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If I did Harry would have gotten together with any of the other girls but Ginny and Sirius Black would not have died nor Fred and Lupine.

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Chapter 15

They had all agreed that one weekend was to be the dungeon the next ,was to work on their skills and prep for the next dungeon run. The week was going by after the last run, and they were getting homework done and keeping up with their classes. So far, the Party's grads had all been the best of their year and not one teacher could complain, other than Lockhart but he spent most of his time trying to get the students respect back and failing spectacularly. Not one student liked him, and all of the female students gave him little to no attention. The Ravenclaw's where poking holes in his books on a regular basis and the Slytherin's poked holes in his teaching when they could. It didn't help that he kept getting pranked all the time. No one knew who was doing it and the twins had airtight alibies. It was frustrating for the fool, but the other teachers where also amused at what was happening. The latest prank had him tripping at every turn and he always landed in the most awkward positions. Everyone noticed that though he would trip it was never in a place that could cause him to be hurt badly. Though there were a few who did wish it would happen around that stairs.

The Party always laughed when around Lockhart as though it was fun to see what positions he would land in next. Fred and George had a betting pool going on when he would trip next and what kind of positions he would land in.

Aurora had told the Party about a dark presence she had felt in the school, so far, she had not been able to pinpoint where and what as it was hiding itself well, they all promised to keep an eye out for anything unusual.

They where in the ROR working on homework that evening after dinner. Tracy had told Harry about Ginny Weasley and her complaint's about not being in the same house as him, Ginny had not known that Tracy had heard her talking to herself about how she was going to try and get close to Harry.

Harry had looked over the others and gave a sigh. "I don't know what to do about her, she only wants me for the whole Boy who lived thing not me." He gave another sigh. "Fred told me that she has all of those Boy Who Lived adventure books and thinks I'm going to be her knight in shinning armor." Here he sat down with his head in his hands.

"Harry the only reason Ginny even has those books is because our mother kept getting them even after dad told her to stop." Fred shook his head. "Dad didn't like how obsessed Ginny was becoming and tried to stop mom, but she did not listen!" George finished.

"Well, we will keep our eye on her while in the common room, but she had not made to many friends in Slytherin, her attitude has been causing friction. But with a new head of house the others who would cause problems can't as Professor Tonks laid down the law and made it clear, "that any of the old antics of our house mates would not be tolerated." She smiled and laughed.

"Yah, she made it really clear that the stuff that had gone on before, though many of the older Slytherin's have no idea how she found out about some of the things they got up too and are trying to find a way to get around her, with no success." Blaise also laughed. He was sitting next to Tracy.

Daphne was nodding and smiled as well. She loves the new feel of Slytherin house, as the older students and Malfoy acted like they were the one to rule it, and now they had a Head that would not put up with that attitude and made sure of the safety of the younger students.

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Severus Snape was starting the next potion in the series he and the others where working on. It was part of the work they were doing trying to cure a few things like Lycanthropy. He was currently looking like a tall Smurf, the others had laughed when he came in but as the prank did not cause any hampering other then making him look ridicules, he had to keep working on the schedule project. So far, they had found a better potion to help with victims of the torture curse. There was talk of what they should be working on next potions wise as many of the new things coming in from the Owner of this project. Snape still did not know who that was and knew he was unlikely to find out. But then none of the others knew who it was as well. He did know that who ever it was had been very lucky to find some of the potion books and ingredients that they had sent. The spell creation staff had also gotten a few books that had been found as well. They had gotten started on working out new spells, it was hard work, but they were loving it as there was no limit as to what they could work on, unlike other places that did not want too many new spells getting out as they had been run by Pure Bloods.

"Snape how many of the potions have you gotten done so far for this series?" the supervisor for the potions department was standing near by.

"This is the 4th one and I still have 3 more to go!" he did not stop stirring nor did he look away from his station as he answered.

" Good work!" the supervisor walked away and checked on the others.

Not many that worked the potions department liked him, he knew it was due to how he had acted at Hogwarts, but he did not let that stop him from doing what he loved. It was not like it was his fault that the dunderheads at the school couldn't brew a simple potion. He had no idea that one of the things Aurora had in mind to prank him with was how much better Harry was at potions without him as the teacher, and how bad some of his prize Slytherin's were at it.

During his next break as Snape sat down to eat his food there was a cloud of smoke and his form was obscured, when it finally faded away there Snape sat looking like a candy-striped mime. His hair was now also cotton candy pink, and his robes now had candy-colored stripes starting at the bottom and circling up to the top, his sleeves were powder blue and lacy. He sighed as at the mirror that he conjured up then waved away. This was the 6th time his clothing had been changed like this and he still did not know who was doing it.

"Why me? What did I do to deserve this?" he sighed. It was then that another cloud of smoke puffed up and his hair was now looking like cotton candy as well, when he sighed, he realized that his voice was also changed. It had become squeaky.

His head dropped and he went back to eating saying nothing else, he knew he was being punished and should not have tempted fate like that.

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Dumbledore was also not having a good day, the trouble that Ron had gotten into was not making things easy for him. As the boy had little time to watch over Potter and he had been told by Madam Longbottom that he cannot have a chat with Miss Granger as she was now the girl's magical guardian. He was not sure who had told the Granger's that was possible, but he knew there was nothing he could do about it. He had also gotten a letter from Miss Granger that stated she would not be spying on Harry for him and to not ask her to do so again. He also had no idea how to get Harry closer to Miss Weasley, he had his friends in Slytherin, but they did not seem to want to have anything to do with the youngest Weasley. He was starting to think that Harry knew about the marriage contract he had forged. With Black free that might be the case, as he was Harry's godfather.

Dumbledore had just stood up when there was a loud squeal and then his desk shrunk down and scampered over to one of the bookcases and hid under it.

"What in the world!" he walked over to the bookcase and tried to pull his desk out but somehow got bit. When he tried to summon the desk all he got was a mountain of dust bunnies.

It was then the Professor McGonagall walked in and saw him under the mess of dust bunnies, she noticed that they looked like real bunnies and that they were twitching slightly.

"Well Headmaster if you did some cleaning in here instead of making the house elves do it all this wouldn't happen!" she was trying not to laugh as he got up with dust bunnies in his beard and hair.

"I do not know where all of this came from, and for some reason my desk shrunk and is now under that bookcases and bit me as I tried to get it back." He sighed and sat back down in his chair.

"Be that as it may, I came to let you know that many of the students are making complaints about Lockhart's class and are staring to refuse attending!" she glared at him, as she had recommended having the DMLE send someone to teach but he refused and hired Lockhart.

"If something is not done soon the school board will get involved, many of the students are writing to their parents complaining." She then looked over the office. Wondering if she might be sitting in here sooner then she thought she would.

"Now! Now! my dear, there is nothing to worry about. It will all fix itself soon, and the students will see what a good teacher that Lockhart is!" he tried to look grandfatherly but with all the dust bunnies twitching their noses at her, it failed.

"You are being a fool Albus, I will not put up with anymore foolishness from Lockhart. If he can not do the job properly then I will go to the school board myself and have them find someone who can!" with that Minerva turned around and left his office.

Sitting back in his chair Dumbledore was tired and could not for the life of him figure out why this was not going his way. Just then the shrunken desk bolted out from under the bookcase and made a mad dash down the stairs and out into the halls. Dumbledore ran after it trying to catch his desk that was doing a fairly good imitation of a scared rabbit and running all over the halls. Many of the students who saw this could not help but laugh. It was even more entreating when the headmaster thought he had the desk cornered only for it to just miss being captured and bolting once more.

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It was the next day, and the Party was in the ROR, they had all been laughing at what they heard about the latest prank with Dumbledore and his running desk.

Harry and the others where all working on their gear, there had been a lot of new stuff found and they where all going over it and picking out better armor and such, using their magic to fix what they had found and putting it on. What they did not need to use was set aside to be sold or kept in a spare trunk for storing until needed. Neville and Harry where also making and prepping new arrows for Luna as well as making more daggers and such for the others. It was at this time that Aurora popped into the ROR.

"Hello all, I wanted to see how you are all doing and ask if there was anything you need me to pick up for you?" she looked over them and smiled.

"If you could get us some more pens, and notebooks that would be great please?" Blaise asked.

"No problem, anything else?" she wrote down what Blaise asked for.

"We were wondering if you could get us a large number of water balloons and washable paint in as many colors you can that would be perfect?" the Twins had a sly look on their faces with that request.

Aurora looked at them and also got a sly smile as she nodded and add that to the list so far. This caused the others to roll their eyes and be happy that the twins had made a promises not to prank them, they where also wondering who the pair had in mind for what they where now up too.

"Ok I will also pick up more of the standard things that you all like, so snakes, pop, games, and I'm looking into getting one of the empty classrooms set up to use as a movie area." This caused the kids to laugh and smile.

"Don't forget that we will need to leave soon as I promised Hermione that we would study together today after lunch." Harry called as he finished off a number of arrow shafts.

They all nodded and got back to work as they would be leaving soon to head down for lunch.

As they made their way to the great hall many had stop to chat with them and asked what they thought of the defense teacher. The entire Party made it clear that they did not think much of the man and he had made it clear to all that he had no idea how to teach or that he even knew the subject he was supposed to be teaching. As they all sat down to eat Hermione made her way over to them and sat next to Harry as that was the only free spot, Luna was to Harry's right.

"I'm glad to be sitting here with you lot, Ron is being a pest. He keeps trying to get me to do his work for him." Hermione sighed. "I tell him that he has to do it himself, but he thinks that because I helped him last year that I was going to do it for him now." She had her head down and sighed again as she put some food on her plate. Harry and the other shared a look, they had all been talking about letting the girl into the party as she was starting to get to know the others and making friends with them on her own. Harry smiled at the nods and felt happy to be able to add one of his first friends to the Party.

"Well after lunch we are going to go study, but I want to show you a place that we have been using so far this year. And there are some things I want to show you." Harry smiled at the happy look on her face as she smiled at them all. After that they enjoyed their meal and chatted, all of them including Hermione. Laughing at the pranks that had been done to the Headmaster and Lockhart.

Just as lunch was finishing, there was a loud scream from Lockhart. All of his hair fell out and he was bald. Their was a pile of hair at his feet and he was sobbing then he ran from the hall crying

"My HAIR! My HAIR!" He tripped as he ran out falling on his face in a mysteriously placed bowl of mashed potato, and his rear in the air, their was a ripping sound as his robes split at that moment. Lockhart got back to his feet and looked around before once more running from the hall.

All the while the students were laughing many falling out of their seats. The teachers were trying hard not to laugh but many could see their shoulders shaking and that they their hands over their mouths and eyes closed. Well all but the headmaster he was looking confused and then looked all around the hall trying to see if he could spot the one or ones who had done this. He did make eye contact with the twins but had to look away quickly as he ran into their shields.

The Party got up and left the great hall along with many others, before they headed up to the ROR. Hermione was confused as they made their way up to the 7th floor, she had never really been up here and did not know of any classrooms or other places for the party to use.

"Where are we going Harry?" she was watching him and the others closely as Harry started to walk back and forth in front of one section of wall. She then gasped as a door appeared in front of Harry.

"Welcome to the Room of Requirement!" he then waved her in.

The room looked like a combination of study and crafting space. She could not help but look at the back wall that had several largo book cases on it and the comfortable chairs with tables.

"This is the ROR as we call it, from what we have found it was made by Rowena Ravenclaw. It can change it self to what ever the one calling for it needs." Harry smiled and looked around. "This is our work and craft room, but we can use different rooms as needed. This is only a part of what I want to tell you but you have to understand that we that is the Party and I do not trust Dumbledore at all and we will want you to not mention this place to anyone else for now."

Hermione looked at all of them and realized that this was vary important to all of them. "Ok, Harry, I know you would not lie to me and I have seen what you mean about not trusting the Headmaster, after that talk with my parents I have realized that he used me badly and I don't really want anything to do with him anymore!" she smiled at Harry and Neville as they hugged her. The rest could see that she was telling the truth and smiled at her as well.

Harry then had everyone sit down as he told Hermione everything that had happened at the end of the third-floor trap. She was horrified to learn of what had been done to Harry by the headmaster and how he had been treated by his so-called family. She was also happy that Harry now had someone who was there for him and helping him now. The whole game thing was fascinating and made her determined to join the Party and find out what the limit where and if she could break them. Harry had also showed her the islands and introduced her to the elves who she found where very happy and well treated.

"Ok, Harry how do I join and what do you need me to do?" the smile on her face was mirrored by the others before a screen appeared in front of her with the invite. She of course hit yes and then was given copies of all the book for school and what ever crafts she might want. Is was then decided that she and the others would go into the rat dungeon to get her some xp and work on what her weapons and role could be, Hermione smiled and said she was going for the Artificer path, and when she got blank looks, smiled and told them about how her dad was a BIG Dungeons and Dragons fan the proceeded to tell them about the role playing game and the different roles and characters that you could make. Harry now planned to get some of those books to see what he could find from it.

After getting her armored-up Harry opened the dungeon and Hermione, Blaise, Susan and Hanna went in. Harry and the others began working on their home work. It didn't take long for the Dungeon run to be finished and then they all got the school work done. It was at that time that Aurora showed up and smiled at the bushy haired girl before giving her the same gear she had given the others. Aurora had also pulled the girl into a hug and smiled.

"I'm glad that you took the chance given you to set yourself on the right path. Harry was not happy to be loosing another of his first friends but at that time you were too close to the old fool and we where both worried that he was going to turn you against Harry!" Aurora then pulled out a bunch of D&D books and set them down on one of the tables with a chuckle.

"I thought you might find theses to your liking and got as many as I could find, there are some interesting things in their though I do not know if will help with the Game for it might give you some good ideas." Harry hugged her then laughed as he knew that she must have been waiting for this to happen.

"Madam Longbottom asked me about to Dungeons and Dragon after her meeting with your parents and your father made a few comments." Aurora smiled as they all laughed.

Harry then went over the schedule they had been using, and how they set up the puppets at night so they could get more done, Hermione had no problem with this as she wanted to catch up to the others and got to work immediately on her spell skills and stats. It had also been agreed to not go back to the Labyrinth for a while to allow Hermione to catch up to them as they did not think she would be ready by the next run.

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Aurora was looking over what has been going on with the company she started and how the different departments were doing as well as looking over Snape's progress. She could not help but chuckle at a few of the pictures she had seen of how some of the pranks against him had gone down, while a few were her doing many had been done by the others in the potions department as they did not like him or how he used to teach. She was smiling as she looked over the Acromantula silk project, it was making a lot of money as she could provided a reliable amount of silk for a good price. Not all of the silk that was harvested was sold right away as she did not want to flood the market. She had set up an expanded room in the same place as her company and sent the extra silk there till it was needed or could be sold. So far she was happy with what she had managed to do so far and was planning to see if there was anything else that she could get started that would help Harry in the future.

Later after her meeting with the goblin king and her company manager after setting up some more funding and research goals, she then started to shop around for anything that might be useful.

Sirius and Remus where also in the ally looking for more that they could add to the cottage and that could be useful to the kids. They had so far picked up a set of brooms some new seeds for Neville, as well as prank supplies for all of them. They had also picked up a few things for Madams Bones and Longbottem, both had wanted to get some things set up at their homes for the kids so that they could work on their skills during the brakes. It was proving to be fun for all of them as they had been updated on what was happening in the school.

Madam Bones was also very close to getting everything together to deal with Lockhart. Her people had found enough evidence to have the man in jail for a long time and had been able to find the real people that he had stolen the memories from. It had been the goblins who had helped undo the memories charms, they also had a lot of calming draughts ready to keep Lockhart's victim's calm. Oh, she was looking forward to arresting the man. She remembered him from school and he had been a flop back then. She never did believed that he was the one to do all of what was in those books but had never been able to get the evidence together till now as Aurora had given her a staring point to work with.

"Madam Bones the goblins want you to come to the bank as the last of the memory charms have been lifted and they are all ready to give their statements!" She looked up at Shacklebolt and smiled at the smirk on his face.

"Well, let's get going I can't wait till we go and arrest that flop!" she ignored the chuckle from Shacklebolt and got her desk cleared off and her papers locked up before heading out of her office and to Gringotts.

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As the rest of the week passed the Party got to work helping Hermione get caught up with them, she sometimes went into the earlier dungeons with some of the others and she even managed to solo the rat dungeon her self. She was a ranged magic caster, and while Harry was very good and making magic weapons and getting better all the time she found her place making armor and improved on the smoke bombs as well as made a few ice bombs. She was embracing that artificer craft and had gone after every book she could on runes and arithmacy. She was also looking into a way to make more rings like the ones Harry, Neville, Luna, Fred, and George have. She knew they would be useful to them all and wanted to find a way to make more. Harry had been working on new weapons for the party, his latest blades all had runes for sharpness and magic channeling. Blaise was really impressed with the daggers that had been made for him, they had been made and tempered to be dark and not reflect light thus giving away Blaise's positon they also had been set to retune to Blaise after being away for him for a set amount of time. Harry had made serval of them and a similar set had been made for each twin as well. Luna's bow had also been enhanced by him. Making it easer for her to channel her magic into the bow and arrows. She had become deadly with her marksmanship. Hanna, Susan, and Padma had all been given short swords and daggers to carry that had been charmed to return to them like Blaise's daggers. Neville's sword was another Harry was proud of. It had strengthening runes and runes to keep it sharp as well a channels so that Neville could cast spells thru it. Harry knew that it was only the start and as he improved, he would make better and better gear for them but he was happy with his work so far. The books that had been found in the labyrinth so far a improved all of their crafting work. Neville was making wands and staffs that kept getting better all the time. They all had backup wands that had been made by him and Susan while she had her blades and loved the staff, he made for her. Tracy and Daphne where working on clothing that had protective runes stitched into it and were working with Hermione to make better gear. The twins work on their joke product was in full swing and they also worked on things like the smoke and now Ice bombs with Hermione and other stuff that could be useful to them later. They all worked on potions that could be used, anything that was for healing was made, this had the side benefit of upping their potions skill and they all where glad of that. Padma and Hermione also worked together in research and to see if they could work on making their own spells.

That weekend had them all doing smaller dungeon runs and trying out different team setups. They also made sure to show up in the castle while taking full advantage of the time dilation that they could use. Hermione had to be pulled away a few times as she got to caught up in her work and they didn't want her to get sick or over work herself.

Many of the students had noticed that Hermione had joined Harry's group. Ron was really pissed as he still was not aloud to join with them and Harry was still hanging around with the snakes. He could not understand why Harry would do so and he has not been able to get Harry to stop. The headmaster had made it clear that he needed to be friends with Harry. But the boy in question just did not want to be friends with Ron anymore.

Ron had tried many times to get Harry to stop hanging out with the others but all he did was keep getting himself in trouble with the teachers. He even got banned from the library for yelling when he tried to get Harry to pay attention to him and Harry just kept ignoring him. Hermione also was ignoring the boy as she had realized that he had been using her to get his homework done and not bothering to do it himself.

Ron was also in trouble for not getting his homework turned in, he kept making excuses and trying to get out of doing the work but had been told that if he did not start doing his work and turning it in, he would be held back a year and have to do his second year over again, also he would not be able to join the quidditch team or hold any position of power. This had made him mad as Dumbledore had promised him, he would be getting to be a prefect later. Ron reluctantly started to do his own work as many of the others would not help him , as he wanted was for them to do his work for him.

Harry, Neville and Hermione had all learned a spell that would make in so that no-one would be able to copy their work as they had all seen him looking over the work as they had set it down on one of the tables in the common room after finishing it. Harry knew that Ron might cause more trouble later but he was not too worried.

Ginny was also having a hard time of it. She still had no idea how to get Harry to notice her. She had tried to talk to the Slytherin's who where friends with Harry but had also tried to make it clear to them that he was hers. This had made the trio look at her with blank faces' and then stay away from her a lot. She hadn't made any friends in her house and Professor Tonks kept a close eye on them so their was not much time to try and find a way to get out after curfew.

The few times she saw Harry in the halls he always had his friends around him. She also saw that Harry was getting closer to Luna and she had tried to ward her away as well but had been rebuffed easily. So far, the only friend she had was Tom and he had told her that he would help her find a way to get Harry to notice her. It would just take time, so after another week of trying she was staring to get a little annoyed that he still would not even look at her.

'Maybe having another chat with Tom will help, he might have thought of something!' was the thought that ran through her head before going off to an empty classroom and getting out her quill and the diary.

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Dumbledore was not happy at all, he still had no idea how all of his plans keep falling apart, or who was responsible, and he kept having trouble with all of the pranks being done to him. His desk had shrunk and run off 2 more times this week and his robes still kept turning out awful. He had found that trying to corner a desk in his office was just as hard as trying to get to it while it was running around the school. To make matters worse he still had no idea how to get Harry up to talk to him. The boy's grade were even better then last year and there had been no detentions or major point loss for him either. As it had been made clear that he could not call Harry into his office without a good reason or without either Professor McGonagall or Black present. He did not like feeling that he had no control over Harry but had no idea how to get it back.

Harry Potter lvl 5 Title: Hogwarts student

Race: Human Class: Wizard

HP = 120 MP = 125 XP to next lvl 753/3000 stat points: 15

STR = 38

DEX = 50

CON = 45

INT = 39

WIS = 38

CHA = 30

Special Equipment

Amulet of protection (protects against potions and poisons)

Ring of Power +25 to both HP and MP (Ruby ring)

Ring of Speed +5 to DEX+CON

Skills

Gamers Mind = Max (Allows gamer to keep cool head in stressful situations, also provides protection to mind)

Gamers Body = Max (Allows gamer to recover HP & MP to full and removes all status effects)

Observe = 30/100 (allows gamer to get info on subject the higher lvl the more info) (warning some things will not give info easily or at all)

Nom-Magical

Cooking = 69/100

Cleaning = 48/100

Gardening = 47/100

Stealth = 45/ 100 (+pulse 50 when cloak is equipped)

Map Making= 49/100

Drawing= 45/100

Sword Fighting= 61/100

Blunt Weapon= 58/100

Wood Working= 55/100

Speed Reading= 71/100

Guitar= 25/100

Smithing= 71/100

Math= 55/100

Science= 45/100

Writing= 68/100

Hunting= 39/100

Camping= 43/100

Sewing= 45/100

Trap making= 49/100

LANGUAGE

English = Max

Parseltoung = Max

Beast speaking= Max

French= Max

Latin= Max

Japanese= 71/100

Magic

Transfiguration = 66/100

Charms = 62/100

DADA = 69/100

Herbology = 49/100

Potions = 54/100

Astronomy = 47/100

Wandless = 44/100

Wand Making 31/100

Meditation= 58/100

COMC= 44/100

Runes= 51/100

Arithmancy= 55/100

Warcaster = Max

Call of the Healer= Max

Keep up= Max

Mind Trap= Max

Insight's Child= Max

Leaders Light= Max

Eyes of a Hawk= Max

Riding

Broom = 75/100

Horse= 26/100

Bike=24/100