Rebecca Kay Bright, Author

Another Year Chapter 1 Another year. Another year at Hogwarts School of Irritating Brats and Senile Headmasters, my only pleasure in life comes from humiliating the little brats' pathetic display of their potions brewing skills, except for my Slytherins, who have it bad enough. Now some would claim my bias against the other houses and my short 'useless' speeches is a major contributing factor in the house rivalry. I say those individuals are idiots who have never picked up a history book. The relation of the four houses has always been an uneasy one and in the last sixty years – since Dumbledore took over as Headmaster – it has steadily deteriorated. If the Dark Lord had only drowned himself in a bathtub full of sulfuric acid, a very useful muggle potion, to completely DIE rather than just split himself from his body I wouldn't have to be sitting in the gaily decorated Great Hall of Hogwarts listening to the overly warm welcome speech of the Senile o

Original two chapters by Lady Shinigami (minor modifications) Angel Chapter 1 "I do not know why I was watching him. It started more than a year ago, close to two years, it started rather innocently. Really. I wanted to know everything there was about him, especially his weaknesses. What made him vulnerable? I wanted to know that therefore involving a great deal of observation, naturally. "All I wanted was to know what made him weak, vulnerable. Really! He has undeniable strength, a strength that has continued to defy me at every turn, and I know that I could never win against his strength, but maybe I could destroy him with his weaknesses. "Then, my interest in him began to change. The hate faded away gradually; not even I realized it, nor do I know when it started. I never realized. "Until that fateful day three days ago, when I received my wings, flying to save his life, a life I had previously wanted to destroy. "However, I