Chapter 23


March and April passed by quickly with all the homework they had. The new Centaur was a interesting teacher. Brianna and Draco still hated the class but at least it wasn't as boring now. Umbridge had ask the Slytherins to keep an eye out for strange activity. She had started question all the students about it. She suspected that Potter and some others were having secret meetings that had something to do with the Ministry and wanted it stopped. Draco made it his mission to catch Potter. Brianna wanted him caught too but she was focusing on her homework, Occlumency lessons and dark arts lessons she had, so she had no time to trail Potter all over the castle.

She did call in a favor to Salazar to let her know if he heard anything and he said he would. She also sent Nyx slithering around at night to see if she spotted anything. She wanted to stop Potter in case he was really doing something to try and hurt her father. That she couldn't let happen.

On day Brianna was helping Snape brew potions for the hospital when Nyx came slithering in.

"Mistress I have news." she hissed startling Snape and Brianna.

"What is it." Brianna hissed back.

"I have followed Potter and found that he and a bunch of students are meeting in a room on the 7th floor that comes and goes as they use it. They are there now." she hissed.

"Thanks you did great. Go back to the room." Brianna told her and she slithered back out.

"Bingo." Brianna smiled standing to leave.

"What did she say." Snape ask.

"That she has found out what Potter has been up to. Meeting with a bunch of students in some room that comes and goes in the 7th floor." Brianna told him.

"Aw. You mean the Room of Requirement." He said.

"The what." she ask.

"It's a room that appears when the seeker has great need. It can become anything. Dumbledore uses it as the room of forgotten things. Broken items he doesn't want to throw out." he told and she nodded.

"K well I'm going to tell Umbridge and break up the party." she said leaving Snape laughing behind her.

She found Draco in the common room.

"Hey I found out what Potter was up to." she told him and he perked up.

"What." he ask and the others listened as well.

"As you know I sent Nyx out to investigate. She just came to me and said he has been meeting with a bunch of students in the Room of Requirement on the 7th floor. They are there now." she told him.

"Let's tell Umbridge." he said and they all left making there way to her office. Once there they knocked and waited.

"Come in." she called.

"How can I help you dears." she ask them. She was sitting with a girl named Marietta questioning her.

"Professor we found out what Potter was up to. He has been meeting with a bunch of students in the Room of Requirement. They are there now." Brianna told her and her face lit up. She turned back to Marietta.

"Is that true girl." Umbridge ask. She tried to fight not saying it but she broke.

"Yes. They started a club called Dumbledore's Army so Potter can teach them to fight." she confessed crying when her face was messed up suddenly with a word she hide from view. She was cursed for telling the secret.

"Very well. Let's go get them." Umbridge said to the Slytherins who followed her out towards the 7th floor.

When they reached the 7th floor they caught site of students running for there lives. They had been tipped off.

"Catch them." Umbridge shrieked. The Slytherins took off chasing after them. Draco took off after Potter and caught him.

"Professor I got him." He yelled to Umbridge.

"Excellent Draco, very good, fifty points to Slytherin. I'll take him from here. Got round up more. Tell the girls to search the bathroom." she said and Draco nodded. They ended up rounding up most of them and locked them in Umbridge's office for her to deal with. They also found the list with the others names and turned it in.

The next morning there was talk that Dumbledore ran and Umbridge was named the new Headmistress of Hogwarts. Umbridge had made the Slytherins that helped her the Inquisitorial squad giving them privileges to take points and give detentions to anyone. Brianna really wasn't happy about it but she smiled and went along with it. Snape thought it very funny to which she scowled at him till he stopped laughing. He was happy though that Slytherin was wining in the points system due to this.

Draco, Brianna and the others over heard Potter and his group gripping about Umbridge.

"She stupid, puffed-up, power crazy old-" Hermione was ranting. Draco and the others stepped around the corner.

"Now, do you really want to finish that sentence Granger?" He sneered to her.

"Afraid I'm going to have to dock points from Gryffindor and Hufflepuff." he told them.

"You can't take points from fellow perfects, Malfoy." Hermione said.

"I know perfects cant dock points from each other. But members of the Inquisitorial squad can." He said pointing to his badge.

"The what?" Hermione ask sharply.

"The Inquisitorial squad Granger." Brianna told her.

"A select group of students hand picked by Umbridge. Anyways, members have the power to dock points from anyone. So Granger, I'll have five from you for being rude about our new headmistress, five because I don't like you Potter, five from the others for being involved. Oh and another ten for being a Mudblood Granger." Draco said laughing at there shocked and angry faces.

"Good bye now, Potty, Weasel king." he added before they walked off.

There was a loud bang and everyone went to the entrance hall to see what it was. Umbridge was jumping around trying to stun the fireworks someone had let off but every time she did more appeared taking off all over the castle.

Teachers that day thought it very funny and did nothing to try and help get ride of them. When one would come into there class they would send a student to get Umbridge to get ride of it. She spent all day answering calls from the other teachers about the fireworks.

A few days later there was another Occlumency lesson and Potter was late putting Snape in a bad mood.

"You're later Potter." Snape snapped when he got there.

"So have you been practicing." Snape ask.

"Yes." Harry replied.

"He's lying." Brianna said from her chair.

"No I'm not." Harry snapped.

"Yes you are I can tell." Brianna told him.

"Well, we'll soon find out, wont we? Wand out Potter." Snape said ending the argument. It didn't matter if he practiced or not. They had opened his mind up for the dark lord with all there lessons.

"On the count of three then. 1...2." Snape said but the door opened and Draco came in. He took time to look at all three of them.

"Professor Snape, sir-oh-sorry." Draco said.

"It's all right Draco. Potter is here for a little Remedial Potions." He told Draco.

"I didn't know." Draco said.

"Well, Draco what is it?" Snape ask him.

"It's Umbridge sir. She needs your help. They found Montague. He's jammed inside a toilet on the 4th floor." Draco told him.

"How did he get in there?" Demanded Snape.

"I don't know sir, he's a bit confused." Draco replied.

"Very well, very well-Potter. We shall resume this lesson tomorrow evening instead." Snape told him and swept out of the room . Draco mouth "Remedial Potions" to Potter before looking at Brianna.

"Bree can I talk to you for a minute." Draco ask and she nodded following him outside.

"Were those the lessons." Draco whispered he knew what they were doing.

"Yes of course. You didn't think I needed Remedial Potions did you." She said and they both laughed. Draco went to help Snape and Brianna went back into the office but didn't see Potter anywhere and she knew he didn't pass them. She looked around and her gaze landed on the Pensieve.

"Oh he better not have." She hissed walking over to it and seeing Potter inside watching a memory of when Snape called his mom a Mudblood after his dad teased him. Brianna knew all his secrets but Potter didn't have the right to know.

"Severus, Potter is nosing around in your Pensieve I can see him in there but I cant figure out how to get him out." she told him in his mind.

"I'll be right there." he hissed clearly mad.

He came back 5 minutes later and walked over and look in to see Potter watching memories he had no right to. He reached in and grabbed Potter dragging him out gripping his arm hard.

"Having fun. So been enjoying yourself, Potter?" he growled.

"N-no." Harry said trying to free his arm. Brianna just watched.

"Amusing man you father, wasn't he?" Snape said in a dangerous voice shacking Harry.

"I didn't." Harry tried to say. But Snape threw him with all his might and he fell hard on the floor.

"You will not tell anybody what you saw." Snape yelled pulling his wand and advancing on Potter. Brianna took this time to intervene. She positioned herself in front of Snape putting a hand on his chest to stop his movements.

"No, no of course not, I wont." Harry was mumbling.

"Professors calm down." Brianna whispered to him.

"Get out, GET OUT Potter. I don't want to see you in this office ever again!" Snape yelled and Harry flew out the door as Snape hurtled a jar of dead cockroaches at him.

"Calm down Severus." Brianna told him when he kept throwing stuff after he left. She just repaired it every time he broke something.

"That little fucker had no right to see that. He is his father made over again." Snape yelled not at Brianna just in general.

"I know Severus just calm down." she told him.

"You are the only one that deserves the right to know things like that about me. Now Potter knows, I could kill him." Snape yelled not hearing her.

"SEVERUS." Brianna screamed causing him to turn and look at her. She walked over to him and put her hands on his face.

"Calm down. It's not that big a deal." she told him and he relaxed.

"I'm sorry to yell I just." he said.

"I know it's fine I understand I'd be mad too. But yelling and breaking your stuff wont help. Just take it out on him in class like always." she told him and he nodded letting her calm him down before she left for bed.

A few days later the Weasley twins made there break from school after another round of pranks and Umbridge threaten them. It was all anyone talked about for days.

June came quickly as the students prepared to take there owls. Nerves were high for almost everyone. All students were studying at every chance they got even Brianna as she wanted to do well.

For two weeks they took exams, written and practical. Brianna was pleased at the end of each test thinking she did well. There last exam was Astronomy at night in the tower. During that test was when Umbridge tried to sack Hagrid. There was a BANG and all the student looked up from there test to see Hagrid fighting four men and Umbridge trying to stun him but they had no effect.

The door to the castle opened and everyone saw McGonagall running down to help Hagrid.

"How dare you. How dare you. Leave him alone I say. On what grounds do you have to attack him." She screamed. Then Hermione and some of the others screamed when four stunners hit McGonagall in the chest lifting her right off the ground and she fell hard not moving.

"COWARDS." Hagrid yelled taking massive swipes at the men hitting them to the ground before picking up his dog and running into the woods. The class stayed silent after that. They finished up there test and left.

Brianna heard Potter talking with his friends the next day about a vision he had of the Dark Lord killing Sirius and he wanted to go to the department of mysteries to save him. Hermione tried to stop him but he was having none of that. She knew this was her fathers plan to get Potter to get that prophesy and ran to tell Snape.

"It's happening." she said out of breath as she barged into his office.

"What is." he ask her.

"Fathers plan. I heard Potter talking about a vision he had of the Dark Lord killing Sirius Black at the department of Mysteries and he is planning to go there." Brianna told him sitting down.

"Good. This is good. Hopefully they don't get caught first." Snape said smiling. They talked for a few more moments before Draco came in.

"Professor Umbridge wants you. She caught Potter and his gang using her floo and setting a diversion." he said.

"Idiot." Snape snarled leaving the room with Draco and Brianna behind him.

When they got there Potter, Granger, Weasley and his sister, Lovegood and Neville were all being held by Slytherins.

"You wanted to see me, headmistress?" Snape ask looking around.

"Ah, Professor Snape. Yes I would like another bottle of Veritaserum, as quick as you can, please." she told him.

"You took my last bottle to interrogate Potter, Surely you did not use it all? I told you three drops would be sufficient." he said coolly.

"You can make more cant you?" she ask.

"Certainly. It takes a full moon cycle to mature, so I should have it ready for you in around a month." he said.

"A Month? A month? But I need it this evening Snape! I have found Potter using my fire to communicate with persons unknown." she squawked.

"Really? Well it doesn't surprise me. Potter has never shown much inclination to follow school rules." Snape said eyeing Potter.

"I wish to interrogate him. I wish you to provide me with a potion that will force him to tell me the truth." she yelled.

"I have already told you that I have no further stocks of Veritaserum. Unless you wish to poison Potter-and I assure you I would have the greatest sympathy with you if you did-I cannot help you. The only trouble is that most venoms act to fast to give the victim much time for truth telling." he drawled out.

"You are on probation. You are being deliberately unhelpful. I expected better, Lucius Malfoy always speaks most highly of you! Now get out of my office." she screamed and Brianna got pissed.

"What. You cant." she started but Snape put a hand over her mouth.

"he's got Padfoot. He's got Padfoot at the place where it's hidden." Harry yelled.

"Padfoot? What is Padfoot. What does he mean Snape?" Umbridge ask him.

"I have no idea. Potter, when I want nonsense shouted at me I shall give you a babbling beverage. And Crabbe, loosen your hold a little, if Longbottom dies it will mean a lot of paperwork, and I am afraid I shall have to mention it on your reference if ever you apply for a job." he said before leaving the room taking Brianna with him.

Back in his office.

"Why did you stop me from giving that toad what she deserves. The nerve putting you on probation I wont allow it." Brianna ranted.

"Relax nothings going to happen. She was just mad about Potter and I didn't want you getting in trouble too." Snape told her.

"What was Potter talking about. Who's Padfoot." Brianna ask him.

"It's Black's nickname when in dog form. He was trying to warn me to tell the order to save Sirius cause he thinks Sirius is really in trouble." Snape told her.

"So what are you going to do." she said. "I mean you have to act like the spy and warn them right."

"Yes I will when I know that Potter has gotten to the Ministry. Giving the Dark Lord time to get the Prophecy." Snape said an hour later they went back to Umbridge's office to see if Potter had gone yet. When they arrived all the Slytherins were stunned and no Umbridge or Potter's crew in site. Snape took his time to wake his students and ask what happened. They said Potter and Hermione lead Umbridge to the woods and once gone the others stunned them. Snape then sent them on there way.

Brianna was looking out the window of Umbridge's office when she saw Potter and the others take off on Thestrals.

"Game on." she told Snape pointing to the sky. He looked and nodded.