Mudbloods and Murmurs

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Harry and Yugi had a tough time dodging Lockhart, Colin and Rebecca during the rest of the week. Hedwig, was still pretty mad about what had happened with the Whomping Willow. Ron's wand was messing up like crazy, like in Charms Class, the wand shot out of his hand and hit Professor Flitwick directly between the eyes and knocked him to the ground. When he regained his footing, everyone could see a large green boil where he had been hit.

Harry and Yugi were VERY glad that the weekend had come. The gang was planning to visit Hagrid on Saturday, but when the day came, Harry, Yugi, Joey and Brian were awakened hours before they wanted to wake up. Harry felt someone shake him and he looked up to see Oliver Wood, Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team shaking him. "Oliver...wassat?" he asked. "Quidditch Practice! C'mon!" Oliver told him pulling back the covers. "It's the crack of dawn, Oliver!" Harry noted, sitting up. "Exactly, it's part of our new Quidditch training program! No other team has started training yet! Wake up the others and grab your equipment, we'll meet you in the common room," he said before leaving the room.

Harry sighed and walked over to Yugi and Brian and shook them awake, but had a lot of trouble waking up Joey. "C'mon Joey! Wake up! We have practice," he urged, shaking him repeatedly. "Mmph...I want dat donut Kaiba, you can't have it...," he said rolling over on his side. "Ok, anyone have any idea on how to wake him up?" Harry said giving up. Brian smiled a little and walked over to Joey and rubbed his hands together, "You guys are gonna love this...Joey...oh Joey," he whispered. Joey rolled over "Hmmm?" he moaned. "Bakura got Serenity pregnant!" he whispered loudlythen quickly moved away from the bed. "WHAT! HE DID WHAT!" he yelled before falling facefirst out of his bed.

"There, he's up. My job is done," Brian said putting on his red Quidditch robes. Seamus, Dean and Mokuba woke up at the noise Joey made and rubbed their eyes. "Wass goin' on?" Mokuba asked sleepily. "Nothin' Mokuba, just heading out to practice, you guys get more sleep," Yugi told him, donning his robes. They met up with Oliver and the rest of the team and headed towards the Quidditch Pitch. Once in the courtyard, Oliver looked to the right and groaned, "What the bloody hell?" he cursed and headed in the new direction. The Gryffindor team met up with the Slytherin team "What are you doin' here, Flint? I booked the field for today," Oliver said to his fellow Captain."Read this," he said smirking, handing him a roll of parchment. Wood opened it up and read it aloud.

"I, Professor Severus Snape, hereby give permission for the Slytherin Team to use the Quidditch Field today in order to train the new team members".

Oliver sighed and rolled it back up. "New team members? Who?" he asked looking around. The team seperated and three people came into view. "Marik, Malik and Malfoy, our new Seeker and Beaters," Flint said smugly. Yugi, Harry, Brian and Joey just stared at them. "Speaking of Draco's father, he also made a very generous donation to the team," he added. The entire green-robed team held up sleek black brand new brooms. "Nimbus Two-Thousand and Ones for everyone on the team," Flint said smirking. Ron, Hermione and Mokuba came walking up to them and stared at the brooms.

"So, if you don't mind, the better teams going to have the field today, Wood," Flint sneered and started to walk away when Hermione made her voice heard. "Well at least all the Gryffindors got onto the team with talent instead of buying their way onto the team," she said to them. Flint leaned over and whispered something to Malfoy. He turned around and glared at Hermione, "No one asked for your opinion you filthy little Mudblood," he snapped at her. Now, Harry, Yugi and Brian had no clue what that meant, but when the Gryffindor team, including Joey started to advance on them, threatening them, they figured it was BAD. Ron squeezed through and aimed his wand at him. "You're going to pay for that one, Malfoy!" he growled as he flicked his wand.

Green light glowed and shot towards Malfoy, but it reversed itself and it Ron square in the chest, making him fly back about ten feet. The Gryffindors rushed to help him, "Ron, are you ok?" Harry asked his best friend. Ron sat up, looking very pale and opened his mouth to answer, but instead, big, fat, slimy slugs came pouring out his mouth. "Oh, damn that's nasty!" Brian shouted, looking away. "C'mon, Hagrid's place is closer, let's take him there," Harry said grabbing hold of him. Joey took the other side. The others followed after them, but they didn't get far when two familiar children blocked their path. "Hey Harry! Oh, what happened to Ron? Can you hold him still?" Colin asked reaching for his camera. Rebecca hugged Yugi once more "I'm just glad you're not the one puking up nasty slugs, Yugi!" she said smiling.

Brian growled and grabbed them each by the collar of their robes. "Guys, NOT NOW!" he said shoving them away. Colin looked at Harry and he shook his head, "Get out of here Colin!" he snapped. They made their way to Hagrid's hut on the outskirts and banged on the door. The large shaggy man opened it up and they explained what had happened. He let them in and put a large iron kettle in front of Ron, so that he could puke the slugs into there. "Better out than in, Ron. Now, why was he tryin' to curse Malfoy?" he asked them. Harry and Yugi shook their heads, "We're not sure exactly. We think it was something bad though," they told him. Hermione got up and walked around the hut.

"He called me a Mudblood, Hagrid," she said softly. Hagrid gasped, "He didn'!". "Ok, I don't mean to sound insensitive here, but could someone let us in on what that means?" Brian asked them. Joey spoke up, "It means dirty-blood, someone who was born to a Muggle family. Someone who's not at all Pure Blood," he explained. Harry and Yugi stared at him, "How do you know, Joey? Your still new to this as we are!" Yugi asked his blonde haired friend. "My ma taught me an' Serenity all about the good and bad things about wizard families. You forget, me an' her are Pure Bloods," he told them. "Oh, ok then," Brian said sitting down next to Hagrid's dog Fang, who immediately began to paw at him. "Look, I'm not sayin' ya shouldn' stick up fer yer friend's. But don' stoop to his level, besides, I know for a fact that none of those Slytherins can do a spell like our Hermione!" Hagrid said brightly. Hermione smiled and hugged him. "There ya go, feel better?" he asked looking down at her. She nodded her head and they stayed until Ron had barfed up the rest of the slugs. Afterwards, they made their way back to the castle for lunch.

That night, Ron, Mokuba, Brian, Yugi and Harry were carrying out their detention sentences: Ron, Mokuba and Brian were cleaning and polishing every single thing in the school's trophy room, while Yugi and Harry were helping Lockhart answer his fanmail. Lockhart began to rant on and on about how his fans kept asking him for dates, or how fame wasa fickle friend. It wasn't until about three hours after they started that something odd happened. Harry was licking his umpteenth envelope when he heard a cold voice.

"Come...come to me...Let me rip you open...Let me...tear you...Let me KILL you..."

Harry jumped and looked around "WHAT!" he asked. "I KNOW! Six solid months on the best seller list! Broke ALL the records!" Lockhart said shaking his head, smiling. "Didn't you hear that voice?" Harry asked him. "Voice? What voice?" Lockhart asked glancing around the room. "Yugi, you heard it right?" Harry asked the short (Luv poking fun at that) wizard. When Lockhart wasn't looking, Yugi nodded quickly and stopped when Lockhart's eyes came back to them. "You must be tired, Harry," he said shaking his head. He looked at the clock "Well no wonder! It's been hours! That's your detention, boys. Head on to dinner," he said waving his hand. They exited the room and walked down the corridor, but stopped when the voice came once more.

"...rip...tear...KILL...soo hungry...for so long...kill...time to kill..."

"C'mon! It's heading this way!" Harry said running ahead. The voice became fainter and fainter, but they pressed on until they ran into Mokuba, Ron and Brian. "Guys! C'mon we have to hurry! It's going to kill someone!" Yugi said quickly. "Who's gonna do what now?" Brian asked, running after them. Ron and Mokuba only shrugged. The voice was lost when they came to a stop at a three-way corridor. "Someone mind telling us what's going on?" Ron asked them. Yugi looked around until he saw something, something that shouldn't be there.

"Harry...," he said quietly, tugging at his robes. Harry looked at him and saw what Yugi saw. They moved in front of it to get a better look at it. The others gathered around them and stared at it. Soon, the entire hall buzzed with noise as the rest of the school came into the corridor and saw what they saw. Filch's cat, Mrs. Norris was stiff as a board, and hanging by her tail on a torch. Everyone began to whisper about what was going on and soon a voice with very bad timing was heard. "Get out of meh way! Move I said!" Filch came barging through the crowd and his eyes fell upon his beloved cat. "M-M-Mrs. Norris?" he gasped at the horrid sight. He whirled around and his glare met Harry and Yugi. "YOU! YOU TWO MURDERED MY CAT!" he roared running at them.

"ARGUS! THAT IS ENOUGH!" came a loud voice from behind the crowd. Everyone made room for Dumbledore, McGonagall and other teachers, including Lockhart. "Headmaster, these two...cretins have murdered my cat!" he screeched pointing to Harry and Yugi. Dumbledore glanced at the two boys and investigated the stiff pet. After a few minutes of looking over, he faced Filch. "She is not dead, Argus, she has merely been Petrified," ("AHA! I knew it!" Lockhart put in). "And they did it! I know they did it!" Filch screamed pointing at Harry and Yugi. "Perhaps, Headmaster," came a familiar cold voice, "That Motou and Potter were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Now, I suggest we hear their alibis?" Snape questioned.

Lockhart stepped up, "That falls onto me, Severus, these boys were helping me with letters as their detention. Then I let them go for dinner," he explained. Snape raised an eyebrow and looked back at the two. "Then why did I know see them in the Great Hall?" he asked them. "Because they said they-," Mokuba began before Harry interrupted, "We said we weren't hungry," he lied quickly. Snape looked at him questioningly before Dumbledore spoke again. "Innocent until proven guilty, Severus," he told him. Filch lost it, "MY CAT HAS BEEN PETRIFIED! I WANT TO SEE SOME JUSTICE!" he roared. "It's ok, Argus. If I remember correctly, Professor Sprout has recieved a shipment of young Mandrakes. Now, when they fully mature, she will be able to extract the needed substance in order to bring her back," he said putting a hand on his shoulder.

McGonagall addressed everyone "Now, return to your dormitories! There is nothing more to see here!" she called out, before looking at the boys for a few moments, then she left with the other teachers. Tea, Hermione, Ryou, Bakura, Serenity, Seto and Set came up to the others and gazed at what was written on the wall.

THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS HAS BEEN

OPENED. ENEMIES OF THE HEIR, BEWARE.

"Is that blood on the wall?" Tea asked quietly. "Yes...yes it is," Bakura said looking at the message. Yugi and Harry looked at each other then back at the message. Whatever they had heard, it lead them here on purpose. Mokuba gripped Kaiba tightly and Joey did the same with his sister, Brian pulled out a rosary with a gold cross on theend. He knelt down and immediately began to pray.