*enters with Snape* We both have terrible hangovers, and I have far too many injuries from game playing *wink*...no more parties for us...not for awhile and with finals so close *makes Snape conjure a couch* Ahhh...that's much better. Now if he'd just dim the lights, we'd be set...
Chapter 20- Dazed and Confused
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Ron and Harry had made up for, well, everything. Harry spilled everything he safely could to Ron. He told him about the training sessions, about the Omnivieve Glass, and about Malfoy.
A lot about Malfoy.
Ron had tried exhaustingly to convince Harry that he wasn't dangerous. He had made the same point Dumbledore had, and that was that his visions hadn't hurt anybody. He said that they were just like a daydream, or a waking nightmare; they couldn't do anyone any harm, and Harry just had to try and get over them, even if they were incredibly frightening or painful to watch.
And Ron made a point of Harry's relative harmlessness by smacking Harry, hard, upside the head. Harry had shrieked and yelled at Ron, getting effectively angry, and feeling rather murderous, but nothing had happened. Harry had experienced no visions or anything of the sort.
"It's obviously not triggered by sudden mood-swings, Harry," Ron had said, a big grin at his own cleverness. "Don't worry about day-to-day emotions, mate."
All in all, Harry figured Ron was right. But if it wasn't triggered by sudden emotional mood-swings, then what was causing it? Harry didn't know as of yet, but as Ron had pointed out, locking himself up in their room was no answer to the problem. That was why he was out with Ron now, walking the corridors of Hogwarts.
And besides what was he going to do with classes tomorrow? There was no way he could stay hidden up in the Gryffindor Tower; McGonagall wouldn't allow it, and there was no amount of spells Harry knew to barricade himself in their room which McGonagall couldn't undo. All there was left to do now was to get on with his plans...and life. First things first, he and Ron were in search of Hermione.
"...and that's why George is afraid of rabbits. And besides, if a knight couldn't stop it, then what really could?" Ron huffed out. "I swear, muggles have the strangest ideas of any creature I know."
"Even Dobby?"
Ron thought for a moment. "Okay, not all creatures." They both laughed lightheartedly and sighed. It felt good to laugh after these past few days.
"Are you sure she's not in the tower, though?" Harry asked Ron of Hermione's whereabouts.
"No way she's there today. I heard Hermione telling Chelton McNabb that muggle charm bracelets aren't what she thinks they are, and that no matter what a ~Gems and Jewelry~ Catalogue says, they aren't filled with 'a secret to muggle magic'. No doubt she's trying to teach her a thing or two about muggles, and Chelton is always in the library anyways."
"Oh."
They were taking what one would call the 'scenic route' to the library as Harry still wanted to avoid large crowds. They were passing by one of Hogwart's many courtyards when they came across a group of young Slytherins all huddled around a bush. Both boys slowed their pace until they came to a dead stop just staring at the group in confusion.
"What are they doing?" Harry uttered to Ron. They seemed to be kids younger than Harry and Ron, and they were all just sort of standing around in a circle, not really doing anything. No trace of talking nor sound could be heard from the huddle.
"Oy!" Ron shouted at the group accusingly. After what had happened with Ron and Malfoy only yesterday, Ron had gained something of confidence in the face of Slytherins.
"What're you doin'?"
The group of children lightly swayed, and Ron and Harry both looked at each other, baffled. What kind of Slytherin behavior was this?
"Oy!" Ron said again, this time approaching them. Harry followed in his stead, curiosity overwhelming him.
"What -are- they doing?" Harry inquired softly.
"Whatever it is, it can't be good," Ron told him, muttering about Slytherins and whatnot.
Approaching the Slytherins, Harry noticed it to be the same place he had gone only last night before his meeting with Snape. It was funny how his place of solace was a Slytherin meeting ground.
"What're you doing there?" Ron asked intimidatingly. In unison, they turned their heads and stared at Ron and Harry in bewilderment.
Both boys stopped, more than disturbed. First off, neither one had received anything even like a glare from these kids. Second, they had a strange look about them unlike what one would expect to see from a Slytherin. Something wasn't right with their glazed eyes and stunned expressions.
"Are they...okay?" Ron asked apprehensively.
"I don't know...Hey!" Harry called to them. They made no movement to say anything back to Harry. He walked over to them, flanked by Ron. He stopped in front of them and waved his hand in front of one's face. They did nothing to stop him, and merely followed his hand with their heads.
"Are you alright?" he asked a boy. He just stared at Harry like the others. Harry took him by the shoulders and shook him, getting no reaction.
"What's wrong with them?" Ron asked, trying the same thing. "Were they cursed? Maybe obliviated?"
"I don't know. How long do you think they've been like this?"
"A little while, maybe?"
"Why wouldn't anyone have noticed this?"
"They're Slytherins. No one would bother them."
"Hey hey! Are you alright?" Harry tried again. But they only kept staring at him with their glazed eyes and puzzled looks.
"What should we do? Should we try a counter-curse?"
"It might complicate things. You shouldn't mix spells. We need to get McGonagall.
"Probably Madam Pomfrey..."
"Should we leave them alone?"
"I'll stay here with them. You go get McGonagall, and I'll wait."
"You gonna be alright, Harry?"
"Yeah. They're in no state to do anything to me. Just get McGonagall here."
"Okay, mate, I'll be right back." Ron took off at a run back through the halls and left Harry there to watch over the dazed and confused Slytherins.
"Can any of you understand me?" Harry asked the little group. None gave him anything resembling a response, but just sort of watched him and did nothing else. Harry took a seat on a bench and waited for Ron, kicking at the grass. He wondered if someone had come by and hexed the little buggers as payback for something. There was still this petty rivalry going on in Hogwarts and Harry thought it sad that they all didn't see the bigger picture of life.
He picked up little pebbles off the ground and started throwing them in the bush that the Slytherins had been staring at. He chucked them trying to hit target leaves, and getting them every time. One thing that had definitely changed about him with this whole ordeal was his skills. Snape had helped him see that aspect of his new abilities with last night's training session, so if anything, he proved that he could be formidable enough to handle this group of Slytherins should they suddenly wake up from their daze and blame him.
Harry chucked yet another rock at the bush and then stopped as movement caught his eye. He waited for a moment, and then saw a white rabbit appear. It was the same white rabbit he had seen the previous night.
//Were they harassing the rabbit, maybe?//
Before he could draw any conclusions about what the Slytherins were doing, the rabbit hopped out, ate something off the ground, and hopped back to its burrow.
//No way they were feedin it...//
Harry heard running coming from behind on the grass and saw Ron coming towards him flanked by Professor McGonagall.
"Any different?" Ron asked, out of breath.
"Nothing."
"Children! What are you all doing?" McGonagall called to the little Slytherins. They didn't acknowledge her, but turned their eyes to her now as she was speaking. "What happened to them, Mr. Potter?"
"I don't know. Me and Ron found them like this, Professor."
"They were all huddled around the bush just staring, and-"
"-we thought it was strange, how they were just standing there in a circle." Harry finished.
"In a circle, Potter?"
"Yes, ma'am."
McGonagall looked worried as she inspected the Slytherins, trying to get some sort of reaction out of them. She shook them, waved her arms in front of them, and even threatened them with detention if one of them didn't stop this 'little joke'. But they wouldn't do anything apart from stand and stare.
"Mr. Weasley, go and fetch Professor Snape. Don't give me that look, just go. Have him meet us in the hospital wing. Potter, you'll stay with me."
Reluctantly, Ron went off in search of the Head of Slytherin as McGonagall regarded Harry somewhat worrisome.
"What's wrong with them, Professor?"
"I don't know, but we've got to get them to Madam Pomfrey." She set out across the lawn, trying to make them follow her, but it was no use. They wouldn't respond to her commands nor would they make any move to follow. And since she wouldn't mix spells on them, McGonagall had to settle for moving them manually one at a time with Harry's help. And once she got them all walking, they wouldn't stop. She had to run ahead and move any obstacles as Harry tried to keep them together as they followed her to the hospital wing.
Once finally there, she had Madam Pomfrey guide them to beds and set them down, where they stayed and showed no difference for lack of the courtyard.
"What's happened, Minerva?"
"We're not sure. Potter and Weasley found them in the north courtyard." She then went on to describe what she had seen and what she was told, having Harry interject at intervals.
This was making Harry far worse than worried. The way they talked, it seemed that something more dangerous was going on than just students cursing each other. Harry looked about the hospital and noticed that one of the beds had a privacy curtain around it, and he guessed it to be Malfoy still recovering from the curse Ron had hit him with. He was going to go over and visit when Snape entered the room closely followed by a more than agitated-looking Ron.
Snape looked about the hospital beds filled with glaze-eyes Slytherins and set his glare down upon Harry.
"What's happened, Potter?"
"We aren't sure, Severus. The two boys found them this way." McGonagall told him. Snape strode over to the boy Harry had shaken earlier and tried to get a response from him, but was as unsuccessful as the others.
"Where did you find them, Potter?"
"The north courtyard, sir."
"And they displayed only this behavior?"
"Yes."
"Severus, are there no potions that can have this affect upon them?"
"No potions that students would be capable of producing..." Snape then gave Harry and Ron a hard look.
"What about spells? They seem to be in a daze, but a perplexus curse couldn't have this affect."
"Unless maybe it was combined with another," Madam Pomfrey said. "But what could cause them to behave this way?"
Harry leaned over to Ron and whispered to him as the adults spoke. "What do you think happened?"
"Maybe they were just cursed?"
"They seem like they're asleep while they're awake," Harry told him. "Like they're dreaming."
"What was that, Potter?!" Harry jumped. Apparently he and Ron weren't as quiet as they had thought.
"Nothing..."
"Tell me, Potter. What did you just say?!"
Harry looked to Ron in question as he answered Snape. "I said that they seemed like they were dreaming, or asleep but awake?"
Snape looked calculatingly at Harry. Whatever he had just said had alerted something inside the Potions Master's head. Snape suddenly swept out of the room in a flourish of haste and compulsion.
"Where's he going?"
"I don't know...What did I say?"
"Maybe he knows something about what's happened?"
"Minerva?"
"I think we should research sleeping potions and spells. Poppy, do you have anything that would work as a counter-curse against such magic?"
"I believe so. You boys can go."
Harry and Ron quickly departed, leaving the dazed Slytherins and fretting teachers alone.
"What do you think they're going to do?" Ron asked Harry after awhile.
"Probably get Dumbledore. Snape'll probably find something. He seemed to know something about it. Or at least, I think."
"Maybe you're onto something, mate."
"I don't know. I mean, how could they be asleep but awake? They weren't sleepwalking, and you'd think someone would've seen something."
"You don't think it has to do with -him-, do you?"
Harry suddenly had a strange sense of terror, and felt that this was the beginning of bad things to come. "I hope not. For their sakes."
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It don't take that long to review...sooo...do it:)
I think I'm starting to lose a bit of my sparkle and shine. At least in my opinion. I dunno...Hey, whatever you'd like to see, I'm always open to suggestions. Points to anyone who understood the allusion to Monty Python!
PhoenixPadfoot89: Yeah, well, what're ya gonna do? *puts hand up in question* hee hee
star*dust: Hey, thanx a lot, and welcome! Glad you like what I'm doin'. This is the kind of feedback I like so I know what gets ya'll or not:) Yeah, it wasn't exactly a cliffe...I've been neglecting my Cliffhanger Queen duties of late *oops* Hope I didna make you wait too long:)
ParanoiaIn2005: Another great review! Oh what ever will I do with my Potions Master? Hey, what I had to go take care of is between me and Snape...you can take that sentence any way you want...hee hee! Yeah, he's frightened by the idea of our children *Snape looks horrified once more, and retreats back to couch* He hasn't accepted the idea yet that we're in love *Snape actually faints* Yeah! That's what you get for hexing me and my reviewers! What would our children say?! * ... * Huh, that's humanity for ya. And glad you liked my Ron! I think that all good friends piss the others off for their own sake sometime, so Ron is the major candidate for that one:) I won't hurt any of them...yet (MUHUHAHAHA!). Nah, j/k, no major plans for any character harm-age coming up...soo...yeah.
Katani Petitedra: *Snape laughs maniacally* Yeah, he really doesn't like lollipops, but that's no reason to light someone's tail on fire! *makes her Snapey clean up fire trails*
Arizosa: I'm rather amazed that you actually took the time to e-mail me a review!! I feel so special! Thanx for reviewing even when FF.net wouldn't let you! Now -thats- determination! *huggles* And such a good review too! That's great feedback. Good to know I'm doing something right with Ron and Harry's characters. Ron is a true blue friend, plus he's stubborn. He wouldn't let Harry alone if Harry paid him:) And don't we all just love Snape? As I was telling ParanoiaIn2005, he's gonna be so good to our children *as Snape regains consciousness, he faints once more* heh heh. I'm a comfy bearhug? Yay! *hugs you...like a bear* That's so nice of you to say:) And hey, a review now and then is better than none at all:)
Victoria: Hello and welcome to...umm...well...here! Thanx for taking the time to review and also to give my ego a much needed boost...(tee hee) I hope you continue to like it, as well as hope I can keep coming up with stuff:) I didn't think I was keeping it interesting and exciting, but you've helped to sway my opinion a bit...well, i hope so:) And here ya go!
NO NAME, lol: Welcome to my realm of mystery:) I guess I get ta keep ya in suspense then, eh? heh heh heh...Cliffhanger Queen strikes once more!! Okay, I'll just get my lazy ass writin' then, shall I?
Charmed-103: Yeah, that was incredibly freakin' short, and hopefully I won't do it again:) I hope Harry knows what he's doing, ya kno, telin' Ron and all...there could be serious backlashes *gasp* I'll try to write quicker and longer, damn my lazy bones. And that's fine if ya didn't review last time! Just good to kno you're still with us! *gives you a cookie*
Anne: I think he watches me creepily sometimes from behind the couch. Snape has yet to catch him. Harry's clever that way:) You'd be surprised by the amount of school-read reviews I get! It's pretty funny:) Thanx for readin' me instead of doin' your work! I like to see that I'm an important contribution to the school-system:) heh heh heh...but damn Harry...now where'd he get to? *sees Harry hiding behind couch* Get outta there, you! *slap*
Chapter 20- Dazed and Confused
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Ron and Harry had made up for, well, everything. Harry spilled everything he safely could to Ron. He told him about the training sessions, about the Omnivieve Glass, and about Malfoy.
A lot about Malfoy.
Ron had tried exhaustingly to convince Harry that he wasn't dangerous. He had made the same point Dumbledore had, and that was that his visions hadn't hurt anybody. He said that they were just like a daydream, or a waking nightmare; they couldn't do anyone any harm, and Harry just had to try and get over them, even if they were incredibly frightening or painful to watch.
And Ron made a point of Harry's relative harmlessness by smacking Harry, hard, upside the head. Harry had shrieked and yelled at Ron, getting effectively angry, and feeling rather murderous, but nothing had happened. Harry had experienced no visions or anything of the sort.
"It's obviously not triggered by sudden mood-swings, Harry," Ron had said, a big grin at his own cleverness. "Don't worry about day-to-day emotions, mate."
All in all, Harry figured Ron was right. But if it wasn't triggered by sudden emotional mood-swings, then what was causing it? Harry didn't know as of yet, but as Ron had pointed out, locking himself up in their room was no answer to the problem. That was why he was out with Ron now, walking the corridors of Hogwarts.
And besides what was he going to do with classes tomorrow? There was no way he could stay hidden up in the Gryffindor Tower; McGonagall wouldn't allow it, and there was no amount of spells Harry knew to barricade himself in their room which McGonagall couldn't undo. All there was left to do now was to get on with his plans...and life. First things first, he and Ron were in search of Hermione.
"...and that's why George is afraid of rabbits. And besides, if a knight couldn't stop it, then what really could?" Ron huffed out. "I swear, muggles have the strangest ideas of any creature I know."
"Even Dobby?"
Ron thought for a moment. "Okay, not all creatures." They both laughed lightheartedly and sighed. It felt good to laugh after these past few days.
"Are you sure she's not in the tower, though?" Harry asked Ron of Hermione's whereabouts.
"No way she's there today. I heard Hermione telling Chelton McNabb that muggle charm bracelets aren't what she thinks they are, and that no matter what a ~Gems and Jewelry~ Catalogue says, they aren't filled with 'a secret to muggle magic'. No doubt she's trying to teach her a thing or two about muggles, and Chelton is always in the library anyways."
"Oh."
They were taking what one would call the 'scenic route' to the library as Harry still wanted to avoid large crowds. They were passing by one of Hogwart's many courtyards when they came across a group of young Slytherins all huddled around a bush. Both boys slowed their pace until they came to a dead stop just staring at the group in confusion.
"What are they doing?" Harry uttered to Ron. They seemed to be kids younger than Harry and Ron, and they were all just sort of standing around in a circle, not really doing anything. No trace of talking nor sound could be heard from the huddle.
"Oy!" Ron shouted at the group accusingly. After what had happened with Ron and Malfoy only yesterday, Ron had gained something of confidence in the face of Slytherins.
"What're you doin'?"
The group of children lightly swayed, and Ron and Harry both looked at each other, baffled. What kind of Slytherin behavior was this?
"Oy!" Ron said again, this time approaching them. Harry followed in his stead, curiosity overwhelming him.
"What -are- they doing?" Harry inquired softly.
"Whatever it is, it can't be good," Ron told him, muttering about Slytherins and whatnot.
Approaching the Slytherins, Harry noticed it to be the same place he had gone only last night before his meeting with Snape. It was funny how his place of solace was a Slytherin meeting ground.
"What're you doing there?" Ron asked intimidatingly. In unison, they turned their heads and stared at Ron and Harry in bewilderment.
Both boys stopped, more than disturbed. First off, neither one had received anything even like a glare from these kids. Second, they had a strange look about them unlike what one would expect to see from a Slytherin. Something wasn't right with their glazed eyes and stunned expressions.
"Are they...okay?" Ron asked apprehensively.
"I don't know...Hey!" Harry called to them. They made no movement to say anything back to Harry. He walked over to them, flanked by Ron. He stopped in front of them and waved his hand in front of one's face. They did nothing to stop him, and merely followed his hand with their heads.
"Are you alright?" he asked a boy. He just stared at Harry like the others. Harry took him by the shoulders and shook him, getting no reaction.
"What's wrong with them?" Ron asked, trying the same thing. "Were they cursed? Maybe obliviated?"
"I don't know. How long do you think they've been like this?"
"A little while, maybe?"
"Why wouldn't anyone have noticed this?"
"They're Slytherins. No one would bother them."
"Hey hey! Are you alright?" Harry tried again. But they only kept staring at him with their glazed eyes and puzzled looks.
"What should we do? Should we try a counter-curse?"
"It might complicate things. You shouldn't mix spells. We need to get McGonagall.
"Probably Madam Pomfrey..."
"Should we leave them alone?"
"I'll stay here with them. You go get McGonagall, and I'll wait."
"You gonna be alright, Harry?"
"Yeah. They're in no state to do anything to me. Just get McGonagall here."
"Okay, mate, I'll be right back." Ron took off at a run back through the halls and left Harry there to watch over the dazed and confused Slytherins.
"Can any of you understand me?" Harry asked the little group. None gave him anything resembling a response, but just sort of watched him and did nothing else. Harry took a seat on a bench and waited for Ron, kicking at the grass. He wondered if someone had come by and hexed the little buggers as payback for something. There was still this petty rivalry going on in Hogwarts and Harry thought it sad that they all didn't see the bigger picture of life.
He picked up little pebbles off the ground and started throwing them in the bush that the Slytherins had been staring at. He chucked them trying to hit target leaves, and getting them every time. One thing that had definitely changed about him with this whole ordeal was his skills. Snape had helped him see that aspect of his new abilities with last night's training session, so if anything, he proved that he could be formidable enough to handle this group of Slytherins should they suddenly wake up from their daze and blame him.
Harry chucked yet another rock at the bush and then stopped as movement caught his eye. He waited for a moment, and then saw a white rabbit appear. It was the same white rabbit he had seen the previous night.
//Were they harassing the rabbit, maybe?//
Before he could draw any conclusions about what the Slytherins were doing, the rabbit hopped out, ate something off the ground, and hopped back to its burrow.
//No way they were feedin it...//
Harry heard running coming from behind on the grass and saw Ron coming towards him flanked by Professor McGonagall.
"Any different?" Ron asked, out of breath.
"Nothing."
"Children! What are you all doing?" McGonagall called to the little Slytherins. They didn't acknowledge her, but turned their eyes to her now as she was speaking. "What happened to them, Mr. Potter?"
"I don't know. Me and Ron found them like this, Professor."
"They were all huddled around the bush just staring, and-"
"-we thought it was strange, how they were just standing there in a circle." Harry finished.
"In a circle, Potter?"
"Yes, ma'am."
McGonagall looked worried as she inspected the Slytherins, trying to get some sort of reaction out of them. She shook them, waved her arms in front of them, and even threatened them with detention if one of them didn't stop this 'little joke'. But they wouldn't do anything apart from stand and stare.
"Mr. Weasley, go and fetch Professor Snape. Don't give me that look, just go. Have him meet us in the hospital wing. Potter, you'll stay with me."
Reluctantly, Ron went off in search of the Head of Slytherin as McGonagall regarded Harry somewhat worrisome.
"What's wrong with them, Professor?"
"I don't know, but we've got to get them to Madam Pomfrey." She set out across the lawn, trying to make them follow her, but it was no use. They wouldn't respond to her commands nor would they make any move to follow. And since she wouldn't mix spells on them, McGonagall had to settle for moving them manually one at a time with Harry's help. And once she got them all walking, they wouldn't stop. She had to run ahead and move any obstacles as Harry tried to keep them together as they followed her to the hospital wing.
Once finally there, she had Madam Pomfrey guide them to beds and set them down, where they stayed and showed no difference for lack of the courtyard.
"What's happened, Minerva?"
"We're not sure. Potter and Weasley found them in the north courtyard." She then went on to describe what she had seen and what she was told, having Harry interject at intervals.
This was making Harry far worse than worried. The way they talked, it seemed that something more dangerous was going on than just students cursing each other. Harry looked about the hospital and noticed that one of the beds had a privacy curtain around it, and he guessed it to be Malfoy still recovering from the curse Ron had hit him with. He was going to go over and visit when Snape entered the room closely followed by a more than agitated-looking Ron.
Snape looked about the hospital beds filled with glaze-eyes Slytherins and set his glare down upon Harry.
"What's happened, Potter?"
"We aren't sure, Severus. The two boys found them this way." McGonagall told him. Snape strode over to the boy Harry had shaken earlier and tried to get a response from him, but was as unsuccessful as the others.
"Where did you find them, Potter?"
"The north courtyard, sir."
"And they displayed only this behavior?"
"Yes."
"Severus, are there no potions that can have this affect upon them?"
"No potions that students would be capable of producing..." Snape then gave Harry and Ron a hard look.
"What about spells? They seem to be in a daze, but a perplexus curse couldn't have this affect."
"Unless maybe it was combined with another," Madam Pomfrey said. "But what could cause them to behave this way?"
Harry leaned over to Ron and whispered to him as the adults spoke. "What do you think happened?"
"Maybe they were just cursed?"
"They seem like they're asleep while they're awake," Harry told him. "Like they're dreaming."
"What was that, Potter?!" Harry jumped. Apparently he and Ron weren't as quiet as they had thought.
"Nothing..."
"Tell me, Potter. What did you just say?!"
Harry looked to Ron in question as he answered Snape. "I said that they seemed like they were dreaming, or asleep but awake?"
Snape looked calculatingly at Harry. Whatever he had just said had alerted something inside the Potions Master's head. Snape suddenly swept out of the room in a flourish of haste and compulsion.
"Where's he going?"
"I don't know...What did I say?"
"Maybe he knows something about what's happened?"
"Minerva?"
"I think we should research sleeping potions and spells. Poppy, do you have anything that would work as a counter-curse against such magic?"
"I believe so. You boys can go."
Harry and Ron quickly departed, leaving the dazed Slytherins and fretting teachers alone.
"What do you think they're going to do?" Ron asked Harry after awhile.
"Probably get Dumbledore. Snape'll probably find something. He seemed to know something about it. Or at least, I think."
"Maybe you're onto something, mate."
"I don't know. I mean, how could they be asleep but awake? They weren't sleepwalking, and you'd think someone would've seen something."
"You don't think it has to do with -him-, do you?"
Harry suddenly had a strange sense of terror, and felt that this was the beginning of bad things to come. "I hope not. For their sakes."
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It don't take that long to review...sooo...do it:)
I think I'm starting to lose a bit of my sparkle and shine. At least in my opinion. I dunno...Hey, whatever you'd like to see, I'm always open to suggestions. Points to anyone who understood the allusion to Monty Python!
PhoenixPadfoot89: Yeah, well, what're ya gonna do? *puts hand up in question* hee hee
star*dust: Hey, thanx a lot, and welcome! Glad you like what I'm doin'. This is the kind of feedback I like so I know what gets ya'll or not:) Yeah, it wasn't exactly a cliffe...I've been neglecting my Cliffhanger Queen duties of late *oops* Hope I didna make you wait too long:)
ParanoiaIn2005: Another great review! Oh what ever will I do with my Potions Master? Hey, what I had to go take care of is between me and Snape...you can take that sentence any way you want...hee hee! Yeah, he's frightened by the idea of our children *Snape looks horrified once more, and retreats back to couch* He hasn't accepted the idea yet that we're in love *Snape actually faints* Yeah! That's what you get for hexing me and my reviewers! What would our children say?! * ... * Huh, that's humanity for ya. And glad you liked my Ron! I think that all good friends piss the others off for their own sake sometime, so Ron is the major candidate for that one:) I won't hurt any of them...yet (MUHUHAHAHA!). Nah, j/k, no major plans for any character harm-age coming up...soo...yeah.
Katani Petitedra: *Snape laughs maniacally* Yeah, he really doesn't like lollipops, but that's no reason to light someone's tail on fire! *makes her Snapey clean up fire trails*
Arizosa: I'm rather amazed that you actually took the time to e-mail me a review!! I feel so special! Thanx for reviewing even when FF.net wouldn't let you! Now -thats- determination! *huggles* And such a good review too! That's great feedback. Good to know I'm doing something right with Ron and Harry's characters. Ron is a true blue friend, plus he's stubborn. He wouldn't let Harry alone if Harry paid him:) And don't we all just love Snape? As I was telling ParanoiaIn2005, he's gonna be so good to our children *as Snape regains consciousness, he faints once more* heh heh. I'm a comfy bearhug? Yay! *hugs you...like a bear* That's so nice of you to say:) And hey, a review now and then is better than none at all:)
Victoria: Hello and welcome to...umm...well...here! Thanx for taking the time to review and also to give my ego a much needed boost...(tee hee) I hope you continue to like it, as well as hope I can keep coming up with stuff:) I didn't think I was keeping it interesting and exciting, but you've helped to sway my opinion a bit...well, i hope so:) And here ya go!
NO NAME, lol: Welcome to my realm of mystery:) I guess I get ta keep ya in suspense then, eh? heh heh heh...Cliffhanger Queen strikes once more!! Okay, I'll just get my lazy ass writin' then, shall I?
Charmed-103: Yeah, that was incredibly freakin' short, and hopefully I won't do it again:) I hope Harry knows what he's doing, ya kno, telin' Ron and all...there could be serious backlashes *gasp* I'll try to write quicker and longer, damn my lazy bones. And that's fine if ya didn't review last time! Just good to kno you're still with us! *gives you a cookie*
Anne: I think he watches me creepily sometimes from behind the couch. Snape has yet to catch him. Harry's clever that way:) You'd be surprised by the amount of school-read reviews I get! It's pretty funny:) Thanx for readin' me instead of doin' your work! I like to see that I'm an important contribution to the school-system:) heh heh heh...but damn Harry...now where'd he get to? *sees Harry hiding behind couch* Get outta there, you! *slap*