A/N- yeah, well I am off a couple of days starting this chapter and I have a lot of back to school, work so yeah, I'm screwed, thoroughly screwed. But nobody reads these anyway right? Yes I'm right, and by default I am asking questions to myself. Yeah well I added a chapter to my outline so I have to remove one to get back on track. So yeah I might add chapter 8 and 9 in my outline together to make it 9.

Chapter 9- Heavy Breeze

"Voldemort's daughter, I can't believe it. Malfoy may be up to his tricks again." Ron said, shaking his head back and forth. Hermione stretched her arms high above her head and moaned slowly, her body was cramped up.

"Yeah, but Sakyra wouldn't have been so distraught over it if it weren't true." Harry said, looking around and surveying the empty common room. One glance showed that the three were the only ones awake. Harry reached down underneath his bottom and grabbed his invisibility cloak and the Marauder's Map he had regained last year.

"So where are we going tonight Harry?" Ron asked. Harry had kept them up all night until the point where they were struggling to stay awake. He tapped the Map and muttered the password,

"We have to go and talk to Malfoy." Harry said with conviction. He couldn't stand not knowing for sure, if she was the offspring of pure evil, she couldn't be any different.

"It can't be true, Dumbledore would know if it was." Hermione said with a smile, obviously proud of her thinking. Harry shook his head,

"But Dumbledore gives others second chances, not to mention he's been fooled four times since we've been in Hogwarts." Harry thought back to first year when Quarrel tricked him, in second when Tom did, in third when Sirius and Remus did, and fourth when Moody did. Last year he wasn't tricked, just not there for a while, "Yeah, hey guys, can any of you remember where Dumbledore went last year?" Hermione looked up with a sense of realization,

"As a matter of fact he disappeared when we went to the Dragon Stunters, and then he disappeared at the Riddle House."

"He came back about a month and a half later with no scars or anything though, was he searching for something?" Ron continued. He picked at the stack of parchment in front of them that had explained how to become Neo-Zaphods. Harry stood up and took the cloak out, swinging it around himself,

"Come on, we need to go." He said. Hermione and Ron stood up and crawled under the cloak, stretching, pulling and pushing,

"I don't think we all can fit under here." Ron said quietly. Nobody said a word,

"Well then you two can go and I'll just stay back." Hermione retorted, backing out of the cloak, but Ron pulled her back,

"Oh please, like you don't know a simple enlarging charm." She smiled a little and Harry could've sworn if there were a little light bulb her head, it would've lit up. She immediately snatched out her wand and cast a spell on the cloak, making it large enough to fit the three comfortably.

Harry silently motioned for the other two to follow him as they crept through the portrait hole, scaring the Fat Lady slightly. Harry glanced down at the map, looking for the Slytherin Common Room. It was down in the dungeons, and in retrospect it was pretty close to Professor Snape's office. He heard little noise as they veered left into the corridor that the Slytherin common room was in, but it scared him a little, like a trap was waiting.

"Do you guys think it's too quiet, you know Filch is always around here, his office is down there." Harry whispered, pointing in the opposite direction. Ron answered,

"It's the first night back, and he probably doesn't expect kids to be roaming the hallways." Another voice sprang forth from the air, cutting into all three of them. Hermione let out a small gasp,

"Or maybe he doesn't know you have an invisibility cloak and that you're headed for his office." It was Draco. He was standing a little ways down the hallway, behind them, leaning against the wall. His eyes were calming moving back and forth around the area in a cool manner,

"You have no idea where we are do you?" Harry said, throwing his voice. Malfoy looked around, obviously not wanting to allow his bluff.

'What does it matter, I can go to Dumbledore about this." Harry turned toward Ron and stepped out from under the cloak. Draco walked toward him, both stopping dead in front of each other. Malfoy had helped Harry twice, but had been mean to him on several other occasions.

"Dumbledore already knows." Harry said. Malfoy gritted his teeth together,

"Whatever, why were you going to my common room?" Malfoy demanded. Ron stepped out from under the cloak at this point, striding toward the to,


"Who told you we were going there, maybe we're going to prank Snape."

"You weren't." Malfoy stared Ron down. Maybe it was just Harry, but Malfoy had his qualities. He may not have been the most powerful, but he had the battle knowledge of a god. He could bluff out, stare down, or outright outwit anybody. Harry knew there was no way Draco could have known about them needing to get to the common room, but one look in his eyes started him wondering.

"We were going to find you." Harry conceded. Ron glanced at him quickly and then flickered his eyes back at Malfoy. Draco grinned slightly,

"And why would that be?"

"You know exactly why we're here, is it true?"

"Is what true?" Apparently Ron was thoroughly annoyed by Malfoy's games, he rushed at him and slammed him against a wall. Malfoy let a shocked and terrified look overcome his face before regaining his calm exterior.

"Yes Weasel, it is true." Ron let go as Malfoy slumped to the floor, obviously shocked by his audacity to talk about him while Ron was holding suspended by the hem of his robes.

Harry stared Draco in his eyes, never flinching or budging as he climbed to his feet. Malfoy brushed off his robes a small bit,

"Why Potter, thinking of dating her?" Harry started to lunge at him, but Ron had held him back.

"C'mon, we got all we can out of him, even he won't know exactly how it happened." He turned Harry around and he started to walk in the opposite direction of Hermione. Hermione was still under the cloak, but if Malfoy doubted its presence completely, it gave them a small edge. Ron rounded the corner and waited as Harry followed him. Draco went the other way, to Slytherin Common Room.

The two waited for Hermione's voice, finally coming after what seemed like minutes which was in reality about thirty seconds. She opened the cloak and they followed inside, walking back up to the Common Room.

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Harry sat down in the Common Room, it was around four O'clock in the morning and he hadn't gotten any sleep the whole night. Harry's eyes were wide open though, and he probably wouldn't be asleep for a while, he had too much on his mind. He seriously thought about getting a Pensieve; he needed one, questions about unexplained events for last year, unexplained origins of various crystals, and the daughter of his mortal enemy.

A/N- I was scheduled to finish this weeks ago. I have been SWAMPED, first finals, the hard finals, then the state mandated finals. Too many things on my mind, IM SO SORRY I've been saying that a lot all week due to inappropriate questions to females, (is it really that big a deal?)