Disclaimer: The wonderful Ms. Rowling owns almost everything, but some is mineJ

5

A Long Day of Shopping

"..amd it juft bweuw imto fmoke?" asked Matt while chewing toast. Kayla's description of last night's letter was baffling to both of them.

"Yeff it did," said Kayla doing an imitation of Matt, "and I would have come to get you but I was all of a sudden really tired."

"Hmmm," said Chris from behind them, "sound like someone's sent you a sleeping potion lined letter."

"You know," said Matt, "for having no brains that's quite a good idea."

"That hurts us big brother," said Ben sitting down across from them, "and besides he only thought of it because we've done it before."

"If you used your evil ideas for the good side," said Kayla; "you two could have been prefects like my cousin Nikki."

"Yes," said Ben with a sneer, "but if we were made prefects then Nikki wouldn't be and that would ruin your family's perfect history."

"A perfect prefect history," laughed Chris.

"That's true,"pointed out Matt, "as much as it pains me to agree with my brothers. Well Kayla we have shopping to do."

With waves to Matt's brothers Kayla and Matt walked out to the sunny alley behind The Leaky Cauldron. They tapped the third brick from the left above the garbage cans and as the gate opened they came face to face with their Potions teacher, Professor Draco Malfoy. He glared at them and they quickly got out of the way. He was obviously still angry with them for "accidentally" exploding a shrinking solution at his face, making his head as small as a lemon. He was giving them an expression that looked like he was being force-fed poison.

"Good morning sir," said Kayla as politely as she could, "how have your holidays been?"

"Is that any of your business?" he asked in a drawling monotone voice, "Besides don't you Ravenclaw brats have some secret book meeting that you two must be late for?" He added with a sneer.

Matt "forgot" or completely disregarded being polite and just pushed right by Malfoy almost knocking him into the garbage can. He just kept walking until they were safely inside a crowd of people.

"Matt," said Kayla strictly, "that wasn't a very nice thing to do."

"Serves him right that stupid slimeball," argued Matt, "he had no right insulting us like that."

"I guess you're right," agreed Kayla as they entered Flourish and Blotts. Oh the irony She thought of Malfoy as they entered the bookshop he was half-right. They soon had bought their new books. Numerology and Gramatica II for Advanced Arithmancy and Fantastic Beasts, where to find them and knowledgeable information on them for Advanced Care of Magical Creatures. (Their last books were ripping at the seams) They walked to the Apothecary to replenish their potion ingredients where they saw many familiar faces from the Slytherin house that were all too happy to insult them. As they walked into Madam Malkins Robes for all Occasions they ran into Kayla's cousin Nikki and her eleven-year-old brother Peter leaving with shopping bags over their shoulders.

"Hey"

"Hi"

"What's new?"

"Not much"

"Hoping Peter keeps the tradition alive and becomes a Gryffindor?" asked Kayla.

"That would make Mum happy, but Peter hopes he gets Ravenclaw," said Nikki.

"That might be the better choice," said Matt, "considering that if he does get Gryffindor my brothers will teach him everything they know."

"True," said Kayla, "you can't keep him under your protective wing forever Nikki." (A.N. WHAT A GAY LINE!!!)

"I guess," concluded Nikki, "but we better go, Peter needs a wand."

They all said their good byes and Matt and Kayla went to get new robes fitted. After they had new robes Kayla went to get some treats for Rowena and Matt was going to go to Quality Quidditch Supplies and get a Broomstick Servicing Kit.

As Kayla walked back towards Quality Quidditch Supplies she saw a crowd and heard a mix of sobs and laughs. As she pushed through the crowd she saw Matt on the ground covered in hairy orange boils and a girl standing next to him holding a pure white wand sobbing uncontrollably. She looked over little more and saw Matt's sister Ainsley, Nikki, and Peter laughing and pointing.

As Mr. Ollivander came out with a potion to heal Matt's boils Professor Malfoy came walking around the corner. He saw Matt on the ground and started to snort.

"Professor," yelled Mr. Ollivander, "this is not a very funny experience. I need you to make a potion for this little girl. She seems very traumatized."

"I'm sorry but I'm very busy," laughed Malfoy and walked away.

"Sir," said Kayla, "I think I can help her." She walked up to the little girl and preformed a simple Cheering Charm. The girl let out a sigh and a smile and she then sat on a bench beside the shop staring at Matt smiling.

"Now why didn't I think of that," said Mr. Ollivander with a smile.

Matt got up, boils fully healed and walked over to Kayla and her clueless expression and started to explain. He said he had been walking outside Ollivanders and a beam shot out the window cursing him with burning hairy boils. A crowd soon attracted as he fell to the ground. Apparently the girl seemed quite taken with him.

"Awww," sneered Kayla, "Matt's been robbing the cradle."

"Have not," he yelled, "it's not my fault that the female species is so attracted to my natural charm and intelligence."

"Keep telling yourself that," laughed Kayla.

They walked back to the Leaky Cauldron had a quiet dinner and went to sleep.

~*~

The next morning Kayla woke up to find The Daily Prophet on the foot of her bed. She read the headline with a gasp and took it down to the parlor to read it with Matt. When she got their he was already reading the article too.

The headline was Hogwarts Staff Left Wandless, Kayla read with Matt:

Many people have been wondering about the mysterious disappearances of many Hogwarts staff since the Hogwarts letters came to students. As most of you know Headmaster A. Dumbledore was fired and imprisoned last year for conspiring against recently disappeared Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge. He was soon replaced upon request by Hogwarts alumni Hermione Granger.

Yesterday several Hogwarts teachers and staff demanding his release broke into the Ministry. When an Auror hit squad arrived to break up the protest several of the teachers fired spells at the squad sending several into critical condition. After several warnings the staff would not vacate the premises and so were finally disarmed by several skilled wizards. After being disarmed and taken into custody the staff's wands were snapped and the teachers fired.

An old and new list of faculty is posted at the bottom of this page.

Hogwarts Faculty List (Old):

Headmaster: Dumbledore

Transfiguration: McGonagall

Charms: Flitwick

Potions: Snape deceased, Malfoy

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Moody

Herbology: Sprout

History of Magic: Binns

Flying: Hooch

Care of Magical Creatures: Grubby-Plank

Divination: Trelawny

Arithmancy: Vector

Muggle Studies: Hundam

Ancient Runes: Stone

Astronomy: Sinistra

Nurse: Pomfrey

Caretaker: Filch

Gamekeeper: Grubby-Plank

Librarian: Pince

Hogwarts Faculty List (new):

Headmistress: Hermione Granger

Transfiguration: Cho Chang

Charms: Virginia Weasley

Potions: Draco Malfoy

Defense Against the Dark Arts: Harry Potter

Herbology: Neville Longbottom

History of Magic: Anthony Binns

Flying: Ronald Weasley

Care of Magical Creatures: Charles Weasley

Divination: Parvati Patil

Arithmancy: Cecilia Vector

Muggle Studies: Ernst Macmillan

Ancient Runes: Alice Stone

Astronomy: Orion Adams

Nurse: Poppy Pomfrey

Caretaker: Arabella Figg

Gamekeeper: Charles Weasley

Librarian: Irma Pince

"Holy Cow!" shrieked Matt; "they got rid of everyone!"

"Well," said Kayla pointing at Malfoy and frowning, "not everyone."

"How can't you be freaking out about this?" asked Matt, "I can't believe they'd do something like this!"

"Me either," agreed Kayla, "but if you think about this logically they got what they deserved for doing this."

"True," grumbled Matt, "and having all of these new teachers will be awesome."

"I agree," said Kayla, "now let's read up on all of our new teachers."

So Matt and Kayla walked up to Kayla's room to get her "big book of everyone's life" as Matt called it and read about the lives of all their new teachers. They read all morning and into the afternoon. When they finally stopped reading the sun was setting. They went down for a quiet dinner with Matt's sister Ainsley, (Kayla's parents had left the night before and had arranged a magical car to take Kayla and Matt's siblings to Kings Cross) and then packed. They both fell asleep very late.

A.N.-I bet u all hate me now. I HAD TO MAKE IT INTERESTING THOUGHJ