Mellyssa
Chapter 1: Pranks
The first years had finally been sorted and were sitting down at their tables, waiting for Dumbledore to give his speech so that they could start eating. Dumbledore walked up to the podium and cleared his throat." Our new Defense against the dark arts teacher has informed me that she would like to introduce herself, so here she is!" At that moment the doors opened and a woman who looked like she couldn't be any older than thirty walked in. She had long blonde hair that was tied back in a messy braid that reached down to her waist and black oval glasses. She was wearing an ocean blue robe. As she made her way up to the podium she looked at all of the kids. She seemed to be amused with the looks of shock and disbelief that she was getting. When she saw Harry she almost slowed down and half grinned, seeming almost sad, as she passed him. Then she looked over at the Slytherin table and a look of intense dislike crossed her face as her eyes passed over Draco. Then she reached the podium. "Ahem. I would like to say hello to all of you and to tell you some things about myself". At this time Harry looked over at the teachers table and noticed that Snape was looking at the new teacher with a mixed look of shock,fear,and dread."My name is Mellyssa Celes. You are NOT to call me Professor Celes. I will only respond to Mell, Mellys, or Mellyssa. I will try to get to know you all by your first names and be a good teacher. And hopefully I won't have to leave at the end of the year like so many DADA teachers before me. Well thank you and see you later!" And with that she got down and sat in the empty seat directly across from Snape. Dumbledore once again came up to the podium."And now, you may eat!".
As Harry heaped his plate he looked over at the new teacher. She wasn't taking much food for herself. But then he saw why. As Snape put some food on his plate and turned to reach for another serving dish Mellyssa levitated any food on his plate over to her plate and started to eat it. When Snape started to put some other food on his plate he noticed that the rest of his food was missing. He looked over at Mellyssa's plate and saw that she had taken it. Harry couldn't tell what he said but he seemed annoyed. Mellyssa just laughed and gave him some back. Snape seemed to sigh and give a "why me?" look and then start to eat his food only to discover that it had been petrified.Harry had to laugh at this and then Ron asked him what was so funny so Harry told him. Ron laughed too. When Hermoine heard the story she also laughed.Soon most of the kids sitting in that area of the Gryffindor table were laughing. Mellyssa saw this and started laughing even harder than she had been, making it impossible to eat her food. Snape just looked cross.
Eventually all of the kids had gone to their rooms. Mellyssa was using a small, abandoned classroom for her quarters. As she was fixing it up there was a knock on the door. When Mellyssa opened it she was greeted by the grinning faces of the Weasley twins. "Yes?" "Could you teach how to do what you did to Snape? That was such a great trick!" Mellyssa laughed a little at that."I don't think so. We'd both get in trouble and I have a feeling that you already get into enough as it is." "I guess you're right. Oh well, Hermione could always figure it out for us anyway. Well see ya!" As she shut the door behind her she thought "I'm gonna have to keep an eye on those boys." Then she got back to setting her room up. A couple of minutes later there was another knock at the door."That had better not be those boys again." But when she opened the door she was greeted by a totally different sight.
"Hullo Sev, What do you want?" "I can't believe you still call me that." "Well at least I'm not calling you Sevie boy any more." Snape shuddered at that."True. Just please don't call me that in front of the students. I get ridiculed by them enough as it is." As he said this he sat down in Mellyssa's overstuffed chair."Hey, that's my chair!" "So?" "So only I can sit in it!" "Well I'm obviously sitting in now, so ther's nothing you can do, is there?" "Oh yeah?" With that she shrunk the chair just enough for it to squeeze Snape. Then she sent the chair flying across the room so that Snape fell out of it with a thud. She then made the chair land right behind her so that she could sit down but at the last moment Snape was able to pull out his wand and move the chair back just a few inches so that they were both on the floor. Mellyssa started laughing "I should have known you'd do that. You always have to have the last laugh don't you? Oh well, I'll be sure to get you back later. Now I would like to get to sleep so if you would be so kind as to leave I would be very grateful." "Hmm, I don't know. I could just stay here so that you'd stay up all night so that I couldn't do anything." "But then you wouldn't get any sleep either. Besides, you already got me so you might as well just go and think something up to do to me tomarrow. Well bye bye! see ya tomarrow!" "Fine fine, Good night Lemming." "Don't Call Me Lemming!" Snape just snickered as he shut the door behind him. "I wish he wouldn't call me that.Oh well, he has no idea what memories it drudges up so I really can't blame him. Maybe I should..No, not yet." She then laid down on her cot and fell asleep.
Why do Snape and Mellyssa pull pranks on each other? What memories is she talking about? What the heck is up with these nicknames!? Some might be revealed in the next chapter. Have fun! And please please please review! Thank you! >^.^