Part Ten

Harry awoke the next morning feeling rather content. He had not had any nightmares once again and had slept very peacefully, although the peace was starting to worry him once again. He made his way down to the common room to find Ron and Hermione already there. Hermione was reading.

'No surprise there' Harry thought. And Ron was thinking the same thing as him but instead of keeping it to himself he had to make himself heard like usual.

"...But school has only just begun 'Moine, how can you be doing homework already?" They kept arguing for a while and then noticed Harry. They all made their way down to the great hall for breakfast together. They sat down at their table and McGonagall gave out their timetables. They realised that they had some new teachers today, which they were very happy about. When they started eating, out of force of habit, they looked up at the staff table. All were there, except one.

"Where's Professor Wyatt" Harry asked.

"I don't know, but he has to teach today so he will be here." Hermione said while studying her timetable. "Look we have DADA first so he will have to be there. After that we have Demonology, and then double potions with the Slytherins, as usual, why do they keep on insisting putting us with those snakes. Well at least we have a few new teachers today."

"Yeah" Harry replied. They finished eating and left to get to DADA before they were late.

They arrived at the class to find that everyone was lined up outside. Nobody was entering the classroom.

"Why isn't anyone going in?" Hermione asked Neville.

"She hasn't said to, I don't think she knows we are here" He replied. Hermione muttered something about going in and she did. The class followed her into the classroom. When they entered they saw their professor sitting on the desk flicking through a really big book. She didn't seem to notice until someone made a noise.

"Oh... hi. Take your seats." She said surprised that they had come in silently. "Were you all waiting outside, I'm sorry I didn't realise I had to give you permission to enter the classroom, in future don't worry about waiting just come in." Everyone obeyed and took their seats whilst listening to her. "As you know I'm Piper... no wait... you have to call me professor... god that makes me sound old" she mumbled to herself as a few laughs could be heard around the class. She turned back to them and smiled. "Ok... I'm professor Wyatt... just stick to Wyatt as Halliwell-Wyatt is a bit of a mouthful. Well as you know I am a witch... but not like you." She said. The students shared around a few confused glances. "I do not have to use a wand. My powers are controlled through my hands and by my emotions." She was about to continue when someone's hand shot up. "Yes..."

"Seamus Finnigan... What do you mean powers?" He asked

"Well I have the power to freeze time and blow things up... that is the simple explanation, the real explanation is something really complicated about slowing molecules down and speeding them up, but who wants a demonstration?" she asked with a smile. A lot of enthusiastic nods could be seen around the class this time. "Ok"

She looked around and saw parchment on the desk of a girl at the front.

"Do you mind if I borrow this?" She asked the girl and once she had received confirmation that it would be alright, she took it of the desk and walk back to the front of the class. She threw it up in the air and it froze, and to her surprise so did everyone else.

"Ok... I thought they wouldn't freeze... they're witches and wizards after all..." She mumbled under her breath. "Umm... LEO" She shouted so she could get some answers. He soon arrived and looked around confused.

"Uh... thinking of unfreezing the students anytime soon... they can't be that bad" He said with a smirk.

"Ha... funny. Why are they frozen... unless they are all evil?" She said to him. He laughed and began to explain.

"Piper this is a different type of magic, only Wiccan, good witches don't freeze."

"Ok thanks... now get out of here I want your entrance to be spectacular." She said with a smile. He smiled back at her and left in the little blue lights. She flicked her hands at the students and time began up again.

"Ok I've found a flaw in the demonstration... you lot seem to freeze so you won't be able to see that power... but I could blow this parchment up." She said and everyone nodded once again. She threw the paper up in the air and with a flick of her wrist and hand it exploded into nothing.

"Wicked" Ron exclaimed in shock.

"Thank you... okay so those are my powers, right..." she was interrupted by a hand shooting up into the air again. "Okay I'm not very good with names right now so when I say so tell me your name as well... ok..." she pointed to Hermione.

"Hermione Granger... I was wondering where our other professor was?" She said. Piper smiled at her.

"Don't worry about him... he may not always be here... you will get used to him disappearing a lot. I have." She muttered under her breath. "Ok today I thought that would be a great place to start. In this class you will learn about Defence Against the Dark Arts, but also there are beings out there of light, so learning about them will help. So I thought that that would be the best place to start, as it is the beginning of the year and all, ease you back in gently. Today we are going to talk about whitelighters." She smiled at the class. "Can anyone tell me what a whitelighter is?" Piper looked around the class to see if anyone knew the answer. Only one hand went up and she knew the girls name.

"Yes Hermione"

"An angel" she replied vaguely.

"Almost." She sat back down on the desk. "In this class you will have to make some notes, but I will try and make these classes as practical as possible. Right, a whitelighter is an angel, but only for certain people. They are guardian angels for good witches. Only Wiccan witches mind you. They help guide these witches, but they also make sure future whitelighters do the good that help them earn their wings. Each whitelighter has charges; these charges are either witches or future whitelighters. The witches know of the whitelighter status, but to future whitelighters it is kept secret. Whitelighters have the power to orb from place to place, they have healing hands, they can glamour themselves into anybody, and they can also sense their charges anywhere in the world. Everyone got that?" She asked looking around seeing everyone writing. "Ok who would like to meet a whitelighter?" Everyone looked up sharply.

"Professor how are you going to get a whitelighter here?" Hermione asked in interest.

"Oh lets just say that I know a whitelighter really well," She said with a smirk. "LEO" she shouted.

"How is that going to...?" Ron started but stopped as blue lights started to fill their classroom. More and more entered until they started to materialize into something. Everyone's jaw dropped when they saw that it was their other professor.

"This is a whitelighter." She said with a big smile as she pointed her arms at her husband who stood their smiling at the students.

"Hi" Leo said to all the pupils. Some still with their mouths wide open. "Umm... you know flies tend to fly into open mouths," he said with a smile and all of them now closed their mouths.

"That was so cool" Ron said with a big grin.

"But... how... you can't apparate into Hogwarts grounds. It says so in Hogwarts: A history" Hermione babbled in shock.

"Whitelighters do not apparate, we orb. Hogwarts barriers are there to keep evil wizards from apparating in and to keep evil out..." Leo started, and then Piper took over.

"Whitelighters are not evil, they are pure good, and so they are no threat to the school. As you said Hermione whitelighters are like angels, so there is no need to keep them out as nobody in this school has a whitelighter."

For the rest of the lesson they continued their talk on whitelighters. How you became a whitelighter. What the main job of one was etc. After the class found out that whitelighters were dead that became the main topic of discussion. How could Piper marry a dead person? How did he die? And somebody even asked what it was like to sleep with a dead person. They had to put them at ease and tell them that Leo wasn't really dead, he had died but wasn't dead anymore. The lesson ended with Professor Wyatt telling them that their next few lessons would be on darklighters. They exited that lesson and made their way to their next lesson. Demonology. They knew that the seventh years had potions and that Professor Halliwell-Turner wouldn't be there. So they made their way to that lesson with Cole.