Harry Potter and the Scars of Time
By: Krystal Lily Potter
Chapter Twelve:Meet Professor Nickleson
Rating: AA (which means, around here, 14 and up)
Couples: HP/HG, KB/RW/LL, NL/GW/DM, GW/DM/EM
Summary: Harry's last year at Hogwarts has finally come but that doesn't mean things will be any easier for him. After last year's horrifying events the school things that nothing worse could happen. They were all wrong. The prophecy resurfaces and is dangling in front of Harry, held up by the pain from the past, quite literally. As the world is slowly being morphed outside of the safety of Hogwarts the people inside it are finding out that they cannot hide for much longer and that time is as much their best friend now as it is their worst enemy. What is a person supposed to do when they know they have to face the most evil wizard in history and if they're killed then the rest of the world, magic and muggle is doomed?
Warning: More violence then last time. The mentions of suicide, murder, abuse, rape, and blood are much more pronounced then in the last fic

I'd like to mention that there will be A LOT more deaths of characters you recognise and some you won't. If you thought I was cruel and brutal in the prequel to this then I don't know what you're going to think of me after reading this story.

Sequel to Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

IMPORTANT NOTE PLEASE READ:

This story really doesn't seem very plausible anymore…actually it's not even possible because I've brought too many original characters in but over the course of the story I'll slowly be making it more realistic sounding (for Harry Potter that is) so don't get mad at me because it's not 'canon'.

"Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly stupid."

-Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean

"Harry, wake up," Hermione said as she knelt down on his bed, "it's morning and you really need to have a shower before we go on the tour."

"Whensat?" Harry said and stared at her. He blinked a couple of times then he muttered something she didn't hear and rolled over, putting his pillow over his head.

She rolled her eyes then jumped onto his stomach, causing him to gag and bolt up into a sitting position, the pillow flying across the room. His eyes were wide and he said, "Bloody hell Hermione! Do you like to abuse me?"

She laughed and said, "It's the one thing I look forward too every morning."

He shot her a glare before muttering, "Honestly woman—"

"Don't you dare finish that sentence," she shot back with narrowed eyes, "Now get up."

He got up out of bed, stretched then looked at his alarm clock and said, "Hermione…er… sweetie…it's only six thirty."

"I know," she said briskly, "A perfect time to start the day."

He was about to argue with her but thought better then it and said, "If you say so." He started digging through his dressers then grabbing his clothes he'd need for the day he turned to Hermione and said, "Who put all our stuff away?"

"Houseelves I'm pretty sure," Hermione said.

"Oh, ok," Harry said before going into their large bathroom. He heard Hermione go out his door and into the tiny common room as he closed the bathroom door behind him. He took a moment to admire the room before actually going into the shower.

Hermione was reading through one of her books, twisting a piece of her hair around her finger.

Finally she gave an annoyed growl and put the book back into her bag then she growled, "HARRY JAMES POTTER IF YOU DON'T HURRY UP I'M GOING TO…"

She trailed off when she saw an amused looking Harry leaning against the wall behind her. He chuckled then said, "I've been here for nearly five minutes now."

"Doing what?" she said with narrowed eyes.

He shrugged and said, "Enjoying the view."

She laughed then said, "Funny, now come on, we have to get the others awake."

"Yes! We get to test out the secret passages," Harry said happily.

"Right you go wake the boys, I'm going for Parvati and Lavender," Hermione said and then grabbed their books and went off in different directions.

Harry quietly entered the 7th year boy's dormitory and looked around where he had come from only to find it was the front door. A piece of paper appeared in front of him. It said, in Dumbledore's loopy handwriting, 'If you don't want to go directly back to your dormitory then just walk out the door but if you do whisper the password you came up with last night. If you want someone else to go into your dormitory with you they have to go in first because once you enter the door will automatically close and there will be no way for anyone else to follow you. Quite handy if I do say so myself.'

Harry chuckled to himself, he could just hear Dumbledore saying that last line to himself.

Looking around he realized Neville was awake and looking very startled at his sudden appearance.

He grinned and said, "Hey Nev." He then walked over to Seamus then Dean's beds, waking them up.

"Harry, it's too early," Seamus said with a yawn.

"It's quarter after seven and you know the years younger then us just love using our shower," Harry said, shaking his head with amusement.

"Fair point," Dean said and got up out of bed, "How ya planning on getting Ron out of bed?"

The raven haired boy shrugged and walked over to his friend's bed. First he tried yelling at Ron, then shaking him, and he was about to throw one of Neville's magical cactuses on him but Neville grabbed it back saying he didn't want it ruined.

Harry looked around for something else until his eyes landed on a list on Ron's bedside table. He picked it up and looked it over then muttered to himself, "Pros and Cons. Wow Hermione would be proud of him. Wait…Luna and Kaylee?" A grin appeared over his face as he read the pros and cons of Ron liking both of them and he read with amusement, "Pro for Kaylee: She's hotter then Luna. Con for Kaylee: If I make one wrong move Harry will beat the shit out of me. Pro for Luna: I've known her longer and she is pretty. Con for Luna: She's a little weird."

Harry chuckled and put the list back down then said, "Good ol' Ron. Hey…" an idea suddenly appeared in his mind and an evil smirk appeared on his face. "Ron, Luna and Kaylee are both here, they want to see you."

"Wha?" Ron said and bolted right up in his bed and looked around wildly.

Harry started laughing and when Ron realized what had happened his cheeks turned a dark red and his eyes narrowed, "Thanks a lot Harry. By the way, where were you last night?"

"The Headboy gets to have his own room," Harry said simply, desperately trying to make it sound like he wasn't bragging. That was something he never liked doing.

"Lucky bastard," Ron muttered before getting up to get dressed. Suddenly the door flew open again and Hermione burst in, causing everyone to jump.

"HERMIONE! SOME OF US COULD HAVE BEEN NAKED HERE!" Ron yelled, his face turning the same colour his ears already were.

She giggled and said, "Like any of you would care. I just came to tell you that our tour around Hogwarts is at 8:30, meaning we have to be in the Great Hall by eight. It's all of Gryffindor. Harry come on, being Headgirl and boy we have to be down there early."

"Yes ma'am," Harry said and saluted her jokingly. He took her hand then said, "See ya later." With that he walked down the stairs with his girlfriend right behind him. The second he walked into the Gryffindor common room he felt a large wave of relief fly over him. He had missed this place a lot.

"I think I will be spending more time in here this year then in our common room. Ours is nice but I'll miss this one too much," Hermione said with a grin as a few people waved at them and they nodded back.

"Well let's get down to the Great Hall," Harry said, "I'm starved."

"Men," Hermione said with a sigh but followed him out the door.

That morning there was whispering around the great hall. Normally Harry would expect it to be about him but instead he heard the word 'Australia' a lot.

"I'm going to ask one of them what it's about, I'd rather hear it from them then someone else," Harry whispered to Hermione then left the Gryffindor table and walked to where the students dressed in dark teal mixed with aqua robes sat.

"Hi," he said to the one of them (the Headboy of Sunspot actually), catching many of the other people sitting with that person's attention.

"Hi," the young many said back with a friendly smile, "My name's Ethan, how can I help ya?"

Harry noticed that all of them were wearing their cloaks but he ignored that and said, "I'm Harry, I was just wondering why everyone's whispering about you guys? People always talk about me behind my back and it bugs me a lot so I thought I'd go straight to the source to find out."

"Oh," Ethan said and a few people around him whispered the name 'Harry Potter'. He rolled his eyes then said, "Can you answer a question first, are you the Harry Potter?" Everyone at that table and the ones next to it seemed to be paying attention.

"Yes I am," Harry said with a sigh.

"Alrighty then, just wanted to know. Anyways the reason you're probably hearing so much about us is because we're leaving today," Ethan explained.

"Leaving, already?" he asked curiously.

"Yeah, we were only staying here until our school was fixed up. Ours actually isn't that big so it didn't take as long. Our Headmaster thinks its best if we go back right away so the first years can get used to their own school and so the seventh years can take it in one last time."

"Well I suppose that makes sense. As Headboy of Hogwarts though I just want you to know that it was good having you here and that you are welcome back whenever you want. I know Dumbledore would agree with me," Harry said with a smile.

"As Headboy of Sunspot I want to say thanks," Ethan replied and a few other people nodded.

Harry nodded back at them then turned around and walked back to the Gryffindor table.

"Well?" she asked.

"You'll see," Harry said. Soon everyone was in the hall and Professor Dumbledore stood up.

"It is my great pleasure to tell you all that Sunspot school, in Australia, has been completely renovated. Because of this the students will be returning back home today. Keep in mind, all of you, that you are welcome back to Hogwarts whenever you wish," Dumbledore said then his eyes looked around and said, "The rest of you will be taken on your tours today and once those are done you will head off to your classes."

There were a couple groans, some people had been hoping they'd get the day off. The sixth years already had gone to Dumbledore's office and got their new schedules and Professor McGonagall was handing out everybody else's for Gryffindor.

When she got to the seventh years (who were all sitting in the same spot at the table) she said, "Granger, Patil, Brown, Weasley, Longbottom, Potter, Thomas and Finnigain. Yes all here." She gave placed them in a pile in front of them then walked off.

Hermione grabbed hers and her eyes scanned over it, then she grabbed Harry's and compared them then said, "We both have Transfiguration, Charms and Care of Magical Creatures today."

"Same here," Ron said happily.

After eating some Hermione looked at her watch and said, "8:20, we'll be leaving for our tour soon."

"You realize all this is will be walking up and down more stairs then we have to today right?" Dean asked them.

Parvati sighed and said, "Just great."

Sure enough this big 'tour' was only McGonagall leading the Gryffindors up the stair cases telling them where all the classrooms were. She had mentioned that there was no point going to the Dungeons because Snape insisted on his classroom being the same one.

Harry had to hand it to his Transfiguration teacher; she was being fairly patient with them. That's when it hit him, she probably had to use a Time Turner to get everything done during the day that she did.

Professor McGonagall stared at her seventh years with a stern look. Her grey eyes were stony and she wasn't anything but serious.

"I will not lie to you," she said, catching everyone's attention, "Your last year here will be your hardest one yet. You're NEWTs are at the end of the year, and we will be training you as hard as we can for them all year. But your year is different then any other group of seventh years we've had so far. You are all directly linked to this war so we will be training you all for not only your future careers, but your future survival. Last year I made you study the theory, this year we're putting it into practice everything we've ever leaned."

"Including becoming Animagus?" Padma Patil asked as her hand shot into the air.

"That, Ms. Patil, I am not certain of. If Madam Bones was still our Minister then I would be able to teach you all but because Teather Dae (she said that name with extreme disgust) has taken that position we must be careful with what we do," Professor McGonagall said, "Now I believe you had some homework to pass in…Ms. Moon, please pick up everyone' essays on the process of changing on animal into another one…"

Transfiguration went fairly well, even though Harry could get his beetle to change right. Beside him Ron squish his beetle from getting annoyed at it and of course Hermione (who sat in front of them beside Padma) got it right the first time.

They then trudged on to Charms, which wasn't that bad. Although Harry found it very difficult to read over his page on the Two-Way mirror charm. It reminded him so much of how he could have saved Sirius is his fifth year if he wouldn't have been stubborn enough to accept the help Sirius offered him. That was why he hadn't opened the package. He wasn't quite sure why he didn't fix it yet either but he didn't really care. Like with McGonagall's class they went to work practicing the Charm. Harry got it right on the second try, which he was thankful for. He didn't want to spend too much time on this spell.

Finally their last class of the day was Care of Magical Creatures. Harry was very proud of his paper he needed to hand in on Nymphs. As they walked down the steep stairs towards Hagrid's hut Harry saw Professor Nickleson talking to their giant friend. Hagrid seemed to be getting along with her well enough but when she noticed the class approaching she bid him goodbye and started walking up the steps. As she passed by Harry again he got a feeling that he had seen her before somewhere and not that long ago either.

One they reached Hagrid's hut and the bell rang from inside the castle he said, "Righ', now taday we're stayin' 'ere for our class. 'Irst I'll ask sum questions bout your papers you need ta 'and in. 'Ow long does it take for a Nymph ta grow?"

Hermione's hand shot in the air and Hagrid nodded at her and she said, "It takes a baby nymph a month to grow mature enough to be left on their own. They only look like a four year old child when they leave but they will continue to grow in the wild. They grow about a year per week for the first month but it changes as they grow older. Eventually their growth pattern will equal that of a normal human's."

"'Ive points ta Gryffindor. Now can anyone tell me 'ow a nymph gets its looks?"

Harry's hand went up and he said, "They get it from when a male and a female human touch them when they're only infants."

"'Ive points again. Is its possible 'or a 'uman to adopt one and why?" Hagrid asked and nodded at Ebony.

"No it's not possible because Nymphs are too independent after a month," Ebony said.

"Slytherin gets 'ive points too," Hagrid said then asked, "Can ya'll tell me what ya think we'll be looking after this month?"

"Nymphs," a few people said.

"Righ', but the Ministry wouldn't giveus 'nough of em for all the seventh years so we only got one. I'll be taking care of it at night an' it should sleep durn most of me classes so it's alrigh'. Wouldn't want any of ya getting to attached ta one anyways," Hagrid explained, "Plus it gives ya a chance ta work as a team, all of yas."

Hagrid brought out the nymph and all the girls 'awwed' over it. He was carrying it in a carriage so he wouldn't touch it, "Now this ones a girl. 'Irst we need ta choose a male an' a female to give it its looks."

They all started whispering together and eventually they said, "Lavender and Ron."

(Note: Bet you thought I was going to choose Harry and Hermione eh?)

"Alrigh' you two 'ave no problems with that?" Hagrid asked them. He knew they had gone out last year and broke up and wasn't sure how things between them were.

"Nah, it's ok," Ron said with a shrug and Lavender nodded.

"Righ. Well you two jus' come 'ere and 'old one of 'er 'ands," the half giant explained.

They did and the small creature's hair turned a bright red and its eyes changed the same colour as Lavender's.

"Aww, it's so cute," Parvati said as she knelt down by it. Soon they were all discussing what to feed her, what she would wear and things like that. Harry took this opportunity to go and talk to Hagrid.

"Do you know anything about the new Defence Professor?" he questioned.

"Naw. Never 'eard of 'er before'. 'Pparently she was home-schooled by 'er parents," Hagrid replied with a shrug. "Seems nice enough though."

"So did Evelyn," Harry reminded him.

"True," he agreed, "That's very true."

That night all the seventh year Gryffindors, plus Ginny, Luna and Kaylee sat together outside by the lake.

"Well today was interesting," Dean said with a yawn.

"Cheers to that," Seamus agreed. He looked over at Ron, who was talking quietly yet animatedly to Kaylee and he said, "Now how did Ron get something like that to take an interest in him?"

Harry raised an eyebrow and said, "What did you say about my sister?"

"Your sister?" Seamus asked, his face going pale.

"Well we're not biologically related but her parents were my godparents so we consider each other brother and sister, even though we only met this summer," he explained.

"Alright then, I'll keep what I think about her to myself," the Irish boy said before turning around and talking to Dean.

Luna's blue eyes narrowed at Kaylee who said something that caused Ron to laugh then she said, "You know I don't like flirts or players, they just make me sick."

Hermione and Ginny shared a look, knowing where this was going. Ginny cleared her throat and said, "Erm…Luna…" it was actually scaring her at how serious and 'non-floaty' Luna seemed.

Kaylee whipped around and said, "No Gin, if she's got something to say to me let her say it." Luna hadn't said she was talking about Kaylee but Black was smart enough to figure out that the other girl had indeed been referring to her.

"Oh I don't have anything to say to you, god knows you might flirt with me," Luna said simply and turned away.

Kaylee's mouth fell open and she stood up and said, "Like I would. I wouldn't want you floating around after me or anything."

Luna said something that nobody heard but what they did hear was the 'SMACK' of Kaylee's hand colliding with Luna's cheek at amazing speeds.

The blond Ravenclaw's eyes widened then she slapped Kaylee in the face.

Kaylee put her hand into a fist and was about to punch Luna when Harry jumped up and said, "Kaylee, Luna, stop it." He grabbed his 'sister's' arm and dragged her over and made her sit beside him. He stopped her for a few reasons, one, because he knew she would have broke Luna's nose from that punch, two, because the two girls had been attracting a lot of attention, especially from boys, and three, Professor Nickleson was heading in their direction.

"Now really, two young ladies shouldn't be fighting like that," she said, "Detention for both of you. Yes you two, I know you go to Salem but I still have that right over you."

Kaylee mumbled angrily but nodded anyways, as Professor Nickleson walked away she shot a glare at Luna and then looked away.

They heard a whistle in their direction and noticed a lot of guys staring at Luna and Kaylee. Harry shot a glare at Draco Malfoy, who seemed to be eager to see that again. The blond boy just smirked and turned back to his conversation with Ebony.

The next morning all the seventh years got up quickly and ate fast so they could get to Defence Against the Dark Arts early. Many of them wanted to see what this teacher was like but there was also many boys saying that she was better to look at then Professor McGonagall. Hermione just scoffed and rolled her eyes.

Nickleson walked down the hallway and said, "I've never seen such a group of people this eager to get to class. Well if you'd like to start a little early come on in." With a wave of her wand the door was open and everyone piled in.

"As you know," she said once they went down roll call, "I am Professor Nickleson. I didn't have the luxury of coming to a magical school like you guys but it meant that I could be taught year round. I didn't get summer off but sometimes I could take a day or two off but that's it, although that doesn't have to do with anything, I ramble on when I get talking. Anyways all that work was difficult but it paid off. Why am I telling you this? Because I'm going to be working you as hard as I was worked. To be honest I don't care what this class can do for your future careers, I'm going to work at make sure you survive this war. If you do well enough to do that then there's not need to worry about grades or anything like that. Work to survive."

Nobody in the class said anything until Harry raised his hand and said, "What do you think about the teachers we had before. DO you think they helped us get ready for this war as best as they could?"

"I am surprised, Mr. Potter, that you are still here with us today at the rate you and your Defence teachers are going," she said simply, "although I will not say that in the end I will be better then them, I will say that I will attempt to teach you as much as I can before my time's up here."

Somebody else said from the back, "Evelyn insisted she was good and would be helping us as well but she turned out to be a Death Eater."

Marie Nickleson narrowed her eyes before saying, "Clara Evelyn wasn't the nicest person around but you must admit, until the very end when she got too stress by Voldemort's orders she was a decent teacher."

Harry narrowed his eyes right back at her and said, "How do you know that?"

She pointed ignore him then said, "Today, I'll be going over thee unforgivable curses. I know Professor Moody, or rather Barty Crouch Junior was the one teaching you but remember this is simply a review."

There was a few excited whispers and Ron whispered to Neville (who he was sitting beside), "I hope she's not going to use spiders."

"Oh I'm sorry Ronald," she said but with slight amusement in her voice as she set a jar containing a few spiders on her desk, "You don't like spiders?"

His freckles suddenly stood out very clearly but his ears turning a rather amusing shade of reddish-purple. It reminded Harry of his Uncle Vernon slightly and he had to give a low sigh, Vernon and Petunia were both dead. He wondered for a moment how Dudley was doing but then he reverted his attention back to his teacher.

"Now I know most of you can throw off the Imperious Curse, but watch the spider again," she said then muttered, "Imperio."

They watched as the spider started to perform ballet in front of them. A few people still giggled at the sight but they all knew that to be controlled wasn't a good thing.

"There are other ways of controlling people aren't there?" Lavender asked suddenly.

"Goodness yes but those are all dark rituals and I'm sorry to say but I am not showing you those," Nickleson said.

"Oh, I didn't want to learn them, I had enough with that last year. You know the whole thing with the Half Blood Prince right?" she questioned.

"Yes," their teacher replied with interest.

"Well I talk it over with a few other of the victims in that and they all said they got a cut on their arms that used to say 'Half Blood Prince' but now say only 'Half Blood'. Anyways all our stories were the same, we were controlled by something else and it made us cut ourselves."

Nickleson looked thoughtful for a minute before saying slowly, "I will not pretend to be an expert on ways of controlling a person but I've heard that if a spirit, not a ghost or a poltergeist, a spirit, wants to it can possess a human's body. Which makes them very dangerous too. Spirits are very rare though, they're liked coloured ghosts that can appear to the person they're supposed to protect. Sometimes you get a rogue one though that will not protect anyone but will return in Spirit form if they performed a ritual during their life to come back."

"Like the Half Blood Prince did," Seamus said.

"Right," she said with a nod, "Now the Cruciatus Curse. I'm sure a few of you have been hit with this one before or have been effected by it some way or another (her eyes flickered to Neville for a moment). Crucio." Everyone watched as the spider rolled around in pain like it did when Moody taught them in fourth year.

"Right and the last one, the Killing Curse. It doesn't have a fancy name but when you hear these words and you see a green light, you can pretty much assume you're done for, just be thankful it's not a painful death. Avada Kedavra."

There was a bright green light then the three spiders all dropped dead.

"It's not painful like the second killing curse is," Nickleson said, "That one isn't that common because it doesn't work as well. I'm not very sure what the incantation is because I've never heard it myself before. Anyways it's a streak of purple fire. It will leave a nasty scar and you'll have to take many potions to get better from it. Unlike the normal killing curse, this one anyone can survive from; it's the luck of the draw. I know one person in this class that survived the normal killing curse more then one (everyone looked at Harry) and I know of two different people that survived the second killing curse, who are also in this class." There was many mummers after that.

"Well," she said after they settled down, "That was your review and now we'll get on to all the other nice things we will be learning. I'm going to teach you about Dementors, Vampires, Werewolves, Giants, anything that Voldemort will try to throw at you. Then we're going to go onto curses and I'm going to teach you how to throw the curses and how to stop them. Then I'm not sure what we'll be doing, it depends on the day I think. We will be spending two weeks on dark animals, then at least until Christmas on curses and stuff and after Christmas we'll be doing everything else. Sounds good?"

They all nodded and Hermione whispered, "Well she's not as specific as Evelyn was but she does have it more to the point of things we'll need to survive the war."

"Alright now since the bell is going to ring soon I'll just assign you're homework (people groaned, talking about too much homework already). I want you to not worry about this class for right now but it's not for your relaxation, it's so you can get done all your other work."

Everyone laughed at their teacher but they were all glad that she didn't give them homework. As the bell rang and they all got up to leave she said, "Mr. Potter, can you stay for a minute?"

He sighed and waited until everyone was gone then stared at his Professor and yes, "Yes?"

"I know you're suspicious of me, I would be too after all the Defence teachers you have that turned out as royal bats and I think it's best you don't trust anyone aside from your closest friends too easily but keep in mind I am here to help you."

He saw sincerity in her eyes and decided he could trust her a little more then he did Evelyn last year and he said, "I'll keep that in mind ma'am."

A light smile appeared on her features for a minute before vanishing then she said, "That is not what I wanted you for though. I wanted to give you this note; you'll be taking extra lessons with me every Wednesday night. Dumbledore wants me to teach you how to throw the unforgivable curses."

Harry choked lightly on his own breath and took the note then said, "Pardon?"

"I don't think the curses are right," she said with a sigh. "I think if we just stopped teaching people how to use them, after a couple generations they would not be known but Dumbledore is the one that controls my pay and he wants me to teach you this."

Harry studied her then said, "How can I trust you? I trusted Evelyn at first and…"

Her dark brown eyes flashed dangerously and she looked at him darkly. "You listen to me and you listen carefully," the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher said in a threatening tone. "Clara Evelyn was nothing but a stupid traitor-of-a-bitch. She didn't deserve to die the way she did, she should have been tortured like the people she hurt."

Harry nodded gravely, agreeing with her one hundred percent.

"Now Mr. Potter, get along to your next class, the bell will be ringing again soon," Nickleson said.

He sighed then said, "Bye Professor. Healing, who needs it?"

She chuckled lightly to herself as she watched him leave then got ready as her third years started piling in.

Author's Notes

No random babbling today. I'm just going to mention a few things. One is yes the Australians have left and as the story proceeds the other schools will be leaving as well. I'm not sure who'll be left in the end, might be only Salem, might be Maple Merlin's, might be Romulus Augustus, I'm not sure.

Well this chapter was more interesting, better then last chapter, at least to me because the last one was a BORING with a capital B-O-R-I-N-G!

Oh yeah and all the school's names are staying the same, and they all will be mentioned at one point or another.

Well I best be getting on to the reviewers! I'm sorry if I missed anyone, I try not to but I might have…

Aqua Mage – Good point, I should have wrote that in THAT chapter instead of this one, would have made it seem more interesting.

Shawn Pickett – lol nice way of saying that it's boring as hell without actually saying it!

Hpfanchrissy1502 – I'd like to have dark things going on all the time…wait til you see what I've ot planned for the next chapter

Carn – lol thank you.

Loup3402 – Yes the couples things were added in for a little bit of…humour and same with different passwords and things like that.

Skittles-07 – Well I'm glad we agree on that. People like my random babbling then…lol.

CastusAlbusCor – I have to disagree, it wasn't interesting, it was very boring.

Ultra-violet-catastrophy – I know, I am a very mean person, aren't I? Poor Lupin but I did say in HBP to one person that Remus was going to be very important and he will be.

Drake Smythe – lol thanks, dull? That's it? DULL?! I call it stupid snoring boring and I'll admit that myself without being embarrassed at all!

x0ixheartxyou0x – lol I'll keep that in mind, it'd be interesting, needless to say.

Maiden-of-hope – I know it doesn't sound plausible, actually it doesn't even sound possible but it's just something going around in my mind, I'm actually not TRYING to make it that canon this time…I'm making it based on my HBP which isn't canon..

ultra-violet-catastrophy – lol your welcome, I always reply to my reviewers. I know what you mean, I've got one little sister and she's too much so I feel sorry for you. Hope you will continue to like this story because it's all downhill from here. I also attempted to review yours but the computer's being an ass and wouldn't let me. Kaylee is a good character but I don't suggest making other people overshadow the main ones. Don't get discouraged, it is good but don't update TOO fast. Also make sure you have a good summary…the main one though is just don't give up.

Lunatic pandoral – Thank you for agreeing with me and I just might do that! LOL!

Jessa – I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to stereotype anybody because I know how it feels (people make fun of Canadians all the time). I honestly didn't mean to base it on Steve, that's why I put that little joke in later on because I realized what I had done.

Jada1010 – and you're insane that's all I can say! LOL! I'm honestly thinking about going back and re-writing that chapter…

Holimontski – LOL! Yeah I was joking. Good to know I made that chapter saferpoof for the…duller shades of the rainbow (LOL sorry I had to say that). I really am thinking about rewriting it though like I mentioned to the person above.

QueenWeasel – lol you know it's sad when you can't think of a person to kill of in the Harry Potter series when you know A LOT of people are going to die. I'm serious though, I actually DID fall asleep reading over the last chapter so I just have up and posted it.

Atrus Valentein – I think you should really get some mental help. I am my biggest critic I'll admit that. What war? I'm Canadian, I'm peaceful (yeah right). I'm not good with humor at all…you really think you won the war but here's the thing, I win because I control this fic and I could just end it tomorrow, killing everyone…and everyone that does like it can blame you. Well see ya next time (waves)

Colorguardbaby23 – lol thank you but I still think that chapter was really boring no matter what anybody says…

Ryan – People keep telling me that but I still have a hard time believing it.

Goddess-Hope – Yes that is true but we're not going to hear much about the other schools because as you saw, over the year, one their schools are all repaired they will be leaving to go back to their own. I can promise that almost all the schools will be gone before Christmas.

Bluebell-uk – Now how'd you figure that one out, did you purposely look for it? I thought it was pretty clever myself.

10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1-blast off! – Wow, that's an interesting name. LMAO your thinking along the same lines as me now!

Imran1 – well the way you could stop me from killing some people (not saying who, you do realize that I might be stringing you all along for nothing) is to control my mind but I don't think that's possible.

Stina – Half Blood Prince? My one? Well just click on my pen name…and it'll be underneath Scars of Time (or at least it should). Give it a shot and if it doesn't work, tell me. You'd have to read it before this other wise things that will be happening won't make sense

HARRYhermioneLover – No Harry and Hermione can't get into the other school's dormitories. Yes seventh years have a curfew, can't have people wandering the alls of Hogwarts at night. Oh you want to beta them? Ummm actually I had one but I decided I'd rather not have one at this exact moment for my own personal reasons.

Watashi no tenshi – Don't worry there's going to be more dark stuff. Bella? Well you'll see her again, I can promise you that.

UltimateHPfreak – I didn't take it as offensive, I'm the one that has to watch how I word things. Yeah I'm turning 16 soon, in a week or two (too lazy to figure out the exact week). LMAO no I won't be getting a car (though I wish). A covertable would be kinda cold this time of year where I live (LOL)

Zircronium – The password was something like 'Ronniekins will never guess this password' or something like that.

Dumblupin – You'll see bits and pieces of what happened to Wormtail during the fic but it really comes into play at the end.

Lisienna – Thank you for agreeing with me. The name IS NOT one big insult. Maybe it seems so to you for some reason but it doesn't to me and I'm Canadian too. I'm gonna keep it and I will be mentioning it because yeah, why would I ignore the magic school from my home and talk about all the other ones? I'm a little confused though; can you explain to me HOW it is a major insult? Using Merlin's name and the name of the leaf on the flag? Well I have to admire your honest too, first one to say they didn't like a name of a school.

Krystal Lily Potter