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A little question here…Who should be the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher? I need a little help there…I want to keep the level of OCs down to a minimum.

Disclaimer:

DMG: THE FIFTH HARRY POTTER BOOK IS COMING OUT TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY! YAY! YAY! *pauses* And it doesn't belong to me…awww…*pouts*

Yami: And she doesn't own us either! And I'm very glad of that because we probably wouldn't like it -_-

DMG: *still bouncing*

Yami: She had too much sugar. -_-;;;

New Author's Notes: Nope. Almost no changes here. A few lines, and that was it. I'm afraid I can't edit Chapter 10 because I did it at a friend's house over the summer, but this is an (almost) full set of editions. And it took me a while too. .

Chapter 9

"Who?" Harry asked confusedly, but Ryou and Yugi didn't hear him. They were busy asking Malik how he had gotten to Hogwarts.

"I got some letter, and next thing I knew, Isis was shoving me off here." Malik rolled his eyes.

"Which house are you in?" Ryou asked.

"Slytherin," he said, with a tone of disgust. "The people in that house are ridiculous. Especially that Malfoy person." At this, Harry, Ron, and Hermione grinned.

They went into the Great Hall. Ryou asked Malik in a low tone, "Did you tell Professor Dumbledore about your yami?"

Malik shrugged. "I don't really see any need of it." He paused. "Did you tell Professor Dumbledore about yours?"

Ryou and Yugi both nodded.

"Well, here's the Gryffindor table," Harry said when he reached it. "The Slytherin table is over there." He pointed.

"I have to sit with them?" Malik exclaimed. "No way!"

"Well, yeah. It's the rules," Hermione said.

While they were bickering, Fred Weasley came down to their end of the table and handed around schedules. He looked at Malik. "I don't think I have a schedule for you," he said.

Malik just shrugged and went on talking with Yugi and Ryou.

He paused to talk with Ron and Harry, then went back to the other side of the table.

"Oh, we have Potions first," Harry said, looking at his schedule. "And it's with the Slytherins, as usual…" he grumbled.

"Sounds interesting," Ryou commented.

Ron gave a dry laugh. "When you see what the teacher's like, you won't be thinking it's interesting anymore."

"Is it really that bad?" Yugi asked.

"Well…he treats the Gryffindors like dirt. And he really, really hates me," Harry said. "And he doesn't like Ron or Hermione either. Come to think of it…I don't think he likes anybody but the Slytherins."

"Sounds pretty good," Malik said.

"Well, you're a Slytherin," Harry said.

"Can't argue with that," Ryou said.

After breakfast, they all walked down to the Potions classroom, which was held in one of the dungeons.

"Whoa, that's creepy," Joey muttered.

Yugi muttered, "Tell me about it." When they entered the dungeon they took a seat by the cauldrons.

Snape finally swept into the classroom, glittering eyes sweeping the class and landing on Ryou, Yugi, Joey, and Kaiba. "Ah, the new students," he said smoothly. "I hope you aren't as clumsy and dim-witted as these other students are," he said. "But if you run into trouble, you can always ask a fellow Slytherin for help." He beamed at Malik. "I'm sure that Malik here won't mind lending you a hand if you run into any misfortune in my class…which I'm sure you will." He smirked and began the day's lesson.

Kaiba and Joey both looked ready to strangle Snape. Malik was smirking. Ryou and Yugi were just rolling their eyes at the three of them.

"What did he just call us?" Kaiba said through gritted teeth.

"I think it was something along the lines of clumsy and dim-witted," Yugi said.

"We warned you," Harry muttered.

Yami and Bakura were both fuming silently in their respective soul rooms, but they refrained from jumping out and banishing Snape to the Shadow Realm. This was only because Yugi and Ryou had spoken to them about violence, and it wouldn't do for them to look like murderers when they hadn't even gotten past their first day yet.

Soon, the class was put to work making a Shrinking Solution. Harry sighed as he remembered that they had done this last year. He idly wondered whether Snape would use Neville's toad Trevor as an example again.

Yugi paired up with Joey, Ryou went with Malik, and Kaiba was stuck with Malfoy, to his utter hatred.

"Uh-oh, Kaiba looks mad," Joey whispered to Yugi as they watched Kaiba viciously pounding beetles, cringing as he mashed them, insides and all, into a flaky powder.

Ron overheard them. "I'd be angry too, if I got stuck working with Malfoy."

Malfoy, unfortunately, had heard all of this conversation and raised his hand to tell, when Bakura finally had enough.

~~That's it, I don't care anymore, I'm gonna kill that little twit-~~

~Whoa! Yami, calm down!~

Harry and Ron were giving him odd looks. Ryou smiled weakly and went back to trying to force Bakura back into the Ring. Yugi and Malik continued to prepare ingredients as if nothing out of the ordinary was happening. But meanwhile, Yami was shouting and throwing things at the walls of his soul room. Yugi winced.

/Uh…Yami…I would appreciate it if you would stop throwing things in my head. I might be able to concentrate a bit better./

Yami continued to grumble but stopped throwing things.

Snape spotted Malfoy's hand. "Yes?"

"Weasley and his little group of friends are insulting me," he said in an all too un-innocent voice. But, Malfoy being a Slytherin, Snape did not take any of this into consideration.

"Detention to all of you, including you," he said, indicating Kaiba, Yugi, Ryou, Harry, and Hermione, who had all done nothing wrong. "And ten points from Gryffindor."

"Now wait just a second here!" Kaiba started to say, but Snape cut him off.

"Unless you wish to lose more points from Gryffindor, I suggest you stop talking. After all, Gryffindor doesn't seem to have many points at the moment, do they."

Yami promptly began throwing glass vases into the walls of his soul room again, muttering something about revenge. But to Ryou's surprise, Bakura didn't do anything.

~~You don't have to be so surprised, Ryou. I'll get him back later. And it won't be pleasant for him.~~

Ryou sighed. ~What did I say about violence? Besides, what are you going to do to get back a full-fledged wizard?~

~~Who said I was going after Snape?~~

Ryou groaned. ~Let me guess. Malfoy.~

Bakura smirked and nodded.

Ryou sighed and gave up.

After Potions ended, they were all indignantly complaining about Snape.

"I can't believe we got detention, what did we do?" Joey asked.

"I dunno," Ron said. "He's just like that. One little thing goes wrong, he blames it on the Gryffindors and gives a whole bunch of them detention."

Malik grinned. "So there are some good points of being a Slytherin. At least I didn't get detention."

Everyone scowled at him.

Even Kaiba was annoyed, and that didn't happen much. "Just great. I could be making Yugi duel me again. But no, I have to be down there with that…that teacher, in detention!"

"Duel?" Harry asked interestedly.

"Yeah, Duel Monsters," Yugi explained. "They're really popular in Japan."

"Oh, never heard of it here," Hermione said. "What's it like?"

"It's the best game ever," Joey said. "We'll show you how to play sometime, if you'd like."
"That'd be great," Harry said.

"Okay," Yugi said. "Now which class do we have next?"

"Divination," Harry moaned.

"We should have quit when we had the chance," Ron agreed.

"Why? What's so bad about it?" Ryou asked.

"It's just all fake," Hermione said. "I'm taking Arithmancy instead, so I'll see you at lunch." She left, while the rest proceeded all the way up to North Tower.

Ryou nearly choked on the heavily perfumed air when they finally entered the room. It was as hot as an oven in there.

Moments later, Professor Trelawney emerged from the shadows, wearing shimmering green jewelry and green robes. "Welcome to Divination, the mystical art of foreseeing the future. My name is Professor Trelawney, for those of you who don't know." She indicated the five, Ryou, Yugi, Malik, Joey, and Kaiba. "Today we shall be starting out with something simple- the tea leaves. The rest of you may have done this before during your first year of Divination."

After she had gotten them all set up with tea leaves and cups, she swept around checking everyone's work. She caught Ryou and Yugi sitting and staring at the teacups as if they had no clue what to do.

She picked up Ryou's cup. "To give you an example, I will read your cup," she informed him. "Watch closely."

She peered into the cup, turning it occasionally. She muttered to herself before dropping the cup in horror.

Everyone's heads jerked up from the tables they had been bending over. Neville splashed tea all over the table he was working at. Harry was strongly reminded of himself in third year when she had said he had the Grim. He was almost sure that was going to happen now.

"My dear…you have the Grim," Professor Trelawney said in a dramatic voice.

I knew it, Harry thought.

Lavender and Parvati gasped and glanced at Harry, then at Ryou. A couple of other students did so too, but Harry, Ron, and a few others did not.

"Excuse me- a what?" Ryou asked.

"The dog that haunts graveyards! The omen of death! Do you not know what a Grim is?"

"Not…exactly…" Ryou was forced to admit.

~~Don't listen to her, Ryou. She doesn't seem very reliable.~~

"It is-" Professor Trelawney started to explain, but the bell rang just then and everyone scrambled out of the room.

Ryou sighed.

So far I've had a teacher who looks like an old glittery green lady, and a mean old teacher who desperately needs a shower, he thought. I swear this school has something against me.

Well, no cliffhangers for once…suggestions about the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, please!