Here's Chapter Eleven! :)

Harry, Melissa, Ron, and Hermione took their seats in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. Harry and Ron shared a double desk together while Melissa and Hermione shared one. Students were talking amongst themselves as they waited for the teacher to show up. One student made a bird out of a piece of parchment and she used her wand to make it fly through the air. Just then the piece of parchment caught fire and the ash from it fell to a desk.

The students fell silent as Professor Umbridge walked into the room with a smile on her face and her wand pointing to where the paper bird had been.

"Good morning children," Umbridge said in her fake sweet voice. "Ordinary, Wizarding, Level, Examinations," Umbridge said as she pointed her wand at the blackboard and waved it making the words appear on it. "More commonly known as O.W.L.s," Umbridge said as she made her way to the front of the room and smiled at the students. "Study hard and you will be rewarded. Fail to do so, and the consequences may be...severe."

Umbridge then pointed her wand at a few stacks of books behind her and they floated in midair and moved down the rows of desks dropping a book in front of each student.

"Your previous instruction in this subject has been disturbingly...uneven," Umbridge continued. "But you'll be pleased to know from now on you will be following a carefully structured Ministry approved course of defensive magic."

Harry and Melissa exchanged glances at each other and then they looked down at their new books. The title read, 'Dark Arts Defense Basics for Beginners.' Umbridge went to say something else but saw that Hermione had raised her hand.

"Yes," Umbridge asked.

"There's nothing in here about using defensive spells," Hermione told her.

"Using spells," Umbridge asked with a shocked expression on her face. She then let out a small laugh. "Well I can't imagine why you would need to use spells in my classroom," Umbridge said as she walked up to Hermione.

"We're not going to use magic," Ron asked with confusion in his voice.

"You will be learning about defensive spells in a secure, risk free way," Umbridge told the class as she walked back up to the front.

"What good is that," Harry asked. "If we're going to be attacked it won't be risk free."

"Students will raise their hands when they speak in my class," Umbridge told Harry. She then turned to the rest of the class. "It is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical view of the knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations which after all, is what school is all about."

"And how's theory supposed to prepare us for what's out there," Melissa asked her.

"There is nothing out there dear," Umbridge assured her. "Who do you imagine would want to attack children like yourself?"

"Oh I don't know," Harry said. "Maybe Lord Voldemort."

The students either gasped or shuddered at the sound of Voldemort's name. Then all eyes went back and forth between Harry and Melissa. Whispers suddenly broke out and students glared at the twins.

"Now let me make this quite plain," Umbridge said as she took a few steps forward. "You have been told that a certain Dark Wizard is at large once again. This...is...a...lie."

"It's not a lie," Harry said angrily. "My sister and I saw him! We fought him!"

"Detention Mr. Potter," Umbridge shouted as she headed back to the front of the room again.

"So according to you Cedric Diggory dropped dead of his own accord," Melissa shouted in an angry voice.

"You can join your brother in detention as well Miss Potter," Umbridge said as she turned to her. "And Cedric Diggory's death was a tragic accident."

"It was murder," Harry shouted.

"Voldemort killed him," Melissa added in an angry voice. "You must no this!"

"Enough," Umbridge shouted.

Harry and Melissa fell silent and a few students jumped at the sudden raise of her voice.

"Enough," Umbridge said in a softer voice after taking a deep breath. "See me later Mr. and Miss Potter. My office," Umbridge said. A smile then appeared on her face and she gave her fake girly laugh.

Defense Against the Dark Arts ended and everyone got to their feet and cleared out of the room almost at once. Harry and Melissa were furious as they made their way to the dungeons with Ron and Hermione for potions class. The four of them walked in silence because Ron and Hermione knew that it was best not to say anything at the moment with them being so angry. Plus, Melissa was already angry with Hermione and she didn't want to make matters worse.

They walked into the classroom and they all sat at the same table. If Harry and Melissa thought that Defense Against the Dark Arts would be the worst of their day, they were so wrong. Snape was just as horrible as ever. Before they went about making their potion, he talked to the students about O.W.L.s like Umbridge did. He said that he wouldn't take anyone below an Outstanding for their N.E.W.T level. As he said this, he glanced at Harry and Melissa with a smirk on his face.

After he finished talking to the class, he pointing to the instructions on the board and said that they were to make the Draught of Peace. He then sent the class to work and for a while he walked around the room and glanced into cauldrons. Harry and Melissa glared at Snape as he walked over to Malfoy's cauldron and spoke.

"Well done Mr. Malfoy," Snape said with a grin on his face. "Your potion is coming along nicely."

"Thank you Professor Snape," Malfoy said with a smirk on his face as he glanced at Harry and Melissa.

Snape made the twins so angry by the end of the lesson that they failed to properly brew their potion. Snape walked over to their cauldrons at the end of class and looked inside with a smirk on his face.

"What is this Miss Potter," Snape asked her.

"The Draught of Peace sir," Melissa told him while she tried to keep her anger at bay.

"This is the poorest excuse for a potion I have ever seen," Snape said as he waved his wand clearing the potion from her cauldron. "You will receive no credit for the day."

"Whatever," Melissa said as Snape walked over to her brother.

"And it looks as though you've done as poorly as your sister Mr. Potter," Snape said to Harry as he peered into his cauldron. "You won't receive any credit either," Snape said as he waved his wand over his cauldron making the potion disappear.

"Does it look like I care," Harry said out of the corner of his mouth as Snape walked away.

Harry and Melissa grabbed their things and they left the class and headed to the Great Hall for lunch. Once they got to the Great Hall they took their seats at the Gryffindor table. When Melissa sat down in between Fred and George they turned to her with concerned looks on their faces.

"What's wrong," Fred asked.

"Yeah what happen," George asked his girlfriend. "Why do you look so angry?"

"Umbridge and Snape that's why," Melissa said in an angry voice as she poured herself some orange juice.

"That Umbridge woman is a bitch," Fred said. "That was our second class of the day."

"George she's a teacher," Hermione said in a furious and shocked voice as she sat down next to Harry.

"I'm Fred," Fred told her.

"Oh whatever," Hermione said. She then turned to Melissa and spoke. "How can you tell those two apart so easily?"

"It's easy," Melissa told her. "Especially when you've known them for five years."

"And I can't believe your sticking up for her Hermione," Ron said as he sat down on Harry's other side. "After what she said in class today."

"Look I know she's a horrible woman but you still have to show teachers respect," Hermione said to Ron.

"You're not the one who got detention for a week," Ron argued.

"She gave you detention for a week Ron," Fred asked. "What did you do?"

"Not me," Ron explained. "Harry and Melissa."

"What happened," George asked.

"She was acting like Cedric's death was nothing more than an accident," Melissa said with tears coming down her cheeks. "Like he just decided to drop dead."

"And so Melissa and I stood up for Cedric," Harry added. "We told her what really happened and we got detention for it."

"Only because you two let your anger get the better of you," Hermione said.

Melissa glared at Hermione and she got up from the table and headed out of the Great Hall. Fred and George quickly got up as well and they ran after her. They saw her walk outside and they followed her over to their favorite tree by the black lake. Melissa sat down with her back against the tree and she wiped a few tears away. Fred sat down on her right and George sat on her left.

"I don't know how I'm going to be able to handle a year with that woman," Melissa told them after a moment of silence. "And Hermione's not making things better. I've never fought like that with her. She's one of my best friends. Not to mention Hagrid's gone and I can't even go down to his hut and talk with him about all of this."

"You've got us," Fred assured her.

"Yeah you can always talk to us," George told her.

A small smile appeared on Melissa's face and she turned to her friends.

"Thank you," Melissa said.

"No problem," George said as he put a comforting arm around her.

"Yeah what's family for," Fred asked with a smile on his face.

The bell rang shortly after and the three of them headed back to the castle. Melissa kissed George and she gave Fred a hug before heading off to History of Magic. Once she got there, Professor Binns gave a long boring speech about the O.W.L.s. After that was finished he then went on giving a lecture about Giant Wars. Harry, Ron, and Melissa tried their best to stay awake but failed. Hermione looked at them with a stern look as she continued taking notes.

The bell rang an hour and a half later and the four headed out of the classroom to their final class of the day. Melissa and Hermione waved goodbye to Harry and Ron as they headed off to Divination and Melissa and Hermione headed off to Ancient Ruins. Once they got to the classroom they shared a double desk near the front and Professor Bathsheba Babbling gave a speech about O.W.L.s like all the other teachers had done. She too said that she wouldn't accept students below an Outstanding for N.E.W.T level.

Before the bell rang ending class for the day, Professor Bathsheba gave the students homework which included reading pages twenty through thirty in Ancient Runes Made Easy and deciphering pages twenty through thirty in Magical Hieroglyphs and Logograms.

Melissa groaned as she put her books in her book bag and she left the class with Hermione. They headed up to the Gryffindor tower where Melissa was supposed to meet Harry so the two of them could head to their first detention with Umbridge.

And that concludes the first class with the evil Umbridge. I hate that woman so much lol. Anyway, the next chapter will be detention with her. If it was me, I would have done the opposite of Harry and told Professor McGonagall that Umbridge's idea of detention was to torture students. I mean I realize why Harry didn't tell her but I'm pretty sure that McGonagall would have gone straight to Dumbledore and he would have thrown Umbridge out faster than she could blink. That's just my opinion. Anyways, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I'll have the next one up soon. :)