Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

By: Krystal Lily Potter

Chapter Nine: Professor Evelyn

Rating: PG-13 (More on the AA side)

Couples: HP/HG, DT/GW, DT/LB, PP/SF, LL/NL, LB/RW, LL/RW…and more!



Summary: As Harry and his friends enter their sixth year at Hogwarts they don't enter the cheerful world they left behind. They enter a world covered in a thick blanket of fear. It only hits Harry now how important he really is when people start seeing him as the light that allows them to see under this blanket. Along with his friends he must battle the horrors of the past, present, and possibly the future to begin the end of the war, hopefully before it hits Hogwarts. What happens when some of his friends, including one of the 'trio' disappear while under the protection of Dumbledore himself? It's up to the last two, plus some more friends, to find a way to fight this war, on their own...

Warning: There are dark themes in this and many mentions of things that if described too much could make this rated R. There's swearing, mentions of suicide, murder and gore/bloody scenes, mentions of rape and other dark things like that. But most of it aside from the battle (murder/gore) scenes will not be graphic...just mentioned.

Author's Note

Hey! I'm back again!

Wanna know what I found out that's weird? JK Rowling might have known it (she probably did) but she might not have when she was naming characters. Anyways I saw the meaning to this name on one site and I thought it was odd so I checked a few others and they're all the name.

The name Diggory (as in Cedric Diggory) means 'the lost one'.

Weird eh? He died in the story so technically they lost him.

I'd just thought I'd say that. Why? Because I'm bored. B-O-R-E-D! Oh and if your wondering why I always seem to find information on names and things like that its because I'm attempting to write my own stories so I look up names and their meanings.

Well I guess I should start writing this chapter, right?

On we go…

The next morning everything inside the dormitory of the sixth year male Gryffindors was silent. Until Harry's magic powered alarm clock went off.

"Cripes Harry," Seamus growled from across the room. "Turn that thing off."

Harry smacked it hard then threw it at Seamus' bed. The Irish boy jumped with surprise as the metal item hit his stomach.

"What was that for?" he growled.

"We've gotta get up for class," Harry said and started digging around for his school robes. Dean and Neville slowly woke up and started getting ready without complaint but Seamus was muttering about a sore stomach, a stupid alarm clock, and stupid friends.

Harry finally found his cloths then went into the bathroom that was attached to their dorms and took his shower first. He sometimes wondered why the other guys took so long in there sometimes but he then had second thoughts about that.

After getting dressed, grabbing his bag of books, Harry went downstairs where he saw an impatient looking Hermione pacing close to the staircase to the boy's dorms

"Finally!" she said and threw her bag over her shoulder. "Come on, we'll be late!"

"Hermione, its 7:00! Classes start at 8:00!" Harry said and moved his bag into a more comfortable position on his shoulder.

"So, this is different from last year! We have to go to Professor Dumbledore's office to get our schedules because they're so personalized! Now let's go so we don't have to wait in a huge line!" she grabbed his arm and started dragging him out the portrait passage.

"Do you even know where Dumbledore's office is Ms. Perfect Prefect?" Harry asked her.

Hermione stopped pulling him and had a startled look on her face. Even though she was a prefect she had never been to Dumbledore's office, nor did she know where it was. She never had a reason to go there before. As a prefect everyone listened to her and she never got in trouble…well ok she did but it was Harry that always ended up there.

Harry laughed and said, "Maybe we should wait for the others, most of them probably won't know where to go either."

Hermione's eyes widened and she then got a stern look on her face.

"What did I do now?" Harry asked.

"Where's your Prefect badge?" she asked him.

"Oh yeah," Harry said and reached into his pocket and pinned it on his robes. "Happy?"

"Very much," she replied.

Suddenly Lavender walked down and stared at them. Her eyes had a sad yet angered look to them.

"Are you ok Lav?" Hermione asked. "It's just…" she trailed off. "I'm really, really, REALLY sorry about not believing you last year when you said Voldemort came back. I never said anything yesterday because I knew too much was going on but-"

"Lav," Harry said. "You're rambling. It's ok; you showed you believed me by being in the DA last year, the same with Seamus. Hermione told me you thought I was a nut case last year."

"Oh," she said and blinked lightly.

"But you still came to our DA meeting," Hermione finished for her friend. "OK, so we're officially cool?" she asked.

Harry suddenly had a suspicious look on his face and he said, "Yeah. Now Ms. Brown, would you mind explaining to us why you're being super friendly all of a sudden?"

"Well you see…I know Ron's gone…for now…and…" she trailed off again, her cheeks flushing pink.

"Ahh, I see…" Harry said knowingly.

"So do I. Apparently little Miss Lavender here is quite taken with out little Ronald Weasley," Hermione said with a nod.

"And she wants to be one of the first ones to hear the information about him," Harry finished.

Lavender was still flushed and she said, "Better me then Luna Lovegood."

Harry was about to question what she meant when Parvati and the rest of the guys showed up.

"Anyone know the way to Dumbledore's office?" Dean asked.

"Yeah," Harry said. "That's why we were waiting for you."

"Alright then," Parvati said crisply, "Let's get going."

They all walked up towards Dumbledore's office and when they finally got to the gargoyle Harry suddenly made a face when he saw the amount of sixth years around it.

"What's going on?" Seamus asked Susan Bones.

"Apparently no one bothered to figure out Dumbledore's password and no one knows what it could be," Susan replied.

"Oh joy to the world," Dean said dryly.

"Hey Potter," a cold voice called out and everyone faced none other than Draco Malfoy. "Since you're Dumbledore's obvious favorite you should know the password."

"No I don't, Malfoy," Harry said in an icy tone, one that gave everyone around him, including Malfoy, the shivers. "But I can probably guess it."

"Well give it a shot," said a brown haired Hufflepuff named Daphne Greengrass.

Harry moved in front of the gargoyle and said, "Er…Cockroach Cluster?" No movement from the gargoyle. "Lemon Drops…no…Ginger Newts? Hmm…Canary Creams? Fainting Fantacies? Skittles? M&Ms? Mars Bars? Oh come on you stupid gargoyle! You're more stubborn then Voldemort!" He kicked the stone just as it sprang to life and jumped to the side.

"Er…what was the password?" one student called out.

Harry raised an eyebrow and said, "Voldemort." Almost everyone flinched. "That's the password…Voldemort."

"Well that's smart," Hermione commented. "Now anyone who wants to talk to Dumbledore has to say that name."

Harry nodded and stepped on the revolving steps that moved up to Dumbledore's office. After a few minutes of moving upward on the spiraling, moving staircase, and a few complaints that they were going to be sick, it finally stopped as the first student, Harry, walked up and knocked on the door.

"Enter," Dumbledore's old voice called out and Harry pushed the door open and walked in.

"Ahh Harry. Yes I assumed that you'd be the one to guess the password. Quite brilliant, was it not?" Dumbledore asked Harry.

"Sure Professor," Harry said with a shrug and then he said, "Can I have my schedule?"

"Of course," Dumbledore said and conjured Harry's timetable up. "Have a good year Harry, and keep the sorting hat's song in your mind this year when facing the challenges you do every year."

Harry gave Dumbledore an odd look and looked back at the long line of sixth years blocking the door. "Er…" "Take that door Harry," Dumbledore said and another door appeared out of nowhere.

Harry gave Dumbledore an odd look then said to Hermione, "I'll wait for you…wherever this door goes." With that he opened it and walked down the staircase beyond it.

Much to Harry's surprise he seemed to go down 20 steps and there was a door. He pushed it open and there was the Great Hall.

Like he promised he waited for Hermione as he studied his classes for this year.

A minute later the brunette in question came out of the door and looked around curiously. "Interesting. Now come on, we need to eat and get to class as fast as possible!"

"Aye eye captain," Harry said and saluted her as they sat at the Gryffindor table.

"Spreaking of Captain," Katie Bell's voice rang out from behind Harry, who turned and faced her.

"Hey Katie," Harry said to her.

She nodded at him then said, "I've been made Quidditch captain this year and I intend on being as good as Oliver and Angelina." "I'm sure you will Katie," Hermione said.

The older girl smiled happily then said seriously, "What's your first class Harry?"

He looked down at his class list and said, "NEWTs Defense Against the Dark Arts."

"Alright…well do not get that teacher pissed like you did with Umbridge last year," the seventh year warned. "Kirk and Sloper decided they didn't have…enough time…to be beaters this year, and Ron and Ginny are…well…you know…so it's just you an me this year. Yes I asked McGonagall, you're back on the team. So no getting detention, got it?"

"Yes Ma'am," Harry said as she walked away. As he ate a piece of his sausage he muttered, "Why is every girl bossing me around today?"

"Because you're too charming not to listen to a girl so we take advantage of you," Hermione said simply.

Harry shot her a glare then smirked and said, "That's sounds wrong on so many levels."

"Harry!" Hermione yelled and kicked him.

"What? I'm only human!" Harry replied.

Hermione made a face at him and finished eating her piece of toast. "Come on, or we're going to be late!"

"Alright already," Harry said with a sigh and shoveled all his food into his mouth and headed to their first ever class with Professor Evelyn.

"Hello class," a cheery voice said as Professor Evelyn walked into the classroom. It wasn't a fake cheerful voice or a sickly one like those that Professor Umbridge had used last year but an honest, excited one.

She looked around the classroom curiously then glanced down at her class list. "Well it seems to me that you're all a highly advanced group. Although…"

Her eyes looked around the classroom and landed on Harry then looked back at her list. "So…this class has the famous Harry Potter in it."

Harry's cheek's flushed pink and everyone stared at him for a minute.

She laughed a little at that then said, "No Mr. Potter I am not about to give you any crap like Snape does just because your famous. No I just wanted to compliment you on your Defense mark…it's the highest one on record since Albus Dumbledore himself."

There was muttering around the room and everyone once again face him. Harry was slightly surprised at that information but he was surprised at something else it meant. "I beat Hermione in this class?"

"Hermione? Ms. Granger?" Evelyn said looking down the list. "Yes you did."

Hermione shot Harry a playful angry look and punched him on the shoulder good naturedly, making a few people, including the teacher, laugh.

"Yes, yes…so I take it that means Ms. Granger is the brains of the operation?" Evelyn asked. "Yup," a few people said. "Good. Now anyways on to todays class…wands away." Evelyn smirked as everyone groaned and put it away and started getting out their ink, parchment and quills. "Don't worry; this is just for a few notes today. If you don't have these notes you could get really hurt with what I'm teaching you. Yes most of my classes will be practical in more ways then one after this. Promise."

That cheered everyone up greatly and they got ready to copy down the notes.

"Right…now first thing's first. I'm writing down what I plan on doing with you all this year. So shut up and write it down. Ask questions later."

Everyone laughed but wrote down the list that appeared on the bored in silence.

Unit One – Dark and Light Creatures

Unit Two – Curses and Counter-Curses

Unit Three – Uses of Charms, Transfiguration and Potions in Defense

Unit Four – Dueling

"Yes I know, there's only four units, each will be exactly one term long," Professor Evelyn said.

"A term long?" Ebony Moon asked. She and Blaise Zabini were the only Slytherins in that particular class.

"Oh right, you're system works different from the system in Canada," she said. "Which is where I'm from if anybody's wondering about my accent. You see there the school year is divided into two semesters and each semester is divided into two terms. So I'm still used to using that type of school system."

She walked through the classroom with her class list then said, "Padma Patil?"

"Yes?" said the Ravenclaw Patil.

"What does the first unit say?"

"Dark and Light Creatures," Padma said without missing a beat. "Right. Now I'm going to write a list of the creature's we'll be looking at. Copy it down. After that we will get people's opinions on all of these creatures," Evelyn said excitedly. "Yes I know you did certain things with Professor Lupin in your third year but there is so much more then just what he had a chance to show you. The reason we're doing both Dark and Light is because you need to know the difference. Also most of these creatures Hagrid won't have for Care of Magical creatures…it'd just be too dangerous." Everyone was excited to hear what she had to say. Harry, who had, surprisingly, done extra work on dark and light creatures in his third year for Lupin, knew about many of the creatures in that list, especially the first one.

Basilisk

Cerberus

Cyclops

Demons

Devil

Dragons

Elves

Fairies

Ghosts

Ghouls

Goblins

Griffins

Grim Reaper

Harpies

Hydra

Kraken

Minotaur

Mummies

Pegasus

Phoenix

Sirens

Skeletons

Sphinx

Titans

Trolls

Unicorns

Vampires

Werewolves

Zombies

"Excuse me professor," Hermione said and raised her hand.

"Yes Ms. Granger?"

"We already did Unicorns with Hagrid and I know he can easily get a few of the other animals too," Hermione explained.

"Yes I know," Evelyn said with a mysterious smirk. "But I know what you're doing with Hagrid this year at it has nothing to do with any of those things, I can tell you that. I mean where's he gonna get an elf, or a demon or…a devil?" There was some exited murmmering in the classroom. "Now," Evelyn said. "Has anyone came in contact with any of these creatures?"

Harry's hand automatically went up along with a few other people.

"Mr. Potter? I'm sure you have some interesting stories to tell," Professor Evelyn said.

"Do I ever," Harry thought dully but said, "In my second year here I killed a basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets."

"So I've heard," she said. "Anything else?"

"Yeah…in my first and fourth year I came in contact with Dragons. Everyone here sees ghosts everyday. My friend had…has a ghoul in his attic. The Goblins run Gringotts. My friends saw mummies in Egypt. Hermione, Ron (he hesitated for a minute) and I faced a troll in our first year. I met a sphinx in the maze when I was in the tournament in fourth year, everyone met unicorns in Care of Magical creatures. I always see Professor Dumbledore's phoenix and…one of my mentors was a werewolf."

"Quite a list there," Evelyn said, impressed. "Anyone else?"

"I saw a Pegasus before," Hermione said, catching even Harry by surprise.

"I saw a vampire," someone else said.

The class pretty much went on like this. People mentioned other creatures they had seen that weren't on the list.

When the bell rang people left the class with high opinions on the class.

"It was very enjoyable," Hermione admitted. "I can't wait to learn about all those creatures."

"What class do you have next?" Harry asked.

Hermione looked down her list and said, "Transfiguration…a double period at that."

"So do I," Harry said. "What classes are you taking?" Hermione said suspiciously. "We had to at least have six of them."

"Defense, Transfiguration, Potions, Charms, Ancient Ruins, Healing, Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Magical History and Herbology," Harry said.

"Wow, nine classes, I'm impressed you decided to take so many," Hermione said.

"Yeah, well I figured I should start doing some things that are really worth while," Harry said. "What classes are you taking?"

"Defense, Transfiguration, Potions, Charms, Ancient Ruins, Arithmancy, Healing, Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Magical History and Herbology…all the same classes as you but with one extra," Hermione noted.

"Thank god," Harry said with a wide smile. "I thought I had to do it all alone!"

Hermione laughed then said, "Why did you decide to take Ancient Magical History? You hated History of Magic."

"One, this class is taught by a different teacher, two, this includes the founders and the biggest wars in history, you never know what can come in handy," Harry said simply.

"Glad to see your learning," Hermione said as they walked into Professor McGonagall's classroom.

The Head of Gryffindor nodded at them as they took seats in the middle of the classroom. Hermione got out her books and sat at attention, barely blinking as the bell rang.

Harry listened to Professor McGonagall's warnings that the class would be difficult and listened as she said in order to be protected in the war she would be attempting to make as many of them Animagi as possible.

Harry remembered his discussion about Animagi with Tonks and noticed Professor McGonagall skipped an important part without realizing it.

His hand shot into the hair so quickly that it startled some of the people around him.

"Yes Mr. Potter?" McGonagall said.

"Professor, in the process of becoming an Animagus, you forgot one part. Don't you have to identify every little detail of the animal you'll turn into? Meaning you should know what it is before hand?"

The transfiguration Professor looked startled and she said, "Your right Potter, that's the most important part, I can't believe I forgot that. Five points to Gryffindor."

"So we're going to see what animal we'll be?" a Ravenclaw named Lisa Turpin asked.

"Yes. In fact that's what I was planning on doing with you today. Now before I start the spells does anyone know it?"

Hermione raised her hand then said, "Anima Revelto."

"Correct, five points to Gryffindor," McGonagall said. "Does anybody know what this particular charm does?"

Harry's hand shot up along with Hermione's. McGonagall looked at Harry with a little surprise and said, "Mr. Potter?"

"It'll show you your inner animal or animals. It shows both what your Patronus and your Animagus form would be. Most wizards and witches only have one inner animal but a few have two or three of them. The only person ever known with more then three forms was Merlin who could change into whatever he wanted to be," Harry said.

McGonagall looked a little stunned then said, "10 points to Gryffindor…"

"I'd day that was an excellent class," Harry said to Hermione as the bell rang and they started packing their stuff.

"I'll say," Hermione said with a smile. "For once you got more points in this class then I did."

Harry chuckled and said, "Thank god for Tonks eh?"

"Oh yeah," Hermione said.

"Potter, I would like to have a word with you before you go to lunch," McGonagall called out to him.

"I'll save you a seat," Hermione said and walked out of the classroom, although Harry caught the curious look on her face as she looked back at McGonagall then shut the door behind her, being the last person to leave.

"Now Harry, remember last year how I constantly got bad comments about you from Professor Umbridge? Well I have gotten a note from Professor Evelyn already too," McGonagall said. Harry got a shocked look on his face and he said, "But I didn't do anything wrong Professor."

"I wouldn't think any other way after reading this," the old woman said and much to the young boy's surprise she gave him one of her rare smiles. "Remember last year how I told you it would take a lot of work to become an Auror?"

"Yes," Harry said.

"Well I have come to the conclusion that you were, and are serious about that Mr. Potter. Already from watching you work over the summer and your two classes today, I believe I should be expecting great things from you this year. If possible, I believe I should be expecting you to be at Hermione Granger's level, or close to it," she noted.

Harry flushed then said, "I'll try my best Professor."

"I ask nothing more of you Potter," she said. "And between you and me don't let Professor Snape get to you this year. He wasn't thrilled to see that you were in his class."

Harry looked at his times table and sighed then said, "I'll keep that in mind Professor, I have him later lunch."

She shook her head and said, "Good luck Potter. I trust you'll be able to keep up with everything this year."

"I hope so too Professor," Harry said and ran out of the classroom.

He had only realized it now but he was taking on a LOT this year…he would have mountains of homework as well as Quidditch and Prefect's work. Then there was the DA and of course he was planning on studying extra hard.

"Wow," Harry thought. "No wonder Dumbledore gave me the time turner. I might be some kind of hero to some people but I am not superman…what was I thinking…signing up for all those classes."

He knew Hermione was proud of him for doing taking all the classes though so he refused to drop any and he knew Katie was depending on him to help her on the Quidditch team, he also knew Hermione counted on him being a Prefect with her too…

"What is it with girls depending on me?" he muttered with amusement as he continued walking down the hall.

Harry and Hermione stood together with Padma Patil, Susan Bones, Ernie Macmillan, Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein and Morag MacDougal. The rest of the class consisted of Draco Malfoy, Theodore Nott, Ebony Moon, Blaise Zabini and Millicent Bulstrode. A grand total of 11 students.

Professor Snape suddenly stormed down the hallway and stared at his students, his eyes landing on Harry with a dark sneer.

"Well, go in," Snape growled as he opened the door and all the students scuttled in. Harry sat down between Hermione and Ernie.

"You must be the best of the best to be in my class right now," his eyes narrowing at Harry. "Either that or you have a strong hold on high authorities."

Malfoy sniggered and looked back at Harry.

Harry ignored him pointedly and continued staring at Professor Snape with fake interest yet real attention.

"Tell me Mr. Potter, what is the most important ingredient in a Sobering potion?" Snape asked.

Harry smirked, he thanked god that Hermione had made him read his potions book over more then once. "A hippogriff feather sir."

Snape sneered then turned away from him. Harry's smirk got wider and he heard Ernie snigger next to him.

Harry was sure this would be an interesting year…that much was for sure.

Author's Random Babbling

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