"I don't know, Ginny." Harry said with a sigh, no longer bothering to pretend to be looking up potion ingredients. He continued, "When I asked him what's up because he looked kind of edgy, he said he was "fine" a little too quickly, so I think there's definitely something going on. He said he's going to the library to do homework, but I doubt that's why he's really going. Did he even take any of his books? It seemed very urgent he found Tori, maybe there is some kind of meeting." Harry paused there so he and everyone else could think and take everything in. "I wonder," he said with a gleam in his eyes, "do you think we should maybe go...follow him? See what's up for ourselves?"

Seeing Bella, who was all of a sudden very quiet, Harry stopped. He looked at her and noticed, not for the first time how pretty Bella was. He asked her directly, "What do you think, Bella?"

Victoria ripped her arm out of Ryan's grip,"We dont ask for any trouble sorry. Nothing happened when we were here so only you'd ask for drama!"She said in a deadly hiss cold enough to freeze any vampire."Yeah she's here, now she barks like a dog!"Tori said a dark chuckle and walked up to Edward and stood on her toes to immitate a crude sound in his ear,"Woof, Woof!"

Alice watched this girl. A smile slid across her lips, she played it with humor. But it faded as she heard Bella's name. Of course this made matters worse, much worse. All she could do was think,'Edward, dont do anything crazy, keep it calm Edward!!'

"Tori," Ryan growled. "Don't get them angry, we don't want to start anything," he whispered. "She's here," he nodded to them with a stern glance. "But we're not telling you anything else," he added, wondering why they needed Bella. He'd always thought Bella was a bit...different, but he didn't know she ran with vampires.

Jasper raised his blond eyebrows. Their thoughts should betray them, Edward, he said calmly.

Looking at Harry, Ginny nodded. "Maybe we should. Not to be rude but to see if there's anything wrong. We don't want any of our friends to be hurt now do we?" She said, grinning micheviously. Inside, the redhead was very curious to see what had gotten Ryan so freaked out that he couldn't even stay long enough to explain to his friends. "Let's go!" She said standing up, ready to leave the common room.

Edward chuckled darkly, still having to attempt to keep calm under the circumstances. He was about to say something, but then Tori whispered in his ear. Because of her disgusting sent and the closeness, a low growl rumbled in Edward's chest. It didn't help that her words angered him, even if he knew they were untrue. "Take a few steps back, mongrel," he hissed, his golden eyes flashing. He nodded his head just slightly at Alice's thoughts, and tried to stay calm.

He chuckled again, as Tori told Ryan to keep his mind clear, and Ryan, in turn, got nervous and started thinking of his grandmother. The bronze-haired vampire did his best to rumage through the thoughts of the werewolfs, but they were keeping their thought's in different places. Edward scowled.

Chloe nodded in feverish agreement to the comments about the cold. "I know! It's bloody freezing!" she exclaimed.

She bit her lip and shrugged as she conversation turned to Ryan. "He was acting a bit strange," she offered. She was unsure on whether or not she wanted to go with the others and find him. Of course, she was worried about whatever was going on with him - She had never seen Ryan act so weird. But surely, he would've told them if he wanted them to know what was happening. Chloe finally made her choice, after a moment more of debating with herself. The rest were definatley going, and so was she. No way she was going to miss out on whatever was bound to happen.

The Gryffindor still had every intention of going to the library later, so she stood up, threw her messenger bag over her shoulder, and braced for the cold weather that would greet them when they got out of the castle. "I'm ready."

"Ginny's in. Chloe is in. What about you, Hermione and Bella? You are welcome to come, but you can hang back if you'd rather," Harry said, starting to get excited about the plan. "Do you think we should bring the invisibility cloak? What about the Marauders Map?"

Hermione shrugged, wanting to stay in the common room rather than follow the others. Frowning at Bella's comment, she looked at her. 'Something such as what? What could happen?'

Rosalie glared at Ryan. 'What buisness is it of yours what we need Bella for? It's our buisness why we need Bella, but it's none of your concern.'

Hermione smirked: it was true. Bad stuff usually happened at Hogwarts when Harry was around. 'Yeah, that much is true, Bella.' She chuckled for a moment before sobering up. 'But, seriously, it doesn't always happen. Usually around Harry at the end of the year.' She threw a smirk in Harry's direction.

'But it's still none of your buisness, whether Bella's your friend or not.' Rosalie looked sternly at the werewolf, almost hissing the words. 'You keep out of our buisness, we'll keep our of yours, wolf,' she snarled.

Ginny laughed. Harry was a trouble attractor. It happened every year! Shaking her head as she thought about his narrow escapes, she flashed him a smile, happy to see if him safe. "Bring the map." She said, agreeing to that. "That'll warn us of anything. Although I dont know if the Cloak will hide us all." She said, trying to remember how big the Invisibilty cloak was.

Harry looked at her with a shocked expression on his face, now forgetting his plan to go follow Ryan. "You mean you don't know?" he asked. He sat in silence next to Bella for a second, thinking. "Oh yeah," he finally said, "you're Muggle-born. But still...I thought you would've known... I am a bit of a 'trouble attractor', or at least I was. Those bad things you have heard about happening at Hogwarts were kind of my fault." Hermione and Ginny seemed to be taking his past history lightly, but guilt started to creep over him. After a glance at Ginny and Hermione, Harry said, "If you'd like the story, I'll tell you, but I don't want to worry you. I think I, along with some great help, have fixed just about everything. I don't think you're in any danger because of me." Harry smiled reassuringly.

OOC: This takes place after Voldemort's defeat, doesn't it?

ooc: yeah.

"Oh, yeah, like I'm going to do that," Ryan snapped. "My kind was created because of the sole purpose of yours," he said, getting a bit angry. "I think I have a right to know your 'business'". He looked at him, controlling the urge to rip them apart "Bloodsucker," he snarled, copying her.

Edward sneered at the boy. And here, he had thought that Ryan was the less irritating werewolf. "Look pup, it is no one's business but mine, my family's, and Bella's why we are here. If after we talk to her, then she decides to tell you why we're here, then that's fine with us. But otherwise, you're out of luck," he said, then paused. "She's your friend, you say? So you don't want her hurt." It wasn't a question. "We have no intention of hurting her. That's the last thing we want to do, actually. If we did, do you honestly think that we would be standing here, talking to you two?"

Chloe raised a brow. "Uh, Harry? I'm with Ginny, the chances of us, even if Hermione and Bella decided not to go, fitting under the cloak are slim. But the map certinly would be helpful." She shrugged. After a moment, she realized that Bella had no idea all that had happened with Harry in the past. There was a small intake of breath from her, then she looked to Bella, wondering if she was curious as to all the trouble Harry had attracted in the past.