A/N: Thank you to all those that have been reviewing. I'm open to suggestions to the story so please R/R. Thanks to my betas Shadowssongs, Rivenn, haydenrocks14, and IamSiriusgrl.

Disclaimer: I wish I could be as good as JK Rowling but I'm not. This is her stuff and not to mention the influence that this story took from various fanfics.

Chapter 33
A Pink Dress and Four Purple Dresses

When Harry arrived at Potter Mansion, he was already unconscious. Ray and Rain took charge of taking care of Harry while Dobby and Winky were on patrol at Grimmauld Place. The house elves that Harry sent to stay at Potter Mansion were shocked to see their new master looking all worn and beaten. Rain was pouring potions after potions down Harry's mouth to take care of all of his internal bleeding, broken bones, and dislocated joints. Ginny showed up for moral support and didn't get involved because she knew that Ray and Rain knew what they were doing, and have taken care of Harry many times before when he was injured over the summer during his intensive training. The new house elves were unfamiliar with Ginny's relationship with Harry and were about to push her out of the infirmary, but Ray informed the other elves on Harry and Ginny's relationship.

That night, after all the potions were doing their respective jobs on Harry, Ginny expanded Harry's bed and slipped under the covers with him. The two had a fairly peaceful night especially since Harry was forced to take a dreamless sleep potion to help his body recover faster. It took Harry two days to recover from all of his injuries and it was time for him to return to Hogwarts.

Harry went ahead first again and Ginny followed shortly afterwards again so she could reset her portkey to return to Potter Mansion in an emergency. Harry used his portkey to return to his trunk which was securely locked upon his departure which was a security precaution that Harry had installed on the trunk. Only Ginny and Kayla had access to Harry's trunk now since Harry removed everybody else's access to the trunk. Kayla was in his library when they returned.

Kayla jumped up from her seat, ran over to Harry, hugged him, checked him over for injuries, and said "How are you Harry? Are you doing better? Of course you're doing better, if you weren't you wouldn't be here. Just listen to me rambling on and on. Well, how are you?"

Harry smiled at Kayla's concern then replied "I'm fine Kayla. It took a little while to heal but I'm all better. How have you been?"

Kayla saw Ginny come in and ran over to her and the two girls hugged and greeted each other. Kayla turned back to Harry and said, "Everything has been as good as expected I guess considering you disappeared and many of the students and teachers were panicking but its better now I guess."

Ginny asked Kayla, "What about you?"

Kayla said "I was worried sick at first but after the shock wore off, I realized that Harry would be well taken care of. I can tell you two this though; you both are in serious trouble for disappearing like that. Dumbledore and the Order have been trying to push me for information, but I haven't told them anything other then 'I know that Harry's safe and being well taken care of.'"

Harry said "Well, I guess we should go to dinner to let them all know that we're fine."

Ginny and Kayla nodded and followed Harry. Harry was a few steps ahead of the girls. The two witches were discussing the extent of Harry's injuries and what the house elves did to heal him. When they reached the Great Hall, the three of them were late for dinner and as usual upon their entrance, the students quieted down and everybody were staring at the trio.

The three of them acted like nothing had happened and made their way to their usual seats and started to eat. Soon afterwards, the noise level picked up again and a few students visited Harry to make sure that he was fine. When dinner was nearly over, McGonagall approached Harry and told him "Mr. Potter, Professor Dumbledore asks that when you're done with your dinner then please meet him in his office."

Harry replied "Yes ma'am." He looked towards the head table and saw that Dumbledore was already making his way out of the Great Hall followed by a few members of the Order along with Ron and Hermione.

McGonagall stared expectantly at Harry and when he didn't respond she asked "Are you going Mr. Potter?"

Harry wasn't able to eat very much all dinner because of all the people visiting him and he was hungry so he was still eating when McGonagall was waiting idly next to him. After McGonagall spoke, he said "I'm not done with dinner yet. I'll be there when I'm done."

McGonagall wasn't pleased that Harry didn't leave immediately but understood that he hasn't had much time to eat. She left the trio behind and headed off to Dumbledore's office. Shortly after finishing their meals, Harry made his way to Dumbledore's office accompanied by Ginny and Kayla. When the three of them made it to the gargoyles guarding the Headmaster's office, the staircase was sealed and the password was needed to enter.

Harry said "They want to meet with us, but they don't give us the password or leave the staircase open for us to enter, and they claim that I don't think about what I do."

Ginny nodded and asked "What do you think we should do?"

Kayla replied "Well, I'm not in any rush to talk to them because I've already heard enough from them over the last few days. I say we just wait here for them to come down and open up the stairs for us to enter."

Harry and Ginny nodded and the three of them sat down across the hall from the gargoyles. Harry pulled out a deck of cards and the three of them were playing different card games from poker to blackjack as they waited for somebody to come down and let them into the office.

About 20 minutes later the gargoyles parted and the staircase started to move to allow passage into the Headmaster's office. McGonagall was making her way down and when she saw the trio sitting there playing cards, she asked in a stern voice "What are you three doing? We've been waiting in the Headmaster's office for some time now."

Harry picked up the cards while Ginny replied "Professor, when we got to the stairs the staircase was closed and we didn't have the passwords. It's not our fault that we weren't given the password."

McGonagall wanted to say something but Kayla said "Let's not keep the headmaster waiting any longer."

The three of them accompanied McGonagall up the staircase and into the Headmaster's office where the members of the Order that was positioned at Hogwarts were all gathered. Snape sneered at the three new arrivals and arrogantly said "We've been waiting for you three for some time now. My time is better used than waiting around for you three brats so you all better have a good excuse for what you all pulled. That will be ten points each from Gryffindor for making me wait."

Ginny pulled out a small muggle notepad, checked her watch, and started to write something in her notepad. Dumbledore asked "Miss Weasley, may I be so bold as to ask what it is that you are writing?"

Ginny finished her writing then placed the notepad back in her pocket and responded "The three of us decided a while back that since the school seems to like to overlook the mistreatment of students by certain professors" that's when she looked at Snape "We have decided to make a note of all of his actions that we feel are inappropriate and at some point in the future will use it as evidence when we bring him on charges of prejudice and misuse of power before the Board of Governors."

Dumbledore replied "Miss Weasley, I don't believe that was necessary. After all what happened just now was appropriate considering how long everybody here has been waiting and Professor McGonagall had to come fetch you along with Mr. Potter and Miss Rapp."

Kayla replied "It's not our fault that we weren't given the password, you didn't leave the staircase open so we could easily enter without a password, or have somebody waiting that knew that password to escort us up here. Since we didn't have the password and no accommodations where made for us just now, we had no choice but to wait until somebody came down the stairs."

Snape sneered "What was to stop you from guessing the password? It does not take a genius to figure out that it is usually some type of candy or snack. Potter has done this before in the past."

Harry gave Snape a big grin when he said "I didn't want to compromise the security of the Headmaster's office by guessing at a password. Who knows how many people could have overheard the password being given. I thought that since you were a spy that you would understand the word security." Harry said the word 'security' really slowly like he wasn't sure if Snape heard of that word before.

Snape was livid with the blatant disrespect and said "Potter, you're no longer in that rat hole that you call a home anymore. Here you will give me the respect that I deserve."

Harry continued with the grin and said "You've been in my home? I guess the security measures there were not as good as I thought. I must check on that. I hope that you're not talking about Grimmauld Place as being my home because you're sorely wrong but then you do tend to be wrong when it comes to me. Anyway, I do agree that you should get the respect that you deserve which I believe is none considering you still haven't given me an ounce of respect since I've stepped foot into Hogwarts Castle."

Snape replied in a triumphant voice "That will be fifty points off of Gryffindor for blatant disrespect of a professor."

Harry turned to Ginny with a confused expression and asked "Gin, doesn't the title professor usually means that that person imparts knowledge to a student?"

Ginny replied "That's my understanding Harry. Why do you ask?"

Harry pointed to Snape and said "But he keeps on calling himself a professor but nobody seems to have learned anything from him. Yet, he still calls himself a professor."

Ginny and Harry were in their own world as they played out their mocking of Snape. She made a face like she was thinking then said "You know Harry, maybe he was doing what muggles call performance theatre and his role is a professor." She turned to Snape and said "Just in case you don't know, performance theatre is acting."

Snape was livid and he said "That will be fifty points from Gryffindor for disrespectful behavior towards a professor Miss Weasley."

Kayla raised her hand and was hoping up and down in excitement. Dumbledore asked Kayla "Do you want to say something Miss Rapp? It's not necessary to raise your hand in this office."

Kayla was acting like a child when she said in a childish voice "Oh, can you take fifty points off of me also? I hate it when my friends do something and I don't get to join in!" She made a puppy face at the end.

Harry, Ginny, and Kayla were getting glares from Ron, Hermione, and McGonagall for losing so many points from Gryffindor. Tonks and Remus were trying to hold in their laughter at the antics the trio was playing. McGonagall said in a stern voice "Mr. Potter, Miss Weasley, and Miss Rapp, stop acting like children and losing points for Gryffindor on purpose."

Harry replied "We only act like children because we are treated like children. We also don't really care about losing points, considering it is really a stupid system of awarding and taking away points, because all it does is to promote conflict between the competing groups, and in this case it's the different houses. We've fought Death eaters many times and Voldermort a few times. Do you believe that we really care about some useless point system just so the winner gets to hold a trophy for a year? If that is the case then many people here have their priorities a little mixed up."

Dumbledore sighed and said "We're getting off the subject here. All the points taken off for not showing up on time will be restored. Now, Mr. Potter, Miss Weasley, will you please tell me where the two of you have been for the last few days?"

Harry said "I went back into hiding so I could properly heal myself. Ginny came along to make sure that I was fine, if anything would have gone wrong then she would have let you all know."

Dumbledore replied "Did you return to…?"

He was cut off by Harry who raised his hands to silence the Headmaster and silently cast a silencing spell on him. Ginny took that as her cue to mutter a few detection spells in the room. After a few things stayed glowing, Harry copied it and summoned them to him and burned the copied item. With a wave of his hand, the silencing spell was taken off of Dumbledore and Harry said "I'm sorry about that Headmaster but I couldn't allow you to say the name of the place I went to out loud especially since Ginny, Kayla, or me haven't checked the room for any listening devices or charmed objects used for eavesdropping."

Dumbledore replied "It is understandable Mr. Potter, am I safe in assuming that what you just burned were objects that were charmed to eavesdrop in on conversations in this office?"

Harry replied "Yes sir. I tend not to be as trustworthy as I used to be given all the situations that have occurred over the last few weeks." He paused a moment then said "Let's just say that I went home for a few days where I was safe."

Dumbledore nodded and said "You could have done that here Harry. You of all people know that you could trust Madame Pomfrey to take good care of you."

Harry nodded and said "Yes, I do trust Madame Pomfrey with my care because she could have harmed me many times in the past already. It's not that I don't trust her but the security in this castle. As you all just witnessed, even the Headmasters office is not as secure as you all thought. I don't know if the Headmaster left that here to keep an eye out for his office which is understandable but from his reaction, Professor Dumbledore didn't seem to know that there was a spy in his office."

Dumbledore replied "Mr. Potter, a few of the things that you destroyed were my own listening devices but there was one that I did not place in this office."

Harry nodded and Professor McGonagall said "Mr. Potter, you can not just go around destroying anything that you don't seem to like especially since you don't own them. You might have destroyed something valuable."

Ginny said "There's no need to worry because Harry replicated the charmed objects and transferred the charms to the new objects so when he destroyed the compromised items the person listening on the other side only recognized that the charm was malfunctioning. If the professor wanted, he could place the listening charms back on the items and everything will be as before to not cause suspicion. The one object that was charmed that did not belong to the professor would retransmit back to whoever was listening. If that was to be done than I recommend that we do it soon so not to cause too much suspicion. You can leave the item uncharmed and set a trap to see who was listening."

Harry said "Professor, if you choose to reactivate the charms then please do not mention where I was at and only identify where I was at as 'my home'."

Dumbledore nodded and said "I will reactivate the charms and will later determine who is listening in. Everybody please be mindful of what is being spoken in this room."

Kayla asked "Did you give up any information about where Harry has been in this office in the past?"

Everybody was quiet for a moment as they thought about what Kayla just asked. After a few people shook their heads, Harry let out a sigh of relief and Dumbledore went through the motions of reactivating the listening charms. When that was done, Dumbledore said "Mr. Potter and Miss Weasley, you two know better than to leave whenever you all want. There is a matter of security and liability."

Ginny said "Harry needed to recover where we knew was safe and we would do it again."

McGonagall replied in a stern voice "Since you all deliberately broke school rule then the two of you will be getting detention tomorrow with Professor Snape down in the dungeons."

Snape had a calculating look with a mixture of joy because he was getting a chance for revenge on Harry and anger for having to spend time with Harry. Harry on the other hand showed no emotions. He was trying to think of ways to insure his safety and determine ways to get back at Snape should he get treated poorly in the dungeons.

Ginny replied "Yes ma'am".

Dumbledore looked at Harry and said "Is there anything else that you would like to tell us?"

Harry decided to take a page out of Dumbledore's playbook and said "There's nothing at this time that I believe that you all should know." Everybody also took that as their cue to leave.

The next night Harry showed up in the dungeons accompanied by Ginny for detention. The potions classroom was changed and there was a large open area in the middle with all of Slytherin house gathered in the room. At the center of the room was a large white outline of a circle. Snape sneered at them upon their arrival and said "Potter, Weasley, rumor has it that you were in charge of a vigilante group that defied school rules as usual last year. I see that you all like to break school rules and continue to do so and that is why you two are serving detention with me. A few of my students found out about your detention and offered a solution." Snape looked at the students from his house and then said "You two will be dueling against the students in my house. In order to be fair you two will not be dueling everybody but only a handful so that my students can see how to duel." Snape said the last part with sarcasm and looking forward to watching his students getting revenge on what happened to Malfoy and humiliating him in front of the whole school.

Malfoy, Nott, Parkinson, Goyle, Crabbe, and five other Slytherins walked into the open area with their wands drawn. Harry and Ginny walked in also with each using their rose wand. Harry asked "What are the rules?"

Snape said "The only rules are you're not allowed to use the unforgivables and once you are removed from the circle or unable to continue then you are out."

Snape walked over to stand next to Malfoy. Harry asked "Are you a part of this duel also?"

Snape replied "Of course, considering you were able to take out Death eater's with little effort than you should be able to handle me in this duel also." There was a moment of silence then Snape yelled "Begin!"

All of the Slytherins shot various spells from cutting hex to stunning spells with the more painful ones coming from Malfoy and his goons along with Snape. Ginny jumped in front of Harry and summoned a strong shield charm while Harry shot a spell into the air which formed a large transparent silver dome to form around the dueling area.

After the volley of spells, Malfoy was annoyed that the Gryffindor's weren't hit and asked "What do you think you're doing Potty? Are you going to let the little slut take on this fight while you hide?"

Harry replied "Do you honestly believe that you and your pathetic group of followers can beat Ginny and me? We beat the crap out of your parents last year and all of you future Death eater's honestly believe that you can beat us? If you would take notice of the silver dome that surrounds us, I've just made sure that no stray spells will hit somebody who is watching this fight. It also prevents you from running away and when I'm done with you Malfoy, you'll be walking around with one or more less body parts." The fire in Harry's eyes could be seen by the Slytherins and they were contemplating if this was a good idea or not.

Snape yelled "You are going to remove that charm now Potter." Snape was nervous that one of his ways to leave the duel was now taken away. He knew that he was going to have to duel against Harry now and there was no way to run if it didn't go his way.

After Snape's yelling, a white cloudy mist started to shoot out from both Harry's and Ginny's wand that quickly clouded the entire dueling area in a fog that was so thick that you couldn't see your hands in front of your face. After a series of spells to clear up the air, the Slytherins saw that the five unknown Slytherins were bound, gagged, and hanging from their feet from the center of the dome.

Harry and Ginny was standing behind the group and fired off six quick bludgeoning spells which threw the Slytherins across the dome making them slam against the magical shield. They then proceeded to stun each one of them while they were disoriented and started to hang each one of them by their feet from the center of the dome. There was a pile of wands on the ground that belonged to all of the hanging students and Snape.

After contemplating what to do with each one of them, Harry lowered Draco, Nott, Parkinson, Crabbe, and Goyle. He turned the five Slytherins into little rats while Ginny conjured a large glass containment area that had dead leaves all along the bottom. Harry tossed the five rats into their new cage and then conjured a snake just like how Draco did during his second year. What the Slytherins didn't know was that the Ginny placed a repelling charm on the rats and whenever the python got close to the rats, it would act to attack but hesitate just long enough so that the rats could get away.

Harry was shooting various spells at Snape which changed his wardrobe to different styles of muggle dress. He also gave Snape two large breasts to fill out his dress. Harry settled on a short skimpy pink dress. Snape was angry with Harry, and if possible beyond angry when Snape got his breasts. Harry and Ginny were rolling around on the ground in laughter.

By the time he had finished with Snape, Ginny told him "Harry, I think that the rats are exhausted, they aren't even trying to run anymore. That's no fun."

Harry picked up the rats which were exhausted from all of the running and banished the snake at the same time. Harry turned the five Slytherins back to the way they usually appeared but they were so tired and couldn't move from their spot on the ground. Ginny turned all of their robes into light purple muggle dresses similar to that of Snape's pink dress. The dresses were all spaghetti strap with a low cut in the front and high above the knees. She also added a few charms that would activate when one of the five Slytherins would try to insult somebody. Instead of insulting somebody they would either end up saying 'I love Snape', 'I love Snape's dress', 'does my dress make me look fat', or 'I love to dress in women's clothing.''

For Pansy, this wasn't funny enough so Ginny decided to dress her up in an ugly brown business suit. All of her glamour charms were removed which revealed an ugly girl with no makeup and no magical enhancements.

Harry conjured a large sofa and moved all of the Slytherins wearing dresses to sit on the sofa with their hands on each other. Snape was sitting in the middle with Pansy standing behind them holding a sign that said 'A Slytherin reunion'. The five Slytherins that Harry did not know were standing around the back of the sofa around Pansy. They were all holding bouquets of roses and acting like they were handing it to the ones that were wearing the dresses.

After everybody was lined up, Harry enlarged a camera that was shrunken in his pocket. Harry decided that he should always carry a camera with him to take pictures when things didn't look right so he could show someone without always having to show the memory in his head. Ginny took the camera and mockingly said "Alright Slytherins remember to look at the birdie and smile." Harry shot a few birds from the tip of his wand as Ginny took the picture or more like dozens of pictures.

Harry shrunk the camera and put it back in his pocket. He took Ginny's hand, turned to the cross dressed Slytherins, and in a mockingly sad voice said "I guess you all won the duel." Harry removed the silver dome and the two of them walked out of the circle.

While Ginny and Harry were making their way out, everybody in the classroom heard Ginny mockingly say "I thought we had a chance at winning just now too."

Harry mockingly replied "It's alright; we'll get them next time."

A few of the Slytherins wanted to burst out laughing at how their classmates and head of house looked but knew that they couldn't let on that they were friends with Harry. Ginny and Harry were leaning on each other for support as they laughed their way back to their dormitories. They spent the night telling Kayla what happened and she was on the ground rolling with laughter and laughed even harder when the three of them finished developing the photos. The trio spent much of the night duplicating the pictures.

The next morning the trio got up early and went down to the kitchen to talk to the house elves about delivering the picture with each place setting that was going to be set for breakfast. The house elves happily agreed because they didn't like Draco and his group much either because they knew how many of the pureblood families liked to beat their house elves. The students were gathering in the Great Hall and many of them were grumpy that their breakfast hadn't arrived yet. The professors were also surprised that this was happening but one look at Harry and they knew that something was about to happen.

All of a sudden all of the place settings showed up with all the food for breakfast. The students were excited to see the food at first and then almost everyone in the Great Hall bursted out with laughter with many people rolling around on the ground. A few of the professors also had a hard time holding in their laughter especially Remus, Tonks, and Hagrid.

On the back on the picture there was a note that said 'Never mess with an heir of the Marauders.'

When Remus saw the note on the back, he was beaming with joy at Harry. Harry made his way over to Remus when Dumbledore stopped him and gravely asked "Harry was this really necessary?" Dumbledore was gesturing to the picture he was holding.

Harry replied "You can make that decision for yourself." Harry pulled out his wand and pointed it at the enchanted ceiling. The scene from last night started to show for everybody to see starting at when Harry and Ginny entered the dungeons and ended when the two of them walked out of the door.

While the scene was playing, Harry continued on to Remus who was having a hard time sitting as he watched everything play out. When it was over Remus clutched onto Harry for support and happily said "I think that the heir of the Marauders has claimed his rightful spot with this prank."

The Great Hall bursted out with even more laughter when the scene ended. The people who were noticeably not present were Snape and the ten Slytherins that tried to take on Harry and Ginny the night before. What the people in the hall didn't know was that Ginny and Harry placed the charms so that it would last for five days and they couldn't remove the dresses or in Pansy's case her suit.

The next day, the Slytherins showed up acting like nothing was wrong in their dresses. The group received a few mock whistles and since they didn't show up to receive their copy of the pictures that Harry, Ginny, and Kayla duplicated, they received their copy to their horror during dinner time and immediately set it on fire. When the pictures were on fire, the Great Hall busted out with even more laughter. During that week, there were lots of rude remarks to the dressed Slytherins, pointing, and most of all laughter.

A/N: Ok, it started off a little serious to continue the line of Dumbledore vs. Harry but I decided that comic relief is always fun to write. After all, there needs to be some kind of way to relieve the tension in the story and since I already started the Snape and Malfoy bashing, I decided to continue. Don't worry, all of you the story will get serious again.