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well now, if Draezyc lightened up, she just… wouldn't be Draezyc….
gorgeous weather this weekend, so I wrote this outside, in the sun, with a nice glass of cold water J
"Sabotage!" was indeed a club in actual existence until last week. My best friend owned it, and sadly due to rent reviews, it had to close. 2002-2003, and the memory of "Sabotage!"… "yo' moma!" will continue to provide in our dreams, the metal, ska, hardcore and more! We came to love so very much…. I loved being on that guest list… weep
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"Otherwise engaged in more important business." Sirius huffed. "Who does he think he is?"
Remus watched as Sirius paced the room in front of him. "Who he always has been, he will never change Sirius, there's no point getting all stressed over him."
"You've seen this." Sirius waved the letter in his friend's face. "And you want me to be calm?"
"It seems like everybody's got a plan." Sirius continued to pace, "except for me."
"it seems like that now, but think how many of those plans are too farfetched, too insane to ever work, then think how good it is to be at square one and not to have progressed, only to fall right back down again."
"I'm such a schmuck." Sirius muttered. "Do you know who Dumbledore has employed in reserve for Edea?"
"Oh, I heard about this." Remus nodded, "Another auror. Bennett."
"Do you remember David Bennett in school, Remus?" Sirius raised an eyebrow… "Slytherin. Do you know who his best friend was?"
"Who could forget." Remus shrugged. "Snape of course."
"Bloody excellent." Sirius huffed, "I'm surrounded by the people I have come to despise the most…"
"You never really had any reason to dislike Bennett. He was an alright Slytherin, I mean, look at him now. An Auror."
"Yeah, so?"
"He can't be as bad as you seem to think he is." Remus pinched the bridge of his nose
"He sabotaged my broomstick in my FINAL Quidditch match for Hogwarts, ever!" Sirius exclaimed "James never forgave me for letting in those goals in the last minute."
Remus chuckled slightly. "Sabotage!" he gasped "Do you remember?"
"SABOTAGE!" Sirius smiled weakly, remembering the joke… "Yo' moma!"
"Harsh." Remus rolled his eyes. "That, was the best wizarding music gathering I have ever seen."
"Pity it had to close… I loved that place more than anything, and just as it was getting really good, it closed." Sirius sighed, "Who owned it again, Alsop?"
"Yeah. Draezyc's previous lover."
"Oh doesn't THAT list go on for pages." Sirius counted on his fingers. "Me, Snape, Bennett, Alsop, Lestrange, some random greek guy… what was his name?"
"Ioannis Pelegrinis." Remus frowned, "But she never did, not with him, that was some vicious rumour that went round at the time you dated her."
"I believed it."
"You always did."
~*~
"Well, whaddya know."
Draezyc froze and spun round on her heel to face the voice behind her, and in a manner totally different to her usual sour demeanour, she squealed and ran towards the person. "Dave!"
"Hello Drae." He smiled, catching her hug. "Good time?"
"It's always a good time!"
"How have you been? Where have you been, what have you been doing, it seems like an eternity!" Draezyc enthusiastically bounced up and down in front of David, who smiled warmly, "Much the same as you I should think, working hard playing harder."
"As usual then!"
"Naturally." David nodded. "You know I've been appointed teacher of Defence against the dark arts whilst DuCruet is otherwise engaged."
"Hell no!" Draezyc laughed, "Nobody told me that!"
"Well nobody knew until yesterday anyway, and apparently you Snapes were an elusive entity yesterday."
"Name me a time when we're not." Draezyc giggled. "No, seriously now, you're not going to be tailing my ever move just because you're an Auror and im one of those other people."
"Drae…" David sighed, holding her shoulders "You know very well that I was never an Auror by choice. Had it been down to me I'd have settled down with those I love and opened a tavern or something."
"Not the quintessential ambitious Slytherin there?"
"Ambitious yes, it would be the most amazing tavern that any wizard had ever seen…" David mused, "However, now is not the time for idle musings."
"Evidently not, have you seen Severus on your travels?"
"Why yes." Dave laughed, rolling his eyes. "Will nothing ever shock that man?"
"Probably not." Draezyc shrugged. "But then again it wouldn't be Severus any other way." She linked her arm around David's and walked down the corridor towards the Great Hall "And you've never seen him in private."
David smirked "Do I want to?"
"No, that's my prerogative."
~*~
Dumbledore rose from his seat and silence fell upon the students seated at their tables in the Hall. Dinner had not yet begun and some of the younger students were looking longingly at the plates set out in front of them, knowing full well that the Elves had been making the dinner for hours, and it was all waiting in the kitchen, the succulent aromas wafting up through the corridors. The teachers sat at the table, all with some mark of respect for the missing teacher Edea DuCruet, whether it be a black neck tie or a simple black silk handkerchief. Sirius was in his dog form at the head of the Gryffindor table with Remus and Anna sitting on either side of him. Draezyc sat next to Snape on the head table, in the darkest of forest green robes, trimmed with silver cuffs and embroidered neckline, she wore no black for DuCruet and nobody had the strength to ask her otherwise. The amethysts and sapphires on her fingers winked in the candlelight sending out signals of power and money to all those who thought of challenging her.
"We have, in the absence of Professor DuCruet a new addition to the team to welcome." Dumbledore started. "Professor Bennett will take all your Defence against the Dark Arts lessons starting tomorrow morning. Whilst this post is temporary until Professor DuCruet's return, I expect no less of you in terms of work or respect towards your new teacher."
A smattering of applause rang out around the room, many Slytherins joined in, knowing that their new teacher had been a prominent Slytherin in his time in the school, and expecting that like Snape's lessons, he would give them priority.
"Could have been worse." Harry muttered to Ron across the table. "We could have got another Lockheart."
Hermione reached over to join in, "He's not that bad! Haven't you met his sons in Ravenclaw?"
Harry and Ron stared blankly at Hermione, who rolled her eyes and continued. "They're in the year below us, Dexter and Devin Bennett. They're twins."
"In Ravenclaw?" Ron questioned, paying no attention to Dumbeldore's continued speech. "I thought they'd have been in Slytherin."
"Honestly!" Hermione tutted loudly. "You're so quick to judge people! They're really nice, ask Ginny! Really clever, they're always in the library."
"Ah," Ron grinned at Harry. "That would be why we've never met them. No sense of adventure."
Harry laughed in response and looked up at the new Professor. His brown goatee was neatly shaped and his smile had a semi mysterious edge to it as he nodded to the students in thanks for the welcoming applause. He looked over at Padfoot who was scanning the table, awaiting the food to appear, and Remus who was staring at the ceiling with a blank expression.
The students' chatter soon drowned out the peaceful silence as the food appeared along the centre of the tables. The clinking of knives and forks on plates put a cheerful rhythm to the dinner that Remus couldn't help but smile at the normality of. He knew very well that the dog beside him was not best pleased with the appointment of Bennett as the new DADA teacher, but couldn't complain directly to Dumbledore as his reason was simply a petty rivalry that went back to his school years. Bennett had joined the Auror Academy the moment he left school, more on the whim of his father than anything else. His father had been the perfect Ravenclaw and had worried about what his son would turn into in such times when Slytherins were joining Voldemort in droves. He had married Isabel, a Gryffindor two years his junior on his graduation from the Academy, and as far as Remus knew, they had a happy marriage in a large country cottage not far away from Cambridge. Remus and Isabel had always got on well together in Hogwarts, and he had always meant to search them out when he had been living in Foxton, but the opportunity never really rose from more than a faint hope.
TBC
