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Sorry for the wait, my muses seemed to have developed ADD.
Anisuke rolled out of bed the next morning with the innate feeling that something was going to go horribly wrong today; it was the very same feeling he got every time he ended up coming face to face with Voldemort or the brunt of Vernon's anger. It was a wary Anisuke that walked to breakfast with both eyes and ears open. He watched the room and the people around him carefully and couldn't find the urge to eat anything at the table. Breakfast passed without incident, but his instincts were justified on the way to first period when he had to pull Neville out of the way of a Cutting Curse. They had decided to take a rarely used shortcut and apparently they weren't the only ones.
When Anisuke spun around to face their attacker he was somewhat less then surprised to see an enraged Ron Weasley standing halfway down the hall breathing heavily with his wand drawn. He ignored the panting Neville for the moment to focus on his former best friend. "Why am I not surprised that you managed to sink to the level of Wormtail so very quickly?"
A wordless snarl left Ron as he started to close some of the distance between them. "You're the traitor here! I've had to put up with your whining and hero complex, almost getting killed year after year and you go and ruin my family with that stupid article. No one will even talk to me anymore because they think that I'm a thief!" His face was flushed a blood red and he was starting to shake in his enraged state. "Then you start fucking those three evil men and you ignore me completely without listening to my side of things at all. Those mates of yours are worse then He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named; the things that they have done to me in detention have to be illegal and after I'm through with you and the pathetic excuse for a wizard behind you I'll make sure that they suffer for every single thing they have done to me."
Anisuke honestly tried to stop himself but with every word that came from the weasel it got harder until he found himself almost hysterically laughing without taking his eyes off of the diluted human. "Even if you somehow managed to kill me, which is laughable at best, my mates would rip you into little pieces and put you back together only to do it again until there was nothing left of what small amount of brain matter you have left." Anisuke took a defensive stance and waited for Ron's barely there control to snap completely. "I'm simply amazed that you have convinced yourself that you actually stand a chance against either Neville or myself, the only reason you passed any of your classes previously was because of Hermione doing your homework and me forcing you to practice. Frankly I would be shocked if you managed to wind me."
That certainly did it, Ron bellowed in rage as Neville took cover behind a suit of armor to watch the fireworks. Anisuke calmly dodged the series of low level curses that Ron shot at him without even trying to properly aim. He had to admit that he was rather impressed when the curses got darker and less legal, Ron must have been studying all this time just to attack him, how flattering. He knew something that Ron obviously hadn't taken the time to look into though.
Ron was from a family that was heavily set in the Light side of magic; they even stayed away from the spells that could be considered Gray and Dark Magic took a level of control and familiarity that Ron just didn't have. To control Dark Magic you had to be gradually worked up from the lowest level curse to the highest and you had to be careful with how many curses you used at a time. Dark magic requires emotions both negative and positive and the emotional drain is enough to permanently damage the core if the user isn't careful and Ron was anything but a careful individual. Anisuke could already see the curses getting weaker as Ron's core rebelled against being used.
When Ron actually started using highly illegal curses that even a Death Eater would think twice about Anisuke decided that this farce had gone on long enough. He ended the duel with probably unnecessary force with a blasting curse that absorbed the power from the last curse the Ron had cast and sent him flying down the long hall and into the wall with a sickening crack that signaled the breaking of several ribs at the very least. Anisuke felt a little sorry for him as he cast the Patronus Charm to alert a professor about the issue. He had read about the charm being used in times of war to carry messages without the risk of the message being intercepted. Neville walked back over to him from where he had been waiting for the end of the duel and they sat down right in the middle of the hallway to wait for a professor to get to them.
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Snape was just starting to give his first class their instructions when a stag patronus burst through his door and stopped less then two feet away from him, he was on his feet in an instant as he flew out of the room with the patronus running ahead of him. He knew exactly who that patronus belonged to and that if he didn't respond he would have hell to pay.
When he rounded the corner he was met with the very last thing that he had ever expected to see. Potter and Longbottom were sitting at one end of the hallway eating what looked to be crumpets and drinking tea while Weasley was unconscious against a wall at the other end of the hallway with a bit of blood leaking out of the side of his mouth. "Do I even want to know what happened here?"
Anisuke looked up from his little tea party and gave Severus a look that reminded him strongly of his godson before he told a story about getting one over on someone he felt deserved it. "Well, professor, we were making our way to our first class when I had to divert to one of the side hallways with Neville to avoid a cutting curse that had been shot at us by Ron. He then proceeded to follow us for a ways, shooting curses all the while, until we stopped here and I turned to confront him. He said some very derogatory things about me and my mates before he started using curses that gradually got more illegal until I decided that things had gone far enough and used a blasting curse and ended the duel." Anisuke looked down the hallway with a sneer. "You could use Prior Incantatum on his want to see that the spells he was using would be more then enough to expel him at the very least."
Severus nodded as he made his way toward where Weasley had dropped his wand, most likely after he had been blasted down the hallway and watched the results of the spell with wide eyes. There were spells on this wand that even he wouldn't use if he was met with James Potter and no laws holding him back. "You both should get to your class and let your professor know that I will take responsibility for you being late. I'll take him to the Infirmary and speak with Dumbledore." He looked up at the two boys as they cleaned up their mess. "Send McGonagall to my class to cover on your way." He swept away with Weasley's body floating behind him, mysteriously bouncing into a wall every now and then.
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Dumbledore was sucking on one of his lemon drops while trying to think of a way to get his puppet back under his control when the door burst open and Severus came striding in with a look on his face that he hadn't seen in quite some time, amusement. His cloak swirled as he gracefully perched onto one of his comfiest chairs. "I just found Mr. Weasley unconscious in one of the lesser used hallways after he attacked both Mr. Potter and Mr. Longbottom."
Dumbledore blinked in shock as Severus continued without giving him time to catch up. "Mr. Potter informed me that Mr. Weasley had followed them and attacked them with gradually darker curses until he felt the need to use a blasting curse to stop him. I used Prior Incantatum on his wand and found spells that he had no business even knowing at all. I delivered the boy to the Infirmary to receive treatment for his injuries and alerted the Board of Governors before I came to inform you of the situation as it will be up to them if the boy is allowed to return to classes with the Ministry's new restrictions. Unfortunately I need to return to the class that I am currently missing, good day Albus." Severus left the office as quickly as he had come with a pleased smirk on his face as he finally managed to flabbergast that old codger.
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Beyond the well…
"Inuyasha, are you even listening to me!" Kagome's shrill voice seemed to ring throughout the entire village and Inuyasha was tempted to say that no one in the village hadn't heard her, but the sit wasn't really worth it. "Ever since that fox came and took my Shippo none of you have listened to a word I've said and I'm sick of it. What would you do if I went back to my time and left you without any way to find those jewels and you stayed a pathetic little half breed for the rest of your life?!" Her face was bright red and she had her hands on her hips as she continued on her newest tirade. "I am the only one that can find the jewels other then that undead bimbo that's trying to kill you so you should listen to what I say!"
It wasn't Inuyasha that intervened, but Sango. "Give it a rest. Most of the jewel is with Lord Anisuke and I don't think he will be willing to just hand it over anytime soon. What we should be doing is trying to find out where Onigumo is and taking care of him before he gets too strong for us to handle."
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Kanna was conversing with Naraku through the mirror when Shippo and Rin ran into the room giggling over something or other and grabbed her and dragged her out of the room saying something about flowers, a dress and Jaken. Naraku deactivated the mirror several moments later with a smile on his face, though he would deny it to the death.
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Back to the future…
Dumbledore was still trying to overcome the shock that Severus had dropped in his lap when the entire Board of Governors and the Minister himself arrived through the floo and the office automatically enlarged to seat them all in a semicircle facing his desk. The first one to speak was Cornelius and his tone was none too pleased. "This kind of thing is why I felt the need to install professors here, there is obviously something wrong with the way that you have run this school. That boy is recorded as having been given detentions by two professors on his very first day in class, one of the professors gave him detention for the entire year for the gross degradation of the very student he attacked today. All of this should have lead to some kind of action on your part to reverse his behavior and yet you even let him keep his position as a prefect, a position that he did not earn in the first place. The boy has some of the worst grades in the school and has shown anger issues repeatedly in the past."
Lucius seemed to look at Cornelius in a new light for a moment before his voice joined the fray. "It would seem that the Minister has a very valid point. The boy was given a position that he most certainly did not deserve and the power has gone straight to the boy's head. If you combine that with the discoveries made over the summer it paints a very unflattering picture of Mr. Ronald Weasley. I vote to have the boy suspended without possession of his wand until the Wizarding Gamut is convened to judge whether he should be charged with attempted murder, which many of the spells on his wand indicated." Every one of the members of the Board nodded as well as Cornelius.
"Surely the situation is not so serious. The boy may have a bit of a temper on him but he has never done anything to show that he is a danger to anyone in this school including young Mr. Potter. I'm sure that the problem can be solved within these walls. As for the prefect position, it was given to him because of the numerous school awards that he won over the years." Dumbledore tried to keep his tone as comforting as possible to try to sway the members of the Board that he knew but their faces remained closed off.
Cornelius stood slowly and looked down on Dumbledore with an almost stunned look on his face. "You are absolutely incredible, old man. The boy is clearly unstable. His first year he immediately attached himself to Harry like some kind of leech while leading him into a confrontation with an insane professor that almost killed him, while you were who knows where. Second year he ended up leading Harry down to face a basilisk by himself as he waited in the wings for his little bit of glory. Third year ended with Harry almost getting killed by Dementers, which you failed to inform me were rather attracted to him, as well as a professor that had not taken his wolfs bane. Mr. Weasley was the only reason that Harry ended up in the situation to begin with. Fourth year Mr. Weasley turned his back on Harry and spent most of the year spreading rumors about him that focused on how much of a liar he was and how fame hungry he was. Every award that he won was because he led Harry into a dangerous situation and watched as Harry handled it." Cornelius looked at the men around him that were nodding before focusing on Dumbledore's stunned face. "I hereby grant all of Harry's mates with the power as High Inquisitors, they can not only evaluate the staff but also immediately fire anyone that they deem unfit. They will also have the power to create new rules as well as abolish any old rules that they feel are inadequate. You will need to inform Mr. Weasley that he is to be sent home while his wand is kept at the Ministry as evidence and that he will need to acquire a legal representative for his upcoming trial. Good day Albus."
Review and let me know what you think. Don't worry, Ron's not out of the picture yet, but I needed a vaild reason to give the mates more power.