A/N: Well, well, well look whose updating…again. I know, I know, the sky is falling, apocalypse is coming….so hide your cupcakes.

Their first few weeks at Hogwarts passed without incident, Harry and Quetzal were reunited (Harry pretended he bought Quetzal during their first trip to Hogsmade), Draco still didn't like Professor Thomas Rhapsody, and Quetzal decided she did like Professor Thomas Rhapsody.

"Harry, I still don't trust him." Draco pouted one fine late September afternoon.

"I know, Draco, you've been saying that for weeks," the other teen laughed as he feed Quetzal a potato chip. "Now come down to the lake with me and help me with my DADA homework."

"Fine, but I think he's a creep."

"Your opinion is noted."

They assumed their usual empty spot by the lake, Harry working faithfully on his homework and Draco playing with Quetzal. Finally Harry sighed, "Draco do you think I'm just being paranoid?"

"About you theory that someone set you up?"

"No my other conspiracy theory," Harry growled sarcastically.

The blonde smiled and shrugged, "I don't know, Harry. I heard what Ron and Hermione said about you…but we still don't have any other reason to suspect anyone intentionally tried to incarcerate you. It doesn't smell like Voldemort, but I can't think of anyone else who hates you enough to set evidence like that up."

Harry nodded, "But why are Ron and Hermione reporting to Rhapsody?"

"Well we're pretty sure he works for the ministry," Draco thought and then laughed, "Hey, maybe the ministry has some vendetta against you."

Harry bolted upright with a gasp, "Oh my god, Draco that's it! The ministry is out to get me!"

The Slytherin elegantly raised an eyebrow, "I was kidding."

"But Draco, I think you're right!"

"You do know how paranoid you sound, right?"

The smaller teen started to pace nervously, "But, Rhapsody works for the ministry, and Ron and Hermione are reporting to him about me! Clearly the ministry is trying to put me away!"

"Harry, you're jumping to conclusions. We don't know Rhapsody works for the ministry and we're not positive Ron and Hermione are reporting to Rhapsody at all! They're reporting to Thomas….do you have any idea how many people named Thomas there are in England!"

Harry glared at Draco, but never the less plopped unceremoniously onto the floor next to him. "I hate this!" Harry growled. "We've been waiting almost all month and we still don't know anything!"

"Harry, come on, we're still not even sure there is any conspiracy against you."

Quetzal cooed loudly and slithered over to Harry's neck, nuzzling her master's jaw. Harry patted the hybrid gently, "Maybe I am being a little paranoid." Harry admitted, although inside he was still completely convinced someone was out to get him.

Draco snorted, "A little?"

"Well you're the one obsessed with disliking Rhapsody."

"Not cause I think he's involved in some conspiracy against you, I just think he's weird." The blonde growled. "He pays way to much attention to you."

Harry grinned, "Aw, is Draco jealous?"

"No!" Draco sputtered going a pale shade of pink. "I'm not jealous!"

"I think you are," Harry purred, scooting a little bit closer to the taller teen and placing his lips just a hair away from Draco's ear. "I think, you want me all to yourself." Harry watched as Draco took in a shaky breath, face tinged pink, eyes slightly glazed. Then the boy who lived grinned, "Just kidding."

Harry laughed as Draco glared at him, the smaller teen got to his feet and brushed himself off, "Alright I'll see you tonight, Draco. I actually promised Rhapsody I'd take private lessons to get all caught up with everyone else."

"Well go let him molest you, see what I care." Draco growled.

With a grin, Harry patted Draco's head and snickered, "You can't molest the willing."

Harry darted away, cackling at Draco's outraged yelp. "Just kidding, Draco!"

XoXoXo

"No, No, Harry you have to annunciate clearly, it's petrificus totalus!" Rhapsody lectured for the third time. He pointed to the cat they were practicing the spell on, "Now try it again."

"Petrificus totalus," Harry whispered, in his mind visualizing the cat freezing. The spell shot from his wand in a wave of silver and hit the cat. Quetzal from her position on the window chirped in celebration.

"Excellent," Thomas murmured, quickly undoing the spell. The cat resumed movement and scampered away. "You learn pretty quickly, and you retain information well."

"Thanks, professor," Harry shrugged, "But I'm still behind the other students cause I missed last year."

"Actually I don't think you're that far behind, you're very connected with your wand and you're just a powerful wizard." Rhapsody shrugged. "I noticed that often times you don't even say the name of the spell, it just happens."

Harry's eyes widened, his stomach dropped. "Is that rare?" he asked, trying to keep his voice steady. What if Rhapsody used that as evidence he was a dark wizard? Oh god, were they going to send him back to Azkaban!

"Not especially, it's just that most students aren't that gifted."

A sigh of relief escaped Harry's lips.

"Listen, Harry, I know it's unethical, but I need to warn you about something." Rhapsody confessed. Harry's ears prickled and he focused intently on the professor. "This Friday is the last day of the month, and at the end of every month I organize a surprise test for the students. This month I'm setting up an obstacle course of sorts in the forbidden forest. I just wanted to warn you because you missed last year."

"…well I guess it's not a surprise anymore." Harry grinned. "Thanks for the warning, Professor."

"Your welcome, Harry, I'd hate to see you get hurt in an accident," Rhapsody said with complete sincerity.

Harry smiled weakly at the professor, "That's very nice of you."

"I like to think I'm a nice guy."

"I think you are."

Rhapsody blushed and then stammered, "Shall we move on to the stinging hex?"

XoXoXo

"Remus what in gods name are you doing?" Lucius gasped.

"…um, reading? You should try it sometime." Remus yawned from his position on a desk down in the potions classroom.

"No, I mean what are you reading?"

The werewolf took a sarcastic glance at the cover, "Hogwarts, a history."

"Why would you read that?"

"Cause it's interesting."

"No it's not! It's more boring then listening to Sev act all evil." Lucius wined.

"Oh shut up, Lucius," Snape growled from his desk where he was grading papers. "If you're just going to stand around and be annoying, then you can at least help me grade these papers."

"…meh, I think I'll just bother Remus."

"It's not optional," Severus sighed, holding out a stack of papers.

Lucius took it gingerly and sat down at the other end of the desk Remus was seated on. "But I don't know how to grade papers," The blonde protested.

"I'll help," Remus sighed. He put down his book and started to help Lucius read over the papers.

About halfway thought his stack it suddenly occurred to Snape that he still hadn't told the other two men about Harry's conspiracy theory. Originally Snape planned on discussing it with Harry's other two guardians, but by the end of the week it had faded from his mind. There didn't seem to be any evidence to support Harry's ideas and there had been no incidents since school started. It had been a surprisingly tame school year so far.

"Harry thinks someone set him up to be convicted." Snape blurted. "I think he believes the ministry was behind it."

The other two men completely froze.

"He told me at the beginning of school, I mean I don't think there's any truth to it…" Severus trailed off, waiting for a response.

"I don't see how the ministry could hurt Harry while he's in Hogwarts." Lucius said calmly.

"But Rhapsody is working for the ministry," Remus said pointedly. "Severus, do you think Rhapsody is spying on Harry?"

"I don't know," Snape admitted, "He pays a lot of attention to Harry apparently, Draco's jealous."

Lucius and Remus exchanged a worried look, "wait so we actually think the ministry is out to get Harry?" Remus sighed.

"That sounds a little dramatic," The blonde next to Remus chuckled.

"Lucius be serious for once," Snape growled.

"There is no way the ministry is trying to get Harry." Lucius said with a roll of his eyes. "The kids just being paranoid, the ministry doesn't know anything about his wandless magic and as long as we're careful they'll never know."

"I suppose not," Remus gingerly agreed, "But what about Rhapsody? What do we do about him?"

"I told Harry to avoid him, Rhapsody's dangerous." Snape shrugged, he continued to grade his papers, paying half attention to the conversation.

Lucius rolled his eyes and sighed, "wait, Sev, why is he so dangerous? Cause of the vampire incident?"

"It's not just that, he comes from a family that is notorious for being involved with Voldemort. His real name is Thomas Maddox-"

"I thought there weren't any Maddox's left!" Lucius interrupted. "They were one of Voldemort's top supporters!"

"Well Rhapsody is one of them. He changed his name to Rhapsody after his brother was released from Azkaban. His brother was wrongly incarcerated as a spy for Voldemort, afterwards Rhapsody changed his name, appearance, everything." Snape explained.

Remus cocked his head and asked, "It seems like he dislikes Voldemort….why should we distrust him?"

"Rhapsody was an auror, one of the youngest in history. He was infamous for what seemed like accidentally putting himself and the people around him in dangerous, often fatal situations. Once he led a dozen aurors in a raid of death eaters, he was the only one who got out alive."

The werewolf cringed, "well that doesn't make him too trustworthy, but I don't think he's dangerous."

"Well I think he is." Snape growled. "I don't like him."

Remus rolled his eyes, "The same way you didn't like Sirius."

"Exactly!" Severus exclaimed, Remus grinned in triumph. "Wait, no, I mean…"

"Sev, you just don't like him, he's not dangerous," Remus chuckled.

"He always does that," Lucius snickered.

"The ministry fired him," Severus snapped.

"For being a crappy auror?" Lucius said sarcastically.

"No, they never said."

Remus and Lucius froze and their eyes rolled to stare at the potions master. "What did they fire him for?" Remus finally asked.

"They never released that information. But it was shortly after his discharge that he changed his name." Snape said in triumph.

"But the ministry never fires anyone without a reason …the only ones they fire without a reason are…" The werewolf trailed off.

"Suspected spies for Voldemort," Snape finished. "They never had enough evidence to convict him."

Remus' eyes widened, "Maybe Rhapsody is the spy! He set Harry up in order to take attention off himself!"

Lucius rolled his eyes and gave the werewolf a light shove, "C'mon, Remus, don't you start babbling about conspiracy theories too!"

"I'm not saying it's a conspiracy theory, I'm just saying maybe it was Rhapsody who set Harry up. Maybe he thought if he could get rid of Harry he could spy more easily for Voldemort."

"Why would Voldemort want a spy in Hogwarts?" Lucius scoffed.

Remus raised his golden eyebrows, "Hogwarts is full of wizards with great potential, especially the 7th years. Voldemort is always looking for new followers and the younger he can find them, the better."

"Fuck," Lucius sighed.

"Now do we all agree Rhapsody is dangerous?" Severus said smugly. There were nods from the other two men. "So we'll assume he is a spy for Voldemort." Snape concluded.

Remus hesitantly nodded and as did Lucius.

"Should we tell Harry?" Lucius asked quietly.

"No, he's been managing everything well, he'll be careful." Snape said confidently. "Harry knows Rhapsody isn't to be trusted."

XoXoXo

The week passed quickly and Friday, the last day of September rolled around. Harry wasn't particularly worried about the monthly exam in DADA that Rhapsody had previously warned him about.

Draco on the other hand was.

As the class walked across the castle grounds to the edge of the forbidden forest Harry and Draco lingered at the back of the crowd inconspicuously.

"Draco, relax, it's just an obstacle course!" Harry sighed for the third time.

"Kindly remember that the man is dangerous! He's probably rigged it so you get eaten by some wild animal." The blonde protested.

Harry had kindly put up with Draco's over protectiveness. Remus and Lucius were acting weird, and Severus was being even more paranoid then usual. Harry was reaching the end of his rope. Nobody thought he could take care of himself, nobody believed that there was a conspiracy against him, in which Voldemort was not involved. And the worst part was Harry had nobody to confide in, he was completely on his own.

The petite Gryffindor finally growled and whirled towards Draco, "I am so sick of you being so damn over protective! I can take care of myself Draco!"

"Like you took care of yourself at Knockturn Ally! If it hadn't been for me, you'd be dead!" Draco snarled in response.

"I would've fought instead of running away like a little rat!"

"And you'd still be dead!" Draco shouted, ignoring the attention they were drawing to themselves.

Harry seethed, the worst part of all this was that Draco was right, "Shut up!"

"No, you know I'm right!"

"No you're wrong! Get the hell away from me!"

"Fine the next time you need me I won't be there!" Draco finally snapped.

"Good, cause I don't need your help!" Harry hissed. He stormed off and glanced around for one of his Gryffindor friends and spotted Neville. "Hey, Neville, got any idea where we're going?" Harry asked brightly, his usual cheerful self. He glanced back at Draco and smirked maliciously and then returned to grinning at Neville.

"Little bastard." Draco muttered to himself.

"You are a little over protective, Draco," Blaise pointed out.

"Shut up!"

The Slytherins pretty much left Draco alone to simmer.

The class reached the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and Rhapsody began to explain the test. "Students, today we'll be having our monthly exam. This one is an obstacle course of sorts. One by one you will enter the forest and follow the path I set up. You may use whatever spells you wish, the only goal is to reach the portkey at the end of the course. You will be graded on speed, use of spells, and control over spells. Now everyone line up one by one."

The students obeyed and one by one Rhapsody ordered them into the forest by shouting their name. As the line shortened Harry found himself nervously clutching his wand, finally he was up next. The teen looked to Rhapsody and waited for the professor to shout his name.

And then it came, "Harry Potter!"

With a deep breath Harry took a slow step forward and then ran into the dark forest.

A/N: ooooh a cliffie.

Will Rhapsody turn out to be a spy for Voldie?

Will Harry end up needing Draco's help?

And will Lucius ever learn to read?

Find out in the next chapter.