Chapter Name: Attack of the Equarence!

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Draco awoke to Ford doing his usual routine of chucking pillows at his face.

"Wake up Draco!!!" Ford yelled as usual. "Classes start in ten minutes."

Draco sat up with a start. "Ten minutes??" he gasped.

"Yes sir! Ten minutes and forty-seven seconds to be exact."

Draco stumbled out of bed and looked around for his robes. "Where are my robes Ford?" he asked frantically. "Wait! Accio robes!"

His robes came flying out from under the bed and hit him in the face. He quickly pulled them on, not caring that he didn't have his uniform on.

"Hurry Draco!!" Ford called "You have seven minutes and twenty-three seconds!"

"Shut up Ford!"

Draco grabbed his wand and pushed Ford out of the way.

"Wait for me!!" Ford exclaimed, running after Draco.

"No time!"

Draco summoned a piece of toast from the hall as he dashed his way up to the class that he chose as an elective in second year, Witches and Wizards That Aren't Human. It was his favorite class, talking about vampires, hags and all kinds of things.

He ignored Ford's desperate attempts to catch up to him. He burst through the door just as Professor Talmange started taking roll call.

"Draco Malfoy?" she called out.

Draco quickly stood up and sat down again. He always thought that roll call was really dumb. But he was just going to have to live with it..

"Today, class," Professor Talmange began, "we are going to talk about ghosts."

Draco leaned back and prepared to enjoy the lesson.

"Ghosts," Talmange began, "are very magical beings. They can do all the magic that they have learned in their past life. But only if they are strong willed enough. The same with talking. Ghosts can't talk unless they have a very strong will. Without the will, they can hardly whisper. Ghosts who weren't very good with magic can only sometimes talk, and sometimes they can only whisper. Ghosts can make themselves invisible to anyone and make themselves shown to anyone. If you were a ghost time would do funny things. Sometimes it would crawl along at an extremely slow pace. Other times it would fly by. Ghosts can't control whether or not they are solid enough to hold things or flimsy enough that anything can go through them. Or that they could go through anything. Also," Talmange looked around to make sure that she had everyone captivated, "ghosts know the future."

For the rest of the lesson the students copied down notes and Professor Talmange gave them their assignment.

"Interview a ghost. There are plenty here in the castle. Ask him if he remembers his living life. Ask him anything you want about the life of a ghost. But mind you, don't go interviewing Moaning Myrtle, alright?"

Many of the students laughed at this. Some of them had mischievous looks on their faces.

"Who're you gonna interview?" Ford asked walking alongside of Draco.

"I dunno." Draco said thoughtfully. "Maybe the Bloody Baron, to ask him how he died.."

Ford looked thoughtful too. "Maybe I WILL interview Myrtle! I want to know why she is so sensitive. And who killed her and made the world a better place!"

He ran ahead so he wouldn't be late for his Divination class leaving Draco behind.

"He's always loved Divination too much." Draco said exasperated. "I need to pull him away from that nonsense.

Draco was so in tune to his thoughts that he didn't see a black figure sweeping down on him. He turned around, sensing someone behind him. Before he could do anything something black and tall grabbed him and clamped its hand over his mouth so he wouldn't scream.

Draco tried to reach for his wand but the Thing had also grabbed both of Draco's small hands in one of its to prevent what Draco wanted to do.

The started to carry Draco off. Draco was panicking. "What is this thing?" he thought to himself. "What does it want??"

Just as they were about to leave the safety of the castle, Draco saw a blinding black light. It hit the Thing and was absorbed by it. All was silent for a moment until the Thing let out an unearthly, piercing scream. Draco wished he could cover his ears but the Thing still had his hands locked together.

Right as Draco thought he was gonna scream himself. The Thing disappeared in a blaze of black smoke.

Draco blinked and looked for the Thing. All he saw was a heap of black robes. He was about to investigate them when they let out an unearthly scream themselves and vanished.

Draco started. "What just happened?" he thought aloud.

"An Equarence attacked you."

Draco turned around. It was Tempest.

"You know, Varda, you have a habit of showing up in weird places at weird times." Draco confronted. She just looked at him with her black eyes. "What the heck is an Equarence anyways?" Draco asked in a slightly softened tone

"A creature that kidnaps people with very high powers and takes them to a solitary place." Tempest said.

"That's all?" Draco asked, "They just take people to a secret place?"

"He takes them there and sucks the power out of them, like a Dementor, except that the Equarence doesn't kill them. When he's done sucking out all power, you are a Muggle."

"Wait!" Draco exclaimed, "So if you didn't stop that--that Equarence, I'd be a Muggle right now!!??"

Tempest looked at him amused.

"Yes I suppose you would be a Muggle."

"And HOW exactly did that thing get in the castle?"

"He can turn invisible."

"Right." Draco said, "How did you kill him?"

"Oh I didn't kill him." Tempest said matter-of-factly. "I just stripped HIM of HIS powers. An Equarence is a mere shadow at birth. The more people he strips of power, the stronger HE gets."

"So you just set him free to find more people to de-wizard?"

"Oh no! It takes thousands of years for an Equarence to get as strong as he was!"

"You didn't answer my question." Draco said flatly.

Tempest bit her lip. "Well I guess I did." Then seeing Draco's face she added hurriedly "At least I saved you! And anyways! I don't know the curse to kill them!"

"I'll give the saving part to you." Draco said sullenly.

"Yeah." Tempest said surveying him. "Aren't you late for your next lesson?"

Draco nearly hit himself. He closed his eyes and thought about what lesson he had.

"Potions!"

He turned around to give Tempest a weak thanks, but she was gone.

Draco looked around frantically for her. He didn't see any trace that she had ever been there with him. As he made his way down to Potions he thought about the Equarence.

"If it was after me, I must have power!" Draco thought to himself eagerly.

As he entered the classroom every eye was on him. He stomped up to his desk and threw his bag on it.

Snape took no notice of his lateness. He just continued talking on about the Imperius Potion.

"The Imperius Potion," he began, "is almost exactly like the Imperius Curse. Except that it wears off in about two hours, as for the curse, it wears off as soon as you give the counter-curse, which is Tane Levite"

Suddenly, there was a big explosion coming from the Gryffindor side of the room. All heads turned towards that spot.

Of course, it was Neville Longbottom. "Geez," Draco thought to himself, "he never gives up on that!"

"Mr. Longbottom!" Snape growled swooping in on him. "You are an abysmal excuse for a fifth year! You can hardly get anything through to that slow- witted brain of yours! Detention for you! Be here at 8:00 sharp tonight, and 25 points from Gryffindor!"

After this extraordinary pronunciation, Snape glided back to his desk and glared at everyone.

"Start making your Imperius Potion! Then we will find someone to test it on.."

"Snape is definitely evil!" Draco thought to himself. Then, images of the previous night swooped over him. "But so am I." Draco thought softly. "I work for an evil wizard!"

He let his fingers slide up and down the Dark Mark that was branded on his arm.

"But," he thought again, "it's okay because I'm just like my father now! And I'll have more power than ever before!! THAT'S probably why the Equarence attacked me!!"

Draco pondered on these thoughts until he heard Snape dismissing class and reminding Longbottom to be here at 8:00 sharp. Draco realized that he had been making his potion while his thoughts were somewhere else.





Sorry I just ended there guys! I couldn't think of anything else to put and that seemed like a good spot to end the chapter! So just review me and find out what happens next! PS I know this chapter is kinda lame so bear with me!!!