Chapter 21 (And now it can drink in America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

"Umm… well… you see… that would be…" Sarah could hardly speak. Snape looked at her, smirking

"I am waiting Miss Williams," Snape said "Please, explain to me what type of magic Professor Sidhe possesses, if you are such an expert"

"Don't you know?" Harry suddenly asked

"I beg your pardon?" Said Snape

"Well, shouldn't you know what sort of magic Professor Sidhe has? I mean, I know. Most of us do. If you don't, then that means you mustn't be a very good teacher, if you don't even know what's going on at your own school." Harry was lying, but what Snape didn't know wouldn't kill him

Snape fumed

"Well of course I know what type of magic Professor Sidhe! It is quite obvious." He snapped. He didn't know, actually.

"Then why did you ask Sarah?" Hermione asked

"Because I wanted to em…"Snape suddenly stopped

"Em… what?" Jareth asked, walking over to Snape. "Listen, I know I'm hot gossip around here, and a very cool and different Professor. And yes, I'll admit it, I am a bit of a hottie, and a winner with the ladies" He winked at a first year, who sighed into her potatoes. "But you shouldn't talk about me this way. What I prefer to disclose or not to disclose is my business. And I'll have you know, in my kingdom, I would never let the goblins behave this way. Really that Dumblepaw…"

"Idiot" Sarah mumbled

"What was that dear?" Jareth asked, a fake smile plastered on his face.

"Well, you kind of just gave away exactly who you were." Sarah said

"Ah, but did anyone catch the clues I gave?"

"Umm…" Sarah looked around the Great Hall. The rest of the students looked puzzled, except for Hermione, of course, who already knew who he was. "I guess not."

"Good. Then you shall accompany me back to the Dark Arts classroom. I have found a problem… with… your… homework that I wish to resolve." Jareth said, clearly making up an excuse. Harry and Hermione raised their eyebrows at his bad attempt at a cover up, but everyone else was still trying to work out who he really was.

"I've got it!" One Hufflepuff cried, as Sarah and Jareth walked up the aisle to the door.

"He's that Dumblepaw person he mentioned!" Sarah began to laugh hysterically, as Jareth attempted to look unamused.

"Nope, guess again!" He said, pulling Sarah out the door into the hallway.

"So…" He said as they ambled down the hallway in the direction of his rooms. "How was Hogface?"

"Hoggle was great. He said that Ludo and Didymus were fine. Not much has happened since I last saw them," Sarah said.

"Well that's good." Jareth said, stepping up onto one of the changing staircases.

"How does it work?" Sarah asked, following him.

"What? The staircases? I don't know! I'm not a wizard," he said

"No, I meant how do you rule your kingdom when you're up here?" Sarah asked as they reached the top and turned left. "It must be pretty hard."

"Well, nothing much happens in my kingdom. Every couple of weeks a child will be wished away. Then I'll have to pop out every now and then to take care of that. But it doesn't take up too much time. Mostly they're weak. Sometimes the wishers just give up the child for their dreams," He said, opening the door to his office for her

"But why? That's so… so cruel. What makes you take them?" Sarah asked, walking up the stairs to his rooms, turning to watch as he locked the door to the classroom, before following her up the stairs.

"They ask me to. I told you when you came, remember? You asked that the child be taken, I took it. It's quite simple really. If those children are stupid enough to wish away another child, then they deserve to have them stolen and be sent through a giant maze."

"Yeah, one riddled with danger at every turn, and bogs that will make you stink for all of eternity." Sarah said sarcastically

"Yes, that was a clever little invention of mine, wasn't it?" Jareth said proudly, flopping down onto his bed.

"Does that mean you think I'm stupid?" Sarah asked softly, sitting on the couch opposite.

"What?" Jareth asked, sitting up and looking at her.

"You said 'Anyone stupid enough to wish away another child deserves to have them taken away from them and sent through a giant maze.' Do you really think I'm a stupid child?"

"No Sarah," Jareth said, striding over to where she sat. "I think you are one of the cleverest young women I have ever met. You learnt five years of work in less than two weeks, when the rest of your grade hardly remembers what they learnt yesterday! You're probably one of the brightest witches at Hogwarts. I would never think you were stupid." Sarah could feel his breathe against her lips.

"Really?"

"Don't you ever listen Sarah?" He whispered playfully. "I said I'd be there for you, as the world falls down."

He pressed his lips softly against hers, pulling away almost instantaneously. Sarah looked into his eyes, considering him, before throwing her arms around his neck and kissing him.

LALALA, SORRY DID YOU WANT MORE? YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO WAIT…

"Hermione, could I talk to you for a minute?" Harry asked as she was heading up to her dorm. Rather than spend the evening in the common room with Harry and Ron doing homework as they usually did, Hermione had gone straight up to her room after dinner. Harry, bitterly disappointed, had followed suit, watching for Hermione's re-emergence on the Marauder's Map. When finally he had spotted her entering the common room again, he had raced down the stairs, ignoring the greeting Ron had called as he ran past.

It was almost lights out, and the last few seventh years that had been downstairs were packing their things and heading back to their beds.

Not waiting for a reply from the brunette, Harry took her hand and pulled her over to the chairs by the fireplace.

"Listen Hermione, do you fully understand what I was saying to you before?" He asked, sitting her in one of the chairs and standing over her.

"Fully? Wh… what do you mean?" She whispered, afraid of what his answer may be

"That's it! That's exactly what I mean! Don't act as if nothing has happened!"

"what?" Hermione whispered, not daring to take her eyes from his.

"I told you that… I told you that I'm in love with you!" Harry cried. Hermione froze, not speaking, barely breathing. Her eyes grew damp.

Harry stepped back and, regretfully, began to walk slowly back to his own dorm.

EHEHEHE, NICE PLACE TO STOP, ISN'T IT?

1,446 words! YAY!!!!!!!!

Sorry guys, but I have to admit, the entire HHr scene is pretty much from Hana Kimi…, which is why you should all download/buy/borrow it to read.

I hope you like this chapter!
I didn't know if chapter 21 was too soon to do all of this stuff, but I guess I do have a few ideas as to how I shall continue it ;)

From your darling Queen, who has a cold… or maybe tonsilli thingo… AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!

PS! I averaged out the average number of words I do in an average chapter and worked out that the number was averagely about an average of 1400... but that was including the average authors note.