Author Note: This chapter should move things back up a few notches on the light scale. A bit of dark humor. Some unpleasantness and plot movement.

Chapter begins

The next morning Snape got up and prepared for the day. He had not slept very well as he was troubled by dreams of James and Lily. Lily the one woman he had ever actually opened his heart for and then he burned that bridge, not just burned it but salted the embankments so that a bridge would never be built again. He took a deep breath and in the gray early dawn while the students and even the paintings were still mostly asleep moved through the corridors on a mission.

Arriving at Gryffindor Tower he stood outside Minerva's private Quarters. It was an open secret where each house's common room entrance was located but a serious breech of protocol to enter uninvited, even for a professor. He took a deep breath then knocked on her door.

The Scots-woman was soon standing in her tartan flannel robe over a flannel nightgown with a concerned expression that fell into a frown when she saw who was knocking on her door. "Severus. What is it?"

"There is a serious threat to the school coming, and Potter specifically. We need to discus the situation." Snape stated bluntly.

"Very well. Come in and I shall send for the others." She said ensuring that her robe was tied shut.

As he had never been in her quarters before Severus looked around the neat and organized room. There was a shawl in the McGonnegal tartan across a large horsehair stuffed wingback chair. Some minor items sat on shelves behind her wide oak desk with its Tiffany Pattern lamp on it.

She came back out pinning her hair up a few moments later fully and properly dressed. "So they shall be coming soon. Now I must assume it is serious for you to be acting so stridently, before breakfast even."
"Yes. I will tell everyone when they arrive though. I do not wish to repeat it more than once." He said.

"Very well."

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In Gryffindor Boy's dorm Harry was snuggled in bed with Lavender on one side of him and Hermione on the other. He had noticed Lavender was spending more time with him than Neville recently and considered asking her but since no one seemed to mind he ignored it. Especially as Susan was in Neville's bed, Katie in bed with Seamus and Dean. There was an empty bed in between Neville and Seamus now which meant Ron was confirmed coming back.

He realized what had awoken him was a house elf standing on the footboard. "Mistress McGonnegal asked Lobi to awaken Harry Potter and his girls to come to Mistress McGonnegal office."

"Oh uh. Thank you Lobi. We'll be right there." Harry said as Hermione and Lavender stirred and moved.

"Is there a problem?" Hermione asked but the elf had already vanished. "it must not be an emergency."

Lavender rolled off of Harry's side going, "I hope not."

"What's going on Harry?" Neville called from his bed as he got dressed quickly.

"I dunno. Professor McGonnegal wants us in her office." Harry replied getting dressed.

"All of us or just you guys?"
"I think just the command staff. But be ready anyhow." Hermione said.

"Okay. I'll let the others know when we get to breakfast."

"Yeah include Millicent too." Harry said.

Neville smiled, "Sure."

"Should I come too?" Lavender asked uncertainly.

Harry shrugged, "Sure. I don't see why not."

Hermione nodded, "The invitation was Harry and his girls. I guess you're one of us now."
Harry saw an opportunity, "Uh yeah about that. I thought you and Neville were the main couple."
Neville looked shyly at the floor, Lavender shrugged with a grin, "Oh I'll give Nev a tumble if he wants but I'm kinda making room for Millie. He's getting pretty sweet on her."

"I think we can figure out who is partnered with whom later. The professor is waiting." Hermione said.

Harry nodded, "Right okay."

Seamus poked his head out from between Katie's feet, "Besides what does it matter if we're all having fun and doing it because we wanna?"

Harry started to say something but Lavender smacked his bottom and said, "Let's get moving Mister."

"Right yeah." He said finishing getting dressed.

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Harry, Hermione and Lavender made themselves comfortable on the couch while Minerva settled into a comfortable overstuffed Wingback chair. Albus and Severus sat on two high backed dining room chairs.

"Very well Severus. We appear to be here so what do you have to say."
"Myrtle is fitting in quite well as the Dark Lord. She has taken over completely except for a few possible holdouts who are still Loyal to the original." Snape explained. "Which that could be the problem."
"Oh why?" Albus asked.

"The original Dark Lord has taken over the body of Ginny Weasley." Snape stated bluntly.

Harry sat up quickly, "NO! What? Are you certain?"

Snape nodded, "Yes. Apparently The mind Healer Van Gelder at Saint Mungo's is a loyal Death Eater or at least an ally. As such he erased Miss Weasley's mind to a blank slate to allow His Lordship to take over her body."

"Why would he want to have her body. That doesn't make much sense." Hermione gasped.

Albus and Minerva both nodded though, "Actually it does quite. Minerva I believe I will allow you to explain as my arthritis is acting up today."

Minerva nodded curtly, "With transfiguration magic one's body is quite irrelevant as if you do not like something you may change it. I presume having a living, breathing, actually born body would be preferable to a magically constructed body?"

"Yes. Having her body he would not be as fragile or subject to," Snape paused to look disdainfully at Harry, "extraneous emotional infections through a mental link."

"But he'd still have the body of a 15 year old girl." Hermione repeated.

Minerva sighed then stood up. Studying Hermione briefly Minerva waved her wand over her head and then down her body. As the wand moved a cloud of sparkles settled over herself until an identical duplicate of Hermione stood in front of Harry.

Harry's mouth dropped open as the duplicate of Hermione placed her hand on her hip and said in Hermione's voice, "Yes, but as you can see that would not be a hindrance to someone powerful enough in transfiguration. And before you ask Miss Granger the reason why we have Poly-Juice is that when using transfiguration magic the slightest mistake, slightest lapse in concentration can cause errors, if not worse. Plus even though I am not expending much concentration or effort to appear as you not everyone has this skill and strength to perform transfiguration at this level. Further while I appear like you for the most part I have not studied your body intimately enough to say fool Mr Potter or one of your other close companions. Poly-juice requires no such study and while it has its own risks is more easily used to impersonate others intimate enough to immediately recognize something is different."

Dumbledore chuckled at the shocked expression on the teen's faces. "Further even though Minerva is in shape like Miss Granger she still retains her own chronological age and thus lifespan. Should she live the rest of her life in this form she would die at an age that Miss Granger might not. So I am sure you can see why an insane maniac with an obsession for immortality would be rather pleased to find themselves in the body of a healthy young lady like Miss Weasley."

"So why didn't he turn Quirrel into himself when he was in his body?" Harry asked.

"For two reasons. One the results of the handshake proved that even if he was possessing a body he was vulnerable to your mother's love. And two Quirrel remained in his own body. His self-identity would have to be overcome to change his appearance for any length of time."

Minerva had shifted back to herself to Harry's relief, "While I could change myself into Miss Granger for an extended period with minimal effort I could not change her into myself for the same period. Her own body knows what it is supposed to look like. So it would throw off the transformation eventually. How strong her self-identity is would be part of the equation one would have to consider when determining how long it will last. Also the more dramatic the change of another the shorter the duration as the body knows what is its normal form and what is not."

"That's why you would have to use some powerful magics to make a physical change permanent on a person. Why it takes so long to become an animagus and why being a metamorphmagus is so big a deal." Lavender exclaimed. "And why healing magic generally just speeds up the bodies natural healing process."

"Yes. Exactly Miss Brown. Also for some reason certain organs are impossible to change. If we were to cut open Miss Granger's skull and Minerva's when she had shifted you would see that their brains had not changed at all, nor would their spine or anything except the basic color of their eyes. The heart would not change either so Minerva would still have her own heart. "

"As well as magical aura and all things associated with that." Snape sighed, "Yes, yes. Ten points to everyone. Now that this tedious class in transfiguration magic is over may we continue to discus the issue that The Dark Lord is currently in the body of one of Mister Potter's girlfriends and her brother has been programmed to murder Potter."

Everyone looked startled at Snape. Harry exclaimed, "Ron is going to try and kill me?"

"He's been imperioused?" Hermione gasped.
"Perhaps you should have led with that piece of information." Albus pointed out.

"Perhaps. However it did not seem as important as the Dark Lord having a body that has no magical links or vulnerabilities that may be easily exploited. Although his inability to alter the body is unusual." Snape observed.

Albus applauded, "Ahh good news then."
"Good news? Ron's going to try and kill me and his sister was killed so Voldemort could use her for a costume." Harry growled.

"Ahh. But she has not been killed. You said her mind was erased correct Severus?" Albus asked happily.

Snape nodded, "That is what Van Gelder called it. And he did not Imperious Ronald he programmed him. That is the word he used."

"Even better. They thought they would out think us and they managed to hand us a weapon against them. Wonderful news." Albus crowed.

Harry scowled at the headmaster, "Perhaps you could explain that sir? A weapon?"

"Which would you want me to explain first? Mr Weasley or his sister?"
"How to keep Ron from killing Harry since we're going to see him at breakfast." Hermione stated.

"Ahh. You see I believe the muggles also call this programming by the name brainwashing, or thought control. Am I correct Miss Granger?"

"Essentially sir." She nodded.

"So unlike the Imperious which will over ride an individual's basic moral code. I sincerely doubt Mr Weasley is a murderer, much less of you. No matter how much he may feel envious of you." Albus said.

"That is a rather large risk sir." Snape stated with his eyebrow raised. "Potter vexes even the saints and Weasley's emotional control was never strong even before this."

"No but his morals were. He never stole from anyone, he has never intentionally harmed anyone that had not tried to harm himself or his friends has he?"

"It depends on your definition of harm I suppose." Harry observed.

"Cruel words and broken friendships in the grand scheme of the world fall far short of murder in the harm scales." Albus intoned.

"I suppose so sir." Hermione stated, "But I see what you're saying. If he was imperioused he would not be able to fight the spell as easily. But because he was brainwashed into it he might be able to be unbrainwashed or resist."

"Exactly. Sadly those with resistance to the Imperious are rare." Albus sighed, "And Mr Weasley from what I recall is not one of those."

Harry shook his head. "No not really sir."

"The Imperious is a rather interesting little spell. The only defense is to have a strong enough willpower to overcome the feelings the spell generates in the person. The more complicated of an action you try to make someone perform with the Imperious the more wrong those feelings become which makes it easier to throw off. So if he does not try to kill you the moment he sees you then it is more than likely he will do so in your sleep. Less witnesses that way you see. Plus more subtle and mysterious." Albus cheerfully pointed out.

Harry nodded, "Thank you sir for that cheerful thought."

"Yes well you'll just have to switch up your sleeping arrangements. I think that can be more easily provided." He said in amusement. "Although he might try to get you alone and kill you. So I would also recommend not being alone with him."

"And about Ginny?" Hermione said. Harry exhaled in frustration with the headmaster.

"You said her mind had been erased down to a blank slate. And that he cannot shift the body to one more menacing or like his own. Correct?" Albus asked.

"Yes. That is correct." Snape confirmed.

"Then that confirms the fact Miss Weasley's soul is still in control and possession of her body."
Snape, Hermione and Harry all frowned while Lavender looked thoughtful. "What?" Harry asked in confusion.

"A succinct question." Albus chuckled, "The soul is the animating life force of any body. It is the core and uniqueness of each individual person. The mind, the magical aura, the memories are mere reflections of the soul. This is how we may manipulate the minds, pull memories out of our heads and place them in the paintings, or the penseives without dying. Our soul is tied to the body so long as the body lives, and the body lives so long as the soul remains within it."

"So Ginny is still alive but with her mind erased? Can we kick him out and get her mind back." Harry asked quickly.

Albus looked sad, "That is an interesting metaphysical question that has been studied by many people over the centuries. The soul, the mind, all of this are such fragile gossamer energies that make a soap bubble seem stronger than Goblin Steel. Mortal magic is very crude when it comes to manipulating the soul and the mind."

"Oh. So we won't know what will happen until we do it." Harry slumped dejectedly.

"Yes. Unfortunately. There are very few times that these things have a happy ending." Albus said.

"Yes well aside from that she will have another Horcrux in your hands soon. I will no doubt let you know. She has also sent the souls of Bellatrix and Dolohov to their final repose." Snape gave an unconscious shudder as he swore he felt his arm itch.

"Well that is good news. Soon things should be over." Albus said.

"One way or another." Harry glumly declared.

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Harry and the others came to the Great Hall in the early bits of breakfast. Ron was sitting chatting with Seamus when Harry sat across from him. Ron turned with a grin and said, "Harry. Hey long time no see. How's it going?"
Harry relaxed a notch as Ron had not tried to kill him instantly. If anything Ron looked and sounded like his normal self. "It's going good. Things are pretty well."
"From what Seamus has told me it must be." He said winking at Hermione.

"Just a bit." Harry laughed.

Ron started asking about the Quidditch games he missed and how the house team was doing. He seemed to be absolutely normal in all regards. Aside from not staring at Hermione's breasts or even commenting on them.

After breakfast they went about their normal day. Ron settled into the classes and seemed to everyone else perfectly normal. Harry and company had watched him to see if he would act unusual and he did not. Harry even allowed Ron to find him alone a few times, but with Dobby nearby invisible. Ron just acted like he should.

"Maybe he was told to wait for a bit until you didn't suspect anything. That way you would let your guard down." Neville suggested when they gathered in the afternoon.

"That is what I would do if I was wanting to program an assassin." Luna agreed. "I would want to lull you into a sense of comfort and security by having the person act like you would expect them to do so."

Everyone looked at Luna who shrugged. "Well it is reasonable to believe that."

"Yeah it is. You're right Luna." Harry agreed.

"All we can do is just watch out and be careful." Hermione said.

That night Harry said good night to his friends and pulled his curtains closed. Once inside them he had Dobby take him to Hermione.

"Harry. Is everything okay?" She asked as he appeared in the bed beside her.

"Yeah. I just had the idea to have Dobby bring me over here so if Ron did try something it'll be against an empty bed." He grinned.

"Oh and the idea that on the other side of this curtain is Lavender, Parvati and Fay?" She asked running her hand over the curtains making them rustle.

He grinned, "Well that is kinda kinky."
She chuckled as she wrapped her arms around him, "Well we'll turn you into an exhibitionist yet."

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Several days went by with the teens trying to figure out when Ron was going to act. He seemed to be the normal goofy Ron that they had known. Maybe a little bit better as while he did flirt and look at the girls he did not make crass or crude remarks. He even congratulated Harry when he found out about Luna being pregnant with his child.

Xenophilus wrote Harry a long letter thanking him for impregnating Luna and hoping that as Luna's paramour he would be involved and accepting of her wishes. Congratulating them on their procreation and generally accepting Harry as a member of the family. Luna said it was what she had expected her father to do. Harry was still happily excited about this.

Snape informed them that Riddle had acquired the Cup and was ready to give it to them when they had the locket ready to be destroyed. He had the snake under control as well. So it was all coming together Harry thought. Harry told Snape that they would find the Locket as soon as possible.

Harry gave the task of finding the locket to Kreacher as Dobby was helping them with Ron. Kreacher had reported the locket was missing form the honorable house of Black. Kreacher was quite put out as he had not noticed it missing until Harry ordered him to find it. Realizing that it must have been stolen by Mundungus Fletcher during the few short weeks between Sirius dying and Harry inheriting the house and all of its contents. Kreacher had been helping the Malfoys during that time. Harry, under advice from Luna, thank Kreacher for his honesty and ordered him to find and acquire Mundungus so they could find out what he did with the locket.

Two weeks had gone by and it was a Saturday. Harry was at a Quidditch game was was a great many of the students. It was Gryffindor versus Ravenclaw so Luna was sitting at midfield as usual for games between her house and her boyfriend's house. Hermione though had noticed Draco and Theodore headed away from the Quidditch pitch and towards the Forbidden Forest. She grabbed Lavender and headed quickly after them. The others were all involved in watching the game or Ron.

Following the two Slytherins they tried to move as quickly and carefully as possible. The training they had been doing needed some improvements for forest terrain Hermione thought just before seeing Draco and Theodore walk through a small clearing with a stone column in the center of it. They waited for the boys to cross the clearing then quickly followed they had taken only a few steps into the clearing when suddenly they both pitched forward with a surprised cry.

"Ahh! What the fuck!" Hermione gasped as she felt her breasts sink into the ground.

"Why do my tits feel like they way a ton each?" Lavender grunted trying to pick herself up.

"I dunno." Hermione growled as she tried to figure out what was going on. Her breasts were being pulled into the soft ground like a giant was tugging on them.

"Awww. Problem Granger?" She heard Draco's smarmy drawl from somewhere.

"Draco I get free of this I am going to castrate you with a letter opener!" She declared.

"Ha-ha-ha. That should be quite interesting to see you try. However I have work to do. You and Miss Mega-tits are going to be stuck here for a bit longer then you'll die." He sneered.

"What the hell are you blathering on about?" Lavender growled firing a spell randomly into the general direction she thought his voice was coming from.

"Temper temper. You're going to need that strength. You see I'm quite proud of this trap. It attracts the female breast with a force of 500 times gravity. And what's fun is the larger they are the higher the pull. Ironic eh?" He chuckled.

"You have watched one too many Bond movies you know that?" Hermione huffed.

"I suppose this is rather dramatic and excessive but I do find it funny that those funbags you are so proud of are going to be why you die." He sneered.

"C'mon Draco let's just leave them and go. The position their in they can't do anything."

Draco sighed, "Alright Theo. I just have to say looking at you from this angle really improves your looks Granger."
"Figures you're an ass man." Lavender snorted.

"Yeah, and yours is big enough for two men." Draco snorted sending a stinging charm into Lavender's causing her to squeal.

"I am going to crush your nuts in a nutcracker Malfoy!" She shouted angrily.

"Bye. I'll give Potter your regards." Draco scornfully smirked as he moved off.

Struggling for a few moments showed they were not going to get off of the ground, "Oh god I will never complain about heavy period breasts again." Lavender exclaimed. "You have any ideas?"
"Well I don't think Draco is as smart as he thinks he is. If we were really being pulled down by 500 times gravity targeted on our breast tissue it would have just ripped our breasts off instead of pulling us down."

Lavender sighed, "Okay. Good to know but not very helpful."

"I'm thinking okay. Its kinda distracting to be stuck to the ground by my boobs you know." Hermione grumped.

"Hey do you guys need any help?" a girl's voice asked from behind them.

"Who's there? Phyllis?" Hermione asked.

"Yeah I saw you guys following those Slytherins so I followed you since everyone else was at the game. I thought you might need my help." She declared.

"Maybe. You see that stone in the middle of the clearing? Do you think you could destroy it?" Hermione called out.

"Yeah maybe." Phyllis cast several cutting charms at the stone knocking flakes off but it didn't seem to have much effect. She huffed, "I'm sorry. I just don't seem to be able to do anything about it from here."
"Well stay out of the clearing." Hermione said before noticing the foot steps beside her.
"But I'm already in the clearing." Phyllis said from beside Hermione.

"Her breasts must be too small to set off the trap." Lavender suggested.

"Really? I got puffies so I'm growing some." Phyllis declared proudly. "How would a spell know the difference?"

"Nice, Just go look for any runes on the stone and destroy them. We'll discus breast size and magical thresholds later okay?"

"Okay." She said moving over to the stone. After a few moments she called out, "I found some strange squiggles along the bottom here."

"Hit them with a cutting charm and destroy them please." Hermione grunted. She had something crawling down her cleavage.

Phyllis cast the spell several times before Hermione and Lavender felt the pull on their breasts stop. Sitting up the two girls checked each other's breasts quickly. They were red and swollen but otherwise unharmed.

"Well the girls seem no worse for wear." Lavender declared, cupping and hefting them gently.

"Exactly which makes me wonder what spells he used." She said thoughtfully.

"Well when I'm done pummeling him you can regrow his teeth and ask him." Lavender declared.

"Just don't hurt him too badly. I want some of that action myself. Now we have to figure out where he went."
"Oh I heard the two of them saying they had to get back to work on some cabinet." Phyllis explained.

"Some cabinet." Hermione said in wonder, "He has to work on some cabinet."

"In the Room I bet." Lavender nodded in agreement.

"Let's go get the others and get ready. I have a plan for when they come out of the room."

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Draco and Theodore came out of the Room of Requirement scowling and debating something. It seemed whatever they were working on was not doing what they wanted it to do. The two of them had only taken a few steps when they got hit by stunners knocking them out.

Harry slipped his invisibility cloak off with a smirk and turned to the others hiding behind the suit of armor. "Okay they are out cold. Luna, Hermione, Lavender they are yours."

"Thanks. You guys Go look for that cabinet thing. We will take care of them."
"Now no killing them. Understand? They haven't killed anyone yet." Harry admonished the trio of girls.

"You're feeling rather merciful. Maybe we ought to pin you to the ground by your bollocks and see how you feel." Hermione suggested crossly.

"Look. You can torture them all you want, just don't do anything to kill them. Okay?" Harry crossed his arms.

"Can we have Dobby help us?" Luna asked innocently batting her eyes with her arms cross in front of her in a V shape.

Harry sighed, "Okay. You can have Dobby help you."

Luna hugged Harry tightly before giving him a kiss on the cheek, "Okay. Thanks. C'mon girls I have an idea."

Hermione and Lavender shrugged and levitated the two Slytherin along behind them.

Harry and Neville watched the small group walking away with a curious expression of amusement.

"You know I'm very glad Luna is on our side." Neville pointed out.

Harry nodded earnestly. "You are not kidding."

Turning they called up the Room of Requirement's storage aspect. Entering Harry told the group, "Alright. We are looking for some sort of cabinet that Draco would be very interested in. I have no idea so just kinda look for all the cabinets and find out."

Millicent thought for a moment, "There was a vanishing cabinet that the Weasley twins shoved Montague into last year. He kept blabbering about hearing voices and feeling like he had his own foot shoved in his ear or something."
Harry thought about it then snapped his fingers, "Right. The vanishing cabinet that used to be on the first floor south. Over by the DADA room 101."

Neville nodded, "Okay. I wondered what happened to that thing. People used to toss garbage in it."
"I know Montague had a bunch of gum wrappers and stuff sticking out of his skin when he apparated into the bathroom Draco said. He was the one that found him." Millicent shivered.

"Okay. Now we know what we're looking for let's go find it." Harry declared. The group spread out in a search pattern, two people per team.

Eventually they found the cabinet they were looking for and gathered around it. It looked like a large piece of furniture anyone could find in their home. A rod inside seemed to be built to hold cloaks and other pieces of clothing.

"Yer certain this is what we're lookin fer?" Seamus asked.

"Yeah. Why?"
Looking into the empty cabinet the Irish boy said, "Cause I'd rather not wind up in Narnia if we do sometin wrong."

Harry chuckled, "I dunno. It might do you some good."

"Oh bugger it." Seamus declared, "So now what do we do?"
"You know how these things work right?" Neville asked.

The others all looked at him with blank expressions although Millicent and Susan seemed to be thinking. Susan finally said, "I know they can help you escape a bad situation. They're called vanishing cabinets because they help you vanish from a problem."

"Yeah. They are matched with another one that you keep usually at another house or structure. Either on your estate or another one." Neville explained, "According to Gramma we have one on our estate that is linked to Uncle Algie's place up in Blackpool."

Harry nodded, "Do they bypass anti-apparate wards?"

"I guess so. It wouldn't be much good if they didn't." Neville said.

"So how do you disable one?" Harry asked.

Katie was looking at the back of the cabinet and said, "There is a removable panel on the back here."

They shifted and moved the cabinet so they could gather around it. Dean and Seamus helped Katie remove the panel revealing a shallow enclosure that was filled with glass tubes, crystals, and mirrors all linked by fine silver and golden threads. Many of the threads had been broken and some of the tubes cracked.

"Hey some of those things look like the stuff Draco had me help smuggle in." Millicent declared grumpily.

"So it looks like Draco has been trying to fix this one. Probably so they can bring in Death Eaters to invade the castle." Harry observed.

"Yeah only it keeps blowing up on them." Seamus pointed out. "Look at that power crystal plus those phase control crystals."
"You know how to build a vanishing cabinet?" Susan asked appreciatively.

"Nah. But I had a crystal radio I built with me cousin and it didn't look much different." He said proudly.

"Okay. Is there any way to prevent Draco from getting this repaired?" Harry asked.

"Well you could just smash it." Millicent suggested.

Harry frowned, "Wouldn't that just slow him down. With the Reparo spell and stuff it could be back together pretty quick."
Ernie shook his head, "No. Reparo doesn't work on magical items, only mundane ones. Plus if you took and actually scattered and destroyed the pieces they would have to either replace them or find them."
Harry nodded, "Okay good to know. But aren't these things irreplaceable antiques?"
Neville shrugged, "Not exactly. They're expensive so that's why not everyone has one but they're not irreplaceable. I think you can still find them in specialty shops. Besides if its a choice between preserving the cabinet or keeping the castle safe you know where I'm going to decide."

Harry nodded, "Okay. Well everyone take a turn smashing and we'll reduce this down."
Twenty minutes later a lot of repressed stress and frustration had been taken out on the cabinet which was small pieces of splintered wood, some smashed and shattered glass and crystals. Melted solder, gold and silver cooled in a ingot forming set courtesy of Neville finding a crucible and some molds a few rows over. Everyone took some of the materials and left with them leaving a few broken pieces scattered on the floor.

Harry was walking back to the common room when he met Hermione, Lavender and Luna who were very happily chatting about something. Hermione even held a MacDuff's to go bag.

"Here you go my Lord and King. I hope you appreciate that I went into that place for you."

"Thanks but what's with the meal." He asked happily accepting the bag.

"Oh Dobby helped us come up with the perfect little revenge on Draco and Theodore for their actions earlier.

"Nothing too bad was it?"
"Well no. Although Dobby did have some pent up anger from when he was owned by the Malfoys he wanted to get rid of."

Harry looked worried.

"Oh relax dear. They are perfectly fine, just a little bit tied up right now." Luna said as the girls all dissolved into giggles.

Harry shrugged and eagerly opened his meal, "Ooh cool you got the Glamis Meal! Thanks you're the best!" He hugged and kissed the girls happily.

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"Hey Pete. C'mere and check this out." The auror in Diagon Alley called to his partner as they walked along.

"What is it Reed?" The medium height blonde asked sauntering slowly over.

Shining his light into the space between two buildings it illuminated two young males. They were laying naked on the ground with giant glowing pink blinking arrows pointed at the exposed Dark Marks. If that had been all there was Reed would not have been as puzzled but it seemed the two gentlemen had their heads and genitals swapped in location. They also both sported a very large pair of teardrop shaped perfect breasts. To finish off the body modifications their legs had been shrunk until they were only 12 inches long.

"What the hell?" Pete asked rhetorically.

"They've got the dark mark Pete." Reed helpfully pointed out.

"Yeah. So they do. Go call it in Reed." Pete tiredly said.

"Uh okay." Reed said turning to head for the nearby call box. Pete looked at the two individuals and sighed, "Why does stuff like this always happen on my shift?" He asked the universe rhetorically.

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The next morning Harry untangled himself from the girl sandwich he was piled under in the room of requirement where they had slept, eventually. The two blondes and the brunette grumping but helping him get himself awake, cleaned and clothed.

Leaving the room they ran into the Headmaster standing there patiently examining the tapestry. Turning he smiled happily, "Ahh good morning. The four of you seem to be quite happy."

"Yes sir. It was quite the restful sleep once the hurly-burly was done." Luna declared.

Raising his eyebrow Dumbledore nodded, "Ahh it has been many a year since I have hurlyed any burleys. But then I gather Mr Nott and Malfoy shall not be doing so either for a time."
"Oh really? Did something happen to them?" Hermione asked innocently.

"It would seem they were conducting an unfortunate experiment that resulted in them appearing in Diagon Alley with some unusual body modifications. Youth today." He shook his head.

"Yes sir. That is a very unfortunate thing." Harry agreed.

"Yes. Especially as it was confirmed they had the dark mark. I was awakened by Amelia this morning informing me that once they leave Saint Mungo's they will be going to a much more secured educational facility to complete their formative years."

"You mean they won't be coming back?" Lavender asked quickly hiding her smile.

Albus put on his best sad face as she said, "Oh no dear. We cannot have that kind of distraction here. We do have to think of the younger students after all."

"Yes sir." Harry nodded his agreement.

"Well you should get to breakfast. It is after all the most important meal of the day they claim." He said.

"Yes sir. Good morning." Harry said putting his arm around Hermione and Luna while Lavender put hers around Hermione.

Albus inhaled deeply as he chuckled softly to himself.

Review Responses

Dennisud: Oh yeah. Of course. I am a firm believer in the Hayes Code. So the bad guys will always lose in the end. No matter how dark it may look. Now I do modify it in that the good guys might have a high price to pay to get that win but they will win.

OfficerDonNZ: Ginny is in a complicated place right now. And yes Death is meddling big time with everything going on. But as they say you cannot cheat Death. As for Myrtle Riddle she has a few decades of pent up frustration and grumpiness to work out.

K.M. Donovan: True. I am going to try and keep it sort of a milk chocolate level of dark and not the rich Moroccan cacao dark level. And I am curious to see where I'm going too. Lolol. (I had a few plot twists come to me that fit better than how I was going with this. Myrtle being the biggest one.)