After the Easter holidays, the students of Hogwarts were stunned to discover that their Defense Against the Dark Arts professor had gone missing.
The seventh-year students taking the Defense Against the Dark Arts NEWT class were the first to notice. Puzzled as to why Professor Smith had failed to show up for class, the Head Boy had no choice but to report the matter to Professor McGonagall.
Even more startling to them, however, was that Professor McGonagall had no idea what was going on either.
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