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HIDDEN CHANGES
"Night Xavie-poo," Hermione kissed his fur and he popped her upside the head with his tail.
I hate it when you do that Hermione.
She giggled and laid down to go to sleep.
Chapter 4:
Hermione woke up to find that her feet were still asleep. She glared at the sleeping Xavier and kicked him to wake him up. He opened one eye and rolled off of her feet. For the last month since the council had been rearranged so Xavier could be the sole watcher of Hermione, this is how the morning began. Around 5:30 Hermione would wake up and kick Xavier to get his fat lazy cat ass off her feet so she could get ready. Xavier would roll over for the extra hour of sleep while Hermione showered and got dressed. He once made the mistake of waking up fifteen minutes early and was chased out of the room with shoes and hairbrushes. Hermione came back in to wake Xavier again to find him sprawled all over her bed in his jaguar form. She crawled into the bed and closed the curtains to talk to him about how he was going to watch her without being seen.
"Don't worry I have it figured out. They can't see me while I am a jaguar unless I want them too. If I change into a human they can see me."
"What about the murderer you were talking about?"
Xavier woke up and began to think. He looked around to make sure everyone was asleep and changed into his human form. "Alright, well your Dumbledore seems like he wouldn't bring in a mass murderer just to expose one of us. If that is the case just get your friends to leave with you and I will send some of the pack in."
"Xavier, they don't stand a chance against a wizard!"
"Well then I will take the heat and I will kill the bastard. I am practically a deity. Let's just not worry about it right now. There are murderers in your school. I know because I walked around last night. Technically, your Headmaster is a killer."
"He killed a Dark wizard! That isn't the same as murder!" Hermione exclaimed
"He still killed someone… Also I advise against going into the dungeons. There is more than one killer down there. I think some of the students might be killers too."
"Are you kidding?"
"Let me just say," Xavier stared straight into her eyes saying, "never ever skip taking that potion."
Hermione tensed under his gaze before quickly saying, "Alright, Alright, I got it. I have to wake up the boys now. Are you going to ever introduce yourself?"
"The red head seems annoying and the one with the glasses is trying to steal my job as guardian," Xavier snorted.
"You are such a baby about your 'job.'"
"Well I used to watch them all until you came up with that new organization." Xavier changed back into a jaguar and jumped off the bed stretching.
"Now Now, you know that was a good move. You can't watch everyone at once without getting exhausted. You may act like some sort of god but you need sleep. Having five leaders as a council is much better than one person holding all of the power. It isn't fair. For example…"
"I don't want an example. I am tired of your examples. You have an example for everything. Do you have a book full of examples of things or something?"
"Actually…"
"Don't answer that question."
Hermione stuck her tongue out at the giant cat and ran off to find her friends.
Dumbldore looked at all of the members in the plan and went through it again. The main thing that he was worried about was having a Kanima killing students and staff members. He wasn't the only faculty member who had killed someone and he was sure that some students who were suspected death eaters were 'tested' by having to murder.
Alastor Moody was standing next to the fire place with Nymphadora Tonks and Kingsley Shacklebolt. Remus Lupin and Sirius Black were joking about something in the corner while staring at a cloaked figure. Severus Snape stood next to Minerva McGonagall and Albus Dumbledore going over the plan.
"Albus are you sure you can trust this person? This is very dangerous." Minerva McGonagall leaned to whisper in his ear.
"Minerva, my dear, I have aurors around to get our bait out safely. The bait knows the risk. Kingsley and Tonks will be in the hallway to escort our guest out once our Kanima is found. Remus, Sirius, and Snape will be with you and I to make sure that nothing will happen to him in the Great Hall. Alastor will be by the main gate to apperate him out of here. This will work. I have encountered a Kanima before, if they are still as unorganized as when I last encountered them, we will be fine."
The cloaked person spoke up saying, "I am sure everything will be fine. I can defend myself as any pure-blooded wizard could. We are agreed that all of these charges against me will be dropped. Not that you have anything on me."
Moody growled from the corner while Albus said, "We are quite clear. Just don't cause a scene in my school. We will put our plan into action in a week's time unless something comes up."
The Great Hall was filled with very few students that morning since it was the first day of the new school year and most of the children were still trying to wake up. Hermione, Harry, and Ron walked into the Great Hall laughing and joking when they saw a familiar face. The trio ran to the head table to greet Sirius Black who had recently been cleared of all charges. (A/N: I don't care if he died… he is too fun of a character to not have in my story… Therefore a magical plot resolving acorn has been inserted here… meaning he is alive…) Xavier padded behind the trio looking around for anything suspicious when he noticed Fawkes, who had accompanied Dumbledore for breakfast, was giving him an intense glare. Xavier nudged Hermione and nodded towards the phoenix.
"This might be a problem. That overgrown pigeon can see me."
A/N: Shout out to Dragonprincess3! She gave me the idea to put Fawkes in there… There is a poll on my profile page to see about possible romance characters. So far not many people have voted. If you have a preference of which character she should be paired with, please vote. Don't forget to REVIEW!!! Flames are fine if you really want to… I probably will ignore it… but if it is constructive criticism I will listen.