Disclaimer: Mrs. Rowling owns Harry Potter and not me…except for the spells that I made up because of my laziness.
"I wonder if Harry is here already." Hermione opened the door. "There he is!" Harry was sitting in front of the classroom, staring attentively at the front of the room.
"Hey there, Harry!" Alexis tapped Harry on the shoulders.
"What—oh, it's just you guys."
"What were you looking at—oh, is that the new DADA professor?" asked Ron, "He looks somewhat familiar, don't' you think, Hermione?"
"Of course he doesn't," Harry started, "I heard that he just move to England."
"Oh, ok," whispered Ron, still staring at the Professor.
The professor saw them come in. He was wearing a scarlet robe and near the collar, it was labeled: Professor S.S Biruk.
"Ron, Her—hem. I mean, Nr. Weasley and Miss Granger. It's nice to finally meet you."
"How do you know our name?" questioned Ron.
"Well, who doesn't? I mean, after the happenings last year, you've become famous!" The professor looked at Alexis. "And you are?"
"Alexis Lang."
"Oh. Miss Lang. Dumbledore told me about you. You're a transfer, aren't you?"
"Yes, from the Wizarding Institution."
"Wizarding Institution, eh? Well, I have a friend who teaches there. Do you by any chance know Professor Greenwich?"
"Well…" started Alexis, "I—thi—"
"But maybe you're too young," Professor Biruk added, "He retired a few year ago. Well, take a seat now students. Class is about to start."
Alexis took at seat between Harry and Hermione. Alexis was confused whether the professor knew about her true background.
"Well, Professor Biruk seems—um—nice," started Hermione.
Ron leaned towards Hermione, "Don't you mean, 'I wonder what's going to happen to him this year?"
"Ron! Don't be such a—argh! Not every year has to end the same way." Hermione scooted her chair away from Ron's.
"What? It was just a joke! I didn't mean to jinx the professor or anything!" He gave a small 'Humph' and sat at another table with Neville.
"So, um…" started Alexis, trying to change the subject, "Wha—I mean—um—when's dinner?" Alexis couldn't believe that she asked such a stupid question.
Harry gave Alexis a light 'nice try' grin. "That's one way to change the subject," he whispered to her.
Alexis smiled back but soon after, her smile faded quickly.
Harry followed Alexis stare. "Malfoy," he hissed.
"Is he always this fashionably late?" asked Alexis.
"I guess," answered Harry, "but I rather he not come at all."
"Well then, I think I scored another point for making your life a living-hell, don't I, Potter?" Malfoy couldn't help overhearing Harry's and Alexis' conversation.
"Go away, Malfoy," screeched Alexis, "Nobody wants to hear your voice more then 1 time a day. For the matter of fact, it'll be great if you don't talk at all!"
Malfoy raised his hand to say something, but then placed it down and walked away to his seat. After a while, he gave Alexis this grin that she knew for sure wasn't a good one.
Professor Biruk walked up to the front of the classroom. "Well, good afternoon students! My name is Professor Biruk. I'll be your DADA Professor this year—"Many hands jumped up, "And yes,' he continued, "I have heard about the conditions of the previous DADA professors and yes, I also have been inform that the same things might happen to me." All of the hands went down.
"Now," he continued, "Let's review things that we've learn last year. I've heard that you had your owls last year. I'm pretty sure that you lot must be really good to stay in DADA, mostly when having Umbridge as your professor.
"You know about the Umbridge lady?" asked Dean,
"Yes, I do, Mr—"
"Dean Thomas, sir."
"Mr. Thomas," explained Professor Biruk, "She and I had a lot of meeting with each other—"
"You mean, like a date?" asked Lavender.
"No," exclaimed Professor Biruk, "Oh no, it's quite the opposite." He walked around the room. "Now, enough about that lady. We need to get back to business. I'm not sure what you've learned last year. Ms Umbridge wouldn't tell—couldn't, actually." Ron and Harry grinned. "Now, I'm going to pair each of you. I'm going to pass out a piece of paper to each of you." He grabbed a pile of paper and enchants them with his wand to pass out to each student. The paper flew up and landed on each of the student's table. "I want each of you to write down a name that you don't want to be paired up with. After you are finished, please send them up to me."
Alexis knew right away the one person who she hated the most, Malfoy. She wrote his name down. She then looked at Harry. He showed her his paper. "Malfoy, the Ferret," it read. They both sent their paper to the professor. They then saw Malfoy send his piece of paper up. After a while, Hermione and Ron sent theirs. Both Alexis and Harry were wondering what name Ron and Hermione wrote on theirs.
When everyone was done, Professor Biruk took a long piece of parchment and pointed his wand to it. Soon, a list of names appeared.
"What's that?" asked Ron.
"Well, it's a—actually, does anyone want to answer Mr. Weasley's question?" Professor Biruk looked at Hermione, whose hand was really high up. "Miss Granger."
"Well, if I'm not mistaken, this is a Parleychant. It lists names in the order it was given. It is especially made for grouping people together—oh no…"
"Yes, Miss Granger, that's very good—10 points to Griffindors." The Griffindors smile at this, Hermione and Alexis, however, did not.
"Why are they smiling?" Alexis asked Harry, "Is this a good thing?"
"Very," said Harry, "Each house gets points if they do something good. In the end of the school year, who ever get the most point wins the house cup. Griffindors been winning the house cup for fives years in a row now."
"Wow," exclaimed Alexis.
Hermione placed her head between her crossed shoulders.
"What's wrong, Hermione?" asked Alexis. Hermione just shook her head.
Alexis looked up at the Professor. He was about to call the group partners.
"Ok class, I've now got your partners. It's almost time to go. I suppose there won't be anytime to actually work together. We'll do that tomorrow. Ok, here are the names. I have sorted out these names by the name that you've places and gave to me on the paper—"
"I got it," gasps Alexis, "Oh no! I'm going to be paired up with—"
"Malfoy," started Professor Biruk, "You were the first to write down Mr. Potter. Miss Lang, you were the first to write down Mr. Malfoy—first group: Miss Lang, Mr. Potter, and Mr. Malfoy." He turned to the rest of the class. "Now do you understand how this works?" he asks them. "Ok, the second group: Miss Granger, Miss Parvati, and Mr. Goyle. Third group: Mr. Crabbe, Mr. Weasley, and Miss Brown…"
After Professor Biruk was finish reading off the list, the class was dismissed.