Chapter 63 - 63- bit of revenge (part 2)

Hermione's POV

Hermione didn't know how it came to this.

It was supposed to be just like last year, doing research, finding the chamber of secrets, who is the heir, and what is Slytherin's monster.

Instead, according to what Neville told her when they were in the way to the headmaster's office, they only found out that Malfoy isn't the heir, and she became a cat-woman!

And if being a catwoman wasn't bad enough, she was going to be expelled!

The last two things made her unable to stop crying as Professor Snape told the professor Dumbledore about everything, especially as he demanded they be expelled.

And it didn't help that her ex-friend, who was her first one, was the one who told on them.

For the first time, Hermione understood the need to follow the phrase that made her an outcast and bullied in her old school.

'Snitches get stitches'.

Neville's POV

If Neville wasn't small, pudgy and terrified of Snape, he would have punched Harry in the face! 'No! It is Peverel now, as we aren't friends.'

He told on them to the professor!

How could he do it to them?

His two ex-friends, ex-brother and the ex-brother's best friend!

'OK. I can see how. But why?'

It wasn't as if they did anything wrong!

But as he heard Snape tell professor Dumbledore all they did, how they stole ingredients, created a potion which not only need a ministry approval to use, but is also extremely explosive in a toilet where all the girls could walk in and do their 'needs' and could be killed, kidnapped three classmates and drank the seventh year potion that they created, he could suddenly understand why, they went too far. Way too far.

'What would my parents have said? What will my grandma say?'

A shiver went down Nevilles back.

Ron's POV

His mother is going to kill him!

That was Ron's only thought between the time Snape caught them after their adventure till they where in front the Dumbledore's office.

But the second they walked in and he saw Dumbledore smiling toward Marcus he calmed down.

His best friend is the boy who lived, they won't be expelled, the most they would be given would be detention and losing points.

So, instead of becoming more and more nervous as Snape told Dumbledore all they did, Ron listened to it as if he was listening to his mother reading to him and Ginny one of the boy who lived books - the second book in his adventure, and he's got to admit, Snape knew how to tell a tale.

Albus's POV

Albus didn't like what he heard.

No, he didn't care about Marcus and his friend's adventure at all.

In fact, he helped them, otherwise, how could a second year create this potion?

He switched between the failed creation of the girl with his own stash of the potion last night.

No, the thing that Albus disliked was that they were caught, and by Marcus's twin no less.

Severus's expoltion threats were also unpleasant, but what made him even more unhappy was that after he heard it was Harry who told on the golden group, he used basic legilimency to look into the boy's mind only to see the corpses of his adoptive parents and the feelings they brought flashing on the surface of the boy's mind.

Only his years of occluding prevented his expression from changing.

While it is possible the boy was thinking about his parents at this time, the intensity of the emotions he felt was almost impossible to still be there after more then a year since they died, which meant one of two things:

1) he was still grieving, which meant this was the best time to give him the loyalty potions Albus was planing on giving as while it would take time to sink in with his great emotions, once it did, it would be harder to detect as it would be gradual.

But now it would be useless, as Marcus and his friends would hate the boy no matter what.

2) the boy know his kind of Occlumency and he suspected Albus had something to do with his parents death.

His Occlumency, which he only taught to Severus, as he needed it for his spying, was the only kind of Occlumency he knew of that can generate emotions and bring specific memories to the surface.

And if he had Occlumency, mind altering potions would be noticed and wouldn't work as much as he hoped.

As Severus finished his accusations, Albus could only hope it was the first option, because if it the second, his life would be much harder.

Harry's POV

As Harry listened to professor Snape was telling his story, he felt someone almost fall to the trap he put in the front of his mind, and as Dumbledore was just looking at him, he knew who it was.

While suppressing a smile about a well executed trap, Harry's eyes couldn't help but wonder to the only girl in the room, his ex-friend, the crying catwoman, Hermione.

Not because she was crying, he didn't care about that.

No, the only reason he looked at her was her ears and tail, as those things didn't disappear by the end of the hour, he wondered about how polyjuice work.

He was sure polyjuice work on the DNA, but does it changes it?

How was it possible that by the end of the hour the DNA returns to it's original form?

Why did Hermione only got ears and tail?

And why didn't she change back? After all the DNA of animals and Humans is only different in it's way of placement not the actual building materials.

As all those questions and more rushed through his mind, Professor Snape finally finished telling the story, and Dumbledore starting a speech Harry knew would somehow end with the Gryffindors getting out of this with only point lose and maybe detention.

"....the only thing left to do is expel them!"

"First of all, I am very disappointed in all of you."

The golden group's heads were down, yet he could see a hint of a smile on the only redhead boy in the room.

"Any one of the things your potion professor told me is a reason for expulsion!"

Harry saw that Neville also started crying.

"But, as you are only children, and you had good intentions, I wouldn't expel any of you.

Instead, in addition to paying for everything you stole, I would take 70 points from each of you and you would get detention for a month."

"That's it?!" Professor Snape sounded outrageous. "I think that if you don't expel them, they should at least have to make a public apology and explanation of their actions at the feast when all the students return."

Dumbledore looked like he ate sour lemon instead of his sherbet lemon.

"Acceptable."

"And we should take away their chances at being perfects and head students in fifth and seventh year respectively as they showed inability to be responsible."

"Let's not get a head of ourself, Severus. They are young and made a mistake, you should let us see how they change in the next few years."

"So you are saying if there was responsibility in third year you would deny them the option of getting it?"

Harry immediately understood the professor was talking about the time turner and could see Dumbledore understood it too.

"Yes," he sighed "they wouldn't get it"

Harry was almost screaming in joy as he really didn't want this sort of power in any of the golden group hand's

"As for you Harry," Dumbledore said his eyes filled with mirth, which, as he was Occlumency master, Harry couldn't know if it was real or not. "take 20 points for telling a professor, but minus 10 for going into the girls toilets. Now, all of you, please, take miss Granger to the hospital wing, as me and Professor Snape have something to discuss."

Harry was the last one to get out of the office, and didn't expect what came to him as he went out of the gargoyle.