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Rowling. The rest is mine from now
until forever.
Authors Note: This thing began in the summer before Harry's 7th year and it's not slash. Alright, listen up all Krum-lovers! This chapter is not something for you, so don't read it if you don't like Krum evil. The rest please continue to read and review when you're finished.
-Chapter Six-
"Look!" someone yelled suddenly. "It's back!"
Everyone looked where the man pointed. The proud Hogwarts castle stood there as it always had in immemorial times. On top of the Astronomy Tower two banners were waiving in the wind. One had the famous Hogwarts crest and the other a red dragon on white background.
The mass of people ran towards the castle, cheering at the same time. Once there they were met by centaurs, unicorns and other creatures of the light from the Forbidden Forest.
Harry and Draco hadn't run off with the crowd, instead they had hid behind Honeydukes, thinking that no one had seen them.
Dumbledore had been astonished upon seeing the Hogwarts castle pop out of thin air. He looked around for Harry or one of his friends, but couldn't see them. As he passed Honeydukes something happened.
A lion with wings, the true form of the griffin, that was twice as high and twice as long as a hippogriff flew over him and the rest of the crowd, closely followed by a silver dragon. The two animals made a round around the Astronomy Tower then disappeared in midair.
Dumbledore had by this time got to the steps leading to the main-doors of Hogwarts. He still noted that Harry and Draco suddenly appeared from nowhere at the rear of the crowd. He would have to ask them about it later.
"I now proclaim Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry for reopened." Dumbledore said to the crowd and led them through the big oak-doors.
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Harry, Draco, Neville, Hermione and the Weasley's were all sitting at the Gryffindor table.
Harry was looking at the huge Gryffindor banner hanging over the table, thinking about all the times he, Ron and Hermione had been sitting there as students discussing homework, planning pranks to do to Snape or Malfoy, or talking about Voldemort.
Suddenly Hermione jumped out of her seat.
"Viktor!" she yelled, waiving her arms as though they where on fire. "Viktor, over here!"
Harry turned and saw Viktor Krum walking towards them. The guy was broader at the shoulders than Harry remembered, and was wearing an Auror's uniform. Krum and Hermione had kept in touch over the years.
"Hello Hermione," Krum said, you could still hear his Bulgarian accent. "Harry! How have you been?"
Harry stood up and shook Krum's hand, smiling.
"Good." He replied. "You seem to have given up Quidditch, maybe I have a chance now?"
Krum laughed, sat down and put his arm round Hermione's waist. She however, didn't seem to keen on that.
"When Hogwarts was shut down, I decided to be an Auror. To fight for the light side and so on, you know? So, tell me Hermione, what have you guys been up to since we last saw each other?"
Harry looked over at Ron as Hermione began to tell the cover story. If looks could kill, Krum would've been dead, cremated and buried six feet underground before he could have blinked.
"Keep an eye at Loverboy for me, will ya?" Harry said to Draco who was sitting beside him.
"Where are you going?" Draco asked.
"Snooping," Harry replied and left the table.
Harry looked around for the Auror's Commander. When he spotted the man he walked over to him while putting on an old caps out of old habit.
Commander Nowels was somewhere in his 50, he had broad shoulders and a hawk- look that saw everything important. Harry had offered him a place in the Red Dragons Order a few weeks ago without telling it to anyone. The man had been a blessing in disguise. When Harry stopped in front of him, the Commander looked him up and down, measuring him.
"What do you want, sonny?" he asked.
'One little cap and they don't recognise me! I've got to wear this thing more often.' Harry thought. "I was wondering if you could tell me about Agent Krum?" he asked the Commander.
"What has he gotten himself into now?" Nowels glared over at the Gryffindor table.
"Oh nothing," Harry said quickly. "I'm just a huge fan and wanted to know everything he had done in the past two years." He was hoping that Nowels would buy this story.
Commander Nowels seemed to think over this for a while then mentioned for Harry to follow him out on the grounds.
"I guess that if I tell this to you, it'll only help the Ministry," Nowels said. "But first I want your name."
"Harry Potter."
The name surprised the Commander but in the next second he smiled broadly.
"I think this could actually work. Mr Potter, promise me that you will tell others the information that I'm giving you." He begged.
"You have my word Commander." Harry said after thinking over it for a moment.
Commander Nowels nodded, satisfied with the answer.
"So, you want to know about Krum, eh? Well, he joined a month after Hogwarts was shut down because of You-Know-Who. He was eager to learn and we thought that he might turn out to be a top Auror."
"But?" Harry gently pushed on when the Commander stopped.
"After he had graduated from recruit to full Auror, he began to show up late for work every day, and he was often drunk. In a duel he would use the Killing curse even before his opponent could blink even if he had gotten different orders. He also began to chase every female Auror in the whole squadron." Nowels had a grim look plastered on his face.
"Won't the Minister do something if you went to him?" Harry asked carefully.
"I have gone to him, but he's to stupid to see trouble even if it bit him in the ass, danced naked at his table with a large, flashing sign that said 'TROUBLE' and sang Backstreet Boys' 'The Call' as loud as it could." Nowels took a deep breath to calm down. "In the last year the whole thing have gotten worse. I get more and more complains about Krum. You know, he has had no less than 50 partners only this year?" the man looked around then leaned closer to Harry. "I've even gotten over 20 rape-complains."
"You're kidding!"
"No, it's as true as the fact that You-Know-Who is back. Listen Mr Potter, you gave me your word and I trust that you will hold it. Talk to that Skeeter-woman. She'll love the gossip and colour it to make it look more dramatic. Fudge must listen to us then."
Harry thought over this. He couldn't, and wouldn't, go back on his word. He was thinking about telling this to Draco, but not the rest. Hermione would go into hysterics and Ron would kill Krum before they got any proof against the man.
Something in the horizon, behind the Forbidden Forest, caught Harry's eye. As it came closer it turned out to be dozens upon dozens of small, black dots.
"Commander, what are those?" he asked even thought he though knew who they where.
Nowels narrowed his eyes to see better, then his eyes grew wide.
"Death Eaters!" he yelled. "Quickly, get everyone on the grounds inside!"
He didn't have to tell Harry something twice. Both of them ran round the huge grounds and chased everyone inside. Harry was the last person to enter. He closed the front doors and put a strong charm on them so they wouldn't give away, or be opened with or without magic except for the person that put the charm on them. Commander Nowels put a strong Locking charm on the doors to the Great Hall once everyone was in the room, then jumped up on the Teachers table.
"Sonorus! Listen up everyone! We just discovered that we're under attack. The Death Eaters will be here in about 15 to 20 minutes. Please stay calm and let the Auror's handle this. However, if some of you have some duelling experience and want to help us, just come to me. Quietus." Nowels jumped off the table, his Auror's flocking round him already.
"What was that all about?" Neville asked Harry as he joined them.
"Didn't you hear? We're under attack." Harry replied.
The little group of Red Dragons, minus the two Professors, quickly gathered round Harry.
"How many are there?" Hermione asked.
"A few dozen."
"Do you have a plan or not, Wonder Boy?" Draco asked.
Harry took out an old parchment from his jeans and put it on the table.
"I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good." He said tapping the parchment and a second later they were looking at the Marauder's Map.
"I didn't know that you had a thing like that." Draco said. "But it's damn good that you did."
Harry smiled and beckoned Commander Nowels over to them. When the man was there Harry showed him the Map and explained how it worked. The Commanders face lit up and he smiled as he watched the Death Eaters enter the school grounds.
"What are these passages here? I've never seen them before." He said.
"That's secret passages out of the school." Harry replied. "Now, this one here is caved in and this one is under the Whomping Willow. The only ones we have to watch, just in case, are these five here." Harry pointed them out on the map.
"Whose idea was it to make this map?" Nowels asked after waving Krum over.
"Moony, Padfoot and Prongs." Harry smiled a marauder grin. He had left Wormtail out for a reason.
"Never heard of them, but you be sure to thank them for me. Agent Krum, you are to take some of the Auror's and place them at this passage here, here, here and these two here. Understood?"
"Yes sir!" Krum replied.
Harry noticed the way Krum looked at the Marauders Map. He could almost see how the wheels in Krum's head were working at top speed. He made up his mind.
"I'll go with Agent Krum if you don't mind Commander." Harry said. "That way you can have the map here."
"Alright, but you be sure to be at the same spot as Krum, Mr Potter. We don't want to loose someone like you to a bunch of idiots."
"Yes sir!" Harry replied.
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While Krum was off gathering eight other agents, Harry talked to his group.
"Potter, why did you volunteer to go with Krum?" Draco asked.
"I don't trust him, and did you see the way he was looking at the Map?"
"Why don't you trust him?" Ginny asked.
"I'll tell you when this is over." Harry said, he looked over to Krum and saw him waiting by the doors to the Great Hall. "Got to go and keep an eye on the guy. See you all later."
"Don't go and do some stupid heroic deed Potter." Draco sneered. "You're not Hercules."
"And stay out of trouble," Fred said.
"No, wait, that's impossible for you." George finished. "But seriously, be careful Harry."
"I promise." With that Harry walked over to the waiting Auror's.
Krum didn't look all to happy having Harry with him, but kept his anger in check.
"You show the way, Potter." He growled.
Harry nodded and led them through the corridors of Hogwarts. It took them some time to reach the first of the secret passages, the one inside the one- eyed witch on the fifth floor.
"The password to open this one is 'Dissendium'. Got it?" Harry asked the two Auror's that were supposed to stand guard. The two men nodded and positioned themselves in the shadows on each side of the stature.
In the end all the Auror's were at their posts. Harry and Krum were in the dungeons under the castle. Harry knew that this passage was furthest away from everybody, and he suspected that Krum knew this too, as he had insisted that he and Harry took that one, claiming it to be the most endangered one.
"Potter, there's something I need to ask you."
"What is it Krum?" Harry asked, trying not to sound suspicious.
"Is Hermione single?"
Harry turned and looked at him.
"Yeah, why?"
"Just wondering."
Harry turned again to look out one of the small windows in the cell that where above the ground, and Krum didn't say anything for a while.
"What have you been doing since Hogwarts was shut down?" Krum asked suddenly.
"I'm a librarian in my hometown." Harry lied smoothly. He walked out of the cell and into the corridor. Krum followed.
"We could use someone like you, you know?" Krum said after another long silence.
"I don't want to join the Auror's," Harry replied, tensing even more. He was sure he knew what was coming now.
"I didn't mean the Auror's. They are nothing compared to the Black Snakes Order. Neither is Voldemort or the Order of the Phoenix, come to think of it." Krum added as an afterthought.
Alright Harry hadn't been expecting this. He turned around quickly, making it looking like an ordinary move. His face held no emotion and his eyes where stone-hard, glowing in a bright, but ice-cold, green. Krum too a few steps backwards. Harry was only like this when he met Voldemort. Harry smiled coldly.
"My dear Viktor Krum," he said and the temperature dropped a bit. "You have just given me valuable information. That wasn't too smart of you. But I couldn't have expected something else from a Black Snake."
Suddenly Krum had his wand out and was pointing it at Harry, who only raised an eyebrow.
"To bad you won't be able to tell it to anyone." Krum growled. "Voldemort might have failed to kill you Potter, but I won't. Avada Kedavra!"
Harry just stepped aside and the spell shoot past him.
"Won't even give me a chance Black Snake?" he asked in a playful, but deadly way. "And I think you really should work on your aim."
"Lets duel." Krum growled.
//Draco, do you know anything about the Black Snakes Order?// Harry asked Draco telepathically, while taking out his wand. The two of them had discovered the ability after their first mission.
//That Order that was working before Voldie's first rise to power? Didn't he destroy them or something?// Draco replied.
//Not quite. Krum's one and he just offered me a membership. Oh! And we're about to duel!// Harry replied while getting into the starting position, watching Krum all the time.
//What?! And there's no need to sound so bloody happy about it! Where are you?//
//The third corridor on the left from the Slytherin common room. I think Krum just said something about your mother being a bitch.//
//Alright, he's dead! No one talks about my mother like that! I'm telling Nowels and we'll be there in five.// Draco blocked him out after that.
Harry turned back to Krum, realising that the guy had been talking for quite a while now.
"Are you going to babble all day long like an old crone, or are we going to duel?" Harry asked in an icy voice.
Krum growled like a wolf. Harry watched him carefully, waiting for the other man to make the first move.
"Stupefy!" Krum yelled suddenly.
Harry blocked it with a Shield charm.
"Nice try Black Snake. Now it's my turn." He commented. "Parutilis!"
Krum was suddenly captured in a cage of pure electricity.
"Potter, you disappoint me. Big time." Krum pointed his wand at Harry. "Proglowois!"
Harry was blown backwards. Krum had used an extremely powerful Banishing charm. Harry hit Draco and Nowels who were just turning the corner.
"Holy Shit!" Draco said as Harry hit them.
The Commander and Draco helped Harry up and the three of them looked over to where Krum was. The cage round him was gone.
"Expelliarmus!" Harry yelled and Krum's wand landed a few feet in front of him.
He, Draco and Nowels began to run towards Krum, who got an insane grin on his face. He put a hand in one of his pockets and took out a little glass orb that was filled with something thick and black.
"We will meet again, Lord of the Light." Krum said and threw the glass orb as hard as he could at their feet. It shattered and let out a thick, black smoke that quickly filled the corridor from top to floor.
"Oh this is ridiculous!" Harry said angrily. "Lanarigus!"
The smoke cleared at once but Krum was long gone.
"Well, it was a nice cleaning spell you used Potter." Draco said. "And we did get important information."
"You did well Mr Potter." Nowels said while picking up Krum's wand. "Who's going to watch this passage now?"
"We could close it." Harry suggested.
"Good idea. I'll be leaving you two. Got to get back to the Great Hall. Those Death Eaters have begun to get really cheeky."
Draco looked after the Commander for a while until he rounded the corner. Harry had moved into the cell closest to them, and Draco followed after another second.
"How are we going to block it?" he asked. "And why didn't you suggest that before?"
"I wanted to know where Krum stood," Harry replied putting his hand on the floor. "And this is how we're blocking the passage."
His whole arm began to glow golden and, to Draco's surprise, the wall seemed to melt. It was as thought the wall was boiling water. Suddenly it froze like that and didn't move again. Draco looked at Harry in disbelief.
"Y-you're an Elemental!" Harry only nodded. "But why didn't you tell us?"
"It's something I prefer to keep secret, you know? It gives me the element of surprise. I discovered the ability after our first mission."
"Well it sure as Hell surprised me!" Draco said.
"You should have seen your expression, wish I had had I Muggle camera here." Harry replied. Draco whacked him at the back of his head. "Hey!"
"Lets just get back and kick some Death Eaters ass."
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That's it for now. I hope you like it. I have no idea when the next chapter will be up but I'll try to post soon.
I would like to thank Pampered Tigeress and Mark Twain for reviewing.
Authors Note: This thing began in the summer before Harry's 7th year and it's not slash. Alright, listen up all Krum-lovers! This chapter is not something for you, so don't read it if you don't like Krum evil. The rest please continue to read and review when you're finished.
-Chapter Six-
"Look!" someone yelled suddenly. "It's back!"
Everyone looked where the man pointed. The proud Hogwarts castle stood there as it always had in immemorial times. On top of the Astronomy Tower two banners were waiving in the wind. One had the famous Hogwarts crest and the other a red dragon on white background.
The mass of people ran towards the castle, cheering at the same time. Once there they were met by centaurs, unicorns and other creatures of the light from the Forbidden Forest.
Harry and Draco hadn't run off with the crowd, instead they had hid behind Honeydukes, thinking that no one had seen them.
Dumbledore had been astonished upon seeing the Hogwarts castle pop out of thin air. He looked around for Harry or one of his friends, but couldn't see them. As he passed Honeydukes something happened.
A lion with wings, the true form of the griffin, that was twice as high and twice as long as a hippogriff flew over him and the rest of the crowd, closely followed by a silver dragon. The two animals made a round around the Astronomy Tower then disappeared in midair.
Dumbledore had by this time got to the steps leading to the main-doors of Hogwarts. He still noted that Harry and Draco suddenly appeared from nowhere at the rear of the crowd. He would have to ask them about it later.
"I now proclaim Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry for reopened." Dumbledore said to the crowd and led them through the big oak-doors.
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Harry, Draco, Neville, Hermione and the Weasley's were all sitting at the Gryffindor table.
Harry was looking at the huge Gryffindor banner hanging over the table, thinking about all the times he, Ron and Hermione had been sitting there as students discussing homework, planning pranks to do to Snape or Malfoy, or talking about Voldemort.
Suddenly Hermione jumped out of her seat.
"Viktor!" she yelled, waiving her arms as though they where on fire. "Viktor, over here!"
Harry turned and saw Viktor Krum walking towards them. The guy was broader at the shoulders than Harry remembered, and was wearing an Auror's uniform. Krum and Hermione had kept in touch over the years.
"Hello Hermione," Krum said, you could still hear his Bulgarian accent. "Harry! How have you been?"
Harry stood up and shook Krum's hand, smiling.
"Good." He replied. "You seem to have given up Quidditch, maybe I have a chance now?"
Krum laughed, sat down and put his arm round Hermione's waist. She however, didn't seem to keen on that.
"When Hogwarts was shut down, I decided to be an Auror. To fight for the light side and so on, you know? So, tell me Hermione, what have you guys been up to since we last saw each other?"
Harry looked over at Ron as Hermione began to tell the cover story. If looks could kill, Krum would've been dead, cremated and buried six feet underground before he could have blinked.
"Keep an eye at Loverboy for me, will ya?" Harry said to Draco who was sitting beside him.
"Where are you going?" Draco asked.
"Snooping," Harry replied and left the table.
Harry looked around for the Auror's Commander. When he spotted the man he walked over to him while putting on an old caps out of old habit.
Commander Nowels was somewhere in his 50, he had broad shoulders and a hawk- look that saw everything important. Harry had offered him a place in the Red Dragons Order a few weeks ago without telling it to anyone. The man had been a blessing in disguise. When Harry stopped in front of him, the Commander looked him up and down, measuring him.
"What do you want, sonny?" he asked.
'One little cap and they don't recognise me! I've got to wear this thing more often.' Harry thought. "I was wondering if you could tell me about Agent Krum?" he asked the Commander.
"What has he gotten himself into now?" Nowels glared over at the Gryffindor table.
"Oh nothing," Harry said quickly. "I'm just a huge fan and wanted to know everything he had done in the past two years." He was hoping that Nowels would buy this story.
Commander Nowels seemed to think over this for a while then mentioned for Harry to follow him out on the grounds.
"I guess that if I tell this to you, it'll only help the Ministry," Nowels said. "But first I want your name."
"Harry Potter."
The name surprised the Commander but in the next second he smiled broadly.
"I think this could actually work. Mr Potter, promise me that you will tell others the information that I'm giving you." He begged.
"You have my word Commander." Harry said after thinking over it for a moment.
Commander Nowels nodded, satisfied with the answer.
"So, you want to know about Krum, eh? Well, he joined a month after Hogwarts was shut down because of You-Know-Who. He was eager to learn and we thought that he might turn out to be a top Auror."
"But?" Harry gently pushed on when the Commander stopped.
"After he had graduated from recruit to full Auror, he began to show up late for work every day, and he was often drunk. In a duel he would use the Killing curse even before his opponent could blink even if he had gotten different orders. He also began to chase every female Auror in the whole squadron." Nowels had a grim look plastered on his face.
"Won't the Minister do something if you went to him?" Harry asked carefully.
"I have gone to him, but he's to stupid to see trouble even if it bit him in the ass, danced naked at his table with a large, flashing sign that said 'TROUBLE' and sang Backstreet Boys' 'The Call' as loud as it could." Nowels took a deep breath to calm down. "In the last year the whole thing have gotten worse. I get more and more complains about Krum. You know, he has had no less than 50 partners only this year?" the man looked around then leaned closer to Harry. "I've even gotten over 20 rape-complains."
"You're kidding!"
"No, it's as true as the fact that You-Know-Who is back. Listen Mr Potter, you gave me your word and I trust that you will hold it. Talk to that Skeeter-woman. She'll love the gossip and colour it to make it look more dramatic. Fudge must listen to us then."
Harry thought over this. He couldn't, and wouldn't, go back on his word. He was thinking about telling this to Draco, but not the rest. Hermione would go into hysterics and Ron would kill Krum before they got any proof against the man.
Something in the horizon, behind the Forbidden Forest, caught Harry's eye. As it came closer it turned out to be dozens upon dozens of small, black dots.
"Commander, what are those?" he asked even thought he though knew who they where.
Nowels narrowed his eyes to see better, then his eyes grew wide.
"Death Eaters!" he yelled. "Quickly, get everyone on the grounds inside!"
He didn't have to tell Harry something twice. Both of them ran round the huge grounds and chased everyone inside. Harry was the last person to enter. He closed the front doors and put a strong charm on them so they wouldn't give away, or be opened with or without magic except for the person that put the charm on them. Commander Nowels put a strong Locking charm on the doors to the Great Hall once everyone was in the room, then jumped up on the Teachers table.
"Sonorus! Listen up everyone! We just discovered that we're under attack. The Death Eaters will be here in about 15 to 20 minutes. Please stay calm and let the Auror's handle this. However, if some of you have some duelling experience and want to help us, just come to me. Quietus." Nowels jumped off the table, his Auror's flocking round him already.
"What was that all about?" Neville asked Harry as he joined them.
"Didn't you hear? We're under attack." Harry replied.
The little group of Red Dragons, minus the two Professors, quickly gathered round Harry.
"How many are there?" Hermione asked.
"A few dozen."
"Do you have a plan or not, Wonder Boy?" Draco asked.
Harry took out an old parchment from his jeans and put it on the table.
"I solemnly swear that I'm up to no good." He said tapping the parchment and a second later they were looking at the Marauder's Map.
"I didn't know that you had a thing like that." Draco said. "But it's damn good that you did."
Harry smiled and beckoned Commander Nowels over to them. When the man was there Harry showed him the Map and explained how it worked. The Commanders face lit up and he smiled as he watched the Death Eaters enter the school grounds.
"What are these passages here? I've never seen them before." He said.
"That's secret passages out of the school." Harry replied. "Now, this one here is caved in and this one is under the Whomping Willow. The only ones we have to watch, just in case, are these five here." Harry pointed them out on the map.
"Whose idea was it to make this map?" Nowels asked after waving Krum over.
"Moony, Padfoot and Prongs." Harry smiled a marauder grin. He had left Wormtail out for a reason.
"Never heard of them, but you be sure to thank them for me. Agent Krum, you are to take some of the Auror's and place them at this passage here, here, here and these two here. Understood?"
"Yes sir!" Krum replied.
Harry noticed the way Krum looked at the Marauders Map. He could almost see how the wheels in Krum's head were working at top speed. He made up his mind.
"I'll go with Agent Krum if you don't mind Commander." Harry said. "That way you can have the map here."
"Alright, but you be sure to be at the same spot as Krum, Mr Potter. We don't want to loose someone like you to a bunch of idiots."
"Yes sir!" Harry replied.
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While Krum was off gathering eight other agents, Harry talked to his group.
"Potter, why did you volunteer to go with Krum?" Draco asked.
"I don't trust him, and did you see the way he was looking at the Map?"
"Why don't you trust him?" Ginny asked.
"I'll tell you when this is over." Harry said, he looked over to Krum and saw him waiting by the doors to the Great Hall. "Got to go and keep an eye on the guy. See you all later."
"Don't go and do some stupid heroic deed Potter." Draco sneered. "You're not Hercules."
"And stay out of trouble," Fred said.
"No, wait, that's impossible for you." George finished. "But seriously, be careful Harry."
"I promise." With that Harry walked over to the waiting Auror's.
Krum didn't look all to happy having Harry with him, but kept his anger in check.
"You show the way, Potter." He growled.
Harry nodded and led them through the corridors of Hogwarts. It took them some time to reach the first of the secret passages, the one inside the one- eyed witch on the fifth floor.
"The password to open this one is 'Dissendium'. Got it?" Harry asked the two Auror's that were supposed to stand guard. The two men nodded and positioned themselves in the shadows on each side of the stature.
In the end all the Auror's were at their posts. Harry and Krum were in the dungeons under the castle. Harry knew that this passage was furthest away from everybody, and he suspected that Krum knew this too, as he had insisted that he and Harry took that one, claiming it to be the most endangered one.
"Potter, there's something I need to ask you."
"What is it Krum?" Harry asked, trying not to sound suspicious.
"Is Hermione single?"
Harry turned and looked at him.
"Yeah, why?"
"Just wondering."
Harry turned again to look out one of the small windows in the cell that where above the ground, and Krum didn't say anything for a while.
"What have you been doing since Hogwarts was shut down?" Krum asked suddenly.
"I'm a librarian in my hometown." Harry lied smoothly. He walked out of the cell and into the corridor. Krum followed.
"We could use someone like you, you know?" Krum said after another long silence.
"I don't want to join the Auror's," Harry replied, tensing even more. He was sure he knew what was coming now.
"I didn't mean the Auror's. They are nothing compared to the Black Snakes Order. Neither is Voldemort or the Order of the Phoenix, come to think of it." Krum added as an afterthought.
Alright Harry hadn't been expecting this. He turned around quickly, making it looking like an ordinary move. His face held no emotion and his eyes where stone-hard, glowing in a bright, but ice-cold, green. Krum too a few steps backwards. Harry was only like this when he met Voldemort. Harry smiled coldly.
"My dear Viktor Krum," he said and the temperature dropped a bit. "You have just given me valuable information. That wasn't too smart of you. But I couldn't have expected something else from a Black Snake."
Suddenly Krum had his wand out and was pointing it at Harry, who only raised an eyebrow.
"To bad you won't be able to tell it to anyone." Krum growled. "Voldemort might have failed to kill you Potter, but I won't. Avada Kedavra!"
Harry just stepped aside and the spell shoot past him.
"Won't even give me a chance Black Snake?" he asked in a playful, but deadly way. "And I think you really should work on your aim."
"Lets duel." Krum growled.
//Draco, do you know anything about the Black Snakes Order?// Harry asked Draco telepathically, while taking out his wand. The two of them had discovered the ability after their first mission.
//That Order that was working before Voldie's first rise to power? Didn't he destroy them or something?// Draco replied.
//Not quite. Krum's one and he just offered me a membership. Oh! And we're about to duel!// Harry replied while getting into the starting position, watching Krum all the time.
//What?! And there's no need to sound so bloody happy about it! Where are you?//
//The third corridor on the left from the Slytherin common room. I think Krum just said something about your mother being a bitch.//
//Alright, he's dead! No one talks about my mother like that! I'm telling Nowels and we'll be there in five.// Draco blocked him out after that.
Harry turned back to Krum, realising that the guy had been talking for quite a while now.
"Are you going to babble all day long like an old crone, or are we going to duel?" Harry asked in an icy voice.
Krum growled like a wolf. Harry watched him carefully, waiting for the other man to make the first move.
"Stupefy!" Krum yelled suddenly.
Harry blocked it with a Shield charm.
"Nice try Black Snake. Now it's my turn." He commented. "Parutilis!"
Krum was suddenly captured in a cage of pure electricity.
"Potter, you disappoint me. Big time." Krum pointed his wand at Harry. "Proglowois!"
Harry was blown backwards. Krum had used an extremely powerful Banishing charm. Harry hit Draco and Nowels who were just turning the corner.
"Holy Shit!" Draco said as Harry hit them.
The Commander and Draco helped Harry up and the three of them looked over to where Krum was. The cage round him was gone.
"Expelliarmus!" Harry yelled and Krum's wand landed a few feet in front of him.
He, Draco and Nowels began to run towards Krum, who got an insane grin on his face. He put a hand in one of his pockets and took out a little glass orb that was filled with something thick and black.
"We will meet again, Lord of the Light." Krum said and threw the glass orb as hard as he could at their feet. It shattered and let out a thick, black smoke that quickly filled the corridor from top to floor.
"Oh this is ridiculous!" Harry said angrily. "Lanarigus!"
The smoke cleared at once but Krum was long gone.
"Well, it was a nice cleaning spell you used Potter." Draco said. "And we did get important information."
"You did well Mr Potter." Nowels said while picking up Krum's wand. "Who's going to watch this passage now?"
"We could close it." Harry suggested.
"Good idea. I'll be leaving you two. Got to get back to the Great Hall. Those Death Eaters have begun to get really cheeky."
Draco looked after the Commander for a while until he rounded the corner. Harry had moved into the cell closest to them, and Draco followed after another second.
"How are we going to block it?" he asked. "And why didn't you suggest that before?"
"I wanted to know where Krum stood," Harry replied putting his hand on the floor. "And this is how we're blocking the passage."
His whole arm began to glow golden and, to Draco's surprise, the wall seemed to melt. It was as thought the wall was boiling water. Suddenly it froze like that and didn't move again. Draco looked at Harry in disbelief.
"Y-you're an Elemental!" Harry only nodded. "But why didn't you tell us?"
"It's something I prefer to keep secret, you know? It gives me the element of surprise. I discovered the ability after our first mission."
"Well it sure as Hell surprised me!" Draco said.
"You should have seen your expression, wish I had had I Muggle camera here." Harry replied. Draco whacked him at the back of his head. "Hey!"
"Lets just get back and kick some Death Eaters ass."
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That's it for now. I hope you like it. I have no idea when the next chapter will be up but I'll try to post soon.
I would like to thank Pampered Tigeress and Mark Twain for reviewing.