A/N: This is my first Harry Potter Fan Fiction; so I don't think it will turn out to be the best, but it is going to be fun. It takes place in an A/U sort of deal, during the sixth year (Because of the book isn't out yet, it's an A/U) Harry, Ron and Hermione find that the other teachers they had in the past don't come close to this years', a dragon. What are they going to do? May contain spoilers for the first five books; Rated for language and possible situations, I honestly don't know where it is going yet. Thank you and feel free to review or flame.

Disclaimer: I don't own ANY Harry Potter characters, I am just writing this for the fun of it, but I do claim Zalana Shadowlight, the teacher, as she is my alter ego! Thanks J.K.R.! Me no own, you no sue!

Dracology 1001 for Non Majors

Ron walked into the common room of the tower. "Hey Harry, why are you here?"
Harry looked at his friend. "Hagrid wanted me to come early, he said he had something to show me."
Ron nodded, fearing the worse, "Me too."
A female voice from behind Ron said, "Me three."
Ron looked around and saw that Hermione was behind him. "Hermione! Are you trying to scare me?"
She laughed a little, "Yep." And then she turned her attention to Harry. "I saw Hagrid, he wants us to visit him tomorrow morning no later then daybreak. And he says to wear the invisibility cloak." She tossed her hair.

"Okay, I wonder what he has in store for us this year." Harry said.

"Come off it, he has already had a dragon egg, blast ended skrewts, Hippogriff, and a werewolf, what else could he have?"
Harry laughed, "You're forgetting the giant spider."

"And Fluffy." Hermione laughed.

Ron shook a little in his boots, "How bad can this be?"

Hermione walked up to her room, "Bad."

Harry looked at his parchement paper, "What is this Dracology anyways?"
Ron shrugged, "All I know is that it has to do with dragons, and we are in it with Malfoy!"
Harry shuddered, "JOY!"

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The next morning came all too soon for Harry's likings. He groaned as he stumbled out of bed and threw on his muggle clothing.

"HARRY! HURRY UP!" Ron yelled from downstairs.

"I'm coming, I'm coming…" Harry called. He was rushing downstairs. He managed to look at the clock as he went by, it said 4:59. Almost daybreak.

"Harry, hurry up! Hagrid wanted us down at his hut no later then daybreak!" Hermione's voice wailed.

Harry appeared down at the common room. "Let's go!" He said as he threw the invisibility cloak over him and his two friends.

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The trio made it down to the hut just as the morning fog started to lift. They saw Hagrid and Fang sitting outside the hut by the fire.

Harry removed the cloak quickly and ran up to his friend.
Hagrid smiled. "Hey there Harry, how are ye?"
Harry opened his mouth to answer the question, but he was cut short when he heard Hermione's yell.

Followed by Ron's blood curdling scream.

Harry quickly turned around to see what was happening, and there, he saw it.

In the mist of the morning fog was a dragon. It was at least two tones and looked as if it wasn't happy.

"Hagrid…" Hermione said terrified.

"Hermione, calm down, she ain't gonna hurt nobody." Hagrid said as he bowed to the dragon.

"Hagrid, that's a full grown dragon." Harry said.

"That's a… a… Antipodean Opaleye" Ron said, "My brother studies those in New Zealand… but…"
Hermione looked pale as the dragon itself, who was just sitting in the mist, "WHY? Hagrid, wasn't Norbert enough???"
Hagrid smiled, "Now, now… let someone else explain this to you." Hagrid smiled as the tall figure walked into sight. "Dumbledore…" He nodded.

The three students nodded to the headmaster.

"Headmaster, if I may be so bold as to ask WHY there is a full grown dragon on school grounds?" Hermione said sheepishly.

"Why don't you ask her, Ms. Granger?" The headmaster said strangely calm.

Ron laughed, "Dragons are not capable of human speech, let alone communication of any sorts."
A voice startled the whole group, "Who taught you that?"

Ron whipped his head around to see that the dragon, in all her glory, was advancing on him. He was frozen in his fear.

"I ask you again, who taught you that?" The voice boomed again, but it was strangely comforting.

"M…my… brother…." Ron managed to get out, "He…he… studies dragons."
He heard a sort of growling laughter, "Really? Then why trust your brother, when you can ask a real dragon." By now, the fog had lifted so that they could tell that it was indeed the large dragon, the Antipodean Opaleye, which was talking.

"Good Morning Ms. ShadowLight how was your trip?" Dumbledore was saying.
The dragon nodded towards the headmaster, "Good thank you, and how are you this fine morning?"

Hagrid was amazed, he smiled at the dragon, "I do hope that the department of Magical creature control didn't give you too much trouble?"
The dragon lowered her head and smiled, showing teeth that were as long as Harry's arm and very sharp, "Not at all."

"May I ask again, why we have a dragon on our school grounds?" Hermione asked. Harry just stood in awe at the situation.

"She is your new Dracology teacher," Hagrid said.

"Yes, what better teacher to teach about the complex world of dragons then a dragon herself?"

Ron looked at Harry, "My dad's going to have a fit, you know? Dragons are known wizard killers. He will remove me from this school post haste!"
The headmaster seemed ever cool about this. "Yes, so I see." He said as he turned towards the dragon.
Harry finally spoke, "Headmaster, I do not think that a dragon will be easily hidden, especially when she is teaching a class."
Dumbledore spoke again, "She will teach inside the school."

The three seemed terrified, "A DRAGON? In the school, I beg your pardon headmaster, but…" Harry said.

Suddenly Dumbledore turned around, "She is quite safe." He smiled at her and nodded quietly.

"We aren't worried about her…" Ron said.
The dragon flapped her wings, " I would be." She said, then turning to Dumbledore, "Now Sir?"

"Yes, if you please Ms. ShadowLight." The headmaster replied,

"Please, call me Zalana." She said as she suddenly transfigured into a tall woman, dressed in a white robe, her eyes were solid pink and her hair was light blue grey, but the three couldn't possibly tell that this was the two ton dragon that was there just moments before.

"What the…" Ron began.

"Mr. Weasley…" Dumbledore said.

"I am your new professor of Dracology. You will each be glad that you saw me in that form, as that I do not intend to transform back for a good long while."

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The great feast began, and the students all filed in to the great hall. Ron, Harry and Hermione sat at their normal spots,

"Does anyone else find it strange that we have a dragon for a teacher?" Hermione said,
Ron laughed, "Why? We have had werewolves and other things in the past, why not a dragon too?"

"Guys, I am sure that she is very intelligent, I mean, she is a dragon and she is very smart." Harry said.

"I wonder what she will teach us," Hermione said.

"Whatever it is, Hermione, I am sure that she will let you do extra credit." Ron sneered.

Dumbledore interrupted what was going to be Hermione's retaliation for that remark with his annual speech.

"Greetings to our new students and welcome some old friends as well." He began. "I am glad that I am seeing all these smiling happy faces."

He went on to say that he was the headmaster for the new students, and all the usual stuff.


 "And now, I have a new professor to introduce you to!" He called to silence the rumbling in the crowded room. "It is my great pleasure to introduce to you the Professor of Dracology, Ms. Zalana ShadowLight." He smiled as the dragon lady stood up. Only Ron, Harry and Hermione knew of her secret, and they intended on keeping it that way, lest the fact that they would have a manic dragon mad at them.

"Thank you Headmaster." She said as she nodded, "I just hope that I get to know all of you and you get to know me." She said as she sat down.

The feast went on as usual and continued into the night, when the students went back to their rooms.

Harry, Ron and Hermione were trailing behind the Prefect as usual when they heard a conversation around them, Snape and the new teacher, the Dragon Lady.

"Snape, if you don't tell anyone, I will give you all the ingredients you need." She was saying.

"Including blood and horn?" He snarled, making Harry jump.

"Yes, but not much of that, I need those you know." The female teacher said sheepishly.

"Yes, I know. When will you give me these things?"

"In less then a month and I will remember." She smirked, a very dragon look on her face.

"Ah, be sure that you do," He said.

Ron glanced at Harry, Harry nodded, "Snape must figured her out." Harry whispered, "And she is making sure that he doesn't tell the entire school."

Hermione laughed, "Yeah. That would be bad for her."
The three made their way up to the common room and up to their chambers, ready to start school the first thing the next morning.

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Harry rushed around early the next morning, he was up even before the sun. Ron was still sound asleep in the bed to his right, but Harry didn't care, today was his favorite day, the first day of school, he didn't have to go back to the muggle house for almost a whole year. He was ready when Ron finally stirred from sleep.

"Harry, what are you doing awake?" Ron yawned, standing up and rubbing his eyes.

"Ron, we have Dracology class at 8:00 this morning, and we all know that it is best not to piss off the new teacher, isn't it?"
Ron thought about this for a moment, "Indeed." And he jumped into his robe and hurriedly combed his hair.

Hermione was already downstairs for breakfast, eating some eggs and toast. Ron came down and sat beside her, Harry sat on her other side, and they hurriedly ate.

"We have Dracology first, right?" Ron said between bites of eggs.

"I think so." Hermione got out her parchment paper and read it, "Yep, it's in the dungeon? Oh brother…"

Harry swallowed his bite of toast, "So?"

"That means that it's right across the hallway from Snape's class."
 Ron laughed, "No excuses for trying to skip Snape's class then?"

Hermione didn't answer, she merely looked behind Ron and smiled, Ron swallowed his bacon hard and turned around to see Draco Malfoy.

"Hey, Mud Blood, what do you think about the new teacher of Dracology?" Draco sneered.

"I think she is very nice, and we will learn a lot." Hermione ignored his comment of 'mud blood'.

The grand dinning hall was letting out as Crabbe and Goyle came up behind Draco and the three left.
 "Hermione, he called you a mud blood." Ron said, concerned.
 "Ron, I can't let that slime ball know that it hurts me, or he will call me that all the time." Hermione gulped the last of her juice and stood up, followed by Harry and Ron.