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"Hey guys, what's a death eater?" Dawn came over with a think volume.
"Huh?" Harry was taken off guard with this question.
"Well, they are a followers of you-know-who." Hermione explained.
"Uh huh, there is a whole list of them here. Most of them are ones who went to Azkaban. They also mention a few that are suspected." Dawn said turning the pages.
"What book do you have?"
"It's a collection of newspapers...like a year book. Um this one is for 1988 and 1989."
"Really? Can I have a look?" Harry asked.
Dawn handed the book over.
"Maybe we should figure something after the exams. After this weekend we'll have the transfiguration exam staring us in the face."
"Yeah, good point. But then we'll only have three weeks to figure this out." Dawn said.
"That's enough time. We usually do everything in less then a month." said Ron.
"And then carry everything throughout the year and find something that doesn't work out." Harry pointed out.
Ron opened his mouth, "Right... then we have the summer and try again next year."
"Ron, we might not be able to do that." Hermione said.
"Right my suspensions are that the Malfoys are after Stephanie, so she is endanger. We don't have all summer." Dawn said.
"Right, so we have less then three weeks to figure this out before it's too late." Harry said.
"Alright. If we have any spare time during exam week we will look for solutions. But right now we should be studying." Hermione ended the conversation. Everyone went to work.
*
Gryffindor and Slytherin's were to take their exams together. Professor McGonagall handed out the tests and the exam started in silence. The two hours past and ended with a whole bunch of flowers that once were animals, the students walked out of their class walking to the great hall for lunch.
The group of five Gryffindors walked together talking about the questions asked, and predicting the mark.
"Do you think anyone cheated?" Dawn asked.
"A few probably." Steph said thinking of how easy it would be using something from divinatory.
"No one can. Everything is charmed with a non-cheat spell." Heroine said shaking her head in disgust.
Steph was pulled out of the group, she turned on the person, grabbing her wand. Seeing Draco's face she tighten her grip on it.
"I really need to talk to you." he said looking pleadingly.
"I have nothing to talk to you about, and I have no intention in listening to you." she said, and turned.
He grabbed her hand and held her there, "Yes you do and will."
"Evert.." she started a spell.
"Don't you dare. I am serious, and it's important." he said his eyes softened but still had warning in them.
Dawn made the group turn around and watch what was going on.
Stephanie stopped the spell, "Let go then." he loosened his grip. "What? Do you want to know why all of a sudden I hate your guts again?"
"That would be great, but I just want to tell you, that you should keep me close as an alibi, incase you need help."
"Oh that would be grand a back-stabbing Malfoy as an alibi, or should I say a heir to a death eater."
Draco was in shock, "uh..."
Stephanie ran up to Dawn and them, and walked with them to lunch. Draco caught up to her.
"That was unnecessary. I was just trying to help."
"Draco, just leave her alone. She is just fine without you." Dawn said, not looking directly at him.
"Alright, fine. If you don't want my help at least take this advice. Watch out for my father." Draco left, scowling at they way she took it.
*
"So when is the next full moon?" Stephanie asked Ron in the common.
He looked up from reading, "Trelawney said Wednesday."
'Great. I get to spend the night in a room with an actual Vampire.' she complained remembering what Willow had said.
"Hopefully not eating won't affect writing the Herbology exam." Hermione said.
Everyone rolled their eyes.
"Can you guys help me with the History exam? We have it tomorrow." Ginny came and sat down with some text books.
"Alright Ginny what do you need help with?"
"Origins of dark arts."
*
Once again the Gryffindors and Slytherins went to take there exams, potions this time. Snape was finally standing there, waiting impatiently for the students to sit down. Small sighs of relief went through the group. The exams started, no one was really surprized that the exam was thirty pages long. About half way through Snape left the room and Malfoy entered. Few students actually noticed, but the few who did were somewhat disappointed.
Near the end of the test, small slips of paper went to a few students. At the end they looked at them, Neville and a few others cursed, Stephanie and Ron were some of them.
"We got detentions!" Ron said angrily. "It's the end of the bloody school year and we got detention!"
"I thought my potions mark wasn't that low!" Steph said in amazement.
"Gran is going to kill me!" Neville came up to their group.
"That's sounds so unfair, getting detentions for a low mark. You all are passing what's the matter with him?" Hermione said.
"I think there is something wrong with this punishment." Dawn said.
"There is always something wrong." everyone sighed.
*
"I got to go." Ron sighed and packed some of his stuff in his bag.
"Where are you going?" Stephanie asked.
"Detention. Aren't you going?"
"Uh, mine says tomorrow, but I can't go so... I'll come with you to tell him."
"That's too bad that you have detention, it'll take up your history studying." Hermione said.
Ron and Stephanie exited out of the portrait hole to detention.
"So what are we going to do?" Harry asked.
"Study." Hermione said flatly.
Dawn groaned but pulled out another history text book.
*
Dawn and Hermione were just going out to the library to get a book they thought they needed when several angered Gryffindor students entered the common room. "That was so meaningless!" Seamus growled.
"I can't believe it, I got two detentions out of that!" Stephanie whined.
"Hey at least it wasn't three like Longbottom. " a student said plopping himself on one of the couches.
"Ha, my mark went up for doing that healing potion." Ron smiled.
"That's good to hear." Hermione said and kissed him on the cheek.
"What do you mean you got two detentions?!" Dawn spun around to face Stephanie.
"For trying to reschedule the original." she sighed. Dawn and Hermione walked out, Stephanie tailing them explaining how she got this recent detention with the others and the one on Friday, with Neville.
*
Everyone was amazed at how easy the history exam was, after they filed out to go eat lunch and study for the Herbology test. Hermione dragged Ron to the greenhouses saying it would help him understand some the plants mentioned in the text books.
*
"Good luck." Dawn said trying to smile at Steph.
"At least I get to serve detention with Spike, instead of Mister Malfoy like I was suppose to." Steph said as she was leaving out the portrait hole.
"We don't have to tell the teachers where you are if you don't show for breakfast, right?" Hermione asked.
"Oh you'll see me at breakfast!" Steph assured. "I'll still be pigging out when you get there."
*
Steph sat there in a corner reading some Herbology texts, waiting patiently for dark.
"So when are you suppose to change?" Spike drawled.
"When the moon comes out." she said flatly.
Spike look up at the window the sun was finally setting, 'a few minutes.' he thought looking at the white light coming from the east. They waited for a long time the moon over head.
"This is boring." Spike stated.
Steph sighed, getting tired of reading and doing extra notes.
A knock was heard from the classroom's door. Spike got up thinking it was Willow with something or another. Lucius entered the room, and surveyed it. "Mr. Spike, Ms Rosenberg forgot to tell you something and needs to speak to you. I'll take over this detention for awhile if you don't mind."
"I do mind. Also Willow would have come to get me herself, and it probably could wait for tomorrow morning." Spike said a spark in his eyes.
A low growl was heard from the back of the room. They both turned around seeing only Stephanie bent over her work writing notes.
"Fine." he said sharply. "I'll tell her that. Oh, I forgot to give McDougall the lesson she was suppose to do in detention." Malfoy sneered and handed Spike a piece of parchment.
Spike closed the door on his face and turned to face Stephanie.
"Stupid git." he swore under his breath.
"Yeah, he doesn't look very good to eat either." red eyes stared at the door where the victim just was.
"Wholly!" Spike reeled back, looking at the girl with red eyes and fangs. "Alright..."
She cast her eyes down. "Now what?"
"Willow has got some cow's blood."
"Cow?"
*
Dawn and Harry sat up a bit longer then the others. "Why don't we use your cloak for a bit?" Dawn asked out of the blue.
"Why?" Harry looked at her, curiosity in his eyes.
"I want to spy on Malfoy." she smiled.
"Now?" he asked.
"Why not?"
Harry opened his mouth, and closed it. "Yeah I see no point not to."
*
Dawn and Hermione were waken up by Stephanie. "Guys, we need to take down Malfoy now!" she said fire in her eyes.
"Now?" Hermione looked around eyes still blurry.
"Yes." Steph said and grabbed clean robes and clothes.
Dawn and Hermione followed her with their eyes. "Now is really not a good time to do this." Dawn said. "It's seven in the morning. Lets do this Friday night."
Hermione looked at Dawn in confusion, "What?!"
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"Hey guys, what's a death eater?" Dawn came over with a think volume.
"Huh?" Harry was taken off guard with this question.
"Well, they are a followers of you-know-who." Hermione explained.
"Uh huh, there is a whole list of them here. Most of them are ones who went to Azkaban. They also mention a few that are suspected." Dawn said turning the pages.
"What book do you have?"
"It's a collection of newspapers...like a year book. Um this one is for 1988 and 1989."
"Really? Can I have a look?" Harry asked.
Dawn handed the book over.
"Maybe we should figure something after the exams. After this weekend we'll have the transfiguration exam staring us in the face."
"Yeah, good point. But then we'll only have three weeks to figure this out." Dawn said.
"That's enough time. We usually do everything in less then a month." said Ron.
"And then carry everything throughout the year and find something that doesn't work out." Harry pointed out.
Ron opened his mouth, "Right... then we have the summer and try again next year."
"Ron, we might not be able to do that." Hermione said.
"Right my suspensions are that the Malfoys are after Stephanie, so she is endanger. We don't have all summer." Dawn said.
"Right, so we have less then three weeks to figure this out before it's too late." Harry said.
"Alright. If we have any spare time during exam week we will look for solutions. But right now we should be studying." Hermione ended the conversation. Everyone went to work.
*
Gryffindor and Slytherin's were to take their exams together. Professor McGonagall handed out the tests and the exam started in silence. The two hours past and ended with a whole bunch of flowers that once were animals, the students walked out of their class walking to the great hall for lunch.
The group of five Gryffindors walked together talking about the questions asked, and predicting the mark.
"Do you think anyone cheated?" Dawn asked.
"A few probably." Steph said thinking of how easy it would be using something from divinatory.
"No one can. Everything is charmed with a non-cheat spell." Heroine said shaking her head in disgust.
Steph was pulled out of the group, she turned on the person, grabbing her wand. Seeing Draco's face she tighten her grip on it.
"I really need to talk to you." he said looking pleadingly.
"I have nothing to talk to you about, and I have no intention in listening to you." she said, and turned.
He grabbed her hand and held her there, "Yes you do and will."
"Evert.." she started a spell.
"Don't you dare. I am serious, and it's important." he said his eyes softened but still had warning in them.
Dawn made the group turn around and watch what was going on.
Stephanie stopped the spell, "Let go then." he loosened his grip. "What? Do you want to know why all of a sudden I hate your guts again?"
"That would be great, but I just want to tell you, that you should keep me close as an alibi, incase you need help."
"Oh that would be grand a back-stabbing Malfoy as an alibi, or should I say a heir to a death eater."
Draco was in shock, "uh..."
Stephanie ran up to Dawn and them, and walked with them to lunch. Draco caught up to her.
"That was unnecessary. I was just trying to help."
"Draco, just leave her alone. She is just fine without you." Dawn said, not looking directly at him.
"Alright, fine. If you don't want my help at least take this advice. Watch out for my father." Draco left, scowling at they way she took it.
*
"So when is the next full moon?" Stephanie asked Ron in the common.
He looked up from reading, "Trelawney said Wednesday."
'Great. I get to spend the night in a room with an actual Vampire.' she complained remembering what Willow had said.
"Hopefully not eating won't affect writing the Herbology exam." Hermione said.
Everyone rolled their eyes.
"Can you guys help me with the History exam? We have it tomorrow." Ginny came and sat down with some text books.
"Alright Ginny what do you need help with?"
"Origins of dark arts."
*
Once again the Gryffindors and Slytherins went to take there exams, potions this time. Snape was finally standing there, waiting impatiently for the students to sit down. Small sighs of relief went through the group. The exams started, no one was really surprized that the exam was thirty pages long. About half way through Snape left the room and Malfoy entered. Few students actually noticed, but the few who did were somewhat disappointed.
Near the end of the test, small slips of paper went to a few students. At the end they looked at them, Neville and a few others cursed, Stephanie and Ron were some of them.
"We got detentions!" Ron said angrily. "It's the end of the bloody school year and we got detention!"
"I thought my potions mark wasn't that low!" Steph said in amazement.
"Gran is going to kill me!" Neville came up to their group.
"That's sounds so unfair, getting detentions for a low mark. You all are passing what's the matter with him?" Hermione said.
"I think there is something wrong with this punishment." Dawn said.
"There is always something wrong." everyone sighed.
*
"I got to go." Ron sighed and packed some of his stuff in his bag.
"Where are you going?" Stephanie asked.
"Detention. Aren't you going?"
"Uh, mine says tomorrow, but I can't go so... I'll come with you to tell him."
"That's too bad that you have detention, it'll take up your history studying." Hermione said.
Ron and Stephanie exited out of the portrait hole to detention.
"So what are we going to do?" Harry asked.
"Study." Hermione said flatly.
Dawn groaned but pulled out another history text book.
*
Dawn and Hermione were just going out to the library to get a book they thought they needed when several angered Gryffindor students entered the common room. "That was so meaningless!" Seamus growled.
"I can't believe it, I got two detentions out of that!" Stephanie whined.
"Hey at least it wasn't three like Longbottom. " a student said plopping himself on one of the couches.
"Ha, my mark went up for doing that healing potion." Ron smiled.
"That's good to hear." Hermione said and kissed him on the cheek.
"What do you mean you got two detentions?!" Dawn spun around to face Stephanie.
"For trying to reschedule the original." she sighed. Dawn and Hermione walked out, Stephanie tailing them explaining how she got this recent detention with the others and the one on Friday, with Neville.
*
Everyone was amazed at how easy the history exam was, after they filed out to go eat lunch and study for the Herbology test. Hermione dragged Ron to the greenhouses saying it would help him understand some the plants mentioned in the text books.
*
"Good luck." Dawn said trying to smile at Steph.
"At least I get to serve detention with Spike, instead of Mister Malfoy like I was suppose to." Steph said as she was leaving out the portrait hole.
"We don't have to tell the teachers where you are if you don't show for breakfast, right?" Hermione asked.
"Oh you'll see me at breakfast!" Steph assured. "I'll still be pigging out when you get there."
*
Steph sat there in a corner reading some Herbology texts, waiting patiently for dark.
"So when are you suppose to change?" Spike drawled.
"When the moon comes out." she said flatly.
Spike look up at the window the sun was finally setting, 'a few minutes.' he thought looking at the white light coming from the east. They waited for a long time the moon over head.
"This is boring." Spike stated.
Steph sighed, getting tired of reading and doing extra notes.
A knock was heard from the classroom's door. Spike got up thinking it was Willow with something or another. Lucius entered the room, and surveyed it. "Mr. Spike, Ms Rosenberg forgot to tell you something and needs to speak to you. I'll take over this detention for awhile if you don't mind."
"I do mind. Also Willow would have come to get me herself, and it probably could wait for tomorrow morning." Spike said a spark in his eyes.
A low growl was heard from the back of the room. They both turned around seeing only Stephanie bent over her work writing notes.
"Fine." he said sharply. "I'll tell her that. Oh, I forgot to give McDougall the lesson she was suppose to do in detention." Malfoy sneered and handed Spike a piece of parchment.
Spike closed the door on his face and turned to face Stephanie.
"Stupid git." he swore under his breath.
"Yeah, he doesn't look very good to eat either." red eyes stared at the door where the victim just was.
"Wholly!" Spike reeled back, looking at the girl with red eyes and fangs. "Alright..."
She cast her eyes down. "Now what?"
"Willow has got some cow's blood."
"Cow?"
*
Dawn and Harry sat up a bit longer then the others. "Why don't we use your cloak for a bit?" Dawn asked out of the blue.
"Why?" Harry looked at her, curiosity in his eyes.
"I want to spy on Malfoy." she smiled.
"Now?" he asked.
"Why not?"
Harry opened his mouth, and closed it. "Yeah I see no point not to."
*
Dawn and Hermione were waken up by Stephanie. "Guys, we need to take down Malfoy now!" she said fire in her eyes.
"Now?" Hermione looked around eyes still blurry.
"Yes." Steph said and grabbed clean robes and clothes.
Dawn and Hermione followed her with their eyes. "Now is really not a good time to do this." Dawn said. "It's seven in the morning. Lets do this Friday night."
Hermione looked at Dawn in confusion, "What?!"
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