Juliet and Snape awoke by Dumbledore's voice telling them to wake up. They had slept the whole night in Juliet's room. When they got down to the conference room all the teachers were already in the room sitting down. They all stared at Juliet and Snape. Right there Juliet wanted to run out of the room. She sat down beside Snape; the only one there she knew. The first thing that Dumbledore did was introducing the new teachers. Starting with the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, Mr. Paley. Juliet looked over at Snape to see if he was ok. She saw the dissapoinment in his face. She took his hand in hers under the table so no one saw. Dumbledore introduced the teachers by their name and their class.

When Dumbledore finished speaking about Juliet, Mr. Paley addressed Dumbledore. "You cant seriously think that She capable of being a teacher! This is insane.. You have to reconsider! She probably doesn't even have any experience with dueling!" Juliet stood up "You have no idea how much experience I have, or don't have with dueling. You have no idea what happened to me outside of Hogwarts! No one does. How dare you say that!" By then all the teachers were staring at her. She started to turn around to go down the hall. "You'll have to excuse me, I have to go to my classroom. To set up my lesson" With that she turned around and started down the hall. Behind her she could hear Snape yelling at Paley. She also heard Dumbledore say that the meeting was over for now and everyone could go. Snape was really mad though, before he started after Juliet, he looked at Mr. Paley "It's not over, you better hope she's ok" Then he ran out of the room.

When Juliet got into her room she shut the door but the lock didn't work so she sat on the ground, her back against the door. Right then Snape got there. He began hitting the door "You have to let me in! Look I don't know what happened. I want to know, I need to know and so does Dumbledore." Juliet already knew that. But she didn't want to tell them, it would be too odd. She didn't want them to know. "What if I just don't talk about it again but don't tell you at the same time?" Snape looked at the door and imagined her sitting against it. She was so sad, yesterday, today and even years ago. She was always sad and he didn't want to provoke her to go anything. "Fine, but please let me in, I hear someone coming and i'm guessing that its Mr. Paley to finish what we started" Juliet opened the door and shut it quickly behind her. She now heard someone coming. "The door doesn't lock. He can, and probably will, come in here." Right then he came in.

"Don't you think you should knock or something Mr. Paley. Prof. Snape and I are speaking of what I should do if.." Mr. Paley cut off Juliet. "We'll have a duel, you and I Snape, not her. And whoever wins gets her too" Paley pointed his wand at Juliet. Snape looked at Juliet then back at Paley "Fine" Juliet stared at Snape with disgust "I don't and never will belong to either of you!" She looked at Snape with her eyes now glaring. "I don't belive you. Both of you stay away from me. I mean it. I'm going to talk to Dumbledore about what was supposed to be on the agenda at the meeting. Stay away, both of you" With that she left her room.