AN- Thank you to everyone who has read and reviewed this story so far, I hope you all continue to enjoy it. As always I own nothing you recognize. We start really getting into things this chapter. I promise the next chapter will be longer as well.

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Over the next few weeks other than the Weasley twins receiving a howler a day from their mother demanding they go back to Gryffindor things quieted down in the castle. Harry and the twins had even come to a strange truce with most of Slytherin house which is probably why Gryffindor had backed off and left the three alone.

That and the fact that Granger had spent three days in the hospital wing and Longbottom had spent a month in detention for cursing her after she had made a off handed comment about Harry. Luna and Neville had both begun to spend plenty of time in Harry's company either at the Slytherin table or in their common room which had truly become the house of the Marauders.

Of course no one could pin the blame on the twins or Harry but Gryffindor's had the tendency to turn green with silver hair upon entering the great hall for breakfast and nothing would make it go away until they walked in for dinner.

The week leading up to Christmas break was the worst. The students were due to leave on Saturday morning which meant that everyone was more wound up than usual anyway on the Monday before hand. Snape was watching Harry and the twins as they sat down for breakfast and as usual Luna and Neville joined them. Harry had opened up a little bit more since he had started having weekly "Detentions" with the potions master.

They had discussed all the abuse he had suffered through the years with his aunt and his uncle and Snape had put the raven haired savior on a nutrient potion regiment, It angered Snape to a point of wanting to snap Madame Pomfrey's neck that he had been allowed to get to such a horrible malnourished condition to begin with.

Harry seemed to feel eyes on him because he looked up at the Professor with a mischievous smirk and Snape knew they were all in trouble. It was never good when Harry smiled like that.

Draco entered the great hall at that moment with Crabbe and Goyle flanking him on either side as usual. Pansy was tagging behind trying to get his attention... As usual. As soon as he crossed the thresh hold into the room his clothing disappeared to be replaced my artfully draped Christmas ribbon. Snape counted his lucky stars that all the important areas were covered. The blond still squealed in a most undignified way trying to cover himself with his hands. No sooner had everyone got a good look at him his clothing reappeared.

The blond stomped down to the end of the table where the newest generation of Marauder's were sitting and glared daggers at Harry. "Leave me out of these stupid games of yours Potter!" He hissed.

"Malfoy, What in the name of Merlin's beard would make you think I would pull a prank on you that would involve me seeing you half naked?" Harry replied coolly.

Draco huffed before stomping back down to his place at the table before the twins burst into laughter.

"Happy Christmas Harry," They announced.

"We got you a fur-less ferret!" The group all laughed accept for Harry who was too busy blushing. This continued to happen to Draco throughout the day and always when he was around Harry. The twins confessed that it was only activated when Draco came withing a certain distance of the brunette.

Needless to say by the end of the day Draco was a nervous wreck, every time his clothing vanished Pansy would basically try to rape him while everyone else laughed at him and Draco Malfoy was not used to being laughed at.

The following morning Snape was on his way to breakfast after a meeting with the headmaster. They were walking more or less side by side down the hall when one of the suits of armor stepped down off of his pedestal and staggered over to the headmaster.

Snape wasn't sure what was going on but he knew it was something and carefully stepped back. The suit of armor placed a hand on the headmaster's shoulder as if leaning on his for support.

It then promptly began to make gagging noises before opening its face guard and vomiting up glitter and streamers all over the headmasters robes.

If the shrieks and yells coming from various places in the castle were any guess all of the suits of armor were spelled to do the same thing.

Sure enough when they made it to the great hall several of the students were covered in glitter and streamers. And apparently that wasn't the end of it. By the end of the day at least half of the school population had a run in with the armor.

Snape was even lucky enough at one point to see Hermione Granger running away from one of the suits while it chased her clanking all the way down the hall and dry heaving until it was able to corner her.

The Potions master hadn't been able to help himself. He had broke down right there in the hallway laughing hysterically. Luckily for him Harry had come along and cleared his throat straightening the man up. He had been standing in the open with his head tilted back laughing revealing his teeth to anyone who cared to look.

He had confided his condition to Potter a few weeks previously as a way to make the teen trust him a little more. Harry had of course taken it in stride and not held it against him at all, it wasn't however something he wanted getting out to the general population.

On Wednesday the suites of armor were once again playing along with the holiday pranks and had all taken to traveling in groups of five or six around the castle caroling. They would knock on classroom doors and gang up on people in the halls and starts clanking out the tune to a random Christmas carol while the paintings in the area would join in and sing along. Not all of them knew all the words and the armor suits weren't always in agreement with each other on the song they would play so it ended up being more noise than anything.

Thursday started off rather normally and Snape figured the group had run out of ideas until that is of course his bacon and eggs began alternating between green and red. Looking around he saw everyone else was having the same problem. Everyone's food was turning to green and then to red and back again.

Somehow the little pranksters had even gotten the elves in on it.

By the time Friday rolled around everyone was a little on edge not sure of what big finale could be planned. All day passed without and incident which really made people nervous not knowing when it would happen, whatever it was. Dinner rolled around to find many students casting spells on their food to make sure nothing had been done to it. Others were looking around the room suspiciously.

When dessert appeared on the tables and still nothing happened most began to relax, figuring if the pranksters were going to get them they would have done so already. Slowly the students began reaching out for sweets and cakes, they were all too preoccupied to notice the extra cake appear on each table.

Simultaneously each cake exploded covering the closest people in cake and icing. Rockets soared into the air writing out ' Happy Holidays, From The Marauder's.' in red and green smoke.

Saturday everyone was up and out of the castle as soon as possible just to avoid any last minute pranks. Severus saw the last one onto the train and saw the train off before heading back to his office, Harry was staying behind and would no doubt be by his office.

He made it to his rooms but it wasn't Harry who came to visit first, He had almost forgotten Draco would be staying behind as well and he felt guilty about it. He had promised Narcissa to take care of Draco and to keep him out of the way of the dark lord. As such he had pretty much taken over guardianship of the blond.

Harry did eventually show up but as soon as he was told to come in and he saw Draco he cleared his throat and tried to dismiss himself.

"I'm sorry professor, I didn't realize you had company, I'll come back later."

"Don't worry about it Potter, I was on my way out." Malfoy waved it off getting to his feet and stretching he left the room leaving Harry to take the chair he had previously occupied.

"Where are your shadows today?" Severus asked pouring himself a cup of tea from the kettle he'd placed over the fire.

Harry took a cup as well before answering. "They went home for Christmas, There's been a lot of strain in the family and I told them not to make it worse by refusing to go home for the holiday."

"Are you okay on your own? Longbottom and Lovegood went home as well did they not?" Snape frowned in concern. He had grown attached to the boy and was worried about the amount of enemies had made.

"Most of the students have gone home. I'll be okay I think." Harry shrugged finishing his tea.

Severus spent Sunday working on potions and didn't think too much about the fact that he hadn't seen the brunette all day figuring he was getting a head start on homework or avoiding the other students who had stayed. Sunday evening he was in the middle of a rather volatile potion when someone began kicking his door.

With a growl he put a stasis on the spell and stomped toward the door. "This better be important." He snarled looking down on Draco who was covered in blood and toting the bloody limp form of Harry Potter in his arms.

"What did you two get into now?" Severus asked figuring they had gotten into it again but the terrified look on Draco's face made him think twice about that theory. "Draco what happened?"

"I don't know." Draco admitted allowing Severus to take Harry from him. "I found him in the hallway I think he was on his way here. But someone got to him before he made it here."

Severus couldn't hear much of a heart beat and there wasn't much of a pulse. Harry was closer to death than life. It was kind of Ironic the boy who had taken on Voldemort and lived so many times would be killed by a fellow student.

"Save him Sev." Draco's sad voice brought him back to the situation at hand.

"You mean turn him?" Severus sighed.

"If that's what it takes to save him then yes." Draco replied stubbornly crossing his arms.

Severus didn't have much choice if he was going to keep the teen out of an early grave. The pulse was barely there now and the heart beats were sporadic and too far in between. Severus carried him into his rooms laying him on the bed. He glared at Draco until the boy took the hint and looked away.

With a deep breath Severus sank his fangs into the pulse point on Harry's throat then repeated the process on each wrist. He didn't partake in any blood only injected venom into his blood stream with each bite.

After three hours Snape was becoming concerned, he had never sired anyone before and Harry had barely been alive. The potions master had sank into a chair while Draco had fallen asleep on the couch. The blond had admitted to him a good while back of his crush on Potter but Snape suspected it might be something a little stronger than a crush. His godson would be devastated if Harry didn't pull through this.

Another fifteen minutes passed and Harry's body began to convulse. Severus cast a quick silencing spell hoping Draco would stay asleep and turned Harry to his side conjuring a pan just as the teen began to vomit up massive amounts of crimson fluid.

Severus didn't know how he could have that much blood left in him. After a moment or so the retching turned to dry heaving and then ceased all together. Laying the boy back down Snape gave a satisfied smile he would now go through the changes all Vampires had to go through and he would wake up better than ever.

As he sank back down into his chair a frown formed on his face. He could only hope Harry wouldn't hate him for his hasty decision and what he had done.