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“Draco?”

Draco turned to look at Pansy, who was sitting across from him. “What?”

“Ummm, your eyes are really silver today.”

That got Draco’s attention. “Really? More so than usual?”

Blaise, sitting next to Pansy, looked at Draco closely. “Much more so…maybe even a little gold.”

Draco’s eyes widened. Silver and gold? Oh no. Outwardly he scoffed, “You must be seeing things.”

Pansy shrugged. “They’re your eyes, Draco.”

All through dinner Draco couldn’t concentrate. The aching in the back of his skull had spread to his temples, and he was starting to see a strange glowing if he looked at something long enough. Suddenly the pain broke. Draco blinked and the world went from normal, to glowy. That was the only way to describe it. Everything, even the wood of the tables glowed. Some of the students near him were almost blinding. Time seemed to slow; a dull roaring began in his ears…as if he was underwater. The voices of the students talking were muffled and seemed far away. And as he looked around the Great Hall, it was just too much. Many, if not half of the students were glowing like miniature suns of different colors. Blues, violets, greens, whites, reds, all the glowing colors seemed to swim before his eyes before all went black. He only barely heard Pansy’s scream.

The effect was instantaneous. There was an uproar in the Great Hall. Those on the opposite side of the Hall (Gryffindors mostly) had no idea what was going on. Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws also only barely knew what was going on. And there was almost complete chaos at the Slytherin table. Suddenly Dumbledore’s voice rang out.

“SILENCE!” Another instantaneous effect. “All Houses will please return to their dormitories in an orderly fashion.”

Harry frowned. What was going on? Pulling Ron behind a statue just outside the Great Hall, he whispered, “I’m going to find out what’s going on.”

Ron gaped as he pulled his invisibility cloak out of his bag.

“You carry that with you?”

Harry looked at him briefly before putting it on. “Of course. I’ll tell you what I find out.”

“Okay mate, but if Hermione tries to bite your head off, don’t turn to me for help. This is a bad idea.”

“You’re starting to sound like Hermione, Ron. I have to talk to Dumbledore anyway.”

And with that Harry slowly snuck back into the Great Hall, which was no easy feat, considering everyone else was trying to move in the other direction.

About half of the students had filed out when the doors to the Great Hall opened and Snape walked in. Harry almost laughed at the stunned look on the Potions Master’s face. Then something seemed to click as he looked at the Slytherin table (and the Slytherins that were loath to just leave Draco like that) and he walked a little ways outside the door. He yelled something that Harry couldn’t hear to someone Harry couldn’t see, and as the last few students were being escorted out of the Great Hall (again, most of these were Slytherins) Lucius Malfoy walked in.