Disclaimer: I fixed my glasses with amazing skill and a pair of pliers, but I still do not own Harry Potter!

Chapter 1: Tyrant Teacher

Hermione, Ron, and Harry couldn't believe it. It was terrible. How could such an awful thing happen? At least Dumbledore had come back. It turned out that Snape hadn't killed him at all, as an Unforgivable Curse had to be said with meaning, but deep, deep, deep down (very deep down), Snape had really admired and cared for his former headmaster and employer. Dumbledore had always been good to him, and, as much as he hated to admit it, he detested fighting Dumbledore with Voldemort. Of course he was loyal to the Dark Side and always had been, but still. He wasn't completely inhumane (not completely, being the key phrase here).

So, while he had injured Dumbledore very badly and fled with one of the students who had been enticed into the Dark Side, he hadn't quite killed him. Which was good.

But Draco remembered the kindnesses that he had been granted by Hermione, Ron, Harry, and even Ginny during their month at Number 5, Private Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey. He remembered how Hermione had turned his hair back to its normal color (A/N: for those of you who have not read the first story, No Magic Allowed, you should know that Ginny turned Malfoy's hair pink when he insulted Harry). He recalled how Ron gave him homework help. He remembered how Harry had talked to him they day Snape flew headfirst out of a car window when he accidentally drove the car into a fire hydrant. He could not forget Ginny's words of kindness, every so often.

So Draco went back to Hogwarts.

Who cared about Voldemort now? Draco had been tormented and hurt emotionally by his father before, and was not about to finish his mission to recover the last record of the Prophecy for him. Draco would make his own choices now; sod his father, wherever the heck he was, and serve him right.

For once, Voldemort could not find someone: Draco. As an accomplished Legilimens as Voldemort was, Draco was as accomplished at Occlumency, courtesy of his Aunt Bellatrix.

Therefore, Voldemort had, once more, been betrayed by a faithful Death Eater.

Snape was furious, but Draco thought as he walked along a deserted Hogsmeade road, he's about four hundred fifty miles from here, so what'll he do to me?

Anyway, let's go back to that terrible, awful thing that we were speaking of in the first sentence.

Since Snape had left Hogwarts to rejoin Voldemort, Dumbledore was, again, lacking in a DADA teacher.

He'd interviewed everyone he could think of, but no one really wanted to take up the post again.

Remus Lupin was afraid. Now that everyone knew that he was a werewolf, he was certain that because of him, the school would lose business, as not a lot or parents like werewolves teaching their children.

Alastor Moody hated most kids and had wanted to take the post of DADA teacher because it gave him a chance to spy on Igor Karkaroff.

Gilderoy Lockhart had lost his memory and was recovering in St. Mungo's so he was pretty useless.

Quirrel was dead, which didn't really help.

So Dumbledore tried other wizards.

Minerva McGonagall would have, only she was doing Transfiguration for the whole school, and really did not want the extra work.

Flitwick was afraid of anything to do with the Dark Arts. He did fight for the Order, but still, that didn't mean he wasn't afraid.

Pomona Sprout's worst subject while at Hogwarts was DADA.

If Professor McGonagall didn't want the extra work, there was no point in asking Horace Slughorn.

Nymphadora Tonks had recently gotten married to Remus Lupin (but kept her surname, as she was known by that) and was too wrapped up in love to care about DADA.

Dumbledore was desperate enough to ask Arthur Weasley to teach, but Mr. Weasley was too busy with his Ministry of Magic duties, as they had increased drastically with the war against Voldemort.

But one person volunteered…one person who was, well, not really brave enough, but one person who thought that she'd been treated unfairly and wanted to control DADA, as she had been fired from the Ministry and was lacking in power. If Dumbledore was lacking in a DADA teacher, she could have some control again, even if it was just a group of kids. Dolores Umbridge returned to Hogwarts.

A/N: This story could prove interesting, I have to say.