Chapter 12: -The Shadow Game
Harry and Professor McGonagall arrived at Professor Dumbledore's office. Harry briefly wondered how Yugi was then McGonagall left him alone in the office and his nerves kicked in, he had a gut feeling he was about to be kicked out of the school. Harry spotted the Sorting Hat and he took it off its shelf and tried it on again.
"Bee in your bonnet, Potter?"
"Er, yes," Harry muttered, "Er, sorry to bother you… I wanted to ask…"
"If I put you in the right house? I remember sorting your year well Potter, I still can't believe there were two of you who would do so well in Slytherin and turned it down, but I stand by what I said, you both would have done well in the serpent's house."
"Two of us?" Harry asked, a little startled, who else would have done well in Slytherin in his year that wasn't? The Sorting Hat was silent, unwilling or unable to give anymore information. Harry pulled it off his head, could this second person be the Heir of Slytherin?
"You're wrong about me." Harry said, backing away from the Sorting Hat. A strange gagging sound behind him made him wheel around.
Standing on a golden perch behind the door was an ancient looking bird which resembled a half plucked turkey. It made the gagging noise again and to Harry it looked very ill. Harry was just thinking the last thing he needed was for Professor Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was in the room when the bird burst into flames.
Harry yelled in shock and backed away quickly, looking around for a glass of water but didn't find one. The bird meanwhile had turned into a fireball; giving one last loud shriek and then there was nothing left of it but a pile of ash. At that point the door opened and a very sombre Professor Dumbledore walked in to the office.
"Professor!" Harry gasped, "Your bird… I couldn't do anything… it just burst into flames!" To Harry's astonishment Dumbledore smiled.
"About time too, he's been looking dreadful for days, I've been telling him it's time to get a move on." He chuckled at the stunned look on Harry's face. "Fawkes is a bird that your friends, Yami Muto and Ombre Ironhide, might recognise very well, Harry, he is a Phoenix. They burst into flame when it is time for them to die, and are reborn from the ashes, watch…"
Harry looked down in time to see a chick poke it's head out of the ashes. "It's a shame you had to see him on his burning day, Harry, he's normally most handsome with wonderful red and gold plumage. Fascinating creatures, phoenixes. They can carry immensely heavy load, their tears have healing properties, and they make extremely faithful pets."
In the shock of Fawkes catching fire, Harry had forgotten why he was there, and it only came back to him as Dumbledore sat down at his desk. However before he could say anything the office door slammed open and Hagrid rushed in. "It wasn't Harry!" said Hagrid urgently, "I was talking to him second before Yami and the other kid were found, he never would have had time sir..." Dumbledore tried to say something but Hagrid continued, "It can't've been him, I'll sware it before the Minestry of Magic if I have too…"
"Hagrid, I…"
"Yeh've got the wrong boy, sir. I know Harry never…"
"HAGRID!" Dumbledore said loudly, "I do not think that Harry attacked those people."
"Oh." Hagrid said, deflated, "I'll just wait outside then." He shut the door behind him, completely embarrassed.
"You don't think it was me, Professor?" Harry repeated hopefully.
"No, Harry, I don't but I have to ask you, is there anything you'd like to tell me…?"
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Yugi was sat by Yami's bedside, Joey stood behind him, "I can't stand just watching him like this, knowing I can't do anything but wait!" Yugi whispered, tears threatening to come again. Joey laughed bitterly.
"You wanna know something, Yuge?" He asked, "Those were his words exactly last year after Voldemort injured your spirit and you were out of it for days, except instead of being close to tears, Yami almost exploded in frustration." Yugi looked up at Joey, startled, "You two are more alike then you give yourself credit for, Yuge." Yugi sighed and looked back to Yami, Joey looked at him and put his hands on his shoulders, "Come on, pal. You can't help him here," Yugi looked up at him, "I know you don't want to leave his side, but Madam Pomfrey will chase us out in a minute anyway. Come on, I'll walk you to class."
The quadruple attack on Yami, Mahado, Justin and Nearly Headless Nick turned what had been nervousness into real panic. There was almost a stampede to book tickets on the Hogwarts Express. "At this rate it's only going to be us and Malfoy's crew left here for Christmas. What a jolly holiday it's going to be."
"Do you think I could give our seats to someone else and not go home for Christmas?" Kari asked, she'd heard from Ash who'd sent her an e-mail, thank Ra for her studies over the summer, finding her a spell that would give her and Kaiba internet connection, saying Robyn was away for the holiday so she wasn't looking forward to going back. Ombre glared at her, and Kari sighed, "Guess not."
Harry was glad there'd only be a few people at Hogwarts over Christmas, he was fed up of people skirting away from him, or telling Yugi to be careful that Harry didn't attack the surviving twin, or Bakura congratulating him and asking whether Harry could petrify the other 'twin' to make his life easier.
Fred and George found this all very funny though, and went out of their way to march ahead of Harry and the gang, shouting, "Make way for the Heir of Slytherin! Seriously evil wizard coming through!" Harry didn't mind this, it meant someone else took it as a joke and understood that Harry wasn't really the Heir. However their antics seemed to aggravate Draco Malfoy, who looked increasingly sour every time he saw them at it.
"It because he's dying to say it's him and Bakura's only asking you for effect." Joey said knowingly, "You know how he hates anyone beating him at anything and you're getting the credit for his dirty work."
"Not for long," Said Hermione, in a satisfied tone, "The Polyjuice potion's nearly ready. We'll be getting the truth out of him any day now."
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At last the term ended, and though they were two friends short, the gang found the castle peaceful, rather then gloomy, and they enjoyed the fact that they and the Weasleys had the run of the Gryffindor Common Room and no one was there that didn't know the Japanese students secrets so they could do pretty much anything they wanted. Resulting in Duels and games of exploding snap were played loudly without bothering anyone, while they practised wizard duelling and Joey was teaching Yugi and Harry how to fight, but with fists instead of wands. The only Weasley who wasn't having fun was Percy, who deemed even the teenager's behaviour as 'rowdy,' and didn't spend much time in the Common Room with them, he said he had only stayed here to keep up his duties as Prefect.
The only eventful thing that happened between school ending and Christmas day was a letter from Kari and Ombre arriving begging them to save the pair from Kari's parents.
Christmas morning dawned, cold and white, and the boys in Harry's dorm were woken up way too early, by Hermione, who burst in with all their gifts.
"WAKE UP!" She said loudly, opening the curtains at all the windows. The others groaned and Yugi rolled over and tried to go back to sleep.
"Hermione! You're not supposed to be in here!" Joey groaned as he shielded his eyes against the light."
"Merry Christmas to you too." Hermione said, throwing everyone their presents, leaving Yami's on the bed. Yugi sat up as his landed on the foot of his bed, and looked over at Yami's bed, tears welling up. Yugi opened his slowly, unlike last year. There was more then enough chocolate to feed the whole of Gryffindor House but Yugi was in no mood to eat it, deciding to save it for when Yami was up and about again.
Joey watched his best friend, as Hermione spoke again, "I've been up for nearly an hour stirring adding more lacewings to the Polyjuice potion, it's ready."
"Good!" Yugi said with more then a little venom in his voice, stunning the gathering of friends slightly, he'd been getting more and more like this as the week had continued.
"If we're going to do it, it should be tonight." Hermione said, noting the way Joey had gone over and put his hands on Yugi's shoulders.
No one, not even the group who were dreading the thought of three of their number taking the Polyjuice potion later on, could fail to enjoy the Christmas dinner.
Joey's enjoyment was dimmed by Yugi pushing food round his plate instead of eating it. "It won't eat itself, you know." Yugi looked up at him sadly, "You won't get him back any faster by starving yourself."
Yugi shoved his fork into a piece of turkey and ate slowly. Joey sighed, at least the kid was eating. Dumbledore led them in a few of his favourite carols after dinner, and Harry laughed as Joey ended up bright red, he'd had a sip of their 'Strawberry juice' and it most defiantly wasn't, it was red wine. Yugi hadn't touched the wine but was nursing a butterbeer, staring into the golden liquid.
Hermione dragged them out of the room as Joey, Ron and Harry finished their third helpings, to finalise the group's plan for this evening. Yugi slipped off while they were planning, Joey noticed and followed his friend, as Harry, Ron and Hermione went to put their plan into action, he had an idea where Yugi would be.
Joey rushed round the corner of the corridor leading to the hospital wing and froze, a bubble, like one Pegasus had created to trap Yugi when he'd turned their duel into a shadow game, was blocking the passageway. This had to be Bakura's doing, he growled, wondering if his best friend was stuck inside with the deranged Tomb Robber.
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Malfoy looked around, wondering what the hell Muto had done. It was cold and dark and something was draining him, and he didn't know what. "What did you do?" He growled at the small boy, who seemed to be glowing with dark energy.
"It's your fault Yami is petrified, admit it!" Yugi growled, Malfoy backed away as the energy surrounding the hikari grew brighter. "What did he ever do to you?"
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Liar!" Yugi growled again, "It's your fault! You released whatever attacked him!"
Malfoy got it, "You think I'm the Heir of Slytherin?" He laughed, "While I'm flattered, I'm not the one who attacked your precious Pharaoh."
"But I bet you know who did." Yugi was still glaring at Malfoy, even with his denial.
"The real Heir of Slytherin." Malfoy said, "I don't know who he is, father wouldn't tell us." Malfoy drew his wand and pointed it at Yugi's chest, "Now what ever you've done, you freak, fix it!" He fired off a spell at Yugi, who drew his wand and fired one back at him. The two spells nullified each other and left sparks which dissipated in the darkness.
"This is a Shadow Game, it won't end until one of us loses. And we're fighting a Wizard's Duel." Yugi said.
"A game? You're nuts!" Malfoy shouted, his headache was terrible. Yugi just smiled dangerously. "What happens if I beat you?"
"Then I'm fair game. But if I win you'll leave the group alone, and tell whoever's petrifying students to stop!"
"I don't know who it is!"
"It's someone in your house and you will tell them to stop when I win!" Malfoy nodded, he wouldn't lose, then Muto would pay dearly. They stared each other down, and Malfoy attacked first…
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Joey watched as the Shadow bubble vanished, but instead of seeing Bakura and Yugi like he'd expected, Yugi was stood with his back to him, while on the floor was… "What did you do?" Malfoy was unconscious.
"Nothing he didn't deserve." Yugi said, wavering on his feet, Joey caught him as he started to fall.
"Have you ever pulled something like that before?" Yugi shook his head weakly, Joey supported him as Yugi passed out, "Damn it, I can't take him to the hospital wing…" He froze as Crabbe and Goyle walked down the corridor, "Uh oh!"
"Joey? What happened here?" Crabbe asked, it sounded remarkably like…
"Harry? Then the potion worked?" Crabbe nodded. Joey's head shot up as he heard footsteps, "We've got to get out of here, if they find us… unless…"
Percy Weasley walked around the corridor and was greeted by a sight which caused him to start yelling, Joey Wheeler was being restrained by Crabbe while Goyle was stood over an unconscious Yugi, who looked like he'd been hit by a few spells, while Malfoy was on the floor, his wand had rolled away from his hand.
"What's going on here? You, Crabbe, let go of Wheeler! Goyle get away from Muto. Crabbe, Goyle and Malfoy when he wakes up, have detention, it's obvious the three of you ganged up on Joey and Yugi. You two will come with me to fill out detention forms. Joey, can you get them up to the infirmary?" Joey nodded, Percy strolled away with Harry and Ron, or Crabbe and Goyle. Joey left Malfoy outside the Infirmary door and carried Yugi up to Gryffindor tower, glad that the halls were practically empty because almost everyone had gone home for Christmas, and that his friend was small and light.
Harry and Ron returned to the Common Room and met up in the dorm, Joey had put Yugi to bed and Harry and Ron explained what had happened. "…it's so perfect, Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle will have to do detention for bullying, when we staged the whole thing! Just one thing, what actually happened?"
"I think Yugi used Shadow magic on Malfoy, I think he played a Shadow Game with him."
"Did Yugi…?"
"No, he won, or at least I think he won, but he's never tried anything like that before, it drained him." Joey continued. Yugi groaned and sat up slowly, like he was sore all over.
"It's not Malfoy…" Yugi stated, making them all jump. "He doesn't know who it was." Yugi groaned and led back down, "Ow, my head."
"Yugi!" Joey called, rushing over, "You alright pal?"
"How do you know it's not Malfoy?" Harry asked, concerned but wanting to know the full story.
"I got it out of him." Yugi said quietly, "He claims his father hasn't told either him or Bakura anything, and that he doesn't know who the Heir of Slytherin is."
"What's with you Shadow Gaming someone, you've never…"
"I… I…" Yugi stuttered, unsure of how to go on, but then it all came out in a rush, "Do you think I went too far? I went too far didn't I? But he said… it doesn't matter what he said, it matters what I did…" Yugi dissolved into tears.
"Yugi…" Joey started, unsure what to say.
"I want Yami back!"
"Bee in your bonnet, Potter?"
"Er, yes," Harry muttered, "Er, sorry to bother you… I wanted to ask…"
"If I put you in the right house? I remember sorting your year well Potter, I still can't believe there were two of you who would do so well in Slytherin and turned it down, but I stand by what I said, you both would have done well in the serpent's house."
"Two of us?" Harry asked, a little startled, who else would have done well in Slytherin in his year that wasn't? The Sorting Hat was silent, unwilling or unable to give anymore information. Harry pulled it off his head, could this second person be the Heir of Slytherin?
"You're wrong about me." Harry said, backing away from the Sorting Hat. A strange gagging sound behind him made him wheel around.
Standing on a golden perch behind the door was an ancient looking bird which resembled a half plucked turkey. It made the gagging noise again and to Harry it looked very ill. Harry was just thinking the last thing he needed was for Professor Dumbledore's pet bird to die while he was in the room when the bird burst into flames.
Harry yelled in shock and backed away quickly, looking around for a glass of water but didn't find one. The bird meanwhile had turned into a fireball; giving one last loud shriek and then there was nothing left of it but a pile of ash. At that point the door opened and a very sombre Professor Dumbledore walked in to the office.
"Professor!" Harry gasped, "Your bird… I couldn't do anything… it just burst into flames!" To Harry's astonishment Dumbledore smiled.
"About time too, he's been looking dreadful for days, I've been telling him it's time to get a move on." He chuckled at the stunned look on Harry's face. "Fawkes is a bird that your friends, Yami Muto and Ombre Ironhide, might recognise very well, Harry, he is a Phoenix. They burst into flame when it is time for them to die, and are reborn from the ashes, watch…"
Harry looked down in time to see a chick poke it's head out of the ashes. "It's a shame you had to see him on his burning day, Harry, he's normally most handsome with wonderful red and gold plumage. Fascinating creatures, phoenixes. They can carry immensely heavy load, their tears have healing properties, and they make extremely faithful pets."
In the shock of Fawkes catching fire, Harry had forgotten why he was there, and it only came back to him as Dumbledore sat down at his desk. However before he could say anything the office door slammed open and Hagrid rushed in. "It wasn't Harry!" said Hagrid urgently, "I was talking to him second before Yami and the other kid were found, he never would have had time sir..." Dumbledore tried to say something but Hagrid continued, "It can't've been him, I'll sware it before the Minestry of Magic if I have too…"
"Hagrid, I…"
"Yeh've got the wrong boy, sir. I know Harry never…"
"HAGRID!" Dumbledore said loudly, "I do not think that Harry attacked those people."
"Oh." Hagrid said, deflated, "I'll just wait outside then." He shut the door behind him, completely embarrassed.
"You don't think it was me, Professor?" Harry repeated hopefully.
"No, Harry, I don't but I have to ask you, is there anything you'd like to tell me…?"
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Yugi was sat by Yami's bedside, Joey stood behind him, "I can't stand just watching him like this, knowing I can't do anything but wait!" Yugi whispered, tears threatening to come again. Joey laughed bitterly.
"You wanna know something, Yuge?" He asked, "Those were his words exactly last year after Voldemort injured your spirit and you were out of it for days, except instead of being close to tears, Yami almost exploded in frustration." Yugi looked up at Joey, startled, "You two are more alike then you give yourself credit for, Yuge." Yugi sighed and looked back to Yami, Joey looked at him and put his hands on his shoulders, "Come on, pal. You can't help him here," Yugi looked up at him, "I know you don't want to leave his side, but Madam Pomfrey will chase us out in a minute anyway. Come on, I'll walk you to class."
The quadruple attack on Yami, Mahado, Justin and Nearly Headless Nick turned what had been nervousness into real panic. There was almost a stampede to book tickets on the Hogwarts Express. "At this rate it's only going to be us and Malfoy's crew left here for Christmas. What a jolly holiday it's going to be."
"Do you think I could give our seats to someone else and not go home for Christmas?" Kari asked, she'd heard from Ash who'd sent her an e-mail, thank Ra for her studies over the summer, finding her a spell that would give her and Kaiba internet connection, saying Robyn was away for the holiday so she wasn't looking forward to going back. Ombre glared at her, and Kari sighed, "Guess not."
Harry was glad there'd only be a few people at Hogwarts over Christmas, he was fed up of people skirting away from him, or telling Yugi to be careful that Harry didn't attack the surviving twin, or Bakura congratulating him and asking whether Harry could petrify the other 'twin' to make his life easier.
Fred and George found this all very funny though, and went out of their way to march ahead of Harry and the gang, shouting, "Make way for the Heir of Slytherin! Seriously evil wizard coming through!" Harry didn't mind this, it meant someone else took it as a joke and understood that Harry wasn't really the Heir. However their antics seemed to aggravate Draco Malfoy, who looked increasingly sour every time he saw them at it.
"It because he's dying to say it's him and Bakura's only asking you for effect." Joey said knowingly, "You know how he hates anyone beating him at anything and you're getting the credit for his dirty work."
"Not for long," Said Hermione, in a satisfied tone, "The Polyjuice potion's nearly ready. We'll be getting the truth out of him any day now."
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At last the term ended, and though they were two friends short, the gang found the castle peaceful, rather then gloomy, and they enjoyed the fact that they and the Weasleys had the run of the Gryffindor Common Room and no one was there that didn't know the Japanese students secrets so they could do pretty much anything they wanted. Resulting in Duels and games of exploding snap were played loudly without bothering anyone, while they practised wizard duelling and Joey was teaching Yugi and Harry how to fight, but with fists instead of wands. The only Weasley who wasn't having fun was Percy, who deemed even the teenager's behaviour as 'rowdy,' and didn't spend much time in the Common Room with them, he said he had only stayed here to keep up his duties as Prefect.
The only eventful thing that happened between school ending and Christmas day was a letter from Kari and Ombre arriving begging them to save the pair from Kari's parents.
Christmas morning dawned, cold and white, and the boys in Harry's dorm were woken up way too early, by Hermione, who burst in with all their gifts.
"WAKE UP!" She said loudly, opening the curtains at all the windows. The others groaned and Yugi rolled over and tried to go back to sleep.
"Hermione! You're not supposed to be in here!" Joey groaned as he shielded his eyes against the light."
"Merry Christmas to you too." Hermione said, throwing everyone their presents, leaving Yami's on the bed. Yugi sat up as his landed on the foot of his bed, and looked over at Yami's bed, tears welling up. Yugi opened his slowly, unlike last year. There was more then enough chocolate to feed the whole of Gryffindor House but Yugi was in no mood to eat it, deciding to save it for when Yami was up and about again.
Joey watched his best friend, as Hermione spoke again, "I've been up for nearly an hour stirring adding more lacewings to the Polyjuice potion, it's ready."
"Good!" Yugi said with more then a little venom in his voice, stunning the gathering of friends slightly, he'd been getting more and more like this as the week had continued.
"If we're going to do it, it should be tonight." Hermione said, noting the way Joey had gone over and put his hands on Yugi's shoulders.
No one, not even the group who were dreading the thought of three of their number taking the Polyjuice potion later on, could fail to enjoy the Christmas dinner.
Joey's enjoyment was dimmed by Yugi pushing food round his plate instead of eating it. "It won't eat itself, you know." Yugi looked up at him sadly, "You won't get him back any faster by starving yourself."
Yugi shoved his fork into a piece of turkey and ate slowly. Joey sighed, at least the kid was eating. Dumbledore led them in a few of his favourite carols after dinner, and Harry laughed as Joey ended up bright red, he'd had a sip of their 'Strawberry juice' and it most defiantly wasn't, it was red wine. Yugi hadn't touched the wine but was nursing a butterbeer, staring into the golden liquid.
Hermione dragged them out of the room as Joey, Ron and Harry finished their third helpings, to finalise the group's plan for this evening. Yugi slipped off while they were planning, Joey noticed and followed his friend, as Harry, Ron and Hermione went to put their plan into action, he had an idea where Yugi would be.
Joey rushed round the corner of the corridor leading to the hospital wing and froze, a bubble, like one Pegasus had created to trap Yugi when he'd turned their duel into a shadow game, was blocking the passageway. This had to be Bakura's doing, he growled, wondering if his best friend was stuck inside with the deranged Tomb Robber.
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Malfoy looked around, wondering what the hell Muto had done. It was cold and dark and something was draining him, and he didn't know what. "What did you do?" He growled at the small boy, who seemed to be glowing with dark energy.
"It's your fault Yami is petrified, admit it!" Yugi growled, Malfoy backed away as the energy surrounding the hikari grew brighter. "What did he ever do to you?"
"I don't know what you're talking about!"
"Liar!" Yugi growled again, "It's your fault! You released whatever attacked him!"
Malfoy got it, "You think I'm the Heir of Slytherin?" He laughed, "While I'm flattered, I'm not the one who attacked your precious Pharaoh."
"But I bet you know who did." Yugi was still glaring at Malfoy, even with his denial.
"The real Heir of Slytherin." Malfoy said, "I don't know who he is, father wouldn't tell us." Malfoy drew his wand and pointed it at Yugi's chest, "Now what ever you've done, you freak, fix it!" He fired off a spell at Yugi, who drew his wand and fired one back at him. The two spells nullified each other and left sparks which dissipated in the darkness.
"This is a Shadow Game, it won't end until one of us loses. And we're fighting a Wizard's Duel." Yugi said.
"A game? You're nuts!" Malfoy shouted, his headache was terrible. Yugi just smiled dangerously. "What happens if I beat you?"
"Then I'm fair game. But if I win you'll leave the group alone, and tell whoever's petrifying students to stop!"
"I don't know who it is!"
"It's someone in your house and you will tell them to stop when I win!" Malfoy nodded, he wouldn't lose, then Muto would pay dearly. They stared each other down, and Malfoy attacked first…
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Joey watched as the Shadow bubble vanished, but instead of seeing Bakura and Yugi like he'd expected, Yugi was stood with his back to him, while on the floor was… "What did you do?" Malfoy was unconscious.
"Nothing he didn't deserve." Yugi said, wavering on his feet, Joey caught him as he started to fall.
"Have you ever pulled something like that before?" Yugi shook his head weakly, Joey supported him as Yugi passed out, "Damn it, I can't take him to the hospital wing…" He froze as Crabbe and Goyle walked down the corridor, "Uh oh!"
"Joey? What happened here?" Crabbe asked, it sounded remarkably like…
"Harry? Then the potion worked?" Crabbe nodded. Joey's head shot up as he heard footsteps, "We've got to get out of here, if they find us… unless…"
Percy Weasley walked around the corridor and was greeted by a sight which caused him to start yelling, Joey Wheeler was being restrained by Crabbe while Goyle was stood over an unconscious Yugi, who looked like he'd been hit by a few spells, while Malfoy was on the floor, his wand had rolled away from his hand.
"What's going on here? You, Crabbe, let go of Wheeler! Goyle get away from Muto. Crabbe, Goyle and Malfoy when he wakes up, have detention, it's obvious the three of you ganged up on Joey and Yugi. You two will come with me to fill out detention forms. Joey, can you get them up to the infirmary?" Joey nodded, Percy strolled away with Harry and Ron, or Crabbe and Goyle. Joey left Malfoy outside the Infirmary door and carried Yugi up to Gryffindor tower, glad that the halls were practically empty because almost everyone had gone home for Christmas, and that his friend was small and light.
Harry and Ron returned to the Common Room and met up in the dorm, Joey had put Yugi to bed and Harry and Ron explained what had happened. "…it's so perfect, Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle will have to do detention for bullying, when we staged the whole thing! Just one thing, what actually happened?"
"I think Yugi used Shadow magic on Malfoy, I think he played a Shadow Game with him."
"Did Yugi…?"
"No, he won, or at least I think he won, but he's never tried anything like that before, it drained him." Joey continued. Yugi groaned and sat up slowly, like he was sore all over.
"It's not Malfoy…" Yugi stated, making them all jump. "He doesn't know who it was." Yugi groaned and led back down, "Ow, my head."
"Yugi!" Joey called, rushing over, "You alright pal?"
"How do you know it's not Malfoy?" Harry asked, concerned but wanting to know the full story.
"I got it out of him." Yugi said quietly, "He claims his father hasn't told either him or Bakura anything, and that he doesn't know who the Heir of Slytherin is."
"What's with you Shadow Gaming someone, you've never…"
"I… I…" Yugi stuttered, unsure of how to go on, but then it all came out in a rush, "Do you think I went too far? I went too far didn't I? But he said… it doesn't matter what he said, it matters what I did…" Yugi dissolved into tears.
"Yugi…" Joey started, unsure what to say.
"I want Yami back!"