Sorry I haven't updated in like, ages! Especially to Ruth3, whose pleasant whinging actually inspired me to write this chapter and carry on with the story. I am so sorry!

Back to the story…….

Cho Chang glared at the ceiling of her dormitory. She was lying on her four-poster bed, and was having trouble sleeping.

Damn Harry Potter.

If he hadn't had seen that girl over the last two months, she could have easily gotten over him. However, he had to meet Piper and that was when the trouble had started.

Now, she couldn't get over him. Ever since last year under the mistletoe and their dates she hadn't been able to keep her mind off him. Sure enough, she had gone out with Michael Corner, but that was only to try and make him jealous. But, if anything, it had only put him off her even more.

If looks could kill, there would be a hole the size of Europe in the ceiling by now.

Harry looked at the scene before him with intrest.

Lucius was struggling to resist grabbing his arm, trying to grab his wand instead, and Snape was keeping a firm hand over his left elbow, trying not to rouse suspicions.

Harry could have laughed, if Dumbledore didn't look so serious. So, struggling to keep a straight face, he grimaced. It was the only thing he could do not to smile, laugh or collapse with exhaustion. Instead, he opted for walking towards Lucius, and kicking his wand out of reach.

Dumbledore frowned. The one thing that he was dreading happening did, and that was for Lucius to disappear.

Piper opened her eyes, yet again, to darkness. However, the difference this time was that she was being watched, very closely, by something, something that didn't look quite human.

Hagrid glared at the girl in front of him.

He wanted answers and he wanted them now.

Ginny found herself shaking, so she hurriedly sat down. Hermione watched her curiously.

"What happened?" finally came out of Ginny's mouth.

Herimone looked at her, eyebrows furrowed.

"What do you mean?"

Ginny shook her head slightly.

"Elves don't exist, how did Piper become one?"

Hermione frowned.

"She was born one, what did you think?"

Ginny shook her head once more.

"Then how did she end up here?"

Harry blinked. One minute Lucius Malfoy had been on the floor, cowering in front of Dumbledore, the next minute, he had gone.

He looked at the wand a few meters away from him and walked up to it. He picked it up slowly, looked at it for a moment, then almost dropped it in shock.

Appearing round the base of the wand there was a kind of writing, written in silver. Harry couldn't read it, it looked foreign and was in swirly handwriting.

Harry squinted at the writing, but couldn't make any sense out of it.

Dumbledore walked up to him.

"Professor Snape seems to think you may have an idea what is going on, Harry."

Harry looked up in surprise. He had almost forgotten what he had originally come to Dumbledore's office for.

Piper raised an eyebrow at the large thing. It was a lot bigger than other people, had a big, brown bushy beard, and looked like it was going to kill her. Several things raced through her head to what she could do, but before she could put any of them into action, it spoke.

"What 'ave you been up to then?"

Her eyes widened at this sentence.

"I don't know what you mean."

"I mean, why were you lyin' on the ground just outside my hut, at-" Hagrid checked his watch before continuing, "-at six o'clock in the mornin', that's what I mean."

Piper bit her lip as she tried to answer his question.

"Well, I'm not quite sure."

"What do you mean you're not sure?" Hagrid was getting worried now. "It isn't like you just appeared there now, is it?"

Piper closed her eyes, she was becoming dizzy, and her world became black once more.

Hermione frowned. Ginny was right, an elf would not be able to get here easily if the legends were true. They were supposed to be very unsocial with witches and wizards because of an incident which happened long ago. There were no books on this 'incident' that Herimone knew of, but why would there be in a witches and wizards library?

It was said that Elves lived everywhere where humans couldn't come and hunt them down. Elves were also rumored to live underwater, in dark caves, and deep down at the bottom where no humans could venture.