Chapter 11: Things are not what they seemed

Harry shifted in his bed just to find himself in something soft and very comfortable. His pillow had somehow become very soft and warm. His mind drifted again in his sleep as he dreamed about beating Ron at a game of chess.

Ron eyes narrow as he concentrated on his next move. A small drop of sweat was the only indication that Harry had that Ron was nervous; but Harry new better, Ron was up to something. Harry knew that the move that Ron would make would decide the course of the game and he hoped it would be in his favour. Harry looked carefully at the strategic positioning of his White Queen, Knight, two Bishops and Rooks.

Ron was cornered at this moment, only his Queen and two pawns, where his only line of defence, for Harry had destroyed them all. Ron's Black Queen was destroying everything that Harry put in its path. Harry had to sacrifice a few pieces to get Ron's Queen right where he wanted her. Now, it was only a matter of time before she was destroyed. One of Ron's pawns stood only two paces away from reaching its goal. Unfortunately Harry had his two towers ready just in case the paw reach coronation. Harry needed only one more move from Ron in order to win the game once and for all.

Then it came…Ron had finally made his move. Ron had decided to sacrifice his paw in order to save his Queen. The paw moved one step forward, which was swiftly destroyed by one of Harry's towers. Harry grinned, for he had the Queen corner. There was nothing that Ron could do to stop the checkmate that was about to come.

"This is it!" Thought Harry. As Harry was about to make his final move he felt a hand running through his hair softy at first but then the caressing had become urgent. Harry had loss all concentration at this point in time.

'HARRY!' Harry heard Ron shouting at him.

'HARRY!' shouted Ron, which completely awoke Harry.

It took Harry a moment to realize that his face had been nestling right between Ginny's breasts and his hand was cupping one of them. As for Ginny, her face showed no expression what so ever, except for the colour of her skin, which had began turned a very lovely shade of red.

'HARRY, GET YOUR HANDS OFF MY SISTER!' bellowed Ron, who had already parted the bed curtains and looked ready to kill him.

Harry quickly moved away from Ginny as possible but he was not quick enough to stop what was to come.

'What is going on here?' asked Seamus as he face appeared right behind Ron's left shoulder. 'BLIMEY!' Seamus exclaimed as his jaw dropped and his eyes widen.

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'When did you leave her side?' Snape asked as he faced Sirius, as he began to put his things away.

Sirius narrowed his eyes, he never did like Snape but he really needed his help. Asking Snape for help was like selling your soul to Voldemort and receiving a Dementor's kiss, but not necessarily in that order. Still, he needed to find May as soon as possible.

'She wasn't feeling well and I asked her for something to eat. When I returned…she was gone.' Sirius explain, not liking to sound like he was the one at fault for leaving May alone, specially now that he knew she was pregnant.

'Very well, I will help you find her, but on one condition!' Snape stated as he closed a book that was at the top of his desk rather loudly, which emitted a cloud of dust.

'Condition?' Sirius asked dreading the request. Sirius knew he had not choice but to agree to Snape's price. How he hated Dumbledore right at this moment. How could Dumbledore had left Snape in charge of the castle's inner security?

'I want to know Crock's secret. From what I have heard…it is the secret to immortality. Before you say that you don't know it, may I remind you that May was Crock's most prized pupil during Voldemort's reign. He must have told her or taught her something.'

Sirius narrowed his eyes. Of course he knew to what Snape was refereeing, but May had never learned the secret as far as he knew. Otherwise she would have shared the secret with him and together they could have destroyed Voldemort to avenge James and Lily's deaths. Why would Snape question him about it? Could it be that Snape was still a true Death Eater and wanted the information for Voldemort?

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Umbridge was just finishing the last touches to her hair when she heard the door blast open. She didn't even flinch as she view her wand from her left side of the mirror, which laid top of her bed. From her mirror she could also viewed her assailant. Umbridge raised an eyebrow, which send her wand flying towards her and then muttered a deadly curse.

'The Avada Kedavra curse. I'm impressed, but I'm not sure if I should take it as an insult or a complement?' May plainly spoke as she viewed the spot where the killing curse had hit.

'Half-Breeds like you need to stay dead. You surely have proven to be quite troublesome!' Umbridge stated as she clutched her wand tightly.

May's eyes narrowed, as she looked straight at Umbridge. 'Half-Breed?' May question with a smile on her lips. Meanwhile, May's mind was racing a mile a minute. The toad wanted me dead! Could be that she new that I was spying on her? Could she have hired Crock to do me in? May laughed. The toad was capable of killing a fifteen year old…so why not her?

'Do you think that I don't know your kind? You are an Animagus failure!' Umbridge snarled. 'And you dared to call yourself a witch!'

May didn't look impressed; it was obvious that the toad had researched her. 'Which is more than I can say about you.' May commented dryly as she moved closer to Umbridge.

'I am more of a Witch that you will ever be, demon! For that's the name you kind really deserve!' Umbridge hiss. 'Once you are dead, nothing would be able to stop me from getting rid of Potter. Only then will my beloved Minister be at peace to continue his ministry.'

So that was what she was up to! Thought May and then began to ponder on killing her. It would be so easy to get rid of Umbridge once and for all. No one would be the wiser. Tempting, but no…the toad must live for now, until I can get to the bottom of this but that doesn't mean that there can't be worse things than death! May grinned as she dodge another curse, which was throw at her.

'STAY STILL!' screamed Umbridge out of frustration.

'All right! Take your best shot!' May taunted her.

Umbridge did you just that. The curse went right through May's body like if it had hit thin air. Umbridge eyes widen in terror as her wand fell to the floor. 'That can't be…but how?' Umbridge shrieked.

May grin as she walked towards Umbridge. 'I am Cody Rokklyn's only and true successor. As for Crock he is only a cheap imitation.' May then made a swift move with her hand and the whole room was engulfed in a dark light.

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Lunch was usually quiet even for a Saturday. Harry ate his lunch in silent, since Ron was not longer talking to him and Hermione seemed to be deep in thought about something.

Harry couldn't believe the morning he had. First it was Ron, who had almost turned him into a bloody pulp and then there was Fred and George, who had almost turned him into their newest test subject. Harry couldn't impossibly imagine, how the rest of the Weasleys would have reacted but he only knew that if it weren't for Hermione, he wouldn't be alive right now. Harry could only hope that the rest of the day wouldn't become a nightmare.

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'McKorny deserved it!' said Nikki as she slammed her fists into the Library table. 'I had enough of her!'

Stacy nodded but she is still didn't agree with her friend. Jinxing their things against stealing is one thing but to prank Snape and get him on to a secret party, was quite another.

'Are you sure your plan will work?' asked Todd as he looked over the details of Nikki's plan.

Nikki grin, 'I am quite sure. Remember I am counting on of all of you.' Then Nikki narrow her eyes upon seeing Alex Black for she had the feeling he was spying on them.

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'Do you get the feeling we are being watched?' asked Alex as he looked behind him. It would seem that the bookcases at the Library weren't big enough to hide them.

Allistar shakes his head, 'I think you are being paranoid.'

'I'm not! Just look over there.' Alex pointed with his index finger to Nikki's table. 'I have the feeling they are planning something against me.'

'You are really loosing your marbles.'

Alex narrowed his eyes. 'I have this gut feeling that they are…and I don't want anything to go wrong at my party tonight!'

'Your party?' asked Allistar lifting an eyebrow.

'Our party.' Alex corrected himself as his run a hand through his hair. 'Have the invitation been send and confirmation received?'

Allistar nodded. 'As requested…only the elite of the school have been invited and the room has been secured according to plan. Now what about Malfoy? Has he kept his part of the bargain?'

Alex grins. 'We are in the team as we speak. You are going to be a Beater and I will be a Chaser.'

'Excellent!' Allistar smiled but it didn't last long for his smiled faded as he remember something.

'What is wrong?' asked Alex.

'The survey results are in.' stated Allistar.

Alex laughed. 'This is why I told Malfoy, that the results wouldn't be in until after our first quidditch match.'

Allistar grinned.

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'Are you sure she is here?' asked Sirius as he follow Snape towards Umbridge Office. Snape didn't answer a word as he marched towards the room. Sirius was ready to kill him, specially after he made him spend more than a half a day discussing what he knew and didn't knew about his wife during her years as a Death Eater.

Snape had stopped in front of the office door, which not longer stood there. The whole room was filled with a pale green fog and the smelled of blood reek the air. Snape quickly muttered a spell that clear the room and they could now see May sitting in Umbridge desk, smiling.

But what drew the two men's attention was not the state of the room or May but Umbridge, who sat on a student desk, writing on piece of paper with no ink: "I will stay away from Harry James Potter".

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'Are you not going to go?' asked Ginny as she curled into bed with Harry.

'I don't feel like going that's all.' Harry said as he shifted to the left side of the bed as far as he could.

'I said you should have gone and taken all of us with you.' Stated Ron as he also climbed into the bed, leaving Ginny right in the middle of the two boys. 'After all the invitation did say "Harry Potter and Friends" '

'Ron. I just have a bad feeling about it, alright!' Harry said exasperated.

Ron didn't say anything and just closed his eyes as for Ginny, she clung to Harry tightly and Harry had not choice but to hug her. Harry looked over to Ron, who had one eye open, looking at him. Harry got the feeling that it was going to be a long night.

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Snape had just finished marking a few of parchments of homework, which he placed on the right corner of his desk, when his concentration was brought to his drinking flask. The flask was made of fine crystal, which content was supposed to be water. A red thick liquid fill the glass, which reeked of blood. Snape quickly picked that flask and dumped the content out into the fire.

If it was blood the fire would react to it quickly but as expected the fire acted just as it should when confronted with blood. Snape then felt cold and that someone was behind him. Snape quickly but slowly pull his wand out as to not alert the intruder. He slowly turned around just to see a woman with long ebony hair go into his bedroom.

'Severus….' The woman called him in a very silky toned.

Snape blinked and then gasped the flask he was holding was now filled back again with blood. Snape then saw his the door of his office open and he threw his flask into the fire and exit his office.

Unknowing to Snape, two bloody eyes, which had been sliced at one point, where now looking at him from his bed as he departed from the room.

Snape quickly made his way down the hallway as he tried to think what had happen in his office. His eyes narrow as he saw a pair of girls' shoes walk past him. Snape grinned. It would seem that Potter has opted to wearing girl's shoes under his invisibility cloak. Snape thought as he quietly followed behind the pair of shoes.

After five minutes of following and demanding from Potter to stop, Snape was having more than enough from him. Merlin knows that he had already deducted from the Gryffindors more than 200 points by now and the bloody boy won't stop running. Snape has already tried every charm he knows with out harming him but they seemed to go right through him. Snape lips where now itching to try a something a bit harmful but that type of thought quickly came to a stop when something sticky fell on him.

'I going to kill you Potter!' Snape screamed, as he quickly was on Potter's heels.

Then the sounds of shoes stopped as he turned around the corner and faced two scared fifth year Slytherin girls. Snape narrow his eyes as he saw a cloak by their feet and recognized one of the girls shoes, which where the ones he had been chasing.

'McKorny…Yanell, explain yourselves!' Snape demanded, when he heard music coming from one of the rooms, within the dungeons. At the moment he open the door he was feather from head to toe.

'DETENTION!' Snape screamed upon seeing the room fill with students, who had gone completely quite upon seeing Snape. 'And that includes you too, Mr. Malfoy.' Snape stated upon seeing Malfoy trying to escape through the other door of the room.

Snape then walked to the middle of the room, to where Alex stood. 'All of you can thank Mr. Black for your two weeks' detention.' Snape grinned.