When Harry returned to the Gryffindor common room it was far too late to tell Ron and Hermione about the Horcruxes, he went up to his room to see that Ron had a large red mark on his face like someone had hit him then he remembered that Lavender had seen Ron and Hermione leaving a room with him but he was invisible so she didn't know that he had also been in the room.
The next more was Saturday and Harry told them everything, then he remembered what he had wanted to ask Hermione.
"Have you ever heard of a giant fox with nine tails?" Harry asked looking over at Hermione.
"Yes, I have," she said pulling out a book called Mysterious Ruins Thru out the Ages; she flipped it open and turned to a page. And there was a stone tablet with a large fox with nine tails.
"What does the book say about it?" Harry asked quickly.
"Nothing, all it says is that no one has been able to read the ruins there is no spell that can decipher it," Hermione said.
"Maybe you can ask Professor Namikaze…since she is very knowledgeable of world history," Harry said quickly.
"Your right Harry I don't know why I didn't think of that sooner," she gathered her things and ran out the door to Professor Namikaze. She knocked on the door.
"Enter," called a voice from the other side, Hermione opened the door and she was reading a book, the same book she was always reading.
"Professor why are you always reading that book, I mean you must have finished it by now?" Hermione asked.
"This is my favorite book although it never really sold well…at least compared to his other books," she said looking at the cover of the book smiling, "but you are too young to know this book or his other books."
"We are the same age," Hermione pointed out.
"True but like I said, this book never sold and it is much older than the both of us…and his other books…well you don't want to read those," Namikaze said, "but I don't think you came here to discuss my taste in books."
"No… I was read a book and I came across a ruin of a nine tailed fox but there nothing on it," Hermione said, "and I was hoping since you seem to know a lot about world history…that you might know something."
"Lucky for you Ms. Granger, I do," Namikaze said putting her book in her desk. "The reason that that book doesn't have anything one the fox is because those who know about it won't speak of it to outsiders anyway. What we do have on the Kyuubi can only be deciphered by really powerful and rare magic that only a few have…there are only three alive who can read it."
"Do you know them?" Hermione asked hopefully.
"Yeah I do, but that is all that I can tell you I am sorry," she said.
"Can I ask you something about that book you are reading?"
"I don't see any harm in it."
"You said it is an old book that didn't sell…so how do you have copy?"
"My Godfather wrote it," she said. Hermione bide her Professor a good day before returning to the Gryffindor commons.
"What did you learn?" Harry asked when she got back.
"Nothing really, only a few people can read the ruins and she couldn't tell me anything else," Hermione said, then a thought hit her, "But why do you want to know about it?"
"I saw her facing a boggart and it…" Harry didn't know how to tell them what he had seen, "it turned into a pretty girl," Harry said in a complete understatement, "she had long blond hair eyes just like Professor's, and three whisker marks on each cheek… on her stomach she had this strange tattoo that turned into a hole and a giant fox started to come out of girls stomach."
"What do you think that means?" Ron asked.
"I don't know maybe the Kyuubi can take human form or it can take over a person," Hermione said, "but we can't asked Professor Namikaze I don't think that she will tell us…and I don't think that she will be happy if she knew that harry told us this."
"Should we be afraid of this thing if someone as powerful as Professor Namikaze is…I mean you saw what she did to Malfoy during class?" Ron said nervously. Then Harry remembered something that caused the bottom of his stomach drop out he had seen the girl before. He did realize it because he had seen her face, but here hair was the same sunshine yellow, but the eyes weren't blue. But then again the boggart's eyes changed as well.
"We should be afraid…I have seen the girl the boggart turned into before," Harry said in a soft voice his throat felt dry," she…she was at the Ministry last year…she fought Voldemort."
"So she is dead?" Ron asked.
"No," Harry said, "but she…she did things that shouldn't have been possible."
"Are you sure it was the same person?" Hermione asked.
"I am," Harry said.
"Then you should tell Dumbledore," Hermione said.
"I can't I don't want to get Namikaze in trouble," Harry said.
"Maybe Dumbledore already knows," Ron said.
"How do you figure that?" Harry asked.
"Maybe Dumbledore hired because she knows about this unknown woman… fox whatever she is," Ron said. That did make sense, when Harry thought about it, but that didn't explain why Dumbledore didn't trust her.
They went to lunch soon after only to be surprised to see Mr. Hatake leaning against the wall. Talking to Professor Namikaze, "Kaka-Sensei what are you doing here?"
"I thought I would come and check on you and give you something?" he said giving her his eye smile.
"What is it?" she asked looking at him a little confused. He reached into his vest pulling out some pictures.
"Do you remember that Christmas party?" he asked kindly. She nodded not sure if she liked where this was going. "Well I took some lovely pictures so we could all cherish that Night."
He started showing her the pictures and while her face started to turn a deep shade of red with each picture, "they are rather cute if I do say so myself," Kakashi said still smiling.
"Who have you shown these pictures to?" she asked nervously.
"Hinata Sakura and Shikamaru, I might have sent a few copies to Tsunade-Sama you know how much she misses you…oh and Gaara-Sama," now she turned a really pale really quickly, "is there anyone else you would like to show these to?"
"No!" she shouted, "you are such a pain in the ass!"
"No I think that was…" he started to say.
"Shut up or I will kill you," she snapped at him then began to pout. Then when he wasn't paying attention she snatched the photos from him.
"Hello there," Kakashi said, Naruko quickly turned to see Harry and his friends standing there.
"How long have you three been there?" she asked nervously.
"What happened at this Christmas party?" Ron asked.
"Well my cute little student here…" Kakashi started.
"If you say one more word I will rip your balls off and feed them to you," she snapped all three guys flinched.
"Isn't that a little extreme?" Harry asked and the second he did he wished he hadn't. Fear like he had never felt before consumed him, everyone stepped away from Harry, as a dark ominous energy surrounded the usually happy go lucky Professor.
"No," she said as Harry took a step back, "if he tells shows or brings anything to do with that party hell will seem like paradise."
"So we aren't going to find out what happened?" Ron asked.
"Not unless you want to die," she said an evil smile appearing on her face. Ron just shook his head, "do we all understand each other?"
They all nodded, and her personality did a complete one eighty, "let's go get some food I am hungry," the four followed in silence too afraid to say anything. Harry thought that he could ask Mr. Hatake about the fox but he didn't think that he would risk pissing off Professor Namikaze any more than she was already.
A few days later and a few days before the match against Revenclaw, Harry found himself walking down to dinner alone, Ron went to the bathroom to throw up; Hermione went to talk to Professor Vector about a mistake that she thought that she had made on a test. More out of habit than anything he found himself going thru the seventh-floor corridor.
Harry only stopped staring at this unlikely coupling when he walked right into a suit of armor. The load crash brought him out of his reverie; hurrying from the scene lest Filch turn up, he dashed down the marble staircase and along the passageway below. Outside the bathroom, he pressed his ear against the door. He could not hear anything. He very quietly pushed the door open.
Draco Malfoy was standing with his back to the door, his hands clutching either side of the sink, his white-blond head bowed.
"Don't," crooned Moaning Myrtle's voice from on the cubicles. "Don't…tell me what's wrong…I can help you…"
"No one can help," Malfoy said. His whole body was shaking. "I can't do it…I can't… It won't work…and unless I do it soon…he says he will kill me…"
And Harry realized that, with a shocked so huge it seemed to root him to the spot, that Malfoy was crying…actually crying…tears streaming down his pale face into grimy basin. Malfoy gasped and gulped and then, with a great shudder, looked up into the cracked mirror and saw Harry starring at him over his shoulder.
Malfoy wheeled around, the two started to fight blowing everything up around them,
"Crucio"
"Sectumsempra…" they shouted in unison but both spells were blocked and they were blasted apart. They turned to see Professor Namikaze with Moaning Myrtle floating beside her. Her eyes were cold she looked beyond pissed her wand still raised.
"What were you two thinking?" her voice was calm but it was dangerous, "Myrtle bring me Snape and McGonagall…now."
Without a word the ghost was off Malfoy raised his wand at her without thinking, but he lost his wand before he could do anything else. It was much longer until their heads of houses appeared.
"I caught them dueling, but I thought it would be more appropriate for you two since you are heads of houses," she said her voice calm, and Harry was inwardly thankful that McGonagall was dealing with him because Professor Namikaze look murderous. McGonagall seemed to notice this.
"I will allow you to deal with Mr. Potter's punishment and I will support," Harry felt a lump in his throat.
"I will deal with Mr. Malfoy," Snape said coolly.
"Potter to my office I will be there in a few minutes," she snapped, he did as he was told.
A few minutes after he arrived she showed up, "Potter, there will be no more Quititch, games or practice the only time you can leave your dorm is for meals class and to go to the library to study and detention and your first will be with me Saturday morning. Now leave my sight before I think of something else to tack on to your punishment."
Harry started to leave, "one more thing Mr. Potter if you break anymore rules you will be expelled, do I make myself clear?"
"Yes Professor," he said before he left.
Will we ever find out what happened at the party does hell really hath no fury like a woman scorned? all these will be answer
