Saturday 7:34 am

Draco felt himself dragged out of bed by several hands, but chose to keep his eyes close, feigning the sleep that he had not gotten the previous night. He landed on the floor of the Slytherin dormitory with a thud and felt someone kick him in the side.

"Get up lazybones," a voice said. Draco opened his eyes. Above him was a group of not friendly looking slytherins.

"Good morning to you too," Draco retorted. The slytherin sneered.

"We've seen you with Potter and Weasley, with Gryfindors," another one said, getting right to the point.

"So kill me," Draco said, then realized that probably wasn't a very good thing to say.

"Get up," the apparent leader said. Draco shifted through his memory for names of the slytherins and finally recognized him as Terah. Behind him was Tobias, Romeo, and Merlin. The last had been quite teased with the name his parents had loaded on him, actually, Draco had done a lot of that teasing.

Draco obliged to their request and stood up, readying himself for a fight, which probably what the four were planning. Beat him up some, knock some 'sense' into his head. Draco was sure he wouldn't win, but knew either way it wouldn't stop him from doing what he wanted.

Romeo lunged at him swinging a fast punch at his head, Draco ducked, but Rome's leg came up and kneed him in the stomach. Draco gasped, the breath knocked out of him, but managed and trip him then land a hard kick in the groin. Romeo doubled up and in a moment Tobias, Terah, and Merlin were all over him. Every part of his body was being battered, he landed a few kicks and punches, but being outnumbered one to four, very quickly lost ground. They dragged him out of the dormitory and pushed him down the stairs into the common room.

Draco heard of few murmurs of surprise before he saw the four boys come down the stairs behind him. He pulled himself to his feet and managed to throw Terah to the ground and push Merlin into a sofa, before they began teaming up on him again.

This time though, he heard the other slytherins protesting. Draco didn't deserve it. They didn't need to beat him up. He'd been through enough with You-Know-Who. Then contradicting ones, His being down in You-Know-Who's dungeons being a lie, he was betraying the Slytherins, he deserved exactly what he got.

The fight apparently was broken up by the more open-minded Slytherins, but Draco was hurting to much to pay much attention and simply closed his eyes, half fainting and half falling asleep.

3:02 pm

"Draco?" Draco heard a voice say. He blinked a few times to see a pair of beautiful eyes staring down at him. He squinted then managed to get his eyes open all the way, the left one hurt, actually a lot of him hurt.

"What happened?" the person asked, he now realized was Hermione.

"Ah, I fell," he mumbled, still waking up, and not wanting to blame anyone in particular.

"A couple slytherins brought you in here, more like dragged you in here, you were out cold," she explained.

"Most of them are sensible, of course you never hear about the good Slytherins, just the bad ones, but what house doesn't have its annoying people?" Draco asked easing up into a sitting position. He stretched out his arms noticing various bruises and scrapes on them, luckily he had no casts or bandages, nothing was broken.

"Your getting off topic, let me guess, the floor someone punched you in the eye and scraped you up plenty good as well as bruising you in various places?" Hermione asked with a slight smile.

Draco grinned then shrugged, "I fell down the stairs?"

"Come on, why don't you want the people who beat you up to get in trouble?" Hermione asked.

"That's not the kind of thing you do, makes you seem, oh I don't know. I don't think they'll do it again, it was just kind of a, welcome back to Slytherin," Draco told her.

"Some welcome," Hermione said, "We've both been in the infirmary in the past 48 hours."

"Are you okay?" Draco asked, his turn to be concerned.

"Better," she said simply.

"I wonder if Pomfrey will let me leave," Draco said, "Somewhere we can talk by ourselves."

"Let's just leave," Hermione suggested, "She won't notice."

Draco grinned, "No longer a goody-good?"

"Nope," Hermione said smiling back and giving him a quick kiss on the lips before standing back to let him get up. Draco slipped off the traditional pajama shirt that was part of the garb they were dressed in the infirmary and reached for his robes at the end of his bed. Hermione glanced at his chest, blushing slightly, then noticed the long scars running down it. She reached out and touched them softly. Draco glanced at her then said, "The burns. I'll probably have them a long time."

"They're kind of striking you know, like battle scars in a sexy kind of way," Hermione said with a grin. Draco took her hand softly, lifting it to his lips to kiss. After a moment of silence Draco pulled his robe over himself then stood up and slid the pj pants out from underneath his robe. Hermione handed him his jeans which he pulled on as well before slipping his feet into his shoes.

6:00 pm

"Five more people were possessed today," Sen announced in Firenze's classroom. They'd decided to hold practice early in order to the library and do some research.

"Five?" Ron asked incredulously. Sen shrugged.

"You think he's trying to do something within the school? Like have the found any spells in the working or something?" Harry asked.

"He doesn't have enough power in the bodies of students," Draco said making a guess.

"So who's the strongest wizard the in school?" Ginny asked. They all glanced at Harry.

Harry shook his head, "Not me, he wants to kill me. Dumbledore."

"You think he'll actually try to possess Professor Dumbledore?" Hermione asked then said, "Dumbledore is too strong, he won't be able to."

"If that's even what he's planning," Sen said. Everyone was silent for a little bit, each lost in their own thoughts.

"Let's worry about strengthening our own minds and finding a way to trap him," Sen said with a slight smile, "Today I was thinking we'll send numbers instead of colors. Mainly because there are a lot more numbers than colors, but we'll just start with one through ten. Who wants to send?"

"I will," Ginny said then closed her eyes. The other did the same.

A/N: Seventeen chapters! If you guys have any ideas for a sequel to this one, that would make these a trilogy, feel free to say so. I don't have enough to work with currently, but the ideas are slowly building up. I've already typed several chapters ahead, but I didn't want to bombard you with a whole bunch of chapters at once! :-P And I'm too lazy to upload more than one chapter at a time.

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