I have no idea how Latin works but I hope the title means something like "Hairy Cactus"

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Chapter 18 Cactaceae Capillus

Ron and Hermione was already seated they were both congratulating Neville for doing great in a duel.

"Harry" Hermione said happily "I've talked to some third and fourth years and they all say you were great"

"Yeah… Professor" Ron said teasingly.

Harry blushed "I can't help that, they just started calling me it and…"

"It's okay Harry, they really should call you professor since you were teaching them" Hermione interrupted smiling proudly.

"Yeah professor" Ron teased again.

"Oh shut up Ron" Hermione snapped.

"I would" Ron said still teasingly "If you were a professor like Harry"

Hermione ignored Ron "So you taught expelliarmus?"

"Yes" Harry said and when Hermione looked expectantly at him, he told her all about every thing that had happened since hers and Ron's duel.

"And afterwards Fleur tells me that she is going to speak to Snape about there being no Slytherins"

"Is she mad or is this some veela thing" Ron exclaimed.

"Ron" Hermione said disapprovingly "She is absolutely right, it's not good that there's no Slytherins"

"Are you mad too?" Ron asked "Being no Slytherins is the best thing about it"

"It wouldn't hurt to have at least some Slytherins" Hermione said. Ron and Harry exchanged their usual glances when Hermione said something completely unbelievable.

"Fine be that way but I am going to encourage Fleur to get some Slytherins to join anyway" Hermione said firmly and Harry knew there was no point to argue.

"Right" Harry replied and decided to change the subject "I'm worried about Ginny, she said that you were right" Harry nodded at Hermione "Said I had a thing for saving people"

"What?" Ron asked utterly bewildered "You saved HER life in the chamber"

"Are you sure you heard her right" Hermione asked raising both of her eyebrows.

"Positive" Harry replied "She acted just as Draco Malfoy, seemed to really, really hate
me"

"Do you thing she is being controlled?" Hermione asked in a whisper.

"Nah, not a chance" Ron said firmly "I've known her all her life, I could tell"

"How can you be so sure?" Harry asked.

"Just look at her" Ron said and looked down the table where Ginny sat alone. It hurt Harry to see Ginny alone like that but if she was as nasty to every one else, as she was to him, it wasn't really strange that she was alone. Harry watched Ginny carefully as she ate Ginny wore a sad expression but otherwise looked and moved as much as Ginny ever had.

"She looks very lonely though" Hermione said.

"Yeah" Ron agreed heavily "I thought she hung out with that Selena"

"Me too" Hermione agreed and looked over at Selena Malfoy who was also eating alone. They watched Selena for a moment and saw that she like Ginny was very sad. Harry sighed, why did every one have to be so sad all the time?

"So why do you suppose Ginny isn't happy?" Harry asked his friends.

"No idea" Ron said hopelessly "I can't figure it out, she is on the Quidditch team and everything"

"Being on the Quidditch team is not that important" Hermione stated.

"Well, she's a prefect too and she is not ugly" Ron said "She should be happy"

"Do you think it's my fault?" Harry asked uncertainly, maybe Ginny had gotten upset again about him and Fleur.

"She seemed alright a few days ago" Ron said and then added teasingly "Besides you're not that good looking"

Harry pretended to be upset though he new Ron was right he wasn't really great looking but he liked the way he looked anyway especially his green eyes. Harry knew that most boys in his year probably didn't like to look like their parents but Harry loved it.

"No, I told you before at Grimmauld place, I don't think it has anything to do with boys at all" Hermione whispered.

"What then?" Ron whispered back and for some reason Hermione blushed. Harry thought it had to do something to do with what Ron said at first but he was wrong.

"The nightmares about the chamber you know?" asked Hermione Ron nodded "they got worse this summer when she… well… she is a girl"

"When we fell for each other?" Harry asked looking up at the staff table at Fleur.

"No… when she… well" Hermione said awkwardly but then seemed to decide that the situation was stupid and blurted the rest out "She had her first period"

"She has those?" Ron asked incredulously.

"Of course she has she is a girl" Hermione hissed.

"And that made her nightmares worse?"

"Yes" Hermione said forcefully.

"But what does that have to do with her temper? Ginny has never been rude before even if she is tired" Ron asked and Harry agreed. Ginny fell asleep if she was tired nothing else.

"I don't know" Hermione sighed "something"

"Harry" Tonks's voice said from behind him.

"Yeah" Harry replied as he turned around to face her.

"We were wondering if you three wanted to join us to celebrate the dueling club" Tonks asked "I got all kinds of unhealthy things from the kitchens"

"Sure, right now?" Asked Harry and looked over at Ron and Hermione who didn't at all seem happy to be invited.

"Sorry, but we made other plans" Hermione said "Why don't you go Harry"

Harry was about to ask them what other plans but then figured that he didn't really need to know "Are you sure?" he asked instead.

"Yeah, sorry" Ron said, smiling in an embarrassed sort of way.

"Not to worry" Tonks said brightly "Harry can pretend to be Ron and I can be" Tonks closed her eyes in the way she always did when she changed her appearance "Hermione" Tonks said as her face turned into Hermione's.

"Oh, I got to do my homework" Tonks said and tried to imitate Hermione's voice "I'm might get just an O minus or even an E plus! And then we all have to go down to the house elves and give them clothes"

Ron and Harry laughed and soon Hermione joined them together with Neville and every one else that had seen Tonks parody of Hermione.

"We will have great fun" Tonks said and turned her face back to her normal though she left Hermione's bushy hair only changing the colour to pink. Tonks looked completely and utterly insane.

"What have you done to my hair?" Hermione wailed "You can't make it pink!"

"Is blue better?" Tonks asked and made her hair blue.

"What's wrong with brown?"

"To common" Tonks replied "What about green?"

"Wow you look just like a Cactaceae Capillus" Neville said in a enthusiastic voice he normally saved for Herbology.

"What's that?" Tonks wondered.

"It's a hairy cactus that was used as a potion ingredient by the old Egypt's" Hermione explained before Neville had a chance. Tonks didn't seem to like looking like a hairy cactus because she changed it back to a more usual style and colour.

"So are you ready?" Tonks asked Harry as happily as ever and then whispered in his ear "Got something to drink too"

"You are a teacher!" Hissed Hermione she had apparently heard what Tonks said.

"So that's why every one calls me professor" Tonks joked, Hermione didn't find this funny at all.

"Come on Hermione, nobody's going to complain if I have a toast with my best friend and her boyfriend" Tonks said "Besides Fleur won't let him get drunk"

"Harry" Hermione said firmly "If you get drunk I'm going strait to McGonagall and I mean it this time"

"I'm not getting drunk" Harry lied, he wouldn't mind getting drunk at all "Besides, you are the one with fire whiskey in your trunk"

"I don't have any fire whiskey" Hermione said crossly.

"You drunk it all?" Ron asked staring at Hermione.

"No" Hermione replied shortly "If you have to know Ginny did"

"You let her?" Ron asked angrily "She's just… a little girl"

"She is not a little girl and I didn't let her!"

"Ginny's drinking fire whiskey?" Neville asked incredulously he had over heard the conversation.

"No" Ron said quickly "And don't tell anyone"

"I won't tell anyone that Ginny isn't drinking?" Asked Neville uncertainly.

"See you later" Harry said and got up, he knew that Ron and Hermione would hardly notice that he left and much less now, when Neville joined the discussion.

"Not a drop Harry" Hermione said half heartedly before she rounded on Ron who just had told Neville that he was going to buy fire whiskey too.

"Maybe it's true that Hufflepuffs are a bit slow" Tonks said as they left the great hall.

"Why is that?" Harry asked, he had never thought for a moment that Tonks was slow or thick.

"I couldn't for my life understand your friends. It just doesn't make any sense first Neville says that I look like an old hairy cactus from Egypt then Ginny drinks whiskey and then you can't drink a single drop even though Hermione has a bottle of fire whiskey in her trunk"

"I don't blame you I don't even think Dumbledore could make anything out of that"

"Hello" Fleur said happily as they entered her office a few minutes later.

"Ron and Hermione is not coming?" She added as Tonks closed the door behind them.

"No" Harry replied and said in a meaningful tone of voice "They said they had other plans"

"Oh" Fleur giggled girlishly.

"Yeah and Longbottom said that I looked like an old hairy cactus from ancient Egypt" Tonks said sadly.

"You did have green bushy hair" Harry pointed out.

Fleur chuckled slightly "Told you. You look best blond"

"Whatever... Let's have a drink to the dueling club" said Tonks, and opened a drawer in their desk and pulled two bottles out "Champagne or Fire Whiskey?"

Fleur glanced over at Harry nervously, she clearly did not approve of him drinking.

"I've been drinking before" Harry said.

"Yeah, he's a big boy" Tonks said "I remember the first time I got drunk. I had stolen a bottle from old Kettleburn in my fourth year"

"Who's Kettleburn?" Fleur asked as Tonks started to pour them Champagne.

"The old Care of Magical Creatures Professor" Harry explained.

"To the dueling club" Tonks said and handed them each a glass of Champagne only spilling a little.

"To the dueling club" Harry and Fleur echoed. Harry had not expected Champagne to taste like that. He had never tasted champagne before and was not pleasantly surprised by the taste. Tonks gave Harry a daring look and finished her glass in a couple of gulps Harry smiled and did the same.

"Harry" Fleur said disapprovingly "You are not getting drunk!"

"No?" Harry asked.

"No, you are a student" Fleur said firmly.

"Not today, I had about a hundred students calling me professor this afternoon" Harry retorted teasingly "Besides I'm here as your boyfriend… you wouldn't ask a student in for Champagne would you?"

"I'm not letting you get drunk anyway" Fleur said firmly, but after Fleur's third glass of champagne she poured Harry some fire whiskey all moral forgotten. They had a very good time laughing and joking about everything.

"This is almost like the evenings in Grimmauld place" Tonks said happily.

"Yeah, but you are drunk now" Harry replied.

"So are you Wingbeat" Fleur giggled. Fleur was sitting in his lap and he was sitting on her bed.

Tonks suddenly looked very sad. She spilled fire whiskey all over her bed but didn't notice.

"What's wrong" Fleur asked in an unusual girlish voice.

"Don't you just love the first years?" Tonks asked sadly "They are so cute and innocent"

"Yeah" Fleur agreed smiling stupidly too drunk care why she was smiling.

Tonks seemed even sadder by this answered and started to cry.

"Don't cry Tonks" Harry said brightly and Fleur got up from his lap and walked over to Tonks.

"They are so wonderful" Tonks sobbed "I love them all"

Fleur sat down next to Tonks who hugged Fleur and sobbed into her shoulder.

"You two are so lucky" Tonks told them in-between sobs "To have each other"

Harry didn't say anything, though he knew he was very lucky to have someone like Fleur.

"You will find someone too" Fleur said softly "There are load of boys who dream of having someone like you"

"Do you think so?" Tonks asked sadly "Everyone is always looking at you"

"No they are not" Fleur said softly "load of boys look at you"

"That only because I look like an old cactus" Tonks wailed and started to hiccup.

"No you don't" Harry said "I'm a boy I know"

"You are only saying that be…" she hiccupped "…cause you want to cheer me up" Said Tonks "And it's really nice of you Ha…" Tonks hiccupped again "…rry, you are always so nice to me even if I'm clumsy and you too Fleur I really love you both"

"We love you too Tonks" Fleur said softly.

Tonks cried even more into Fleur shoulder "It's just I want one so badly someday, I can't look at them with out think what it would be like"

"Men?" Fleur asked uncertainly.

"Yes them too" Tonks said sadly and hiccupped.

"What do you mean them too" Asked Fleur raising her eyebrows.

"Babies" Tonks wailed and sobbed worse then ever.

"You can have a baby" Fleur said.

"Yeah" Harry agreed.

"No I can't I don't even have a boyfriend" Tonks explained "You see it takes a boyfriend it won't work otherwise"

"You can have a boyfriend" Fleur said "I'll help you"

"It won't do any good even if I had a boyfriend. What if he comes and kills me like your parents Harry, what kind of mother would I be if I had a baby in the middle of this"

Harry had many times wished he had never been born or even killed by Voldemort that Halloween but not since he found out that Fleur truly loved him and only when he had been sad for other reasons.

"We'll get rid of him sooner or later" Fleur said rubbing Tonks back comfortingly "And then you can have loads of children"

"I'm to clumsy to have children" Tonks said sadly apparently she needed to feel miserable "What if I accidentally drop them"

"I'll help you put cushioning charms on your floor. Now let's go to bed"

"I'm so tired" Tonks said as if she was a three years old and Fleur tucked her in, Tonks fell asleep at once.

"Think she is serious?" Harry asked Fleur as they left the bedroom.

"she is mostly drunk"

"Can you get back to your dorm, or do you want to spend the night?" Fleur asked. Harry had had a little too much of girl emotions for the evening and decided that he would like to get back to his own bed.

"Nah, it's okay I'll se you to morrow" Harry said and stumbled out of the room after a quick good night kiss. It was much easier to feel how drunk he really was when he was walking alone. He didn't have any direct problems walking though he noticed that he swung his body with every step he took in a dreamy sort of way, he couldn't help it.

He found after a couple of corridors that it was a pretty funny feeling to be walking around drunk. He was just about to turn a corner into the corridor that let to Gryffindor tower when he heard voices. Harry quickly hid himself behind a statue of Frederick Saltzgaber in his animagus form, a huge toad. Frederick Saltzgaber was famous for starting the muggle tails about kissing toads so that they would turn in to Princes.

"I don't care about the family name" A girls voice said, by the sound of it, it was a first year.

"You better, or you'll be sorry" Draco Malfoy's voice said dangerously "I've told them that the sorting hat must have made a mistake"

"The hat did not make a mistake" The young girl voice replied, Harry realised slowly that it must be Selena Malfoy's voice, he had never hear her say more then a word at a time before.

"Yes it did! No Malfoy have ever been in Gryffindor" Draco said angrily "And you are very lucky that your parents don't think of you as a blood traitor"

There was a short pause then Draco said in a horrible voice that was clearly meant to be sweet "I haven't told them that you hang around with Potter's friends yet and you don't want me to tell them do you?"

"No, because I'm not hanging around with Potter's friends" Selena said angrily.

"Don't be stupid Selena let's make this the easy way" Draco said still in his horrible sweet voice. Harry did not have of clue of what Draco was talking about.

"Never" Selena spat "Why don't you just go tell my parents that I asked the hat to place me in Gryffindor see if I care"

"You told the hat to place you in Gryffindor" Draco hissed "You filthy blood traitor, I'll show you!"

Harry's temper rose so quickly so that before he knew what had happened he stood pointing his wand at the back of Draco Malfoy's blond head. Draco froze he had his wand pointing at Selena who had sunken down to the floor against the wall. Selena looked at Harry horrified for a moment but then ran away towards Gryffindor tower. Before she was out of earshot, she turned around.

"Please don't tell anyone, please" Selena begged him, Harry nodded his reply. Draco who had been standing frozen seemed to figure out that who ever was pointing a wand at him could not be a teacher and turned slowly.

"Potter" Draco spat.

"Malfoy" Harry replied still pointing his wand strait at Draco's head.

"You are drunk" Malfoy realised and said it aloud.

"You are ugly" Harry replied loudly to drunk to come up with a better answer or have the sense to keep his voice down.

Draco Malfoy smiled triumphantly at him "And you are out of bed"

"So what" Harry said loudly "You are not sleeping either"

"I was on my way back to my dorm after a detention that your poor excuse for a girlfriend gave me" Malfoy said coolly.

"Say that again" Harry yelled.

"Potter, Malfoy" McGonagall's voice said from behind them.

"He's a stupid git that doesn't have enough brain to fill an egg cup" Harry said to explain why he was yelling and turned to his head of house.

"Potter has been drinking Professor" said Malfoy smirking worse then ever.

"Potter" McGonagall spat.

"But I'm only a little drunk" Harry replied quietly, he thought of what Fleur would say when she found out that he got into trouble.

"Malfoy, off you go. Potter my office now!" McGonagall commanded. Harry followed McGonagall to her office silently several times he had tried to say something to his defence but couldn't think of a good enough lie. They entered her office and McGonagall closed the door behind them, led Harry over to the visitor chair and made him sit down.

"Have Mr Weasley been drinking too?" McGonagall asked.

"Nope" Harry replied "Hermione won't let him"

McGonagall sighed "Explain yourself Potter"

Harry told her about how he Tonks and Fleur had celebrated the dueling club and that they finally ended up drunk all three of them.

"Professor Delacour let you drink?"

"No" Harry replied "I had a drink with Fleur she's my girlfriend"

McGonagall didn't reply at once so Harry took the opportunity to continue "I can't help that my girlfriend works at my school"

"Students are not allowed to drink alcohol even if they are married to the headmaster" McGonagall replied briskly "I am very disappointed in you Potter"

"Go ahead" Harry replied angrily losing his temper slightly "But I wasn't a student today I had about a hundred students calling me professor"

"You are a student as you are in my list of students" McGonagall said firmly "There is not without reason that alcohol is forbidden for all students Potter, it can cause damage to your body, maybe not this year or next…"

Harry burst out laughing loud. That wall that his mind had created to protect the horrible facts of the prophesy broke. McGonagall dared to talk to him about not drinking alcohol when Voldemort would probably murder him as soon as he got a good chance and even faster if he found out what the prophesy said. Harry laughed as hysterically as he had done when Hermione had been forced to pour water on him. Tears were rolling down his cheeks and McGonagall was watching him helplessly totally shocked by his laugher.

"Maybe in ten years" Harry screeched and laughed as bad as ever.

"Yes maybe in ten years" McGonagall said hesitantly "Please control yourself Mr Potter"

"Can't" Harry yelled. McGonagall gave him a concerned glance and walked over to the fireplace.

"If you don't stop I will have to call for the headmaster" McGonagall said firmly.

"The Headmaster" Harry screeched through his laughter, a few moments later Dumbledore entered McGonagall's office through the fireplace.

"Harry?" Professor Dumbledore asked as he saw Harry laughing hysterically.

"P-Pro-fessor" Harry said unable to stop laughing. With much effort, Harry managed to say "Mc-Gon-agall tells me alcohol is dangerous when Voldemort" McGonagall startled "will kill me any day"

Dumbledore pulled his wand at and waved it at Harry. A wave of cold water erupted from Dumbledore's wand and soaked him completely, or did it? Harry stopped laughing at once and looked down at his clothes and found that they was as dry as ever he looked around him on the floor not a single drop of water anywhere.

"One of my brothers more useless spells, self-drying water" Dumbledore explained "But I find it has its charm nevertheless"

"Yeah" Harry agreed, he knew Ron would find it very funny that someone would bother to invent self-drying water "I'm sorry I laughed, I just couldn't stop myself"

"Don't be sorry Harry, peoples deal with their emotions different ways, some cry, some isolate themselves and some laugh hysterically" Dumbledore said "As to drinking I'm not going to say anything, just that your mother would skin me alive if she knew you had been drinking while under my responsibility"

Harry looked down on his shoes he felt very much like crying like Tonks had, he felt so very sad. He wished so badly that his mother would have had the chance to tell him not to drink even though he knew that he probably would anyway.

"I didn't know" Harry said sadly.

"And as to Voldemort trying to kill you" Dumbledore said "I dare him to try, with that girlfriend of yours around" Harry felt a little bit better about Voldemort after these words, he imagined Fleur flaming him to ashes.

"Please don't blame Fleur" Harry said still looking down "We just had fun"

"You pointed your wand at a fellow student" McGonagall said briskly.

"If you knew half the thing he had said and done you wouldn't let him near Hogwarts" Harry said angrily completely losing his temper "And that goes for Snape too"

Harry regained his temper a few seconds later and realised what he had said "Sorry… I'm Sorry… I am so Sorry I just don't like them" His temper flared again and he yelled "They do everything to make life hell for me"

"Harry please" Dumbledore said kindly "Neither Snape or Malfoy are perfect but they do have some nicer qualities maybe they don't show them to you but they are there nonetheless and are therefore not worth hating. Now why don't we get you to bed. I am afraid that I can't let you go back to Gryffindor tower in your condition so unless you can't think of a better place to sleep I will have to send you to the hospital wing"

"What do you mean better place to sleep" Harry asked irritably.

"Unless I am much mistaken you won't have any problems finding a place to sleep" Dumbledore said keeping his gentle tone even though Harry was more then rude.

"Surly Albus you can suggest that Potter is too…" McGonagall said firmly.

"But I do Minerva" Dumbledore interrupted gently "Harry is a very decent boy"

Harry was utterly bewildered he wondered for a moment if he was going to sleep in Hagrid's hut and then he wondered if this was some kind of odd punishment that he was not allowed to sleep in a bed. Then it hit him hard, Fleur had asked him if he wanted to spend the night.

"Would you find a place to sleep?" Dumbledore asked.

"Yes" Harry said, he found it a bit odd that Dumbledore didn't just ask him if he could stay with Fleur but then he figured that it must break every school rule regarding Student Teacher relationships.

"Good off you go" Dumbledore said.

"What about my punishment?" Harry asked "I broke several school rules"

"I can't blame my staff for having their love ones over for a drink and I can't blame you for enjoying yourself in times like this" Dumbledore said "But you must promise me to not go wandering the corridors if this ever occurs again and that you will think of what your mother would say"

"But what about Draco Malfoy, he'll think you are favouring me even more if I don't get some sort of punishment"

"As a headmaster of a large school I can very seldom make a decision that everyone is pleased with, my decision now is to send you off to bed even if some students might find it unfair" Dumbledore explained firmly "Now off you go before I have to take points from you for not doing as I ask"

"Thanks Professor Dumbledore, you too Professor McGonagall sorry I kept you up" Harry said happily as he got up from his chair and walked over to the door.

"Not to worry I happen to own a time turner and I know that if anyone happens to look in my bedroom they will find me fast asleep this very moment" Dumbledore said happily.

Harry walked quickly up to the third floor towards Fleur's office he didn't feel drunk at all any more just a little dizzy. He hesitated for a moment on whether or whether not to knock on the door. He decided to knock since he didn't want to scare Fleur or Tonks by just walking into their room in the dead of night.

He knocked several times before a very tired Fleur opened the door.

"Whazzamatterarry" She snored.

"I got lonely" Harry replied and entered Fleur hugged him and fell asleep standing up leaning against his shoulder, she drooled on his robes but Harry didn't care. With some effort Harry managed to get her back into bed, he slipped out of most of his clothes and lay down next to her. He took her hand in his and fell asleep as peacefully as he ever had.

"Oooh, my poor head" Tonks groaned softly the following morning.

"Sorry if I woke you" Tonks whimpered as she saw that he opened his eyes.

"What time is…" Harry trailed of as he felt Fleur sleeping besides him. Fleur was very warm cosy he still held her hand and squeezed it gently. He noticed that their heart rhythms matched exactly, it was almost as if they shared bodies. Fleur opened her eyes as if she was a doll and smiled at him. Then her smiled faded and she her eyes looked over at him as if she might be dreaming.

"Didn't you leave for Gryffindor tower last night?"

"Yes" Harry replied and put his arm around Fleur.

"But why are you here then?"

Harry told her about being found by Malfoy and that Dumbledore had asked him not to return to his dormitory. Fleur seemed to hate herself for loosing control and letting Harry get drunk even though Harry told her, several times that Dumbledore didn't blame either of them.

"Can't you two stop talking and just kill me" Tonks said croaked "Or you won't have too I'll die soon all by myself"

"I'll whip you up a hang over potion" Fleur said brightly "Need some too Wingbeat?"

"No I'm fine" Harry said, he didn't feel bad at all and judging by how Fleur acted she felt fine too.

"It's kind of nice" Fleur said as they left Tonks in the bedroom and started to get Fleur's potion ingredient and cauldron ready "I always have a terrible hangover, but today nothing, too bad about Tonks though"

"Hmm" Harry replied agreeingly he had never had a hangover and didn't have anything to say on the subject.

"Do as the book says" Fleur said and hurried into the bedroom Tonks who had judging by the sounds coming from the hidden door been violently sick. Harry finished the potion easily and poured into a glass.

Tonks looked as if she was going to throw up by the mere sight of a glass but managed to force the hang over potion down.

"Promise me that you wont ever let me drink again, just stun me if I don't listen" Tonks whimpered looking very pale. The hangover potion seemed to be nothing more then a painkiller and a mild sleeping potion because Tonks said good night and went back to sleep.

Harry and Fleur decided to get a late breakfast and walked down to the great hall. Harry waited a few moments before entering so that it wouldn't seem as if they had spent the night together.

"Oh there you are Harry I was so worried" Hermione said as he approached her and Ron at the Gryffindor table "The most ridicules rumour is flying around, every one especially the Slytherins seems to believe that McGonagall found you drunk in the corridors and that you yelled things at her about Snape and Malfoy. But of course they can be true since we haven't lost any house points and you don't seem to have the slightest bit of a hangover"

"How very ridicules people can be" Harry said in a high-pitched voice.

"Yes…" Hermione said slowly glancing at him as if to see what he meant by using a so high-pitched voice.

"It's true" Ron realised "You got drunk and yelled at McGonagall"

"Quiet" Hermione hissed at her boyfriend "What happened, Harry?"

"I'll tell you later" Harry said and later after breakfast when they were alone walking around the lake Harry told them what had happened though he didn't mention Tonks's desire for babies or that he had shared bed with Fleur but he did tell them every thing about the Malfoy's.

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Next chapter is chapter nineteen "Some Slytherins". Thanks again Travis Smith for beta reading!