I have moved the story in BtVS crossovers. Not really relevant just thought I would say. Keep reviewing!
Itsy bitsy chapter, but want to save the good stuff for the next one.
Chapter 11 - Old Married Couples
The look on Dumbledore's face dwelt in Harry's mind for a long time after he had seen it. In his own time he practised harder, and if he had probed his feelings, he would have realised he feared letting down Dumbledore, that deep down, he felt it was his duty to give Dumbledore hope again. So he practised and when he saw Dumbledore for his next practise, he was able to display a broad variety of new spells he had discovered he had the ability to do.
The Slayers Academy, meanwhile, was coming along promisingly. Giles had learnt to apparate in the space of two weeks, and he had gone to visit the first newly discovered slayer, in Germany. Consequently, he was away from the Academy, and Buffy and faith had to deal with more of the work.
"Geez I don't know how Giles does it," Faith grumbled, as she sifted through a pile of demon lore papers he had asked her to mark. "I mean fair enough training people to fight, y'know you can kick back a little, just let them do their stuff, but this. Eugh." Buffy grinned slightly and sat back in her chair.
"I all done," she announced triumphantly. "I just mentioned to Wills that I had marking to do, and she practically grabbed it off me. She loves the teachery stuff. " Faith grinned and stood up.
"I'm just going to see if I can find Willow."
While Giles was away, Willow had to run her Demon lore class by herself, but she found a way around this.
"Who knows anything about werewolves?" she asked her seventh year class. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Dawn all raised their hands, as well as several other members of the class.
"Good," Willow said. "Now I understand you were taught by a werewolf in you third year, though you didn't know during the time he was teaching you. Well we have another werewolf at Hogwarts, and he is going to talk to you about what its like." With that Oz got up from his seat at the back of the class, and came to stand next to Willow.
"I'm not really sure I'm qualified for this anymore, since I haven't transformed for about five years now." The class looked up with interest at this, and Oz smiled an enigmatic smile.
"My transformations were out of control, they hurt and I was dangerous to the people around me. So I went to Tibet, where I stayed in a monastery for a year, and I learnt to control it. See, when you get bitten, it's like a demon is released in you. You can control it for 28 nights of the month, but it has to be released on two nights. I found a way to control that, to focus on not changing. And it worked."
Time flew by again at Hogwarts, Giles returned, a new German slayer in tow, then he left again, this time to Malaysia. Harry, Ron, Dawn and Hermione kept working hard, with harry also attempting to do anything he could by magic, with impressive results. He couldn't bring himself to attempt to kill anything however. And there was no word on Voldemort, they heard nothing. Harry was worried, more worried than he had ever felt. From the brief insight he had into Voldemort, he knew that he had definitely got more power, somehow. And this scared him.
On the upside, Buffy and Sirius were adjusting to married life well. It was now November, and they had been married nearly five months. Willow and Oz were together and still going strong, much to Kennedy's distaste, as were Xander and Cordelia and Faith and Robin. In fact, Faith moaned one day about how they were all like old married couples, with the exception of Buffy and Sirius who actually were an old married couple. She decided something needed to be done to liven things up for them. One morning, mid November, she went to visit Dumbledore, and came back smiling. Buffy noticed.
"What's with the happy?" Buffy asked."
"Dumbledore agreed that we can have a fancy dress ball for Christmas in the Great hall," Faith announced triumphantly. "So girls, we need to get planning!"
Between them faith, Buffy, Cordelia and Willow began work on organising the ball. They booked a band, visited the kitchens for discussions on refreshments with the house elves. Then when everything was organised, for the 15th, the night before the students went home for Christmas, the girls began work on their costumes, which was highly secretive.
