Yugi: Chapter 14.

Kitty: I WANT THE SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS MOVIE TO COME OUT!!!

Lina: You have to wait 'til December, Kitty.

Kitty: (cries) I WANT IT NOW!

Lina: (sweatdrop) Focus on the fic, will ya?

Kitty: (sniff) Oh...okay.

Kara: R&R!

Chapter Fourteen:

Queer Findings and Quidditch

Diana, for once, actually obeyed Dumbledore and did not go back to see the mirror again. Not only was he probably right that madness could befall her if she went back, Diana could barely stand the thought of sitting in front of the mirror with the feeling of her heart being ripped out every time she looked at her mother's smile.

Soon, the winter holidays were over, and all of Diana's friends came back. Bakura ended up telling Yugi, Seto and Marik about Diana finding out about him, only before having to run in order to escape the fury of a very angry Pharaoh.

It was only after they were able to calm the two spirits down a little did Diana, Ron, Hermione and Harry meet Atem officially.

"So you were the Pharaoh?" Harry said, grinning, "That's so cool!"

Atem blushed. "Yeah...kind of hard to believe, ne?"

"Of course it is," Bakura muttered, "I mean, how a little pipsqueak like you could be Pharaoh is beyond me..."

Atem whacked Bakura in the back of the head.

"Just like how a stupid baka like you could be called the King of Thieves is beyond me," he muttered in return.

The four British students were then told about Marik's Millennium Rod, the Millennium Eye Bakura had stolen, the spirits' forgotten memory, and Seto's unclear role with Ancient Egypt.

Seto was not very happy about the subject being brought up, and he wasn't very happy about the Yamis coming out either. He also kept protesting that he had anything to do with "these Egyptian fairy tales."

"I have nothing to do with this, and that's final," Seto growled.

"You do have something to do with this," Atem repeated for the fifth time, "Why else would you have been shown on that tablet with those Egyptian clothes?"

"That was not me!" Seto snapped.

"Was too."

"Was not!"

"Was too."

"Was not!"

"Was too."

"Was not!"

"Was too."

"Was not!"

After the two dueling enemies had finally finished their quarrel, Hermione had given Diana and Bakura a lecture about going into the library after dark, and then put her head down on the table in disappointment at the news that they still hadn't found anything out about Flamel yet.

Diana and Bakura looked at one another in annoyance. They'd done everything they could...they'd looked everywhere...

On top of everything else, Oliver Wood had been putting a lot of extra pressure on Diana, Harry and the rest of the Gryffindor Quidditch team, making them practice through rain and snow without any loss of enthusiasm.

The Weasley twins and Diana had complained that Oliver had become obsessed, but Harry reminded Diana that it would been the first time in seven years that they could actually catch up the Slytherin team, which did indeed make Diana work that much harder.

During one particularly muddy practice, Wood let out some bad news to the team when he lost his temper with Fred and George.

"Will you two stop messing around!" he yelled at them, "That's exactly the sort of thing that'll lose us the match! Snape's refereeing this time, and he'll be looking for an excuse to make Gryffindor lose points!"

Diana had been flying in circles, but right then she dive-bombed right into Harry.

"Snape's refereeing?" she repeated as a squeal after making sure Harry was alright, "What in the hell's name would the Potions master be doing to referee a Quidditch game?"

"To favor Slytherin, of course," Harry grumbled.

The other players began to complain too.

"Hey, I can't do anything about it," Wood said, "We'll just have to make sure that Snape doesn't have any excuses to pick on us."

Diana frowned. Since when would Snape try and referee a Quidditch game? Was he looking for an excuse to hurt Harry?

Seto, Atem and Marik were chatting away in Japanese over at the Gryffindor table, secretly talking about Bakura.

"Fitting Dare-kun would take a liking to him," Seto muttered stiffly, "I mean, wouldn't you think she gets herself in enough trouble without adding the King of Thieves?"

"True," Atem said with a smile, "But I must say, I've never seen the Tomb Robber this friendly. He's never really taken a liking to people before..."

Marik nodded. "But maybe that's what he needs right now...and you never know, it might be what Dare-kun needs right now."

Seto snorted. "Wishful thinking, Marik..."

Right then, Harry and Diana came on over to them with Ron and Hermione and explained about the practice.

"Don't play," Atem said at once.

"Say you're ill," Seto added.

"Pretend to break your leg," Atem suggested.

"Really break your leg," Seto corrected.

"There's no way Harry can do that," Diana noted, "There's no reserve Seeker, so if Harry backs out, Gryffindor can't play at all."

"Then you better play, Harry-kun," Marik said, "But we'll all be there to make sure nothing happens."

"Thanks, guys," Harry said in relief.

Right then, Neville came hopping into the Great Hall, his legs together thanks to a Leg-Locker curse, and it seemed a miracle to Diana that he'd been able to get anywhere without falling over. It was then that she noticed Ryou helping him.

The Slytherins laughed at his arrival, but Hermione went over to him and performed the counter-curse, making Neville's legs spring apart.

Ryou helped Neville get to his feet, who was trembling slightly.

"Are you okay, Neville?" Harry asked.

"What happened?" Marik asked Ryou.

"Malfoy," Ryou replied in disgust, "I'd been working in the library, when I saw Malfoy and Neville meet outside. Apparently, Malfoy had been looking for someone to try the Leg-Locker Curse on, and Neville was the first one he met at the time."

Diana growled. "Malfoy is really toeing the line there..."

Ryou nodded. "Right. I'm going over to McGonagall-sensei about this..."

Neville's eyes went wide, and he shook his head frantically.

"I don't want more trouble," he mumbled.

"C'mon, Neville, you've got to stand up to him sometime," Atem said.

"Malfoy's used to walking all over people," Ron agreed, "But that doesn't mean you should lie down flat and make it easy for him!"

"There's no need to tell me I'm not brave!" Neville choked, looking about to cry, "Malfoy's done plenty of that."

Diana took a Chocolate Frog out of her pocket, unwrapped it and handed it to Neville in an effort to try and make him feel better.

"You're worth twelve of Malfoy, Neville," she told him, "Hey, the Sorting Hat put you in Gryffindor, didn't it? That proves it, 'cause where's Malfoy? In stinking, sulky, stupid Slytherin...er, no offense, Marik."

"None taken as it's the truth," Marik said casually.

Neville gave Diana a weak smile. "Thanks...I think I'll go to bed...d'you want the card, Dare?"

Diana took the Wizard Card and looked at it as Neville walked away.

"Dumbledore," she said with a smile.

"That's the first one I ever got," Harry noted.

Diana read the old text fondly, before her sky-blue eyes shot wide open, and she gasped.

"I FOUND HIM!" Diana squealed, "I FOUND FLAMEL!"

"What?" Hermione, Atem and Ryou said at the same time.

"Listen! 'Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for his discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicolas Flamel!' Nicholas Flamel was an alchemist! That means he worked on the Sorcerer's Stone!"

"The what?" Marik, Seto and Harry said together.

"Honestly, don't you guys read?" Hermione said indignantly.

"No need," Atem teased, "That's what Neko-chan is there for."

Hermione whacked the past Pharaoh in the back of the head, a vein popping in her temple.

"Don't be dense," she growled.

Diana rolled her eyes.

"Focus, you guys. The Sorcerer's Stone is a stone that can transform any metal into gold, and produce the Elixer of Life, which can make someone immortal."

"No wonder Snape wants it then," Harry said, "Never-ending gold and immortality? That's nuts!"

"Immortality is overrated," Bakura said as he took his Hikari's place, "The future never really is as fun as you'd think it would be."

"So is never-ending cash," said Seto, "You run out of things to do with it after a while."

"I second those," Atem added, "As I've learned them both the hard way."

"But not everyone knows that," Marik said, "Most mortals would die to have those two things, which is probably why there were alchemists in the first place."

"But where'd you learn all that stuff, Dare?" Ron asked, frowning slightly, "I've never even heard of this Sorcerous Stone."

"Sorcerer's Stone," Diana corrected, "And I read it in a Muggle book of legends, and most of them were very accurate, actually."

"I should tell Kara-chan that," Marik said, "She's been wanting to see a unicorn ever since she found out I'd be a wizard...er, there are unicorns, right?"

Diana nodded. "Tell Kara that she can look for them as long as she wants, but not to be too disappointed if she doesn't find one, they're endangered."

Marik pouted. "Aw...and Kara-chan even told me to bring one home to her so she could finally have a magical pet...not that she doesn't have plenty of pets..."

Seto rolled his eyes. "I just hope Neko-chan kept Kisara away from Kara's cat Paprika..."

A day before the Quidditch match, all of Diana's friends finalized a plan they had to keep Harry out of trouble...and away from Snape.

Marik would stay near the teacher's seating, in case they needed to alert the professors, while Ryou was positioned near the exit of the Quidditch stadium, and toward the Forbidden Forest, so that if they needed help, they could get Hagrid from his cabin.

On the other side of the stadium, Seto would be keeping a lookout behind the door of the Quidditch supply closet, near where Snape was going to be refereeing, thinking that in the event of having to stop him in more extreme measures, Seto would be both strong and tall enough to hold him down. Not only that, but he could throw a Quaffle or two at Snape's head if he was bothering Harry.

Back in the stands, Ron, Yugi and Hermione were to watch the Quidditch match, and wave a "Go Gryffindor" banner if something fishy was going on.

Harry was pretty sure this would work, but Diana wasn't. She didn't know that much about Snape...or what he might know that they didn't know about...

Diana tried to shove those pessimistic thoughts out of her head as she took off into the air.

She looked around to check that all of her friends were in their positions, and when she did, she saw something that made her heart leap.

She flew over to Harry. "Dumbledore's watching, Harry!"

Harry blinked, and then his face broke into a grin. "Wow...how lucky are we!"

Diana nodded. "Snape couldn't possibly do anything to hurt you with Dumbledore here..."

And in her heart, she silently hoped that she was right.

A few minutes later, Yugi looked up through his binoculars to look at Diana, who was flying away from Marcus Flint with the Quaffle, and then at Harry, who was flying around the Quidditch field in his search for the Snitch.

"So far, so good..." he said under his breath.

Hermione bit her lip, wringing her hands in worry. "D'you really think this'll work?"

"Of course it will," Ron said in a half-convincing, half-unsure tone, "With the others scattered around the stadium plus Dumbledore, nothing could..."

"OW!"

Someone had poked Yugi in the back of the head, and when he turned around, he saw it was Malfoy.

"Oh sorry, Starhead, didn't see you there."

Yugi glared at Malfoy simply, but didn't say anything as he looked back up through his binoculars.

Malfoy, however, exchanged a grin with Crabbe and Goyle.

"Wonder how long it'll take Potter to fall off his broom this time? Anyone want a bet? How about you, Starhead?"

Yugi gritted his teeth, but made himself watch Harry as Snape awarded Hufflepuff a penalty.

"You know how I think they choose people for the Gryffindor Quidditch team?" Malfoy asked loudly, "It's people they feel sorry for. See, there's Potter, who has no parents, then the Weasleys, who have no money...you should be on the team, Starhead, you've got no brains, no matter how much hair you've got."

Yugi shot up from his seat immediately, his wand pointed at Malfoy's throat.

"Maybe you should try out for Quidditch too, then," he said softly, "You have no life...and that could be literal, if you don't leave now."

"Is that a threat?" asked Malfoy, an amused smirk appearing on his face.

"Call it what you like, bastard," Yugi said quietly, "The only foolish thing it can be called is a joke."

"Ooh, I'm so scared," Malfoy said sarcastically, before saying in a shrill tone, "Ahhh, Starhead's gonna hurt me! He's gonna chop my head off with his rainbow hair of death! Run away, run away!"

His two thugs laughed trollishly. Yugi glared, but spoke calmly.

"That's all you can say in your defense? How sad."

"Yugi, don't," Hermione said, "Just leave it, it's not worth it!"

Yugi smiled at Hermione in a devilish sort of way. "Don't worry about it, Mione-kun, I won't hurt him...much."

"You know something, Starhead?" Malfoy said with a subtle smirk, "I really am surprised you're calling me a bastard."

"Why's that?" Yugi asked coldly, "I'm just calling you what you are."

Malfoy shrugged. "Well, at least I'm a pureblood bastard, unlike your Mudblood bitch back home in China."

Yugi snapped. Before Malfoy knew what was going on, Yugi lunged at him, and began punching every bit of him his fists could find.

"Yugi, NO!" Hermione immediately tried to pull her friend off of Malfoy, "Yugi-!"

"WE WON!"

Hermione stared at Ron in shock. Ron was looking through Yugi's binoculars, screaming his head off.

"HARRY'S WON! WE WON! GRYFFINDOR WON! GRYFFINDOR'S IN THE LEAD!"

Ron hugged Hermione, losing all dignity whatsoever, and the two of them jumped up and down, screaming in excitement.

Harry had caught the Snitch!

But that's not all...

Thanks to Yugi, Malfoy would later be in the Hospital Wing for a black eye and a broken jaw.

Meanwhile, Ryou had been arguing back and forth with his Yami about whether to leave his position yet or not, when he suddenly heard a rustle through the bushes.

Ryou turned to see a cloaked figure making his way into the darkness.

/Yami.../ he thought in fright, /What's that?/

-I don't know,- Bakura replied, -Let me check it out.-

Bakura took his Hikari's place, before following the clocked figure through the brush.

There was someone else there besides the cloaked figure. Seeing it shiver and hearing its frightened stutters, Bakura realized that it was Quirrel.

"D-don't why you w-wanted t-to meet here of all p-places, Severus..."

-Severus?- Bakura repeated toward his Hikari in question.

/I think he means Snape!/ Ryou told him.

-Fitting,- Bakura thought with a smirk.

"Oh, I thought we'd keep this private," Snape said icily, "Students aren't supposed to know about the Sorcerer's Stone, after all."

-He knows,- Bakura thought.

/Oh, damn,/ Ryou whimpered.

Quirrel kept mumbling to himself, but Snape interrupted him.

"So, Quirrel," he said coldly, "Have you found out how to get past that beast of Hagrid's yet?"

"B-b-b-but Severus, I..."

"You don't want me as your enemy, Quirrel," Snape whispered, taking a step toward him.

-By Ra Almighty, this guy's almost worse than I was,- Bakura thought.

/Almost?/ Ryou repeated indignantly.

"I-I-I don't what you-"

"You know perfectly well what I mean."

-C'mon,- Bakura said, -I wasn't that bad!-

/Yes you were!/ Ryou snapped, /After everything you did to Yugi and all of them...Snape's almost better! After sending them to the Graveyard.../

-Ryou.-

/Joining Marik.../

-Ryou!-

/Trying to beat Yugi and send him to the Shadow Realm.../

-RYOU! Shut up, I can't hear what they're saying!-

"...your little bit of hocus pocus. I'm waiting."

Bakura blinked as he focused back on the two teachers' conversation, and Quirrel stammered in response.

"B-but I d-d-don't-"

"Very well," Snape cut in, "We'll have another little chat soon...when you've had time to think about where your loyalties lie."

And with that, Snape threw the cloak over his head and ran out of the forest.

-Something tells me this will be of interest to your friends,- Bakura said to Ryou.

Ryou nodded, before taking his Yami's place and running back toward the school.

Later that evening, Ryou told the others about what his Yami and he had seen, and, like Bakura had assumed, they were interested.

"So we were right about the Sorcerer's Stone," Diana said with a grin.

"I suppose Snape is trying to force Quirrel to help him get it," Harry said.

"That's what I was thinking," Ryou agreed, "He asked Quirrel if he knew how to get past Fluffy."

"That's a sure sign he's up to no good," Ron said.

"But what about this 'hocus pocus' thing Bakura heard a small bit about?" Marik asked with a frown, "Does that mean Quirrel's up to no good too?"

"I don't think so," Ryou replied, "My Yami and I think that there might be other things besides Fluffy that are guarding the Stone...enchantments, that sort of thing..."

"Of course!" Hermione said in understanding, "Quirrel probably did some kind of Anti-Dark Arts spell, and Snape wouldn't know how to get past it!"

"And to find out, Snape's trying to scare Quirrel into telling him how to past his challenge," Diana finished in triumph.

"So the Stone's only safe as long Quirrel stands up to Snape?" Seto said in alarm.

"It'll be gone by the end of the week," Marik muttered.

Kitty: That's it!

Yugi: YES! I gave Malfoy a black eye AND a broken jaw! Uh-huh, uh-huh, who's the King, uh-huh...

Everyone Else: (sweatdrop)

Kitty: (types on her computer) Let's see...REVIEWS! Kani's first. (smiles) Thank you so much. I'm very flattered you think so highly of me.

Lina: (looks over Kitty's shoulder) Next is lily queen. I see you liked most of the chapter, seeing as you've copied a lot of it into your review.

Yugi: (grins) Which is kewl.

Kitty: (smiles) Yeah, it is a tiny bit. That won't be the pairing...

Lina: Whew!

Kitty: ...but Bakura and Diana also have secret links, like Marik and Diana do.

Lina: (glares) Should I be worried, Hikari?

Kitty: Not at all.

Lina: Good.

Yugi: Uh...back to reviews?

Lina: Right. (looks at Kitty's computer screen) Last, but certainly not least, is ENGIE!

Kitty: (grins) I luv Egypt and Rome! (although I like Greece better, not as much fighting...) Anyway, I'll email you soon, after I finish with my After-School Night thingamajig and get through interims... (pouts) If I'm not eligible, I can't be on the Forensics Team...which means NO ACTING since I didn't make the school play...WAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

Yugi: KITTY! (hugs her) Kitty, it's okay, it's okay...

Kitty: (continues crying)

Lina: (sweatdrop) R&R!