Harry, Ron and Hermione were bored; instead of just going to bed like they should have, Harry was busy telling the other two his suspicions.

"I swear to you… something is wrong. Dumbledore… or whoever he is…"

"Are we on this again, 'arry?" Ron groaned out. "There's absolutely nothing wrong! Dumbledore just… didn't die!"

"How can you SAY that? I watched him die, Ron! Snape killed him!" Harry said, frustration in his voice. "Hermione what do you think?"

Both Ron and Harry turned to Hermione, who had headphones on and was busy putting on black eyeliner. Harry cleared his throat. "HERMIONE!" he yelled. This seemed to get her attention as she lifted her dark, spooky eyes to him. Pulling one earphone from her ear, she allowed the interruption of her favorite Evanescence song playing.

"What?"

"Do you think something is up with Dumbledore? Do you think he's who he says he is?" Harry asked. She shrugged.

"I dunno," she tossed off nonchalantly. "Why don't you go ask him if he's Dumbledore?"

"Cor," Ron spat out. "THERE'S a great idea. 'Excuse me, Dumbledore? Are you Dumbledore?'"

"I know what we can do," Harry said. "We can go to Nasus and Hajile,"

Even though Hermione had replaced her headphones to her ears, the name 'Hajile' came through loud and clear. "AreyouguystalkingaboutHajile?" she blubbered out in a rushed voice.

"Well yea. But I think you're off on this one, 'arry," Ron said, lifting a quirky eyebrow.

"Come on. Let's use my invisibility cloak,"

"We gotta find a way to sneak in there," Draco said, snarling at the door to Nasus and Hajile's common room.

"I know the password!" Ybbuh declared; he went to the door and cleared his throat. "Fizzgig!"

They stood for a moment; nothing happened however. "UGH! They must have changed it after you were transferred to Slitriyn!" Draco angrily said, gnashing his teeth ebully. "We've GOT to find a way in there! I don't care if I get sent to Azkaban for doing an Unforgivable! I MUST get back at that Hajile, AND that slut wife of yours!"

Ybbuh sighed, crossing his arms and staring at the door. "If only one of us had some sort of… armor, we could just plow right through!"

Draco turned to say something, but stopped abruptly; he stared with saucer like eyes at Ybbuh, his jaw dropped low. "YBBUH!" he cried, pointing a finger. "You never said you were an unregistered Animagus!"

"I'm a what? What are you… oh… OH MY GOD!"

It was true! Ybbuh was changing rapidly now, his skin hardening and turning leathery. "Draco…" he whispered. "What exactly is an Animagus?"

"It's someone who can turn into an animal at their will!" Draco said, his smile growing. "This is excellent! I'll bet you ANYTHING you can sneak in now… maybe you'll be a lizard… or a snake! Oh this is WICKED!"

Not knowing what was happening, Ybbuh waited… he felt himself growing smaller, but his chest and sides were widening, filling out with a swelling armor that wrapped around him. He ruled out being a snake now… perhaps a spider! How COOL that would be! Wait no, there were no hairs growing… the armor on his body became harder, crushing him slightly with its weight. He suddenly fell forward, catching himself with his … stumps?

"Hang on…?" Draco mumbled. Ybbuh's neck was extending now and his face tightening; what WAS he? He watched with shock as his stumps became clearly formed, with flat feet and tough skin. His back felt heavy for whatever reason, thinking he would move too slowly to keep up with Malfoy, because… oh for, wait…

"Ybbuh?" Draco cried, kneeling down. "Ybbuh… you're a huge… tortoise."

So he was. Ybbuh turned his head and went to say, "Holy Flying Crap!" but found instead that he wanted lettuce. Draco looked confused but thoughtful.

"Hmm… I have a plan. I'm going to knock on the portrait here, and you're going to sneak in.

'Sneak in? I'm a feckin' TORTOISE!' he cried inside, yet still craved something salady. Draco stood up and knocked on the portrait; he then turned and ran full throttle down the hallway, leaving Ybbuh to just… stand there.

Oh NO! The portrait hole opened and there was Hajile! "Hello?" he said into the hallway. Ybbuh tried his best, making one step towards the opened hole. Hajile continued to look around, seemingly perplexed.

"Who is it, my love?" Ybbuh heard Nasus call out. Only a few more steps… there, the second step was taken…

"There's no one here," Hajile said.

"Well, leave it open, just in case they come back,"

"All right,"

Ybbuh couldn't believe it! Were they that stupid? 'Hahaha' he thought. 'I'm going to sneak in! Malfoy will come back and I'll change into my human self and open the door! Then we will have our revenge!'

Meanwhile, Harry, Ron and Hermione were now walking towards Nasus and Hajile's room. Ybbuh turned his head, taking a total of seven seconds and found them in his sights. 'Oh NO! The Golden Trio is coming!' he frantically thought. Harry stopped in his tracks once he could see the gigantic tortoise crawling into the doorway. "What the…?"

"BLOODY HELL!" Ron yelled. "There's a giant tortoise in Hogwarts!"

Ybbuh's heart beat rapidly, even for an enormous turtle. Everything was moving in slow motion as Hajile stuck his head out the door. "Oh! Hi," he cheerfully greeted them. "Want to come in and have some ham sandwiches? We just made a whole bunch, I don't know why-"

"HAJILE!" Hermione yelped, rushing towards him. Ybbuh had just gotten within a foot of Hajile's ankles, and Hermione panicked. She threw herself into Hajile and cast them both inside. Nasus, sitting by the fireplace and cleaning her face from a giant wad of mustard that had spilled from her sandwich onto her cheek, jumped up. Finding Hermione on top of her lover, she screamed.

"YOU HORRIBLE BITCH!" she cried, lunging towards them. Hajile, completely and utterly confused, now noticed the tortoise.

"HOLY HELL!" he yelled, getting Hermione and himself a few feet away from the advancing tortoise. Harry and Ron clambered inside, tripping over the large shell of the tortoise.

"I'll go get Dumbldore; he'll know what to do!" Ron yelled, going to go back over the tortoise. Hajile grabbed his arm and pulled him back.

"Don't go near it!"

"Why not?" Ron cried out, panicking. Ybbuh had almost made it to the entrance, lifting one foot to the two inch risen space between the hall and room. This was gonna be hella hard to do…

Nasus, who had recovered from seeing that punked!Hermione lying on her beautiful lover's chest walked over. "Someone needs to climb over it and get Dumblrdore!" she yelled.

"His shell is too big! We won't be able to get over him!" Harry wailed. The five of them stood silent, their breaths coming out sharp and fast as the tortoise made his incredibly slow advance. Hajile then gasped and turned to Nasus.

"Nasus!" he cried, grabbing her shoulders. "There's only one way!"

"What? What do you… oh! NO, Hajile, NO!" Nasus yelled in horror.

"You HAVE to!"

"What are you guys yelling about?" Ron yelled. Nasus closed her eyes, a single tear falling on her cheek.

"Hajile, I CAN'T!" she wailed. "No one can know!"

"Nasus… my love," Hajile said, holding her close. "Please… for me. For our friends,"

Nasus became very quiet. She looked to the tortoise, now halfway over the small rise of wood in the door. He rocked back and forth, his enormous body swaying dangerously close inside. She had to… oh God, she had to… "All right," she said. She stood back; everyone watched on with confusion- until Hermione let out a loud cry.

"LOOK!" she yelled, even though everyone was most definitely looking, for Nasus' wings now emerged, spreading far and wide into the room. She reopened her teary eyes and gazed at Hajile.

"I know now what I must do," she said. She began flapping her wings, dust and sandwiches scattering in the air. Her body began to rise; everyone stared at her with shock and awe. Ron shook his head.

"I don't believe it!" he said.

"She's an angel!" Harry cried.

"She's so… so beautiful!" Hermione said, eyes tearing.

"She is…" Hajile said softly. Now in the middle of the air, suspended by white feathery wings, Nasus looked towards the door.

"I'll get help!" she yelled just before going headlong towards the door. Hajile suddenly realized that…

"WAIT! NASUS! YOUR WINGSPAN WON'T MAKE IT THROUGH THE-"

Nasus crashed into the doorway, her wings catching the frame of it violently. With a loud "OOF!" she collapsed onto the tortoise, knocked unconscious from the sudden crashing blow to her body. Everyone became shocked and scared, Nasus' body moving slightly from the tortoises' fight for freedom.

Harry then ran to the window. He flung it open and cried out into the night, "HEDWIG!" Suddenly from a tower way above, a small fluttering white thing came down. It landed on the sill, looking into the room. Perhaps one could not read emotions from a bird, but if anyone were to look at this graceful, nocturnal creature, they would see confusion and fear in its eyes.

Ron ran over with Hermione, while Hajile tried wrenching the incredibly awkwardly placed body of Nasus from the doorway. Harry scribbled hastily on a piece of paper:

"Dumlydorn: HELP! We're trapped in Hajile and Nasus' room, there's a giant tortoise trying to get in and Nasus tried flying with her wings but crashed and we're trapped LYK OMG HELP US!1111!

Harry Potter."

He tied the letter to the owl, and she flew swiftly away, hopefully to the correct destination… where a certain meeting was taking place, that no one, not one soul… knew about…