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Chapter nineteen: Keller Breaks, Enters and Exits

Next moment Dumbledore was there sweeping towards the portrait; the Gryffindors squeezed together to let him through, and Barry and Emo moved closer to see what the trouble was.

"Shit..." Emo exclaimed, eyes widening.

The Fat Lady had vanished from her portrait, which had been slashed so viciously that strips of canvas littered the floor; chunks of it had been torn away completely. Dumbledore took one step back from the ruined painting and turned to see Professors McGonagall, Loopy and stupid Snape hurrying towards him.

"We need to find her!" Dumbledore said.

"No shit Sherlock," Lemo's voice muttered behind Barry, she then hugged him.

"We need to find her-" Dumbledore repeated when he was cut off by Peeves,

"Ha, like to see you try!"

"What do you mean?"

"She's very upset Dumbles! She doesn't want no one to see her."

"Did she mention who did this to her portrait?" Dumbledore asked indicating to the Fat Ladies empty portrait.

"Yep."

"Who..." Dumbledore urged.

"S...S...S...S...S...S...S..."

"Spit it out Peeves!" Dumbledore lost his normally never ending patience.

"Sirius Keller!" Peeves cackled then flew away leaving Gryffindor house in stunned silence.

Gryffindors were gathered in the hall in sleeping bags, as the teachers searched the Hogwarts Castle, outside the Dementors combed the grounds.

"You could've died! Barry, Keller was looking for you!" Lemo whispered, "Honestly Barry! No one can find him! You know what this means? No one knows jack shit about Keller, their trying to find a needle in a haystack without a metal detector!" Lemo grabbed Barry into a hugged and patted his head, "But its okay Barry, no need to panic, Lemo's here..."

Barry moaned and tried to pull out of her iron grip.

"Oi! You third years up the back! Go to sleep!"

They all whispered good night and in a few moments the only noise in the group was Andrew's soft (okay annoyingly loud) snoring.

Barry woke with a start, above him he could hear the Head Boy and Dumbledore talking in concerned hushed voices. Barry squeezed his eyes shut so they wouldn't notice he had woken and he slowly moved closer to the pair.

"Keller has left the castle, god knows how he's done it but he did..." Dumbledore said in a grave voice.

"How do you suppose he got in?" Whispered the Head Boy.

"I have no idea, I spoke to the dementors and they said no one walked through those doors at any stage today. Or yesterday, they can't remember the day before..."

"What about when he left? Do they know of anyone who left the castle?"

"Nope, no one except Hagrid and they can tell who he is. He's being staying in the castle most nights now, there's been some funny business happening outside as well. There's been a cat with anger problems-"

Barry turned a feminine giggle into a manly coughing fit, he couldn't wait to tell Mione tomorrow about Dumbledore calling Crookshanks a 'cat with anger problems'...

"-A skitzo rat-"

Don's rat, Barry thought, was only too well described.

"-And a stray dog."

"A stray sir? You don't think perhaps one of the students smuggled him in? I mean there isn't a muggle house for miles..."

"No, Jon, it's a stray now. Because even if a student had smuggled him, they've left him to his own devices now. Haven't caught a student with him at all, except for Roberts down there. But I don't think the dog is hers' it doesn't seem to really like her..."

"Sorry sir, which one is Roberts?"

Barry saw Dumbledore nudge Roberts head with his foot,

"That one."

"Oh, she's the one that smuggled in the weasel a few years ago didn't she?"

"Yes, but I don't think she'd be capable of smuggling in a dog, especially one as big as the one outside. Besides it wasn't her who smuggled it in the first year, it was a christmas present from Rose."

"Okay, but that all aside now, what about Saucepan?"

"What about him?"

"Shouldn't he be warned about Keller?"

Dumbledore was silent for a moment,
"No, he probably already knows, infact..."

Barry heard Dumbledore's knee click, rather to close for comfort, he relaxed his eyes and tried look as though he was asleep. Even with his eyes closed he could tell Dumbledore was looking at him,

"I wouldn't be surprised if he was listening to us right now..."

The Head Boy gasped,

"Sir! The boy is fast asleep! What if he was to wake now and see his headmasters face in front of his?"

Dumbledore chuckled and there was another click of his bones as he rose back to his full height,

"It wouldn't be the first time he'd have woken up to a peculiar face in his. Have you met his friends properly?" A small spark went off on Lemos' (who was sleeping next to Barry) other side, "Rose, Kentson stop that at once!"

Barry slowly rolled over, still pretending to be asleep so he could see what they were doing. Lemo now had purple, floppy bunny ears and green hair.

"And Saucepan, I know you're awake as well, not sure for how long. But you're not very good at pretending..."

Barry looked up at Dumbledore,

"Sorry sir."

Dumbledore shrugged,

"Eh, it's not like it was terribly scandalous."

"Huh!"

"Andy Rose, Cheesy Kentson, you're in detention tomorrow with me. And Barry, I guess I better to tell you officially now..."

Dumbledores' bones creaked once more as he groaned and grunted so he could sit on a spare bit of floor near Barry.

"Sir, I don't think you really needed to go all the way down onto the-" The Head Boy began, looking worried, but Dumbledore held up his hand,

"Jon, you are as young as you feel. Making me not a day over one hundred and sixty-four," he said, with his eyes twinkling, Barry shivered. Those eyes scared him...

"Sir, you don't need to tell me, I already know Sirius Keller is after me."

Dumbledore pretended to looked shocked, then shot the Head Boy an I-told-you-so look,

"Really? What else do you know?"

"Um...You're not very good at pretending your shocked...?"

The Head Boy gasped, while Dumbledore just chuckled,

"Good point Barry. Now, what I'm going to tell you next is not designed to frighten you, or anger you, it is just to make you more vigilant. I don't want you do anything stupid, or dangerous. Or both."

Barry nodded,

"Okay...I won't do nothing stupid..."

"You won't do anything stupid," Mione corrected. Everyone looked at her, "Yes I have been awake the whole time too, I'm just better at pretending to be asleep compared to Barry."

"That's not hard," Andrew muttered.

Barry just realised he hadn't heard Andrew snore in a while. He decided to point this out.

"Andrew, I thought I hadn't heard you snore in a while..."

Andrew looked surprised and offended,

"I don't snore."

"Yea, you do..." Lemo shook herself awake, her new purple ears flapping, "What the f-?" She turned around to glare at Andy and Cheesy, who were rolling around laughing, "What did you do!"

Dumbledore cleared his throat,

"As I was saying..."

"Wait! I'll just wake up Banana!" Cheesy rolled over and prodded Banana on the nose, "Wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey, wakey!"

Banana pushed Cheesy's arm out of the way,

"I'm awakey!" She then began her morning 'waking up routine' which consisted of nose wriggling, arm moving and imaginary bike riding.

"Are you all quite finished!" Dumbledore said impatiently as the Head Boy shook his head muttering about 'disrespectful third years'.

"Now, like I was trying to say..." He paused and glared around the group almost daring them to interrupt him again. "Where's Parker?"

"She's with Jerome," Andy replied immediately.

"He's in Hufflepuff!"

"As you were saying sir..." Andy smiled innocently.

Dumbledore, still getting over Parkers' whereabouts, began talking again,

"Sirius Keller was close to your family before your mother and father passed away. Infact you father and Keller were best friends! Joined at the hip..." Dumbledore sighed, "They were little brats when they were at school...At the beginning of every year they attended, I would say, 'This year, they'll be mature'. But it never happened. They had two other people in their group that also caused trouble, Peter Pedigree (A/N DID THAT ON PURPOSE THIS TIME! Tehee) and Remus Loopy-"

Lemo gasped,

"Hey he has the same weird last name as our DADA teacher!"

Dumbledore nodded,

"He is your Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Miss. Roberts-"

"OH MY FUCKING GOD! Barry this is huge for you! You have a guy who knew your parents!"

"Miss. Roberts!"

Lemo pinked,

"Sorry sir...Just got a little excited..."

Dumbledore nodded,

"Understandable. Now Remus and Peter were good kids, only really tagged along on Sirius and James's plans to get each other in trouble. Anyway when they left Hogwarts they all stayed good friends and went separate career ways. James and Lily who went out in Hogwarts got married and had you Barry and Sirius was naturally made your godfather-"

"OH MY FUCKING GOD! Barry your godfather is trying to kill you!"

"Miss. Roberts!"

"Sorry again..."

"Anyway, when Voldemort-" Several shivered. "Came after you and your parents Barry, we decided to put a charm on the house your family was staying at and made Sirius the secret keeper. But unfortunately Sirius sold your parents to Voldemort. That's how you got landed with your aunt and uncle. There we go end of story! Night children!" Dumbledore rose from the floor, creaking the whole time, "I'll give you some time for it all to sink in. Oh and by the way I have made the decision that since Keller has already broken into the castle, it is simply too risky to have to training for quidditch. So, I think it really is better to cancel quidditch for this year."

"What!" Andrew, Andy, Barry and Lemo sat bolt upright, "But sir!" They chorused.

"No buts! My decision is final...I'm sorry, but I want you all to be as safe as possible. I was even contemplating cancelling Hogsmeade trips until Keller is caught, but I've decided against that..."

They all breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sir, but quidditch, you can't cancel! Me and Cheesy had a whole cheerleading chant ready for the next Gryffindor match!" Banana complained.

Dumbledore looked delighted,

"Really! That's what I call team spirit! Can I hear it?"

Cheesy and Banana exchanged a nod,

"Yes you may! Mione, you said you'd do it with us!" They heaved Mione to her feet, as she grumbled that she said nothing of the sort.

Cheesy, Mione and Banana stood in a line,

"A 1, a 2, a 1, 2, 3, 4!" Cheesy snapped her fingers to an imaginary beat. They all jumped around, Mione not very enthusiastically. They threw their arms out and pom poms appeared they then did flash pom pom throwing...moves? And began the chant,

"Gryffindor! Gryffindor!

Gryffin to the Dor and Dor to the Gryffin!

We're the best team as you know,

We're skillful. Smart. Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Barry, Drew, Andy and Emo,

Seamus, Don and Leeeeeeeeeemo!

So...

Go Barry!

Go Don!

Go Andy!

Go Drew!

Go Lemo!

Go Seamus!

Go Emo!

We rock!

G-R-Y-F-F-I-N-D-O-R!

G-R-Y-F-F-I-N-D-O-R!"

Banana and Cheesy slid forward on their knees pom poms shaking as Mione lept forward and did the splits. This was a very good effort considering they had hardly any spare space to swing a cat, let alone a whole cheerleading routine and they were restricted on how loud they could be, because they could wake up the whole hall. But they didn't. Because I'm the author and I have the pwa! .Strikes Pose. Anyway... Dumbledore clapped and wiped tears of happiness,

"That was beautiful girls! I only wished we could have quidditch this year, just so we could all see that."

Cheesy, Banana and Mione were now back in their sleeping bags, as Andy and Lemo broke into applause,

"Well there's always next year..." Banana said miserably.

"Nope, no quidditch next year." When the whole group stared at him, Dumbledore shifted his eyes, "I best be off!" He then walked very briskly out of the hall, the Head Boy hurrying behind him whisper-shouting (Yes it's possible!) asking what was happening next year...

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