A/N: As told before, this story is not going to be long. So after this chapter, I think only three more chapters will follow. I know it won´t make the story really indept, but this was just an in-between idea I came up with, and perhaps when I´m not too bussy with my other stories, this will be improved. Either way, enjoy the upcoming chapters!

Cahpter 6: Bad News

It was the morning of Christmas and most of the students had decided to stay at Hogwarts, since it was getting too dangerous for them to return home. Harry had been "called away" more times than the people close to him would have liked, but he assured them that he could deal with bad things in Heaven, and would always feel bad if he didn't go. At the moment he was nearly gone for an entire week, which worried his family and friends for a bit, since he had never been gone for longer than a week.

Severus was musing over where Harry could be, since he had promised to be there for Christmas. Looking at the others, he noticed they were continualy glancing at the doors of the Great Hall, hoping Harry would come in soon. Severus hoped so too, they were going to give Christmas presents, Harry's friends and family together, and it was the first time in ages that Severus actually looked forward to doing something like this. He had something to pay back Harry for what he did. Oh yes, how well he remembered the day after he talked with Harry about his soulmate and Harry not being able to have his own wife.

Flashback:

Severus was, for a first time in years, nervous. He had no idea what Harry had in mind, but knew he wasn't going to like it one bit. This feeling only grew when he saw that not only Harry came down the stairs, but also Remus, Minerva, Ginny Weasley and Hermione Granger. The women looked positively shining from their glee, and Remus looked just as nervous and clueless as Severus felt. Harry was only grinning. Severus wondered if now wouldn´t be a bad idea to run and lock himself up in the dungeons. Too bad for him, Harry had grabbed his arms, and whispered in his ear: "Don´t even think about running, Sev. We're going to have some fun."

And so, the whole group had ended up in Diagon Alley. To Severus horror, they had first entered a hairdresser's. He and Remus were plopped into two chairs, and twirled around to face a big mirror. They had walked out, after a little more than an hour, which had been filled with discussions between the three ladies about haircolors, and haircuts. In the end, Remus had ended up with getting his hair coloured more brown, and his hair cut to just above his ears. Severus had gotten a slightly shorter haircut, so his hair reached a little under his ears. His hair also got a bit of colour. Harry had suggested green with silver, but that idea had been shot down. Although the silver had stayed, and now Severus had silver streaks in his hair, though it was only noticable with the right light.

After all the hair fuss was done, they had gone into a shop which sold both wizarding and muggle clothes. He and Remus had been dumped in the dressrooms, while the ladies and Harry had put loads of clothes in for them to fit. And when they had put on an outfit, they had to come out of the rooms and show themselves. In the end, Remus had ended up with a lot of snug fitting shirts, several blouses, jeans in different colours, and very nice looking pants varying from kahki, to a dark brown.

Severus had ended up with black jeans, but also several blue ones, pants in lighter colours, for as Minerva had said it: "They look so very snug on you with your new hair style." Those words had nearly caused Severus to collapse. Never, ever, had he thought to hear Minerva say the words 'snug' and 'you' in the same sentence in actual reference to him.

To his horror Ginny and Hermione had been the ones to suggest he try those pants on. He also had smug fitting shirts from blue, to green, and only one black (to Severus' disappointment.)

All in all, the whole shopping for muggle clothes had lasted nearly three hours, and after a short break, they had to do the whole thing again, but for wizards robes.

Remus had been fitted in robes that were open in the front, and ranged from khaki, to dark blue.

Severus had robes that were both closed and open in the front, and had dark green, a dark red (according to him, too much Gryffindor), and dark blue. All in all, he was rather pleased with his clothes, but he sure as hell wasn't going to tell that to the others.

In the end, this whole trip did have something else coming from it. He and Remus had become more open to each other, after sharing a horror day like that. And also, they had started planning revenge on the others right away.

Back to the present.

Severus looked over to Remus and lifted his eyebrow, tonight after dinner, they would extract their revenge, and make those others pay! Remus grinned back.

However, something would quite ruin their day.

Later that evening when the students and staff had gathered in the Great Hall for the Christmas dinner, Dumbledore had just stood up to make his traditional Christmas speech, when the doors to the Great Hall burst open, and a bloodied and panicked Draco Malfoy stumbled in. Everyone could only look at him in shock. Draco had gone home for the Christmas Holdiays, so what had happened to have him come back in such a state, and why did he come back anyway?

He stumbled until half way the Great Hall, and then collapsed onto his knees. This got the teachers into action. Severus quickly walked towards him, as well as Dumbledore.

When they got to him, Draco fended them off for a little while.

"No, have to....have to tell something first." Though he was rather badly hurt by the looks of it, he still spoke clearly for everyone to hear. It also helped that everyone was dead quiet.

"It's, it was...it was a god-damn trap! I was called home, but You-Know-Who, he had found out...he had found out about Harry being called away, and helping people. He was pissed. So very pissed off...." here Draco trailed of a little bit, shuddering.

Everyone held their breath, wanting to know where this was leading too.

"He...he used us, several Slytherins, who had a change of opinion. He used me, Blaise and Pansy, to make Harry come. He hurt us, so bad...then Harry came. He had walked right into it. You-Know-Who had made it look like a terrible accident, but he and his Death Eaters where waiting. They have captured Harry, last week. And then, he killed Pansy right in front of Harry, just to show that Harry was too late...too late to save us. Blaise...they still have Blaise. I got away, but...please, they'll come here. They'll take Harry here, to kill him."

By now, everyone was stark white. Draco was shaking harder and tears were actually streaming down his face. Severus had never seen the collected boy so distressed.

Just when Dumbledore ordered Pomfrey to take Draco to the hospital wing, and in the middle of telling the students to stay where they were, the doors flew open once again, and there he was.

Voldemort, entering the Great Hall with all his Death Eaters, and in the middle of them a broken, bloodied body of Blaise, and Harry.