DemonPony: Hey all! I do not own any of the characters below apart from Morph.
The war had been over for some time now and the school year at Hogwarts had restarted because of how classes had been put in second place. There were a few changes. A new compulsory class for all years had been put in place Taming and familiarization of Magical Creatures it was called and was being taught by a new mysterious teacher that no one had heard of.
Harry, Ron and Hermione sat in the very empty class room with the rest of the last years waiting for this teacher to make an appearance. "I bet its some old man" Ron said while tapping his fingers on the table ignoring Hermione who said he was wrong. He and Hermione had been in a relationship for some time now; it wasn't going as well as everyone had thought. The two constantly were fighting over one thing or another and there were rumours that Ron was cheating on her with a Ravenclaw girl.
"I'm not so sure" Harry said as they heard the door open and a bright young female face popped around the corner.
"Ahhhhh I knew this was the right place." The girl cheered and closed the door behind her as she made her way to the front. She turned and seemed to assess the class thru her black framed square glasses. Her face was round and cheerful with small freckles dotted over her nose and rosy cheeks. Her hair was like a lion's mane in texture and was dyed a startling red underneath so her messy pony tail was completely red. She didn't wear teaching robes like the rest instead a brown singlet with cuts in the front that revealed a bit too much skin for a teacher and a wrap around skirt that was dark green with gold swirls that seem shimmer and move.
"I am Professor Morph." She smiled in greeting "I will be your Magical Creatures teacher for this year."
"I DON'T THINK SO!" Malfoy stood up "you're not a witch" he accused.
"Wow your powers of observation serve you well Mr. Malfoy." She said dryly "two points to slytherine for figuring that out and 5 points off for being rather rude."
"This is a school for magic not muggles" He argued.
"Who said I'm a muggle?" she asked raising an eyebrow.
"But-" Ron scratched his head confused.
"Mr. Malfoy sit down." And without him saying anything he sat down with wide eyes like he wasn't in control. "I am your teacher for this class and expect to be treated accordingly" Her voice was now stern as her face as her voice seemed to boom even though she wasn't speaking loud. "There will be not talking out of tern and if you do i insist /i on speaking you will raise you hand and wait! I will not force you to participate in this class as some of you" she looked directly at Malfoy "seem to be opposed to the idea of learning new things."
The air in the class seemed to of gotten colder and the room seemed to darken with the Professor's mood and her eyes which were similar to that of an Eagle's seemed to glow. The students watched and Harry silently thought that she may be worse than Snape, who somehow was still alive. Then as quickly as the atmosphere had changed the room became bright again and the sunlight streamed in through the windows. Morph smiled "Well now that the bad stuff is all over, I hope we have a great year together and you all have a lot of fun in my class. Now let's get down to business. Does anyone have any idea what I'm supposed to be teaching you?"
"To learn how to tame animals like moody teachers" Malfoy mumbled and Harry noticed Hermione try to hold in a giggle.
Instead of getting angry Morph blinked then smiled "Thankyou Malfoy. See you can be helpful even if you don't put your hand up" She turned and picked up an egg "This is a dragons egg. To care for one you must keep it away from steel and iron or else the white surface will turn puple with red veins. When this happens you must make the Falconius potion and pour it over the egg." Some students looked bemused and a few put their hands up the professor sighed "If you dont know how to make this potion go as Snape. Potions arent my problem." she stated and sarted to write on the board about the teatment and care of dragon eggs. She then turned around and smile as she watched everyone write notes. "Well now the boring stuff is out of the way lets have some practice with these fake eggs beginner dragon trainers practice with. Get into groups of three and try. When the egg turns golden then you have done it right any other colour and you must start again." She looked around waiting for people to move "well? go on then!" She laughed and made her way to desk to desk to help people almost dancing in between.
"Isnt she beautiful?" Ron asked as he watched Morph with a dreamy look.
Harry shrugged "I guess, she just looks like any other girl to me."
Ron looked at him "how can you say that? She's gorgeous."
"Every other guy seems to think so as well" Hermione hissed with distaste not at the teacher but at her so called boyfriend.
Harry looked around it was true. Almost every other guy seemed to wear the exact same expression on their faces as Ron. "Malfoy doesn't seem to think so" Harry pointed out. Malfoy was looking around the room with disgust at the guys the same as Hermione was.
"He's probably gay" Ron laughed.
"What? Cause he's not drooling over the teacher like a sex starved fool?" Hermione huffed as she watched the teacher as she told everyone to keep on as they were while she went to talk to Snape.
"I wouldn't be sex starved if you put out" Ron sneered.
"Why you little.." Hermione sneered and punched Ron
"BITCH!" Ron cursed and the whole class stoped and looked toward them not that they noticed "I was only telling the truth."
"YOU DIDN'T NEED TO BE SUCH A JERK AOBUT IT"
"You're the one who's causing the problem if you weren't such a prude" Ron said.
"Bastard!" Hermione shouted.
"wench"
"Asshole"
"MUDBLOOD!" Ron yelled and that was it, Hermione blinked once, twice and then spun around and started to cry as she ran to the door and accidently bumped in to Malfoy knocking her to the floor.
"THIS IS ENOUGH!" a sudden yell and everyone pause and turn to see the door open with Professor Morph and Snape at the door. Morph wasn't happy but was remaining as calm as possible. Harry noticed that Snapes hand was on her shoulder like he was controlling her. She sighed. "Mr Malfoy." Malfoy turned and looked at her "can you please help Miss Granger to the infirmary and stay with her till I come."
"But-"
"NOW, please" She said taking off her glasses and rubbing the bridge of her nose with her thumb and fore finger. Malfoy nodded and tried to help Hermione up but she wouldn't stand, He picked her up bridal style and walked out the door with her crying into his uniform. Dr Morph waited for a couple of seconds till she looked up her eyes ablaze. "Class dismissed. Except for you Ron." She said as Ron had tried to make a rush to the door like everyone else. "And Harry," She looked at him and gave a weak smile "I will need to talk to you later but for now Professor Snape wishes to speak with you."
Harry quickly left the room and closed the door behind him and turned to Snape. They stood there for a few seconds and heard muffled words from the class room next to them then "I DO NOT CARE WEASLY, DETENTION!" Morphs voice boomed from inside. Snape then turned and walked down the hallway and Harry quickly followed.