Chapter 8: Professor Galder

On Friday, the group was a little excited to meet Prof. Galder; Harry, Ron, and Hermione had never been excited or even wanted to go to Potions before. "He can't have been that bad," said Liana as they talked about how lucky she was that she didn't even meet Snape. "You don't know because you haven't had him for 4 years," said Harry "He really hates me."

"I wonder if he really is a poof," said Hermione. "Or if he's like Prof. Matthews," said Ron teasingly as they went to join the rest of their class in the dungeons. Then they heard it; it was a shrilly male voice coming from the classroom. "I can't believe this! My new robes!" said Prof. Galder as they entered the classroom. They all thought he had spilled some potion, but he had smudged a little ink on his red robe. The rest of Gryffindor was snickering quietly, but all of Slytherin looked at the professor with disgust.

"Ah, well come students," he said as Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Liana found their seats, "you sure missed a lot Monday."

"But we didn't even have class Monday, what would we have missed," said Hermione. "You missed the sorting of course silly," he said in a fruity voice which made Ron cough loudly to cover a laugh, "AND," he said with annoyance in his voice, "Missed meeting the two new teachers, but I forgive you, its not your fault." He said looking at Harry when saying the last few words and made him blush.

"Excuse me," said Liana taking defense, "but its not Harry's fault we were late. You should show more respect to those who saved so many lives." She said raising her voice slightly making Harry blush even more and causing yells from Gryffindor. "Well, excuse me," said Prof. Galder with his hands on his sides, "someone has a little attitude problem, well, I'm going to be the better person and end this little conversation with you," said Prof. Galder in a snobbish way which made the Slytherin's smile a little.

For the rest of the class, they wrote down notes and procedures on how to make a Sight potion (to cure blindness caused by other potions or spells). The Gryffindors were lucky Galder wasn't like Snape because he didn't take any points from Gryffindor. "He thinks he's God's gift to the world!" said Hermione during lunch. "I agree, he's very snobbish. I hate snobbish people," said Liana. " Well, we can't get everything we want," said Harry, "Lets go visit Hagrid this afternoon." And they all agreed.

"I don like him much meself," said Hagrid that afternoon. They were eating stoat sandwiches, but they were really just nibbling at it. "I can' believe he blamed you, Harry, for missing a day," said Hagrid. "Did ya'll hear that they caught the guy who caused the Muggle to crash into ya'll," said Hagrid. "They did?" said Harry, Ron was choking in the background. "Who was it Hagrid?" said Liana. "It was Peter Pettigrew, can you believe it?" said Hagrid. "How? He's supposed to be dead?" said Harry covering up the fact that they all knew the truth. "He was hangin' round the area makin' sure you lot were dead and a wizard spotted him there and turned him in. Him and few others were found round there and they were all taken fer questionin' and after a few days, he cracked and told everythin'." Said Hagrid. "Does that mean that Black is innocent?" asked Harry a little too eagerly. " Read in the Prophet tha' his case is bein' looked over," said Hagrid eyeing Harry suspiciously.

They left Hagrids a few minutes later to get dinner and had a lot on their minds especially Harry, if Black is found innocent, thought Harry, than I can go live with him and leave the Dursleys! Harry would be free from the Muggle world and live with his own people. Maybe, just maybe.