Harry Potter and the Scars of Time
By: Krystal Lily Potter
Chapter Eighteen: Something's Not Right
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

Some people we're wondering if Arthur Weasley's name came from the Legends of King Arthur (I read about how some people were wondering). Personally I think it did because Percival (Percy) was a person in the legends (one or two I think) and the name Ginerva (Ginny) in a variant of Guinevere. (shrugs) that was just an interesting thing i found out.

"I believe there's a hero in all of us, that keeps us honest, gives us strength, makes us noble, and finally allows us to die with pride, even though sometimes we have to be steady, and give up the thing we want the most. Even our dreams."

-Aunt May, Spiderman 2

The aftermath of what happened at the Quidditch stadium seemed to happen in fast forward rather then in slow motion like the collapse of the actual structure had. The stands were not put back up but the bodies of the students that had been killed in the fall had been recovered and the parents were being summoned to come get them for their burials. Not everyone that was on the stands, which had been a good 130 people, died. Only around 40 had died and about another 40 had serious injuries. The rest of the people had injuries but many did survive luckily. Some had been quick enough to use cushioning and shielding charms.

It had been all over the newspapers for the next couple weeks. It disgusted Harry how people were making it sound so…well he didn't really know the word for it but he didn't like it. Cho Chang, it seemed, had taken up where Rita Skeeter left off with spreading gossip and getting stories wrong in the papers. This caused Harry to wonder what had become of his 'favourite' reporter. But this alone also was enough to make Hermione livid.

"I get rid of that horrid beetle," she said viciously as she read Cho's story about it, "and this stupid little air-headed gossip shows up!" After she said that she had tore the paper in two roughly and threw the pieces to the ground.

Luckily for Hogwarts not one of their students had been on those stands. The downside to that was the strain it put between the other schools and Hogwarts. There were many students and teachers from the other schools saying that they had planned that! Once again when Hermione heard this Harry had to literally drag her out of the ULD meeting, saying he was sorry about her actions and that she was really stressed at the current moment.

"What the hell was that?" he growled at her, "None of them said anything."

"I don't care!" Hermione snapped back, "Their schools and…how dare they blame us? We didn't want it to happen!"

Suddenly there was a little cough. They both turned around to see Umbridge staring at them with interest.

"Is there a problem here?" she asked sweetly, making Hermione feel like she wanted to gag.

"If a problem means useless old toad of a woman then yes one did just appear here," Harry snapped at the woman (at least he thought she was female) before he could think about what he was doing.

Umbridge's neck turned the same colour Vernon's whole face used to when Harry was around and said, "How dare you?"

"How dare I what?" he said, deciding to keep going since he had already started, "How dare I tell you what you really are?"

"I am your superior!" Umbridge shrieked.

"In what?" Hermione added, deciding to back her boyfriend up.

"What is going on here?" McGonagall's voice rang from down the hall. Umbridge turned and stared at her with beady eyes. Behind McGonagall walked Nickleson, who looked both highly amused and interested. She had obviously heard most of the conversation.

"This insolent little," her eyes shifted to Harry and said, "Freak is insulting me for no apparent reason!"

"No reason my arse," he muttered under his breath, "You're an old bag who tries to snoop into other people's business when no one asked you to."

She rounded around on him and said harshly, "I thought you and I had a little conversation about telling lies two years ago."

"You mean this?" he questioned, holding up his hand where it still said 'I must not tell lies'.

McGonagall studied it then said, "Where did you get this Potter?'

"Detention with her," he replied, pointing at Umbridge's ugly face, "She used to use her blood quill to do it. Except for the occasional time a Slytherin went, they just got to write normal lines instead of ones in your hand."

McGonagall's eyes flaring angrily and for a minute Harry wondered if he had done the right thing, finally telling her. One thing that hadn't changed over the years was McGonagall's control and her way to make kids and teenagers fear her in order to listen.

"You horrid woman, I'll have you thrown out for this!" McGonagall screamed angrily, the blood rushing to her cheeks, "How many students did you do this to right under our noses? Well Delores, I'm waiting for an answer!"

Umbridge didn't answer. She puffed herself up, reminding Harry and Hermione even more of a frog before saying, "I have nothing to say to you Minerva. Now if you don't quite down I will have to take this to the Ministry and then we will see how high and mighty you are."

"A lot more so then you!" she yelled then glowered silently for a moment before saying, "Albus will be hearing of this! Mr. Potter, Miss. Granger, continue your patrolling duties. Marie if you would please come with me to Albus' office and act as a witness to all this…"

Umbridge's eyes bulged out of her face and Harry had to cover a laugh when it hit him that she hadn't known Nickleson was there as well. Beside him he saw Hermione shaking with silently laughter.

"Of course Minerva," she said with fake sweetness but not in the same sick tone Umbridge spoke in majority of the time. The two teachers glared at Umbridge and walked off in the other direction. She watched them before running after them, in hopes of getting her own voice heard.

"Amazing how a subject can go from you being overly cranky to everyone to what a toad Umbridge is to what she used to do to students in fifth year," Harry said off-handily. His eyes turned back to her, and then he faced her while saying, "Back to the original topic, cool down would you? I don't want to cause an even bigger rift between the schools. We all need each other to win this war and you know that above everyone else."

She sighed and said, "I know, I'm sorry, I just…lost it. Now that I got to see Umbridge is thumped around though I'm in a much better mood."

He rolled his eyes at her and said, "Women, I'll never understand them."

Rumours spread around the school that there was a possibility that Umbridge could be fired from her job for something. Most people weren't exactly sure why but a handful of students could guess.

Soon the news of the stand's collapse became boring to the newspapers but it seemed to them that Hogwarts came up with the ideal stories for them to print so people were snooping around all the time trying to get something interesting. So needless to say everyone, especially Harry and his friends were careful with what they did in the public light.

"Might want to keep all the lovey-dovey stuff to the broom closets," Ron suggested with a grin one say to Harry and Hermione, "Skeeter or even Cho might decide to start picking at your personal lives again."

"You keep yours behind closed doors too Ronald," Hermione snapped at him. She was referring to the open problems he was having about Kaylee and Luna.

Harry's face turned purple and he said in the over-protective brother voice, "How about half ways?"

Everyone had a great time watching Griffy chase off a reporter that tried to bug them while they were in Care of Magical Creatures. Neither Hagrid nor Harry had attempted to stop it.

"Are you sure that was a good idea? He might have killed her," Hermione said with her responsible tone but someone who knew her could tell she didn't really give a damn and that she thought it was amusing. Afterwards she said to Harry, "I wish it had been Cho, now that would have been worth seeing."

"You're becoming violent lately," he said with a grin.

"I'm only showing my inner abusiveness that you get to see everyday," she said, referring to the way she usually got him out of bed in the morning.

Weeks started to pass and barely anything interesting happened at all. The Great Hall had become a little smaller when Doragon Manako, the school in Japan, and Romulus Augustus, the school from Rome, both left. Although those two schools as well as Sunspot did continue their own ULD groups and were constantly in contact with Hogwarts and each other.

Umbridge was becoming less and less of a threat to everyone. No one really cared about her because nobody really liked her. Harry was glad there was some Slytherin's on their side because it promoted school unity (actually Hermione said that, not him) and plus he knew there was supporters of Voldemort in that group. The Slytherins on their side acted as agents and told everyone else what the others talked about where the teachers weren't around.

"It's a little disturbing to hear some first years talk about how they think you and Dumbledore should die," Ebony had said to him once, "Of course none of them could tell that I didn't think the same."

"Keep it that way and we're all good," he advised her.

Hermione glowered at her books as she walked towards the Great Hall where she was going to meet Harry. She was starting to prefer the classes they had together for a few reasons. One was the fact that he was her automatic partner, he could make her smile and laugh but he respected her desire to listen, but the number one reason she liked having classes with him was because she wasn't quite as used to carrying her heavy bag of books as she used to be and he always carried them for her when he was with her.

"DAMNIT!" she yelled angrily, startling the people around her. The strap on her bag had finally snapped and all of her books, parchment, quills and ink fell to the floor. It didn't help that the ink bottles shattered all over everything in an array of blacks, blues, reds and greens. She had more colours then that of course but these were the ones she needed for class.

A groan escaped her lips as she bent down to look at the tear in her bag. While studying it a shiver went up and down her spine. Quickly she looked behind her but saw nothing there. Her eyes fell on a door that was slightly ajar down the corridor. Part of her wanted to go to the door and look in it but another part of her, a much larger part, released a wave of panic. She cleaned up everything with a flick of her wand and her bag was mended again. Throwing it over her shoulder quickly she stared back to see the door opened a little bit more and the light silhouette of a human.

Harry sat at the Gryffindor table looking nervously at the door. Hermione was late. She had promised to meet him and Ron here after her Arithmancy class.

"Harry," Susan Bones said as she walked by, "Hermione's in the corridor upstairs, her bag broke so she had to stop."

"See I told you nothing was wrong mate," Ron said as Susan walked away, "You were being paranoid."

"I'm going to go find her," he said and stood up.

Ron sighed and said, "Oh yes leave me here all alone!"

"I plan on it."

"Thanks mate," he replied dryly.

"Hey guys," a happy looking Kaylee said as she sat down beside him. One or two people looked at her but no one else bothered because she was there so often. Some of the Gryffindor students had said it was a bit of a relief because it proved that at least some people from the other schools didn't blame them for what happened at the Quidditch match.

"See Ron," Harry said, "Now you're not alone. You have great time Kay."

"That's just because I am that great, I thought you knew that Harry dearest," she said sarcastically.

"You're just like your dad," Harry said with a sigh and walked out of the door.

"Well he sounded like an old man talking about one of his childhood friends," Kaylee muttered but there was a look of appreciation in her eyes at the compliment. She faced Ron and asked, "Where's he going in such a hurry?"

"He's been paranoid since Hermione didn't show up on time," Ron replied while rolling his blue eyes, "So when Susan told him where she last saw her Harry decided to go and try to play the hero again."

"All that's going to happen is they're going to come back together, him carrying her books," the girl insisted.

"Probably," he agreed before taking a bite of his meat pie.

Harry walked out of the Great Hall but once he was in the main hall he headed towards the stairs in a sprint. He went up the stairs in twos and turned around the corner onto to run into Hermione head on. They both stumbled but he grabbed onto a brick that was sticking out of the wall a little bit and used his other arm to grab her so she wouldn't fall.

"What's the hurry Hermione?" he asked her once they both regained their footing entirely.

"What was you're hurry?" she shot back.

"I was worried about you, you're never late," he admitted with a sigh.

A light smile appeared on her face before it disappeared and she said, "My bag spilt."

"Susan told me that."

"Yes but when I was cleaning it up I was the only one in that corridor. I felt something there, something watching me; I can even point out where it was! I don't know what it was though, I saw a shadow of a person but…well it just gave me the chills," she said hesitantly.

"Want me to go look?" he asked.

She stared at him for a minute before nodding her head. As they walked down the corridor Hermione took his hand tightly. This time she didn't feel the presence from before. They walked to the now closed door and Harry pushed it open quickly. He looked inside and saw an empty classroom.

"There's no one here now," he assured her.

"But there could have been before, right?" she questioned.

"I don't see why not," he said, "This was a two way hall. Is there any spell you could use to see if something was in here?"

"Well yes, but it won't show me who it was but it will tell us if it was human or not," Hermione said after a moment of thought.

"Alright then, do your magic because I don't have a clue how," Harry said with a wave of his arms.

She took out her wand and whispered, "Ostendo praeteritus praesentia."

A vertical beam of red light appeared out of her wand and she shined it around the room. It showed an image of what they could see as a man walking around the room. The figure stopped out the door and stared out of it for awhile before walking out of the room. Once the figure got out of distance of the light from Hermione's wand it vanished. She stopped the spell and said, "Well it was definitely a person, I can say that."

"Well at least we can say it wasn't some freakish shadow wolf this time," Harry said with a grin.

"Yes, you're right, it was probably just a Professor that heard the crash and looked out the door to see what happened," she said while shaking her head. A smile appeared on her face and she said, "Thank you for checking for me Harry. It would have bugged me a lot otherwise."

"I can understand," he replied with a sigh as they walked back into the hallway and back towards the Great Hall, but not before Harry took Hermione's heavy bag and threw it over his shoulder.

The rest of the week seemed to go by in slow motion to Harry, who desperately wanted the weekend to come because it was the first Hogsmead weekend of the year. They hadn't had one in along time for fear of Voldemort but Dumbledore was fairly confident that nothing bad would happen this weekend. Harry hoped he was right because he didn't want more people to die.

"So what are you and Hermione doing in Hogsmead?" Ron asked him as Harry waited patiently for him to get ready on Saturday morning. He was already fully awake and cleaned up but it was his unofficial duty to yank Ron out of bed every morning.

"I'm not sure," Harry replied with a shrug, "As long as we don't go near that stupid tea place."

Ron sniggered then said, "You're probably going to spend all day at the bookstore."

A grin quivered on Harry's face then he laughed and said, "She's not that bad…most of the time. So who are you going with? I heard that Luna asked you to go with her."

"She did," Ron said glumly, "I said no to her because I promised Kaylee I'd go with her. Hope you don't mind, I know she's like your little sister."

"Its fine Ron," Harry said with a grin, "You're my best friend why would I care?"

Ron laughed but he seemed particularly happy about this.

"Now come on, I bet Hermione was ready to go ages ago and lord knows that girl takes forever to get ready," Harry said sarcastically.

"Alright! Alright! Let's go," Ron said and lead the way down the staircase.

Unlike Harry's prediction though Hermione wasn't downstairs yet, Ginny had informed them though that she was upstairs talking to Lavender.

Finally Hermione came bounding down the stairs with a pair of pale blue jeans with a pair of dark pink and grey sneakers and a dark pink winter cloak on. She was stuffing her mittens and into her pocket and putting her scarf around her neck.

"Going snow shoeing Hermione?" Ron asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It's cold out you know, it did snow last night," she said while glancing at the two boy's winter cloaks, "Besides you have yours with you too."

He shrugged and walked out the door saying, "I'm going to find Kay."

"Don't have too much fun," Harry said seriously before grinning at Hermione and saying, "Shall we go?"

"We shall," she replied and linked her arm to his and they walked out of the common room.

Harry was glad to be in Hogsmead again. It had been along time since he had been here and he missed it. Of course next year he would be free to come here whenever he wished (assuming that he survived that long) but it wouldn't be the same. He also prayed something dangerous wouldn't happen like it seemed to on every Hogsmead trip last year.

"So where do you want to go first?" he asked, "In the village of course." He really didn't want to go to the outskirts where the entrance to the Blood Castle was hidden in the side of the mountains.

"Honeydukes?" she suggested after a minute.

"Exactly what I was thinking," he agreed happily and led her down the road to the colourful candy shop. "Wha—ha! Look at that Mione!" He was pointing to an even brighter and more colourful place across the road right beside Zonkos. It was called Weasley Wizard Wheezes.

Hermione laughed and said, "Fred and George got a new shop up finally! We can go there next."

"Alright, then we'll go look at the bookstore," he said with a sigh, receiving a thump over the head from her.

They spent a good half an hour to forty-five minutes looking through all the different candies and trying some test ones.

"Ew what is this stuff?" Hermione asked as she picked up a jar and watched what looked like little blobs of jell swim around in a transparent liquid of the same colour as them. (Meaning if the blobs were blue the water was blue and so on).

"I dunno, but just looking at them me want to poke them," Harry said while holding up an orange coloured jar.

She faced him and said with a little giggle, "Poke them?"

He shrugged and put the jar back, "See anything you want? Come on, it's on me!"

"You should have said that sooner!" she said happily and started muttering about everything she wanted. Of course she wasn't really planning on using his money for that, it was just to bug her.

"Woah there Mione, I'm not a millionaire!" he said.

"Yes you are," she said as if talking to a little child.

"OK well yes I am but what happens if I don't get a job later on in life? We'll have to live off that now won't we?" he asked.

"We?" she repeated and his face got a bit of a pink twinge to it but she didn't bug him about it again.

Soon they had picked out several flavours of fudge, lollipops, chocolates, sugar quills, Bertie-Botts Every Flavoured Beans, and Willy Wonka's Chewy and Everylasting Gobstoppers.

"I didn't know Willy Wonka was really a person," Harry said as he ate one of them.

"Neither did I until I read about him in a great inventors book," Hermione replied as they headed to Fred and George's store.

It was absolutely packed with Hogwarts students who were grabbing as much as they could. Many people were saying things like 'Umbridge deserves it' and so on.

"Harry!" one of the twins called from the other end of the shop and waved him over. He and Hermione pushed their way though the crowds of students ranging from third years to seventh years and eventually got to the place where the twins stood with wide grins.

Both had on royal blue sweaters with a bright orange F and G on them. Harry looked at the one with the G and said, "Hi Gred.

"Hi Forge," Hermione added to the one with the F.

"How's it going?" George asked with a grin.

"Shopping?"

"Or rather Hermione spending Harry's money?"

"Pretty much," Harry agreed and ducked just as Hermione's hand swung in the place where his head had been moments ago.

"Be thankful I don't aim lower," she warned him.

"Your ducking technique is dying Harry," Fred warned him.

"I was referring to hitting a place lower."

All three boys winced and moved a little bit away from her.

"I was joking!" she said with a grin.

"Still, you don't hit down there," George said.

"Yeah that's just low," Fred agreed.

"So how's your shop in Diagon Alley doing? Are you rebuilding it?" Hermione asked.

"Surprisingly yeah," Fred informed them, "It's probably just going to be destroyed again."

"But if we don't continue building the things that are destroyed out whole world will be in shambles," George added.

"That's the most sentimental thing I'm ever heard you say George," Hermione said to him.

"What about him?" George asked while pointing to Fred.

"Well when you guys where still in school in my fifth year I walked in on him and Angelina talking but I won't get into that," she replied.

Harry chuckled as Fred glared at her and said, "Did you hear that Umbridge was at the school again?"

"What?" Both said together with pure shock.

"Here guys," Fred said as he scribbled something onto a sheet of paper. George looked over his twin's shoulder and grinned at what it said, nodding in approval, "Give this to Peeves."

"Peeves?" Harry said with disbelief after a moment.

"Yeah, trust us on this one," George said with a wink.

Apparently the note Fred and George had sent to Peeves gave the poltergeist back the spirit he seemed to have been losing lately. He was back in full prank mode and terrorizing his favourite target in the school: Delores Umbridge. None of the teachers or anyone else would help her aside from Barnaby. Flitch wouldn't do anything to help her with Dumbledore around.

Nothing bad had happened during the Hogsmead weekend, at least not to them. There had been a few attacks in Germany, Spain and Ireland but they weren't major attacks. The biggest one was in Germany where three families with Muggle-borns in it died. As terrible as that might sound it wasn't as bad as it could have been. Those stats came in dating from Monday to Saturday. But then again no one should have been murdered at all.

On Sunday at Hogwarts many students sat down to do their homework but not everyone. Having finished theirs after they returned from Hogsmead the day before Harry, Hermione, Ron, Neville, Ginny, Luna, Kaylee and a few others sat in an empty classroom that the teachers allowed them to go into when it was too cold to go outside.

The group sat talking about nothing in particular when suddenly Kaylee whipped around quickly and looked at the door. When Ron asked her what was wrong she didn't answer, she just kept staring. After a moment she hesitantly said, "Something was there, I could feel it watching me."

"I felt that earlier in the week too," Hermione said, "It felt like someone was just-"

"Staring," Ron finished for her, "Just studying us. I felt it too but that was yesterday when I was in Hogsmead."

"You don't think it could be those shadow wolves again, do you?" Lavender asked Harry in almost a whisper.

"No, Vulcan would have to be back for that to happen and that ritual only works once. I looked it up over the summer just in case Voldemort decided to try and bring him back," Harry explained, "Besides Hermione did a spell when we checked the room she felt the thing was watching her out of. We found out that it was actually a person and from the outline of them it was a male so it could have just been Professor Snape watching us, waiting to take points."

"That's a fair point," Neville agreed.

It didn't stop though. Over the next couple days everyone from the ULD had the feeling that they were being watched at least once, well everyone aside from Harry that is. He got the small half of the wishbone like always. Instead of having the feeling that there was a stalker following him he began having terrible nightmares where Voldemort would kill Dumbledore, Hermione, Ron, Kaylee, Remus, Alyssa, Sarah and everyone else Harry cared about them he would destroy Hogwarts and kill him. He hated the dreams more then any before because he couldn't tell whether they were supposed to be real or not. It made him nervous though and he started practicing and concentrating even more in class.

It didn't take a genius to notice how some students were acting oddly while others seemed perfectly normal. Dumbledore pointed this out about the Hogwarts students and he added that there was some from every house that were acting paranoid about something.

All the ULD members were soon looking over their shoulders, shivering at any sudden cold breeze and jumping whenever a door was opened or closed.

One day, during Herbology Ron was standing nervously beside Neville, his partner for this class. Harry and Hermione had yet to show up and the bell was due to ring in a minute or two.

As the bell finally rang Professor Sprout noticed the two were gone as well. There was a tone of worry to her voice as she asked, "Mr. Weasley, do you know where Mr. Potter and Ms. Granger are?"

"No ma'am, but I could go check their dormitory, just to check if something's wrong," he replied.

"If Neville doesn't mind working on his own for now," Sprout said.

"It's ok ma'am, Ron can go find them," Neville said with a smile at his favourite professor.

"Alright Mr. Weasley, go, but do send word back within twenty minutes at the most," she said and Ron waved as he quickly ran out of the greenhouse and into the school, acknowledging that he had heard her request.

When he got up to Harry and Hermione's common room he said, "Hi…guys," he was out of breath from his mad dash to the room. He spoke to the picture, today it was Sarah and Remus as teenagers.

"Hi Ronald," Sarah said with a smile, "Password?"

"Alazamboozle," he said. He liked Harry and Hermione's password before they changed it but oh well, what could he do about it. The password is a result of what happens when you give Harry Potter a book that's called "Stupid words and phrases".

"Harry, Hermione?" he called out. He heard a gasp and then Hermione burst out of Harry's room looking worried. "What's wrong?" he asked her wildly.

"Harry's really sick, he has a bad fever and everything!" she said with worry.

"He seemed fine last night," Ron said with confusion.

"I know but that's not what really has me worried, what I don't like if the fact that I felt that same presence, the one that's been watching us, leaving Harry's room as I walked in through the bathroom door…"

Author's Note

FINALLY DONE! You all saw that coming eh?

This story shrunk some. This chapter was actually supposed to be chapter 19 and have nothing to do with Halloween but I realized that what I originally had planned was pretty much repeated later on plus I didn't like the idea at all. It would have taken me weeks to write (I'm serious) so I decided 'screw it' and I got rid of it so this story is officially one chapter shorter then it was before. But it also saved you from a VERY boring chapter.

Also on the note of chapters, stories and stuff like that I've already got my next story semi-planned out! It doesn't have anything to do with this one once or ever. I've finally come to the final conclusion that there WILL NOT (I repeat) WILL NOT be making a sequel to this one. This is the last story! The last chapter thought I'm still tweaking with. I'm down to two endings on it but I'm not sure which one I want to use.

Yeah, I'm sorry this took SO long to update but I had to go out of the Province to my dad's house (12 hours backwards and forwards on a train with not even 24 hours break in between, lots of fun let me tell you, even though I love travelling) then when I got home again I felt so sick that it wasn't even funny! I did still go to school though which probably didn't help it.

Yes now there's TWO more things, promise and this one is for all the people who like to complain about how many people I kill. There will not be anymore killing sprees on my part until the end. There WILL be some attacks (one in particular I go into details with), there will be fights in Hogwarts between students (not full blown ones, rivalry ones) and there will be things like that. Don't worry this isn't going to become more boring, I personally think (looking at my plot lines for all the upcoming chapters I need to write) that it's going to become more interesting even though my Death Rate is going to go down.

The last thing is I'm going to start wrapping things that I left UNWRAPPED from the last story up soon before I get to the end of this story (trust me, that's awhile away, but this isn't taking me as long to write as HBP did). Meaning I promised I'd explain the battle in St. Mungo's the year before, I will, and I promised I'd say what happened to the Weasleys while being held captive, I'll do that too. Also before the last battle Harry's going to find out why he has all these interesting little powers he does.

Holimontski – Sorry, Umbridge is going to be around for awhile. Yeah good luck in school, this week (Jan 24-28) I'm doing exams pretty much all week so school sucks for me too.

Goddess-Hope – lol Snakes and Lions…about the schools all knowing, you see for the most part the schools usually keep to themselves (that's why Harry wanted them all in the ULD). Besides most won't be around for much longer so there doesn't seem to be a point in making them understand every little thing about Hogwarts.

Idiot with reason – What about chapter five? (is confused) LMAO yeah I know I am really strange. When I'm in a good mood I give hints and I kill people and when I'm in a bad mood I write VERY VERY dull chapters…odd eh?

Shawn Pickett – Thank you

PruePotter – LOL I bet that just bugged you more then anything else eh? No she wasn't a student the year before and no she isn't a teacher teaching

Blackknife – That is a good thought but if you look at the Author's Note in chapter 16 (I think it was 16) I already talked about that theory.

Loup3402 – Only in stories, don't worry I'm not a homicidal freak in reality!

Benwa – Thank you

QueenWeasel – LMAO fluff, Snape, Binns, Qudditch, fights, death…I guess that's what it takes to make a good chapter eh? LOL!

Preetoaka Raven Weasley Potter – Sorry, AU's not being updated but…well…let's just say I DO have something else planned after this that might make up for that.

CastusAlbusCor – Thank you

CoolWeirdo – I just finished my exams (Jan. 28th). Yes I admit I do lie but I won't tell you if I did lie and if I did I wouldn't tell you what anyways (LOL, I'm so mean)

Drake Smythe – Don't worry, more good times will come (PROMISE!) but after more bad times as well. LOL sorry for making you feel so sad but…well the next couple chapters will be sad as well…or weird or things like that. I dunno I guess more depressing stuff seems to be my real genre.

Ryan – LOL you keep trying! It's not THAT obvious a clue but it does give a little hint.

Harry James Gryffindor Potter – No actually that is good advice because that's what happened to all my other fics, I got stuck and I gave up.

Carn – About 80 people from various schools died in that collapse

Beth 5572 – Thank you

Lady Nicole Potter – LMAO Alien…but yes there ARE strains in there relationship, you're right about that. No I don't know Greek but I'm interested in things from the ancient times (Greek, Rome, Egypt, etc…) LMAO that's great! I'd do that too but I'm not allowed to put more holes in my walls. I say mean things all the time, but most of the time I don't regret it. No, she's not an alien. Yes there are hints in chapter 12 because that's pretty much where we really first meet her. Draco fan eh? Then you'll like the fact that he's an important character in the upcoming chapters.

Prongs – Don't worry, no important character died. Actually no Hogwarts students died as I explained here. It was to make strains between the schools. Hagrid was on a different set of stands and he came down to stop the fight when I said 'Harry, Hermione, Neville, Luna, Kaylee and the professors'. Oh yes my stories are so happy! It's like watching carebears dance under little rainbows saying things like 'never quite' and cute stuff like that. (gags)

Colorguardbaby23 – Ohh no, there wasn't THAT many students on them. This one of the smaller stands that fell. There was around 80 people from 10 schools killed (a lot but not as many as I wanted at first but I'd thought I'd be nice). Nobody from Hogwarts or Australia (obviously) died.

Alianne – No nobody important died. Yes the Quidditch pitch did get bigger so all the schools could watch and your welcome for the H/hr

Aqua Mage – Yeah I wasn't kidden when I said a lot of people were going to die. But I suppose everybody dies someday…I'm just making them horrible and too soon in life! No Harry did not get hurt by the stands falling.

Fraezzi – Of course you can translate this for German readers. Don't worry your English wasn't that bad, I know it's one of the hardest languages to learn. You can also delete the reviewers thing but keep in all my other author's notes ok? That's all I ask. Just say it was written by me.

Tony tot 81 – Don't worry, no R/Hr.

Jada1010 – LOL someone would think that I had major mood swings while reading this. Griffy's hardly in this one because he's not important and there's just so many other things I can write about.

OCDaboutHarry1234 – Don't check everyday, I can't write that fast! Thank you and I'm glad that you decided to start writing too.

Atrus Valentein – No I did not kill off a whole school and no Hogwarts people died. I killed off about 80 people from random schools that were not from Hogwarts (and Sunspot obvious because they're not there). Good luck with the clues. They're there, but you have to read between the lines to get them. Actually I'm probably the only one that understands them!

Imran1 – You do that then. I'm writing what I want to write and no one and no threats are going to change that. If you do tell other people not to read this though tell them the honest truth why: because I kill people. People die, especially in war, the facts of life suck, don't they?

Zircronium – Of course you're not. Well thanks for reviewing.

JustinJeffrey – Thank you

Randomreaderguy – I kill so many people because it's war, name me one where hundreds of people, including innocent people didn't die.

Tennisprincess15 – That's a good thought about Nickleson, there are a lot of theories that have been thrown at me (including that one before) and it's interesting to see people trying to guess where I'm going with this…

Some random reviewer – What do YOU think? Might be, might not be and if it is it might not mean anything, right? Nobody ever knows when it comes to what I'm thinking up.

Nandhp – Thank you

Vikingod – I already growled about the theory of Nickleson as Harry's daughter, can't remember which chapter but I did. LOL my story's not that good…I'm an impatient person too that's why writing annoys me sometimes because I know what I want to happen in a chapter but I just can't seem to get there. I've cut out some things that would have told everyone exactly what's going to happen in the end too…

Penghu-dust - Thank you but write faster? To me it looks like your only on chapter one! Lol!

Sorry if I missed anybody and PLEASE REVIEW! If you don't like this story tell me. I usually take them ok but if I get stupid reasons like 'I hate Umbridge' or 'this is repetitive and you'll ruin everything by putting it in' then yeah I'm not going to be nice but if it mature and well put then I don't have a problem.

Krystal Lily Potter