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Chapter 6 – Discovering attributes of certain people

Detention, Harry decided, was not fun. He supposed that some detentions might have once had some superficial appeal that he had once found alluring, but he highly doubted it. And anyway, if they ever had, they certainly didn't now.

No. Harry didn't like detention. At all.

It didn't help that he was in a foul mood. There were too many things going on that he simply didn't want to go on, and, to top it all off, he hadn't even found the time to test out his new theorem. He's named it the Potter Theorem and was determined to make it work. He just needed more time, in fact, any time would be good.

However, he was not the owner of a time-turner, and no one else he knew, whom he was on speaking terms with, had one. It looked as if he'd just have to sit it out. He glared at the suit of armour opposite him before tuning back to scrubbing the floor.

Trust Snape.

Trust bloody Snape.

He looked at his watch, an hour and forty-seven minutes to go. He continued scrubbing.

An hour and thirty-eight minutes to go…

An hour and thirty-two minutes to go…

An hour and twenty-six minutes to go…

He stopped and looked around the deserted corridor, wondering… There was no one there and he doubted there would be for a while. How often did people come down a secret corridor that wasn't even on the marauders map? How Snape ever found it was beyond him, but he had been told to clean it none the less.

If he could just… he grabbed his wand from his pocket and twirled it around in supple fingers, battling inside as wether or not to do it. Eventually he came to a discission and cast a blanketing charm over the corridor. No one would be able to pick up any magic done in the corridor, now or in a hundred years.

It was pure theory, he knew that, but he needed to find out if that theory might, somehow, be adopted to enable him to apparate and disapperate in Hogwarts, or, for that matter any where else there were anti-apparation wards. He knew that if he could, then he'd tell Dumbledore alone, and make sure Dumbledore told no one else. If it was possible, Harry Potter wanted to be the only one who could do it.

He had waited and waited for the tingling in his mind to finally resume a proper and complete thought, and it had taken a while, but eventually it had come to him. He had, of course, had some other problems at the time; revenge on a slimy haired Potion Professors and the ever present mound of homework. So, he had set it aside, deciding instead to focus on other things.

But now it was time to test it. To see if it would work.

How many times had he been told he couldn't apparate in Hogwarts? How many people had simply assumed that Hogwarts: A History had to be right? Maybe, they might have figured out a way if they had thought outside of the square. But they hadn't and now, finally, it was his turn.

And he was going to make it work.

The spell that had enabled him to project an image of himself into the headmaster's office had bypassed any shields completely, giving him free reign of the castle, to watch, listen, talk and be seen. When he had performed the spell he had noticed something off; and now he knew what it had been. A nagging told him 'well, aren't you going there? Don't you want to be in the office rather than just looking? I'll put you there' he was about to listen to a voice inside his head.

Harry Potter was doing the smartest thing since God decided to deign us with the internet.

He was on the brink of a very, very good thing.

He did not know, however, that he was being watched by two people.

Draco and Severus exchanged looks. What was he doing now?

"I should go and tell him to get on with scrubbing, but I want to know why he cast that blanketing spell, I'm a bit confused about tha – " he stopped as he suddenly realised that Harry Potter had disappeared. He frowned and looked from the empty air that had only seconds ago contained one Harry Potter to Draco Malfoy, who was besides him with his mouth open in surprise.

"What happened?" Draco shook his head, coming out of his shock.

"As far as I can tell, he disapperated" Snape rolled his eyes and began to reply before Draco cut him off.

"And I know that you're not supposed to be able to do it, but this is, after all, Harry Potter that we're talking about" Snape nodded, conceding the point. No matter how much he liked to deny it, Harry Potter was no normal boy.

"Lets go to the headmasters office then, he might know what's going on"

"Sure, lets go" they were confused. If Harry had been there he would have smirked in a very un-Gryffindorish way.

2 ~ Harry Potter

1 ~ Them

1 ~ Draco Malfoy

1 ~ Teachers

Albus Dumbledore was most surprised when one Harry Potter suddenly appeared in his office out of thin air. A wand was pointed towards the slowly materialising boy before the black haired teenager had even twitched. Harry smiled in appreciation.

"Wow, you're quick" Dumbledore nodded, but didn't lower the wand.

"So are you" Harry nodded his head at the compliment, he pocketed his wand and rose his hands to show he was unarmed. Dumbledore motioned for him to sit.

"Now, who are you and why are you impersonating Harry Potter, how did you manage to get inside my office without my noticing the door open and why do you want to?" Harry looked at him stupidly; mind only just comprehending the questions that had been fired at him.

"Uh… Sorry?"

"Who are you?"

"Harry Potter"

"How did you get inside my office?"

"I disapparated in"

"Who are you?"

"You already asked me that"

"Yes, and you didn't give me a truthful answer" Harry looked offended.

"What? Of course I did! My name is Harry Potter, I disapperated in as an experiment and it worked, I wasn't really expecting it to, but I did. I'm meant to be in the middle of a detention for Snape, but I got bored and decided to try my theory out" he paused to gulp for breath and Dumbledore nodded for him to continue, his wand disappearing as if it had never existed.

"Remember the other day when you were talking to Professor Vector?" Dumbledore frowned, remembering.

"Yes, Roberto Vector, he has now left the school" Harry couldn't hide the small grin of satisfaction that slipped across his face, not that he wanted to. He nodded and continued.

"Yeh, well, I sort of made a copy of myself appear? Well I thought, hey! If I can make a copy appear without touching the wards, maybe I can disapparate back! I only just got the chance to try and bingo! Here I am!" he finished waving his hands to signify that he certainly was sitting opposite Albus Dumbledore.

Dumbledore beamed.

"So I see Harry, so I see" Harry nodded, feeling extremely pleased with himself. Who wouldn't? He had just accomplished something Voldemort dreamed of every night; penetrating Hogwarts by simply disapperating inside.

"So you believe I'm me now then?" Dumbledore nodded, a funny look crossing his face before he finally answered.

"It is not everyday the new Prefect materializes in your office, I must admit" Harry grinned before realising what Dumbledore had just said.

"PREFECT!? YOU MADE ME PREFECT?" Dumbledore didn't say anything but his eyes confirmed.

Harry stood up.

"Why'd you stand up?" Harry glared at the blond, wondering how much he had heard; did he know about the apperating?

"'Cose I couldn't sit down" Malfoy looked at him as if he was crazy and Harry supposed he would look the same if Malfoy was in his position.

"Huh? How the hell does that work, Potter?" Harry turned his glare to the potions professor, grinding his teeth in frustration.

"Well, when someone gets a bad shock they usually sit down. So, since I was already sitting down, I stood up instead" both Slytherins shook their heads in perfect sync, identical looks of sympathy on their pale faces.

Harry sat down.

"That was pretty cool, disapperating like that, I don't know how you did it, but it was pretty impressive" Draco's voice was a slow drawl that set Harry's teeth on edge. He shifted in his seat, wondering if the headmaster would be leaving the room any time soon.

"Hmm, very impressive Potter" Harry couldn't take it any more. He apperated, leaving behind two very astonished Slytherins.

"How did he do that?" Dumbledore smiled secretively.

"That is Harry's secret, if he wished to tell you then I am sure he will" Draco nodded, mind already filling with ways to get the Gryffindor to let him in on the secret. He wouldn't describe them as friends, maybe acquittances, but if one thing was sure, it was that they were no longer enemies. Draco had to concentrate his energy's on Weasley for that.

"Yes, of course, I'll try and convince him" Snape contemplated Draco for a second.

"Tell me if I can help in any way"

"I'm not going to tell you unless Potter says I can" Snape nodded, he had obviously expected no less from the young Malfoy heir.

"None the less, it would be prudent to accept my help. Even if Potter does allow me the secret to his success I don't think I shall want to know. I might, on later occasion, be an object for the Dark Lord's attentions and feel that even I would be unable to – resist – too long. But I understand that you might want to know more Draco" Dumbledore nodded in agreement and Draco shrugged.

"Yah, who wouldn't?" Snape allowed a small smile for the blond, and stood up, signifying that he was leaving. Draco followed his example. Just as they were at the door they turned back at Dumbledore's call.

"Be careful Draco, Mister Potter is, at this point in time, fragile, and yet while I fear for his safety I think it would be sensible to fear for your own as well. Be careful" Draco nodded and swept out, contemplating the headmaster's words.

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A/N: Yay! New chappie! Ok. I've got the disapperating thing down, next comes flying…