A/N Hi people! Just a question… do people like to read 'A/N's' or not, if you do, I'll write them, but if you don't, I won't bother…… Just a question…

Harry Potter and the Powers of Evil

Chapter 3

            Harry, Ron, and Hermione held their breath and slowly turned to look at the doorway of Ron's room.

It was only Ginny.

Phew. That was close. At least it wasn't Ron's mother.

"You three are going to practice Unforgivable Curses?"

            "Well…umm…we were just reading from a book…"

               "Please! You don't even have a book here! And I don't think Ron has any books except ones about Quidditch. So tell me what you're talking about!"

   "Ginny, please, just go away…"

   "But that's not fair! I want to practice Unforgivable Curses too!"

   "Ginny, it's really dangerous!"

   "I've faced Tom before, I can handle this!"

   "Yeah, but you were only writing in a diary!"

   "Ron! It's not like I'm going to use them except to protect myself! You do want me to be able to protect myself, right?"

   "Well, of course I do, but–"

   "But what? I can't defend myself against Death Eaters only knowing hexes now can I?"

   "OK, fine, you can practice with us, but you can't tell anybody else! Got it?"

   "Yes! Thank you Ron!! Ok, now tell me all the juicy details!"

   First, they put a silencing charm on the room so that no one else would be able to listen to their conversation. Harry, Ron, and Hermione spent the next half hour telling Ginny the details of their plan. Ginny suggested, "I think we should get small animals like rats to work on, because controlling the mind of a spider is probably simple because it's so simple-minded. We'll probably need more complex animals to train on…"

   Harry answered thoughtfully, "Yes, that's a good idea, but how would we be able to practice the other two curses? I don't exactly want to hurt animals…"

   Hermione bit her lip, "Maybe we could get the Room of Requirement to give us…I don't know…animals that can't feel or aren't exactly alive or something?"

   Ron said, irritated, "Why don't we sort out the details when we get there? We never know what the Room of Requirement will be able to give us anyways."

   Harry said quickly, "Yeah, let's go outside and play Quidditch!"

   Ron said excitedly, "Yes, come on, I can teach Hermione how to fly!"

   "I want to read my book!" sniffed Hermione.

   "You're just scared!"

   "No! Of course not! I just don't feel like playing," said Hermione primly.

   Harry and Ginny looked at each other and rolled their eyes. Those two were always fighting for no apparent reason. "Come on, no one's scared or anything, but everybody's playing Quidditch!" commanded Ginny.

   The rest of the day was devoted to Quidditch. Harry saw that even Hermione enjoyed herself. She was not that good, but was acceptable. However Ginny was great! She was definitely a good chaser. The Nimbus 2000 really showed her skill, and her manoeuvring was great. Ron had definitely improved from the first time he had been keeper on the Quidditch Team, but he was still not as good as Ginny.

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   The next day Harry woke up saw all these presents around his bed. He was very surprised. Why did he get so many presents? Did someone send it to the wrong person? Then, it hit him, of course, it was his birthday. He got up and shook Ron to wake him up.

   "Hey, Ron, wake up!"

   "Ugms…u on a-a…"

   "What? Ron, come on, it's my birthday!"

   "What? OH! Yes…Happy birthday mate! Come on, open your presents!"

   The two of them got onto their knees and started tearing through the presents.

   "Hey look, Hagrid got you those rock cakes he bakes. But he also got you some chocolate frogs! So, that's ok."

   "Look what Tonks got me! A book about hiding scars!"

   "Cool! Moody got you your own spinning eye, except it goes on the back of your head, and no one will see you! Oh, I will I had one of those too!"

   Just then, the spinning eye split into two halves. Harry and Ron stared in amazement as the eye turned into two eyes. The eyes looked just the same as the one before, and it wasn't bigger or smaller. It must've answered to Ron's wish. It must be able to split into as many eyes as the holder and the wisher wants, because Harry was thinking the same thing as Ron was saying it.

   "Bloody hell! This thing is so cool! We should get one for Hermione and Ginny also! Let's go find them!" Ron sped out the door with Harry following close behind. Both were terribly excited. They burst into Ginny and Hermione's room. Ginny and Hermione looked up from their beds, both looking startled and annoyed. They had still been sleeping.

   "What is wrong with you two?" Ginny mumbled angrily. She was much too tired to yell.

   "Look at the thing Moody gave Harry! It's an eye like Moody's, except it goes on the back of your head, and no one else can see it. Do you guys want one?" Ron held out the eyes for them to see. Hermione and Ginny stared at the eyes, looking unbelievingly, and then both of them said, simultaneously, "Of course!"

   The two eyes both split in half and formed another eye. Now, Ron was holding four eyes. Harry, Ginny, and Hermione all reached out for one, then all four of them stuck the eye at the back of their heads. Harry could suddenly see all his surroundings. It was bloody cool. He could even see through walls. He saw Mrs. Weasley downstairs in the kitchen, cooking breakfast. Fred and George weren't anywhere. They must've gone back to their flat at Diagon Alley beside their store. He could also see Ginny, Hermione, and Ron's eyes, moving all around, but he couldn't see through their clothes, thank Merlin. That would've been embarrassing. All four them just stood in silence playing with their newfound eye.

   "Breakfast is ready!"

   All four of them jumped, and then stumbled down to breakfast. Harry was getting annoyed of being able to see all over, he then discovered that you could close the eye like you could with a normal one. When he could see normally again, he sighed in relief and a bit in comfort.

   "Happy birthday Harry! Did you open my present yet?" asked Mrs. Weasley excitedly.

   Hermione and Ginny, wide-eyed and a bit guiltily, smiled and said, "Happy birthday Harry!"

   Harry smiled at them, and then turned to Mrs. Weasley and shook his head guiltily, "No, I haven't had time yet. I'll open it after breakfast."

   Mrs. Weasley looked a little dejected, but recovered quickly, "No that's quite all right dear, we're going to visit Fred and George at their shop today right after breakfast, so you won't have time."

   Ron and Ginny looked absolutely delighted about this. Harry and Hermione smiled, they were glad to be able to visit Fred and George's store again. Fred and George's shop was doing very well, and the inside was decorated most nicely to fit the joke shop mode. After breakfast, they all got changed and got ready to floo to Fred and George's shop. They all knew how to apparate, but the bad thing was that they weren't allowed to do magic outside of school. When Harry, Ron, and Hermione had gone to sixth year, Voldemort was becoming stronger and Dumbledore had insisted that fifth years and older would have to be able to apparate.

   "Weasley's Wizard Wheezes!" shouted Harry, and he felt the very bad sensation of turning round and round…and then it stopped as soon as it had begun. He flew out of the fireplace. Ron helped Harry up and they waited for the rest of the Weasleys to arrive.

   All five of them brushed off the soot and went to find Fred and George. They finally found them at the storage room at the back of their shop. They were boiling something in a cauldron.

   "Hiya Fred! Hiya George!" shouted Ron.

   Fred and George looked up and saw all of them standing there. They looked surprised, then they started grinning like maniacs, "Hey, look at this here we're making. We got the idea from when Harry blew up his aunt! We're making candy that people can give to people they don't like. This candy will make them get really fat, but it wears off only after a minute. We're trying to get it up to ten minutes right now."

   Just then, the potion blew up in their faces. They were soaked in a bright pink gooey mess, and looked very silly. Suddenly, they started to get fatter and fatter. Soon, everyone was backing up against the wall. Harry was watching in amusement as the twins got as fat as Dudley, and then even more than Dudley. He didn't even think that was possible. Then all of a sudden, the twins started shrinking again. They grinned sheepishly, "Must've swallowed some of that stuff…"

   Everyone laughed and Mrs. Weasley waved away the mess with her wand. Then, Mrs. Weasley waved Harry and Ron out into the shop, "We've got girl stuff to do, get out now, look at Fred and George's new inventions, go on, go on!"

   Harry shrugged and Ron had a confused look on his face and then his eyes brightened light he just remembered something, "Hey Harry, come on, hurry up now!"

   Harry looked at Ron funnily and then followed him. Soon, they forgot all about the others and were having a lot of fun.

   "You have a pig's nose!"

   "But this is a clown's nose!"

               "That's the point!"

               "Uhhh…whatever…"

               That went on for quite awhile, the tricks and the whatevers, until Ron suddenly looked like he saw something and said, "Let's go and see how mum is doing." Harry looked at Ron weirdly, and then followed him into the back room. Just when he walked in, a whole lot of confetti fell on him, and a lot of voices going, "HAPPY BIRTHDAY HARRY!"

               Harry was very surprised; he would've expected anything other than this. He couldn't believe he forgot about that eye Moody gave him, and check with it. Merlin was he stupid. The music went on, and everybody started to party. People kept coming up to Harry and wishing him a happy birthday. The whole of Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes was packed full of people, some of them, Harry didn't even know. This was the best birthday Harry had ever had. Finally, after a whole hour, he managed to get Ron, Ginny, and Hermione together. He asked with a smile on his face, "Thanks guys, this was really thoughtful. But how did you guys plan it and everything?"

               "Well, first, we had to get you out so we could set up, right? Then Ron would keep you busy while we set up, and thanks to these eyes that Moody gave us, we were able to signal each other to come in or stuff like that, and also to make sure that you don't have your eye on. Did you know that these eyes can see each other? It's really quite interesting. Of course, Mrs. Weasley doesn't know about the eyes, so we had to say that we used muggle stuff, course, right at that moment, Mr. Weasley just had to walk in and hear us say muggle. So he was asking us all these questions about the muggle stuff…I'm getting off track aren't I?"

               "Uh…kinda…"

               "Ok, well…Ginny you tell him."

               "Ok, so when we got everything ready, all the guests sneaked in through the back door. Oh, you want to know about how the guests knew to come right? Well we had this planned for months already, so we had already invited all the guests. So when they were all inside, we told them to go and hide somewhere and get ready to surprise you right? Then, since we had decided to use the eyes instead of the muggle stuff, we were seeing if you were using it or not, and you weren't, thank Merlin. So Ron saw our signal and lead you right in here!"

               "Yup! And you weren't suspicious of me at all…"

               "Actually, I was a bit suspicious…" Harry joked.

               Ginny rolled her eyes, "Come on! Who cares! Let's go and dance!" She pulled all three of them onto the dance floor, and they all danced until they collapsed.

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               Meanwhile, in the Malfoy Mansion, Draco Malfoy was pacing around his green and silver room, wondering what he should do. He just couldn't decide, to warn Potter, or not to warn Potter. Of course, Potter probably knew that a plot was…plotted…out already against him, to kill him. He wouldn't have to tell, now would he? But, if he got his father into Azkaban, he wouldn't have to get the ugly Dark Mark. But then, You-Know-Who would go and get him, and then Avada Kedavra him… What great prospects! Draco Malfoy thought sarcastically. It's a win-win situation, now isn't it?

               Draco sighed. He suddenly thought of a great idea. He would write to Dumbledore, and tell him about this stuff (and not to tell anybody that he wrote this letter), land his father in Azkaban, and You-Know-Who will never know! Dumbledore could also give him a special place to live in so that You-Know-Who won't try and recruit him. Yes! This was the perfect plan! He wouldn't be relying on Potty, Weasel, or Mudblood's help, he wouldn't have to get the Dark Mark, and his reputation would still be dark, but of course, not as powerful…What should he do? Should he get the damn Dark Mark, or lose a bit of power at Hogwarts? Decisions, decisions, decisions…Draco shook his head and decided to write to Dumbledore.

               He got out an expensive quill, then shook his head, and started to look for the cheapest quill he had ever bought. Dumbledore would surely recognize the quill writing and know it was from him. He got out from under his bed, triumphant. He started writing.

Dumbledore, Draco shook his head, he need to add 'dear' or else Dumbledore would become suspicious. Dear Dumbledore,

               I have urgent news for you. This is about Lucius Malfoy and the You-Know-Who's plans. Lucius Malfoy is a DEATH EATER! I have just found out. Please put him in Azkaban, and if you don't believe me, put a Veritaserum potion on him. Also, keep Draco Malfoy safe, away from You-Know-Who. Also, You-Know-Who has a plan this year that is more elaborate than any other plan to kill Potter- Draco Malfoy clicked his tongue, annoyed that he had forgotten to put Potter's first name, which would be definitely suspicious. He tiredly took out another piece of paper. Harry Potter. I don't know what it is, but Harry Potter had better be careful. He signed the letter anonymously. He put a spell so that Dumbledore wouldn't know that the letter was from him. Then he called his eagle owl to him. He attached the letter and let the bird fly away with it.

               He sighed with relief, having that gotten done, it was only a matter of time. Suddenly he saw his father in the doorway. His father snarled, "Who were you sending that letter to boy? And what was it about?"

A/N Wow, my longest chapter so far! Hope you liked it! Please r/r! Thank you!