Summary: Main character is Jade Hamasaki (JH), Japanese witch sent by Albus Dumbledore's best friend in Asia to teach Defense Against Dark Arts (DADA) to students in Hogwarts. She is also the newest member of Order of the Phoenix (OoP) who saved Sirius Black from the veil in the mysterious arc.

Gonna form a love triangle relationship between Sirius Black (SB) and Severus Snape (SS) with another guy loving her in secret... Another triangle relationship would be Hermione Granger (HG), Ron Weasley (RW) and Draco Malfoy (DM)... Another pair would be Harry Potter (HP) / Luna Lovegood (LL).

Disclaimer: Most of the characters belong to Mrs. J.K.Rowling's in her Harry Potter series while the Japanese characters are created by me alone... They belong to my imagination together with their magic history...

Author notes: I got nothing to say and so...

Chapter 3

"Draco." A blonde woman hugged her only son while muttering the words, with blood flowing down her shoulder and onto a teenage boy's body. She wore a dark green cloak over her crimson red witch robes and soothed her son's back while the teenager just sat on the floor, his grey eyes remaining as blank as a white paper as he remained on the floor in his sitting position.

In another room just near the living room where the mother and son was, is a man whose face is pale and pointed with white hair sipping white wine from his glass. Even as he hated muggles, he could not help but be happy while drinking this liquid brewed by muggles. His wand sat just beside him on a low table as he drank his wine.

'My son will never betray me like his mother is thinking of doing...' He smirked as he gulped down the wine and crashed his glass under his naked hand and blood seeped down the wound...

The double oak doors opened to reveal a huge room where its ceilings were very high and were brightened up by torches with two marble staircases leading up to the first floor and the Hogwarts students climbed up the staircase that would lead them to the Great Hall. In the past, they would be chatting without any worries or any hesitation but now void aura hang above the students as they silently got into their seats and waited for the start of the feast.

In the Slytherin table, a tall boy slithered into his seat as he just stared blandly in front of him. Normally he would be looking sideways at the Gryffindor table and smirking at the boy-who-lived and his two friends but he is now just keeping quiet on his seat.

At the grand table at the front of the Hall, the Professors of Hogwarts sat in their chairs, having an air of confidence around them as they surveyed their surroundings. But few people knew that the air of confidence is just a pretence act that they would have to do in order to calm down the reflexes of their students who looked around their surroundings nervously, staring at each peer that they thought would be a suspicious person.

And the Slytherin table is almost empty as a majority of them followed their parents who are loyal to the dark lord and not wanting to allow their children to a place where it is going against their 'master'.

Jade Hamasaki inwardly sighed as she looked around the hall. One long piece of table only had a few people while the other three were filled with nervous looking students. Studying psychology and being familiar with expressions of nervous feelings on people's face, she already felt the insecurity found inside them. However, one unique boy caught her attention who was at the table where it is near empty.

The boy's eyes are grey but then without any expressions in it, only total obedience to an 'order' ordered from far away him. A sense of dark power could be sensed around his body as he just sat on his chair with his face full of emptiness. She could not help but feel sympathy towards him, as if he is being used and manipulated by someone close to him. But then she also felt the curious gazes given to the unique boy by a girl that she had met days ago, a girl with bushy brown hair and wearing her prefect's badge on her robes. And vaguely, another concerned boy in bright red hair staying his eyes' focus on the particular girl.

Her lips lifted in semi-amusement but then two seats to her left, the headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry stood up from his chair and stood up straight to be at the front of the stage as he pointed his own wand at his throat, coughing a little to get his students' attention from their state. And the he began to speak, "Welcome back to Hogwarts and let us begin our "Sorting" first!"

A Professor with her black hair tied in a bun and wearing emerald green clothes walked up the font with a chair in her other hand. As the "Sorting" hat in her hand passed through the new Professor with long blonde hair tied up in a high ponytail, it winked at the Professor wearing her white dress robe. Jade Hamasaki just scoffed off the wink and settled into her own thoughts.

'That guy in that table... resistance against the Imperious Curse? Incredible till now... But when will he give in to the threat?' She smiled in secret and waited patiently for the sorting of the first years to finish...

A 6th Year student prefect walked to her seat but as she passed through her best friend's nemesis, she noticed something wrong with him. He did not even react to her appearance right in front of him. Her footsteps stopped suddenly, but another hand touched her back as her present boyfriend's voice sounded behind her, "Please move in... Harry!" He yelled as a boy in his school robe and having a lightning-bolt scar on his face rushed past the two and sat beside a female who has dirty long blonde and straggly hair to her waist behind her back and having her wand stuck in between her ear and her head.

Sitting down on her chair, the prefect with brown bushy hair realized that the Slytherin perfect in the other table where it had few students in it is acting unlike his real self. His two 'fledglings' were nowhere to be seen and his smirking face is nowhere to be seen, only deep resistance against something.

After the sorting finished, Albus Dumbledore knew that his students are lesser this year than before as many Slytherins are gone from the school because they withdrew from the school. On the other hand, something unusually had happened – to think that the Malfoy family did not follow the others in withdrawing from school, only continuing to send their 'heir' to Hogwarts to continue his studies.

At the back of his eyes, he could feel the new professor's knowing look on her aura that she is giving out. But he just smiled slightly and began his speech, "It is pleasant that our students are brave in their own ways in fighting the bad power last year and you, either having studied here for at least a year or just joining our school this year, to step into this Hogwarts castle. However, it is still not enough. We not only need courage to face the danger that is awaiting us but also enough strength to protect ourselves. And so this year, there will be a new course in our school curriculum that will take up just some of your time, and not affecting your academic work.

The Professor teaching this subject will also be our new Professor for Defense Against Dark Arts, allow me to introduce her, Professor Jade Hamasaki..." He stopped midway as murmurs could be heard from the students. He would already know that his students would be very surprised at this announcement of his. Even the other professors were shocked at this announcement; they did not get to know from the headmaster about this at all!

The professor for Potions also could not believe his ears. What kind of course would this be? Jade Hamasaki just bent her head slightly down and a smile came over her face, thinking back to a day before this first new day of school started for Hogwarts...

/She stayed in her small room behind the wall, on the floor as she had just placed her futon in her cupboard and brought out her cooking stove to cook breakfast for herself. But then she heard the fire crackle in the fireplace and so she got out of her sleeping room and stood in front of the fireplace. She wearing her white kimono dress and having her hair tied in two ponytails with dark brown hair band.

After seconds, a head appeared out of the fireplace, long white hair coming out first then a smiling brightly face appearing out of it wholly. Jade just raised her eyebrows a bit, folding her arms right in front of her and staring at him.

"You expect me to ask for your motive for being here, Professor Dumbledore?" Jade just spoke annoyingly and the old Headmaster of Hogwarts just laughed quietly as he explained, "Pardon me for not informing you of my arrival here earlier." "You do not need to, Sensei must have told you about my sensing skills, right?"

"Hmm. I am thinking of starting a new course for our students this year at this short notice and so I am sorry for not telling you earlier..."

"Hrr!" Jade scoffed, her hand going through her ponytail quickly, "What is it, just say it!" She did not care about being respectful of this elder at all since she was being forced into this position; fearing the day that she is going to face a class of students eager to learn magic from her.

The twinkle that was present in the old Professor's voice died out as he explained himself, "Voldemort's revival is now known to every one, even those who already wanted to lie to themselves about the truth... and so a lot of students might be withdrawing from school out of fear, and those left behind would be very courageous one but they cannot be totally unaware of how to defend themselves..."

"And I thought the subject that I am teaching is of this nature? To help them defend themselves... Oh... I see now... this 'new' course that you are thinking should be a very advanced lesson of defending against advanced and common used Dark Arts right?"

"No... I am thinking of teaching them how to dodge the attacks and you are the only one suitable for this job since you have the ability to fight and dodge, right?"

"And I feel that it is Sensei again who told you about this? Then how did you two communicate?" Jade Hamasaki widened her eyes, waiting to hear surprising news from Dumbledore.

"Your senior did told me this when you were unconscious after the Soul Spell."

"Darn it, Oni-san!" She muttered with a look of mixed happiness and anger on her face. But she just nodded her head, "So you are meaning that this new course would be teaching people a coward way of protecting themselves?" She laughed softly, eyes glancing at him in lightning speed.

Dumbledore just looked at her, waiting for her remaining words. Jade Hamasaki really could not help but salute this Headmaster of being able to look through her thinking, "Rather than just dodging, maybe we can teach the students ways to have other small little magic tricks to disrupt the DeathEaters' attack pattern? This side-course can be made for fun and relax their little nervous minds."

"Hah. You are brilliant, Professor Hamasaki. And you can call me Dumbledore since we are both at the same rank now." He smiled as he ruffled her hair. Jade fled away from the closeness that emanated from Dumbledore's touch of her scalp. Blushing without her own control, she just smiled back slightly, and spoke in her normal voice, "Dumbledore-san."

Dumbledore managed to lower down his surprised look on his face, remembering that the suffix – san – is just a language of the Japanese. /

"We just decided on this new course a day ago as we face the Dark Lord Voldemort..."

Gasps could be clearly heard from the tables as Dumbledore spoke. However, somewhere in the Gryffindor table's student did not have any shock over this as they had faced this 'monster' before. The boy-who-lived Harry Potter just could not stop himself from scoffing at his peers' cowardice at the mention of this nemesis of his but then a straight gaze really caught his attention as the new DADA professor looked at him and smirked in her unique way then she broke her gaze at him and stared into blank space.

"Allow this new professor of Hogwarts to say a few words in her first time here." Dumbledore suddenly announced, having his hand fingers pointing at the blonde headed woman in white dress robes. Jade Hamasaki really was caught unaware as silence greeted the hall as the students waited for their new professor to speak up...

Her inside really screwed up nervously like never before... She hates to teach! But her master just forced her into conformity... Breathing out a huge puff of white air, she stood up with the students' weird look at her and she just sighed exasperatingly.

Her face just grew redder and redder as she wrecked her brain, trying to speak up in front of her future students. This is really making her look crazy!

Her voice shook greatly but continued bravely, not wanting to let others look down on her completely, "I do not know what to say now. But be brave... the dark is never easily defeated by one person alone... though there are exemptions among us." She puffed her breath again in relief this time and returned to her seat.

Smiling, Dumbledore signaled the start of the feast.

She settled down on her futon and stared into the black ceiling without any thoughts. She glared at it for seconds before closing her eyes at last; this feast was really tiring for her. She had to keep up her position as a 'sensei' for the younger students even though it was not a thing as ordered by anyone to do.

Jade Hamasaki is just a proud lady who thinks high of her status as she had been. Because having being a psychological doctor for the muggles for a decade, she had been well-respected by her patients and others due to her great skills in teckwando. But now... no one knew of her real mastery in both ways and they are still not knowing anything about her yet.

'Do not force yourself unnecessarily, imouto-chan!' A voice sounded in Jade's head and Jade just sighed again the 'don't-know-how-many-times-already' time.

Jade scoffed inwardly and drifted into sleep...

TBC...

Author notes: This is an update with lesser words from the previous two chapters! And Lunar New Year is coming... I am Singaporean Chinese and is looking forward to this day! HA! Ciao!

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