K: Alright, alright, I know this chapter is very, very, very late and I'm really sorry. I have a whole bunch of reasons why. Mainly it was because my computer died whenever I opened Microsoft word and ate Chapter 14 not once but twice. So yes this is the third draft. All in all I ended up having to get a new computer as well as the fact that I lost the majority of my chapters for all my fics. Some of them I managed to save before my computer completely had a melt down, unfortunately this was not one of them. I am sorry if there are mistakes or if it is poorly written, I hurried with this chapter in order to get it out faster for you. Also I have one other thing to say before I talk more specifically about the chapter, if you ever, ever, ever want to get in touch with me or urge me to work fast comment on my lj (www. Liv ejou rnal .com/~neko_kurisutaru) ((without the spaces)) I can pretty much guarantee that I will reply to requests commented there than an email requests. Anyway hope you enjoy the chapter!

Now I'm warning you ahead of time, this chapter OVERLAPS with the previous chapter, alright? So hopefully there will be no confusion. ^_^

Disclaimer: K does not own Yugioh or Harry Potter, she does not own any characters from either. Please do not sue her. ^_^

Chapter 14

"Harry. Hey…Harry!" A familiar insistent voice broke into the boy's peaceful sleep. "Harry. C'mon wake up!" The poking which until this time had gone unnoticed increase in force and frequency. The poke was placed on Harry's ribs. With a soft groan Harry's green eyes flickered open, seeing only darkness. "C'mon Harry! Get up!" Ron whispered as loudly as he dared.

"What…." Harry began breaking off into a groan as he rubbed his eyes gingerly. Reluctantly he sat up trying to rub some sense into himself by rubbing his face vigorously. "What," Harry said again with a yawn, "is going on?"

"Well," Ron stated coherently, much too coherently considering the time leaving Harry to believe he had planned this, "it is the beginning of the new term; I thought perhaps we should give the kitchen a bit of a visit. You know just to say hi." Ron gave Harry a grin.

"Just to say hi…" Harry repeated his head still a bit foggy.

"Yes, just an idea I had…." Ron continued.

"You had the idea that we should go visit the school's kitchen at," Harry glanced at his watch, he could just barely make out the hands, "two-thirty in the morning. Ron, you truly are amazing." With that Harry began to lie back down.

"Harry!" Ron frowned. "Hermione is probably down waiting for us."

Harry raised an eyebrow. "Oh? How did she find out about your little idea?" Harry queried, like it or not he was now awake, probably for good this time.

"I sent Pig to her." Ron replied simply, with a slightly proud look on his face.

"You sent Pig to her…" Harry once more repeated what Ron had said. This time with clear disbelief in his voice. "Now, how did you get Pig here? Better yet, what possessed you to send Pig to Hermione at this hour?" Harry tugged on his robes, realized correctly that Ron apparently was not going to allow him anymore sleep at this time.

"Pig came to me actually, little bugger kept flying up around the ceiling and then dive-bombing me, anyway when it finally occurred to me that he was hungry, I realized that I was hungry and thought…" Ron trailed seeing how Harry appeared to be rather annoyed.

"You thought we could slip out and get some food from the kitchen." Despite Harry's annoyance at being woken up at such an hour he wasn't one to refuse and adventure, especially one that had poked him awake at two-thirty in the morning. Harry pulled on his sneakers, and then in an after thought grabbed his glasses. 'Couldn't get too far without those,' Harry thought to himself.

Together Harry and Ron managed to go down the dark stairs without stumbling, too much. They entered the dim common room; the only light was from the fire which was burning at a very low rate due to the charm that had been placed on it. There sitting by the fire was a wide awake and apparently very grumpy Hermione.

As soon as she noticed the two boys she hopped to her feet. "One night! One Night at Hogwarts, not even, and already we are sneaking out! I swear one of these days we really will go and get ourselves expelled!" Hermione cried quieting only when both Harry and Ron let out an equally loud chorus of shhhhhs. "Well let's go then." Hermione muttered, knowing that it was almost a fact that no matter what she said or did, Harry and Ron wouldn't listen or go back to bed now.

Luckily for this trio Harry happened to have a cloak which made them invisible, otherwise it would have been risky, even more so than it already was, for them to sneak out no matter where their destination was. They slid out of the opening covered by the Fat Lady's painting, as usual she demanded sleepily, "Who's there?" and as usual they said nothing and remained as quiet as possible as they slunk through the dark silent hallways of Hogwarts.

Thankfully they came across no stray ghosts, animals, or professors. Even so they were all nervous; it seemed strange that they didn't run across one person…or thing… in the hallways even if it was the beginning of the new term. In fact it would seem as though people and creatures would be more restless at this time than any other, other than perhaps before vacations when it seemed as though everyone in the school were on edge. Still things were pretty calm, the only noise that could be heard were the flickering of lights, some being candles, and the groans of the stair cases changing places as they did periodically. Also if you listened closely you could hear spiders or other creatures rustling around in the dark corners.

So for the most part the three managed to make their way through the hallways without much trouble, only most part because of the instance where Hermione accidentally tripped Ron nearly sending him into a stair case that had chosen the most opportune moment to move. That naturally, caused Harry to cover his mouth the muffle his laughter at Ron's outlandish attempts at making Hermione feel sorry.

Needless to say they did manage to get to the painting which concealed the kitchen and managed to enter the kitchen by using the old method of tickling. Squinting Harry watching the house elves bustling around, it appeared as though they were preparing breakfast…already. Preparing breakfast at three in the morning? Harry thought fighting a yawn, do they ever sleep?

Hermione was thinking the same thing; clicking her tongue she turned to an elf that came to greet them with a smile. "Don't you ever sleep?" She asked them kindly. The elf as if remembering her tirades of previous years about freedom gave her a suspicious looks as the other elves began crowding around them.

"Harry Potter, sir!" Harry look up as heard a familiar voice, it was Dobby. The little house elf came running from who knew where in the kitchen excitement in every prancing step. Dobby was wearing his old tea cozy, some socks, and a tie. These objects which appeared mismatched and horrible to human eyes were quite beautiful to the house elf clothes being a symbol of his freedom.

Harry greeted Dobby kindly if not a bit cautiously. Harry had been the one to free Dobby from his former owners, the Malfoy family, but that was another story. Also Dobby had in return helped Harry out of some tough scrapes…as well as into some scrapes, Harry thought with a wry smile. Harry, Hermione, and Ron all listened while Dobby filled them in on how things were going. They learned that the house elves have to get up early to fix the meals and stay up late to clean up after the meals, but none of them minded. Hard work, after all, was what they were made for and what they did best, in their opinions anyway.

So the three students spent about half an hour in the kitchen, whether they wanted to or not they left with arms full of cakes remaining from last nights dinner and all sorts of breakfast snacks which were being set up for the morning meal. It was much more difficult to go back to their beds than it was to come to the kitchen. Probably because they now had armfuls of treats to watch out for, as well as the lightening sky meaning the school was much more active than in the very early morning hours. Then of course there was the fact that it was much trickier to get into the Gryffindor rooms than out. After all they needed the password to get in and in order to give the password to the Fat Lady they needed to either tell her the password and invoke her curiosity as to why a ghost would need a password, or reveal themselves, and get her accusing looks for sometime.

They settled for getting out from under the cloak out of the paintings sight range, and walking up giving her the excuse that one of them hadn't felt well and the others felt it was necessary to go with that person to Madame Pompfrey. The painting took their excuse with a raised eyebrow yet said nothing.

Five minutes later a very tired Harry and Ron slipped into their dorm room as quietly as possible. Harry set his glasses down and slipped into bed with a sigh, hoping to get at least some more sleep before forced to get up to deal with the morning classes. Across the room amethyst eyes were looking curiously through a small crack in the curtains surrounding the beds.

"I wonder what they were up to?" Yugi mumbled quietly.

~Probably out for a bit of mischief~ Yami replied from the corridors of Yugi's mind.

~*~

The next morning Yugi watched as all three of his English friends yawned and dozed over their morning portion of oatmeal, toast, and tea. "Late night?" Yugi asked pointedly, with a teasing smile.

"All the excitement," Harry replied, "it can really take it out of you."

"I imagine," Hermione put in, "you three must be quite tired as well?" She gestured at Malik, Ryou, and Yugi.

The three foreigners said nothing but continued eating their own breakfast. It was strange to see so many different types of breakfast foods, most of which were unfamiliar to them. Also, Yugi noticed, that the older students kept looking up at the enchanted ceiling as if expecting something to come falling out of the sky and onto their table….At this exact moment a golden colored cannonball landed in front of Yugi, causing his plate and glass to rattle precariously. Yugi blinked as the cannonball unfolded itself, "Sada!" Yugi cried not sure whether he should laugh or be mad.

"Oh good, the post is here." Hermione murmured as she reached out to stroke the barn owl gently. "Seems like your owl just came for a visit," Hermione told Yugi, smiling as Sada leaned into the stroke, clicking her beak softly.

Malik looked up and his eyes widened. There were hundreds of owls flying around the ceiling, ever so often dropping low enough to either land or drop something to the people below. Owls in Great Hall, ghosts, what next? Malik thought fighting the urge to rub his eyes.

"Just look at this day!" Ron groaned as he plopped down next to Yugi at breakfast the following morning. He was staring at the schedule in his hands; everyone else at the table appeared to have similar ones. Harry who had not yet looked at his gave Ron a quizzical look as he munched on some bacon. "We have History of Magic, Double Potions, and Divination!" Ron gave his schedule a good glare, as if hoping that it would change. It didn't.
Harry groaned as well, "Great the most boring class, the worst class, and a class were my death is predicted! Sounds like fun." Harry stated glumly.
"Death predictions?" Ryou asked cautiously as he too joined the others. He shook his white hair slightly and tilted his head very slightly. He listened as Harry, with some commentaries made my both Ron and Hermione, told Yugi and the others of Professor Trelawney and her expectant predictions of Harry's death each year using different methods of fortune telling.
"It sounds like she likes creating scenes." Malik stated.

Breakfast went off without a hitch, until Hermione made an observation. "Professor McGonagall isn't with the other teachers eating breakfast," Hermione frowned, "in fact I don't see her in the Great Hall at all, I haven't even seen her yet today."

Harry and Ron gawked at first Hermione and then the rest of the teachers. Sure enough their Transfiguration teacher was not present. Ryou, Yugi, and Malik didn't see what the big deal was. "She could just be sick." Yugi pointed out.

Hermione shook her head, "No, if it was a simple thing as a cold she would just go to the Hospital wing and get fixed up. No there must be something else going on!"

K: Alright that's it for now. Any comments, questions, or suggestions are welcome. The review responses chapter should be up within a day or two. Hope you enjoyed this chapter!

Here we are! Review responses time again already!

Vmr: Yes, there will be a yaoi version…eventually. Unfortunately, my computer died there by killing all documents I had written for it. ^-^; Still eventually it will be! ^-^

Cherry-San: …*thinks* Oh! Oh! I've read your fic Lovers Phoenix! I really like it! You've done a great job! Hai! There will be a yaoi version… but my computer has died…so…who knows how long it will be. ^-^; Yah ff.net can be…temperamental sometimes.

Ryou Bakura Obsessor: Me glad you're glad! ^__^; (alright so that was corny….^-^;;)

Behold the Void: Yes, I am trying to improve my writing. I believe that if you look at my first fanfic, and the latest writings, there is an improvement. Or even from the first chapter of this fic to the latest. Or at least I would like to think so. ^-^;

Yugi-closet-fan: Hello. Goodbye. ^-^

G.O.T. Nick: Hmm…maybe I should thank my reviewers more often. ^-^ Thanks for another review! Glad you're looking forward to the next chapter!

Sarah: Ahh yet, ff.net can be rather annoying at times. ^-^ I guess it must be hard to maintain a site like this. ^-^

Mage of Darkness: I'll try to improve chapter length. ^_^

Makina: Definitely, Yami-no-Yugi is very hot dueling. ^-^

Evergladelord: Good point, Yami was Pharaoh, but not stuck up…at least I don't think soo…. ^-^;

Sprinket: Alright, don't worry THIS story won't be Yaoi, but their will be a yaoi version of it on my website..eventually, for people who are yaoi-fans.

DragonMaiden1: Will do! ^-^ I'll check out your fic. ^_^

AliasForever: Gomen….. ^-^; I'll try to update faster!

Yana5: Perhaps…. *mischievous smile*

Lady Distain: I'm really sorry… I'll try to update more often…really I will. ^-^

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EternalBanditGirl: I'm happy you think it is interesting. ^_^ I try to create suspense…. It's nice to know its working…to a point anyway. XD

Behold the Void: Ahh, nothing but a little bruised pride. XD I can handle that…besides I get so few reviews that give me pointers to improve that I like getting them. ^-^ As to book five, I haven't come to a conclusion as to what if anything I will use from the book...

LadyJessy: I know… it did take awhile huh? Glad you like it.

Ooort: ^-^ Well. Why bother reading? Lol.

Sarah: Thank you! You probably did well!

Makina Kitsune: Ah don't worry; I have plans to give the plot a good kick to get it moving…after all what sort of story wouldn't have any voldemort plot? D Of course Yu-Gi-Oh stuff will happen as well. Don't worry more Malfoy/Malik clashes… they just work tooo well with each other to create scenes.

Yana5: Thanks. Please finish the next chapter or the whole story? o.0;

FireSenshi2: Right. I'll try. ^-^

NekoPlushie: Why thank you very much. ^___^ I love Yugi, but I couldn't argue with the fact that if I saw Yugi, I probably wouldn't think he was my age…. ^-^;

Spellhorn: ^__^ Glad you happy about it!

Lady Distain: Will do! ^-^

G.O.T. Nick: It does seem that way doesn't it? But then you never know…

HikariEryaviel: Soooorrrry…. ^-^; My writing style is short and sweet spurts… I can do plenty of short quick chapters, but try to do a long one and then it ends up being more difficult for me. ^-^; I'm trying though! XD I'm glad you liked that chapter!

FireSenshi2: Alright…will do. ^-^

Tsuki Koumori, Dragon Goddess: That will definitely be interesting. ^___^ I'm happy you like it!

EternalBanditGirl: Thank you!

gimeGohan: I'll try. ^_^

Sarah: Thank you ^_^

Ryou Bakura Obsessor: magnificent? ^___^ That makes me feel good about this fic, thank you for the compliment. ^-^

DHASN: I'm glad you liked it! I will! After all I don't want hammers coming after me…o.0;;;

Rogue solus: Thank you…I'll do my best.

Jaymalee: Maybe they will be… ^_^

Hermione06: I actually believe that Yami's (Yami-no-Yugi) name is unknown in the Ancient Egypt Arc, although I have never seen it so I am not quite sure. ^-^

Hikaru: I try to post a chapter a week, but unfortunately, this is not my only fic, and I'm have huge amounts of homework to deal with at the same time. I am trying to get the chapters out just as soon as I can. ^-^

Yami-Goku Pheonix: I would appreciate any help you can offer me, if you check my ff.net profile, it will have my livejournal address there, you can contact me there, and perhaps we could discuss writing. ^_^ Thank you for your offer.

Hine no Chikyuu: Thank you! ^_^

Behold the Void: Hmmm….dialogue huh? Hmmm… I'll pay closer attention to that.

Immortalis_Vespers: Thank you! There will be a yaoi version eventually, on my website.

Keiko C. Crawford: Thank you! I hope you like it!

ChaosDragon013: Really? Thanks for telling me! I'll be sure to fix that right away!

Lady Distain: Thanks. ^_^

LadyJessy: Thank you! ^-^; I'll try to update faster, but I can't promise anything.

Yami's-Girl: As a fellow Yaoi fan, here, here! ^_^

Makina: Ah, yes the 5th book. -_- It was the sort of book that would be good, if it wasn't in a series…like if it had been written by ANOTHER author as just a book I would like it, but because it was in the Harry Potter series, I knew how well she CAN write and just how, in my opinion, the 5th book paled in comparison with the rest.

Yami's-Girl: Sorry about that, ff.net was having a bit of trouble that day…pretty much everything uploaded that day had those.. ^_^;

Rogue solas: Yup, like that for me. Thanks!

HikariEryaviel: Thank you! Glad you like it.

LadyJessy: Gomen. ^_^; I'm trying to make the chapters longer really. ^_^

Ryou Bakura Obsessor: Thank you!

Behold the Void: Sorry about that, problem with ff.net, none of my doing, fixed it though.

Deranged black kitten of doom: Thank you. Will do. ^_^

AG the master: Thanks, I'm glad you like it that way.

Hikaru: I can try to post chapters more often, but I'm afraid that I have other multiple chapter fics that need working on as well. I will try to update more often though.

Arian Starswing: Sorry ff.net error, I fixed it. Glad you liked it. ^_^

Makina Kitsune: Yah..problem with ff.net. I will reload chapter to fix it. ^_^ Thanks.

Jaymalee: I'll fix it don't worry, problem with ff.net.

Mireiyuu: Why thank you… ^_^ I'll get right on that. XP

DarkDestiny15: Thank you! So it isn't all my fault.. .XD

Moon-Angelica: Did I? Oh darn it, typo. ^_^; I guess I rushed. Thank you!

DarkAngel72: ^_^ Don't worry Malik (Marik) will get plenty of mischief and interesting situations.

Autumn Ann Star: Thank you!

The Legendary Centurion: Accidental mistake, fixed it. Thank you… ^_^

Sayura: Thank you! ^_^

Pzanna: Alright. ^_^; This story won't be yaoi, although there will be a yaoi version of it on my website…someday, the ff.net story will remain yaoi-free.

Lady Distain: Ahh, jumped the gun a little bit. You'll find out whether or not Isis comes in.

Behold the Void: Thank you. I did not put them in the same house for my own convenience however. I looked at each character and weighed their attributes and decided which I felt they belonged.

Lyn/lin: Bakura is here. ^_^ No worries. Don't worry Yami Bakura will come out more often. Thanks ^_^.

Aniyu: Yes, I almost put Ryou in Ravenclaw…almost, until I REALLY thought about it. Probably boosted Yami's pride. Porbably. ^_^

Sayura: Thank you! Will try to!

C.M Aeris Queen of Insanity: Ah don't worry, those too can get into just as much trouble being in different houses. ^_^

G.O.T. Nick: Thanks. ^_^; I'm not much of a song writer, but I wanted to at least say I tried. ^_^

Thu6666: I'm glad you like it!

Dragona 2007: Thank you! I'll try!

Evil-Bakura20032001: Alright. ^_^

Amber of Heart: Thank you! ^_^

Dragona 2007: My apologies, I fixed the error.

Somecrazyperson: o.0; Alrighty…. Will do…

Somecrazyperon: You'll find out XP

Kurokioku: Thank you! She may come in strange little places, but probably seldom, since action is at Hogwarts right?

Anime no Megami: ^__^ Thanks!

Sarah: Perhaps…it seems that way doesn't it?

Autumn Ann Star: I'm glad you're happy. ^_^

Ghost Whisper: Thank you! I'll do my best. ^_^

Fishkisser: That happens to me. ^_^

Lord Archimonde: Right.

Inu-Ice-Dragon: I'm happy you love it!

Amber of Heart: I'm glad you think its great, will do!

Maruken: Thank you for giving me the information. See I only have a lot of access to the dub, which isn't exactly the best thing to get information out of. XP

Kauley123: Ahhhh I see! That along with Marukens information makes things clearer. Thank you! Ahhh. No problem and please call me Kuri! Everyone else does! ^__^

Earth Borne: Thank you!

Poo: Thanks. ^_^

Maruken: so long? It's only been…*looks at date* Err……never mind! ^_^;;

LaterosevBlack: Thank you, I'm glad you like it!

AG the Master: hmm… Not sure if I should take this as an insult or a complimenet. XD Heh! Yes for awhile it did seem to resemble a PWP (Plot? What Plot?) ^_^;

Autumn Ann Star: Alright. ^_^;

HikariEryaviel: Thanks!

C.M Aeris Queen of Insanity: Don't worry Malik will have plenty of fun….^___^

Ryou Bakura Obsessor: Thank you! ^_^

Curtis Zidane Ziraa: He does seem like the kitten type doesn't he? =^_^= I'm sorry, sometimes ff.net can be screwy.

Menolly: I have to admit this, your review, really really, frustrated and annoyed me. It took me sometime before my annoyance faded enough to respond to your review. Now, I'll put this as simply as I can…if you were to actually READ my author note at the beginning of the chapter you would have read this:

Now I'm warning you ahead of time, this chapter OVERLAPS with the previous chapter, alright? So hopefully there will be no confusion. ^_^

Alright, now does that answer your question/comment? Yes I did reuse a couple of chapter, because this chapter overlapped with the last. ^-^; Thank you! ^_^

Alright, so this is end of the latest review responses, which means new chapter soon! Now I can't give you any promises as to when to expect the next chapter, but I will say this it will be the end of December at the latest, and if you want to give me a nudge in my lj feel free to.