A/N: I don't own anything. I put a poll up on my profile for a sequel about which book(s) I should do next.

Chapter 7 The Dueling Club

Lockhart walked onto the stage.

Great, a moronic teaching dueling. This'll be fun. Lelouch thought.

Snape also walked onstage.

Lockhart began, "Gather round, gather round! Can you all see me? Can everyone hear me? Excellent! Professor Dumbledore has granted me permission to start this little dueling club, to train you all in case you ever need to defend yourselves as I have done many times. For all of the nice details, see any of my books. Professor Snape will be my assistant. We will do a little demonstration. No worries, you'll still have a Potions teacher left after I'm done with him."

Snape looked very ticked off. The two 'bowed'. Snape just jerked his head, while Lockhart made his 'elegant'.

"As you can see, we are holding our wands in a combative position. On the count of three, we will cast our first spells. Neither of use will aim to kill, of course." Lockhart told the students.

"One, two, three."

Snape began with Expelliarmus. Lockhart flew afar off the stage. Lelouch chuckled silently to himself.

"Now, Professor Snape and I will pair you all up."

Lockhart came around. "Lamperouge is it? You pair with Goyle." Lelouch, reluctantly went over to Gregory Goyle. He overheard Snape pairing Potter and Malfoy and Lockhart pairing Crabbe and Suzaku.

"Face your partners and bow!" Lockhart yelled. "Wands at the ready. On three, fire your Disarming Charms. Only disarm, we don't want any accidents. One, two, three."

"Expelliarmus, Levicorpus, Avis, Oppugno." Lelouch called them out quickly. Goyle's wand was gone, he was hanging upside down in the air, and conjured birds were attacking him. Lelouch was mildly amused. Lelouch looked over at Suzaku. Suzaku had clearly beaten Crabbe by a long shot.

"I said disarm only!" Lockhart said. The students had been taken out of any spells, or in Hermione's case, out of a headlock. "Now, we'll try a block to defend against unwanted spells." Harry and Malfoy went up to the stage.

"Harry, you will use Protego. Draco will try to disarm you. Ready? Three, two, one." Lockhart called.

Harry failed his Protection Charm, but Malfoy, instead of a Disarm Charm, he used Serpensortia. A snake slithered over to Harry. People stepped away from it. Before Snape could get rid of it, Lockhart launched it to the wall. It went over to Justin Finch. The snake poised itself to strike. Then the strangest thing happened. Harry spoke in the Snake Tongue. The snake moved away. A Parseltongue, huh? Salazar Slytherin was a Parselmouth, too, and only the heir of Slytherin can open the Chamber. Is Harry Slytherin's heir? Lelouch pondered. He's at least a suspect. While Lelouch thought, the snake was taken care of. Lelouch left the Dueling Club feeling like he needed to investigate.

The next day, Herbology was canceled due to the amount of snow nearby the greenhouses, not that Lelouch cared. He was happy he wouldn't receive a detention to go into his Animagus Transfiguration time. Since Nunally had class, she was going to stay while the others went to the Shrieking Shack to practice. No real problems, instead though, there was a bit of improvement. Lelouch was almost able to get it all the way. He only lacked the true size of the cat. What he looked like was a panther, but he still considered it much progress. Suzaku got the body of the Spitz. A dog with a human head, it's just a little weird. C2 was by far the best. She had mastered her hummingbird almost perfectly. She had become a nice green color, complete with wings, the head, and the body. After a couple hours, they decided they'd better leave.

The group began walking back to the common room. They turned a corner when they saw Harry. Next to him were Nearly Headless Nick and Justin Finch-Fletchley. Both from the looks of it had been Petrified. Lelouch noticed the spiders fleeing away from the scene, out to the grounds.

"Harry, is there something you would like to tell us?" Lelouch asked.

Harry began to open his mouth when Peeves flew in screaming at the top of his lungs that there had been another attack. People began to rush over. McGonagall, Rakshata, and the rest of the class followed in together.

"Oh dear." Rakshata exclaimed.

"Caught in the act!" Ernie Macmillan yelled. He was quickly reprimanded by McGonagall. Justin and Nearly Headless Nick were taken to the hospital wing easily enough.

"This way, Potter," she said. Harry got taken away.

"Spooky stuff." Suzaku said.

"Why is it that every time there's an attack, Harry is right there? Yet, he seems innocent enough. Is he drawn there for some reason?" Lelouch questioned.

"I don't know, but now I think it's best to stay away from Harry." Suzaku replied.

"We better figure out what's going on? I'll follow him; see if he knows anything or if he is the Heir of Slytherin." Lelouch told.

Suzaku nodded in agreement and they walked down to dinner.

Christmas break rolled around and there were a lot less people in the corridors. Lelouch finished all of his homework, along with helping Nunally and Suzaku with theirs. This gave them the rest of the break to finish up the touches with their Animagus forms.

Early Christmas morning, Lelouch heard Ron and Harry getting woken up by Hermione. They talked about a potion they were making, outside of class. Lelouch knew Suzaku was awake and listening. The trio kept talking, ignoring the fact that Lelouch and Suzaku were right there. They went down and opened their presents. Lelouch and Suzaku then got up.

"Did you hear that? They're making a potion. I wonder what one?" Suzaku asked.

"It has to have lacewings, and it takes a long time to make. We'll follow them later and see what's going on?" Lelouch replied.

They got dressed and went down to open presents. Lelouch got a marble chess board from Suzaku, an Arithmancy book from C2 and some Chocolate Frogs from Nunally. Lelouch had given Suzaku a defensive spells book, C2 some pizza, and Nunally a giant teddy bear. They enjoyed breakfast and decided they needed a day off from Animagus activities, even though they were nearly done. Lelouch and Suzaku kept an eye on Harry, Hermione, and Ron.