* I used Cassandra Claire's Magid term, it does not belong to me I just borrowed it, I give my sincere thanks.
Chapter 3 "The New Defense Against Dark Arts Teacher"
Harry thought nothing could surprise him than discovering Professor Quirrell is the servant of Lord Voldemort but he could never me more wrong. After the song of the Sorting Hat the Great Hall is filled with too much applause and laughter. The girls literary became insane like the people in a mental institution as they jump, dance and screamed. They loved the song, no obsessed to it like a man affected by a Confundus Charm.
"Hogwarts School, My Hogwarts School WO WO WO WO," Hermione sang while banging her head.
Harry then had a glimpse of Ron; he noticed that he is carefully looking at Hermione. His emotions cannot be determined through his eyes; they were mystic like Mona Lisa that Harry could not tell if he is mad or happy. Then there was Neville his face is worse than that of his toad. He continues to look at Ginny, who like Hermione is very enthusiastic and boogieing like Dudley's wrecked toy. In the far end of the hall were Fred and George; they are talking to each other. Whispering and laughing and seemed to be not affected by the screaming around them, the look and smile on their faces tells Harry that they are up to something.
To Harry's surprise Ron who is beside him stood up and went to Hermione, his face is still mystic that Harry could not predict what he would do.
"Hermione stop it, you should stop and get a hold of yourself," Ron said to Hermione in a very invidious face.
But Hermione seemed to not hear him, she still is screaming, dancing, singing and affected by the aftershock of the song.
"Hermione! Hermione!" exclaimed Ron while holding Hermione's shoulder and shaking them.
Hermione finally got to her senses like a person who woke up in a dream then suddenly turned to Ron.
"Ron, what are you doing can't you see I am enjoying myself just like the other girls," Hermione said to Ron civilly.
"But Hermione, you are out of control. You dance, scream and became an insane fanatic over that damn Muggle band," said Ron with spiteful eyes.
"Oh so that's it! Just because they are Muggles you can call them that way, a damn Muggle band. Also just because they are Muggles it means they are much less than we wizards and should not idolize them!" exclaimed Hermione furiously directly at Ron's face.
"But but.." Ron said in a remorseful voice.
"Are you forgetting Ron that I also came from a Muggle family, my parents are Muggle dentist. You know Ron you sounded like Draco Malfoy!"
"Hey! I did not say anything bad or something against Muggles. My point is I just want you to stop acting like a kid for you to stop dancing around like some sort of lunatic," Ron explained in an unruffled voice.
"And why do you want to do that?" asked Hermione curiously.
"Cause I don't want people to think you are weird, I don't want them to think you are insane when you dance and scream and out of control like that. Because I I….care," Ron said in a tender voice while still holding Hermione's shoulder.
Hermione suddenly turned red; her cheeks were as scarlet as cherries. She looked at Ron in a doting manner. But before she could answer back, Dumbledore unexpectedly stood up of his Golden chair and started to talk.
"Welcome!" said Dumbledore, the candlelight shimmering on his beard. "Welcome to another year at Hogwarts! I have very important things to say to you, I think it is best to get it out of the way before you become befuddled by our excellent feast…"
Dumbledore cleared his throat and continued, "As you will all aware of in the past years we have no Defense Against Dark teacher." He paused and his eyes sway towards the hall. "Now I am happy to say that we have a teacher, she agreed to teach temporarily this year," again Dumbledore paused to clear his throat. "Her name is Svetlana Serena, she is from Ukraine but don't worry she speaks good English. But unfortunately she is attending a very important matter today and cannot attend the feast, I will personally introduce her to you tomorrow in your regular scheduled classes."
"And on a very much happier note," he continued." I am pleased to announce that our Yule ball will be held earlier than expected," Dumbledore paused then rolled his eyes in the hall like a predator waiting for a prey.
There were murmurs all over the hall. Harry felt a bit happy; his mind has assembled a plan on how to ask Cho Chang to the ball. In the past two years, he could still remember on how Cho disregard his proposal to be his partner, it is an appalling experience for Harry but not as worse as Ron's experience when Fleur ditch him in front of numerous Hogwarts student. This time Harry is determined to succeed; he is gritty that Cho will agree to be his date.
Harry then noticed something unusual about Hermione, still her cheeks are unusually red and her eyes were continually glancing at Ron. When Ron gazed his eyes towards Hermione, her head rebounded like a rubber when it looked at a different direction.
Another peculiar scenario is the guise of Snape's face. Usually when the Defense Against Dark Arts teacher is announced and he does not get the position his face looks like a rotten tomato. But this time he is jovial which Harry finds odd.
"For my next announcement, which I am sure will make you all very glad about," Dumbledore then paused and gave an unusual smile. "I advise you especially the girls not to go hysterical," he continued. "Our former Professor in Defense Against Dark Arts, Gilderoy Lockheart would be staying a week before the Yule ball," again he paused and looked at the curious students. "With him will come his band, the Westlife and they will perform in our Yule ball," continued Dumbledore smiling.
Harry could not believe his ears, is it true that the Westlife would perform live at their school. Then expectedly he could hear screams all around the hall like Neville's howler, it is much worse than the screams after the Sorting Hat sang.
"They will stay with us in a week, Professor Snape will be in charge for entertaining them," Dumbledore said but Harry could not hear him because of the echoing loud screams. "Well, I think that's everything of importance," said Dumbledore. "Let the feast begin!"
The golden plates and goblets before them filled suddenly with food and drink. Harry, suddenly ravenous, helped himself to everything he could reach and began to eat.
It was a delicious feast; the hall echoed with talk, laughter, and the clatter of knives and forks. But there is only one topic of the murmurs, the coming of Westlife. The girls hardly eat as they talked excitingly to each other and could not wait for the coming of the Yule ball.
At long last, when the last morsels of pumpkin tart had melted from the golden platters, Dumbledore gave the word that it is time for all of them to go to bed.
Harry, Ron and Hermione joined the Gryffindors streaming up the marble staircase and, very tired now, along the corridors, up more and more stairs, to the hidden entrance to Gryffindor Tower. A large portrait of the fat lady in pink dress asked them, "Password?"
"Coming through, coming through!" George called from behind the crowd; he was the new Head boy. "The new password is 'Mujai'!"
"Oh no the password today is hard to memorize," said Neville Longbotom sadly. He always had trouble in remembering passwords.
"Don't worry you have Ginny as a girlfriend now, she is not as forgetful as you," said Lavender Brown while smiling even without three teeth.
Through the portrait hole and across the common room, the girls and boys divided toward their separate staircases. Harry climbed to the spiral stair which no thought in his head except how glad he was to be back. They reached their familiar, circular dormitory with its five four-poster beds, and Harry, looking around, felt he was home at last.
Harry noticed that Ron and Hermione is still not talking to each other, their heads ricochet in the different direction whenever they look at each other. But Harry was sure that they are not mad with each other and tomorrow would return back to normal. He closed his eyes and slept easily because he was tired.
***
Harry had a pleasant sleep, after eating plenty the night before he was full of energy. But he wakes up a little early than normal that all the Gryffindors are still asleep. He then remembered his dream the past nights; he almost forgot it because of the past events. As usual he planned to tell his two best friends but they are still sleeping.
Harry went to the small window near Ron's bed to gasp some fresh air; he could see the sunrise along the mountains around Hogwarts. He swiveled his head gasping the beautiful morning scenario. An unusual prospect caught his eye. It was a cloaked man, no it was a dementor but it cannot be as the color and posture is different. The figure went to the Whomping Willow, Harry thought that he would be smashed to the ground but suddenly it disappeared like a fog in the day. Harry scratched his eyes and thought he was imagining things. Then he saw from afar a hair near the Whomping Willow, it was a long blond hair like that of a Veela.
"Harry, Harry is that you?" Ron asked while scratching his eyes.
"Yes its me," Harry answered in a small voice.
"What are you doing there this early?" Ron asked while standing up on the bed.
"I thought I saw something near the Whomping Willow, a cloaked man, a wizard of some sort," answered Harry in a diminutive tone.
Ron suddenly went in the left of Harry and glanced at the Whomping Willow to find out if what Harry's saying is true.
"But Harry I do not see anything," Ron said to Harry.
"It already disappeared right to the tree," Harry said then he explained how he saw the hair of a Veela. Then without hesitation he told Ron all about his dream and about how his scar bleeds.
"I believe you Harry, after all we have been through I will not doubt you again as in what happened in the past two years during the Triwizard tournament."
"Oh forget the past let us focus on what we should do?" Harry said to Ron smiling.
"I know what we should do, you should immediately write to Sirius."
"I already thought of that, but I don't want him to come all way here just because of some stupid dream and risking himself to the dementors."
But before Ron could answer back Hermione appeared behind them.
"Oh hi guys, hi Ron, what's up? You both woke up a little early today," Hermione said to them and trying to reconcile with Ron.
Harry told her all about what he saw this morning, about his dream and how his scar bleeds the other day.
"What! Why didn't you tell me yesterday," Hermione exclaimed drastically.
"I will but you were to busy and obsessed about Westlife," answered Harry.
"We should all go and tell it to Dumbledore, also let us go to Madam Pomfrey to take a look at your scar," Hermione suggested to them while giving a concerned look.
"Okay lets go to Dumbledore but not in the Hospital wing, I think it's not necessary for by scar does not hurt anymore," Harry said to them
The three of them shook their head in agreement.
***
When Harry, Ron and Hermione entered the Great hall for breakfast, the first thing they saw was Draco Malfoy, who seemed to be entertaining a large group of Slytherins with a very funny story. As they passed, Malfoy did a ridiculous impression of a swooning fit and there was a roar of laughter. Harry noticed that they were reading a magazine, he recognize it as the Daily Prophet.
"Hey, Potter!" shrieked Pansy Parkinson, a Slytherin girl with a face like a pug. "Potter I cannot believe you that fanatic!"
Harry dropped into a seat at the Gryffindor table, next to George Weasley.
"New sixth-year course schedules," said George, passing them over. "What's wrong with you Harry?"
"Malfoy," said Ron, sitting down on George's other side and glaring over the Slytherin table.
George looked up to see Malfoy, he was laughing while showing to his comrades the Daily Prophet.
"That little git," he said calmly.
"Er Harry," Fred said while giving Harry a copy of the Daily Prophet. "I think you ought to see this."
Harry glanced at the latest copy of the Daily Prophet, he almost collapse on what he saw. It was his picture, the one taken at the Kings Cross; as any other picture in the Wizard World it moves. His face looks like a frog as it swings back and fort kissing Lockheart's shoes. His hands were laid flat on the floor in a form of worshipping Lockheart. Worse Lockheart smiles like a monkey as his mouth almost reach his ear; his hands are gesturing bragly in the camera. To anyone who sees the picture, they will conclude that Harry is a fanatic fan of Lockheart.
The Boy who lives' Dual Personality
By Rita Skeeter
As you can see in the picture above, Harry Potter, the boy who survived the curse of Lord You Know Who has a dual personality. In the picture with him is their former Defense Against Dark Arts Teacher: Gilderoy Lockheart. After four years of not seeing the teacher he kissed his shoes when they met in Kings Cross. Some people we interviewed say that they are very very close in Harry's secondyear at Hogwarts when Lockheart is their Professor.
"We always notice that Harry and Lockheart are very close during our second year. They are always in Lockheart's office and only the two of them are there. Once we saw that when Harry came out of the office he is perspiring and face full of sweat, then he is wiping his mouth. In my opinion I thing Harry is a Homosexual," said Draco Malfoy a sixth year Slytherin student.
We interviewed another Hogwarts student to find some statement to prove that the famous Harry Potter is a member of the third sex.
"I always see Harry enters the girls bathroom with his best friend Ronald Weasley," said Pansy Parkinson another Slytherin Hogwarts student. "Honestly I don't know what they were doing there, I think something er- I don't wanna say it, you know what I mean."
Of course the Ministry of Magic now accepts gay wizards. We think that Harry Potter is only shy to show his true colors. To Harry Potter we have a message "Harry we understand you and your dual personality. Even if you are a homosexual we accept you the way you are."
"Damn! That Rita Skeeter!" exclaimed Harry like a bomb exploded while slamming the paper in the table.
Ron and Hermione picked the paper then read it Ron, after reading punched the table while Hermione smirked like a dragon.
"That Skeeter! I should have stepped on her and pound her into pieces when she was a beetle!" exclaimed Hermione with a very frenetic face.
"We should not have set her free!" Ron yelled.
"Now I am really beginning to regret it."
"Hey! Potter Lockheart will soon return here, why don't you bring him to the girls bathroom!" Draco exclaimed that his voice could be in the entire hall. "Bring your Homosexual Weasley with you!"
Ron and Harry stood up, their faces are filled with fury, and they are ready to go and punch Malfoy right through the face and give him an uppercut.
"No Harry, control yourself, we will find another way to get even with that Malfoy," said George calmly while holding Harry's hand. Now the entire hall is filled with noise, everyone is observing Harry and Ron.
"Why Potter! Chickening? Why don't you come here and slap me, Oh or are you gonna kiss me," said Malfoy while smiling. "Hey the Weasley twins are stopping you, I bet that they are homosexual to, so is the whole Gryffindor, unlike the Slytherins which are manly!"
"That does it! I don't care if I lost my Headboy rank or get a detention, I am going to batter that Malfoy!" yelled George while letting go of Harry's hand. Now all the Gryffindors stood up, fury could be seen in their faces, they are ready to pound the Slytherins while the Hufflepuffs and the Ravenclaw observed in frenzy.
Suddenly Professor McGonagall came, with her is the whole faculty. The entire hall suddenly became quiet as if nothing happens.
***
Harry had the worse day of his life. Everywhere he goes people are looking at him peculiarly. He even saw Cho Chang looked at him in a weird way. Harry hoped that she did not believe the rumors.
One time when Harry and Ron were walking in the corridor they encountered a pack of Slytherins.
"Yiheeeeeeeeeeeeee!" exclaimed the Slytherins as they approached nearer to them.
"Hey Potter! Where are you two going, in the girl's bathroom?" asked one Slytherin while laughing.
"And what are you going to do there, suck each other!" exclaimed another while the Slytherins increased their laughs.
Harry is now furious as ever before he now held is wand and ready to turn them all into toads.
"Let us just ignore them," whispered Ron calmly. "They are not worth it."
"What are you doing Weasley? Kissing Potter's ear!" exclaimed one of them
Harry and Ron then walked away the Slytherins who are still laughing.
***
Harry Ron and Hermione prepared for their next class, the Defense Against Dark Arts. In the past years no professors has lasted more than a year with them. But now they are sure that their teacher would again be temporary, for Dumbledore said so. They now prepared their things and equipments.
"Look at our schedule," ordered Hermione drastically.
"What's wrong with it? The time is perfect," said Ron to Hermione.
"No look," said Hermione pointing at the parchment that contains the schedule.
"Yikes, your right our classes are with the Slytherins."
The three of them had miserable looks in their faces; they could predict that Malfoy and his gang would tease them to death.
They entered the classroom, Neville has reserved three of them a seat. As they expected the Slytherins taunt at them as they entered the room.
"Hey! Mudblood are you Potter and Wesley's make up artist?" asked Draco to Hermione while laughing. But the three did not mind him as they continued to sit behind Neville.
"That Malfoy, Ill get him one of this days," said Ron to Harry fumingly.
"Lets ignore him and change to a new topic," said Hermione to them.
"What we will talk about Westlife, if we do that Malfoy will think that we are really gays," Ron said smiling.
"No, that's not the topic I mean, lets talk about our new teacher," Hermione said.
"Yeah I really hope that he is not a bad guy, unlike the others, except Lupin of course," Harry said dully.
"It is not a he, it's a she, as Dumbledore said she is from Russia or Ukraine I cannot remember where really," Hermione said.
"Just like Professor Quirrell, who met the vampires in Romania," said Ron dreary.
"Don't remind me of him, I don't like to remember his garlic smelled turban," Harry said while trying to laugh.
Just then Professor Dumbledore came inside the classroom then the whole class silenced. Dumbledore was smiling which Harry find odd; it is very rare that he sees him smile.
"Good day to all of you," Dumbledore said gladly then cleared his throat. "As I promised to you, I will personally introduce to you our new Defense Against Dark Arts teacher," again he paused and rolled his eyes looking at the students. "Please welcome our new Defense Against Dark Arts teacher Ms. Svetlana Serena."
Out of the door a figure emerged, she is a tall sexy female. She was wearing long robes, a purple cloak that swept the ground. But her robes are not buttoned that you could see the slender shape of her body. Her eyes were crystal blue and her hair is blond and silky. Then she smiled at the students, one could easily notice her very even and beautiful teeth.
Harry then realized that she is part Veela.
"She is a goddess," said Ron while his jaw dropped.
"Gosh she is the most beautiful wizard I have ever seen," Draco said in a small voice, still his eyes clearly stares at Ms. Serena.
"She is an angel sent to earth," said Neville while his mind temporarily forgot about Ginny.
Ms Serena went in the middle of the room he then looked at all the students and smiled as a form of greeting.
"Good Day to all of you," she said. "As Professor Dumbledore already told you my name, I guess I will not repeat them again, I certainly hope that we will all have a good year ahead of us."
Then Professor Svetlana Serena went in the middle of the isle; everyone could smell her perfume and the boys followed its smell.
"I certainly hope that we will have a good term ahead of us," she said while smiling at Ron.
Harry looked around the classroom and every boy seemed bewitched. He could see Neville continually biting his nails while Ron's head follows Professor Serena like a guided missile. And then there was Draco; his nose is following the Professors smell like he was crazy.
"Professor Svetlana, I am afraid that I must go now, I have some matters to attend," Dumbledore said.
"Okay Professor thanks for your time," Professor Serena said while she fixed her long silky blond hair.
Dumbledore then leaved the room.
"Okay, what have you learned so far?" asked the Professor.
"Mam mam," as expected Hermione is the first one to raise her hand.
"Yes Miss," said Serena while pointing her fingers at Hermione.
"During our fourth year we learned how to counter curses, while last year we learned how to perform curses," said Hermione while standing up.
"Very good," said Serena gladly. "If I am not mistaken you are Ms. Hermione Granger?"
"Yes Mam but how did you know?" asked Hermione curiously.
But Svetlana Serena did not answer her instead she threw another question to the class.
"You young man," Serena said while pointing at Neville Longbottom. "Can I know you name?"
"I—am Neville Long—Bottom Mam," answered Neville while shaking.
"How about you, what did you learn in the past years in the Defense Against Dark Arts?" asked Serena while her eyes glaring simply on Neville.
"Ah eh," Neville nervously remarked. "I learned to."
"Sleep and do nothing but daydream," Draco suddenly remarked while trying to make the whole class giggle. But unfortunately only the Slytherins did.
"Now Mr., What's your name?" asked Serena, now all his attention turned to Draco. "You must give our friend Neville here a chance, everyone deserves a chance to answer."
In that instant Draco bit her lip, he could not accept that he was sermon by a beautiful professor. Ron in the meantime could not believe what he heard; his first impression of Ms. Serena is someone snobbish because she was beautiful, just like Fleur Delacour, his crush when he was in the fourth year.
"I think, I will now stop the introduction and start with our first lesson," Serena said as she went in the front class. "In the notes given to you, on which textbooks to buy, I asked you for the book Advance Defense Against Dark Arts," she stated while getting the book from her attractive red bag. "Please turn to page twelve"
The class gets their books from their different bags and started to turn to page twelve. Harry noticed that Neville seemed motivated, his eyes looked strangely inspired.
Page twelve contains a moving picture; it is a wizard wearing red cloak and annihilating another wizard that wears black robes. The red cloaked wizard seemed very familiar to Harry, it seems has he has seen him many times now. Then he read the caption below that says: This is the picture of Albus Dumbledore when he defeated the Dark Wizard Grindelwald in 1945. Dumbledore looks obviously young; his beard is still color black. Harry observed closely in the picture of Grindelwald, that his face is very afraid, as Dumbledore is ready to cast a spell from his wand.
"As you can see and read the caption in the picture, the Wizard is our very own Professor Dumbledore while the other is the Dark Wizard Grindelwald," she then paused to clear her throat. "Does anyone of you know what spell did Dumbledore used to destroy Grindelwald?" she continued while pointing her fingers to Ron.
"Ah er," just like Neville, Ron is also awakened from his daydream. "Mam I think it's the Crustacius Curse," Ron continued obviously guessing.
"Wrong, does anyone know the answer?" Serena asked to the class.
Both Draco and Hermione raised their hands.
"Yes Miss Granger," said Serena pointing her fingers to Hermione.
"I think it's the spell Avada Kedavra," answered Hermione.
"Wrong Ms. Granger. Professor Dumbledore will never perform such a spell," said Serena smiling. "The spell he performed is Angel's tear. Can anyone tells me what this spell does?"
Everyone looked at each other in curiosity.
"The spell is used to block the spell of what Ms. Granger answered, it is used to block Avada Kedavra," said Serena in a small tone.
Harry could not believe his ears; the spell that killed his parents can be blocked. Then he though that if it could be block why did his parents did not block it. Beside Harry, Hermione was also thinking the same thing; she raised her hand to ask a question.
"Yes Ms. Granger," pointed Serena.
"But our former teacher said it cannot be blocked, how can be that possible?" asked Hermione curiously.
"First of all Ms. Granger your former Defense Against Dark Arts teacher Mad eye is not the real Mad eye," she then paused to make sure everyone was listening. "The spell Avada Kedavra could only be reversed by wizards called Magids and Dumbledore is one of them, so is Voldemort but we will study that later in the term," again she paused and looked at Harry. "As you can see in the picture Grindelwald tried to use Avada Kedavra on Dumbledore. Our Professor then used the Angel's Tear magic to reverse the process. Grindelwald was then surprised because it is the first time Avada Kedavra was reversed and return to the caster. Of course only Dumbledore and Voldemort can do this spell this days because they are the last living Magids," she paused then gave an odd smile to Harry. "Except of course if there are others who have not yet discovered their powers."
The class was enjoyable, Hermione was very happy because she learned many things today. And then there was Ron and Draco; their eyes were still clearly set on Serena as being hit with the Pertificus Totalus.
***
After the class Harry, Ron and Hermione went up to the Gryffindor's common room. The portrait of the Fat Lady swung open then they entered.
Inside an eccentric owl was waiting for Harry, It was color pink and has a purple flower near its ear.
"Harry, go get and read the letter," said Ron pryingly.
Harry took the letter from the owl and decided to read it, he was maddened in its contents.
Dear Mr. Harry Potter,
Good day to you our beloved friend. We are from the G.W.A. (Gay Wizard Association). We would like to say that we understand you and what you feel. After all the problems you have been through especially in losing your parents we cannot blame you if you have become a Homosexual. We at G.W.A fights for equality in wizard right and happy that we got them in the Gay Wizards bill of 1997. Homosexual wizards are now accepted in the Wizard Society, therefore we encourage you to show your true colors and don't be ashamed to reveal what you really are.
Therefore we at G.W.A invites you to join our association. It would be an honor for the famous Harry Potter to be a part of our group. Please send an owl for your reply.
Sincerely yours,
The Gay Wizards Association
P.S.
We also extend our invitation to your boyfriend Mr. Ronald Weasley; he is welcome to join if he wants to.
Harry was very mad that he could punch the stonewall in the common room. Ron then asked Harry if he could read the letter then he gave it to him. After reading Ron was very angry that he crumpled the letter, his face now looks like maddened Fluffy.
***
Next Chapter:
Hermione will now re-establish S.P.E.W (Sisterhood Party Enthusiastic about Westlife) with Ginny as Vice President.
A/N I have nothing against gays
