Disclaimer: I own only the obvious, the rest belongs to JK Rowling.

Authors Notes: Well, here's chapter seven. It's more of a explanation chapter, but I needed it. Hope you like it and please review.

-Chapter Seven-



The questioning went quickly and Harry was back into his own room half an hour later. He took out a cello-phone and dialled a number.

"Hello, Hermione Granger speaking." Came a female voice from the other end.

"Hey Herm, it's me."

"Harry! How are you? Is everything alright?"

"I'm fine, and everything's alright now."

"What do you mean by 'now'?"

"Never mind. Listen I need you to do something for me. Could you get all the papers from the first two weeks after Draco appeared in Number 4, Privet Drive?"

"Sure, that won't be too hard. But why?" Hermione asked.

"I'll explain later okay? Say 'Hi' to Ron, Sirius and the rest. And before you ask, both Draco and Ginny are still alive."

"Harry, I will never understand you. Alright, the paper's should be at Hogwarts tomorrow afternoon."

"Thanks Herm, you're an angel."

"No problem. Cheerio."

"Good bye." Harry hung up and put the phone away.

He sat down at his desk, opened a drawer and found a letter there. He took it and opened it.

'Red Dragon,

Divel Dubner did teach at Durmstrang for a few years before becoming a Quidditch star. The headmaster at Durmstrang, Igor Karkaroff, even showed us Dubner's files.

Agent Xiao.'

Harry growled, got up from his chair, threw some powder into the fireplace and called.

"Draco, Ginny! Get over here, now!"

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Eminor was on his way to the library when he was almost run down by Draco and Ginny.

"Sorry!" Draco called over his shoulder.

Eminor looked after them. This was strange. They, along with Harry, always took the time to speak to him when they met him in the corridors. He decided to follow them and used one of his Elfish powers, turning himself invisible. He managed to get inside Harry's office before the door was closed and positioned himself in a corner where he could hear and see everything.

"Here, read this." Harry said and gave them a letter.

"So?" Draco asked.

"Karkaroff even has the files, Dubner was there." Ginny reasoned.

Harry glared darkly at the two of them.

"Since when did you two begin to trust Karkaroff? And the fact that he isn't dead says something."

"Could you explain to me what it says?" Draco asked.

"Remember the Triwizard Tournament? Well, ol' Voldie kept an welcome- speech to his Death Eaters, and he swore to kill Karkaroff." Harry replied.

"So you say that the guy's serving Voldemort again?"

"That's clear as crystal." Harry ran a hand through his hair. "Herm's sending every paper from the two first weeks you where at Number 4, Privet Drive to me tomorrow, Draco. I need one of you to stay here and go through them."

"And where are you and the other one going?" Ginny asked suspiciously.

" 'Into the forest, deep and dark'." Harry replied. "Just as the riddle said."

"You know where this forest is?" she asked.

"Yep."

"Where is it? And you two are not leaving me here!" Ginny said before the other two could even open their mouths.

"The forest is in Transylvania, near the castle of Lord Dracul." Draco said slyly.

"On second thought, it might be nice to have someone taking care of things here at Hogwarts." Ginny said then almost ran out of the room. "Have a nice trip. Hope you survive it." They could hear her muttering as the door closed.

"So Harry, where's the forest?" Draco asked.

"Just where you said it was."

"No seriously Harry, where is it?"

"Draco, I'm not kidding."

"Me and my big mouth. I suddenly lost my appetite. Tell Dumbledore that I'm researching or something like that." Draco walked out of the room.

When the door had closed Harry smiled in amusement. Eminor thought he saw Harry's eyes flicker towards him but he wasn't sure. Harry got up, found a book in one of the shelves then left the room through a door Eminor hadn't noticed. Eminor quietly got out of the office and walked back to the Gryffindor common room, a plan forming in his mind.

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Harry put the book on the table in his room. the book was called 'Vampire's, now and then' . Really useful book if you where going into the heart of Transylvania.

'The Classical Vampire

'Rules' for the Vampire's existence:

At daytime a Vampire lays in its coffin, in a trance-like state that would have been like sleep if its eyes had not always been open. At midnight a Vampire turns into mist that penetrates out of the coffin and changes into a human with big, sharp fangs. It leans over its victim as though to kiss it, but instead drives its fangs into the neck of the victim and sucks out the blood. A Vampire can change into a wolf or a bat. A Vampire can command the Elements and transform into dust that float in the air.

A Vampire can hypnotise, partly with some optic hallucinations and partly with its strong eyes. A Vampire does not cast shadows nor does it have a reflection. As mist the Vampire can enter wherever it wishes, and in human form it has incredible strength. A Vampire can see in the dark. A Vampire's most dangerous enemy is the Sun, that with its rise turns every Vampire into dust if it isn't in its coffin. In big parts of the world water is also dangerous, a Vampire can not cross running water.

A Vampire controls some parts of the animal-kingdom, but mostly: wolfs, dogs, cats, rats, bats and owls. A Vampires outer recognising sign, beside the sharp fangs, is its unnatural paleness. A Vampires eyes are strong and unnaturally sparkling.'

Harry searched for the date of the book, but couldn't find it. He went back to reading.

'Special Vampire-types:

The Dhampire: Someone who is the son or daughter of a Vampire.

The Daylight Vampire: Can only be found in Poland and in Russia. It was awake from midday to midnight.

The Children of Judas: Come from Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia. Everyone of them are redheaded like Judas was. They kill their victims with one single bite.

Loogaroc: Old lady's that have a pact with the Devil.

Varcolaci: A mystical Vampire only known in Romania. It wasn't satisfied with only living people, but could eat both the Sun and the Moon.

Vrykolatios: A combination of Vampire and God. It can wake the dead from their graves and send them out to have a feast on the living. Mostly it lives on Santorini, Greece.

The Ancient Vampires:

It all started with Lilith. Lilith is the mother of all demons in the world. She was the first wife of Adam, but ran away. God sent three angles to get her back and they found her on a riverbank reproducing with the Devil. Because of this God made Eva for Adam.

In Babylon and Assyria Lilith was called Lamma. In Rome they feared Lamia, Lilith's little sister. Lamia tempted young men to come with her then drank their blood. In Greece they had the same Lamia but also had Striga, a bird that only flies at night and seeks children it can drink blood from. It is a near relative of Aluka, the 'Blood Beast' or 'Blood Leech', that you can find in the Bible. In the old Babylon you had the character Ekimmu. Not much is known about him, except that he is dead.'

The book didn't say much about Lord Dracul, but the rest of these Vampire- spices was good to know too, Harry supposed. He was about to close the book when a headline caught his eye.

'The Human Vampire

Gilles de Rais (1404-1440) was said to have killed between 140 and 200 kidnapped children. He was hung and burnt in Nantes, France the 25th of October, 1440.

Elizabeth Bathory was also called the Queen of the Vampires. She killed hundreds of young girls and bathed in their blood to keep herself young and beautiful. She was born in 1560 and died the 14th of August in 1614, locked up in a room while she was waiting for her trial.'

Something made Harry look to the last page of the book. There was something written there too, but not in the writing as in the rest of the book.

'The Vampire was a myth before it became history, history until it became folksong, folksong before it became literature, literature until it became theatre, theatre until it became movie, movie until it became comic books, papers, toys... and then it starts all over again: myth until it becomes history, history until it becomes legend...'

Harry closed the book. It had really got him thinking. He had never cared much about slaying Vampires before, but now he did. It had to be terrible to be chased for something that you couldn't help. He shuddered and put the book away. He was happy being what he was, and was never going to become a Vampire. Never.

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Well, what do you think? Oh, and one more thing! Those Vampire facts I got from a book in the library, so they ain't mine. Those two Human 'Vampires' really did live.

I would like to thank Pampered Tigeress, Polaris, Anna, Sophie W. and Tvillinger for reviewing.