A/N: Thanks for the reviews and all that guys, your all brilliant, I had a lot of good response for the previous chapter! This features more of the trio, Snape, Luna and some of Harry teasing Tom to the max!

Disclaimer: All belongs to J. K

Warning: Swearing and light slash.

Parceltongue

Chapter 6

Of course he would have potions first day back Harry thought grumpily; they always seemed to have potions on a damn Monday. He ate his breakfast silently contemplating his behaviour in the next lesson; everyone would obviously know he could brew or he wouldn't be in the class but if he should show the ease to which he could brew. They had not discussed their actual class work in the meeting, Harry decided to perform so he was one place under Hermione minus defence, where the top spot was his by a long shot, he was expected to excel at defence and as he was being tutored Dumbledore would expect him to be good. Snape wasn't likely to speak to Dumbledore with the Dark Lord watching him so closely, another bonus of having Tom in the school he supposed. He was disappointed, he didn't have a lesson with Tom until tomorrow and he was actually looking forward to see the man teaching. With a sigh, he pulled himself up to go to potions, Harry was hoping Snape paired him with Draco out of spite like he usually did, that way he could have a decent conversation. The route to the Dungeons was the same as usual, dark and damp, he arrived first out of the potions classroom but that didn't last long when the Slytherins arrived, only Malfoy, Nott and Zabini made the class, he nodded to Malfoy with a smirk and the blonde returned it. Harry wasn't surprised to see only Ron, Hermione and Dean coming down from the Gryffindors, only no one from Hufflepuff, and Padma from Ravenclaw. Snape threw open the door in his usual fashion and ordered them in, Harry immediately went to the back of the classroom and sat down, the register was called and Snape stood at the front.

"This year you will be working with a partner, this person will be for the entire year and any complaints you can leave." Here Snape looked at him and Harry was tempted to roll his eyes, it was obvious who he was going to be with.

"Weasley and Nott, Granger and Zabini, Thomas and Patil, Malfoy and Potter, pair up now." Harry threw a pointed look at Malfoy stating he was not moving and the Malfoy scion rolled his eyes and moved to the back.

"You're impossible," He muttered and Harry hid a grin.

"You didn't expect me to willingly go closer to Snape did you?"

"He is my godfather you know."

"Yeah, and he hates me. I would offer my godfather up for insult but Dumbledore saw to it that I no longer have one." Harry pointed out.

"Such a pleasant man,"

"That he is,"

"You will begin with antidotes, come and collect a phial and begin," Snape barked and there was a scraping of stools.

"I'm guessing we can't just hand him a bezoar?" Harry asked.

"You could but I'm stepping back and watching as he takes that one in." Draco muttered.

"Ah well," Harry walked up to the front of the classroom and picked up a potion with a sickly looking yellow potion in, something he noted never to drink no matter what it was.

"Whatcha think, funny looking enough?" Harry questioned handing it over.

"We have to work out what it is, then neutralise it."

"I know," Harry waved his hand over the phial, ghostly lettering appeared above; Decaying Draught.

"There,"

"Where did you learn that spell?"

"Ah, now that is an interesting question, I have one for you, how do you begin neutralising a Decaying Draught?"

"Nicely defected," Harry grinned, "Well the key elements are Moonstone and Ashwinder eggs."

"So, crushed unicorn horn, chopped Aconite, Lunar leaves and sliced Asphodol Root?" Harry suggested and Draco nodded, they began preparing the ingredients, the blonde poured the potion in to their cauldron and added the Aconite first, Harry then sprinkled in the unicorn horn while stirring and watched as the potion dulled to a faded orange, next came the Asphodol root in pieces allowing the potion to go purple and finally the 6 Lunar leaves. They kept stirring every 30 seconds letting the potion come to a boil before taking it off the heat, with the final stir it settled on a pleasant rose colour.

"Not bad Malfoy,"

"Same to you Potter," They bottled up the potion and took up to Snape, the potions master looked at them in surprise.

"Can I help you Mr Malfoy, Potter,"

"Finished," Harry handed over the potion.

"Well done Mr Malfoy, your influence is clearly productive." Harry's eyes flashed.

"I'm pretty sure it was a joint effort." Harry stated his voice hard.

"Potter your previous performance begs to differ," Snape sneered and Draco stiffened next to him as Harry's magic gently leaked out.

"And yet I got an O in my exam, I wonder what was different in the exam compared to the classroom?"

"You insul-,"

"I would advise you not finished that sentence Snape, it's really not in your best interests." Harry's magic was wound tight and his eyes were glowing bright AK through his glamour in the limited light of the dungeons, the raven head threw Snape a warning look and went back to his seat.

"You're lucky everyone else was too busy on their own work to see or hear that." Draco muttered.

"He shouldn't antagonise me, if he had any sense he would leave me alone, especially after last night."

"What happened last night?"

"He saw me speaking with Tom, and he knows who Tom is so one would think he would have used logic but apparently not, it is, after all, to much to ask by the looks of things." Harry was the first one out of the door at the end of the lesson, he headed to transfiguration with the other Gryffindors and McGonagall was already there. Harry was actually interested in the lesson, they were learning about animagus', of course he Swift and Paws already had their forms but it was a good topic to start on, they were working on a project again but this time alone.

"When I call your name I want you to come to the front and I will cast the spell to reveal if you have the ability to become an animagus. If you glow blue you have the ability, if you glow yellow you do not and if you glow red it means you are already an animagus which of course none of you will be." Harry's eyes widened slightly and so did Ron and Hermione, they had 2 forms the same as Harry but he had a parcel animagus form too which he found first which gave him the name Snake. Harry was tense when Hermione's was called, the witch stepped up and as the spell hit Harry nearly dropped his wand when the spell glowed blue, Hermione's eyes flashed in triumph and sat back down. A sheet of parchment appeared on the desk in front of him,

Wrap your magic around you.

Harry blinked before hiding a smirk; that was easy, he vanished the sheet and have a short nod as he walked passed on his name; he closed his eyes and wrapped his magic around him in layers.

"Congratulations, Mr Potter," McGonagall said and Harry allowed a small smile to come forth as he went and sat back down, the rest of the lesson were instructions on what they had to do next so Harry didn't really pay much attention until they were dismissed. Harry skipped lunch in the great hall and headed down to the kitchens to grab some food, he saw the elves make it so he knew it wasn't dosed which he was thankful for, he relaxed in the kitchen with a sigh watching the elves work.

"Which elves clean my room on the defence corridor?" He asked suddenly.

"Tis be Flip sir, Flip and Winky." Harry smirked at that, his elf was smart.

"Winky," the elf popped to his side with a bow.

"What can Winky be getting Master Harry?"

"I want breakfast every morning at 7:30 made by yourself in your will using only things you have tested to make sure they are not dosed or tampered with although you are not to test them on yourself, test them with magic only. I also want all of my drinks tested to make sure they are clear and if you could ward my room against unwanted nosy people that would be great, nothing unless its mine, Draco, Hermione, Ron, Luna Lovegoods, the twins or Professor Drield's magical signature is to be allowed in there or allowed access without my knowledge." He asked her in low tones making sure she was the only one to hear; she nodded and popped away with a bow.

"Thanks for lunch," He called as he left and made a few elves cry, Harry had a free period next so he went to the library, he has started to copy the books from they library last year and he already had most of them so he only bothered when he saw a book he knew he didn't already own. He sat down and began Snape's essay, it wasn't that hard surprisingly but then he did have all of his memories in tact now. At dinner he sent a message to Ron to meet at the RoR at midnight, he was picking at his food when Ginny sat down next to him.

"Hi Harry,"

"Hullo Ginny," Harry replied in a small voice, he really didn't want to deal with this right now, Ginny placed her hand on his leg and he felt his scar begin to prickle; Tom wasn't happy.

"Are you ok, you seem down."

"M'fine, just a lot going on," He shrugged and itched his scar which was beginning to burn, he chanced a look at the staff table to see Tom glaring murderously at Ginny. Harry wanted to smirk at that but refrained from doing so, he got up pushing her hand off.

"I don't feel so good," He muttered and left the hall, Harry felt his scar cool slightly as he walked up to his rooms, he nearly yelped when he was pulled in to the defence classroom and his lips were claimed almost immediately as his glamour dropped.

"You don't like Ginny then," Harry commented in a slightly breathless voice when he was able to speak again.

"What gave it away?" Was the sarcastic reply he received, Harry smirked slightly.

"Now, now, let's not get possessive of someone who is not yet theirs." The kiss he was given left him questioning why he was waiting until the end of the week, was there any point in waiting really?

"Yet being the indicated word,"

"Is that so?"

"I always get what I want," a shudder ripped down Harry's spine and the teen's breath caught.

"Then you will have to wait," Harry murmured in his ear and twisted out of his grip, he waved his wand reapplying his glamour and slipped out of the door, he released a groan as he went to his rooms; the man was impossible.

Harry threw on the cloak and pulled out the ordinary Marauders map, the corridors were clear so he snuck out and darted of to the 7th floor, he spotted Ron and Hermione running on to the same floor as him and he stopped opposite the portrait of the dancing trolls.

"Swift, Paws," He whispered.

"Here Snake," Hermione's voice came from his left and he grinned under the cloak, he walked three times past the blank wall thinking of a room where they wouldn't be found by anyone and the door appeared, they slipped in and vanished of the man, Harry locked the door just to be safe and took of the cloak just as his friends dropped their disillusions.

"Everything ok?" Harry asked sitting down in one of the arm chairs removing his glamour, they both imitated the notion each with a sigh.

"Yes, but I am already tired of it." Hermione said and Harry nodded.

"I have to tell you something first," Hermione looked at him and he frowned, "On the night the eyes and ears arrived Molly dosed your food Paws, you should remember it exploding." Hermione's eyes flashed.

"Do you know what she was putting in there?" Harry shook his head but snapped his fingers and Kreacher popped in.

"Do you have the potion you took from Molly Weasley?"

"Kreacher took this from the female blood traitor." The old house elf croaked handing Harry the phial, he bowed and left with a crack. Harry read the scan from the bottle and his magic whipped out angrily, his hissed and the phial exploded spraying the remainder of the potion everywhere.

"Liquid Imperious," He hissed and Hermione froze before exploding.

"She did what!"

"That would have had irreversible consequences. One dose too many or too much in one dose would have permanently altered your mind, you would have become a drone." Harry explained harshly, Molly would be meeting an even more painful end.

"You don't think they will try again do you?" Hermione asked worried, Ron was clenching and unclenching his fist apparently too angry to speak.

"Winky is watching my food, I can ask Dobby to watch yours." Just then the little elf popped in.

"Master Harry is wanting Dobby for a job, Dobby is being only too happy to serve."

"Thank you Dobby, I need you to watch Hermione and Ron's food for tampering, after what they did at HQ it's not safe." Dobby nodded.

"Nasty woman putting bad things in Miss Mione's food, Dobby will keep them safe sir." He told them and popped away.

"That's a relief."

"They disgust me, my own blood are nasty scheming filth, and I could have been just like them." Ron snarled.

"But you are not. You have stayed loyal to me and I will always be thankful." Harry reminded and Ron nodded.

"It just makes me so angry that because of them we have to measure everything we do with precision just to make sure we don't get cursed, hexed, spelled or dosed by the supposed light side. This is insane, it is only the first day back and it is already becoming a challenge, we have so much work to do and very little time and if we don't we might as well dig our own graves."

"I know, which means we have everything to work for." Harry pointed out and they both nodded.

"Right, my rooms are on the defence corridor-,"

"Straight down from the Dark Lord, seriously Snake what the fuck?" Hermione burst out and Harry shook his head.

"I have no fucking idea Paws. I got a message from Bleach from him stating: do not choke and that was it. How he got himself appointed is beyond me."

"I thought you discussed school and putting someone from the ranks as DADA."

"We did and he said he was looking in to it, I knew he had the position filled but I never thought he would be here."

"The irony is not lost."

"I know but it gets better, Dumbledore has set up for me to have private tutoring with Professor Drield." Both their jaws dropped before breaking out in hysterical laughter which Harry joined in.

"You were handed over to the Dark Lord." Ron gasped.

"Oh Merlin,"

"My reaction, I had to lock my jaw to stop myself from laughing."

"It makes it easier for us to sneak around, it's not like our new Professor will tell Dumbledore." Ron stated after he had calmed down.

"Exactly, I have the castle and Winky protecting my rooms and Tom is down the corridor. We need to get to the chamber before Gringotts so we can contact the bug for the first article and I know just which one I'm sending." Harry told them with a smirk.

"Your-,"

"Yes. Straight for the heart; literally." They mirrored his smirks.

"In other news, Ginny is set to make a strange disappearance if she keeps on coming on to me." Harry said brightly and Hermione quirked her eyebrow.

"We have yet to fall or is there something you're not telling us?"

"Oh no, we won't fall until Friday at the earliest but I think I might have over done the enticement, I mean if looks could kill Ginny would be dead 3 times over."

"Snake," Hermione sighed exasperated but Harry merely grinned.

"I had so much fun."

"What is to be done about Snape?" Ron questioned and Harry scowled.

"He's still a prick, he started on me today in potions with the usual scathing comments but I won't take it, I warned him but I doubt he will listen."

"Most likely not, but with the Dark Lord here I do not think he will be reporting to Dumbledore."

"He would be foolish to. Snape however, has never been one to use logic to help him."

"True," they agreed. Harry cast a tempus and sighed; it was 1:30am.

"Come on, we need sleep and I have it on good authority that our new Professor does not take well to tardiness."

"I still cannot believe we are going to be taught by the Dark Lord." Ron muttered as they got up and reapplied their glamours.

"It's going to be strange." Hermione agreed.

"And we have a double."

"Tomorrow will be an interesting day."

Harry was slightly groggy when he woke in the morning and he resorted in a shower to wake himself up fully, Winky had his breakfast waiting which he wolfed down before going to the great hall. He picked at his food keeping his head bowed but he stiffened when Ginny sat by him, the girl was already getting to him.

"Are you feeling better today Harry?" she asked with her hand on his leg again, he shifted so it was removed and nodded.

"A bit, looking forward to defence to see what the new Professor's like,"

"Hopefully, he won't be like Umbridge." Harry nearly snorted.

"Hopefully," he sat the rest of the time in silence and when it was time to leave he went quickly, Harry was the first person outside the defence classroom but was soon followed by Ron and Hermione.

"So weird," He heard Ron breath and had to contain his laugh.

"The lesson hasn't even begun yet, you don't know, he could be a great teacher." Hermione reasoned equally as quiet.

"Of course I am a great teacher Miss Granger, it is why I got the position over aurors that applied." Tom's voice was directly behind her and she squeaked in shock spinning to face him, Harry snickered because he was used to the man's silent approach.

"I- uh,"

"Back to using the silent approach I see?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow, he moved Tom's attention to him to save his friend who looked as if she was on the verge of collapse.

"It brings me some amusement."

"Sadist,"

"Did you expect anything other?" Harry rolled his eyes, the rest of the class arrived and Tom motioned them in, Harry, Ron and Hermione took their usual spots at the front of the class and Tom swept in shutting the door with a wave of his hand. He stood at the front leaning casually against his desk in such an easy manner, he had a small smile on his face as he looked around.

"Your previous teachings have been dysfunctional but anyone here who is here gained an E in their OWL." Tom began and he held the class' attention with no effort.

"I will not accept anything but the best effort in my class and if you believe you can get away with slacking then you are sorely mistaken, know now that if I do not find your work satisfactory then you will leave and won't come back." Everyone knew that it wasn't just words being spoken, it was a clear warning by the tone.

"Now, I will be leading this class on a practical basis and the theory will be done in your own time. You will receive an essay once a month, I do not see the point in numerous essays for the simple fact, if you chose not to learn the required material then you fail. I will be leading mock duels in this class as well as mock battles for real life situations because in the real world someone will not wait for you to be in the correct duelling stance." Tom told them, he waved his hand again and pieces of parchment appeared on each desk.

"We will start with mock duels today and the name of the person you shall be facing, wands out and stand against the wall." Harry looked at his sheet and contained a groan; of course the man would have him give a demonstration. The desks and chairs were vanished with a flick of a wand and a duelling platform appeared in the centre of the room, Tom stepped up and faced them again.

"I am sure by now you all understand the basics of duelling, but to refresh your memory I will give a demonstration, Ah, Mr Potter, why don't you come and show your classmates how to duel with me." Harry rolled his eyes but stepped up amongst the mutterings, he faced Tom who had a small smirk on his face.

"Rules, no dark magic and nothing that could cause seriously harm, first to lose their wand." Harry nodded.

"Miss Granger, if you would." Hermione stepped up and raised on arm, they bowed and turned walking backwards 7 steps before turning to face each other in stances.

"Go," as soon as the word was said Hermione jumped down and spells flew, the class gasped at the spectacle before them as they watched Harry Potter duel their professor effortlessly, Harry on the other hand was having a great time, he didn't raise a shield knowing that Tom would try and have him on the defence and he was using spells that were not usually associated with a duel, Tom was internally chuckling, duelling Harry in a light based duel was amusing, the teen was good at distractions sending inconsequential spells at him followed by actual spells. The duel lasted 20 minutes before Harry slipped and lost his wand, Hermione called it and they bowed before Harry's wand was returned, the class broke in to applause and Harry flashed a tired grin, using only light magic was surprisingly tiring.

"That is a perfect example of a duel." Tom waved his wand and the classroom expanded and more duelling platforms appeared.

"I want the winners to the right, the others go to the left, go." The pairs jumped up to a platform and began duelling, Harry conjured up a comfy char and sat down much to Tom's amusement.

"You realise you sent a levitation charm at me correct?" Harry grinned while watching the duels.

"Yeah, brilliant distraction and against anyone else it would have worked."

"I have no doubt," Tom walked of to actually teach and Harry watched his friends destroy their opponents, Hermione didn't even give Justin a chance and Ron wiped the floor with Ernie. The victors were set against each other and when the final duel finished, Ron V Hermione, a champion emerged, Hermione, and she was set against Harry, they bowed and fell in to stances. Harry was first of the mark pushing her back immediately, they were duelling for just under 5 minutes when Harry threw in some distracting spells that tripped her up and he summoned her wand.

"We have a winner," Harry nodded to her as they jumped down, the desks reappeared and they all sat down.

"For the last 10 minutes I want you to write down what you can do to improve your duelling style and why you think you lost a duel, if you finish it now you don't have it as homework." There was hurried scraping to get parchment and Harry raised an eyebrow but pulled out a sheet, on it he wrote.

How I can improve my duelling style;

Do not duel the Dark Lord, instead tell him you want him to fuck you over his desk making you beg for more.

Why I lost my duel;

I wasn't on my knees…

Harry smirked and folded the parchment, let the man react to that, he knew he was pushing the limits but he only had 3 days left. The bell sounded and the class rose placing their work on the desk before leaving,

"Mr Potter, Miss Granger and Mr Weasley, if I could have a word." The Professor called, the trio sat back down until the class was gone and the door was shut then they scanned the room for spells and found none; they dropped their glamours.

"Do I classify as a decent teacher Miss Granger?" Tom asked with a smirk and she blushed.

"Don't be mean." Harry chided with a smirk of his own, "You're hardly the first person on people's minds for teaching material."

"I don't see why not." Tom said and he received three blank looks.

"Really, it's a mystery." Harry commented dryly.

"Is everything for Gringotts set?" Tom questioned changing the subject.

"Yes, the 10th is the date Ragnok expects us." Harry told him and then looked to Swift who swallowed but spoke clearly and calmly.

"We will need to get in to the chamber or it will be impossible, everything of importance is down there and we need to gather the timeturners and our information on Dumbledore. I've mapped out how it can be done and as long as we have the original map then it is possible."

"I managed to take back the original from Molly, who had removed it from Harry's things on the platform, now Harry has it again and have edited the prefect scheduling and patrol duties for that night so it works in our favour." Hermione explained pulling out a sheet of parchment and handing it to Harry.

"You and Swift are patrolling second floor with," Harry looked over the sheet and then smirked, "Professor Drield, who switched places with Snape, nice going Paws."

"You did this on the first night?" Tom asked impressed and Hermione nodded,

"We had the meeting and I switched sheets and the switched them back before notice."

"Snape is going to be a problem," Harry pointed out.

"I have tried to keep him away from the second floor but he makes the dungeons his habitat so I can't do a lot about that." Hermione frowned and Ron tilted his head.

"Bring Bleach and the twins in and if we need to use the dungeons make sure Snape is dealing with his snakes so we can slip buy, I'll get on to them tonight. They are working on communication devises so it will give them a break." Ron said and Harry nodded,

"Do it,"

"Oh and the plans to remove Umbridge are ready when you want them." Harry's expression turned sinister.

"Brilliant," He turned to Tom with a sweet look.

"Fancy coming to torture an amphibian any time soon?"

"You really hate Umbridge,"

"Almost as much as I hate Dumbledore," Harry agreed.

"Why will Snape be a problem, he will not report your activities to Dumbledore."

"He hates the very fact that I breath, I warned him yesterday not to treat me like he does but I have the feeling he will not listen which will be a shame because I cannot afford to lose my temper." Tom quirked an eyebrow,

"I see,"

"We will go Thursday," Harry said and the others nodded. "Then will be able to ready the final plans before our trip."

"Before you leave Harry, this is your new schedule for your private lessons." Tom passed him a sheet and Harry's eyes lit up, the first one happened to be set for Friday.

"I will be here." Tom nodded and they got up to leave, Harry stopped and handed Tom his folded sheet, the man raised an eyebrow.

"My work for the lesson, just something to think about," Harry flashed a smirk before slipping out the door waving his wand, just as he was leaving he heard a sharp intake of breath; Friday would prove to be interesting.

Everything was clear. Harry was stood under his invisibility cloak on the second floor just as Tom made his patrol, he fell in to step with him and continued down the corridor waiting for Ron and Hermione to approach. They can around the corner and Tom nodded to them,

"Everything's clear Professor," Hermione said in her best kissing up voice, Ron fought hard not to laugh and Harry covered his snickers, it had been a long time since he had heard that, the portraits were watching them which was why she was doing it.

"Good, check the second half of the left corridor and I will double back." Tom told them, they nodded and walked off this time with Harry, the left corridor contained the girls bathroom and no portraits which is why as soon as the final portrait was out of sight they broke in to a run and dashed in to the bathroom. Harry pulled of the cloak and hissed open, and the sink sunk in to the ground, he called for stairs and the jogged down with Harry closing the entrance. Because of Dumbledore, the chamber was starting to get dirty again so he called Dobby and Kreacher down to begin cleaning again, he led the way in and in to the main chamber and down to the mouth of Salazar Slytherin.

Speak to me Slytherin, the greatest of the Hogwarts four. Harry shook his head, what was it with Slytherins and their huge egos, just look at Tom. The mouth opened slowly and they climbed in, the tunnel was filthy again so he told the elves to clean if quickly, house elf magic worked fast and it was clean by the time they reached the silver door of the rooms. Everything was exactly how they left it, there was no dust, nothing out of place and Harry grinned.

"Brilliant," Hermione said looking around.

"We need to grab a few major things and go, tonight is not the night to scout everything we have down here." Harry pointed out and they nodded splitting up, Harry went to his shelves, they each had a corner of the room where they kept their things. Harry had multiple shelves and the centre one was filled with thin black books with apparent swirls on them, it was really parceltongue, they had agreed that all the important information was written by Harry so no one could find out what is was; ever. Harry kept all of the personal dirt they had on all of the people they had decided to look in to, they had files on Dumbledore, Grindlewald, nearly all the order members and the inner circle, they had Fudge, Umbridge and majority of the high ranking ministry officials. The books looked small but they had an unlimited amount of paper in them, Harry pulled Dumbledore's down and copied the pages he wanted, he placed them in his pocket and turned back to the others. Hermione kept all their research in to spells and the information on the items they created, she was the perfect researcher and looked up all the spell and runes needed for anything, she kept on track of all off that and had a sheet of parchment she was beaming at.

"Good news Paws?" He asked with a smirk, she nodded.

"All of our research in to the wards surrounding the school and the chamber, also our ideas to what wards could be over the Gryffindor chambers." She told him excitedly and his eyes lit up.

"I forgot about those," Swift made a noise of delight. In his corner were their plans, the ways in which they could accomplish something and how it could be initiated. He also kept their creations and the potions they had stocked up on,

"Fred and George are brilliant." He stated pulling out the eyes and ears of Hogwarts, he led it out on the centre table and they saw that the Headmaster's office was now clearly linked up.

"They must have connected them to Paws' runes."

"I did leave them when they asked but I didn't realise they would save us a job."

"I've got the timeturners too," He handed them one each and they slipped it around their necks.

"Now, Paws has the notes on how we created this, we need only copy it and blood lock them, these are something that can't get out." Harry told them.

"Have you got our Gringotts files?" Paws asked and Harry shook his head, he went back over and pulled down 3 black books from the shelf above, they had put all their account information in to single books because it was easier.

"Gringotts is covered, information with the bug is covered and I'll issue a meeting with her for the same day as Gringotts, it'll be her best story yet." There was absolutely nothing nice about Harry's smile and the others smirked.

"Why do I have the feeling this story will rock the wizarding world?" Swift muttered and Harry smirked.

"It will definitely cause a stir." They activated the eyes and ears and scoured the dungeons, Snape was patrolling as usual and the second floor was empty apart from Tom and, to their dismay, Dumbledore.

"What are they talking about?" Paws hissed and Harry turned up the volume.

Are Mr Weasley and Miss Granger supposed to be patrolling with you Martom? Harry scoffed at that.

"How does he not realise? Martom Drield, honestly," Paws sighed and Swift snickered.

"I think he just likes to mock the Headmaster." Harry agreed.

They are headmaster, I sent them to watch the left end of the corridor, why do you ask.

I have yet to pass them, I was merely curious. That was their cue to leave, they grabbed what they needed and ran back out of the chamber, Harry tossed on the cloak and slipped out first to check everything was clear, according to the map Dumbledore was on his way around.

"Paws, you take the eyes and ears and began to copy it, if you don't have time send it to the twins. Swift, make sure everything is planned for the 10th, you both might want to review your accounts before we go, you know Ragnok is not going to be pleased." Harry told them in a near silent whisper.

"Got it," they answered.

"I'll take the marauders map and keep general watch until the others are copied. Saturday we will have to meet again, we need to get reacquainted with our forms, its been way to long." They nodded and walked down the corridor as Dumbledore turned the corner, Harry fell in to step to cover his own just in case they echoed on the stone floor.

"Ah Mr Weasley, Miss Granger, I was wondering where you were." They both blushed and Harry knew an oscar award was coming up.

"Sorry headmaster," Hermione muttered looking down, he saw Ron take her hand and she leaned in to him.

"The corridor was empty so, I mean we, I-," Nice Swift, Harry grinned and Dumbledore smiled and his eyes began to twinkle double time.

"Ah yes, young love, such a precious thing." He told them joyfully, they looked up at him sheepishly but with thankful smiles.

"We didn't mean to lax on our duties sir, it won't happen again." Hermione said rushed looking embarrassed to have to explain herself; brilliant.

"Not to worry my dear, I understand and I'm sure I can let this go." He shot them a suggestive wink and walked off humming merrily, Swift gagged as soon as his back was turned and Paws looked disgusted.

"With that delightful image in my head, I am leaving you." Harry told them, they shuddered and walked off, Harry skirted down the corridor and fell back in to step with Tom.

"I assume everything went well." From under his cloak Harry shuddered.

"Perfectly even though we met Dumbledore when he left you,"

"What happened?"

"I would rather not remember thank you very much." Harry replied in disgust, Dumbledore winking at Ron and Hermione, it was enough to turn in anyone's stomach, Tom shot him an amused look and Harry didn't question how he knew where he was.

"Oh,"

"The headmaster winked at them after they pretended they were a couple." Harry told him eventually, his tone clearly said he never wanted to see such a thing again, Tom's lip curled in distaste and shuddered lightly.

"That was something I wish not to witness."

"It is advisable you don't." they had reached the defence corridor now and stopped outside his rooms,

"You have your first private lesson tomorrow." Tom pointed out and Harry pulled of his cloak to face him properly, apart from his own, there were no portraits in close vacinity to see him without his glamour.

"I know," he replied and Tom smirked, Harry was immediatly on his guard, there were much more than promises in that smirk.

"It seems we will have to go over the correct way to win a duel," Tom commented lightly as Harry's eyes dilated, his mouth had gone incredibly dry at the image his mind had created for him, Tom's smirk stretched.

"Ah Snake, you didn't think I would let your little note go did you?" Tom asked rhetorically, he ran a pale finger along Harry's jaw, the teen gained a glazed look before he snapped out of it.

"Oh no, you left me in a very awkward position Tuesday and again yesterday, I intend to repay that." Tom told him, his voice dropping and Harry shivered, with one last burning look Tom vanished down the corridor,

"And Harry," Harry's eyes followed him as he spoke again, "Robes are not necessary." and he was gone, Harry took a deep breath before slipping in to his rooms.

Harry was on edge all day Friday, Tom's promise was clear on his mind and he was burning; it was the only thing he could think about, his mind kept bringing up hot images which was exceptionally bad seeing as he had potions and Snape was always such a pleasant person.

"You need to focus," Draco hissed and Harry's attention snapped around to the blonde.

"What?"

"You are completely out of it today and I've only just stopped you from killing us all 3 times, what is with you?" Harry blinked.

"Sorry, distracted."

"Really, I hadn't noticed?" Was the dry reply, Harry rolled his eyes, he focused on what he was supposed to be doing. Snape was swooping around in his usual bat like way and he sneered at Harry, the teen repaid the favour until Draco kicked him.

"You really don't want to do that in the open." He pointed out and Harry scowled.

"Oh I hate these damn masks, I really do."

"Potter, instead of complaining about inconsequential things for attention, concentrate on your potion and try and not reply on Mr Malfoy to get you through this class." Harry heard Draco groan silently next to him but that didn't register in his mind. He turned to face Snape with an emotionless expression,

"Professor Snape, I would truly appreciate you keeping your needless opinions to yourself. Continuation to speak of things you could not possibly understand will only result in angering me further and making yourself look like a bigger fool." Harry told him politely, insulting someone while being polite was always much more affective and by the narrowing of Snape's eyes and the flush that was creeping up on the sallow skin it was working, Harry didn't give him chance to comment because he continued.

"Your insistence on treating me with such unwarranted disrespect is really not the best course of action for you. I will not accept continual attacks on my person from someone such as yourself and it would be beneficial if you refrained from doing so." It was lucky the bell went because Snape looked as if he was about to explode and that wouldn't have ended well, Draco steered Harry about and in to a secluded corridor in the dungeons, the teen had just had a personality transplant in the potions classroom and only by the fact that Harry had kept his voice low and they were at the back did it go unnoticed by the rest of the class except Ron and Hermione; it was pure luck.

"You need to keep it together, that cannot happen again in the open because even your unnatural amount of luck will give out." Draco warned and Harry growled.

"I will not stand for his continual attacks Draco and you cannot expect me too. You know what I'm like and you saw what I did to Nott and Parkinson, and I haven't even finished with the last one. When I get to Gringotts, the Parkinsons will find themselves in a very unfortunate position." Harry hissed and Draco nodded.

"I do not expect you to take them lying down, even as the golden boy you wouldn't take that but you cannot go Snake on Snape in potions, if that gets back to Dumbledore your as good as dead." Harry sighed and tugged at his hair.

"I'll see what I can do. Why does he insist on being such a fucking prick?" Harry burst out furiously and Draco shook his head, his godfather was an unnaturally stubborn man, it would take a miracle for him to see Harry as Harry, if only he had come to the ball.

"Come on, I have Charms and McGonagall won't take well to a snake being late to her lesson." Draco smirked and they spit up, Harry took a shortcut to the charms corridor and slipped in with the rest of the class. Now his concentration was definitely off now, with his anger at Snape and the thought of that night in his mind, Harry didn't have a clue to what they were studying in that lesson, he trudged down to dinner and withheld a groan when Ginny fell in to step with him.

"Hello Harry," She said brightly and Harry hitched on a small smile.

"Hi Ginny," he really didn't know how he was supposed to put up with her everyday.

"How are you feeling today, I know you must be taking the death of Sirius hard but I'm here for you." She clutched on to his arm and laid it on thick, unfortunately for her, she had just signed her death twice over because she was hanging off his arm when they entered the great hall and Harry's scar seared, also she had mentioned Sirius when she had helped plan his godfathers death.

"Thanks Gin, means a lot." He got out through his teeth, only 5 people in the hall saw the dull green eyes pulse AK green and promise death as he sat down before the colour vanished. Dinner was a very long affair. Ginny prattled on about anything and everything and Harry did catch the pleased look in the headmasters blue eyes before he was masked, she was practically draped over him much to his disgust and the longer the meal went on the more intense the pain in his scar became. He would rather be anywhere else at that moment in time, the more she spoke the more his anger grew, she was supposedly being so sympathetic about everything that had happened but Harry could here the contempt and the sneer, plus the whole thing sounded rehearsed. Harry knew she wanted to come back to his room but that wasn't happening, he didn't want to bring homicidal tendencies to the Dark Lord quite yet.

"I have private tutoring this evening Ginny, I have to go." He told her softly and she looked at him shocked for a second before smiling.

"Oh of course Harry, although I don't see why, you are so powerful already." She told him sweetly and he nearly gagged, instead he shot her a bright smile.

"Thanks," she finally let got off him and sauntered off in what she clearly thought was a sexy way; it wasn't. Harry shuddered and dashed off, he actually felt dirty and knew he would be taking a shower before going anywhere near Tom. When he stepped in to his rooms, for some reason, he wasn't surprised to see Luna sat down reading with his clothes, she had decided he was wearing, hung from a door frame; he paid her no mind as he dumped his stuff, dropped his glamour and all but dived for the shower. When he deemed himself clean enough, Harry threw on some boxers and walked out in to the living room where Luna looked up with a sigh.

"If you weren't gay and infatuated with a certain Dark Lord I would coerce you for myself Harry." She told him unabashedly, Harry flashed her a smirk and pulled on the clothes she had picked for him. She had chosen dark crimson tight skinny jeans, a white muscle short sleeve t shirt and his charcoal boots which he tied loosely, she had given him a black oversized belt that she threaded through one loop on the right side before letting the rest hang loose, 3 black leather wrist ties for his left wrist and 2 silver long chains, one with a Celtic star on and the other was his parcel form in silver; a black mamba. Luna pushed him down on to the chair and ran her hands through his hair giving the silky strands a 'just shagged' and she bit his lip causing it to look bruised.

"I now deem you acceptable." She told him holding up a mirror and Harry agreed with her statement; damn he looked fine.

"I love you Ray," He told her and she raised an eyebrow at the new nickname.

"If I was to hasten to guess I would say your animagus form would be a white raven." He explained with a shrug and she smirked.

"Unusually observant as always Snake," He smirked in return, just then his portrait opened and the twins strolled in, he didn't even bother to raise his wand because thanks to the castle and his trusty elf, only those he trusted or allowed could enter. The twins froze when they looked at him and he smirked when both sets of blue eyes darkened considerably and Fred licked his lips.

"Are you sure you don't want to come to bed with us again Snake?" His voice was a little rough.

"Looking like that especially." George finished agreeing.

"Sorry gentlemen, I already have something-,"

"Someone," Luna corrected and Harry grinned, "Someone on the agenda tonight and after that I cannot see me sleeping with anyone else." He was pleased when they blinked a few times and understood what he was about to do.

"Paws is going to murder you," Manic warned but Harry shook his head.

"She said first school week was acceptable." Harry said.

"Besides," Luna picked up, "I doubt she will say anything when she sees the photos I've got off Harry tonight, damn you for being gay."

"We will take a copy," Harry just laughed at them, he cast a tempus and his expression morphed in to a predatory smirk, he summoned a blood pop and left the room; he doubted he would be back.

What do you think? Do you think Harry pushed the right buttons enough? Luna's making sure Harry is looking fine for an encounter which is bound to be very pleasurable! So, do you like it? Let me know what you think please

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