Dispelling a Spell

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter OR Naruto, beat that!

NOTE: My apology is down there. But here's a summary, "I'M SO SORRY FOR NOT UPDATING! sobs pathetically" And some notes about the new Harry Potter and all is down there too. ;;

NOTE-2: CrapCH means Crappy Chapter, in my terms. I bet it's because I hate myself for updating so late though.

They followed Filch through the hallways here and there. Some of the portraits began to wake up because of bright light from Filch's candle. Their footsteps echoed loudly and after about 3 minutes of walking, they reached Filch's Office.

"Students wandering after dark..." Filch muttered, "If they knew we could hang them from their ankles..."

Hermioned trembled. "I can't afford a detention this early in the year!" She urgently whispered.

"No talking or it'll be much more dire a punishment!" Filch roared.

Sasuke narrowed his eyes, "You guys, go under the cloak, I'll distract Mr. Filch. Trust me."

"How will you do--" But Harry was cut off. Ron and Hermione threw the cloak over him... with a little help with Sasuke. The new student pushed the three away.

"Trust me..." Sasuke whispered.

Once the three were safely out of earshot, they huddled. "Why'd you drag me away?" Harry asked. "He couldn't possibally stall Filch without Filch actually noticing that we're gone! We shouldn't have left!"

"We don't trust him, remember? I mean obviously he must have some kind of plan. He seemed serious. I think we should glance back for a little bit just to see." Hermione responded.

"Yeah...-yeah! What she said!" Ron suddenly splurt out.

"Fine..." Harry draped the cloak back over them and they creeped out and started the way to Filch's office.

They saw Sasuke walking behind Filch with... Harry, Ron, and Hermione! But... how? He couldn't have just cloned them!

But they reached Filch's office at that moment and Sasuke, Filch, and the "other three" walked in and the door closed.

"So you really think we should trust those three now?" Harry whispered anxiously during breakfast.

Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji were sitting right there about 10 people away without any sign that anything bad happened the previous night.

"Well, Dumbledore trusts them, so we should just play along, but we've got to be careful. Hermione said. Ron was about to voice his opinion when Dumbledore stood up at his place in the staff table and all talking ceased.

"As you all know, the Defense Against Dark Arts post has been empty for quite a period of time. But the teaching bit has changed a little as Professor Severus Snape will transfer to the teacher of the DADA--"

"NO!" shouted Harry. Many students turned their heads towards him, while Dumbledore nodded gravely and continued.

"While a former colleague of mine will take over the his old position of Potions Master. Professor Horace Slughorn." A bald, fat man stood up and waved away the polite applause. "Please treat Professor Slughorn with respect as he has much experiance already."

Everyone resumed eating and chatting when the Headmaster did. But Harry's eyes widened as he exclaimed "HOW could Dumbledore let him teach it! After all this time!" Hermione quickly responded in fear of Harry's infamous yelling fests like the one last yeah at Number 13, Grimmauld Place.

"Oh Harry, maybe Dumbledore had a good reason--"

"What reason could he have! Snape obviously wanted that post for a reason, maybe to spy on more stuff for Voldemort or something, I dunno, but Snape CAN'T get that post!"

Ron trembled at the Dark Lord's name and was about to bite into a large piece of bacon but it seemed he had lost his appetite. "I agree, Harry, but like Hermione said, Dumbledore must have a good reason, 'cause that's just Dumbledore, y'know?"

"Let's just--Just drop it, we have to discuss what to do about the transfer students!" Hermione said suddenly.

Harry narrowed his eyes and said clearly, "I don't trust them. Try to give me a reason to, but I still won't."

"But--"

"Just drop it."

The first month went by without a wave of the wand and soon, everyone was all excited about Halloween. There was no place to hide from people popping out of corners saying "Boo!" but Harry avoided them by slipping through the secret passageways.

He also noticed that girls loved to crowd around his favorite places and people asked about the Ministry event often. The only exception were the three transfer students, they seemed to not have heard of it until a day in charms when someone asked Naruto what he thought happened.

"What I think about the what that what'ed in the what of what...?" Naruto asked cluelessly. The person told him as if he were a 3-year-old.

Naruto was still confused, but he told his team partners anyway. Sasuke called him a 'Baka' and said that he should have at least heard of it from the newspapers. Harry heard their conversation and was perplexed to know that they did not hear of it that much while everyone was obsessing.

All the tension and excitedness broke the next morning when the Daily Prophet announced that a whole village had been slaughtered by the Death Eaters.

"It's horrible," Hermione stated after scanning the 'Prophet and checking the list of people who died. "They said that not even the children were spared. They fould a woman corpse holding her dead baby hanging from a pole stuck in the ground."

"Disgusting." Ron simply said after hearing this. Harry just remained quiet. His anger at the Ministry had not yet disappeared. And it did not help when Hermione told him that Stan Shunpike and two others had been arrested for being Death Eaters. Do they really, seriously, think that Stan is actually a DEATH EATER?

After that, people talked about Halloween less and started to talk about where the Death Eaters would strike next. Again, the only people that did not seem to be affected were Sasuke, Naruto, and Neji.

But not all things were hilly-dilly, Ron and Hermione checked the papers everyday to see if anyone they knew had been attacked or anything. By the time Halloween started to sneak up on the Hogwarts students, no one was in the mood anymore. It was three days away and now all the students were just concerned about was when Christmas came, they were going to get the hell out of here and back to their family, if they were still alive.

Okay now. The pathetic chapter is over. I'm so sorry and if you've read my previous letters of survival, you'll have known that the reason I have not been updating has been because my brother has taken over my computer. The one with all the files in it. And my brother is currently on this school thing right now, but I needed to cut this short because my brother would be coming back in like. 10 minutes. And I got to get the computer back to the way I like it. Because he's made it slow and the burner's broken now, so I'm going to try to find a way to fix it.

But... if any of you guys are experts at computers or something, please try to help me. The burner thing keeps flashing and when I press the button, it doesn't open. My brother even took the computer apart (yeah, he's careful when it comes to things like this) to see if there was something wrong with it, and he couldn't fix it. Any ideas? It's a Dell 4600 with a two CD trays and the bottom one, the DVD burner, is the problem. I have no idea how long this has been happening because my brother's the one who's been using this comp. TT. I can open it with the manual hole thing though, but it doesn't seem to register when I close it or open it.

I need it to burn my Naruto and craps. And by the way, since my brother's coming home soon, (he's watching the NEW HP MOVIE! ) I'd better upload this and all, sorry, no review comments. Arrgh.

Oh, and flame me as much as you want. Like "ZOMG YOU IDIOT, YOU MADE US WAIT ALL THAT TIME FOR THIS GAY-ASS CHAPTER! insert list of faults here." Or something else, I really deserve it. I'll try to get this computer as often as possible to try to write off your steam.