Atlantislove: I'm back! - Took quite a while to update, yea? Well, I've been quite busy lately. Anyway, hope you enjoy this chappy!

Disclaimer: Once AGAIN, I do not own Harry P.

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Dumbledore still trusted Snape, but not entirely. He still has his own doubts against him, and had a slight fear that maybe Snape had not yet recovered fully from his previous tragedy.

-Flashback-

"Hand over POTTER!!!" Snape sneered as he started losing his patience. The fiery red eyes were filled with anger, fury, and most of all, hatred. The cold dark cave made those eyes even colder and hollow like an endless pit of fire.

Dumbledore however kept on a neutral face and did not even glimpse at the greasy headed professor. In a quick second, Snape was seen falling onto his knees, grasping his head as if it was about to explode.

"Sorry" murmured Dumbledore.

Then, a cold high-pitched voice spoke.

"I WILL AVENGE….avenge….avenge…" and slowly, it faded away.

The spirit of Lord Voldermort had fled.

-End of Flashback-

Harry was not the only one suspicious, for Dumbledore was almost certain that Snape was about to betray the Order again. But this time, with full purpose.

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Excited like the other houses, the Gryffindor Quidditch team had fitted extra practices into any spare moment they could find. So, this left Harry with very little time to ponder on his thoughts of Snape's weird and secretive behaviour, as well as his occasional absences and injuries.

Harry mounted onto his firebolt, and was about to kick off hard into the sky when,

"Harry! Ron!" Hermione puffed. She had brought someone with her. "I'd like you guys to meet Natalie! She's just came from a school in the mountains of China."

"Hi. Nice to….meet you" said Natalie in her quiet Chinese accent.

Both Harry and Ron smiled and said 'Hi'.

"I was thinking that maybe you guys could ask Angelina to get a day off from training. You know, to show Natalie around the school." Hermione added hastily, still slightly out of breath.

"You two! COME ON! Lots of training, and ONLY TRAINING!!!!" screamed an annoyed team captain, Angelina.

"Well, gotta go." Harry smirked, winked at Natalie, then he was of the ground, soaring into the clear blue sky. Ron followed soon after.

-Hermione's POV-

Jealousy had unexpectedly swelled up inside me.

No.no.no. I do NOT have feelings for HIM. No way!

She assured herself, though quite uncertainly, straightened up to lead Natalie off the Quidditch pitch.

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