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Chapter 3- The Prefect's Meeting
Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Malfoy walked into the prefect's compartment. All the prefects looked up, and when they noticed Harry, they looked at each other, and then back at Harry. Harry, noticing that Ron, Hermione, and Malfoy sat down, followed their lead, and sat down next to Hermione. While they waited for the head girl and the head boy to arrive, they started talking about what they did over the summer holiday and what they got on their O.W.L.'s. The head boy and girl and finally arrived and took a seat.
"I'm sure all of you are wondering why Harry is here," said Cho Chang. (A/N: I don't know what year she really is, so I'm making her a 7th year).
The prefects, with the exception of Malfoy, nodded in agreement.
"Well, Hogwarts seems to have a problem with the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts, right?" asked Roger Davies (A/N: Same thing as Cho).
The prefects, and Harry, looked at each other, and smiled, some of them remembering their D.A. meetings.
"There's a new Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher," said Roger.
"It's not Harry, but he is involved with it," added Cho, before anyone could ask why Harry was there.
"The reason why Harry is here is because he's helping Fred Weasley teach the class," Roger replied.
Everyone looked at each other, and started laughing at the thought of Fred Weasley teaching them to defend themselves against dark arts. Hermione thought about it for a moment, and then asked a question.
"How come you knew about it Draco?" she asked quietly.
Everyone, including Cho, Harry, and Roger, stopped laughing and turned towards Malfoy, waiting for an answer.
"I'm also going to help teach the class. Professor Dumbledore knows I don't get along with Harry, so apparently he thought that Harry and I could hex each other for instructional purposes," he answered.
The door opened, and everyone looked up to see Fred Weasley.
"Hullo everyone," he said.
"Hi," they said back.
Fred, noticing that Ron wanted to say something, asked, "Ron, what is it?"
Everyone then turned to look at Ron.
"Well, since I'm your brother, what am I supposed to call you?" he asked.
Fred pondered the question, hesitated, and then finally decided on an answer.
"Since I want a certain degree of authority, but also a certain degree of informality, I want everyone, and I mean everyone," he said, stopping to look at Hermione before continuing, "to call me Professor Fred. Okay?"
Everyone said, "Okay Professor Fred."
"Why are you really in here Professor Fred?" asked Hermione.
"Well, Hermione, Percy, the new History of Magic professor, sent me in here to find out why you all were laughing," he said.
Everyone looked at each other, then at Fred, and then back at each other before they all started laughing again.
Hermione was the first one to regain her composure, so she told Fred, "The reason why we're laughing is the idea that you are teaching us how to defend ourselves against the dark arts." Noticing that Fred looked confused, she added "Well, you were always such a practical joker at Hogwarts,so the idea of you teaching us to defend ourselves against the dark arts is a really weird idea for all of us to accept. If you had to teach anything, I always thought it would be charms or transfiguration. Maybe potions."
"Thanks Hermione," he told her.
Hermione and Fred looked at the group, who were still laughing at the idea that Fred was the new D.A.D.A. teacher.
"Okay, everyone will be please be quiet before Percy comes in here yelling at me because you all are laughing, all right?" Fred asked.
"Will all of you please be quiet?" shouted Hermione.
Everyone stopped, and looked at her like she had gone completely nutters.
"Thank you Hermione," Fred said politely.
"You're welcome Fred," she told him primly.
"Why did you decide to be the new D.A.D.A. teacher?" asked Ernie Macmillan.
"Because it sounded more interesting than teaching History of Magic, and because I decided to do some marketing research," he answered. Noting that everyone looked confused (again), he added, "I mean, what better place to get feedback on products than Hogwarts?"
Fred looked out the window, and told everyone, "I think we're going to be at Hogwarts in about an hour."
Cho looked at Fred and then Roger. "I think this meeting is pretty much over. Everyone knows their prefect duties, and Harry and Malfoy know their assistant teaching duties, so everyone is free to leave."
Everyone got up and left except for Cho and Roger, who stayed in the prefect's compartment. They went back to their respective compartments, at various places throughout the train. Fred walked Hermione, Ron, and Harry back to their compartment in the back of the train.