Plot: Takes place in Book 5. AU where the Ministry took over Hogwarts very quickly after the events of the Fourth book. Sirius is still on the run, Harry never went to his house for the summer and therefore doesn't know about the Order of the Phoenix, Tonks and Remus are teaching at the school at Severus's request, and no one really knows where the hell Dumbledore is.

Couples: mild Darry, eventual Snarry, if-you-blink-you'll-miss-it Remadora, eventual Wolfstar, and unrequited Dron (Draco/Ron)

A/N: This whole thing came from, what else, watching the Carmilla webseries on Youtube. It's not at all like Carmilla, but I did base this AU story off it, quite a bit, so for any Creampuffs, you might see a few little parallels to the series. Thanks for being aweseome, and without further ado I give you:

Disorientation

Prologue

Harry sighed, giving a long shake of his head as he stared out the window, almost anxiously. He'd sent Hedwig out three days ago, and the snowy owl had yet to return to him with a letter. Ever since his return to Hogwarts, Harry had been tirelessly sending notes out on various different owls, in the hopes that at least one of them would reach Sirius. All the owls seemed to be able to do, however, was return his own letters back to him. This was quickly becoming a worrisome habit, and Harry hadn't spent much time doing anything else except worrying.

He might not have been so concerned had Dumbledore been there, and the only person who Harry seemed to write to almost as much as Sirius was the old Headmaster himself. After the Ministry had taken over the school, with Dolores Umbridge taking over as Headmistress, Dumbledore had fled, and not even Harry had been able to get in contact with him.

So with his two main parent figures conveniently out of the way, Harry had taken to spending more and more time with the few adults actually trying to do anything about the situation. As much as Severus Snape had seemed to loathe Harry, he'd been exceptionally more aggravated by the school's new Headmistress, and he'd surprisingly been the one to suggest Remus Lupin come back to the school. Umbridge had been against that idea from the start. But it only took one week and a few 'mysteriously vanishing' Ministry officials in the classrooms before Umbridge reluctantly gave in, allowing both Remus and Nymphadora Tonks, an Auror, to replace the 'missing' professors.

Harry had the oddest feeling Severus had something to do with that.

With that incident, Harry was forced to admit that, while crabby, his Potions professor was still better company than Umbridge. The two got along well enough, and Harry usually helped him out with his Potions, which meant his Potions in class were also becoming far better, resulting in less terrible grades in Severus's class.

At this particular moment, however, Harry was not with Severus, or Remus, or even Tonks. No. Today he was in the Gryffindor Common Room, anxiously waiting for a reply that he was beginning to think would never come.

"Oy, Harry!" A voice called, causing Harry to turn towards the stairs leading to the Dormitories.

"Hey Seamus," he called with a nod.

"Everybody's heading up to Hogsmeade for a drink of Butterbeer at the pub. Wanna come?" Seamus Finnigan asked, a hopeful grin on his face.

Harry briefly considered saying no, because, really, what good would going out do? His godfather was still on the run, the Ministry was still in charge of Hogwarts, what would this do to help? But then he considered that his moping around wasn't doing much good anyway. Sirius would want him to enjoy himself, as much as he possibly could. So, with a long sigh, Harry peeled himself off of the couch.

"Yeah. Sure. Let me change and everything first."

"Sure thing mate. I'll meet you over there!"

"Great," Harry mumbled, shuffling apathetically up the stairs to at least make himself look partially decent.