(A/N): Hey Guys! So, this chapter is also pretty short, but it has a lot of action. I got new headphones today, and they are pissing me off because they keep slipping off my head and pulling out my hair.

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Leo

I knocked on the door to Maloney's office softly before taking a deep breath and exhaling, pulling my emotion-free mask on instead of the anger I was sure to feel soon enough.

"Come in." Maloney's hissing, sickly-sweet voice said through the door, and I twisted the handle to enter, pushing the door opening, only to be hit with something that knocked even me off my feet.

"Eh..." I grunted as my back slammed into the floor, and I tried to jump to my feet, only to find my arms bound to my sides with a thick, silver rope. I struggle against them as I noticed Maloney crossing the room, wand raised towards me, but I only managed to rub the skin raw where the ropes touched it.

"Sorry about that." He told me quietly, a polite yet smug smile on his lips.

"Not yet you're not." I hissed, and his smile simply widened.

"Ooh, is that a threat?" I smirked up at him, and his smile dropped slightly.

"No, that's a promise." His lips quirked up again, the smile some somewhat nervous.

"Well, I'll be sure to keep it in mind." He crouched by my arm, and brushed some of the hair off my face, to which I jerked my head away as far as I could. "Quite the sharp tongue. I still don't understand why your mother wants you back though." I could feel my eyes widening in shock and horror, but quickly prevented myself from gaping at him.

"Believe me, neither do I." I growled, trying to worm my way out of the ropes once more, as he raised his wand at me. Wait, my legs! He didn't bind my legs!

I raised my legs to my chest and his eyes widened slightly before I slammed my feet into his chest, sending him reeling back, hitting his head on the wall before slumping to the ground.

I held my breath, he was bleeding, unconscious but still very much alive.

The potion!

I felt around in my pocket with the tips of my fingers, blinking back my frustration as I found it shattered, and soaked through with liquid. I wiggled, finding the ropes looser now that their caster was out of it, and managed to push them off of me, leaving me sore where the skin was raw, but otherwise unscathed. I grabbed my wand, which was in my other pocket, and opened the pocket that had the potion in it.

"Reparo!" The phial itself reformed, and I set it on the desk, holding it upright with my free hand, before returning to the liquid in my pocket. "Tergeo!" The liquid soaked into the material separated itself, and flew in a stream to attach itself to the end of my wand before pouring into the phial as I moved my wand over it.

I looked down at Maloney's unconscious face.

"For that, you get pocket potion." I told his prone figure, before prying his lips open and pouring the contents into his mouth, closing it again before holding his nose and rubbing his throat until he swallowed.

"Time to find Remmy and Minnie to see if it worked." I muttered, exiting the office, and making my way to the Great Hall.

Remus

"So, what do you think of half-breeds again?" I asked Lily, and she blinked before turning to stare at me.

"Why? I don't really have an opinion on them." I glanced at McGonagall, who was pacing the floor next to the Gryffindor table, and gave a discreet thumbs up.

"What about you Elaine, what do you think of half-breeds?" Her eyebrows wrinkled, and she stared up at me, confused.

"What do you mean Moony? You know how I feel about half-breeds, they can't help being the way they are." I grinned at her, but was also slightly surprised. They must have no recollection of the past few months.

"It's good to have you back Damsel." Her confusion increased, and McGonagall appeared behind me, tapping me on the shoulder gently.

"Perhaps we should go looking for Leo now." She whispered, and Elaine's eyebrows went up.

"Why? What happened to him?" I glanced back at her before standing up, and she, Lily, James, Sirius and Peter all followed my movement, staring me down now, almost challengingly.

"Nothing, I'm sure he's fine. He's just, you know, in detention and...yeah." I finished lamely, and they stared at me like, "What, do you think we're stupid or something?"

"We're coming with you, no matter what you say." Elaine stated, before glancing at McGonagall. "Either of you." I looked to McGonagall and she sighed in defeat before nodding.

"Whatever, just move quickly." They nodded eagerly before following us out of the Great hall, moving quickly towards where we knew Maloney's office was, hoping that Leo was on his way to us, and heading down the same path.

That is, until we heard it. The sound of spells being fired, impacts, rocks falling, and the sound of a frightened yell. We glanced at each other before racing around the corner to see what we had silently been dreading.

Maloney and Leo battling in a wizards duel.

(A/N): Heh, bet you didn't see that coming!

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This chapter has had minor edits made to it on 16/2/24 - changed Leo using 'accio' to put the potion back in the vial to him using 'tergeo', since that is technically the more correct spell to use there. It's called the wiping spell, but every use of it we see except for one (Harry using it to clean dust off of photographs in Bathilda Bagshot's house) is to siphon/remove liquids, so it should really be called the siphoning spell. It can be used to clean liquids or transfer them (used to harvest Flobberworm Mucus from a Flobberworm), so I'm assuming it works for this application- at least better than accio, anyway.