Chương 96: The Feast
Dumbledore stood up and walked up to the podium in front of the teachers' table, waved his hands in the air majestically before saying. "Hello to all of our students, new and old. I hope you had a good summer and to our older students, I hope that you spent some of your time finishing the homework assignments that were given to you."
Ron and many other gulped as Dumbledore's knowledgeable eyes passed over them. "To our first years, I formally greet you my, name is Albus Dumbledore an I will be acting as the headmaster of this school during your stay in these walls unless some unfortunate matter comes up, so let's hope there won't be any. I welcome you and I hope you enjoy your time in Hogwarts.
Now on to the usual announcements, once again you are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest. It is given its name for a reason, there are many dangerous creatures in the forest, I am saying this to the few students that seem to enter every year."
He stopped and looked at the Weasley twins, who laughed sheepishly and rubbed their heads. "Please don't bother looking for the kitchens our chefs are busy making food for the next meal and I don't want to bother them so please do not. I remind you once again no magic in the hallways and exploring the castle grounds after curfew is not allowed and will be punished with detention.
I would also like to welcome our new staff members the Defence against the Dark Arts Professor Dolores Umbridge and the Care of Magical Creatures Professor Kai Darcone."
As he said Kai's name there was a slight shudder that ran through his body that only McGonagall and Snape picked up before continuing "For those of you that are wondering Professor Hagrid is currently on a business trip for a few months so until he returns professor Darcone will be teaching in his place."
When Dumbledore made this announcement Hermione's face became worried. She said quietly to Ron and Harry, "Hagrid wouldn't be going on a trip overseas without telling us. It must be for official Order business and even then he would tell us that the would be leaving."
"Good riddance," Ron said. When he received Hermione's angry look he said, "don't get me wrong I like Hagrid, but he wasn't exactly the best professor. I mean what kind of professor tells his students to buy biting books. Dean got his finger nearly cut off when it bit him. And don't get me started on the blast ended skrewts."
Harry didn't say anything, but his slight nod told Hermione that he agreed with Ron. "Unbelievable" she huffed.
Dumbledore continued "I now ask the professors to introduce themselves."
Kai was the first to rise, easily aware that the witch was going to cause the students to become annoyed and lose interest in what would come afterwards.
As he rose gracefully, he captured all of the attention of all the students. "Hello everybody, as headmaster Dumbledore said already my name is Kai Darcone and I will be your care of magical creatures professor I look forward to teaching you and I hope that you come to me when you are in trouble. I shall do my very best to help you.
Additionally, I would like to shed light on a certain subject regarding my identity. There are some in this hall who believe that I am unsuitable to teach in this institution because I am a vampire, but as I have been given this opportunity to teach here, I would like you to give me a chance and I will do everything in my power to help you. Thank you very much for listening."
He sat down gracefully and waited for the pink toad to start her introduction, but she was still shocked by Kai's rather abrupt confession, as were the rest of the populace. "Headmaster I think that you can start the feast now since our Defence professor isn't planning on introducing herself." The vampire said in hope that he didn't have to hear her disgustingly sweet voice.
Dumbledore did not like Kai and perhaps even feared him, but even he hated Umbridge so he motioned for the feast to start and the students tucked in. While the students were eating Harry was thinking about his earlier meeting with Kai on the train.
He was told by Dumbledore that professor Darcone was a dark and evil creature. But the emotions that he had shown Harry were true, a true evil monster would not care for anyone but himself. He didn't know what Kai's goals were, but he would steer clear of him.
However, that didn't mean that he believed that he was truly evil it was just that he believed that he should do his best to stay safe this year. That and he was unaware of how to face the strange feelings that were being awoken in his gut, being next to the new professor would only heighten them.
As Harry was making his decision, Ron was tucking into the delicious food while Hermione was noticing that her friend wasn't eating. "Harry… Harry…HARRY!" He wasn't responding so she eventually raised her voice and he looked at her in surprise.
"Are you okay? You were just sitting there without doing anything. Do you want to talk about it?" She asked.
"No, forget it, 't was nothing." He answered.
He looked at the teachers' table and noticed that the new vampire professor was talking to two professors that he didn't know and was holding a glass cup with a red liquid in it. The blood was causing him to start to get hungry and red specks were starting to appear in his eyes.
Blood was an extremely strong stimulant to vampires, especially those that hadn't received any formal training on how to deal with their thirst. Hermione and Ron were both starting to sense his thirst.
This had only happened when he was exposed to blood, be it through cuts and scrapes to flowing blood that was dripping out of a glass like the one that was being held by Kai. Harry usually had good control, they had assumed that it was because he wasn't a fully-fledged vampire. This didn't happen often, but it seemed that having a vampire in the hall had amplified his blood lust, literally.
Dumbledore looked at Harry and was slightly disturbed, he was about to beckon him out of the hall but Kai beat him to the punch. "Mr Potter, do you think that you can come with me please?" While Kai was asking a question, his tone was not going to take no for an answer.
Harry was glad to receive the distraction and agreed instantly, he was aware that Kai could not be harmed by him and was under no threat to be turned into a vampire by him.
Harry had already experienced a couple of uncontrollable attacks, luckily there was always somebody there to help stop him from hurting someone. But he was sure that one day there wouldn't be and that was why he was trying his best to stop the hunger.
After moving out of the hall along with Kai he looked at his still full glass of blood hungrily and could feel himself losing control rapidly. His vampiric nature taking control, but this wasn't the one Kai was used to. Instead, his appearance resembled a rabid beast rather than that of a first generation vampire.
The vampire lord held out the glass while pushing Harry away from him. The boy's green eyes glowed with an uncontrollable madness. His fangs grew out of his mouth and his nails became longer and sharper. Around him was a killing curse green and he lunged at his sire.
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dragonfang1917
dragonfang1917 This was a rather interesting chapter for me. How did Dumbledore's speech go? I had to write the whole thing from scratch and I'm not sure if it sounds like the man himself.
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