The first day of term saw the New Marauders back at Hogwarts and to Amelia's relief the election of the new Minister of Magic. The talk of the train was the attack on Diagon Alley and the doom of the wizarding world. The followers of Voldemort that were on the train smirked at the muggleborn students maliciously. Harry, Daphne, Tracey, Neville, Susan, and Hermione were the only ones in the compartment when Pansy Parkinson, Dumb and Dumber, and surprisingly Marietta Edgecombe stopped by to gloat. Pansy and Marietta were standing in the doorway with Crabble and Goyle behind them.
"Did you enjoy being taught your place you filthy mudblood," Parkinson sneered only to be stopped short when she moved her eyes from Hermione to in front of her. She paused, gulped, and then stepped back so she could look them in the face. Both Harry and Neville had shot up and moved towards the door. Harry stood at 5'8 tall for their age group and had strong lanky frame that towered over Pansy while Neville stood at 5'5 he had the build of a rugby player that out classed both Crabble and Goyle. Pansy and Marietta gulped at the intimidating pose and stepped back only to take in the whole view of the compartment. Tracey and Daphne had their wands pointed at the offending girls as did Susan but she also had an arm wrapped around Hermione who simply glared at the two girls. Hermione's eyes were watery but she refused to give them the satisfaction of seeing her cry.
Harry's eyes glowed with hate and his aura seeped out around him flaring menacingly at the offenders. "Leave now." The girls tried to scramble out but Crabble and Goyle both still stood stupidly blocking the way. As they were struggling to leave Harry smirked and called, "Oh and Parkinson we've got a surprise for your Master." After that Daphne sent a silent banishing charm at the four sending them flying down the hallway of the train. Harry shut the compartment door and silenced it as Hermione sobbed into Susan's arms while Susan rocked her friend. As Susan was comforting Hermione, Hannah appeared at the door with Anthony Goldstein. Harry slid the door open to allow Hannah in while Anthony waited at the door as he was supposed to have rounds with Hermione.
Harry and Daphne moved into the hallway with Anthony, "Tony I'm going to go on rounds with you," Daphne spoke quietly.
"Is everything alright with Hermione," Anthony said looking worried for his fellow raven and friend.
"Mione's house was attacked on the same day as the Diagon Alley. Her father was killed in the attack and Parkinson decided to stop by to remind her," Harry spoke with anger lacing his voice.
"Pansy's a bitch," Anthony stated, "Why don't we go make her life miserable?"
Daphne laughed, "My thoughts exactly." Then she turned to Harry and gave him a kiss, "See you in a while, babe." They left to make their rounds and harass Pansy for a bit, with any luck they catch her doing something detention worthy like messing with a firstie.
"Where the hell have you been?" Harry snapped as Blaise strolled down hallway leisurely as Daphne and Anthony went out the other doorway.
Blaise's smile faded and he frowned as he took in Harry's tone, "What happened?"
Harry sighed and tried to control his temper knowing his friend did nothing wrong, "Parkinson, Edgecombe, Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum stopped by. The Pug had words for Hermione."
Blaise's face was set in stone as Harry spoke, "She never learns."
"Nope," Harry said and then smirked, "Public prank tomorrow."
"Sounds good," Blaise said as they walked back into the compartment.
"I think we should wear blinders tomorrow," Blaise snickered as Harry, Draco, Theo and he weaved a set of trigger released transfiguration spells on the doors to the great hall. They were disillusioned as they worked and had used the muffilato charm around the portraits to ensure they stayed asleep. They had distracted Mrs. Norris with catnip and had caught Filch in a secret passageway. Harry knew from his prefect status when the professors checked the Great Hall, they had ten minutes.
"Well yeah but that would be a little obvious," Theo said while he snickered.
"Done," Harry commented and Draco nodded he was too. "Let's get back." The four Slytherins made their way back to the dungeons as an ugly rat looking thing streaked by them with a hiss.
"What the hell was that," Blaise asked in whispered yell.
Harry who was smirking spoke up, "I may have added some hair removal potion to the catnip we gave Mrs. Norris."
Theo let out a bark of laughter but paused as they heard footsteps coming their way. They moved to the side of the hall still under their disillusionment charms.
"My cat, my poor cat, Mrs. Norris come back," Filch wailed as he ran past them chasing after the now hairless feline.
Harry made it back to his and Daphne's room barely containing mirth at Filch's wailing. He wore a boyish grin as he walked into his bedroom where Daphne was asleep. His grin quickly turned into a devilish smirk as he took in the sight before him. Daphne was sprawled across the bed with only the sheet covering the bottom half of her body. Her top half was nude and her lips formed a perfect pout as she slept. Harry's smirk grew as he quickly discarded his clothes and slinked over to their bed. He slowly pulled the sheet down off her body revealing the rest of her to his eyes. Harry crawled onto the bed and moved so he was kneeling with his legs on either side of hers. Harry lowered his face and gently brushed his nose along her waist a few passes making Daphne moan in her sleep and brush her legs together. Harry smiled into her skin and kissed down to her hairless mound before giving her one long opened mouth kiss to her slit. Daphne moaned and her eyes fluttered opened.
"Hhharrry," she whined as she took in what was happening and he smirked looking up at her. Harry kissed the inside of both thighs before he began to eat out his wife in earnest. Harry's tongue slipped back and forth over her clit making her moan and thrust her hips up into him. Harry put his parseltongue to good use as he made Daphne whither and moan on the bed. Harry had to wrap his arms around her thighs so he could continue as she was moving wildly. "Oooohh, Ooohhh, GAWD," Daphne was moaning non-stop as Harry pleasured her. She could feel the fire building in her as Harry brought her closer to the edge. Harry felt her muscles clench and nipped at her nub causing her to scream out. "HHHAARRRYYY!"
Harry lapped at Daphne as she climaxed. Harry quickly moved up her body with kisses and thrust into her at the same time. Daphne had no time to come down from her high as Harry filled her. He pounded in and out of her with powerful fast thrusts; Daphne's mouth fell open in a silent scream as she orgasm again. Daphne clenched around him tightly and Harry lost it as he emptied himself into her. Harry slowly pulled himself out of Daphne as he placed soft kisses to Daphne's neck and cheeks. He rolled them so that he was on his back and Daphne was against his chest. He brought her lips to his as he gave her passionate kiss that left her breathless. He pulled back and Daphne rested her head on his chest.
As she calmed she asked with a smile, "Not that I'm complaining but what brought that on?" Harry simply smirked at his wife causing her to laugh tiredly, "You pulled a prank didn't you." Harry grinned his rare boyish grin and kissed his wife's head. They drifted off to sleep soon after.
At Breakfast the next the morning Harry sat at the far side of the Slytherin table chatting with his wife and their friends when the star attractions walked through the doors to the Great Hall. Laughter and sounds of disgust filled the Great Hall and some first years started crying. As Pansy, Crabble, and Goyle walked into the hall their robes and uniforms disappeared leaving them in their underwear. Said underwear had been transfigured by the spells placed on the door tailored to them; Crabble and Goyle were now sporting pink boxers with I Heart Gilderoy Lockheart flashing randomly in bright red. Pansy's bra and panties had been turned purple with pink hearts that featured Ablus Dumbledore pictures winking at the hall. Pansy was the first to notice the stares and preened at the attention as she walked further into the hall. When she finally noticed the draft in the hall and glanced down at herself she let out a screeching scream that had all the familiars in the castle running for safety. Pansy fled the hall to the laughter as did Crabble and Goyle at the same time only for them to run smack into Marietta Edgecombe who's own clothes had been transfigured similarly to Pansy's. They fell in a tangle of limbs that caused first years to cry and older years to lose their breakfast, before mercifully one of the teachers banished them from the hall. As Harry, Daphne, Draco, Theo, Blaise, Neville, and Hannah left for their first class of the day, Care of Magical Creatures, Hermione stopped by with a smile.
"Thanks but I think I lost my breakfast," The four Slytherin boys smirked proudly at that.
"Really I could have gone ten lifetimes without seeing that," Susan said as she stopped beside them with Tracey.
"Although you could start a new diet fad with the way those four make you lose your appetite," Tracey quipped.
"Merlin," Daphne sighed exasperatedly as she flopped onto the sofa in her and Harry's sitting room. Currently the original New Marauders were housed in various lounged positions around the room. "They're trying to kill us before Voldemort gets a chance."
"You think Sirius would be nicer," Susan said from her spot where she was glaring at a stack of DADA books gathered on the coffee table.
Harry snorted, "Please, in true Sirius wisdom, he believes we need to suffer just as he did for O.W.L.'s!"
"At least we know DADA pretty well and between us have all the needed books, we won't have to go to the library," Tracey said from where she was sprawled in front of the small fireplace.
"But still we have a bloody twenty four foot essay on the Morholt Giant Revolt, a thirty foot essay on the Draught of Rage, and thanks to Sirius a twenty four foot essay on the Flagrante curse and hex," Blaise exclaimed.
"Well it's our O.W.L.'s," Hermione started high spirited but as Harry started piling books they would need in the center of the coffee table she finished dejectedly, "we should get started."
Harry reached for a potions book only to have Daphne smack him in the head, "Do your History essay you always put it off and I know you can do better."
"Yes dear," Harry said rolling his eyes at Blaise and Neville who snickered and passed Harry a history book. They worked for two hours before the prefects among them had to leave for rounds.
The next few weeks passed similarly to their first day back with assignments being piled on by the teachers, even Hagrid gave out five feet on leprechauns. The Defense Association was working on silent shielding, Sirius was for once serious, and drilled into his students the importance of silent shields. If your opponent did not know what shield you had cast defeating it became all the more harder. For motivation Sirius, Severus, and Headmaster Flitwick would randomly cast minor stinging hexes at the D.A. members at all hours of the day, Flitwick thought it an ingenuous idea after witnessing Severus cast at Ernie MacMillan in the hall. Ernie who had never been the best with charms cast a perfect silent protego shield, a charm based defensive spell.
On the plus side last weekend Voldemort sent out the dementors to a muggle village with a substantial half-blood population, the muggles in the area simply thought the others were a bit weird but nothing they couldn't deal with. An off duty auror noticed the signs of incoming dementors and called for backup. Rufus Scrimgeour the newly elected Minister of Magic, himself and a squad of twenty aurors responded to the call. Five of them including, Scrimgeour, had been taught by Amelia to use the new patronus charm. The other fifteen were split into pairs one casting the normal patronus and the other were ordered to cast the ignis explodere curse on the dementors. The plan worked and they estimated about one hundred dementors had been taken out, the dementors panicked when faced with their own destruction by wizards, something they had never experience. With the success of the new patronus the Ministry was offering free classes to master the charm to all adult wizards.
Today was the Slytherin Hufflepuff quidditch match; everyone in the castle was excited for the game. Parents and quidditch fans were pouring in for the match, Hogwarts seemed like one of the safest places to be and fans were aware of that. The wards which had been upgraded over winter break would keep out all those meaning harm to the school and students, including dementors and other magical creatures. The wards were part of the original scheme that the Founders had alerted Flitwick to, all the professors met on the winter solstice to perform the spells using the magic of the solstice to lend support. The stadium was packed to the limits for the game the Slytherins were primed to take home the title once again as well as hosting the future of the English professional teams.
"WELCOME ALL TO THE SLYTHERIN AND HUFFLEPUFF QUIDDITCH MATCH!" Lee Jordan announced. "Here's the Hufflepuffs led by CAPTAIN CODY CADWALLADER at CHASER WITH KEVIN WHITBY AND LAURA MEDLY. BEATERS JACOB BRANSTONE and ZACHARIAS SMITH. KEEPER BRIAN SUMMERBY AND NEW SEEKER OWEN CAULDWELL!"
"AND NOW THE SLYTHERINS LED BY CAPTIAN KEEPER ARRON VAISEY. CHASERS BEAU MONTAGUE, DRACO MALFOY, AND GINNY WEASLEY! AT BEATERS JESS URQHART AND holy shi…um I mean second year CATHERINE ROWLE!" Lee moved away from the mic but unfortunately not far enough as whispered to Fred and George next to him, "I think Vaisey took a header at their tryout, the girl's tiny!"
The whole stadium heard including McGonagall who shouted, "JORDAN!"
"Erm right and SEEKER HARRY POTTER!" The crowd gave a roar for the Slytherin team that increased to deafening shouts for Harry. As they warmed up on the field Lee continued filing in the guests on the two teams. "Hufflepuff has a host of new players this year with Whitby, Medly, Smith, and Cauldwell. Today will be a real test to see how they stack up against the veteran Slytherin team who only has one new player this year. Vaisey has already proven himself as Captain with a win against Gryffindor while Cadwallader lost in his first match as a captain to Ravenclaw."
Harry blocked out the commentary Jordan was providing as they warmed up, instead he focused on Cat or Owen Cauldwell. Cat so far looked to be displaying almost no nerves in her debut game. Owen was second year Hufflepuff who was riding a Nimbus 2001. The 2001 was normally not a speed match for the Nike broom Harry was riding; Owen's slight frame could give Harry contention on a straight away. Owen was gliding around at the top of the pitch nervously glancing at the packed stands including Gwenog Jones of the Harpies and the manager of Puddlemere United Philbert Deverill. The players on Slytherin that were part of the Hogwarts team barely glanced twice at the two Quidditch stars. Cat just smirked at them ready to blow them away and then tell them to kiss her arse.
"Madam Hooch calls the players in," Jordan announced. "And the Quaffle's UP! SNAGGED BY GINNY WEASLY! She's really living up to the family quidditch reputation! She takes it down the pitch fakes past Smith send a bullet across the goals, Summerby goes for but Montague's there first and punches it through the right hoop! SLYTHERIN 10! Cdwallader gets the quaffle and starts down the pitch. WOW, THAT'S SOME WICKED AIM! ROWLE WITH A BLINDING BLUDGER NAILS THE QUAFFLE STRAIGHT OUT OF CADWALLDER'S ARM! Malfoy drops low and scoops it up, Malfoy takes Whitby closes in Malfoy passes rifles it back to Montague, Montague takes it high, races past Medly, fakes the shot, Weasley SHOOTS AND SCORES!"
Harry chuckled as he circled the pitch, thirty minutes in and the quaffle had yet to pass onto the Slytherin side of the pitch. Slytherin was quickly up ninety to nothing. Harry noted Vaisey circling the Slytherin goals lazily; actually he looked like he was sleeping. Harry smirked and took off at a blinding pace straight at Vaisey, Owen followed assuming Harry had seen the snitch. Harry looked behind him and saw Owen was only a few broom lengths behind and smirked as he turned back to Vaisey who Harry could now see was laid out along his broom. The crowed took a collective gasp as Harry and Owen zoomed straight towards Vaisey. One broom length away from Vaisey Harry maneuvered so he shot just under Vaisey, Harry kicked him in the ass as he past under. Owen just seconds later barely had time to pull up as he did the twigs of his broom tail brushed Vaisey faces. Vaisey jumped almost off his broom at being awaked by the kick to the ass and the broom to the face. Vaisey quickly remembered himself and latched onto his broom.
He spotted Harry laughing near the goal post while Owen looked torn between being angry at Harry for fooling or terrified Vaisey would kill him. "OI! YOU PRAT JUST BECAUSE YOUR FAMILY DOESN"T MEAN I WON"T HURT YOU!" Aaron shouted at Harry waving his fist. Harry's laughter increased especially when Aaron added, "When did we get 100?"
Harry flew over to Vaisey, "How 'bout we switch to keep away and give Cat some practice time?"
Aaron nodded, "Yeah that's fine, its' only Hufflepuff. If it was Gryffindor I'd say keep it up but they got three second years up here don't wanna completely take 'em apart, might not come back. Tell Cat to its open season on Smith though, little shit needs to be taken down a peg or two. Just look at the little arsewipe." They both looked to see completely red faced yelling at Medly while a bludger went straight past him. Harry smirked and took off to come up next to Cat.
"Cat we're gonna switch to keep away. Oh and feel free to make Smith cry," Harry said as he took off to let the chasers know the plan. Cat's smirk was reminiscent of the Cheshire cat as she eyed Smith. The pompous ass frequently reminded Cat she was the daughter of two squibs.
"OOOHHH I FELT THAT ALL THE WAY UP HERE!" Lee said as the most of the crowed grimaced as Cat nailed Smith right in the side with a bludger as he yelled at Whitby. This went on for the next twenty minutes before Harry finally decided to take mercy on Smith and ended the game with an easy catch, having spotted the snitch ten minutes earlier. "SLYTHEIN WINS 250 to 0!" Lee announced before adding, "Well ladies and gents somehow I think we've seen the last of Zacharias Smith on the Quidditch Pitch!"
"JORDAN!" McGonagall shouted again Lee just shrugged and gave her a 'what' look as Smith was taken off the pitch by stretcher, none of the Hufflepuff players looked remotely upset at that. Turns out Smith ended up with three cracked ribs, a broken wrist, two missing teeth, and a concussion.
"Today you will be brewing a rather volatile potion as such I expect your full attention on your cauldrons," Professor Snape spoke in a deadly but silky voice that made the majority of the fifth year Slytherin/Ravenclaw class shiver. "The Draught of Rage as the name suggests can lead the drinker to go into a blind rage out to destroy anything in their path. It has no taste and as such has been used in the past for nefarious means. Trained potion masters though can detect whether it was in someone's system up to a three days later. Begin."
"Blaise get the horseradish root and the vinegar. Get the vinegar measured and on the fire as soon as you get back, then do dice the horseradish root," Harry said as he moved away from their lab table. Blaise nodded and moved off to get the vinegar and horseradish root. Harry collected the Hellsbreath, tentacula leaves, screechsnap, lemon, alihosty, and pinyang. Harry brought back what they needed and quickly stopped Blaise from throwing in the diced horseradish root. "Did you even the read the directions?"
Blaise looked at him like he was stupid, "Yeah it says toss it in."
"After you check the heat, it has to be at 130 exactly or it won't dissolve." Blaise nodded and checked the temp with his wand before gently placing the diced root in the vinegar; Harry had no wish for vinegar to go everywhere. As they waited Harry had Blaise strip the tentacula leaves while he soaked the pinyang in lemon juice before placing it in the cauldron and then stirring counterclockwise twenty times adding a clockwise stir every five times. As he stirred Harry heard from his right Hermione's voice.
"Michael!" Her voice was a bit high. He looked over and saw her brewing partner Michael Corner had the screechsnap in his hand ready to put it in at the wrong stage, if he did potentially a cloud of poisonous gas could be released.
"Uh, oh sorry spaced out for a second," Corner's reply came. Harry looked over at the other fifth year who did look tired and a bit glassy eyed. Harry shrugged and went back to his potion as he noticed Severus glancing at Corner. Blaise was adding the stripped tentacula leaves as Harry upped the heat of the fire. As they waited for the potion's temperature to increase Harry crushed three screechsnaps before chopping them while Blaise checked the temp and then added the alihosty and stirring clockwise eleven times. When Blaise finished Harry added the screechsnap. They waited until the potion turned a blood red before Blaise doused the flames and took over stirring vigorously and Harry picked up the small bottle of Hellsbreath which he forbade Blaise from touching earlier in the year. The ingredient was easily one of the most unstable that Hogwarts students worked with. Too much of it and it exploded, shake it too much it exploded, too much heat near it sparked flames, basically it liked to blow up therefore Blaise wasn't allowed to touch it considering his potions blew up all on their own. Severus was moving around stations and vanishing potions that were smoking or just telling students to bottle what they had and not bother with adding the hellsbreath. Crabble and Goyle were dismissed from the room early on in the potion making. Pansy and Millicent got told to bottle theirs and leave after setting their potion on his desk as did Terry Boot and Mandy Brocklehurst, Morag MacDougal and Lisa Turpin, and Stephen Cornfoot and Anthony Goldstein. The only ones in the room allowed finishing their potions were Padma and Su Li, Kevin Entwhistle who was working alone, Blaise and Harry, Draco and Theo, and Daphne and Tracey. Kevin was at the front station of the row of Ravenclaws now that everyone else was dismissed. Daphne and Tracey were directly across the aisle from him. Behind Daphne and Tracey were Harry and Blaise; behind them were Draco and Theo. Across from Draco and Theo were Hermione and Michael Corner. Two stations behind them were Padma and Su Li which was were Professor Snape was currently watching as they added the three drops of hellsbreath. Harry added his own and waited for the potion to turn clear. It took only twenty seconds for it to turn clear Harry grinned at Blaise as they bottled and labeled it. Blaise took the potion up to the front where he placed on the desk among the others. Daphne and Tracey were cleaning up their station chatting. Su Li was moving towards the front of the room while Draco moved to place his bottle of hellsbreath back in the ingredients cabinet. Padma joined him with her bottle having picked up Harry's on the way to the cabinet off to the front of the room, Harry nodded in thanks. Kevin was adding his own to his potion when it happened.
"Michael add the hellsbreath already," Hermione said as she stirred. Severus looked up and started making his way towards them. Harry looked over and could see Michael struggling with the bottle.
Suddenly it clicked in Harry's mind the glassy eyes, "EVERYBODY DOWN!" Several things happened at once, Harry shot over to Hermione who was diagonal to him and pulled her back towards his station while turning his back on Corner. Daphne and Tracey shot forward and ducked under Severus's desk with Blaise who threw up a shield. Severus trusting Hadrian through a shield over the corner where Draco and Padma while rushing towards Michael Corner. Draco was pushing Padma towards the chalkboard while he wrapped around her shielding her. Su Li did the only thing she could and dived forward and Kevin tried to throw a shield over his bottle of hellsbreath but it failed, succeeding in only knocking it over as he moved away.
As they were all moving Harry just reaching Hermione and pushing her out of the way, Michael lost his battle and dumped the contents of the Hellsbreath into his potion and over the fire that was still lit. An explosion rocked the potions lab as Severus whipped Corner back behind him before they were both thrown off their feet and into the wall. Shrapnel from the cauldron followed a cloud of fire that engulfed the station and reach five feet around it. The shockwave sent cauldrons and vials flying. The container of Hellsbreath Kevin knocked over exploded seconds later causing another explosion of fire and his full cauldron flying over into the corner where Draco and Padma were.
Harry shouted as shrapnel from the cauldron hit his back and shout out, "Aspis." The shield spell glowed blue as Harry threw his arm with the shield up to cover not only himself but Hermione too. The shield continued to glow as shrapnel impacted it and bounced off. When it died down Harry removed his arm and immediately looked for Daphne.
"Daph?" Harry yelled as he stood up surveying the damage. Harry said, "expecto patronum," the silvery form of Snow stood before him, "Madam Pomfrey there's been potions explosion we need help Severus is down!" Snow disappeared out the room.
"Harry?" Daphne called.
"Don't touch anything around you while you come out the rage potions on the desk exploded. Kevin needs help." Harry spoke taking in everything stepping gently over to where Severus and Michael Corner were unconscious on the floor. Hermione was dosing flames as she moved towards Su Li who was unmoving on the ground. Harry turned as he heard a scream, Draco was standing over Padma with his hand clenched around his wand in the process of casting, Theo, who was moving towards Draco, shot his wand up and a red jet of light marking the stunning spell impacted Draco in the back knocking him out. "Padma open the door on your left its Professor Snape's office there's a floo in there. Call St. Mungos now!" Harry quickly moved to Severus and Corner. "Shite! Tracey get over here now!" Harry shouted as both Severus and Corner were bleeding heavily. Severus looked horrible his body was littered with shrapnel both pewter and glass sticking out of his chest, arms, and legs. He had burns over his right side, his arm from reaching for Corner was the worst, and Harry could see bone. Corner's left hand was missing with jagged bones and flesh mixed with blood and his left arm was singed black. Harry cast the only thing he knew would help, "pressure," the spell stemmed the bleeding as Harry kept it up.
Tracey arrived in a rush and gasped at the sight before casting, "Vita." The spell light up gray and Tracey faltered. "Daph I need your help." Daphne stood up from where Hermione was crying over Su Li, the girl had no pulse. "We both need to cast the vital suspending curse," She said as Daphne knelt next to her and they both cast the healers spell only recently taught to them by the man they were helping. Susan was the best but Tracey and Daphne weren't that far behind her.
After what seemed like hours but was really only about two minutes Madam Pomfrey arrived at the same time five healers were ushered into the lab by a hysterical Padma. Madam Pomfrey gasped upon taking in sight of the room, blood, ash, shrapnel and spilled potions covered almost every inch. Madam Pomfrey and the five St. Mungos personal seemed frozen in shock never having seen a potions disaster of the magnitude.
Harry snapped them out by calling out the injuries he knew, "Corner's missing a hand and his arm is singed black! Professor Snape's unconscious with shrapnel and burn injuries. Tracey and Daph have suspended his vitals!"
"Draco's unconscious, stunner, he absorbed Kevin's cauldron full of rage draught," Theo yelled out.
Blaise followed with, "Kevin's burned on his left side and unconscious!" Blaise, Theo, and Harry's words were fired at a rapid pace that snapped the healers out of their daze.
"Beaucourt, Trudy, take Severus," Madam Pomfrey barked out the orders to the younger healers she had helped train. "Thurston, Phillips, over to Kevin," She nodded in Blaise's direction as she moved to the area where Severus, Michael, Daphne, Tracey, and Harry were all at. She used a body bind on Corner and moved him away from Severus to a semi clean area before beginning.
"Girls keep the spell up," Harry heard as he moved with Michael Corner and Madam Pomfrey keeping his spell going.
"Keep it up Hadrian," Madam Pomfrey said as she cast a diagnostic, gasped, and then brought out some vials from her healer robes. She immediately spelled blood replenishing potions, from what Harry could tell, into Corner's stomach before stunning the boy to keep him unconscious. "You can stop your spell Hadrian." She worked her wand over the teen's body muttering in Latin for a couple of minutes; every so often another potion would disappear into Corner. Harry sat next to his eyes finally processing what they had seen. The one thing that stood out the most was Padma and Hermione crying over their fellow Raven, Padma more hysterically than Hermione who was glancing at Draco and himself.
"He's just stunned, the rage potion landed on him," Harry said over the din to Hermione who nodded in thanks.
"Hadrian," Madam Pomfrey spoke from next to him snapping his attention back to the Hogwarts healer. "Floo to St. Mungos tell them we need three beds, tell them it's a code Pliny." Harry sprinted to the floo and came out at St. Mungos Emergency Room triage, not noticing for once he landed right. Harry in his Hogwarts robes was quickly spotted by the waiting Head Healer of the ER who raced over to the floo entrance.
"Madam Pomfrey said code Pliny," Harry started.
"Damn!" The healer interrupted, "How many beds?" The healer fired off the question.
"Three."
"CODE PLINY! WE NEED THREE BEDS!" The healer's words brought a rush of action "What can you tell me, quick lad." The healer moved them clear of the floo entrance should someone come through.
Harry answered him as fast as he could, "Rage potions. Corner dropped the bottle of Hellsbreath in the cauldron and the fire." Harry spoke almost in one breath.
"PREPARE FOR BURNS AND SHRAPNEL WOUNDS!" The healer barked out again as Harry moved back towards the floo. The healer gently grabbed Harry by the shoulder and spun Harry back to face him. "Where do you think you're going laddie?"
Harry looked confused back at the man, "Back to help?" It came out as a question.
The healer quirked a smile, "The only place you're going is with Apprentice Markowitz over here," he nodded to a blonde female standing nearby, "to get wounds looked at." Harry looked at him blankly. "Your arms and back are tore up lad," the healer spoke gently but firmly realizing Harry had yet to notice.
"Oh," Harry said as he finally took in his own cuts.
The healer chuckled, "Apprentice Markowitz patch him up while we wait for his friends."
The Apprentice Healer came over a led Harry to a bed in the emergency room, "Come on your friends will be coming through as soon as their stable." Harry just nodded as he sat and Markowitz started spelling out the small pieces of shrapnel Harry had been hit with. She used dittany to seal some of the larger wounds but a simple episky worked for most of the small cuts. "You might have some bruises but that's it," she spoke as the floo rang in three quick successions. Healers all around immediately jumped into action as the three injured patients from Hogwarts came through; they were levitated quickly into operating rooms out of Harry's sights.
Another apprentice came over and spoke, "They're asking for you back at Hogwarts. Madam Pomfrey is staying there as Mr. Malfoy can remain at the castle."
Harry took another trip through the floo network this time stumbling as he came out of the floo. He was immediately embraced by Daphne. Daphne buried her head in his chest and Harry just held her as he looked around. Headmaster Flitwick and Professor McGonagall were here as was Tonks and two other aurors who were placing Su Li in a body bag. Madam Pomfrey had Draco on a stretcher and was getting ready to take him up to the Hospital Wing.
"Harry I need your statement," Tonks said as she came over to them. Harry nodded his response and shifted Daphne so she was to his side. "You know the drill just give me your account."
"First I'm fairly certain Michael Corner's under the imperious curse," Harry's statement caused Flitwick and McGonagall to come closer as well as the other two aurors in the room.
"Explain," was Tonks' only reply aside from her eyes narrowing.
"Hold on," Flitwick stated before turning to McGonagall, "Lock down the common rooms start with Ravenclaw." McGonagall nodded and left the room in a hurry and Tonks nodded her thanks.
"We were making the Draught of Rage; earlier in the class Corner almost added an ingredient at the wrong time. It would have let loose a cloud of poisonous gas. 'Mione caught it before he put it in. Corner shook it off as being tired and he looked it, glassy eyed with circles under his eyes and just a rather blank look. When he went to poor the Hellsbreath in his hand was shaking and kept jerking away before he finally dropped it. He's one of the best brewers in our year."
"Damn, floo the DMLE get three more teams here. We need to search the Houses and go over everyone's wands," Tonks spoke to one of the other aurors who nodded and moved into Professor Snape's office.
"Hermione telling him to add the hellsbreath already got my attention again. When I noticed him shaking I shouted for everyone to get down. I pulled Hermione out of the way and got a shield up a little late. Apprentice Markowitz at St. Mungos took care of my cuts."
"Alright I want you all to go to the hospital wing for right now," Tonks said and gave Harry a look that said if you argue I'll curse you seven ways from Sunday.
Around an hour later Cadmus Hammer walked in to the Hospital wing with an unspeakable next to him. Harry, Daphne, Tracey, Hermione, and Theo sat up straighter around Draco's bed, he was still stunned. Madam Pomfrey didn't want to wake him up with their being so many variables with the potion Draco was soaked with.
"Ah hello you five," Cadmus spoke fondly before his voice turned somber, "I'm sorry about your classmate Miss Li." The five simply nodded in response. Cadmus put a hand on the unspeakble's shoulder and the unspeakable lowered his hood to show a forty something smiling man. "This is Unspeakble Rayes he's going to check on Draco here to see what can be done or if we need to just wait it out." They nodded and moved away from Draco so Unspeakable Rayes could go to work.
"Well Hadrian are you always so alert in potions class?" Cadmus asked a bit carefully.
The Slytherins chuckled and Harry answered a ruefully, "For the past four years we've had potions with the Gryffindors. We have to be alert if we want to turn in anything at all." Harry's voice grew more serious as he added, "A couple years ago the youngest Weasley boy tried throwing a firework in Draco's potion. Had it gone it would have caused an explosion like today." Cadmus nodded with a thoughtful expression as Sirius entered the room with Tonks.
"Draco awake yet?" Tonks asked as she entered.
"Auror Tonks," Cadmus answered, "Unspeakable Rayes is looking him over to see if anything can be done to speed the Rage Draught out of system."
"I'm going to wake him up," Unspeakable Rayes said after applying a body-bind charm and silencing charm to the teen. Draco awoke wild eyed and immediately straining against the body bind, a testament to the amount of potion his skin absorbed and Kevin's potions ability. "Hello Mr. Malfoy. I'm Unspeakable Rayes and you are currently in the hospital wing of Hogwarts." He paused and Draco opened his mouth to shout and Rayes dumped a potion down his mouth and then forced him to swallow it by closing his mouth and nose. Draco unwillingly swallowed and then started yelling but no sound came out of his mouth. Slowly Draco's yelling stopped, a half smirk half Cheshire cat like grin appeared on his face, and his eyes took on a dreamy expression. Unspeakable Rayes smiled and released the charms on Draco. Draco then surprised them all by sitting forward and wrapping Unspeakable Rayes in his arms. Draco sat there holding Rayes around the waist with the same dopey look on his face. Everyone in the room stopped and looked at the normally proper and a bit spoiled teen hugging an Unspeakable around the waist.
And that was the scene that the parents of the various students involved in the explosion walked in on. The Patil parents went straight over to Padma who was still crying despite the calming potions she had taken, Madam Pomfrey had been trying to comfort the girl. Hermione's mother who was being led in by Narcissa and Remus Lupin wrapped her daughter in a hug. Hermione leaned into her mother's embrace tears leaking out of her eyes. Tracey's parents reacted similarly while Blaise's mother gripped her son's shoulder starring into his eyes before pulling him into her side as they whispered in Italian before moving to the nearest floo, Blaise nodded to Harry before they left conforming Harry's thoughts on where the two Zabini's were headed. Daphne's mum and dad placed their arms around them both from behind.
Before anyone could talk Narcissa arched one perfectly shaped eyebrow and asked in her regal voice, "Would someone care to explain why my son is hugging an unspeakable?" The sharpness of her voice reminded everyone just who her sister was and what family she came from.
"MUMMY!" Draco's hilariously high pitched voice screamed across the room. He tried to leave the bed but Unspeakable Rayes stopped him.
"I think it would be better if he stayed in bed while the potion is in effect," Rayes said which prompted Narcissa to turn to him. He gulped as she starred him down before moving over to her son who wrapped her in a hug. Harry snickered at Rayes's face as Narcissa moved over to Draco.
"Hi!" Draco said like an excited five year old on Christmas morning.
Narcissa turned her head prompting Rayes to start speaking, "I gave Draco a combination of a Draught of Peace and Euphoria potion to counteract the amount of Rage Potion in his system. He's going to be a bit, erm, happy." Rayes said with a grimace that turned into a smile when Narcissa only shook her head in exasperation.
Draco then turned to Remus who was standing next to Sirius at the head of Draco's bed, "SOOooo when are you going to ask my mum to marry you? I mean so you're furry and have a tail once a month. Uncle Sirius is like that half the time."
"DRACO," Came from Narcissa while the room gladly took the opportunity to laugh.
"I think we'll give you some privacy," Madam Pomfrey spoke before sectioning Draco off from the rest of the room.
After about five minutes later Headmaster Flitwick and Kingsley Shacklebolt entered the room and talked with Tonks and Sirius before turning to those collected in the room. Kingsley stepped forward from the group while Flitwick and Sirius disappeared out the hospital wing.
"I'm Auror Lieutenant Shaklebolt," He started in his deep voice that grabbed everyone's attention. "We've investigated and found the young man who caused the explosion to be under the imperious curse and we have taken a suspect into custody. I cannot yet give you their name as they are a minor and have not yet been formally charged. You will all be the first to know any further information in the case. If you'll excuse me I need to meet with the Headmaster and the Li family." Kingsley left with Tonks in tow presumably to the Headmaster's office.
"I'm Professor Black," Sirius spoke next in soft tone of voice, "Headmaster Flitwick is allowing you to take your son or daughter home for a few days if you feel it necessary. If you chose not to and they're struggling later in the week they may be excused. As for the students the Houses have been taken out of lock down so you may return after spending time with your parents, please let me know if you're going to be taking your student home."
Sirius seeing Harry was occupied with the Greengrass parents took time to see to Theo who was hanging around in the background of the hospital wing. "All right there Theo?"
"Yeah it's just, it's not supposed to come to Hogwarts," Theo said quietly.
"I know," Sirius stated simply and placed a hand on the boy's shoulder in support.
"What about my parents," Theo asked quietly with a nod to the families.
"We thought it best not inform them but Cissa said she would find a way to get your mother a letter. I sure she would include anything you wanted to add." Theo nodded to the first part but remained unresponsive to the rest of Sirius's comment. Sirius paused for a moment before adding, "You know when I was sixteen I ran away from home for much the same reasons you did." Theo turned to him looking interested so Sirius continued, "I ran to James's, Harry's dad, house they welcomed me in and treated me like second son, even added me to the wards." Sirius nodded to the sectioned off bed where Draco, his mum, and Remus were still at laughter being heard every so often. "Go join them, Narcissa will welcome you." Theo looked unsure but Sirius propelled him forward a bit, "Go on." Theo slowly made his way to the curtains and cleared his throat gaining the occupants attention. Narcissa open the curtains to see who it was and smiled warmly at Theo welcoming him to sit next to her. As she closed the curtains around them Sirius gave her a nod and a smile which she returned in understanding.
Sirius made his way over to where the others were gathered intent on checking on his godson to be intercepted by Padma's father.
"Professor Black," The short Indian man stated in a rather thick accent, "I think we'll be taking Padma home for a little while. Would it, could it be arranged for her twin Parvati to join us? I think it would help Padma."
Sirius nodded to the man, "Of course I think that would be fine. I'll let Professor McGonagall know to bring Parvati down."
"Thank you," came the heartfelt reply the man really did love his daughters. Sirius nodded and conjured his patronus sending it to McGonagall. As he arrived at the edge of the group of Slytherins and one Ravenclaw and their parents Harry surprised him by pulling him into a hug. It dawned on him quickly. Severus was the first adult to show Harry support and, well, love. Far from being pissed to hell and back, as he himself would have expected, Sirius only found he saddened that Harry was once again in pain.
"It'll be okay pup. It'll be okay," Sirius repeated quietly as he wrapped Harry in a strong hug and rocked him back and forth a bit.
A/N
Well its been awhile hasn't it? I feel like the last month has been a year long with all the projects and papers due in my classes. My semester finally ended and I'm officially a senior in college (Woot Woot) so updates will be more frequent as I'll finally have time to right something other than research papers. As always enjoy and thanks for the support.
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A/N #2 5-15-12
Fixed the Slytherin Ravenclaw match to Slytherin Hufflepuff, sorry I switched teams halfway through and thought I had fixed all of 'em. Now to the reviewer who said i'm fucked in the head and write like I have a mental illness, it's called AU for a reason it's not supposed to be cannon you fucktard! Basically the only thing I have to say to you is FUCK OFF, don't like than don't read it!
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