Take that bloody hood down
Ta da, its chapter 2 guys, hope you enjoy it
Chapter 2 – Competition
All her homework completed, Rose leant back comfortably in her armchair to observe Kyle struggling with his homework.
"This is impossible," he declared, his History of Magic essay only an inch too short. "There is nothing more to say about Ulrich the Unclean actually enjoying taking a bath."
"Have you written about what sort of plumbing there was during his time?" Rose asked.
"Sweet Merlin, Rose you are a genius," Kyle yelled, startling several second years who were playing wizards chess across the room.
"Yeah, yeah, tell me something I don't know," Rose teased as Kyle was furiously scribbling across the bottom of his parchment.
Finishing the final word, 'soap' with a flourish, Kyle leant back to look at the portraits of ex-Gryffindors who had died, both in the second wizarding war and in the events that followed. Even a year after Voldemort had been killed there were still Death Eaters who considered the death of their master the end, but that they now had nothing to lose and went on killing sprees.
On one wall of the common room there were a number of portraits of people who had died during those killing sprees or trying to catch the people behind them.
Kyle's father and mother were at the top, looking down on them. Beneath their faces a gold chain wrote their names again and again. Dean Thomas… Katie Bell… Dean Thomas… Katie Bell…
"I wish I could talk to them, not in a portrait, like in real life, I want to, be able to," he reached out hand, but then closed it into a fist and let his arm drop to his side.
"I know," Rose said kindly, leaning forward in her chair. "I know the feeling," and her eyes darted to the portrait of her uncle Fred, where he was shown in a clown hat, which was his idea (according to George's theory about Fred's wishes).
Just then Olivia climbed into the portrait hole, she looked very tired and had stains down her uniform. She had just come back from helping Madam Pomfrey in the Hospital Wing.
"How are the sick people?" Rose asked, she knew Olivia be pleased someone was taking an interest in her extra activities. Olivia had inherited her great-grandmothers gift for healing was always there for Madam Pomfrey if she needed an extra pair of hands.
"Well, they're fine now," Olivia claimed, smiling smugly. "I fixed them,"
"If only you could fix the world," Kyle said airily.
"What do you mean 'if only'?" Olivia asked, mock hurt. "I could most definitely fix the world,"
"Oh, of course, you're just misunderstood," Rose put in, grinning at Olivia.
"Highly,"
Rose just rolled her eyes, "C'mon, crazy girl, time for bed," She grabbed Olivia's hand.
"Right, right"
The next morning began with a simple Potions lesson on making love potions.
Scorpius had purposely chosen a seat next to Beth, because he knew she had experience in making them.
"This is much better when you can use magic," Beth commented to him, grabbing his hand at the last second to stop him adding in his Ashwinder eggs. "You missed out the rose thorns, anyway, when my mum was teaching me this I didn't have a wand, and I always used to prick my finger on these," she indicated with a nod of her head to the rose thorns she was levitating into her cauldron.
Once the lesson was over, and Slughorn had pronounced Beth's Amortentia "Perfect" she, Scorpius, Luke, Victoria and Jace all left for their first Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson of the year with the Gryffindors.
"What do you reckon about this new teacher, Venustus?" Luke asked, looking towards Jace, who was known amongst Slytherins for his abilities of reading people.
"He hasn't actually met Venustus before, Luke, how do you expect him to know what he's like?" Beth asked. "Either way he's going to be a popular teacher,"
"Why?" Scorpius asked.
"Um, because we all saw at the start of term feast that he is HOT," Victoria put in, getting looks from the guys while Beth was nodding. "Don't tell me you guys didn't notice,"
"Guys don't notice when other guys are, what was the word, 'hot'?" Luke said, while Beth and Victoria rolled their eyes.
"He's is going to be popular, trust me. He has that whole dark and mysterious thing going for him,"
"I'm dark and mysterious," Luke said, pulling forward his black hair so that it hooded his eyes. "I just don't wear eye-liner,"
Once they reached the classroom on the third floor they found the Gryffindors were already there, all five of them chatting away, something about if the healer girl and the Jordon guy getting into a fight with no wands, who would win.
"Hey, class, sorry if I'm a little late, my name is Professor Venustus, and I'm your new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher,"
"Famous last words," Jace muttered. Scorpius smirked, (even though the curse on the DADA teacher position had been broken long before their lifetime, everyone still knew about it) but it quickly fell of his face when he saw how Rose was looking at the new teacher.
Aw, hell no.
Rose blinked. She knew there was no proper uniform for the teachers but because they only seemed to wear black robes she had figured no one questioned it, but in front of her now was some kind of God, wearing dark blue muggle jeans, a tight fitting black t-shirt and an open, sleeveless hoodie that barely concealed his dark hair.
"Right, let's get started shall we?" He opened the door to the room and walked briskly up to the front, either not noticing or ignoring the blatant staring from most of the girls as he strutted up. When he reached the front he turned to see the whole class standing awkwardly at the back of the room waiting to be told where to sit. "Oh, right. I, uh, don't have specific seats for you yet. I don't see why you guys can't sit where you want, and then if we have a problem i can arrange a seating plan," There was a murmur of agreement and some excitement about being able to sit with their friends. Only in Charms were they allowed to sit where they wanted.
Scorpius, Jace and Luke took the seats in the back row, just behind Beth and Victoria in the slightly longer middle-row, also sat there with a very reluctant Fred and Kyle, and right in the front row Rose sat in the middle in between Cho and Olivia.
Wow, Rose thought This guy is like my favorite teacher, easy on the eyes, clearly smart, sees no reason not to trust us to sit where we want so he has faith. Shame about that hoodie, it kind of ruins his look.
A/N: So Rose doesn't like the hoodie... hmmmm I wonder what will happen *strokes imaginary beard*
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