Dream Diary

AN: ok this was originally going to be a oneshot but I decided that I would expand it a bit more. So please R&R and I will continue my expanding!

Chapter 2

Harry sat in Severus's quarters after a long day of school. It had been a month since he and Severus had began dating and were using Harry's many detention times to talk and occasionally make out or cook, or do various other activities Severus could think of. Harry found that not only was Severus an excellent lover but it really helped that he was a teacher so he could help Harry with his homework and they didn't need to worry about their afternoon sessions being ruined by some nosy teenagers.

Harry was sitting on the rug in front of the fire warming up and doing his homework. Severus was in his office attending to Malfoy, who had said he had something urgent to talk about. Not that Harry really cared. Now that Malfoy joined the light side Harry no longer considered him a threat and Severus would definitely tell him if he was planning anything.

To say Harry was shocked at the decor of Severus's room was an understatement. The white walls and emerald green carpet just did not seem like anything the man would ever consider having in his rooms, but then again they were the colours of slytherin. And to back up his support of the house he had a Slytherin banner hanging on the wall at the back of the lounge room over the fireplace. The lounges in his rooms were a black colour and he had a lounge suit in between them which Harry spent some nights sleeping when he really didn't want to go back to the dorms.

There were eight doors leading off from the lounge room, one was the exit to his office, another was a secret passage to the Slytherin dorms, one lead to the bathroom, another his bedroom, and another his personal kitchen. There was an emergency exit down there too, not even the Marauders knew about this exit, it was just next to the fire, hidden by the cement that made up part of the wall. One of the first things Severus had done when he brought him down here was show him where the passageway was and where it lead, he even took Harry down there right to the end. So if ever there was an attack on Hogwarts and Harry was anywhere near the dungeons he would get out quickly which was becomin increasingly more probable now that the war was getting bigger and bigger. The seventh door was one leading to Severus's private potions lab which Harry was forbidden to walk into except in an emergency. While Harry was allowed in every other room Severus very much preferred it if Harry would keep out of his bedroom, Harry decided that because of this he would leave it alone for the time being.

The last door however was a complete mystery to Harry. Severus had told him it was in the room somewhere, but Harry had no idea where. He had went around the room so many times tapping on the walls and looking for any place a secret room could be hidden but had so far come up fruitless. Severus hadn't even told him what was in the room and Harry was beginning to think that Severus was just having him on.

Severus returned to his rooms after about half an hour looking very very annoyed. "That was the most... irritating meeting I've ever had to sit through! Even worse than Dumbledore's tea meets!" He growled out as he walked into the lounge room and taking off his heavy jumper so he was a little more comfortable. Falling unceremoniously onto the bed he looked at Harry under his arm and smiled at him "Hello" he said.

"Hey Severus" Harry returned "It can't have been that bad!"

"Oh ya it can! He wanted help with one of his stupid homework questions for charms! No matter how many times I explained it he still never understood it! Like talking to a three year old!"

"Oh" was all Harry could say. He had also planned on asking Severus about his charms homework and was almost certain it would have been the same question.

"yeah, but I'm ok now I suppose. I have you for company"

"Yeah that's great Severus. Umm... would you like to help me with my homework too?" Harry asked a little nervously. "You see I'm having trouble with charms too and it's probably the same question so I can understand if you don't want to"

"Alright then, I will help you, so long as it doesn't take as long as it took Malfoy to get it."

While Severus helped Harry with his homework, further on in the school, in the Gryffindor common room to be exact, four of his friends Ron, Hermione, Ginny and Neville were getting very worried about him, and suspected that perhaps he was hiding something from them... if only they knew!

"Ron" Harmione said "Do you think something is odd with Harry lately?"

"Yeah Hermione, I know. But what are we supposed to do about it?"

"Why don't you ask him about it?" Neville suggested

"Whenever we do that he just shrugs us off and acts like nothing has happened" Ginny said, recalling a certain incident where she had asked Harry if there was anything wrong and he had changed the subject by saying that he had to get ready for his detention.

"We should follow him!" Cried Ron a little too loudly as the remaining Gryffindors turned to look at the group. Hermione growled at them to mind their own business and they turned back to their work.

"I like that idea" Said Ginny excitedly.

The group began planning their rosters for following Harry so that someone was watching him at all times, whether he knew it or not. Although the entire group felt somewhat apprehensive about doing this as they didn't want to hurt Harry and they felt like they were sneaking around behind him. But they desperately wanted to know whether anything was wrong with their friend and this was the only way they could manage it.