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AN: sorry about not updating for a while I have been trying to think of something to put in the chapter
Merlin pov
The sun shining on his face woke Merlin up from where he lay on the grassy bank. He opened his eyes blearily and shook his head to rid himself of the foggy feeling. Looking around he realized that it was now morning which meant he had spent all night out here, it also meant that he was probably late and risking a glance at the watch on his left hand confirmed his suspicions.
''Shit'' he swore, he was late for his lesson with Gryffindor and Slytherin.
Getting to his feet as quickly as he could he racked his brain for the transportation spell ''gwynt y ddaear drafnidiaeth awyr tân i mi'' he shouted, disappearing in a whirlwind.
As he travelled merlin mused that he probably should have thought about his specific location but luckily he ended up in his room in the castle but unluckily he also ended up landing next to a pole on his bed meaning he turned around and walked into it.
''Agh fuck'' he shouted as he crashed to the floor; his long arms and legs flailing about, he lay on the stone tiles for a while to catch his breath before deciding he should probably get up because he had a class to teach and they'd probably already heard him swearing. Pushing himself to his feet he brushed the dust off his clothes, heading towards the door of his chambers ready to apologize to his students for how late he now was- then get what he hoped to be an excellent lesson started. The words however, died on his tongue as he opened the door, coming face to face with a toad in pink glaring up at him. His first initial thought was that one of his students had been experimenting with magic as nobody could look that toad like, at least until he realized the intruder was actually Umbridge and he had to bite back the snickers threatening to erupt from his throat.
At his entrance, everybody in the room looked up at him and he felt the heat rising to his cheeks. Knowing his face was undoubtedly scarlet but deciding he didn't care either way because he had a class to teach; he began the descent down the staircase. When he had reached the bottom Umbridge cleared her throat like she did in the great hall the other night and looked him dead in the eye ''Ahh Mr. Emrys, glad you could join us'' she said in her sickly-sweet too high voice and he fought back the shiver of revulsion the tone caused, not wanting to show weakness in front of the ghastly woman (if she could be called that). Despite the words that came from her mouth, he could see the relative tightening around her eyes and the malice underlying the seemingly innocent words. Forcing a charming smile onto his face he turned to face her noticing how all the students were watching in curiosity to see what would happen ''As am I Dolores but I am afraid I still need to give my apologies to everyone- it seems I overslept'' he said turning to face his students, noticing the way Harry clenched his fists under the wooden table looking ready to stand up and punch Umbridge. Subconsciously, Merlin kind of hoped he would just to see what she did. Consciously, though he knew he had to take the attention off the lanky teen lest Umbridge do something drastic.
Inclining his head back to her he frowned realizing something ''But Dolores I must ask, why are you here'' he questioned in a confused voice and she regarded him with what she obviously thought looked like a smug face. In reality she just kind of looked constipated.
''Oh well you see I was coming to tell you when you had your examination, but you weren't here and the students were looking so lost without a competent teacher so I thought I would step in and give them the education they deserve- as is my civic duty'' she replied a shark like smile stretching over her face.
Merlin however was not in the least bit intimidated or scared ''Oh I must say thank you for taking over my class but as you can see perfectly well I am here now so there really is no need for you to stay'' he said, watching in satisfaction as she started to turn purple at his subtle dismissal but instead of replying she started to make her way to the door only stopping to say ''Mr. potter remember to be at my office for 7:30 for your detention, I will see you tomorrow Professor Emrys'' and then she was gone. Frowning, Merlin wondered what had happened for the toad to give Harry a detention.
Sighing Merlin made his way to the cupboard on the far side of the room and after extracting a large wooden box he brought himself to the front of his class ''Now today I have a kind of test for you to go through, each of you will be given a gaging crystal'' he began and started to hand them around the class ''the gaging crystals will be used to test how much magic you possess in this stage of your magical development, which gives me an idea of how much and how little I will need to do to enhance your abilities and what would be most effective to do this'' he finished and took out his wand prompting everyone else to do the same.
''Now I would first like you to point your wand at the crystal and say ostende mihi verum colores, this will turn your crystal a colour- the colour it turns will represent your true personality'' he said and watched as they repeated the words all of them getting it pretty much the first time.
Merlin observed everyone's colors but five people drew his attention the most Neville a shy boy who sat nearer the back of the class had his crystal an olive green colour representing the traditional color of peace, Ron had his crystal a brown colour representing stability and denotes masculine qualities, Hermione had her crystal pink representing romance, love, and friendship, Draco had his crystal dark purple representing gloom and sad feelings and Harry's crystal shone a dark red vibrant red which was associated with vigor, willpower, rage, anger, leadership, courage, bravery, longing, malice, and wrath.
Once everybody's crystals had changed colour merlin instructed them to pick up the crystal and told them all that the brighter it glows the more potential power you have. Merlin watched as they picked up the crystals and they began to glow. He was pleased to note that nearly everyone had their crystal glowing at medium brightness.
After telling them all to sit back down he turned towards the blackboard and started to write what each colour represents but a voice at the back of the class made him freeze ''Sir why don't you show us what your colour and brightness is'' turning around Merlin saw the rest of the class nodding their heads and knowing he had no choice he reluctantly picked up a crystal; placing it on the desk he whispered ''ostende mihi verum colores'' immediately the crystal changed to a brilliant gold with specks of white dotted throughout, sighing merlin moved to pick up the crystal and as soon as his hand touched the cool surface he immediately wished he had just said no, the crystal glowed so bright that everyone had to shield their eyes but then cracks started forming along the surface until finally it exploded in a shower of sparks leaving the class in stunned silence.
AN: not a very good chapter but hope you liked it anyway and sorry about the swearing. I haven't edited a lot on this chapter but I did change Harry's crystal colour and meaning. Also, people keep saying about my use of capital letters and I would like to point out that sometimes my spell checker doesn't correct some of the capital letters and when I am reading it through I miss them sometimes. This does not mean I prefer some characters over others it's just because of my computer.
