"We didn't do anything!" Ichigo hissed as soon as they entered her office. McGonogall looked over all the students.
"I beleive you, but understand, nothing like this has happened in a while, where students are collapsing randomly with all their magical abilities gone and the face that it coincides with your arrival Mr. Kurosaki. Also, Mr. Ishida, that disapearing stunt you pulled when you tock the boy to the infermery didn't help you much either. It also looks bad when your group has been found with both victums." she said.
"I didn't even find the first boy, another student did and tock me to help!" Uryu insited to the teacher. She looked over at James.
"And what do you think of all this?" she asked.
"They were with me the whole time Professor, there is no way in hell that any of them did it. Right?" he asked.
"Right." agreed Rose.
"That's enough Mr. Potter, and no language if you please." she said in a stiffy manner that ment that it wasn't a request but an order. They nodded.
"Now, for what I want you all to do about it is to try and stay out of trouble." she said. They all nodded. Ichigo and Uryu looked at each other. Should they tell her? Uryu gave a subtle shake of the head that no one else caught, telling Ichigo now was not the time. Ichigo nodded in understanding. "Now, off you go." she said, hustiling them out of her office.
"What do you make of this?" Ichigo asked Uryu.
"I've been looking at that map all night, keeping my eye on Lestrange and Malfoy, but neither moved from their rooms." Uryu insisted.
"Then we'll just have to keep a personal eye on them. What do you say we go out and check on them tonight?" Ichigo asked. They both looked at James who smirked.
"They're both in the Slytherin house, I can get you in, but we got the problem of being recognized." he said.
"We can just use the invisibility cloak, we don't need to talk to them, ust watch them." said Ichigo. They all nodded.
"So who's going with me?" James asked.
"Well me of course." Ichigo said.
"And me." Chad agreed. James nodded.
"What are the rest of us doing?" Rose asked. Lily nodded, they all wanted to help.
"I'm going out tonight to check on anyone roaming the halls, I'll be using the tunnles." Uryu said.
"I'll go with you!" Orihime said.
"Me too!" Rose responded. Uryu looked stunned, then nodded. Albus frowned.
"Of course he'd get all the girls to go with him." he muttered. Everyone laughed. They arrived in the great hall.
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The night had fallen and James, Ichigo, and Chad moved threw the hall under the invisability cloak. "Why don't we have the map either." said Ichigo.
"Uryu needs it more. If he has no cover in any way then he needs to know if anyone is coming towards him so he can hide. If he gets caught then the detention that he might get will be the least of his worries." James said. Chad nodded to show that he agreed to that. They moved along until they arrived at the dungons.
"How can anyone live down here?!" asked Ichigo is discust at the damp atmosphere. They arrived at a stone wall.
"Pure blood." James said. the wall swung open and revealed a dungon like room with green lights everywhere, compleatly the opposite of how the Gryffendor common room was. There were green and black leather furiture, skulls and dark wood went along the cealing, and it gave an errie feeling. The three moved around the multitude of students filling the room. They found who they were looking for pretty quickly. Scorpious was sitting at a table writting in a notebook, apperently doing his homework.
"That's not what I expected him to be doing." noted Ichigo quietly so only Chad and James could hear.
"We need to find his room, he might have something helpful." said James. The group moved along the wall to the dormitories and snuck into the year six room. It didn't take them long to find Malfoy's things. Still under the cloak, all three started shifting threw Malfoy's trunk and bed.
"Damn it, there's nothing here." Ichigo yelled, only to be shusshed by James and Chad. Then the door opened. Malfoy and two boys came in.
"Did you hear about the attack this morning?! It was on a girl from Ravenclaw." said one boy.
"Yeah, I heard Potter and his new friends got blamed for it." said another. Malfoy shrugged.
"What's it any of my buisness? My father may be happy to hear about it, but I really don't care that much." he said.
"It's because you and Rosie get along isn't it!" teased one of the boys. Scorpious turned red.
"NO! It's because I can respect them." he said.
"Your dad would kill you for talking like that." said another.
"I'm not my dad!" Scorpious snapped.
"Do you think those new kids did it?" asked a new boy.
"Of course not! That orange haired boy is too stupid to attack people without them knowing. He's like a bull. The large man doesn't seem like the type and the girl is an air head." said Malfoy. Ichigo tried to attack him, but James and Chad restrained him and covered his mouth to keep him quiet. "The boy with the glasses though, he's another story. He's intellegent, getting to the top of the class in two weeks against students who have grown up knowing all of this, where it's all brand new to him. He also is skilled, appereating in an are that it's supposed to be impossible in." Malfoy said.
"So you think he did it?" asked another. Malfoy shock his head.
"Not a chance if he's Potter's friend, he wouldn't trust anyone shaddy." Then Malfoy turned and hit both boys. "Don't you ever tell him I ever said any of that. I don't care who is really doing this." Malfoy said. The three of them snuck out of the room and threw the common room. They got out of the Slytherin area and ran down the halls.
"So Malfoy is innocent." said Ichigo.
"Seems so. I hope Uryu and the girls are doing better." said James. They were so reoccupied that they didn't see the figure walking towards them until they collided into him. The group fell to the ground, the invisabilitly cloak falling to the floor. They looked up to see they had crashed into Professor Gretal.
"Good evening, Head boy Potter, and new students." the teacher said. THey froze.
"Professor we..." James started, trying to come up with a good excuse for why they were out.
"How about we agree to this, you get your friends who are out and about as well, because I guarentte your not alone, I'll take fifty house points from Gryffendor, and we all go to bed, forgetting this ever happened, hmm?" the Proffesor asked. They all nodded. The man nodded. "Good, now off with you all." the Professor said. All three then left and went to the common room.
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Uryu, Rose, and Orihime followed the map and found themselves at the entrance to one of the secrite passages. "What does the map say Uryu?" Orihime asked.
"Ichigo and the others just entered the common room for the Slytherin's and Lestrange is out tonight as well." Uryu told them. Both girls nodded.
"Where is he?" Rose asked. Uryu studdied the map again.
"He's in the charms class room...but why?" Uryu wondered out loud. They moved threw the passage to it's exit then moved down the hall, watching the map as they did. They approched the charms room in silence and Uryu cracked the door open a bit. Lestrange sat at a desk talking to someone that the three of them couldn't see.
"I know i know, but it's not like it's me that's attacking the students." he protested. The groups eyes grew wide, this wasn't something that they were expecting. They were sure that it would be Lestrange.
"You will most likley be blamed for it as you are my son." came a male voice. The two girls froze, a death eatter was in the school, but he hadn't shown up on the map. Uryu pushed the door open just a bit more so they could see the fire place in front of Lestrange.
"I don't care, I wish it was me doing this. They'll probibly suspect Malfoy too, although he's too friendly with them for it to ever be him." said Lestrange. Uryu gestured that it was time to leave, they got what they wanted. They moved down to a secrite passage.
"I can't beleive this, both of our leads are dead ends." snapped Rose. Orihime nodded.
"I guess we should head back and find the others. They need to hear this." Uryu said.
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Uryu, Orihime, and Rose came in to see a group of hopeful faces, but they shock their heads. "They're both innocent." Orihime said. They all looked at the ground.
"Now what?!" asked Ichigo in frustration as he punched a nearby wall.
"I don't know, we're out of leads, there's not much left that we can do." Uryu said.
"We'll just have to look for a new lead then." James protested.
"Hey guys!" they all jumped at Renji's voice as the soul reapers came in.
"Anything from you guys?" Ichigo practicly pleaded.
"Nothing." Rukia sighed.
"So then, we're back at square one." Albus summed up. Then Lily jumped up with a smile.
"We can practice Quiditch tomorrow." she said, trying to cheer them all up.
"I'd like to watch anyway, it sounds interesting. Orihime said it's a combiniation of baseball, football, and hide-and-go seek." Renji said.
"ORIHIME!" yelled James, at distaste for how she summed up his favorite game. They all laughed. Uryu glanced once more at the map, and his breath caught, maybe they weren't back at square one yet! 'How did no one ever notice this beore!' he wondered.
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"What are we doing?" Ichigo asked as Orihime smiled back at the group.
"There's a Hogsmade trip this weekend and I signed us all up to go." she said.
"Orihime!" groaned Ichigo.
"Alright, didn't Uncle George finally get the branch started up in Hogsmade?" James asked. Albus and Hugo nodded.
"You really shouldn't go spending your money at Uncle George's joke shop. He usually sends you some things for Christmas anyway." Rose said, Lily nodding in agreement.
"It's not that Rosie! Uncle George is goig to be there!" he said with a grin. They all gave him a surprised look, then a laughe they all smiled.
"That's right, so we should go." said Albus.
"I want to meet the famous George Weasley. He sounds like a wonderful man." said Orihime. They all nodded and left for class. Since tomorrow was Saterday they were going to go, and it excited the entire group.
"Usually sixth years don't go, it's mostly the kids that are in their earlier years that go." explained Lily as Chad pointed out the list had very few names of the older students. They entered their Defence Against the Dark Arts class, and no one seemed to notice Uryu slip a paper under his robe as they sat down.
I may have given too many hints but that's ok, may as well! I hope you liked it! Thank you Phantom Claire, , and Skirt2819 for all of your support.