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A/N: I recently aquired a complete set of the British Hardback Harry Potter novels, and sat down on a weekend to read them all cover to cover. By fifth year... this is what happened to my mind.

Harry Potter and the DADA Professor.

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"Reducto!"

Every head in the Great Hall swiveled from the headless body sitting in the DADA chair to Harry Potter, who was putting his wand away. Harry looked at all the faces and blinked. "What? This is my fifth year here and in the first four years, one DADA professor had Voldemort in his head, one tried to Obliviate me and leave me in the Chamber of Secrets, one nearly killed me or made me a werewolf and the last one nearly killed me four times, and gave me to Voldemort so he could try and kill me. This year, I simply used a preemptive strike."

Harry sat down and smiled at Hermione. "Pass the Shepherd pie, would you?" he asked.

A/N: Honestly, by fifth year, Harry should have simply assumed that even the best DADA Professor was going to try and kill him by the end of the year. Even Remus nearly killed him, even though it wouldn't have been on purpose.