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IT WASN’T LIKE HE HAD MUCH of a choice. Most people, when they saw the Malfoy name, immediately turned him away. And could he really blame them? It did make it a lot harder to find a job. So, in the end, he had sucked up his pride and had sent McGonagall an owl asking whether she was looking for a Potions or Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. And to his surprise, she had responded that she was, in fact, looking for a new Potion master, after Slughorn had left Hogwarts. Again.
What he had not realized, was that HERMIONE GRANGER of all people apparently also was a professor. And the fact that he had not realized this until he had walked out of his assigned chambers and almost STRAIGHT into her on the very first day of the school year, did NOT make this realization any easier.
“Granger?” He narrowed his eyes a little. Was it really her, or was he imagining things? “What are you doing here? Do you TEACH?”