First Meeting with the Professors

The Hogwarts express came to a halt and streams of students came rushing off the train. Kai himself had already jumped off as soon as the train had shown signs of stopping, his luggage had been safely stored in his storage dimension that was merged with the world inside the blood orb.

He was already making his way to the castle when he heard a stern cry "First years please come over here immediately!" It was obvious that it was Professor McGonagall's stern accented Scottish voice. It was the one indication that caused Kai to know that he needed to hurry if he wanted to have time to introduce himself to the students during the great feast.

The reason that he cared so much about this introduction was that it was a crucial moment for solidifying himself in the minds of the students and as a result, Harry, as a member of the staff and show himself as a trustworthy vampire. He was planning to show his true species to show himself as an honest person and make it easier to gain Harry's trust.

Dumbledore probably expected him to hide his identity and use that to kick him out the school. By telling the world of his identity then he would be able to tell them that he was in control of himself and had no need to hide who or what he was.

There was also the fact that he was a member of the Court, an organization that fought, killed and nearly eradicated all of the vampires in the blood war. This would show his credibility as a trustworthy vampire by his being a member of the Court.

He would also be able to show Harry that he wasn't the heartless and evil monster that he was sure Dumbledore would tell him that he was.

There were only advantages to revealing his identity and many disadvantages to hiding it. As he was thinking this he had already entered the great hall and was proceeding to take a seat near the end of the table.

It was next to a heavily blushing professor Burbage, the professor in charge of teaching muggle studies. On his other side was a rather silent professor Babbling, the professor who was responsible for teaching ancient runes.

After seating himself he turned to the two of them and said "Hello nice to meet you my name is Kai Darcone. I will be teaching Care of Magical Creatures this year."

"Nice to meet you Professor Darcone, my name is Bathsheba Babbling I teach the third-year elective class Ancient Runes." Professor Babbling replied.

"Hello, Mr Darcone. I am Charity Burbage, the Muggle studies professor. So-" She paused seemingly stuck with her comment.

Kai noticed her hesitation and said, "its fine I won't take offence, speak your mind." His words were extremely compelling and professor Burbage seemed to have forgotten her hesitation.

"How were you accepted to the school, I would expect you to be too young to be accepted here, after all, to teach at Hogwarts you have to be a master in your profession of choice, no offence intended of course."

She seemed to be the more curious one out of the two women that sat next to Kai. He gave her question some thought and then said "Despite how young I appear I am in fact 40 years old. I have had sufficient time to hone and master my craft. That and fighting in multiple wars between magical creatures makes you learn all you can about the opposing forces.

"Oh!" Burbage exclaimed, she had the decency to show that she was ashamed. "That is..." Once again things were rather awkward. Babbling decided to break the silence and asked him "So what is your secret to keeping your youthful appearance?"

"Yeah, I would like to know as well." Burbage chimed in as well.

"Well as I am a vampire, I have a much longer life span and thus age much slower than a normal wizard."

As soon as he shed light to his youthful appearance the male portion of the eavesdropping staff members apart from professor Flitwick looked away in disgust. The deep-seated prejudice that was a main part of the wizarding world was the main root of this occurrence. The fact that vampires were known terrorists also helped their fear and disgust of the blood-sucking creatures.

Flitwick was the only male wizard sitting at the table that wasn't prejudiced towards Kai after his reveal. He too had felt the prejudice towards the half breeds as they were called. He could relate to Kai and noticed the change in behaviour by the members of the staff. He decided that he would talk to Kai later to help him settle in.

The women were too busy ogling at Kai, whether it was directly or occasional glances to care. Kai noticed their not so subtle glances but couldn't be bothered to call them out.

After the introductions, the two professors on Kai's sides started talking and Kai discovered that both the professors were members of the Court, Dumbledore, of course, was unaware of this.

They had both joined years ago after hearing about the new inventions and discoveries that the Court had released. Kai was rather glad as he had gained two more loyal allies. They were unfortunately rather low-level members of the court as they couldn't work full time in the Court as they were teaching.

At that moment Dolores Umbridge, the toad-faced prejudiced undersecretary to the minister and the new defence professor walked in and moved to sit at the table. She noticed that there was only a spare seat next to Snape and Flitwick and she curled her lip in disgust.

As the ministry official that created the werewolf legislation act, she had no need to sit next to a half-goblin. In fact, if it was possible the goblins would be next to recieve a restrictive act but as they were the wizarding bankers for the time being they were untouchable unless she wanted all of the economy to collapse.

She looked over at the other spare seat that was on Dumbledore's side and walked towards it. It was meant for McGonagall who was also the vice principal of Hogwarts and Umbridge's taking off her seat was a direct insult to her and to Dumbledore.

Kai mentally applauded her action when Dumbledore appeared this time in his seat in a shower of flames. Fawkes his Phoenix was on his shoulder and had teleported him there.

Phoenixes were able to teleport almost anywhere they wanted to, it was a part of their being a part of nature, it was their innate magic and Kai made a mental note to try and take the specific ability from Fawkes.

But he was reminded that the Firebird had no blood as it was made from pure fire and it resulted in him failing to even attempt drinking his blood.

Dumbledore looked at his rather unique staff, ignoring Kai's rather bold glare and said to them that the students would be coming now. Just as he finished his statement the hall doors were opened and the students poured in.

After they were seated, ( Kai had been searching for Harry and only averted his gaze from him once Dumbledore glanced at him) McGonagall entered with the first years in tow. Kai noticed the tattered sorting hat sitting on the stool for the first time and assumed that Dumbledore had brought it when he teleported in.

After the sorting, Dumbledore began his start of term speech…