(Lilo:  how are you doing people? Hope that you are well. Anyways, sorry for not updating for so long but I have gotten sick, and was unable to upload the chapter during the week …. School got in a way after that (catching up -_----) and a very crappy mood as well. So ya, I am doing my hw and typing this at the same time …. Figures.

Marikue: Lilo doesn't own Yu-Gi-Oh or Harry Potter. So ya! *kicks the lawyers out*)

~I won't~

Bangs could be heard as the ministry wizards tried to remove the spell from Dudley but their spells did all but backfired right back at them. There seem to be some kind of an invisible barrier that no spell could penetrate. Dudley kept on dancing and the ministry decided to rather find whoever was doing it for it was hopeless to stop the spell itself.

"Come on!" Harry said to Marik through clenched teeth. Harry knew that even if the would try to run, it wouldn't help! "Damn Mrs. Figgs!" She reported them! Why did she have to stick her nose into somebody else's businesses?

"What? Where?" Marik asked, bewildered.

"Some place away from the house! They know I live here and if they find me, I am as good as dead! So are you!" Harry said in a rush. The ministry was trying to perform series of spells that could identify the one who was using the Imperius Curse. It was still punished by law and whoever used it was sent to Azkaban … but the problem was that there was no Azkaban anymore since the Dementors left and joined the dark side, joined Voldemort. That created a few complications and now the wizard who would be caught using one of the three curses would be executed on the spot without asking too many questions. Some may welcome death, but Harry…. no, Harry didn't want to die yet. He still had to find a way to resurrect Sirius, no matter how hopeless it seemed. No matter how many time did Hermione tell him to stop living in the clouds, to stop pretending ….

"Where?" Marik asked, watching dumb folded as the wizards got a very nasty looks on their faces and turned to face Dyrsley's house. They couldn't see Harry or Marik but they knew that they will finally be able to kill the Potter, the one who Voldemort failed to kill so many times. It became something like a sport in the ministry and everywhere else because Fudge 'accidentally' suggested that it was Harry who kept Voldemort on the face of this planet and that if they could get rid of him that the spirit of the Dark Lord will go with him, the one who lend Voldemort his blood three years ago. The one believed to be mentally unstable and a great danger to society and everything that surrounds him. To think, Hogwarts did see nothing but trouble since Harry was accepted.

"We have to get out of here! Now!" Harry practically screamed but he was unable to move a muscle and then the realization hit him square in the face. The wizards stunned the whole entire area. Marik, as calm as he looked right now, did NOT like being unable to move and he was practically boiling with rage inside.

"We can't do anything but wait until our doom comes." Harry said sarcastically.  It was really ironic, to think, he was able to escape the Dark Lord and death so many times in his life and now …. He was going to be killed by the ministry for his own stupidity.

"Oh yes we CAN!" Marik practically snarled and Harry was suddenly free. Shocked, Harry watched as a big black bubble circled them like a whirlpool and he felt as if his body was being torn apart but then it stopped and he watched in amazement and astonishment as hr and Marik were standing in the same positions, the only difference was that they were in Marik's house now! They … they escaped the ministry!

"How……?" Harry trailed off, looking at Marik like a deer on the headlights. He knew that it was possible to apparate but A) you have to have a wand, B) there are no whirlpools when you do that!

"Wellll" Marik looked uncomfortable but the moment was saved when there was a definite cry coming from Dudley who collapsed onto the road in a heap, too shocked, with his body aching all over; he took in shudder breaths, not believing that he finally had his body back.  Marik, currently distracted by Harry and the fact that he just used shadow realm completely forgot about his influence on Dudley which never, never ever happened before. Damn, he must be getting weak.

"Never mind!" Harry exclaimed, panicking. "They exited the building!" true, Marik noted. The wizards came out of Dursley's house looking greatly disappointed. Who wouldn't when they thought that they finally had their pray caught in the act and then find out that it was simply a sweet fantasy that was never to come true. Sad. 

"So?" Marik asked, wondering why Harry cared more about those weak excuses of people who possessed almost no magic when one of the seven great sorcerers stood in front of him? May be he didn't realize the actual danger he was facing, but, after all, the kid did seem a bit troubled and off his rocker when he first discovered Marik's true identity. Who knew what happened to place him into that emotionless and always on the edge self. Like he, Marik himself, haven't been off the rocker himself. The Mariku was bad enough but noooo, he had to go after the pharaoh, the impenetrable ruler of shadow realm, thinking that he would be smart enough to outsmart the one who sealed the shadow realm along with its monsters and locked the souls of Bakura the tomb robber and the 'nameless pharaoh' who, as was discovered later, he was.

"We have to create ourselves an ali…" but her never got to finish his sentence, stopping in midair as two black tornado like voids appeared inside of the room they were  standing in, similar to the one that Harry and Marik traveled a mere minute ago. After blinking a couple of times Harry could see two figures standing in one and another lone figure in the other. After the black void cleared completely, Harry and Marik were facing a raging Isis all the while Yami and Bakura stood obediently in the background, knowing that if they would interfere, they would make it worse for all of them. Even without the millennium necklace, Isis was … frightening and no one dared to cross her path when she was spitting mad. Yugi and Ryou paid for their ignorance before their yamis took over to generously save their hickaris from at least a portion of her rage. The only thing that calmed her down was Yami's experience for calming people with his wise words and a promise to take her to their house (she could not travel through shadow realm because she lacked the millennium item, which Yami generously offered to her after he regained his memories and defeated the shadow of old, but she refused knowing the consequences it would bring). Now, Marik was in for it.

"What have we here, dear brother?" she said with her voice barely above a whisper. Her eyes shone with determination and a promise for a very sever punishment.

"Oh, hi sis!" Marik lamely attempted to calm his raging sister even though he knew that he was in disadvantage of this situation and he hated himself for it. Sure, he was the all powerful and mysterious leader of GHOULS but that didn't mean that he didn't have a major weakness, his sister. Marik knew that no matter how many times he told her that he would leave her to her death, deep inside he knew that he would loose his control and kill whoever touches all but a hair on her head.

"Don't play dumb with me!" she hissed, looking a lot like a snake on a frying pan. "The moment I turn around, you are already causing chaos behind my back! How could I let Albus accept you to Hogwarts without me to be there to look after you is beyond me but I think that I will rethink that. Such shame! You know our customs and you know perfectly well that you cannot use mind control on anyone without having an honorable reason to do so." 

"Who told you that I was using it?" Marik asked, sulking. He should have known that the yamis would go and tell on him the first opportunity they had but how did the wizards detected him? That never happened before in all of his practice. Then didn't Harry say something about somebody when those clowns appeared?

"Yugi" Isis said in a matter of factly tone, watching as the eyes of her younger sibling changed from being ashamed to promising a very painful death as he shot a glare in Yami's direction while Yami put his hands up in a defense mode, not wanting to be on the receiving end of Marik's piercing gaze.

"The twerp?" he asked, to believing what he was hearing. Somehow, he was feeling proud for Yugi because he knew that it took a lot out of him. He knew the kid didn't want to get anyone into trouble and that was his flaw. Marik and yamis used that weakness against the kid, knowing that he wouldn't tell on them. Maybe now he finally cracked? That could make it more fun all together.

"Oh, so you want to tell me that you are a grown-up already?" Isis asked, looking at her little brother who was taller than she already. Sad, isn't it?

"Ya" Marik shot back, already not liking the lecture he was receiving but he knew that there was more to come and it would take a miracle to drag his sorry ass out of this mess. A miracle indeed….

"I don't think so!" Isis snapped back while being completely oblivious to Harry who was fidgeting in the background and looking rather uncomfortable. Who wouldn't when you find that a serial murderer was being yelled at by a girl no older than 19 herself. Of course he realized that she must be Marik's sister, but that didn't change anything plus a couple dozen ministry wizards in the background looking for a reason to kill him. Pretty picture, isn't it?

"Well I do!" Marik wasn't about to back down and submit to his sister.

"STOP YOUR BICKERING" Yami snapped, shutting both bickering siblings. "Someone is coming" he said in a calmer, deeper and wiser tone.

"Huh?" all of them turned to look at the window, to see that a man was walking towards their house while the ministry wizards disappeared in the background …

"Who's that?" Bakura voiced all of their thoughts, except of maybe Harry's.

"Lupin" Harry said while his gaze was transfixed on the professor who was now standing on the porch of the house, ringing the bell. His face was set between anger, disappointment and maybe even regret.  

What is he doing here? The only thing that was running through Harry's head at the moment wasn't very calming, and it certainly didn't help the present situation.

"Who?" Marik asked, bewildered. He felt something strange radiating of that guy from even this distance.

"Lupin, he was my teacher a couple of years ago as well as someone … Sirius knew, and he is in the order of phoenix. If he is here, it means something isn't right. I wasn't planning to see him this year at all, what a bummer, he came here and all …" Harry trailed off, watching as Lupin blasted the door open with some spell, not the 'Alohamora' one or whatever it was, Harry didn't really want to think about it.

"Hey!" Isis voiced her protest about the door to her house was being blasted off. Harry, on the other hand, was getting pissed. What the hell was Lupin doing there? Why?

"He will fix it on his way back." Harry reassured her, while looking at the bedroom door, knowing that it will be opened any moment, revealing Lupin and resurfacing another memory about Sirius.

"Are you sure?"  Marik asked with a raised a brow, not liking the fact that this 'Lupin' upset his sister by busting into their house without permission. The nerve of that guy! Wait until he sees the leade…. "CRAP!" Marik yelled and hastily started to pull the robe off his body.

"Come on Marik!" Harry urged, eyeing the door with mistrust. If Lupin ever found out about Marik, he will be dead. After a few more tries, Marik's robe came off and he hurled it across the room at the same moment as the door opened to revile a very pissed off werewolf/human staring at them.

"Harry, this is out of our hands" Lupin began, eyeing all of them suspiciously. "You will accompany me to the Order headquarters, you had your freedom and you used it all … today"

Harry's face turned stoic and the all heard a low and menacing "I won't…"

(Lilo: yup, definitely! Uhhh, I dunno, just felt like saying that. Oh, and I hope this fict isn't too … dark? I mean, I just can't imagine Harry being the goody-goodie he is in the books after everything he had seen … so ya!

Marikue: plz R&R and don't be mad for not updating earlier …. )