Chapter 10! This chapter goes to: HarryPotterRoxMySoxForever and cammiestar58 for getting the trivia question correct, yet again! Awesome job, guys! MsPaigeMeadows was close, but you left out the type of wood the wands were made out of. The correct answer was: Fleur's wand was rosewood and veela hair, Cedric's was ash and unicorn hair, and Krum's was hornbeam and dragon hearstring.

This weeks question: How much does an S.P.E.W. badge cost? (This ones pretty easy)

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Nina's POV

The next morning I came down from the girl's dormitory and saw Fabian and Harry sitting on the couch, talking.

"Morning." I said, walking over and sitting down. "Harry, I haven't gotten a chance to talk to you properly about last night. Did you put your name in?"

Harry groaned. "No, I didn't." he said angrily. "You were with me all day, how could I have?"

"Well then, who did?" I asked.

"We were just talking about that." Fabian said. "He thinks it was Snape."

"Hmm...Do you think it was anyone else?" I mouthed "Rufus" to Fabian when Harry wasn't looking, and he nodded.

We had avoided running into Rufus, or Professor Zeno as Dumbledore had introduced him, at all costs yesterday. I knew we couldn't aviod him forever, but we could try.

"Ron thinks I did put my name in. And now he won't speak to me." Harry said miserably.

"Ohhh..." I said sympathetically rubbing his shoulder. "I'll ask Hermione to talk to him."

"That's what she's doing right now." he grumbled.

"Well, he'll come around eventually." Fabian said helpfully.

But he didn't. The next few days seemed as if the whole school minus the Gryffindors were set on making Harry's life as miserable as possible. All the Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws seemed to think that he had entered the tournament in order to get more attention. The Slytherins were as mean as usual, of course. They had even made Potter Stinks badges, which everyone kept flashing at him as he passed in the hallways.

A week later, Fabian and I were walking to Double Potions (ick!) when my bag split and everything fell out.

I groaned. "Reparo!" I said, mending the bag and starting to put everything back in. Fabian started to help me. "No, its okay, you can go. I don't want to make you late." I said.

"It's fine, I don't care-"

"No, seriously, you know how Snape gets when people are late. Go on." I continued putting things in my bag.

"Well-" he hestitated. "Alright. I'll save you a seat." he hurried off.

I finished putting everything back in my bag, and headed towards the dungeons. Just as I was rounding a corner, I literally ran into the last person I wanted to run into-Rufus Zeno.

"Oh, sorry." he said, not even looking at me. Then he did a double take. "You." he said, staring at me in disbelief. "What are you doing here? Why aren't you at Anubis House?"

"Uhh...I...go to school here now?" I said lamely.

"This is bad. Very bad." said Rufus, mostly to himself. He looked up at me. "I'm watching you, and all of your friends too. Be warned." He said, and he walked away. I stood there, shaking for another moment, and then hurried off to Potions to tell Fabian what I'd seen.

I arrived in the dungeons in time to see Hermione run away in tears, covering up her...teeth? They were all they way down past her collar bone.

"Hey, are you alright?" I asked her as she hurried past, But she just shook her head tearfully and continued running. I turned around and saw Harry and Ron yelling their heads off at Snape.

"Lets see. Fifty points from Gryffindor and a detention each for Potter and Weasley. Oh, and I'll take another ten points for your lateness Miss Martin." Snape said in his silkiest voice.

I felt myself turn red and looked down at the floor. Harry and Ron continued to glower at Snape as we walked into the classroom. I sat at a table with Fabian and beckoned for Patricia and Amber to join us.

"That was so unfair of him!" Fabian said to me. "He shouldn't have taken any points. I mean, you weren't that late and your bag broke, so it wasn't your fault."

I gave him a small smile. "Thanks, but since when does Snape care about fairness?"

He shook his head. "Harry and Malfoy tried to curse each other at the same time, but they rebounded and Malfoy's hit Hermione and Harry's hit Goyle. Hermione's teeth wouldn't stop growing, and Snape made a nasty comment about not seeing any difference so she ran to the hospital wing crying. So thats why Harry and Ron were yelling at Snape." Fabian explained.

"Oh," I said. Poor Hermione. "But, I have some news to."

Fabian, Amber and Patricia all leaned in closer. "I ran into Rufus on the way here. and he said-"

"Miss Martin, I advise you to stop talking immediately unless you wish to lose your house another ten points." Snape loomed over us.

I turned red again and mumbled a "S-sorry..."

After Snape turned around and starting telling us the ingredients for the potion, I whispered to Fabian "I'll tell you later." He nodded, looking concered.

"So...if its bad for Rufus that we're here, then it's good for us?" Amber asked later that night when we were having out Sibuna meeting.

"Yes...I think. Unless Rufus had a change of heart and is on our side now-" I started, but Patricia interupted me.

"Which isn't possible for someone who never had a heart in the first place. Come on Nina, seriously? You honestly think that Rufus is on our side and is trying to protect us? He freaking kidnapped me!" Patricia snapped a me.

"Okay, Okay, I'm sorry. I was just saying all the possibilities." I said hastily. Geez, people were really jumping down my throat today. First Snape and now Patricia.

Luckily, Fabian wasn't. "Well, you guys never know. Ever heard the expression 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'? Rufus is Victor's enemy, and Victor is ours so-"

"Stop it Fabian! Rufus is clearly NOT on our side. He. Kidnapped. Me! Get over yourselves and stop trying to make him good! Cause even if he is on our side, I'm never working with him! Ever!" Patricia's outburst was met by silence. I realized now that Patricia wasn't all upset that Rufus kidnapped her, she was more upset by the fact that he had betrayed her trust. He had pretended to help her, but ended up backstabbing her in the end.

I felt bad for her, so I stopped pursuing the subject. "Ok, he's not on our side. Maybe he really is on Victor's side?"

"But didn't Victor call Rufus 'The Betrayer'?" Amber asked.

"Yeah...But...But...' I sighed. and sat down on the floor with my head in my hands. "I don't know what to think anymore."

Fabian sat down next to me and put his hand on my shoulder. "Hey, its OK." he said soothingly. "Just don't give up. We need Nina, our fearless leader."

I cracked a smile at him. "Thanks." I said. "But I think we need to end the meeting here for tonight. I've had a long day."

"Yeah, I agree." said Fabian. "Plus, we have classes tomorrow."

Patricia and Amber said goodnight and hurried up to bed. Fabian started to follow, but I said "Fabian, wait a sec."

"Yeah?" He said, walking over to me.

I took a deep breath. "Theres something I need to tell you. But you can't tell anyone. Ever."

Fabian nodded. "Okay, what is it?"

"Harry and I are..." I sighed. "Harry is my...brother."

"What?" Fabian asked, stunned. "You're joking."

"I'm not."

"How do you know?"

"Remember that day, when Jerome and Alfie started the food fight?" I asked. "Well, when we went up to Dumbldore's office, he told us." Fabian was still staring at me in disbelief. "I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner," I said quickly. "But Dumbledore told us not to tell anyone. But after this Rufus incident...I thought I should tell you. You know, in case its related to all this."

Fabian was still staring at me, deep in thought. Was he mad at me? "I'm really, really sorry it's not that I didn't trust you, it's just-"

"No, no, it's fine. I'm just wondering..." He trailed off.

"What?" I asked.

"Well, you know how they took Joy away because they thought she was the chosen one?" he asked.

I nodded. "Yeah."

"Well...what if the chosen one has something to do with being a witch or wizard? And what if they were wrong about Joy being the chosen one? What if its actually...you?" He said uncertainly.

I froze. Then I shook my head repeatedly. "No, no way, I am absolutely NOT the chosen one!"

"Well, obviously you and Harry are pretty important being that the Death Eaters separated you for some reason. And then Harry's name was pulled out of the cup..." said Fabian.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean I'm the chosen one! What even IS the chosen one? What were they chosen to do, why were they chosen?" I demanded.

"But-"

"Fabian, stop it! I am not the chosen one! Please don't talk like that anymore, it scares me!" I burst into tears and ran up to my dormitory, ignoring Fabian calling my name.

Fabian's POV

Great, now I've done it. I am officially a horrible friend. Why couldn't I have just kept my mouth shut?

The next morning, I woke up extra early, and paced the common room waiting for Nina to come down. After about half an hour, she finally did.

"Hey, Nina." I said when I saw her. "I-I'm really really sorry about last night, I shouldnt've said anything like that."

She shook her head. "No, I'm sorry. I was overreacting. What you said could very well be true." She sighed. "I just need to accept the facts and get over my fear."

"Nah, I doubt it's true. Don't worry, you're safe as long as your here with Dumbledore." I said.

She smacked herself on the forehead. "Thats IT! Your a genius Fabian! DUMBLEDORE!" She beamed and threw her arms around me. I laughed a little and hugged her back, still unsure what I did.

"Come on!" Nina let go of me and grabbed my hand and started dragging me out of the common room.

"Wait, Where are we-"

"To Dumbledore of course! We can ask him all this! Can you come with me for moral support?"

I laughed. "Sure, but I wouldn't have had much of a choice anyway, being that you're dragging me there."

We arrived at Dumbledore's office. Nina banged on the door.

"Uh, Nina? It's a little early, he might not be awake yet." I said.

But we heard Dumbledore say "Enter." and we walked in.

Nina walked up to Dumbledore's desk and stood in front of it.

"Dumbledore, we want real answers and we want them now!" she demanded.

Oooooh, another cliffhanger! What fun! I'll try to update soon, but I'm excruciatingly busy so I'm not sure how soon...remember to review & answer the trivia question! xxxxx