set in third year

All of the students are in sleeping bags in the Great Hall because Sirius Black has been in the castle. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are all asleep in a corner of the Great Hall. Harry is having a nightmare; he is tossing and turning in his sleep. Hermione, whose sleeping bag is in the middle of Ron's and Harry's, jumps awake as Ron's hand brushes against hers. She looks to her other side, and sees something so shocking she thinks she may still be dreaming.

"Ron!" she whispers. "Ron, wake up!"

Ron opens his eyes slightly "Wha-Hermione?! What is it?"

"Look! Harry wet his bed! He is probably having a nightmare!"

Ron sits up straight. Hermione points to a wet spot on the back of Harry's pants.

"What do we do?" Ron asks nervously. He lied back down as Dumbledore came, still pacing around the students, came closer to the trio.

"I think we should tell someone," Hermione suggests. "I'm not very good at cleaning spells yet, and I don't want to do something wrong."

"Let's tell Dumbledore them."

"Okay, but we're doing it together."

Ron and Hermione stand up as Dumbledore walks past.

Dumbledore stopped and jumped a little. "Goodness, what are you two doing?"

"Er-Professor Dumbledore-" Hermione began, "can we speak with you?"

"Of course," said Dumbledore politely.

Hermione took a deep breath, gathered all of her courage, and said,"I just woke up, and noticed that-er-" she blushes a little before continuing quickly,"Harry wet the bed while sleeping. We think he was having a nightmare."

"I see," Dumbledore says, looking from Hermione to Ron. "And you don't want any of the other students to notice, so you came to me?"

Hermione and Ron nodded.

Dumbledore sighed."Harry is lucky to have such good friends. I can help you, but we will need to wake him up first. I think, Mr. Weasley, that it would be best if you woke him up."

Ron nods and walks over to Harry's bed.

"Harry." He whispers quietly as he tries to shake him awake."Harry!"

Harry jumped wake, panting heavily, without noticing that he wet the bed.

"Wha-What? What's going on?"" Harry says, confused as he sees Ron, Hermione, and Dumbledore crowding around him.

Ron bends over and whispers into Harry's ear,"You wet the bed."

Harry turns a deep shade of red as he becomes aware of the wet spot on his pants.

And to make everything worse, he realizes that Hermione and Dumbledore would have seen too. Embarrassed, Harry sprints into the bathroom and locks the door.

Dumbledore watches him calmly. "Stay here while I go talk to Harry," he tells Ron and Hermione.

Dumbledore walks to the bathroom and with a flick of his wand the door unlocks. He finds Harry in the middle of the bathroom, crying into his hands. Dumbledore walks in and locks the door behind him again and casts a muting charm so no one can hear.

"Harry, why are you crying?" he asks calmly.

"Be-Because Ron and Hermione saw m-me wet the bed, and th-they won't want t-to be my f-friends anymore!"

"Shhh, Harry calm down, it's alright," Dumbledore says as Harry cries even louder."Don't be embarrassed, Ron and Hermione just didn't want anyone else to see. They understand that you were just having a nightmare, and they wanted to help."

"B-But I wet the bed!"

"Harry, it's okay, they won't laugh at you, they feel bad for you."

Harry stopped crying and wiped the tears off his face.

"Come, Harry, I will help you get cleaned up now."

Harry could feel his face burning as Dumbledore cast a spell on his pants to dry them.

"Now we shall go dry your bed." Dumbledore starts to walk out of the room, but Harry stays put.

"I can't go out there. They'll laugh at me."

Dumbledore sighed,"Harry, I already told you, they will not laugh."

Harry nods and follows Dumbledore reluctantly.

When they arrived at Harry's sleeping bag, Dumbledore flicked his wand to dry Harry's bed. Harry avoided looking at Ron and Hermione; no matter what Dumbledore said, he was still extremely embarrassed that he had wet the bed in front of Ron and Hermione.

Harry's friend walked over to him. Hermione hugged him, and Ron whispered,"Sorry if we made you feel embarrassed, Harry, we just didn't want anyone else to find out. And besides, we wouldn't stop being your friend just because we saw you wet the bed!"

Harry smiles and realizes that he really is lucky to have such great friends.

THE END