Disclaimer: I do not own harry potter or merlin all rights belong to the bbc and jk rowling
AN: I hope you liked the first chapter
Merlin woke up to the sun streaming through his windows and birds chirping in the distance, the sun cast beams of light throughout his chambers giving it an otherworldly glow. He sighed knowing he would have to leave the comfort and warmth of his bed to go to breakfast and to teach his students and although he was grumpy that he had to get out of bed the thought of teaching others brightened his mood immensely.
He pulled back the covers and swung his legs off the side of the side of the bed and got up humming to himself quietly, he thought that maybe just maybe today would be ok maybe it would be a good day and with that though in mind he approached his wardrobe in search of something to wear.
He pulled open the door of his wardrobe and was faced with 2 options does he wear his wizard robes that kind of make him look like dragoon in a uniform or does he wear his normal clothes and risk maybe having the teachers disapprove, and after contemplating for about 2 seconds he pulled out the normal clothes and began to get dressed who cared what the teacher's thought anyway.
Once dressed merlin stopped in front of the mirror to make sure he looked presentable he was wearing, a black jacket with black skinny jeans and a black top ok this might just make me look like a bit of a goth but once deciding he couldn't be bothered to change he made his way to the banquet hall and surprisingly he was there before the students, and after sending a smile at all the teachers he took his place at the table.
Merlin happily conversed with the teachers around him waiting for the students to enter the hall, until one particular teacher came over and it kind of seemed she might still have a bee in her bonnet about what had happened last night, but nevertheless once she was standing next to him he turned away from professor sprout who was looking intently at umbridge and greeted her with his happy go lucky smile.
''good morning Delores I trust you slept well'' he questioned having to force himself to keep a polite tone.
''yes thank you'' she sniped a look of disdain crossing her features at the sight of merlin ''I was just coming over to tell you I will be keeping a close eye on the DADA department, after all it is where the most improvement is needed, and I sincerely hope this won't be a problem will it'' she questioned but there was a mocking lilt to her words and merlin could barely suppress the laugh that was making its way up his throat.
''no it won't be a problem at all I can assure you, now if you please'' merlin replied and gestured to the food that had just appeared and the students who had entered the great hall, taking the hint umbridge stuck her nose in the air and marched off to her chair on the other side of the table much to merlin's relief.
Harry, Ron and Hermione entered the great hall and took their places at the front of the Gryffindor table in an effort to observe professor emrys more closely and risking a glance at the teachers table they saw umbridge talking to the new professor, Ron groaned ''you don't think he is one of her lackeys do you'' he questioned with barely concealed disgust, Hermione shook her head ''no I don't think so I mean after what he said to her last night I would be surprised if he was'' she glanced up at the table ''and look at him even now he looks as if he is trying not to laugh at her'' she gestured to the top table and their heads swiveled round to see the professor looking as if he was going to die if he couldn't laugh soon.
Ron turned away to see that the table had filled with food ''come on enough talking, let's eat I'm starving'' he said then began to pile his plate with food and stuffed sausages in his mouth while Hermione shook her head in disgust. After Ron had calmed down with piling food on his plate professor McGonagall came over and handed them all their timetables ''what have we got today'' harry asked with a hopeful expression on his face directed towards Hermione who was currently holding all 3 timetables.
''erm first we've got transfiguration, then potions, care of magical creatures, herbology and defense against the dark arts last'' harry groaned ''why do we have to have potions today, Snape hates me'' Hermione looked at him ''well we can't change it harry and at least the rest of the day is ok '' she said but harry just sighed and got up ''come on we're gonna be late'' and he gestured towards the door and began walking with Hermione following and Ron his mouth full of food trying to catch up to them.
After breakfast merlin made his way back down to his chambers to begin getting ready for his lesson with the first year Gryffindor's and slytherins, when he entered the room he immediately went to the back of his classroom to the cupboard and began setting out the desks. Once that was done he turned towards the door to see the first years all lined up outside and smiled he could tell they were nervous, he walked towards the door bouncing in excitement ''come in'' he said once he had reached the doorway this was followed with grunts and the class began to trail in and took their seats.
Merlin faced the class with a smile on his face ''ok then I'm professor emrys but you can call me mryddin if you want I'm not really bothered but anyway I will be your new defense against the dark arts teacher'' this statement was followed with smiles from mostly everyone in the room even some of the slytherins, merlin clapped his hands together ''ok now today we will be learning a relatively easy spell lumos this particular spell with make the end of your wand light up almost like a torch now would everybody please take out there wands and stand up'' this was followed by the scraping of chairs and the rustling of fabric.
Once everybody had stood up merlin took out his own wand however much he hated using it he had to use it teach, the wand itself was very complex and unique because merlin could not have an ordinary wand this had to be made by himself for the simple fact that it was the only one he could channel his magic through, the core of the wand was the scales of the 2 ancient dragons kilgarrah and aithusa whilst the outside was decorated with the figurehead of a dragon on the handle which was then followed by an ornate carving of Camelot and the lake of Avalon and the more he used his wand the more the magic reacted to make the pictures more defined and lifelike, then there were the figures on the wand all of the people he had lost Freya, Arthur, Gwen, Lancelot, gwaine, Percival, Leon, Elyan, Gaius, his mother and so many more but he did not dwell on sadness because he knew that sometime soon he would see them again he could feel it.
Once he had taken out his wand he made a swish motion with his hand and directed the first years to follow his example and once they had all perfected the hand movement he began to teach them the spell ''right you all seem to have got the hand movement so now I want you to do what I do, I want you to do the hand movement but this time say lumos whilst doing it'' there was a chorus of lumos around the room and half of the students had lit the tip of the wand ''ok very good now I want you to carry on doing this until you feel confident with the spell'' after several more minutes everyone in the room had managed to light up their wand ''well done everyone, now your homework is to practice this and show me again that you can do it next lesson, class dismissed'' the students smiled at merlin as they made their way to the door they felt happy that he had actually taught them something.
Merlin's classes carried on much the same throughout the day until it was only one class left the fifth years, Harry's class merlin just hoped that it went well.