Sorry this took me so long to put up here – I took a drawn out Fall Break. Made sure to get lots of R&R because I'll be damn lucky if I get to have a Thanksgiving break.
Anyways, my apologies for the wait. This chapter is all about preparation and…discoveries (evil laughter)
But first, the lovely reviewers (have you noticed I've started nicknaming you all?) (it's habit) (get used to it)
Euge: It's nice to know that people care; really nice in fact. I'm glad you liked the chapter, and yes I do make Snape sorta silly in this fic. I'm not sure why because truth be told, Snape's my number one favorite character and my view of him is COMPLETELY different from how I portray him. Maybe one day I'll compose a serious fic of how I really see him because really, he's worthy of so much praise…sigh
Smoke: Ahem, how could you NOT love me? After all I am amazing, abundantly talented, fantastically good-looking, superbly intelligent, astoundingly charismatic, need I go on? Yay for crack! To the next chapter indeed!
Toad: Thanks very much. Hugs are returned.
Anne: Thanks a bunch, the Snape drabble was all mine but I can't take credit for Harry's lasso bit. That's a piece from an episode of Sister Sister (who I think make better camera fodder than the Olsens anyday) I just nicked it because when I watched it, I could totally see Harry doing that. Heh.
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Chapter Eleven: Secrets
Enjoy!
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Harry said the password to the Fat Lady who was currently doing sit ups, apparently still trying to lose weight. "You should try Weight Watchers." he said as the portrait swung open. He could have sworn he heard her say "Meddling teenagers." under her breath but he wasn't sure.
Silently, he eased open the door the seventh year boy's dormitory and sighed with relief that everyone was still asleep. He lay down on his bed to doze for a few minutes until his doormmates roused.
"Harry Potter if you think for one second you are going to pretend like you haven't been out all night, you are sadly, sadly mistaken." he heard Seamus's voice ringing in his ears.
"Explain yourself now Potter." he said, standing over him and crossing his arms.
"I-I-I" Harry started.
'Shit! What do I say Blanche?!' he thought frantically.
'Well you obviously can't tell him the truth.' Stella answered him.
'Shout to the world that you're in love with Draco!' piped up Blanche.
'Well, I'm definitely not going to do that.' Harry said anxiously.
'Why not? It's the truth.'
Stella sighed. 'You hearts are so young and naive.'
'Hey, I just say what I feel.' Blanche retorted.
'Yes, well feelings get in the way and can get you in trouble.'
'Guys you aren't helping me any!' Harry thought hurriedly.
'Hmm. Tell him that you were in an abandoned classroom studying for your N.E.W.T.S all night. You wanted to get an early start.' Stella said.
'Or you could tell him you were snogging Draco's brains out.' Blanche offered.
'No!' shouted both Harry and Stella at the same time.
"I was studying. In an abandoned classroom all night." Harry said, not meeting Seamus's eyes.
"Studying for what?"
"Well, NEWTS are this year and I thought I'd get an early start..." Harry trailed off.
"Early my ass, you're up to something Potter."
"No I'm not."
"Yes you are."
"Oi! What's all the ruckus? I'm trying to sleep!" Ron shouted.
"Yeah bugger off and have your arguments somewhere else." Dean mumbled.
"What's all this about?" asked Neville.
" 'Arry here," began Seamus, laying a hand on Harry's shoulder, " 'As got himself a secret."
"I do not."
"He does? Ooh goody! I love to hear a good secret." said Dean, sitting up in his bed and clasping his hands together.
"Me too." said Neville.
"Well, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em," said Ron, sitting up as well. Now, out with this secret Harry." he said.
"Yes. Do tell." said Dean.
"I told Seamus already. There's no secret I just want to do good on my NEWTS this year so I started studying. I was in an abandoned classroom studying all night. I fell asleep. That's it."
"Sure it is." said Seamus suspiciously.
"Oh well who cares if he was studying?" said Ron and rolled back over.
"Why study so early Harry?" Dean asked.
"Because, I didn't do very well at all on my OWLS in fifth year." said Harry.
"Oh. Good point. I should probably start studying too."
"Me too." said Neville.
"I don't care what you say Harry Potter, I have my eye on you." said Seamus his eyes bulging in Harry's face.
Harry gulped. He wondered how long his secret would stay a secret with Seamus's eyes watching him...
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Hermione was walking away from the library feeling content and oddly excited. She had just had a rather unusual, yet very delightful meeting with Pansy Parkinson of all people. As it turned out, Pansy wasn't as daft as Hermione always assumed she was. "Why, she could almost give me a run for my galleons." she said aloud. She considered that.
"Nah." she said finally, shaking her head. "She's not that smart. But she is pretty clever, I'll give her that."
Along her way down the corridor she passed a mirror and stopped to look at her blonde locks. "I think they look nice." she said, switching view points in the mirror. "Why doesn't Harry think they look nice?" she wondered.
"Really, why doesn't he think they look nice? I mean, I'm bloody gorgeous, and I thought Harry and I had been so close...But wait. Harry has been close with lots of other girls as well, but none of them have lasted more than a few weeks. I wonder why that is? I mean, one of us had to have been at least worth more time than that..." Hermione trailed off, still staring at herself in the mirror.
Just then her trance was interrupted by two Hufflepuff boys coming down the hallway attached at the lips. They spotted Hermione and immediately blushed and ran away. "Gods, even the first years are tainted at this school..." she trailed off, returning her gaze to the mirror.
"Wait a minute..." she thought, whipping back around to where the two boys had been. " Wait a minute!" Her eyes lit up and a smile spread across her lips. "Maybe it wasn't me after all! Maybe I didn't do anything to screw up our relationship! Maybe Harry isn't attracted to me because he's not attracted to girls in general?" She bounced around wildly, excited that she may have come to a solution to a problem.
"This needs investigating." she said, and took off at full speed back towards the library...
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"Ginny are you sure this will work?" Lavender asked, as they filled duffle bags with the items they were using for their plan.
"Of course it will work. We look bloody fantastic!" she screeched.
"Yeah, we do look fantastic." Lavender agreed.
"Yes and our plan will work." Ginny affirmed, smiling broadly.
"I hope so. We strike tonight right?"
"Of course. Harry won't know what's hit him. Now, we should probably go over the plan one more time, just to make sure we have everything prepared."
"Of course." Lavender replied.
The girls poured over the parchment they had written out. It was the final draft of their 'big plan' to get in Harry Potter's pants. Satisfied that there were no more hitches to work through, they declared it perfect and high-fived each other.
"Well then, we'd better get to it, seeing how tonight's the big debue." Ginny said, gathering her books and getting ready for classes.
'I hope I make it through this big 'debue' without screwing myself over.' thought Lavender as she joined Ginny in preparing for classes.
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Blaise was slightly miffed at Draco, ok more than slightly miffed, really miffed. Blaise had had the biggest crush on Harry Potter and finding out that he was Draco's mate, was a real ball twister. Who was he supposed to date and fantasize about now?
But the thing is, now that Draco had taken Harry, he had put rules on him. Blaise was not even given the 'look but don't touch' rule , no, it was the 'don't even so much as think about looking or else you will get a sex change!' It was very depressing...
Blaise sighed. He was sitting in the library, trying to study; well actually he was sulking more or less. He had taken a booth far away from the non-ending chatter of Hermione Granger and Pansy, and was sitting, staring off into space, day dreaming of ways to get away with looking at Harry.
He still could not believe that he had seen Pansy and Hermione together, they had always seemed to loathe each other very much so and now they were acting like study buddies. It made him want to puke.
'Maybe I'll find a different boyfriend.' he thought miserably staring out the window. He didn't notice when Draco sat down across from him, looking very pleased. He did notice, however, when one fiery vampire got tired of being ignored and chunked a book at his head, bashing him on his left ear.
"Draco!" Blaise yelled, "That hurt!" Immediately he put a clamp on his mouth at Madame Pince's disapproving glare.
"Well, it's not my fault I was being ignored." Draco said, a grin still in place.
Blaise groaned and rubbed his ear, he really wasn't very happy with Draco at the moment. " So what's new?"
"Nothing, except the fact that I wildly made out with a certain raven haired Gryffindor on the rooftop last night and now said Gryffindor and I are dating." Draco smirked.
" No shit!"
"No shit." said Draco, still smirking.
"Wow I'm impressed Draco, really impressed." Blaise said in a depressing tone.
Draco sighed. "Blaise I can't help the situation, you should move on and find someone else."
"There is no one else."
" Yes, there is. I'll even find him for you!" said Draco his eyes brightening. "Yes, that's perfect! I can set you up with loads of people and see the way you match with everyone! It'll be like, like, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, only...only you're not straight..." Draco trailed off.
"What the hell is wrong with you Malfoys?" he asked. " Your mom's a nutter, Your dad shagged Voldemort, You're in love with Harry Potter, and you're all vampires."
" I know, we are such a great family." said Draco in awe, his eyes glistening.
Blaise threw up in his mouth a little.
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Neville slowly looked around the dormitory. Everyone was gone. He was all alone in this big empty dormitory with no one to see what he was doing. He grinned wildly.
Slowly, ever so slowly, he opened his trunk and pulled out a little black box. He carefully undid the lock and then slowly lifted the lid.
He took out its contents and began to mess with them; he was growing more and more joyful by the second. Just when he was at his peak, someone burst into the dormitory.
" And then I told him that- Neville? What are you doing?"
It was true. Neville was sitting on his bed, a Malibu beach Barbie doll in one hand and a Ken doll in the other , it was clear he had been playing spring break in Cancun with them. "Guys you interrupted Michael when he was fixing to ask Jodie to the Springtime Flash Back Dance!" cried Neville, offended and exasperated.
"Umm...we are going to leave now." said Dean and him and Ron disappeared out the door, backing up slowly.
"No privacy whatsoever." he told his Barbies and then continued happily playing with them until dinner.
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"Alright. This potion is almost complete. Yes...Tonight is the night. Potter will be mine." The man said as he concocted his potion in a humongous cauldron.
"Just you wait Potter...Just you wait..." he trailed off.
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"Cissie for the last time I do NOT know where your dyslexic teddy bear is!" Lucius roared at his wife.
"Alright honey, if your sure that you haven't seen Nathan anywhere, I'll have your word for it. " Narcissa blinked rapidly then smiled. "Hello, and your name is?" she said to her husband. "Welcome to my home its lovely to have you for tea. Lucius is in the garden, picking daisies, he'll be in shortly."
" Dear, I am Lucius."
" Oh, I'm sorry Luci I was talking to Nathan."
"Nathan is nowhere to be found." Lucius said through clenched teeth "And please do not call me by that grotesque name."
" Now, Luci, you know how insecure Nathan is about the fact that he is dyslexic. Apologize to him right now!"
" Number one, Nathan is lost, Number two it'll be a cold day in hell when Lucius Malfoy apologizes to a teddy bear."
Narcissa gasped. "Oh that is it. Up to your room now mister! You are grounded until this evening. "
Lucius's eyes bulged, but begrudgingly he traipsed up the stairs swearing.
"And don't you come down until you think about what you've done little Miss Priss." Narcissa said haughtily, then resumed her humming and cleaning invisible objects.
Lucius sighed and sat down on his bed. He could hear Narcissa greeting invisible house guests downstairs.
" I will wreak my havoc upon you tonight Potter." he said,
………."After I stop being grounded." he added, rolling his eyes.
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Seamus was a little miffed.
Harry had deliberately avoided him on purpose. He was searching all over for the castle for the Gryffindor when he ran across a rather unusual sight. Luna Lovegood and Cho Chang were making out in an abandoned classroom. They obviously thought the door was closed, but it had sprung open and they hadn't noticed. Seamus rubbed his hands together excitedly "Might as well see some action today." he said and put his face to the crack to get a better view. The girls were groping each other wildly and Seamus was sure that he was about to see some skin when they broke apart.
He watched, ears straining to hear, as Cho clapped excitedly.
"There Luna, almost perfect that time!" said Cho.
"You think we're ready for tonight?" asked Luna.
"Definitely." she replied.
Tonight was the night their plans to get Harry Potter fell into action.
Seamus was not satisfied.
"Aww come on girls! Don't be like that!" he said, charging into the room.
Cho and Luna gasped. They stood in shocked silence.
"Well, what are you standing there, staring at me for? You are the ones who left the door open!"
"Seamus Finnegan, you little asshole!" Cho screamed and launched herself at him. Between her and Luna he quickly found himself, wandless, horny, and tied to a hard wooden chair that was rubbing him in all the wrong places.
"Now, Luna, " Cho began, in a silky voice " Lets teach this boy the importance of privacy." she said and all that could be heard afterwards were Luna and Cho's giggles and Seamus's screams of protest.
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Well, well, well, it seems everyone's plans are being put into action...on the same night!
This should prove to make up one interesting scenario.
Til then.
Blessed Be!
