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Notes: So it looks like Harry and Remus will get on well after all now. Or will they?

Chapter 14: Snape's Grudge

The next day the Fat Lady was returned to her old post and security trolls were hired to protect her.

"He must have realised he wouldn't have time to kill me and escape after you screamed," Harry decided after thinking over Peter Pettigrew's actions. "So he turned around and ran."

It was the only explanation he could think of. All in all the Pettigrew story was pretty scary, but at least it distracted Ron from his grief over Furball's sad end.

With all the increased security measures it was really surprising that the entrance to the tunnel Harry had used to get into Hogsmeade hadn't been blocked along with everything else. Since Hermione threatened to betray him if he snuck out again Harry decided to wear his invisibility cloak on the next Hogsmeaede trip.

It took him some time to get rid of Neville, who had been banned from Hogsmeade as part of his punishment for writing down passwords and by the time he finally ducked out of Honeydukes' cellar his house-mates were nowhere to be seen. Not knowing what else to do Harry attached himself to the first group he could find, the third year Hufflepuffs led by Professor Lupin.

That turned out to have been a lucky choice as they were going to visit a sight Harry hadn't seen yet: the Shrieking Shack! The most haunted place in all of England.

What was even more entertaining was that some of the Hufflepuffs were actually scared of the ghosts that were supposed to haunt it.

Wouldn't it be cool if they really showed up? Maybe he could scare the Hufflepuffs a little? He was already invisible like a ghost anyway.

At first Harry only snuck about and made spooky noises, but then he slipped and some filthy greenish mud splashed Susan Bones' cloak causing her to shriek so amusingly that Harry couldn't resist throwing some more at her and her friends.

The Hufflepuffs were all terrified, but unfortunately Professor Lupin was not, nor was he amused. He cast several spells in Harry's general direction.

At first Harry thought that too was funny, since it was pretty hard to hit something one couldn't see, but then all of a sudden the mud under his feet turned to ice. Harry slipped and fell, the invisibility cloak slipping off his head.

Harry hastily pulled it back over his head as he scrambled to his feet. Had Professor Lupin seen and recognised him? He fervently hoped that he hadn't, but now the Professor summoned his patronus and sent it to the institute!

As fast as he could Harry ran back to Honeydukes, into the tunnel and almost would have continued straight into the castle, but then he remembered that being caught in possession of an invisibility cloak would be awfully suspicious and decided to leave it in the tunnel.

With his hands and boots still covered in mud, but very visible he climbed out of the statue and ran straight into the arms of Professor Snape who took him down to his office in the dungeons and made him turn out his pockets.

The only suspicious item that he found there was the Marauders' Map and luckily he didn't know how to activate it, but the green mud that was still on Harry's hands gave him away and Professor Snape made him wait in his office until Professor Lupin returned from Hogsmeade.

"Why really, Harry," the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor said as he confiscated the map. "I am very disappointed in you. Not only did you sneak out of school without permission rather than accept a punishment, but you did it to scare your fellow students and make fun of them. I hope you realise how inconsiderate that was."

Well, so much for Harry's improved relationship with Professor Lupin.