Hey, folks. It's me again. I can't seem to stop writing the beginning of these stories. I know that at least some of you aren't happy with me about that, but I'll try to write when I get the time and inspiration. That's about the best I can offer.
I also know that this is not a very original story line, and that the chapter is very short. I'll stop pointing out all of my flaws and get on with it now.
Dragon's Blood Prologue
"Dragon's blood is used in..." Harry's eyes fell closed. His head drooped, and his chin fell to his chest. The movement woke him, and he focused his eyes again to the page. "Dragon's blood is..." Harry's eyes fell closed again. He awoke not seconds later but not for the same reason. Some one was laughing. He was alone in the common room. He knew that he was. Everyone else had gone to bed hours ago. So then who was giggling?
Twenty years and ten minutes ago.
"Did you get it?" Sirius asked from his reclining position across the majority of the couch in the common room. A rumpled looking James Potter pulled a fine silver chain from his pocket. Sirius grinned like mad and nudged the boy on the floor. "Wakey, Wakey, Remmy. James has got the goods." Remus swatted him away and attempted to continue sleeping, but Sirius remained persistent. "Come on!" he shouted in the sleeping werewolf's ear. Remus pulled himself up into a sitting position with his knees to his chest, and held out his hand to inspect James' find.
"Why exactly did we want Lily's time turner again?" Remus asked through a yawn. Looking up and smirking at the standing boys disheveled state ha added, "And what did you have to do to get it?"
"An honorable Gryffindor such as myself would never kiss and tell," he said with a giant grin. "Where is Peter? We need to get going if we don't want to get caught."
"Morring gave him that detention for what we did to the new first years last week. He won't make it back for another hour at least," Sirius supplied.
"Good of him to take the blame for that, wasn't it?" James asked.
"I don't think that was his intent, Prongs," Remus offered, but James had moved on.
"Let's get on with it then."
"James Potter! Are you out of your mind?" came a scream from the stairs to the girl's dorms.
"Uh-oh," James said conversationally, taking the chain from Remus as Lily burst into the common room in her dressing gown. "Ah, Lily, how good of you too join us!"
"Do you have any idea how much trouble you could get in. No one is even supposed to know that I have that. There are laws, James. Not just school rules, laws!"
"So do you want to come with us? We were thinking of going about 20 years. See how many of Sirius' illegitimate children are running around the school," James pleaded as Sirius gave an indignant, "Hey!"
She gave him a look that could only be interpreted as "What do you think?"
"Come on Lily... You said earlier that you were feeling adventurous," James offered with a suggestive eyebrow wiggle, as Remus gave an "ew" and buried his head in his knees.
"James!" Lily cried as she blushed furiously. She tried to think about this logically. "You guys are going to do this whether or not I go with you, aren't you?" she asked rhetorically. She sighed heavily, "I'll go to keep you guys out of trouble, but we have to be back before class in the morning."
Sirius gave her a brotherly kiss on the head and said, "Not a problem, Lil. It's a time turner. For all we know we are back now and just waiting for us to leave."
Remus pulled his head up and looked at Sirius. "That hurt my head," he confessed and then stood so that they could leave.
James put the chain around the tight huddle of people and set the timer. One long and nauseatingly colorful ride through time later they all fell to the ground exactly where they had been in the first place.
And now back to Harry.
Harry stood and looked around. Was he dreaming? This was not his normal dream. It wasn't as unpleasant as usual. Harry walked behind the couch that he had been sitting on moments before and found a pile of Gryffindor students. Figuring that some of the younger students must have been sneaking out he put on his best strict older student face and tried not to laugh as they attempted to untangle themselves.
The out of breath and still slightly giggling students finally got to their feet and looked up at the boy in front of them. They were not met with his strict look however, as his jaw had dropped open upon recognizing the four in front of him.
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Haven