It had been a week since Snape's first class and he had finally sorted through all of the memories of his past life.

Harry, luckily, was still able to use the Dragon Pulse, so he was able to find the others. Fortunately, he seemed to have already met all the ones that were Hogwarts already, so all he had to do was get them to remember. Harry smirked in Ron's direction.

Step one: Get his best friend and partner in crime to remember.

It would be easier to get the others to remember with help and the ex-prince (as he had only been only two years into his rule when the battle started and transmutation circle activated, it was just easier to think of himself as a ex-prince then a ex-emperor... plus Greed wouldn't call him anything else. The jerk.) couldn't help but smile when he thought about the pranks he and Ed had pulled on the stuffy nobles of his country.

"Hey, princy." Greed called from the back of their mind.

"Yes Greed?" Harry asked.

"You're friend is trying to get your attention."

Harry blinked and pulled himself from the mental world he had perfected during his time sharing a body with the homunculus to see that, yes, Ron was trying to get his attention.

"I'm sorry Ron. What was that?"

Ron rolled his eyes. "Would you pay attention Harry?" Harry just grinned at his best friend with his eyes closed out of habit. He saw Ron blink in confustion before the annoyed look came back to the redhead's face. "I was saying, do you know how to get to the Great Hall from here? Because I think we're lost."

Harry looked around and saw that they were indeed in an unfamilier part of the castle. "Um..." He quickly sent out his Dragon Pulse to see if he could feel the mass of people at lunch. He found them fast enough and started walking in the direction of the people, motioning Ron to follow. They didn't get very far before they heard a certain, familiar Hufflepuff.

"Markus, do you even know where we're going?"

"I could of sworn this was the right way..." A new voice said and they heard a sigh. Soon, Harry and Ron caught sight of Draco and a boy with black hair and gray eyes rounding the corner in front of them. All four boys stopped and stared at each other for a moment. Markus was the one who broke the awkward silence.

"Do either of you know the way to the Great Hall?" He asked with a nervous smile on his face and a slight blush. Draco rounded on Markus and stared at him in disbelief.

"You mean you didn't know this whole time?"

Markus started to laugh nervously and Harry could only smile at them.

"I think I d-" Harry started, but was cut off by a meow from behind him. He and Ron turned and saw Mrs. Norris, Filch's cat.

"Dangit, it's Mrs. Norris!" Ron said, as said cat ran off in the other direction. "She's probably going to get Flich and knowing him, he would find any excuse to put us in detention!" The redhead grabbed Harry's arm and started running down the hall, past Draco and Markus, both of which followed right behind. Being shorter, Harry couldn't gain enough speed to run fast enough to get his arm out of Ron's gasp, though he didn't try hard. He was to focused on Flich's Chi that was closing in from behind them. Not good. He definitely didn't want detention with that crazy guy!

They were almost around the next corner when they had noticed that Markus had tripped half way through. They all skided to a stop but before Markus could get up and run after them, Ron ran over, grabbed his arm and started running.

"Edward!" Harry yelled without thinking. Ron's head snapped up and his brownish-gold eyes met his dark green ones but no words could be said before they heard Flich's raspy voice.

"This way, my pet? They went this way?"

All four boys shared a look of fear before continuing running. Before long, they came up to a dead end with only a looked door and Flich was catching up fast.

"Now what?" Draco asked fearfully. Markus tried opening the door again before taking out his wand and unlocking it with a cry of Alohomora!

"Glad I'm a second year..." He muttered as the door swung open.

They piled through it, shut it quickly, and pressed their ears against it, listening for Filch's voice.

"Which way did they go?" They heard Filch ask. There was some shuffling and the boys held their breath, before they heard footsteps going away.

"He thinks this door is locked," Harry whispered. "I think we'll be okay-"

"Ew!" He heard Draco exclaim from behind him and looked to see what happened. What he saw made him freeze.

Draco pulled his hand out of the slime-like drool that had fallen on his shoulder and looked up to the others, face contorted in disgust. They all were looking behind him in fear and Draco raised an eyebrow. He turned his head and his eyes widened in fear.

They were looking straight into the eyes of a monstrous dog, a dog that filled the whole space between ceiling and floor. It had three heads. Three pairs of rolling, mad eyes; three noses, twitching and quivering in their direction; three drooling mouths, saliva hanging in slippery ropes from yellowish fangs. It was utterly terrifying.

It was standing quite still, all six eyes staring at them, and Harry knew that the only reason they weren't already dead was that their sudden appearance had taken it by surprise. But, it was quickly getting over that, and there was no mistaking what those thunderous growls meant.

Even worse, Draco had backed away from the door to much when they were listening to Flich and was standing more or less right under the dogs' noses. The middle head moved forward to eat Draco and all the warning Harry had on what happened next was the yell of 'Alphonse!' and the familier ring of a clap.

The middle head smashed into a stone wall and Ron ran toward Draco, gripping his shoulders tightly.

"Al! Are you ok?!"

All the terrified Draco could do was nod and mumble something to Ron, though Harry could have sworn he heard the word "Brother" somewhere in there. Harry smiled. Well, two of his friends were back, at least.

"What the bloody hell was that?!"

Oh yeah, he had forgotten about Markus... He grabbed the terrified older boy's arm and led him out of the room, Ron and Draco following. Markus didn't speak again until they all had gotten to the Great Hall. Though, he was shaking like a leaf.

"30 minutes ago, I was afraid of getting buried under my homework." The second year Hufflepuff said after he took a deep breath. "Now I'm afraid of gaint three headed dogs. Thank you for that and I'm done with all of you."

Harry, Ron, and Draco watched as Markus walked to the Hufflepuff table, before sitting down at the Gryfindor table to get lunch before time ran out.

Harry grinned as the two began to refer to each other as 'Brother'.

This, this was progress.


I don't really like this chapter...

Greed: I was barely in it!

Shut up Greed. Can I have seven more reviews? Oh, and does anyone want to be my Beta?