Allen had spent a very long time on that train. To state it bluntly, he was bored of staring out the window. All he wanted to do was communicate with someone, anyone! Of course, he was on a "secret" mission and stuck in the front car so he couldn't just go wandering around the entire train. But all this isolation was going to drive him insane if he didn't make contact with some one in the next minute, he was even considering trying to contact Road. No wait, he took that back, anyone but her.
He was about to yank open the door to his compartment when it some how opened by itself, or by one of the workers on the train. "Phone call for you Professor Walker." The worker said as he handed the phone to him. Had god sent him a gift from heaven?
"Hello? Who is it?"
"Hey Allen, it's Lavi." Correction, a curse from hell.
"Oh, Hey Lavi. What's up?" Lavi probably could have noticed the loss of excitement in Allen's voice.
"So, tell me," He began, ignoring the change in attitude, "What's your secret mission? You have to tell me! Bookman won't say anything and Komui only rants about how awesome it is. I sat there for three hours listening to him just to get some kind of clue to what it is, yet I still got nothing. Three Hours Allen. THREE HOURS!"
"I'm deeply sorry Lavi but I'm not allowed to tell you." Allen's tone then became a lot darker, "Say Lavi, have you ever heard of 'Curiosity killed the cat'?"
"Is that a threat?"
"Maybe..." Allen said, he could now see a castle come into view. Based on the pictures he saw, it probably was Hogwarts Castle. "Sorry Lavi, I have to go. Say hell to everyone for me!" And he hung up the phone before Lavi could protest.
When Allen made it to the entrance, there was already some one waiting for him. 'This castle is huge, I'm going to get so lost... focus Allen. If I remember correctly, I think this is Professor McGonagall.' He bowed all gentleman like. "Hello Professor McGonagall, pleasure to meet you."
"Well thank you. It's nice to finally meet the prodigy himself." She shook his hand. "Come, Dumbledore would like to have a word with you before the students begin to arrive." She then ushered him inside.
They then arrived at a stone statue. Allen was surprised when after a simple phrase, the state moved to reveal a staircase. "Come on then. We shouldn't keep him waiting.
"Ah, Mr. Walker. I see you made it here in time. So glad that you could join us." Dumbledore greeted him and they sat down to talk. 'His office is amazing, so many books too...' Allen thought. He saw Timcanpy explore the room a bit before taking his place on Allen's head.
"Tonight's feast will begin in an hour or so. There will be a sorting of the new students and then a quick introduction about the new year." He handed Allen a piece of paper. "Your room is on this paper along with directions to the dinning hall. That should be all for now."
"Right, thank you Headmaster."
McGonagall walked over to Allen. "Also, we've gotten word that the Ministry is sending some one to supervise over the school. So it would be wise not to get into trouble."
Dumbledore walked over and placed his hand on Allen's shoulder. "Good Luck on your first year as a teacher at Hogwarts School."
After wandering the hallways, he had finally made it to his room. 'I guess I didn't get lost yet... I mean this place is HUGE and the moving staircases don't help much either.'
Allen began to unpack his things. Just some pictures and other assorted things. He held up hid General's jacket, and quickly put it away, not wanting to bring back old memories, instead he wore a cool looking trench coat instead. After a little more unpacking, he decided it would be good to head down to dinner. "So, how do I get down to the dinning hall?" Allen held up the piece of paper to get a better look when a certain golem swooped down and grabbed it from his hands. "Timcanpy! Don't you dare-" Too late, the golden golem had ate the paper, his only paper that had the directions.
"Oh no..." His face turned a ghostly white. 'It's ok, I can do this. It shouldn't be that hard to find, right?" Oh, he was so wrong.
Harry was glad to be back Hogwarts. He was with his friends and it was the only place he truly felt as home. He watched each first year get sorted into one of the four houses, cheering for every new Gryffindor. "This kinda brings back memories, doesn't Ron?"
The Weasely boy looked over. "Yeah, it's still exciting. I don't know what I'd do if I wasn't sorted into Gryffindor."
"Hey, does any of you know who the new DADA teacher is or when he's arriving?" Hermione asked them. The two shook their heads.
"Let's just pray it's not Snape." Harry crossed his fingers. He could tell by the looks everyone had that is wasn't just Hermione who was curious about the new teacher.
"I'm so hungry Tim... I don't know how much longer I'll last." He sighed, lost and tired the exorcist had almost given up all hope when he found a large door. Next to it were the words, Dinning Hall.
"Finally, I made it!" The boy jumped into the air.
He could hear Dumbledore's words through the door. "And now, I would like to introduce our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher." It was as if Dumbledore knew that Allen was right outside the door.
"Ok, let's do this Tim."
The whole dinning hall went completely silent. Harry, along with most of the other students turned towards the door. A young man, no, a teen came into the room and made his way down the center aisle. Flying next to him was what looked like an overgrown Golden Snitch.
"Harry, his hair is pure white but yet he's only like what? 14 years old?" He saw the stunned expression on her face.
"Yeah, and he has a red scar down his face. It kinda makes yours look like nothing. Wait, it that a star? Than I guess it could be some strange tattoo." Ron was right, that scar or tattoo covered the left side of his face, how odd.
"I wonder what he is like, You know, Strict? Relaxed? Cruel?" Harry asked, He could hear the whispers of the people around him.
"He can't be cruel with such a kind face."
"He can't be the new professor. He's too young."
"He's so cute."
Everyone was whispering one question after another until the Professor turned around to face the students causing then to fall silent once again.
"Hello everyone. I am Professor Walker." He bowed.
"What a gentleman." Smirked Ron.
Professor Walker continued, "I look forward to teach you all this year. It's an Honor to be in the presence of such a fine school. I hope we can all enjoy this year and I certainly can't wait to meet each and every one of you." He then took his place at the dinning hall.
Dumbledore stood up once more. "I would also like to introduce, Dolores Umbridge. She will be supervising the school for the Ministry due to the recent events that has been happening at this school over the past few years." He pointed to a women who seemed to wear a little too much pink. She also said a few, more like a lot of words but no one was paying much attention.
"I can't believe this! Now the Ministry is trying to interfere with Hogwarts!" Hermione exclaimed, unlike everyone else who started gossiping about the new teacher, she was paying attention. She then realized that Ron and Harry weren't paying any attention to Umbridge or her.
"Well Harry, this has to be some kind of prank. I mean he's just or age and everything!"
"Obviously Ron, if he actually is the teacher then he has to be intellectually advanced." Hermione stated.
"Well, I don't think I like him much. There's just something off about him. What do you think Harry?"
"I think we should wait and see how the class turns out, who knows, it could be enjoyable." He looked over to see the new teacher whisper something to Dumbledore, he also was clutching his eye. The headmaster nodded and Walker ran off.
"See Harry, there's something suspicious about him. I just know it." He made his point and went back to enjoying his dinner.
Allen had made it outside when he was confronted by three level two Akuma. Without a second thought, he activated Crown Clown and began his all out attack.
"An Exorcist? Here of all places?" One of the Akuma's asked, it let it's guard down and he came on for the strike. One down, two to go.
"He took down the second one with ease. He turned to attack the remaining Akuma when it said something he didn't expect. "You don't know why we are here, do you? Well, of course you don't. And you never will."
Allen brought out his 'Sword of Exorcism' "Tell me why your here." He threatened.
"Aren't you so scary you foolish Exorcist." The Akuma mocked him. Allen wasn't prepared for what happened next. Strangely, the Akuma lunged itself at his sword and got destroyed.
'Why would the Akuma do that? There must be something important the Earl wants to keep hidden if the Akuma are willing to destroy themselves before answering me. How strange... I need to report this to Komui.'
-Gryffindor Tower-
"Ron, do you know where the professor went?" Harry Asked.
"Probably to sneak off somewhere." Ron packed the last of his things away. "We could ask him tomorrow, we have his class first after all."
"True." Harry couldn't shake this uncertain feeling he had. Hopefully he could get a good nights sleep and be ready for tomorrow. 'This is going to be another interesting year...'