Hey, guys I know I have not been updating 2 times a week it's been more like 1 time a week so I think i'm going to stick with that. If I have the time I will get 2 chapters up a week but don't count on it. Thank you all for reading this story it's at about 4,000 views and I never thought that was going to happen. So enjoy.
Harry's Pov.
The months started to go by and school was normal. I wasn't getting attacked by anyone it was great. I was really getting close to Percy from our private lessons. While he had been teaching me to fight I've also been teaching him how to do some magic since he didn't know much. I wonder why, like why would you hire a teacher if they can barely do magic. Well then again the DADA teachers in the past have also been questionable at magic. We stop distrusting Percy since I had been spending so much time with him I could see he wasn't the one we had to worry about.
Today in DADA we had a visitor. It was a person from the ministry of magic. Her name was like Umbride or something like that. Nobody had any idea what she was there for.
"Professor Jackson how long have you been teaching at this school," she asked.
"I started teaching this year, why does it matter?" he asked.
"How old are you, and who are your parents?" she said.
"Im 18 years old and my mother is Sally Jackson." He responded.
"And your father?" she asked.
"Dead, lost at sea before I was born now I would like to teach my class if you wouldn't mind," he said.
"Well of course but what are you teaching them?" she said.
"How to fight, now I know that a lot of people don't believe that You-Know-Who is alive but a student should always know how to defend themselves. There are many more threats in the world." He said "Now everyone gets with your usual partner and starts sparring. We will switch it up to some magic later."
"Now professor you should not be teaching them to fight. They are children this is only going to make them more violent." I overheard she say as I was sparring with Ron.
"It always better to be safe than sorry so I would rather have them know how to fight then have them been unprepared and someone dies because of it. So I will teach my class how I would like because it is my class and not yours." he said in a very angry tone.
"Can you even do magic professor. Did they teach you over in America?" She asked. "I heard that you went to a muggle school"
"Yes I can do magic, now I have to teach some things to my student so if you would like to politely watch and not interrupt that would be great." Percy said as he walked over to the rest of the class "Now, I would like 2 groups to come forward."
I walked forward pulling Ron behind me so did Seamus and Dean.
"Very well 20 points to Gryffindor for that. Now we have mainly been doing one on one but let's change it up a bit. You guys get to chose you can do 2 on 2 or you could do 4 on 1 all of you against me." Percy said.
Before I could say anything Seamus said "4 on 1 that will be more fun"
"Okay let's do that then," Percy said as he chuckled.
Oh, boy, had Seamus made the wrong decision. None of them actually knew how strong Percy was. We started the fight with all of our dulled down weapons. Percy didn't even have a weapon it's not like he needed one. He defeated us in less than 3 minutes.
"Boys that was good but there was a flaw with your fighting. Can someone tell me what it was?" Percy asked. "Yes Lavender"
"They did not work together." Lavender Brown said.
"That is correct. Teamwork is one of the most crucial parts of the battle. It can be the deciding factor between winning and losing. Now you four your teamwork was so bad it was as if it was every man for themselves." He said "For the next few days we will be working in bigger groups working on teamwork and strategies for when you have a big and small team with you. And for the rest of the class, we will be working on magic. Since I know that's what most of you are better at. Try casting your Patronus i know this is a difficult spell. I had trouble learning it but it can be very useful."
After Percy said that he cast his patronus. It was a dolphin this was the first time he had been able to do it completely. I had been teaching him in our private lessons but he never really got it. He was probably able to do it due to the fact that Umbridge was here. Since his job was on the line. So everyone started to cast their patronus. Some people were definitely better than others but most people were starting to get the hang of it.
The rest of the class was pretty normal although Umbridge looked a little bit angry in the back. After class ended when we were walking out Umbridge was talking to Percy about his teacher. I wonder what she was saying I'll ask him later.
Percy's Pov.
Today in class this stupid toad dressed in all pink was "Observing" my class. What the hell, who does she think she is trying to tell me how to teach my class. She is just some idiot from the ministry of magic or whatever the hell that is. She kept interrupting and asking me personal questions. What do my parents have to do with my ability to teach ugh it's just so annoying. After the 5th year class ended (which was the one she was observing) she stayed and started to lecture me.
"Professor Jackson you should not be teaching these kids to fight." She said.
"Oh, so what am I supposed to do just have them be unprepared when they need to fight. You never know when learning just the basics of fighting can save your life. There are many dark things out in the world both magical and non-magical. Even if you don't believe that Voldemort is back there are still a lot of other angry people and monsters that can hurt the students." I said.
"Hogwarts is a very safe space now I assure you that they do not need it." the toad said.
"Oh, but what if they are not at Hogwarts. Im teaching defense against the dark arts what else should I be teaching them about. Oh, today we're going to learn about all these bad creatures but I'm not going to teach you about how to defeat them" I said mockingly "that defeats the whole purpose. Now I suggest that you leave because I can teach my students the way I want. You do not own this castle you have no rights to tell me what I have to do. I have more power in my eyelash than you have in your whole body. I suggest that you stop criticizing my learning and leave."
"You should really learn how to respect your elders Jackson," she said as she stormed out in anger.
Finally, she had left I can be free from her wrath. But now I have to teach all of my other classes. oh, Boy, today going to be a long day. Nothing interesting really happened in all my other classes but today just felt so long. All I wanted to do was talk to Annabeth tell her about everything that has been happening. My private lessons with Harry and the ugly ass pink toad. It was December i wanted to go home for Christmas but nope I have to stay at Hogwarts. The first thing I did when I got back to my room was IM Annabeth.
"Hey, wise girl how's it going," I said.
"Pretty good how's your wizard school going?" she asked.
"Don't even get me started today there was this ugly pink toad. She came to observe my class. She was awful like what does my parentage have to do with my ability to teach. She would not shut up about how I should not be teaching my students how to fight. Then what should I do I teach Defense Against the Dark Arts for god sake that what they are supposed to be doing? I wish you could be here Annabeth." I said.
"Yikes, that does not seem fun. I wish I could be there with you too Seaweed brain." She said.
"Well you see there is this thing called the Yule Ball and I was wondering if your free could you come?" I asked.
"Percy I wish I could but I'm really busy with school and everything." she said.
We ended up talking for a few hours she kept me up with everything that was happening at camp halfblood and camp Jupiter. Nothing was new no new quests had been issued everything was quite peaceful. The prophecy that Professor Trelawney gave we still had no idea what it was about. After we finished I IM my mom we talked for a bit but she couldn't talk for that long.
After I talked to them I decided that I needed to clear my head so I went to take a swim. The lake here was very nice so were the merpeople and this giant squid. From what I have heard people are too scared to go in it. I think that the merpeople are just misunderstood they are very nice. I ended up swimming for way longer than I had planned when I got out it was dark. I had missed dinner and my lesson with Harry. Shit, what should I do? I ran to the library to see if he was there with Ron and Hermione. He wasn't it was only Hermione and she was looking at newspapers. As I get closer I realize that it was the newspaper from when I was 12 on my first quest.
"Hey, Hermione do you know where Harry is?" I said.
"He is in the common room with Ron." she said as she quickly covered all of the information on me.
"Oh well when you go could you tell him I'm sorry that I missed our lesson today I was swimming and lost track of time," I said.
"Yeah of course," she said.
"Okay thank you I'll be on my way," I said as I left the library.
What the hell why was she digging into my past. I thought that I wasn't being suspicious. This is really bad what if she finds out I'm a demigod.
Hermione's Pov.
This is really bad Professor Jackson just caught me looking up information on him. He acted like he didn't see but there is no way that he didn't. What am I going to tell Harry I told him I would stop looking for information on him. I went to the common room to go find Harry to tell him about what had just happened and what Professor Jackson had said.
"Hey Harry I was just at the library and I ran into Professor Jackson. He said that he is really sorry that he missed your private lesson and that he lost track of time swimming." I said.
"Oh okay, thanks you Hermione for telling me that. Are you okay you look kind of anxious?" He asked.
"Um well, you see when I was in the library I was looking at information on Professor Jackson. I know you said not to but I just wanted to know a little more and Professor Jackson may have caught me while doing it." I said.
"Hermione what why were you doing that. He is a good man there is nothing off about him. Why do you keep insisting that he is the bad guy here? At first, you were the one who told me and Ron to stop following him around." He said.
"I know it's just something seemed off about him so I was just trying to find something out. I'm really sorry." I said.
"Whatever just don't do it again okay his life is a lot more depressing than you think," Harry said.
"What do you mean by that. Have you been finding things out about his life from your little private lessons and not telling us." I said.
"So what if I am but trust me you do not want to learn about all the horrible things that he has been through. Anyway, i'm going to sleep." Harry said as he stormed up the stairs.
"Yikes, Hermione i haven't seen him this mad in a while. I should probably go talk some sense into him so goodnight I guess." Ron said.
"Okay, Goodnight Ron." I said as we parted ways.
I really messed this up how can I be so stupid. I haven't even really learned much about him. But why does Harry know so much and why won't he tell me, It's just so frustrating.
Thanks for reading. I've been having trouble making out my storyboard because i don't really know where i want to take this story so sorry thats its been taking me so long to update. Anyway i would just like to mention that this story is as if TOA never happened. I hope you enjoyed please review i really enjoy reading all the reviews.
