Ch10
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Recap
"Did you see her face?" asked Emily "She was in shock when she looked around the class. If she Apparated here then wouldn't she know where she was."
"Harry was certainly happy to see her" Alex said somewhat upset
"I know" I said thinking "The way she was acting it was like Professor Harry was missing or something."
"Did you hear what she said when she seen Harry?" asked Remus
"No. What?" asked Peter
"She said something about Sirius being upset and won't let anyone see him except Remus." James replied
"Now that's weird" Sirius said
"This has to be more than coincidence" Remus said thinking "What are the probabilities that someone has same name as me and is friends with someone else named Sirius? It's not like we have common names."
Great Hall
Alex's POV
The madors were sitting at their usual seat. Sirius was inhaling bacon, James was eating pancakes and watching Lilly out of the corner of his eye, Remus was reading the Daily Prophet while munching on toast, and Peter was taking bits of everything. All around the hall you could hear people talking about what happened in DADA yesterday. News travels fast, especially when you can send magical messages to everyone you know with a flick of a wand. But place soon quieted down when Dumbledore stood up.
"Good morning everyone" He said smiling "I have an announcement to make."
His smiled faded "I'm sorry to say that Professor Hanson will be leaving Hogwarts."
Whispers broke out among the students.
He continued "He had to leave on short notice due to a death in the family but I assure you he's fine. Professor Hanson was a skillful teacher and will be missed but I'm sure you all understand."
His smile returned "Thankfully we have a temporally replacement."
Everyone turned their attention to a tall redheaded girl walking into the room.
Dumbledore continued "I would like all of you to meet your new Herbology teacher, Professor Ginny Weasly."
She turned around to face the students and waved before grabbing a seat next to Harry.
"Thankfully Professor Weasly came on short notice yesterday evening, saving us the trouble of finding a new professor on short notice. Classes will continue as scheduled."
He sat back down ending his speech.
"Is he serious?" I asked staring at the redhead
"No" Sirius replied "I am"
I sighed, he uses that joke all the time.
Lilly spoke for me "I think Alex meant that it seems a little strange for him to hire two teenage wizards, who are barley older than their students"
"Thanks Lilly" I said "that's exactly what I meant"
"No problem" she said taking a bite of waffles
"I know what you mean" Remus said thinking "I was wondering the same thing"
"What ever the reason" Emily said looking up " They must be powerful wizards if Dumbledore hired them"
James spoke up "If Ginny has any of the experience that Harry has, then she must be more than capable"
"Good point" Peter said between bites "but I doubt that you know who tried to kill her when she was a baby"
"Yeah but seeing how close she is with Harry, she might have been in some battles with him" Lilly replied
"I guess we're just going to have to find out for ourselves" Remus sighed
Harry's Office
Ginny's POV
"Congratulations" Harry said as we walked into the room
"I'm just glad I have something to do around here" I said as I sat down
He stretched the chair into a love seat and sat down next to me "Good thing you got a O in Herbology"
"You have Hermione to thank for that"
Chuckling he said " I don't know what Ron and I would have done if we didn't have Hermione around to talk some sense into us."
"You'd probably be expelled" I said jokingly
Still laughing he said "Yeah probably"
We sat in silence for a couple of seconds thinking about friends and home before Harry spoke.
"How is everyone?" He asked "I mean how did they react to my disappearance?"
"Overall I think they took it pretty well. Ron was pretty quite, except when he's comforting Hermione. She puts on a strong face for everyone but something the mask slips and she can hold back. Fred and Jorge have been pulling pranks on death eaters in your honer and mom and dad have been busy taking care of me and helping out the order."
"What about Sirius and Remus?" he asked worried
"Well" I hesitated "to tell you the truth, I'm not sure. I know Sirius took your disappearance really hard. He locked himself in Grimmauld Place and wouldn't let anyone in. Even Remus had to convince him to let him in. The last thing I heard he was doing a little better since Remus brought Teddy over."
"At least he's getting better" Harry sighed still looking worried "What about the wizarding world?"
"Where should I start?" I sighed "Since Voldemort's death people have been celebrating non stop. They aren't event worried about catching death eaters. Most people think that since Voldemort's dead that his followers will stop but the Order regrouped just in case. After you killed Voldemort, his loyalists fled. The death eaters are in mourning. So far they haven't done anything to catch our attention but it's not going to remain this peaceful for much longer. The Order has been doing everything it can to catch the remaining death eaters but without the ministry's help it's hard to get them convicted."
"The ministry's not doing anything?" Harry said angrily
"I never said they aren't doing anything." I said "They just aren't doing anything useful. We think that member's are still under the Imperius Curse or are Voldemort loyalists. We were able to arrest death eaters that were too injured to Apparate out of Hogwarts. That was enough to satisfy the ministry and the public."
He sighed "I just hope everything will be ok till we get back"
I put my hand on his shoulder "It will be. Just look on the plus side"
He looked over at me "And what's that?"
I smiled "They made you an even bigger hero. Your story is already being updated into next year's History books. They're even making a life size gold statue of you in Hogsmeade."
"Just what I need, more eternal glory" He said shaking his head
I am sorry it took so long to update and that this is a short chapter but school did start and I have a ton of homework to do from each class. I took as many classes as I could this year and regretting it but I'm in 10th grade and really have to start thinking about my future. I'll try my best to get the next chapter up with the next 2weeks. And as always Thanks for reading and plz Review!