Chapter 25 – Sticky Revenge

Soon the rest of the school had come back from holiday and Dumbledore made his speech again, everyone was shocked and soon it became obvious that the school was divided in to two groups of people, those who thought Harry Potter couldn't defeat Voldemort and those who still believed in him. Luckily Anna's friends believed in Harry.

Harry and Anna talked about what had happened during the break and Harry told Anna that he had told Sirius everything.

"Everything, you mean what I let happen he knows?" She said a look of desperation forming.

"No, no, honey, that is your choice to tell him, but he does know about you," Harry said. "And there was nothing you could do about it."

"Yes there was, I was just too stupid and slow," she said.

"We've been through this – it wasn't your fault. Say it with me now it wasn't your fault.

"It wasn't your fault,"

"No you say it wasn't my fault."

"It wasn't my fault," she said reluctantly. "You should try that sometime. You can beat Voldemort, now say it with me," she said grinning.

The first week back was to put it lightly hectic, all the 6th years had a lot of homework. However, this was nothing compared to what the 7th years were going through. Jason and Lily, Jason more often, were usually seen being made to calm down by Madam Pomfrey. When Anna wasn't doing homework she was Quidditch practice and after this she was always exhausted. This left no time for her to see Lupin. Who had been rather distant with her since she laughed at him. She was feeling rather guilty about that but couldn't think of anyway to make it up to him.

As well as the guilt that seemed to be eating her up inside, she had to endure the taunts from Cynthia Malfoy and Delilah Nott, and to a lesser extent Alison and Mary. Cynthia and Delilah, Anna now knew with out a doubt, had seen what Anna had in the Pool of Fear. Anna was glad the two girls hadn't figured out who her mother was yet. This, however, did not stop her from wanting to get back at them.

The second week into the term she sat at dinner with Lupin, who was avoiding her gaze, and Remus. They were talking about that days Care of Magical Creatures lesson.

"What did Professor Weasley say when you dropped the Doxies Remus?" Lupin asked trying to stifle his laugh.

"That I should make sure next time I dropped them in my room and see how I liked clearing them up," Remus said rolling his eyes. Remus had been asked to stay behind and help clean up and dropped Doxies setting them loose all over the classroom. Ginny Weasley had not been impressed.

"Oh Doxies," Anna said suddenly.

"What?" Lupin and Remus said at the same time.

"Could you two get oh say about 8 or 9 Doxies for me?"

"Why?"

"Get them for me and I will tell you." Lupin and Remus crept into the classroom that they had been using for Care of Magical Creatures. Anna stood outside being a look out. 10 minutes later they came out with a box held between them. Anna threw the invisibility cloak on it and they started off toward the Slytherin Dungeon. As they were walking Lupin asked:

"So what are we doing?"

"Cynthia Malfoy and Delilah Nott,"

"We're doing them?"

"Ewww Lupin, no! I haven't gotten them back for bringing me to that stupid pool!"

"Man you can hold a grudge, remind me never to get on your bad side."

Remus, Lupin and Anna stood behind a statue outside the Slytherin dungeon trying to hide themselves and a box full of Doxies. Anna couldn't help noticing how nice Lupin smelled up close, like a mixture of soap and aftershave. She moved so she was standing facing him. There eyes met as they tried to look anywhere but at each other. They stood waiting for a Slytherin to come by and open the door.

"You know I really should have gotten the password before we got the box it would have been so much easier."

"Why don't you like being squished in a corner with me?" Lupin asked.

"Well I guess it does have it's benefits," she said grinning.

"Will to you stop it," Remus said rolling his eyes.

"I reckon we need to find Remus a girl," Lupin said.

"Shut up," Remus snapped.

"But I know plenty of—"

"Shut up you prat someone's coming." Lupin shut his mouth and Anna bit her lip. They could hear footsteps coming toward them. They moved closer together, Anna pushed herself into Lupin even more and her head was so close to his neck now it was putting her off. He smells so nice she thought. Concentrate on the operation at hand, but he smells so good. He feels so warm, his skin can't really be that smooth can it? Before she knew it the Slytherin door had closed.

"Come on," Remus said and reluctantly Anna moved back feeling cold.

"Did you get the password?" she asked Remus. "Because I didn't hear."

"Yeah I did now get the Doxies ready,"

Anna pulled out her wand and made the Doxies immobile, then took the lid off. She then picked the Doxies up and put the invisibility cloak over herself. Without moving the door too much Remus gave her the password and she crept into the Slytherin common room. No one noticed the door opening and closing again. She walked quietly up to the stairs that seemed to be the girls dormitory. Lucky it was laid out in the same way Gryffindor tower was. She quickly as she could went up the stairs looking for Cynthia and Delilah's dormitory. She got to a room that had The Standard Book of Spells Grade 6 thrown on the floor. She went over to the middle bed and put the Doxies down in the middle of the bed. She said counter curse and the Doxies began to move again. She moved quickly to the exit and then as an after thought she pointed her wand at the beds and raised her left hand muttering a spell all the bed sheets, clothes, books and every contents of their trunks went flying into the air and landed in messy piles on the floor. Then she said another spell and cobwebs flew across the room. Smiling to herself she crept back out of the common room to see Remus and Lupin waiting for behind the statue again. They laughed all the way back to the Gryffindor common room.

They laughed even harder the next day when Cynthia and Delilah didn't come down to breakfast the next day and the rumor that was going around that they were in the hospital wing, covered in Doxy bites and cobwebs that wouldn't come off. Anna felt relived there was no way they could trace it back to her. She had finally gotten revenge on the two Slytherin girls.