Lumos a character's silent thoughts

Lumos Harry writing in the air

"Lumos" Harry's thought spell

Elementary, My Dear Pansy

Pansy was becoming extremely frustrated. After polyjuicing herself as Harry, she headed for the room that he and Draco shared. And she had been trying, without success to get in, but the wards were not admitting her. She kicked the wall in frustration.

"Harry?" came a smooth voice behind her. She turned and saw her former potions professor standing in the hall. "What's wrong, son?"

"I can't get in my room." Pansy replied. This is too easy.

"Well that's odd." Severus replied, taking out his wand. Pansy backed away warily as he approached the door. He muttered something under his breath and waved his wand. After a moment he stepped back and pinned her with a glare. "The wards are fine."

Pansy floundered for a moment.

"Well...I didn't need anything from them anyway. I'll just come back later. Um...have you seen Draco?"

"Yes. He's in my quarters visiting his father and uncle. You're welcome to join us. We were just about to have lunch."

"Oh-Okay." Pansy nodded, seeing no way of getting out of it. She reluctantly followed the man back to his rooms. Severus muttered the password to them and as the door slid open, the hydra in the painting beside the door hissed angrily at her. Severus paused and stared, frowning deeply.

"What's wrong with him?" Pansy asked. Severus expression darkened for a moment more before he replied.

"I haven't the foggiest idea." Severus mumbled, leading the girl into his personal space. Remus, Lucius and Draco were sitting on the couch, looking worried when Severus entered. Severus made a vague hand gesture to his three companions that went unnoticed by Pansy as she looked around. Draco approached her, a small smile on his face.

"Where have you been, love? I thought we were meeting later?" Draco asked, kissing her cheek. She had to strongly resist the urge to shove him away.

"I'm sorry. I was taking a walk around outside and lost track of time." Pansy replied. "What were we meeting about anyway?"

"Remus wanted to talk to us about the possibility of being turned into werewolves so we could have children." Draco replied brightly. Pansy gulped.

"W-Werewolves? Um...how would he do that?"

"It's a simple procedure really." Lucius answered. "He would simply take you with him on the night of the full moon and have sex with you. At the moment of orgasm, he would bite you, transferring both semen and saliva into your body to facilitate the change."

Pansy couldn't have been more shocked if Voldemort had been resurrected and had danced the hokey pokey across the room in a neon pink leotard. Her mouth hung open in disbelief.

"And the full moon is tonight! Say yes, Harry! Please?" Draco begged. Pansy was still doing her fish-out-of-water imitation, and it looked extremely funny on 'Harry's' face. Draco had to bite his the inside of his cheek to keep from bursting out laughing. He noticed similar looks on the faces of his father and Severus. Remus was just sitting there with a bored expression on his face.

He had caught Pansy's scent the minute she walked through the door and he had to whisper to Lucius to cast a partial Petrificus on him to keep him from leaping at the girl. He wanted his Harry back at all costs.

"I-I don't think that's a good idea." Pansy finally answered.

"Why not?" Draco pouted. "Don't you want children with me?"

By now, Pansy had enough and her anger surfaced immediately – her mistake.

"Of course I do, but not that way, and certainly not with that flea-bitten blood-traitor lover!" she scowled, hands on her hips. Remus snarled low in his throat and not even Lucius could stop him. He was across the room in less than a minute and had his hands around Pansy's throat, pinning her to the wall.

"Ms Parkinson, you have exactly five seconds to tell me where my son is or I will allow him to rip your throat out." Severus stated, his voice like ice.

"I'm Harry!" she gasped around the hand across her throat. Remus snarled again and brought his nose close to her throat. She whimpered.

"I can smell you. I smelled you the minute you walked through the door." Remus told her.

"Ms Parkinson, I assure you, not one of your lies have been believed since the minute I saw you in the hall outside of my son's room." Severus added. "The wards on those rooms respond only to magical signatures in conjunction with a password that only Harry and Draco know. The hydra in the painting outside my door, is female and responds only to the name Hugo. You insulted her when you called her a 'him'."

"And did you honestly think Harry would allow someone he's looked up to as a father to defile his body in such a way?" Lucius smoothly replied, joining the small group against the wall. "What do you take us for? We've been on this planet far longer then you and know all the little tricks of imitating someone." Lucius took out his wand and uttered a long string of Latin. Pansy felt the magic hit her as she was painfully changed back to her own body. She glared at all of them.

"You should be dead! All of you should be dead!" she hissed.

"You will be dead if you do not tell me where Harry is!" Remus growled, shaking the girl.

"I killed him!" she laughed, slowly moving her hand into her robe pocket. Remus howled in pain and released his hold on her. The others saw why a moment later as a wicked looking silver dagger was seen poking from his right side. He sank to the floor, shuddering violently as Severus went to assist him. Pansy took the opportunity to draw her wand and started firing off curses left and right. Lucius and Draco dived for cover as green light shot both their directions.

- - -

Severus ignored everything around him as he took care of Remus. He pulled the dagger from his mate, ignoring Remus's bark of pain, and tossed it across the room. Remus was drenched in sweat and he was losing consciousness.

"Remus? Remus!" Severus called. Remus reluctantly opened his eyes to see Severus hovering over him.

"H-Hurts!"

"I know, love, but you need to help me now or I won't be able to withdraw the silver and you will die!"

"No d-die! Y-You n-need me, L-Luc, D-Draco, H-Harry..." Remus whispered.

"Yes, we all need you but you come first. Now help me!" Severus demanded. He helped Remus into a sitting position and quickly cut off his jacket and shirt. Once done, he lay him back on the floor and pulled out his emergency potions kit. He shoved a bezor into Remus's mouth and told him to hold it under his tongue. He pulled out two gold tinted vials and popped the corks, pouring the first one over the wound. It began to bubble and smoke and Remus clenched his jaw to keep from crying out. Slowly the silver that had been coating the dagger began to ooze from the wound. Severus didn't stop to relish this fact, he opened Remus's mouth and poured the second vial into his mouth, rubbing his throat to help him swallow. The results were instantaneous. The wound glowed gold for a moment before spitting out what looked like a small ball of silver. It rolled across the floor and underneath the destroyed coffee table. Moving behind his injured mate, Severus gathered him under his arms and dragged him behind the couch for cover, before drawing his own wand and joining the fight.

TBC...