A new year at Hogwarts is basically an indication that you will be getting a new Defence against the Dark Arts teacher. So far, in my four years, I had had three different teachers, all having left the position for various different reasons. The first, Professor Quirrell, was killed. The second, Professor Lockhart was the victim of a backfiring memory charm and the third, Professor Lupin had resigned before he was able to get fired as he was a Lycanthropy sufferer, which meant he was a werewolf. To say it is the hardest jobs to assign people to must be the largest of understatements. As usual I already knew who our next teacher would be. I had already met him. I went back on the train that year, Bill and Charlie came with us to see us all off as well which was great. As well as the Dark Mark being seen at the Quidditch World Cup, it was a subject that everyone was talking about.

Most people had some family member that worked with the ministry, so they all thought for certain that it was going to be the person on their list. I felt only half sorry for them because I knew who the actual professor would be. His name was Alastor Moody, known to many as Mad-Eye Moody on account of the fact that he had lost an eye in some battle and now wore a seeing glass eye which had a mind of its own and followed people around everywhere. It was a bit freaky. He used to be an Auror, and was hated by many families because he responsible for putting so many into Azkaban.