Ok my readers! I finished chapter eight! HURRAY! I promised that I would update this one a.s.a.p in forgiveness of my last one being really late. Anyway, I regret to announce that due to lack of reviews I will not be updating unless I get six (6) reviews for each new chapter. So review people! So I can update! And by the way, I will be able to have chapters done quite fast because I'm on a roll! ( I know it sounds lame but I am!) Anyway here's my chapter! Enjoy!

Chapter Eight

Aragog. Liz was speaking in, Spider. She was reaching up and was petting the giant spider as if he was a puppy dog, a harmless puppy dog. Ron's whimpers continued and his grip on Harry tightened. Liz turned, but left one hand on Aragog's side.

"Alright everyone, who can tell me what creature this is?" Liz asked.

Hermione's hand went up into the air, but strangely so did Deans.

"Dean?"

"It's an Acromantula, a giant spider. The species hasn't been seen in Britain for hundreds of years. Females can produce hundreds of eggs at a time and they normally stay together in groups. They eat fresh meat, killing their prey with their stingers or there poisonous teeth. They only flee from one animal, the Basilisk, because it's their enemy."

"Very good Dean, ten points for Gryffindor."

Harry looked back, he saw Malfoy laughing with Crabbe and Goyle. Harry felt a surge of anger. Malfoy always had to be a jerk in this class. Harry knew he was probably laughing at Ron.

"Alright everyone, now get into a line, your going to take turns coming up to Aragog and saying something to him. I'll tell you how to say it, and I want you all to show respect, yes that means you Malfoy, don't think you'll get me sacked because of some stupid incident."

The whole class gasped, no teacher had ever spoken to a student like that. Everyone looked to Malfoy to see what he was going to say. He stared at Liz, and she stared back. They seemed to be having a stare off. Harry was looking at Liz; she showed no sign of giving up. Harry turned to look at Malfoy, the sneer of his face vanished, he looked horrified and cold. Then Harry saw it behind him, four Dementors heading for the class.

It seemed the Dementors knew what they wanted to do, as they pushed everyone in the class aside and headed towards Harry. Liz saw what was happening and jumped off the stump and ran towards Harry. She pulled him behind her and stood with her arms spread out wide. The Dementors stopped before her.

"You will not hurt him. You will go back to your posts. Now."

The Dementors didn't move. The 'leader' of the group glided toward Liz and began to lift its arms.

In one swift movement Liz pulled the right sleeve of her robe up. She took a step closer to the Dementor and showed him the mark on her arm. She then stood to her fullest height.

"Like I said, you will go back to your posts. You have your orders; you know why you are here. Now leave."

The head Dementor what seemed to be, look at Liz, it then took her right arm and felt the mark on it. It turned on a dime and glided back to its post. The others followed.

Liz relaxed; she closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She opened her eyes again and took out a piece of parchment. She wrote a small note on it with her wand.

"Mister Weasley, please get this to Dumbledore, tell the statue that it's an urgent message from Professor Black."

Ron took the message and was off as quick as he could go. The rest of the class looked horrified and very nerve wracked. Harry was feeling very uneasy and wanted to sit down. Liz turned around and started talking to Harry.

"Feeling alright?" She asked.

"Uh...yeah" Harry replied shakily.

Liz put her hand on Harry's shoulder. Then she turned to the rest of the class.

"Everyone doing alright? Nobody hurt?" She asked.

Neville was trembling badly. He had dropped his beloved toad and his eyes were misty. Liz noticed.

"Neville, are you alright?"

Malfoy and his gang of friends began snickering madly. They made no effort to hide there laughs.

"Do you find this funny Malfoy? I do believe the Dementors affect you just as much as everyone else. It doesn't seem funny to everyone else to have there worst moments in life haunt them. But maybe it would be funny to hear a few of yours, Mister Malfoy."

"I don't have any bad memories." He murmured.

"Did I just hear that? You don't have any bad memories? Now you know that, that's a pure lie. Although, I should have expected Luscious's son to lie at any chance he gets to."

Malfoy put a smirk on his face; he stared at Liz one last time and then looked away. He was muttering things under his breath. Liz walked over to Neville. She started to talk to him quietly. Harry noticed that she really cared about the students, and, she always was looking out for them, for some strange reason.

'If she cares about them so much then why are they protecting us from her?' Harry asked himself.

Liz had finished talking to Neville, she stood and it was the first time Harry had ever seen Liz look truly afraid, other then her little incident on the train, and in her classroom. Liz put her hand to her chest and was breathing deeply. She was reaching for one of the walls of Hogwarts; unfortunately, she couldn't seem to find it. Just then, Remus Lupin came out and was striding alongside Dumbledore who was heading strait for the class.

When they reached Liz, Remus immediately went to her side. He took her into his arms and hugged her. Liz put her face into his shoulder and mumbled something to him. Dumbledore went over to Harry and started to ask him what had happened. Harry told him slowly, he was still feeling uneasy. Harry was at the part where the Dementor took Liz's arm when he looked over to her and Lupin. Liz's head now rested on Lupin's chin, he had put his hand on her head, and he was comforting her.

Harry finished his story and Dumbledore stood up. He walked over to Liz and Remus. He began talking with them, whispering. Harry knew they must be talking about something in the Order. Lupin was still holding onto Liz, he seemed reluctant to let go when Dumbledore began to walk back into the castle. He lingered for a few moments and then left Liz.

"Alright class, you can go." Liz said. After she went to Aragog and said something, he turned and went back into the forest.

Harry slumped into a chair in the common room. Ron and Hermione slumped into chairs next to him. Hermione took out her knitting needles and began another hat, while Ron took out there Potions essay. Harry knew he should do some of his work to, but he decided to just sit for a while.

Harry looked out the window and stared onto the Quidditch pitch. One of the teams were practicing very hard. Harry watched the chasers throw the Quaffle into the hoops; it looked like their keeper was missing. 'Probably a detention' Harry thought to himself. Harry stared at the team for a while longer when he realized that they were wearing scarlet robes with a gold trim. It suddenly struck Harry.

"Quidditch practice!" He exclaimed.

"What?" Ron mumbled.

"We've got Quidditch practice! The teams already out there!"

"Bloody hell, I forgot Alicia changed it to tonight!" Ron said.

He and Harry ran up to their dormitory and changed into their robes. They grabbed their brooms and were off to the field in five minutes flat.

"Where have you two been?!" Alicia was yelling at them for being so late.

"Sorry, but this thing happened in class, and, well, we just kinda forgot." Ron stuttered.

"FORGOT?! If we want to win the cup this year we have to practice!" She shouted.

"Well, er, then we better get going." Harry said.

"All right get up in the air, you two better be in top form today."

Harry let the snitch out on command and gave it a 30 second head start before he zoomed off on his beloved firebolt. Harry searched the pitch for that tiny spec of gold. Harry turned and saw the snitch right by Ron's ear. He went flat against his broom and zoomed across the field. He went right passed Ron grabbing the snitch as he passed, causing Ron to let Alicia score on him. Unfortunately, Malfoy and some other Slytherin's had come out and watched Ron miss the Quaffle.

"NICE SAVE WEASEL KING!" Malfoy shouted, his group snickered.

"Get outta here Malfoy" Harry said.

"Aww am I making little Potter mad? Too bad I thought you were learning to hold your tongue when talking to people above you Potter."

"I sure hope you don't mean yourself Malfoy, because you're not above anyone." Laughed a voice behind him.

Hermione had come out onto the field, Malfoy turned and saw her, and he jumped away.

"Ugh, you! Let's get out of here before that mudblood ruins our robes." He exclaimed and began to walk off the field.

Hermione went to the stands and waited for Ron and Harry to finish practicing. Harry had just caught the snitch for the sixth time when he looked over at Hermione. She was shifting in her seat and looked very impatient. Harry let go of the snitch and flew over to Hermione.

"Uh, Hermione?"

"Yes Harry?"

"Anything wrong? Cause you look kind of...strange."

"No it's just that, I can't seem to find anything about what happened to Liz on the train. I know something's weird about it, but I just don't know what! I've been reading every book I can find but the best I can come up with is---"

"HARRY! GET OVER HERE AND FIND THE SNITCH!" Alicia called.

"Tell me later" Harry mumbled to Hermione and was off to find the snitch once again.

A few hours later Ron and Harry walked into the common room. Ron was angry because a bludger forced him to fall off his broom and right in the mud. Ron got out his potions homework.

"Ok, so what are the properties of Unicorn water added into Potions?" He asked.

"No idea, where's Hermione when we need her?" "Maybe she went to bed early" Ron said.

"Well there's no possible way we can do this without her."

"Yeah I know."

"Well we could start our premonition log." Harry said dully.

"Wont that be fun!" Ron said sarcastically. "I'm starting to believe Hermione, Trelawney is an old bat. Did you hear her last class?"

"Nope, fell asleep."

Ron put on a fake high voice, which was actually a somewhat good impression of her. "Things that you see in the deepest most inner parts of your mind can help you see beyond! Many can be found to be real things that shall happen to us. If you see many things that do appear in the future, you could have the inner sight!"

Harry laughed, it sounded exactly like something Trelawney would say. Suddenly Harry felt a sharp pain coming from his scar. It was unlike anything he had ever felt before. It was so painful that Harry cried out. He shut his eyes and remembered Occlumency. He tried to force everything out of his brain, but strong emotions came through.

Harry opened his eyes, the pain left as quickly as it had come. Ron was staring at Harry with an expression of worry on his face.

"I'm alright, its just..." Harry explained.

"Just what? Come on! Tell me!" Ron begged.

"He's happy, really happy. Something's going the way he wants, and, whatever it is, it's really important to him. It's something really big."

"You should tell Dumbledore mate, cause that seems major."

"I can't tell him, I've never told him this stuff before. I've always told..." Harry drifted off, he didn't need to finish.

"Hey, know who you should tell? You should tell Liz!" Ron exclaimed. "She is his brother, maybe she'll do the same thing he would."

"Yeah...maybe."

In an old abandoned house far, far away, a tall skinny man with a scaly face and slits for eyes, sat in an old musty chair. He was hunching over with his servant beside him. He was laughing quietly at how well his plan was going.

"I'll get that Potter." He said evilly.

"By the end of the year that boy will be dead! And not even Dumbledore will find out my plan. Not with that snitch right under his nose."

not as in the little tiny golden ball. The kind thats taddles on you.

Well there's chapter eight! I hope I've got you all in suspense because that's what I want! MUAH HAHAHAHAHAHA! Ok I'll stop (blushes) anyway I want to say a special thanks to the people who reviewed my last chapter and I want to say a special holler to Luna Moonglade: I WILL CATCH UP TO YOU!! I WILL MUAHAHAHAHAHA! Ok I promised I wouldn't do that again so sorry! Anyway hope you enjoyed it! And make sure to review!! Promise? Good and remember 6 reviews for this chapter before you all get chapter nine! Buh bye! Oh yes and one more thing, if I still don't get enough reviews then I plan on re posting my story with a new name or something, so don't fret if you don't see this one, the one I would have will be the same! Good bye faithful readers!