-1You're Not Alone

Chapter-2-Back To Hogwarts

"Good-bye!" Mrs. Weasley called to the four.

"Bye, Mrs. Weasley," Hermione called back. She hit Harry in the arm.

"Bye, Mrs. Weasley," he said and got onto the train.

The four found a compartment on the third car. "So," Ron began when they sat down. "Harry? What's up?"

Harry looked at Ginny. Ginny knew that look. "Fine," she sighed and left.

Harry looked back at Ron. "You ready for this?"

"I've been ready. Spill it."

Harry sighed. "It's Voldemort. I think-no- know he killed someone again."

Ron went white. "You had a dream?" he whispered.

Harry nodded. "It wasn't a dream. It was like I was transported there and saw everything in live action. But that's not all. There was a girl. She seemed familiar. Her hair. . .was long and dark colored. . .she seemed older than me. . .her eyes. . .her eyes were green, like mine and. . ." Harry let out a yell. Why was this so frustrating?

Hermione and Ron jumped up. "Calm down Harry," Hermione said rubbing her chest.

"Really, mate," said Ron. "How important can it be?"

Harry shot him a glare that made Ron back away from him. When Harry realized he was being completely unfair he sighed and said, "I don't know." Awkward silence. "You guys are right. It can't be that important. I'll just have to wait until later this year to face Voldie again this year. It's just…" He could not let this go, not for a second. "There is something about that girl in the dream. I know her."

Hermione could only nod. Then she said, "Harry, you know you're going to fight Voldemort with us by our side of course," She then smiled, throwing her arm around him. "I have a few new spells that I've working on over the summer. They're sure to at least slow him down…a lot!"

Ron snickered.

Hermione glared at him. "Would you like to see the first one I came up with, Ron?" she asked him. "It's VERY effective."

Ron turned red and Harry laughed as the two began another bickering argument over nothing important really. In the back of his mind he could not help but think that this year Hermione and Ron would not be with him.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Dumbledore asked Jessie coming up from behind her.

"Dumbledore," Jessie spoke "I've never been so sure in my life. And no I'm not waiting for next year. Geez, weren't you the one who said I should do this as soon as possible?"

She began to walk around his office. "What if he hates me? I cannot believe how tight my stomach gets when I think about meeting him. I don't know if that's me being excited or getting ready to throw up." She looked at Dumbledore who simply smiled. "When will they be here?"

"Not for about six hours my dear. That gives you plenty of time to do as you please."

"I wonder where Draco's been," Hermione said as she read her book.

Harry and Ron looked at her. Hermione raised her head. "What?"

"Why do you care?" Ron asked.

"Just strange," Hermione said setting down her book. "He usually comes in, cracks one of his lame jokes, threatens one of us, and then the rest is history."

"Ah yes," Ron smiled putting a hand on his chest. "What would we do without Draco in school? It would be incredibly boring."

Harry laughed. "I don't know. I think I would get better grades if Draco wasn't around." He tried to joke with his friends during the train ride. But he kept seeing the girl in his mind.

A few hours later and they arrived at Hogwarts. "Hey Hagrid!" the three said before getting into a carriage.

Hagrid waved at them and shouted for the first years to follow him. Once they were inside the castle Harry's stomach began to form tight knots. Why was he so nervous? Or was that excitement? Whatever it was, he wished it would go away. The first years were sorted and surprisingly, most of them went into Huffelpuff.

"Hello, Harry!"

Harry turned around. "Cho!" he gasped. "How have you been?"

"Wonderful, do you mind if I sit with you, just for a bit."

"No of course not."

Harry spoke to Cho for some of the night and for the rest of it shot Ron death glares because he would not stop laughing and pushing Harry closer to Cho.

"You're so immature," Hermione muttered.

"Not immature," Ron said back. "Just poking fun at my best mate is all."

Hermione rolled her eyes.