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Chapter 3: The New Professor

Harry, Ron, and Hermione rushed to their first Defense Against the Dark Arts class. They had all woken up late and didn't want to get detention on the first day. The room was so full of lively chatter from the Slytherins and Gryffindors that no one noticed the hooded figure that had entered the room, except Hermione. "Guys look! I believe that is our new professor," she said.

The hooded figure headed toward the front as silenced filled the classroom, turned around, and began to address the students in a somewhat botched accent: never taking the cloak off. The accent seemed to be a mix of very different languages. "My name is Annabelle Lacora Esmeralda Isabelle D. Shani, but you will address me as Professor D. Shani. I will not tolerate any snide comments or back talk in my class. You get one warning and then it's straight to detention. As some of you know I am the new Head of Slytherin and I Do Not play favorites! Some of you may have heard or read about me and I would just like to say that you can't always trust what you read or first perceive. Now that being said I want you all to turn to page 247 and we will begin our lessons on performing spells with out a wand. Now who can tell me what the best use of not having a wand? Uh, Miss Granger, always with an answer, eh?" "The use of spells without a wand can be a very good defensive if some one has broken or taken your wand away, but it drains a lot of magic from the person performing the spell so it is only used in the most extreme and dangerous situations," stated Hermione. "Fantastic, Miss Granger 10 points to Gryffindor. You are right about it taking a lot of magic to perform. That is why we will only focus on the relatively easy spells," the professor said surveying the room, "For example, Mr. Longbottom will you stand up please?" "Y-yes professor," Neville answered standing next to his desk. "Accio wand," Professor D. Shani said as Neville's wand shot into her out stretched fingers. The students clapped as she walked to the back of the room to return his wand. "That's just a little taste of what we will learn this year. Now for the rest of the period I want all of you to read page 247 to 347 and give me a half a scroll report on it, due Wednesday."

The rest of the day progressed relatively slowly for the trio, except for their mounting curiosity over their new professor. They had decided to look information up about her in the library. " You know I think we might actually like her," said Ron. "Don't forget she is the head of the worst house in the whole school. And why does she keep wearing that hood? I think that she is hiding a deformity or something," said Harry. "She does seem rather secretive, but less face it what DADA teacher isn't," said Hermione. "I wonder if she really has done anything book worthy, I mean we've been in here for three hours and haven't found a thing. Besides it's almost suppertime. I think we should forget it," stated Ron. " No… wait a minute… I found something in this Famous Witches and Wizards through the Ages book," said Hermione. "So read it to us," said Harry.

"Let me see…oh… Annabelle D. Shani spent five years as the youngest and top auror of are world. She single-handedly put and end to the wizarding crime rings in America and put many death eaters in Azkaban. She was adopted at the age of five by the highly influential and respected Shani family. She is the only surviving member of the Shani family, but has three other siblings from her blood parents. After her incapacitation in Azkaban the four Ds, as they have been known as throughout the world, moved to the South of France where they reside to this day. No one knows who their parents are, and if the four children know they are not telling," read Hermione. "What do you mean incapacitation in Azkaban?" asked Harry. "Apparently she spent 3 months in Azkaban and retired from being and auror to be a teacher at that French school you like so much Ron," said Hermione. "So why did she go to prison?" asked Ron. "It says she was convicted of murdering Marcus Ligtrap. She was cleared of all charges 17 and a half years ago." "You know I'm sure it takes a lot of years to do all of this stuff. I wonder how old she is?" asked Harry. "Who bloody knows anymore," said Ron. "So tell us some more," said Harry. "Like what?" asked Ron. "How about what's with the hood," stated Harry. "There is nothing in here about that. The book says that she and her sisters are all very enchanting beauties, so who knows," said Hermione as she closed the book.

"My mistress is not what she seems. She is very good, but crossing her is bad. Don't make the same mistake others have," said a small house elf. "Where the bloody hell did you come from?" asked a very shaken up Ron. "My name is Misty. I am the house elf to Mistress Annabelle. I was watching the three of you," said the little elf. "Wait a minute. I thought house elves where free when their masters gave them clothes," Harry said, as he looked the little creature up and down. The elf had on a pink shirt, a pink and purple plaid skirt, matching jacket and hat, and little black shoes. "You are dressed very nicely for a slave," stated Hermione. "I was freed years ago, but my mistress pays me very well to stay with her. She is a very good person only misunderstood. I must leave, but I must implore you to not go lurking where you have not been invited to." With that the little elf disappeared leaving the trio to ponder the meaning behind her words. "So what the bloody hell was that all about?" asked a very bewildered Ron. "I don't know. Maybe Professor D. Shani doesn't want people to know about her being in prison. You know 3 months is a very short time for killing someone. I wonder how she got out so quickly? I also wonder what the D in her name stands for?" asked Harry. "I'm not sure but I do know that we're late for supper. Let's go eat and talk more about this in the common room. We might even get another letter from this mystery person," said Hermione as the three friends got up and left for the great hall.