Chapter 6:Protective Meeting
" That was one of the weirdest presentations I've ever been to!" Hermione said after the presentation let out and everyone was heading back to class.
"Your telling me that you didn't enjoy that!" Ron looked over at Hermione gaping at her.
" I enjoyed it and learned alot of stuff that I didn't know, it's just in one presentation we met demons,vampires, Watchers, Slayers, and a miracle child. Most of these things we're taught to be afraid of or be careful around and yet they don't look dangerous or harmful at all. Yes that OZ guy might be dangerous depending on the moon or not but other than that he's just as harmless as Professor Lupin." Hermione retorted to Ron.
" I enjoyed it. I loved when that Wesley Wyhdam-Pryce guy made Malfoy look like an idiot, then called his defeat for him. Mr. Wyhdam-Pryce has to be brave to call Malfoy out, actually I was suprised Malfoy didn't do something to him." Harry started laughing remembering Malfoys face all screwed up and him getting agitated over who the vampires were.
" Well Potty I'm not a total git! I know better than to attack people in front of teachers and parents! I could of taken the Slayers though!" Draco snapped and walked with Crabbe and Goyle to his next class.
Draco looked over at Crabbe and Goyle "Hogwarts is going to the dogs. Just wait until my father hears about this presentation! I wouldn't get suprised if Dumbledore was sacked immediately especially for letting muggles roam the castle, and I thought mud-bloods allowed here was bad." Draco stompped off.
"What a complete git. Him being able to take on the Slayers that's a load of bollocks!" Hermione Ron and Harry headed off to Transfiguration. The presentation took up most of the Muggle studies class time.
"Please Settle down class" Professor McGonagall walked up to the front of her class room. "Today we are going to learn how to turn turtles into Keys. Will someone please help pass out the turtles while I write the instructions on the board."
Pavarti Patil got up and passed out the turtles while McGonagall started to write. When the turtles were all passed out and McGonagall explained everything Hermione raised her hand.
"Yes miss Granger." McGonagall looked up from grading last nights homework assigment.
" I was wondering how most of the people could see Hogwarts. There are spells on it to keep muggles from seeing the place but it seemed to me that a couple people at that presentation were muggles and had no magical powers." Hermione was right the two people from Angel's group Fred, and Gunn. They were both muggles and didn't seem like they were witches or wizards so how could they see Hogwarts.
" Miss Granger, do you honestly think that Dumbledore would invite people to the castle without making sure they could see it first." McGonagall looked Hermione in the eyes and then went back to grading the papers.
After Transfiguration Harry, Ron and Hermione started back to the Gryffindor common room when they were pulled aside by Filch the Hogwarts care taker.
" Professor Dumbledore wants to see you." Filch hissed menacingly. All three of them knew not to take Filch's tone seriously he was constantly talking like that no matter if you were in trouble or not, he just liked to see kids squirm.
When they finally reached Dumbledore's office Filch left them to climb the staircase. Once inside all three of them looked around. There sitting down in the middle of the room were both Angel and Buffy. Dumbledore got up and walked over to them. " Please sit down we wanted to discuss a few things with you three and then you can head back to class."
Dumbledore drew up three more chairs by his desk, and offered them to Harry, Ron and Hermione. Once everyone was seated Dumbledore started to speak. " As the three of you are well aware trouble tends to find you even in the safest of places. We have called you to this meeting because the new student at school will desperately need your help. Not only is she new to this school and will need help finding her way around, but she will also be in need of some friends, but as recent events have happened in the following years the Slayer would also make a great follower to Voldemort." Dumbledore looked straight at Harry when he said this.
"From what I understand Voldemort or his followers aren't people we want associated with our Slayer. Anything you can do to keep her away from people who might try to persuade her to get a.....erm... what are those things?" Buffy looked over at Angel.
" A dark mark" Angel said casually as if it was no big thing.
"Right a dark mark would be of much help. From what Professor Dumbledore has told us you three have faced Voldemort more than once and know who his followers are. If you could keep an eye out for her that would be great." Buffy looked at Harry with a plea in her eyes.
She really didn't want Voldemort to get his hands on the Slayer. She knew that Slayers were strong and could be powerful weapons in war. All she had to do was look at what Faith had done and Faith wasn't even in a war when she did it.
" We promise to keep an eye out for danger and come straight to professor Dumbledore or one of you if we suspect that something is up. Don't worry I understand what could come if Voldemort- oh honestly Ron stop- got his hands on the Slayer. I'll also help her get caught up with her classes and such." Hermione got up and shook hands with Buffy and Angel.
She had gotten the weirdest feeling since she set foot in Dumbledores office that something big and terrible must have happened between Angel and Buffy. He was constantly looking at her when he thought no one was looking. There was also alot of tension between them she didn't have to see it, it was felt by everyone in the room.
"You three may go, but please don't mention this meeting to anyone." Dumbledore stood up, walked over to the door and opened it.
Hermione got halfway to Gryffindor common room when she remembered that neither Dumbledore nor the others told them who the Slayer happened to be.
"Harry, Ron did you happen to hear the name of the student we're suppose to help?" Hermione gave them this look of frustration. "How are we suppose to help someone get aquainted with the school when we were never introduced to her?"
" Your right Hermione no one told us who she was, maybe they are going to introduce us to her when the time is right. Then again this is Hogwarts whatever secret you have no matter how small, by the time you label it a secret the whole school knows. There has got to be students who go here that know who she is already right?" Ron stopped walking towards the common room, and now headed a different directon.
"Where are we going?" Hermione looked over at Harry hoping that Ron didn't just lose all his marbles.
"To the library." Ron started to run down the corridors and up the stairs now hoping that he wouldn't be caught by Filch.
"You must of lost it, you wanna go to the library!?" Hermione was now looking at Ron like he had gone insane.
"Look Hermione I thought you were smart! Every 5th and 7th year student who wants to get ahead start on their studying for O.W.Ls or N.E.W.Ts is going to be in that library, and what goes on in the library when people get tired of studying the same thing over and over again?" Ron looked down the corridor to see how much farther they had to go.
" Ron that's genius, when people get tired of studying they start to talk about stuff that goes on around Hogwarts, whose likely to have a break down, whose going out with who and who has the biggest secret. Obviously the student with the biggest secret would be the Slayer." Hermione looked over at Ron in suprise, she didn't know he had it in him to figure that one out on his own. How could it have slipped her mind?