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Harry barely noticed the people he ran past. He wondered why he hadn't thought about it before. He rushed past students and teachers alike. Didn't notice or care that he almost ran a pink frog over or that he almost stepped on Mrs. Norris.

He didn't calm down before he had landed in the chamber. Without anyone else knowing, he had been sneaking down there quite often after the Riddle incident. He had cleaned out the pathway to the main chamber and had started to explore the rest. It was during one of these times that he had found something that had to be Salazar Slytherin's library. In one of the many books there he had found a potion he felt could help with Snapes problem. Harry was sure Snape could manage to make the potion and then Harry just had to apply the potion to the marked skin and then tell the mark, in Parseltongue, to release.

He quickly got the book, a basilisk tooth and headed back. It was then of course that he noticed the problem he had forgotten. Usually, when he went down into the chamber, he brought his broom so that he could get back. This time however he had forgotten to do that and now he had no way to get back up.

He sat down on a big rock and started to think. It would be no use trying to use a spell, he had tried that before. While he sat there thinking a suddenly got an urge to climb, something in him told him that he would be able to climb up the slide. He had no idea why he did it, but he went with his feeling and started to climb. He had just gotten a few inches up the slide when he started to slip. To his surprise he suddenly felt something hard under his feet and hand. Not hard as in the stone of which the slide was made of, but hard yet soft, like branches or rots. He looked up and gasped in astonishment. Rots or branches were filling the bottom of the slide, making the perfect ladder to climb.

He felt giddy as he climbed. He had yet to talk to his guardians about his changes, but he knew without a doubt that he had done this. He had been the one to call forth the branches. With their help he got to the top without a hitch.

He decided to not hurry so much back to the headmasters' office. He hadn't brought a bag or anything down to the chamber and thus he had put the tooth right in his pocket and it would really suck if it were to shift and pierce his skin.

He felt that something was amiss when he neared the office. He couldn't explain the feeling, but just somehow knew. Because of this he knocked politely and waited for answer before entering. He had to look twice. His guardians, Snape and Dumbledore were all still there, but Nagini was nowhere to be seen. However there was a woman sitting at the desk before Dumbledore and it was her that made him stop. She looked like a giant pink toad.

"Ah, Harry m'boy. You're just on time. However I am afraid we have to postpone our chat as we have had an unannounced visit from the ministry." Dumbledore said eyes twinkling brightly.

"Of course sir." Harry smiled and played along. He bowed politely and turned to head back out. Just when he was about to open the door he was stopped by an annoying sound. It sounded like someone was choking on a flute or something.

"Hem, hem," the pink lady looked expectedly at the headmaster. Dumbledore just ignored her and motioned for Harry to keep going. "I really think Dumbledore, that we should not be so rude." Harry had thought her coughing was annoying, but her voice sounded like nails on a chalkboard, plus she was speaking in a tone you normally reserved for babies. "Usually, you would introduce people when they first meet right?" Harry looked pleadingly at the headmaster, begging him with his eyes not to introduce them. He really did not want to know this woman.

The headmaster smiled at him. "Ah yes. And usually you would use their titles when you speak to them yes? Isn't that also right Madam Umbridge?" He smiled a stiff smile and Harry felt chills down his back. "Well, Harry, this is Madam Dolores Umbridge. Madam Umbridge, this is Lord Harry Potter." Harry almost laughed when he saw how her face paled and how her eyes betrayed her true feelings as the headmaster laid pressure on the difference between their statuses. Harry might not enjoy being a lord, but right now it was worth it.

"Lord Potter-Black, you mean headmaster" Sirius interrupted and her face fell even more. It took all of Harry's power to keep himself from laughing. Sirius winked at him and to Harry's astonishment he even saw Snape with a small smile.

"Madam Umbridge is here to have a look at our teachers as the minister is concerned for the quality of our teachers." Harry felt his eyebrows lift. Sure there were some teachers he didn't like or could understand why had chosen to become teachers, but that did not like what he read between the lines. The ministry was getting involved in Hogwarts and that was never a good thing.

He looked worriedly at his guardians, but they just smiled. Neither Snape nor the headmaster looked worried, but Harry wasn't really assured. At that moment he decided that if it came to it, he would use his status as both the heir of Potter and Black and as the boy-who-lived to protect Hogwarts if it became needed.

Umbridge looked suspiciously at them and then made those annoyingly painful sounds. "I also believe this boy ran me over, when I was headed here and I want justice." All teachers in the room raised their eyebrows. It wasn't the point that she demanded punishment, but she claimed to be a pureblood and she had just dismissed the point that that boy as she called him had a higher status than her. Harry shared a look with his dogfather and smirked.

"That is Lord Potter-Black to you madam Umbridge. If I really ran you down I would be happy to take the punishment appointed to me, but that does not mean you are allowed to disrespect me." Harry felt his nerves disappear and he felt so happy. He had been so afraid that if he were to meet someone who disliked him and showed it, that he would return to that week boy he had been during the summer, but it seemed like whatever it was that were happening to him it was affecting his courage and he was really grateful.

Sirius and Remus smiled proudly at him, Dumbledore gave him a twinkling looked filled with pride and even Snape looked proud, if you looked really deep into his eyes. And as none was stupid enough to do that, no one saw that.

Umbridge flushed and made odd gasping sort of noises. "I will not stand for this" She shouted in her weird voice. Dumbledore nodded gravely.

"Yes I quite agree." He said and all except Umbridge gave him weird looks, but he just winked at them. "You speak so much about what is proper and what is not madam, and yet you disrespect someone with a higher status than yourself." Harry smiled discreetly behind his hand and then got it together and looked up at the headmaster. "Lord Potter-Black will of course be punished. A weeks' worth of detentions with professor Snape will do, I think." Harry made an angry look cover his face, but on the inside he was jumping in joy. Detention would be perfect, he could help Snape getting rid of the mark then and no one would know. Dumbledore truly was a genius.