Harry pulled his robe tighter around him as he and Ron made their way to the DADA room. He heard students laughing away as he stepped in. The whole cohot was in there. But only the 7th years. Nobody noticed him but Nissa did. She was in the centre of the pupil circle and she beckoned Harry and Ron over.

"Here's our last pupils, lets start." She smiled.

"Today, we are going to start on curing the bites on Ron and a few others. I need you all to get a partner. I'll tell you the words but you are not going to use a wand this time. I'll need complete silence as you are going to do magic with your minds."

"Your minds are the greatest wands ever. Now thing about the wound on your partner. Read his mind and find out when he went to the Forbidden Forest and what he was bitten by. I don't want any sound, not gasps. You'll break the concentration. You'll need to concentrate really hard. Look into the eyes. Think about the dark green or purple wound and you'll find it. Start."

Harry did not get any time to think as he focused his mind on Hermione's. He focused and suddenly he got it. But he managed to get control over her. Her wound was on her leg. The sole of her leg.

Hermione focused on Harry. She could feel Harry pondering in her mind. She pierced in and found it too. His neck. On his right side of the neck when he complained of a itch a month ago.

"Stop," Nissa's voice jostled them back to their own minds. Cheers of "I did it," echoed in the whole of the room.

"Yes, you managed to read the others mind." Now, tell your partner to open his or her clothing to expose the wound. Try to put your finger onto it. Exact pinpoint. Hermione touched his neck wound and it sent spirals down Harry.

"You'll feel spirals. Don't you?"

"Yes," the students answered.

"Now, I don't know how you do it, but learn how to pass it to your hand. The person with the wound will experience some pain but try to force it out with the wound. With your mind, now do."

Nobody complained. Silence erupted again as the pupils forced the wound onto their hands.

Hermione forced herself to focus on the wound again and Harry could feel it burning. She slowly brought her hand to the wound and levitated it to her hand. She slowly closed her hands upon it and walked to Nissa. Harry opened his eyes to see Hermione walking to Nissa. The rest were still forcing their mind to focus. He ran quietly over to Nissa.

"That was pretty fast Hermione. Now drop the wound into this." She opened a test tube and she dropped it inside. It seemed to wriggle.

"Harry, one minute." She opened her first two fingers and placed it over the wound spot.

"Perfect, Harry, Hermione. You did very well. Harry, try it on Hermione."

"Thanks Nissa." They whispered before returning to their seats.

One by one, the rest of the student went to Nissa to give her the wound and she tested the wound spot before telling them where they went wrong if it was wrong and congratulated them if they were correct.

Almost everyone could do it and she addressed them again.

"Well done, see how you could do it with your minds. Mind reading is something like this. And I'll leave you to figure that out yourselves. Practice with your friends and it's fun. Next lesson, I will see you've done your homework."

This lesson was much easier that what Harry expected. It was fun reading others' minds. In fact Nissa had let them teach themselves and learn themselves. So they learnt more, and doing their homework, they discovered a load more other things.

Nissa's next class was with the 1st Years. 11 year olds. She decided she would teach them simple spells. As she tapped away busily in her mind, the students started to arrive.

It was simple enough, she had written around 50 different phrases on the projector. Their aim? To test and find out which spell does what. She grouped them into groups of five and gave them the required materials. Frogs jumped and croaked. Once in a while, she would go to each group to give them hints. They were simple spells, like tickling spells, drawing frogs

Then she had to join the 7th years for Portions. Snape was the new Portions teacher. She was right on time, but appeared late as all the other came early.

"Come on in." Snape turned his back towards Nissa. She rolled her eyes and sat down. "Nice welcome," she muttered as she took a seat beside Hermione.

"Today, we will be doing a sleeping portion for dark creatures. Get into pairs."

Nissa looked around to see Hermione paired up with Harry already. So she walked over to Ron and Ron asked, "Pair up with you?" Nissa nodded.

Soon they were busy stirring away the portions. Nissa seemed to know much about sleeping portions and was quite steady with her recipe. As Snape walked over to inspect theirs, he just muttered, "Good, get along with it." Ron was simply amazed, never did he even say good. Nissa just smiled at Ron, "He's so grumpy." Ron was a little mesmized with the smile, she just looked too beautiful, just too beautiful.

As they finished their portion, they realized they were one of the few who got it right. They muttered a silent hurray. In a matter of minutes, they were dismissed.

Hermione was reading in the library. She was so into the book that she did not realize Nissa coming towards her.

"Hey Mione," she greeted as she seated herself with an equally thick book by her side.

"Hey Nissa," Hermione finally took her eyes off the book. "What are you doing here? It is past dinnertime. And you did not eat in the Hall."

"Oh, I don't eat much. Just a few drinks and a few munchers and my dinner's over." She replied

"Wow, what are you reading?"

"Dark Arts, the philosophy, like duh. You?"

"Symphonical music of the Dark."

"Lend me later, will you?"

"Sure Nissa,"

"And I want to meet you and 5 others at the entrance of Hogwarts tomorrow night. We are going for a tour in the Forbidden Forest."

"Cool,"

"Just a tester. I am bringing the 6th years there later this week and I just want to test."

"I guess the others will be more than happy."

"By the way, what time is the curfew?"

"11.30"

"Well, it already 8.30, I've only got a couple of hours to finish this book."

"Yeah,"

"Well then, let's start."

As the two girls read away peacefully, Harry and Ron were discussing things.

"Nissa is so damn cool." Ron concluded in the common room.

"She is so nice to us, unlike some people." Ginny piped in.

"Yeah, she understands us so well that her lesson was so interesting." Harry said.

"What did you guys learn?" Ron asked his sister.

"Well, we learnt about the many dark creatures. The most powerful is the vampire. It just needs to find a spot on your neck and you're gone. That is why we are supposed to wear neck-tight robes for DADA outings. And she showed us a couple of videos on how they attack. Mind videos. These are just imagination, you know. It was so cool. What did you do?"

"We learnt how to remove those wounds from the Forbidden Forest using our minds. It was fantastic, we learnt how to mind read too."

"Yeah, the first years learnt queasy spells or something. Tickle spells and all that, 2nd and 3rd learnt levitation. 4th and 5th learnt the different fangs or weapons of dark creatures."

"Her lessons are much better than other professors."

Just then, a eagle came flying into the room. Harry held out his hand and it swooped down to rest on his arm. It was Nissa's. It was a mind message. Harry opened his mind;

Hey all, Nissa here. We are going on a short expedition to the Forbidden Forest tomorrow night.

The six pupils are;

Harry, Hermione, Draco, Ron, Viera, Pansy. (excluding me)

Meet at the entrance of Hogwarts near the lion statue at 1300. It's only an hour long. Wear your usual robes, I will make some adjustments there. No chains nor watches. No earrings either, sorry girls. You can wear your rings though. Wear sneakers. And if you have, wear robes with hood and necktights. Not compulsory to wear school u, but don't wear silver nor gold. That is for you Draco. Meet you there then, bye.

Nissa.

All the 3 pupils; Harry, Ron, and Viera heard it. And they jumped for joy, as they could hardly believe it. What fun.

Draco smirked as he heard the message. As he was thinking about wearing his expensive silver robe, it rang 'Not compulsory to wear school u, but don't wear silver nor gold. That is for you Draco'.

She knows me well, Draco concluded.

Hermione smiled as she spotted Harry and Ron waving to her from the entrance of Hogwarts. It was 1255. She was right on time. It was a cold night and she saw that everyone was early. Nissa was adjusting clothing here and there. She smiled as she saw Hermione arriving.

"Here's our last passenger. Ready guys?"

"The others nodded."

"Right, We'll be traveling in a bubble. Something like a large invisible cloak. Keep really quiet, and we'll be able to see creatures. Don't gasp or anything, creatures can be as big as Dragons and small as gobbits. Gobbits are gobbin like but they are mostly guides. They are scary, I admit, but just don't make a sound."

The rest nodded in excitement.

"Let's go. We'll reach the edge of the forest before going into the bubble" she started walking gingerly out of Hogwarts. Professor Dumbledore was there to send them off. He waved and told them to take care.

They walked in the cold night. "I always loved forests at night. They look wonderfully beautiful." Nissa sighed.

"Yeah, it makes me feel at home." Draco whispered. The others were quite taken aback by what he said. He sounded soft.

"I am just glad we won't be meeting any werewolves tonight." Viera piped in.

"Yeah, so am I, but you will meet normal wolves."

In a matter of minutes, they reached the edge of the forest.

"Okay now, just whisper and get into the bubble."

They got into the bubble slowly, Viera, followed by Draco, Pansy, Harry, Hermione and Ron. Nissa got it and sealed the exit. Then she rolled the bubble forward. They heard nothing for a good 10 minutes.

Then, they all heard rustles. Nissa forwarded towards it and a group of ugly looking rats were fighting. "Boring," Nissa muttered before furthering in.

A gust of air chilled them to their bones. "Draco varana scior" she whispered.

"Or simply Dragons."

Nissa led the bubble to a nearby bush, just then a dragon went walking past. Sniffing the air curiously and looking around, Draco almost held his breath.

He marveled at the sight of those Dragons. 'Draco varana scior' he thought.

Nissa felt as if the Dragon was feeling their presence. She began to panic slightly.

"Guys I think it feels our presence. Mind talk." She whispered.

All the other opened up their minds immediately.

Oh merlin, I think we need to levitate. Nissa

No, if we levitate, it would hear the echoes from around it. We are blocking part of the echoes now and if we move, it would hear it. Hermione

Oh yeah, right. We cannot levitate. Just stay really quiet. Nissa

What in Merlin's name is it doing? Draco

Harry sniggered in his mind. I think it is giving birth. Harry

What the… Ron

Oooh, look here people. The head is coming out. Viera

Indeed as they saw it give birth, they were filled with great excitement. Nissa gave instructions again.

Listen here. Can you see how the Draco varana scior gives birth to its young. This is one of the few mammals of the Dark Creatures. I want you to examine the newborn. By dawnbreak, it would be able to walk, though unsteadily. Can you see it does not have its horn yet? The horn only appears when these animals have sexual intercourse. After the horn, they appear much more bolder. Just look closely. I want you to explain to the class tomorrow. Nissa

What is the weakness of the Dragons? Viera

Their back legs and between their eyes. Nissa

How old is this one? Harry

She looks young. Her horn is not fully developed. I might say 30? Nissa

What is their average lifespan? Draco

50 to 60 years. Look the newborn is a male. Nissa

I think we should leave now. It is 2.30 now. Nissa

Ooh, can't we stay here a little longer? Ron

No, its mate should be coming soon. Let's go. Nissa

As Nissa forwarded her bubble back towards the great tower - Hogwarts, she exclaimed the beauty of Hogwarts.

The six of them tiptoed to their dorm and fell asleep promptly with wild dreams of riding on Dragons. Draco was the most fascinated and he could not sleep without thinking he was riding on one of those. Draco varana scior.

On that month, Nissa had taken a total of the whole school for a tour of the Forbidden Forest. They learnt many different things. But she would explain what she had seen every trip to her 7th years. They were going to be much needed in the next few months.

Once her pupils had seen more dark creatures, she started on duels with them. Every day, they had to write a duel with one of the dark creatures. Although their DADA homework was much more than any other subject, the students enjoyed it much more and spent their soul over it. Even the first years had to do more dark creatures homework. She also instructed them to read more books about dark creatures. These students became more aware of weakness and strength. In a matter of weeks, they had preferred to use their mind and hands instead of the wands.

They learnt to use a wall to protect themselves. Soon she arrived at the difficult part – the fight.

One day, she led her 7th years to Hagrid.

"Ho, hi Nissa. Your winged dragonite is not behaving well. Hagrid a lot of trouble with Black."

"Of course Hagrid. She is no ordinary dragonite. Can you bring her out for me?"

The students looked at their friends curiously and began talking happily on how they were going to handle their first dark creature. As Hagrid brought Black out of his hut, the students recognized it to be a dragon.

"Can I try first Nissa?" Draco asked eagerly.

"Sure Draco, get on it and control with your mind."

"Malfoy betta' be careful. Black no' nice to anyone'." Hagrid warned.

But Draco needed no warning. He held her by her collar and suddenly leapt over it. Black took off in fear. But Draco managed to hold on. She leapt high into the air and started to fly. Draco patted her head slowly and began calming her down. But Black was no match for Draco. She whirled and whirtled till Draco lost his balance. He swung off Black's back but managed to hold onto her collar. He forced his mind to it but Black obliged.

Finally out of pressure, Black opened up her mind and Draco could control her, still hanging from her collar. He leapt upon her back and flew back to where the students were watching. He touched her down perfectly in control.

Nissa herself was amazed at Draco's strength to control the dragon. She had realized Draco was very enthusiastic about dark creatures when she first saw him. That was the main reason she asked him to come along with her to the first visit to the Forbidden Forest, and why he had allowed him to get on Black first. She had taken a little liking to him.