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.
