It was a beautiful day outside and no one would have ever guessed the terrible occurrences of the night before. Harry desperately wanted to explain to Hermione and Ron about their potions teacher – the vampire. Harry still could hardly believe what he saw. He planned on telling them after their meeting with Dumbledore. He didn't want Hermione to go mental and to begin hyperventilating in front of the headmaster.

After the four friends finally reached the headmasters room, they all began yelling out different names of candies from Honeydukes in attempt to open the staircase up to Dumbledore's office. In the end, Harry was the one to guess the correct word, which turned out to be: "fizzing whizbee." They rushed up the stairs to find Dumbledore in his purple and gold dress robes, stroking his phoenix, Fawkes, and writing what appeared to be a letter with a huge hippogriff feather. Harry recognized it as one of Buckbeak's, because of it's orangy pink hue. 'Sirius must have sent it to him,' Harry thought, a terrible pain searing his heart. They all stood there in front of his desk breathing hard without speaking and without looking up from his letter Dumbledore spoke.

"What seems to be the problem you three? Oh my goodness! I meant four... Ginny Weasley! I don't normally see you spending time with this trio," Dumbledore chuckled and smiled at her as he rested his quill down slowly and looked up at the four students with a friendly smile on his face. Ginny blushed with embarrassment, obviously worrying that she looked out of place. Harry gently touched her hand in order to suggest that her being with him and his friends only made it better. Even though it was behind his desk, Dumbledore seemed to notice and he raised his eyebrows at the two of them.

"Professor Dumbledore," Harry began. "We've come up here to explain to you something that happened to the four of us yesterday." Dumbledore looked at them shifting in his seat as he scooted forward to listen more closely.

"Go on," he said motioning with his hands.

"All right. We er- I mean, Hermione, Ron and I were going to meet down by back entrance to go searching the forest for a loud screeching sound we'd been hearing recently." Harry paused. He was waiting for some sort of response from Dumbledore, and expecting to be scolded in some form or fashion, but Dumbledore just watched Harry not changing from his interested expression in his seat. After Harry got the idea that the dark forest comment didn't bother him at all, he continued on with his story. "I was down there for a long time waiting for them but the didn't come..." then Harry broke off into the entire story. He told Dumbledore about Ginny being there, about how Hermione and Ron were taken, and how he rescued them. When he reached the part about Snape sucking the blood of a thestral, everyone in the room gasped except for Dumbledore and Ginny, whom didn't find the news alarming at all. Harry hadn't planned to reveal this today but at the moment it seemed the only right thing to do. At this point Dumbledore stood up and motioned for the four students to sit down in front of the desk in four cushy purple chairs, which he had just conjured.

"All right, first things first," he began, looking serious for the first time the entire day. "I'm going to owl a few people. It'll only take a moment, then I'll have to do a little explaining, shan't I?" Dumbledore then put away the letter he was previously working on and got out some new parchment and began writing very quickly. Harry looked over at Ron and Hermione. Hermione was giving a sort of motion to herself and breathing in and out as if telling herself not to scream. On the other hand, Ron had an odd expression of panic on his face and he was giving Harry a very angry look. This didn't make Harry feel too happy. Ginny had a comforting hand on Ron's back, but it didn't seem to be helping.

After a few moments, Dumbledore finally completed his letters, sealed them, and had two different owls send them off. Then he stood back up in front of his desks and looked at his confused students.

"Okay. Now, I believe you all seem to be waiting for an explanation about Professor Snape." Dumbledore spoke, finally.

"Yeah...." Said Ron. "I'd like to know about that..." Ron squeaked.

"Well, not to worry, Ron. Professor Snape isn't dangerous at all. He is a vampire yes, and I know you're sorry to hear that. However, you might very well be greatful to have a vampire at your school considering the fact that it keeps deatheaters away, at least to a point."

"But, professor," Hermione stated, finally speaking again. "Isn't Professor Snape acquainted to several Deatheaters, such as Mr. Malfoy?" Dumbledore smiled.

"Yes my dear girl, however, if you didn't observe it on your own, Mr. Malfoy only speaks to Professor Snape kindly because he knows that he and Snape are on different sides of this war, you see. Malfoy doesn't want to be killed by Snape so he wants to get on his good side. But don't you worry. Professor Snape has a potion to keep himself from getting tempted by human blood. The sounds you are hearing are the cries of thestrals which professor Snape has been feeding off of for the entire year. Before he bought blood from certain shops. But that blood isn't as good apparently..." Dumbledore shook his head in confusion. "Anyway," he continued, "I hope none of you four are worried anymore. Know that Snape is rather a protector then a threat." He looked at the four students and Harry could tell he was rather satisfied with the results of their reactions. Hermione was now nodding in agreement to what Dumbledore was saying. Ron wasn't glaring at Harry anymore and neither was he twitching in his seat. Ginny was grinning slightly and rather astonished that her Professor Snape could turn into a bat. Harry too, was relieved that Professor Snape wasn't threatening, at least according to Dumbledore. However, Harry did have his doubts.

At that very moment, Lupin appeared, quite dusty but well braced, inside of Dumbledore's fireplace. He strode out with a piece of parchment in his hand.

"I got your owl up in my room, sir, you said it was urgent," Lupin said quickly striding towards him. He noticed the four friends and nodded towards them with a slight smile on his face, but it was obvious he was trying to deal with the matter at hand.

"Yes, Remus, I want you to contact the Order of the Phoenix and inform them of the occurrences I explained to you in my letter. See how they believe it would be best handled and then report back as soon as possible. I can give you up to three days to miss class for, no more though, unless it is absolutely necessary."

"Yes sir, I will leave immediately," With that, Lupin was back in the fireplace and gone.

"Now," Dumbledore said, focusing once again on Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny. "First of all, you three must NOT, on ANY circumstances, breathe a word to ANYone about Professor Snape? Am I well understood? If the wrong ears find out, it could be a serious problem. All right? Now, more importantly, this business with the dementors, I don't really know what to think, except that, since they are on Voldermort's side..." (Everyone flinched at the sound of the name except Harry) "...Then we can't expect any better of them can we? Now I am so very glad that you four are all right. Fifty points will be awarded to Gryffindor, ten to each of you for being brave and twenty to Harry for saving everyones lives. Now I have informed Professor Lupin and Minister Fudge..." At the moment, Cornelius Fudge came tumbling out of the fireplace and onto Professor Dumbledore's marble, rugged floor. He quickly stood up and dusted himself off trying to hide that he was embarrassed of his, not-so-smooth landing.

"Terrible Floo powder I have... yes... erm... Dumbledore, I received your owl about the- erm- business in the Forbidden forest," he nodded to the four students in the seats. "Congratulations, you four, for surviving, I would have never guessed..."

"Yes, Minister, I wanted to request that you inform the Ministry of this occurrence and send several Aurors into the forest to investigate and perhaps drive them away or even better speak to them about it."

"Yes, Albus, that won't be a problem. Well I'll be off then. Good day to you." With that, Fudge was gone as quickly as he had come. Harry was rather surprised that Dumbledore was letting the four of them sit in on all of this.

"Now, I suggest that the four of you move along and if anything else happens that I should know about, the password will be fizzing whizbee for next week. Now try to get on with your weekend without expecting the worst. I, and the help of several others, are handling this. Try not to worry. Now good day!" Dumbledore motioned for them to leave. Confused, the four friends stood up and left. Harry realized once he got out that he had barely gotten a word in the whole time.

"You guys, I—I'm sorry I didn't tell you about Snape sooner. I just wanted to wait, I guess," Harry said in an honest apology.

"Yeah, I'm sorry too," said Ginny.

"I forgive you, Harry. But try to remember that Ron and I are your best friends. You seem to be forgetting that recently," Hermione said as they all walked briskly down the second floor corridor.

"Yeah, I couldn't believe you hadn't told us," said Ron. "I mean, why?"

"Well we fell asleep so fast, and, I don't know, I mean it's only been one day. It's not like I waited for years," Harry argued gently.

"That's true. I think it would be better if we just forgot about it," said Hermione.

"I just can't believe that Snape is a vampire," Ginny gasped.

"And to think," Ron squeaked, "Snape could fly into our dormitories whenever he liked when we're asleep and poke our eyes out with his bat teeth and then fly out the window into the night, and..." Hermione cut him off.

"Oh Ronald, honestly, do you actually think that Professor Snape wants to watch you sleep?"

After a long walk back to the commonroom with Hermione and Ron bickering and Ginny and Harry laughing, they finally reached it and plopped down onto the couch.

"Ginny, you want to go for a walk?" Harry asked, hoping she would want to. He felt his heart beginning to beat faster and he prayed silently that Ron and Hermione wouldn't give him too hard of a time about it. Ginny smiled.

"Oh, Harry that would be wonderful!" Ginny said. Harry's heart leapt.

"Great." Harry saw Hermione and Ron glance at each other but it didn't bother him. He knew that they were his best friends once again, and he was very glad Ginny had accepted his invitation. With that on his mind, Harry and Ginny left the commonroom and headed for the lake.

A/N: Hey. I hope you liked it!! Okay everyone needs to know that this story is up again because I don't think very many people can find it... since it took me so long to update again... so if any of you know people who have read this story, let them know its being updated again. I've already added three chapters that are new so try to review or else then I'll worry you don't like it... but thanks to Nicole for the review that helped me to write another chapter!