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Chapter 16: Minerva's Big Surprise
"Boy, Gryffindor is going to be much more quieter this year without the ex- Gryffindor boys. Wood is not around talking about Quidditch, William and Don are not around teasing Malfoy and Dumbledore is not around to explain to us about Transfiguration again." Madeline said as she looked boringly out of the window on the Hogwarts Express. Summer came and gone quickly and Minerva and her friends were on their 3rd year in Hogwarts.
"Madeline!" Poppy hissed angrily.
"What?" Madeline asked, turning her head to look at Poppy.
Poppy pointed at Minerva, who was sitting across Poppy, Georgia and Madeline, staring outside the window gloomily.
"Oops." Madeline said slowly.
"Errr...want some Droobles Best Blowing Gum, Minerva?" Poppy asked and Madeline elbowed her in the ribs. Minerva just sighed and shook her head slowly without even looking at them.
"What?"
Madeline whispered to Poppy about what had happened in Hogsmeade's Honeydukes during Minerva's first year.
"Oops." Poppy said slowly.
"I think we better keep our mouths shut before we upset her even further." Madeline whispered and the other girls nodded.
"Wait a minute, where's Professor Isidis?" Minerva asked as she and her friends sat down in the Great Hall before the Sorting Ceremony started.
"Maybe he's sick." Madeline suggested.
But Madeline was wrong. After the Sorting Ceremony, the Headmaster stood up and announced that Professor Isidis had resigned for some personal reasons.
"What? Who is going to teach us Transfiguration now?" Robert asked.
Joe shrugged. "Searches me."
As if he had heard Robert, the Headmaster said, "As for the new Transfiguration teacher, well, he's not here yet. But you will see him tomorrow. Let the feast begin."
"Boy, I think that the jobs at Hogwarts are jinxed. First it is Professor Adara and Professor Jupiter who left, now it is Professor Isidis. I wonder who is going next?" Robert said as he attacked his mashed potatoes.
"Maybe they left because you are around." Joe grinned.
"Ha ha, very funny." Robert said dryly.
Minerva watched at her friends with amusement.
"What? Is there mash potatoes stains on my face?" Robert asked.
Minerva smiled and shook her head. "No. I just think that you two are as same as William and Don."
Robert thought for a while. "Hey, Joe and I can be substitutes for William and Don! Madeline can be Wood ("What kind of stupid idea is that?" Madeline asked) Georgia can be Nicholas, Poppy can be...errrrr...which ex-Gryffindor does Poppy resemble the most?"
Joe shrugged.
"Oh well. And Minerva can be Albus...." Robert stopped when he saw Minerva's smile faded. "Oops." He whispered.
Madeline looked at Robert, then Minerva, and then Robert again. "Errr...pumpkin tarts, Minerva?" She asked, holding the plate to Minerva.
Minerva turned to Madeline, gave a faint smile and took one. "Thanks."
Robert gave a sigh of relief.
The next morning, Minerva and Madeline were running down the hallway with their Transfiguration textbook in their hands.
"Great, just great!" Madeline said as they ran, "First day of school and we are going to be late for our Transfiguration lesson. And to make the matter worse, a new teacher is teaching it! I bet that he won't have a good impression of us!"
They run down the stairs and to the Transfiguration classroom. They stopped at the closed door and stared at it.
"You go in first." Minerva said nervously.
Madeline swallowed. "All right, then I will tell you if the coast is clear." Then she knocked the door, opened it and went in, yelling, "Sorry that I am late, Professor!"
For a moment it was silence. Then Minerva nearly dropped her Transfiguration textbook when she heard Madeline screaming, "I CAN'T BELIVE IT! MINERVA!!!!!!!"
Minerva clutched her textbook tightly, too shocked to move an inch. What happened to Madeline?
"MINERVA!!!" Madeline shrieked.
Minerva took a deep breath. "All right, relax." She pushed open the door and went in. The first thing she saw was Madeline, standing in the middle of the class with her mouth wide open, the Slytherins looking terribly ugly and the Gryffindors looking pleased.
"What is it?" Minerva asked anxiously.
"Dumb...dumb..." is the only thing Madeline could say.
"What?" Minerva asked again and looked over Madeline's shoulder. She gasped and dropped her Transfiguration textbook. She blinked and looked again. No, it was real! It's too good to be true!
Sitting on the teacher's desk at the front of the class was none other than Albus Dumbledore.
Dumbledore grinned and folded his arms. "Hello, good to see you again."
Madeline could do nothing but gawked at Dumbledore.
"You are our new Transfiguration teacher?" Minerva said breathlessly.
Dumbledore continued grinning. "Surprising, isn't it? Now will you two sit down? The lesson is going to start."
Minerva quickly picked up her textbook and grabbed Madeline to their regular seats.
"Now, I guess I don't need to introduce myself. But I must tell all of you that even if I am from Gryffindor, I will be fair to all of you. Which means, I can give the Gryffindors detentions or cutting off points away from Gryffindor when they are in wrong."
Minerva saw Robert and Joe looked a bit disappointed.
"Now, let's start with our first lessons. Anyone knows what's an Animagus is?"
After lessons, Minerva and Madeline gathered their parchments and rushed to the teacher's desk. Minerva got there first and hugged Dumbledore as tightly as she could.
"Minerva, give me some air!" Dumbledore said breathlessly, but grinning at the same time.
"Oops, sorry." Minerva smiled and let him go.
"Hey, why didn't you tell us that you are the new Transfiguration teacher, Albus?" Robert asked.
"Like I said last year, it's a surprise."
"Yeah, it's a really big surprise. We are so shock when we came in and saw you." Joe grinned.
"Not as shock as Madeline, her screams can tear Hogwarts down." Robert teased.
"Oh shut up." Madeline snapped. "By the way, Dumbledore, how did you get the job?"
"Simple. Last year, the three professors called me in if you remember.... They wanted to find a new teacher for Transfiguration and....they thought that my Transfiguration skills is pretty good so...."
But Dumbledore was cut off by Joe, who exclaimed in shock, "What do you mean by pretty good?! All the Gryffindor students say that you are the expert in Transfiguration!"
Dumbledore just smiled.
Robert frowned. "Hey wait a minute, isn't that mean that we have to address you as Professor Dumbledore?"
"Whatever that suits you." Dumbledore said as he arranged the parchments on his desk. "Now if you don't hurry up, I think you are going to be late for your next lesson. What lesson is that?"
"Oh yeah! Robert and I need to get to North Tower for Divination lessons! It will take a while to get there, see you Albus!" Joe called before he and Robert rushed off.
"What is so good about Divination? It is completely rubbish." Minerva said under her breath.
"What about you girls?" Dumbledore asked.
"We got Muggle Studies." Minerva said, smiling.
"You better get going." Dumbledore said as he sat down on his seat.
"All right." Minerva said and she, Madeline and Daisy walked towards the door.
"Don't forget your Transfiguration homework!" Dumbledore called.
"We won't!" Minerva called back. "Bye!"
As the girls walked to the Muggle Studies classroom, Madeline was amused to see Minerva humming softly to herself.
"Minerva, I have not seen you this happy since last year." Madeline said, smiling.
Minerva sighed happily. "Isn't great that Albus is our Transfiguration teacher now?"
"Yeah, now we don't have to worry about Transfiguration now, Dumbledore will always be around to help us." Daisy said as they walked down the stairs.
"For Minerva, that's the half of the reason why she is happy, the other half is because she get to see Dumbledore everyday." Madeline grinned and looked at Minerva for her reaction.
Minerva didn't even respond. She was too busily checking her school bag for her Muggles Studies textbook.
Snape walked to the West Tower and arrived at the Owlery. He walked straight to his barn owl, avoiding stepping on the owl droppings and skeletons of mice and voles. He reached under his robes and took out a piece of parchment.
He rechecked what he had written:
Aidoneus,
Dumbledore had become our new Transfiguration teacher and McGonagall is delighted.
Sam Snape
Snape smiled a little in satisfaction, rolled up the small piece of parchment and tied it to his owl's leg.
"Send this to the Malfoy Manor." He said simply and the owl flew off.
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Chapter 16: Minerva's Big Surprise
"Boy, Gryffindor is going to be much more quieter this year without the ex- Gryffindor boys. Wood is not around talking about Quidditch, William and Don are not around teasing Malfoy and Dumbledore is not around to explain to us about Transfiguration again." Madeline said as she looked boringly out of the window on the Hogwarts Express. Summer came and gone quickly and Minerva and her friends were on their 3rd year in Hogwarts.
"Madeline!" Poppy hissed angrily.
"What?" Madeline asked, turning her head to look at Poppy.
Poppy pointed at Minerva, who was sitting across Poppy, Georgia and Madeline, staring outside the window gloomily.
"Oops." Madeline said slowly.
"Errr...want some Droobles Best Blowing Gum, Minerva?" Poppy asked and Madeline elbowed her in the ribs. Minerva just sighed and shook her head slowly without even looking at them.
"What?"
Madeline whispered to Poppy about what had happened in Hogsmeade's Honeydukes during Minerva's first year.
"Oops." Poppy said slowly.
"I think we better keep our mouths shut before we upset her even further." Madeline whispered and the other girls nodded.
"Wait a minute, where's Professor Isidis?" Minerva asked as she and her friends sat down in the Great Hall before the Sorting Ceremony started.
"Maybe he's sick." Madeline suggested.
But Madeline was wrong. After the Sorting Ceremony, the Headmaster stood up and announced that Professor Isidis had resigned for some personal reasons.
"What? Who is going to teach us Transfiguration now?" Robert asked.
Joe shrugged. "Searches me."
As if he had heard Robert, the Headmaster said, "As for the new Transfiguration teacher, well, he's not here yet. But you will see him tomorrow. Let the feast begin."
"Boy, I think that the jobs at Hogwarts are jinxed. First it is Professor Adara and Professor Jupiter who left, now it is Professor Isidis. I wonder who is going next?" Robert said as he attacked his mashed potatoes.
"Maybe they left because you are around." Joe grinned.
"Ha ha, very funny." Robert said dryly.
Minerva watched at her friends with amusement.
"What? Is there mash potatoes stains on my face?" Robert asked.
Minerva smiled and shook her head. "No. I just think that you two are as same as William and Don."
Robert thought for a while. "Hey, Joe and I can be substitutes for William and Don! Madeline can be Wood ("What kind of stupid idea is that?" Madeline asked) Georgia can be Nicholas, Poppy can be...errrrr...which ex-Gryffindor does Poppy resemble the most?"
Joe shrugged.
"Oh well. And Minerva can be Albus...." Robert stopped when he saw Minerva's smile faded. "Oops." He whispered.
Madeline looked at Robert, then Minerva, and then Robert again. "Errr...pumpkin tarts, Minerva?" She asked, holding the plate to Minerva.
Minerva turned to Madeline, gave a faint smile and took one. "Thanks."
Robert gave a sigh of relief.
The next morning, Minerva and Madeline were running down the hallway with their Transfiguration textbook in their hands.
"Great, just great!" Madeline said as they ran, "First day of school and we are going to be late for our Transfiguration lesson. And to make the matter worse, a new teacher is teaching it! I bet that he won't have a good impression of us!"
They run down the stairs and to the Transfiguration classroom. They stopped at the closed door and stared at it.
"You go in first." Minerva said nervously.
Madeline swallowed. "All right, then I will tell you if the coast is clear." Then she knocked the door, opened it and went in, yelling, "Sorry that I am late, Professor!"
For a moment it was silence. Then Minerva nearly dropped her Transfiguration textbook when she heard Madeline screaming, "I CAN'T BELIVE IT! MINERVA!!!!!!!"
Minerva clutched her textbook tightly, too shocked to move an inch. What happened to Madeline?
"MINERVA!!!" Madeline shrieked.
Minerva took a deep breath. "All right, relax." She pushed open the door and went in. The first thing she saw was Madeline, standing in the middle of the class with her mouth wide open, the Slytherins looking terribly ugly and the Gryffindors looking pleased.
"What is it?" Minerva asked anxiously.
"Dumb...dumb..." is the only thing Madeline could say.
"What?" Minerva asked again and looked over Madeline's shoulder. She gasped and dropped her Transfiguration textbook. She blinked and looked again. No, it was real! It's too good to be true!
Sitting on the teacher's desk at the front of the class was none other than Albus Dumbledore.
Dumbledore grinned and folded his arms. "Hello, good to see you again."
Madeline could do nothing but gawked at Dumbledore.
"You are our new Transfiguration teacher?" Minerva said breathlessly.
Dumbledore continued grinning. "Surprising, isn't it? Now will you two sit down? The lesson is going to start."
Minerva quickly picked up her textbook and grabbed Madeline to their regular seats.
"Now, I guess I don't need to introduce myself. But I must tell all of you that even if I am from Gryffindor, I will be fair to all of you. Which means, I can give the Gryffindors detentions or cutting off points away from Gryffindor when they are in wrong."
Minerva saw Robert and Joe looked a bit disappointed.
"Now, let's start with our first lessons. Anyone knows what's an Animagus is?"
After lessons, Minerva and Madeline gathered their parchments and rushed to the teacher's desk. Minerva got there first and hugged Dumbledore as tightly as she could.
"Minerva, give me some air!" Dumbledore said breathlessly, but grinning at the same time.
"Oops, sorry." Minerva smiled and let him go.
"Hey, why didn't you tell us that you are the new Transfiguration teacher, Albus?" Robert asked.
"Like I said last year, it's a surprise."
"Yeah, it's a really big surprise. We are so shock when we came in and saw you." Joe grinned.
"Not as shock as Madeline, her screams can tear Hogwarts down." Robert teased.
"Oh shut up." Madeline snapped. "By the way, Dumbledore, how did you get the job?"
"Simple. Last year, the three professors called me in if you remember.... They wanted to find a new teacher for Transfiguration and....they thought that my Transfiguration skills is pretty good so...."
But Dumbledore was cut off by Joe, who exclaimed in shock, "What do you mean by pretty good?! All the Gryffindor students say that you are the expert in Transfiguration!"
Dumbledore just smiled.
Robert frowned. "Hey wait a minute, isn't that mean that we have to address you as Professor Dumbledore?"
"Whatever that suits you." Dumbledore said as he arranged the parchments on his desk. "Now if you don't hurry up, I think you are going to be late for your next lesson. What lesson is that?"
"Oh yeah! Robert and I need to get to North Tower for Divination lessons! It will take a while to get there, see you Albus!" Joe called before he and Robert rushed off.
"What is so good about Divination? It is completely rubbish." Minerva said under her breath.
"What about you girls?" Dumbledore asked.
"We got Muggle Studies." Minerva said, smiling.
"You better get going." Dumbledore said as he sat down on his seat.
"All right." Minerva said and she, Madeline and Daisy walked towards the door.
"Don't forget your Transfiguration homework!" Dumbledore called.
"We won't!" Minerva called back. "Bye!"
As the girls walked to the Muggle Studies classroom, Madeline was amused to see Minerva humming softly to herself.
"Minerva, I have not seen you this happy since last year." Madeline said, smiling.
Minerva sighed happily. "Isn't great that Albus is our Transfiguration teacher now?"
"Yeah, now we don't have to worry about Transfiguration now, Dumbledore will always be around to help us." Daisy said as they walked down the stairs.
"For Minerva, that's the half of the reason why she is happy, the other half is because she get to see Dumbledore everyday." Madeline grinned and looked at Minerva for her reaction.
Minerva didn't even respond. She was too busily checking her school bag for her Muggles Studies textbook.
Snape walked to the West Tower and arrived at the Owlery. He walked straight to his barn owl, avoiding stepping on the owl droppings and skeletons of mice and voles. He reached under his robes and took out a piece of parchment.
He rechecked what he had written:
Aidoneus,
Dumbledore had become our new Transfiguration teacher and McGonagall is delighted.
Sam Snape
Snape smiled a little in satisfaction, rolled up the small piece of parchment and tied it to his owl's leg.
"Send this to the Malfoy Manor." He said simply and the owl flew off.