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Chapter 7: Cho's Demise

Harry, Ron and Hermione helped Dumbledore heave Madam Pomfrey onto a vacant hospital bed. They then walked with him all the way to his office, where they found someone waiting for them.

"Mr. Malfoy, I was not expecting you. I believe you already know Mr. Potter, Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger?"

Lucius Malfoy only sneered at the three and looked back at Dumbledore. "I suppose you are aware that the number of these 'incidents' has increased to an unacceptable amount, Dumbledore?"

"I am aware, Mr. Malfoy. The Aurors and I are doing all we can."

"Apparently, the Ministry does not agree with you. I even got petition names from them to shut down Hogwarts. I'm giving you notice that in three days time, this school will be officially shut down. That gives enough time for the students to enroll in different schools, and the Professors to pack up and leave."

"That's not fair!" said Ron, "If you shut down this school, the soul-snatcher will only go somewhere else!"

"Dumbledore said that he's doing all he can!" debated Hermione.

"Excuse me," said Lucius, giving them both a death glare, "I do believe I wasn't addressing you."

Dumbledore's face stayed calm, but his eyes showed his anger. "I think Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger have a point. The soul-snatcher will strike somewhere else, and the Ministry has sent the some of the best Aurors to protect us. If they cannot save Hogwarts, then what can they do for the rest of England?"

"It would be better than letting him pick off the students one by one," he spat back. "You have no choice in the matter. The school will be shut down in three days." With that said, Mr. Malfoy spun around and walked away.

"He can't do that!"

"It's not fair!"

"They just can't shut Hogwarts down!"

Dumbledore silenced them. "I'm afraid we have no choice. We must do what the Ministry says." Then his face took on a different look. "However, if the soul-snatcher is caught, I'm sure the Ministry will reconsider their decision." He gave them a meaningful glance, and went into his office.

"Do you think he knows about the potion?" Hermione asked.

"It's hard to say how much he doesn't know," Harry added.

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Once again, the group from the Yu-Gi-Oh world went through a door and found themselves in another world. They were in a large barren expanse of land with several cliffs. The only sign of life was a group of men not too far off from them. There was a helicopter and a couple of cars and cameramen. There seemed to be a tile floor and the midst of them, and a strange green mutant of some sort stood on it.

"He looks just like a Duel Monster!"

"Let's hope not, Mokuba."

They watched from a distance as a man with a very large afro stepped up onto the platform and tried to fight the monster. The monster simply swatted him away, 100 ft in the air, into a cliff.

Yami and the rest winced.

"I think that if Yami Bakura is here, these guys could defend themselves," said Tristan hopefully.

"Hey, maybe he didn't come here at all!" Joey agreed.

"You're just afraid. Poor little puppy dog."

"Shut up, Kaiba. Do you actually want to be knocked into that cliff?"

After a hard bit of convincing Yami and Kaiba that they weren't cowards and it was insanity to stay here, they went back to the Shadow Realm. Tea picked the door this time.

Soon they were in a large forest with plenty of irrelevant road signs.

"Anyone get the feeling a mad man lives here?" Kaiba said, glancing at a yield sign.

They heard a squeal of delight behind them. The turned around just in time to see a girl dressed in all pink with a large cowboy hat the same color jump onto Yami.

"There are other humans here!" said the girl while she gave Yami a hug. "It's been so long since I've seen anyone here except-"

"Mimi, what are you doing?" What looked like a huge walking flower came up to the girl. Everyone paled in the face, and hoped it wasn't like the other monster.

"Oh, Palmon! There are other human beings! Get the others!" Soon they were surrounded by a group of seven kids, and each of them had their own monster.

"How'd you guys get here?" said a boy with brown hair and goggles resting on his forehead. "Did you guys get sucked in here too?'

"Not exactly."

They were bombarded by several questions from all the kids. They answered them as best as they could.

"So what you're saying is that you were sucked into this world, and haven't seen another human besides yourselves for all the time you've been here?" Mokuba asked, and the kids all nodded their heads.

"Then we've got the wrong world. No use in staying here," Yami said.

"Wait! You can't leave us here!" cried the pink clothed girl.

"We wanna go back home!" said the youngest one.

Joey shook his head. "You don't understand. We're on a mission of some kind."

"Please! Just this one thing! Take us home," pleaded the other girl.

"We can't, we don't even know where you live," reasoned Tea.

"Could you just try?"

Kaiba finally came up with the winning argument. "Listen, if you're here, you're here for a reason. You have a purpose here, otherwise these guys wouldn't be waiting for you like they said they did." He gestured to the monsters accompanying each one. "Now leave us alone. We have business to take care of." All the kids got the idea and let them go.

They returned to the Shadow Realm in a flash.

"Okay, which one's next?"

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The next day Hermione was determined to start the potion.

"We've got to do it before they shut down Hogwarts," she said stubbornly, "And we'll brew it in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom, like we did last year."

Both Harry and Ron groaned.

"What?"

"Moaning Myrtle is the most miserable ghost at Hogwarts. You of all people should know that, Hermione."

"And she's got crush on me!"

"Oh, stop complaining! It's perfect, no one will notice that we're brewing a potion, because no one goes in there."

"But she's so annoying!"

"Deal with it, Ron. We're brewing the potion in there, and that's final."

Hermione marched away with her nose in the air.

They tried all day to get back into the girl's bathroom, but something always came up, some new chore to finish or some test that never got written. It seemed as if the teachers were determined to keep them away from their potion.

"If this keeps up, we'll never get to do it," Ron complained while stacking some books. "The school will be shut down before we can even look at that book again."

"Or maybe we'll all be in those little cards before they can shut it down." Harry checked to see if he missed a spot on the desk. "What kind of nut puts a soul into a card?"

"Albino Egyptians locked away in the Shadow Realm, obviously."

Hermione shrugged and said, "They won't get us to do anything after supper, we'll have some time to go make the potion. It won't take long to make it, it's a very simple potion."

"Don't you think that it's rather odd, that a potion so simple could do something so powerful?"

"Harry, I don't think it's odd at all. Some potions are just like that."

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Cho Chang ran down the corridors alone, holding a bottled potion she had to deliver to Dumbledore. Everyone was already in their own dorms, and were cleaning them thoroughly. It wasn't supper time yet, and Cho wished it were. She was very hungry, for some reason. Maybe I'm growing? she thought wistfully.

She stopped at a fork in the corridors. "Which way do I go again?" she said to herself. She had never been to Dumbledore's office before, and Flitwick's directions had slipped her mind.

A sudden chill came over her. "Huh? The castle's never been drafty before…" Cho looked around for an open window, but saw none. "I must have been imagining things."

She heard a sound come from behind her. She whirled around just in time to see a bright light overcome her. The soul-snatcher! She thought faintly just before she fell to the floor.

The soul-snatcher pulled his invisibility cloak back on and muttered, "Next time my aibou has a babbling spree, they won't be able to understand him, with her out of the way."

Okay, that's finished. Can anyone guess where they went this time? I won't make you guess who's next, but you can if you want to. R&R!