Chapter ten: First DADA

Disclaimer: J. K Rowling owns all the characters that I borrowed from HP... etc etc

A.N. Once again I have no idea where this is going, I know I said that I probably wouldn't post till the weekend, but even though I'm absolutely exhausted from today I felt like writing.. I kind of feel weird cause usually I write every or almost every day- now I haven't posted since what? Saturday? Sunday? still... I write the chapters in turn- one for "Being Observed" then one for this story, so now its time for more Draco fiction..- the other story seems alot more popular but hey you guys like it, plus I already posted nine chapters so I couldn't abandon it, plus I jsut couldn't... So here it comes..

Draco was lying in his bed thinking. Of course he wasn't tired, well he was tired of people asking him things that were none of their business. Mandy was bad enough but now Padma? He just had to get away. Plus he needed to think...

I almost kissed Luna.. Weird, well she was quite pretty.. And smart not to mention, nice AND she was the only one who understood about his parents... Not that anyone else knew... But he knew that everyone would be prejudiced if they knew that his father was a Deat Eater. It would be all name calling "Son of a Death Eather".. He didn't wasnt that though he remebered. Now he knew how muggle-borns felt when he called them ahem mudbloods.

Draco felt pretty bad, though that wasn't too unusual lately. Still... He almost kissed Luna... He wasn't sure if he was okay about that. He didn't mind the fact that he almost kissed Luna Lovegood, it was more that he just wasn't sure how he felt about her.. well that had alot to do with it.

He thought that Luna was pretty nice and all but...She was no Hermione Granger

Did I just compared Luna to Hermione? Draco was getting quite confused with this whole business. He didn't know what to think, worse he couldn't control his thoughts anymore...

Maybe I should just sleep on it...

With that Draco drew the curtains around his bed closed and went to sleep.

Draco seemed to wake immediately after he fell asleep. Someone ripped his curtains open and was yelling at him. It was Anthony...

"OI, WAKE UP DAGEN YOU WILL BE LATE!" Draco opened one sleepy eye, looking at his alarm clock- which he forgot to set. Oh crap. He had five minutes before his first class would start. He jumped out of the bed and rushed around the room dressing, which seemed to satisfy Anthony as he left.

Draco was ready in three minutes, which was his best time ever. True, he was wearing odd socks, and his robes were crumpled but he got to class on time.

He reached the Defence Against the Dark Arts class just as the last person walked in. He slowed down and walked in. Professor Baine was already there, waiting for the class to settle.

Her long black hair was falling around her rather ghostly pale skin, making her hauntingly blue eyes stand out. She looked serious, there was something about her that Draco just couldn't fanthom. she looks so... there is just something about her, so haunting, it's almost as if she died and was born again, knowing the secrets of death. Draco shivered when he thought this, she looked like she knew something that no one is supposed to know. She looked sad also.

She forced a smile at the class. It didn't seem real. The class was torn between feeling sorry for her and wondering if she is just fake.

"I'm Callan. I will be teaching you Defence Against the Dark Arts. Please take out your wands," At this the class that was until then deathly silent, started chattering. Last year they spent the entire year doing theory that the Umbridge woman gave them. This was bound to be interesting. "Please do so silently. " She didn't raise her voice, she spoke just loud enough for people to hear her when everyone was silent, somehow everytime she spoke it was silent.

The class did as they were told, taking a surprisingly short time. Soon everyone was sitting silently, with their wand in front of them.

She looked at each member of the class, silently memorising each face. She knew the names, she only needed a look, she had a gift.

"Millia and Padma please come up here you will be staring."She called the two girls up, they looked at each other uncertainly, not knowing what was going to happen, but obliged.

"You will have a wizard duel, I trust you know how it is done, everyone in this class will be expected to do so in front of the class. Now pair up and get ready for your turn. Padma, Millia, if you please..." She motioned for them to come up to the front.

The two Ravenclaws got up and stood in front of the class. Each took their wand out and stood awkwardly in front of the class, feeling very self concious. They waited for Callan to give them the sign.

When everyone settled down, she nodded at the girls.

They bowed to each other. As soon as they stood up straight Millia cried:

"Laedo Ledo!"

"Protego!"

Millia attempted to hit Padma who used a powerfull shield charm, deflecting the spell back at Millia. She was knocked out by an invisible fist, hitting her in the face.

Millia's nose started bleeding and she attempted to stop the blood using her hands completely forgeting that she was in duel. Padma was about to use a well aimed stunner when Callan held her hand up.

" Stop! Millia why aren't you looking at Padma. She was about to stun you!" Padma wondered how Callan knew. She couldn't unless she could read her mind.

"But..." her bottom lip quiverred " my nose is bleeding" Padma shot her a nasty grin.. The two girls had quite a history. Millia has been extremely nasty to Padma for as long as she could remember, stealing her boyfriends, spreading nasty, untrue rumors. Padma never knew why, but after a while she stopped wondering. She didn't care anymore. She just wanted to be rid of her.

"That is not a nearly good enough reason to stop concetrating. Only reason that is good enough is when you're unconcious. If you were in a duel with the Dark Lord or some of his Death Eaters you would be dead by now. Go back to your seat." Her voice was very sharp, verbally slapping Millia. "Well done Padma that was a very good Shield Charm, they are very useful. Five points to Ravenclaw." She added in slightly nicer tone.

The class was a lot more interesting after that. Everyone did their best to duel for as long as possible. Draco paired up with Anthony. Draco has ended up beating him after a few minutes. The class went much too fast for anyone's liking. When the bell did go, the whole class left talking excitedly about the lesson. Draco however got held in by Callan.

"Mr Leblanc, can I have word with you?" she gave him a look which didn't really give him any other choice than to say "yes".

"Of course Professor." He was very polite, not only because he was trying to make up for the lost years of being insolent prat, but also because he really did respect her. She seemed to know alot about her subject, and they got to do practicals.

She lead him into the class, shutting the door behind them.

"I'm very interested what you think about the lessons." it would seem like a normal question if it wasn't for the fact that she chose him, lead him into the class, and he didn't like the emphatisis she put on the "you"

"I like them, I think that the practical part is really interesting, and that we will be prepared well for what awaits us out there." He decided to say what he'd normally say.

She gave him a penetrating look, boring her pale blue (actually they were more grey looking when he looked closely) into his steely ones. He had the nasty feeling that she was attempting to use Legillimens on him. He couldn't be sure and even though it seemed pretty riddiculous he cleared his mind just- in- case.

"That wasn't what I meant, I would apreciate if you answered the question again" She looked at him again, waiting for his answer.

Draco considered playing dumb, but then the second bell went so he could get away without answering her question.

She reluctantly let him go.

As Draco went about his classes he was still wondering about Professor Callan Baine. He had a feeling about her. It was like a gut feeling. Draco never believed in Divination or something of a kind, but he believed his intuition. From what he saw when he looked at her, it seemed as if she had been through something, he knew that she must have had something to do with some Dark Art. He just did. It was the strange aura around her, like the one that used to surround his father, but it was quite different. Lucius gave off feeling of coldness, and cruelty, he seemed to enjoy the power from the dark magic. Callan had the dark aura, but it was to do with her being, she didn't have the cruelty or the enjoyment. She did have the coldness.

Draco shivered from the thought. He had quite a bad feeling about her. He felt that she knew more that he would want her to know about him.

When it was finally time for dinner he went to the Great Hall, filled with happiness at the prospect of the warm meal awaiting him. He pushed any thoughts of Callan out of his mind as he sunk down to the seat next to Luna.

A.N hope you liked it. I had a slight idea, and all about Callan, but then I changed it halfway through.I know what is going on with her now... so yeah. i hope you liked it. I did go out of my way to write it. I did do my music composition, in time frame of about 48 hours, good one me. Today was totally hectic, but tomorow is my last day of school before the holidays, and I will write more, I promise. This chappie is quite long I think so I hope you huys are happy... Im going to bed so goodnight for now. Review. Love you all xoxo julezz

by the way the spell Millia used- i made it up, it is latin of course, and it is hitting spell- basically she tried to get it to punch Padma in face... so there