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I sat in class, wishing I was anywhere but in that seat. Yes, it was the class almost all the students dreaded: Defense Against the Dark Arts with the toad. I had heard awful things about this class, and I intended to find out if the rumors were true or not. If they were, there was going to be hell to pay.

Then the pink toad herself swept into the room, heading to the blackboard and tapping it with her wand. Instructions started writing themselves as she ordered us to pull out our books and turn to chapter one. I flipped the pages until I found the beginning, and noticed it was on shielding spells. I was about to practice, when she suddenly called out "Wands away."

"How can we practice without our wands?" asked a curious student.

"You can learn from the book, no need to practice," she replied coolly.

"What about our OWL's!" cried several concerned students.

"You will know enough from the book to pass."

"How will we protect ourselves?" asked Harry loudly, making the toad glare at him. Several others were clearly wondering the same thing.

"Protection from what dearie?" she asked, a clearly fake smile plastered onto her face.

"From Voldemort!" replied Harry, making half the room shiver and shoot him dirty looks, toad included.

"He isn't back." She replied, voice getting softer and angrier.

"Then Cedric just died out of the blue! He was MURDERED!"

"That was an unfortunate accident!" she replied, raising her voice.

"He was killed by Voldemort!" He yelled back.

"ENOUGH! MR. POTTER, DETENTION!" she yelled. I had seen quite enough of this. No magic, no fighting, not listening to students… Worst of all though, was pulling this crap with Harry when the school was slowly starting to turn on him. It had happened quickly and efficiently…

"SHUT THE HELL UP YOU TOAD!" I roared, standing up just as Harry sat down. "HOW DARE YOU GO SLANDERING HARRY'S NAME YOU BITCH!"

Most of the class seemed to freeze, the teacher included. I hadn't noticed, but in my fit of rage the runes on my arms had lit up, roiling angrily across my arms. Naturally, I didn't notice as I was too wrapped up in raging at the toad across from me.

"WANT TO PICK ON SOMEONE WHO CAN FIGHT BACK FOR A CHANGE!" I yelled, flicking my arm out and sending my desk flying about six inches away from her. It hit the black board and both items splintered into shards. The toad was freaking out, and clearly pissed.

"DETENTION!" she yelled back.

"GIVING DETENTION WON'T MAKE SOMETHING STOP EXISTING!" I screeched.

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I was in total shock. Everything had so quickly. One moment Potter was getting detention, and the next Clau was raging and throwing a desk at the Professor! She was so pissed that even the Gryffindor idiots were backing off, and they were supposedly the brave ones! She needed to be calmed down and fast, or this was clearly going to get out of hand.

A large crack rang through the air. Yes, it appeared she had thrown another desk. This was not good. Most of the students had fled the room, including the Golden Trio (though that may have had to do with the Weasel fainting). Even Umbridge was running off, though it looked as if Clau was going to chase her.

I'm just about to do the stupidest thing I've ever done. I ran up to Clau and tackled her, knocking her off balance and sending the both of us crashing to the ground. She hit her head on the tile, making her combat runes flicker slightly. She flipped me off of her so fast I didn't even see her move. She was above me in an instant, one foot on my chest. Her eyes even seemed different… Almost slitted…

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I snapped back to my senses and fell over, deactivating my combat runes. I hit the floor with a thud, landing on my back. "Urghh.." I groaned, propping myself up. I had a killer headache now.

"You're… Not trying to kill the Professor anymore are you?" he inquired, probably a bit shaken. I couldn't tell though, perhaps he had been through worse... I simply waved my free hand, the other cradling my head. It frickin' hurt! Though, I honestly should've expected it as my head did collide with the stone floor.

He actually looked rather concerned as he sat up and stared at me intently. I looked up at him, my eyes somewhat unfocused at the moment. He must've imagined something, because he looked at my eyes and then shook his head.

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I must've imagined that her eyes were slitted, probably the glow from her combat runes throwing off my eyesight… She looked seriously unfocused though. She must've hit the floor harder than I thought. "Are you alright?"

She considered my question for a moment, before flopping back down onto her back and groaning something that sounded like a no. Well I needed to get her out of here quickly, that was my first priority. I helped her up and slung one of her arms over my shoulder, helping her down the hall.

Then her brother appeared. He took one look at the situation, taking in his obviously disoriented sister. I froze, unsure of what do to, but he simply picked up his sister and walked off. For some reason I bet that wasn't the end of things…

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"This High Inquisitor rank is bull," I declared, digging into my bacon and eggs. "Someone needs to teach these guys how to fight. They're like fish in a barrel." The Golden Trio exchanged a glance that I missed, but some others at the tables figured it out. They were keeping something from me; though considering my outburst in DADA a week or so ago it wasn't really surprising.

Then another announcement went through the school, alerting people of the Inquisitorial Squad or whatever the heck that toad was going on about. No one would ever join that, none of my friends at least.

Or so I thought.

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My friends had just vanished. At least twice a week, they just vanished. The Inquisitorial Squad stalked the halls, and I, naturally, took to wandering around. With my friends gone it wasn't like I had much else to do.

"In the halls after hours?" someone asked, causing me to whirl around.

"Draco!" I asked, my eyes widening considerably.

"Obviously. What are you doing out here?"

"Walking, what are you- Oh no. No way." I said, staring at the badge on his chest. "Please tell me that badge is some sick joke or something."

"Why would it be?" he sneered, acting much more like the Draco I first met than the one I was slowly growing accustomed to.

"Because I personally take that as an act of betrayal!" I said angrily. "That stupid squads been after innocent people left and right, all under the orders of that toad!"

"Listen, you're going to need to go see Professor Umbridge," he said, staring me down coolly. No way in hell did he just say that to me. Were all of my friends just leaving! What was going on? Did I freak them out with my episode in the toads class? I was only protecting Harry! I bit my lip, nibbling it slightly as I worried.

I snapped back to reality when Draco grabbed my arm to take me to the toad. I proceeded to kick him in the shin and run off. Unknowingly I ran up to the seventh floor corridor and started to pace. 'I need to know what's going on' I thought, pacing down the corridor and turning back around, repeating the cycle. 'I need to know why my friends have ditched me. I need to know why everythings gone wrong'.

Then a door appeared a metal door in the wall. I stared, rubbed my eyes, and stared again. Nope, it was real. Well, nothing to do but investigate I supposed.

I padded softly over to the door and pushed it open. Inside I saw target dummies, at least forty students, and all of my friends. Yue, Yuki, Sal, Shannon, Harry, Ron, Hermione, not to mention a few others who I considered friends.

They were all staring back at me with mixed looks of shock and surprise. They had all been here, practicing and working together without me. I just stared.

"Clau, we can explain!" started Hermione.

"You don't have to," I said, the hurt look in my eyes turning to ice. I whirled around and left, running as fast as I could. The door vanished behind me. Why did this have to happen! I trusted them, and they abandoned me like that!

It wasn't fair. Why couldn't things be fair!

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Clau ran down the hall, barely missing me as she ran. I whirled around, ready to chase her down, only to pause to look at her eyes as she passed. I was correct, I hadn't been hallucinating earlier! They really were slitted! She raced out of my sight before I could do anything though…

Honestly, what could I have done?