Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

By: Krystal Lily Potter

Chapter Nineteen: Warming up the Rumour Mill

Rating: PG-13 (more on the AA side)

Couples: HP/HG, DT/LB, PP/SF, LL/NL, DT/GW, LB/RW, LL/R, HP/CC

Summary: As Harry and his friends enter their sixth year at Hogwarts they don't enter the cheerful world they left behind. They enter a world covered in a thick blanket of fear. It only hits Harry how important he really is when people start seeing him as the light that allows them to see under this blanket. Along with his friend he must battle the horrors of the past, present, and possible the future to begin the end of the war, hopefully before it hits Hogwarts. What happens when people start disappearing from under Dumbledore's protection, and one of the famous 'trio' disappears? It's up to the last two, plus some more friends, to find a way to save all the people that disappeared because they can't fight this war on their own...

Warning: Dark themes will be mentioned a lot and if worst comes to worst I'll rate this R because of that. There's swearing, mentions of suicide, murder, rape, gore/bloody scenes, and other dark things like that...

Chapter Note: This one's going to be a little 'lighter' then some of the other ones have been lately. A little more humour and embarrassment, not as many dark themes in this chapter...a couple sad ones though...

Harry stretched out his arms and legs as he stood on the frozen Quidditch pitch. After getting out of the hospital wing the first thing he did was grab his cloak, scarf and broom and run outside as fast as possible, greeting only a few people along the way.

No one was allowed to see the Weasleys yet except for himself, Hermione and Lavender and they were ordered not to tell anyone else as of yet. Dumbledore would announce it at dinner to the whole school.

He kicked off the ground and soared into the air. He missed the feeling of the wind messing up his hair even more as he flew over the grounds of Hogwarts. Being in a coma in the hospital wing for nearly three weeks can make you love the outdoors even more.

He did a couple loops on his broom and looked down at the frosted ground. It got cold quicker then it had any other year so far, but that seemed to suit the mood of the wizarding world just fine. At least in Europe, as far as Harry knew.

"HARRY JAMES POTTER!" a magnified, angry, female voice roared, scaring him so bad he almost fell off his broom. Looking down he saw Hermione taking the spell off herself.

He flew down just above her and said, "Yeah Mia?"

"What do you think you're doing?! You just got out of the hospital wing and already you're trying to get yourself killed again," she growled.

"Are you ok?" he asked her suddenly, a little scared of her reaction to him doing something as simple as flying (at least that was his point of view).

"I just...I saw Ron...and..." she couldn't seem to be able to get the words out of her mouth. "I just don't want anyone else to be hurt like that..."

Harry winced slightly and said, "It was my fault that happened...Mrs. Weasley was right..."

"No she wasn't! Don't ever think that! You had no choice, whether you got through to Ron earlier or not. Mrs. Weasley wasn't in her right mind at the time," Hermione countered.

"Well I guess," Harry said then a smirk played over his face. "You know you need to relax Hermione. Ron's fine...and god knows Percy didn't deserve what he got but...we just can brood on it now..."

The brown haired girl noticed something odd about Harry and decided to voice it, "You don't seem as upset about Percy as you did about Charlie..."

"It's not that I don't feel sorry for him," Harry said automatically. "It's just...I feel sorry for the families that had someone taken away from them by suicide but I don't feel sorry for the people that do try and kill themselves..."

She shot him a glare and said, "And this is coming from the person who tried to kill himself at the last Quidditch game." "That's my point! I don't feel sorry for me at all and I wouldn't want anyone else too. I'd just want them to...forget..." he said and trailed off. He knew there was a bit of irony in his words. Nobody would ever forget the Boy Who Lived, no matter what he did.

He shook his head lightly and said, "Come on Mia, loosen up some. Ron will be fine."

"I don't want to loosen UP! HARRY!" she screamed as Harry grabbed a hold of her and pulled her onto the broom and flew into the air.

"You know I don't like heights!" she yelled in his ear and closed her eyes tightly well gripping her friend just as tightly.

"Calm down, you know I'm not going to let you fall," he replied and rolled his eyes as they continued rising up.

"I don't like flying, I don't like heights, I love the ground," she continued muttering under her breath.

"Hey calm down. Your animal is a Water Owl," he said with a smirk. "There must be some reason it has wings. You flew a broom in first year, Buckbeak in third and you flew last year too, remember?"

"I don't like flying," she hissed venomously.

Harry laughed and flew higher. "Well you can get off if you want, but I'm not going to go lower."

Hermione looked over his shoulder and let out a squeak before burying her face in his shoulder.

He laughed again and flew over to the castle. "I guess we should go in, it's almost dinner."

"That's right, Dumbledore's making his speech about the Weasleys," Hermione said, sounding muffled because of his shoulder. "Now can we pretty please go down?"

He chuckled and shot towards the ground quickly, causing her to scream. He evened out before impact and before he slowed down.

She hopped off the broom and onto the ground. "Thank lord! I love the ground!"

Harry smirked and she smacked him on his arm and said, "If you ever do that again I'll...I'll..."

"You'll what?" he asked innocently.

"I'll-you-ARGH!" she turned on her heel and stormed back to the school. Harry continued smirking, knowing she wasn't really mad at him. He felt now that the Weasleys were back there was a huge weight lifted from his chest.

He suddenly shook his head, realizing he had been staring at his best female friend in a way he shouldn't have.

Hitting himself on the head with his broom he waited until she was inside until he continued on his journey to his dormitory. He was glad he didn't run into Filch because he was leaving a trail of dirt behind him and didn't feel like listening to the cranky mans rants that day.

He got up to the common room without really realizing it. He knew the way there like he knew the back of his hand.

"Are you alright deary?" the Fat Lady asked him.

"Yeah, just a little tired," he lied. "Courageous Lions."

She smiled broadly and said, "Yes that's what everyone here is, especially you Mr. Potter!" With that she opened up and he walked into the common room.

Hermione made a B line straight for him when he walked in and said, "I'm sorry for getting mad, I was just scared."

"It's ok, I know you weren't mad," he replied, receiving a glare in return.

"Well then Mr. Know-It-All go get changed, you stink," she replied.

"Know it all? That your name Mia," he retorted and ran up the stairs to the boy's dormitories before she could hit him.

Harry sat with his friends in the Great Hall, waiting for Dumbledore to announce the Weasleys return. Fred and George were there once again, smiling more broadly then they had in ages.

People were constantly coming by and telling Harry that they were glad he was awake and looking like he had never been thrown into a brick wall.

Dumbledore suddenly stood up and everyone went silent and stared at him curiously. Many had a scared look on their faces, worried that there had been yet another attack.

"It is my great pleasure to announce that just today we received several well loved and greatly missed people. Although they are not present at our feast tonight I would like to welcome back Arthur, Molly, Ronald and Ginerva Weasley."

A few people looked shocked as Dumbledore finished his speech and there was along silence. Soon all the Gryffindors were standing up and cheering loudly.

Even though they already knew about the Weasleys return Harry and Hermione also were extremely excited because of the news. Just seeing so many other people excited over the fact that their friends were coming back just made it seem even less like a dream and more real then either could have hoped for.

Ron slowly trudged up the familiar route towards the Gryffindor tower. He was glad to finally be back. Although he knew the months of torture he went through in the Riddle manor would be in his mind for the rest of his life.

He shuddered lightly. He didn't want to think about that right now, he was finally back home, where his friends were. Ron was certain though that with Harry Potter being his best friend things were bound to be exiting all year long.

"I wonder if Harry started the DA again." Ginny asked her brother in a curious timid voice.

"I don't know," Ron replied. "I hope so. Those Death Eaters are nothing to go lightly on."

They reached the common room and realized that neither of them had the passwords.

The Fat Lady smiled and said, "I was given permission to let you two in but have the password next time."

"Thank you," Ginny replied. The portrait opened and the two walked in, only to jump backwards when a loud roar of happy laughter and cheers started at their entrance.

The two then stumbled back into the room to see many smiling and friendly faces looking at them.

"Welcome back buddy!" Seamus called out and gave him a friendly slap on the shoulder.

"Ginny!" one of her fifth year friends said and hugged her tightly.

"What?" Ron asked in a perplexed voice as he looked over at Harry and Hermione, who were standing a little bit away from him with smiles on their faces.

"We're having a welcome back party for you mate!" Dean called out and more people cheered.

Ron's eyes trailed over the piles and piles of food with amassment, as did Ginny's.

"We figured that you didn't eat much while...at that place, so we got as much as we possibly could. The house-elves were only too happy to help us," Parvati explained.

"They said they missed their best eater!" someone else yelled out, causing everyone too laugh.

Soon the party got started; person after person would welcome the two Weasleys back. Both Ron and Ginny had lost track of Harry and Hermione awhile ago but it didn't really matter to them, they knew they were there somewhere.

The two gorged themselves full with food, sweets and a lot of butterbeer. They hadn't eaten right in a long time so it all felt like the most wonderful things they ever tasted.

"RON!" someone yelled and launched herself at him.

"Ahh!" he yelled. "Katie! What are you doing?!"

She smiled at him then said, "I expect you'll have a lot of school work to catch up on but I just wanted you to know you have a spot saved for you on the Quidditch team."

An even bigger smile, if possible, appeared on the teenage boy's face and he jumped up into the air with a 'whoop'.

Ginny looked at her expectantly and said, "What about me?"

"What about you?" Katie asked, almost confused.

"Did you save a spot for me as Chaser?" the female redhead asked.

"Oh, sorry Ginny, we didn't," Katie said. "We didn't know if you were any good at the Chaser position so..."

Ginny looked shocked and yelled, "WHAT?! HOW COULD YOU KATIE?!"

Nobody expected the outburst from the young witch and the seventh year Quidditch captain jumped away from her with wide eyes. Everyone was staring at them now.

"Ginny we couldn't wait for you, otherwise we wouldn't have a full team," Katie explained in an attempted soothing voice.

"I was looking forward to Quidditch when I came back. You held a spot for Ron," the younger girl said defeated.

"Because he was already on the team and we saw what he could do. None of us had any clue whether you were a good Chaser or not," Katie said. "But there's defiantly a spot for you at tryouts next year."

She took a deep breath then let it out and smiled, "I suppose I'll be too busy with homework anyway so it's ok. I'll just try out next year."

"That's the spirit," the older one said and skipped off.

"A little cheery, isn't she?" Ron asked.

"Only a little," Neville said with a smirk as he walked over.

"So Neville, tell me, did Harry start the DA again?" Ron asked.

"Yes but it's not called the DA anymore," the round boy replied. "It's called the ULD or United Light Defense."

"Why?" he asked with slight surprise.

"Harry doesn't really get along with Dumbledore anymore, lets just say that," Neville replied.

Across the room Harry sat watching Ron in deep thought. His eyebrows were together and a frown was on his face as he stroked his Prefect's Badge.

Hermione sat next to him and noticed what he was doing and said, "McGonagall and Dumbledore are the only ones that can change position of the Gryffindor Prefects you know."

"Yes I know, but Ron was one first, he deserves it more," Harry said.

"I'm not so sure, you proved to be a much more...effective prefect," Hermione said, choosing her words carefully.

"Maybe," he replied and looked back down at the silver badge in his hand marked with a 'P'.

She smiled and said, "No not maybe...I know I'm right."

Harry looked up at her with amusement and said, "Don't brag or else you'll be wrong one of these days and people will really make fun of perfect little Granger then."

Hermione laughed then said, "You'd know right?"

Harry stuck out his tongue and suddenly poured a class of nearby water onto her head.

"HARRY!" Hermione screamed and she attempted to hit him, but he was too fast and dodged out of the way, accidentally crashing into a random fifth year, who ended up crashing into the food table, which sent food onto a few other people.

There was a long pause then Ron yelled, "FOOD FIGHT!"

People started throwing food everywhere, followed by screams, laughs and many other mixed reactions.

Ron and Ginny were forced to do twice the workload then everyone else had to do to get them caught up. The result of that was both Harry and Hermione having to listen to the two Weasleys complain constantly about the large workload.

Harry sat in Potions once again, listening to Snape comment on their potions. Harry was glad they were done with Veritaserum, that potion was murder to make but Ebony knew what to do for the most part so he was glad she had been his partner. Plus she was a Slytherin so Snape wouldn't dare fail them in fear of making someone from his own house look bad.

He noted vaguely that Malfoy had not looked happy since the news of Ron and Ginny's return and smirked. Obviously this meant that the Death Eaters weren't as strong as many people thought they were at that time.

"POTTER!"

Harry snapped out of his daydream and stared dully at Snape's infamous (actually it probably was famous) sneer. "Yes Professor?"

"What are you doing?" Snape asked in a challenging tone.

"Nothing sir," he replied.

"And why is that?" the potion's professor asked.

"Because I'm done and I did all my homework up to now," Harry snapped back and added, "Sir."

"15 points from Gryffindor for your cheek Potter," Snape snapped.

Harry got an angry look on his face and was about to blow his top at their unfair, biased Professor but wisely decided to keep his mouth shut. He had a ULD meeting planned for that night and didn't plan on being put in detention.

"Is there anything I should be doing right now, sir?" Harry asked. He wanted to be sarcastic but he said that respectfully instead, causing him to almost gag in his mind.

Snape choose to ignore him for a moment before saying, "I believe, last year, that your essay on Moonstones was absolutely dreadful." He stressed the word dreadful, because that was the mark Harry had gotten on it. "Do it over Potter."

Harry shot him a livid look and was about to pull out his textbook when the bell rang. He smirked and jumped up. He was about to leave when Snape's voice called out, "Potter I expect that essay on my desk for next class."

He heard his Professor but choose not to acknowledge that he had. The greasy haired man was slowly driving him insane. Besides he knew even if he passed a perfect paper in early then he'd still be failed.

"Why me..." Harry muttered under his breath.

"Ron," Harry said as he walked over to his friend.

"Yeah?" the Weasley replied.

"There's a ULD meeting in a few minutes, are you and Ginny still for it?" he asked.

"Hell yeah," Ron said and closed his book. "I was getting a headache from studying anyways. So, what are we learning?"

Harry smirked and said, "You'll see. But first I just want to say please don't freak out at the three Slytherins that are there, got it?

"Slytherins?" Ron said with a look of disgust. "Why did you let Slytherins in?"

"Because they proved to be good, not everyone there is evil Ronald," he replied. "One's Richie Knight, he's a friend of Mark's. Then there's Blaise Zabini and Ebony Moon, they're the two quite Slytherins in our year. They don't agree with the Death Eaters."

"If you say so," Ron replied. Harry never used his full name before so he was sure that his famous friend was dead serious about this. "Are you alright mate?"

"I'm fine," Harry replied with a sigh. "I've got something to give to you and Gin, it's like those coins we had last year but you won't lose it. Hermione went to get Ginny so let's get going now."

"Sure," Ron said and followed him out of the door. "What happens if we get caught?"

"We get asked what's going on, then it goes to Dumbledore who won't dare do a thing and if he does we'll still continue this," he said with a shrug.

Ron raised an eyebrow and said, "If I didn't know any better I'd say you resent Dumbledore."

"I do Ron, I do," Harry stated simply.

"Whoa...ok that's different. Things HAVE changed since I've been gone I see. I want the whole story with what's going on," Ron demanded.

"Don't worry I plan on giving it to you and Ginny at the meeting tonight," Harry said and they went silent until they reached the room of requirement.

When they entered it Ron's mouth fell open and he said, "Damn this looks different then last year. It's bigger."

"It has to be, there's a lot more members," Harry said and sat at one of the chairs. "Where does that door go to?" he asked.

"To the Weasleys shop where we have major meetings," the boy who lived explained. "So people that graduated can still join us and Dumbledore won't eavesdrop, or he'll have a harder time doing so."

There was along pause then Harry said, "Wait until everyone else comes then I'll explain what's been going on to everyone."

They didn't have to wait long; it was only a few minutes before other members started crowding into the large room.

The talking died down as Harry stood up. Both of the Weasleys were surprised because last time they had been there last year Harry needed a whistle to get everyone to listen to him.

"OK before I teach you a different curse or whatever today I think we should talk about the odd things that have been happening lately, plus inform Ron and Ginny about it," Harry said. "Right, well I guess pretty much different students have been attacked. One was found dead while the others just vanished, but not without leaving a scene behind."

"Not to mention," Hermione piped up. "That you said you saw a second version of me then Madam Pince claimed to see another you."

Harry nodded and said, "That too. Be careful who you're with. So far there's been no apparent connection between the people that were attacked."

"Yeah," Lavender said. "Then there were those two ghosts that appeared on Halloween. The male one tried to attack people while the female stopped them."

Harry went silent at that. He hadn't told anyone about his dreams but he knew now that those two were defiantly the ones he had dreamed about, meaning they were just as real as the burned handprint that was still on his arm from awhile ago.

Discussion about this went on for awhile before Harry said, "Alright that's enough. Today we're going to be starting the freezing curse. It's like the leg-locker curse and the full-body-bind curse but it's strong. The person literally freezes and cannot move until someone takes the spell off of them. It'll be handy in your fighting a death eater, trust me on that. It also lasts longer then the other two petrifying spells I mentioned before. The incantation is Frozicius, yes it's similar to the Glacius spell but different at the same time. You can work in pairs to help each other but do not cast this on another person at first."

A few people nodded and everyone split into pairs to do the spells. Meanwhile Harry made his way over to Ron and Ginny and said, "We've done a lot of spells already. They're constantly getting harder so maybe we should start out at the beginning with you guys."

Ginny glared at him and said, "So now you think we're unable to do anything just because we were locked up for awhile?!"

"Where the hell did you get that?" Harry growled. "No I meant that it's easier for everyone to start at the beginning and work their way up."

"Oh," she said and looked at her wand again.

Harry shot her an odd look then said to himself, "Jesus things just keep getting more confusing..."

Harry decided to stay in the room after the meeting to do the last bit of his homework; he didn't want to hear all the hustle and bustle of the Gryffindor common room just yet.

He leaned over a pile of books, looking up information of Moonstones once again. He was going to let Snape get the better of him on the same topic twice. Oh no, this would be O standard.

He yawned loudly and looked at the picture of the stone in the book that was in front of him. In his tiredness he thought he saw the stone twist shapes and change, but in reality he was just extremely tired.

"Harry?" Hermione's voice came and her hand was placed on his shoulder. "Are you ok?"

He jerked up and looked at her then said, "Yeah, I'm just really tired."

"Well I'm not surprised, you've been working on this since the meeting ended and it's already 1:00am!" she said.

Harry looked at the clock that had appeared on the wall and said, "Damn, you do realize one thing right?"

"What?" Hermione said then gasped and answered her own question. "Even Prefect's were supposed to be in bed by 11, only the Head boy and girl have permission to be out at any time at night."

"And I don't have my invisibility cloak," Harry said as he stood up, knocking over the next books and stuffing his parchment (neatly) into his pocket. "If we want to get back up on time we'll have to dodge almost everything."

Hermione nodded nervous and opened the door slightly then gasped and closed it again, pressing her head against the door to hear when the person was gone.

"Who was it?" he asked.

"Filch," she replied.

"That's not a good omen. He should be the Death one, not the Grim," Harry said and pushed the door open lightly and looked out. "OK, let's go." He grabbed her arm and they both started running down the hallway.

Suddenly there was a hissing sound behind them and only too late did the two realize that Harry had stepped on Mrs. Norris's tail. The cat narrowed her eyes at them and went streaking off to find Filch.

"Damn, stupid cat," Harry growled and they continued to run away from the scene of the 'crime'.

They managed to get up a few sets of stairs when they heard two people talking. They recognized it as Professors Evelyn and McGonagall.

The two shot each other a panicked look and hid behind a suit of armor, then waited until the two female Professors were gone, checked for anymore coming their way then continued running up.

"Come on, come on," Hermione was whispering under her breath.

"Snape," Harry said suddenly, seeing their potions Professor down the hall. He then grabbed her hand and pulled her into the closest hiding place, the broom closet.

"I can't see anything," Hermione said as he closed the door.

"We don't need to, as long as we can hear," he replied and tried to move some but the closet was just too small, they were pushed up against each other with very little moving privileges.

"I think he's gone," Harry whispered after a minute.

"Just wait, you never know with Snape," Hermione said.

They both looked at each other and Harry said with a smirk, "Interesting position we've got ourselves in now huh?"

She laughed and nodded then all of a suddenly the doorknob turned and the door flew open. Hermione had squeaked with surprise and grabbed a hold of Harry and he just stared in horror.

"Well what do we have here?" Professor Snape asked with an evil smile on his face, looking like his birthday had come early. "You know Prefects aren't supposed to be out this late. Let alone in a broom closet snogging."

Their eyes widened and they realized that with their current position that looked like exactly what they had been doing.

"But we weren't," Hermione started.

"I don't want to hear it Granger," he snapped. "50 points from Gryffindor each. Get back to your common room." With that he walked off.

"That's it?" Hermione asked.

"No it's not, I know exactly what he's going to do," Harry said as they stumbled out of the closet. "What?" She asked.

"Snape has a habit with gossip don't you think? That is the reason Lupin resigned," Harry said.

Hermione got a look of terror on her face and said, "Oh no..."

The second they stepped into the Great Hall the next morning whispers and eyes followed the two of them. Cho shot Hermione a look that made her glad looks couldn't kill and Malfoy looked like he was having the time of his life.

They walked over to the Gryffindor table where an angry looking Ron was eating beside Lavender. They sat across from him and he said right away, "Why didn't you tell me you two were dating? I don't care but I think as your best friend I should be informed..."

"What?" Hermione asked.

"We're not dating!" Harry said. "Then why were you two snogging in a broom closet last night?" Lavender asked, catching a few people's attention.

"We weren't," Hermione said but her cheeks turned a red that could rival even Ron's.

"We were trying to get back up to the common room without being caught but Snape was right in front of us so we hid in there but he found us," Harry explained.

"That's honestly what happened?" Ron asked.

"Yes," they both said together.

"Well at least I know you weren't lying to me," he said. "I believe you but the rest of the school won't..."

"Don't we know it," Harry said and Hermione put her head in her hands and shook it violently.

The whispers continued to follow them, for more then just that day.

Author's Insane Notes

Well I'm proud of myself; I did what I set out to all my readers! Lol! Most of you probably thought I uploaded the chapter to a different story eh? I didn't mention anything about it being a dream at first so I could see who I would mess up. Anyways...

OK I'm sorry the wait for this chapter was so long, but school's been murder. I honestly haven't had time to do much plus I put that one-shot up. But really I had to finish this in the morning before I went to school! I won't torture you by waiting for Jess to beta this but I will be putting up the better version of it later on.

So please don't pick at the many spelling and grammar mistakes, they WILL be fixed, promise.

Anyways I'll get to the reviews and all. Thank you to everyone! I couldn't keep writing if it wasn't for you guys!

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333,halfevil – lol thanks

klnolan – ok then

moniqueagain – Thank you, I plan on keeping this going

Lily Channel Evans Potter – Well I updated soon from when YOU reviewed

Jess: And so ends another chapter... that was really long. Anyway it was good but I found LOTS of mistakes in it but meh what are you going to do, eh? Good chapter though... Heh... snogging in the closet.

Krystal: Well meh yourself, i fixed some mistakes in your little note right there so HA! Yeah that was pointless...

Now if nobodies noticed the other reason I really didn't get this chapter up faster was because I was working on my one shot called 'Mama Will Hold Me" in tribute of the three year anniversary of the attacks on America.

Even though I'm Canadian I still think we should honour that day...the word anniversary doesn't really describe it very good...it makes it sound happy when it wasn't.

To all my American reviewers or anyone else who was touched deeply by what happened three years ago on September 11, 2001 that story goes out to all of you!

You know as odd as it sounds, when I wrote the part of the fic just before Harry died and was talking to Hermione and Krystal on the phone I was listening to the song that was at the end and I actually did start crying. I know I'm such a sap...

Replies to reviews from "Mama Will Hold Me"

Destined Enchantress – You're right, so I changed the chapter a bit, where the song was. There's more mentions of the war.

Athenakitty – a few of Harry's remains? Oh I don't know, would it have been possible? He was on the...what did they say was the last accessible floor in class...the 91st? I never thought about that honestly so I don't know...

Ginny Weasley – Thank you

Maurader-Magick33 – I actually should have written this in the fic but the reason he could apparate away had a tint of irony to it. You see the American Ministry of Magic put up anit-apparation wards to keep wizard terrorists OUT of the building. It worked but in the process if something happened inside any wizards or witch could not get out. There were so many ironies that day it wasn't even funny. Like the pad fireproof walls that were blown away by the plane...well in the north tower it caused the stairways in the core to be blocked by fire but a man broke through the wall from an elevator, saving himself and others. Ironic isn't it?

Holimontski – Thank you

Rubberduckie713 – You welcome. I was 12 that day too. I know I can't REALLY understand what people went through that day but I can try. I know it was sickening hearing that some people were celebrating! We had news paper clippings of everything on our classroom wall and there was one wit Bin Laden on it...none of us liked the picture looking at us so a couple of guys in our class...well...yeah lets just say it didn't look like him afterwards...

Colorguardbaby23 – Thank You

Amity-Star – Wow...that you. I made that fic to try and have an impact on people that read it. I'm glad I got at least one person!

Noriko Fujita – Thanks Lily! (lol) Hope you liked the song if it worked for you. You can still write. Lucky is so strange too...

Once again sorry for the long wait and please review!

Krystal Lily Potter