Chapter Thirty-Nine: Revenge

The next two days went quickly in anticipation for the new Auror class. Harry awoke early on Friday. Harry, Katie, and Neville talked excitedly about their first class.

"Come on, we'd better get going if we want good seats," said Neville.

The trio made their way to the Room of Requirement, only to find the entire class outside the door, apparently waiting. Before they could ask, Moody growled loudly.

"MALFOY!" growled the Professor.

Malfoy strutted through the door. The students began to whisper about what was going on. Twenty minutes later, Malfoy walked out looking rather flustered and attempting to hide a limp.

"What?" began Harry as Moody shouted 'POTTER!'

Harry nervously entered the Room, or what he assumed would be a room. What he found was anything but a room, in fact, it was a crowded sidewalk in what appeared to be London. He found hundreds of people walking around him. They didn't seem to notice and, in fact, many walked through him and shimmered.

'So, they aren't real. Now I don't have to worry about them getting hurt.'

Suddenly, a blue spell grazed Harry's right cheek, leaving a small burn.

"What are the rules of this little exercise, Professor?" called out Harry as he tried to blend in with the crowd.

"To find me," growled Moody.

Harry found that he wasn't blending in well. Numerous people were shimmering around him as he walked. He also saw people flickering across the street. Harry ducked into an alley and hid behind a dumpster. Harry became invisible and transformed into a phoenix. He quickly took flight and scanned the street below him. He could see where the spells where originating from and saw that Moody hadn't actually seen Harry, he was just sending spells in random directions. Harry softly landed and transformed back. As he cast off his invisibility, he started forward, accidentally stepping in a small puddle.

"Petrifi-" began Harry as Moody spun.

"Rictusempra!" growled the ex-Auror softly.

When the spell connected with Harry, he was sent spinning rapidly on his side through the air. Thinking faster than he ever thought possible, Harry began to cast as many spells as he could before he landed. In combination with his spin, the spells flew through the air at Moody with lightning fast speed. Moody tried to dodge the spells but he was quickly overwhelmed. When Harry landed in a painful slump, Harry say that Moody was in the same predicament.

"Good, Potter," growled Moody as he stood, "I had hoped that you would hit me with a spell, let alone find me. Ten points for Gryffindor. Nice endeavor, trying to curse me from behind. I don't suppose you realized that puddle was there. It's been a long time since someone's snuck up on old Mad-Eye. That's the end of your lesson today, go on and get back to your common room. Don't tell anyone about this. And remember, CONSTANT VIGILANCE!"

Harry could feel his leg spasm as he left. When he exited the room, the other students looked at him expectantly.

"Be on your guard," said Harry to Neville as he was called in. As Harry climbed the stairs to his dormitory, he felt Euryx fidgeting in his robes.

What is it?

I can smell another snake, a big snake.

Do you know where it is?

I can tell it is close. It should be in your dormitory. I can tell that it's agitated. Be careful.

Harry cautiously opened the door and was able to find the snake. It sat, coiled up, on his bed.

Nagini!

It's about time you got here. Master sent me here a long time ago.

What do you want.

I am here to deliver a message: I'll be eating you soon. Master says that I'll finally get to eat you.

Oh, really? I think not. How did you expect to return to your so-called Master?

There are a number in his service at this school. They'll send me back.

What makes you think that you'll get that far?

"Serpiente Mata!" yelled Harry as a black light erupted from his wand.

The light connected with Nagini and Harry heard her hiss loudly. Euryx poked his head out of the neck of Harry's robes.

I hope that you don't plan on punishing me with that spell anytime soon.

Never, my friend, I would never intentionally hurt you.

Harry walked over to the dead body of Voldemort's snake. Harry summoned his sword. He used it to carve words onto the underbelly of the snake.

Surrender or suffer my wrath

Now what?

I don't know, Euryx. Voldemort's always made it seem that our connection works one way, for him. I don't think that I could send it to him straight to him… but I could leave it for someone else

Harry opened his trunk and retrieved his invisibility cloak. Holding Nagini under one arm, he draped the cloak over himself. Walking carefully, he went to the dungeons. He shed the cloak and stashed it. Walking in plain sight, he laid the body bottom side up in the center or the corridor, so that all could read it. What he didn't realize was that he had placed it directly in front of Snape's personal dormitory. He retrieved his cloak and returned to the common room. When he entered his dormitory, he found Ron.

"Harry! They found out who had kidnapped Percy!" shouted Ron as he saw his best friend.

"That's great, so who had him?" asked Harry as he placed his cloak in the trunk.

"You'll never guess… Fudge!" said Ron, "Yeah, he told Percy to decimate his apartment so that it looked like someone kidnapped him. Fudge promised to make Percy his second in command when they returned to power. It turns out that Fudge has joined You-Know-Who."

"His name is Voldemort, Ron," said Harry, "I'm not surprised. Fudge is easily fooled when it comes to the idea of power. Did Percy have the Dark Mark?"

"Yeah… but they think that Fudge used the Imperius curse to get him to take it," said Ron.

"We'd better get going, we don't want to be late for Potions, especially today," said Harry as Ron eyed him suspiciously.

A/N: Hey everyone. I'm here to give you all a little foreshadowing. In the future, I plan to use a ball to oust Harry and Katie to the public. Also, everyone's favorite fire-breathing bunny rabbits will make a comeback. During the last chapters, a couple of people will die. Snape will be ousted as a spy too. This is a warning: I won't post the final chapter until I complete the first of the next story. I'm currently thinking of titles, I had one but I forgot it. If any of you have any good ideas for plot points, send them to me and I'll probably consider them. Remember the new Death Eater… Five Months And five days.