Harry was now running to get to the Fat Lady's Portrait. At last, he reached it, and muttered Seftus Prifictous quickly, immeadietly, the door was opened. He entered to find the whole Gryffindors, first to seventh years, waiting for him in the common room.
"Long lives Potter, our new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher!" screamed everyone in excitement. Harry was a bit shy. They were celebrating on the very first night of their return to Hogwarts, Harry couldn't have believed what they were doing. Dean, who was good at painting, drew a huge banner with Harry's face on it, wearing teacher robes. Colin and Dennis Creevey were taking pictures of him and were adding them to their own photo album. Even seventh years were celebrating, for some of them were very close to Harry in previous years. After about two hours of celebrating, the common room was starting to get empty of students, and then, only Harry, Hermione, and Ron were left.
"It's really great mate, congratulations," said Ron hugging Harry. "Here, have a Butterbeer."
Hermione then spoke, "Ron, where did you get that Butterbeer?"
"Er...stole it from the kitchens," answered Ron, with sweat falling down his nose.
"Ron...you...are...a...prefect!" said Hermione in a loud voice.
"I know I am," said Ron again.
"Guys, please calm down, we don't want an argument on the first night back," said Harry, as he always did whenever he tried to calm the two.
"Ok, I'm going to bed now, I have to be ready for tomorrow, big day, huh?" said Harry, smiling at Hermione and Ron.
"I guess so," said Hermione. "By the way, how many lessons will you teach tomorrow?"
"Two, that's the maximum amount of lessons I can teach in one day, Professor Dumbledore and McGonagall organized it all. I'll be having you guys, and the Slytherins first, and then, later on in the day, let's see...umm...yeah.. Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw second years," answered Harry.
"Well, best be going to sleep, Harry," said Ron, yawning.
"Oh ok," said Harry.
"I'm going to bed too," said Hermione.
So, the common room was finally fully-emptied. Each of the three went to their dormitories and went to sleep. Harry lay on his bed, just wondering how teaching will be, how the students will react to his explanations of the lessons, how much points he's going to take from houses...
Slowly, Harry closed his eyes, and went to sleep. He fell into the shadows, and then, began snoring.
The next day, Ron came up to Harry's bed to wake him up. That was strange---usually Harry wakes up before Ron does. Anyway, they both changed into their robes, and headed to The Great Hall for breakfast. They found Hermione already sitting on the table, eating, and reading Force Your Way Through Dark Paths at the same time. Of course, this was not strange to them. They've know Hermione for about six years now, it's ok for them to see her obsessed with her studies.
"Good morning guys," said Hermione with a sweet smile on her face.
"Morning," replied Harry, and Ron, sitting on the table and joining Hermione for breakfast.
"What subject do we have first?" asked Ron.
"Defence Against the Dark Arts," answered Hermione at once.
"God! You'll be teaching us the first period," said Ron, excited.
"I know Ron, it was on my times table," said Harry, with a bit of egg slipping down his mouth.
"I'm so excited to see you teach us Harry, I'm just worried about the Slytherins, I know they're going to mess up your first lesson," said Hermione quickly.
"Well, don't worry about that, if they do, I'll take off two hundred points from them," said Harry, laughing.
"Harry, even if you are a teacher, you shouldn't abuse your position," said Hermione in a low voice.
"I know Hermione, I was only joking," said Harry, again, laughing.
At last, the bell rang, and everybody went to their first period classes. Harry, Hermione, and Ron were heading straight to the Defence Against the Dark Arts room. When they arrived, they were surprised to see that no one has arrived yet. Later, everybody was now in the room, and Harry was on the front table, ready to begin the lesson.
"Hi there---well---in a weird kind of way, Professor Dumbledore has made me the Defence Against The Dark Arts Teacher, and---I just want you to know---that---that I'll be teaching you everything you need to know for this year--oh yeah, and you can call me Harry---I'm rather not used to the terms Professor Harry, since I'm your age and still at school---and--what else?--I think that's all," said Harry in a shaky voice, his knees were shaking now. He never talked in front of the class at the teacher's table. Draco Malfoy was now grinning, along with his gang of Slytherins, including Crabbe, Goyle, and Pansy Parkinson.
"So," began Harry, " today, we will be studying the art of stunning objects. Of course, stunning comes very handy to you when you're battling with your enemy. Umm...what is the incantation you use to stun?" Immeadietly, Hermione raised her hand high up in the air. Of course, Harry asked her kindly to answer his question.
"Stupefy," said Hermione. Of course, most of the Gryffindors in this room have studied this last year when they were in the DA group, so, it just was a bit of memory refreshing to them.
"Excellent, ten points to Gryffindor," said Harry at once. Hermione was smiling.
"Now, kindly, I want you to pair with a partner, and in turns, start practicing stunning these Redcaps," Harry brought the tank in which the Redcaps were stored. Of course, everyone remembered Redcaps from their third year, because Lupin has taught them about Redcaps.
Everybody was now with a partner, and soon , the room was filled with noises of saying Stupefy. Not a lot of people got it right from the Slytherins, but most of the Gryffindors did fairly well, due to their learning about stunning last year. Harry then started to walk between the students, observing how they were stunning the Redcaps. Harry was now walking towards Malfoy, who was partnered with Pansy Parkinson. Malfoy turned his face to Harry, and grinned.
"So," began Malfoy, "how do you like teaching Potter? Always the top in everything, huh?"
"Git," started Harry," will you kindly shut your mouth? Show me how to stun this Redcap, now."
Draco hesitated for a moment, but then raised his wand at the Redcap, and muttered Stupefy. Immeadietly, the Redcap was stunned. Then, Draco turned his face to Harry, grinning, waiting for some speech.
"Not bad, Malfoy," said Harry sympathetically," let me see, ten points to Slytherin."
Malfoy was amazed. He knew how much they hated each other, but still, he earned his house points. His eyebrows were raised up, and he was still looking at Harry.
"Back on the train, you said that you'll be giving me hell this year? Well, clearly, I see that there's been a big change, Malfoy. Still, behave, and do what is asked from you, and you'll gain even more points. Understood?" proclaimed Harry.
"You never change, do you Potter? Always self confident, as if you know everything," said Malfoy slowly.
"I see you haven't change a lot, wasn't I fair giving you some points? Do you wish for me to take them off?" said Harry angrily.
"No," replied Malfoy at once.
The lesson continued and eventually, everyone has succeeded to stun the Redcaps. Harry was now heading towards Neville, the most forgetful boy you could ever imagine.
"Not bad Neville, five points to Gryffindor," said Harry, smiling. Neville was beaming now.
Then he continued on explaining more about stunning as the lesson came to a close. Harry thought of giving the class homework, but he hesitated.
"You all quite did a very great job today, I was thinking of giving you a homework, half a roll of parchment about stunning and its uses, but no, I think it's not very wise to give you a homework from the very first lesson in the very first day. But, I'm telling you this, I'm going to quiz you next lesson on stunning. You have now all mastered stunning, so, it should be pretty easy for you all. Don't worry, the quiz won't take even ten minutes," the class was relieved, when the bell rang at last.
"Bye, everyone, see you next class," said Harry, waving at the people beside the door. He, Hermione, and Ron, were now packing their stuff, and were heading to the Transfiguration class.
"That was a bloody brilliant lesson you gave Harry," complimented Ron, happily.
"It was amazing, Harry. Mind you, I did forget a little about the hand movement for stunning, until you came by and reminded me," said Hermione, giggling.
"Thank you guys, I didn't expect my first lesson to be this satisfactory," said Harry, smiling at Hermione and Ron.