A/N: I swear this chapter will be longer than the last. I don't even think that one made it to 600 words.

Disclaimer: Me? Own Harry Potter? You're off your rocker mate.

Chapter 6

Soon enough the Headmaster stood up as the last remnants of the feast disappeared from the plates.

"Welcome, all of you, to a new year at Hogwarts," said Dumbledore smiling. "Now, before you all go off to bed I need to make the announcements. Mr. Filch would like to remind all students that magic is prohibited in the corridors, as are roughly 750 different items, the list of which can viewed from his office.

"The Quidditch trials will be held during the second week of term. Anyone who is interested in playing for their house team should contact Madam Hooch.

"Also, first-years should note that the forbidden forest is forbidden to all students. Also, several older students would do well to remember that."

Dumbledore's eyes flashed towards the Gryffindor table for a minute, focusing on several people in particular.

"I would also like to introduce our new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Professor Riddle."

All eyes in the hall suddenly darted to the staff table at the mention of the name Riddle. It had become common knowledge several years before that Voldemort's real name was Tom Riddle, after a journalist, Rita Skeeter, had somehow found out, and had published it in the Daily Prophet, along with a lot of other information.

About three-quarters of the hall were staring at him in horror, and these were mainly non-Slytherins, whilst the rest, excluding Ben, Blaise and Draco, were staring at him in disgust. These were mainly the children of Death Eaters, and they obviously agreed with their parents views.

The rest Dumbledore's speech was pretty much ignored, as people were staring at Tom in fascination and sock. Whoever would have thought of a Dark Lord, or previous Dark Lord, depending who was thinking this, teaching Defence against it? (A/N: And I mean besides you reviewers.)

Soon enough everyone was off to bed, the fifth year prefects of each house leading the first years to their new common rooms. The older students got there a lot faster, and went straight to their dorms after saying the password ('Declaro-Are') in order to avoid Snape's start-of-year speech to first years.

As Ben arrived in their dorm alongside Blaise and Draco, he saw that the Slytherin girls in their year were also there.

"You three are traitors to the dark cause!" snarled Pansy Parkinson.

"And you don't even look like Ben Hunt!" growled Mark Nott at Ben.

"You three shouldn't have betrayed the new Dark Lord," snarled  Millicent Bulstrode.

"First off, we didn't betray him, as we had no trust or anything to betray in the first place!" growled Blaise to Millicent.

"Also, we aren't traitors, as we didn't betray anyone, unlike you lot!" snarled Draco at Pansy.

"The reason I don't look like how I did at the end of the last year is because of an illusion charm that my Father placed on me has begun to wear off!" said Ben angrily to Mark.

Ben, Blaise and Draco then walked off to the other side of the dorm, leaving the other Slytherins behind, all of whom were angry.

"EXPELLIARMUS!"

Suddenly the three of them were flying through the air, and they hit the floor. Ben's last thought before he blacked out was 'why did we turn our backs on them...?'

A/N: Arg! Another short chappie! I can't believe it! Dammit! Oh well, at least this is out before Christmas. Merry Christmas to all, even if it is a couple of days early.

Ping*pong5: She is? Lol. And a Mary-Sue, to me at least, is an important original female character, who is either perfect, or very close to perfect. There are loads of them about. And I'm one of those people who hates them, even if I may write them sometimes. I will try, but it's hard. I just stop at places that would make good cliffies (not that I do that too often) or just seem right. The first DADA will be here next chappie! And it's gonna be fun!

HAZZAGRIFF: *sticks tongue out* And I have to live 87 years? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Kill me before then!