Forgotten Memories

The arrival

The 6th school year just started for Harry, Ron and Hermione. Dumbledore had said what he had too and they just started eating when the doors of the great hall flew open at once and in the middle of the doorway stood a figure in a black cape. All conversations stopped and everyone looked at the figure, who now was walking straight at Dumbledore; everybody held their breath. When the figure stood in front of Dumbledore it bent over and kissed the old man on his cheek. He smiled; how was this possible?

Then it looked like the figure whispered something to Dumbledore, the man nodded and pointed at an empty chair next to Snape. The figure whispered again and Dumbledore pointed at the door on the other side of the head table. The figure walked to the door.

When the door closed Dumbledore stood up and said: "I'd like to introduce you to you new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher but seeing it's been a long trip I'm afraid I have to postpone it for a little wile, I'm going to check if everything is okay and further I wish you all a nice meal." He whispered something to McGonagall and walked to the door. When he closed it behind him the whole hall began to mutter about who the figure was.

Ron was completely convinced that it was a very mean, murdering ex-Death Eater who had brainwashed Dumbledore and would kill everyone. Parvati otherwise, thought Dumbledore re-hired Mad-eye Moody but after Hermione pointed out that the figure didn't walk with a limp she wasn't too sure of that. Finally everyone went to bed with the weirdest ideas about brainwashing men who had crime-sheets even Voldemort himself couldn't exceed.

When they got up next morning, the seat next to Prof. Snape, however,

was still empty and stayed this way until diner, when there was a young woman next to him. She couldn't be elder than thirty-five, had long brown hair until a little over her shoulders, and looked very uncomfortable under all the

attention, seeing that she was staring continuously at her plate.

When the diner was about to start Dumbledore stood up and spoke: "I'd like to introduce you to your new DADA teacher, Prof. Christina Black..." Then she stood up, thanks to a poke from Snape and looked into the hall, she had light, deep blue eyes just like Dumbledore and a fresh wound on her cheek. Everyone was muttering, did they hear Dumbledore correct, did he just say Black? That was impossible! Then she was family of that murderer that died last year... But before discussion was possible Dumbledore continued: "Seeing she had a rough trip as I said last night she won't be teaching until next week that means all lessons DADA will be cancelled until next Monday. Have a good meal!" And they both sat down, Christina indeed with a surprisingly red blush on her cheeks that Dumbledore only made worse by giving her a smile.

During the diner everybody spoke about her last name and the fact that her eyes had the same colour as Dumbledore's. Within a couple of minutes there where large discussions about if she was family of Sirius Black or Albus Dumbledore. So no one noticed that Christina herself was having a rather nice talk with Prof. Snape... well almost no one 'cause there were two sets of eyes that did notice, one from the head table and one from the Gryffindor table...

Now please press the pretty grey-violet button underneath which says GO after the text Submit Review.......