Nico Di Angelo is off to Hogwarts

I'm pretty sure I'm a sucky teacher but eh deal with it

In the next few minutes, I'm gonna be teaching my first class.

Isn't that amazing! Me, Nico di Angelo, a teacher!

Remus gave me loads of tips to make class fun and stuff, while in the background Sirius was making Snape go through behavioral reformation with some questionable but effective tactics.

Hmm, if Snape changes for the better, we can actually set him up with other people so that he can move on. As much as I hate his personality, if he learns from his mistakes he's not that bad, albeit a little depressed.

Will helped me organize my materials but I actually don't want to touch theory any time soon since it's always the practical stuff that's fun and engaging. And I, with the authority of a teacher, can make pairs! And thankfully my otps are equally matched in strength, at least magic-wise, to each other otherwise I'd just feel very authoritarian. It's always good to make equally matched pairs so that both can strive to out-do the other.

Ah I just forgot they all except a few are not that great physically, since they're so used to depending on magic. I'll just have them practice more the muggle way, although this will get some supremists angry but they'll just have to deal with it if they want a good grade.

Soon people started getting in as they shot some odd looks at us who stood proudly at the front. Once the class was full and had quiet conversations about us in varying volumes, I decided to speak up.

"Hello, I'm Nico di Angelo and this is Will Solace, we'll be your other Defense against the Dark Arts professors for this year as there are certain special circumstances that's going to come up and we need you to be able to protect yourselves."

Will nodded and started speaking his part.

"We know you all are at least somewhat proficient in magic, so now we shall introduce a new form of it that may aid you, wandless or otherwise. We present to you—"

"Magic Combat"
"Magic Combat"

We both looked at each other and grinned. We both back to the ends of the classroom and readied our wands. I ran towards him and he took a single step forward and cast stupefy and my wand was tossed straight to Draco, who caught it effortlessly causing a few claps from the class. I went closer and grabbed his arm and tossed him over my shoulder and before he could cast his next spell, I shoved him to the floor and casted a wandless and wordless spell to bind him with invisible chains and took his wand away from him.

After my standing ovation and my dramatic bows, I undid Will's restraints and high fived him after pulling him up.

Will gave me a wink and gestured me to bend down, then proceeded to whisper next to my ear, something that got me blushing to my roots.

"How daring, di Angelo, but I didn't dislike it."

Gosh this perv, ugh not in front of the class on the first day, he looked completely normal and I looked like a tomato next to him. I saw Draco dying of laughter after seeing that, much to everyone's confusion. Harry looked positively charmed by his laughter while Ron and Hermione were lovingly smiling at each other. The slytherin kids didn't know what was going on but found it absolutely hilarious that the usually restrained Draco Malfoy was laughing like he was gonna pass out the next minute.

This little demonstration got everyone's enthusiasm cranked up to the max which made teaching them easy, and as this is my class I found it easier to relate to them since I know most of them.

Out of all of them, I was most surprised by how Neville showed great interest and fantastic potential for this, especially for the sword, and I think Percy's gonna love this kid.

"Okay and seeing that this first class with you guys went splendidly, I want you to know there will be another instructor who specializes in swords and will switch with us time to time, and I require all of you to not to pry into his or our personal lives. We will tell you everything when the time comes and as cliché as that sounds, I trust you understand the gravity of the situation."

With that I dismissed them, and our friends stayed behind.

Ron looked absolutely star struck when looking at us, much to my delight.

"You two were fantastic! I didn't know magic could be used like that! And Hermione... yea I'm just going to call you two as how I'm used to... and Draco were just great. I guess it's all that practice from back at camp huh?"

Draco and Hermione looked at each other and grinned. Those two always had a knack for everything, I'm jealous~ but then again I'm a genius as well so meh.

I better go check up on Percy... the sleeping charm should've worn off a few hours ago. I dragged Will to see Percy and peeked into the Wing. Percy just absentmindedly sat on his bed twirling a little pendant on his wrist, which I know Annabeth gave to him for their first date anniversary.

"Percy? Hey, man.... You feeling more rested now? Will, go check him!"

Will did the cursory check up and said he was fine physically. Percy was silent through out and complied to Will's orders.

"Percy... We'll get her back, I swear it on the River Styx."

Percy looked a bit shocked at how sure I was but his mood gradually improved.

Mm, this is much better. Percy should be up and ready for battle in no time.

"Oh, will you be fine for the upcoming class? We'll be there as well so we can help out. If you need a sparring partner, I'm always up for it."

Percy nodded at my suggestion and touched his pendant for one last time before his expression became resolute. I know he had the fire in his eyes before, but now it seemed much brighter and stable, I'm glad this time his mood would be better for a good while.

"I'll be fine, just help me when I ask and it'll be peachy!"

He finally gave a tired grin and my worries flew away. Percy is going to be fine and I'll make sure of that, I don't need to promise on the River Styx to know that.

I got him settled in his room and hopped back to my dorm. Will silently walked by my side, looking ahead thoughtfully.

Hmmm, is he jealous? It would be fun if he was... I haven't seen Jealous Will in a while.

I stopped in front of him and looked at his face. He stopped walking and looked back at me, a little blush creeping up his neck and ears.

Ah ha! He was jealous!

I let out a chuckle and bent down to kiss him on the cheek, before I ran off to my dorm. I just know he was blushing in the corridor and he can't do anything about it.

Yes...this is good. I should keep up the positive vibes, which is usually unlike me, but I have to.

Nico di Angelo, you've got a mission to complete!