Chapter 10

A Plan is Conceived

Friday came pretty fast, and Harry had to do his detention for Toad-Lady (I don't give a crap what other people call her, to me, she was Toad-Lady and Toad-Lady she shall remain.).

Angelina Johnson was right royally pissed off. She had taken over as Quidditch Captain when Oliver Wood left, and she wanted the entire Gryffindor team to be there when she held try outs to fill Wood's position as Keeper. But, Harry had to piss off Toad-Lady, so he was in detention!

Toad-Lady's classes were awful! All she had us doing was reading from that damned book, no practical usage of magic, nothing but reading the damn book! It was ridiculous!

I went over to the Gryffindor common room the night Harry went to do his detention to hang out with Hermione and Ivy when it was brought up.

"That Defence Against the Dark Arts stuff this term is crap!" Ivy shouted, tossing her DADA book on the table.

"I agree." Hermione and I said together.

I scoffed and slouched against the wall "Draco actually thinks it's a good curriculum!" I said annoyed.

Hermione gasped "What? I can't believe that the Hogwarts Silver Couple disagree! What'd Malfoy say?"

I shrugged "It was my opinion, and he wasn't going to try and change it." I said, smiling.

Ivy retched and Hermione smiled "At least he's not trying to control you."

I shrugged "Well…" I said "he just said I can't do anything about it."

Hermione's smile faltered and she scowled "What!? I can't believe he'd say that!"

I shrugged "It's cool…it's not like I listened to him before." I said, smirking. "I think I have a plan." I said. "But we'll see how bad Dungbridge gets before I decide to initiate it."

Ginny came walking down the stairs from the girl's dorms "What's Hannah's plan?"

I smirked "I say we do our own lessons." I said "You know, like, learn the spells ourselves?"

Ivy grinned evilly "Brilliant, Ms Potter!"

Hermione cocked an eyebrow "Wouldn't Malfoy be so pissed if you rebelled against Umbridge?"

I smirked and sat in a chair, leaning back and wrapping my arms around my head "Who knows, Hermione? It's not the first time he'd be pissed off with me. There was that instance in first year in the Forbidden Forest during our detention…" I said, trailing off and reliving the memory.

…

It was that night…the night Harry, Ron, Ivy, me, Hermione and Draco all went into the Forbidden Forest for being out of bed after hours.

Harry, Draco and I were walking along the pathway, littered with fallen tree limbs and an occasional owl screech.

"Wait until my father hears about this!" Draco said after finally stopping an argument with Harry over something stupid.

I rolled my eyes "I know, this is servants' stuff!" I whined.

Harry turned to me and Draco and smirked "If I didn't know better, you two, I'd say you were both scared!"

Draco scoffed "Scared, Potter? Please! I'm just…protecting Hannah from the dangers in here!" Draco insisted.

I blushed "My hero." I muttered.

Something snapped behind me and I screamed, ducking behind Draco as he gave a nervous gasp.

"Did you hear that?" Draco and I said together, before Draco looked down to me with my arms wrapped tightly around his waist, poking my head out to look for something I might want to run from. Draco smirked.

Harry rolled his eyes and started forward. "Slytherins." he muttered.

I shook, letting go of Draco's waist and gripping his arm. "I'm scared!" I squeaked.

Draco scoffed. "I wasn't!"

Harry turned to him, fighting off the urge to laugh "Really, Draco? Then why did you scream like a girl?"

Draco gaped and scoffed again. "I wasn't screaming!" Draco had said defensively "I was…cheering…from the thrill, yeah, that's it…I like the thrill!"

"Or," Harry said, taking the lantern from Draco "You were screaming like a girl. Hell, I'd even say you were screaming higher than Hannah." Harry said.

"SHUT UP, POTTER!" Draco shouted, turning pink "Now let's find this unicorn and get the hell out of-"

Draco, Harry and I all gasped at the same time.

There was the unicorn…dead as a doornail, with a cloaked figure bending down and drinking the silvery blood coming from the neck of the unicorn.

Harry and I made strangled noises of disgust and the figure turned to Harry, making Harry fall to his knees, clutching his scar as I grabbed mine.

I heard Draco scream and start to run, then his retreating footsteps stopped, then he ran back to me and grabbed my hand.

"Come on!" he shouted before we booked it…without the lantern.

…

Once we were out of the clearing and we ditched Harry, Draco ducked me behind a stump.

"What the-?!" I started before Draco slapped a hand over my mouth.

"SHH!" he hissed "You don't want that thing finding us, don't you?" he asked.

I fought out of his gag on me "Don't tell me what to do!" I snapped angrily, starting to stand up and look for Harry "Harry! Harry!" I shouted "YO!"

Draco pulled me back down, wrenching a shout from me until he gagged me again, wrapping an arm tightly around my waist to keep me from fighting out.

"'ET 'FF ME!" I shouted, my shouting muffled.

"Quiet!" Draco hissed, poking his head from behind the stump and checking for things "Another brilliant idea like that and you're gonna get the two of us killed!" he came back down and released me. "Now, let's go find the oaf, Weasley, Duff and Granger. And no more of your brilliant ideas! Another stunt like that, and you're as good as dead!"

I rolled my eyes "Fine, I'm sorry for trying to find my brother. I'll be more quiet the next time I'm worried sick about him."

Draco smirked and lit up his wand tip "Good. Now let's get the hell out of here."

…

"HAN!" Hermione and Ginny shouted together from a far off table in the common room.

I snapped out of the memory and glared at them "What?" I asked.

"Harry's back." Ivy said sternly

"The foul, loathsome, evil little wench! How could she do this to you!?" Hermione said, taking Harry's hand in hers and inspecting something.

I went over and sat down, gaping at what I saw.

There were five cuts on the back of Harry's hand…all spelling words:

"I must not tell lies."

I read the message again and snarled "That Toad Queen!" I snapped "That foul wench! She has no right to do this!"

Ivy said nothing, but stood up "I'm going to head to bed. Night, all." she said, heading upstairs to her dorm.

I nodded as Hermione put Harry's hand in a bowl of Essence of Dittany. "You can go head to bed, too, Han." Mione said as Ginny went upstairs as well. "I have this."

I smiled and hugged Hermione and Harry in turn "Thanks, Mione. Night. Night, Harry." I said, giving my brother a larger hug.

"Night, sis." Harry said, wincing from the cuts in his hand.

I smirked as I pulled on my Invisibility Cloak and headed down to the dungeons.

Let's just say Hermione's idea was getting better and better then for Harry.

But little did I know that things were about to become worse and worse for me.