Title: Vacancy

Summary: Summary? What summary?

Rating: T

Status: 2 chapters written, 2 chapters posted

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Yume Li - Thanks, there will be and enjoy the update

Pairings???

Notes: This chapter had mentions of the Holocaust, if this offends you you can just not read the chapter. You have been warned.

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Yuugi rubbed the sides of his head, he had a splitting headache but there was nothing to be done about it. Dumbledore had already dulled the wards down and to lower them anymore would put students in danger. He looked around the classroom, moving posters of Egyptians, Aztecs and other ancient magic users. The desks were arranged in uniform rows and columns. Each desk had a name label on it, Yuugi's first class was a fifth year Slytherin and Gryffindor class.

A cacophony of voices made itself known outside the door which only made to worsen his headache. Taking a deep breath and stealing himself for his first lesson he opened the door. All the students stopped talking and turned to look his way, Yuugi swallowed, he was barely an inch above some of them.

"Alright class, a word of warning before you enter this classroom, I was given a list of all your names, I don't know your houses or you friends so I just put names on desks and you will sit at those desks, am I clear?" There were reluctant nods and 'yes sir's so Yuugi stepped to the side and gestured inside the classroom, "Then enter."

The hoard of students poured in and settled themselves in their seats, students were dismayed to find that the nametags were glued to the tables and attempting to sit at a desk that wasn't your own got you a rather nasty electric shock.

Yuugi watched all this with a smile on his face; the glares he received from certain members of his class went ignored. When everyone was settled he strode up the middle isle to his desk at the front and hoped onto it, facing the class.

"Alright, as I said, I don't know you by name and number so we'll start of with a quick, get to know each other, session since I'm sure some of you are dieing to ask questions."

As soon as he'd finished the whole class burst into shouts, Yuugi sighed, his head was throbbing and there was a painful sting behind his eyes. He held up his hands and after a while everyone was silent again.

"Alright, let's try this again, hands in the air and one question per person or else we won't have any time left for the lesson," Yuugi grinned and the class groaned. "Oh come on, it can't be that boring," sarcastic faces were his response. "Okay, what did you study last year?"

The hand a girl with bushy brown hair shot up into the air so fast Yuugi thought she'd hurt herself, "Yes…"

"Hermione Granger sir and we studied Goblin Rebellions sir," the girl said primly.

Yuugi raised an eyebrow and sat silent for a couple of minutes waiting for her to continue. When it was clear she wasn't he spoke up, "That's it?" There was a chorus of affirmatives, "Gee, no wonder none of you want to be hear, that's the most boring subject on the planet."

Suddenly there were smiles and the hand of a girl in a red and gold ties went up, Yuugi nodded to her, "Sir, what will you be teaching us this year?"

"All that I can, stuff about Ancient Egyptians and the kind of curses they put in their tombs, famous Witches and Wizards, those of who collect chocolate frog cards will be at an advantage (a boy with red hair grinned), about Aztecs, the history of alchemy, hopefully you'll find it to your liking." The students before him exchanged excited glances, whispers broke out. "Hey," Yuugi said sounding mockingly offended, "Don't leave me out of the conversation. Anyway, I did say there would be questions so ask away."

The hand a boy with blonde hair and very pointed features went up, Yuugi looked at him, "Is that your natural hair colour?" the boy drawled smirking at him.

"Yes," Yuugi replied, there were some shocked and amazed glances, "and if you don't believe me I'll go straight to Professor Snape, demand his truth potion, and answer under influence of Veritaserum."

The majority of the class seemed happy with this answer but the blonde boy wasn't. So the lesson went on, the class found out that Yuugi was 25, was indeed the Duel Monsters World Champion, had indeed been in relationships (all of which with women), he was currently single, Japan was very nice, he had lived in Domino, he was muggle-born, he hadn't studied magic until he was sixteen and many other things.

"Alright, that's enough of that," Yuugi said "Now we only have ten minutes left so I won't start anything big yet. However there will be some learning done today (groans) but I won't set you homework today and nor will you have to take notes (smiles and cheers)."

"Right, over time, there have been a lot of great men and great women, great wizards and great muggles, that even if their actions were terrible or good they were great, influential and changed the course of history. There are also some alive today, can anyone name me any?"

Hands went up, "Yes Hermione."

"Albus Dumbledore," she said proudly, beaming.

Yuugi nodded, "Yes, that is one, another?"

"Cornelius Fudge," a boy said.

Yuugi's brow furrowed, "Well, he has done some great things I must admit…but are there any others?" There were a few singers, a few actors, a few celebrities but no one mentioned the two that Yuugi was waiting to hear.

"Well, all those mentioned have been or are great but there are two others you all know very well. One is Professor Snape; he is a Potion's Master and made the wolfesbane potion, improved veritaserum and can brew even the most difficult of potions. Now, his personality, to those who are not in his favour, may seem evil and this may cloud your judgement of him. But do not let your personal feelings cloud the fact that he has done great things."

"Another, is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, he has become a figure known by the majority of the wizarding world, his self-appointed title is feared to be spoken and he has many followers. All of these are great achievements, terrible, but no less great."

"Now, another great achiever, although he was not a wizard, was a German man, named Adolph Hitler. Now, he was Austrian, but longed to be German and his dream was to become a painter. He was denied, twice, entrance to the academy of fine arts in Vienna but he did find his footing in politics. Awarded twice for bravery in the field during World War I if it wasn't for him, there would have been no World War II."

"Hitler believed in a greater Germany and pure Germans. Draco was it?" Yuugi looked at the boy who had asked about his hair who nodded with narrowed eyes, "Come stand up here please."

The boy got up reluctantly and headed over to him, standing at equal height, it made some of those in green and silver ties snicker. "Now, Draco here is what the perfect German was believed to look like, blonde, blue eyes and well built, you can sit down now Draco. There was also one race that Hitler despised, the Jews, he also hated gypsies, homosexuals, crippled and he wanted to get rid of them."

Those amongst the class who had been privy to a muggle education and therefore knew bits and pieces about the Holocaust looked grave and were silently fixated on their new teacher.

"He build death camps, Jews and the others he hated were herded up and taken to these camps. Crowded into tiny bunks, their cloths were taken away to be given to Germans and their hair was shaved off. Most died of disease or starvation from being forced into such close contact constantly." The whole class was silent. "Groups of people were taken to giant chambers with shower heads and told they were going to be allowed to shower. But they never got the chance…they weren't showers, they were gas chambers."

"Once in these chambers, the doors would be closed and bolted, those inside were trapped and gas was poured, a poisonous gas that killed when inhaled. The dead bodies were dragged out, piled in wheelbarrows and dumped into great pits. But that wasn't enough for Hitler. He didn't even want their remains in the ground. The bodies were dug up and burned. The imprisoned Jews were forced to cart the bodies of what had most likely been their friends and family from great stinking pits of death to great furnaces. These corpses were in varying stages of decay and carrying many diseases."

"Millions were killed, this event was called the Holocaust, the persecution of Jews because Hitler didn't like them."

There was complete silence as Yuugi finished speaking, he took a deep breath before continuing, "Now who here think that that was the right thing to do. It was a great thing, something that is recognised up to this day as a horror. But tell me, put your hand up, honestly, if you think he was in the right, that he should have been allowed to do that…"

No hands went up, not even the Slytherins. "Hitler believed Jews to be inferior and because of this they should all be massacred. Now tell me if you can, what's the difference between what Hitler did and what Lord Voldemort is trying to do to muggles?"

As soon as he finished the bell rang and the class got up, packed away and left in complete silence leaving Yuugi to prepare for his next class.

---Harry, Ron and Hermione---

"Did that really happen Hermione?" Ron asked turning to look at her,

"I'm afraid so Ron."

"But why?"

"Because he thought they were inferior," Hermione replied, "bit sick really isn't it?" Ron nodded. "They have an exhibit at one of the history museums in London, boxes of shoes, hair, confiscated belongings, cloths. Big glass boxes of them, it's so sad and so horrible, that one man can do so much damage."

The three continued on in silence to potions and Snape couldn't understand for the life of him why his whole class seemed to be depressed, well…all those who had just had History of Magic anyway.

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Don't worry, not all the chapters are going to be history lessons but I will be tackling morals in this story...anyway...yeh, Review!

For those of you interested in this story, I'm going to move it to the Yu-Gi-Oh section tomorrow, so you've had plenty of notice.