[a.n :: Another Looong chapter! But it's a good one ^__^ do read on]
CHAPTER 2: Unexpected New Teachers?
Draco and Sarah saw Harry, Hermione, Ginny and Ron walk into the Great Hall. "I'm really glad you guys became friends. I hate it when you fight, although you do look hot when you get angry." Sarah smiled. Draco looked at her. "Of course, you always look hot, so, it's okay." She laughed. "Miss Perry" Snape called from behind her and Draco. "Yes, Professor Snape?" She asked innocently. "May I have a word?" He asked with a bit of warmth in his voice. "Sure." She got up and walked towards Professor Snape. "I'd like to talk to you at the end of Double Potions. Thanks." Snape said. "All right." Sarah said as she walked back to her seat and rested her head on Draco's shoulder. "Are you in trouble?" He asked. "No, he just wants to see me after Potions. Dunno why though." After they finished there they walked up the stairs on the beautiful sunny day, to Harry everything seemed to be going right. They put their books away and entered the Great Hall. They went down to Snape's classroom to see most of their class was there. Sarah glanced at Neville whom looked quite frightened. Seamus was attempting to reassure him that he wouldn't die, because this lesson they were going to be taught about a special potion to cure poisons. They sat infront of Harry, Ron and Hermione. Snape glided into the classroom. Harry, feeling his hatred, when Snape casually glanced at Harry. Although Harry had made it up with Malfoy he wasn't sure that Snape was going to want to make friends. "We will begin the lesson with reading a small paragraph from 'Basic Potions and Ingredients; Fifth Year's about Ballarmix page 22." Snape stood against his table and glanced up at the students. "Mr. Malfoy, please." Draco cleared his throat. "The Ballarmix Potion was invented around 1200. It was to cure the most horrible poisons such as Fengtal, a very bad infection from a dragon, Difano, and Tarkin. You should be careful with this potion because not only can it cure, but it can also kill if not taken correctly." He read aloud. "Very good Draco. Exactly how to pronounce each poison. 10 points to Slytherin." Snape replied warmly. "Very well, please read the remainder of the paragraph and when ready gather the ingredients from the student cupboard on page 24 and sit down, and read instructions on page 25. Any questions please ask your partner or ask me." Snape said coolly. After an hour, they had just finished testing everyone's potion, and surprisingly, everyone did quite well, even more surprisingly, Neville did an excellent job, without Hermione's help. They all filed out of Snape's classroom expressing how this had been a great class, no one lost any points, and Gryffindor actually gained 5 points, by Neville, shocking as it may have been. Sarah told Draco to wait for her outside as she approached Snape's desk. "You wanted to talk to me, Professor?" She asked. "Yes, I understand you...persuaded Draco to become friends with Mr. Potter. Correct?" He asked. "Yes." She stated, quietly. "Well, Miss Perry. I would hope you don't do it again, further more, you shouldn't be mixing up with him and his lot. They're trouble. And I would have that expected better, ever since last year you have been an outstanding student. You could have given Granger a run for her money, and now, you seem to have changed. But, that's another story, it's quite late, you may go." Snape said filing papers into his desk. Sarah walked out with mixed feelings, disappointment and anger. What's wrong?" Draco asked as they walked up the corridor. "Snape just told me I shouldn't have told you to become friends wit Harry, I was just trying to help, and even you think it's better now. And, and, he told me I had become I bad student... I-- I don't know what's happening!" Sarah sighed as she sat on a step. "Don't worry. Come on, let's go eat, we can talk later, tonight." They got up to the great hall and no one had started eating yet, there was a silence, even the professors. Dumbledore stood up as Sarah and Draco slipped in with the rest of the Slytherins. There was a slight frown on his face. "It is, with regret I must inform you, something has happened to our lovely professor, Madam Hooch. She informed me by owl a few days ago that she had to quit, that her condition wasn't good for her to work anymore." Dumbledore said loudly, his voice booming throughout the hall. Harry looked slightly frightened, who would take her place? Perhaps, they haven't found anyone, and quidditch won't be played this year. Thoughts of horror struck his mind. But Dumbledore began to speak again. The chattering stopped immediately as hope for a new person to teach everyone how to fly and referee quidditch matches. Dumbledore looked as though he wanted to grin, but couldn't. "Instead, I have asked a very fine young man to become our Quidditch teacher." He cleared his throat and smiled. "It is, with great honor, I would like to present to you, Professor Wood." He turned to the right of the staff table and there coming out of a small door was Oliver Wood, he looked much older, as Harry remembered seeing him last at the Quidditch World Cup. He smiled brightly as Harry started clapping with glee. As did the rest of Gryffindor's Quidditch team.
Soon, the rest of Hogwarts was clapping. Before Harry could stop himself he was standing up. Smiling so proudly, for he didn't know anyone better to become the Quidditch teacher. Ginny stood up after him and he put his arm around her and she kissed him on the cheek. Harry knew how much Wood loved Quidditch and how it meant the world to him when he was at Hogwarts. Harry also knew Oliver Wood as the best captain and keeper ever. After the clapping died down, [which took a long time, for many of the girls all wanted to snog Oliver] Dumbledore smiled and waved his wand and said "Let's eat!" and pounds of food piled on their tables all resembling something to do with Quidditch. "Oy! Fred! Here comes a bludger!" George said flinging a black gumball at Fred. "Here comes a Quaffle!" Ginny giggled as she put a small stemless-cherry on Harry's plate. Harry threw the cherry aiming for Ginny's mouth. It went off a little and hit the side of her lip. They both were laughing. Soon after Harry was fixated on a small bit of cake that was in the shape of a Snitch. "Mmm" He said picking up the piece and eating it. After the fantastic meal, everyone headed to his or her houses, all quite stuffed with delicious food. "That had to be my favorite meal, ever!" Harry heard Wood exclaim as he walked the other way where the staff quarters were. Harry smiled. Oliver Wood back, like the last time he played quidditch, as they had won the Quidditch Cup that time.
The next morning, Harry woke up to a small poke on his arm. He turned and heard a squeak. He sat up and rubbed his eyes, he could see a blurry little figure standing on the foot of his bed. Harry blinked, there's only one person he knew that was that small, "Er- Dobby, it's quite early! What're you waking me up for?" Harry said as he put on his glasses. He looked outside, the sun was just coming up. "Dobby is sorry. Dobby did not mean to wake up Harry Potter so early, but Dobby wanted to know if Harry Potter got Dobby's present?" Dobby said sitting down. "What present?" Harry asked, looking around. "The Golden Snitch, Harry Potter! Dobby made a cake with a Golden Snitch on it. Did you get it Harry Potter?" Dobby asked. "Yes, it was very good. Thank you" Harry smiled. He knew Dobby meant well, but at times, he was quite clueless. Harry looked around, er- I have a present for you, too. He got up and rummaged through his trunk. "This is for you." He smiled handing Dobby a red sock that said 'DOBBY' and a yellow sock that had a big smiley face on it. "OH! HARRY POTTER!" Dobby squeaked while hugging Harry. "You're welcome." Harry said now fully awake. He saw Ron stir in his bed. "Wheezy!" Dobby said jumping down and standing beside Ron's bed. "Oy, Dobby." Ron groaned. By the time Dobby left, Seamus, Dean and Neville had all woken up. "Good morning!" Seamus called pulling apart the hangings. The four boys all replied with "Good morning" and went to wash up and change. After 20 minutes they were all down in the Great Hall. Harry told Ginny and Hermione about Dobby and Ginny squealed "AWW! I LOVE DOBBY!" She laughed. "Well, d'you want to go see him? We can go see him right after lunch. It'll be fun, haven't seen Winky since last year, wasn't a good time then, though." "I'm in!" Ron smiled. "I hope they have some fudge." "RON! That's not very nice, you know" Hermione said placing her hand on his arm, "You know, they aren't there to wait on you hand and foo-" But Hermione forgot, they were. She stopped and became silent and picked at her toast. Ron put his arm around Hermione's waist, "It's okay. I know how you feel about them 'Mione."
Our first class today was outside with Oliver, his first class ever. Harry went to the field happily as he kept hugging Ginny. They walked onto the field holding hands laughing about how all the girls would be all over Oliver. Fifth and fourth years got to have quidditch class together. Sarah and Draco were going to be in the lesson too. Sarah whispered quietly to Ginny, "You know... That Oliver Wood, he's quite...er- handsome." She blushed. Ginny giggled and whispered back "I know." Hermione joined into the conversation saying "Yeah, and he's awesome at Quidditch too." The girls broke out into a fit of giggles. Ron, Harry and Draco all looked at their girlfriends as if they'd gone mad. "D'you reckon they're talking about how Oliver is fit and how he's handsome, or something?" Ron asked glancing at Hermione. Harry and Draco both nodded. But before the girls knew it their boyfriends were kissing them. "You guys, don't even trust us. We were just saying how we are going to have such a lovely lesson flying today." Hermione smiled and winked at Sarah and Ginny. "Exactly." The two agreed and broke out into giggles again. Wood was already with a couple of students, all girls whom were smiling at him. One was about to form a puddle of drool as she watched Oliver fly around in a circle on his broom. Oliver came back down from the air and started talking. "Great day today eh?." He smiled as he patted Harry on the shoulder. "Shall we begin, then?" He asked grinning. All the girls nodded and then sighed. "Oh boy.." Seamus said sitting down on the grass. "I thought, since you lot probably know how to fly and all about Quidditch, that we'd play a small game." Harry was absolutely thrilled. He took off with such speed everyone looked at him. The cool breeze brushed his face as he felt excitement race throughout him. He looked down, everyone was on the quidditch pitch about to take off. As they picked teams Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Sarah, Draco, Seamus, and Dean were on one team and the rest Wood divided up so there were 4 teams, on one Quidditch field. Very confused, if you asked them. Wood kicked open the crate and the two bludgers and snitch came flying out. Wood threw 2 quaffles up into the air and they began to play. It was a great lesson all in all. Harry's team won, of course, by 270 points. Wood was happy. "Brilliant Harry! Brilliant! 20 points to Gryffindor. And 20 points to Slytherin, you guys did a bloody wonderful job!" They walked back to the stone steps of the castle and sat down. Everyone was quite hot, the morning was very warm. Wood sat with them and chatted with them. "Yeah, my girlfriend wasn't to pleased with me coming to Hogwarts to teach." Wood explained. Harry noticed the girls were frowning. "Told me, if I wanted to then I could go ahead, but then she'd break up with me." Wood replied quietly. All the girls looked up and tried to hide their grins, even some guys [a.n. :: lol] . "So, we broke up." Wood stated. Ron noticed most of the girls were grinning with their head down. "Oliver, er- I mean, Mr. Wood, honestly, if your girlfriend wasn't supportive." Hermione began. "She wasn't the right one for you!" Sarah chimed in. "Well said! She's just.. I dun-no, but not the right girl for you!" Ginny stated as she smiled. "Well, you lot, see you next lesson, time for lunch. See you in the Great Hall." Wood said walking up the stairs. The rest followed him. "Quidditch is great." Harry grinned. They walked into the crowded Great Hall. Everyone was chattering about his or her lessons and what not. Dumbledore came out and stood at the top of the hall were the Staff Table was. "I have a pleasant surprise for you." He declared smiling. "You will see tonight." He said, and with a swoosh of his long cloak he left. Speculations of tonight's events were now the talk of the students. "I heard we are going to have another ball." Said a 7th year Hufflepuff. Soon enough a 3rd year Ravenclaw told anyone that would listen that they were going to have muggles in Hogwarts. Hermione sighed and said to Ron "Some people will believe anything!" Ron glanced at her and replied "I heard we're going to have a concert of some sort." Hermione rolled her eyes and took a bite of Treacle Fudge. Harry looked up at Ginny and said, "How would you still like to see Dobby? After dinner would be a good time to go." He grabbed her hand and smiled. Then Ginny agreed, "That'd be great Harry! I can't wait!" Once they all finished eating Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron started heading to the kitchen. They passed Draco and Sarah on the way. They were walking in the hall together. Draco had his arm around Sarah's waist. "D'you think we should ask them to come?" Ron whispered to Harry. "Well.. He is Dobby's old Master so Draco might get a kick out of seeing them." Harry said. Ron tapped Draco's shoulder and asked him if he would like to come to the kitchen and Draco accepted the offer. They tickled the pear in the picture and it and turned into a doorknob. They walked into the kitchen and Dobby greeted them with a nice welcoming, "HARRY POTTER! Harry Potter and his friends! Dobby says Welcome!" Dobby looked at Draco and his eyes grew, "Ex- Master? Could you be Dobby's Ex-Master?" "Why, yes. Hello Dobby" Draco said sweetly to Dobby, but Dobby backed away and gave a sudden, "Ee!" and moved closer to Harry.
"Has Harry Potter heard about Dumbledore's surprise?" Dobby asked walking back to Harry. "No, he just told us during lunch we were going to have a surprise. Nothing else, there's been rumours, but nothing really. D'you know what it is Dobby?" Harry asked as he sat down on a small chair. Meanwhile, Ron was being served by at least 10 elves. "No, er, that tastes good, could I have some more? Yum! BLECK! What's that? Bogeys?" Ron asked. Hermione shot another look at Ron, but only knew herself that the elves were happy to serve Ron. Ginny squealed and went up to Dobby and hugged him. Dobby turned slightly pink. "Hi Dobby!" She smiled. "What's this surprise about?" Harry asked more interested. "Something about a tamp kent. Dobby doesn't know." Dobby squealed standing on his toes trying to look at Harry. Harry thought for a moment, "Camp tent?" He asked. "YES!" Dobby squealed merrily. "Oh Harry Potter is very smart." "Ooh, sounds fun.. What is it?" Ginny asked who lived in an all wizard & witch family, not knowing much about muggles, as did Draco, or Sarah. Hermione thought how to put it into words. "Remember when they thought Sirius Black was in Hogwarts so we all slept in the Great Hall with those sleeping bags?" Hermione asked. They all nodded besides Jamie. "Well, it's kind of like that, except there's er shelters above, you know?" Hermione said. "OOH! We can sleep beside guys?" Ginny giggled. "I suppose so!" Harry said moving his arm around Ginny's waist and then smiling at her. "OY! We're late! D.A.D.A.!" Ron got up with a jolt that many trays of fudge flung into the air. "Bye Dobby!" They all waved as they left.
They left the dimly lit Hall and entered the bright corridor, they all hurried to their first D.A.D.A. lesson with the new teacher. "I wonder who it's going to be?" Harry asked as they got to the hall leading to the class. "I hope he's hot." Sarah laughed as they entered the classroom. There, standing against the desk was a familiar face. Harry blinked unbelievingly. "Ah. Potter, Granger, Weasley, Perry, Malfoy. You're late." Said the quiet voice warmly. "P-p-professor? What? What're you doing here?" Harry asked in a frightened voice. "Please take a seat, I was just explaining to the class what we will be learning this year, and I need to introduce myself." The voice replied. They found a row of empty seats on the front row and sat down. Now, as I was saying, we will be taking a highly advanced step towards the Dark Arts. I hope you will be ready, no, infact, I trust you'll be ready. You are a very capable class and I don't doubt you will suceed." The professor said. "As you know, I am Professor Lupin. I taught Defense Against the Dark Arts two years ago, in year 3 of yours." Lupin said with a friendly smile. The last time Harry had seen Lupin was two years ago, as he ran off madly into the Foribben Forest turning into a werewolf. "But Professor!" Hermione waved her hand frantically in the air. "What about.. your.. problem?" Lupin looked at her thoughtfully. "I'm glad you asked. Well, we've devised a potion, much like the Wolfsbane Potion. But now instead of turning into a full werewolf, it step by step makes me much calmer so I'm not so dangerous, but, we are still taking precautions, and Professor Dumbledore thinks it's all for the best." He explained. "And the parents?" Ron asked, forgetting they were in class. "Well, we've explained to them, as well, they feel that we have taken enough precautions, so I hope it will be sorted out." He smiled. With that all explained the whole class started cheering madly, as Professor Lupin had been the best Dark Arts teacher they had ever had. "Now now, settle down." Lupin remarked as he turned to the right of him and pulled out a large box. "What've you learned last year?" Hermione shot her hand up. "Well, we had the triwizard tournament, so that prevented us from studying a lot, but we had been taught the main deadly curses. The ones you would be imprisoned in Azkaban for if you put the curse on someone." "Thank you Hermione." Lupin said. "Very well. Today we will start off slow. Much like the Boggart, the Tianklo transforms into your greatest fears, but the Tianklo, unlike the Boggart can multiply, so it won't get confused too easily. Also, with a simple word the Tianklo doesn't vanish, it takes much effort, to change the Tianklo, but I trust today's lesson will be quite fun." Lupin explained to the class and showed him the small creature. "That doesn't look very scary." Neville spoke out. "It doesn't, indeed Neville, but, just think, the Tianklo turning into your greatest fear. Hundreds of them. Huge. Gigantic." Lupin said with a bit of caution in his voice. Neville kept silent, but instead Dean smiled broadly and said with the simplest voice "Wicked!". Lupin wrote on the small board "To disarm the Tianklo, you must conjure all your happy thoughts, and concentrate, much like conjuring the Patronous to fight Dementors." A small shiver went down Harry's spine with the mention of the Dementors. By the end of the lesson everyone was completely drained. "Wow. I never ever want to see or hear the word spi-spide--" Ron began to say he started to shudder. "It's okay, Ron." Hermione said soothingly and hugged him. "Off you go now, time for dinner, see you in the Great Hall for the surprise." Lupin smiled putting the large box in a cupboard.
[a.n. :: I'm Really sorry this chapters got like 3,000 words in it lol the next one I Promise to make shorter. *girl scout promise*]
CHAPTER 2: Unexpected New Teachers?
Draco and Sarah saw Harry, Hermione, Ginny and Ron walk into the Great Hall. "I'm really glad you guys became friends. I hate it when you fight, although you do look hot when you get angry." Sarah smiled. Draco looked at her. "Of course, you always look hot, so, it's okay." She laughed. "Miss Perry" Snape called from behind her and Draco. "Yes, Professor Snape?" She asked innocently. "May I have a word?" He asked with a bit of warmth in his voice. "Sure." She got up and walked towards Professor Snape. "I'd like to talk to you at the end of Double Potions. Thanks." Snape said. "All right." Sarah said as she walked back to her seat and rested her head on Draco's shoulder. "Are you in trouble?" He asked. "No, he just wants to see me after Potions. Dunno why though." After they finished there they walked up the stairs on the beautiful sunny day, to Harry everything seemed to be going right. They put their books away and entered the Great Hall. They went down to Snape's classroom to see most of their class was there. Sarah glanced at Neville whom looked quite frightened. Seamus was attempting to reassure him that he wouldn't die, because this lesson they were going to be taught about a special potion to cure poisons. They sat infront of Harry, Ron and Hermione. Snape glided into the classroom. Harry, feeling his hatred, when Snape casually glanced at Harry. Although Harry had made it up with Malfoy he wasn't sure that Snape was going to want to make friends. "We will begin the lesson with reading a small paragraph from 'Basic Potions and Ingredients; Fifth Year's about Ballarmix page 22." Snape stood against his table and glanced up at the students. "Mr. Malfoy, please." Draco cleared his throat. "The Ballarmix Potion was invented around 1200. It was to cure the most horrible poisons such as Fengtal, a very bad infection from a dragon, Difano, and Tarkin. You should be careful with this potion because not only can it cure, but it can also kill if not taken correctly." He read aloud. "Very good Draco. Exactly how to pronounce each poison. 10 points to Slytherin." Snape replied warmly. "Very well, please read the remainder of the paragraph and when ready gather the ingredients from the student cupboard on page 24 and sit down, and read instructions on page 25. Any questions please ask your partner or ask me." Snape said coolly. After an hour, they had just finished testing everyone's potion, and surprisingly, everyone did quite well, even more surprisingly, Neville did an excellent job, without Hermione's help. They all filed out of Snape's classroom expressing how this had been a great class, no one lost any points, and Gryffindor actually gained 5 points, by Neville, shocking as it may have been. Sarah told Draco to wait for her outside as she approached Snape's desk. "You wanted to talk to me, Professor?" She asked. "Yes, I understand you...persuaded Draco to become friends with Mr. Potter. Correct?" He asked. "Yes." She stated, quietly. "Well, Miss Perry. I would hope you don't do it again, further more, you shouldn't be mixing up with him and his lot. They're trouble. And I would have that expected better, ever since last year you have been an outstanding student. You could have given Granger a run for her money, and now, you seem to have changed. But, that's another story, it's quite late, you may go." Snape said filing papers into his desk. Sarah walked out with mixed feelings, disappointment and anger. What's wrong?" Draco asked as they walked up the corridor. "Snape just told me I shouldn't have told you to become friends wit Harry, I was just trying to help, and even you think it's better now. And, and, he told me I had become I bad student... I-- I don't know what's happening!" Sarah sighed as she sat on a step. "Don't worry. Come on, let's go eat, we can talk later, tonight." They got up to the great hall and no one had started eating yet, there was a silence, even the professors. Dumbledore stood up as Sarah and Draco slipped in with the rest of the Slytherins. There was a slight frown on his face. "It is, with regret I must inform you, something has happened to our lovely professor, Madam Hooch. She informed me by owl a few days ago that she had to quit, that her condition wasn't good for her to work anymore." Dumbledore said loudly, his voice booming throughout the hall. Harry looked slightly frightened, who would take her place? Perhaps, they haven't found anyone, and quidditch won't be played this year. Thoughts of horror struck his mind. But Dumbledore began to speak again. The chattering stopped immediately as hope for a new person to teach everyone how to fly and referee quidditch matches. Dumbledore looked as though he wanted to grin, but couldn't. "Instead, I have asked a very fine young man to become our Quidditch teacher." He cleared his throat and smiled. "It is, with great honor, I would like to present to you, Professor Wood." He turned to the right of the staff table and there coming out of a small door was Oliver Wood, he looked much older, as Harry remembered seeing him last at the Quidditch World Cup. He smiled brightly as Harry started clapping with glee. As did the rest of Gryffindor's Quidditch team.
Soon, the rest of Hogwarts was clapping. Before Harry could stop himself he was standing up. Smiling so proudly, for he didn't know anyone better to become the Quidditch teacher. Ginny stood up after him and he put his arm around her and she kissed him on the cheek. Harry knew how much Wood loved Quidditch and how it meant the world to him when he was at Hogwarts. Harry also knew Oliver Wood as the best captain and keeper ever. After the clapping died down, [which took a long time, for many of the girls all wanted to snog Oliver] Dumbledore smiled and waved his wand and said "Let's eat!" and pounds of food piled on their tables all resembling something to do with Quidditch. "Oy! Fred! Here comes a bludger!" George said flinging a black gumball at Fred. "Here comes a Quaffle!" Ginny giggled as she put a small stemless-cherry on Harry's plate. Harry threw the cherry aiming for Ginny's mouth. It went off a little and hit the side of her lip. They both were laughing. Soon after Harry was fixated on a small bit of cake that was in the shape of a Snitch. "Mmm" He said picking up the piece and eating it. After the fantastic meal, everyone headed to his or her houses, all quite stuffed with delicious food. "That had to be my favorite meal, ever!" Harry heard Wood exclaim as he walked the other way where the staff quarters were. Harry smiled. Oliver Wood back, like the last time he played quidditch, as they had won the Quidditch Cup that time.
The next morning, Harry woke up to a small poke on his arm. He turned and heard a squeak. He sat up and rubbed his eyes, he could see a blurry little figure standing on the foot of his bed. Harry blinked, there's only one person he knew that was that small, "Er- Dobby, it's quite early! What're you waking me up for?" Harry said as he put on his glasses. He looked outside, the sun was just coming up. "Dobby is sorry. Dobby did not mean to wake up Harry Potter so early, but Dobby wanted to know if Harry Potter got Dobby's present?" Dobby said sitting down. "What present?" Harry asked, looking around. "The Golden Snitch, Harry Potter! Dobby made a cake with a Golden Snitch on it. Did you get it Harry Potter?" Dobby asked. "Yes, it was very good. Thank you" Harry smiled. He knew Dobby meant well, but at times, he was quite clueless. Harry looked around, er- I have a present for you, too. He got up and rummaged through his trunk. "This is for you." He smiled handing Dobby a red sock that said 'DOBBY' and a yellow sock that had a big smiley face on it. "OH! HARRY POTTER!" Dobby squeaked while hugging Harry. "You're welcome." Harry said now fully awake. He saw Ron stir in his bed. "Wheezy!" Dobby said jumping down and standing beside Ron's bed. "Oy, Dobby." Ron groaned. By the time Dobby left, Seamus, Dean and Neville had all woken up. "Good morning!" Seamus called pulling apart the hangings. The four boys all replied with "Good morning" and went to wash up and change. After 20 minutes they were all down in the Great Hall. Harry told Ginny and Hermione about Dobby and Ginny squealed "AWW! I LOVE DOBBY!" She laughed. "Well, d'you want to go see him? We can go see him right after lunch. It'll be fun, haven't seen Winky since last year, wasn't a good time then, though." "I'm in!" Ron smiled. "I hope they have some fudge." "RON! That's not very nice, you know" Hermione said placing her hand on his arm, "You know, they aren't there to wait on you hand and foo-" But Hermione forgot, they were. She stopped and became silent and picked at her toast. Ron put his arm around Hermione's waist, "It's okay. I know how you feel about them 'Mione."
Our first class today was outside with Oliver, his first class ever. Harry went to the field happily as he kept hugging Ginny. They walked onto the field holding hands laughing about how all the girls would be all over Oliver. Fifth and fourth years got to have quidditch class together. Sarah and Draco were going to be in the lesson too. Sarah whispered quietly to Ginny, "You know... That Oliver Wood, he's quite...er- handsome." She blushed. Ginny giggled and whispered back "I know." Hermione joined into the conversation saying "Yeah, and he's awesome at Quidditch too." The girls broke out into a fit of giggles. Ron, Harry and Draco all looked at their girlfriends as if they'd gone mad. "D'you reckon they're talking about how Oliver is fit and how he's handsome, or something?" Ron asked glancing at Hermione. Harry and Draco both nodded. But before the girls knew it their boyfriends were kissing them. "You guys, don't even trust us. We were just saying how we are going to have such a lovely lesson flying today." Hermione smiled and winked at Sarah and Ginny. "Exactly." The two agreed and broke out into giggles again. Wood was already with a couple of students, all girls whom were smiling at him. One was about to form a puddle of drool as she watched Oliver fly around in a circle on his broom. Oliver came back down from the air and started talking. "Great day today eh?." He smiled as he patted Harry on the shoulder. "Shall we begin, then?" He asked grinning. All the girls nodded and then sighed. "Oh boy.." Seamus said sitting down on the grass. "I thought, since you lot probably know how to fly and all about Quidditch, that we'd play a small game." Harry was absolutely thrilled. He took off with such speed everyone looked at him. The cool breeze brushed his face as he felt excitement race throughout him. He looked down, everyone was on the quidditch pitch about to take off. As they picked teams Ginny, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Sarah, Draco, Seamus, and Dean were on one team and the rest Wood divided up so there were 4 teams, on one Quidditch field. Very confused, if you asked them. Wood kicked open the crate and the two bludgers and snitch came flying out. Wood threw 2 quaffles up into the air and they began to play. It was a great lesson all in all. Harry's team won, of course, by 270 points. Wood was happy. "Brilliant Harry! Brilliant! 20 points to Gryffindor. And 20 points to Slytherin, you guys did a bloody wonderful job!" They walked back to the stone steps of the castle and sat down. Everyone was quite hot, the morning was very warm. Wood sat with them and chatted with them. "Yeah, my girlfriend wasn't to pleased with me coming to Hogwarts to teach." Wood explained. Harry noticed the girls were frowning. "Told me, if I wanted to then I could go ahead, but then she'd break up with me." Wood replied quietly. All the girls looked up and tried to hide their grins, even some guys [a.n. :: lol] . "So, we broke up." Wood stated. Ron noticed most of the girls were grinning with their head down. "Oliver, er- I mean, Mr. Wood, honestly, if your girlfriend wasn't supportive." Hermione began. "She wasn't the right one for you!" Sarah chimed in. "Well said! She's just.. I dun-no, but not the right girl for you!" Ginny stated as she smiled. "Well, you lot, see you next lesson, time for lunch. See you in the Great Hall." Wood said walking up the stairs. The rest followed him. "Quidditch is great." Harry grinned. They walked into the crowded Great Hall. Everyone was chattering about his or her lessons and what not. Dumbledore came out and stood at the top of the hall were the Staff Table was. "I have a pleasant surprise for you." He declared smiling. "You will see tonight." He said, and with a swoosh of his long cloak he left. Speculations of tonight's events were now the talk of the students. "I heard we are going to have another ball." Said a 7th year Hufflepuff. Soon enough a 3rd year Ravenclaw told anyone that would listen that they were going to have muggles in Hogwarts. Hermione sighed and said to Ron "Some people will believe anything!" Ron glanced at her and replied "I heard we're going to have a concert of some sort." Hermione rolled her eyes and took a bite of Treacle Fudge. Harry looked up at Ginny and said, "How would you still like to see Dobby? After dinner would be a good time to go." He grabbed her hand and smiled. Then Ginny agreed, "That'd be great Harry! I can't wait!" Once they all finished eating Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron started heading to the kitchen. They passed Draco and Sarah on the way. They were walking in the hall together. Draco had his arm around Sarah's waist. "D'you think we should ask them to come?" Ron whispered to Harry. "Well.. He is Dobby's old Master so Draco might get a kick out of seeing them." Harry said. Ron tapped Draco's shoulder and asked him if he would like to come to the kitchen and Draco accepted the offer. They tickled the pear in the picture and it and turned into a doorknob. They walked into the kitchen and Dobby greeted them with a nice welcoming, "HARRY POTTER! Harry Potter and his friends! Dobby says Welcome!" Dobby looked at Draco and his eyes grew, "Ex- Master? Could you be Dobby's Ex-Master?" "Why, yes. Hello Dobby" Draco said sweetly to Dobby, but Dobby backed away and gave a sudden, "Ee!" and moved closer to Harry.
"Has Harry Potter heard about Dumbledore's surprise?" Dobby asked walking back to Harry. "No, he just told us during lunch we were going to have a surprise. Nothing else, there's been rumours, but nothing really. D'you know what it is Dobby?" Harry asked as he sat down on a small chair. Meanwhile, Ron was being served by at least 10 elves. "No, er, that tastes good, could I have some more? Yum! BLECK! What's that? Bogeys?" Ron asked. Hermione shot another look at Ron, but only knew herself that the elves were happy to serve Ron. Ginny squealed and went up to Dobby and hugged him. Dobby turned slightly pink. "Hi Dobby!" She smiled. "What's this surprise about?" Harry asked more interested. "Something about a tamp kent. Dobby doesn't know." Dobby squealed standing on his toes trying to look at Harry. Harry thought for a moment, "Camp tent?" He asked. "YES!" Dobby squealed merrily. "Oh Harry Potter is very smart." "Ooh, sounds fun.. What is it?" Ginny asked who lived in an all wizard & witch family, not knowing much about muggles, as did Draco, or Sarah. Hermione thought how to put it into words. "Remember when they thought Sirius Black was in Hogwarts so we all slept in the Great Hall with those sleeping bags?" Hermione asked. They all nodded besides Jamie. "Well, it's kind of like that, except there's er shelters above, you know?" Hermione said. "OOH! We can sleep beside guys?" Ginny giggled. "I suppose so!" Harry said moving his arm around Ginny's waist and then smiling at her. "OY! We're late! D.A.D.A.!" Ron got up with a jolt that many trays of fudge flung into the air. "Bye Dobby!" They all waved as they left.
They left the dimly lit Hall and entered the bright corridor, they all hurried to their first D.A.D.A. lesson with the new teacher. "I wonder who it's going to be?" Harry asked as they got to the hall leading to the class. "I hope he's hot." Sarah laughed as they entered the classroom. There, standing against the desk was a familiar face. Harry blinked unbelievingly. "Ah. Potter, Granger, Weasley, Perry, Malfoy. You're late." Said the quiet voice warmly. "P-p-professor? What? What're you doing here?" Harry asked in a frightened voice. "Please take a seat, I was just explaining to the class what we will be learning this year, and I need to introduce myself." The voice replied. They found a row of empty seats on the front row and sat down. Now, as I was saying, we will be taking a highly advanced step towards the Dark Arts. I hope you will be ready, no, infact, I trust you'll be ready. You are a very capable class and I don't doubt you will suceed." The professor said. "As you know, I am Professor Lupin. I taught Defense Against the Dark Arts two years ago, in year 3 of yours." Lupin said with a friendly smile. The last time Harry had seen Lupin was two years ago, as he ran off madly into the Foribben Forest turning into a werewolf. "But Professor!" Hermione waved her hand frantically in the air. "What about.. your.. problem?" Lupin looked at her thoughtfully. "I'm glad you asked. Well, we've devised a potion, much like the Wolfsbane Potion. But now instead of turning into a full werewolf, it step by step makes me much calmer so I'm not so dangerous, but, we are still taking precautions, and Professor Dumbledore thinks it's all for the best." He explained. "And the parents?" Ron asked, forgetting they were in class. "Well, we've explained to them, as well, they feel that we have taken enough precautions, so I hope it will be sorted out." He smiled. With that all explained the whole class started cheering madly, as Professor Lupin had been the best Dark Arts teacher they had ever had. "Now now, settle down." Lupin remarked as he turned to the right of him and pulled out a large box. "What've you learned last year?" Hermione shot her hand up. "Well, we had the triwizard tournament, so that prevented us from studying a lot, but we had been taught the main deadly curses. The ones you would be imprisoned in Azkaban for if you put the curse on someone." "Thank you Hermione." Lupin said. "Very well. Today we will start off slow. Much like the Boggart, the Tianklo transforms into your greatest fears, but the Tianklo, unlike the Boggart can multiply, so it won't get confused too easily. Also, with a simple word the Tianklo doesn't vanish, it takes much effort, to change the Tianklo, but I trust today's lesson will be quite fun." Lupin explained to the class and showed him the small creature. "That doesn't look very scary." Neville spoke out. "It doesn't, indeed Neville, but, just think, the Tianklo turning into your greatest fear. Hundreds of them. Huge. Gigantic." Lupin said with a bit of caution in his voice. Neville kept silent, but instead Dean smiled broadly and said with the simplest voice "Wicked!". Lupin wrote on the small board "To disarm the Tianklo, you must conjure all your happy thoughts, and concentrate, much like conjuring the Patronous to fight Dementors." A small shiver went down Harry's spine with the mention of the Dementors. By the end of the lesson everyone was completely drained. "Wow. I never ever want to see or hear the word spi-spide--" Ron began to say he started to shudder. "It's okay, Ron." Hermione said soothingly and hugged him. "Off you go now, time for dinner, see you in the Great Hall for the surprise." Lupin smiled putting the large box in a cupboard.
[a.n. :: I'm Really sorry this chapters got like 3,000 words in it lol the next one I Promise to make shorter. *girl scout promise*]