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Disclaimer: I had a dream last night that Harry Potter and his friends belonged to me. Sadly I woke up this morning with nothing but a purple, pink and silver bedroom, a pink mobile phone, loads of clothes, all of the Friends episodes on VHS and the Harry Potter books and DVD's so I took that as a there is no way on this earth that I own them!

Summary: Harry has defeated Voldemort and he leaves the wizarding world after graduating because all is not well there. He returns after a year and discovers that his life has changed dramatically. Theres a new enemy but who is it? We follow Harry's life as he learns that One night REALLY can change everything in a persons life.

I'm sorry for not updating last night but I was so tired after work that all I wanted to do was sit in my bedroom and watch the last 2 Friends tapes in the second series. I got halfway through the last tape of the second series when I fell asleep and didn't wake up till my alarm went off this morning. I don't like doing full time hours at work, it makes me look awful during the day coz it makes me really tired. Next update will be saturday for sure. My hours go back to normal as of tomorrow and thanks for all the reviews. They really made my day.

Anyways now onto our feature presentation. Here's Chapter 40. Enjoy!

Chapter 40 - Defense Against the Dark Arts

The twins, Cady and Tasha took their usual seats at the back of their class and waited for their professor to come in.
Harry walked in and took the register.
"Welcome back fourth years. I hope you all had a nice Christmas. Now what were we studying before the holidays?"
He looked around the classroom and upon seeing nothing he picked on someone.
"Mr Hallow?"
"Um, we did the Acromantula" Dan answered sounding unsure.
"Correct and where did the Acromantula originate from Mr Hallow?"
"Um Borneo?"
"Correct again, ten points to Gryffindor. Now what other creature did we study?"
This time Tasha put her hand up.
"Yes Miss Weasley?"
"We studied the Ashwinder."
"And what is an Ashwinder?"
Tasha put her hand up again.
"Miss Weasley."
"The Ashwinder is a thin, pale grey serpent with glowing red eyes. It rises from the embers of a unsupervised fire and slithers away into the shadows of the dwelling where it is. It leaves an ashy trail behind it when it slithers away."
"Correct, another ten points to Gryffindor. Now today we are covering the Basilisk. Can you please turn to page thirty and Miss Potter can you start reading out loud please?"
"Which one Professor?" Peyton asked.
"Madison, can you read first please?"
Maddy nodded and started to read.
"The first recorded Basilisk was bred by Herpo the Foul, a Greek Dark wizard and Parselmouth, who discovered after much experimentation that a chicken egg hatched beneath a toad would produce a gigantic serpent possessed of extraordinarily dangerous powers."
Maddy looked up and Harry nodded.
"Thank you Miss Potter. Peyton can you read please?"
Peyton nodded then began the next part.
"The Basilisk is a brilliant green serpent that may reach up to fifty feet in length. The male has a scarlet plume upon its' head. It has exceptionally venomous fangs but its' most dangerous means of attack is the gaze of its' large yellow eyes. Anyone looking directly into these will suffer instant death."

"Thank you Miss Potter, now."
Harry looked around the classroom for the next victim.
"Ah, Miss Mayfair, could you read the next part please."
Cady had been talking to Dan about something and looked up when she heard her name.
She then looked down at her text book and realised that she didn't know where Peyton had left off.
"Um Professor Potter? I don't -"
"Know where you are? I thought as much. Peyton where did you leave off?"
Peyton looked up at her father and nodded before tucking a strand of her auburn hair behind her ears.
"I finished after explaining about the Basilisk's appearance."
"Thank you Peyton. Miss Mayfair, I believe the first word of the next sentence is 'if'."
Cady looked for the word and quickly found it then started to read.
"If the food source is sufficient (the Basilisk will eat mammals and birds and most reptiles), the serpent may attain a very great age. Herpo the Foul's Basilisk is believed to have lived for close on nine hundred years."
"Thank you Miss Mayfair, can I talk to you after class please. Miss Malfoy can you read the next paragraph please."
Matilda glared at her professor but read anyway.
"The creation of Basilisks has been illegal since medieval times, although the practice is easily concealed by simply removing the chicken egg from beneath the toad when the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures comes to call."
"Thank you Miss Malfoy."
"Yes Professor Pothead" Matilda said quietly then she giggled with her friends.
"Pardon Miss Malfoy?"
"Nothing Professor Pothead" Matilda said a little more loudly.
Harry heard it this time and looked at her.
"Miss Malfoy, ten points from Slytherin, a detention and I will be speaking with your head of house."
Matilda looked ashamed then fell silent.
Harry surveyed the class then he started to read the last paragraph.
"However, since Basilisks are uncontrollable except by Parselmouths, they are as dangerous to most Dark wizards as to anybody else, and there have been no recorded sightings of Basilisks in Britain for at least four hundred years."
Dan had put his hand up.
"But sir, didn't a former student kill a Basilisk twenty two years ago in this school?"
"Yes, yes they did. Do you know who the student was?"
Dan nodded.
"Who?" Harry asked.
Peyton and Maddy shifted uncomfortably in their seats knowing what was next.
"You" Dan said quietly.
"Correct Mr Hallow."
Another student had put their hand up.
Harry nodded at them.
"Can you tell us about it?" the student asked.

Harry thought for a moment then replied.
"Ok then. When I was twelve and in my second year here, my best friend's little sister was in her first year. Well I had been hearing a voice pretty much all year and on that Halloween, me and my friends were walking back to the Gryffindor common room and we walked round a corner and saw a puddle of water. A cat was suspended above the puddle and on the wall was a message. 'The Chamber of Secrets has been opened, enemies of the heir - beware.' The attacks carried on through the year and ended up with a student being taken into the Chamber. The witch meant a great deal to me so me and my best friend went to find our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to tell him what we knew. Instead of him preparing to go into the Chamber we found him packing to leave. We took him with us and he lost his memory while trying to use a broken wand to modify my and my best friends memories. This caused a cave in in the tunnel that we were in so I was left to find the Basilisk which is exactly what I did. I saved the witches life and it turned out that she had been controlled by a diary that inside it had a memory of a sixteen year old Lord Voldemort that had been preserved for fifty years. I ruined the diary and it all came out about how it had been controlling the witch all through the school year. This created a bond between myself and the witch - a bond which is just as strong today and we are still very close to each other twenty two years on."
"Where is she now?" another student asked.
"She teaches here."
"Who is she?"
"I'm not telling."
"Does she have children?"
"Yes, her children are in this class."
The whole class realised who it was.
"It was Professor Weasley wasn't it?"
"Yes" Harry sighed.
The whole class looked at the twins who turned bright red.

At that moment the bell went.
"Homework, a roll of parchment about Basilisks and how to defend yourself against them, due next lesson. Class dismissed. Miss Mayfair?"
Cady told Peyton that she would meet her outside.
Peyton nodded and threw Harry a death glare then walked out of the classroom.
She leant up against the wall and waited for Cady.
She saw Matilda coming towards her and she groaned.
Dan came out of the classroom and stood with Peyton.
"Dan go get some dinner and I'll meet you in the library at five."
"Ok baby" Dan said then he bent down and lightly kissed her before walking in the direction of the Great Hall.
"So Junior Pothead, it seems as though your Mummy was as famous as your Daddy though for all the wrong reasons."
"Shove off Malfoy."
Matilda kept nit picking at Peyton and when Maddy came out of the classroom she saw what was happening and walked over to them.
"Leave her alone Matilda."
"Why should I? Awwww has Pothead come to rescue her widdle sister?"
Ellie who was also walking past saw what was happening.
Harmony was with her.
"MATILDA!" Ellie shouted.
Matilda looked at them and smiled sweetly.
"Tilly, what are you doing?" Harmony asked.
Matilda didn't answer that question but looked at Ellie instead.
"Harm, tut tut, what would Daddy say if he knew that you were hanging around with the knocked up Weasel?"

"Tilly, do I care about what he would say? Does this face look as though it cares? Dad can't tell me who to be friends with."
Matilda looked at Harmony then huffed and stormed off because she knew that Harmony was right.
"Hey baby sis. She didn't say anything to upset you did she?" Ellie asked Peyton.
Peyton looked at Ellie in disbelief.
"I can deal with my own problems thank you very much. I don't need your help, I'm a big girl now" Peyton replied.
She then turned on her heel and left Ellie and Harmony with their mouths open in the hallway.
"Well that, um, went well El?"
"Yeah Harm, oh well come on, let's go and see if we can get any goss about this new flying teacher that's supposed to be starting soon from my Dad."
The girls then walked into the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

You see that little button down there. Well it's lifelong wish is to be pushed. You know you want to make the button happy. So grant it it's wish and push it to leave a review! What happens when Peyton arrives back at the Gryffindor common room? Find out in the next chapter!