Buffy stood with her hands on her hips tapping her foot impatiently as Giles gathered his papers in his arms. She finally had enough and said "Right out with it! Why was I not told about this Voldy guy?"
Giles sighed and put his papers back on the desk and said "Because it isn't your fight!" Buffy crossed her arms and said "Not my fight, I think we're smack in the middle here, if what Harry said means anything." Her voice then got quieter and she said "Didn't you think I deserved to know what I was getting into?"
Giles looked alarmed and said "What? Buffy you had just lost your mother and your father didn't want you and the council was going to try to take over. When exactly did you expect me to tell you this information? We are hiding not pushing you into a war you can't win." Buffy frowned and said "I can't win? What do you mean war; if there was a war wouldn't everyone else know about it?"
This conversation lasted right through dinner, in which Giles got the house elves to bring.
"And that is why it isn't your war to fight!" Giles stated after the dishes disappeared. Buffy rolled her eyes and said "Giles that wasn't exactly inspiring me not to want to fight. I want to help and I will help, you can't stop me! Oh shoot it's nearly time for Harry's detention; I better get to my office thingy."
Giles said "What do you plan to do in this detention?" His voice showed a note of amusement at the fact that she actually gave a detention and she didn't miss it when she replied "Oh I don't know write lines, scrub the floor, take him patrolling, you know the usual stuff." She sent him a grin to show she was joking before saying "I'm going to see what the hell is bugging him and if that doesn't work stick with the writing lines thing."
She then walked out of the room sighing softly as she tried to work out what the hell was going on inside her head. It was a lot to take in, an evil wizard hell bent on destroying muggle and half bloods, then there was the adoption thing, the key thing, the Glory thing and the hurt of the whole Harry thing. Oh no her life was just not complicated at all!
She found herself in front of her office with five minutes to spare. So she sat herself in her chair and laid her head in her arms, mulling over the new information.
She startled when she heard the door slam and she looked up into the glaring green eyes of a boy she had known so well. She blinked a few times before waving at a seat for him to sit down and she said "Was it really necessary to slam the door?" He shrugged and slumped onto the chair acting for all the world like a spoiled brat.
Buffy sighed and stared at him for a second before saying "Right so do you know why you got a detention today?" He looked at her again and said "Because you felt like it."
Buffy rolled her eyes and said "Yes because so many teachers just give detentions because they feel like it!" He pursed his lips and said "Snape does."
She just chuckled and said "Right, well, why do you think you got a detention, think hard, I know you're not an idiot."
This time he rolled his eyes and said "Because I yelled at you?" Buffy clapped her hands acting like he was a little kid who got the right answer and said "That's right."
He glared at her again and said "I'm not a baby!" Buffy said in a firm voice "Then stop acting like one and I will treat you like an adult!"
Harry slumped further in the chair and Buffy nearly laughed but said "Yes because that is proving you're point!"
He sat back before shooting her another glare and said "So what we're just going to talk for this whole detention because I do have other things to do!"
Buffy eyed him carefully as she said "I want you to tell me about Voldermort."
Harry looked up startled at her use of the name but said "Why should I? You didn't even know who he was in the class. For all I know you're just like Umbridge! Why else wouldn't you know?"
Buffy really was getting annoyed at his arrogance but she took a deep breath and said "Yes well no one decided to inform me of the war that was going on in the magic world when I was forced to come here. (seeing his eyes look up) yes Harry I was forced to come here, I had no choice but that of course is none of your business so I guess if you don't want to talk about Voldermort you will have to…"
At that moment the door opened and the person both Harry and Buffy had come to despise entered the room like she owned it.
Buffy looked at her startled and said "Um Can I ask what you are doing here Ms Umbridge?"
The woman looked smug and said "Call me Dolorous and I'm here to watch how a detention is served. So what is Mr Potter doing tonight?" Buffy tried to rain in the bile that started coming in her throat as she said "Right, Dolorous, Harry, err Mr Potter is writing lines tonight. You don't really need to be here for that. Boring and all, why don't you come back for another detention. I'm sure you have more important things to attend to?"
Umbridge just smiled and pulled a quill out of her purse and said "Well if he is writing lines he should use this quill, you will find it most effective." Both Harry and Buffy gave her a look like she was insane before Buffy said "Um right sure, so we'll see you another time." Umbridge however sat in the seat at the door and Buffy gave an incredulous look and said "So you're staying then?"
Umbridge nodded and said "Of course." Buffy eyes narrowed as Umbridge got back up and put the quill in front of Harry. Buffy watched Harry look at as if trying to work out if it was poisoned or not before picking it up and looking at Buffy. Buffy shrugged at him and said "Right so 50 lines, I will not yell at a teacher." Umbridge spoke up "100 is probably better and it should be I will not yell at a teacher or imply to dark lord has returned."
Buffy stifled the urge to roll her eyes and turned to Harry and said in a forceful voice "50 and I will not yell at a teacher." Before Harry had a chance to begin a knock on the door sounded and both teachers looked up as Snape entered who looked a little startled upon seeing so many people in the tiny office before resuming his normal face and said "Professor Summers may I speak to you outside?"
Buffy looked between Harry and Umbridge, Umbridge smiled an evil smile and said "It is alright Professor Summers I can finish this detention for you." Buffy nodded and said "Right Um, I'll be back soon."
Buffy left the room and turned to Snape and said "What's up?" Snape looked a little angry and said "We have a regular class now, or did you propose to leave me waiting in my classroom until it was over?"
Buffy had the decency to blush and said "Aw, crap. Sorry, I gave Harry a detention and forgot about the whole teaching me. Anyway it isn't like you were waiting long, I only was (looks at the magically enhanced watch) oh whoops, guess my telling them soon was probably a bad thing then. Can we do a quick lesson?"
Buffy watched him scowl before following him in the direction of the dungeon.
30 minutes later
Buffy rushed back to office, feeling terrible about leaving Harry with Umbridge for half an hour. She made it to her door just in time for Umbridge to come out and give her weird smile as she said "Detention is over, although I would appreciate if you stay for detention or just leave all your detentions to me in the future."
Buffy nodded not knowing how to reply to that and walked in the room. Harry was putting his things back in his bag while she went to her desk and said "I hope that wasn't too awful, I'm sorry I wouldn't have gone but I forgot about the whole promise thing."
He merely glared at her and didn't say a word but as he was leaving he turned back to her and shot her a dirty look before leaving the room.
Buffy mouth fell open as she stared at the door and she said aloud to the empty room "What the hell!"
Author note: God I hope you like it. I didn't see the point in writing more about telling Buffy about Voldermort so I hope that was ok. As you can tell Harry is acting like a brat but that is how I felt he acted in the fifth book. Thanks again for the reviews you make me write faster even though I said there wasn't going to be daily updates, but here I am writing another update. Thanks guys.