"Less like your father..."
Chapter 14
Author: I see that my 100th review is coming up, and would like to thank everyone of you! (100th reviewer gets the next chapter dedicated to them! :D)
Harry sits up in an alarming pace, after just waking up from another dream about the mysterious door. He can feel he's a tad sweaty and shivering a bit.
"Hey mate, you o-o-okay?" Ron mumbled, half way through a yawn.
"Erm...I'm fine Ron" Harry said. And then thinking of going back to sleep again made him grimace again. "Err, do you want to sneak out?" He asked.
"Sneak out? Yeah, okay!" Ron whispered excitedly, not waking his other dorm members.
"Great, let me just find the marauders map and my invisibility cloak and we're get going." Harry muttered, quietly opening his trunk.
"Are you sure we're allowed to do this?" Ron asked for the 3rd time.
"Yes Ron...well, technically no, but who can stop me?" Harry said cheekily.
"But won't we get caught?" Ron asked worriedly. If truth be told, he was starting to regret coming on this little "Field trip" with Harry.
"No, thats why we have an /invisibility/ cloak" Harry whispered. They rounded a corner to come face to face with Filch and Umbridge.
"As I was saying, I really think that we should go back to physical punishments" Filch said.
"Hmmmm, I like it" Umbridge said, grinning.
"She looks like a Cheshire cat" Ron sniggered quietly.
"What was that?" Filch askes, looking around wildly.
"What Argos?" Umbridge said impatiently.
"Er...Nothing. I thought i heard...nothing, you were saying?" He stuttered.
"Oh, well, I think I'll make a rule on that one. /'Detentions are here by made physical, due to lack of manners by students'/ How does that sound?" She asked, daring him to go against him.
"Ooh, I think thats wonderful" Filch said, smirking. Mrs.Norris, all of a sudden, came right up to Harry and Ron under the invisibility cloak. They automatically stepped back and backed away and round the corner again.
"Mrs.Norris?" Filch asked, as his cat carried on walking.
"Quickly, in here" Harry whispers urgently, motioning the tapestry on the right. Ron quickly pulled it back a bit and snuck in with Harry. It was a secret passage way. The one where Harry had gotten stuck on a step during the tri-wizard tournament in his 4th year.
However, Filch rounded the corner last minuet to see the tapestry swing slightly.
"PEEVES!!" He shouts again, obviously trying to get Peeves into trouble in the presence of Umbridge.
"What is it Argos?" Umbridge calls down the corridor as she made her way up.
"Peeves is obviously causing trouble again. I suggest you get rid of him. He is no use to any body here." He said hotly.
"Why, yes. That is a plan." Umbridge said, showing her infamous evil grin...again.
"I think we're safe" Harry whispers to Ron. Suddenly Peeves jumps up from behind them making them jump in fright and alert someone close by. Of course, it just had to be Snape.
"Who's there?" A voice asks from infront of the tapestry. A hand suddenly rips it back to appear...nothing.
"I know your there" Snape sneers. Harry and Ron look at each other out of surprise. How could snape know they were here?!
"Come out Peeves before I get the Headmaster" Snape shouts. Harry and Ron sigh (quietly) in relief.
"Haha!" Peeves shouts from behind snape, making him jump and whip round. Snape's eyebrows crease and he turns back to the tapestry. He reaches forward and Harry and Ron quickly take a step back. But they were too late. Snape had already grabbed the silky material.
"Potter and Weasley. I should have known" He says, sending them a glare.
"We can explain" Ron suddenly blurts out.
"Oh yes? Well, you can explain to the headmaster." Snape says grabbing their clothes and dragging them away. All the while, peeves was smirking.
"What were you two thinking, you insufferable, stupid, idiotic, thick, brats?!" Snape half yelled in Dumbledores office, intent on getting them in trouble. Okay, he was exaggerating just a bit.
"Don't you think your exagerating a bit Severus?" Dumbledore said. (Great minds think alike! :D)
"I do not!! This is the second time they've been out after hours. Punish them!" Snape sneered.
"Hmmm...Your right."
"You just have to puni- What??" Snape said. He then smirked evilly.
"Nothing too harsh severus" Dumbledore reminded him. "Maybe house points off."
"House points?" Snape scoffs. "Why bother, you would just give them back again by they're 'heroic' behaviour" Snape said. Dumbledore guessed he was still sour since he gave Gryffendoor extra points at the end of Harry's first year.
"Yes severus, they would get them back again. Because, of course, all house gain points" Dumbledore pointed out, like he was a child or something. "Do you have a better idea?"
"Why...actually I do!" Snape hissed, looking at the two boys.
"And what would that be?" Dumbledore asked.
"Miss Hogsmeade" Snape sneers, with a creepy grin on his face.
"Hmm..Agreed. Maybe this will set you straight boys, No Hogsmead"
"I did tell you so" Hermione pointed out.
"I did tell you so" Ron mimicked, "Rub it in our faces why don't you!"
"I'm just saying that maybe you shouldn't have been out after hours."
"Hold on! Who was the one yesterday wanting to help us with pranking?" Ron challenged.
"Oh Please Ronald! I didn't ask to help, you simply incouraged it" Hemrione argued back.
"Incouraged it? You...you..." Ron stuttered, not thinking straight as Hermione swept her hair back.
"No good comebacks. Just what I expected..." She said smartly, walking away.
"Good going Ron, fighting with her that is" Harry said sarcastically. If truth be told, he had had enough of them fighting and wanted them to be civil to eachother for once. Harry scoffed at that thought.
"Okay...I've been thinking and I think I will help" Hermione struggled to say to them later that night in the common room.
"Huh?" Ron said, perplexed.
"Help you get into the Hogsmead trip" Hermione said, wincing a little as she would be breaking the rules.
"Alright!!" Ron says loudly, hi-fiving Harry.
"Quiet down! I said I would help already! "Hermione stressed.
"Okaaay...Whats got your knickers in a twist" Ron said. Harry sniggered whilst Hermione glared.
"Well, if you must know, Umbridge is being a right old toad!"Hermione said.
"Erm...Sorry to burst your bubble Hermione, but we already knew that. Weeks ago" Harry said.
"Yeah, but she's just...just Unbelievable!!"
"I know what you mean" Ron mumbled. "She gave Harry a detention the other week for sneezing! Sneezing!"
"Thats so toadish of her!" Hermione said angrily. "And besides, we're not learning anything decent to defend ourselves in her class."
"Yeah, but what can we do about it?"
"Nothing..."Ron said glumly.
"And everything" Harry and Ron looked over at Hermione stunned, and she was positivly glowing.
"We should start our own class. Or study group, as you call it." Hermione said. "Harry, you could be leader"
"Thats bril- What?!" Harry asked.
"Yeah! Your right Hermione. Come on Harry, you've fought You-Know-Who countless times and know what to do in that type of situation! Besides, you'll be a better teacher than Umbridge by far!"
"Er...I don't know guys. I mean, what if no one actually wants me to teach them?" Harry asked.
"Let's see. You'll be surprised at how many people might just show up!" Hermione smiled, knowing alot of the Gryffindors hated Umbridge.
"Er...I'll think about it." Harry said.
"Yeah, because that would be amazing! Seriously! Professor Harry!"
"Potter" Hermione corrected him.
"Oh yeah! Professor potter!" Ron said smartly.
"But where would people sign up? I mean, Umbridge will surely know," Harry asked.
"Oh" Hermione sai dejectedly. "Maybe...the hogs head?" She said uncertainly.
"Hogs what?" Ron asked.
"The Hogs head. Its a pub on the outer skirts of Hogsmeaded." She said intelligently.
"Well, if you hadn't of noticed me and Harry are banned."
"When theres will theres a way!" Hermione said. Harry and Ron looked at each other.
"What are you planning?" Harry asked.
"Do you still have your invisibility cloak and the Marauders map?" Hermione asked.
"Of course."
"Your getting into Hogsmead. Your going to sneak in" Hermione said sneakily.
So sorry for the delay of this chapter and many of my other fics!! I've got loooooads of homework asignments to do!
I really doubt my next chapter will be up tomorrow. But should be up wednesday, and then i'll get back into the swing of things!
I'd like to recommend a great story "My best friend saved my life" by my great friend rocker-chick-12345. I would put the link here but it won't let me! :(
Sorry again! :D
Morphox
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