Chapter 28

Another Attack

Since the unfortunate Dueling Club incident, I have come to learn many things, some good and some not so good. The first thing I learned was that night after the Harry Draco thing, turns out cats don't like snakes, and vice versa. Natrix and Shadow tried to eat each other, which is not as funny as one would think, especially when both are your pets.

The next thing I learned was that if you start to yell in the girls dormitories everyone in the common room is going to think someone has been attcked and come running. Well they are going to try and come running, as soon as the boys tried to get on the stairs, the stairs turn into a slide and everyone goes tumbling back down, that was the third thing I learned.

But the best thing came the next day, when the rummers of what went on the day before circulated through the school. It seems that no one saw me take the snake, but they all saw Harry talk to the snake, and being able to talk to snakes is a BAD thing, at least to those who lack the intelligence to understand it is how one uses the gifts they have that determines if they are evil. The newest rumermis that the Boy Who Lived, the Great Harry Potter, is the heir of Slytherin, the one who is attacking muggle borns and cats. As if he, who is friends with Hermione, a muggle born, whould be the one attacking, I mean I would have a better chance at being the heir then he would.

He does seem to have the worst luck though. I was in the Library when I over heard that harry was going to find the kid who thought Harry sent the snake after him and tell him what happened. I decided to follow him out becuase I could back him up, as I could speak Parseltoung too.

When I caught up to him, he was already going down a darkend corridor.

"Harry!" I probably shouldn't have yelled, it does seem to shock people. It made Harry turn his head and trip. "Are you ok, I didn't mean to scare you. I just overherd you in the library, and thought I would help you as I was the only one who understood what you said to Natrix," and his confused face to the name, "the big black snake Draco made." At that point I looked around and noticed soemthing in the hall with us, "Um, Harry, what's that?"

We looked and found out that it was Nearly Headless Nick in a weird gray color just sort of hovering there, not moving. The really scary bit was that kid we were trying to find was on the ground, it was his body that Harry had tripped over earlier.

The whole episode might have turned out better if Peeves didn't come out of the room next to us. He didn't even see me, if he had, he might not have done what he did. But, being Peeves, he made the situation worse by alerting everyone that there had been another attack and that "No mortal or ghost is safe!"

Professor McGonagall was the first teacher out in the hall, she quickly got the crowd that had formed in order, which was a real task seeing as Peeves was still singing songs about Harry and some Hufflepuffs who keeped yelling at Harry.

Anyways, McGonagall took Harry and myself, even with our pleas of innocence, to Dumbledor's office, being at the scene of the crime more than once is never a good thing. He wasn't there when we got there, and she left us standing in there all alone. I calmly took a seat as Harry explored the office. I heard a squeek, and turned to see a bird on fire burning into ash, that was when Dumbledor came in.

They started talking together, so once again I tuned out.

"Adonia," A hand waved in my face, "Adonia?"

I came to at the sound of my name, and the hand, so annoying. "Yes?"

Harry had already departed, I guess it was time for my one on one with Dumbledor.

"Did you have anything you wanted to talk to me about."

"Well, I didn't do it, I was just following Harry to be his back up becuase I understood what he said to Natrix my new pet snake that Draco made. That was when we found the kid on the ground. Other than that...umm, my kitty doesn't like my new snake."

"Oh, ok, then you are dismissed as well."

"Great," I jummped up from the chair, "Goodbye Professor!" I made it back to my dorm in time to stop Natrix and Shadow from fighting again. I guess I have more luck than Harry, well not really.

Nothing else happened before the holidays started, the double attack subdued everyone. I went home for the holidays, I didn't really want to stay at achool, I wanted to visit with my family.

I hate holiday shopping, but I had to do it, I had to get supplies, this year I was making my gifts. Some would say that is the cheap way out, but I have a plan. I'm going to brew potions for my friends. My parents and grandparents are getting a spelled mirror, I have the opposite mirror, they are communicating divices, they always complain that I don't write enough letters, so this will solve that problem.

The potion I planned on making was a complicated one, so I knew my friends wouldn't make it, ever. It was the Veritaserum truth potion, I know that Fred and George could think of a good use for it, like a new candy. I also got the supplies that I would need for the vampire prank, this next semester was going to be really good.

Thank you all for reading my story. I am so so so sorry it has taken me so long to post this next chapter, I am trying to figure out how I want to get to where I want this story to get to. Thanks again, and don't forget to review.