Snuffles |S.B|

chapter four

Hogwarts
Great hall
Gryffindor table
September second 1975

'that's one way to start the year' Mary said, breaking the silence that had fallen upon us after Lily's, slightly dramatic might i add, exit.

After the our prank she had left to go sit with Severus, also known as snivellus, and his pathetic friends.

'Yup' Peter agreed with his mouth still full of toast. He had always had a loving relationship between him and... well... food. When i tell you that boy could eat an entire cake in under twenty minutes, i mean it.
I even have videos to prove it.

'So-' Mary started but Remus was quick to cut her off. 'Look' he said
'our new defense teacher' and he pointed at someone on the outer right of the professors table. Admittedly i'd never seen the woman before but she looked rather...how do i say this... petite, to be teaching defense against the dark arts.

Which, ofcourse, Jack, a gryffindor boy sitting a few seats away from us, had to rudely remark. 'Her? Teaching defense? Don't make me laugh'

'Yeah that's far fetched moony' Peter said. Here we go again with the wierd nicknames. Ever since the end of last year they'd been calling Remus 'moony'. I mean what does that even mean. The rest of them i can understand.

Sirius had taught us how to cast a patronus last year, james's was a deer, Peter's was a rat and Sirius' was a dog. Me and the girls had even helped them come up with the names. Moony was the only one they were set on having. On another note i voted Sirius to be named 'snuffles'. That one unfortunately never got through which is why they went with 'padfoot'

Anyway back to the teacher. She had now stood up and done that little thing where you take a spoon and a glass cup and you tap it lightly. You know what i'm talking about, yes that thing.

So she tapped the glass lightly but the whole school went silent immediately. Not a single word was spoken it was like everyone just went on mute.

'Dear students' she said 'i am pleased to announce that i will be you DADA professor for the year' 'i hope you all have a nice breakfast and i look forward to welcoming you in my classroom'

After the announcement she sat back down and continued eating. I noticed a little charm necklace she was wearing. It had blue-greenish charms hanging from a black cord.
Something about it was intriguing to me. Almost like-

'Did you guys see that?' Remus interrupted my not so very interesting thought process.

'What?' Lily said, taking the bait of a high chance of having to listen to the long history of defense. AGAIN.

'Her necklace' he said, catching my attention. Apperantly it was indeed a very interesting thought process.

'What about it?' Marlene asked stuffing her mouth with fried eggs.

'That was the crystal of Katherine of Atlantis' Remus said.

Hearing that name made a little lightbulb light up inside my head. I'd heard that name before, hadn't i?
It sounds familiar in a foggy way.

Like i heard it once years ago. I struggled to remember who that name belonged to, almost as if she never roamed the surface of this earth.

'Who?' asked James, only listening halfheartedly, now that the most interesting part of the conversation, Lily, had left. He was never the brightest in history or tales.

'She was bethroted to Salazar slytherin, she died the night of their wedding. Salazar gave her a necklace as a wedding gift rather than a ring' Remus said.

Now you might be wondering 'why does it sound like he's reciting an alinea from a history books?'
That's because, knowing Remus, he probably is.

Remus, aside from Lily, is the smartest person i know. He also takes particular interest in history of magic,  which explains the uttermost knowledge on that subject. Some might call him a geek or a nerd, i call him my personal heavenly savior.

Now i'm not stupid or anything, but history of magic was just never my thing.
I could never remember the different names, places, years.... They just never stuck.

Now, history of magic is my napping time. Remus, as i said personal heavenly savior, takes notes for me and explains them when we study together. In return for this i help him with charms in which he's not so talented. I'd even go as far as to say rather bad.

Wich is where I'd heard that name before. I knew it. She was some kind of spell geek or something. I think she invented the unforgivables.

For the ones who aren't familiar, the unforgivables are three spells that are extremely dangerous and extremely illegal.

The cruciatus curse, better know as Crucio, is used to torture People. It's described as having a thousand needles stabing you or being torn from the inside out.

The imperious curse, imperio. The possesing curse. If this curse is casted on someone the caster is in control of their mind and body. The victim is reported to see everything happening with their body but not being able to influence their movements or such.

Then, the worst one yet. The killing curse. The incantation is avada kedavra and used for murder. According to experiments it's painless. At least for the victim.
Their family is a whole other story.

And my DADA teacher was wearing the necklace of the woman who created those spells.

I'd have to say Mary was right. That's a first. No offence to her tough
This is one way to start the year.

How come we always get mentally incapable professors for DADA.
I mean is it that hard to just hire a competent person to teach the subject?
Apparently so, i guess.

This is going to be one hell of a year

A/N

Hey hey

Soooo i'm back from the dead, who would've thought?

I'm here to feed all of my delulu gurlies.

Bye babes