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Harry, Seamus, And The Master Plan
By SilverWolf7007
Chapter Sixteen ~ Conversations, Sneaking, Plotting and Pranking
"So Malfoy, Seamus said you wanted to talk to me about Potions homework." Harry raised an eyebrow. "And here I was thinking you were top of the class in Potions."
Draco shrugged. "I admit it, I lied. It's a bad habit I picked up somewhere."
"What's the real reason for dragging me here, then?"
"Well, I know you said you played that prank on Snape for a Marauder, but why?"
"He's Snape. Do Moony and I need a reason?"
"Yep. Who's Moony, anyway? What do you know about the Marauders?"
Harry laughed. "I know a lot about the Marauders. What do YOU know about them? Tell me, and I'll tell you who Moony is."
"All I know is that the Marauders were a prank pulling group who were at Hogwarts with Snape and my father. I THINK they were Gryffindors, because Dad and Snape both detested them. They try not to mention them."
"Okay. They were Gryffindors, you're right. Prongs was my father, Moony is Professor Lupin."
Draco was staring at him, shocked. "And Padfoot and Wormtail?"
"Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew."
"So, what was the prank on Snape about?"
"It's a remake of a prank Remus played on him back when they were in school. I needed a favour, so he got me to do that to Snape in return."
"Oh."
The two of them fell silent. Harry was trying to figure out what to say when the library door opened and Remus stepped in.
"Harry! I've been looking for you everywhere! Did Seamus tell you about the letter I received from Snape this morning?"
Harry shook his head. "What letter?"
Remus smirked. "Snape's decided that he's brave enough to challenge a Marauder to a prank war. You in?"
"Definitely!" Harry suddenly had an idea. "What about you, Malfoy? Care to join our side before Snape gets to you?"
Draco considered it. "Sure. I'll talk to Blaise and Jason too. We can pretend to talk to Snape and actually act as double agents."
"Brilliant idea. I'll talk to you boys tomorrow." Remus turned and left the room, whistling.
"Er, is he usually like that?"
"I think it's the chocolate."
"Oh. So what will this prank war entail?"
"Spying. Pranks, obviously. A lot of after hours sneaking."
"Sounds like fun."
Harry nodded. "If we're going to be working together, maybe we should call each other by our first names. In private, at least."
"All right then, Harry."
Again, they fell silent.
"I heard that someone locked Granger and Weasley in the DADA classroom. Any ideas on who it was?"
Harry laughed. "I think I know."
Draco studied him shrewdly. "Was it you?"
"Ack, you have caught me," Harry answered dryly.
"Why?"
"Seamus and I are trying to set them up."
The blond looked shocked. "You mean they aren't a couple?"
"Not yet. I don't suppose you have any brilliant ideas?"
Draco smirked. "Maybe a few."
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Seamus was bored. He couldn't talk to Harry, because Harry was in the library with Draco. Ron, Dean and Neville had gone down to the kitchens. Lavender, Hermione and Parvati were in the Ravenclaw Common Room with Padma and her friends. Ginny and Colin were somewhere.
He would have liked to play a prank on Snape, but prank war tradition maintained that whoever made the declaration played the first prank.
Remus had vanished, and Seamus was pretty sure that he was plotting things to do to Snape.
Maddy was in the Slytherin Common Room doing her homework, and Orla and Owen were in their respective Common Rooms feeding the Five false rumours.
And so, Seamus had no one to talk to.
"Hey Finnigan."
"Yah!" Seamus whirled around to face the grinning Slytherin behind him. "Bloody hell Zabini, don't DO that!"
Blaise laughed. "Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you."
"It's okay, I'm pretty used to being snuck up on. Harry does it all the time to everyone in the Common Room. It's just I'm expecting to be pranked."
The brown haired boy looked curious. "By who?"
"Harry. I annoyed him earlier, so he told me to watch my back. I have a really bad feeling about this."
"Ah. Say, have you done that Transfiguration essay yet?"
"Nope. Why?"
"Just wondering. I thought you might be able to give me a hand."
"Well, we could always work on it together."
"Okay. When?"
"About ten tomorrow morning in the library?"
"Sure. See you then, Seamus."
The blond grinned. "Until tomorrow, Blaise."
The two of them passed each other, and Seamus was about to head to the library to find Harry when he had an idea. "Hey Blaise?"
He turned around. "Yeah?"
"D'you want to come with me to the library? Harry was meeting Malfoy there."
Blaise nodded. "Sure."
They set of to the library to find their friends.
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"Hey Maddy, have you seen Blaise or Draco at all?" Jason asked.
His cousin shook her head. "Sorry Jase. Haven't seen them since they left after dinner."
"Oh!" Jason rolled his eyes. "Of course, how could I forget?"
"Forget what?" Maddy asked curiously. 'This sounds interesting,' she thought.
Jason sat down beside her. "Promise not to tell?"
She nodded.
He opened his mouth to speak, but thought better of it. "Come up to the dorm with me."
Maddy followed Jason to the sixth year boys' dorms and sat on his bed. Jason sat on Draco's.
"Well?" she prompted.
"Draco's in the library with Harry Potter, and Blaise is looking for Seamus Finnigan for Transfiguration help."
Maddy frowned. "So what?" Then her eyes widened. "They like them!"
"Yep. I don't know how I forgot."
"They left a while ago, didn't they?"
"Yeah, so?"
She grinned impishly. "Let's go to the library and say hello."
Jason looked doubtful. "Draco'd kill me. In a very dead kind of way."
"What other way is there?" She stood up, grabbed his hands and pulled him up as well. "C'mon Jase, we'll just say that you're helping me find a book for my Potions assignment!"
"And am I?"
"Yep. Harry borrowed my copy of the book I need. So I'll get it off him."
Her cousin grinned. "All right then, Maddy. Shall we?" he said.
"We shall," she replied.
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"Apparate!"
Sam looked at Sirius in confusion. "What?"
"We can Apparate out of the damn net!"
Her eyes widened. "Of course! Why didn't we think of that before?"
"Because we were too busy arguing," Sirius replied flippantly.
"Oh yeah. I'll go first."
Sirius just nodded.
"Damn! Stupid net! Stupid Death Eaters! Stupid Voldemort! Damn, damn, damn!!!"
"Samantha? You okay?"
"There's bloody anti-Apparition wards on the stupid spawn of flobberworm net!"
"Shit."
"We're stuck, Sirius. I don't suppose you have a knife?"
He shook his head. "Sorry. I think our only chances of getting out of this net and back to Hogwarts were dropped on the ground with our wands."
Sam sighed. "Oh well. Maybe if we're lucky we'll be found by our side before the Death Eaters."
"It's not very likely, Sam."
"I know Siri, I know."
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Right outside the library door, Blaise and Seamus stopped for a minute.
"D'you hear that?" Blaise asked.
"No. What am I listening for?"
The brown haired boy laughed softly. "It's more what we can't hear, Seamus."
"As in the decided lack of screaming, yelling, hexing and swearing? Yeah, I hear it - or, I don't."
"Think we should go in?" Blaise said.
Seamus thought for a second. "Yeah. For all we know, they might be unconscious. Or they might have left. And there's only one way to find out."
"And that would be to go in," Jason finished, stopping beside them.
"What are you doing here?" Blaise demanded.
"He's helping me get a book for my potions assignment," Maddy told him, hoping to stop the brewing disagreement. It didn't take much to get Blaise and Jason arguing.
"All right then," Seamus said, grinning. "Then I suppose we had all better go inside and hope for the best."
"The best being?" Jason inquired.
"The best thing that could have happened would be them in there talking civilly." Seamus smirked. "Let's move in, troops!"
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Harry and Draco had spent ages talking about ways to set Ron and Hermione up, and had finally settled on one thing - Remus would have to be involved.
They drifted off topic, discussing everything from Quidditch to Potions to pranks and back to Quidditch again, before returning pen ultimately to pranks.
"I think the best thing to do to Snape first would be - hey, do you hear that?"
Draco nodded. "Sounds like Blaise and Seamus."
Harry waited a second. "And Jason and Maddy."
"I feel the need to prank them," Draco said, smirking.
"Me too." Harry pulled out his invisibility cloak. "Put this on, stand up and wait behind my chair."
"All right."
Harry pulled Maddy's potions book out of his bag and began to read.
The library door opened, allowing Seamus, Blaise, Jason and Maddy inside.
Maddy came and took her book off Harry. "Hiya Harry. Can I have my book back?"
"Sure. You seem to have taken it anyway." Harry waited for the three boys to sit down before speaking again. "What brings you lot here?"
Seamus frowned. "What happened to Malfoy?"
"Draco?" Harry feigned surprise. "He went to steal a colour changing potion from Snape. We're gonna need it for the war," he added to Seamus.
"War?" Jason asked, looking confused. "What, you're going to change Voldemort's hair colour?"
"Not that war," Harry said, grinning at the thought of Voldemort with pink hair. "The prank war Snape started with Professor Lupin."
As Harry explained the reason for the war - the prank on Snape in Potions - Draco was having fun changing the hair colour of the three boys and Maddy.
Harry was having trouble controlling his grin as Jason's hair became purple, Blaise's green and blue, Seamus's pink, and Maddy's red and gold. None of them had noticed.
Draco ducked out the library door while they weren't looking, pulled off the invisibility cloak off and put it into his pocket, before smoothing his hair and stepping back inside.
The five of them turned to look at him as he entered, and he didn't bother trying not to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Seamus demanded. That set Harry off as well.
Blaise and Jason turned to each other to exchange glances, but noticed the hair. They turned and also saw Maddy and Seamus's.
Draco and Harry finally managed to calm down. "Making a fashion statement?" the blond asked.
"Shut up, Draco." Jason glared at him.
"Anyway," Harry said, getting back to business. "Remus has already recruited Seamus, Draco and I, so I was wondering if you four would join in as well. On our side of course," he added hastily.
Blaise nodded. "Sure thing. Sounds like fun, anyway."
"Also," Seamus added. "We need help in setting Ron and Hermione up as a couple."
"They aren't already?" Jason and Blaise asked.
Harry shook his head, grinning. "No. Only condition is, we have to get Remus in on whatever plans we make. Is that okay with everyone?"
There were nods all round.
Blaise turned to Draco. "Now will you PLEASE turn our hair back to normal?" he asked plaintively.
He nodded and changed his fellow Slytherins' hair back to their regular colour. Seamus's he left, however.
"What about me?"
Draco shrugged. "Harry can deal with it."
Seamus turned hopefully to Harry.
"No. Your hair will stay pink until I've forgiven you."
"Oh all right," he sighed.
The four of them said goodnight and the Slytherins left.
Harry turned to Seamus. "I think we've had a very productive night," he commented.
Seamus nodded. "I believe so. Let's go back to the Common Room and eat lots of sugar quills. We're going to need the energy when Snape begins this war."
"Sure."
The two of them left the library.
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SIRIUS: Why are Sam and I STILL IN THAT BLOODY NET???
SW: Because it adds plot to my story.
SAM: That is SO unfair!
TOM: That's life, Lupin.
SAM: It's Snape, now.
SW: Hah! See? Tom, Remus, Sylvan, Sirius and Voldemort all thought I couldn't do it! But I did!
LUCIUS: Did what?
SW: Didn't leave a cliffie!
TOM: Hm. She's right, she didn't. Well done, SW!
SW: Thanks!
VOLDEMORT: Can I kill those idiots stuck in my net?
SW: Not yet. We'll see about later.
SAM & SIRIUS: *Gulp*
VOLDEMORT: *Laughs evilly*
TOM: Oh.....bloody hell!
SYLVAN: He's at it again!
TOM: So, uh, are Ron and Hermione EVER going to become a couple?
SW: Eventually. But I don't give away secrets.
TOM: *Blinks* You don't?
SW: *Shrugs* Nah. Spoils all the work I do to be classified as an 'Evil Author'.
LUCIUS: Doesn't NOT leaving a cliffhanger do that anyway?
SW: Shut up and stop being so LOGICAL, MALFOY!!!
TOM: Calm down!
SW: Sure. Whatever.
VOLDEMORT: I love catching people in nets. I get them down, torture them, and kill them.
LUCIUS: *Cough*Tickling Charm*Cough*
SAM & SIRIUS: *back away slowly*
Anyway, next chapter will be written soon!
Please review!
~SW
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Harry, Seamus, And The Master Plan
By SilverWolf7007
Chapter Sixteen ~ Conversations, Sneaking, Plotting and Pranking
"So Malfoy, Seamus said you wanted to talk to me about Potions homework." Harry raised an eyebrow. "And here I was thinking you were top of the class in Potions."
Draco shrugged. "I admit it, I lied. It's a bad habit I picked up somewhere."
"What's the real reason for dragging me here, then?"
"Well, I know you said you played that prank on Snape for a Marauder, but why?"
"He's Snape. Do Moony and I need a reason?"
"Yep. Who's Moony, anyway? What do you know about the Marauders?"
Harry laughed. "I know a lot about the Marauders. What do YOU know about them? Tell me, and I'll tell you who Moony is."
"All I know is that the Marauders were a prank pulling group who were at Hogwarts with Snape and my father. I THINK they were Gryffindors, because Dad and Snape both detested them. They try not to mention them."
"Okay. They were Gryffindors, you're right. Prongs was my father, Moony is Professor Lupin."
Draco was staring at him, shocked. "And Padfoot and Wormtail?"
"Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew."
"So, what was the prank on Snape about?"
"It's a remake of a prank Remus played on him back when they were in school. I needed a favour, so he got me to do that to Snape in return."
"Oh."
The two of them fell silent. Harry was trying to figure out what to say when the library door opened and Remus stepped in.
"Harry! I've been looking for you everywhere! Did Seamus tell you about the letter I received from Snape this morning?"
Harry shook his head. "What letter?"
Remus smirked. "Snape's decided that he's brave enough to challenge a Marauder to a prank war. You in?"
"Definitely!" Harry suddenly had an idea. "What about you, Malfoy? Care to join our side before Snape gets to you?"
Draco considered it. "Sure. I'll talk to Blaise and Jason too. We can pretend to talk to Snape and actually act as double agents."
"Brilliant idea. I'll talk to you boys tomorrow." Remus turned and left the room, whistling.
"Er, is he usually like that?"
"I think it's the chocolate."
"Oh. So what will this prank war entail?"
"Spying. Pranks, obviously. A lot of after hours sneaking."
"Sounds like fun."
Harry nodded. "If we're going to be working together, maybe we should call each other by our first names. In private, at least."
"All right then, Harry."
Again, they fell silent.
"I heard that someone locked Granger and Weasley in the DADA classroom. Any ideas on who it was?"
Harry laughed. "I think I know."
Draco studied him shrewdly. "Was it you?"
"Ack, you have caught me," Harry answered dryly.
"Why?"
"Seamus and I are trying to set them up."
The blond looked shocked. "You mean they aren't a couple?"
"Not yet. I don't suppose you have any brilliant ideas?"
Draco smirked. "Maybe a few."
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Seamus was bored. He couldn't talk to Harry, because Harry was in the library with Draco. Ron, Dean and Neville had gone down to the kitchens. Lavender, Hermione and Parvati were in the Ravenclaw Common Room with Padma and her friends. Ginny and Colin were somewhere.
He would have liked to play a prank on Snape, but prank war tradition maintained that whoever made the declaration played the first prank.
Remus had vanished, and Seamus was pretty sure that he was plotting things to do to Snape.
Maddy was in the Slytherin Common Room doing her homework, and Orla and Owen were in their respective Common Rooms feeding the Five false rumours.
And so, Seamus had no one to talk to.
"Hey Finnigan."
"Yah!" Seamus whirled around to face the grinning Slytherin behind him. "Bloody hell Zabini, don't DO that!"
Blaise laughed. "Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you."
"It's okay, I'm pretty used to being snuck up on. Harry does it all the time to everyone in the Common Room. It's just I'm expecting to be pranked."
The brown haired boy looked curious. "By who?"
"Harry. I annoyed him earlier, so he told me to watch my back. I have a really bad feeling about this."
"Ah. Say, have you done that Transfiguration essay yet?"
"Nope. Why?"
"Just wondering. I thought you might be able to give me a hand."
"Well, we could always work on it together."
"Okay. When?"
"About ten tomorrow morning in the library?"
"Sure. See you then, Seamus."
The blond grinned. "Until tomorrow, Blaise."
The two of them passed each other, and Seamus was about to head to the library to find Harry when he had an idea. "Hey Blaise?"
He turned around. "Yeah?"
"D'you want to come with me to the library? Harry was meeting Malfoy there."
Blaise nodded. "Sure."
They set of to the library to find their friends.
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"Hey Maddy, have you seen Blaise or Draco at all?" Jason asked.
His cousin shook her head. "Sorry Jase. Haven't seen them since they left after dinner."
"Oh!" Jason rolled his eyes. "Of course, how could I forget?"
"Forget what?" Maddy asked curiously. 'This sounds interesting,' she thought.
Jason sat down beside her. "Promise not to tell?"
She nodded.
He opened his mouth to speak, but thought better of it. "Come up to the dorm with me."
Maddy followed Jason to the sixth year boys' dorms and sat on his bed. Jason sat on Draco's.
"Well?" she prompted.
"Draco's in the library with Harry Potter, and Blaise is looking for Seamus Finnigan for Transfiguration help."
Maddy frowned. "So what?" Then her eyes widened. "They like them!"
"Yep. I don't know how I forgot."
"They left a while ago, didn't they?"
"Yeah, so?"
She grinned impishly. "Let's go to the library and say hello."
Jason looked doubtful. "Draco'd kill me. In a very dead kind of way."
"What other way is there?" She stood up, grabbed his hands and pulled him up as well. "C'mon Jase, we'll just say that you're helping me find a book for my Potions assignment!"
"And am I?"
"Yep. Harry borrowed my copy of the book I need. So I'll get it off him."
Her cousin grinned. "All right then, Maddy. Shall we?" he said.
"We shall," she replied.
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"Apparate!"
Sam looked at Sirius in confusion. "What?"
"We can Apparate out of the damn net!"
Her eyes widened. "Of course! Why didn't we think of that before?"
"Because we were too busy arguing," Sirius replied flippantly.
"Oh yeah. I'll go first."
Sirius just nodded.
"Damn! Stupid net! Stupid Death Eaters! Stupid Voldemort! Damn, damn, damn!!!"
"Samantha? You okay?"
"There's bloody anti-Apparition wards on the stupid spawn of flobberworm net!"
"Shit."
"We're stuck, Sirius. I don't suppose you have a knife?"
He shook his head. "Sorry. I think our only chances of getting out of this net and back to Hogwarts were dropped on the ground with our wands."
Sam sighed. "Oh well. Maybe if we're lucky we'll be found by our side before the Death Eaters."
"It's not very likely, Sam."
"I know Siri, I know."
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Right outside the library door, Blaise and Seamus stopped for a minute.
"D'you hear that?" Blaise asked.
"No. What am I listening for?"
The brown haired boy laughed softly. "It's more what we can't hear, Seamus."
"As in the decided lack of screaming, yelling, hexing and swearing? Yeah, I hear it - or, I don't."
"Think we should go in?" Blaise said.
Seamus thought for a second. "Yeah. For all we know, they might be unconscious. Or they might have left. And there's only one way to find out."
"And that would be to go in," Jason finished, stopping beside them.
"What are you doing here?" Blaise demanded.
"He's helping me get a book for my potions assignment," Maddy told him, hoping to stop the brewing disagreement. It didn't take much to get Blaise and Jason arguing.
"All right then," Seamus said, grinning. "Then I suppose we had all better go inside and hope for the best."
"The best being?" Jason inquired.
"The best thing that could have happened would be them in there talking civilly." Seamus smirked. "Let's move in, troops!"
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Harry and Draco had spent ages talking about ways to set Ron and Hermione up, and had finally settled on one thing - Remus would have to be involved.
They drifted off topic, discussing everything from Quidditch to Potions to pranks and back to Quidditch again, before returning pen ultimately to pranks.
"I think the best thing to do to Snape first would be - hey, do you hear that?"
Draco nodded. "Sounds like Blaise and Seamus."
Harry waited a second. "And Jason and Maddy."
"I feel the need to prank them," Draco said, smirking.
"Me too." Harry pulled out his invisibility cloak. "Put this on, stand up and wait behind my chair."
"All right."
Harry pulled Maddy's potions book out of his bag and began to read.
The library door opened, allowing Seamus, Blaise, Jason and Maddy inside.
Maddy came and took her book off Harry. "Hiya Harry. Can I have my book back?"
"Sure. You seem to have taken it anyway." Harry waited for the three boys to sit down before speaking again. "What brings you lot here?"
Seamus frowned. "What happened to Malfoy?"
"Draco?" Harry feigned surprise. "He went to steal a colour changing potion from Snape. We're gonna need it for the war," he added to Seamus.
"War?" Jason asked, looking confused. "What, you're going to change Voldemort's hair colour?"
"Not that war," Harry said, grinning at the thought of Voldemort with pink hair. "The prank war Snape started with Professor Lupin."
As Harry explained the reason for the war - the prank on Snape in Potions - Draco was having fun changing the hair colour of the three boys and Maddy.
Harry was having trouble controlling his grin as Jason's hair became purple, Blaise's green and blue, Seamus's pink, and Maddy's red and gold. None of them had noticed.
Draco ducked out the library door while they weren't looking, pulled off the invisibility cloak off and put it into his pocket, before smoothing his hair and stepping back inside.
The five of them turned to look at him as he entered, and he didn't bother trying not to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Seamus demanded. That set Harry off as well.
Blaise and Jason turned to each other to exchange glances, but noticed the hair. They turned and also saw Maddy and Seamus's.
Draco and Harry finally managed to calm down. "Making a fashion statement?" the blond asked.
"Shut up, Draco." Jason glared at him.
"Anyway," Harry said, getting back to business. "Remus has already recruited Seamus, Draco and I, so I was wondering if you four would join in as well. On our side of course," he added hastily.
Blaise nodded. "Sure thing. Sounds like fun, anyway."
"Also," Seamus added. "We need help in setting Ron and Hermione up as a couple."
"They aren't already?" Jason and Blaise asked.
Harry shook his head, grinning. "No. Only condition is, we have to get Remus in on whatever plans we make. Is that okay with everyone?"
There were nods all round.
Blaise turned to Draco. "Now will you PLEASE turn our hair back to normal?" he asked plaintively.
He nodded and changed his fellow Slytherins' hair back to their regular colour. Seamus's he left, however.
"What about me?"
Draco shrugged. "Harry can deal with it."
Seamus turned hopefully to Harry.
"No. Your hair will stay pink until I've forgiven you."
"Oh all right," he sighed.
The four of them said goodnight and the Slytherins left.
Harry turned to Seamus. "I think we've had a very productive night," he commented.
Seamus nodded. "I believe so. Let's go back to the Common Room and eat lots of sugar quills. We're going to need the energy when Snape begins this war."
"Sure."
The two of them left the library.
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SIRIUS: Why are Sam and I STILL IN THAT BLOODY NET???
SW: Because it adds plot to my story.
SAM: That is SO unfair!
TOM: That's life, Lupin.
SAM: It's Snape, now.
SW: Hah! See? Tom, Remus, Sylvan, Sirius and Voldemort all thought I couldn't do it! But I did!
LUCIUS: Did what?
SW: Didn't leave a cliffie!
TOM: Hm. She's right, she didn't. Well done, SW!
SW: Thanks!
VOLDEMORT: Can I kill those idiots stuck in my net?
SW: Not yet. We'll see about later.
SAM & SIRIUS: *Gulp*
VOLDEMORT: *Laughs evilly*
TOM: Oh.....bloody hell!
SYLVAN: He's at it again!
TOM: So, uh, are Ron and Hermione EVER going to become a couple?
SW: Eventually. But I don't give away secrets.
TOM: *Blinks* You don't?
SW: *Shrugs* Nah. Spoils all the work I do to be classified as an 'Evil Author'.
LUCIUS: Doesn't NOT leaving a cliffhanger do that anyway?
SW: Shut up and stop being so LOGICAL, MALFOY!!!
TOM: Calm down!
SW: Sure. Whatever.
VOLDEMORT: I love catching people in nets. I get them down, torture them, and kill them.
LUCIUS: *Cough*Tickling Charm*Cough*
SAM & SIRIUS: *back away slowly*
Anyway, next chapter will be written soon!
Please review!
~SW