Slippery

Sirius black had left his friend's house for the first time since he was declared innocent. Up until now he had no strength to get out and had spent the week in Remus's company. It was nice spending time with his friend but he had to get out at some point, he had to find his godson. It didn't matter if he was really dead or not. He had to find him.

That is why he was currently in one of the office rooms at Gringotts, waiting.

Finally a goblin threw open the door and stalked up to her desk.

''Mr. Black'' said the goblin with a very unpleasant creaky voice. Knowing that he was supposed to say what he wanted right now, Sirius did just that.

''I would like to ask for assistance in determining the whereabouts of my godson.''

The goblin raised her eyebrows and looked at him with a barely noticeable amused smirk.

''And why would you need the help of my kind? Don't wizards pride themselves on their magical ability Mr. Black? Isn't that why you are supposedly better than us?''

''Some wizards are backwards like that... They're the reason why I spent years in Azkaban for a crime that I didn't commit. And that is the reason why I don't know where my godson is or if he is alive.''

The goblin looked at him with a straight face for a long while.

''I can give you information. I assume you know it will be pricy.''

Sirius just nodded.

''All right.'' She said and reached into a drawer to get some very old looking notebook. She flicked though the filled pages and as soon as she got to the place where the writing stopped she handed the notebook over to him.

''Sign'' she said and have him a quill.

Sirius looked at the text. He realized it was all signatures. He added his to the text and handed the quill back. The goblin put the notebook back in the drawer and walked over to the door to exit.

Sirius waited for nearly half an hour. Or at least it felt like half an hour. he got very impatient and started tapping his feet. He stopped as soon as the goblin reentered the room.

She was holding a pieces of parchment and some box. As she sat back down at her desk she looked at him with a stern but slightly amused and creepy glare that made Sirius very uncomfortable.

''Your godson is alive Mr. Black.'' Said the goblin and handed him one of the pieces of parchment. Sirius looked at it to see that it was a copy of Harry's activity log. He didn't' even know Gringotts kept track of what people did. But he was very grateful for it. He skimmed over the things he knew like James setting up the account and the monthly payments to the family that took care of him. The thing that peaked his interest was the very last activity. Harry came to Gringotts the day before worm tail was turned it so he had been fine all along. He wondered if he had something to do with Peter's capture.

And there was more. It seemed that fortune decided to take pity on him. Harry had been accompanied by Minerva McGonagall. Sirius did an internal victory dance but kept the straight face.

He was going to thank the goblin and leave when she made an offer.

''Mr. Black, is it correct that you are trying to find this child?'' She asked.

Sirius nodded.

''Then I can offer a device that may aid you.''

The goblin opened the box she brought with her and took out a small object. It seemed to be made of some kind of dark coloured crystal or stone. He couldn't tell really. But it seemed like a watch. Well the goblin opened it like a pocket watch and pointed it at him so he could see the insides.

It was a compass.

''I can set this device for you so that it will always point towards the boy's physical body, or whatever remains of it.'' she said with a smile that disturbed Sirius just as much as her words did. ''unless you come to me and let me set it to another object.''

Sirius thought about it. A compass that always pointed towards Harry would make it easy to find him. He did already plan on asking Minerva and he hoped that she would give him information but there was always a possibility that she wouldn't tell him. Or maybe she would and it would just make it easier to keep Harry safe and take care of him.

''What would such a device cost me?'' He asked.

Ginny was sitting in defense against the dark arts class, and she was learning absolutely nothing about the defense against the dark arts. In fact, right now she wished she knew some dark arts and use it on this idiot in front of her who was ranting about his favorite body care products. Colin was there taking pictures every now and then. Ginny thought the boy was probably just practicing his craft but Lockhart thought he was his fan so he'd strike a pose every now and then. She had no idea why some people found him appealing.

'They're probably idiots' suggested Harry in her mind. Oops. She was so irritated that she accidentally kept spilling her thoughts over to Harry's mind.

'It's OK' he thought to her.

Harry was, as usual, sitting next to her on a conjured chair. Both him and his dear chair being invisible, of course. This time he had brought his biology text book and was explaining the concepts to her as he learned them. He said it helped him he member stuff and she didn't mind his ramblings about how weird livers are. She found it quite adorable.

Sometimes he would ask her about a word he came across and didn't know. Most of the words were fancy science lingo that she didn't know either so they asked McGonagall instead. She was really nice about it too. Ginny suspected she might be feeling motherly towards all of her students but kept that hidden from them for discipline purposes.

She was really glad that he followed her around during classes. He had his books about magical topics too so whenever they were around a competent teacher she would asked his questions for him. On the other hand, while around incompetent teachers he would entertain her with science. Not only did it help pass time without going nutters, it also helped her understand why some of the magic worked the way it did. After all, physics were the same around wizard and witches as they were around muggles.

Unfortunately Lockhart had noticed that she was not listening to his lecture about fruit scented body washes.

''Oh, miss Weasley, why are you so distracted today?'' He asked and shined his overly polished teeth at her.

''What do you mean?'' she asked back. Mainly to derail the conversation so he would go back to ranting and she would go back to biology.

''Well you are not paying attention to me'' he said. His self satisfied expression made her want to punch him in those polished teeth. But she kept a straight face. She was hoping it would have a similar effect to McGonagall's straight face.

''Should I have been?'' She asked evenly.

''Of course, I am the teacher and...''

''What were you teaching me?'' She asked with a solid, no-nonsense voice. Harry said she was doing really good and someone in the very back was giggling at Lockhart's face so she decided to continue it this way.

Lockhart on the other hand didn't seem to be having such a nice time. It seemed that he knew soap products weren't a part of the curriculum.

''Well?''' asked Ginny again when she didn't get an answer.

It was obvious that Lockhart didn't know what to do and was looking like a deer in the headlights. But unfortunately one of his fan girls from the front row, Emily decided to chime in.

''Professor was talking to us about bathroom products, and you shouldn't be so rude to him!'' She said with a furious face.

''Oh'' answered Ginny ''Professor Lockhart, If I see a dark creature and I have a bar of soap, what effect will the bar of soap have on the creature?'' She asked in the same flat tone.

Lockhart regained his composure and turned his shiny smile back on.

''Well it would make the creature slippery of course'' he said and stroke a pose for some bizarre reason that had the girls in the front row giggling.

''Slippery?'' she asked.

''Slippery, yes.''

''Slippery''

Lockhart awkwardly nodded.

''Sssslipperrrrry'' said Ginny again.

At this point Harry informed her of his idea. Ginny grinned internally. They'd show him slipperry.

''So soap will make them sliperry'' she said as Harry cast a spell on the idiot.

What happened was just amazing. Colin snapped the picture just as Lockhart became very slippery and lost his trousers and underwear to gravity. This resulted in about a dozen traumatized eleven year olds, though fortunately Ginny looked away before she had a chance to see the man's junk.

She stood up and took the photo from a very shocked Colin, promising to pay him five galleons for the picture, and exited the class room.

She walked down the corridors to an unused class room. There, in the safety of the empty room Harry made himself visible.

They looked at each other for a a few seconds and then burst out with laughter. They couldn't stop it. At one point Harry fell down to the floor which made Ginny laugh even harder.

After they calmed down Ginny sat down next to Harry. They were still breathing heavily.

''You know'' Ginny said '' that was an awesome Idea'' she wiped tears out of her eyes ''You're the best'' she said and kissed Harry on the cheek.

Harry blushed furiously.

"It was a bit mean" me mumbled.

After a few minutes, Ginny took out the marauder's map and found Lockhart's office. It was the time of the year when they had to mess with someone's soap.

After switching some toiletries with some other liquids and bars that probably shouldn't go on someone's skin, Harry and Ginny visited the not-on-the-map room.

As they had plenty of time before dinner, they decided to explore a bit. They found plenty of empty bottles, probably from all of the parties where students pretended not to be drinking alcohol, a lot of diaries and letters some brooms even.

Many of the things were rather strange. In one corner of the garbage maze (as Gin named it) Harry found a very intricate tiny mushroom house statues. To his delight there were even tiny cartoonish mice in there. But his happiness was disturbed when he noticed a rather questionable underwear nearby and he sprinted away from the place.

''Hey look what I found'' came Gin's muffled voice. Harry ran and soon found her.

She was wearing a weird wig. It looked even weirder because her actual hair was flowing out from under it so it looked like a hat.

''You look like a jellyfish'' he informed her with a grin.

''Thanks'' she said and flipped her own hair the result of which was that the wig flew off.

They burst into laughter.

''Well this looks less weird'' said Gin and took a crown from the mess.

It was a pretty crown.

''Looks nice on you'' said Harry with a smile.

Gin smiled back, blushed and offered a quiet 'thanks'.

Suddenly her smile faded and her face became blank. She slowly frowned. Harry was about to ask what was wrong when Gin violently knocked off the crown and staggered back away from it.

''It's... It's... It's Tom!.. It's Tom!'' She yelped and tripped on a rubber ball on the floor. Harry ran over to her and helped her up.

They both stared at the crown.

''What happened Gin?'' He asked ''I don't get it.

''You remember how the snake lady said Tom left shards of himself in things? I think it's that.''

Harry looked at her.

''Are you sure?''

''Pretty much. It's familiar. We should give it to her anyway and if it isn't the thing then I don't know, we should somehow get rid of it anyway, I don't like it.''

Harry agreed with her.

They put it in an old pillowcase that they found, though Gin cast a cleaning spell on it as they didn't know exactly why someone decided to hide it here. Gin put the entire thing in the inside pocket of her robe. They grabbed their trunk and went off to the library before dinner.

Though it made madam library lady (as Harry called her) very suspicious, they researched the unbreakable vow and how it was done.

They decided that no amount of pranking was going to prove Fred and George's loyalty. So they would request that they vow on it.

After taking a ridiculous amount of notes on the subject, they went down to dinner.

Ginny purposefully walked up to the twins.

''Hey guys do you mind if I sit with you?'' She asked in her innocent sister voice.

The twins looked over at each other and shrugged.

''Sure'' they said in unison.

''How are your classes going, dear sister?'' Asked one of them. Probably Fred.

''Excellent, I have acquired some very very nice blackmail material in my defense class'' she said with a content smile as she created a sandwich on her plate.

The twins' eyebrows rose.

''Oh we are proud of you, sister of ours... Mind sharing with us?'' Said the other twin.

Ginny looked at them with a frown.

''You guys haven't heard?''

''Heard what dear sister?'' They asked.

''Lockhart had an embarrassing accident... A bit traumatizing... I'll tell you later'' she said. She would... After they vowed not to tell anyone else of course.

'Why hasn't anyone told them yet. You'd think that something like that would get a lot of gossip popularity' she thought to Harry.

'I have no idea' he answered. 'Maybe the witnesses are too embarrassed or stupefied to speak about it just yet... Seems unlikely though' he thought back.

It indeed sounded unlikely as her classmates looked quite normal and cheerful.

Ginny was about to make another point when Filch came running into the hall, sobbing. He ran up to the staff table screaming ''Doom, doom'' as a battalion of Freds dancing rumba on stilettos and singing Cuban Pete entered the hall.