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Chapter 59 - Welcome Back Harry Potter

Dimension: 563 - Earth
Date: 1st September 2001 AD
Country: Britain - Scotland
Location: Hogwarts - Great Hall
Time: Evening

"Thank you....It's good to be back."

The hall was completely still for several seconds, no one quite sure what to say.

Harry smiled and began to count.

Three....Two....One and....

"You can't Apparate inside Hogwarts."

"It's good to see you to Hermione." Smiled Harry turning to his shocked friend briefly before looking back to the teachers table, awaiting Dumbledore's response, but first he had someone more important to contact.

Fleur, can you here me?

Arry....I've missed you.

Well, I'm back now, I will see you later.

"Welcome back Harry." greeted Dumbledore, obviously slightly uncomfortable at not being in control of the situation

"Thank you Professor, I apologise for not being in uniform, I did not get the chance to change."

"Of course Harry, how has your summer bean?"

"Not bad, how was yours?"

"It could have been better, where have you been hiding all this time?"

"With friends, they...." Harry stopped and screwed up his forehead in annoyance.

"Harry?" asked Dumbledore.

"Professor, please ask our learned Potions Master to stop trying to access my mind."

All eyes turned to look at Snape who was staring intently at Harry.

"Severus?" asked Dumbledore turning to the Professor in question "Severus please...."

"Don't worry Professor, I'll do it myself." Smiled Harry, turning his eyes to look straight into those of his most hated teacher.

The students and teachers alike watched as Severus first grinned then opened his eyes wide in shock before shouting out in pain, writhing in his chair.

"Harry....Harry stop!" ordered Dumbledore "Harry you've made your point, stop!"

Professors McGonagall and Vector moved over to their colleague and tried to stop him thrashing around while turning to Harry.

"Potter stop!" order McGonagall.

Harry instantly lifted his head, his expression quite calm as Snape stopped shaking and began with a great deal of effort to straighten himself in his chair before sending what could only be described as a fearful look at Harry.

Harry smiled briefly before turning back to Dumbledore.

"I was within my rights, the law states that an Occlumens can use any necessary level of force to defend him or herself in their mind if someone is trying to read their mind without permission, the Professor attempted to enter my mind and I responded....I do apologise, I interrupted your speech." He said bowing slightly before turning towards Gryffindor table and taking a seat, as he did so Fawkes took flight and flew out of one of the hall windows.

The Headmaster and the rest of the hall were silent for several seconds, not quite sure how to react to the situation before Dumbledore continued, trying to ignore what had just happened.

"To those of you here for the first time; welcome, and for those of you returning, welcome back. As usual I have a few announcements to announce."

That managed to get a chuckle from a few students; Harry could tell Dumbledore was desperate to get back the halls attention as most eyes were still focused on him, the Headmaster would have to be desperate if he could not think of anything more amusing than that.

"The Forbidden Forest is as it is so named; Mr Filch has also asked me to remind everyone that the forbidden items list can be seen in his office or in any Weasley Wizard Wheezes Catalogue."

Ron and Ginny high five'd each other, much to the amusement of the rest of the hall.

"In addition we have several new Professors to introduce this year and several new classes for them to teach."
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Buffy was nervously pacing up and down the hallway outside the Great Hall.

Any minute now she would be called to take her place at the Head Table.

She had already made a mental note to punch Dumbledore for making her walk the entire length of the hall to get to the table instead of just standing up and bowing.

What made it worse is that Adam still had not turned up.

Her Slayer hearing picked up two pair of faint footsteps approaching before the voice followed.

"Ello."

Turning to the source of the voice she saw what could best be described as a pair of higher beings walking towards her, it was the only way to describe how stunning the pair looked.

They were both platinum/blonds with long silky hair that flowed down their backs; both had deep blue eyes and were dressed in light expensive furs.

"My name is Fleur and this is Colette, you must be Buffee."

By the accent Buffy guessed that they were obviously French.

"Yes, pleased to meet you." Smiled Buffy extending her hand to shake both of theirs, she was beginning to wish she had dressed a bit smarter now, she was only dressed in a pair of jeans and an albeit very nice silky red shirt, if they walked in together she would look so common.

The door cracked open and the skin crawling caretaker stuck his head out the door.

"They're ready for you." He snarled.

"Shall we?" asked Fleur as she and Colette moved to stand on either side of her.
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Harry had to repress smiles at the look on Buffy's, Colette's and Fleur's faces as they walked down between the tables.

Buffy was looking incredibly nervous as she walked in-between the two tall Veela, really not liking being stared at by the entire hall.

Colette was wearing her 'kill via heart attack' or lack of blood to the brain look, and by the faces of many of the male (and some of the female) students; it was working extremely well.

Lastly there was Fleur was walking tall and wearing her best 'Lady of Breading and Beauty' face making the rest of the students look on in awe at her angelic beauty.

All eyes were on the three as they walked the length of the hall, though only those around Harry heard and saw the hello's that both of the Veela sent Harry, much to the confusion of Hermione and Ron, they were sure that he had not talked to Professor Fontaine during her last visit.

As the three reached the head table they walked around to the seats next to Hagrid; Fleur and Colette seated themselves on one side of him while Buffy sat on the other.

"Allow me to introduce to you," beamed Dumbledore "Professor Summers, one of our new Muggle Defence instructors."

There was a large round of applause and several wolf whistles causing Buffy to blush.

"And, as I am sure some of you older students remember form their last visit, Professor's Fontaine and Delacour, former students of Beauxbatons and now our Alternative Magic and History of Magical Creatures Professors."

The round of applause this time was larger and there were even more wolf whistles.

"I will explain the new classes later, for now I would also like to introduce our Defence Against The Dark Arts Professors and yes I did say Professors...." announced Dumbledore, gesturing to the doors as they once again opened.

"Professors Remus Lupin and Auror Nympha...."

"Professor!!"

"I apologise, Auror Tonks."

The round of applause was the biggest yet, not just for the beautiful pink haired female Auror, but this time for the best DADA teacher that any of the third years and up had ever had, Harry idly wondered how many of the male students would start having the Wizarding equivalent of the cops and robbers fantasies now that they saw how good the cops looked.

"It appears that our two last Professors appear to have been held up so I...."

He was interrupted by a birds screech as a falcon divided in through one of the windows and flew between Tonks and Remus, making them jump in shock.

Transforming back in midair Adam landed softly in front of the head table earning gasps from the students.

Standing up he straightened his tie before addressing Dumbledore.

"I do apologise Headmaster, I got held up."

"Perfectly understandable Professor, you're right on time," Smiled Dumbledore, turning to the pupils "Allow me to introduce our other Muggle Defence Instructor, Professor, Professor....I'm sorry Professor my mind is not all it once was. Remind me of your name, if you will?" Dumbledore said, turning back to the dark haired man.
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Draco was an expert liar; he could tell when people were lying and he knew that the Headmaster was.

The old fool hadn't just forgotten, he didn't know the Professors name.

The man smiled "Professor Berio-Megiltura, but just call me Professor Berio. No one can ever pronounce the whole thing."

The entire population of the hall had looked at him when he transformed, none of them had known him to look at and they all looked equally surprised when he said his name. It seemed that no one expected someone with a double barrelled name and especially not one that strange.

"Exactly," smiled Dumbledore "Professor Berio and Summers will be holding a new club on Saturday afternoons between the hours of two and four o'clock called Muggle Defence. By that, we mean physical defence or defence with non-magical items."

A lot of eyes in the hall lit up at the description.

"I am well aware," he continued, glancing at the Slytherin table. "That many of you believe that it is a waste of time, but you can never tell what sort of situation you will end up in. To sign up, write your name on the notice in your common rooms, but remember, only fourth years and up...." There was a collective moan from a lot of the younger students, which made Dumbledore smile. "Will be able to join. They will also be assisting in Defence Against the Dark Arts classes during Professor Lupin's absences."

Professor Summers whipped her head round so fast her hair nearly knocked Hagrid out (or it would have if her head was in line with his head rather than his chest). She started speaking quickly to Professor Berio who had seated himself next to her and from what Draco could see she didn't look best pleased. How could she not have been told what she would be teaching?

"For those of you who do not know, Professor Lupin is a Werewolf."

Lupin flinched slightly and Professor Summers's eyes shot to him, before she continued whispered in Professor Berio's ear. A large portion of the hall had also gasped, mostly first and second years.

"But I assure you he is perfectly safe, as he takes Wolfsbane Potion and he leaves Hogwarts every full moon."

There was a collective sigh of relief from most of the students.

"Moving back to the subject of the new classes; as I said earlier Professor Delacour will be teaching History of Magical Creatures which will supplement our own History Of Magic classes, Professor Fontaine will be teaching Alternative Magic which will discuss other methods of using magic and other types of magic, in addition to these two and the Muggle Defence club we will be starting an official Duelling Class led by our new Duelling Master who unfortunately hasn't arrived yet, but I can inform you that he has been teaching at Beauxbatons all Summer that ever single one of his students passed with flying colours and I was informed by Professor Delacour that in the duelling competition held at Beauxbatons he defeated the first and second seeds as well as former Under Eighteens Duelling Champion and Triwizard Champion who is now one of our Professors in a three versus one match."

There were a great number of awe like mutterings, would it be possible for them to actually get a new teacher for anything defence related who actually new what he was doing.

"All the above classes will also have notification sheets in your Common Rooms for you to sign if you wish to attend the classes," smiled Dumbledore "I believe that is everything except,"

/Oh no, not that, please, anything but that /Draco pleaded inwardly.

"The Hogwarts song."

Oh Merlin, not again.

Professor Berio along with many of the old professors groaned.

Dumbledore turned around and pointed his wand to the wall behind the teachers' table, where the words appeared.

"Pick your tune and begin."

"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy, Warty, Hogwarts,
Teach us something, please,
Whether we be old and bald
Or young with scabby knees,
Our heads could do with filling
With some interesting stuff,
For now they're bare and full of air,
Dead flies and bits of fluff,
So teach us things worth knowing,
Bring back what we've forgot,
Just do your best, we'll do the rest,
And learn until our brains all rot."
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Buffy had never heard anything like it; it was one of the most ridiculous things she had ever heard.

Harry, Ron and Ron's sister were the last to finish with their funeral march. They were doing what Buffy discovered later was a tribute to Ron's older brothers. This earned laughs from everyone who knew what they were up to.

"I believe that is all. In that case, I just have three things to say: Toffee, twizlet, zang."

Berio chuckled and sent Dumbledore a smile that said, "You never change," which received a smile from the Headmaster.
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Harry had been dreading this moment, as soon as the food appeared he was bombarded with questions.

Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Neville had kept trying to get information out of him all the way through the introductions and speeches but now he could no longer dodge he just had to delay them until they were alone.

"Come on Harry, tell us where you were?"

"I promise I will tell you everything later, but right now it's too public, I get the feeling that the Headmaster will want to see me so I will meet you in the Common Room when I have finished, we will have to fill in Luna later."

They seemed to accept this and choose not to ask him anything else....YET.

The other helped him fend of questions for the remainder of the meal, though it was obvious they had lots of questions themselves.

As expected, at the end of the meal Professor McGonagall came by the table.

"Potter, Professor Dumbledore would like to see you in his office when you have finished."

"Yes Professor," he nodded, quickly finishing up his meal "See you later guys." Smiled Harry getting up and heading in the direction of the doors, Fleur sending him mental encouragement as he went.
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As he walked down the corridor towards the Headmasters Office there was a pop in front of him.

In less than a second he had his wand out and pointed at the very scared House Elf standing in front of him.

"Dobby is sorry Harry Potter Sir," he cried moving to bang his head against wall "Dobby will punish himself for...."

"Dobby stop!"

The House Elf froze about half a second before slamming his head into the wall.

"Dobby, you will not punish yourself for my paranoia, do you understand?"

"Yes Harry Potter Sir."

"Now Dobby, what can I do for you?"

"Dobby and Winky have been most worried about Harry Potter Sir, Dobby wanted to check that Harry Potter was safe."

"I'm fine Dobby." replied Harry smiling, before a though occurred to him "Actually Dobby, can you come to see me later, I need to speak to you in private."

"Certainly Harry Potter Sir." Smiled Dobby before vanishing with a pop.

Harry took another breath and walked towards the open stair case, a comic phrase running through his head as he went.

Dumbledore Vs Potter, round 2.

Ding ding....