𝙸𝚔𝚒𝚐𝚊𝚒 𝙳𝚛𝚊𝚌𝚘 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚏𝚘𝚢 𝚡 𝙼𝚊𝚕𝚎 𝙾𝚌 (under heavy editing)

The news

(A/n: Hi! This is updated chapter 1! I'm going to go through all the chapters and rewrite them and then continue on so the book won't make sense for a bit! I hope you enjoy (: )
Word count: 1033

Michaels POV

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, a school for students ages eleven to Eighteen. These students are divided into four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Gryffindors are the brave ones, the ones who will help someone without asking questions. That gets them in trouble often. Hufflepuffs are the loyal ones, they are patient and will play fair even if that means they lose. Ravenclaws are the smart ones, extremely intelligent and witty. Those are the ones you go too when you need help and lastly, Slytherins. That's me, I'm a slytherin or I was. Slytherins are ambitious, they are extremely cunning and probably the worst treated house.

That's Hogwarts. It's a school where young magic users come to learn. To find a home away from home. Hogwarts is where you grow and learn, it shapes your future.

I was a student there. I spent Years learning spell after spell, potion after potion, I learnt all of it from my teachers and fellow classmates. I made friends, a ex lover, I even fought a war for this place. Now I'm a teacher here. I get to watch students grow and mature, watch them form their friend groups and decide what they want to do with their lives.

Working at Hogwarts is interesting. A few dangerous animals and odd students who slightly scare you. It's a average teaching job, minus the magic of course.

I work with Neville now. He teaches Herbology and I teach defense against the dark arts. I get to teach them all the fun scary spells and show them things that I probably shouldn't.

Nothing illegal just things to make class more fun for them. Students learn better when they feel encouraged and entertained while in class.

The class year is to start in two days and so far I haven't done much. I finished my plans for the first semester and my room has already been set up, as well as my office. Neville filled my office and classroom with cute plants because he thought both rooms looked too bland. He mainly takes care of them but I sometimes water them. I think he uses them as an excuse to ramble on about plants to me. I always tell him he doesn't need a excuse to tell me about them but he gets embarrassed.

I've attempted to memorise the 1st Years names and faces but I've failed. Sitting here staring at their tiny smiling faces makes me happy but putting their names to their faces isn't Exactly the easiest thing for me. It took me two months last year to remember all of the new students, you'd think remembering would get easier over time but it truly isn't.

Every year we get new students, plus some transfers. It's not easy to remember it. Maybe they have a spell that makes it easier, Im literally a defense against the dark arts teacher and I never thought about that. What the fuck.

Maybe I am an idiot.

"Michael! I have lunch" I hear Neville announce , walking into my classroom.

He doesn't even close the door. Her just pulls up a chair next to mine and sets down the food. One of us normally apparates and gets food from wherever we wants. It depends on who's turn it is to get food, Neville prefers to control what he eats so he often times takes my turn.

I don't mind because it makes him happy. What I eat doesn't matter much to me, as long as it tastes good.

He got extra food this time though, and instead of his normal happy smile he has a nervous smile. It's the smile He gives me when he has bad knews, he has only smiled at me like this a few times, one of them being when he broke my favorite mug, not a big deal but I loved it. Mark made it for me and I love everything he makes. He has grown so much since first year and that was one of the first gifts he got me. Luckily I fixed it with a spell.

He puts most of the food in front of me and a very little in front of him. I look at the food warily and look back up at him. "What's going on? Why are you looking at me like that?" I question, frowning at him.

He is completely avoiding eye contact."Like what?" he asks laughing nervously.

"Neville"

He sighs and runs his hands through his hair. It's bad, I know it's bad because Neville is always very direct with me, he has no reason to lead things on.

"You know how McGonagall was looking for a new potions teacher," he questions, I nod. "She chose Draco Malfoy, Malfoy will be teaching potions"

I pause. Completely pause. Draco Malfoy will be teaching potions here, at Hogwarts. Here. I haven't properly seen him since 8th year. He never saw me but i saw him, I saw his face. He wasn't happy. I watched him look for me everyday but never being able to find me. I both loved and hated the pain on his face.

Turns out I'm pretty great at avoiding people when you try hard enough. I had a lot of help from harry, Hermione, Ron, well almost all of gryffindors and a few slytherin students.

I take a deep breath and nod. He got married, he has a son now. He's the same age a Harry's son I believe, I'm getting them next year if I lined the Years together correctly.

"How do you know?"

"McGonagall told me, I then went to check the potions classroom and he was setting things up there. I thought food would make it easier" he explains gesturing to the food in front of us.

In most situations it would but in this case not so much. My ex boyfriend who left me for dead is going to be teaching here. I'm not sure how to react to all of this. I'm sure he has changed. McGonagall wouldn't let someone she doesn't trust teach students so it's okay. Everything will be okay.

"I need to take a walk"