School Flames
"I wonder what the new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher is like," muttered Ron looking at the door nervously,
"Well if she is crap we only have her for a year," said Harry, as the door opened. The plump looking witch came out.
"Come in!" She said happily, waddling to her seat. She rested her hands on the table in front of her. Harry took a seat, next to Ron,
"It is so nice to see you all! I am Professor Silimon," she said speaking to them like they were five. "Now… I understand, that you have had a few good… and a few bad teachers," she said her voice lowering slightly, "I hope, I am one of the good ones," she said with a smile. "You may find… I am strict," she said her voice now stern, "but I love my work, and seeming you are doing it in your last year of this school, I gather you love it to." She paused, "right well, that's enough talk, I am going to jump straight into things! Today we are talking about the most dangerous monsters in this world. I believe you had one of them, under you're school! Does anyone know what that was called?" she said glancing around the classroom, Harry, Ron and Hermione shot their hands up in the air.
"Yes," she said pointing to Harry,
"A Basilisk," he said,
"Very good, now, the Basilisk is Slytherin's serpent. The Slytherin symbol is a Basilisk. It is unknown, whether the other creatures still live. It is known the Basilisk is dead," Harry smirked,
"But …. like Gryffindor's lion for instance! No one knows if it still lives, or though there have been sightings in some places." She said nodding and walking around the room,
"Today, this will be a theory lesson. Because, obviously I can't bring in one of these creatures," she said with a laugh, which made her chin wobble, "now, the Gryffindor lion has been seen in Africa, and in Egypt and Iceland. So it is almost impossible to locate it because of the amount of different places people have supposably been seen," she paused and took a seat, "like the Basilisk, each of the creatures are very deadly. Only a few people know why there are creatures that go along with the Hogwarts founders. Some say, that it is because they created them that with good comes bad. I personally do not know what I think," she sighed,
"Others say that the Hogwarts founders were evil, and tried to invent all these creatures to take over the world," she laughed again, "but I doubt that," she walked back to her seat and sat down, "so the four Hogwarts creatures are the worst of all, another one, which is known to muggles as well is the Loch Ness, it died about a year ago. Wizards got it out of the sea it swam in, to hide it. It was a shame that it came across muggles, some spotted it, and it was on the news. It was a nasty creature, bad tempered…" she frowned, "it is lucky not many got hurt, it has horrible venom…" they talked for the rest of the lesson about these monsters. Harry was paying special attention to the Hogwarts creatures. He wondered if Voldemort knew where they were.
"Wow, she is good!" Said Hermione leaving the class; "I mean she really knew her stuff!"
"Yeah she was pretty good," said Harry,
"I didn't know Hogwarts houses creatures were… alive," said Ron in awe, as they headed down to lunch. "I didn't even fall asleep," he added,
"Me neither," admitted Harry, Hermione rolled her eyes,
"You know, if you do fall asleep I'm not giving you my notes," she said angrily,
"If you want me to fail," said Ron,
"That's not going to work," sighed Hermione,
"Nice try," said Harry to Ron as they reached the Great Hall, Ginny was already seated and was in conversation with Lavender.
"Oh no," muttered Ron, Hermione followed his eyes,
"Oh… Lavender… right,"
"Bloody break ups," muttered Harry looking over to where Cho was deep in conversation with her friend, whose 'sneak,' dots had faded away slightly, but was still imminent. Harry sighed and walked over to Ginny,
"Hey Ginny, hey Lavender," he said sitting down,
"Hey," said Ginny giving him a kiss,
"Hi Harry," said Lavender distracted by Ron, who was walking towards them with Hermione. Ron sat down next to Harry,
"Hey Gin… er… hi Lavender," he muttered helping himself to the food in front of him, as did Harry.
"Hi…" muttered Lavender glowering at Hermione, who took no notice and sat on the other side of Ginny. A girl walked passed Harry with her friend, and fluttered her eyelashes at him,
"Still going on huh?" Asked Harry,
"Seems so," replies Hermione, looking after the girls, "I'd be careful what you drink Harry," she said nodding, Ginny laughed.
That afternoon lessons were uneventful. Professor McGonagall took this opportunity to give them homework on transfiguring cats into dogs, which was extremely hard, and only Hermione was able to do it in one lesson. Charms were equally as hard, they were given an essay, a role of parchment long. By the end of the Day, the trio were about ready to collapse,
"On our bloody first day!" Argued Ron sitting at the table, his charms books laid in front of him. He pushed his red hair back with his hand,
"That's it! I give up!" Groaned Harry falling backwards. Hermione glanced up,
"Oh for goodness sake!" She said, throwing a book to Harry, he caught it and sat up. Flipping through the pages, he found what he needed. Harry rested the book on his knees and scanned through the page with his finger, reading one of the paragraphs,
"This is boring!" mumbled Harry,
"So is this," muttered Ginny, who was laid on the floor on her stomach, her hands against her forehead looking at a large book, "I sware I have read this sentence fifteen times and I still haven't picked it up," she sighed and closed it.
"I'll have more chance tomorrow,"
"Same," said Harry shutting his,
"Fine, but don't come running to me when you are over-due," said Hermione, Harry rolled his eyes. Ron shut his book,
"Not you too!" Said Hermione,
"Sorry," said Ron, "but there is just so long my brain can focus…"
"So, Harry am I still on the team?"
"Oh God don't remind me of that!" Said Harry sighing, "but yes, you are, of course you are."
"Oh good," said Ginny with a smile,
"Am I?" Asked Ron,
"Yep," said Harry simply,
"When are the tryouts?"
"Next week," Harry sighed and checked his watch, it was one in the morning. He stared into the fire. He saw a flash of a head; Harry frowned moving closer to it.
"What is it Harry?" Asked Hermione looking up from her book, Harry didn't answer, he was sure he saw something. He leaned his head closer to the fire, feeling the warmth against his face, another flash admitted from the flames and the head of his dead godfather appeared.
Mua hahahaha cliff-hanger. Sorry it took so long and it was so short! Everything is over now, except for school so ya it'll be easier to update. Please Read and Review!
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