Ch 2: Meeting the colleagues.
Harry lied in his bed. Suddenly he saw Hedwig coming back with a mail. It had to be from McGonagall Harry thought, and it was. She believed it was Harry and caused Harry a smirk. He had to at a Leaky Cauldron's conferens-room the next day at 11 am. All the teachers would arrive and they would plan things before the school started. Harry's heart beated a little bit faster. He walked to the kitchen, he was still in Ron's and Hermione's apartment. He came to thought that he stilled owned Grimmauld place 12, but he didn't want to live there, and shivered by the thought of living there.
"Harry?" Ron asked looking strangely at him. He maybe thought it was some kind of attack Harry had when he shivered.
"No, it was just … nothing actually" Harry replied "I'm fine" Ron nodded. "By the way I got the job as DADA teacher, or they invited me to the teacher's meeting tomorrow.
"Then you surely got the job" Hermione said confidently. "If they invited you there then it's for sure." She continued even more confident.
"I have to find an apartment now" Harry said suddenly after they had ate breakfast, and went up from the table and went to the door. They looked surprised after him.
"Good Forenoon" said the man boringly in the apartment/house-shop. "What kind of house or apartment you wan to buy?"
"Any apartment available, I prefer a small one if there is" Harry replied happy to notice that the man didn't recognize him.
"Ok" The man continued "Here we have a nice one, quite small, nice for a bachelor"
"I'll take it" Harry replied carelessly, he just had to get one.
"Ok 5000 galleons" He said as Harry gave him the money "sign these papers and it's yours"
Harry signed them and went out. Harry thought why it was so important to sign papers, the man didn't even look at them.
"Harry wake up" Hermione said 9am next morning "you have to get ready to the meeting"
"Mrhhh… thanks for waking me up." Harry replied sleepily. He went up and went to the shower. He had to look fresh on his first day at work. He put one of his nicest robes he had on and went to the living-room to wait on Hermione. He wanted to go the same time as she did.
"Ok I'm ready now." Hermione said. "Let's apparate there, if it's ok for you, we will be in time. They both apparated to the Leaky Cauldron.
Leaky Cauldron was quite empty. They went to a little room behind the desk. When they went in everyone in the room stared shocked at Harry. It was embarrassing because no one said anything, everyone just stared. Harry saw a lot of teachers he knew from when he was in school, and then he saw Ginny. She was as beautiful as she always been and Harry felt warm looking at her. But what was Ginny doing there? Was she also a new teacher there? She stared like the others shocked at Harry.
"Hi." Hermione said trying to interrupt their staring but failed. It was an embarrassing silence until McGonagall finally said something that made them all stop staring at Harry.
"Welcome everybody here today. As you see we have 3 new teachers. Ginny Weasley as the new transfiguration teacher." Ginny nodded proudly. "Jacob Owski, instead of Madam Hooch, as flying teacher and judging the Quidditch games" A brown-haired weird-looking man nodded smirking at everone "And Harry Potter as Defense against dark arts teacher" They all started to frown at Harry again. Harry just nodded. "He told me in a letter that he went to hide in the north all this time before he decided to come back here. Welcome back Mr. Potter" Harry looked at McGonagall but he felt the frowns at him. Ginny stared worst of all. Maybe it was the fact that no one told her until now or something, Harry didn't know.
In the rest of the meeting they planned which books the students should have and what they should learn to them etc. Harry noticed that Ginny didn't look happy at all with her new job. Sometimes she glared at him but she didn't say anything to him. But why would she? Many other wanted to talk to Harry and he had to repeat his story a few times.
When it was over they returned to Ron's and Hermione's apartment. Harry told them he had found an own apartment and he just came to take his stuff. They told him that he could stay a lot longer, but Harry saw they preferred to be by theirselves and smirked at that.
In his own apartment he made some work things and so. It was a week until the school would start again. He would have his own office and everything. He had the power to learn kids protecting spells… and he could work close to Ginny… He had still feelings for her but he tried to deny them. 'hope she could like me' he thought a little bit sad before he went to sleep.
