A/N: ok guys, this'll be a loooong author's note. But it won't affect the chapter in any way. This is very important I think.

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So, I wanted to let you guys know that I am not a person to ship non canon things. I just... don't. It's my mind set. I also have a HUGE obsession of sticking with the canon way as much as possible. I latch onto the story and character designs and I never let go. I'm telling you this to make sure you know that i'm not going to be one of those people who start with a really awesome story-line and plot, but eventually, the characters get downgrades or upgrades in power and their outfits change, then they stray from the summary and throw in a ton of new variables and plot-twists and eventually the entire thing turns into this huge mess of romance and violent drama that you would never even recognise as having something to do with your fandom if not for the summary and first few chapters. Then they don't finish it. I've encountered a LOT of stories like this and that is probably mainly the reason I never change how the characters are if it isn't imperative to the story itself. And i'm always going to finish my stories as long as it's physically and mentally possible. I am NOT against these stories completely though. They're actually really interesting to read until they end. They kinda give me anxiety though. Or panic attacks. I'm not really sure WHAT it is but I start freaking out, like "NO BUT THAT'S NOT WHO THEN WHERE HUH?" Or SOMETHING like that. So I was just letting you know about my weirdness. I'm too canon for my own good. I mean, I DO have Headcanons though. How could I ever function without those? And of course I do change it up a bit sometimes. Hehehe...

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I hope nobody is offended or something. I mean, it's honestly just weird old me. So ENOUGH of that, I'M EXCITED FOR THIS CHAPTER LET'S GET THE SHOW ON THE ROAD!

Emerald POV or whatever

Amity Park

"You're going to do WHAT?!" Exclaimed a shocked Tucker. Sam and Jazz could only stare in shock as they tried to comprehend what Jack and Maddie Fenton had just told them. The couple looked tired and worried, obviously desperate to find their missing child. Maddie laid a comforting hand on her husband's shoulder and repeated what she had just told the three teens.

"We're going to go into the Ghost Zone to look for Danny."

The three children looked at each other anxiously. They knew they should tell the desperate adults that they more or less knew where their son was, but how were they going to break it to them that their son was half ghost?

Tucker looked back at the couple. "Sorry, let me rephrase that," he said neutrally, then yelled loudly, "are you out of your MINDS?!" The geeky boy then cringed under the glare of both of the adults.

"We ARE out of our minds," Maddie stated. "Out of our minds with WORRY."

"Yes! That blasted Phantom could have Danny!" Jack said loudly. "We can't just sit here!" He then deflated a little and sighed with a defeated look. Maddie hugged him and the three teens in front of them looked at the pair with expressions of mixed sympathy and anxiety. Finally, Sam decided to speak.

"Uh... Mr. And Mrs. Fenton... we might need to tell you something..."

*I'm such a jerk*

Hogwarts

Danny was starting to get anxious as well...

Wait, as well? You imply as though there was some sort of odd half-hearted foreshadowing before this moment in which a second party shared similar emotions. Haha, Silly you.

Anyway, Danny was starting to feel rather upset about all of this. He might be gone for a whole year! An entire 365 days! He could only IMAGINE the havoc his parents would be wreaking back Park... maybe even his friends too. As Danny floated along the halls, chilling the air in his fowl (A/N: can't resist) mood, he couldn't help but worry for the safety of his friends and family. "I really hope they can keep the ghosts at bay until I get back... whenever that is..." he was stirred from his thoughts when he bumped into Peeves the Poltergeist as the aggravating little thing was tampering with a suit of armor to make it wack kids on the head as they passed by. Danny had no clue how that worked, but he took a mental note to talk to this guy at some point. He could help him let off some steam.

Danny couldn't help but notice the twinge of discomfort that came from the collar around his neck. He growled at the thing and started floating off to Lupin's room, as that was what that always meant apparently. How he despised that thing...

While Danny broods in his hatred, let's catch up on Lupin's class! Yaaay! Huh? What do you MEAN this should be under author's note? Who's the autho-

~flashback~

Danny was called into Lupin's class for the first time from the collar. He grumbled his way down the hall as he realized that this might be a regular occurrence. "Why don't YOU put this thing on for a day," he growled quietly. "See how YOU like it..."

As he neared the classroom, Danny was shoved aside by a very disgruntled Peeves with gum shoved up his nose. Danny stifled his laughter and floated into the classroom, then followed the sounds of the group of people to the staffroom door, which Snape was stalking out of. He looked at the man's retreating figure for a bit before joining the class in the staffroom.

Danny decided to float next to Lupin for the time being, touching the man's shoulder to let him know he'd arrived. The boy was impressed when the older man didn't even falter in his explanation. He had explained to the uneasy class that the shaking wardrobe held a boggart. This didn't look like it made any of the students feel better. Neville was looking especially nervous, him being the one chosen to aid Lupin in the demonstration.

"Boggarts like dark, enclosed spaces," said Lupin. "Wardrobes, the gap beneath beds, the cupboards under sinks- i've even met one that had lodged itself in a grandfather clock. This one moved in yesterday afternoon, and I asked the headmaster if the staff would like to give my third years some practice. So, the first question we must ask ourselves is, what is a boggart?"

The question was immediately answered by, of course, Hermione Granger. She told the class how it takes the shape of whatever you're frightened of most.

As Lupin praised her and continued on explaining boggarts, Danny made a mental note to stay away from whatever is going to come out of that closet. He started paying attention when Harry answered a question posed to him.

" there are so many of us, it won't know what shape it should be?"

"Precisely," praised Lupin. Hermione, who had been only TOO eager to answer the question herself, put her hand down disappointedly.

"It's always best to have company when you're dealing with a boggart," the professor continued. "He becomes confused. Which should he become, a headless corpse or a flesh-eating slug? I once saw a boggart make that very mistake- tried to frighten two people at once and turned himself into half a slug. Not remotely frightening.

"The charm that repels a boggart is simple, yet it requires force of mind. You see, the thing that really finishes a boggart is laughter. What you need to do is force it to assume a shape that you find amusing.

"We will practice the charm without wands first. After me, please... riddikulus!"

"Riddikulus!" Chorused the class back as Danny watched, intrigued. He was admittedly very curious as to how this will play out. He decided to take a seat in the back of the room.

"Good," said Lupin. "Very good. But that was the easy part, i'm afraid. You see, the word alone is not enough. And this is where you come in, Neville."

Danny watched as the shaking boy walked reluctantly up to the wardrobe. Lupin asked what the boy was most afraid of, and he answered too quietly for anyone to hear him. When Lupin asked again, Neville looked around wildly and answered in barely more than a whisper, "Professor Snape." This caused everyone in the room to laugh, even Danny. "Man, I don't like school either," he thought. "but Mr. Lancer is definitely not my number one biggest fear." This thought caused Danny to stop and think about what WAS his biggest fear. As he thought, the class continued.

"Professor Snape... hmmm... Neville, I believe you live with your grandmother?"

"Er- yes," Neville said nervously. "But- I don't want the boggart to turn into her either."

"No, no, you misunderstand me," Said the now smiling Professor Lupin. "I wonder, could you tell us what sort of clothes your grandmother usually wears?"

Danny began paying attention when Lupin announced that Snape would be forced into the ridiculous clothes Neville had described. But his newfound smile disappeared when he mentioned the boggart turning to everyone's worst fears. He'd figured out his worst fear, and he really didn't want to see that... everyone, at command, was closing their eyes and thinking of their worst fears and how they could be made comical. Out of the corner of his eye, Danny saw Harry shiver. Danny thought he knew what Harry was most afraid of. He had nearly the same reaction when he first encountered a dementor. But more about that another time. The class was already starting, and the boggart was being let out to Neville. As was expected, Snape walked out of the wardrobe, sneering and walking up to Neville, reaching inside his robes. Neville squeaked out a "riddikulus!" And Snape was wearing a long, lace-trimmed dress and a towering hat topped with a moth-eaten vulture, and he was carrying a large, red handbag. Everyone laughed, including Danny.

From then on, many students faced the boggart and disabled and made fun of it in different ways. Nearly everyone had a turn, and so nearly everyone faced their fears. There was even a Banshee which made an unearthly noise that almost deafened Danny due to his enhanced hearing, and reminded him of his own ghostly wail.

Right after Ron faced a large spider he had vanished the legs from, the enlarged arachnid rolled over to Harry, who happened to be right in front of Danny at the time. Danny realized that it was about to turn into a dementor,.and not wanting to be anywhere near one of the dreadful things he pushed Harry away from the boggart and took his place. Unfortunately, that meant he was standing directly in front of the creature.

Before Lupin could do anything, the boggart took form to accommodate Danny's worst fear. It immediately grew in size and shifted shape until it took the form of a floating enigma with cold, blood-red eyes and a devilish sharp-toothed grin. It had white, burning flames for hair and a jumpsuit for clothing. It was, of course, Dark Dan.

Dan turned to look where Danny was and grinned maliciously at him. The temperature in the room immediately dropped a few degrees as Danny stared in absolute horror at his worst fear, himself. Before the fearful ghost boy could do anything brash, Lupin jumped right in front of where he knew Danny was and the boggart immediately changed into a white orb. "Forward, Neville, and finish him off!" Said Lupin as the boggart confusedly landed on the floor as a cockroach. Neville quickly snapped out of the shock from seeing the ghost and ran up with a determined expression as Snape appeared in the dress once more. He let out one great "Ha!" Of laughter, and the boggart exploded into thousands of tiny wisps of smoke and was gone.

Lupin praised Neville and the class applauded, though many of them were still horrified at the evidently evil ghost that had appeared before them. Lupin gave out points and told the class their homework, and sent them on their merry way. Danny was still floating with a horrified expression on his invisible face, when Lupin started talking.

"Phantom, would you be kind to tell me what that was?!" He looked a bit peeved and surprised, to say the least. He didn't yet trust Phantom completely and wanted an explanation for what had happened. When Danny materialized with an expression of mixed horror and sadness, however, he dropped his stern glare and gained an air of surprise at the unexpected expression of pain the ghost boy had on his face.

"Phantom?" He said uncertainly. "Are you alright?"

Danny looked at him with a nervous expression, but answered nonetheless.

"Yeah... i'm fine..." he said. "But I think I need to go..." and with that he turned invisible and left the room, leaving a confused and slightly worried Lupin in a cold room behind him.

~you probably forgot this was a flashback~

As he headed to Lupin's class, Danny barely managed to suppress a shiver at the memory. He didn't think he had ever felt that shocked before. "Mentally," he reminded himself. "I've been shocked physically just enough."

Danny was a bit nervous as he finally reached the classroom. This would be only the second time he would be there, but this time was going to be hard... Lupin had told him beforehand that Dumbledore had informed the man that Danny could let the students see him now, in this class and afterward. Danny was, to say the least, petrified. He'd never had that good of a first impression on anyone, whether in his ghost form or not. Valerie was a perfect example of that. He held his breath and phased through the door, taking care to stay invisible as he went over and tapped Lupin's shoulder to let him know of his presence. The teacher quickly acknowledged that by signaling the beginning of the lesson to the classroom full of students, who all quieted down immediately. Danny noticed that the students had grown to respect their Defence teacher after the past few lessons. He didn't blame them. Though he wasn't particularly fond of the man, Danny knew he wasn't a bad guy. He watched, cross-legged above Lupin's head, as the man began to announce what he was planning for the day.

"Now, everyone take out your quills and parchment, today's lesson will require you to take a lot of notes."

The class shuffled about as students began to take out the needed supplies. There was a bit of curious mumbling mixed in as well. Once everyone was ready Lupin began to speak again.

"Alright. Today, Phantom will be joining us to talk about muggle ghosts."

This statement caused an uproar of excited and curious mutterings about the class. There were scattered questions about what he will look like, how he will act, etc. The golden trio were glancing at each other and whispering about him less urgently, as they already knew of his appearance, but they still looked very excited.

Lupin was attempting to calm his class down to start the lesson.

"Settle down everyone so we can get started!" He said sternly. "Phantom, if you please."

Danny held his breath unconsciously and turned visible. The class all immediately stopped talking and stared up at the glowing teenager, sitting in midair above their professor's head. Most of the girls immediately sat up in their seats and Danny started to look uncomfortable at all the attention.

"... hi."

Some of the students said hi back but most of them were still gaping at the poor ghost in shock at how young he was.

"Er- right," Lupin interjected into the silence. "Now, Phantom if you would come down here please."

Danny did as he was told and stood beside the professor with an expression that suggested relief at the silence being broken.

"So," the man continued. "Would you care to explain to us what muggle ghosts are, exactly?"

"Uh sure," Danny said uncertainly. "Hmm... ghosts, or muggle ghosts as you call us, are beings based entirely on the dead souls of humans and their obsessions. Each ghost has individual obsessions that has something to do with the way they died, and the obsession keeps them in existence as unfinished business. 'Muggle' Ghosts are usually considered to be evil, and a lot of us are. But tons of us, like me, are obsessed about different things which doesn't have to do with evil, more to the contrary."

The entire class and Lupin listened to his explanation intently.

"What is your obsession?" Asked a student.

Danny looked a bit bothered by the question. It was considered pretty rude to ask that to a ghost, in an invasion of privacy sense more than anything else. He scratched the back of his neck in a nervous habit he'd taken up recently and thought.

"Well... protection I guess..."

"What do you protect?" Another student asked.

"Well, mostly my- uh the town Amity Park." Admitting this increased Danny's worrying about his absence from the people he protects. He looked down for a second.

Nobody noticed the ghost boy's discomfort other than Hermione. She noticed how he nervously fingered the device around his neck. This made her even more suspicious and she seriously considered her theory on him not coming here willingly, as they were all lead to believe. She decided to take notes on this later.

Another student, Lavender, raised her hand. "Why are you so young? And why are you solid?"

Danny considered for a second before answering. He was trying to think of a convincing lie for the first and the real truth for the second. "... uuh it wasn't very long ago when I... you know..." Danny stopped for a second and most of the students looked sympathetic for Danny. He quickly moved on. "And for the solid thing, I think that has something to do with being a 'muggle' I guess? We didn't have magic in life so now we have ghost powers and ecto-energy in death I guess? Kinda ironic that it's switched up, huh?" He chuckled nervously and some of the class snickered as well. "But enough about that; any more questions?"

The rest of the class went by with students asking questions and Danny answering them. The last question took him by surprise.

"What is a halfa?"

Danny stopped and his eyes widened. He looked over to Hermione, who had asked the question. "How would she even know that term?!" He thought in a panic.

"Uh... wha?"

"I asked, what is a halfa?" She repeated.

Danny gulped and ran a hand through his hair before he answered. "Well, a halfa is only half ghost..."

"How can someone be half dead?" Hermione asked, looking interested. The entire class looked curious as well.

"Well... there are only three halfas who currently exist. Well, two. The second one was made artificially from the second one by cloning." He stopped at the confused looks he was getting from most of the class who didn't know what cloning was. "Uh, well, that's a different story. But I can't really tell you exactly how a halfa can only be half dead."

"And why is that?" Hermione pushed him to continue.

"Because... uh... because I don't know..." Danny looked down at his shoes and the class ended. Everyone began filing out and Lupin told the students that they will be witnessing Phantom's powers in a different class.

When Lupin turned around from shutting the class door, Phantom was already gone.

A/N: i'm sorry for the wait and the cliff PLEASE DON'T HURT ME! *ducks under the flaming chainsaws* aaahh! *ahem* anyway, OMIGOG I THINK THIS IS MY BEST WRITTEN CHAPTER YET! =^DDD yay me! I hope you all enjoyed reading it! Eeeheehee! Looks like Hermione is getting to the bottom of things already! How she knows about halfas has a completely logical explanation that will be discovered next chapter when I talk about Amity Park and the trio's thoughts about everything. But URRGH writing straight from the book is BORINGGGG. But it's worth it for you guys! You're all so loyal and fantastic and you make my heart skip with joy! I haven't even gotten ONE flame yet and that makes me so happy! I love you all so much! The thing at the beginning wasn't meant as malice to anyone, just to be clear. It just really makes me sad when people get me all excited and then change everything and not even finish the story. Does it make you sad? Let me know in a review! I love you all and see you in the next chapter! Flames will be used to light the end of Charmander's tail to keep him alive, but the warmth of positive reviews and thoughts help him WAY more. Peace out!