Cabinet Conundrum

Fanged Allies

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Everyone was stunned for a moment, but soon followed after him. When they caught up they found Greyback out cold on the floor with nasty claw wounds on his chest and no Cedric Diggory ...

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"GREYBACK! Quick, get some potions! He's bleeding badly!" Tom ordered and everyone either stood back and out of the way or helped.

Severus and Narcissa began healing the werewolf as Draco looked at the wounds. "What did this?"

Tom sighed, "Harry isn't a common place wizard. Necromancers are dangerous."

Greg raised an eyebrow, "So Harry did this? What new body did he take? I never heard of those inferi creators doing something like this."

"No. It's nothing like that at all. Those wannabe necromancers aren't really necromancers and calling them that is the same as sticking leaves on a flubberworm to call them wings and claiming it's a dragon. No ... Harry is far more dangerous than that." Tom said now very concerned, "There hasn't been a real Necromancer in centuries because they were foolishly considered to control the darkest, most evil, magics when in reality they had gray and neutral magic. Death is natural and forms a balance in nature that necromancers respected. We must've neen listening to the language of death. Necromancers were considered dark because they could perfectly reanimate the dead using complex blood spells. Those spells don't mess with a person's soul, but no one in the light side cared. They labeled necromancers as dark and slapped a bounty on their heads. Necromancers didn't help their reputation by creating the Unforgivables or inspiring them. They only created the killing curse for a painless merciful death. The other two were created by dark wizards who envied their power over flesh and it's because of those powers the darkest creatures flocked to necromancers and formed treaties ..."

"Treaties?" Blaise paled as he looked at the claw marks, "In exchange for walking fresh food the necromancer gets protection and ... that would extend to their mates, right?"

"Yeah ... Cedric was being watched," Tom said and shot Draco a look, "They kept a low profile to protect Harry's plan, but stepped in the second Cedric was alone. Greyback might've walked in on the guard taking Cedric away."

"Yeah." Greyback grumbled as he opened his eyes.

Narcissa gently pushed the werewolf down when he foolishly tried to get up, "Stay down. We have to heal these wounds."

"Where'd that thing go?" Greyback growled as his laid back down as instructed.

"Depends ... what did it look like?" Tom asked wanting to know what types of creatures were on Harry's side. They can't blindly run into another problem again. It was all too clear what would've happened to Draco and Theo if they actually tried to harm Cedric. Both would be dead ...

Greyback clenched his teeth as the gashes healed, "Human like, but huge with fangs, claws and-"

"Glowing gold eyes?" Draco suggested as he realized what this creature was. It was the one or like the ones that attacked him in the library.

"Yeah ... how did you know squirt?" Greyback said as he looked at Draco suspiciously. Blaise, Greg, Vincent and Theo backed away as the air became tense. They had a feeling Draco was in trouble. Tom was especially wary all of a sudden.

"Well ... you see ... ummm you know how Harry said he was going make his shift permanent after the first day of exams? I went to the library that night and I guess I nearly stumbled in on something so they chased me away." Draco explained nervously though the disapproving looks from the older people there.