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James couldn't stop thinking of Damek's letter for the next few days. He observed Damek as closely as he could in transfiguration to pick up any clues as to whom Damek is spying on. But he couldn't figure out anything. Damek maintained his cool, calm persona perfectly as if nothing had happened.

"I think we should try to get ourselves in trouble with Damek." James said to Henry one evening in the common room.

"What?" Henry looked up from his Defense Against the Dark Arts essay about ways to disarm an opponent. "That's stupid. Whatever Damek's doing probably isn't hurting anyone. Maybe he's just keeping a watch on some over-protective parent's kid or something. "You're freaking out too much, man."

For some reason, James felt really angry at Henry's dissent. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means." Henry replied. "That you're paranoid. Howgarts isn't the same as when you're dad was here. There's no dark wizard running around somewhere in England...weird things just don't happen anymore."

James stood up angrily. "I can't believe you, Henry!" He glared at his best friend. "I don't think you get how important this is! He's spying on someone...isn't that illegal or something? You're one of the few people in this place that I actually like and respect and you won't believe me?"

"James, you're blowing this out of proportion…"

"Ah!" James threw his hands up. "There you go again! 'Think logically James!'" He mocked Henry's voice in a squeaky, high-pitched tone. "'You're blowing this out of proportion, James!' Forget you!" James stormed up the stairs to the boy's dormitory, pushing frightened little first-years out of his way.

Henry watched him go and sadly shook his head.

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The next morning, James didn't sit next to Henry at breakfast. When he entered the great hall, he shot a nasty glare at Henry, mouthed the word 'traitor,' and went to sit down with Blake and the rest of the quidditch team.

"What's up with you and Potter?" Will O'Connelly asked. "Got into a little tiff?"

Henry sighed, poking his scrambled eggs with his fork. "Yeah. But he's the one mad at me."

James avoided Henry for the entire day. He couldn't forgive Henry for doubting him when he knew he was right. I'll show him…he decided. I'll find proof that Damek's out to hurt someone.

James did what ever he could to get detention with Damek. He stood up in class once and shot red sparks out of his wand. Damek sighed and transfigured the legs of his chair into gelatin so they gave way when he sat down again. The next day James smuggled two pymgy puffs he bought from his uncle George's joke shop and let them loose in class. He didn't get the reception he wanted, when the other students picked them up and petted them. Damek simply ignored them and continued his lesson.

"He's definitely onto me." He said to beater Edward Benton.

"Mmmmhmmm." Edward showed no interest whatsoever.

That night as James was lying in bed, he was thinking of what he could do to get into Damek's office. If he couldn't get in there via detention, he had one option left: sneaking in. But he couldn't think of anyway to get in. Damek is impenetrable. He was just about always in his office and whenever he did go out, his room was always locked with a complex spell that James didn't know how to counter. He frowned. Henry probably knew a way to unlock it…no! He can't ask Henry for help!

James decided to spend a few days trying to find a way to crack the lock to get into Damek's classroom. He spent his free time in the library, looking at book-after-book, trying to find any hints as to a way to get to that desk in which all of Damek's secrets were hidden. He had a whole stack of books on the table in front of him, and he was going through a book about revealing charms.

"James?" A voice said behind him.

He instinctively threw his arms over the book, covering it from sight and turned around. Audrey was standing behind him.

"A-Audrey!" He blushed. "Hey."

"I've never seen you in the library before." She laughed. "Have you taken an interest in reading?"

"Uh, well…sort of." James replied.

"Hmm." Audrey craned her neck, trying to see the book in front of James, who just slouched over it further. "Well, I'll see you later then."

Before he could stop himself, James called, "wait, Audrey!"

She stopped and turned around.

He had already started so he might as well finish. "Could you help me with something?"

She nodded and sat down across the table from him.

James took a deep breath and explained everything to her; the letter, Damek's reaction and Henry's disagreement. When he had finished, Audrey was quiet, soaking in all the information.

Slowly she spoke. "Are you sure this is something you should interfere in?"

James tried hard to avoid her beautiful brown eyes. "Yeah. I'm sure."

She cringed, as if she didn't want to say what came next. "James, it's not that I doubt you…I believe that Damek is hiding something! But Henry is a good judge, and if he says no, then maybe…"

James was crestfallen. "So you're saying he's right because he's smarter than me, right?"

"No, no, no!" Audrey shook her head. "I-I…" She breathed in and suddenly she had a new attitude. "I'll help you break into Damek's office."

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