AN:/ same deal probably lots of mistakes.

Batman Doesn't 'Do' Magic

Chapter Nine

By:Deadlydaisy8o8

Originally Uploaded: April 5, 2013, 12:03AM

"Would someone tell me why I'm doing this again?"

"No one is making you go Ron."

"And let you two go alone to get eaten by that bloody vampire? Not a chance!" Hermione huffed as she waited for Harry to get his cloak and the map out of his trunk.

"He can't be a Vampire because we saw him out in the daylight Ronald."

"Well he was covered head to foot with that bizarre cloak he wears he didn't have to be in the sunlight."

"His chin was uncovered."

"He could have put on some of that muggle sun repellent my dad was talking about this summer."

"Sunscreen wouldn't make a difference to a Vampire."

"He still could have-"

"Guys!" Both Ron and Hermione stopped to look at Harry who had moved towards the door, his shoulder missing and a map clutched in his hand, "Are you two going to keep bickering like an old married couple or come with me?" They both blush before the quickly went towards the door with Harry to go down to the common room.

"I still say we don't' have to do this." The cloak was swept over the three of them as they arranged themselves under it, a light under the cloak making sure they didn't trip over themselves.

"We've already decided this is the only way we're getting answers. We don't know if this guy is working for Voldemort," Harry rolled his eyes at the flinch, "Or Sirius Black, or even why Professor Dumbledore would let him in the castle. He's obviously important. There has to be something going on that we don't know. This is the best way to find out what it is." All talking ceased as the portrait of the Fat Lady swung open, causing the Fat Lady to stutter in her snoring for a moment before she settled back down. The three teenagers shuffled down the hallway before they settled into a rhythm that wouldn't have them stepping on each other's toes.

"Which way are we going." There was an exasperated shh not so loud! From Hermione before Harry got a chance to answer.

"The map says he's in the Library. We'll find out what he's looking for. That will give us a clue what he wants for sure. Come on." The trio shuffled along again. They heard Filch coming down a hallway with his loud footsteps and grumbling so they pressed themselves up against the wall until he passed. Luckily Mrs. Norris was nowhere around to give them away.

They continued on until the came up to the large double doors and slowly pried them open to get inside. The door was completely silent, the trio having known it would moan if opened too quickly. The only indication that the door opened at all was the air pressure equalizing itself with a small gust, fluttering the edges of the cloak that covered the trio.

Not two seconds later the draft of new air reached the back of the library, so diluted at that range that it was completely unnoticeable to even trained senses. However the two candles Batman had lit to read by, which had been completely steady in the stagnate air up to this point, both gave a single simultaneous flicker. Batman's eyes snapped up to the candles in the brief flux of light. He narrowed his eyes before he silently let the archived Newspaper he was reading fall to the table and he easily climbed up to the top of the Bookcases, up into the dark ceiling.

Batman gathered his cape so it would not hang over the edge of the bookcases and crouched as he walked along the planks of wood towards the doorway, intent on seeing whom his visitor was. In the silent room he could hear the faint attempts at stealth on the stone floors. The hard material amplifying the noise up to his ears. Batman honed in on the noise but as he moved closer, the soft steps abruptly stopped. Batman narrowed his eyes but continued to move forward slowly and scanned the aisle ahead of him.

When Batman had gone as far as he was sure he could track the noise from when it had been audible, he came to a halt and opened his ears. He instantly became aware of fearful breathing directly bellow him. Batman scowled. Invisible then. Normally Batman could turn on his thermal vision and the invisible nature of his assailant would be rendered impotent, however his thermal imaging lenses were something that ran on electricity and not available to him. His course of action now would be to wait for the intruder to reveal him or herself, or approximate their location to the best of his ability and incapacitate.

Batman did not know the motive of his visitor, so he opted to see if he could find out. He waited patently for any signs that the perpetrator to reveal himself or move. He didn't' have to wait long. It was at most two minutes before three teenagers had pulled some sort of fabric off of themselves. The source of the fearful breathing then became readily apparent, as well as two other teenagers. One he recognized as Harry Potter, the other, the girl who always answered questions with memorization.

"Where the bloody hell is he? It says he should be right on top of us!" The red head peered at the map Harry Potter was holding. The three looked up to the ceiling, Batman leaned away from the edge and wrapped himself in the black of his cape. Their eyes passed right over the shadows that Batman occupied before they were back to the piece of paper in Harry Potter's hand. The girl took the piece of paper from Harry and examined it.

"Do you think there is something wrong with the map?" Harry allowed the girl to examine the piece of paper as he shrugged his shoulders.

"I wouldn't know. We could ask Fred and George later, but even if it was I wouldn't' know how to fix it." The girl handed the map back to Harry who pocketed it before gathering the now visible cloak from the floor.

"Well what are we supposed to do now? Do we even know if he was here anymore?" Harry looked around before he fixed his gaze further down the isle at a corner.

"He might have been. I think I see a light coming from further that way. Come on, there might be something there." The trio walked none to silently down the aisle they were currently in and turned a corner, to go one isle over and down another isle. When they found the small table and the two candles their steps became quicker and surer. Batman followed them back to his table.

"Well?" the redhead was cautious to approach the table, still looking up at the bookcases.

"He's looking up stuff about Black. At least that's what it looks like. All of these are old, from twelve years ago when my parents died." The girl leaned over the table and looked through the papers.

"Why would he be looking up Sirius Black? If he were working with him wouldn't he already know all of this? Unless he's looking for something else." The girl invited herself to sit down at the table. The other two took her lead and sat themselves at the other two chairs surrounding the tables picking up Papers for themselves. Harry shifted through the papers as he spoke.

"If he doesn't know about Black he could be looking up this stuff to help. Then he could be on our side. We thought Snape was the bad guy and he ended up saving us." The read head rolled his eyes

"Barely."

"Ron!" The girl gave Ron a sharp swat with a folded Newspaper.

"Well he's still a greasy git!"

"He is a professor and he saved our lives!" Ron grumbled and flicked a paper up violently, obviously in disagreement but not willing to get into an argument right then. The three became silent for a moment. Batman patiently watched, still as the gargoyles he often perched from, and waited for something else to happen. It was another twenty minutes before Harry put the paper down.

"Hermione, I'm not seeing any thing else in common here. He obviously was just looking up things about Sirius Black. We still don't' know anything." Hermione put down her own paper.

"There has to be something here we can use. We're just not seeing it."

"No way!" Hermione and harry both turned to Ron who was looking at the paper in his hand with amazement.

"What!"

"What did you find?" Ron looked up before he folded the paper and turned it around.

"Can you believe this complete broom maintenance kit was only two galellaeons? And that is before the discount!" Both Hermione and Harry gave Ron a blank look. A blush rose to his cheeks as he turned the paper back to himself.

"Well it is a bloody steal. Not all of us are made of gold you know." Hermione sighed as she put down her paper.

"We aren't going to find anything else here tonight. I think its time for us to go. We must've been gone for at least an hour by now." Harry put his paper down as well.

"Okay, we'll figure this out another night. Come on Ron."

Batman watched as the trio started to move and decided that he had gotten all the information he was liable to get. Now it was time to dissuade them from their plans of following him again.

Batman allowed himself to fall from the edge of the bookcase. He grasped the edges of his cape as he fell to the floor, landing with only a whisper. The air from his dissent blew the candles out as he rose to a standing position.

"Bloody hell!" Ron recoiled his knees hitting the back of the chair and falling back into it with a scape and a thud. Harry and Hermione had bother drawn their wands, Ron doing so after he had picked himself back up. Batman didn't' flinch or make a move to draw his own in retaliation.

"Leaving so soon?" Harry regripped his wand and spoke with confidence.

"What do you want? Why are looking up Sirius Black?" Batman took a step forward, walking towards the table to put all of the newspapers into a neat stack to be returned to where he had gotten them. He walked into the midst of the three, brushing directly past Harry's outstretched arm still undaunted by the wands pointed at him.

"I'm not here to fight you." None of the wands went down. Batman collected the newspapers and picked them up. He turned to face the three, as he spoke.

"Don't follow me again, or you won't like what you find. You have no place in this." Batman turned to walk back down the isle and return the papers to where he found them.

"A mad man is loose and trying to murder me. He betrayed my parents and now he's coming for me! I deserve to know what's going on. It's my life at stake!" Batman didn't stop and instead continued to the end of the isle before he disappeared around the corner. Harry ran to the end to follow, Ron and Hermione following behind, but when they got there, Batman had vanished.

The trio made it without incident back to their dorms. Harry had singularly been focused on what had happened until he reached into his pocket and found it empty. His eyes widened and he checked all possible hideaways on his person before he turned to Ron who was looking at him like he was crazy.

"Ron, the map, its gone!"