"Did you fight with your Puff best friend?" Sirius asked Harry as they were walking towards Great Hall. He met her near kitchens.

She just shrugged.

"He looked really sad to me earlier today." He said while looking towards her. He knew she spoke to very few people here and alienating her only friend would make her a loner, which he did not want, so he waited for her near kitchens earlier to speak to her about this.

"I don't want to talk about it." She didn't want to tell him about the whole drink-getting-drugged story. She knew he won't be pleased to learn about whom she ended up sleeping with.

He stopped walking and stared at her. She looked distracted as well as upset about something. "Harry I can see you are very upset with him. But I think you should talk to him about whatever it is. He was running after you the whole day, and you kept on ignoring him."

She looked at her godfather for few seconds, then sighed and nodded. "Okay I'll talk to him."

Sirius smiled and put his hand on her shoulder. "That's my Harry."

Harry smiled back at him and kept on listening to her godfather talk, as they walked together towards Great Hall for dinner.

She took the same seat she sat earlier that morning and looked towards Marcus. His shoulders were slumped and he was stirring his food with spoon while gazing towards some particular spot on the table. Sirius was right she thought, Marc did look sad.

She gazed towards Sirius who looked at her then nodded towards Marcus, she smiled and mouthed okay to him.

He grinned and started talking to the wizard sitting next to him.

She then moved her eyes towards Tom, who was also talking to someone. On feeling someone's gaze on himself he looked towards her, she immediately looked away and started adding mashed potatoes on her plate.

After dinner she followed Marcus as he made his way towards Hufflepuff common room.

"Marc." She called after him.

He stopped and looked over his shoulder, his face split into a smile on seeing her walk towards him.

On getting such a happy expression on his face by just calling out his name, made her feel guilty. He could not have added anything in her drink. She thought that he was a true Hufflepuff, loyal to the core.

"Hi" She said with a smile.

He started grinning like a maniac, "Harry you are finally talking to me. I am sorry about whatever you are angry about." Then he started scratching his head, "But it will help if you could tell me what I did. So I won't repeat that in future."

"Marc you don't need to apologise. It's me who should apologise as I started ignoring you without asking you about your involvement." She said while looking down at her feet. She couldn't meet his gaze as he looked so innocently lost about the whole situation.

"Huh?"

"I am sorry. Please forgive me." She said, finally looking up to meet his gaze.

Marcus just kept on gazing at her face with his mouth slightly open. Her eyes looked sad and her head was tilted slightly to the left making her look very innocent and cute."Huh?"

Then realising that she was apologising he shook his head."No no Harry. You don't need to apologise about anything. It must be some misunderstanding." Then he started grinning again. He felt really happy.

She smiled back at him then frowned and said "But I must explain." She looked around, they were standing in a corridor near kitchens, somebody might overhear about her drugged drink story. "But not here"

"Come" She took his hand then guided him into a nearby empty classroom.

Marcus just kept on gazing towards their interlocked hands, grinning like an idiot.

She shut the door, then looked at him. "Remember the orange drink you brought for me during Slughorn's party?"

He nodded.

"It was drugged."

"What? Drugged?"

She nodded then continued, "Somebody added something in it. I started behaving like a drunk maniac, not thinking straight."

She frowned and looked at him, "Do you remember anyone who could have talked to you or maybe you took somebody else's drink?"

"No no.. I got that drink made for you. It wasn't somebody else's " Then he started thinking about the party, "The only person I talked to was Jenny. And if I recall correctly she also asked me about that drink."

Harry mouth fell open in shock. Her dorm mate did this to her. She narrowed her eyes, that bitch would pay for this. No wonder that piglet was so interested this morning to know about her last night. She fumed, that bitch just messed with the daughter as well as goddaughter of Marauders.

She took a deep breath, trying to calm her anger. She need to make a plan to get back to that bitch.

"Harry?"

She looked back at Marcus, who looked very concerned. "Are you okay? We can complain to Headmaster about her."

Harry shook her head then smirked, "No Marc. I will take care of her."

"Uh Harry...just one question." Marcus asked.

"Hmm " Harry said still thinking about how to get back to Jenny.

"Where did you leave? I looked for you everywhere in the party."

That question brought Harry back to present. She stared at Marcus. He deserved the truth, and she needed a friend to talk to as well.

"I.." She closed eyes then said "I ended up sleeping with Riddle."

He shouted "WHAT?"

Harry looked up at him, he looked as if his world just crumbled. He then gazed at her and asked " So that means you and him.. Both of you.." He could not complete the sentence.

Harry frowned at him, she thought that maybe he really hated Tom that's why acting this way, and said, "We didn't have .. you know...not that... It was just a heavy make out session and we ended up sleeping together at the end of it." She looked down at her feet and added, "Both of us were drunk. It was a mistake."

He released the breath he was holding, then looked back at her, "So you're not dating him or anything right? "

Harry didn't know how to answer that. She knew that there was some mutual attraction, but she was not sure that it could be called dating. She just shrugged and said, "No."

He sighed in relief. Then thought about Jenny and gritted his teeth , "I'll make Jenny pay for this. Just let me know, I would like to add some inputs in that plan of yours."

Harry smiled back at him, " Thanks Marcus. You truely are a great friend to have." Then looked towards the window and said, "I think it's already past curfew. Let's go."

Marcus just puffed his chest and said, "Don't worry Harry. You're with me. I am a prefect."

She laughed at him then shook her head and took his hand to make their way out of the classroom, then they turned towards kitchen corridor.

She looked ahead and stopped immediately.

Tom was standing there in the middle of the corridor. What was he doing there? Then she remembered, he must be doing his prefect duty.

She looked at his face, his eyes were moving back and forth between the two of them, then they moved towards their interlinked hands. He looked back at her. There was no expression on his face. But Harry could tell he was really angry.

She tried explain, "Tom we were just.."

"Shut up " He hissed in anger.

"Hey you can't speak this way with her." Marcus intervened.

Tom moved his gaze towards him, Harry thought that he might kill or torture Marcus right there. She let go of his hand and pushed him towards Hufflepuff common. "Marc leave.." She urged him.

He looked at her, "But I can't leave you alone with him "

She gritted her teeth, "Just go. I can take care of myself. Go"

"Okay. But if you're not back in half an hour then I'll report to Headmaster that you're missing." He said while looking towards the murderous expression on Riddle.

"Just leave" She pushed him again and he finally started moving towards Hufflepuff common room. But kept looking back towards them the entire way.

"Tom let me explain.." She tried again.

"What's there to explain?"

"We were not doing anything just talking." She explained.

He felt his temper reach sky high." You were talking to him? Then why were you holding his hands? You were giggling with him. And why were you two sneaking around the castle?"

She looked at him shocked, "Giggling? Sneaking?" She felt her temper rise. Who was he to question her? She marched towards him, then stopped in front of him. "Who are you to question me? I can giggle or what was it?...yeah SNEAK...I can giggle or sneak around with anyone I want. You. Have. No. Right."

"I have every right you bitch. And you can't speak this way with me." He hissed.

She narrowed her eyes. "I told you not to call me Bitch. You bastard. "

"I can call you whatever I want. And what were you doing with that Mudblood? Kissing him? Oh..maybe you're sleeping with him too ? Maybe you like sneaking around with different.." He stopped as her eyes filled up with tears. They fought so many times but this is the first time she started crying. He knew he just crossed the line, but he wanted to hurt her the way she just hurt him by showing up with that idiot.

She gritted her teeth. "Tom you..." She punched him hard and kicked his leg, then ran away from him.

Once she reached the end of corridor she looked back at him and shouted, "And don't you ever bloody talk to me ever again. You bastard."

Tom stood up rubbing his jaw and looked towards the place where she just left. Then growled and kicked the nearby wall. This was all because of that Puff Prefect, he would pay for this. He then stopped, maybe it's time to visit Slytherin monster. It's time open the Chamber of Secrets.