Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Harry potter nor do I own any of the common set ups of the stories plot and setting.

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Harry followed Esmerelda once again into the large bedroom at the top of the stairs. Esmerelda turned around facing Harry as he closed the door behind him. "Well done. I will be leaving now, the only way you will be able to contact me is by mind mail, or a special type of mind link. But I would prefer the mail, for it is less likely to get intercepted." Harry stood confused "Mind Mail?" "Mind mail, would appear to be a blank piece of parchment, that when touched and concentrated on, one could hear the thoughts of the writer. Good bye." And without letting time for Harry to speak she disappeared.

Harry returned his and Ron's room. Ginny, Hermione and Ron sat waiting for him to return in great anticipation. They immediately bombarded him with questions of what happened at dinner and what happened with Snape. Harry blurted out the first thing that came to mind that he thought they would believe. "Snape flipped out for no reason and he must have done something to Esmerelda, that's why she showed up!"

He let it slip; he didn't notice it until he was finished and everyone stared at him. He was certon that they had new her name, he was mistaken. They all spoke at once. "Her names Esmerelda...How do you know this?...Have you spoken with her?...What is she?.." Harry tried covering it up saying that he had overheard Dumbledor say it. Harry read there minds, none of them believed him, they all knew he was hiding some thing.

Suddenly the twins came in holding a large 'Extendable ear(sp?)'. Hermione had seen the ease dropping invention before but never so big. As Harry sank to the back of the room, Fred explained that there newest invention would act as a megaphone of the extendable ear invention, so everyone didn't need there own personal ear. George chimed in saying "Yah, over half a dozen ears under a door gets a little suspicious." "Where is the other end of it?" Hermione questioned curiously. Fred and George gave her a grin as the ear began to broadcast voices.

The ear began to speak, the Weaslys, Tonks, Lumpin, and another indistinguishable voice could be herd. Harry's heart skipped a beat, [Could they know? No, they can't know. Can they?].

Mr. Weasly "What was he doing?"

Lumpin "What was he thinking? Snape could have killed him!"

Mrs. Weasly "Why would she allow him?"

Unknown "Why would she order Severous to do that?"

Lumpin "I've known Snape along time he is one of, if not the best I've ever seen, he didn't even flinch! Did you see that?"

Tonks "Even with the attacks"

Unknown "They didn't even phase him."

Mrs. Weasly "Why would she even allow it in front of the rest of the children?"

Lumpin "Probably so he wouldn't be expecting it."

Unknown "You all know what this means. He ahs it in his blood."

Tonks "But who in his heritage was 50/50?"

Mr. Weasly "The way he looked, he was at least 1/4."

Lumpin "But it's not known that close in his heritage, is it?"

Tonks "Do you also know what this means?"

Unknown "He's been trained."

Mrs. Weasly "Does any one know how long?"

(There were a few moments of silence)

Unknown "Well at least he passed one of the tests."

Tonks "Has he taken any other tests yet?"

Unknown "Well if he has, he passed them."

Tonks "Why?"

Unknown "Because he's still here an't he?

(A low murmur and sighs were herd during and uncomfortable moment of silence)

Mr. Weasly "We better turn in, Busy day tomorrow."

(With a murmur of agreement and the sound of shuffling chairs and dishes, the kitchen emptied.)

The ear sprang back into the twin's hands. Everyone in the room stood dumfounded, everyone that is except Harry. Who stood in the corner petrified(not literally). The conversation repeating itself in his mind, [He wouldn't be here?] By the time Harry came to the awful conclusion that if he failed a test he would die, the entire room was staring at him. Harry's mind quickly flipped back to the present, the reality that his friends were more afraid of him then curious sank in quickly. He had to think quickly.

Suddenly Dumbledor walked in, raising his wand "Salee Tusanaw". Everyone in the room but Harry froze immediately. Harry waved his hand in front of Ron's unlikable face. Dumbledor quietly explained that he did more then freeze them; he stopped time just in this room. He went on explaining how to properly control the spell and the memory charm needed to undue the passing of knowledge at improper times. Another wave of Dumbledor's wand and "Memoso Layloso", explaining that it could even erase memories from a short period of time in the past, "Observe" Dumbledor left the room with a final word "Resumo" and everyone began to move around once again.

Fred and George were fiddling with there extendable ear, looking at it in disbelief. "It worked earlier, what's wrong with it?" "Maybe the speaker side shorted the extendibility?" Hermione, Ron and Ginny all had disappointed looks on there faces, they truly wanted to listen in on the adults conversation. Hermione noticed Harry's pale face. "Are you all right Harry? You don't look to well." Harry nodded and left the room in disbelief.

Harry left the room with the urge to go down to the kitchen and catch everyone and explain what was going on, for these people were family to him. But there was to many questions they would ask, that he could not possible answer. Halfway down the stairs, Harry decided to go to the kitchen to get an apple to munch on, and see if he could bud in on any on going conversation. At the bottom of the stairs, Harry accidentally knocked over the umbrella rack at the foot of the stair case. Making a loud crash and awakening the portrait of the biest dark witch Mrs. Black (Sirusi's mother). The threats and screams rang out through the halls until Harry reached up to pull the curtain back over the portraits.

Before Harry could even touch the curtain, Mrs. Black began quivering an apologizing to Harry, who stood stunned. "I'm sorry, for disturbing you my lord, It is Kretchen's (?sp: house elf) fault, for if he would of told poor little me that such a powerful dark lord resided in my, no, no YOUR house, I would have not bothered you with my pitiful wails to rid YOUR house of mud bloods and half breads" The stunned Harry quickly closed the curtain and ran up the stairs back to his shared bedroom.

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I know it's not that long of a chapter, but it seems I only get to work on this in the we hours of the morning. I'm trying to just get it typed out in full then go over and fix all the stupid and obvious mistakes I made. I'm still working of notepad so pardon my spelling and grammar. Once I get my word processor up and running again I'll come back threw and fix all the mistakes since a lot of people get testy over a few...hundred grammar and spelling errors, lol. Also I tried something different with the dialog, I tried to do what you said but when ever I reformat it so I can upload it screws things up. But I'm trying, if you're not bored yet I'll be adding to this, hopefully everyday but I can't promise any thing.