This doesn't belong to me.

Chapter Seven

There had been several changes once the headmaster had appeared from his isolation. For one History of Magic now ranked as the best subject in the whole school, with those who'd opted out of the class, opting back in. This was due to the exuberance of the new Professor, Draco Malfoy.

It was now a common sight to see the lessons taking place around school, with the normally refined and dignified Malfoy leaping about on tables, and brandishing swords and wands, his blonde hair flying all over the place.

At first when the announcement of Malfoy taking over Professor Granger's role so soon after she'd gotten it, had been met with much disapproval, Slytherin loyalty and Draco buying his way in had been mentioned. But once he'd taught his first lesson it had become clear why the switch had been made. Unlike Granger's monotonous reading from text books, Draco would start off on one subject and get side tracked with another, almost babbling with excitement as he described the leading up to a Goblin Civil War, or an assassination of some nobleman. He'd act out scenes, complete with death scenes and passionate shadow fighting.

The students loved the new method, gone were the days where you'd pay someone to take notes while the rest of the class slept, instead it became a great game of who could set Draco off and one of his stories, so they wouldn't have to take notes, not realizing that they were learning far more than they ever had before. The Great Hall was normally buzzing with the latest lesson, often with students acting out scenes, and others bickering about who was more to blame over certain situations, with Draco sat with the teachers grinning happily.

Hermione was in a similar situation, no longer did she have to teach students who didn't read up in advance on future lessons. Though at this point it must be said that often the students would ask what was the next topic in History would be, so they could work out what would be the best scene for their Professor to act out.

She was happy though, blissful as the Head of Archives, which basically translated as Librarian, where she spent hours trawling through the thousands of books, shushing the children when they breathed too loudly, She'd get to complain to the day's library monitor about how in her day students were taught how to respect books, and not as it would seem today, use the Library as a private make-out room. She also introduced pencils into the school, having banned all quills and ink from her precious library, as someone had dared to make notations in one of the books, and it had taken several cleaning spells and an ink eraser to get rid of it. Food and drink were also banned.

Books that were returned with the pages dog eared were then ironed, and the student who dared do such a thing was fined and had to promise on a stack of History of Hogwarts that they would treat the books with more respect.

Throughout the school students would mimic Ms Granger, making the Ms into Mzzzzzz Granger, using the strict high pitched squeak she'd acquired through defending her precious books from the miscreant students. "No running in the library" "This is a library not a kitchen, out with that food" "Library's are not for practicing magic they are for books. Out!" would echo through out the halls, sending teachers and students alike snicker. Madam Pince hadn't been anywhere as strict as Hermione.

The Great Hall was now cleaned immediately after the meals as most students preferred to use it as their study hall, with the room to both work in groups and singly, and with the Professors now no longer on active defense duty, they had more time to explain and help.

Two new additions to the school came in the form of the Weasley Twins, who had taken the role of Head of Slytherin between them and Potions Professors. As with all of the new Headmasters ideas, at first they thought he was barking mad, barking mad headmasters being the norm at Hogwarts , before seeing the brilliance behind it.

Fred and George had a system, as Slytherin were desperately in need of repair after many of the house still remained. This led some of the Gryffindor's to launch a campaign on punishing those whom were deemed to be death eaters, causing riots throughout the school. It took both Weasley's to calm down students who'd been unfairly picked on, those whom were falling behind due to depression and those whom were struggling now that their parents were imprisoned.

Their new house reacted well to them, they were devious enough to dispel the Gryffindor taint, and had an interesting way of dealing with major upsets within the house, teaching pranks being one of them. They also took the House under their wing and fought with a rather disgruntled Minerva over all unfair infractions, that the Slytherin's felt they could trust them. In all it was working very well.

In Potion's the two of them being in class made it easier to prevent accidents, having not acquired the sixth sense that Severus had, but they did well. As they were naturally inclined to potions, loved experimenting, and had a soft spot of future mischief makers, their exuberance infected the classes similar to that of Draco's, and when accidents happened, unlike the former stern Potions Master they reacted in good spirit. Severus however gave them six weeks before they would start getting twitchy having had enough experience in the classroom to know that potions was incredibly dangerous with certain students around.

It was funny how life adapted though, when Albus had first been arrested, the school had gone into mourning, but now it was almost as if Dumbledore's time was forgotten, the school ran on an even keel, with the Headmaster stern, but fairly fair.

There was a few upsets with the new school rules, the removal of school policy to accuse Slytherin's first of disobedience, and the removal of another policy that Gryffindor's must win the House Cup each year. It was explained to both Houses that this didn't mean that Gryffindor would be sabotaged if they fairly won, and neither did it mean that Slytherin would not be questioned if it was obviously them, but it did go a long way to integrating the Snakes back into the school.

Severus still hadn't given in to Harry's demands of a relationship, but Harry was optimistic, as only a fool in love could be. Severus was just happy to keep on as they were, learning to enjoy the peace in the school, peace in the community, and enjoying the lack of grease in his hair. For now the boat would remain unrocked.

Fin

Author note: For now it's over, until I can focus on this again. At the moment my heads buzzing with lots of different plot lines, and my dreams keep pestering me. Also would love a beta if anyone has the time.