I put the disclaimer somewhere else.

hmmm, since FFnet doesn't like my old way of denoting Japanese, it'll have to swich to (parenthases)

Ch 17 Confrontations

The next day Draco found Harry while he was studying English with Hermione.

"Potter."

Harry ignored him.

"Potter," Malfoy tried again. Harry could hear annoyance in his voice and continued to refrain from acknowledging the other boy. Hermione stopped talking to watch. Malfoy growled slightly.

"Goyle," Harry heard him say and could tell that the large boy started moving towards him. Harry just dodged the grasping hands without ever turning to the three boys. Hermione started to look worried and so Harry gave her a reassuring smile.

(Where were we?)

She looked confused for a moment then handed him the pendent.

"Harry," she stopped to let him put it on. Before she started again Malfoy spoke again.

"Stay out of this mudblood."

Harry snorted,

"As if your's is any cleaner."

The look on Hermione's face made Harry turn to see Draco's pale face turning red with rage. His body was stuttering as if he couldn't believe what Harry had said to him. Harry couldn't do anything but laugh. The boy's face was just so funny.

The laughter didn't help and Harry couldn't stop it because now he was sure that Malfoy's head would pop off of his shoulders.

"A duel, at midnight." The boy ground out of his teeth. Harry in response stopped laughing and looked at him critically, remembering everything he knew about the way the boy walked, held himself and dealt with potentially dangerous situations.

"Harry," Hermione's voice was somewhat disapproving, but he ignored her as he assessed the boy in front of him.

"No"

Harry heard Hermione breath a sigh of relief and smirked as he watched Draco shutter with rage.

"WHAT?!" the Draco nearly shouted, getting the attention of the handful of other people sitting outside.

"You're just scared." Draco switched tactics. Harry had seen this tactic before and it always worked on Ranma. Harry smirked again and spoke loudly so everyone in the area could hear him.

"I won't taint my honor by dueling someone as weak as you." Harry smirked as he lazily moved out of the way of the wild punch Draco sent his way. The boy was having trouble deciding weather to growl or scream and was trying to do both as he attempted to pummel Harry.

Harry was enjoying the taunting session. He hadn't had good practice at this particular area of the art in a while. Ranma was immune to his taunts and he Ranma's. It was good to know he could still piss off someone.

"You see, you're absolutely awful, I've seen a five year old with more precision than you." Malfoy screamed again. Harry noticed that Hermione ran off, probably to get a teacher. Crabe and Goyle were watching with fascination. They probably had never seen Malfoy try to fight with his hands. The other students started to watch with interest.

"Are you naturally this slow? Or did someone use a hex on you?" Harry heard someone giggle in the background.

"Stay still." Draco growled. Harry paused for a moment out of Draco's reach and put his hand to his chin in a thinking pose.

"Hmmmm, how about no." he danced away from the next wild strike. A moment later McGonagall's voice pierced the area.

"Stop this fight immediately." Harry just grinned at her while he dodged the next round of fists.

"Professor, he's attacking me." He used his best sweetness and light expression while ducking under another punch. Malfoy seemed to be too far into his rage to have even heard the professor.

It was a very short time later that Harry, Hermione, Crabe, Goyle, Malfoy, and some of the other student who watched the fight were sitting in Professor Dumbledore's office. Malfoy was still red and sputtering while Hermione made sure that there were at least three people between him and Harry.

Dumbledore looked over his spectacles at the small crowd, his eyes twinkled as he spoke.

"Ms. Granger, would you care to tell me what happened?"

Harry watched as Hermione composed herself quickly.

"Well sir, Harry and I were outside studying English when Malfoy" the afore mentioned boy growled, "came up behind Harry and tried to get his attention. Harry ignored him and then Goyle started to attack Harry."

Goyle started to protest but a glance from Dumbledore quieted him down.

"I was going to say that we should go, when Malfoy called me a mudblood. Harry snorted and said something like Malfoy's wasn't any better."

Malfoy snarled again. Harry smirked, that boy had a real anger management problem.

"Malfoy then challenged Harry to a duel and Harry refused saying that Malfoy was too weak. It was then that Malfoy jumped at Harry. Harry kept dodging and I ran to get Professor McGonagall."

Professor Dumbledore looked at the group as a whole and asked,

"Is that what happened?" Everyone but Malfoy, Crabe and Goyle nodded.

"Harry attacked me first," Malfoy said. Crabe and Goyle nodded backing up their friend while one of the other students laughed.

Professor Dumbledore looked at Malfoy then Harry,

"That was a very public display Mr. Malfoy, according to a majority of the witnesses you were the aggressor and Harry never attempted to strike back. I'm going to have to write to your father and give you a detention to be carried out with Filch."

Malfoy paled when the letter to his father was mentioned.

"Mr. Po. . ." He paused seeing the defiant look in Harry's eyes about the name and sighed a little. "Saotome," Harry smiled at the man, "I'm glad to see that you are starting to take the school rules to heart and not fighting, so you may go back to your English practice with Ms. Granger." He looked at the rest of the group, "You're all free to go."

AN:

WOO HOO, I'm alive, it was iffy there for a while. (In the I was stressed to death way).

About Harry's statements toward Draco, Harry's been rased in a martial artist environment which is a fairly closed society where anything other than the Japanese lineage is seen as an oddity, so he unconsciously feels better than everyone he's around because he's at least half Japanese.

E.A.V, two things, One, I like answering the reviews :-) and two, I put you on my favorite author's list because you've got quite a few good stories in your favorites section and I didn't feel like trying to transcribe all the ones I liked into my own.

C. Rose, Nah, your review wasn't harsh, it was just stating simple facts in a non "you totally suck" way. Sadly since he didn't prove himself to be such a wonderful seeker, he's not going to be on the team (he feels there's no time for it anyway) and is now focusing his efforts on learning to fly without the broom. :-) he'll develop a style once he figures out the flying part. As for Draco, I decided to be quite mean to him and have Harry treat him somewhat like Ranma treats Akane, although a little more extreme in the lacking respect part and more in the won't be hit by part. And don't you worry, Harry'll catch the eye of an Amazon, but not until all three go to the tribe before his third year. ::evil grin::

Gyre, As per requests, Here's the humble Pie chapter, and now that Harry's managed to figure out how to push Draco's buttons, he's defiantly going to do it as much as possible. Other than that, Harry's not going to be the seeker, it'd interrupt training time and he doesn't want to loose any more time on that than he already is.

Silverscale, I try :-0

Drusilla and Night-Owl123, Even though there has been a long time between chapters, I have not had the luxury of working on fanfiction. If you're really interested in seeing thing's I have been writing, I've made a poll on the Yahoo group that I made to see if I should post those things there. I make the chapters into how I feel they've got good separating points. Now that I've got some time off, I might be able to update faster.

Shinigami, WHY the Hell did Nodoka let Genma take Ranma in the origional? Seriously, she didn't expect that they'd be gone that long, sure a couple months, maybe a half year, then the "boys" would come home and she could teach them proper manners and such.

Helen27, I like the review regardless.