Title: Revenge Sweet or Not?
Author: Gia
E-Mail: divinechild18hotmail.com
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Draco/Harry
Time: 5th year.
Summary: [Sequel] Draco has an annoying voice in his head. Harry's got a psycho pendant. Firenze is possessed. And Voldemort's got a secret weapon. What more could you want?
Disclaimer: I own not a thing.
Author Notes: Wow!! I was so happy when I got so many reviews! REALLY HAPPY!! You've all made my day!! Hehe.. I'm going to make my chapters much longer.. I think it'll be much better then. I'm still thinking how to continue.. Hmm.. What should happen?? I have an outline going on, but, hey, I'll see.. But on with the story and such!
Remus sighed, running his fingers through his hair. He had just finished checking a rather large pile of reports from the seventh years. A few had terrible handwriting, the ink so smeared and scratched out, it was a wonder he could grade it at all. He made a few more marks, and heaved the pile into a folder. His arms ached, and he had a headache from having to squint and guess on what the papers read. He faintly wondered if he could ask one of the house-elves for a strawberry cheesecake.. Or peach cobbler.. And---
SMACK!
He rubbed his head furiously, where a large owl had obviously slammed into. Glancing up, he only caught a brief flash of feathers flying out his window. Grumbling angrily, he saw a small ripped piece of parchment lay on his desk. He picked it up, his eyes scanning the parchment. His eyes further widened when he fully understood the message of the letter. Gasping, he ran out of the classroom, muttering one word. Sirius.
Sirius was not a happy person. He turned to look at his surroundings. He was definitely not a happy person.
Having just walked out of the Whomping Willow, he saw Hagrid walking out of the Forbidden Forest, carrying a brown bag. It was too late to either duck back in or run for it, so he did the next best thing. He transformed into Padfoot. Glancing back it him, he started to walk in a trot, his head up high. Looking much like those dogs that prance around in dog shows.
Of course, Hagrid saw him, and in two quick strides had reached him. Far from being suspicious about the dog, he led it to his hut. Curious, Sirius followed obediently. He was met with a cozy room. The fireplace happily crackling, mixing with the sounds of pans as Hagrid was looking for something to feed him. Fang, Hagrid's hound, lay on the floor drooling.
Sirius inwardly winced, as he watched in morbid fascination as a long dribble of drool hit the floor. 'This can't get any worse.' he thought. How wrong he was. Hagrid had just turned around, holding out a small tin of what appeared to be rock cakes. Not being familiar with Hagrid's cooking as Harry was, he accepted one. Grinning doggishly, he bit down.. And let loose such a howl. Of course, if Sirius was in his human form, it would sound like "Ew" Or "yick". He bent over, and tried to cough it out.
Hagrid thought he was trying to throw up, and looked for something to put under the dog's mouth so he wouldn't throw up all over the floor. Unfortunately, he wasn't paying attention, and had grabbed Fang. The poor hound whimpered as it was thrust roughly under Sirius's gagging mouth.
Instead of throwing up, however, a large brown lump covered in spit fell out and bounced off Fang's head, and hit the floor of the hut, leaving a large crack in its wake. Sirius, glad that the offending piece of rock was gone, looked up to see Hagrid's raised eyebrow. He followed Hagrid's eyes, and also took in the view of a large crack where the cake had hit. If he were human, he would've laughed out loud at this.
Muttering to himself, Hagrid cleaned up the mess, and petted Fang as an apology. Throwing the mess away, Hagrid came back. "Now listen here. I don't know how you got here. But I'll be back in awhile to see what I can do. So, you just stay here with Fang." Sirius tilted his head as if he understood. Hagrid patted him on the head and left.
Sirius walked towards the window, and going on his hind legs, watched as Hagrid once again disappeared off into the forest. In a blink of an eye, he had transformed back. Fang, had unexpectedly fell asleep the minute Hagrid left so Sirius didn't have to worry about startling it. Looking around, he snatched up some parchment and ripped a piece off. He scrawled a small message, but stopped. How was he going to get an owl?
His prayers were answered when a group of school owls flew out. Sirius took his chance, and walked out of the hut. He signaled for one of the owls, and a brown one came flying down. He tied the parchment to it's leg, "Take it to Professor Remus." It hooted its assurance and took off. He breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly walked back in. All he had to do now was wait for Moony to come and get him.
"Don't panic."
"Panic? Me? You've got to be kidding me. Why would I panic when a giant snake is currently trying to strangle us while our best friend is asleep on the couch right in front of us, unaware of what's going on! So, panicking is something I won't do!!!"
"RON! Ssshhh! You don't want anyone to hear and come in."
Ron was beyond reasonable. He was in hysterics. He had resorted to cynical and sarcastic behavior before he would die.
"Oh of course, we wouldn't someone to walk in and watch the bloody snake eat us? Why would we want to do that?! Because watching your friends get eaten by giant snakes aren't exactly cheerful!!"
"RON! LISTEN!! I've. Got. An. Idea."
"…you have?"
"It's not exactly the best plan in the world, but judging by our current position, any plan is alright. Both of our wands are in our dormitories. Harry's.. somehow controlling and talking to the snake.. If we try to wake him up, maybe it'll go away."
"But how are we supposed to do that? The snake is watching our every move…"
"Ron, your avoiding it. You're the closest so you have to tap him."
Sighs. "When this is over, I'm going to have a little chat with Harry."
The snake's large eyes watched as Ron hesitantly reached towards Harry. It let out a furious hiss. Fearing the worst, Ron withdrew his hand quickly. He felt the body of the snake move around his body, and felt he was going to be strangled to death. 'I'm going to die! And I haven't done all the things I wanted to do in life! I'm to young!' Frantic, he turned to Hermione.
"Hermione, listen, I have to tell you something. I-I..---"
"Look Ron! The snake, it's uncoiling!"
"What?!"
And so it was. The large body had uncoiled itself from around them, but assumed a new position, by curling it's full length around Harry's couch, resting it's large head on top of the couch. It's eyes watching them threateningly, and its tongue flickering out to lightly touch Harry's stomach.
Hermione's eyes flickered. Stopping a moment, she took in the whole picture. The snake looked as if it was.. Protecting Harry. 'But that couldn't be right. Why would it be protecting him?'
Remus hurried down the steps, and out of the castle. He briskly headed to Hagrid's hut. He was stopped short, when Hagrid met him on the way.
"Hello Remus! Fancy seeing you! Here on a stroll?"
"Er.. Actually, you wouldn't happen to have seen a large dog around here?"
"It just so happens that I have. Is it yours?"
"Oh, yes, it is. I.. Had found it near my place. I've grown quite attached to it."
"What's it's name?"
"Sir-- er.. Snuffles."
"That's a cute name. Reminds me of fluffy."
"Fluffy?"
"3 headed--"
"How nice!" Remus cut in quickly.
Both walked in, Remus glancing everywhere to see Sirius. To his utter amazement and surprise, Sirius was fast asleep beside Fang. Grinning, he kneeled down. "Padfoot?" he whispered. He only received a grunt. "Padfoot?" he whispered louder. The dog's ear flopped to the side. Remus's grin widened. "PA-- er SNUFFLES!!!"
Sirius shot up. It blinked, and looked around. He looked up into Remus's face, and growled when he saw that he was trying not to laugh.
"Sorry to have to do that, old buddy," clearing his throat he addressed Hagrid, "If you don't mind, Hagrid, I'm going to take Snuffles with me to my room."
"Alright then, see you later!"
Remus led Sirius over to behind a large tree trunk, and watched as Sirius changed back, stretching his arms. "Come on, Padfoot." he muttered an invisibility charm on Sirius. "Just follow me and don't do anything you would normally do." He turned, his lips already tugging upwards, as he knew Sirius was busy figuring out what he meant.
As they were walking into Hogwarts, Remus whispered to him at the corner of his mouth. "You know Padfoot, Harry would love to see you. We can make it a surprise. What do you think?"
SMACK!
"Hey! What'd you do that for?"
"I just worked out what you said. But I like your idea, lead the way."
Raising his eyebrow at nothing, he led him to the Gryffindor portrait.
"Oh no!"
"What's wrong?"
"We've been standing here for a long time.. And.."
"Look Hermione, you said classes could go to hell, so I doubt right now is the good time to worry about---"
"No! it's not that.. I need to go to the loo.."
"Oh.." amused silence. Ron opened his mouth--
"Don't you dare say anything, Ronald Weasley."
Sigh. "Hermione?"
"What?"
"Sooner or later someone's going to come in."
"I know but--"
Just then, the portrait swung open.
"Fawkes."
The portrait swung open. Remus released the invisibility spell, he could dimly make out Ron and Hermione standing but..
"Hermione? It's me Remus and Sirius. Why's it so dark?" Lupin pointed his wand at the fireplace and muttered a spell. This triggered two reactions. The minute the room was illuminated, Sirius had a sharp intake of breath, and Harry had the opportunity of stirring in his sleep to wakefulness.
"What the hell… Care to explain what a giant snake is doing, coiling around my godson?" Sirius asked, surprisingly calm.
The two of them glanced at each other, keeping their eyes on the snake, they took this opportunity to inch slowly towards their favorite DADA teacher and friend.
"You see, after the incident in the Great Hall, we went searching for Harry--"
"And we had decided after a long time of searching for him--"
"that we would just wait in the common room but then--"
"We saw Harry asleep on the couch, and we just checked up on him--"
"When he started to speak parseltongue, and the fireplace had gone out and--"
"there was this huge snake that had coiled itself around us and--"
"WAIT!" Remus yelled. The two stopped. "Harry can speak parseltongue?"
"Didn't Dumbledore tell you?"
"I think he left that little detail out." Sirius answered dryly.
"But surely he would've mentioned what Harry did in the Chamber of Secrets--"
"Chamber of Secrets?!"
"Look, let's talk about this later. Harry looks like he's about to wake up." Remus's logic stopped their talk, and they all watched as Harry woke.
Yawning, he sat up, stretching his arms. 'That was a very refreshing nap. I hope there wasn't a lot of homework today.' Rubbing his eyes under his glasses, he looked up.. To see a very large snake head. Stifling a scream, he instinctively looked towards the portrait. Hermione, Ron, Remus, and.. Sirius?! 'What's he doing here?' Harry thought. He looked back at the snake. Scooting back a little, he took in the large body of the snake coiling around his couch.
Wetting his lips, "Uh.. Guys? What happened?"
Sirius answered before Hermione could. "Apparently, you had summoned the snake. You speak parseltongue, Harry?" Grinning sheepishly, he nodded. He looked back at the snake, who up till now, was watching the intruders. He met the eyes of the snake, cleared his throat, and hissed in parseltongue.
The four were absolutely stunned, to say the least. Hearing someone speak parseltongue, was not an experience to be treasured. Harry sounded absolutely evil, as if he was planning something bad. He had an almost glazed yet calculating look in his eyes. They watched as Harry was calmly conversing with the Snake. Occasionally letting out a small raspy laugh.
"You two need to tell us what exactly happened in the chamber…"
"I was there, but I don't know much about what happened. I think Harry should tell it. Hermione and I can only give the first part, but what happened inside is up to Harry."
"He looks so…"
"Let's just say different. The hissing is getting to me."
The four watched, transfixed, as Harry seemingly ended the conversation. The snake actually bobbed its head up and down, and disappeared with a pop. The four, puzzled, took this time to quickly approach Harry.
"That was really freaky, Harry."
"Ron!"
"I think you need to tell me and moony about this chamber of secrets."
"But are you alright, Harry?"
Grinning, Harry nodded. "I'm fine. Speaking to the snake was-- What's wrong?"
Both of the far had looked extremely startled. Seeing the confused expression on his best friend, Ron spoke. "You were speaking in parseltongue to us." Blushing a bit, Harry focused on speaking English. Opening his mouth, he tried. "What about now?" Seeing the relieved expressions, he took that as a yes.
"Harry? What did you and the snake talk about?"
Harry visibly looked uncomfortable. He avoided their eyes, and thought of what to say. Looking determined, "I can't really say. I.. Need to keep this to myself for now. I'll tell you.. When it's time. But, you have to trust me on this, when I say that it's not a good idea to speak of it now." The others looked at him, Ron looking as if he was just about to object, but a hard look from Hermione silenced him.
Sirius shook his head, eyeing Harry, as the boy in question smiled slightly at the site of his friends laughing. But.. There was something else in his eyes.. Something he couldn't quite explain. 'Whatever it is, I'll find out. Your not going through this alone. I think I'll need to have a private talk with Albus about this.. But best to get his mind off it for now.' Clearing his throat he gave Harry an innocent expression.
"Okay, my dearest godson and friends, tell your favorite and charming godfather about the Chamber of Secrets."
"Well you see, it all started with…"
A/N: YAY!! END OF THE CHAPTER!!! This wasn't exactly a cliffhanger, since I'm not going to write it out. No one would want that. I know, I know, you didn't see Draco at all! L Don't worry!! He'll be in the next chapter. But I needed to have a chapter without him at least! I have to balance the story, you know. So, what do you think?? I think this is my longest chapter, yet! Besides, I'm trying to reach my goal of 50 reviews before school starts. Which gives me.. 1..2..3... 6 days. I think I can post about 2 or 3 chapters by then, so I expect a lot of reviews! PLEASE???
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