Honour, my family has seen its share of it as well as its opposite betrayal. I for one would like to hold up the honour my family is famous for, and reclaim the honour my father has lost. He does not see it for he is blind but the end is nigh and no one will be spared. Unless the few of us with the skill and honour for the flag of the great wizards of the past, stand up and fight. So I say when the time comes who will stand tall? Who would risk their very life for the honour of our race? Who will stand by my side when I stand tall against out enemies? The time is coming and I say we will fight!

Lucrius Next

Hogwarts Great hall 9:00AM 1st February

There had been a lot of rumours in the few short weeks since Harry and Lucy had been found lying in a hall shortly after a blistering howl had been heard through out the whole castle. And no as they were starting to die down Lupin was starting to wonder what had driven him to open the door. Why he was even in the corridor that night, he had been in the castle for less than five hours and he wouldn't have been in that corridor even if he had been there since the beginning of the year. He couldn't understand it was like something had drawn him there. He could not understand it, but at the professors table his face was deep in thought and he heard only a background drone of sound.

It was only eighteen days till the first NEWt exams and so now many of Harry's year had books at the breakfast table as they often stayed behind afterwards to hear lectures on the topics of the exams. Today it was one from Snape on potions and Lucrius had books piled under the table. There were notebooks and tapes for his Dictaphone all over the table and he was once again drinking from his goblet. Lucy walked up behind him and tapped him on his left shoulder and quickly ran to his right side. Lucrius hearing exactly what she had done looked over his left shoulder and faked surprise when no one was there.

"I wish people wouldn't do that." He said as he span round to face Lucy, "Sleep well?"

"Yes thank you," she said as Lucrius slid up slightly so she could sit down for the few minutes.

"Good, are we still meeting later? We have some planning to do." He shot a quick glance at Harry who immediately buried his head in a Charms book.

"We do?" Asked Lucy.

"Yes but it's a secret until this evening." She smiled and ignored her complaints when she finally finished he laughed and put down his hood.

"Dumbledore wants to say something, I think you should hurry to your table." And he quickly pushed her off the bench.

"See you later" she said and ran off to her table.

Dumbledore rose silently and walked forward a step or two.

"Now as I'm sure you all know it is Valentines Day very soon and many of you have been wondering about a dance." The room was suddenly very quiet all eyes were fixed on Dumbledore, "Well we did not know how much of a good idea it was with something upsetting Professor Lupin's transformations. But we have searched the castle and there is nothing here and so we have determined it fled after it saw there was a werewolf in the school." At this word many of the students recoiled and looked slightly scared, "And so we have decided that there will be dance on Valentines Day." After this many cheers went up and clapping from all the fifth years.

Professor McGonagall stood up and said, "There will be sign up sheets in your Common rooms. Please write down only your name not your partners name as well."

After this was said many students decided to leave the hall.

"So then Lucrius, you knew about this dance didn't you?" asked Ginny

"Well yes." Replied Lucrius "But it's more fun to keep people in suspense."

"Well I wonder who to go with." Said Hermionie "I suppose I'm stuck with Ron again." She and Ginny both started laughing and even Lucrius couldn't help it when Ron started to look upset.

"Well I don't know who I'm going with." Said Ginny. "But Snape is here so I have to go." She ran off and Harry shouted after her,

"Goodbye." She waved back at him but didn't stop moving.

Snape had conjured himself a little platform; he always liked to be above the students. Lucrius wondered over to the benches in front of Snape and sat down next to Will.

"Hey, how have you been?" Asked Lucrius.

"Pretty good." Replied Will, "By the way thanks for that list of books. They were helpful."

"Thought they might be said Lucrius and then Snape tapped his wand on the table in front of him and Lucrius and Will shut up quickly. Snape's lecture was long and boring but Lucrius recorded it as he suspected it would be useful for the exams. After the exams he headed to the Library and worked there for most of the day.

At two o'clock in the afternoon he headed to the charms room where he practised twelve of his charms. He had great fun sending things flying round the room and burning feathers and he though he was almost having too much fun to be learning anything. There was another Wizengamot meeting during the two-week brake he had between exams and new courses. And he also wanted to see if he could buy a house, this required travelling to Diagon alley. And so he had a lot on his mind. He had now stopped sleeping, but after meeting Lupin he had also stopped practising which meant that the nights were long for him. He had found a great place in the rafters of the corridor outside of the common room and so mainly lay on one of them whilst watching Filtch wander below him unaware of the all seeing eyes above him. And so his life had broken down. However he did have one trick left. He had started to study a high form of occlumency that would allow him to block anything from entering his mind. And this was his goal, for then he would be able to sleep peacefully.

Hogwarts Library 16:45 PM 1st February.

Lucy burst into the library late, she ran straight over to Lucrius' table with tears running down her eyes. And she almost fell into Lucrius' arms.

"I can't take this." She sobbed.

"Shhhh, what's wrong? What's happened?" asked Lucrius.

"Its Malfoy. He's destroyed my work." She replied, Lucrius could also see a heavy line of bruising down her leg.

"How did that happen?" he asked.

"I feel down the stairs." He scared me so much.

"Well he deserves to pay." Said Lucrius still in his calm thought out voice, "And I have the best way to do it."

"You do?" asked Lucy she looked up and sobbed once more.

"Yes and it will take place the morning of Valentines Day." And as he told her the plan she began to feel slightly better. After this Lucrius began to ask how he could help with the work she had lost. And they settled down to try to fix the problems of the day.