Okay, sorry for the delay, but Basketball season started so count on things slowing down, I am however going to try to get a few chapters up this week cuz of Thanksgiving and I (like most of you) have a wonderful (fully needed) four days off. ' kay, enjoy!!!

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Chapter 9- More Research

Harry , Ron, Hermione and Dawn were sitting in the common room just after Buffy brought them back. "So, is it normal for your sister to kill vampires then?" Ron asked. Dawn just stared at him.

"Ron, the term is Vampire Slayer you figure it out." She said. Ron was still a little unsure what to think of Buffy.

"Well, I don't know about you all, but I'm going to the library." Hermione said standing up.

"Why would you be going to the library now?" Dawn asked.

"To do research."

"Hermione, incase you haven't noticed, we've just spend the last several hours researching." Ron said pointedly.

"Yes, Ron I am well aware of that, but incase you haven't noticed, we have not done any research on the key. It is important that we find out what Voldermort wants so we can get it before he does." With that she headed toward the portrait hole.

"She's giving me a headache. I'm going to bed." Ron said somewhat reluctantly, and headed toward the boy's staircase. This left Dawn and Harry both with the same thoughts; 'What if she figures it out?!' Both knew that they had to talk, but most defiantly not in the packed common room. Harry caste Dawn a meaningful look, then got up, and walked over to the portrait whole. Dawn got up and followed.

"We need to find a place where we can talk without being over heard." Harry said to Dawn as they walked briskly down the hall.

"I'm guessing you have a place in mind?" Dawn questioned Harry just nodded, and told Dawn to stand next to a window. Then Harry began to pace back and forth between the window and a pot (three times). Dawn was just about to ask what he was doing, when Harry motioned for Dawn to come to where he was standing. Then, he opened a door that had just appeared in front of him, and Dawn could only stair in amazement.

"This is the Room of Requirement. It gives you a place for anything you need. Right now that's not important, we need to keep Hermione from finding out you're the key, because she's defiantly clever enough to." Harry said all of this very quickly while he and Dawn sat down on one of the couches.

"Maybe if we just try to keep her busy, you know, not give her enough time to do too much research, or have her research other things." Harry just looked at her.

"Dawn, that's only gonna work for so long. What we need is something that might take awhile like-"

"Oh! Oh! I know. I could ask her to help me get caught up that would take a while."

"That should work. I just hope she doesn't get suspicious. I know we can trust her."

" I know, Harry, it's just know one can slip up, the less people know what I am the better."

"I wasn't blaming you." Harry said, followed by an awkward silence. "Dawn, I have a question. How come Buffy's so – well – bossy?" Harry said not wanting to offend Dawn, but she just laughed.

"She's always been that way, even when people told her what to do. There's this group called the Watcher's Council, and they give orders to the Slayer and her current Watcher, telling them how a situation should be handled. They would be giving Buffy orders left and right. They only time she listened to them, was when she was already going to do what the watchers told her to do. Eventually, the Watcher's Council got a little to stuck up, so Buffy quit the Council and continued slaying her own way."

"Has she ever herd from them since then?"

"Yes, one day, like a year and a half ago, they showed up at the Magic Box, which was a store that Giles, and later Anya owned. It was destroyed last June, but anyway, they showed up and took control, that is until Buffy got tired of it. She told - no ordered them – to pay Giles, then told them to get out before she thought them out, then they when running."

"Your life sounds very interesting."

"Yeah, well, wait till you hear Buffy's side. So tell me about you. I mean you've saved the world, there's a story there."

"There really isn't. I faced Voldermort a few times, and got lucky, not everyone got as luck as it did." Harry said the last few words quietly so Dawn could barely hear him.

"Look, the only time luck is involved is when the bad guy wins. Listen, to me it seems like your life hasn't been too peachy, but if anyone can relate to you, it's Buffy. You should talk to her later."

"I don't think anyone can relate to me." Harry said sadly thinking of Sirius, then of the prophesy that he had heard at the end of last year.

Buffy's House

"So, Ahn, whatcha do to temporarily loose your powers?" Xander asked his ex fiancé.

"That's none of you business Xander." Anya snapped. The truth was that Anya wasn't suspended, she was fired. D'Hoffryn said she had gone soft. Nothing she really felt like sharing yet.

"Look, it doesn't matter." Buffy said. "I'm just glad you decided to help Anya." Anya nodded perkily. "Here's what we're up to...."

Voldermort's Lair

"I sent that vampire to kill Harry Potter yesterday, just after I preformed that curse. Why has he not returned?" Voldermort asked Wormtail.

"I-I don not know m'lord, I shall look into it, and-and get back to you." Wormtail stammered.

"Good, Good. Go now, Wormtail. Find me some answers."

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A/N: Sorry, I know this chapter was not the most interesting, but it was necessary. Also, A few chapter's ago I asked who I should put together and no one (that's right no one) gave me any input, so I'm just gonna start pairings and if they suck, don't blame me cuz I asked for your help!!