Hey guys, wow thanks for the reviews, I 'm glad you all liked the chapter even though it was indeed short. I promise this one will be a bit longer, but a heads up, this is going to be my first time writing a fight scene, so bear with me please.

Voldemort: You're telling me in all the time of writing and reading you've never written a fight scene?

Hikari: Yea, go figure that huh, disclaimer is in chapter 1 and chapter 2. Let's get started shall we...

----Chapter 8----

---Halloween Dance and Attack---

Harry checked himself in the mirror at the costume store. He, Draco, Adrien, Jamillian, and surprisingly Snape had gone there to buy their costumes. Well, truth of Snape's coming along was that Jamillian and Draco had dragged him with them. Things were changing quickly around Harry, no one except for Fred, George, Hermione, and Neville were his true friends while everyone else glared at him when he walked past them. It was pointless to hide his and Draco's friendship as the other Gryffindors had set of a spell in the middle of breakfast that said "Harry Potter is friends with Draco Malfoy!" That pretty much blew the whole thing out of the water, even Dumbledore was speechless, which Jamillian commented was an improvement.

Harry checked himself over in the mirror again when Draco walked out of the fitting room and stood in front of the mirror.

"You know, you would look better with your hair long, like your father's," Harry said. "Especially with that costume"

"You think?" Draco asked.

"Definitely!" Two voices said and the two turned to see George and Fred standing there in two vampire costumes.

"You two look ridiculous, or more like the people who make costumes that are supposed to be vampire costumes are ridiculous," Adrien said coming out of another fitting room wearing a black suit from the 1800's and a white mask.

"What are you supposed to be?" Draco asked.

"Surely you've all heard of the Phantom of the Opera (1)," Adrien said and all the boys nodded in understanding. Jamillian came out followed by Snape who the boys all looked at with confused looks.

"What do you guys think?" Jamillian asked.

"It's different..." Draco said in shock.

"Someone get a camera, you'll never see this image again." Fred said. Jamillian hit the boys in the back of the head and examined her image in the mirror.

"I think I make a good pirate and Severus makes a good Goth rocker." Jamillian said. The group laughed except Snape and they all went back to the fitting rooms. They changed and paid for their costumes before leaving and walking out of the costume shop and headed to the candy store to buy some new sweets. As they were there a few Slytherins greeted Harry and Draco before going back to buying their own sweets. Amazingly some of the Slytherins had been accepting of Harry and Draco's friendship. The group soon finished and was heading back to Hogwarts when Jamillian bumped into none other than Lucius Malfoy and Umbridge.

"Hello Blondie, toad woman," Jamillian said with a smile.

"Ms. Jamillian what are you doing here? I heard you were in Japan," Lucius said.

"I came to teach at Hogwarts silly what else would I be doing here?"

"Making trouble"

"Ah, you cut me so deeply Lucius, by the way why are with toad woman?"

"I invited Mr. Malfoy to the school to see how badly you handle your classes so he can tell the board." Umbridge said.

"Tell them what? I haven't done anything wrong and my students love me, I get along with everyone except you and Bumblebee, now, Lucius it's been marvelous seeing you again darling, we really must have tea together, but the boys and I need to head back to Hogwarts and make sure that our costumes are put away. So goodbye darling, I hope you'll stay for the Halloween dance." Jamillian said and she and the boys headed back to Hogwarts.

"What was up with that?" Adrien asked.

"What, the darling stuff?"

"Yea"

"I like to tease Lucius a lot that's all, you know for being proper and all that, that's my way of teasing him. He's knows I'm just messing around though."

When the group arrived back at Hogwarts everyone went their separate ways and as Harry climbed the stairs to the Gryffindor dorm with Fred and George his mind kept slipping back to how friendly the conversation between Jamillian and Lucius had been. This caused his mind to return to the conversation he had heard between and Adrien and Jamillian during the beginning of the year. Now it had returned to his mind, was Jamillian a Death Eater?

---Halloween Night---

Harry, Fred, George, Hermione, Draco, Adrien, Snape, and Jamillian all headed down to the Halloween party in the Great Hall when a sudden ringing sound reached their ears. They turned and looked at Jamillian who hit her forehead in understanding and pulled out a compact seashell (2) and opened it. She took an earpiece and placed it in her ear before answering.

"Hey what's up?" She said. "What do you mean? I thought there was more time? Weren't you working on making sure he didn't get out? Ok, alright I get it, wait what? What do you mean tonight? Fine, I'll keep an eye out but it's been pretty quiet, yes, I know your sources are reliable but I'm still saying, alright bye."

"What was that about?" Harry asked. Jamillian shook her hand dismissively before heading back down the corridor again with the others. Harry eyes expressed a sense of curiosity about who Jamillian had been talking to when he and the others quickly followed after Jamillian.

The night wore on slowly, Dumbledore had hired the Weird Sisters to play again and some people were up and dancing while others, like the teachers, Harry, and the others in the group, were standing or sitting off to the side. Jamillian and Adrien were whispering to each other while Harry conversed with the others. Harry and Draco were talking about Harry's crush on Snape when the Great Hall doors suddenly flew open and a barrage of death eaters flew in (not literally) and they began yelling stunning spells at the students and teachers. The teachers quickly gathered the students and everyone was gathered near the back wall staring at the death eaters as they stopped and stared back.

"Wow it's a giant staring contest!" Jamillian suddenly yelled and some people looked at her to see her still standing where she had been earlier. She hadn't even moved when the death eaters attacked.

"What's wrong with you? Can't you see that you're in danger standing over there?" Dumbledore demanded.

"Nope, not really Bumblebee, the reason is because if I was in danger, I would've been attacked already, ever think about that?"

A few death eaters snickered before going quiet as Voldemort entered the room. He surveyed the room and saw Harry standing in front of the other students with Adrien besides him.

"Dear Albus, you're having a Halloween party and you didn't invite me, how thoughtless," Voldemort said with a smirk.

"Why would I invite you?" Dumbledore said.

"Ouch how heartless can you get Bumblebee," Jamillian said and everyone turned to look at her again. "What?"

"Who are you?"

"Professor Rosalind L. Jamillian at your service sir, I'm the new Defense against the Dark Arts teacher."

"You? You're too young, but you do look familiar, I can't place where I've seen you before though."

"Don't worry about it; I just have one of those faces you know. Besides, my question is why you are here?"

"Uh right, I'm here to kill Potter."

"What else is new? Sorry but I can't allow that."

"Huh?"

"I can't allow you to kill Harry; he's under my protection, which I must say is a heck of a lot better than Bumblebee's."

Voldemort glared at Jamillian who simply stood there with a smile on her face. He quickly pulled out his wand and sent a spell at her when a shield burst up and blocked it. Disbelieving faces were seen as the shield disappeared.

"American magic, my dear Voldemort along with a mix of Japanese magic," Jamillian said and walked to stand in front of the others. "Of course I can't rely on it all the time, it's only temporary as is almost every spell in the world, and nothing is ever really permanent. Harry come here."

Harry walked forward, avoided being grabbed by Dumbledore, and stood next to Jamillian. She nodded at him and he handed her his wand.

"Not defending yourself, Potter?" Voldemort said with a chuckle.

"I am just without my wand that's all." Harry said with confidence as his eyes became hard and he stood in front of Jamillian. Voldemort laughed and threw a spell at Harry who moved from where he was standing and the spell missed him completely although to everyone else it seemed as if he disappeared from sight and reappeared on the other side of Jamillian.

"What in the world? How did you do that?" Voldemort demanded.

"Same as you a series of movements, only I moved to fast for normal eyes to see." Harry said eerily. Voldemort cast another spell and this time Harry threw up his hand and a small emerald and red shield appeared in front of him absorbing the spell. Harry concentrated then said a force spell sending Voldemort back into his death eaters. Voldemort quickly got up and hurled another spell at Harry who dodged and threw his own spells back. Suddenly Voldemort raised his wand and said a spell dispelling one of the larger pumpkins from its hovering spell and it started to come crashing down towards Harry. Harry didn't have time to move luckily he didn't need to; something sliced the pumpkin up into little tiny slices. Everyone looked and saw Jamillian standing next to Harry with a sword.

"I told you I can't let you kill him, you don't understand and you won't not for a little while at least, be gone before Harry casts one of the spells I learned in Japan and that is much worse than the Crucio." Jamillian said her eyes were ice as she looked at the group of death eaters and their master. Voldemort glared before he looked over at Harry who was standing up again and holding a large ball of magic in his hands and it was growing. He called a retreat but not without one last threat and he and his death eaters ran out. Harry released the magical energy and it disintegrated and Harry collapsed to his knees.

"Harry, are you alright?" Jamillian asked as she knelt next to Harry. Harry nodded and looked up as the others ran over. "You absorbed Voldemort's spells, didn't you!"

"Yes, I'm sorry," Harry said but Jamillian simply shook her head.

"Don't be, I wasn't able to do that and still remain standing till I was older. Come on let's get you to bed so you can rest, I'm very proud of you Harry."

Harry smiled a little before he began falling asleep. Just before he drifted off though he felt two strong arms pick him up.

"Severus, are you sure you can carry him?" Jamillian asked.

"Yes, I'm sure, Fred and George Weasley come with me; I'll need the password in order to get Harry into his bed." Snape answered. Harry heard the twins rush over and he felt himself being carried off by Snape. He slowly began slipping away into unconsciousness enjoying the warmth he felt from Snape's arms carrying him.

-----TBC-----

Wow, finally it's done, thank goodness, wow and my writer's block is starting to clear up little by little. I know I'm not good with fight scenes so yea, the fight scene was probably bad, forgive me for that.

(1)I do not own Phantom of the Opera.

(2)The compact shell looks kind of like a clam but it's designed to open like a woman's make-up compact. It's kind of like a magic cell phone, or in this shell phone.

Anyway, I'm glad you all like my story and I hope you review, and go ahead and ask any questions that you want to ask about anything and all that. Thanks again for reading and reviewing.