Harry Potter and the Scars of Time
By: Krystal Lily Potter
Chapter Fourteen: Harry's Decision
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. There are mentions of suicide, murder, rape, and sex (I don't go into details with that). There will also be fighting, cursing (and I don't mean spells) and gory stuff. For now the rating stays AA/PG-13 but later, towards the end, it might go up to R.

Heed this warning if you don't like death: there will be A LOT more deaths of characters you recognise from JKRs books and some original ones. 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

Right, I decided just to make a little key here because things might get confusing from time to time…

Regular Type Normal talking
Bold & Italics Either a spell, a song, or a newspaper article
Italics Either thoughts, a dream or a letter
Underlined Parseltongue (Spelling?) – Comes later on

I also might have a few more later on.

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all."

-Mia's Father, Princess Diaries

Umbridge's rein of terror had begun again. She had almost all the same powers as she did before but Dumbledore had warned Dae that if she got out of hand that he would personally throw her out instead of having his students do it this time. Dae originally said he was going to ignore the threat but some of his Ministry friends warned him otherwise so he decided to heed it and told Umbridge not to go too far.

Dumbledore had given her a list of things she couldn't do but he didn't realized he had missed one vital thing on that list, something that he would curse himself for later on, he had forgot to mention anything about clubs or teams at Hogwarts…

HARRY!" a young girl yelled as she stormed into the boy's dormitory. She had woken everyone else up but because the Boy-Who-Lived was not in the room it was all in vain. Her dark coloured hair swung madly behind her and her hazel eyes looked beyond pissed.

"Waz happening? Did someone die?" Ron muttered wildly, sitting up straight.

"Ron! Thank god! Where's Harry?" she questioned urgently.

He stared at her for a minute, as if trying to think of who she was then he said, "Oh, Tessa. He's in the Headboy's dormitory. See those random red and gold bricks on the wall there, by the door?"

Tessa Berry, sixth year and chaser for Gryffindor, turned and stared at the bricks and said, "Yeah?"

"They're in every dormitory. If you need to talk to Harry touch the gold one and ask him to come here and if you want Hermione touch the red one," Neville said with a yawn.

"Oh, that's handy," Tessa said then touched the wall and yelled, "HARRY POTTER GET YOUR ASS INTO THE SEVENTH YEAR BOY'S DORMITORY THIS INSTANT!"

She moved from the brick and saw it glow gold for a minute. She turned and stared at the other guys with confusion.

"That means he heard you," Dean said, "Not surprised either, I think when we talk through them our voices get magnified."

"Oops," she said but there was a large grin on her face.

A few minutes later Harry Potter, dressed in a navy hoodie and blue jeans walked in and said, "What do you want Tessa? I think even the Bulgarian students, who are father down in the dungeons then the Slytherins are could hear you."

"Oh, sorry," she said, "But you've got to come read this sign in the common room. You too Ron."

He had gotten up and threw on a sweater and a pair of jeans over his boxers just in time to be dragged downstairs, along with Harry, to the common room.

Once they were there she led them through a crowd, who parted like the sea in the story of Moses, and pretty much shoved them onto the bulletin bored. "LOOK!" she yelled, pointing to it.

Educational Decree 24 Reinstated

"No fucking way," Harry said, "I remember this bastard one!"

He read it aloud so the people farther behind him could hear, "All student organizations, societies, teams, groups and clubs are once again disband. An organization, society, team, group or club is a regular, planned meeting between three or more students. The teams and what not may be reinstated with permission of Madam Umbridge. Any group or such that does not have permission to do so will have the head of it, and possibly all it's members, expelled. Quidditch teams, when reformed, must have tryouts again for the fairness of everyone getting a chance to try out at it. Signed Delores Jane Umbridge."

"You have got to be kidding me!" Halle Morgan yelled. She was a blond girl with almost black coloured eyes, an odd combination but she was still pretty, "We all have to try out again?"

"Only after we get permission to start the team over," Tessa yelled back.

"That's just bullshit," Scott Levison said. He was one of two Beaters for the team.

"Praise that," Shayn Norton agreed with him.

Harry and Ron looked at each other for a moment before Harry said, "I'm going to go get Hermione to see what she thinks about this."

"You do that, I'll try to calm these ones down," Ron said through gritted teeth. His ears were a violent shade of red that clashed badly with his fiery red hair.

"I think you have to cool down first mate," he replied before going back upstairs quickly. He burst into the boy's dormitory, closed the door, whispered, "Ronniekins will never guess this password." He then opened the door again and ran into his room, slamming the door behind him.

He opened the door to the bathroom and was about to run by to Hermione's room but he froze and his face turned a bright shade of red when he realized Hermione was in the bathtub.

Hermione had the same reaction he did and thanked god that she was covered in a thick layer of different kinds of bubbles. Still she covered her hands over her chest and sunk down some more before saying, "Looking for me?"

"Er…" he said, distracted for a minute before shaking his head and saying, "Yes. Umbridge has struck again."

She jumped up and Harry, understanding that she wouldn't want him seeing her, at least not yet, turned around quickly, although personally he didn't see why he needed to.

Hermione realized her mistake and blushed even darker before grabbing a towel and wrapped it around herself. "Explain in a minute," she said quickly before running back into her room.

Harry shook his head again then walked back to his room and out to their own personal common room and sat on one of the sofas, waiting for her to show up. After a half an hour he thought he'd send in a search party (aka him) but Hermione walked through the door that minute and sat down beside him. She stared at him for a minute before saying, "Explain."

"Educational Decree 24 is back. No clubs or anything like that," he explained.

"That vial woman," Hermione growled, "Of course, Dumbledore would have forgot something like that, the man is stressed as it is with Voldemort, he would have forgot to mention that she's not allowed to touch the clubs, teams and such."

They stood up and walked out of their common room, waving to the portrait (which was Remus and Sarah today) before taking each other's hand and walking down the halls.

"Mr. Potter," someone said, causing them to turn around. Walking briskly to catch up with them was a harassed looking Professor McGonagall.

"Are you alright Professor?" Hermione asked her with concern.

"Not as well as one might hope Ms. Granger but thank you for you're concern. I think we will all be much better once that…toad leaves!"

Hermione covered her mouth with her hand to hide her giggle and Harry managed to turn his chuckle into an odd sounding cough.

"Now Mr. Potter, I believe that it might be best if you go and ask Madam Umbridge," she said those two words with great distaste before continuing, "because I think she'd like meeting you once again."

"Alright, I will, but if she pisses me off, excuse my language Professor, I swear she will flinch at every shadow she sees!" he growled.

McGonagall smiled and said, "Good luck Potter."

"Thanks," he said and the two teenagers continued walking down the hall, in the opposite direction of the Head of Gryffindor. Once they reached the hallway that lead to where Umbridge had made her stay he said, "I'll see you later, ok?"

"Yeah, I'll get back to the common room and make sure Ron hasn't blew up yet," Hermione said. He gave her a quick kiss before going off in opposite directions.

"Enter the lair of the Frog Lady," Harry muttered to himself as he reached the door, "Poor frogs and toads, we keep insulting them, I'm sure they don't want to be compared to her either."

He knocked on the door and heard a fake sugary-sweet tone said, "Come in."

Harry almost gagged as he heard her voice for he first time in a year then pushed the door open and said, "Madam Umbridge?"

She looked up at him for a minute, studying him as if not knowing who he was.

'Five…four…three…two…one…now,' he thought dully as he eyes finally reached his visible scar.

"Ahhh Potter, I was hoping we could have a chat," she said sweetly and as she turned her eyes to her pale pink paper for a moment he rolled his eyes. "Please have a seat."

He sat down opposite of her and she said, "Now what can I do for you?"

He wanted to smack her, she was annoying him that much, but he settled on saying, "I'm here to represent Gryffindor. We'd like to reinstate our Quidditch team."

"Hmm…I'm not so sure about that," she said off-handidly.

"With all due respect ('Which isn't much,' he thought) Madam Umbridge, I personally don't think it's fair for you to judge all of Gryffindor by one person, nor do I think it's fair that you're holding suck a grudge against me," he explained clearly.

"You have become more mature I see," she said but there was a suspicious tone to her voice.

Harry felt like taking her stupid pink quill and poking her in the eye with them but instead he said, "I know my boundaries ma'am and they're a lot less then they were in my fifth year. I know where my voice stops being heard and that's a long ways up now." At that point of time he reached down and pinned his Headboy badge to his shirt, just so she would get the message. This was the first time he had actually flaunted him being Headboy around.

She eyed the badge for a minute then said, "What is it you want Potter?" There was no sweet tone to her voice anymore, just raw dislike.

'Finally, we're getting somewhere,' he thought before saying, "I've already said that. I want the Gryffindor team back."

She glowered at him for a moment and he said, "Fine, you can have your team back but all tryouts are under my supervision."

"Fine," he said seriously. He got up and started to walk out of the room when he heard her think, 'Stupid brat will get what's coming to him.'

He spun around and said, "What did you say?"

"Nothing, I don't know what you're talking about," she said, back to her old syrup voice. But he heard her voice also say, in its normal raw sound, 'Now the boy is hearing things. He should be shipped off to St. Mungo's.'

Finally it clicked in his mind as he thought, 'That's it! I can hear her thoughts!' Out loud he said, "Oh I'm sorry ma'am, it was someone in the hallway."

"Alright then," she said and turned back to her pink paper while thinking, 'Stupid arrogant child.'

"I'd watch who you call arrogant," he thought angrily before walking out of the room. He could feel her stunned look ploughing into his back.

He chuckled lightly and had an extra (very small) bounce to his step as he made his way back up to Gryffindor. He quickly took of his badge and shoved it into his pocket. The rule was that one didn't have to wear the badge when they wore normal clothes but they always needed their badge with them. It was sort of like an ID pass in a big government hall.

"Password?" the Fatlady asked him once he reached the portrait.

"Dormiens," he said to her.

"Quiet right," she agreed.

Before he entered the common room he noted for a minute that if you put all the passwords for the four house common rooms you'd get Draco Dormiens Nunquam Titillandus which meant never tickle sleeping dragons. Now those were words to live by. Draco (dragon) was the Slytherin's password, Dormiens (sleeping) was Gryffindor's, Nunquam (never) was Ravenclaw's and Titillandus (tickle) was Hufflepuff's. He thought it had some significant because Dumbledore has said those exact words in his speech at the end of last year.

He threw those thoughts away as he entered the common room. Everyone was talking angrily and no one noticed him come in. He waited for a minute, for the common room to get quieter but it didn't seem like it was going to be happening. He noticed that over in a corner Ron and Hermione seemed to be arguing fiercely about something. He'd have to ask them later on.

He took out his wand and said, "Relashio." Bright sparks and a loud bang emitted from his wand, causing a few people to scream but everyone was paying attention to him now at least.

He put his wand away then said, "I've got good news and I've got bad news, what do you want to hear?"

"GOOD NEWS!" Tessa yelled.

"Alright then. Good news is I talked to Umbridge and made it out alive (a few people laughed) no I'm kidding. The real good news is that we're allowed to reinstate our Quidditch team," he said.

"YES!" Halle yelled and pumped her first in the air, receiving more laughter.

"The bad news is Umbridge is going to be personally supervising the tryouts," he said with a scowl.

There were mummers and someone said, "I hope you lets you back on the team Harry."

Harry thought about that and realized it was true; he had a very slim chance of getting back on the team.

"She can't kick you off if you don't tryout," a voice said in his head.

"Well that's true," he agreed with his mind.

"Plus you've got an awful lot to do this year," his mind continued.

"I suppose," he said back hesitantly then thought, "Wait a minute, why am I talking to myself?"

"I wonder what Harry's thinking about," he heard as he looked up at the girl's face. An odd look passed over his face and she thought, "I hope it's not something too bad."

He smiled at her then said, "Well I suppose we should book the Quidditch pitch. How about you do it Ron?"

Ron's face broke into a smile and he said, "Alright. I'll go down to Madam Hooch right now. I'll see you two later."

"Bye Ron," they both said together as he got up and walked out the door.

"I can't believe that foul…foul…well I won't even call her a thing because she doesn't deserve that classification, came back!" Hermione growled, startling a few nereby first years.

"Now Hermione, the Headgirl can't be talking about the authorities like that," he said in a mock-serious tone, "That's my job."

"Oh yes because nobody rebels against Harry James Potter," Hermione replied sarcastically.

"Damn straight," he said jokingly, "I can make Dumbledore cry, I can make Snape run and hid and I can piss Voldemort off just by thinking of him!"

A few people around him shivered at the name Voldemort while a few others just chuckled. He noticed that everyone who had seen Voldemort didn't shiver but they looked strained and he knew why. It would almost be a comfort to most at seeing the darkest wizard of the modern age, just to prove that he was indeed human, but those who did see his face, and lived to tell the tale, were more startled then ever. Instead of comfort they held even more fear, because not only were his eyes a glowing, blood red and his face twisted into something that resembled a snake but his blood was black. That was the one thing everyone from the Blood Castle last year had saw.

A shiver ran up and down Harry's back at the thought. What kind of creature had black blood? He voiced this question to Hermione quietly, who knew what he was talking about. After all she had held the dagger with Voldemort's blood into it and had slammed it into the rotten flesh of the Half Blood Prince. She thought about it for a minute then took his arm and raced his blue veins, "See those?"

"Yes," he said.

"Well those are your veins as you know. Now if you were to cut them the blood that you would see would be red because oxygen is reaching it but in reality it's blue because there is no oxygen so in a matter of speaking it's dead. Voldemort, all of his blood and everything he actually is…well it's all dead. People die but that cannot come back permanently. Voldemort isn't alive, he's held together by magic. That's why he has black blood, he's not alive. And that's why he can't be killed, he isn't living," she explained while moving her hand over his arm.

He looked at it then up at her and said, "What would I do without you Hermione?"

"You've still be back in second year," she said with a giggle. Her face turned serious as she said, "Speaking of that. You do realize what year this is?"

"Seventh year! Wow I'm so smart! Can I pass go and collect 200 dollars?" he asked sarcastically.

"You've played Monopoly?" Hermione asked with surprise.

"Every time Dudley wanted to play Petunia made me and always told me to lose," he said with a depressed tone. "Not to speak ill of the dead but the Dursleys made my life depressing. I bet the wizarding world would be in shock to hear, as of now, Harry Potter doesn't have a home to go back to."

She sighed and said, "Probably, but back to my topic because I know you don't want to stick to that one. Yes we're in seventh year, and that means our NEWTs are at the end of this year. We should have been studying for them for ages now."

"Hermione, it's only September," he groaned.

"September, June, what's the difference?" Hermione said with a huff.

"Around 10 months?" he suggested, receiving a glare from her.

She stood up and said, "I think I'll go up to my old dormitory." With that she stalked up the girl's staircase.

Harry new that even though he was Headboy he still wasn't allowed to go into the girl's dormitories unless it was an emergency and now wasn't one.

He got up, stretched, then without saying a word to anybody else he got up and walked out of the room.

Dinner that night wasn't a quiet affair needless to say. Majority of the Hogwarts students looked sour and complained loudly about a certain someone, well actually two people, Barnaby and Umbridge.

"Stupid bitches should go back to where they belong," Blaise Zabini said lividly. His little sister, Britney Zabini, a second year and his little brother Brandan Zabini, a first year both jumped with a little bit of shock at their older brother's tone.

"Praise to that," a Hufflepuff yelled over at him.

Harry grinned and leaned over so both Hermione and Ron could hear him as he said, "Umbridge showing up again is the best thing that could have happened to us!"

His two friends looked at each other for a moment before looking back at him. Ron did the honours by saying, "Harry mate, I've think the workload has finally gotten to you."

"No I'm serious, all the houses are agreeing and, in a sense, uniting, in one common cause, anti-Umbridge," he said seriously.

Hermione got a thoughtful look on her face and said, "You know, that's entirely plausible."

"Don't you mean possible?" Ron asked her with confusion.

"Well yes, if something's plausible it's always possible but if something's possible it's not always plausible," Hermione explained to Ron.

"Come again?" he replied with wide, confused eyes.

"Oh never mind," she replied and took a drink of her pumpkin juice before choking and spitting it back out into her golden goblet as she read that day's paper. It had been late coming out, and instead of getting them at the morning they got it just a few minutes ago.

"What?" Harry said as he leaned over her shoulder. His eyes widened and he grabbed the paper from her hands and read the title.

You-Know-Who has Disappeared! Sirius Black Said to be Leading Now!

"What the fuck?" he swore angrily. He looked up at Dumbledore for a minute and their eyes met for a minute. Dumbledore looked equally as shocked as he did.

Hermione took the paper back from him and read the article aloud.

The entire Minister of Magic in Britain has come to one final conclusion from the lack of attacks of You-Know-Who that he has finally disappeared. No one's sure what gave us this blessing but it is a happy one. Minister Dae wasn't available for comment on the subject but a few Minister members have mentioned that they believe he is gone for good this time.

Also this reporter has gotten wind of suspicions in the Ministry. They believe that Sirius Black, who escaped from Azkaban four years ago and is still at large, is behind the very minor attacks. We have reports of people seeing him with the other Azkaban escapees…

Hermione stopped reading and looked up at Harry, who was seething. His fists were clenched and his skin was white.

He looked across the room as he saw Kaylee storming over to them. She slammed her copy down on the table and said, "I never! I mean…that…that HORRIBLE BITCH!"

"Who wrote it?" Harry questioned angrily.

Hermione made a slight squeaking noise as she read the name and muttered it so he couldn't understand what she had said.

"What?" he asked.

"Some bitch named Cho Chang," Kaylee said harshly.

"Are you serious?" Harry said with wide eyes as he once again took the paper from his girlfriend and scanned for the name. He swore angrily and said, "What does she thing she's planning at?"

"Well I suppose the most popular belief is that Sirius is a murderer," Hermione said hesitatingly.

Harry grumbled angrily and stabbed the food that was in front of him again.

Kaylee sat down beside Ron and said, "That-that horrid wrench!"

"Now Kaylee," Ron replied sarcastically, "Don't swear in front of the first years."

She shot a little glare at the younger students, who turned their attention away from the foreign student.

"Way to scare em," he said.

"Way for this Chang to ruin my day," Kaylee shot back.

Harry sat on his old bed in the boy's dormitory just thinking. He didn't want to go into his room yet because this old familiar place always seemed to help him think.

He closed his eyes, rested his chin on his palm and thought really hard about the decision he had to make.

He gave a violent shiver and his eyes opened as he heard a tapping at the window. Looking up he saw Hedwig sitting on the window ledge.

He walked over, opened the window and said, "You always know where to find me."

She hooted softly and held out her talons, waiting for him to take the letter that was there.

He took it and looked at it carefully before opening it.

Harry,

We all saw the article about Voldemort and Sirius. Do not, I repeat, do not to anything rash. We have been notified that Delores Umbridge is at Hogwarts once again and she would do anything to expel you so do not lose your temper yet. Tell Kaylee the same. Don't worry about anything outside of Hogwarts, we're all taking care of it. Kingsley quit at the Minister, he had enough with the new Minister. Also I know it must be hard but on a personal note I think you shouldn't continue Quidditch this year. I know it's a great pastime and I agree but I don't want you dying in battle because you're not ready to fight.

Be seeing you soon,


Remus, Sarah & Alyssa

Harry stared at the note, sighed and said, "I know what I have to do Hedwig…"

She hooted with understanding, well aware of what he was going to choose to do.

"Right, now is this everyone trying out?" Umbridge said sweetly to all the people as she attempted to organise the groups. So far Ron was the only person to show up for Keeper, Scott and Shayn for Beaters, Tessa, Halle and Ginny for Chasers along with a few others, but there was no Harry as of yet.

Actually he was there but he was sitting in a far corner of the teacher's bleachers where he couldn't be seen, by almost anyone. Hermione seemed to have some kind of Harry sensor and had found him quickly.

"Are you going to try out?" she questioned, sitting next to him, "You know Umbridge won't let you just get back on the team."

"No I'm not trying out," he said after a moment's hesitation, "I have too many other things to do. I think she'll get Ginny to be Seeker again and that guy right there to be the new Chaser."

"That's really mature of you Harry and you know that in the end it'll be worth it," she said with a smile as she rested her head on his shoulder.

"I hope you're right Mione, I really hope you're right," he said with a sigh as he slung an arm around her shoulder and they continued watching the tryouts.

Author's Notes

And so the story continues to grow. I added yet ANOTHER chapter to this fic. LOL! By the time I'm done adding and subtracting I might have another 10 chapters! HA! I doubt it but w/e. I think in the past two days I've put in like 6 extra chapters just to make it more interesting. I've also ALREADY got another story planned for after this (although it's not related to it in any way shape or form) so I'm going to attempt to get that one up as soon as I finish this one (which won't be for awhile). I've also changed this fic to my liking because there were some things in it that would REALLY send it off the deep end that I got rid of or just replaced.

Well I'll get onto the reviews since I have nothing else to say.

Goddess-Hope – lol thank you. You know as a child I never liked Barney either, I liked all the 'boy' cartoons with all the fighting and stuff in it…

Great Merciful Goddess – I sort of answered that question about Malfoy in that chapter, you've just got to look carefully at Harry's second dream. Oh no, I made Marie Lily's middle name but Marie is Nickleson's first name. LMAO that's be great but you know stabbing yourself with a spoon would be a lot harder, hence more painful. It's called the ULD in mine.

Hpfanchrissy1502 – LOL thank you. Notice I had the FEMALE minister awesome then the two Male minister's stupid? HA I'M SEXIST. Well not really but people might think I am. You can just say Barney for now on, I'll know who you're talking about.

CastusAlbusCor – Glad to see you agree with me. Ha, just wait and see what I've got planned, it's going to be weird and probably (in the eyes of some people) twisted, I can promise you that.

Kingharry – I hate Umbridge too, that's why I brought her back (grins evilly). I never said anyone was trying to destroy Hogwarts but they already did do a lot of damage to the other schools. You answer the question about Malfoy, I don't think you need me to.

Holimontski – That's not bad language, I just would have wrote the whole word! Why the hell did Poppy get sacked? You'll see later! Thank you because no I'm not going to update before the 11th. You're thinking along the right lines!

DanBoy – I brought the toad back for a reason. Harry's not going to use the Cruciatus curse on Umbridge, I can tell you that. Yeah Draco was oddly nice, wasn't he?

Urazz – LOL yes I could be just dangling something in front of your faces and you'd never known! Umbridge will be worse then Snape but don't think he's going to be sunshine and daisies. You're on the right track!

Johnmenefee21 – Who says any of them are a spy?

Shaz124 – What are you talking about, it can't get any worse! Oh who am I kidding, it's going to get a HELL of a lot more worse…

Carn – Right in one but not because she told him, because he decided not to. I WANT TO HEAR THE WORDS THAT CAN SUM UP THE NEW MINISTER! Lol, jk.

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TwistedNecro – You're like the 10th person that said I was evil…well I guess it must be true then!

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Zirconium – Thank you. I'm not going to say why Draco helped Hermione but it is important to the character Draco will become (hint).

Jada1010 – You'll see why I brought toad back. Yes I do try to put a lot of horror in my stories even though I think it doesn't turn out that well all the time. You read Elements of Life? Good on you, I can't even read that one anymore, it disgusts me that much. No comment on Teather Dae. I didn't make Arthur Minister…I made Madam Bones Minister. Lightning tiger…do I really wanna know???

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Ryan – LOL yeah you got it right, Vicky is coming back but not for along time, plus he's not going to be around much longer. You really think he brought back Sirius? Interesting…

LostintheLight – I can promise you, at the end, we will HERE tell of Dudley again. Her name's Kaylee, and yeah I attempted to make her like Sirius. I know, I'm mean for killing all the people I did but I haven't even got started yet. Umbridge? Oh I have plans for her alright!

DJRW – Dumbledore didn't think it mattered any, neither did his uncle.

LuvaboyDanHesmyman – I liked all that stuff in National Treasure too. I'm also interesting in ancient history and the history behind the treasure is really interesting too. LOL glad ya liked it too. Oh lord you sound like my friends, they both saw Donnie Darko too and are obsessed with it.

Aqua Mage – Well I think I answered all your questions in this chapter, didn't I? LOL! Please don't shoot me! LOL! Yes she does have MOST of the powers a teacher does. The only difference is Dumbledore is well aware of what she's doing at all times.

Atrus Valentein – teehee, Ron attacked you! FINE! Lord you're annoying! Yes Sarah and Molly are related but you're never going to get out of me how. LMAO! 2 thumbs up and 8 fingers, I'd say that's good! LMAO!

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Imran1 – HA! No I can tell you know I Umbridge, along with Harry, are some of the only safe people in this story, for now at least. I'm not saying why the new Minister is acting like he is but there IS a reason.

Schnuff – Damn straight I moved along quickly in this story. I'm not killing Hermione anytime soon but I will be using her to make Harry's life worse! I might need a beta but I don't want one, I like my crappy sentences because it sounds like me! I mess up things I say so much it's actually really funny.

Queen o' th' Marauders – LOL thank you!

UltimateHPfreak – LOL! That was great! And thank you very much. Don't worry, when I saw that I started laughing…I'm gonna add it to whenever I sing that song to my friends (LOL)

Semebo – LOL thank you. Yeah it's the thought that counts, it's pretty sad when my reviewers remembered by birthday when my best friend didn't anyways…Umbridge is back for a reason, just trust me on that and yes I have considered your idea with swords…actually to be honest I had something planned with swords since the beginning.

Schnuff – Did I ever ONCE say the Minister was evil, I implied sure but did I ever say it RIGHT OUT? Think about it, in the actual HP books Umbridge was patrolling the FIRES, then MAIL, everything, there was no way any parents could have known about Umbridge, think about it. I'm not trying to sound mean or anything but I have a way of making it seem like I'm yelling at people through writing…but I'm going to continue writing the way I want to and writing WHAT I want to, no matter what anybody says. If author's let others control what they write then every book around now would be nearly the exact same. Your questions…Harry has his reason for not telling Dumbledore, the Orb will be explained in greater detail later on (it's not relevant yet), Wormtail was a Gryffindor (think about it) and all I'm going to say is that the teacher's name is Marie Nickleson. If you wish to stop reading this then do so but that won't stop me from being an author, it's impossible to stop somebody from writing.

Katesari – LOL I am mental. No, Umbridge is sticking around for awhile.

Krystal Lily Potter