Ava P.O.V

I wake up the next morning to cold air hitting my body. I groan and try to wrap myself up in the blanket, but I can't find it. I hear someone snigging next to me. I open my eyes and see the Draco has the blanket to himself.

"Why are you keeping the blanket from me?"

"Because it's time to get up and if I give you the blanket, then you're just going to go back to sleep."

I groan louder because I don't want to get up, then I remembered that I need to talk to Harry about why my hand was hurting me so much last night.

I sit up and my chest feel tight. I blush when I remember that it's covered in love bites. "Why are you blushing for?" Draco asks, tucking my hair behind my ear.

"I just remembered about last night."

"Oh" he says, moving closer to me. "Do you want to pick up where we left off?" he asks, kissing my shoulder.

"I would love too, but I need to talk to Harry about something."

"Potter?" he huffs. "Can't that wait?"

"No, it's important."

"What's it about?"

"I can't tell you."

"Why not?"

"Because it's between me and him."

"You and Potter keeping secrets now, are you?"

I look at him. I really wish I could just tell him, but I can't. I made a few promises and intend to keep them. I sigh. "Of course not, but this is about Harry, so I can't tell you because it's not about me."

"I guess" he mutters.

I look at him. "Don't be jealous of Harry."

"I'm not" huffs.

"Good, because you have nothing to jealous about" I say, before kissing him. I feel him smirk and kiss me back. I pull away from him which makes him groan. "We can carry on later, but I need to see Harry before our lessons start."

"Stupid Potter" he mutter under his breath. I sigh and get off the bed. We pick up out things and leave the room. Draco walks off to the Slytherin common room and I run all the way to the Gryffindor common room. I'm almost there when I see Ron and Hermione walking out.

"Where's Harry?" I ask the second I reach them.

"He's gone to the owlery, why?" Hermione asks.

"I need to talk to him about something, I'll see ya later" I run off before they could say anything else. I run to my common room so that I can get the package I need to send to Sirius. It's got the the potion ingredients he needs to make the Animagus potion.

I quickly say the password and rush inside. I see Draco and the boys sitting on the chairs, but I rush off upstairs. I grab the package from under my bed, put it in my bag, then head back downstairs. I rush through the common room and make my way back to the portrait.

"Where are you going in such a hurry?" Blaise shouts.

"No time to explain, see ya later" I shout back as I run through the hole in the wall. I run all the way to the owlery, by the time I've reach the top of the stairs, I'm so out of breath that I need to stand there for a few seconds to try and get my breath back to normal.

"Jeez, I'm so unfit" I mutter, and I hear someone laughing. I look up and see Harry stood there.

"You ok?" he asks.

"Yeah, just give me a minute" once my breath is back to normal, I look at him. "Ok, I'm good."

"How come your here?" he asks.

"I've come to send Sirius a package and to talk to you about last night."

"Last night?" he frowns.

"Yes, my hand was hurting me last night" I say, as I tie the package to an owls leg and tell him who to deliver it to. I turn around and look at Harry. "Why was my hand hurting?"

"I dunno" Harry mutters, trying to hide his hand behind his back. I grab it and have a look, I gasp when I see the words 'I must not tell lies' craved into his hand.

"Who did this?" I demand.

"Umbridge."

"What?" I ask, looking at him. "She did this to your hand?"

"No, I did it to myself."

"I don't understand" I frown.

"She's got punishing quills."

"She's got what?" I ask in shock. I've heard of them before. They make you write in your own blood, and whatever you have written, it will scar on the back of you hand. "You have got to tell someone about this."

"No" he says, pulling his hand out of my grip. "I'm not giving her the satisfaction of knowing she's got me."

"Got to you? Fucking hell, Harry! You're torturing yourself" I see Harry open his mouth, but I quickly cut him off. "Don't you dare say that you're fine, I went through the pain too, remember? So I know you're not fine!"

He closes his mouth. "You need to tell someone, Harry, because she could be using these quills on 1st years."

"I'm not sure how much power McGonagall had got over her."

"Go to Dumbledore then."

"No!" he hissed sharply. "No, he's got enough on his mind."

"I could tell my dad then."

"Oh yeah, because your dad is really going to help me, isn't he?"

"He might" Harry gives me a look that clear said 'get real, Ava' "Ok, fine" I sigh, knowing that he's right. "At lest it was just a one time detention."

Harry looks at me, then quickly looks away. "It's not just a one time detention, is it?"

"No, I have detention with her for the rest of the week."

"The rest of the week?" I repeat, looking at him. "I'm going to make you a potion for the pain, then I will have something to help me with the pain too."

Harry looks at me with a guilty face. "Shit Ava, I'm sorry. I totally forgot that you go through that pain too."

"It was horrible. Draco had to rub my hand because the pain wasn't going away."

"He didn't question anything, did he?"

"No, in the end, I fell asleep."

"So you didn't feel a pain in your shoulder then?"

"No, I must have already been asleep by then. Why, did you have a pain in your scar?"

He nods. "Yeah, when I was in detention with her, she touched my arm and my scar felt like it was about to burst open."

"That's odd" I frown. "What do you think it could mean?"

"I dunno, but back in my 1st year at Hogwarts, Voldemort was on the back of a teachers head. Voldemort was controlling him. Whenever he was near me, my scar would hurt."

"Yeah, I remembering dad telling me something about that, but he has his own body now. He wouldn't need to use hers."

"Maybe I'm over thinking it. Dumbledore said sometimes my scar and yours will hurt depending on how Voldemort is feeling."

"He's been angry lately, I've been angry for no reason lately, but I mange to calm down so Draco and they boys don't question it."

"I've been feeling angry too, but I can't seem to calm myself down. Ron and Hermione are getting sick of me kept snapping at them, I mean, I wouldn't need to keep snapping at them if they didn't argue 24/7."

"They have always been like that though."

"Yes, I know" he snaps. Then he sighs. "See what I mean, I don't understand what's wrong with me."

"Nothing it wrong with you Harry. You are sharing his emotions, after all, so of course you're going to feel angry at times, but maybe you could try and work on keeping it under control."

"Yeah, maybe" he mutters.

"Why do you think he's angry anyway?"

"Dunno, maybe it's because he's got to hide, hasn't he? You know what with Fudge making out he's not back and that."

"Maybe, but remember what Sirius said, he's after something, something he didn't have before. What if he can't find it? I mean that must make him angry."

"What do you think he's after?"

"I'm not sure, but whatever it is, it isn't going to be good, is it?"

"Great" he huffs, throwing his hands up in the air. "Now I'm worried on what it could be."

I look at him and take him hand into mine, making him look at me. "I'm here, you know, if you ever want to talk about anything, or just to get away from Ron and Hermione for a little while, then just check in the library or ask the portrait to the common room, he will tell you if I'm in there or not."

"I won't need to do that, I can just check the the Marauders map."

"The what map?" I frown.

He lets go of my hand and pulls a piece of parchment of out his pocket and hands it to me. I open and frown when I see it's blank. I close it and look at Harry, he smirks and pulls out his wand and points it of the parchment. "I solemnly swear to be up to no good."

I gasp when writing starts to appear. "Messrs Moony, Wormtial, Padfoot and Prongs, are proud to present the Marauders map. Wait, Padfoot? As if Sirius?" I ask, looking at Harry.

"Yeah, this is his map, along with my dad Lupin and that nasty little Pettigrew. Prongs is my dad, Moony is Lupin and Wormtial is Pettigrew" he looks at me. "Open it."

I open it and see that it's a map of the whole school. "Wow" I whisper. "This is so cool."

"It's helped me out a lot over the two years."

"Look, Ron and Hermione are in the Great Hall" I say, pointing to their name tags. I look around for Draco's name and I see that he's in the common room with the boys.

"I'll just send this letter to Sirius, then we can head over here" Harry says. I nod and hand him the map back. He points his wand at it and says, "mischief managed" and the map goes clear.

"Awesome" I whisper. Harry smiles at me, puts the ma in his pocket, then walks off to send his letter. A few seconds later, he walks off over to me. I adjust my bag and move my hair out of the way.

I go to walk off, but stop Harry stops me. "Hold it right there young lady" he says, grabbing my arm and pulling me back. "Are these love bites on your neck?" he demands.

Shit, I forgot to cover them up. "No" I say, moving my hair to cover my neck. Harry knocks my hand away and moves my hair.

"Fucking hell, is Malfoy a leech or something?"

I laugh. "I said the same thing."

"Your father is going to re-kill Malfoy when he sees those."

"Re-kill?" I frown.

"Yes, because I'm going to kill him first for putting his slimy mouth on my baby cousin."

"His mouth isn't slimy" I huff. "It's -"

"I don't need to know" Harry quickly cuts me off.

"It's delicious and minty and -"

"La-la-la" Harry sings, sticking his finger in his ears. "I can't hear you!"

I laugh at his childish behaviour. I pull out my wand and my little mirror. I look in it and I can see 3 loves bit on the right side of my neck. Well, I say loves bit, they now look like bruises. I wave my wand and they all disappear. I put my wand away and we leave the owlery and head to the Great Hall.

We walk in and Ron and Hermione are still sat at the Gryffindor table. We walk over there and I sit next to Hermione and Harry sits next to Ron. I look at the table and see that Hermione is reading the Daily Prophet. I frown when I see a photo of Umbridge on the front page with a stupid grin on her face and the headlines.

'MINSTRY SEEKS EDUCATIONAL REFORM
DOLORES UMBRIDGE APPOINTED
FIRST EVER HIGH INQUISITOR'

"Umbridge's High Inquisitor" Harry says, frowning at the newspaper.

"What dose that mean?" I ask.

"I've read the article and Fudge has given her the power to inspect the other teachers" Hermione says.

We all look worried, but Ron sat there grinning. "What?" we all ask.

"I can't wait to see McGonagall inspecting, Umbridge won't know what's hit her."

I quickly look at my time table and grin. "With have McGonagall this afternoon."

"Awesome" Ron smirks.

"Speaking of Umbridge" Hermione says, looking at her watch. "We better go before we are late for her lesson."

Harry groans, which makes me look at him. "I know this is easier said then done, Harry, but please try to keep your cool with her, because you don't want anymore detentions."

"I'll try" he mutters, picking up his bag.

"Please do, because it's not just you who goes through those detentions."

He glares at me. "Is that all you care about? What you go through?"

"No, of course not. I just don't want to be in pain because you can't keep your mouth shut."

"I said I will try!" he snaps.

"Well make sure you do!" I snap back.

"That's enough, you two!" Hermione hissed.

"Sorry mom" me and Harry mutter together. We look at each other and start sniggering.

"Honestly" Hermione huffed, throwing her hands in the air. "You two are giving me whiplash with your mood swings."

We just roll our eyes and walk to Umbridge's classroom. When we walk in I see Draco, Blaise, Crabbe and Goyle sitting at the back on the room.

"I'm going to sit with my boys, I'll see ya all later" I walk off before Ron or Harry say anything about me calling them my boys.

I smile at the boys and sit down next to Draco. "You are going to behave this lesson, aren't you?" he asks.

"Yes dad" I mutter, rolling my eyes.

Blaise snorted. "Draco is Ava's daddy."

"Daddy Draco" Crabbe and Goyle snigger, whilst I fake gag.

"Why are you gagging for?" Draco frowns.

I look at him. "Because you're not a dad, so you shouldn't be called daddy unless you are one."

"Not into the daddy kink then?" Blaise smirks.

I shake my head. "Definitely not."

Draco moves closer to me. "Does that mean you will call me daddy when I am one?"

My mouth falls open but I quickly close it an clear my throat. "Only if I was talking to the kids about you. I'm never calling you daddy when they aren't around."

"Just say it once, and I'll never ask you to say it again."

I move closer to him and whisper 'not going to happen' in his ear, which makes him groan. I just smile at him and kiss his cheek.

Just then Umbridge walked through the door and makes her way to the front of the room. "Wands away, please" she says, turning around to look at us. There was honestly no need to say it since no one had even bothered to take out their wands. We all know the drill by now.

She smirked when she saw that no one had their wands out. She pulled out her own wand and makes the books float over to our table.

"I want everyone to read where we pick up from last lesson. There will be no need to talk" Umbridge says smiling. I glance over at Harry, hoping that he won't start anything with Umbridge, to my surprise, he keeps up the book, but instead of opening it, he huffs and throws it back on the table, which makes Umbridge look at him.

"Yes, dear? Is there a problem?"

"Yes! This class is pathetic and so are you!" he says with no emotion in his voice. Umbridge clenches her jaw and fakes smiles but doesn't say anything. Hopefully Harry doesn't say anything else.

I put on my glasses, open the book and start reading. I've only read 4 words and I'm already bored, but I can't say anything because then my dad will find out, and he will take away my Hogsmeade's visits for sure and I don't want that. Might as well carry on reading the book and zone out for a little while.

I snap back to reality when I feel someone poke my side. I look and see Draco looking at me. "Hey cutie" he smiles.

I smile back at him then he pokes me in my side again. "Why are you poking me?" I whisper.

"I'm bored, and I know how much you love being poked" he winks.

"Not in my side" I say before I could stop myself. I feel myself going red in the face, which makes Draco snigger under his breath.

"Shut up!" I whisper-yell.

"Miss Snape" Umbridge says. I look at her at the same time everyone looks at me. "Would you like to share with the rest of the class on what you and Mr Malfoy are whispering about?"

"No Professor" I say quickly.

"Then stop talking and carry on reading, or I tell your father that you have been misbehaving in my lesson, and you wouldn't want that, would you?" she smirks. I hate that she can play the dad card!

"No Professor" I mutter, whilst giving her a little glare. I hold Draco's hand under the table and rest my head on his arm. I smile when I feel him kiss the top of my head.

After an hour of reading the bell goes off and we are allowed to leave. We grab our things and walk to our next lesson, which is Transfiguration and I'm really hoping that Umbridge is here because it's about time someone put that toad in her place.

We walk into her classroom only to find it empty. I look around and see Hermione waving me over to pointing to the sit next to her. I nod, then look at Draco. "I'm going to sit with Hermione."

"Aww, I want you" he winks at me, which makes me blush a little, "next to me though."

"I will sit with you next lesson."

"Promise?" he asks, holding out his little finger.

"Pinky promise" I say, wrapping my little finger around his. He nods with a little smirk. I give him a peak on the lips before walking over to Hermione. The second I sit down, the door to the classroom opens and in walks Umbridge with a clipboard in her hand. She smiles at us then sits in a chair that's next to McGonagall's desk.

"I can't wait for this" Hermione whispers excitedly.

"I know, me either" I whisper back. "Oh, here she comes."

We turn around and see McGonagall enter the classroom and completely ignored Umbridge. "Quiet" she says, walking to the front of the room. Everyone who was talking shuts up and looks at her. "Mr Finnigan, could you hand back everyone's homework for me, please?"

Seamus nods and stands up, he takes the homework off her and starts handing it back. I smile at him when he hands me back my homework, I was about to look at my grade when McGonagall calls my name. I look at her and see that she's holding a box.

"Could you please hand one out to each student?" I nod and stand up. I walk over to the desk and look into the box and see tiny little white mice all running around. They are kinda cute. I'm half way through handing out the mice when I hear "Hem, hem" I look and see that Umbridge is trying to get McGonagall's attention, but McGonagall doesn't answer her, she doesn't even look at her.

I look in the box and see that there are two mice left, I look around and see that it's only me and Draco who hasn't got a mice. I smile and walk over to Draco and hand him a mouse. "Thank you, beautiful" he whispers, kissing my cheek. I smile at him, then walk back over to my seat.

I look at the table only to find that my mouse has gone. Where did she go? I start looking around the table as McGonagall talks to the rest of the class. "Miss Snape!" she snaps. I look at her. "Is there a reason on why you can't keep still?"

"My mouse has gone" I frown when I feel movement up my sleeve. I look and see her chilling by my arm. How did I not feel that before? "Oh wait, I've found her. She's up my sleeve, one minute." I say, gently shaking my sleeve so that she will come out.

She fells out my sleeve and into the table, I gently grab her so she doesn't run off again. "I've got her" McGonagall rises her eyebrow at me. "Sorry, I'll be quiet now" I say, pretending to zip my mouth shut.

McGonagall nodded and carried on talking, but she wasn't talking for long when Umbridge cut her off by doing her stupid little 'hem, hem.'

"Yes?" McGonagall asks, slowly turning to face Umbridge.

"I was just wondering Professor, whether you received my note telling you of the date and time of your inspec -" Umbridge doesn't get to finish her sentence because McGonagall cuts her off.

"Obviously I receiver it, or I would have asked you what you were doing in my classroom" she says, turning her back on Umbridge. Me, Hermione, Harry and Ron all smirk at each other.

"As I was saying, today we shall be practising the Vanishing spell. Now the vanishing spell is -"

"Hem, Hem!" Umbridge cuts her off again, and I can see that it's starting to annoy McGonagall.

"I wonder, how you expect to gain an idea of my usual teaching methods if you continue to interrupt me. You see, I do not generally permit people to talk when I am talking."

Me, Hermione, Ron and Harry put our hands tightly over our mouth to stop ourselves from laughing at the look on Umbridge's face. She looked like she had been slapped in the face with a water fish.

Umbridge didn't interrupt McGonagall again and let her carry on with her lesson. It was a fun lesson. Me and Hermione manged to vanish our mice, whilst Ron and Harry were having trouble. We tried helping them but Umbridge kept watching us.

Our next lesson is Potions and I'm really hoping that Umbridge isn't inspecting dad's lesson, mainly because I don't want her to try and embarrass dad in front of everyone, and I've also had enough of her for one day. Me and the boys walk in and make our way over to over table.

I look at the door when I hear it behind open. Please be dad and not Umbridge. I curse under my breath when Umbridge walks in with a stupid smile and her stupid clipboard. She looks straight at me and smirks. A smug smirk. I narrow my eyes at her.

The door opens again and dad walks in this time. He looks around and sighs when he says Umbridge sat there in the corner. He turns around and faces the class. "You will notices that we have a guest with us today" he says, pointing at Umbridge, who smiled at everyone. Nobody smiled back.

"Today you will be continuing with your Strengthening Solution. You will find your mixtures as you left them last lesson, if correctly made they should have matured well over the weekend" dad pulls out his wand and points it at the blackboard and the instructions appear.

I've just finishing up mine and Draco's potion when I see Umbridge walking over to us. She takes a peek in our cauldron and smiles. "Well done, you two. At least someone know what they are doing."

"Thank you, Professor" Draco says, grinning from ear to ear. I roll my eyes and put our potion in a vail. "50 points to Slytherin."

"50?" I repeat, mainly in shock. "We only made a potion" Crabbe elbows me in the ribs and mutters 'don't complain.'

"I know, and it's perfect, my dear. You deserve those points" she giggles, before walking off. I'm just sitting there watching everyone finish off their potion and I see Harry about to add the wrong ingredient. I quickly give u and rush over to the sink, luckily their table was right next to it so I could pretend to wash my hands since I've already washed them.

"Harry don't add that" I say quietly but loud enough for him to hear me. "It will make your potion explode in your face. You need to add the salamander blood, not the pomegranate juice, then you need to add 2 table spoons of powdered griffin claw and stir for 5 minutes and it will go the colour you need it too."

"Thank you" Harry whispers.

I smile at him, then look in Ron's cauldron. "Same goes for you, Ron" Ron goes to say something, but stops when we hear someone walking over to us. I turn around and see my dad stood there crossing his arms. He looks in Harry and Ron's cauldron and rises his eyebrow.

"See me after class, Ava" he whispers. I nod. "Now go and sit back down and don't get up again" I nod again and walk back over to my sit. Harry and Ron give me a 'I'm sorry' look. I just smile at them, then look at the front of the room where I see dad and Umbridge talking.

"So" Umbridge says loudly, which makes everyone stop what they are doing and look at them. "You applied first for the Defence Against the Dark Arts pots first, is that correct?"

She already knows the answer to that question. "Yes" dad says.

"But you were unsuccessful?" I'm squeezing my spoon so hard at the minute that my knuckles are going white. How dare she try to embarrass my dad like that. That stupid nasty fucking toad.

"Obviously" dad says through his teeth, which makes Ron snigger under his breath. I glare at him and he soon stops when he sees the look on my face.

"Ava, clam down" Draco whispered. "You're hurting that poor spoon."

"Good, I'm pretending it's her fucking throat" I say. Wow! That was a little dark. I throw the spoon away. "I don't know where that came from" I mutter. Draco put his arms around me and I instantly calm down.

"Do you have any idea why Dumbledore has consistently refused to appoint you?" Umbridge asks. Why does she even need to ask dad that when she could just asks Dumbledore herself.

"Why don't you ask him."

"Oh, I shall" she smiles, before walking out of the room. Once dad knows she's gone, he smacks Ron over the head with the book that he was holding. A few people snigger, inducing me. Just then the bells goes off and everyone starts leaving the classroom.

I was about to leave when I remember that dad told me to stay behind. "A, you coming?" Draco frowns.

"Dad just wants a quickly word with me first. I'll meet you in the common room" he nods and kisses my cheek, then walks off with the boys as they make kissing faces at him. I laugh under my breath, but stop when dad clear his throat.

I look at him and he sits down in the chair that Draco was just sat in. "So, care to explain why you were helping Potter and Weasley with their potions?"

"Harry was about to add the wrong ingredient which would have made his potion explode. I didn't want him to get into trouble, I guess. And I don't know why I helped Ron, I just did."

"I see. That was good of you Ava, but in the future let them figure it out on their own or they will never learn."

I nod. "Ok, I won't help again, unless they are about to blow up the classroom."

Dad rolls his eyes. "Stop being dramatic, Ava. Potter's potion wouldn't have blown up the classroom and you know that" I smile at him. "Anyway, I'll let you get back to your friends."

I nod and we stand up. I give him a quick hug before leaving his office. I was almost at the common room when I hear someone shouting my name. I turn around and see Harry, Ron and Hermione rushing over to me. "What's wrong?" I frown.

"Nothing" Hermione says breathlessly. "What are you doing tomorrow?"

"Going into Hogsmeade with Draco, why?"

"Oh, well, we have been talking and we are stating a secret Defence Against the Dark art group and we are meeting up with some people tomorrow who are interested in joining."

"Who will the teacher be though?"

"Well, Harry as agreed to be the teacher, but we were hoping that you would agree to be a teacher too" Ron says.

"Me? Why me?"

"Because you know how to do non-verbal spells, and you can also do a Disillusionment Charm" Harry says. I look at them one by one and they all have pleading eyes.

"Ok, I'm in, but I won't come to the meeting if that's ok? Draco would ask too many question on where I'm going, especially if I say I'm meeting you three."

"Yeah, that's fine" Hermione smiles. "We understand."

"Just don't go into the Hog's Head pub because that's where we are all meeting" Ron says. I nod.

"Anyway, we will let you get off, but come to our common room around half 11 tomorrow night and we will tell you all about it" Harry says smiling.

"Ok, I'll see you all tomorrow" I say, giving them a quick hug before walking off. Awesome, a secret group, that's going to be fun. I'll just have to hide it from Draco and the boys. They won't understand why I'm doing this and I don't want Draco getting jealous over Harry.

I walk into the common room and see Draco sitting on the chairs. I walk over there and sit down next to him. "What took you so long?" he asks.

"I bumped into Hermione on the way here, and she asked me to go into Hogsmeade with her tomorrow, but I said I was already going with you" at least I didn't have to lie about that.

"What do you want to do in Hogsmeade anyway?"

"I don't mind what we do, as long as I'm with you, then I'm happy."

"How about we go to the Three Broomsticks for something to eat, then just go for a little walk?"

"Sounds perfect" I say smiling.