Care of Magical Creatures Substitute
Alright, this is my first fanfic, so please go easy on me. :$ This is chapter 2, please enjoy!
(Also, Rae is my character, don't hate please lol)
Copyright: I do not claim to own the Harry Potter series, or any of it's characters, that right belongs to J.K. Rowling.
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The three of them proceded to make their way up the Grand Staircase, as exhaughsting as it was, they wanted to get Ancient Runes over with. Yuck. Ancient Runes was one of the more boring classes for Harry, and most of the other students only took it so that they didn't have to do any of the other classes, that were far more difficult. Before they even entered the class room, they heard shouting and laughing coming from the door. Harry looked at the others and they glanced at him with the same confused expression. Ron stepped forward and pushed the door open and what they saw, suprised them. Most of the sudents were walking around, out of their seats, and chatting up a storm. From what Harry could hear, each conversation had something to do with the new supply teacher.
Shemus spotted Harry and grabbed his and Ron's arm, pulling them over to Dean so he could explain his theory that the new teacher was actually a model from Berlin. Ron chirpped in excitedly and Hermione just listened while rolling her eyes. Harry himself wasn't listening, he was actually trying to eavsdrop on Neville. He could hear him talking to Lavender about the new teacher. Neville and Lavender seemed to know things the others didn't.
"Ms. Jordi is my mother's, friend's, daughter actually. I met her when I was very little... I wonder if she still remembers me...?" Lavender said with a frown. "S-she probably does. Do you know why shes here? I mean, I know shes famous and all; I read all about her discovery of the magical properties of Valerian roots. But why did she come here? Isn't she busy?" Neville asked her shyly.
"I have no idea. As I mentioned, I haven't seen her in, like foreverrrr..." Lavender whined.
"Hmmm... Do you think I could ask her to mentor me?" Neville asked the witch unexpectadly. Lavender looked up with a pause. "Well, its possible, however unlikely it may be. She doesn't really fit in from what I can remember. Not a very social person... Maybe Hermione knows something more. You should ask her if you're serious." Neville nodded slowly, his face scrunched up in thought.
Harry was brought back to the present when the teacher called for all the noise to be quieted. He followed Ron and Hermione to a three-seater desk and whispered the news he had heard to his friends, while Proffesor Bathsheda Babbling went on with the class. "Oh my goodness! If only the headmaster had told me her name. I know who she is now! Shes famous! Oh shes been mentioned in 38 books on Magical creatures, and if I can remeber correctly, over 42 books on herbology! I was just reading about her recently in, "Dragon's Wea-". "OK! We get it," Ron cut in, "now can you quit babbling about books and tell us who she is?" Hermione snorted and gave Ron one of her looks; "Well, if you had let me finnish, I would have gotten to that. Her name is Rae Jordi, or at least everyone calls her that. Her full name is Rae Jordious-Kaiter. She is like your brother Charlie, Ron. She has been studying Dragons for almost all her life, ever since she got out of Hogwarts." Ron's eyes glanced at Harry, questioning. "I wonder why shes here, I mean, I don't know why should would accept the job here, since she has so many things shes already working on." Hermione continued. The boys nodded to her in agreement.
The rest of the day went by pretty smoothly, but nobody apart from themselves, Neville and Lavender seemed to have any idea who she was. And by the end of lunch, the topic had become a top-of-the-list subject. Anybody who knew anything, was the main attraction of the students. Teachers were being tortured left and right for information, the Great Hall was probably the loudest it had ever been, and the only ones keeping their cool were the Slytherins. All of Slytherin table was silently watching Ms. Jordi, who was staring back at them just as fiercly. This went on until the entire Great Hall emptied out.
"Wow, she really has something against the Slytherins..." Harry noted as they made their way to their next class. "Ya, no kidding!" Ron laughed out. "Hey, Hermione, do you know what house she was in when she was still a student here?" Harry asked her curiously. "No, but you're right, she was not in Slytherin." She replied while avoiding the eyes of a certain Dean Thomas, who had been listening in on their conversation.
"What could she possibly have in store for us in class?" Harry pondered.
The rest of the afternoon apeared to sped right past them in anticipation of the Care of Magical Creatures class...