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Chapter eleven
Preparing for the tasks
Danny woke up a little sore the next morning and fond that several owls had landed around him. Danny took the messages from all of the owls and quickly looked through them to see that they were all interview requests for interviews with one of the Champions.
Danny didn't really care about the media and hated the 'the people have a right to know' thing. He knew that whether or not he gave the people anything the requests would just keep coming. So he throws them away and jumped down off the roof and flew to his dorm room to change.
Danny got himself cleaned up and headed down to the Great Hall. He quickly spotted his friends and sat down with them. "Hey Danny, so you're going out with Ginny huh?" Fred said with an evil grin.
Danny and Ginny both blushed at this. "That is good and all, but as the responsible older siblings that we are we want to set down some ground rule."
"Since when are you guys responsible." Ginny said a little indigently.
"Besides one date does not a boyfriend and girlfriend make. You decide relationship statuses after the date." Danny said.
"Don't worry you two I made sure they didn't do anything weird in their ground rules." Neville said trying to calm them down.
It worked until Ginny realized something. "Doesn't that mean you helped them make these ground rules?"
Neville just sat there looking rather guilty. "Listen it is no big deal." Fred said.
"The only rule is that you two don't just sit around all day snuggling in public. Your young and have things to do and that's boring and no one want to see it." Gorge continued.
"No to mention Danny has that cool 'Spirit Weaving' magic that could allow you to get into the funniest places in or out of the castle. It would be a waste for you two to just sit on a coach all day kissing." Lee was the one talking.
"Not you to, Lee." Danny said.
"When did you guys have time to come up with this?" Ginny asked. "We didn't decide on our first date until last night. And you were not told until this morning."
"We all knew it would happen sooner or later. After either you got up the nerve or Danny stopped being as thick as a ton of bricks." Neville said a little sheepishly.
"We were a little afraid that someone would use a love potion or that Fleur you be able to tempt you with her Veela ways." Lee said.
"But apparently Danny is so thick headed that a quarter blooded Veela trying their best to seduce him goes completely unnoticed." Gorge said.
"Thanks for the vote of confidents. Emotion changing magic doesn't work on me any more… I've gained a tolerance for them." Danny said.
"That is good to know." It was Viktor. "Will help when you get more popular with girls. And since everyone is on subject. This mean you now with Weasley girl?"
"Was I really the only one that didn't know?" Danny said a little hurt.
"Pretty much." Fred replied.
Harry and Hermione chose that time to sit down at the table. They noticed that Ron was sitting off somewhere else. "Why isn't Ron with you two? Is he in one of his spats with Hermione again?" Lee asked them.
"No, Ron thinks that I entered my own name into the cup and that I didn't tell him how to do it because I wanted all the fame for myself." Harry practically spat.
"Don't worry about it too much Harry." Danny said. "Spats between real friends happen all the time. The fact that you can move on afterwards and still be friends is a true sign of friendship." Danny picked up a piece of pancake on his fork before saying. "Besides it is not like he is the one trying to kill you."
"Thanks for reminding me that someone wants me dead. That will help with stress." Harry said.
"Accepting that it's just how the world works will help you deal with the stress. Trying to ignore it will only result in you taking it out on the people around you." Danny waved the pancake at Harry. "Look at me, something that haunts most people's nightmares came in here yesterday with the intention of skinning me and putting my pelt at the foot of his bedroom. And yet here I am not stressing about it."
"Only you would be unconcerned about a metal monster coming after you with a machete." Viktor said. "You really should try out for a Quidditch team. The sport needs more people like you and the Weasley twins over there. You guys a have balls of steel." The twins swelled with pride.
"Well I am not taking out my stress on Ron he is just being a knob head." Harry said moodily.
"How is that news to you? Ron has always been like that but he'll come around." Neville said.
"I hope your right." Harry finally admitted.
"There there, enough of this pity party, since there is no potions today we need to get to train." Danny said. "Or are you just going to roll over and die without a fight? And Viktor, you haven't given up on trying to win have you?"
"I will never give up. Where there is a will there is a way… even against you." Viktor said with a confident smile.
"Good to know. So if I suddenly turn evil you can lead the resistance to stop me." Danny said. "I have got some of my own plans for training. Since we don't know what the first task is we just need to practice things that have the most different applications. My first adopted father always said there is not one tool that can do every job but there are tools that can do more than one. And that is why my Ghost containment unit is also a soup thermos."
"He sounds like he was an interesting man…" Viktor started before Neville said.
"He was a witch hunter." Viktor paled and started to apologize for his ignorance.
"Don't worry about it. I don't think that anything happened that I hadn't mentally prepared myself to happen after they found out what I was." Danny told Viktor. "'What don't kill you' after all." For Danny that was true in an extreme. After all the accident turned him from a weak little kid that had been picked on in school to one of the strongest beings in the worlds. "Trust me when I say that the experience definitely made me stronger." He only whispers the last part but everyone there still heard.
After the pause had gone on for too long, Viktor admitted. "I was planning are practicing my transfigurations magic. You know have one thing, need another. Think I will go for transfiguring stone and rocks. More than likely going to have plenty of those lying around."
"Clever to think about the materials that will be evaluable. I was planning on working with my spirit conjuring a little. Try to have more than just four spirits under my control. 'More hands make the job easier' as they say." Danny put forth his own plan. "But learning to change the environment to your advantage does sound like a better uses of time."
"That is only because you already have spirit conjuring. I am afraid I am going to have to act on that how you say, 'more hands' idea. Though I don't know what I can make that will rival spirits in versatility." Viktor said.
"Birds are good scouts, but they would be hard to communicate with. Dogs are better for that, but I don't know how well trained you can make a conjured dog, or any animal conjured or made from nearby materials." Danny admitted. "What are your plans Harry?"
Harry was dumbfounded by how well both Danny and Viktor had planned things out over the course of one night. "I don't know. I hadn't even started thinking about what I am going to do during the task. I really am not that good at any particular field of magic." Harry started to panic. "I am so dead. The first task hasn't even started and I already got no idea what to do."
"Calm down Harry, you got weeks before the first task starts." Danny said. "You can come up with something. I mean you did when you were going to protect the Philosopher's stone or when you went to fight that basilisk, right?"
"No, we just winged it and I would have died if it wasn't for Hermione and Ron. And Hermione can't help me during the task and Ron is being an ass." Harry whimpered in defeat.
"Listen to me Harry, the last thing you need to do right know is listen to yourself. Go to someone that knows you better then you do and ask for advice. Like Hermione here, or Professor McGonagall would be a good choice to. This is one of those things that needs and outside perspective in order to make sense of it." Harry thought that Danny was the one acting like the older brother. He hated himself for his lack of real world experience in planning but decided it was probably in his best interests to take the advice rather than resent Danny for having it.
"Alright I will go do that." Harry got up. "Hermione can you try thinking of something will I hunt down Professor McGonagall and Hagrid." And with that Harry went off.
"It scares me the kind of life you must have had in order to talk like that to someone how is fearing for his life." Neville said.
"I got the same talk from a friend on more than one accession." Danny smiled. "Don't think I lived my life on my own. Like my sister always said. 'No one is an island, not even the extremely weird' like the twins."
"Hah!" They said together as everyone else laughed.
"Well this group is as lively as ever." They turned to see Fleur standing behind them with her arms crossed. "I was just coming over to see if Danny wanted to practice with me to help prepare for the first task. Being the youngest, he would probably like to benefit from my… experience." She said seductively. Ginny was livid and muttered something that sounded too Danny like 'shallow witch' to which Danny couldn't help but chuckle.
"No thanks, I just finished bouncing ideas off of Viktor and we both we going to go off and do our own thing." Danny said. "It's not like any of us knows what the first challenge is going to be anyways." Danny got up and starched. "I going to get started since I don't have a class until after lunch." He started towards the door when he turned back and called out in front of Fleur. "Can't wait for our date tomorrow, Ginny."
Then he turned around and hurried out the door to the shock of Fleur. Viktor broke out laughing will every other guy around tried to comfort Fleur. Ginny couldn't be happier and she gave Fleur her most pleased expression. Fleur gave out an uncharacteristic squeal and stomped away.
"I should thank Danny again. I think his train with controlling my emotions for the 'Spirit Weaving' has made me resistant to Fleur's charms as well." Viktor said rubbing the bridge of his nose in silent celebration of his new found victory.
Danny went to the edge of the lake and quickly called out his spirits. "I should train under the understanding that I probably already invested the energy and concentration into my spirits." He thought out loud. He started casting simple levitation spells and quickly found that it was much harder to do will maintaining his connection to the petty spirits. After about two hours he was starting to get the hang of having multiple flouting rocks will guiding his spirits through them.
Danny decide that it was time to stop and visit the library for useful ideas, because all this exercise was meant to do was get him used to multitasking with his spirits and magic going at the same time. There was little use in any situation he could think of to have a floating field of rocks. They disrupted his vision and cost him concentration and energy.
Once Danny was in the library he asked the librarian for a higher level book of charms. He had skimmed through the glossary of his own book and besides levitation and shield charms there we mostly just a bunch of silly things like how to make a teapot whistle 'I'm a little teapot'. Even the shield and levitation charms could be done better with Danny's Spirit Weaving. A charmed shield could only hold around a hundred pounds of force compared to the ghost shields twenty tons. Danny hadn't in fact tried the ghost shield against spells, but he believed that it would take more than the three spells needed to break a charmed shield to break a ghost one.
Danny got Stander Book of Spells Grades Five and Six and started skimming through their glossaries. He stopped on a spell that converted stone into flammable gas and wrote down the page. 'Maybe later.' Next he saw a spell for increasing the quantity of food and wrote that down as well. 'For next time I see Tucker.' The massage next to the note said. Then he found the jackpot, summoning charms and dissolving charms. 'get any tool I need since I can use anything that I used my staff to get.' 'The fastest way from point A to point B is always a straight line, and since they know about my Spirit Weaving they will make sure to make the puzzles ghost proof.'
Danny then he went to the pages and copied down everything he needed to know on how to do the spells. Returning the book he set off back to the Great Hall for lunch. "Ha, guys!" Danny called out as he got closer. No one gave thought it was odd anymore that the Slytherin boy was eating with their mortal enemies.
Most people had long since forgotten that he wasn't in Gryffindor or that he had only been at Hogwarts for five days. He just seemed like such an part of the group with Fred, Gorge and Lee, that most people thought that they were always a group of four pranksters instead of three. After all even with Danny's covering his tracks it didn't take long for everyone to realize that it was him sneaking the twins pranks into the Slytherin house. The 'A-list' was furies; he had dyed all their hair, gave them all boils that popped with confetti and place a small herd of horse piñatas that attacked 'A-list' Slytherins. The piñatas also contained 'Nose Bleed Nuggets' though only Crabbe and Gayle were dumb enough to eat them. They were confused as to how Danny got into the house every day. After the pranks started they changed the password and no one told Danny the new one. But everyday he could be seen exiting the common room to go to breakfast.
Not only that, but they didn't know where he slept at night. He hadn't used his bed since the first day there. Malfoy was trying to figure out a way of using the boy to his advantage, but the fact that he couldn't stand being in the room with him for more than five seconds was making it rather difficult to do. Malfoy was not even sure what motivated the boy. He was too confusing to bother trying to exploit.
Danny sat down next to Ginny and looked around the table. Harry was nowhere to be seen and Hermione was trying and failing to talk to Ron.
"Any new developments?" Danny asked.
"We are trying to repair that armor from yesterday." Fred said.
"But we aren't having much luck." Gorge continued.
"We thought that our experience with our dad's muggle stuff would help but," Fred said.
"This thing is on a whole other level." Gorge finished.
"I know what you mean." Danny said. "No knowledge with muggle tech will help you. Ecto-energy works on completely different principles. I only know four living people that know how to work with it and only one is safe to approach."
"Who?" The twins asked at once, Danny realized that he no longer thought that it was weird when the twins acted like that.
"My friend Tucker. He could probably get the suit up and running again, but I don't know if it is safe for the world to let you guys meet." Danny thought back to all the stupid experiments that Tucker did and how random he was. Combining him with the magical twins was a scary thought. "I think it would be saver to let Pariahs out and give the Box Ghost back Pandora's Box then to let you guys work together."
"Wait did you say Pandora's box?" Neville said. "It is real?"
"Yah, Pandora is a friend of mine. I helped her get her box back after someone stole it." Danny said. "The legends have Pandora all wrong. She is really nice, though admittedly really scary. She is one of the Grand spirits that helps keep balance in the Ghost Zone."
"You keep saying Ghost Zone. What is that?" Danny hadn't noticed that Hermione had given up on Ron and went to sit with everyone else.
"Well the Ghost Zone is another world that exists alongside this one and it is where a majority of ghosts choose to spend their existence." Danny said. "Why do you ask?"
"Because I can't find a single thing on ghosts since Peeves raided the library and removed all books on the subject for you." Hermione looked angry.
"I didn't tell Peeves to do that." Danny said simple. "I never was exactly secretive about ghosts. Just the history and current events of the ghost zone." Danny then leaned back. "Because unless the ghosts decide to let you know then it is none of your business."
"What do you mean it is none of my business? I have a right to know!" Hermione started yelling.
"No you don't." Danny said glaring at her. "Just like wizards want the muggles to stay out of their world the dead want the living to butt out."
"Well what about you then." Hermione said. "What makes you so special? They don't just let you into their world. They are trying to make you king of it. Do they plan on killing you or something?"
"Maybe, but I don't think that is the case. And to tell the living world what makes me special would violate the Ghost Zones trust in me." Danny said. "I will not do that."
"You really don't care if protecting these ghosts causes you to die?" Hermione asked.
"I would gladly give my life if I knew it would help all of those people." Danny said.
"They aren't people they are just ghosts." Hermione shot back.
"What is the deference between one sentient being and another?" Danny said looking way the air around them began to chill and ice started to form. "Whether they are ghosts, wizards, muggles, giants, centaurs or even house elves, what gives you the right to say that my life is more valuable than any number of theirs? You have no right to talk to me about the value of the existence of a ghost. I would not stand by as someone erased Sir Nicholas or Pandora or even one of the evil ghosts like Skulker or Ember. Because I don't have the right to place a value on their existence."
Hermione was stunned. All this time she had secretly believed that all the ghosts didn't love, but feared Danny. That he was threatening them to keep his secrets and that he was using their slain to fuel his magic. "I am sorry." Hermione turned and ran out of the Hall.
"That was pretty cold." Viktor said, turning his cup upside down and having a frozen block of juice hit his plat for emphases.
"Sorry, the ectoplasm responds to emotional highs. I guess I lost myself a little there." Danny said rubbing the back of his neck.
"I am not the one you should be sorry to." Viktor said. "I am pretty sure you made the young girl cry."
"You do know she is older than me right?" Danny said.
"No one here is older than you." Viktor said with a serious face. "Our age should not be measured in years but in the things we have done in our years."
"Then I am too old to deal with you young whippier snappers." Danny said in an old man's voice making everyone laugh.
"But you should go apologize to Hermione. She means well." Neville said.
"So did the girl that chased me for two years on a flying surfboard shooting at me. I assure you that her meaning well didn't mean much." Danny said. "Then again she is a friend now so maybe I should try to talk to Hermione." Danny stretched.
"Please do Danny." Ginny was giving him a face. "She really does care."
Danny found that he could not resist that face. "Fine I will talk to her during Care of Magical Creatures."
"Promise?" Ginny said.
"I Promise." Danny said will rolling his eyes.
"Not even on the first date and his is already wiped." Fred smiled.
"Shut up." Danny threw some of his macaroni at Fred, who tried to counter attack, but the food went right through Danny and landed on the ground. "We all know who would we in a food fight here." Some of the plates began to glow green as Danny's staff currently was and started to float. Fred put his hands up in surrender and Ginny laughed that her brothers were losing at their own game.
Danny went off to Care of Magical Creatures class. After a short introduction to the Blast Ended Skrewts, to which a majority of the class showed horror but Danny only mild amusement. Danny went and sought out Hermione. "Hermione can I talk to you in private."
Hermione left Harry to work with the skrewt and left with Danny. "I wanted to say I am sorry. I was a little hash on you back there. But you have to understand that I am not support to let any live person know how to get to the ghost zone or its history and politics. Not that I understand its politics but still. There are only seven living people that have even seen the Ghost zone and only two of those have access to that kind of information. I don't even think any book in the library could have helped you find out anything more than legends."
"No I should be apologizing. I have always thought that you were some kind of monster that was threatening the ghost into secrecy and that you killed them and used them to power your magic." Danny was shocked. It was as if someone had accused him of eating a baby. He went down on his knees and vomited out his lunch.
"That is disgusting. How… I… what?" Danny couldn't even form the words to describe what he felt. The grass underneath him looked like it was trying to run away. Most of it died. "Don't ever say that again."
"I know I am sorry." Hermione said. "But don't you think your over reacting."
"You just accused me of destroying people's souls in order to do parlor tricks. I think I am under reacting." Danny laughed for the indignations. "I don't want to talk anymore. Maybe when I calm down."
Hermione stood there for a little while crying by herself, before heading back to Harry. "Hermione what's wrong?" Harry asked in concern.
"Please Harry I don't want to talk about it. I said something terrible that can't be forgiven. I don't want to talk about it." She just started to repeat those last words. Suddenly who Clockwork was didn't feel important or how Danny did his magic. She had just accused someone of performing an act worse than any other. And he was only a child, a year younger than herself. How could she have thought he was capable of such evil when he had never been anything but friendly? Sure he was secretive but had it really been any of her business in the first place. Even Snape had warmed up to the boy. That was it; her heart was colder than Snape's. "How could he ever forgive me?" She said to herself.
The class continued and all of the students got mild burns or stings from the skrewts. All that is except for Danny, Danny's skrewt seemed calm and had not exploded even once. Hagrid asked him to share his secret and Danny said simple, "I don't know, I have always been good with animal. I once got close enough to pet a five hundred pound endangered gorilla. That's was how we found out the species was not going to die off. There were only two of that type of gorilla left in the world. And everyone thought that they were both boys. I was the only one to get close enough to tell that it was a girl."
Hagrid had found his favorite pupil. Good with animals and not afraid or intimidated by the larger and more fanged creatures.
After class was over Danny and Hagrid head off into the forbidden forest. They had been walking for a will when they hear a sound coming closer. Hagrid pulled out his crossbow and Danny tightened the grip on his staff will dropping his axe to the ground.
Then two centaurs entered the clearing. "Firenze, Rowling, it is nice to see ya." Hagrid said. Lowering his crossbow.
"Hagrid who is this boy that you have brought with you into the forest?" Rowling growled showing the crossbow that he had with him.
Danny started to tense up again. Hagrid knew them but at least that one didn't seem friendly. Hagrid started out, "Oh, this is a new student up at the castle. 'elping me make that clearing for the ya know whats."
"Who is he Hagrid." Rowling growled, "What is his name and purpose."
"Calm down, 'is name is Danny Clockwork. And I told ya 'is purpose." Hagrid said.
"Clockwork?" Rowling's eyes widened and he dropped his crossbow. Firenze's eyes had also widened and he started to move forward.
"I told you that we should not fear just because we do not know, Rowling. Greetings Danny, we have heard much about your father, though most believe them to be only legends. Forgive Rowling, he is just concerned for the future of the herd. You see we had been predicting great disaster coming to our world, but then five days ago we lost the ability to predict anything at all." Firenze turned, "We have always been able to see, even if not all we see comes to pass, but now this not knowing. You can imagine it is like losing your eyes. Not everyone is taking it very well. It is more frightening then knowing the world would burn."
"Sorry, the future becomes unpredictable around me. Even my dad can't get more than a good feel for events that I get involved in." Danny admitted.
"So even the great Clockwork is not sure of the future. He must have been despite if he sent you." Firenze said.
"No I don't think so. I have never known Dad to be despite. Even if he can't see the future he has a lot of experience, wisdom and insight that helps him know the outcome." Danny said.
"That is good to hear. Please you have somewhere to be, and I think my people will be happy to hear that there is more certainty then they can see. May the star watch over you Danny Clockwork, Hagrid." Firenze said giving a tilt of his head before heading off with Rowling.
"And may the Ancients watch over us all." Danny said giving a small bow as both centaurs disappeared into the trees.
"Guess yar Da is pretty famous if 'e makes Rowling act like that. The guy was so confused 'e forgot 'is crossbow." Hagrid said. Danny picked back up his axe and they started off again.
They worked through dinner and well into the night and managed to finish the clearing. "I never thought we could do it in less than week let alone two nights. Ya got some muscles on ya for such a little guy. Ya cut down more trees than me." It was around five in the morning and Danny and Hagrid were just getting out of the forbidden forest. Though Danny was not tire, after all Ghost Fight had once left him with no more than a few hours a week. "Well I say yar detention is done since the work is done. But I would still like ya to come and visit."
"Sounds good Hagrid, but I must be off now I got a date with Ginny to go to Hogsmeade." Danny said with a smile.
"Ah, then I won't keep ya." Hagrid let Danny go off. Danny flew to his dorm room. Got cleared up and went down to the roof. He thought that since he had two hours before he had to go to breakfast he might want to make a present for Ginny. Danny remembered the crystal that he made for Sam out of ice. He decided that he would try to make a flower out of it. Danny spent more than an hour trying, then finally succeeded in making a rose out of his ice. Next he made a pitcher of ice and put a bit of his ectoplasmic energy into it so that green swirls of energy danced alone its surface. Placing the rose in the pitcher Danny flew down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
Ginny was already there waiting for him. "Sorry I am late." Danny said. "I was making you a present." Danny brought out the ice pitcher and rose and gave them to Ginny.
"This is amazing," Ginny said her eyes widening as she took it in her hands, "What is it made out of? It's cold to the touch."
"It's ghost ice, it might be cold now since I just made it, but it won't melt even once it reaches room temperature so you can keep it as long as you want. Sorry I can't get you real flowers, but you know about my green thumb." Danny said with a smile as Ginny started to laugh. Danny had decided to tell her about him at Hogsmeade and see what happened. 'Worst comes to worst I can just run away again.' He told himself that, but if he had to it would probably break his heart.
"Thanks Danny, I am going to taking it back to the dorm room so that I don't lose it." Ginny ran off.
Danny was left alone at the table until out of nowhere Cujo showed up with a letter in his mouth. After the usual meeting ritual between the boy and his dog he got the letter and sent Cujo on his way with several strips of bacon. Danny looked at the letter and seeing Clockwork's symbol on the front he opened the letter. Inside there was a signed permission slip to go to Hogsmeade and a note. Danny looked at the signature on the permission slip and saw that it had Clockwork's full name on it. Danny laughed. Under parent's name was the name 'Father Time Clockwork'. Danny doubted it was Clockworks real name, but it was funny.
The note read, 'Dear Daniel,
As usual you had jumped the gun and forgot to get a promotion slip for your little date. I hope you luck in all future endeavors and do not envy what you will have to go through when explaining to the young girl about your daughter.
Always right on time, your father Clockwork'
Danny laughed to himself; Clockwork didn't need to be able to see his future to know him too well. Ginny had gotten back from the Gryffindor tower and they went to the entrance hall and out following the older students to Hogsmeade.
The next few hours were a blast; Danny had quite a large sum of money from Clockwork. When Danny was born Clockwork opened an account in his name with no more than fifty Galleons but with investments done by the master of time it had quickly grown into twenty million Galleons. There were some questions in ethics about investing in businesses that you will succeed do to insight into the future but Clockwork knows best.
Danny and Ginny had gone to the joke shop and had a good time messing around with the stuff as well as the people in the store. They also tried a costume shop which was fun because all the costumes were enchanted and they went to some of the more popular hang outs and spent time telling stories and cracking jokes. But soon Danny decided that he had to tell Ginny and he took her invisibly to the edge of town in front of an old scary house so that they could be alone.
"Ginny there is something that I need to tell you that I have never told another living soul. The only people that know were either there when it happened or figured it out on their own." Danny started.
"What is it?" Ginny didn't do a very good job of masking the curiosity in her voice.
"I didn't live with witch hunters. Well they would kill a witch or wizard if they found one, but that is not what they actively hunted. They were ghost hunters, and they made a lot of tech to catch, torture and kill ghosts." Ginny looked kind of scared that this. "Then two years ago during my eleventh birthday they had finished a portal to the Ghost Zone. When they first tried to turn it on it didn't work so they quit and left me and my friends Sam and Tucker alone with the portal." Danny paused. "Sam dared me to go look inside of it so I did. It was dark inside of the portal so I was felling along the wall to keep my balance. My hand it an on button on the inside of the portal."
"What happened?" Ginny was really starting to worry.
"The portal turned on, and a large amount of electricity that was used to open the portal shocked me to death." Danny replied.
"But you're still alive." Ginny said more to herself then Danny.
"That is because I didn't die completely, my magic kicked in because I was so close to death. That and my emotional high pulled large quantities of ectoplasm from the opening portal in order to keep me alive. The ectoplasm fused with my body turning me into a half human and half ghost hybrid." Danny started to transform to emphasis his words. As the familiar white rings traveled over him and reviled his new ghost form. He still had the same white hair and vivid green eyes, but gone was the jumpsuit of old; it had reminded him to much of his old parents. In its place he had a black long sleeve jacket with a white under shirt and loose black jeans. The jacket had Clockwork's symbol the C on top of the W over his heart and his own DP on the back.
Ginny stared at him in wander as the white glow he gave off traced off into wisps of green smoke. "Your still you… aren't you?" She finally asked.
"Yah I am still me." Danny said with one of his smiles. He then brought out a button and pressed it. A Ghost Zone portal opened up right behind him. At first Ginny backed away from the portal, but Danny afford her his hand. "They were always saying I was as 'mad as a hatter' back at the castle. Well here is the rabbit's hole. If you take my hand I will show you just how deep it goes." Ginny hesitated until Danny said, "Don't worry I will keep you safe I promise." That was enough for Ginny. She reached out and grabbed Danny's hand, and Danny lead here into the portal which closed behind them.
This chapter took 3 hours 57 minutes and 12 seconds to write.
Someone asked why Harry seems so attached to the idea of being Danny's older brother when he doesn't know anything about him.
My response; Harry is a parody of the way everyone portrays long lost brother characters. Where as Danny has the completely rational reaction of, 'my old family never acted like this, let me live my own life'.
Everything here is really just a parody of the stereo typical fanfiction, rather than one of my stories that I am actually proud of.