My Life Alone
Professor Gough
As we walked into the DADA classroom we were surprised to see that all the desks had been cleared away, standing in the middle of the clear floor was Professor Gough. As everyone filed in he took his time to look from one student to the other as though calculating them up, I watched this for a while, but when he looked at me I instantly looked away out of instinct, it was more than likely that he was using Legilimens to see what the students were thinking, and I didn't exactly want him to see, that was my business and only mine. Once everyone was settled Professor Gough spoke
"It's good to see you all here," His voice was low and smooth, "As you can see, I removed all the desks to the sides of the classroom," He looked around again catching everyone's gaze but once again I was determined not to let him catch mine. "I will be pairing you off randomly so that we can practice duelling, any questions, it's quite simple?" It wasn't surprising to see Hermione's hand fly up into the air.
"You haven't stated what kind of curses we are to inflict on each other?"
"You are to do any curse that sees fit, I doubt that if you do come face to face with Voldemort," there was an intake of gasps around the class, "I doubt he will tell you which curse he doesn't want you to use on him, but for now lets just say anything but the unforgivables, I don't want to be the one to teach you to kill." Everyone looked at each other, "I will divide you, as I said, into pairs," He pulled out a list of names, Weasley, Goyle," Ron swelled up, and looked as though he was about to yell, "Crabbe, Malfoy; Potter; Granger," (a/n haha you thought I was going to put him with parvati again, didn't you, DIDN'T YOU? insane laughter coughsplutter (clears throat, continues typing)) I gave Hermione the thumbs up, "Bulstrode, Patil," I saw Parvati get up with a grimace, Hermione and I gave her a sympathetic look as Gough continued to call out names.
"Please separate into your partners," he said finally
Hermione and I stood up and faced each other,
"Just don't kill me, ok Harry?"
The lesson was going quite well, if you count Hermione getting so pissed off about getting her spells and curses deflects that she threw her wand at my head. Parvati on the other hand looked quite bored as she stood and watched Bulstrode being blasted backwards, not realising that she had her wand turned around the wrong way and was really blasting herself. I turned back to face Hermione who was looking over at Malfoy and Crabbe with amusement plastered all over her face.
Malfoy was holding Crabbe down with a spell that made Crabbe, who was unable to get back on his feet, glare up at Malfoy with pure contempt. My concentration was lost when someone very large went hurtling over my head and hit the bookshelf causing a number of books to collapse down as they fell. Professor Gough went racing over to the person on the ground who turned out to be Millicent Bulstrode, apparently she had blasted herself backwards with an incredible amount of force, but insisted it was Parvati, who just rolled her eyes.
A/N I am so sorry it has taken me so long, I had the biggest mental blockage I have ever experienced in my life, but believe me the next one will hopefully come in the next couple of weeks. Once again to those who read my story and enjoy them I AM SO SORRY