The Riddles

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It's been a week since that incident and ever since i've been a lot more self conscious around others and felt a lot more unsafe. If Cedric was still with me, he would've been there to protect me that night and make me feel sure nothing else would happen. I was lucky that Theo and Mattheo came and helped. I'm grateful that they noticed.

I was walking to DADA with Astoria and Pansy talking about the new teacher and how she wears too much pink.

"The amount of pink she wears is unreal." I said.

"Honestly. It's horrific." Pansy spoke.

"Filch couldn't keep his eyes of her. It was pretty minging." Astoria added.

"It's nice to see filch has found himself a love interest." I said walking into the classroom. We sat down and everyone was talking and laughing. There was paper birds flying about the room they then disappeared as Umbitch- I mean Umbridge walked in.

Good morning children." The nippy woman spoke.

Ordinary Wizarding Level Examinations
O-W-Ls" She spoke. "More commonly known as OWLs"

"God her voice is so nippy." I whispered to Astoria.

"I know. I just want her to shut up." She whispered back.

"Study hard and you'll be rewarded." She spoke.

"Study hard and you'll be rewarded." I mocked her. Astoria and I were holding back our laughter.

She looked at us.

"Fail to do so, and the consensus may be severe." She said keeping her eyes on us.

We continued mocking her but was interrupted by her.

"Two girls at the back. Do you care to share with the class?" She asked.

We couldn't take her seriously.

"No ma'am." We snickered a little when responding.

"Very well." She spoke. She took her wand and passed the books out to us.

"Your previous instruction in this subject has been disturbingly uneven, but you'll be pleased to know, from now on you will be following a carefully structured Ministry-approved course of defensive magic." She explained.

"Am I blind or does this book not have anything in it aboit how to perform the spells?" I asked Astoria, not caring if she heard us.

"No, you're not blind." She replied.

Hermione stuck her hand up.

"Yes." Umbridge said.

"There's nothing in here about using defensive spells." Hermione states.

"Using spells?" She chuckles. "Well, I can't imagine why you would need to use spells in my classroom." She added.

"So we're not using magic?" Ron queried.

"You will be learning defensive spells in a secure, risk-free way.

I was getting sick of her so I spoke up. "So we're not using magic? What's the point in being in this class if we aren't going to be using the defensive spells? How are we meant to protect ourselves?" I asked.

"Students will raise their hand when they speak in my class." She told me.

"If we're going to be attacked it won't be risk free." Harry said.

"Did you not hear me the first time, Potter? Students will raise their hand when they speak, in my class." She replied, slightly irritated.

"Who the fuck does she think she is?" I said to Astoria.