Title: Voldemort's Mistake

Rating: T

Summary: Harry finds out that Snape is his father before the third task of the Triwizard Tournament. Shortly after that he's bitten by Remus, who's visiting. This one event will prove to be Voldemort's mistake. Based on Tia Evans's Werewolf Challenge on Potions and Snitches! Harry/Hermione pairing!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rowling's Harry Potter characters and I'm making nothing from this.

Chapter Fourteen

"We need to first find out what caused you to shift to a raven," McGonagall told Harry that night in her office.

His father had decided to join and Harry wondered if it was to make sure that she was fair with him.

"Can you figure it out," Harry asked her.

"I hope so," she said, "Now let's begin the first step."

The first step was to stick a mandrake in his mouth for a full month. Harry wondered if Sirius and the others looked this stupid. However his father told him that he didn't actually have to have it in his mouth at all times. Only a couple of hours a day would be enough. Harry breathed a sigh of relief on that. The mandrake tasted horrible and he remembered that it was poisonous. Just what he needed, to die before his time!

When he wasn't sticking poisonous things in his mouth he had to work on his assignments. He had heard that the O.W.L year was hard and most students went insane, but this was beyond insane. The teachers were demanding that they work on vanishing charms and potions had gotten more demanding. However he managed to get through most of it thinking about a warm bed and Hermione.

Hermione was still not herself after her first transformation and she jumped when she heard noises. Thankfully students believed that she had finally cracked after all those years being at the top. Ron, meanwhile, was trying to ask Hermione out. Harry's wolf got angry about this but Harry managed to control him. It was only when he changed that he didn't have that control anymore.

Harry changed at the beginning of October. He was with Hermione, which made things better. Of course he had no idea of the conversation that was going on between his father and Dumbledore.

111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

"Remus told me that Harry will have to mark Hermione."

"I'm not having a pregnant female walking around," Severus told him.

"Remus said that won't happen until she turns seventeen."

"Which will be next year," Severus reminded him.

"Severus, we'll count for everything."

"And what about her parents?" Severus asked the Headmaster. "I don't think that they'll understand about this."

Dumbledore sighed and said, "I understand that they won't but it will be for her protection."

Severus glared at him and said nothing, but he was thinking plenty.

When he collected the three wolves he sent them to the hospital wing so that Madam Pomfrey could give them something to help them sleep and then start the process of recovering. As he left he saw Minerva coming in with that dreaded mandrake. He so wanted to burn it.

111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

"We haven't had any other victims this past full moon," Kingsley told Dumbledore.

The Order had gathered and Cedric said, "It could be that his victims are hiding behind very powerful wards."

"That I'll agree with," Moody said, "Constant Vigilance!"

"Thank you, Alister," Dumbledore said to him.

"What about the cup and locket?" Kingsley asked.

"They're in a place that I only know of," Dumbledore told him, "We're going to use a ritual to locate the next one. Of course the one that was inside of Harry is gone so we have to use the items that we do have to get the job done."

"I wonder how many did he make?" Minerva wondered.

"I don't think that we should even try and guess," Dumbledore told her.

"When will we do this?" Kingsley asked.

"When everyone is feeling better," Dumbledore told him.

111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111

Harry was back in classes a couple of days after the Full Moon. He saw that Ron was giving him a strange look but he ignored it. He wasn't sure if he knew how Ron felt about the whole thing and, thankfully, no one suspected that Hermione was one. He had heard that Dumbledore had managed to keep it out of the papers. On Saturday he was called in for a Prefect meeting.

"Halloween is coming up and that means that we have to get the Great Hall ready," he told them. "No slacking new Prefects."

Harry had a bad feeling that Peeves would get involved in this.

11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111