Chapter Two - Professor Amore.
The next day at breakfast Hermione was still being frosty with Harry so he made more effort to talk to her which was very difficult as Ron was engaged in conversation with Faith and from what Harry could hear she had a very interesting life. Hermione was babbling on about some book that she'd read and boring Harry to death but he pretended to be interested. In the corner of his eye Harry could see Draco Malfoy swaggering over to the Gryffindor table. Ron caught his eye and the pair of them stood up.
"What do you want Malfoy?" asked Harry
"I've come to introduce myself to the new student" said Malfoy, "Not that it's any of your business Potter"
Faith stood up and looked at Malfoy and Harry noticed that he had had a growth spurt, as he was taller that Faith who wasn't exactly small in the height department.
"Draco Malfoy, Slytherin" said Malfoy holding out his hand. Faith glanced at Harry before apprehensively shaking Malfoy's hand.
"I'm Faith, Faith Brady" she replied.
" I see you've met Potter and his friends" Malfoy snarled "Mind you I wouldn't get too friendly with Granger, mudblood's aren't very reliable"
"What?" said Faith
"Oh didn't you know? Granger's a mudblood" said Malfoy glaring at Hermione. Harry grabbed Ron's arm to stop him lunging at Malfoy and Hermione's eyes filled with tears. At Malfoy's last sentence Seamus and Dean had also stood up.
"What difference does it make?" said Faith. "She's still a witch"
Malfoy stood there apparently thinking of something to say. But before he could, Professor Amore strolled up, and placed her wand on Malfoy's shoulder. He became paralysed with fear.
"Draco Malfoy" she said quietly. "I was wondering when I was going to meet you." She had a presence around her, a sense of power, something that Harry had only ever felt around Dumbledore. Malfoy gulped.
"If I hear you say that again then you'll regret it." She continued as she removed her wand from Malfoy's shoulder. Malfoy scarpered.
Professor Amore spoke again. This time with warmth and friendliness.
"So you must be Harry, Ron and Hermione. I've heard quite a bit about you three, seems that you've had some interesting adventures." She smiled. "I'll see you in class" she said. Harry met her eye and for a split second he felt as if had known her all of his life and that she was a part of him, but then it was gone. She seemed so familiar.
***
Later that day they strolled into Defence Against The Dark Arts. Where Professor Amore was standing at the front of class watching everyone who walked in . Malfoy tried to hide himself behind Crabbe and Goyle but he was too tall and Professor Amore with height to rival Dumbledore's could see him anyway.
"Oh no you don't Malfoy!" she said "Your going to sit where I can keep an eye on you" she pointed to a desk on it's own at the front of the class. Malfoy groaned and walked to the front of the class and sat down. Professor Amore looked at Harry and they both fought to keep themselves from smiling.
"Right then class this term we are going to focus on duelling. So let us not waste any time. So that I can see what your capable of, we'll have a little duel. One by one I'll have you up at the front here and we'll see what your made of" she said taking out her wand. "Malfoy! You can go first!"
Malfoy looked as if was about to cry. Malfoy stood up and the moment that Professor Amore had said begin Malfoy sent a curse. Professor Amore had dodged the curse with ease, sent a spell back at him so powerful that he had gone flying through the air and landed in front of Faith's desk. She just smiled and waved at him. He remained crumpled in a heap at the back of class for a long time afterwards. Professor Amore instructed everyone to leave him there and continued the class but after about 10minutes Malfoy had still not moved and Faith pointed out to Professor Amore that there might actually be something wrong with him.
"Oh very well" she sighed "you'd better take him to the hospital wing. Erm." she looked at Faith who though tall was clearly not strong enough to help Malfoy to the hospital wing on her own instructed Harry to go with her. "Harry go with her" At this Hermione looked as if a bludger had just hit her in the face.
Harry looked at Malfoy and sighed. He got up from his desk, grabbed Malfoy and dragged him to his feet, holding him round the waist to support him. Faith came and did the same, and they dragged a groaning Malfoy out of the class. Professor Amore who clearly couldn't care less what happened to Malfoy continued the class.
"Next we'll have Miss Granger" she said.
"Uhhhhh..." Malfoy groaned
"Shut up Malfoy!" said Harry as he and Faith dragged him to the hospital wing.
"Your just faking it so that you can get Professor Amore into trouble like you did with Hagrid!" Harry continued.
"Maybe there is something wrong with him this time" said Faith "I mean that was a pretty powerful spell that she hit him with, she sent him flying across the room and he hit the floor quite hard"
"Who cares?" said Harry "He's a brainless git anyway" Faith laughed and she and Harry dumped Malfoy by one of the bed's and called for Madame Pomfrey.
"Let's have a look at him" she said. Malfoy had come round a bit more now but he was still groaning.
"Concussion and broken rib's by the look of it" she said "I'm afraid Mr. Malfoy that your going to have to stay here for a few day's. You two may go back to class."
Harry and Faith burst into laughter as soon as they left the hospital wing and stood in the corridor for a moment.
"Won't Professor Amore get into trouble for this" asked Faith who was still laughing. "She broke his ribs!"
"And gave him concussion!" said Harry also laughing. "perhaps he won't be so cocky now"
It took a while for Harry and Faith to get their giggles under control and by the time they had sat down again in class the bell went.
"Well done today class," said Professor Amore "I am very pleased with you all. We will continue with this next lesson. Dismissed. Mr. Potter and Miss. Brady a word if you please."
Harry stood up and was nearly knocked over by Hermione barging past.
"See you at dinner" said Ron who rushed after her.
Harry and Faith went to the front of the class where Professor Amore was waiting.
"And how is Mr. Malfoy?" she asked with absolutely no concern in her voice at all.
Harry and Faith looked at each other and started laughing.
"He's not too good" began Faith who was fighting down giggles. "He's got concussion and broken rib's"
Harry could contain himself no longer and started laughing out loud, as did Faith and to Harry's enormous surprise so did Professor Amore.
"Good!" she laughed "Hopefully he's learnt his lesson! Thankyou, you may go now."
Harry and Faith went to the Great hall for dinner positively howling with laughter, and told everyone who would listen exactly what had happened. Nearly the whole of the Gryffindor table was howling with laughter. All except Hermione who had tears filling up in her eyes.
After dinner Harry, Ron and Faith took a walk around the grounds. Hermione had point blank refused to join them.
"You know what," said Ron "Hermione didn't look to well at dinner I'm going to go to the castle and see if she's alright"
"Ok then," said Harry I'll see you later.
"Bye Ron!" said Faith.
"I get the impression Hermione doesn't like me much" Faith began
"What gives you that idea?" asked Harry
"Well she never talks to me and it's not like I haven't spoken to her or anything. Like today in Transfiguration, we sat by each other for the whole lesson and she didn't speak to me once. Not once, during the entire lesson."
Harry didn't know what to say. He knew perfectly well why Hermione wasn't being friendly towards Faith but he didn't think it a good idea to tell Faith that. Besides he'd get embarrassed.
"I'm sure she'll come around" said Harry not knowing what else to say. "It's just that sometimes Hermione can get a bit temperamental."
"I hope she does." Said Faith
"She will," said Harry "She will". Seeing that Faith was still upset, Harry stepped close to her and hugged her.
Hermione was just getting into bed when she looked out of the window. She saw two figures by the lake. Hermione pressed her nose up to the glass to see who it was. No.it couldn't be. It was Harry and Faith. Hermione watched as Harry hugged Faith. Tears began to fill up in her eyes. She felt sick to her stomach. She felt as if Harry had been taken from her.
The next day at breakfast Hermione was still being frosty with Harry so he made more effort to talk to her which was very difficult as Ron was engaged in conversation with Faith and from what Harry could hear she had a very interesting life. Hermione was babbling on about some book that she'd read and boring Harry to death but he pretended to be interested. In the corner of his eye Harry could see Draco Malfoy swaggering over to the Gryffindor table. Ron caught his eye and the pair of them stood up.
"What do you want Malfoy?" asked Harry
"I've come to introduce myself to the new student" said Malfoy, "Not that it's any of your business Potter"
Faith stood up and looked at Malfoy and Harry noticed that he had had a growth spurt, as he was taller that Faith who wasn't exactly small in the height department.
"Draco Malfoy, Slytherin" said Malfoy holding out his hand. Faith glanced at Harry before apprehensively shaking Malfoy's hand.
"I'm Faith, Faith Brady" she replied.
" I see you've met Potter and his friends" Malfoy snarled "Mind you I wouldn't get too friendly with Granger, mudblood's aren't very reliable"
"What?" said Faith
"Oh didn't you know? Granger's a mudblood" said Malfoy glaring at Hermione. Harry grabbed Ron's arm to stop him lunging at Malfoy and Hermione's eyes filled with tears. At Malfoy's last sentence Seamus and Dean had also stood up.
"What difference does it make?" said Faith. "She's still a witch"
Malfoy stood there apparently thinking of something to say. But before he could, Professor Amore strolled up, and placed her wand on Malfoy's shoulder. He became paralysed with fear.
"Draco Malfoy" she said quietly. "I was wondering when I was going to meet you." She had a presence around her, a sense of power, something that Harry had only ever felt around Dumbledore. Malfoy gulped.
"If I hear you say that again then you'll regret it." She continued as she removed her wand from Malfoy's shoulder. Malfoy scarpered.
Professor Amore spoke again. This time with warmth and friendliness.
"So you must be Harry, Ron and Hermione. I've heard quite a bit about you three, seems that you've had some interesting adventures." She smiled. "I'll see you in class" she said. Harry met her eye and for a split second he felt as if had known her all of his life and that she was a part of him, but then it was gone. She seemed so familiar.
***
Later that day they strolled into Defence Against The Dark Arts. Where Professor Amore was standing at the front of class watching everyone who walked in . Malfoy tried to hide himself behind Crabbe and Goyle but he was too tall and Professor Amore with height to rival Dumbledore's could see him anyway.
"Oh no you don't Malfoy!" she said "Your going to sit where I can keep an eye on you" she pointed to a desk on it's own at the front of the class. Malfoy groaned and walked to the front of the class and sat down. Professor Amore looked at Harry and they both fought to keep themselves from smiling.
"Right then class this term we are going to focus on duelling. So let us not waste any time. So that I can see what your capable of, we'll have a little duel. One by one I'll have you up at the front here and we'll see what your made of" she said taking out her wand. "Malfoy! You can go first!"
Malfoy looked as if was about to cry. Malfoy stood up and the moment that Professor Amore had said begin Malfoy sent a curse. Professor Amore had dodged the curse with ease, sent a spell back at him so powerful that he had gone flying through the air and landed in front of Faith's desk. She just smiled and waved at him. He remained crumpled in a heap at the back of class for a long time afterwards. Professor Amore instructed everyone to leave him there and continued the class but after about 10minutes Malfoy had still not moved and Faith pointed out to Professor Amore that there might actually be something wrong with him.
"Oh very well" she sighed "you'd better take him to the hospital wing. Erm." she looked at Faith who though tall was clearly not strong enough to help Malfoy to the hospital wing on her own instructed Harry to go with her. "Harry go with her" At this Hermione looked as if a bludger had just hit her in the face.
Harry looked at Malfoy and sighed. He got up from his desk, grabbed Malfoy and dragged him to his feet, holding him round the waist to support him. Faith came and did the same, and they dragged a groaning Malfoy out of the class. Professor Amore who clearly couldn't care less what happened to Malfoy continued the class.
"Next we'll have Miss Granger" she said.
"Uhhhhh..." Malfoy groaned
"Shut up Malfoy!" said Harry as he and Faith dragged him to the hospital wing.
"Your just faking it so that you can get Professor Amore into trouble like you did with Hagrid!" Harry continued.
"Maybe there is something wrong with him this time" said Faith "I mean that was a pretty powerful spell that she hit him with, she sent him flying across the room and he hit the floor quite hard"
"Who cares?" said Harry "He's a brainless git anyway" Faith laughed and she and Harry dumped Malfoy by one of the bed's and called for Madame Pomfrey.
"Let's have a look at him" she said. Malfoy had come round a bit more now but he was still groaning.
"Concussion and broken rib's by the look of it" she said "I'm afraid Mr. Malfoy that your going to have to stay here for a few day's. You two may go back to class."
Harry and Faith burst into laughter as soon as they left the hospital wing and stood in the corridor for a moment.
"Won't Professor Amore get into trouble for this" asked Faith who was still laughing. "She broke his ribs!"
"And gave him concussion!" said Harry also laughing. "perhaps he won't be so cocky now"
It took a while for Harry and Faith to get their giggles under control and by the time they had sat down again in class the bell went.
"Well done today class," said Professor Amore "I am very pleased with you all. We will continue with this next lesson. Dismissed. Mr. Potter and Miss. Brady a word if you please."
Harry stood up and was nearly knocked over by Hermione barging past.
"See you at dinner" said Ron who rushed after her.
Harry and Faith went to the front of the class where Professor Amore was waiting.
"And how is Mr. Malfoy?" she asked with absolutely no concern in her voice at all.
Harry and Faith looked at each other and started laughing.
"He's not too good" began Faith who was fighting down giggles. "He's got concussion and broken rib's"
Harry could contain himself no longer and started laughing out loud, as did Faith and to Harry's enormous surprise so did Professor Amore.
"Good!" she laughed "Hopefully he's learnt his lesson! Thankyou, you may go now."
Harry and Faith went to the Great hall for dinner positively howling with laughter, and told everyone who would listen exactly what had happened. Nearly the whole of the Gryffindor table was howling with laughter. All except Hermione who had tears filling up in her eyes.
After dinner Harry, Ron and Faith took a walk around the grounds. Hermione had point blank refused to join them.
"You know what," said Ron "Hermione didn't look to well at dinner I'm going to go to the castle and see if she's alright"
"Ok then," said Harry I'll see you later.
"Bye Ron!" said Faith.
"I get the impression Hermione doesn't like me much" Faith began
"What gives you that idea?" asked Harry
"Well she never talks to me and it's not like I haven't spoken to her or anything. Like today in Transfiguration, we sat by each other for the whole lesson and she didn't speak to me once. Not once, during the entire lesson."
Harry didn't know what to say. He knew perfectly well why Hermione wasn't being friendly towards Faith but he didn't think it a good idea to tell Faith that. Besides he'd get embarrassed.
"I'm sure she'll come around" said Harry not knowing what else to say. "It's just that sometimes Hermione can get a bit temperamental."
"I hope she does." Said Faith
"She will," said Harry "She will". Seeing that Faith was still upset, Harry stepped close to her and hugged her.
Hermione was just getting into bed when she looked out of the window. She saw two figures by the lake. Hermione pressed her nose up to the glass to see who it was. No.it couldn't be. It was Harry and Faith. Hermione watched as Harry hugged Faith. Tears began to fill up in her eyes. She felt sick to her stomach. She felt as if Harry had been taken from her.
