Authors note: I do not own any characters created by J.K. Rowling. Full credit goes to her for all situations and information mentioned in any of the 7 books or interviews, etc. as well. However, the storyline of this fanfic is all me and the little voice in my head.

*year 5 - age 16*

"Change for change's sake only"

This.
Was.
Not.
Good.

The ministry meddling in Hogwarts' affairs?
After a whole summer of nothing but slaunder on both Harry and Dumbledore?
Oh, this was NOT good.

And if he was right, that she used to be - or was she still? - Fudge's undersecretary...
Well, we were bound to be in for a real treat...

But how?
How did they manage to get that old hag the teaching position?
What good did they think it would do?

I couldn't help myself from wondering what kind of a teacher she would be -
but if I had to take it from the manual she assigned us...
It was all theory.
Not even a mention of wand movements, pronunciation, ...
And I highly doubted that her lessons would be any different...

And besides, some of the theories and concepts in that book sounded...
Well, just plain old highly unlikely - to say the least...

To start: it was printed in the 1950's - and I couldn't find anything about re-editing it since then.
But even compared to other defence books that were printed then, it seemed to be highly out-dated.
And I knew for a fact that the way they explained charms used as defensive spells, would lead no one to anything but a sure way to make that buffal-mistake professor Flitwick warned us for in our first year...

Really!
What were they trying to get from this?
Just keep us all completely vulnerable, with no means to protect ourselves, or stand up for what we belie-

Oh.

That was it, wasn't it?
The minister thought we would stand up for what we believed in.
And if we did that, he feared that it wouldn't be for his sake, but to defend -

Oh.

Wow.

I didn't know whether to feel sorry for the minister for being so desillusional, or just mad that he would let his fear to loose everything that made him worth something (in short: his title as minister) come in the way of giving us a chance to defend ourselves.

After all, even if He-Who-Must- oh fine, Voldemort, hadn't come back, there were still other people out there who wouldn't be afraid to harm others to get richer, more powerfull, more...

What were we supposed to do against them?
Start preaching that defence against the dark arts was only to be used theoretically?
Yes, that would do us a whole lot of good...

And the woman was still talking.
Harry was right, she did look a bit like a toad.
And she just kept on talking...

"Change for change's sake only"

Hello everybody! I know it took me awhile to get this out... I'm sorry, I just hit hardrock all of a sudden, and I couldn't seem to figure this one out... Anyway, I hope you liked it either way, and I would really appreciate it if you would let me know exactly what you thought by reviewing, favoriting and/or following!
Greetings!