Hey! Wow... FOUR reviews in my last chapter! I'm so lucky hehehe... Anyways, here's my next chapter. And make sure you've read my one shot "Summer of '04". 8-) - me with shades cuz im cool lol. Also, I know this will probably be more annoying 2 you, but read how the characters are like positioned. It just gives a picture in your mind :P

Chapter 19

Katie sat next to Parvati and Lavender in DADA. They couldn't stop talking about the new teacher: Professor Kingsley. Parvati and Lavender just couldn't stop gushing over how adorable he was. They didn't even care where their original DADA teacher, Professor Temaldad had gone. Professor Kingsley had deep blue eyes and hair. He really reminded Katie of what Leonardo DiCaprio had looked like in Titanic. Professor Kingsley also had a caring face with a warm smile.

"Oh my gosh! Did you two see him?" Lavender whispered.

"Yes!" Parvati moaned. "SO hot! What do you think, Katie?"

"I don't know. He looks too old for us. Besides, he's probably already married," Katie pointed out. The girls completely ignored this fact.

"But look at his eyes! And his hair!" Parvati admired.

"I'll bet he has a fab body underneath those robes!" Lavender cooed.

"Mmh… Muscular arms…I can just see it…" Parvati's voice trailed off.

Behind the girls, Ron, Zack and Harry were listening in. Ron leaned back in his chair, putting his hands behind his head.

"I don't know what's so special about this guy," Ron said loudly.

"Yeah," Zack said joining in. "I bet he gets his hair bleached, anyway." Zack was sitting on his desk, with his feet on his chair.

Harry was sitting in his chair backwards, his arms resting on the back of the chair. "Yeah, especially when there are three better looking guys in the room," Harry said just as loud, referring to the three.

The girls turned around and giggled. Then Lavender and Parvati went back to gushing over Professor Kingston, while Katie laughed over their "mini-argument" on who the DADA teacher would deserve more.

"He'll probably like me better! I got better in DADA than you did!" Lavender pointed out.

"By what, like 2 percent?" Parvati asked. "Besides, maybe he's not your type." Parvati flipped her brown wavy hair.

Katie broke into the conversation before it turned into a cat fight. "Come on guys! Shut up! He'll probably start class like in three seconds!"

Just as Katie predicted, Professor Kingsley clapped his hands to get everybody's attention. Zack, Harry and Ron immediately sat properly in their chairs.

"Alright, listen up! Welcome to second term of Defense Against the Dark Arts. I'm Kingsely Shacklebolt the fifth. I'm replacing dear Professor Temaldad because she has a bad case of some kind of warts on her... Well, no need to tell you anything else." Professor Kingsely grinned. "I have been informed that I will have five new students joining my classes. My dear old Uncle Kingsley was actually the one who told me about our new students. Please stand if you are new." Freddy, Zack and Katie shyly stood up. Summer stood up proudly, beaming. Professor Kingsley smiled warmly, which made Parvati and Lavender sighed. "You four are lucky that we'll be learning a whole different unit. Unforgivable Curses."

"Professor!" Hermione called, her hand waving in the air. "Please, we have learned this unit already."

Professor Kingsley frowned. "Really? But…"

"Professor Moody taught us this in our fourth year,' Hermione explained.

"Well is that's the case…" Professor Kingsley threw away a book he was holding in his hands. "What do you all want to learn?" The class was stunned by such a question. "Nobody? Alright then…" Professor Kingsley glanced at the class attendance list. "Mr…Mooneyham?"

"Sup?" Zack asked. The class giggled.

"No, what do you want to learn in Defence Against the Dark Arts?" Professor Kingsley repeated.

"I don't know… get rid of… bad guys?" Zack guessed. The class giggled again.

"Settle down!" Professor Kingsley ordered. "Alright, Mr. Mooneyham. What kind of bad guys?"

"Erm… maybe not a guy. Maybe a creature thing or something." Zack got embarrassed. It was as if he didn't know what he was saying. The thing was he didn't know enough "magic" or "creatures".

Professor Kingsley looked thoughtful. "Hmm… Well, I can make a unit on… yes, that's what I'll do…" Professor Kingsley rushed to his desk and furtively began scribbling something on parchment.

"What the hell do we do, watch him?" Freddy whispered loudly.

Professor Kingsley looked up from his parchment, confused. Then his eyes were focused. "Right, you all can just sit and chat wherever in this classroom until the lesson ends." The class could not refuse such a wonderful offer, so they did as the teacher ordered. Summer and Hermione were doing their homework on opposite sides of the room, and Parvati and Lavender were busy with "secret stuff" which turned out to be secret admirer letters for Professor Kingsley.

Zack noticed that Katie's other friends were preoccupied. "Guess you're stuck with us," he said.

"Hey, I'm not complaining," Katie teased. Ron, Harry and Zack were back to their original seating positions: Harry sitting backwards on the chair, Zack sitting on the table with his feet on the chair, and Ron leaning on back on his chair with his hands behind his head. Katie sat beside Zack on the desk, with her legs crossed and her hands behind her.

"We should have more lessons like these," Seamus commented, joining the group.

"I totally second that," Katie agreed. "School here is so hard!"

"We get way too much homework here," Harry complained.

"Oh, changing the subject. But yeah, guess what happened last night," Zack said. "These Slytherin 6th years came up to me and Freddy yesterday. Freddy's twin was there, too."

"He is NOT my twin!" Freddy replied bitterly.

"Okay, whatever," Zack said, rolling his eyes. "Anyway, they were like 'our girlfriends broke up with us because of you "pretty boys."' We were like laughing in their faces, because according to them we're "arrogant", whatever that means." The group chuckled; except for Zack because he was actually serious. He continued. "Anyway, they said for us to be 'non cool' so they could get their girl friends back! The thing was that they were serious!" At this point, Zack joined the laughing group. "Yeah, so the moral of the story: Slytherins are stupid," Zack finished off.

The DADA lesson went by way too quickly for everybody's liking. They all groaned as they packed up for their next lesson except for Zack, Freddy, Katie and Summer. It was the lesson they were most anxious for.

"So what's our next lesson?" Seamus asked with a yawn.

"Muggle Music Studies," Freddy, Zack and Katie responded at the same time. They chuckled.

"Wow! Somebody other than Hermione is actually excited for a lesson!" Ron exclaimed, slapping his cheek.

Hermione narrowed her eyes at Ron. "Ron, I hate you! I didn't do anything to you!" Hermione walked off.

"God... guess what time of the month is it for HER? The little…" Ron called Hermione all the names he could think of under his breath.

"What's up with Hermione and Ron?" Katie asked. "I noticed that when he said Marta and Alicia were cute, she like glowered at him!"

Harry let the group pass them. Then he and Katie walked slowly behind the group.

"Okay, well every summer, Hermione and I are invited to go to Ron's house. The summer before last, it was kind of obvious that Ron and Hermione had a crush on each other. Then this summer that passed, while at his house, Ron asked Hermione out. They were dating until, erm, the middle of October or something like that."

"What happened?" Katie asked.

"Well, they started having some kind of argument about how Ron should stop teasing Hermione. It turned out it was some huge fight and Ron broke up with Hermione. They talked about their argument, agreed to disagree and decided to be friends again, even though it doesn't seem like it sometimes."

"Hermione keeps getting into fights with people," Katie noticed. "Especially with Summer. Those two keep going at it though. Their catfight started as soon as Summer sat down at the Gryffindor table."

"Wow. It's really that bad, huh?" Harry asked. "Hermione's in fights with everyone! Maybe she has social problems." He grinned.

"Harry! That is so mean!" Katie exclaimed, trying to hide a grin that Harry caught. "Besides, she got along pretty well with my friends in Herbology."

"I don't know then. I guess Hermione can't accept the fact that she's not the only smart person in Hogwarts," Harry stated.

Katie couldn't respond to Harry's statement. She considered Hermione as her friend and she didn't want to think of Hermione as "a person who thinks she's the smartest person in Hogwarts." Then again, Summer had been Katie's friend longer. Katie knew Summer to be really kind, well, when she was in a good mood.

"If I were you, I would just avoid the catfight," Harry advised, reading Katie's mind. "That way, you won't lose either of your friends."

"I know, but I can't ignore it," Katie pointed out. She sighed in frustration. "Yea right like I'm going to let them bitch at each other 24/7. I'm not trying to stop it juust because of them. For MY insanity, too!"

"Cheer up! You've obviously already forgotten what the next lesson is going to be," Harry said with a smile.

Katie thought for a moment, and then once again remembered her next lesson was Muggle Music Studies with Dewey!

"All right!" Katie exclaimed. "So where is this class going to be held?"

Harry looked at his timetable. "It changed classrooms. This term it's on the second floor."

"Harry. Class starts in 5 minutes. We're on the seventh floor. We're not going to get there on time. I so don't want to be late for my first class with Dewey. What are we going to do?" Katie DIDN'T want to miss Dewey's big lesson!

"Run fast?" Harry answered sheepishly.

Ha... how friggin cheesy. But this chapter was written out a couple months ago so whatever lol. REVIEW PLEASE :)