Title: Harry Potter and the Staff of Merlin
Author: Legolas-gurl88
Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns everything, not me!
Author Note: Reasons for lateness at bottom!
Story time!
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16. Midnight Meetings
Wednesday approached with the air of excitement as the first Quidditch game of the season would be the very next Saturday. Ron, who had been putting the team through their paces over the past several weeks, was looking slightly nervous. Ginny looked nervous, but having had other games, was doing very well otherwise. Dennis Creevy was sitting with his brother, Colin and talking about things other than Quidditch. Mark Evans was alone in a corner, reading a book. Harry and Ron were watching the Miniature Quidditch set with amusement. They were watching the Gryffindor team play against the Irish National team that had played at the Quidditch World Cup two years previous. Gryffindor was losing-- badly.
This was early in the morning and none of the team members felt at all like sleeping after being called to an early-morning practice. Only the Beaters found solstice in sleep that morning.
After the Dementor attack on Monday, everyone had been shaken up and found it difficult to sleep. If Dementors could come onto the grounds without Dumbledore's knowing, what else could find their way there? Hermione seemed to have taken this question to heart and often was found in the library. Looking up what, Harry didn't know, but she rarely spoke to anyone. Finally, when breakfast came, she bursted out.
"It's here!" she squeaked, eyeing the front page of the Daily Prophet.
"What?" Ron asked, peering over her shoulder, his mouth full of egg.
"They mentioned the four Bulgarians missing!" Hermione said, shoving it in Harry's face so he could read. There were the pictures of the four people who had gone missing, all glancing at Harry, looking mournful. Harry read part of the article aloud to the other two; the shortest article he'd ever seen.
FOUR BULGARIANS FOUND MISSING-- DEATH OR HOAX?
In Bulgaria, yesterday morning, three wizards and one witch were found missing. Though this seems truthful, with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named coming back, are the Bulgarians hoaxing? Could suffering loss at the Quidditch World Cup two years previous have caused them to 'get even' with those voting against them? Those found missing listed below.
"What a barrel of Bubotuber Pus!" Ron said angrily. "That is the most idiotic thing I've ever heard!"
"Yesterday?" Hermione asked. "Yesterday? Viktor told us weeks ago!"
"Keep in mind, this is coming from the Daily Prophet." Harry pointed out, rolling the newspaper up and throwing on his plate as though hoping it would vanish with the food. It didn't. Instead, it unraveled and pushed bacon on Harry's lap. As Harry brushed it off, he spoke again. "They've been known to stretch the truth or make up lies."
"Or not tell us when something major is happening." Ron said, watching a small picture of someone on the Daily Prophet, who was glowering right back at him. Then, Ron gasped so loudly, he began choking on the fruit he had just bitten into and had to take a long draft of pumpkin juice before he could croak, "Krum!"
"What are you talking about, Ron?" asked Hermione. Ron, who began coughing again. He pointed a finger to the front page of the Daily Prophet. Harry and Hermione glanced at it, before drawing in breath as sharply as Ron, though with the absence of food in their mouths.
Krum's picture was scowling at them, though his eyes gazing warmly at Hermione. The worst part of this news was that his picture was right underneath the words of the article; Those found missing listed below.
"Viktor?" Hermione asked, grabbing the newspaper from off of Harry's plate and glancing at it, her eyes scanning everywhere.
"This is mad." Ron said, peering at the picture from behind Hermione's shoulder, having recovered from his coughing fit.
"Viktor?" repeated Hermione.
"Wait." Harry said, his mind now boggling. He closed his eyes and tried to straiten the facts out. "This can't be right. Krum wrote us weeks ago, telling us that people were missing and the prophet says, weeks later, that he's missing."
"Viktor?" Hermione gasped. She seemed too much in shock to say anything else. Then, she broke her eye contact away from the paper and jumped up, stuffing the dirty paper in her bag and running down the isle between the Gryffindors and the Ravenclaws.
"Where's she off to?" Harry asked, turning around in his chair to watch Hermione disappear around the corner.
"No idea." Ron said. "C'mon, we'd better not be late to Potions or Snape will want to poison us."
The two of them walked down to the dungeons, discussing the disappearances.
"Good morning." Snape said, his black cloak billowing behind him as usual, as he paced around the room, staring everyone down as he passed them. "Today, we will be continuing the making of your Shrinking Solution. And I've restocked the Willowseeds in the cabinet, so you must add more. Your potions should have had plenty of time to stew since your last class. May I remind you that if you mess up now, there is no turning back-- no redoing-- no nothing, except an interestingly low grade on your report. The directions are on the board--" he pointed his wand at the chalkboard and words appeared "--begin."
The next half-an-hour was silent as no one wanted to receive a D on their daily grade. Hermione never came back from wherever she had gone to. The only talking there was, was to converse about which ingredient was next to add. Even Neville was doing well. Though, he was sweating nervously. That's when it happened. Just as Harry watched Snape walk past him and his cauldron, glowing, as usual, is when it happened. All Harry heard was a whispering and he found himself remembering Voldemort rising from the cauldron two years ago. Not only could he remember it; he could see it. Then, he saw himself running from Dudley's gang.
Harry then felt a sharp pain his both of his knees and his head, then, a burning feeling and then nothing.
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"Settle down, settle down!" Harry heard. The words echoed distantly in his head, which was pounding as hard as his heart. He heard talking and felt several people around him. He tried to open his eyes, but his lids felt so heavy that he could not muster the strength to do so. However, when he made the motion to open his eyes, there was a giant hush.
"Look. He's awake!" several Gryffindors whispered.
"Harry? Are you alright?" Harry heard Hermione say. He tried to answer, but couldn't speak.
"Ah, yes. Since the potion was undone, it made the Sightless Solution…" Snape's voice said almost inaudibly. There was a tiny swish, as though someone had flicked a wand; a mutter of and incantation, and Harry's eyesight returned. He had, in fact, had his eyes opened.
"Are you alright, Potter?" asked Snape, as though he were on the verge of helping him, but restraining himself, no doubt reminding himself that he loathed him. In answering, Harry nodded and Snape stood up, allowing Ron and Hermione to pull Harry to his feet.
"Hospital Wing, Potter." Snape said shortly, before walking to Harry's cauldron, setting it strait, as it had somehow had turned over and walking back to the front of the class to regain order amongst the talkative group. "Weasley, you and Granger take him."
Once Ron and Hermione had pulled Harry's arms around their shoulders, they walked him out of the doors, leading him away from the dungeons. As soon as the excited and scared voices disappeared, Ron looked over at Harry.
"You alright, Harry?" he asked concernedly as Hermione looked over as well. Harry nodded. He was panting slightly and his whole body was shaking.
"What-- what happened?" he asked.
"We don't know for sure." answered Hermione, squeaking slightly.
"What d'you remember, mate?" Ron asked.
Harry shook his head, saying, without words, that he was just too exhausted to speak. Finally, after the longest walk, it felt to Harry, they were outside the Hospital Wing. With her free hand, Hermione turned the doorknob and opened the door. Madam Pomfrey was standing next to a bed, whose occupant was hiccupping up teaspoons. Madam Pomfrey was trying to feet him the potion to stop it, only the hiccupping never ceased. However, when the door opened, she looked up and saw Harry being supported by Ron and Hermione.
"Goodness, Potter, what now?" she asked with annoyed apprehension, abandoning the goblet of anti-hiccup potion and rushing over to the threesome, her skirts flying behind her. She grabbed Harry's arm from Ron, who stared at the hiccupping student as Hermione and Madam Pomfrey led Harry to a vacant bed in the corner. The nurse then began examining Harry for any signs of anything.
"Hm." she said, gazing into his tired eyes. "Dear, your eyes are red. Whatever did you do?"
"When he passed out in potions, he knocked his potion into his face and it wasn't done, so it was a Sightless Solution, rather than the Shrinking Solution." Hermione said from the end of the bed.
"Ah. Cured quickly by magic." Madam Pomfrey continued, pulling Harry's eyelids farther apart. "Although magic is a handy tool to fix one's problems, it is not only the best medicine. Yes, we'll have to give him a potion. Potter, can you tell me; do your eyes feel blotchy at points in time?"
Harry nodded wearily.
"Just as I thought. Well, the only potion I can give him is a powerful one, which effects will last up to twenty-four hours. Potter, I daresay you must spend the night here again."
Harry nodded again. Madame Pomfrey then bustled off and returned shortly, clutching another goblet and a bottle labeled Sight-Strengthening Enhancer. She poured a lot of the steaming liquid into the goblet and shoved it in Harry's hand.
"Here. Drink it all. I do not want to see a drop left when I return. Now, I think we should keep you here for the night as well, Mr. Bernstein." And she walked off to resume her challenge of getting the boy with the teaspoons to swallow something.………………………………
It was now incredibly dark out, almost midnight, Harry supposed. He lay awake, no longer drowsy, but fully alert, waiting for something to happen, his eyesight occasionally blanking out.
Why had he passed out in potions? Harry strained his memory.
'Legilimens,' was the word he could remember. Snape had cursed him… when he, Harry was not prepared for it! However, the words of Professor Moody, or Bartemeus Crouch Jr., 'A wizard who's about to put an illegal curse on you isn't going to tell you what he's about to do. He's not going to do it nice and polite to your face. You need to be prepared. You need to be alert and watchful. You need to put that away, Miss Brown, when I'm talking…'
For some reason, Harry became annoyed with himself. He should have been alert. Snape was probably just trying to catch him off guard. But when others were watching? Now, Malfoy knew what Snape was really teaching Harry in 'Remedial Potions' and could, at any time, tell Mr. Malfoy, who could tell Voldemort.
Harry jumped as Bernstein gave an almighty hiccup from across the room. Harry sat up in bed. Was Snape really on his side. Even though he had suspected Snape countless times, all in different ways, it seemed that it was becoming the truth…
There was a loud creaking, and the door to the entrance of the Hospital Wing swung open. Harry threw himself back down on his pillow and closed his eyes pretending to be asleep. He then heard two quiet voices conversing.
"Is all well, Minerva?" Harry heard Madam Pomfrey whisper.
"I'm afraid not." answered McGonagall's tense voice, "The Headmaster requires the full staff to meet him in his office at once. You must leave Messers Potter and Bernstein here for a short while as we have a midnight council."
"At this hour? Is it really so important as I should leave my patients without tending to?"
"They look fine to me at the moment, Poppy, and the council is about one of your patients. It seems Severus performed a Legilimens curse on Potter?"
"That's what Miss. Granger said." Madam Pomfrey answered.
"And we need you there to be part of the council, because Severus's move could cause us serious damage, and has."
"Oh very well, however I do not like these midnight meetings."
"Nor I, but this is important and we must act fast."
There were echoing footsteps and the door closed behind them As soon as Harry heard it slam shut, he got out of bed, reaching for his dressing gown and leaving the Hospital Wing, following the voices of McGonagall and Madam Pomfrey. Harry stopped in the shadows when a new voice appeared.
"Were you called to a meeting?" Flitwick's squeaky voice could be heard easily. Their voices died down and apparently, they had been walking. As soon as Harry turned the corner sharply, he ran into something hard.
"Arg! Cho?"
"Harry?" Cho's voice asked in the dark. Hardly any torches were lit.
"What are you doing here?"
"I was coming to see you, but then I heard Sprout tell Flitwick that there was some news concerning you so I-- wait-- what are you doing here?"
"Same thing as you. Right, shut up for a moment, or we'll get caught. Follow me."
Harry grabbed her sleeve and pulled her around the corner with him and he followed the sound of the three voices as they stopped at the gargoyles.
"We'll have to wait for them to get through." Harry whispered, wishing at once that he had his Invisibility Cloak with him.
"Harry, about before--" Cho began.
"Cho, this isn't exactly the best place to be talking about our mishap at Hogsmede." Harry hissed in the dark. It was odd talking to someone whom he couldn't even see and got a sense of how Ron and Hermione must have felt when he had hidden himself and not them under his Invisibility Cloak before.
"Well, even so. You just-- ran. I wondered what I… what I'd done wrong."
"Nothing. Look, Cho, it's complicated, but we can't explain it now, or we'll get caught." he became suddenly thankful that Peeves had begun to behave himself… slightly… since the Ghost Council.
"Harry--"
"Wait. Look, they've gone. Let's go."
He grabbed her hand and pulled her to the gargoyles, who grinned slyly at the fact that Harry had pulled her along.
"Hello, young one. Found a lady friend, have we, now?" The first gargoyle said and Cho glared.
"I suppose you'll be wanting in, then?" The second one said in a bored manner, as though he had said this line so many times it wasn't even funny anymore.
"Dumbledore's Army." said Harry and Cho looked interested.
"Right-O." The first gargoyle said and the two of them sprang apart. Once inside, where torches were lit everywhere, Cho looked at Harry, bemused.
"He uses 'Dumbledore's Army' as his password?"
"Makes sense, doesn't it? Otherwise, we wouldn't have gotten in." Harry said. "C'mon, let's go."
He led her to the ascending stairs and she looked around, amazed and Harry had to remind himself that this was the first time she had been in here. Several pictures hung on the wall, one of a wizard who was sleeping, his head leaning on the frame, his had tilted and his mouth agape, drooling, another of a sunset, which rose as well, one of the ocean, where the waves lapped up against the sand, one with an old man, holding a long stick, and a coin and one of the Irish National Quidditch Team, with all the players waving at Harry and Cho. Once the stairs came to a halt, the two of them stepped off just as Dumbledore's study door slammed shut and voices began. They both pressed their ears up against the oak door.
"You wanted us, Headmaster?" Professor Sinistra asked, her voice somewhat muffled.
"Indeed, I did," Dumbledore's voice said solemnly. "It seems some information about the Order had been spilled to unwelcome ears."
Cho stared at Harry, mouthing 'the Order'? Harry shook his head, pretending he didn't understand either.
"You see, Severus and I had been talking that maybe Harry knew something and wasn't telling us. I asked Snape to perform 'Legilimens' when Harry was least expecting it, to keep his mind open for Severus to see if Harry wasn't telling us anything important for the Order."
Cho gave Harry an annoyed look.
"However, I did not think Severus would perform it in class, in full view of students, who's parents have ties with Voldemort. He did and one of them said something."
"Can we not just get rid of the students?" a voice asked. If Harry had been watching the conversation, he could easily see Dumbledore shaking his head.
"It matters that we have them, to attempt to get them and everyone else to become friends… get so that their parents have no control over them.
"Why does this matter to us? What has called for you to summon us at twelve at night?" Professor Sprout asked.
"You see, Voldemort is putting all the information he's been getting and found that Fleur Delacour Weasley was good friends with Harry, even before she became a teacher."
"Where is Fleur, anyway?" Flitwick asked.
"That is why I call you in here tonight. You see, Fleur has been captured by Lord Voldemort."Harry and Cho gazed at each other, horrified, forgetting every feud they'd ever gone through, and it was clear that Fleur was on both of their minds.
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"I can't believe this." Ron moaned, rubbing his temples. It was nearly three in the morning and he and Harry were sitting in the Common Room. Hermione had gone upstairs to sleep. Harry had escaped from the Hospital Wing, as soon as he heard Madam Pomfrey go to bed. Ron had been awake, watching Quidditch strategies on the mini Quidditch set, preparing for the next days' game, when Harry walked in, panting slightly. "Fleur. What will Bill say?"
"I dunno, Ron, but all the teachers sounded worried… like there was more to it than Fleur gone missing."
There was a tiny shrill whistle as one of the Gryffindor players in the set scored ten points.
"What am I going to tell Bill?" Ron continued, watching absentmindedly as mini Malfoy flew at Harry, knocking him off the broomstick. They landed in the grass.
"I have to get back, Ron." Harry said, deciding not to answer Ron's question. "Pomfrey does a three-thirty check on Bernstein and if I'm not there… well… see you."
"Bye."
As Harry left, he heard tiny crude shouts of insults as mini Malfoy and Harry wrestled in the grass and Harry had Malfoy in a headlock.
Once Harry was back in bed in the Hospital Wing, his stomach gave a jolt when he remembered that he had a Quidditch Game tomorrow. The first Quidditch game of the season. Would they still have the game now that someone had gone missing? And now that the beans were spilt that Krum was somehow missing, and able to write Hermione at the same time, everything seemed to be in a jumble, which was the way Harry's mind was at three-thirty when Madam Pomfrey came in to check up on Bernstein.
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OMG! I am SOOOOOO sorry for how long it took to get his chapter up! I know it's incredibly short, but from apart from being incredibly busy, I had horrible writer's cramp. It's actually nine pages, so it's pretty close. But I know it's kinda lame. I was in a hurry. Let's see… my past two weeks in a nutshell…
I had work, work, more work, band every Tuesday night, where we are practicing for a marching show we are putting on some time in October, loads of homework, flute lessons, football games and auditions for the school play (I didn't make callbacks, but I'm still hoping for a part!). Then I come home and am so exhausted, I only have enough energy to do what I need to do that day, eat something, do homework, then fall asleep so I can wake up after sleeping through my alarm for half an hour to do it all over again. Ah well… it doesn't sound like a lot of stuff, but trust me, it is!
So, I'm not sure when the next chapter will be up, but hopefully, it will be sooner… I'm typing this at 1:00 in the morning and I'm so tired, but I'm forcing myself to finish it before I go to bed. TIRED!
Also, it was my sister's birthday this week and she had three birthday parties and I bought her a CD. My widdle sister is gwowing up!
So, I apologize once again, for the length of time it took to get this chappie up and hopefully, it will never take this long again. If it does, PLEASE CHECK MY BIO PAGE!!!!! I update what's going on and how long I think for the next chapters to come up. I do it like, every other day now, now that I have a boring Computer Applications class to do that stuff in.
I also bought 'The Sims 2' for $50.00 and it took a while to get it running, so I also played that a lot.
Guess what, you guys? During those two long, painful weeks of waiting, you gave me 62 REVIEWS! I couldn't believe it! That is so many reviews, especially for one chapter. That's how much I was expecting for the whole story! So, I'll try to get through all the reviews, but if I don't have you up, I'm sorry, it was an accident and I'm not avoiding you.
Also, even through 62 reviews, I only got 2 votes for whether or not I should give you a summary of the next chapter, so… majority rules, I suppose… here's the summary for the next chapter:
Next time on 'Harry Potter and the Staff of Merlin': The first Quidditch Game of the season is on Saturday, Gryffindor vs. Slytherin. And someone new comes into the picture, replacing Fleur, who still remains missing.
There you go! Review time!
Nibz- I'm expecting to have a bit of Rita Skeeter in here in a bit, but for now, I'm focusing on the whole Fleur-gone-missing thing. I'm extremely happy that you like my story so much! Yeah, Umbridge annoys me too, but I love her character! Anyway, thanks for reviewing!
Balinor- Thanks! I'm glad a few people enjoy Umbridge!
Moonrider666- Thanks!
Steve- Sorry! I'm like that, putting a lot of non-text stuff in first, but for the most part, Chapter 1 will have had the most text, and that was just an intro to my writing info.
Matharail- Thanks for letting me know. I'm too tired to go back and change the legal age, so let just say Hermione was a bit out of it for some reason, okay? Taa and I have worked out our differences and she hasn't reviewed since, so all is back on track for the most part. Ah, well… I thought it was a nice touch, having Harry have to teach classes, and that was mainly how this story came to be, was me thinking 'it would be cool for Harry to teach something other than D.A. classes and I formed a plot around that idea.
Larna Mandrea- LOL! Little sisters are somewhat annoying at times. Believe me… I know! LOL… again. Harry's sixteen, he's going through that time in his life where he just thinks it's screwed… which it actually is, but oh well! I KNOW! Cho is really cool! Hopefully this chapter will have changed some of their minds!
Eternamente- That's true. Thanks for giving me the ideas! Sorry for bringing Harry and Cho semi-together!
Aanchal- Yes, my story is going a bit slow, but this is basically the turning point chapter of the story, so things should be looking up from here.
Blaze Potter- Thanks!
Hp5555- 36 chapters? Why so specific? But, I'll try… I've already got quite a few planned out! I'm glad you like my story and writing style. I've tried to capture J.K. Rowling's technique a bit to give the readers a sense of it actually being Harry Potter.
Sirius1Fan- Thanks, one of the only two people that responded for the voting thing!
Allie- How is Ron meaner and dumber? Sorry… I just like to ask these things to see if I agree and if I do, I try to fix them. I figured that the reason Harry wasn't doing well in potions was because Snape was there… however, in exams, someone else quizzes them and I thought Harry might not be as nervous around someone else. Does that make sense?
Ms Alex James- Thanks a bunch!
Cloak of Light in General- Really? You played the flute? So do I! That's cool! Actually, the band camp thing runs at my school. Sorry my response is not very long… I'm trying to get ALL these reviews done! ARG!
Facil Glow- Really? They would pull you over? I didn't know that! Thanks for telling me! It's also very interesting! However, the only drink I've ever had was a tiny sip of champagne on New Years Eve.
TankerMDK- Odd behavior… hm… you MIGHT be on to something that will be explained in the 7th story of mine! The reason I go on about separators is because every time I find a cool way of separating, something changes on that makes me unable to even type those things on there! EVIL COMPUTER!
Enoon- School is evil in some ways, and in others, it's the best time of my life! Thanks a bunch!
Lgfrommk2931- You didn't make me feel bad! Everyone is entitled to their own opinion! As of mine, I liked Umbridge because it gave something for the hero to work against!
Sesshoumaru-tolkijin- Thanks!
Ellen- I hope school's going better for you now! New environment is good sometimes, eh? Have a great week and Monday off!
Fuji the Hobbit- Thanks! I always try to find printable music for flute, but I can never find any websites that give that stuff away for free online! Anyway, I have to go, so I'll talk to you later!
Drake Smythe- Yeah, I don't like slash either. Well, my schedule for updating wasn't very healthy, but hopefully, it will be better later on, once I get my life back on track. These few weeks of school have been rough!
Sweet Sakura Curls- Have you every had sushi? I LOVE SUSHI! Well… not all sushi, but cucumber rolls, Inari, and California rolls! My mom made me eat some sort of fish and once I ate it, she asked the guy that made it what it was and he said 'Fried Sea Eel!' EEEEW!
Snow-angel222- Yeah… normally, Dementor's don't freeze doorknobs, but Voldemort had given them special powers! ::gasp!::
MysticXesperanza- Thanks! Although, you'll just have to get used to Cho! LOL! I think she's a pretty fun character!
Panther28- Because they were all shaken up about what happened and all felt pretty weak, as that was the worst Dementor attack yet.
DJ Billy Joe Bob- Cool name! Anyway, thanks for your support on the Taa thing! I didn't know it was so funny! But what you wrote about it made me laugh and happy to know that I have supporters behind me! And thanks SOOOOO much for recommending me! That really means a lot to me!
Carpathia- Isn't the Carpathia the ship that picked up the survivors from the Titanic? Anyway, thanks so much for the lengthy review and nice compliments! They truly mean a lot to me!
Wytil- I wasn't referring to you when I was talking about flaming! Please don't be insulted! And I agree, reviewing is a time to give good, constructive criticism. I was just talking about those that make it their responsibility to flame everyone… such as the person, whose response is right below yours. She put 'what the h--- is wrong with you.' See, that's flaming! It's a waste of my time, really to read those things… what good do they do me?
Merlindamage- What in the world do you mean by what is wrong with me? I see no constructive criticism in this, as I asked for. It bothers me that people always say stuff like that, but never give a reason for what they're saying. Please, either explain why you're asking me what the heck is wrong with me, or don't review at all, because there is absolutely no use for a review like this. What good does it do me? Sorry for being mean, but I'm just so fed up with all these flames I'm getting!
Laen- How did she make it clear there was no chance with Harry and Cho? As far as I know, she never said anything like that! LOL! Sure, they might be mad at each other, but that doesn't mean there isn't a chance! Look at James and Lily!
CrazyPoet- I didn't know it took so long to read my story! I'm so happy you like my story!!! It warms my heart to hear people say that and it makes me feel good about myself! Hey-- I play the flute too! That's so cool! I can play Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings and Pirates of the Caribbean music by memory… I never looked at one piece of music to learn how to play them! It's all in my head, which is cool! I don't have a professional flute, but my dad said that he and my mom are going to get me one for my 16th birthday! Who needs a car when you've got a flute, right? LOL. Actually, I need a car, but I don't have my license yet!
Shelly101- Even more Snape for you! Not a lot, but more!
Sully- Right, I'm gonna reply for each of your reviews. Chapter 6 review- You said that Harry barely knew Sirius enough to get extremely attached to him. Well, I totally, completely, absolutely, utterly and entirely disagree with you. When Harry was talking to Dumbledore at the end of book 5, he was literally screaming at him, because he was so mad and torn up about Sirius being dead. He even performed the Cruciatus Curse, an unforgivable curse, that would land you a cell in Azkaban, on Bellatrix, Sirius's murderer. And Sirius offered him a home, a way to move out from the Dursley's house forever and Harry was ecstatic about the idea. I think there is virtually no way that Harry could have not attached to Sirius. Of course Hermione sounded like a shrink! She's Hermione! And, in one way or another, she's usually counseling Harry and Ron throughout the series. How is Harry sounding like a wimp? He's just lost his godfather, and as Voldemort states clearly, he's been extremely torn up about it. Chapter 7 review- How do you know J.K. Rowling isn't even going to make the books Harry/Cho related? Unless of course, you are J.K. Rowling (Hello!, if you are), you couldn't possibly know. And a reminder… this is a fan fic. And Cho, will be in the story, as I have said SO many times to people. Chapter 8 review- Yes, I know J.K. Rowling said Mark Evans is just a nobody and the last name was a mistake, I thought it would add a nice touch, because it said that Mark was ten, and you need to be eleven to get into Hogwarts… somehow, I'm still thinking J.K. Rowling said that to confuse people. Chapter 11 review- Your opinion, I guess, on the Umbridge thing. I personally, thought it was a nice touch, and I'm all about surprising people and writing like J.K. Rowling. It might just be your opinion, but still, it's like you think I'm trying to sabotage J.K. Rowling's works. This is just a story and I'm doing the best I possibly can. Let's leave it at that. Thanks for reviewing!
Impressive Empress Thay-chan- Thanks for the review! Can you tell me which characters were out of character (besides Dumbledore in the letter in the first chapter, because I've already been told about that a bazillion times) so I can try to do better in later chapters? Did I spell Kreacher's name wrong? I'll have to check that out. Ah, I did. Thanks for pointing that out to me!
Jeanne2- This chapter wasn't as quickly updated, and I'm sorry for that! I loved writing the part with Peeves and the ghosts! I was laughing so hard… I'm not sure if it really was funny, but it was to me!
Gaul1- Thanks!
Ms. Me- Wow! I never thought Peeves could sound like Gollum! Maybe he did, I'm not sure. But I'll try to remember that for later chapters that have Peeves in them! Thanks for mentioning it! I'm glad you like my story!
Scarhead- Thanks!
Kateydidnt- Wow! Long review! Unfortunately, I don't have time to give back a full reply, as I would want to, but you did make really good points! I just thought both of their relationships were alike in the sense that neither Harry, nor James stopped to really think about how Cho and Lily were feeling. Sorry this reply couldn't be longer! It would be if I had time, but I am sooooooooooooo tired!
JeannieBeanie33- That was funny! I was honestly laughing. Yeah, I think in this chapter, Cho and Harry sort of had to forget their differences. It was sort of fun to write a part where it was Harry and Cho having the 'adventure' not Harry, Ron and Hermione, or something like that! What do you think?
Thephanton114- Wow! Thanks! I'm glad you think that way!
Trinityelf- KILL THE MALFOY! J.K. Rowling mentioned that the 5th book was going to be the turning point for Neville, so I decided to roll with that, because he honestly was getting better in the 5th book and more of the pranks were focused on Katie Bell. Hope you had fun at my sister's b-day party!
Makotochi- What did you not like about the ending? PLEASE TELL ME!
Thanks so much, you guys, for all your wonderful reviews (others more than some)! I have to go post this now! Have a great weekend and eat healthy. I'm cold…
May broomsticks be in your dreams!
Luv,
Legolas-gurl88