I hate college. It takes me an hour on a bus every morning and afternoon, it's bloody cold and only gonna get colder in the mornings, and there is TOO MUCH HOMEWORK!! Okay, so I don't get THAT much, but what I have been getting takes so much time I haven't been able to email two of my best friends, let alone write fanfic!
Now I'm done with the rant, I shall apologise for not updating sooner. I had a total block as to what I should do with Siri and Sam. A Random Idea struck, and I finished the chapter. Yay for Random Ideas.
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Silver Sparklze Computers are evil. Mine died RIGHT BEFORE I had to pass an essay in..............Y'know, now I think about it I think I've seen purple fairy floss before, at the Hobart Show a couple of years ago...but being that it was a while ago I'm not sure. We have all kinds of funky stuff here in Australia? Like what?! Meh, I'm not really thinking straight right now. And Remus has something to say. REMUS: THANK YOU!!!!! I worship you!!! As you can see, the werewolf loves his chocolate!
LoonyLoopyLisa Glad you liked the convos. Sorry 'bout the cliffie, but Siri and Sam have a bit in this chapter!
Obsessed4 Jumping up and down? Gee, you were a little excited! And about the 'jumping off bricks', I used that a month or so ago. Went down fairly well actually, although there was a little debate about bricks and the Eiffel Tower, and exactly WHERE you jumped. (Such as, brick is sitting at the top of the Eiffel Tower, and you jump off, but only off the brick not the tower.) Anyway, I'm glad you like this fic so much!
Noriko M. Chijinu Nice jig. The brick thing was random, I think I said it to my brother once. Didn't quite work.
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kneazles I think you're right about the CCD. And don't worry, Sirius will turn out fine at the end. Really.
Sailor Grape The Snape thing....well, I need to explain that. Probably next chapter, but don't quote me on that. Neville and Parvati are rather observant, especially Neville. He's quiet, and spends a lot of time watching people.
The Chaotic Ones Eeep. I don't think I took as long, but I may be totally wrong about that.
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Thanks again so much to you all; reviewers really brighten my days!
Harry, Seamus, And The Master Plan
By SilverWolf7007
Chapter Nineteen Meetings, New Information, And Killer Rabbits From Jupiter
Out of the people Remus expected to be attending the meeting, there were four people missing, and Albus was refusing to start the meeting without them.
Molly Weasley sighed. "It's not like Percy to be this late."
"Or Severus, for that matter," Poppy added.
Arthur chuckled. "Fred and George, on the other hand........."
Charlie and Bill laughed as Molly and Minerva groaned. Albus and Poppy merely smiled.
Remus grinned. "Sounds familiar. Although, they were usually on time for MY lessons."
Minerva glared at him. "You probably gave them pranking tips, so they'd actually attend."
"I most certainly did not!"
She was prevented from commenting further as the door opened and Percy stepped in, nodded at everyone, and collapsed into his chair with a groan. "Never again," he muttered.
"Never again what?" Bill asked his younger brother.
"Never again will I set foot in that madhouse most tend to refer to as Weasley's Wizard Wheezes."
Charlie blinked. "You went to Fred and George's shop? Percy, have you been doing drugs?"
"Of course not!" Percy replied indignantly. "I went to tell them about the meeting, as Albus asked me to do, and the bastards let me tell them before chasing me out with bloody colour changing potions!"
The twins entered then, and smiled innocently at their parents and brother as they sat down.
"Where the hell is that idiot Potions Master?!" Minerva demanded.
"No idea, I didn't know we had one," Severus replied as he closed the door behind him and collapsed into his seat rather like Percy had done. "Minerva, your Gryffindor sixth years are insane."
"Well, yes, they are," she replied blankly. "Your point?"
"I got caught up talking to your idiot godson. He currently has silver hair."
Albus cleared his throat before anyone could reply. "We are on a bit of a tight schedule, I'm afraid. I have some bad news."
Remus glanced at Minerva, who gave him a reassuring smile. It didn't really reassure him, but he thought it was a nice gesture.
"What is it?" Molly asked, a concerned frown on her face.
"At first we thought there was nothing to worry about," Albus began. "Sirius and Samantha hadn't checked in as planned."
Remus caught Severus's eye. Both of them were thinking the same thing.
"But they have continued to stay out of contact. We don't believe they are in any immediate danger, but I thought you should all know."
No one spoke.
"Minerva, Remus, Severus, would you mind staying behind for a few minutes?"
All three nodded wordlessly, and the others began to leave.
Harry leaned against the wall with his arms crossed, staring at the entrance to the Slytherin Common Room and tapped his foot.
Five minutes later, it opened and Draco stepped out.
"You sure took your time," Harry said irritably.
Draco rolled his eyes, and then noticed Harry's hair. "Do I even want to know?"
Harry grinned. "Probably not, but I'll tell you. I'm collecting friends with odd hair colours. Dean then decided to change mine."
The blond glared at him in warning. "Touch my hair, and it'll be the last thing you do."
"I wouldn't dream of it, Draco. Really." He smiled mischievously. "On the other hand, I think you should start collecting too."
Draco began to smirk. "Why Harry, I'm simply shocked! Are you insinuating that we go and find Blaise and Jason and change their hair?"
"Well, no. I'm downright telling you!"
"Great! Sounds like fun."
The two of them headed in the direction of the library.
"Not that I don't like the idea of finding and annoying Blaise, but was there another reason you had Maddy drag me away from Quidditch Through the Ages?"
"Well, I was going to drag you to Remus's office, but apparently he's busy, so I kinda didn't have a reason any more, other than plotting pranks for Snape."
"Oh well. Hey, last night you said something about not being able to eat with Seamus in public. What was that about?"
Harry grinned. "Over the summer I found out that Seamus doesn't live that far away from me, and we hung out a lot. We went to this really expensive restaurant, all dressed up and everything, and ordered our food."
"None of that seems like a reason to be unable to eat near him."
"I know, I know. Let me finish."
"Sorry."
"Anyway, everything went fine until something I said caused Seamus to absolutely crack up laughing. Unfortunately, he was drinking at the time. He choked on it and it went everywhere. That was bad enough, but we weren't kicked out yet."
"There was something else? Wait a sec, you were KICKED OUT???"
"Seamus decided to get me back for making him choke by flicking ice-cream at me, once we got to dessert. I retaliated, and we ended up in a food fight. THEN we got kicked out."
Draco was laughing. "And it's because of that?"
"Partly. Every time we went somewhere and ate after that, even in Fortescue's, one of us made the other choke and we ended up in a food fight. We got over it here, but the choking still happens on occasion."
"You two are insane."
Harry nodded happily. "We sure are!"
Draco just shook his head with a grin. "'C'mon, let's get going."
Sirius looked up and glared as Lucius closed the cell door behind him, while Sam seemed to be ignoring the blond man.
None of them spoke until Lucius had applied several locking and silencing charms, as well as one to warn him if anyone was in the corridor outside. When he was done he pulled a potion out of his pocket and drank it.
His face contorted, both with pain and the rearranging of his features. A minute later the man standing before them was no longer Lucius Malfoy.
Sam looked confused and shocked. "But you're.........."
The man in question quirked an eyebrow. "Supposed to be dead? Supposed to be Malfoy? Really handsome?"
Sirius glared at him. "Shut up, Rosier. Just don't talk. Was there something you wanted?"
"I don't get it," Sam muttered. She turned to the two men. "Will someone please tell me why Evan Rosier is standing here, seemingly impersonating Lucius Malfoy, and rather conspicuously NOT DEAD???"
Flashback
"I would think that your spy could at least be on time, Albus," Minerva said irritably, having been waiting fifteen minutes for this mysterious person to show themself.
Albus smiled at her. "Calm yourself, Minerva, I'm sure it wont be long now." True to his words, they heard footsteps on the stairs and looked towards the doorway expectantly.
She, Sirius and Remus were stunned as Lucius Malfoy walked into Dumbledore's office, and offered a polite nod to the headmaster. "Morning all."
"This is our spy?" Minerva asked incredulously. "Lucius Malfoy???"
Malfoy smiled. "Actually, no. Lucius Malfoy is currently locked in a cell under Malfoy Manor. I'm just under Polyjuice Potion."
"And just who are you? And how long has this been going on?"
The man impersonating Malfoy rolled his eyes affectionately. "You never run out of questions, do you Remus?" He received a glare. "All right, all right. Since the middle of last year. I've been working undercover for the Unspeakables in the Muggle world for years now after faking my own death, and by chance I caught Malfoy speaking with someone via the fire about some rather incriminating things I wont go into now. I came here to Dumbledore with an idea, and he agreed. So I've been impersonating our evil friend since then, reporting in on everything I was privy to."
"And who are you?" Minerva asked again. Sirius was just as curious, but the expression on Remus's face seemed to indicate that the werewolf had at least some idea.
It had, apparently, been an hour since the potion had last been administered, and slowly the man in front of them changed. Shorter, slimmer, dirty-blond hair and amused amber eyes.
"Evan?" Remus said, hardly daring to believe it. "Is it really you?"
The ex-Slytherin grinned happily. "Sure is. We've got a lot to catch up on, cousin."
End Flashback
"Finally, I'm done!" Seamus cried, dramatically collapsing on top of his essay, throwing his quill in the air.
Blaise raised an eyebrow. "So am I, but you don't see ME jumping around like a kangaroo on drugs."
Seamus gave him a highly offended look. "I'll have you know, Mr Zabini, that I do NOT jump around like a kangaroo on drugs!"
"Of course you don't," Blaise said soothingly.
Neither of them had noticed the door to the library open, nor had they seen the smirking teenage boys heading towards them.
But Seamus definitely noticed when Blaise's hair suddenly turned bright red. His head snapped up and he looked around wildly, but didn't see the culprits.
Blaise gave him an odd look. "What's up?"
"Your hair just turned red."
The other boy blinked. "Oh. I'm fairly sure that's not normal."
"Somehow, I didn't think it was."
They heard snickering from behind a nearby bookshelf, and stood up. They stepped around and came face to face with a grinning Harry and Draco.
"You're quite right, Harry," Draco commented. "Red DOES suit him."
"Oh, I know. I've been told I have a very good colour sense."
"I can see that."
The two of them gave Seamus and Blaise identical impish smiles, and the two at the table groaned.
Harry frowned suddenly, looking from Seamus to Blaise and back again several times, before turning to Draco. "Do you see what I see?"
Draco looked at both Seamus and Blaise, but shrugged. "I have no idea what you're babbling about. All I see are two idiots with weird hair."
"Hey!" Blaise yelped. Seamus, unnoticed by anyone, pulled out his wand.
Harry sighed impatiently. "Seamus's hair is pink. Red clashes with pink. As much as it suits him, we can't leave Blaise like this."
"Why don't you change mine?" Seamus asked hopefully, making sure his wand was out of sight as the other three turned to him.
"Because I'd much prefer turning Blaise's white," Draco replied, happily waving his wand. Blaise just sighed as his hair changed from red to white.
Seamus quickly cast his own spell, pocketing his wand as soon as he was done.
Blaise smirked suddenly.
Draco raised an eyebrow. "What's up with you?"
Harry glanced at Blaise, before following his eyes to Draco. He bit his lip to keep from laughing and took a deep breath. "Draco, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but your hair has turned gold. Is that something that happens a lot?"
Draco's eyes widened dramatically, and he snatched a mirror from Madam Pince's desk, peering into it. A panicked expression crossed his face as he found that, sure enough, instead of his usual silvery-blond hair, he was now sporting a nearly glowing deep gold.
The panic faded, replaced with anger. He placed the mirror down and slowly looked up.
Seamus saw Draco's expression as the Slytherin looked up, and he decided that it was well and truly time for him to run. He leapt to his feet, bolted through the door, and headed as far from the library as he could.
Draco blinked. "I'm guessing that was him then?"
"Well it wasn't me, and I don't really think that Seamus would run out of here as though being chased by the killer rabbits from Jupiter if he were innocent," Harry pointed out.
"Killer...rabbits...?" Draco said weakly. "From Jupiter?"
Blaise looked at his watch and sighed with relief. "If you'll excuse us, my white hair and I are going to lunch. Don't take too long in joining us, or there'll be no food left by the time you arrive. We bid you farewell." With that, picked up both his and Seamus's books, turned around and left them in the library.
Harry and Draco sat down at the table. They were silent for a few minutes.
"I can't believe he turned my hair gold!" Draco wailed suddenly.
"It's not really all that different from how it was before," Harry said helpfully.
Draco gave him a pitiful look. "Really?"
Harry smiled. "Of course. It's not like Ron walking into the Hall with lime green hair. In fact, people will be so shocked that my hair is silver, and Blaise's is white, and Neville and Parvati's are purple and orange; they wont even notice that yours is any different."
"And I can always say that I dyed it if anyone does ask."
"Absolutely. D'you think you can face lunch now?"
Draco gave him a grin. "Only if I can come in a second after you. That way, people will be so busy staring at you they wont even notice I'm in the room!"
Harry rolled his eyes. "C'mon then, let's go."
They left the library and headed to the Great Hall.
"Uh, Harry?"
The Gryffindor stopped walking. "Yeah?"
"Was I imagining things earlier, or was Blaise talking about himself in plural?"
"He was talking about his hair."
Draco sighed. "I'm not entirely sure that that's a more positive sign of his sanity."
"Somehow, I don't think so either."
"So, are we going to find Jason after lunch?" the Slytherin asked eagerly.
Harry grinned. "Well, if you really want to...."
"I know that it's a rather unpleasant task, but I'm afraid that one of you needs to inform Harry of this."
Minerva sighed, looking away from the headmaster to look at Remus and Severus.
"As much as I'd rather not, I think I ought to," Remus stated heavily.
"No need," Severus said smoothly. "I'll tell him."
The other three stared at him.
Severus rolled his eyes. "It's not like I offered to adopt him."
"So why the generous offer, Sevvie?"
"Lupin," the potions master growled warningly.
"Sorry."
"Like I said earlier, I ran into Harry before the meeting. I told him where I was hurrying off to and promised that if it were important I'd track him down later to tell him what was going on."
Dumbledore smiled in amusement. "Not such a chivalrous offer after all, but in order to keep a promise."
"Chivalry is reserved for Gryffindors," he sneered.
Remus rolled his eyes. "Go on, you have a Gryffindor to speak with. Chivalry not withstanding."
"There is nothing chivalrous about Harry Potter. For that matter, there is only the rare Gryffindor trait as well. The boy would have done well in Slytherin." With that, he stood and strode out the door.
Remus raised an eyebrow. "For Severus, that was quite the compliment."
"Indeed," Minerva said, smiling. "Now, why don't we get down to the Great Hall? I know it's only lunch time, but considering the way things seem to have been going lately, I dare not think about the trouble those students of ours might be getting into."
DUMBLEDORE: (Pouting) I didn't get to give Snape Lemon Drops!
SNAPE: (Relived) Thank Merlin.
REMUS: I didn't get my chocolate. I'm going off to sulk now.
SALAZAR: I still don't see why I can't be in this.
REMUS: (Rolls eyes) Because you've been dead for a thousand years maybe?
SALAZAR: Well, that could be it. Hey, weren't you off sulking.
REMUS: (Shrugs) Changed my mind.
SNAPE: Still not seeing any reasons why I'm getting along with Potter.............. And that's damn annoying, SW!
SW: Well, how about you come take my college courses, and then I can describe it!!!!
SIRIUS: Someone sounds pissed off.
SAM: I think she is.
EVAN: Well duh!
LUCIUS: I hate you, Rosier.
EVAN: (Is FAR too cheerful) I know, isn't it wonderful?
VOLDEMORT: Stupid little spy person.
EVAN: Oh, I know. I'm a bloody menace, I am.
LUCIUS: Bellatrix, Narcissa, could you help me out here please?
BELLATRIX: Not likely! I want to win points with Voldemort once I'm out of Azkaban, after all!
NARCISSA: And how does leaving a spy in his midst help you?
BELLATRIX: Well, I have someone to expose later!
NARCISSA: Uh huh.
SYLVAN: Anyway, SW's got to get this chapter posted. So we'll all shut up now. (Sends meaningful glares at everyone else. They shut up)
SW: Thanks Sylv!
SYLVAN: Anytime.
Anyway, please review!
SW