Disclaimer: A nice, normal disclaimer is what I have to say. I don't own Harry Potter in any way. Crying nor screaming will give it to me. It belongs to Rowling, can't you see? I now cease my rhyming ways, as it is getting annoying and Seussical must pay. So enjoy the chapter and laugh in good cheer, the disclaimer will be waiting for you next chapter right here.

A/N: I am going to go ahead and edit all of the chapters because I was rereading them and some of the things I said make absolutely no sense at all… just so you know so I am going to take down the chapters that I haven't fixed.

Chapter One: Settling in

Harry,

Obviously there is no professor in there with your group as I needed Professor Snape's assistance, so I'm sending this further information to you; to ease your mind and for you to explain to your classmates. I'm quite confident in your abilities and those that are locked in with you.

A special device was released in the Entrance Hall. You and a few others would compare it to a muggle bomb of sorts. Once set it sent dangerous curses floating through the hallways like a poisonous gas—searching for victims. Hence, the reason for the continued forced isolation in sealed rooms.

As to how it came to be about, you will be pleased to know that a particular rat was involved. It seems that he was forced to be their sacrifice in this mission. Fortunately for us he has been apprehended, but unfortunately not before setting off the device. He has been questioned under veritaserum. Additional testimony has allowed us to send out the aurors and the remaining Death Eaters have been apprehended as well. I'm sure you know what this all means, and I must say that I'm happy for you that this has finally ended.

As for the castle's current status, it is unclear how long the castle will need to remain in lockdown status. We are working on that problem and hopefully the castle will be free of danger within couple days.

Harry, I am essentially placing you in charge at your location. Until it is safe, Professor Snape will not be able to return. The only ones able to access the sealed rooms are the house elves as I've mentioned.

Please ensure that you and your classmates are provided for. Several of you are good at transfiguration and I'm sure that you will be able to meet your needs.

I will keep you posted of any further developments.

Albus

Potter,

You are in charge of my rooms in my absence. You know where things are and you know my expectations. A few explanations may be necessary and is allowable under these favorable circumstances.

I am positive you are in a rather celebratory mood. Against my better judgment you have my permission to celebrate as you did before, but keep things under control.

Remind my Slytherins that if they are out of line they will receive their usual punishment.

One other warning. I expect you to keep your classmates from killing each other.

Professor Snape

"I don't know what he's on about. Snape never punishes the Slytherins," Ron said in a surly tone, not noticing the Slytherins' reactions, to the note.

"Oh, I don't know," Harry said conversationally. "I'm sure there must be some way for him to torture the Slytherins."

Every single Slytherin turned glaring eyes on Harry. "I think you know more than you should, Potter," Draco snarled.

Harry chuckled and held his hands up in a placating manner. "Probably," Harry said agreeably.

"What is it you know, Harry?" Hermione asked curiously.

"Nothing important," Harry said dismissively waving her off. "I was simply passing on Snape's message was all."

Hermione glared at him suspiciously but Harry ignored her and continued on. "I think we need to be figuring out how we're going to arrange things in here," Harry said, glancing around the room. "We do have to sleep here after all."

That effectively sidetracked everyone as they looked at the room and each other with horror.

"We have nothing," Pansy wailed.

"No clothes," Millicent said.

"No makeup," Pansy looked on the verge of tears.

"We don't even have a bathroom," Hermione observed.

Harry smirked. "There is a bathroom," Harry corrected to everyone's surprise.

"Where?" Draco ordered.

He walked over to the bookshelf and pulled out one of the most old and tattered books Hermione had ever seen.

"Viola! A bathroom!" he declared proudly.

"How did you do that? It was just like Scooby Doo…" Draco asked, as the girls went over to examine the new room.

"With a lot of skill that you don't have" then quietly added "and detentions"

"You must have had a lot of detentions"

Harry grinned. "Thank you captain obvious,"

"Enough," Hermione cut in. "We need to figure out what to do with this room if we have to live here for the next couple of days,

"Are we going to split up by gender or houses?" Ginny asked cheerfully with a wag of her eyebrows.

"Either way is fine with me."

Hermione eyed the two Slytherin girls. "Either way is fine with me too"

"Are we going to have any privacy at all?"Pansy asked.

"I'd rather create a girls and a boy's dorm," Millicent admitted.

"You're no fun," Ginny teased.

Millicent snorted. "Rooming with Draco, yeah I don't think so," she retorted.

"Hey!" Draco protested as his dorm mate snickered. "Shut up, Blaise!" Draco snapped.

Blaise sidestepped away from Draco and cleared his throat. "but we still have to share the bathroom," Blaise smirked.

Pansy and Millicent groaned. "In that case it doesn't really matter," Millicent grimaced.

"We should go by houses," Ron spoke up. "I don't want to have to sleep near that, that thing."

"I don't want to sleep near the Weasel either," Draco spat in disgust.

"Stop!" Harry yelled. He turned to the four girls. "Are you four willing to share space?"

Hermione, Ginny, Pansy, and Millicent shared wary glances before they all nodded their agreement.

"Okay so here's what we do, girl's will have a girls dorm and the boys will have two Gryffindor and Slytherin. Is that Alright?"

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Harry glanced around the room.

"How about we put the girls in the middle of both the boys dorms?" Hermione suggested.

"I am not leaving my comfort up to Gryffindorks' Blaise and I will make the beds," Draco sneered.

Harry ignored the tone. "Sounds great. Ron, Ginny and I can set up partition walls to separate the areas," Harry said calmly.

"We can work on a common room then," Pansy said. Hermione and Millicent nodded in agreement.

Everyone got to work, each group working sociably enough together. Surprisingly enough no one protested any one else's work.

Draco and Blaise took eight of the workbenches and levitated them into place before transfiguring them into four poster beds with luxurious bedding. Ron in particular goggled when he saw the results of the first bed.

Mrs. Weasley had taught Harry, Ron, and Ginny, a partitioning spell so that they have more privacy at the burrow. They split it down the middle first, to separate the common room from the dorms. Then split one half of it into three for the dorms, After that came the doors.

The girls made a dining table out two of the work benches. Stools were transfigured into more comfortable chairs. Other stools into comfortable armchairs which they placed around the fireplace, created in the notch in the wall.

No one transfigured Snapes desk, in fear of what might happen to them. A couple of work benches were made into two couches and a few more stools were used to make a table for chess lined by comfortable chairs.

Harry wasn't sure how the girls did it, but they also managed to create a lush carpet for the whole area. They were in their newly created dorms. When they came out again, there was wall to wall black squishy carpet.

Their new common room was mainly black and white with accents in shades of blue. On first look it appeared bare, but there was inquiry about why there was no house colors, in sight anywhere, no green or silver, nor red or gold. The dining table a glass top, with an abstract shaped, white base. Harry had to admit that it looked good against the black carpet. On top of the table a clear vase with colorful flowers, that added the needed splash of color.

"Wow, you did an amazing job in here," Harry praised them.

"Wicked!" Ron exclaimed stepping out into the room.

"It looks…good," Draco said sincerely.

Blaise and Ginny each showed their appreciation by running across the room and flopping themselves onto the two couches grinning all the while.

The girls were all beaming under the praise.

"We wanted something that we could live with, without showing any appreciation to any one house," Hermione explained.

"Can't go wrong with black and white," Pansy added with a grin.

Harry simply stood there looking around. "Is this still the potions classrooms," Harry said in awe. "And we've still got an hour to go before dinner."

Everyone found a place to sit and make themselves comfortable. "There's still one thing we need to figure out," Millicent stated.

"What?" Ron said confused as ever, "we have everything we need a room, a bathroom, a dining room, and we have a common room with a game room added,"

"Clothes," she stated matter of factly.

"We can't just wear the same clothes for, I don't even know how long, that's...that's gross!" Draco said in disgust, picking at his clothes.

Harry rolled his eyes and did a rapid double snap. Two seconds later Dobby was standing in front of him.

"Oh, Harry Potter, sir. How happy I is to see you!" Dobby squealed.

"Hello Dobby," Harry said with a smile. "I assume you are extra busy today with everything going on."

"Yes, yes I is, Harry Potter, but I is willing to do whatever you ask," Dobby said in his joyfully high pitched voice.

"Dobby, I know you must be busy with dinner right now, but I was hoping you could bring us all some of our clothes and toiletries after dinner," Harry requested.

"Of course, Harry Potter. I would be more than happy to," Dobby beamed.

"Dobby?" Draco asked with a frown, studying the house elf buried under his hats down to the mismatched socks on his feet.

Dobby turned quick as lightening and squeaked when he saw Draco. "Master Draco!" he squeaked, " How wonderful I is ter see you again!" with that he jumped up and clung to Draco.

Draco chuckled, "It's nice to see you too, I was wondering were you went.

"How'd you end up here?" Draco asked in confusion.

"Harry Potter freed me, and Dumbledore sir gave me a job here," he explained cheerfully. "Dobby must be going now sir. I must get your stuff and, prepare dinner" and with that he was gone.

Ron stared gob smacked not believing what he had just witnessed, "Did Malfoy just have a civil conversation with Dobby?"

Hermione was grinning from ear to ear, "Malfoy would you care to explain, this will do wonders for SPEW"

"SPEW?" Draco asked curiously.

"The Society for the Promotion of Elf Welfare," Hermione answered, as if he should already know what it was, "Go on"

"Um, my father was always rather . . . harsh with the house elves, and he never actually paid attention to me," he admitted quietly. "I guess we just got along, like when I was little, and sent me to bed without dinner Dobby would sneak some up for me after everyone was asleep."

"Well, I didn't think it was you," Harry said, causing Draco as well as the others to look at him curiously.

"You really didn't think Malfoy was the one hurting Dobby?" Hermione asked, her curiosity overcoming her enthusiasm.

"Not Draco, no," Harry said, shaking his head. "Lucius Malfoy on the other hand is one evil, sadistic bastard," Harry said, his expression turning dark.

Ron blinked. "And Malfoy's not?" he asked incredulously, indicating the Malfoy in the room with them.

"Nope, he's a bastard but he's not evil and sadistic," Harry retorted.

It was Draco's turn to blink before his expression formed into a smirk. "Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence, Potter."

Harry returned the smirk. "Glad to oblige, Malfoy."

"This whole situation is a bit surreal," Ginny sounded entirely perplexed by all the interactions.

Harry gave her a wicked grin. "Just wait until later," Harry said with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

"What's later?" Ginny asked curiously.

"You'll see," Harry smirked. "I still intend to celebrate tonight after dinner, since for the first time in my life I'm truly free."

Ron and Hermione turned wide eyed. "Like after you defeated You-Know-Who?" Ron squeaked.

Harry got a wide grin and nodded.

"Harry, you wouldn't want to do that with Slytherins around and in Snape's classroom of all places," Hermione admonished.

Ron glanced around the room. "Not that you could do it anyway," Ron said ruefully.

Harry's grin didn't falter. "Didn't you hear that Snape gave me permission to celebrate?"

Ron's eyes grew wide as saucers. "Snape's the one that gave them to you?"

Harry nodded.

Ron gulped. "I thought it was Fred or George, but Snape."

"Harry," Hermione was blinking furiously. "You can't be serious. He'd never do that."

"Believe whatever makes you feel better," Harry said with a casual shrug.

A loud pop announced Dobby's arrival with their dinner. Harry was impressed. He was getting good at diverting everyone's attention, and Dobby was helping without even knowing.

Harry had a smile on his face as he walked over to the dining table where Dobby was setting out dishes from an impossible large stack that he held. Harry was absolutely positive Dobby couldn't have held them all without magic.

"Thanks, Dobby. It all smells delicious," Harry said, smiling appreciatively.

"You're most welcome, Harry Potter, sir. I'll be back soon with the items you requested," he squeaked before he popped back out.

Draco touched Harry's arm to get his attention, causing Harry to start before arching an eyebrow in question. The others were all settling into their seats although Hermione was eyeing the two of them.

"Come on and let's eat before Ron eats it all," Draco said lightly.

Draco sighed and stepped over to the table with Harry where they took their seats. Dinner was slightly strained with four Slytherins and four Gryffindors eating at the same table.

Harry and Blaise along with Ginny and Millicent seemed to be buffers between the others. Ron and Draco particularly needed to be kept separate and they all recognized that.

But then Harry remembered the conversation that he had with Draco earlier.

He turned to Draco and asked, "what's 'Scooby Doo'"

Draco merely shrugged his shoulders and continued picking at his food.

"Scooby Doo is a dog in a muggle television show," she looked at Malfoy curiously, then added, "which I don't expect Malfoy to know."

"What I have a fascination with that form of muggle entertainment its amazing how they get those boxes to talk and stuff… isn't it called a television"

"Who cares about this Telyfish?"

"It's a te-le-vi-sion," saying the word extremely slow, hoping that she would say it right.

"Hey isn't that the thing that we watched, what was it called, uhhh wizard of socks on?" Pansy asked.

"I thought it was called Wizard of Oz, that movie we watched to see what muggles thought of wizards and witches" Millicent said.

"Yeah I think I remember you watch in first year right?" Ginny asked.

Millicent snorted. " How did we get on this topic?"

"I think we were talking about 'Scooby Doo'"

"ooooohhhhh…" everyone nodded in agreement and continued in silence.

Dobby shortly appeared with their stuff.

Minutes later everyone was flopped in the furniture arranged around the fireplace again.

"So Harry, it's later now," Ginny said casually.

"Is it now?" Harry smirked.

"It is," Ginny nodded. "And it's particularly boring around here," she added.

"I'll be back," Harry said conversationally. "I admit I did want to celebrate this evening."

"You can't get in there," Draco snapped. "We've already tried."

"Hmmm," Harry murmured noncommittally, as he got up and wandered over to the office door.

"Maybe you should try the password," Harry suggested. With a soft mutter, Snape's office door swayed open and Harry turned back to gaze upon seven gobsmacked students.

A/N: HehE

Jack and Jill

Went up the hill

To fetch a pail of water

Jack fell down

And rolled of the cliff

And Jill stayed and read after

Soz guys I know I know, your probally thinking, how could she leave us witha cliffs in the first chapter, but don't worry its worth the wait there will be plenty up in the next chapter... I think I'm doin good a chapter aday , well I hope you liked it and please leave me some reviews about how I can fix it or possibly some truths or dares... Love ya