Jane swept into the classroom half an hour later and it was impossible to tell that she had been hysterical a mere half hour earlier. She placed her books on her desk and straightened her robes which looked black at first glance but if you concentrated on them you could see that they where a really dark shade of purple with black thread embroidered onto it.
Jane looked at the seventh years staring at her and smirked.
"Didn't your parents teach you not to stare?" she asked sarcastically. She looked at the Gryffindors and Slytherins and gave a small chuckle that made most of them shiver in fear. "Well it seems the old coot had employed me to actually teach you so you are stuck with me for this year. You will find my teaching methods a lot different to your previous teachers so I don't want to hear anything about it. Yes Mr Longbottom I am evil do you have a problem with that?" She asked the boy who had been whispering to Harry who was sitting next to him.
"N-n-n-n-o Professor Malfoy- I mean Potter—"Nevil stuttered.
"Just call me Ma'am" Jane interrupted. "Now on to what I will be teaching you. Take out your parchment and quills I want you to write this down as I will not be going over it again."
All the students hurried to get their materials except for Draco, Harry and Hermione, who had all their stuff ready before Jane had arrived.
"Now" Jane started when she saw that every one was ready, "Firstly I will be teaching you about Legendary Witches and Wizards. This will be quite interesting for the Slytherin population of this class as one of the Witches will be their own fabled "Queen". After that we will be looking at the more…….grey areas of magic and I will start you on duelling. Also we will be learning sword play and more ancient forms of weaponry.
By this time I will have figured out what we will be doing next." Jane concluded amused as the students where furiously writing down every word that she had said.
"Now open to page 289 in your books for this year and read the information on the "Queen on Slytherin" I want a 15 inch essay on her by next lesson. Now get to work and no talking."
A flutter of pages was heard as the students opened their books.
"How pretty my dear. And I thought that Sev was the only one to affect students like this." A voice said amusement clear in the way he was smiling.