Um, hi? I know I took AGES to get this done! Well, to get around to writing
it, anyway. Took me three hours to write. But anyway, I am REALLY SORRY.
Ran ~ Hm, is a bit Slytherinesque. Thanks.
Usagi Serenity Yui Cosmos ~ Sorry it took so long...*shudder* I never thought of the cupboard - Vernon connection. But it's okay, I shut Sylvan in a book. No room in the sock draw...
Jasini ~ Couldn't stop laughing? That's a lot of laughing.
ReflectionsOfReality ~ No, nothing really happened. I was a bit stuck for ideas, really! And Voldie will show up eventually, with greater plot in his pocket (and not paired with Fudge. I don't think Voldie's stupid enough for Fudge. Ick)
Caz Malfoy ~ Thank you!
The Demonic Duo ~ Saved you from boredom, eh? That's good, boredom can be deadly.
NayNymic ~ Very interesting. ;)
TanisaFyre ~ Something has now officially happened! And I'm sorry about the wit!
LoonyLoopyLisa ~ Thank you!
Sailor Grape ~ Seamus is probably going to pry every detail out of Harry, and Harry's gonna be sooo embarrassed about the catnip mouse!
silver-sparklze ~ Thank you!!!
Megs ~ Glad you think so!
Jasini ~ *Looks around nervously* Um, I hope 'all hell' hasn't broken loose yet....but yeah, update has happened!
Dark-One Shadowphyre ~ Oooooh, Shape-shifter! That makes sense! Glad you liked Minnie (who hates the name Minnie, btw).
xikum ~ Why thank you! And poor Minnie, she didn't get her info. She'll find out someday, I suppose.
Icy Flame ~ Harry's certainly going to discover some interesting information. Thankyou!!!
Valentine ~ Thanks!
Sakura ~ Genius? Thanks! Harry & Draco will get together soon, I swear!
Obsessed ~ Thanks! Yay, no threats! I don't think I'll be so lucky this time though. Glad you like Maddy!
Marie ~ thanks.
Dianne ~ I am so sorry I left you hanging. Glad you like!
Serena ~ Hopefully your sanity is still intact, more or less!
FantasyChick ~ I hooked you in? Wow. Next bloody chapter has been written now!
Sondy ~ Thank you! I addicted you? Cool. Er, I HOPE that's a good thing!
Jackie Potter ~ Thanks!
Lady Phoenix Gryffindor ~ Thanks, I will!
Morgana ~ *looks sheepish* I'm sorry....I know it took forever.
NOTE ~ I PROMISE that I wont take so long with the next chapter! Blame my sadistic teachers. *death glares teachers*
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Harry, Seamus, And The Master Plan
By Silver Wolf
Chapter Fourteen ~ Evil Lavender, War and Betting
As was usual for nine o'clock on a Saturday morning in the Gryffindor sixth year boy's dorms, only one person was still there.
Seamus had gone down to breakfast, alone for once. He just hoped that Harry would be able to escape the Slytherin dorms before Monday. He doubted that Snape would be very forgiving if Harry missed his class.
Neville had been dragged out of his bed at six by an enthusiastic Parvati, who was convinced that Hippogriffs were the sweetest creatures on the planet, and had offered to help Hagrid exercise a few of his, and had also volunteered her friend to help as well.
Dean had been unable to get back to sleep after Parvati's invasion, so he'd gone to the library. He'd run into Hermione in the Common Room and she'd decided to join him.
Ron was snoring loudly.
Lavender rolled her eyes as she made her way over to the redhead's bed. She shook his shoulder roughly. "Ron! Wake up!"
"Five more minutes, Mum," he mumbled.
"Fine," Lavender snapped. "If you're going to be lazy, you'll have to face the consequences!"
Ron didn't react. Lavender grinned evilly. This would be FUN.
She pulled out her wand and pointed it at Ron's head. "Sorry Weasley, but it's gotta be done."
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Harry raised his head and gazed around the Slytherin's dorm. It was pretty much the same as his in Gryffindor Tower, but in green and silver rather than red and gold.
It seemed that none of the three boys were early risers, a fact that he knew for sure as he looked at the clock and discovered it to be nine o'clock. 'Yay, they didn't wake me up at a sadistically early time! Joy!' He looked around, and decided to prey on Blaise.
He jumped off Draco's pillow onto the floor. Oh, he was going to enjoy this.
Leaping onto the brown haired boy's bed, Harry prepared himself for an inevitable trip across the room, and approached Blaise's face.
"Meow!"
No reaction.
"MEOW!"
Still no reaction.
If he'd been human, Harry was sure that he would've had a predatory grin on his face. As it was, he leaned forward and licked Blaise Zabini on the nose.
No reaction.
Harry decided to revert to plan B. He jumped back over to Draco's bed and pawed the blond lightly on the cheek. "Meow?" 'Wakey wakey Malfoy!'
There was no reaction here either.
'Bloody hell, these boys know how to sleep! I ought to take lessons, what with Ron and Nev's snoring.........'
Harry sighed and decided to just wait. Judging from the lack of response from these two, he doubted that he'd have any better luck with Jason Nott.
'Guess I'd better wait it out.'
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Remus had been tidying his desk for something to do, when he came across a piece of parchment that had obviously been left there the day before.
'Lupin,
As I'm sure you are aware, a prank was played on me in my class on Thursday. As it was a remake of one you played in our sixth year, I have no doubts that you were in some way involved.
You know what this involves. Alliances, spying, deceit. Students. We've been though it all before.
This is war.
Severus Snape'
He stared at the note for a full seven minutes in complete silence. He then carefully folded it, placed it in his pocket, and left for the Great Hall and breakfast.
He was right outside the doors when he found that he could no longer contain himself.
Most of the students treated their DADA professor as though he'd gone mental.
But then, what else can you say about a man who is on the floor laughing hysterically?
Seamus finally left the Hall and pulled Remus to his feet. "C'mon Professor Lupin, let's go up to your office."
Remus didn't have the breath to protest, or inform Seamus that he hadn't eaten breakfast yet.
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Ron yelled, jumped out of his bed and stood in the middle of the dorm, dripping water on the floor. It wasn't until then that he noticed the madly giggling Lavender Brown, wand in hand.
He glared at her. "What the bloody hell was that for???"
She calmed down a bit and shrugged. "You wouldn't wake up. Generally, that's when people dump water on their friends to wake them up."
Ron stepped over in front of the mirror and looked himself over in disgust. "Well maybe it was a necessary evil. But couldn't you have left out the green dye?"
Lavender took in his now green hair, and once-maroon-now-lime pyjamas. "Nope. Green suits you."
There was a flash of bright light, and they both jumped. They turned to the door and saw Colin Creevey standing there with his ever-present camera.
Ron glared. Colin squeaked and ran. Lavender followed him.
Sighing, Ron attempted to turn his hair back to normal. It didn't work. Bugger.
He sighed again and got dressed. The only thing he could do would be avoid leaving the dorm at all costs.
However, Ron didn't want to miss breakfast, and decided that he'd just have to take the embarrassment.
Leaving the dorms, he headed towards his doom.
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At about nine thirty, there was finally movement from the Slytherins. Draco opened his eyes to discover that he was being stared at by a somewhat annoyed looking feline.
The blond looked at the clock and groaned. "Oh great. Perfect. I wanted to get up half an hour ago!"
Draco could have sworn that Felix rolled his eyes.
He got out of bed and shook Blaise. "All right, wake up!"
"Argh!" Blaise sat up with a start. "Wha - Malfoy!!!"
He just grinned and moved onto Jason.
Once they were all awake, they began to talk.
"So Jase, where were you last night?" Blaise asked.
"Not telling."
"I reckon he was snogging some girl in the Astronomy Tower. Am I right?" Draco smirked as Jason blushed. "All right, then who?"
"Is she a Gryffindor?"
"No."
"C'mon Jason, don't make us guess!" Draco exclaimed. "I hate guessing!"
"Okay, okay! It's Sarah."
"As in Sarah Moon???" Blaise demanded.
"The same Sarah Moon who you've been, for lack of a better word, 'mooning' over for the past two months???" Draco continued.
Jason nodded.
"Hah! Pay up Zabini! You owe me ten galleons!"
"He does?" Jason asked.
"Yep! He reckoned that you and Sarah wouldn't hook up until after Christmas, and I said that you would! Yay me!" Draco did a little dance.
The other two stared at him. "Draco? You're scaring me," Jason said nervously. Blaise nodded.
Draco stopped and gave them a look. "This doesn't leave the room."
"So, how's the plan coming along between you two?" Jason inquired.
Draco shrugged. "I dunno. One minute we think they're just friends, and then they'll do something that makes it seem like more."
Blaise sighed. "Life was so much simpler when no one had any suspicions like this. When they were just friends and everyone knew."
Jason rolled his eyes. "Look, I was talking to Sarah, and her best friend is Padma Patil. Padma's twin sister Parvati is a Gryffindor, as you know. Parvati's fairly sure that they're NOT a couple, although their friends are investigating."
Draco nodded. "I think that they've hired the Five. Maybe we should warn them?"
"No, that'd just rouse suspicion. What you ought to do is take this truce and try to forge a friendship. Potter seemed pretty thankful when you covered for him in Potions." Jason looked at his roommates. "If you really want to date Harry Potter and Seamus Finnigan, then you're going to have to start somewhere. So Draco, you could ask Harry why he played that prank on Snape, or something. Blaise, you could ask Seamus, um, something. Homework maybe?"
Blaise grinned. "Jase, I think that's a plan."
"Good. Now, how about we get ready for breakfast?"
Once the three boys were up and dressed, the issue became what to do with Felix while they went to breakfast.
"Just lock him in," Jason suggested. "If you let him out, he'll probably end up being savaged by that feral thing of Granger's. There is something off about that ginger monstrosity."
"Jason, you only have a problem with him because he ate your toad," Blaise pointed out. "Felix can take care of himself, I'm sure."
"I think I'll bring him with me," Draco decided. "If he wants to leave after that, then fine. Otherwise, he should be safe with us, right?"
The other two nodded and left the room, knowing that Draco and his cat would catch up eventually.
"All right then Felix, we're going." Draco looked around, trying to locate the feline that had vanished under his bed sometime after Sarah Moon was mentioned the first time.
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Seamus pushed Remus down into his chair, and when the werewolf still didn't show any sign of calming down, he grabbed a nearby vase of flowers and emptied the water and roses over his head.
That shut him up. "Hey!"
"Sorry. Do you want to explain the whole hysterically laughing in the Entrance Hall thing?"
Remus grinned, pulled Snape's 'Declaration of War' out of his pocket and handed it to Seamus. The blond haired boy read it, his grin expanding with each line. When he finished, he laughed and handed it back.
"So Finnigan, are you up for a war?"
"I believe so. With any luck, we'll have Harry back by then."
"Speaking of which, I don't recall ever discussing how he was going to get away from the Slytherins."
Seamus frowned. "You know, neither do I. I don't think we actually DID talk about it."
"Oh dear."
"My thoughts exactly. Only with less profanity."
"So what now?"
"Are you calm enough to go to breakfast? Only I'm really hungry."
Remus nodded. "Yep. Let's go."
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'Aw man, what now? Do I go with Malfoy, run over to Seamus and hope that he's smart enough to claim me? Do I run off and come back to breakfast as myself? Or do I transform right now and tell Malfoy - no. He'd probably kill me for spying. I'll tell him one day. Maybe after we've graduated. And after Voldemort is gone. After I turn ninety. Or maybe never. Argh!'
Harry crawled out from under Draco's bed and walked over to the blond Slytherin. Malfoy picked him up.
'Ohhh, I think I'm getting motion sickness.'
"All right then Felix, you're coming with me to breakfast. I'll give you some bacon if you like."
'Mmmm, bacon. Maybe I should stick around for breakfast. But now I've got the information, why bother? I hope Seamus isn't in 'dunderhead' mode when I need him to claim me. If so, maybe Moony............?'
It wasn't long before Draco caught up with Blaise and Jason, and the three of them - and Harry - entered the Great Hall, made their way to the Slytherin Table, and sat down.
'Hm, no Seamus yet. Or Remus. If I get desperate, there's always Minnie.........'
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Ron took a deep breath and entered the Great Hall.
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Seamus glanced up when he noticed something green out of the corner of his eye. He and Remus were just in time to see the back of Ron Weasley enter the Great Hall.
"Was that............?"
"Ron with green hair?" Remus finished. "Yep."
"Oh. Five galleons says it was Dean."
"You're on. I'm leaning towards Lavender."
They entered the Hall and headed to their tables, waiting to see who would win their bet.
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Harry looked up from his bacon as Ron entered the Hall. 'Oh. My. God. Lav said she'd do it one day, and now it seems as though she has. Whoa. Lime green. Pretty bright, much?'
"Draco, Blaise. Humiliated Weasley at Gryffindor Table."
The two of them followed Jason's pointed finger, and they spotted Ron.
"Extravagant. My money's on Brown."
"No way Draco, I'm thinking Granger."
"Blaise, Draco, no way! It was definitely Finnigan."
'They're distracted. Now's the time to make a break for it.'
Harry jumped off the Slytherin Table and ran towards Seamus. He leaped up onto the Gryffindor Table and landed by Seamus's elbow.
"Meow."
Seamus looked at him. "Oh. Hello."
"Finnigan, do you mind if I have my cat?" Draco said from behind them.
Harry panicked and gave Seamus a pointed look.
"Sorry Malfoy, but it seems as though you've adopted my cat. His name's Fluffy." Seamus undid the collar and handed it to the stunned Draco, ignoring the death glare that Harry was giving him for 'Fluffy'.
Draco sighed. "Oh well. He was well behaved, at any rate. Uh, Finnigan?"
"Yes Malfoy?"
"Any idea where Potter is? I wanted to talk to him about our Potions homework."
Seamus frowned. "I'll tell him to meet you in the Library after dinner, okay? I'd say lunch, but we're going to Hogsmeade."
"All right then. Thank you."
Seamus watched him walk back to the Slytherin Table, then picked Harry up and carried him out of the Great Hall.
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Nice long chapter! No cliffhanger!
Oh, and by the way! I have posted the first part of 'The Incident' which will be five chapters tops, if that!
Okay, I hope you liked the chapter!
Please review!
~SW
Ran ~ Hm, is a bit Slytherinesque. Thanks.
Usagi Serenity Yui Cosmos ~ Sorry it took so long...*shudder* I never thought of the cupboard - Vernon connection. But it's okay, I shut Sylvan in a book. No room in the sock draw...
Jasini ~ Couldn't stop laughing? That's a lot of laughing.
ReflectionsOfReality ~ No, nothing really happened. I was a bit stuck for ideas, really! And Voldie will show up eventually, with greater plot in his pocket (and not paired with Fudge. I don't think Voldie's stupid enough for Fudge. Ick)
Caz Malfoy ~ Thank you!
The Demonic Duo ~ Saved you from boredom, eh? That's good, boredom can be deadly.
NayNymic ~ Very interesting. ;)
TanisaFyre ~ Something has now officially happened! And I'm sorry about the wit!
LoonyLoopyLisa ~ Thank you!
Sailor Grape ~ Seamus is probably going to pry every detail out of Harry, and Harry's gonna be sooo embarrassed about the catnip mouse!
silver-sparklze ~ Thank you!!!
Megs ~ Glad you think so!
Jasini ~ *Looks around nervously* Um, I hope 'all hell' hasn't broken loose yet....but yeah, update has happened!
Dark-One Shadowphyre ~ Oooooh, Shape-shifter! That makes sense! Glad you liked Minnie (who hates the name Minnie, btw).
xikum ~ Why thank you! And poor Minnie, she didn't get her info. She'll find out someday, I suppose.
Icy Flame ~ Harry's certainly going to discover some interesting information. Thankyou!!!
Valentine ~ Thanks!
Sakura ~ Genius? Thanks! Harry & Draco will get together soon, I swear!
Obsessed ~ Thanks! Yay, no threats! I don't think I'll be so lucky this time though. Glad you like Maddy!
Marie ~ thanks.
Dianne ~ I am so sorry I left you hanging. Glad you like!
Serena ~ Hopefully your sanity is still intact, more or less!
FantasyChick ~ I hooked you in? Wow. Next bloody chapter has been written now!
Sondy ~ Thank you! I addicted you? Cool. Er, I HOPE that's a good thing!
Jackie Potter ~ Thanks!
Lady Phoenix Gryffindor ~ Thanks, I will!
Morgana ~ *looks sheepish* I'm sorry....I know it took forever.
NOTE ~ I PROMISE that I wont take so long with the next chapter! Blame my sadistic teachers. *death glares teachers*
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Harry, Seamus, And The Master Plan
By Silver Wolf
Chapter Fourteen ~ Evil Lavender, War and Betting
As was usual for nine o'clock on a Saturday morning in the Gryffindor sixth year boy's dorms, only one person was still there.
Seamus had gone down to breakfast, alone for once. He just hoped that Harry would be able to escape the Slytherin dorms before Monday. He doubted that Snape would be very forgiving if Harry missed his class.
Neville had been dragged out of his bed at six by an enthusiastic Parvati, who was convinced that Hippogriffs were the sweetest creatures on the planet, and had offered to help Hagrid exercise a few of his, and had also volunteered her friend to help as well.
Dean had been unable to get back to sleep after Parvati's invasion, so he'd gone to the library. He'd run into Hermione in the Common Room and she'd decided to join him.
Ron was snoring loudly.
Lavender rolled her eyes as she made her way over to the redhead's bed. She shook his shoulder roughly. "Ron! Wake up!"
"Five more minutes, Mum," he mumbled.
"Fine," Lavender snapped. "If you're going to be lazy, you'll have to face the consequences!"
Ron didn't react. Lavender grinned evilly. This would be FUN.
She pulled out her wand and pointed it at Ron's head. "Sorry Weasley, but it's gotta be done."
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Harry raised his head and gazed around the Slytherin's dorm. It was pretty much the same as his in Gryffindor Tower, but in green and silver rather than red and gold.
It seemed that none of the three boys were early risers, a fact that he knew for sure as he looked at the clock and discovered it to be nine o'clock. 'Yay, they didn't wake me up at a sadistically early time! Joy!' He looked around, and decided to prey on Blaise.
He jumped off Draco's pillow onto the floor. Oh, he was going to enjoy this.
Leaping onto the brown haired boy's bed, Harry prepared himself for an inevitable trip across the room, and approached Blaise's face.
"Meow!"
No reaction.
"MEOW!"
Still no reaction.
If he'd been human, Harry was sure that he would've had a predatory grin on his face. As it was, he leaned forward and licked Blaise Zabini on the nose.
No reaction.
Harry decided to revert to plan B. He jumped back over to Draco's bed and pawed the blond lightly on the cheek. "Meow?" 'Wakey wakey Malfoy!'
There was no reaction here either.
'Bloody hell, these boys know how to sleep! I ought to take lessons, what with Ron and Nev's snoring.........'
Harry sighed and decided to just wait. Judging from the lack of response from these two, he doubted that he'd have any better luck with Jason Nott.
'Guess I'd better wait it out.'
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Remus had been tidying his desk for something to do, when he came across a piece of parchment that had obviously been left there the day before.
'Lupin,
As I'm sure you are aware, a prank was played on me in my class on Thursday. As it was a remake of one you played in our sixth year, I have no doubts that you were in some way involved.
You know what this involves. Alliances, spying, deceit. Students. We've been though it all before.
This is war.
Severus Snape'
He stared at the note for a full seven minutes in complete silence. He then carefully folded it, placed it in his pocket, and left for the Great Hall and breakfast.
He was right outside the doors when he found that he could no longer contain himself.
Most of the students treated their DADA professor as though he'd gone mental.
But then, what else can you say about a man who is on the floor laughing hysterically?
Seamus finally left the Hall and pulled Remus to his feet. "C'mon Professor Lupin, let's go up to your office."
Remus didn't have the breath to protest, or inform Seamus that he hadn't eaten breakfast yet.
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Ron yelled, jumped out of his bed and stood in the middle of the dorm, dripping water on the floor. It wasn't until then that he noticed the madly giggling Lavender Brown, wand in hand.
He glared at her. "What the bloody hell was that for???"
She calmed down a bit and shrugged. "You wouldn't wake up. Generally, that's when people dump water on their friends to wake them up."
Ron stepped over in front of the mirror and looked himself over in disgust. "Well maybe it was a necessary evil. But couldn't you have left out the green dye?"
Lavender took in his now green hair, and once-maroon-now-lime pyjamas. "Nope. Green suits you."
There was a flash of bright light, and they both jumped. They turned to the door and saw Colin Creevey standing there with his ever-present camera.
Ron glared. Colin squeaked and ran. Lavender followed him.
Sighing, Ron attempted to turn his hair back to normal. It didn't work. Bugger.
He sighed again and got dressed. The only thing he could do would be avoid leaving the dorm at all costs.
However, Ron didn't want to miss breakfast, and decided that he'd just have to take the embarrassment.
Leaving the dorms, he headed towards his doom.
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At about nine thirty, there was finally movement from the Slytherins. Draco opened his eyes to discover that he was being stared at by a somewhat annoyed looking feline.
The blond looked at the clock and groaned. "Oh great. Perfect. I wanted to get up half an hour ago!"
Draco could have sworn that Felix rolled his eyes.
He got out of bed and shook Blaise. "All right, wake up!"
"Argh!" Blaise sat up with a start. "Wha - Malfoy!!!"
He just grinned and moved onto Jason.
Once they were all awake, they began to talk.
"So Jase, where were you last night?" Blaise asked.
"Not telling."
"I reckon he was snogging some girl in the Astronomy Tower. Am I right?" Draco smirked as Jason blushed. "All right, then who?"
"Is she a Gryffindor?"
"No."
"C'mon Jason, don't make us guess!" Draco exclaimed. "I hate guessing!"
"Okay, okay! It's Sarah."
"As in Sarah Moon???" Blaise demanded.
"The same Sarah Moon who you've been, for lack of a better word, 'mooning' over for the past two months???" Draco continued.
Jason nodded.
"Hah! Pay up Zabini! You owe me ten galleons!"
"He does?" Jason asked.
"Yep! He reckoned that you and Sarah wouldn't hook up until after Christmas, and I said that you would! Yay me!" Draco did a little dance.
The other two stared at him. "Draco? You're scaring me," Jason said nervously. Blaise nodded.
Draco stopped and gave them a look. "This doesn't leave the room."
"So, how's the plan coming along between you two?" Jason inquired.
Draco shrugged. "I dunno. One minute we think they're just friends, and then they'll do something that makes it seem like more."
Blaise sighed. "Life was so much simpler when no one had any suspicions like this. When they were just friends and everyone knew."
Jason rolled his eyes. "Look, I was talking to Sarah, and her best friend is Padma Patil. Padma's twin sister Parvati is a Gryffindor, as you know. Parvati's fairly sure that they're NOT a couple, although their friends are investigating."
Draco nodded. "I think that they've hired the Five. Maybe we should warn them?"
"No, that'd just rouse suspicion. What you ought to do is take this truce and try to forge a friendship. Potter seemed pretty thankful when you covered for him in Potions." Jason looked at his roommates. "If you really want to date Harry Potter and Seamus Finnigan, then you're going to have to start somewhere. So Draco, you could ask Harry why he played that prank on Snape, or something. Blaise, you could ask Seamus, um, something. Homework maybe?"
Blaise grinned. "Jase, I think that's a plan."
"Good. Now, how about we get ready for breakfast?"
Once the three boys were up and dressed, the issue became what to do with Felix while they went to breakfast.
"Just lock him in," Jason suggested. "If you let him out, he'll probably end up being savaged by that feral thing of Granger's. There is something off about that ginger monstrosity."
"Jason, you only have a problem with him because he ate your toad," Blaise pointed out. "Felix can take care of himself, I'm sure."
"I think I'll bring him with me," Draco decided. "If he wants to leave after that, then fine. Otherwise, he should be safe with us, right?"
The other two nodded and left the room, knowing that Draco and his cat would catch up eventually.
"All right then Felix, we're going." Draco looked around, trying to locate the feline that had vanished under his bed sometime after Sarah Moon was mentioned the first time.
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Seamus pushed Remus down into his chair, and when the werewolf still didn't show any sign of calming down, he grabbed a nearby vase of flowers and emptied the water and roses over his head.
That shut him up. "Hey!"
"Sorry. Do you want to explain the whole hysterically laughing in the Entrance Hall thing?"
Remus grinned, pulled Snape's 'Declaration of War' out of his pocket and handed it to Seamus. The blond haired boy read it, his grin expanding with each line. When he finished, he laughed and handed it back.
"So Finnigan, are you up for a war?"
"I believe so. With any luck, we'll have Harry back by then."
"Speaking of which, I don't recall ever discussing how he was going to get away from the Slytherins."
Seamus frowned. "You know, neither do I. I don't think we actually DID talk about it."
"Oh dear."
"My thoughts exactly. Only with less profanity."
"So what now?"
"Are you calm enough to go to breakfast? Only I'm really hungry."
Remus nodded. "Yep. Let's go."
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'Aw man, what now? Do I go with Malfoy, run over to Seamus and hope that he's smart enough to claim me? Do I run off and come back to breakfast as myself? Or do I transform right now and tell Malfoy - no. He'd probably kill me for spying. I'll tell him one day. Maybe after we've graduated. And after Voldemort is gone. After I turn ninety. Or maybe never. Argh!'
Harry crawled out from under Draco's bed and walked over to the blond Slytherin. Malfoy picked him up.
'Ohhh, I think I'm getting motion sickness.'
"All right then Felix, you're coming with me to breakfast. I'll give you some bacon if you like."
'Mmmm, bacon. Maybe I should stick around for breakfast. But now I've got the information, why bother? I hope Seamus isn't in 'dunderhead' mode when I need him to claim me. If so, maybe Moony............?'
It wasn't long before Draco caught up with Blaise and Jason, and the three of them - and Harry - entered the Great Hall, made their way to the Slytherin Table, and sat down.
'Hm, no Seamus yet. Or Remus. If I get desperate, there's always Minnie.........'
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Ron took a deep breath and entered the Great Hall.
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Seamus glanced up when he noticed something green out of the corner of his eye. He and Remus were just in time to see the back of Ron Weasley enter the Great Hall.
"Was that............?"
"Ron with green hair?" Remus finished. "Yep."
"Oh. Five galleons says it was Dean."
"You're on. I'm leaning towards Lavender."
They entered the Hall and headed to their tables, waiting to see who would win their bet.
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Harry looked up from his bacon as Ron entered the Hall. 'Oh. My. God. Lav said she'd do it one day, and now it seems as though she has. Whoa. Lime green. Pretty bright, much?'
"Draco, Blaise. Humiliated Weasley at Gryffindor Table."
The two of them followed Jason's pointed finger, and they spotted Ron.
"Extravagant. My money's on Brown."
"No way Draco, I'm thinking Granger."
"Blaise, Draco, no way! It was definitely Finnigan."
'They're distracted. Now's the time to make a break for it.'
Harry jumped off the Slytherin Table and ran towards Seamus. He leaped up onto the Gryffindor Table and landed by Seamus's elbow.
"Meow."
Seamus looked at him. "Oh. Hello."
"Finnigan, do you mind if I have my cat?" Draco said from behind them.
Harry panicked and gave Seamus a pointed look.
"Sorry Malfoy, but it seems as though you've adopted my cat. His name's Fluffy." Seamus undid the collar and handed it to the stunned Draco, ignoring the death glare that Harry was giving him for 'Fluffy'.
Draco sighed. "Oh well. He was well behaved, at any rate. Uh, Finnigan?"
"Yes Malfoy?"
"Any idea where Potter is? I wanted to talk to him about our Potions homework."
Seamus frowned. "I'll tell him to meet you in the Library after dinner, okay? I'd say lunch, but we're going to Hogsmeade."
"All right then. Thank you."
Seamus watched him walk back to the Slytherin Table, then picked Harry up and carried him out of the Great Hall.
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Nice long chapter! No cliffhanger!
Oh, and by the way! I have posted the first part of 'The Incident' which will be five chapters tops, if that!
Okay, I hope you liked the chapter!
Please review!
~SW