn't it?"
"Yeah, Ted, it's better than my mom makes! Hey, who's that Rose is looking at?"
"Ugh, some Slytherin freak, he probably threw something at her."
"I dunno, she's not looking at him like that…"
"Well, then let's find out! Yo, Rose! Who you looking at? Your Boyfriend?"
"What? No, I was looking at that picture of the dragons. You guys are so immature."
She turned around to where she was staring at, straight at little Scorpius Malfoy's nervous expression. When Albus poked her she whipped her head around.
"What do you want?" She yelled.
"Nothing! I just wanted to let you know your robe was in your pumpkin juice! Sorry…"
"Oh, thanks, Al, sorry. Hey look, we have Defense against the Dark Arts first tomorrow morning!"
"Yeah, with the Slytherins. Did you hear they got Scorpius Malfoy's dad teaching that while Professor Thomas is in Scotland the next three years?"
"What? Oh geez, that class is sure to be hell this year. Ooh, look at the food, it's changing to dessert!"
"Oh wow! That looks good!" He scooped some of the best looking onto his plate and tried it, "Ah! It is good!" He and Rose finished up the best dessert of their lives, and eventually went up to the Gyffindor common room, where they sat in front of the fire a few hours, then went to bed in their separate dorms.
The next day, Rose got up earlier than any of the other girls. Since she had extra time, she figured she would study a bit for DADA, in case the horrible stories she'd heard about Professor Malfoy from her father were true, and the class would probably be awful. She pulled out the copy of Defence of the Dark Arts for the Novice Wizard she had bought, and started reading the chapter on shield jinxes. After a few pages, everyone else started waking up and she headed down to the common room, where she found Albus studying as well.
"Ready for your first official day at Hogwarts?" She asked.
"No. I've heard the stories your dad tells about Professor Malfoy. My dad says he's not that bad though, but I don't know who to believe."
"Well, it can't be as bad as that one chick Umbridge or whatever her name was. Remember her? The one from dad's fifth year?"
"I suppose. I'm hungry right now though, want to go down to breakfast with me?"
"Yeah sure, I'm kind of hungry too."
After breakfast they headed down to the DADA room. When they sat down, they heard a voice come from the office at the front.
"Sit anywhere, I don't mind as long as you aren't making out in the desk."
"Uh, yes sir," Rose responded tentatively, as she set her bag on the floor. Soon the rest of the class dribbled in, or rather, came in dribbling. Once everyone was seated and waiting, the office door opened, and Draco Malfoy walked out, wearing a black suit, had his white blond mullet tied back, and was wearing sneakers. Everyone was staring at his feet. He looked down.
"Ah, my good shoes got eaten on the way to the castle. Don't ask. Now, if you will, I'm Draco Malfoy, your Defense against the dark arts teacher, in case you hadn't figured it out. I'll try not to be as bad as some of the incompetent teachers I had… I've worked at the Ministry for about 16 years now as a Magical Law Enforcement officer, so I have seen quite a bit. A few things about how I want my classroom run, 1, Please don't bring your owls to class. 2, if you have muggle music devices, such as mp3 players or ipods, I'm loving the expression some of you are giving me right now, please only use them when nobody else is talking. I know you have them, I have one too. 3, if you feel the need to throw something at me, don't. It will be repelled right back at you at speeds of much greater magnitude than you threw them. Questions? Now, I will try to get all you're names right, I know some of you, Scorpius better than others, but I'll try my best. Now let's go through roll."
After taking roll, he had them take a short pretest. On the test, the students were required to write down as many curses, spells, or jinxes as they knew. Rose wrote down the ones she could think of off the top of her head, than stared over at Albus to see how he was doing, which was pretty well, than her eyes wandered towards Scorpius' paper, and saw that he was looking at her too. They each noticed the other and quickly tuned their heads back to their papers.
"Is everyone done?" Draco asked towards the end of the class, and after deeming that they were finished, picked up their papers and dismissed the class.
"If anyone needs help finding their classrooms I can help," He said as people were leaving, but everyone seemed to know where they were going.
"Hey Al, looks like we're headed to Transfiguration with the Hufflepuffs next," said Rose, as they headed down to their next class.
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Well, I haven't written outside my Akatyuki account with Bruce n' Charlie for a while. Well, it's Harry Potter, in case you couldn't tell by the category. It'll get better as the plot and pairing unravels itself. Feel free to review, I won't stop you, in fact, I welcome reviews with open arms. I'll update as soon as possible. Thanks for reading!
-MacarenaNeji