Chapter 11

Eavsdropping and Duels

So I know that Draco is up to something, he is not this nice to someone who is in Gryffindor, it just doesn't happen. Even if I'm only half Gryffindor. I was walking down with the twins to dinner that night, I havn't told them about Draco, but they were busily telling me all about how Harry was the new chaser for catching the Rememberall. They told me I had to keep it quite because it was a secret. I had to promise that I wouldn't tell anyone, though who they thought I was going to tell, I have no idea.

When we came into the hall, they spotted Harry and ran over to congradulate him and his success at getting on the team. I sat down a few seats away from Harry and Ron, waiting for the twins, but they ran off saying something about Lee Jordan finding another passage out of the castle. I rolled my eyes, males tend to be forgetful of things, oh well.

I loaded up my plate with turkey and mashed potatos then started to eat. A bit later, Malfoy with his two goons came up to talk with Harry, being the polite girl that I am, I decided to eavesdrop. I only caught a bit of the converstation, but it was enough to get me excited.

"Wizards duel...wands only...tonight...midnight...trophy room." I ignored Ron's explanation to Harry on what a wizards duel was, as I was planning on watching the duel, I needed to plan out how to go about it. I did happen to look up in time to see Hermione walk off upset, she does this a lot, expecially around those two.

After dinner I went to the library to study a bit and finish off the homework I got for the last week. When the librarian came around closeing the library for curfew, I noticed I was the only Gryffindor in there, there were tons of Ravenclaws, a couple of Hufflepuffs, and even one lone 7th year Slytherin, I think he was 7th year, oh well.

I still had 2 hours to blow before the duel, so I made my way up to the owlery, it was just two floors and a secret passage away from the trophy room. I wrote a letter to my parents, telling them of the last two weeks at school, the friends that I have made, and the jungle prank. I'm really bad about writing my parents, the only reason I'm doing it now is that I have those 2 hours to blow, well 1 and a half now.

It took another thrity minuets to convince the stupid school owl to take my letter. It seems they don't like me in the same way I don't like them. I tried to get 10 different owls to do it before I found a little runt owl that would carry my letter to my parents. Next time I'm at Diagon Ally, I'm buying a pigion, well maybe not, the dumb owls will eat it, maybe a hawk, it would be able to take on the dumb owls.

Making my way to the trophy room I met with no incidences, I didn't see any professors, and I managed to keep away from Mrs. Norris. Tomorrow after classes I'm going to look for a duplication spell and copy the Maraders Map, I've seen something kinda like the map before, and I had a vauge memory of it being copied, I'll have to see if it works.

Off in my thoughts, I didn't notice at first that anyone was in the room with me, until someone sneezed. "Hey guys!" I popped out into the silence.

"Bloody Hell!" That came from Ron, he seems so favor that curse, though I muct say for a non-Brit, I use it a lot too.

I looked around the room and noticed that Harry and Ron weren't alone, Hermione and Neville were them as well. I asked about them, and Harry said they came because Hermione and Neville were locked out of the common room, he didn't say why they were outside in the first place, but I let it drop. When they asked why I was there, I replied that I overheard Draco challenge them to a duel, and that I always wanted to watch on, so I came.

We were waiting for Draco and crew to come, when we hear a noise from the room next door. Hearing Filch speak to his cat, made us realize that we had been found out, so we took off running. Of course the clumsy Neville knocked over a suit of armor, giving our position away to Mr. Filch.

The chase was on, it's kinda hard to hide five people, but we managed. Even when Peeves decided to give up our position, he wasn't going to because that wold get me into trouble, but Ron made him mad...I would have yelled too. So we started running again.

Somehow, with Harry leading, we took a wrong turn and ran out of places to run. Hermione opened a door at the end of the corridor, and we all piled in. It took a bit, but the noises of Filch and his cat faded away. That was when I noticed that all the others were panting in a somwhat fearful way, I turned around and noticed why they were staring intensely into the room.

"Holy Heck! It's a dog...with three heads...that's so cool!" Of course my yelling broke the spell on the others and they took off yelling back to the corridor behind us. "I'll be back Mr. Puppy." Then the three headed dog started growling at me and tried to bite me, "well, maybe not."

I left the room them, locking the door behind me, the others were long gone when I came outside. I started walking until I came to a tapestry that I recognized and made my way back to the common room. By the time I got back, everyone was in bed, so I made may way up to my own bed to cuddle with my cat.

Friday came and went without incident. Potions was amazing though! We were making a potion to cure acne, which, at 10, I didn't have a problem with much yet, but who knows when one get's older how bad it can get. Mine turned the perfect shade of angry red, one of the few in the class that did, as I was at the back of the classroom, no one noticed, for which I was thankful. But the best thing about the class, was when one of the first year Slytherins, slipped on one of the Bueaga roots we used for the potion, and knocked his cauldren over onto himself. It would appear that if the potion, when not done correctly, at the point this one was made, comes in contact with skin, it causes violet spots to appear all over. Professor Snape fixed him really quickly, but not quickly enough for the student, as he was growling.

I finished the day with a trip to the forest to visit with Firenze. I told him about the to different spells I had in mind, he agreed with both of them, the trading messages with the transplant spell and the telepathy communication spell. Before I went back to the school, Firenze took me to a special place in the forest.

"Adonia, this clearing is a special clearing. Everynight on the fullmoon the moonflower blooms. This flower, according to Hagrid, the gameskeeper at your school, can be used in the wolvesbane potion. It is the rarest ingrediant to the potion, because it only blooms in the full moon in certian forest where werewolves are plentyful."

"That's so cool, I've read that the wolvesbane potion is used to clam the wolf in the werewolves, but that there is no cure for werewolf venom."

"There isn't as of yet, maybe you can invent one." He was joking with me, but I was sure I could come up with something, it may take me a couple of years, but I'll do it.

I told Firenze goodnight sometime after that, as curfew was comming soon and I needed to go back to the castle. I had to get a goodnights rest for I was going to work on my spells tomorrow, hopefully by Monday, I would be able to talk to Firenze by mind, paper, and be able to change into a leopard. I also needed to come up with another prank with the twins...I can't wait.