Harry Potter and the Vampire Plague

Chapter 7: Rita and Lockhart's Battle

(This is a mixture of Harry Potter and the Vampire Plague. If you havent read any of those books GET TO READING!!! There really good!!! Em anyways. Oh and I have to thank my cousin cause some of her fanfic goes into this: Read Crimson Love!!! Welp, I hope you enjoy this. P.S. For now Harry Potter will be in regular Text and Vampire Plague will be in italics.Oh and I hope you liked the last chapter. REMEMBER TO PLZ REVIEW!!!)

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or the Vampire Plague.

Luckily Hermione knew where Rita Skeeter lived. She read it in an Auto Biography. Ben grabbed hold of Harry's arm. Luckily now Harry knew how to Apparate, even if he didn't like the feeling. Slowly they materialized in front of a small house.

"Are you sure we're in the right place, Hermione?" Ron asked. Hermione nodded. "This is it. Trust me, you will know it's hers when we get inside. They had to make sure they got into her house without being noticed. They went to the door as quietly as possible, but when Ron tried to open it, something bit Ron's hand.

"Ouch!" Ron yelled. Hermione shushed him very quietly. "Ron be quiet." "Sorry," he whispered, "but something bit my hand. I think it was the doorknob." And sure enough, when they all looked at the doorknob it was alive.

Hermione shreaked. "It's a Question Doorknob." Ron, Harry, and Ben all looked at her with puzzled faces. Hermione rolled her eyes. "It's a doorknob that will bite your hand if you try to come in without answering it's question. Not only that but the magic of when it bites you will make the person who got bite not stop until you tell it the right answer." They all looked at Ron's hand. It was much more worse now. It was bleeding badly. Ron was starting to turn more paler.

"What do we do?" "Simple, we got to answer it's question," said Ben.

Slowly they all looked at the Doorknob again.

"Er, good day em... Mr.Doorknob," Harry said uncertainly."Good day to you Mr.Potter. I guess you wish to come inside. Well then you all must answer my question without the help of the other one. If someone tells the other person I will not ever let them in." They all shook their heads.

"Good, now, we Doorknobs have been intrusted with information of everything of the Magical World. However, my owner wishes for me to ask questions about her." Harry, Ron, and Hermione all grinned. They knew Rita quiet well. Ben however didn't look to good. "Well, Mr.Potter your up first. What did Rita write this year, and it became an instant success?" Harry grinned, but didn't like the answer. "The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore." "Correct! You may pass when you wish. Next Mr.Weasley. What can Rita change into?" Doorknob grinned.

He didn't think anyone beside Rita and the Doorknobs knew this. Cause she was an illegal animagous. "A beetle." Ron said happily. Suddenly his bleeding stopped. The Doorknob's dark golden eyes grew wide. "Correct again! Looks like someone knows Rita Skeeter. Next Miss Granger! Three years back. What did Rita famously write about?" Hermione knew this answer as well, but didn't like it. "The Triwizard Tournament at Hogwarts dealing with Bobat's Academy and Dumbstrang." The Doorknob looked agitated. "You should be in Ravenclaw my dear. Yes that is Correct yet again. You may pass!" Hemione skipped over to where Harry and Ron stood.

They all were congratulating each other till they saw the fear in Ben's eyes. He couldn't answer questions about Rita Skeeter. He only heard that she was a suspect in the Prime Minister's disappearance. "Now on to you. Mr...errr... who are you? I have no account of you in the Wizarding World." "I'm a muggle Mr.Doorknob." The Doorknob's eye grew three times bigger than they were when Ron answered the Doorknob's question. "A MUGGLE!!! YOU THREE SHOWED A MUGGLE OUR MAGICAL WORLD!!! HOW DARE YOU!!! I MUST INFORM MRS.RITA NOW!!! WHAT A STORY SHE WILL HAVE!!!" He was screaming loudly, but Hermione made sure to cast a spell so Rita wouldn't hear him. "Mr.Doorknob, I have a offer to make!" Ben yelled over his hollering. The doorknob stopped fastly. "What do you mean and offer?" Even Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked puzzled. "You will let me in if you can't answer my question! If you do answer it right then we will all leave and tell anyone that you got the best of us."

The doorknob was very quiet for a long time. Then he began to speak.

"Fine, go ahead I know more about the Muggle world than you do!" Ben shrugged. "Will see. Okay here's the question. Why did the chicken cross the road?"

The doorknob eyes grew big yet again. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all laughed. Ben had tricked the doorknob.

"WHAT KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?"

"Sorry but you agreed to the deal. I didn't say it would be like a question about our world. It's more of a joke question." The doorknob looked flustered.

"Fine, he crossed it cause there were other chicken on the other side of the road." Of course the doorknob had to come up with something. He couldn't of known it. "Oh! So close! The answer is simple. To get to the other side!"

They all started laughing except the Doorknob, who looked like he was ready to bite all of them. The doorknob then changed into a regular doorknob for them to pass. They slowly opened the door to find a huge condo size apartment. Except it wasn't. It was more of a mansion condo.

They all went in to hear something hit the floor upstairs. They rushed up to see what happened. They got to the door that said Rita Skeeter's Office. They opened the door and ran inside. They hoped it wasn't to late. But as they ran inside the office, all there suspicions were wrong.

Rita was on the floor, while Lockhart was over her. Rita and Lockhart all looked at them. Rita, however, took this chance to get back to her feet. She pushed Lockhart out of the way, and grabbed her wand.

"AVADA KEDAVRA!" She yelled. However, the spell missed Lockhart and chattered the window beside him. She hissed and showed her fangs. She jumped toward Lockhart in the air. However when she cam back down, Lockhart was ready.

"LUMINAS!" he screamed. The light from his wand exploded onto Rita. The light was to strong for a vampire. She dissolved into nothing in the air. Her wand, glasses, jewelry, and clothes all fell to the floor in a pile.

Lockhart was in the corner of the office. He was panting very hard. He then looked at them again. "Sorry children. I will be right there." With that however he collapsed onto the floor.