Harry Potter Veela's Embrace

Moody grinned. "I'm sure you did," He looked at Hermione, "And I think if you help him practice for this one, I'll be surprised if he doesn't win, but in the meantime…constant vigilance Potter. Constant vigilance," He pulled out his hip flask and took a long draw and again he looked at Hermione, "You stick close to Potter, all right? I'm keeping an eye on things, but all the same . . . you can never have too many eyes out."

"Yes sir," Hermione replied and then an idea about the map occurred to her. "In fact sir, would it be possible to get Harry's map back? It would definitely help me look out for him?"

"Hermione what are you doing?"

"That map is the key to finding Skeeter and protecting Sirius."

An unidentified look passed through the retired Auror's eyes before he continued. "I wish I could but it's been a seriously useful tool in protecting the school."

"Sir, I think Hermione has a point though," Harry started, "It seems all the trouble seems to happen around me. If we have the map it would be help alert us to trouble that we can then bring to you."

"Between your classes and other times you can't spend as much time looking at it as we can," Hermione argued. "And I'm sure Harry would be glad to loan it to you again if you need it."

"You can always summon it," Harry replied, though where he planned to put it, it would never respond to a summons.

The magically eye whirled back and forth between Harry and Hermione as the old Auror thought about it. "I will need it for the next few days while we sort out last night. We'll talk again later in the week."

"That's fine sir. Thank you sir."

Later that evening in the Chamber of Secrets, Harry and his bond mates told Sirius and Lupin all that happened in the last twenty-four hours. When they got to the point where Harry left with Krum, Sirius became upset.

"Harry, what are you playing at?" Sirius yelled at his godson. "You just admitted a few days ago that someone is planning to kill you and you casually walk away from all protection with someone from Durmstrang? If you hadn't left when you did, that killing curse might have been for you. Did you think of that?"

"I should 'ave stayed with you 'Arry," Fleur said softly as she thought of the danger her bondmate had been in.

"No, I wanted you to go to Gabrielle's party," Harry said to her. He then turned to Sirius. "When I first left with him, it was more to get away from Bagman and I didn't know he was planning on walking all the way to the Forbidden Forest. What was I to when we got that far? Tell him someone is trying to kill me? Tell him I'm afraid to go near the Forest?"

"You've just got to more careful Harry," Sirius said as looked around the Chamber. "Damn I hate being down here and not be able to help you."

"We made some progress on that point. We talked to Moody and it looks like we can get the map back after they finish with the stuff from last night."

"How'd you manage that?" Lupin asked.

"Moody told Hermione to stick close to me and she pointed out she could do a better job of it with the map," Harry replied as he wrapped his arms around Hermione and kissed her on the neck. "She saw an opening and took it."

"When it's in our hands I'll feel better," Lupin said.

"When we do have it, we can try to track down Skeeter," Hermione said. "I walked outside today and I never noticed how many beetles are out and about this time of the year."

They then finished telling Lupin and Sirius about the previous evening. Sirius did pick on a blushing Hermione about Krum's affections.

"The look he gave me when Hermione showed up and put her arms around me instead of him when he was the one who got stunned wasn't great," Harry said.

"Watch yourself around him Harry."

"I plan on it," Harry replied. The last thing he needed was a jealous Viktor Krum.

They spent the majority of the weekend in the Chamber starting to prepare for the third task. Hermione pulled out a quill and parchment and wrote down all the creatures that Hagrid might put in the maze, including Fluffy, skrewts and Acromantulas. Fleur suggested other creatures that might have been included and Lupin threw his own suggestions in with possibilities like Boggarts. They then started working on spells and strategies to counter each creature. Fleur showed Harry a more powerful cutting curse which should take a leg off one of the giant spiders, along with several other spells that might work.

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