The Competition

3-The New Professor

So does anyone have any guesses on who the man is? I would ask why do you think he's at Hogwarts but I think it's pretty obvious by this chapters name:)

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"Severus?? Did you hear me? What's wrong are you ok?"

You touched his closed fist to try and calm him down and as soon as you did, he stopped his stare at the man standing just down the hall causually chatting away and looked at you. "I'm fine. Just remembered something." You looked at him confused. "Remember what exactly?" Your hand was still on his as you questioned him. "That...I placed my quills in the wrong spot in my trunk." You chuckled softly at his answer. "You placed your quills, in the wrong spot? That's what your all frustrated about? Severus I think you'll be fine at least you did pack them." You were still laughing softly as you pulled him to greet the others.

"Albus! Minnie! Hi how are you guys doing? Did you have a great summer break?" The two of them looked over at you with huge smiles on their faces glad to see you. "It was fantastic thank you for asking. How about you?" You loved Minnie, she was always so nice to you and you loved her beautiful and sweet smile. "Mine went great thank you Minnie" You shot a smile back to her and turned to Albus as he was about to speak. "Well I agree with Minnie here, I had a fantastic break! Oh and I would like you to meet someone. Our new staff member. He will be taking over Defense Against the Dark Arts." Severus had become more tense. You knew it was because he had always asked Dumbledore for that position since that was the subject he fancies. But every time he would be rejected for the job.

"Meet Remus Lupin. And Severus I belive the two of you have already met." That twinkle in his eyes always made you feel warm. He would always give you the best advice ever, and when he did, he had that special twinkle in his eyes. "Hi it's a pleasure to meet you. I'm y/n y/l/n, Charms professor." You looked at the new professor and shot him a smile. "Hello, please the pleasure is mine. And I believe you know my name and position here at the school already so no need for introductions, Thank you very much Headmaster." He ducked his head slightly as a way of signaling thank you toward the older man. "And must I say you have a beautiful smile. How long have you been teaching here?" You felt your cheeks slightly go red at his compliment as you brushed your hair out your face.

"Thank you, I must say the same about you Professor. It's been three years, this will be my fourth. I love teaching here it's been such a great pleasure to be able to teach students at such an amazing school." You liked talking to the new professor so far. Not only was he good looking but also very nice and charming. "Please call me Remus, I don't think we'll just be collegues but friends as well so we might as well go by first names. That's if you don't mind." You felt your cheeks getting redder by the second so you shot Remus a smile and turned to Severus. At first you forgot Severus was standing there but needed a way to hide your reddened face. "Sev why don't you say hi to the nice gentleman?" Severus was tense but when he heard your nickname for him, he loosened up a bit, looked down at you, cleared his throat and turned to the man. "Hello."

His voice was so monotone and cold you figured something was wrong. "Minnie can I talk to you for a second?" She nodded and the two of you walked to the side to talk. "Do you know why Severus is so tense and cold around Remus?" She only knew part of the reason. But either way she told you everything she knew. "Well I know for sure both the men went here at Hogwarts together. I don't know anything more than that but I'm guessing they didn't get along. And when you were in your fourth year here the two of them were seventh years, do you not remember him?" You wanted to know what happened so you planned on asking Severus later on, although you knew he most likely wouldn't say anything unless you really tried to pry it out of him.