EnlightenedKing: Thanks about the perspective switching comment, but I thought that was sort of a weakness, in that it was my original plan to review it only from Harry and Cho's point of view, and I just wasn't talented enough to find a way to keep Cho spying on Marietta. Yes, Harry is pretty evened out, he is susceptible to Marietta's memory charms and the more often she uses them, the better she gets at it because of experience. Oh Semis's problems are just beginning in chapter 25, but I was also glad to put that Marietta was "Physically beautiful" without being drop dead gorgeous. Thanks again for the review, and I hope I can finish this story soon.

Tiyuri: Wow! You have a full dance card don't you? Dance group, rock band, and a job! What type of music does your band play? Please send the link to my myspace:

http/profile. the last chapter being funny, I'm glad that you enjoyed it. I was worried that people would think that I was trying to be obscene.

Okayyyyyy, well another chapter, and still in the first week of there school:( Somebody shoot me in the head. I have no talent. Anyway here we finally get to see what Hagrid and Dumbledore have been up to all summer, and why Dumbledore hasn't been at Hogwarts all summer. God! You know this story has a lot more sexual seduction in it than I thought I would have to write. I'm making all the girls look like teases. Well that not intentional, but I had to find a way to get Harry and Semis in these traps, and seduction by a cute girl with the expectation of sex would probably trick me every time. Actually I'm sure a lot of people would be susceptible to that. Anyway just reflecting… uh, hope you enjoy the story.

Chapter 27: Les Bastille

The two students sat in the empty dungeon classroom snogging heavily. Marietta Edgencombe ran her hand across Semis's shirted chest, as he rubbed her leg with his hand. They had been at it for several minutes, when Marietta slowly pulled away from him, and stood up from the bench on which they both sat. Marietta put her hand in his and lightly pulled him up as well. "You know Semis; we could get caught by a teacher here. I know a room more private. A room that no one else knows about. Why don't we leave, and go there?" she said with a flirtatious smile. Semis gave her a broad smile back.

"It's the teacher's day off. They have better things to do than get after students. Besides… were just snogging. They couldn't do anything to bad to us other than a lecture." He said running his hands through her reddish hair. Marietta bent down to kiss him again, sticking her tong down his throat, and massaging his mouth with it. She soon withdrew it, and put her lips close to his ear.

"You know in this room that I know about we can do more than just snogging." She whispered while putting her hand on his crotch. Semis became aroused and also stood up, with some difficulty.

"And um where would this room be now?" He asked keeping his voice casual as he spoke. Marietta giggled.

"It's a surprise. Just follow me. I promise you, you'll be impressed." She said in a sexual tone, her hand still in his.

"Well then. Lead on, my dear." He smiled gingerly.

Marietta picked up her back pack, and led Semis through several corridors, down two flights of stairs and around many corners until she finally came to a stop at a dark corner of the castle. She put her back pack down and began to rummage through it. Semis looked at her confused. "Err… where are we going Marietta? Why are we stopping here?" he asked suspicious. Marietta looked up at him with a smile.

"Semis… can I trust you with a secrete?" she asked. Semis straitened up and crossed his arms.

"Of coarse you can… what secrete?" He asked. Marietta produced an invisibility cloak from her back pack, and showed it to him.

"This secrete!" she said with an aire of posh. Semis's eyes went wide as he gazed in wonder at the excessively rare cloak. He held it in his hands for a few minutes and tried it on, except for his head. He looked down at his missing body and laughed.

"Bloody amazing! Where did you get it? Have you got another one?" he asked excited. Marietta whispered into his ear lovingly that she had several more surprises in store for him, but that he must trust her, and do what she says from here until they reached the room that they sought, and that he could ask questions there. Semis agreed, and Marietta instructed him to let them both under the cloak and follow her closely so that they would both be under the cloak at all times. The two passed through many more passageways, and empty rooms until they came to the empty room lit by a single torch. Marietta instructed Semis to remove the cloak and hand it to her. After he did, and she had secured it back into her back pack, she walked over to the part of the wall with the round rock with the black teardrop on it, and depression on the floor. She physically pushed in the rock, and a rubbing sound was heard. Semis stepped back surprised as the wall melted away in front of him. He looked back up at Marietta with wide eyes.

"Um… Marietta. Where are you taking me?" he asked a little apprehensive. Marietta moved to him and kissed him on the neck.

"Don't be afraid Semis, your really going to find this interesting. Just trust me." She whispered. Semis was still aroused, and although he was feeling uneasy about something, his prospect of getting laid overpowered won out and he followed Marietta over the wall filled depression in the floor. Marietta pushed the stone, which was still suspended in midair, in the opposite direction, and the wall reformed behind them. "Luminous!" she shouted, as her wand lit the narrow corridor. She grabbed Semis's hand and led him down the long stretch finally stopping at the black rock wall. She pushed open the wall slightly, and put her wand just inside waving it around for a few seconds. Finally Marietta pushed open the wall fully to reveal a brightly lit bedroom/bathroom combo room full of caned foods, and water bottles, and candles. In the center was a bed that Marietta sat on and beckoned Semis to come to do the same. He sat next to her very confused.

"Alright Marietta… what's this all about? How did you know about this place?" Semis started, a little agitated. Marietta stood up, kicked off her shoes and started removing her skirt.

"I'll tell you. But first I want to have some fun. Come on… can't it wait just a little. Why don't' you undress?" She said in a sexy tone as she loosened her tie. Semis decided that the explanation could wait for now and began to remove his clothes. "Wait… I'll remove them for you." She said playfully. As she undressed him she would kiss him lovingly on his neck. After she had removed all of his clothes she picked them up along with his wand, and moved them to the corner of the room by the closet. She turned to Semis, smiling, with wearing just her knickers, and holding her wand in her hand.

"Now Semis, let me tell you a little bit about this room. It has enough food and water in here for about six months. Also there are enough toiletries for about the same period of time. Dental floss, tooth paste, toilet paper ext. The bath room has hot water, and an air duck leading to the grounds above, too small for a person to fit in can provide a person for good oxygen. The room is heavily sound proofed, and ghost pr…" she started, but was interrupted by Semis.

"Look Marietta, I know that I asked about the room, and believe me I do want to know about it, but … well like you said… it can wait. Let's… you know." Semis said very aroused at seeing Marietta so scantly clad. Marietta put her head down for a moment and when she brought it back up had a mischievous grin on her face.

"Oh Semis, honey. You can't have me today, but I promise your going to have the most wonderful dreams about me for the rest of the year. You can come out now love!" She shouted and the closet door opened. Semis's jaw dropped.

"What?" he said in confusion, as Marietta pointed her wand at him.

Suddenly Semis became white with fright as he saw himself walk out of the closet wearing only briefs. Marietta's look turned sinister now and a tinge of fear ran up Semis's spine.

"His clothes are at your feet, his wand too. Put them on right away." She said with a tone of authority. She looked at Semis with a slight smile. "Now as I said. You have enough supplies to last for six months. There is some cleaner in the bath room to keep the place nice, and remember to brush your teeth. I was kind enough to leave a book under your pillow to entertain you. I suggest that you read slow… I'm sorry to have to do this to a pureblood, but you being here is of great importance to society. You're actually helping the wizarding world by being here." Marietta said as she looked back to see the other Semis Finnigan buckling his belt, and putting Semis's wand into his pocket.

"Marietta what… what are you talking about? Who is he, and why does he look like me, and why are you pointing a wand at me?" Semis let out in a nervous state of confusion. He started to approach her before she answered, but she raised her wand to eye level.

"Stop! Don't make me hurt you Semis. I don't want you damaged, but if you take one step closer I'll let you have it. "She shouted in a highly hostile tone. Semis was really afraid now, and froze in place, watching his mirror image pick up Marietta's clothes and back pack, and leave the room behind her, telling her to hurry up. Marietta backed slowly out of the room, to the other side of the door. Semis started toward her.

"Marietta…please don't leave me here!" he pleaded. She smiled at him as the wall began to close between them.

"Goodbye Mr. Finnegan… remember to keep clean. Remember to keep in shape." She said casually as the wall shut between them. Semis ran to the wall and pulled with all his might, trying to move it to no avail.

"Marietta… Marietta! Why are you doing this to me! Merritta!" Semis shouted continuing in vein to try and pull the wall open.

On the other side of the wall Marietta was putting her clothes back on after putting several locking spells on the door to make sure that Semis didn't get out. "Now come along and have lunch with me in the great hall love." She said after putting one more locking spell on the door. Her love looked at her confused.

"Hardly seems a necessary effort Marietta… I mean seeing that I have his wand, all you needed was one spell." He said casually.

"Humph! You can never be too careful my love. I've been planning the downfall of Potter and his kind for several months now, and I'm not about to let anything stop us. Every precaution must be taken. Semis Finnegan must never leave that room alive.

Harry and his mates listened intently to Hagrid as he finished his tale of what he had been up to over the summer holiday. At one point soon after school let out he had returned to Eastern Europe to find Grawp a wife, and also to try and convince more giants to join Dumbledore's side in the war. But when he had returned he had only found one giant alive amongst a few gigantic rotting corpses. The giant, who happened to speak broken English, had told Hagrid that Voldermort had convinced the giants that if they sided with him, after the war was over he would allow them to run free over any area of Europe they wished, so long as they agreed to never cross the channel to the United Kingdom. He had also procured for them several bars of gold, and other items such as miles of material for making clothes, and several items to counter the spells of wizards. He also had reminded them of the harsh treatment that the wizarding world had visited on them as well. All this combined convinced most to join the cause of the dark lord. Some who had elected either to side against Voldermort, or stay neutral had been killed, by the rest of the giants at the orders of the new "Giant King" Rasala. It was soon after the giant had finished telling this story to Hagrid that he passed on. Hagrid had spent several weeks looking for them to no avail. They just seemed to disappear.

Hagrid had returned from Europe to check on Grawp, and make sure that he was okay and be sure that he was adapting to his new environment, only to find that the centaurs were abusing him again in an attempt to get him to leave the forest. Hagrid had never exactly made friends of any of the centaurs before, except Firenze, but before Firenze had been banished Hagrid had always been able to consider them acquaintances. But now their leader, Magorian, had given orders to kill Hagrid if he entered "their forest" again. "Well anyway I been entering the forest at night regardless of tha edict, ta make sure that Grawps okay, and I've been good at avoiding them… but, well I guess I just let my guard down last night. One of em got me with an arrow. Madam Pomfrey patched me up a bit, but I had ta go before she was finished, because I couldn't listen to her lecture me anymore about going out there. Coarse I couldn't tell her about Grawp." Hagrid said intently. He gave a great sigh. "Well anyway its very dangerous for me ta go into the Forbidden forest now because I also winged one of the centaurs in the arm with my crossbow, as well." Hagrid finished. He put his head down in despair. "Damit kids… the forest doesn't belong to them. It doesn't belong to anyone. Dumbledore tried to convince them ta join him in his fight against You-Know-Who, but it only seemed to anger them more. And they said ta stay out of "their forest!" I'm tired of it all." Hagrid finished as he sipped his tea.

Harry looked at Hagrid with concern and pity. He had clearly had a bad summer, just as Harry did, and now the Centaurs were even keeping him from the forest, and attacking his brother. But Harry was also keen to ask something else of Hagrid. "Hagrid… what has Dumbledore been up to all this summer?" Harry asked. Hagrid looked up at him weakly.

"He's been away from Hogwarts all summer Harry. There have been a lot of unexplained deaths, some murders. He was investigating them, and looking for You-Know-Who, and what was left of his lot. He interviewed several Death Eaters at Azkaban, and went to the jail in the Ministry of Magic to interrogate Luscious Malfoy. But I don't think that he got any information out of him. He still claims that he was under the imperious curse. Also he had to meet with many of the vampire royalty in the UK and Europe to find out their intentions in the coming war… ya knows… with us, against us, or neutral. I guess he was concerned that some of em were working for You-Know-Who after that poor Hufflepuff girl died in Dover. But that has kept em very busy." Hagrid leaned toward the three students with a very serious look on his face. "There's a war coming friends, and we need to know who are allies are!" Hagrid finished. His words seemed to darken the room, and all three students had chills down their spines. Ron was the first to speak up, with a gulp.

"Hag… Hagrid… do you know anything about the ghost proof room in Filches office?" Ron asked. Hagrid thought for a second.

"Well told me that it was ta keep people from his private business, and that it was also to keep peeves from destroying it. I asked if he could tell me the spell that his brother used, and he told me to mind my own business. Funny thing though… even Dumbledore didn't know that Filch had a brother." Hagrid said curiously. He gave a light chuckle. "Well I guess ya can never know someone ya don't try to get real close to after all these years. Never liked Filch to much, always wanting ta go back to the days where ya can torcher children. So I never went in his business really." Harry looked at his bewitched watch. It read five oh five. He looked up at Hagrid.

"Hagrid… we have to go for now. Do you want us to sneak out tonight and check on Grawp?" Harry asked.

"What!" Ron and Hermione shot in unison. Harry looked at them, casually.

"Don't worry, we can use the invisibility cloak, and they never hurt fouls… err children do they." Harry said.

"No Harry… ya can't go in there anymore. The centaurs have become unpredictable, and even though Magorian has been able to keep them in line… well a few of them have the potential to be as evil as a Death Eater. I mean they keep to themselves for the most part, that's there way… but well I get the feeling some of them have the idea that things should be different. There seems to be a territorial issue growing amongst them, that whole, "Our Forest" thing. One particular member amongst the lot named Bain has had a few disagreements with the chief about me." Hagrid said in a secretive tone. Hermione raised an eyebrow.
"Hagrid… how could you possibly know all this?" Hermione asked with sincerity. A guilty look came across his face.

"Well… ta be quite honest, one of the thins that I was doing in the forest was spying on the centaurs. Ta see what they were up to. I usually stay out of sight, but I got a little to close this time, and well… they must have caught wind of me. Anyway. Don't any of you go into the forest for any reason. I'll take care of my brother. I would like ta see ya all next week for tea if it pleases ya." The three students nodded, and after a few parting pleasantries were walking towards the castle. Harry suddenly remembered something and called Hermione over to speak with her alone for a second. Not a problem, as she still even now was barley speaking to Ron, and the tension between the two of them was thick. Harry looked at her in a very serious manor.

"Hermione you have to apologize to Luna. You know that don't you?" Harry said. Hermione nodded.

"Yes I know Harry… I didn't mean to be so well… I just, I will apologize. But don't expect me to be too friendly toward her. She is trying to take Ron away from me. I didn't mean to say that to her, but I don't want to get to close to her, understand?" Hermione said worried. Harry nodded.

"Look just be civil, and courteous, okay? I need you two to get along, and competition or not, she's a nice girl, and she's not doing anything wrong. Ron's not looking for a commitment with her either." Harry finished. Hermione nodded her agreement, and the three continued on there way to the castle past students swimming, and lounging by the lake in there swimsuits. As they passed they saw Professor McGonagall chastising a few girls for the small size of there swim suits, and saying that she was going to recommend a new dress code for swimwear next year to the head master. In a short time they would be at the room of requirement, and Harry would get to see Cho again. But why was he so excited about it. They were just friends, that's what he wanted… wasn't it?"

( Oh bye the way, Marietta was bluffing about zapping Semis with anything to harsh as she was leaving the room, she would have only been able to use a lite stun spell on him at that particular instance.)