Chapter Eighteen

"So it's agreed then? We're going to be animagi?"

"Sure," Ron answered.

Draco scowled. "I don't wanna."

"Oh, come on you big baby. It'll be fun," Hermione said to the Slytherin.

"Yeah, you can say that. You're not a ferret," Draco huffed.

"You know, FrednGeorge always wanted a ferret," Ron said offhandedly.

"You know what? Being a ferret would be good for sneaking around," Draco thought aloud. "Let's do it."

Ron, Hermione, and Harry burst out laughing.

"What?" Draco tried to look innocent.

***

"You four decided to become animagi then?" Sirius smiled at them.

"Yes," Hermione answered him.

"Good. I'll give you some lessons, but first you need to go read ever Animagus book in the library," Sirius told.

"That's got to be a lot of books," Ron replied as Sirius ushered them to the door.

"It is," Sirius nodded. Before he closed the door in their faces, he said. "Okay, buh-bye now."

"Well! That was rude," Hermione huffed.

"I think he and Remus were shagging," Harry grinned. "I walked in on them earlier and Remus had Sirius's pants down."

Draco cracked up. "I would hate to have that happen."

"I know! I knocked this time, but I think Sirius just pulled his robe on," Harry agreed.

"Well, let's go read those books so they can finish," Hermione suggested, with just a hint of pink on her cheeks.

"Hey, I came here an hour ago. That should have been time for them to get through until I came back."

"Werewolves get really randy the couple days before and after the full moon," Ron answered.

Harry and Draco turned to look at him. "And you know, how?"

"I read Hermione's essay on them in our third year, and I just remembered that part," Ron blushed.

"Sure, Ron," Draco nodded with disbelief.

"Oh, shut up."

***

The next day was the first seventh year D.A.D.A. class, and Slytherin and Gryffindor had the privilege of being Professor Lupin's first class. Of course, it was a rather ineffective class, as he hadn't arrived yet…

"Sorry I'm late, class. I had a bit of business to finish before I could come to class," Remus was out of breath as he jogged up. His hair was slightly dishevelled and he had to pull up the collar of his new roves to cover his showing shoulder.

Harry grinned at his friends and whispered, "Sirius." The other three grinned back and nodded.

"Today, the first thing we will be learning about is werewolves, because, as you know, I am one," Lupin took their attentions. The Slytherins scowled (except for Draco) at the Professor.

***

"Hey, Draco…?" Harry started.

"What?" Draco looked over to him.

"I think we missed Double Astronomy last night," Harry answered.

"I think I've missed more classes this week than I have the last six years," Draco quipped. "It's mostly your fault."

"No, it's not. You could have gone to your classes," Harry answered.

"I could have, but I would have ended up feeling like a bastard," Draco shrugged.

"Why?"

"Because you're my friend and you needed me," Draco smiled at him.

Harry looked as if he was about to cry. "Thanks, Draco."

***

"Where'd you go?" Hermione asked as the two boys sat down at the Gryffindor table.

"Library," they answered.

"We had to look something up for something," Harry continued.

"For what?" Hermione asked, suspicious.

"Nothing that would do any harm, my dear Head Girl," Draco said sweetly.

"Don't even try that on me," Hermione warned.

"Aw, c'mon 'Mione. It's just a little harmless prank for when we graduated," Harry batted his eyelashes at her.

"Fine. But don't come crying to me when you get in trouble," Hermione sighed.

Ron gaped at them. "How the hell did you manage to get her to do that? That was bloody brilliant!"

"That's our secret," Harry and Draco spoke.

"Now, that's getting freaky," Seamus spoke from the other side of Dean. Every other Gryffindor near agreed.

***

"Lucky Gryffindorks," Draco muttered.

"It's you who signed up for Muggle Studies, not us," Ron grinned at him.

"Yeah. It's not our fault. And Ron and I still have to go to one more class," Harry told him.

"Hermione's got to go to two," Ron added.

"You have Runes?" Draco asked the Head Girl.

"Yes, but I like Arithmancy better, though," Hermione answered the blonde.

"You had it this morning, didn't you? Cause we had Div," Harry said to her. "Trelawney predicted my death six times."

"Seven," Ron corrected.

"Seven," Harry acknowledged.

"'Ol bat," Hermione loudly scoffed. "Stupid bitch."

The boys looked at her shocked. "'Mione!"

***

Harry knocked on the door to Remus and Sirius's room, even though he knew that Remus was in class. He entered when he heard Sirius's voice allowing him access to the quarters.

"Hey, why isn't this place pass-worded or anything? Anyone could just walk in."

Sirius grinned at him from the couch. "It's spelled so only you, I, Remus, the Headmaster, and your 'limbs' can even see the door. If anyone else even just walked past here, they'd remember something they'd forgotten to do. Don't worry, not just anyone can get in here."

"Okay," Harry sat down next to him. There was a silence and then…

"Why aren't you in class?"

Harry laughed. "I have a Free Period, and Ron wanted alone time to figure out what he is going to get Hermione for her birthday."

"Okay. Just making sure you weren't skipping. Being godfather-ly," Sirius smiled at him. "Not that we didn't 'miss' classes when we were in school."

"I'd be willing to bet that you missed more classes to play pranks than I have been in the Hospital Wing," Harry chuckled.

"Absolutely. It's a wonder any of us ever passed. But we learned plenty looking for pranks. I can perfectly mix any colour change potion and I, if it's any say, became animagi when I went to five potions classes and two transfiguration classes a month."

"Good. Cause Draco and I need your help," Harry laughed.

***

On Friday, the Quad had Double C.o.M.C. and Potions in the morning, and Double Herbology in the afternoon. Double C.o.M.C. had been a great muddy mess with a visit from the Forbidden Forest's centaurs. One of the centaur foals had kicked up mud into Pansy's face when she'd pulled his tail. So she'd thrown a glob of wet dirt back.

There was a reason Pansy wasn't on the Quidditch team; she could throw worth a shit. It had hit Lavender Brown, who had retaliated. She wasn't a Quidditch player either, so it hit Blaise Zabini, and the fight had started.

For the life of him, Hagrid couldn't stop the seventh years, so he'd just sat back and kept Fang out of the way. About five minutes before class to end, Hagrid shouted to all of them to stop and clean up before their next class. Everyone had grudgingly halted, not wanting to face the Potions Master if they were late.

"Stupid Slytherin bastards," Harry groaned, wiping mud from his face.

"I'm going to kill them," Draco agreed, trying to find his wand in the mud.

'C'mon. No use in doing anything right now. We've got to hurry to Potions," Hermione told them, waving her wand to clean herself and the three boys. Seamus and Dean looked at her expectantly, so she sighed and cleaned the other Gryffindors.

"Lets get to the dungeons before that slimy git takes off points," Ron started walking.

Draco looked over to Harry, who gritted his teeth and scowled at the back of Ron's head.

***

"Well, he doesn't know. Besides, I call him slimy all the time,' Draco whispered to Harry.

"I know that you're joking," Harry whispered back as he stirred their Veritaserum Potion. He cursed when something landed in their cauldron. It turned from violet to yellow and began bubbling over.

"Well, it seems that you two can't even make a fairly simple Truth serum," Snape loomed over the Slytherin and Gryffindor. "You added the newt eyes before the dragon's blood. Five points form Gryffindor. Clean up your mess."

The Slytherins tittered and the Gryffindors scowled.

"I'm going to get that bitch," Harry whispered as they tried to clean up the glopy mess. They managed to finish just before class let out.

"I'm tired. I'm going to go lie down instead of going to lunch," Harry said to Draco. He did sound really tired.

"Okay. You wanna go to your dorm, or would you rather go to my room?" Draco asked, handing Harry's bad to him.

"Your room is closer," Harry answered as they left eh Potions Classroom.

"'Kay. I'll bring you back a bit to eat before Herbology," Draco told him.

"Alright. Thanks. Hey, where are Ron and Hermione?" Harry looked around.

Draco pointed behind them. "They're in a storage closet snogging."

Harry grinned sleepily at him.

***

Draco shook his head as Harry fell asleep as soon as he hit the pillow on Draco's bed. Draco pulled the covers over Harry and placed a motherly kiss on his brow.

***

Hogwart's resident Potions master looked up expectantly each time the Great Hall's doors opened. He needed to see those green eyes again, as sickeningly sweet as that was. Severus scowled as just a Hufflepuff walked in.

He glared again as Ron and Hermione came into the Great Hall without Harry or Draco. Draco came in a few minutes later, but by himself. The blonde sat in front of Ron and Hermione, who looked just as surprised that the Slytherin was without the Boy-Who-Lived.

Apparently, Draco knew that the Potions Professor was watching, because he answered both Severus's and the two Gryffindor's question by lying his head on his hands. Harry was taking a nap.

~I do hope he's all right.~ Severus silently agreed with his voice this time.

End Chapter Eighteen

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