Shewolfe7: No, I'm afraid Severus is not a vampire, but if you recall there was another power mentioned, one that gave advice and advanced themselves by making alliances rather than fighting...that's what Severus is. Which is why he has a foot in every power...he'll always be on the winning side and will always have enough information to advance himself and others should he choose to do so. I hope that will clear something up, lol.

tigerblak: do you longer chapters once a month or shorter chapters, roughly, twice a week? Do you want me to take my two month break on this story sooner rather than later? Your choice...

HoshiHikari4ever: I'm thinking the actual tranformation will take place around Christmas? Maybe the summer after the upcoming school year...I really have no idea, I write as it happens I am quite as clueless as you to these things, except I can harbor a guess...

T-chan: I'm flattered that you like how my fic is perfectly balanced, and that you love Sin, because I love Sin too!

Kizna2: Snape and Sin are acquaintances, but now that Sin has Harry, Snape's taken a...personal (?) interest in Sin, read SheWolfe7's reponse at the top..that will help my explantion.

uten: Sin starts teaching this chapter...I guess you could call it that, lol. As for the de-brainwashing I'm sure that will come soon.

Thank you to Chaser1, darkangelgep,and Elven Warrior1 for reviewing.

It's always nice hearing from you guys

Chapter Six

"This is hard," Harry mumbled staring at the chess game.

"It'd be harder if I made you move in under sixty seconds," Sin replied looking at Harry over the book he was reading.

Harry looked up and then quickly looked back down. Staring at the board, he couldn't look away until he found the way to win in two moves, Sin said it was there, but Harry couldn't find it and he'd been looking for over an hour. And thirty minutes ago he'd been told not to take his eyes off the board until he found it.

Harry sighed and rubbed his eyes leaning back in the chair. Then he saw it.

Harry leaned forward grabbed his bishop and moved it, this was not a magical chess set, which was odd considering the amount of magic in the house...but whatever. "Check!"

Sin moved his king carefully.

Harry leaned forward and moved again, trapping Sin's king, declaring, "Check mate!"

Sin nodded and said, "Very good," Sin waved his wand over the board and all the pieces were back in the starting formation, "again."

Harry whimpered and moved his pawn.

"So, how's Harry doing?" Remus asked Severus anxiously.

"I didn't see them for long," Severus replied, "but from what I saw, Harry was doing well."

"Did he look healthy?" Remus asked staring at Severus purposely; trying to figure out if he was going to lie or had been.

"He looked fine," Severus replied. Remus leaned back in his chair looking appeased for the moment and extremely pensive.

"What do you think will happen once school starts again?" Remus asked after a moment of silence.

"I honestly don't know," Severus replied. "I know what I hope for, but I don't know exactly."

Remus nodded and closed his eyes and then asked, "Is it true that Voldemort will side with him?"

Severus nodded and replied, "That's what I heard him say. He didn't appear set in his ways and will probably want to know whether or not Sin was successful in getting rid of his current...delusions."

Remus nodded slowly his eyes fixed on something unseen...his decisions for the future. "Do you think it's wise what he's doing?"

Severus nodded and asked, "Have you spoken with the werewolf colonies?"

"Yes," Remus replied, "I've gotten them all to back my decisions, and we are going to rejoin the game when it starts again as a power...I plan on announcing it before the summer ends."

"Good," Severus replied, "I think you're making the correct move."

"Do you think Harry will be getting trained to play the game?" Remus asked turning to look again at Severus.

"I have no doubts," Severus replied, "but he won't know about the game just yet...that would take all the fun out of it."

Remus smiled and lay back into the chair closing his eyes, "I shouldn't worry, should I?"

"Not just yet," Severus replied. Remus' eyes shot open.

"I'll play my ace on your three aces," Harry said laying the ace down on the table, "and I've got a run," Harry put the three cards down, "and then I discard," Harry dropped his final card looked up at Sin and smirked, "and I win again."

"Monopoly?" Sin asked with a raised eyebrow.

Harry grinned and nodded saying, "and I'll beat you again."

"I certainly hope so," Sin murmured gathering up the cards as Harry ran off to get the new game. Sin leaned back in his chair and wondered when he'd stopped letting Harry win. "Definitely a week ago," he said to himself, pleased with Harry's progress.

"I want to be the top hat," Harry said as walked back into the room, "and can we play Clue next?"

"I don't see why not," Sin replied, "do you remember how to play?"

"We only played it yesterday," Harry replied, "my memory's not that bad."

"I'm sure it isn't," Sin replied as he began setting up the game.

Harry grabbed the top hat and placed it on 'go' once the board was opened. "So what brought about this massive bout of boredom?"

"Excuse me?" Sin raised an eyebrow and looked at Harry while setting up the game almost subconsciously.

"Well, we've been playing games for how long now," Harry asked, "a week? You must be really bored."

Sin replied quite seriously, "No, I do this with all my victims."

Harry laughed and asked, "Who goes first?"

"Well, you're youngest," Sin replied tossing Harry the dice and then sliding two hundred dollars over to him.

Ginny, Ron, and the twins were playing Exploding Snap in the living room of Grimmauld place.

"Do you think Harry's okay?" Ginny asked her brothers.

"I'm sure Harry's fine," Fred replied.

"Yeah," George agreed, "he's gotten himself out of tighter spots before."

"But everyone's saying he got taken by vampires," Ginny reminded them all.

"Harry's stood up to You-know-who so many times, and lived, that I'm sure it wouldn't be hard for him to survive a vampire," Ron replied. "Harry's fine...I know it."

"Harry's a lot tougher than he looks," George agreed nodding reassuringly at Ginny.

Ginny sighed and nodded.

"That Sin fellow, though, sounded kind of shady to me," Fred told them.

"He did indeed," George agreed. "But Harry can handle him."

"Why doesn't Dumbledore seem worried," Ginny asked, "shouldn't he be looking for Harry?"

"Dumbledore thinks Harry's safe now because Voldemort isn't after him," Ron explained, "and he sent Remus out to look for him, remember?"

"Yeah, Gin," Fred added, "mum told us that Remus left to go find him and that's why he hasn't come back yet."

Ginny nodded and then sighed again. "Something doesn't feel right about this though..."

That drew her brother's attention quickly.

"What do you mean, Ginny?" George asked quietly looking around for their mother. She had been angry that they believed whatever Ginny felt about any situation, their mothers said there were no psychic powers in her family or the Weasley family. However, all the kids had learned, quickly, to trust their little sister's feelings even if it wasn't, supposedly, true.

"I can't help but feel like something more is going on, that no one's telling us," Ginny explained quietly.

"Like what?" Fred and George asked her simultaneously.

"I think everyone's lying when they say Remus has gone looking for Harry," Ginny whispered, "I think Remus left the order—remember the last meeting we spied on and Dumbledore was saying that losing the support of the werewolves was really going to set them back?"

"But Remus wouldn't have that sort of authority with the werewolves...would he?" George asked tilting his head inquiringly at Fred.

"He might," Fred replied slowly. "But why would he leave the order?"

"That's why I think something more is going on here," Ginny explained, "why would Remus withdraw support of the werewolves from the order, if not to support You-know-who—"

"Remus would never do that!" Ron exclaimed loudly, causing all four of them to grimace and look around cautiously.

After a few moments Ginny continued, "Exactly, the war is between good and evil right?" The other three nodded. "And Remus would never join the dark, but he's not going to support Dumbledore anymore, so who is he going to support? And how is this person involved in the war between Dumbledore and You-know-who?"

Her brothers lapsed into thought.

"I think there must be something more going on here, a bigger war that the werewolves could take part in," Ginny finished looking between her three brothers for their opinions.

"It makes sense," George said finally. Fred nodded and looked around for his mother again.

"But why would a bigger war be going on?" Ron asked rhetorically.

This made them all think.

"It was Professor Plum, in the dining room, with the lead pipe!" Harry yelled triumphantly.

Sin looked up from the three cards he had taken from the envelope and said, "Very good."

.

/blinks/ did anyone get the ending, or is it just me that thinks it's weird?