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Harry Potter and the Room of Visions
Chapter # 1
characters: Ron & Hermione
Harry sat up strait as he looked around for some sign that his dream was real. He was dreaming something that he could never have, but he thought it was pleasant. He and Sirius where talking in the Leaky Cauldron as they were drinking fresh butterbeer. Sirius had just adopted him after coming back after that misfortune at the Ministry of Magic the year prior. As they talked people would walk by and greet them without even thinking twice whether to doubt Sirius's innocence.
Of course Harry new it was all a dream. He wanted to fall back asleep and continue it but he could hear the Dursleys walking in the halls down to breakfast. Harry slipped on his worn out sweater, and head toward the door.
He stopped and turned to face the large calendar above his bead that he used to count the days until he would be back at Hogwarts. He smiled weakly as he could clearly see that today was the day that he would be boarding the Hogwarts Express to the place that he thought was the closest he would ever get to a happy home.
He walked slowly down the stairs and toward the kitchen where the Dursleys would be waiting for Harry to serve them.
"What took you so long? Didn't you hear me calling for you? I was yelling for five minutes!" Uncle Vernon said as his face continued to turn purpler as he looked at Harry.
The Dursleys didn't want Harry. They never did. They never will. Harry knew this ever since he found out he had a magical gift. Harry didn't mind that they treated him like he was a filthy germ. He just went about his business everyday.
"How would he be able to hear? It's not like he's that smart!" Harry's cousin, Dudley, said while stuffing a large piece of bacon in his mouth.
Dudley had been forced to go on a diet after the nurse from his school told them that they didn't have a uniform to fit his abnormal size. Dudley was soon able to get out of it as his parents insisted that he needs more nutrition so he needed to eat large portions.
"I'm tired so I walked slower," Harry replied as he managed to stifle a yawn.
"Well, you better hurry up, I'm not going to have your freaky friends standing in my house waiting for you to get ready," Uncle Vernon spat while trying to get up from the table.
"Here," Aunt Petunia said while shoving a small plate with a few carrot sticks onto the table. Harry sat down at the table that was half covered by Dudley, and ate quickly. He put the empty plate in the sink and hurried back to his room.
When he reached his room he closed the room and let out a sigh. He walked over to his owl Hedwig and opened the cage door. He put in a few owl treats. She nipped his finger affectionately and ate happily. Harry smiled again and closed the door.
He got dressed and looked at the open books on his bed from the night before. He tried to do his homework but he was only able to do it at night, which made it much harder to write with very little lighting.
He closed the books and placed them neatly in the open trunk in front of his bed. He rolled up the large pieces of parchment and put those in as well. He didn't bother with the quills or the ink because he was going to buy more at Diagon Ally.
His parents had left him a large sum of wizard money when they died which made it much easier to go shopping for school supplies.
He sighed once more then closed his full trunk.
His friend Ron had sent him a letter a week ago saying that they would be picking him up so he had to be ready to leave at any time. Once again Harry didn't know how they were getting to the Burrow. He just hoped it wasn't like the last time.
Harry sat on his bed quietly as he patiently waited to be picked up.
All of a sudden he heard Aunt Petunia scream and Uncle Vernon swear rudely. Harry rushed down the stairs to see what happened.
"What…" Harry began as he trailed off while staring at a large hole in the wall of the living room. On the other side of the wall stood Ron, Mr. Weasley, and two wizards that looked to be terribly angry.
"Hello Harry!" Ron said cheerfully. Even after what happened last year Ron still tried to sound happy just to make Harry feel better.
"Uh, Hello Ron, Mr. Weasley, and…" Harry said while he stared wide-eyed at the two wizards.
"Harry, this is Grindon and Frinon," Mr. Weasley gestured toward the two men standing next to him. Grinon and Frinon waved and pointed toward the side of the Dursleys house.
Harry walked across the living room and looked through the hole. He narrowed his eyes just enough to see a portal looking thing.
"What is that?" Harry asked Mr. Weasley.
"It's a test portal from the Ministry," Mr. Weasley replied nervously. Harry looked back at the Dursleys who were huddled in a corner.
"How are we going to pay for this?" Uncle Vernon asked as his face grew red with rage.
"We'll fix it using magic, of course!" Mr. Weasley said with a confused expression on his face.
"You will not go near my family with that stuff!" Uncle Vernon said warningly as Dudley and Aunt Petunia whimpered in the background.
"Fine, but I'm not going through this again. You'll just have to pay for it yourself," Mr. Weasley replied heatedly. "Harry, why don't you and Ron get your trunk?"
Harry and Ron obeyed and walked trough the living room and up the stairs.
When they reached Harry's room Ron said, "How was your summer?"
"Fine, I guess," Harry answered while remembering his dream and how real it seemed.
Ron walked around the room slowly and sighed while looking at the large calendar behind Harry's bed.
"How are we going to get your trunk down the stairs? I mean, your trunk is always heavy!" Ron said finally.
Harry just stood there staring straight ahead with a serious look on his face.
"Harry? Harry?" Ron walked over to Harry and shook Harry to snap him out of it. Harry blinked and mumbled sorry.
"I guess we could each grab an end and the person in the front will pull it and the person in the back will push," Harry suggested while scratching his head.
"Fine, but I'm in the back. I don't want to be flattened on the way down to stairs," Ron joked then laughed nervously.
Harry laughed as well then they both got to work on getting Harry's trunk downstairs.
When they finally reached the living room, after bumping and banging on the Dursleys' narrow stairway, they both noticed that the room was oddly quiet.
"You've got the trunk? Great! We best be getting on our way. Come on you two." Mr. Weasley ushered Ron and Harry toward the portal as he told the two wizards to get Harry's trunk.
"All you have to do is step into the portal and in a few seconds you'll be at my house," Ron explained before he stepped into the portal and disappeared.
Harry slowly stepped into the portal and he once again felt that floating feeling as he did when he used a port key. With a light thud Harry landed in the middle of the Weasleys' kitchen.
"Harry! How are you?" Hermione ran up to Harry with a nervous grin.
Harry could tell that everyone was acting happy on his behalf, which annoyed him. Did they think he couldn't handle it?
While thinking about it he replied, "I'm fine."
"Great! DO you want to go outside?" she suggested as the two men popped trough the portal after Ron and Mr. Weasley.
"Will you two put that in my son, Ron's room?" Mr. Weasley asked the two large wizards.
They wizards nodded in reply and picked-up Harry's trunk.
"Yeah, let's go outside!" Ron said from behind Harry and Hermione. Sitting outside were Fred, George, Bill and Charlie.
"Hi Harry!" Fred and George said together while smiling oddly.
"Uh, hi," Harry mumbled. He sat looked around and sat down on the grass next to the house.
"Did you finish all of your homework? If you didn't finish potions you know that Professor Snape will kill you!" Hermione lectured.
"Hermione, Harry doesn't want to talk 'bout homework! He just got away from the Dursleys! I'm sure he doesn't want to hear your boring lectures first thing!" Ron told Hermione angrily.
"No, I didn't finish all of it. I'm not expecting Professor Snape to make exceptions on homework just for me," Harry replied to stop Ron from fighting.
"I'm sure you won't have to finish it. I mean, you've probably been thinkin' a lot over the summer. It's not like, well, you know, the teachers don't know," Ron said uncomfortably.
"I doubt that they'll know! It isn't like all the teachers are part of the Order!" Hermione shot.
"Look! I'm not saying for sure that they know! I'm just saying that maybe Dumbledore might tell the rest of the teachers!" Ron replied heatedly.
Harry groaned and walked away from the argument. He walked silently up the stairs to Ron's room.
'How can this day get any weirder?' Harry thought sleepily.
As Harry walked into the room, the two large wizards rushed out, nearly knocking Harry to the floor. The two wizards muttered a quiet apology and ran down the stairs. Harry walked farther into the room and sat down on the spare bed set up for him.
'Now all I want to do is sleep' Harry thought while yawning. He lay down on the bed and closed his eyes. As he dozed off he thought of the dream that he had dreamt the previous night.