National Appreciation Day

September 4th

The Great Bath Tub Race

Remus Lupin sighed as he ended his last class for the first day of the new school year. Other than not being able to find any chocolate cake left over to eat for dessert, it had been a typical day at Hogwarts and he was ashamed to admit that it had been a little boring.

No strange conversations with Sirius, who had spent the day at the Ministry and Gringotts. No one had been pranked, well at least not that he knew about. Harry had popped his head in on his way to his afternoon Runes class, so clearly there was nothing to worry about there.

In fact, other than having to deal with Delores Umbridge at lunch, he had had a peaceful morning, heck, he had even gotten a note from Dora before his afternoon class had begun.

All in all... with a sigh, he admitted to himself, a boring day.

Even Severus had been subdued at lunch, other than glaring at him and muttering about a certain boggart and how some people shouldn't be allowed to teach. Hearing a knock on the door, he called for whomever it was to enter and was pleased to see Filius Flitwick who entered and was soon seated across from him on the chair he had altered.

"How was your first day?" Flitwick asked sounding curious.

"Fine, though, I had several of your Claws almost call me by your name." He admitted with a chuckle. "How was your first day teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts?"

"Other than a visit from our new History of Magic teacher who informed me that she felt it was rather unseemly to actually be teaching the children spells in my class, fine," Flitwick announced with a laugh of his own.

"What does she think you should be doing?" Remus asked rather astonished at the woman's ignorance regarding educating students.

"Teaching from a book so out of date it has been banned from school use in every other single country in the world," Flitwick replied. "It certainly explains why she insists on using the same textbook that Binn used."

"That book was out of date when Binns started using it over two hundred years ago," Remus replied. "I don't know what the Headmaster is thinking, employing that woman. I am quite certain that among her lessons will be a boatload of pure blood dogma tossed in."

"Oh, she is already ranting about Goblin wars, my guess is Werewolves and other creatures are next on her list of magicals to denigrate," Flitwick replied with a grimace. "I have already assigned my Claws a textbook to read for them to pass their OWLS and NEWTS."

"Speaking of books... did Sirius send you that list he mentioned yet?" Remus had read the list and was shocked to realize that many had gone missing since his own time at Hogwarts.

"Yes and I spoke to those of the students in my house who wrote the letters about it, they themselves cross-referenced it before it was even sent to Mr. Black. I gather he is looking into the matter." Filius asked.

"Yes, and it might be pretty serious because most of those books were donated by magical families, so removing the gifts and not returning them to the givers is a breach of magical protocol. Sirius has asked Gringotts to do a check of the ones his family donated, turns out that both the Potters and Blacks used a charm to locate donated items so that they can be sure they are used for the intended purpose."

Flitwick hid his need to smirk, he was rather certain that the books were going to turn up here at the school and that they were going to be found in a certain tower that would remain nameless. Still, while he found that interesting, he was even more concerned because he knew that something was up with the students and it was becoming clear that Remus Lupin knew nothing about it.

The DADA professor had spoken to Severus who naturally avoided the last two Marauders, and he had also reluctantly admitted that his own students had mentioned books donated by their families missing from the bookshelves in their common rooms. What had been very shocking to discover was that there was no longer a common library in the Gryffindor tower and that the students don't remember their having been one.

Charlie Weasley and his classmates were the last to recall such a thing and he was rather sure that when Hermione Granger found out that certain books were supposed to be within easy reach for any student in their tower, her anger would bring down the entire castle.

Flitwick was certain that it had been the headmaster who had charmed the tower so that the students wouldn't question such a thing and if he was right, well things might start to get a little more interesting around here.

Fred and George were speaking to Warrington who grinned and said: "I am in, but how do we get such a thing?"

"If we can change something living into a pin cushion, I think we can handle changing something into a bathtub," Fred replied with a smirk and a wink at the older student.

"When are you doing this?" Warrington asked. "Plus who is to know? What are the rules going to be?"

"After the break, anyone and no cheating but otherwise, all that matters four wizards or witches pushing one witch or wizard in the tub one hundred yards before handing the flag off to the next team. Four laps of the track." George replied.

"Oh, we checked, it's not against the school rules so we are inviting everyone. Lee is going to make the announcement in about fifteen minutes that the Great Inaugural Bathtub Race of Hogwarts is to be run an hour before dinner." Fred added.

"So, house versus house?" Warrington asked with a smirk on his face as he dreamed of beating the Lions at their own event.

"Yes, each team has to be fourth year and up, but it isn't just about speed, it's about execution and artistic expression. Otherwise, we will improvise about costumes and such."

"We are in." The competitive edge in the Slytherin's voice had the twins smiling as they went to speak to Cedric.

"Surprised you would invite the Slytherins," Cedric replied as he leaned against the stone bridge outside of the castle.

"Hey, we want it to be fair and besides, if this works out the way we planned, it should be entertaining," George replied knowing that Diggory would get a team together just to be a part of this.

Sirius Black grimaced as he entered the room he had set up and greeted the four heads of the Hogwarts houses. "This won't take too long. I spoke to the Ministry and the Board of Governors. They are going to order that the headmaster return the books. They are also going to give him three days or they are going to bring in the Goblins to do so."

"Black, he won't like that. He feels that he and he alone has the right to decide which books the students should be able to access." Sirius looked over at Snape who seemed to not want to continue speaking but who apparently decided that in this matter they were on the same side. "That being said, I don't agree. I did a check of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff common room libraries at the request of Pomona and Filius, there are certain potion books that I expect my students to read and which are missing. It certainly explains why the students for the last several years have been lacking in certain skills that they should have."

Sirius nodded then told the man "I found out from Harry that he had never read the books that all first-year students do before classes start. I know that half-blood and pureblood students prepare before school and that they are given to muggleborn students and are kept in the common room library for students to use to review."

Minerva pressed her lips together, shocked to realize how delinquent she had been for the last few years. "That he managed to do this, right under my nose. I just don't understand why."

Severus wanted to snarl and make a nasty comment, but before he could speak, he was shocked when Pomona spoke up.

"I rather fear that he had plans for your godson that were not exactly ethical as headmaster. He has harmed not only Mr. Potter but every other student in that tower. While Severus has not always expressed himself well on this matter, I have to say I agree with some of his statements regarding the headmaster's favoritism towards your godson even if I don't blame an innocent child who was a pawn on his chessboard." Pomona looked at the dark-haired man with a frown.

"As for the books, Albus has often felt that he and he alone should be the arbitrator of what is and isn't acceptable to be read by the students since he became headmaster," Filius repeated, knowing that that was going to be the sticking point in this matter.

"The Ministry and the Board of Governors agreed with my view that censorship in any form is wrong. That these books have existed in some form or another in the library or common rooms for hundreds of years." Sirius replied hiding the irony in such a statement. Fudge had seem torn about making such a statement but had agreed when Bones, Diggory and Arthur Weasley along with Nott, Malfoy and Flint had been up in arms about valuable books they donated having gone missing "He will be given no choice and they know where the books are and if they go missing, he will be forced to replace each and every single book."

Sirius had gone to his family library and paged through each of the books mentioned and was shocked to realize that there was nothing really all that dark about any of the books. In fact, other than some that Nott had donated were about blood magic, there was nothing too wrong with any of them and each house had been given a set of each book.

Harry and Hermione were seated on the sofa, scowling when they realized that while this LOOKED like their sofa, it wasn't. "How did he switch it back?"

"I don't know, but I am not letting this go," Hermione replied with a scowl as she vowed to defeat the High Inquisitor aka Harry's godfather aka the sofa thief.

"So, are you guys going to join?" Seamus asked as he entered the common room. "Fred and George are trying to get teams together."

Hermione groaned and looked over at Harry who she was sure would dive right in. "I am not."

"Me neither," Harry said to their surprise. Seeing Seamus frown, Harry said, "You need four guys, Neville, Ron, Dean and yourself and I am sure that Parvati or Lavender would be thrilled to be your bathtub babe."

Hermione glared at Harry for that comment, they had heard Draco Malfoy calling the rider that, but Seamus grinned and said: "Lavender volunteered as soon as she heard about the race."

"Good, then you won't need Hermione or me. We will be there to cheer you on, at least I will." Harry replied as he settled back onto the uncomfortable sofa.

When the Irish boy had left, Hermione looked at him and asked: "Why aren't you doing this?"

"I really am not interested," Harry replied as he told her the rest. "They are going to be wearing costumes, and frankly the last thing I want to do is be part of this insanity."

Seeing her skeptical glance, he added: "I have been working on something for Sirius and to be honest, it has had me a bit less enthralled with things here at school."

"Are you able to tell me about it?" She awkwardly asked. She had learned over the last few months, that Sirius often discussed things with Harry that he couldn't share with Ron or herself. Ron had not taken that well, especially when they had found out later on about at least one of the items.

"It's not a secret, well not really, in fact, I was already thinking of asking you to read over what I already have written. He wants to know about our second year. I went back to the day that Dobby appeared at the Dursley house and started writing from that moment." He replied as he pulled the small journal notebook out of his school bag.

As students entered the common room, Harry grinned when he heard his fellow dorm mates discussing the race and their outfits. "Harry, thanks mate."

Looking up to where Ron was moving their way, he asked what's up.

"Well without you in the race, Seamus and Dean are dating others and well Neville isn't exactly competition because he avoids her, I might have a chance with Lavender." He replied as he threw himself onto the other end of the sofa then groaned. "He took it back?"

"Yes, and we have no idea how or when," Harry asked while Hermione had begun reading the journal. "Wait, how did he get in here?"

Standing, Harry went to the entrance and asked the Fat Lady if Sirius Black had paid them a visit that day or the day before.

"Only when he came to speak to you this morning, young Potter." She replied.

Frowning because Hermione had been seated on the sofa during that visit, he returned to their spot and asked: "Hermione was the sofa ours this morning?"

"Yes, why?" she asked as she looked up from Harry's journal.

"I walked Sirius to the gate this morning, so how did he find the time to switch it out himself. I rather fear that he has a partner in this." He said wearing a scowl of his own. "I also would bet that the he in question answers to the name Moony."

Ron saw Lavender entering and smacking Harry on the back, told them he had to go change into the costume that they were wearing before going to speak to the blond girl who was giggling as they spoke.

"Seriously?" Hermione asked as she saw the way that Lavender was acting. "Harry, if I EVER start to act like that around you, please hex me."

"First I will make sure that no one has used polyjuice potion to become you or that it isn't a certain auror, then I would gladly send a stinging hex at you." He replied with a grave air about him that was ruined when he rolled his own eyes. "What does he see that he likes about that."

Rolanda Hooch was flying into the pitch, having doubled checked the teaching brooms as she normally did the first day of the year only to notice that a large contingent of students was gathering.

When she noticed that those few who were wearing robes had on either green or red scarves, she groaned, expecting to yet again have to separate a group of Gryffindors from Slytherin students. Instead of hexes and insults, she was amused to hear both sides laughing and what sounded like cooperation.

Disillusioning herself, she moved forward, a bit concerned but more than that, she was curious as to what was going on.

"So, is it acceptable to the rules?" She heard Warrington the Snake's Quidditch captain was asking the Weasley twins. Moving forward she squinted when she saw what looked to be a bathtub on wheels and that the seventh year snake seemed to be wearing a dress of all things.

"It's fine, but don't you plan on decorating it?" She heard then noticed the twins moving apart to display something. Struggling not to laugh when she saw the strangely shaped bathtub now a rainbow of colors that were painted in the shapes of waves both inside and out of the large tub.

Warrington looked pained as he stared at the tub. "I have to ask, are all Gryffindors color blind, because that would certainly explain a lot about the Headmaster's choices in robes."

"Nope and this beauty was created by the very lovely ladies who play chaser on our Quidditch team," Fred replied. Then with a bit of honesty, he added: "In uh, shall we say honor of said mentioned robes."

"Hey, Challen, we could change the color of our tub." One of the other Slytherin students stated. "We just would have to find one that would go with the costume theme. In fact..."

She gestured to a group of students approaching and Rolanda felt her need to laugh grow when she saw that the Hufflepuff Badgers had a tub, this one with flowers and greenery decorating it and that the students gathering were dressed like brownies and fairies.

"Where are the Claws?" Lee Jordan asked as he walked over to his classmates. "We have five minutes to the beginning of the inaugural Hogwarts Great Bathtub Race and Weasleys where are the Lions who are running the race?"

"Granger stopped them and was offering to alter their outfits, she was concerned with them tripping over their robes." Susan Bones stated as she moved forward to look at the fifth year Snakes girls who all appeared to be dressed to look like Malfoy and asked "The Lions are dressed as the headmaster. Where are your costumes?"

"Funny, Bones." Parkinson replied as she leaned in and whispered: "Just wait 'til my father hears about this and how I am dressed."

"What?" Then Bones saw Draco Malfoy and buried her head into the shoulders of the nearest person to keep from laughing out loud as she saw Draco was dressed as a girl with his hair which had been lengthened in braids, was wearing makeup and a dress.

"Bones?" Looking up, she flushed to realize that she had been using Malfoy's classmate and fifth-year prefect Theodore Nott to hide her giggles. The dour boy looked over at his classmate and said with wide eyes "If I didn't see it, I wouldn't believe it. Did Malfoy lose a bet?"

"Nope, Daphne was pissed when he demanded to look over the girls to decide who was going to be given the honor of being the fifth year bathtub babe then he insulted Millicent and thus, he ended up said bathtub babe. The others took up the challenge, but let's just say that Malfoy was the best decorated." Pansy said scowling at Draco for his comments earlier that day.

"Remind me to never piss any of you off, again," Theodore said as he eased towards the nearby seats. "Wait, why are the stands so low?"

"Well, the race will be on the ground if you were in the bleachers you wouldn't see anything." Hermione Granger said as she approached.

"Oh. that makes sense. What the heck are the...no...seriously... no." Nott fell off his seating laughing as he pointed towards the entrance.

Hermione looked at the Ravenclaw students and told Harry "Someone on the Ravenclaw team took inspiration from Formula One racing, look at their costumes and tub."

Harry who had gone to a race with Hermione and her dad that summer found himself snickering at the jumpsuits in Ravenclaw colors, the helmets on their head and the tub that looked like it had been aerodynamically structured. "I think that a certain house is taking this thing very, very seriously."

The Board of Governors was speaking with Amelia Bones and Augusta Longbottom while the other four witnesses were listening to what they had found out. "So the charters states this."

"Yes, and we need to be there so there is no doubt that Sirius Black is speaking not only for the Ministry but for us," Ogden replied from his seat as he shook his head as he looked over the very long list of books that were missing. "And according to those who remember, most of these books went missing just before the beginning of the 1991 class year."

The Board appointed those with students currently enrolled to act as their representatives and left while the remaining three went observe as Sirius was to speak to the headmaster before dinner. They assured those waiting that they would let them know how it went, but Malfoy insisted on attending as did Arthur Weasley who wasn't going to allow only Malfoy to represent the parents.

Upon entering the gates, they heard a loud raucous noise and cheering coming from the Quidditch stadium and Amelia Bones frowned and said: "Would there already be tryouts for the teams?"

"No, and I have never heard that much noise at a tryout," Lucius replied as they as a group changed direction to see what was going on.

As they came within earshot they heard the PA system come to life and the announcement... even as they couldn't see what was going on yet.

"And the tubs are at the start line for the Inaugural Great Bathtub Race to begin. Let's hear it for the Puffs, team captain Cedric Diggory is in position as starting driver, to be followed by sixth-year Delphine Bagnold, the dogleg to be driven by the very lovely Susan Bones and bringing it home for the Puffs will be Justin Finch Fletchely.

Before anyone could speak, the announcer spoke over the roars of approval for the Huffs to begin introducing the Lions. "Our team captain in position as the driver for the Lions, our very own and equally lovely Alicia Spinnet is to be our starting driver, second is to be a Weasley, Fred or George, am truly not sure which."

Arthur groaned when he heard his son's names attached to this insanity while Lucius took pride in knowing his son would not be part of a prank such as this.

"Dogleg driver is to be Lavender Brown followed by school photographer Colin Creevey." The roars of approval were the same and the group was just about to the rise of the knoll when the announcer went through the Claws then announced "And last but certainly not least, good sports and that ain't a joke, the Slytherin Snakes, team captain Challen Warrington is our lead driver, followed by Gallen Macnair, dogleg driver is the very uh, lovely Draco Malfoy and the very gracious Blaise Zabini has volunteered to be a fourth year and female for the next fifteen minutes.

"Drivers prepare your mules." The seven adults arrived just in time to see three students per team wearing odd costumes picking up ropes and a fourth moving to stand behind bathtubs on wheels.

"What on earth?" Augusta Longbottom could not believe her eyes as she saw the Hufflepuff students who were closest to them dressed in costumes standing around a bathtub with wheels on the track that ran beneath the Quidditch pitch.

"On your mark." Sirius looked around, wondering where Harry was when he didn't see his godson wearing one of the lurid outfits mimicking the headmaster at Lion's tub.

Just as the adults went to put a stop to this, Rolanda Hooch who had mounted her broom to watch from above flew down and showed herself to the adults. "It's fine, I am monitoring their, uh, shall we say madness."

"You are sanctifying this...this...whatever this is," Ogden asked as he turned towards Sirius who was standing there staring unable to believe what he was seeing.

"It's harmless fun and if you notice, there is no fighting no one is hexing each other and all insults are being tossed at one another in good clean fun. So yes, I am sanctifying the race." Hooch replied. "Now, if you will excuse me, I am keeping watch for cheating."

With that, she flew towards Lee who had stopped speaking, concerned he was about to be given detention for something. "Mr. Jordan, I believe you have a race to start."

There was a loud cheer as the rather no-nonsense Hooch handed him his wand and moved back to the sky to watch the race.

"Okay, as I said, on your mark." Then counting to five he said, "Get set." Another five then he used his wand to create a loud boom and the students pushing and pulling the tub were off.

There was much laughter as the Huffs pulled out to a large lead that was soon lost when as the teams switched out to their second group, their vines full of flowers fell off and they stopped to gather it as part of the rules stated that you had to keep track of your decorations and have them in the tub at the end of the race.

The snakes stayed back and let the lions rush forward but they soon discovered why Granger had offered to trim their robes. Their refusal, wishing to look more authentic cost them the race as they kept tripping over their own hems and by the time the third team driver was entering the tub, Lavender fell onto Cormac costing them even more time.

Soon the lions were lagging behind the badgers and the snakes and eagles were neck and neck as the last team came around the bend. The fourth change, unfortunately, cost the Snakes the race and landed them in the last place when Draco forgot to hand over the wheel as he was more concerned with fixing his neckline which had exposed the bra with cantaloupes for breasts. The entire team had to come back about a fifty feet to get the wheel.

What however was truly unfortunate was that this was done right in front of the representatives who were there to speak to the headmaster.

"DRACO!"

The teenage boy looked up and then went back to fixing his dress, determined to return the cantaloupe that had slid out back into the cup of the bra.

"DRACO!" The teenage boy was finding out why girls so disliked bras as he struggled to keep the fruit he had been given in separate cups while struggling not to pull on the lacy girl panties from where they were strangling his manhood and balls. Giving up as the pain got intense, he didn't know what to do with the fruit as he tossed it into the grass and reached down to rearrange himself in the tight lace.

"One-minute father, the lace is too tight on my bal..." Draco then realized what he was saying and to whom and turning a slight shade of green whimpered and looked up. "Father."

For once Arthur Weasley didn't feel like the biggest moron in the room with Lucius Malfoy as they got a look at the Malfoy heir.

Draco was wearing braids that were coiled around one another over his ears, he had on thick blue eyeshadow, enough eyeliner and mascara to cover every single girl at Hogwarts and have some to spare. His lips were painted a very lovely magenta color.

There were very gaudy earrings in the shapes of hearts in his ears, there were more hearts on the plastic pink necklace, bracelet and to their surprise around the left ankle of his hairy leg which was shown off along with its mate via a short skirt and a pair of high-heeled ankle boots.

Add that to the rather large round lump on one side and the way the teenager was attempting to wiggle his rear for some reason and no one knew where to look or what to say.

The four girls standing nearby who had caught their breath after racing looked at the blond and said to his father "Don't let him blame anyone but himself. This was how he expected one of us to dress."

There was some stuttering and Draco glared at the girls who were glaring right back, even Pansy who felt more comfortable with his father as he was friends with hers. "Mr. Malfoy, Draco decided that in order to pick which of us would have according to him the privilege of being his bathtub babe that he had the right to feel each of us up."

"So, we decided that if he wanted to treat us as a sex object and as nothing but a sum of our parts, we would show him exactly how it felt to be judged by his body and what he wore," Daphne said with a smug smirk on her face as her arms went around Millie and Tracy.

Across the pitch, the Claws were celebrating their win and accepting their trophy which was a small toy bathtub mounted upon a gold pyramid which was on to of muggle base. The twins were demanding a speech and there was general laughter as the last team, the snakes who had ended delayed by Draco finally crossed the finish line.

Those not taken in by the sight of Lucius Malfoy looking ready to hex his son as he dragged him off the pitch by his ear, were touched by the way that the students, all of them gathered around and were congratulating them for reaching the finish line and everyone was laughing when the twins pulled out a wrapped package and said "The uh, maybe I shouldn't say it but I can't resist, the boobie prize for the last place goes to the Snakes."

Warrington unwrapped the toilet seat cover and then looked at the mini sinks given to the members of the winning team and couldn't help it, he hopped up onto the riser and said "I am touched, truly, truly touched. We promise to treasure this, well until next year when we earn the golden bathtub for the honor of our house."

With that, he hopped down, his arm around the Weasley twins as he questioned them about where the seat cover had come from. Their answer had him laughing hysterically as the students began to head towards the castle, pulling their bathtubs along.

Hermione and Harry were laughing along with the rest of them when she asked: "Where do you think that toilet seat came from?"

Harry debated then admitted "I saw them in the common room after Ginny asked you for your help. They asked me to create it after I found out what they intended to do and I stopped them."

"What did they intend and do I wish to know?" She asked as they came upon a group of adults.

Harry chuckled and said "At first, they wished to find a way into the headmaster's tower and steal his but I reminded them that there are portraits that would catch them. Then they wanted Snapes."

"Oh Merlin, he would kill them." She said giggling in spite of herself.

"That is what I pointed out, then suggested that they just transfigure something into a seat cover but they were worried about it changing back. I uh, I didn't know that could happen. I mean, nothing I have ever transfigured ever did that unless I used another spell." He admitted.

"Wait, what? Never?" She asked sounding astonished. Seeing his confusion, she said with a bit of a peeved sounding sigh. "Harry, transfiguration isn't permanent unless you use a spell to make it so. At least usually."

"Oh, I didn't know that." He said then looking at her admitted: "I must have used that spell, Hermione because I still have that needle we used the straw to changed into a needle first year.."

"There are days, Harry Potter." She said as she looked at her boyfriend in astonishment. Seeing the amused grin of a certain dogfather, she said "I will get my revenge, Sirius Black, and you can warn your partner in crime that we know about him too. But later, what do you know about how Harry did that." Sirius played innocent and grinned

The High Inquisitor waved at the other adults who were now staring at Harry in astonishment and led the two off. "It's not really a shock, Harry gets it from his dad as he could do the same. It is part of the Potter family magic."

Sirius explained to the two teens about how family magics worked and told them to meet him around seven that evening as he had something he needed to tell Harry and that Hermione and Ron were more than welcome to be there. "Our meeting was postponed because Lucius Malfoy had an urgent need to speak to his son."

Severus Snape looked at his godson in askance then at his father. "Lucius, surely what the girls did was or rather is punishment enough."

The taller blond was pacing back and forth, turning to glare at his son then ordered him to stop fidgeting.

"But father, the lace is cutting into my ba-."

Lucius silenced his son then stunned him as he stared at the teenager. "What on earth is going on with him?"

Severus shook his head and hid his need to snicker at the various shades of makeup and the clothes the young boy was wearing. It wasn't the first time that the females of Slytherin house had gotten revenge on a male snake for the attitude that Draco had displayed but it was one of the more memorable. He had never intervened against his female students and had, in fact, let it happen after having had repeated interviews with the rather chauvinistic male students.

"He sent us the strangest note regarding Granger's muggle mother, then came up with a story that that blood traitor Weasley's wife had an affair with the Headmaster that the daughter is his. Now, this." Lucius said looking at his son in anger.

"I have no idea what on earth is going on with the first thing, but the bit about the Weasleys, I know about. The twins were speaking to their sister and something about their brother Ronald being found in a vegetable patch. Some of his classmates were joking around about his being a cabbage patch child for some reason. Dumbledore fathering the girl is probably the rumor mill in overdrive."

"If Draco's mother hears of his behavior..." Lucius shuddered. Narcissa was not a pushover and he had always had a healthy respect for his wife and her magical abilities. He would never treat her as a mere object of lust and had no idea where his son had gotten this attitude from.

"Maybe that is what he needs," Severus replied. "So, when is the meeting with the headmaster?"

"Immediately after dinner, I am beginning to think that Sirius Black isn't quite the headmaster's man after all," Lucius said with a thoughtful expression on his face as he looked at his son.

Removing the spell from the teenager, he ordered him to shower and change into robes or whatever he normally wore. "You should know, I am going to ask your classmates to write your mother a note telling her about your behavior."

"No, please, anything but that." Draco was practically begging as his father ordered him to do as he was told. "Please, father. Don't tell mother."

Draco stormed into his dorm and stripped out of his clothes to shower. The last thing he needed was his mother to find out what he was doing. He shuddered knowing how she felt about such behavior. He was rather afraid that if she were to find out what he had been doing, he would find himself betrothed to someone like Eloise Midgeon, with had spots or worse that Lovegood girl who wasn't even on the same planet most of the time.

The old wizard had a headache, between the rantings of Delores Umbridge before dinner, then her shrieks of anger when she had heard about what the students had been doing during their break and now the visit of representatives from the Board of Governors, the Ministry, and several parents, he wished for nothing more than peace and quiet as he tried to find a way around the edict being given to him.

Albus Dumbledore frowned as the meeting ended. When those gathered had left, he looked at Sirius Black and said "I am very disappointed in you, my boy. All you had to do was ask to speak to me, I would have gladly explained my reasons for doing as I did to you. Now there is no stopping this matter. You have no idea what you have done. There were reasons for this."

Sirius looked at the old wizard in front of him then at the full bookshelves in the second part of the tower that he had hoarded away from the students and said "There was absolutely no reason to deny any student the educational texts that they need. And what you did to the students in Gryffindor, is almost criminal behavior. You had no right. Now, tomorrow morning, I will be removing the books back to where they belong."

Albus went to remove a few of the more esoteric texts only to find that he was hexed by a knockback curse. "Albus, it is targeted to your blood and only I am keyed in to remove any of the books in this office."

Sirius left and frowned when he saw that there was still a nice long list of books that no one knew where were. Calling for the head house elf, he asked if the elves would be able to locate said books.

The elf frowned then said "These books might be in the come and go room. We house elves can't call for it, only those in true need may do so."

"Come and go room?" Sirius waited until the house elf left and then went to speak to Remus who said he had never heard of such a room. Same thing with Dora who said she would ask her mother that evening as she looked at her cousin then asked him about the Great Bathtub Race.

"I have to go tell a Hermione Granger and my godson what the headmaster has been up to, so I will fill you in later if I survive. Moony, do you know where the sofa is, I have been accused of removing it and didn't do it this time." Sirius replied as he exited the private quarters of his oldest friend well aware that he was about to face a whirlwind of emotions.

TBC