Disclaimer: Everyone belongs to J. K. Rowling except Jess.

Just so you know, I don't want Ron and Hermione to be Prefects. At least not in this story. It wouldn't work. So they are not. Also, the Daily Prophet has not been smashing Harry as much as they did. They just give off a general disapproval. Dumbledore is not hated as violently also.

Chapter 2

The remaining days they spent at the Order they tried to find out as much as they could about their new professor. Fred and George said she looked like a serial killer and Ron agreed. She had never said a word to any of them and seemed a bit cold. She talked to Sirius mainly, and she seemed warmer around him, but most people stayed their distance. They seemed a little bit afraid. All except Sirius and Dumbledore. It seemed like no time at all until they were packing their bags and getting onto the train. They all met Luna Lovegood, and other than thinking she was a bit off, got along well. Harry, Ron and Hermione found an empty car and spent the time talking and eating the candy they bought until they arrived. They got into the horseless carriages and...wait. Harry paused. They weren't horseless!

"You guys! Look at the horses! I thought the carriages didn't have horses!" But these were not horses he realized. They were skeletons of a horse.

"What are you talking about? There aren't any horses Harry."

They argued all the way to the castle, and Harry finally dropped the subject as they got out because Hermione and Ron were regarding him curiously. They found their seats by Seamus, Dean, and Ginny. The first years were put into houses and Gryffindor got sixteen more students. Dumbledore got up to make his speech, and at the end he introduced the new teacher.

"It took me a long time to replace your Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher once again, but the new professor kindly agreed to take time from her busy schedule to teach you all. Please welcome Professor Jessminda Calder."

Jess stood up and took a slight bow, then quickly sat back down. Once again she was wearing all black.

George whispered over to Harry, "She looks like a female Snape."

"She does not!" Hermione exclaimed. Harry agreed with her. Snape was cruel and was too unjust for anyone to match. "She doesn't look mean. Snuffles certainly likes her. And Dumbledore wouldn't have hired her if she was on the Dark Side."

"Makes sense I guess." Fred whispered. "But I still think she's a female Snape. She might not be as mean though. She went to Ravenclaw right?"

"I wonder what she does for the-" Ron started, but was silenced quickly by his brothers who elbowed him in the stomach.

"Not in front of everyone! Are you crazy?"

Ron rubbed his now sore stomach and they all grabbed the food that had magically appeared on the table. Once everyone had eaten all they could, they were lead upstairs and into the dormitories. People were sleepy after all their food and as sleep crept over them, the first years worried over their first classes.

"All right!" Ron exclaimed at the breakfast table. "We've got Defense Against the Dark Arts as our third class! His face fell. We have it with Slytherin. We have Care of Magical Creatures right before it. Oh no. We've got Potions first." His face fell again. Harry groaned.

They struggled through Potions, Snape being as ruthless as ever, and even taking a point or two. Hagrid's class was better. Although the animals camouflage made them vanish after the first few minutes and they spent the rest of the class looking for them, at least they could talk to Hagrid. Finally it was third period. They rushed into the classroom so they could get the seats in the middle, so they weren't right in front of her or too far back. The bell rang, everyone took their seats.

"Where's Malfoy?" Harry whispered, but then Jessminda came out from her office. She had her dark coat on and it billowed out behind her. The door slammed and everyone jumped. She leaned on her desk.

"You will call me Professor Jess. You will do what I tell you to, and you will not interrupt me when I am speaking. If you don't show up for class without an excuse you and I will have a little chat. It won't end well for you. If you are late don't bother coming in. I will have locked the door. It is then up to you to make up what you missed. If you disrupt my class you will have detention with me for the rest of the week. Am I clear?"

Everyone nodded.

"Good. Now-" There was a knock on the door. Malfoy's face was in the window. He gestured for someone to open the door. Jess stood up, walked across the room and waved through the window, pulled the blind down so he couldn't see in. "As I was saying…" The rest of the class went through with nothing happening. Malfoy had knocked on the door for the first couple of minutes, but it finally went silent. After class, Jess opened the door.

"Malfoy, I'll talk to you now." She pulled him in. The class slowly went through the door but Ron, Hermione and Harry tried to stay back as long as possible to hear what she said.

"If my dad finds out you locked me out of class-"

Jess chuckled. "Being a close friend of your dad's I'm sure I can make him understand" she said with an icy tone, "that if you are late for my class, you simply won't be in it. Now get out." She turned to the other three also. "All of you!" They all ran out the door and it was slammed shut behind them.

After the day was finished the three sat down together.

"She knows Malfoy's dad?" Ron asked skeptically. "And they're personal friends? I don't know you guys. She may still be a serial killer."

"She is in the Order for a reason. We just don't know what she does for them. I'm sure she wouldn't be friends with Malfoy's dad if it wasn't something for the Order."

"Maybe she does what Snape does. A double agent!"

They all agreed that might be it and they called it a day.