Lady Celestial Stars wonderful story

Part 175

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Today was the fateful day that the student's carefree school year came to an end. A foolish fifth year Hufflepuff mentioned what they were going to do for their O.W.L.s at the end of the year, and that caused the teachers present to gasp, (all but Snape) and realize that perhaps that their nightly discussions would most likely not be enough to get the students through their end of the year exams, especially those in fifth and seventh year.

So, it was decided that a firm four chapters a day rule was placed and that once they were done, the students would report to specially prepared remedial classes to make up for the almost two lost months. To aide in the process, Rivers summoned up a syllabus of what each year needed to learn and they were distributed among the adults that offered to help and were quickly assessed if they had the capabilities to teach.

McGonagall took care of the fifth years and up, to ensure that they were not going to go backwards with a new teacher at this crucial time, so that she could focus her attentions on making sure that Umbridge's actions would not hurt their futures with such important tests coming.

Dumbledore took his old position as Transfiguration teacher, but settled on the fourth years and under, and what was truly amazing, was that he did not need a roll of parchment to see what was age appropriate. It was like riding a broomstick, you never forget.

Professors Flitwick, and Sprout had decided to follow the same suit, minus using the Headmaster, as he was already taken.

Bathilda Bagshot, the author of A History of Magic, said she would take over the classes...strangely enough...for all the years. She would take an entire hour to lecture each year, all the houses together into the Great Hall and talk to them about the subject at hand, and she wasn't shy about saying she'd send a chalk piece at them if they nodded off.

Flitwick had asked Remus to assist him in Charms class, as the position for History of Magic teacher was taken by the woman that wrote the textbook.

At first, Professor Sprout was unsure who could help her with the classes...but she happened to see Leroy and Rudolph sitting there, talking to Harry...how could she possibly forget them? She hurried over and asked them both to assist her, without missing a beat they nodded and followed her over to Rivers to get the lesson plans she needed them to follow.

Snape had abstained from asking anyone to assist him, and walked down to his dungeons to await the students that were due. He didn't expect for Dr. Nicodemus to come down as well, merely to assist the students getting their ingredients and speed things along.

While all the other classes had been take care of and help had been distributed, there was one class that had no one to even turn and ask for help.

Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Rivers had taken it upon himself to teach the fifth years and up, to gauge just how prepared they were for their all important tests at the end of the year and as for the younger students, who better to teach a Defense class than an retired Auror? Moody was at first a bit hard pressed to get him to take on the position, but that all changed with Tonks sidled up to him and told him that he could teach all the students how to defend themselves from the Dark Arts...he was sold.

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"Alright fifth years, I want everyone to line up! Gryffindor I want you to face the Hufflepuffs, Ravenclaws, face the Slytherins. I'm not going to be playing referee by having the Slytherins and the Gryffindors tear each other apart." said Rivers.

Harry, Hermione and Ron grinned at each other.

"Now, I want to see where you all are at individually so I can see where we need to focus on. Once we figure that out, we'll move on. Potter, due to the assessment and your...condition... I'll just skip you this time. I have a base level at where you're at anyway." said Rivers. "We'll start with the Gryffindors, the rest of you take a seat."