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Chapter 1
Guilty Dreams
As usual, Harry Potter sat in his room, staring up at the ceiling. It was about all he ever did since school had gotten out. He looked up at the calendar that he used to mark the days until school would start again. Harry kept telling himself that he only had a little bit longer to wait; he had gotten a letter from his father's friend Remus Lupin telling him that he would be going to stay at Grimmauld Place partway through the summer.
You see, Harry Potter is not a normal person. He hated the summers more than anytime in the year, has never had a real birthday party, and...oh yeah, he was a wizard. But as he thought of going back to Grimmauld Place, he was even more saddened than he was at the end of the term. His godfather, Sirius Black, had been living there, which was the headquarters for the Order of the Phoenix. However, Sirius's cousin Bellatrix Lestrange, a Death Eater, had killed him just a little over a month ago. The vision of his godfather falling through the veil had been haunting him since he had been back at his Aunt and Uncle's house, where he had lived since a very powerful dark wizard, Lord Voldemort, had killed his parents. No matter what anyone else told him, he still thought of Sirius's death as his fault, for he had been saving Harry from a group of Death Eaters. But his Aunt Petunia, coming upstairs to give him a bowl of soup, soon pulled him out of his musings.
"Come on Harry, you need to eat something," she scolded him.
Harry's only response was a small smile, barely enough to move his lips, and Petunia, taking the hint, left the room.
The Durselys seemed to be nicer to him this summer. His cousin Dudley had even let him watch a movie on his TV, and Uncle Vernon had yet to yell at him. He assumed that Dudley and his Uncle Vernon's reactions were caused by Lupin's lecture at King's Cross, telling the Dursleys to be a bit nicer. But Aunt Petunia seemed to be genuinely kind to him. Maybe he was imagining it, maybe it was just a coincidence, or maybe it was the fact that they didn't know that Sirius was dead. Sirius was thought by most of the world to be a mass murderer who killed 13 people with one curse. However, Harry had learned that he was innocent at the end of his third year. After learning that Harry's godfather was a convicted murderer, the Durselys had let him keep his school things in his room, because Harry hadn't mentioned the fact that Sirius was innocent. Whatever the case was, Harry was glad his relatives were leaving him alone.
Harry sat on his bed, still thinking about his godfather. As the soup got cold, he finally fell into a restless sleep, filled with horrible dreams. There was a black dog sitting on top of a blanket on the beach. Sirius!! Harry ran to him, but as he got close enough to touch his shaggy fur, the ground beneath him caved in, and when only his head and front paws were visible, Padfoot started talking to him,
"It's your fault I'm dead!" he screamed. "You should have done better in Occlumency, you should have learned to take care of yourself!"
And with that he sank into the sand. Harry leapt forward, but caught only bits of sand. He looked up as a shadow came over him, and saw Lupin, offering him a hand. As he took it and got to his feet, Moony started shouting at him as well.
"You should have realized that it was only a trick! If it weren't for you Sirius would still be here!"
Harry tried to protest, but couldn't seem to work his mouth. Remus then turned into Ron, who was joined by Hermione.
"You know, he's right. It is all your fault."
"We tried to tell you," Hermione reminded him.
Ron and Hermione were soon replaced by Albus Dumbledore, who proceeded to tell him to throw numerous objects at him, and suddenly his face turned pale, his nostrils became flat and eyes red, and he let out a cold high pitched laugh as Harry was engulfed by a bright green light...
Yes, we know it's a bad chapter. The fic had to start somehow. We'll update it once Emmerdoodles has KCB over and the intro at her house instead of in her locker at school. Sorry. Read and Review! Please??
