The Dragon Tamer

Summary: Charlie has a secret; his family doesn't know, his friends don't know, only he knows...he and the beautiful Rai Higurashi...who was now dead. His secret? He had a daughter...her name, keeping his beautiful Rai's last name, Kagome Higurashi. He has raised her with all the love and care that a Dragon Tamer can, now...it's time she goes and lives her own life, but, can he let her go...or will his need to protect her keep him from letting her go?

Anime/Book/Movie: InuYasha/Harry Potter

Pairing: (Slight Harry/Kagome) – Draco/Kagome

Genre: Romance/Adventure

Rated: M for Mature Content

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As soon as Kagome got to the room, she was confronted by Fred and George, she didn't see Ginny immediately, but knew that unless she was alone with her Aunt, she would get no answers from the girl anyways. Harry and Ron followed in a few minutes after, and then about twenty minutes later, after listening to the students talk about what was going on and wondering where Hermione was, the portrait opened and McGonagall entered with a scroll which she opened, "Could I have your attention please, because of recent events, these new rules will be put into effect immediately. All students will return to their house common rooms by six o'clock, all students must be escorted by a teacher, no exceptions." She rolled up the scroll and looked to each student with a sad and worried look, "I should tell you this; unless the culprit behind these attacks is caught...it is likely the school will be closed."

That was it...the one clash which took its toll on all the students as a whole. This may not have been their home, but it was like one, but to many of them it was their home, a home away from home.

Kagome watched as Harry and Ron whispered off to the side, turning to Fred and George, she smiled and commented on drowsiness, excusing herself for a nap. She followed behind Harry and Ron silently until they were up in the boy's dormitory, "I'm coming with you, no matter what you say, I will follow!" She didn't even let her Uncle talk, he knew she would tail after them once they left.

"..." Harry looked to Ron, and sighed, "Fine, lets go! We need to be fast,"

"Not now, it's too bright, and too early! We'll go at seven!" Kagome rolled her eyes, "Without Hermione around, you two are all over the place, for now...we need to talk. It's about Ginny..."

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Seven o'clock fell quickly and the three made their way down the stairs to find Ginny.

'Oh Bloody Hell! Where in Merlin's name is she!' Kagome was searching through the students in the common room, but she couldn't find her Aunt, not anywhere. "Neville!"

Neville jumped shockingly and turned, "Y-yes?"

"Have you seen Ginny?"

"...no, she was acting strange earlier, she just...left in some kind of daze, I haven't seen her since..."

"...how long ago was that?" She asked, looking at the clock, it was near seven thirty now. She saw Harry and Ron looking curiously on as she interrogated Neville.

"...maybe an hour ago..."

"...an hour..." Kagome closed her eyes, 'Please...please be okay...'

They made their way around a corner and out of view of the other students before hiding beneath the cloak of invisibility. "Kids these days with their expensive toys," Kagome muttered as she walked with them through the portrait and out into the hall without anyone noticing. The trio ran quickly down the stairs and quietly out of the castle, making their way to Hagrid. Harry had filled her in on the Diary and everything he'd learned from it, and she in tern had given her own thoughts on the Diary. Mentioning that, from what she'd seen, there was no way Hagrid would do anything that may cause harm to the students of Hogwarts, or his classmates. Yes he loved magical creatures, but...were they really ready to point the finger at him and claim him a murderer?!

She explained that Hermione had discovered something else, had told the two of them that Draco had the paper and they would meet up with him at eight by the girls' lavatory where Moaning Myrtle was.

As they got outside, they ran up quickly to Hagrid's hut and Kagome knocked on the door. They heard him ask who was there from inside, but none were brave enough to answer until inside the hut.

He opened it and the trio came face to face with a crossbow. Kagome froze and immediately yanked the cloak away from her head, "Are you bonkers?!"

"Oh, it's you three, yer...Kag'me...right?"

"Kagome, but yes, I'm Ron's Niece."

"I see, well...come 'n, come 'n...jus' made a pot o' tea!"

Kagome followed her Uncle and Harry inside, noting the large hound next to her, she smiled and pat him gently on the head before turning to Hagrid. "I'm going to skip the formalities and jump right to the point, if you don't mind, Hagrid. Do you know who or what has opened the chamber? Hermione is in a position which I'm sure you've heard about, and right now, I want nothing more than to strangle the monster that has caused harm to my friend, so I implore that you answer swiftly and clearly!"

"What yer have t' understan' 'bout tha' is─"

~KNOCK~KNOCK~KNOCK~

The three froze and Kagome silently cursed, pulling the cloak over her head and pulling Ron and Harry beneath it with her.

'I need to find Ginny, and with all of these annoyances getting in my head, that task is getting harder and harder!' Kagome watched as Hagrid opened the door and saw Professor Dumbledore and another man outside. '...he looks familiar...'

"That's dads boss! Cornelius Fudge! The Minister of Magic..."

Kagome felt her eyes widen, 'That means...' She mentally cursed, "They're here to take Hagrid in...They think it's him too..."

"Bad business Hagrid...very bad business...had to come. Three attacks on Muggleborns, things have gone far enough, the ministry's got to act."

"O' but I never..." The Minister looked at Hagrid who muddled to get out a sentence. "You know I never...Professor!"

"I want it understood, Cornelius, that Hagrid has my full confidence,"

Kagome frowned, 'Daddy said that Dumbledore is a good old man, and as wise a wizard I'll ever meet...and while I don't believe I should trust him...I trust that he knows what is going on in his school. He wouldn't stick up for Hagrid if Hagrid was guilty.'

The door opened while the three adults stood talking, and Kagome felt her eyes widen at a familiar face, "Mr. Malfoy..."

"Already here, Fudge? Good..."

"What are you doing here? Get out of my house!"

Kagome closed her eyes in a silent plea, hoping Hagrid would cease talking and cause less trouble for himself. She had heard much from Draco about his father over vacation, and knew he wasn't one rightfully trifled with.

"Believe me...I take absolutely no pleasure being inside your..." He stopped right in front of Kagome, "You call this a house? Now I simply called at the school and was told the Headmaster was here."

'What is he getting at...?' Kagome glowered irritably at the back of Lucius Malfoy's cloak.

"And what exactly is it that you want with me?"

"The other governors and I've decided it's time for you to step aside. This is an Order of Suspension. You'll find all twelve signatures on it. I'm afraid we feel you haverather lost your touch. With all these recent attacks, there'll be no Muggleborns left at Hogwarts. And we can all imagine what an awful loss that would be to the school."

Kagome's mind went blank as they read over the scroll and continued to talk, she heard nothing more of the argument, but managed to catch Dumbledore's final words. 'Help will always be given at Hogwarts to those who ask for it...he knew we were here...'

"...if um...if anyone were lookin' fer stuff, then all they woul' hav' ter do woul' be ter follow the spiders."

Kagome rolled her eyes at the obviousness of both adults.

"Yep, that woul' lead 'em righ', that's all I got ter say. Oh, and someone will need to feed Fang while I'm away."

As soon as the door was shut behind Cornelius, Kagome yanked the cloak off her head, "Could they be anymore Daft! I felt like they were both trying to get us caught!" She ranted before patting Fang gently on the head and grabbing two more lanterns, handing one to Ron and keeping one for herself.

"But Hagrid was right! With Dumbledore gone, there'll be an attack a day!"

"With Dumbledore gone, that will give us the perfect opportunity to find and kill whatever is messing around in our school!" Kagome left the cloak on Hagrid's table, "We'll come back for that later," She held the lantern next to a stone wall, "we have business to attend elsewhere."

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Draco snuck down the hall and past the sleeping portraits hanging on the wall, he stopped at the girl's bathroom and glanced back to make sure no one had followed him, he entered quickly and sighed once safely inside. "Myrtle?"

"Mmm, oh, Hullo Draco, how are you?"

"Good, and yourself?"

"Ahh, as good as can be expected, I was just wondering..."

"About?"

"Oh, you know...death..."

Draco swallowed down his worry, "Can you tell me, how you died?"

"Ah..." Her cheeks were flushed a blush of ghostly grey blue. "It was tragic...it happened over there, in that very cubicle, I'd hidden because Olive Wornby was teasing me about my glasses, I was crying, and then, I heard somebody come in."

"Who came in, if you don't mind my asking?"

She whimpered, "I don't know, I was DISTRAUGHT! But they were speaking a funny kind of made up language and I realized it was a boy speaking so I unlocked the door to tell him to GO AWAY...and...I died."

"That's it? No, there must be more, how did you die, what caused your death? Something must have triggered it, you can't...just die!"

She hovered for a moment before turning away, "I can't say what it was that killed me, I just remember seeing a pair of great big yellow eyes...over there, by that sink."

Draco walked over to a water rusted sink and glanced curiously at it, he pulled out the paper Kagome had given to him for safe keeping and frowned. "Brightest witch of her year...pipes..." He fingered the side of the pipe and smirked, "Salazar's hidden Chamber...hurry up Kagome..."

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Kagome glanced cautiously around, spiders were everywhere, and Ron was paler than she was used to, they had found Aragog, and Merlin how she wished she'd stayed behind. It wasn't like she had a great fear of spiders...far from...it's just, if they were as large as this particular spider...well...

"Harry, we should probably...go now..." Kagome commented softly, noting the many spiders, gathering around her and her friends. They had gotten the information they had required, now she wanted to leave!

Harry glanced up as Ron whimpered out Harry's name and pointed up in fear.

"Well, thank you, we'll just go,"

"Go...? I think not...my sons and daughters do not harm Hagrid...on my command...but I cannot deny them fresh meat when it wanders so willingly into our midst."

"Can we panic now?" Ron whined.

"No, we can panic after we are away from eight legged insects too large to step on!"

"...right..."

A roaring engine drove the insects away and Kagome was surprised to find a car driving up towards them, opening its doors, she got into the back and slammed the door shut, the other two were quick to follow as Harry cast a spell and quickly got in with her and Ron before the car drove off. They weren't off the hook yet though, the spiders were still attacking and Ron was almost made lunch if not for Harry. Kagome glanced back as the spiders became a thing of the past, the were free of the forest as the car slowed to a stop and booted the trio from the car, Harry caught Kagome who hadn't expected the car to kick her out as it had.

"I don't ever want to see another spider again..."

"At least we know Hagrid is innocent...he never opened the Chamber..."

"We should hurry inside, quickly!" Kagome ran inside the hut, "Draco is waiting for us!"

"Right," Harry nodded as Kagome came out with his cloak in hand. "Let's go~!"

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Me: Chapter nineteen, ready and posted! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, I'll get started on chapter twenty while you guys read this, I hope you'll review it while I'm writing, I do so enjoy responding to questions and inquiries! The story is soon to come to a close, as you should all know, next up...THE CHAMBER! DUN DUN DUUUUN!