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Yami: But…I'm your favorite character!!

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DMG: *is holding a big heavy newspaper over Yami's head* Well anyway…*gives out the plushies and candy* Thankies!!

Disclaimer: You don't know how much I wanna own YuGiOh…and Harry Potter too…but I don't, so don't you dare sue me!! I need that money for college!!

A Little Note: Sorry if Malik is a bit OOC. I'm not really up to figuring out personalities here.

New Author's Notes: Okay, I fixed the "Ryou's dad is an archeologist" part, and took out all mentions of Mai and Tea. Not many changes here.

Chapter 10

Ancient History and Detention

After Divination, Ryou and the others followed Harry, Ron, and Hermione down to their next class, History of Magic.

"It's the only class taught by a ghost," Ron explained as they were walking down. "His name is Professor Binns."

"And it's the most boring class ever," Harry said. "Me and Ron don't bother to take notes, we just copy off of Hermione's when it's time for exams."

Hermione gave them a disapproving look and then said, "I heard something about this year's topic being Ancient Egypt."

"Hey, Bill works in Egypt, I'll probably know a lot more than half of the class, not that it really matters because he never asks questions," Ron said excitedly.

~Ancient Egypt sounds like a pretty cool topic, doesn't it?~

~~Well, it certainly would be interesting if we didn't know all the facts about it already.~~

~True.~

"I wonder how much stuff about Ancient Egypt this Professor Binns person will get wrong," Malik said, yawning.

Hermione frowned. "I don't think anything he ever says is wrong, because I always get a good grade on the History of Magic exams with my notes."

Malik shrugged. "We'll just wait and see then."

They entered the classroom and took their seats, and Professor Binns began his daily ramblings.

Harry noticed that Ryou, Yugi, and Malik were paying extremely close attention. He and Ron began a game of Hangman, having nothing better to do. Therefore, it took him by surprise when Ryou suddenly said, "Excuse me Professor, but I think it was seven Millennium Items, not eight."

The whole class turned around to stare at him. Ryou blushed.

Professor Binns was clearly at a loss of what to do. Not a single student had ever interrupted his lecture to say something he said had been wrong. "Well, that's certainly a very interesting theory, Mr…"

"Bakura."

"As I was saying, that is a very interesting idea, Mr. Bakura, but I have taken from certain resources that fact that there are eight Millennium Items. I do not believe that these sources were wrong."

"The resources were wrong," Malik said. The class's eyes moved to him.

Professor Binns looked towards him. "Ah…so you believe in this theory of there being seven Millennium Items as well?"

Malik nodded.

"Well, I'm afraid that you two are-"

"There were seven Millennium Items," Yugi spoke up.

"Guys, what are you doing?" Hermione hissed. "Professor Binns has never been wrong before!"

Malik turned indifferently towards her. "We happen to have first-hand experience at Ancient Egypt…we know our stuff pretty well."

Hermione opened her mouth to say something else, but was cut off by Professor Binns gliding across to Ryou, Malik, and Yugi, who were sitting together, and asking, "And how exactly are you so experienced about Ancient Egypt?"

Yugi opened his mouth uncertainly, not sure if they should tell him that they were in possession of three of the Millennium Items themselves.

Ryou beat him to it. "My dad's an archaeologist- a person who studies old things," he said, seeing Professor Binns' confused look. "He told us about this stuff."

"Oh…" Professor Binns said, returning up front.

As Professor Binns retreated, Ryou caught sight of Malik and Yugi's confused glances at him. He mouthed "I'll tell you later" to them, and they nodded and returned their gazes to Professor Binns, who was looking at his notes again, trying to find a place to pick up his interrupted lecture.

At the end of the session, all of the students were looking at Ryou, Malik, and Yugi like they were smarter than Hermione. They had made several more corrections as the lecture went on, and all of them were correct.

~The perks of sharing your body with a 5000-year old tomb robber.~ Ryou said. ~I knew it would come in handy sometime.~

~~Oh, so you just use me for History of Magic classes?~~ Bakura teased. ~~I'm insulted.~~

Ryou laughed and ended the conversation. Hermione was pestering Yugi and Malik with questions about Ancient Egypt. Malik looked annoyed. Yugi clearly had a "get me out of this situation NOW or I'll set Yami on you" look on his face. Ryou had to stifle a grin.

"Um…guys…which class do we have next?" Ryou asked in an attempt to change the topic of conversation. He directed the question mostly at Hermione.

"We have lunch," Hermione said, finally thrusting her History of Magic paper into her backpack. Yugi sighed in relief.

"Great," Ryou said. "I'm starving." They headed off to the Great Hall, talking about classes and Duel Monsters.

After lunch, they had the rest of the afternoon off, though they had less time than the others because of Snape's detention.

"I wonder what the detention will be like," Yugi wondered.

"It's not too bad," Harry said. "I've had dozens of them before. He mainly just makes you pickle stuff for his next class."

"Pickles?" Joey asked. "Yum."

Kaiba rolled his eyes. "Wheeler, is all you can think about food?"

"Uh…" Joey sweatdropped.

"He makes you preserve stuff," Hermione said impatiently.

Ryou leaned over to Harry and asked, "She doesn't seem to be in such a good mood. Is she always like this after lunch?"

"No…" Harry replied. "She's usually okay after lunch. I think she's annoyed that someone knows more than her for once."

"Oh…but it's not really our problem, we just, er, my dad just told us."

Harry frowned. "Right." He was starting to get suspicious of them, but he chose not to voice his opinion.

//Yugi, I'm getting sick of sitting around in my soul room. Can I come out?//

/Not with everyone looking!!/

"Hey, where's Yami? I never see him around anymore…" Ron said.

"Oh…I…er…I dunno where he is," Yugi said. "He…said he had something to do…maybe he's in the library?"

//That was my perfect excuse to come out!! What did you do that for?//

/Do what?/ Yugi asked in a perfectly innocent voice.

//Never mind.// Yami grumbled.

"Oh…I wanted to talk to him…he looks an awful lot like you, Yugi. Are you related?"

"Oh…he's my…distant relative," Yugi lied. "We don't see each other a lot."

Malik snickered. "That was a total li-" At a warning look from Ryou, he fell silent.

Harry was confused. It sounded like Malik was about to say "That was a total lie". But Ryou had stopped him. They were obviously hiding something.

"Well, what do you want to do now?" Ryou asked quickly.

"We have our detention in about an hour," Kaiba said crossly. "Nothing much we can do, can we?"

"We could have a duel," Yugi suggested.

Joey shot that idea down. "It's no good without the duel disks."

"I guess you're right…"

While Yugi was thinking, Malik came over to Ryou. "What was with the archaeologist thing during History of Magic?"

"Well, I think that the less people who know about our power, the better. They've already got enough to deal with, what with this Voldemort person and all, without having to learn about us too. Besides, my dad is an archeologist, so I'm not exactly lying. He even brought me the Millennium Ring from Egypt."

"You said you told Dumbledore-"

"We did, and Professor McGonagall, but they're the only ones who know," Ryou interrupted.

"I guess that makes sense…" Malik said.

"We should get down for the dungeons for Snape's detention," Harry said, standing up. He had heard broken fragments of their conversation, and it definitely sounded like they were hiding something. His suspicions were confirmed, unless they had a good reason for having a whispered conversation that had something to do with Voldemort and powers.

"Already?" Joey asked, surprised.

"Yeah."

All of them stood up, including Malik. "Malik, you don't have a detention," Yugi said in surprise. "Where are you going?"

Malik shrugged. "Common room, I guess," he said, grimacing. "When will you guys be out of detention?" he asked, directing the question towards Harry.

"Umm…in about three hours."

"Three hours with those idiots in Slytherin?!" Malik exclaimed.

"That's a really long detention," Ryou said in surprise.

"That's how long most of the detentions here at Hogwarts are," Harry said.

"Aw man, I guess we'd better try to stay out of trouble then," Joey mumbled.

The group set off towards the dungeons.

"I'm going to have a lot of fun with Malfoy during your detention," Malik said.

"Malik, you're not thinking of using your Rod on him to make him do weird things, are you?" Ryou said.

Malik's only answer was a mysterious smile. "Maybe, maybe not…"

Ryou groaned. "Be careful, will you?"

"You don't think I'd just wave that thing in his face do you?" Malik said indignantly.

"No," Ryou said. "Just be careful, will you?"

Malik rolled his eyes. "Okay, sure."

"Guys, we're here," Harry said suddenly. They all jerked to a stop in front of Snape's office door.

"Well, see you guys later," Malik said, and continued down the hall to the Slytherin common room. The rest of the group entered the dungeons.

"Well, well, well…you actually got here early for once," Snape sneered. "Well done."

Hermione was muttering, "Don't say anything, don't say anything, don't say anything…" to Kaiba, who looked like he was going to throttle Snape. She was definitely talking to the wrong person.

"Is he always like this, or is he just in a really foul mood?" Yugi said to Harry, just a little bit louder than he should have. Snape ended up hearing him.

"And you need to learn some manners," he said, rounding on Yugi. Yami, angered at the insult to his aibou, took over.

"And you need to wash your hair," Yami said, crossing his arms.

~~Hmm. I'd like to see how this goes.~~

~I don't think Yami made the right choice in saying that…Snape looks ready to explode.~

"What did you say?" Snape said in a dangerously quiet voice.

"I said, you need to wash your hair! It looks like someone poured oil over it or something!" Yami repeated, smirking.

"Well, you shouldn't be talking, spiky-hair!" Snape retorted.

/Yami, no! What are you doing that for?!/

//I'm just getting back at him for him insulting you! Is there something wrong with that?//

Yugi groaned. /YES!/

"I like my hair, thank you very much, but I don't know how you can even stand having hair like that!" Yami said.

Snape stiffened. "You, come with me," he said in an angry voice, pointing at Yami. "The rest of you are dismissed."

Everyone looked at each other in surprise and backed out of the room, except Ryou, because Bakura had taken over.

"Actually, you do need to wash your hair," Bakura said in an amused voice. "When's the last time you took a shower? I mean, it's not like they don't have showers here, do they?"

~Yami! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!~

~~This is getting interesting, and I want to see what happens to the pharaoh.~~

~All right, but if I get expelled for insulting a teacher, I'm blaming it on you!~

~~Fine.~~

Snape turned slowly. "You," he said. "Come with me too." He swept out of the room, beckoning them to follow.

Both of them did, but not quietly. They were shouting insults at each other in Ancient Egyptian the whole way down the hall, making some heads poke out of their classroom doors to see what was going on.

They did shut up, however, when Snape's destination turned out to be Dumbledore's office.

"Oh crap. I am not going in there," Bakura said.

Snape turned. "Yes you are."

"I am not," Bakura said, and switched back with Ryou. Snape did a double take at the slight change in looks.

~Yami? What did you just get me into?~

~~Uh…well…you have to go into Dumbledore's office now…because…I insulted that greasy-haired man…~~

Ryou groaned and turned to Yami.

"Yugi…" he said, tilting his head towards the Puzzle.

"Hmph," Yami said. He glared at Snape and switched back with Yugi. Snape just stared.

"Oh boy," Yugi said when he saw Dumbledore's door.

/YAMI!!!!!!!!/

//Uh…sorry?//

/Hmph./

"We are so in trouble," Yugi mumbled to Ryou as Snape knocked on the door.