Amelda: (bonk)

Seto: (bonk)

Amelda: (bonk)

Kitty: Okies, let's start the next chappie.

Yugi: Is this the one you told me would start the bad stuff you've been planning?

Kitty: (cries) IT'S NOT MY FAULT! IT'S THE PLOT BUNNY'S FAULT! (starts crying in the corner)

Valon: (gives Kitty a slight hug) Aw, c'mon now, lass, stop crying.

Yugi: Hey, what are you doing here?

Kitty: (sniff) I didn't like him really until the Seal took him... (glomps Valon) YOU WERE SO SWEET RIGHT THEN!

Valon: (grins)

Amelda: (stops bonking Seto for a minute) Get out of here, Valon, you're stealing Kitty.

Yugi: Right; from me. (looks ready to kill)

Kitty: (glomps Amelda, Valon and Yugi at the same time) R and R!

Chapter Seven:

Mudbloods and Messages

Pixies turned out to be the least of the students' problems.

Diana woke up the next morning and sat down in the Great Hall with the other Gryffindors, to notice that one of their number wasn't there.

"Hey," Diana said, "Where's Harry?"

"Quidditch practice this morning," Hermione told her as she helped herself to the marmalade, "Lavender told me they've been up since the crack of dawn."

"The crack of dawn?" repeated Diana, "How do I know this is Wood's fault?"

"But still," Yugi muttered, looking up at the clock, "It's been almost two hours since then…"

"They should be just about done," said Ron.

Diana looked up at the clock herself.

"I think I'll go check on them…" she muttered, grabbing a piece of toast, "Don't want Wood to completely exhaust our dear Seeker…"

She got up from the Gryffindor table, Yugi, Ron and Hermione right behind her.

A few minutes down the Hall, they heard a familiar voice.

"Could you please stop taking photos of me already? You probably have plenty, and I have work to do…"

"Hey, Kaiba-kun," said Yugi.

Seto grinned in relief at them, putting the Millennium Rod he was holding back in his pocket as a small, mousy-haired boy with a camera came scampering along behind him.

"Konnichiwa, Yugi-kun," he greeted.

"Ooh," the little boy breathed, his eyes on Yugi, "You're Yugi Mutou, are you?"

"Uh…yeah," Yugi replied awkwardly.

"I'm Colin Creevey," the boy introduced himself, "I'm in Gryffindor too! I wonder…could I…could you…can I have a picture with you and Kaiba?"

"A picture?" Yugi repeated blankly.

"Not now," muttered Seto, grabbing Yugi's arm and pulling him out of the scene, "Sorry, Creevey, but we have to go see Harry-kun's Quidditch practice."

Diana, Ron and Hermione shrugged as they followed the two duelists outside.

When they got to the Quidditch field, the Gryffindor team was just leaving the locker rooms.

"Aren't you finished yet?" Ron asked Harry.

"Haven't even started," the Boy Who Lived yawned, "Wood's been teaching us new moves."

Diana frowned. "Always knew he was a nutcase…you haven't even eaten yet, have you?"

Harry shook his head, and Diana handed him her piece of toast.

"Eat it," she told him, "Can't do new moves without anything to eat…"

Harry didn't need telling twice. "Thanks, Dare."

"Forget it," Diana smiled, "I'm the one who barely eats anything, remember? I'll survive; you won't."

The team started flying around the field in different formations, until Diana saw some familiar green shapes coming toward them.

"The Slytherin Quidditch team?" she thought out loud.

Wood and the rest of Gryffindor team landed next to the Slytherins, and Diana and the others rushed over.

"Flint!" Wood bellowed, "This is our practice time! We got it up specially. You can clear off now!"

Marcus Flint was smirking in a kind of poor-minded cunning. "Plenty of room for all of us, Wood…"

"But I booked the field!" Wood was positively spitting with rage, "I booked it!"

"Ah," Flint said in a mellow tone, holding up a scroll, "But I've got a signed note from Professor Snape."

Seto, taking everyone by surprise, snatched the note of Flint's hand and read it out loud.

"'I, Professor S. Snape, give the Slytherin team permission to practice today on the Quidditch field owing to the need to train their new Seeker.'"

"You have a new Seeker?" Wood asked, distracted, "Where?"

And from behind the six troll-like figures that were the Slytherin team came a seventh, smaller boy, smirking all over his pale, pointed face.

"Malfoy!" Diana snarled, "Who did your father have to torture and blackmail to get you on the team?"

"Funny you should mention my father, Randall," said Malfoy, smirking still more broadly and holding out his broom, "Let me show you the generous gift he made to our team."

Diana's eyes widened in fury and shock. "Those are Nimbus 2001s!"

"Very latest model," Malfoy agreed, flicking a speck of dust off the end of his own, "Only came out last month. I believe it outstrips the Nimbus 2000 by a fair amount…but who knows? Maybe the Gryffindor team will raise up some money too…you could raffle off those Cleansweep 5s they're using; I expect a museum would bid for 'em."

The Slytherin team roared with laughter. Diana's eyes were narrowed in hatred.

"At least people don't have to buy fancy brooms to get on the Gryffindor team," snapped Hermione, "They get in on pure talent."

Malfoy's eyes flashed.

"No one asked your opinion, you filthy little Mudblood," he spat.

There was an uproar. Flint had to jump in front of Malfoy to stop the Weasley twins from jumping on him; Alicia shrieked, "You son of a bitch!"; Ron pulled out his wand, yelling, "You'll pay for that one, Malfoy!" and pointed it under Flint's arm at Malfoy's face…

A loud BANG echoed around the stadium, and a jet of white light came out of the wrong side of Ron's wand, whamming him right in the stomach and hurtling him backward onto the grass.

"Ron!" squealed Hermione, going over to him, "Ron, are you alright?"

Yugi, Harry, Seto and Diana came over too and helped Ron sit up.

"Ron-kun, say something," Yugi said worriedly.

Ron opened his mouth to speak, but no words came out. Instead, he gave a huge belch, and several slugs dribbled out of his mouth and onto his lap.

The Slytherin team howled with laughter. Marcus Flint was leaning on his new broom for support, and Malfoy was on all fours, slamming the ground with his fist.

The rest of the Gryffindor team kept a wary distance away from Ron, as he belched up a few more slugs. No one seemed to want to touch him.

"C'mon," muttered a newly-appeared Seth, "Let's get him to Hagrid's, it's closest."

Atem appeared too and nodded, as he and Seth each took one of Ron's arms and helped him stand up, before running over to Hagrid's with the other Brits.

Harry knocked on Hagrid's door; a few seconds later, Hagrid opened it and beamed at them.

"Bin wonderin' when you were gonna come and see me," he told them, before letting them in.

The two Yamis helped Ron sit down in a chair and Hagrid dropped a big bucket in front of him.

"Get 'em all up then, Ron," said Hagrid, before looking at the others, "So who was he trying to curse anyway?"

"Malfoy," said Harry.

"He called Mione-kun something," Seth explained, "It must have been really bad; everyone looked ready to kill him…"

"It was really bad!" Diana growled, "He called Mione a Mudblood, Hagrid!"

Hagrid looked as furious as Diana. "He didn't!"

"He did," said Hermione, "But I don't know what it means, even though it must have been some kind of an insult."

"It's not just an insult," Diana sighed, "Mudblood is a really foul term for someone who's Muggle-born, you know, with non-magic parents. It'd be as bad as nigger in the Muggle world, if you get what I mean."

Atem's eyes narrowed. "Wait…Malfoy called Kitty 'Mudblood' at Flourish and Blotts…but Yugi and I only got mad at him because he called her a bitch…"

"He called Yugi and Marik it once too," agreed Diana, "In first year. I got in detention and lost twenty points for hexing him after that."

"I didn't know that," moaned Ron, before hurtling over the basin again to burp out more slugs. He wiped his forehead and repeated, "I never knew he called you guys that!"

"You were never there to hear him," Diana noted.

"Well, I think Ron was kinda lucky his wand backfired," said Hagrid, "I don't think ol' Lucius Malfoy would let 'im off easily if he cursed his son that severely."

"True," Seth sighed, "But none of us can deny Malfoy would deserve belching slugs…"

Harry started his detention with Lockhart rather moodily. Having to write Lockhart's fan mail, particularly for flying a car and almost getting killed, was not fun at all, particularly when Lockhart was giving you stupid advice like, "Celebrity is as celebrity does," and "Fame is a fickle friend."

But fun soon was out of the picture as Harry was writing out Veronica Smethley's address on what seemed like the millionth letter.

"…come…come to me…let me rip, tear…"

Harry jumped out of his seat, blotting a huge blot on the envelope he was writing on.

"What?"

"I know!" beamed Lockhart, "Seven months on the Daily Prophet Best Seller List is pretty incredible-"

"No!" Harry whispered, "That voice!"

"Voice?" asked Lockhart, looking around the room, before grinning broadly, "I think you've become a little drowsy, Harry…and no wonder! We've been here nearly four hours! Amazing how time flies when you're having fun…"

Harry listened for a minute, to hear nothing.

/Very strange/ he thought to himself.

As Harry headed back up to the Gryffindor common room, forgetting about his possible dinner in the Great Hall and instead thinking of his possible sleep, he tried to put the voice out of his mind.

But that proved difficult, after he heard it again.

"…so hungry…I smell blood…must kill…"

Harry panicked. /It's going to kill someone/

He followed the sound of that terrible voice down the halls as it got louder and louder…

"kill…kill…KILL…"

Harry turned a corner, and then he saw it.

A message made up of foot-high words was painted in red on the stone wall.

THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN OPENED;

ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE

And hanging from the torch bracket on the side of the message by her tail was Mrs. Norris, Filch's cat, stiff as a board and her eyes wide and unblinking.

Harry would've thought to get help, but a moment later, all the students from the Great Hall entered the corridor. Some muttered frantically; others let out small screams.

Diana, however, went over to Harry. Her eyes went over the motionless Mrs. Norris and then scanned the message expressionlessly.

"Blood…" she whispered as she sniffed the air, "The message is written in blood."

Almost right on cue, Malfoy pushed in front of the crowd.

"'Enemies of the Heir, beware'!" he read, shooting a broad smirk at where Yugi, Hermione and Ryou were standing, "You'll be next, Mudbloods!"

Yugi: (stares at Kitty) THIS is where the plot bunny's idea starts?

Kitty: (starts crying again)

Lina: Uh...reviews, Kara?

Kara: 8, and the first is from Claire!

Kitty: Aww... (glomps Claire) With my almighty authoress powers, I shall bless you with as much happiness as I possibly can!

Seto: Ah, the memories I wish I could rip to shreds... (sweatdrops) Kitty, I shall officially kill you for that later.

Yugi: (eyes turn to flames)

Seto: Err...never mind.

Yugi: (ahem) Hey, my mother is not the worst I've seen. Melisanne's family is no picnic either, and Ron-kun's mother is WAAAAY worse.

Ron: (shivers at the memory of the Howler)

Kitty: And Rayne Saijeuz! (grins) I did, and like I said, you can pass onto Arty that I like him better in your fic than in his books.

Lina: GLARING MATCH! That should be funny.

Diana: And Rainbow Guardian Angel.

Yugi: You're welcome. I hate it when people are upset, particularly my nicest fans and my dear Kitty.

Kitty: (glomps Yugi) Glad you enjoyed the bonk fight, Mizumi. And yeah, Lockhart... (rolls her eyes)

Atem: (hugs Mizumi back) And now...ANAYAS-CREATER.

Kitty: (lol) Your handling of Lockhart even now makes me laugh. (strikes a Chinese pose) HIII-YAH! (hits Malfoy in the stomach)

Malfoy: AH! (faints)

Yugi: (grins evilly) hee, hee, hee... (sends him to the Shadow Realm) Have fun!

Kitty: Yugi, you need to bring him back soon for the next chapters.

Yugi: (pouts) Next is Zelda Ally.

Kitty: (gets a BB gun shoved into her hands) YAY, TARGET PRACTICE! (shoots Jake a hundred million times!)

Lina: The musical part is easily forgotten by the intriguing plot, if you ask me. And yeah, Lockhart sucks.

Kara: Now...DarkMousyLover.

Kitty: Actually, if I could join Yugi there, then I'd gladly not...but as I love this fic so much... (glomps Yugi) I shall have to be with him in spirit... (cries)

Yugi: (kisses Kitty's cheek) And my Yami's role in this will become huge very, very soon, according to Kitty, anyway...even bigger than mine.

Everyone: (stares)

Kitty: (wails)

Lina: And last, Kyte's two reviews.

Kitty: (takes out her HUGE GIANT carton of her favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream and begins eating it) Everyone seems to have loved the bonk fight.

Lina: (looks at Amelda and Seto) Think you guys could do it again?

Seto: Only if I have a good reason to. I have a company to run.

Amelda: Only if I had a good reason to. Valon and I are currently bishie hostages of Kitty.

Kitty: (glomps Amelda and Valon) And now the Seal has taken you guys! God, all my coolest bishies have been stolen by the Seal...except for Atem, who ended up getting tricked into playing it!

Lina: And we shall make Lockhart pay most dearly for calling Seto that.

Seto: That nimrod WILL hear from my lawyers.

Valon: R and R!