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Did you get the teacher
right?
Say Goodbye
- Chapter seven
Harry's heart gave a leap,
as he pulled open the door to the classroom. Sirius Black? It couldn't be – but
sure enough, there was Sirius, sitting at the teacher's desk. He looked like he
did in the few photos, that Harry had. So much younger than when Harry had
first seen him.
Harry felt someone tense
beside him. Their reaction was similar to those of the rest of the class.
Hermione and Ron, however looked very happy.
Dean Thomas was the first to
find his voice, and he said rather nervously "You! But you're… You're a
murderer! What are you doing here?!?"
Sirius did not look happy at
this description. "I was proven innocent. As I always knew I would be,
eventually. Veritaserum is a very useful potion." He sighed.
"Our topic for the year, is
Defense against You Know Who, and his followers. Today we will start with
identifying Death Eaters. Please turn to page 7 in your textbook."
The lesson progressed, as
you would expect, the class mostly very nervous around their new professor.
This was all forgotten, when Lavender happened to glance through a chapter in
the book called 'The Riddle Family'
Lavender muttered to
herself. "I wonder if this is anything to do with that new girl, Eltala
Riddle..." She flicked to the pages idly, until she came across a family tree.
"Tom Riddle married Talia
Slytherin, both direct descendents of Salazar Slytherin. Two children. The
eldest a girl, Narcius, who later married Lucius Malfoy. The second, also a
girl, by the name of Eltala, expelled in her first year at Hogwarts, for
attempted murder of later Headboy. This second child is by far the most
remarkable. A sorceress. Coming into the world every ten thousand years, living
for one thousand years, almost all powerful. Eltala Riddle was-" Lavender had
been talking rather loud, and Sirius came over.
"Return to your work
Lavender – Great Wizards! You say there is a girl at the school called Eltala
Riddle? Black hair?" Sirius had heard her talking about Eltala, but luckily had
not heard the context, nor the part about sorcery.
Lavender looked nervous.
"Yeah, you know her?"
The new professor suddenly
went rather red, and was about to answer when the bell went. Sirius had picked
up his copy of the book, like the one that Lavender had read from. He skimmed
through the pages, to where Lavender was reading. Harry moved to the front of
the classroom to talk to his Godfather, but Sirius waved him off, telling him
how glad he was to see him, but he was busy, and could Harry come to see him
later?
Harry suddenly remembered
his meeting with Professor Snape, and hurried out of the classroom. Out side,
Ron was waiting to make sure Harry had remembered. Ron was hurriedly stuffing a
note - written on pale blue parchment with neat pink writing – in his pocket.
"Good, you remembered. Well,
Good luck! See you later! I hope!" With that Ron wandered away, probably to the
common room. Although Harry didn't realise it at the time, this would be the
last time Harry saw his best friend, for a long, long, time – and yet almost no
time at all.
