Dual Reality
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"Spells" "Speech" "Parseltongue"'Thoughts'
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Chapter one The Curtains Open"Bloody Hell!"
"Language Ron!" Hermionie scolded irritated.
"What?" Harry muttered looking up from his untouched eggs.
"Malfoy!" Ron was gazing at the paper, his mouth agape slightly.
"The ferret?" Hermionie queried looking around. Draco was nowhere in sight
"No the other one, Lucius"
"What about him?" Harry snapped, partly because he was still pissed off that the ministry had let Lucius off with just a fine and partly because he was wishing his friend would get to the point
"There's no need to get annoyed I was..."
"Ron!" Hermionie hissed
"Oh, sorry. He-who-must-not-be-named has done off with him!"
"Voldemort Ron," Harry corrected wearily, he'd been trying to get his friends to say the name with no luck so far.
"Wait, Voldemort killed him?"
"Yeah. And don't say the name." He added as an afterthought. "He chopped off his head and burned down his house. But the treasury was found emptied and they think the library was too."
"How do they know it was Voldemort?" Hermionie asked. "It could have been a private enemy"
"No HIS mark was found over the house."
"Read it out." Harry said, wondering why Voldemort would dispose of such a valuable follower.
"Esteemed Hogwarts board member Lucius Malfoy father of one and recently charged for being in possession of He-who-must-not-be-named supporting items (See page 5 for charges) has been murdered in his own home: By none other than The Dark Lord himself. Malfoy seniors body was found badly burn with a sword run though his shoulder and decapitated" Ron paused "Then it just goes on to say the house was robbed, as how he'll be missed, for about 20 lines! Who's Narcissa?"
"Draco's mother." Harry yawned. He was knackered today. He'd dreamt of Sirius falling though the veil over and over and over. "Why?" He muttered, his mood suddenly turning bad.
"She's missing. When did you start calling the ferret Draco?" Ron demanded indignantly.
"Drop it Ron." Harry warned. In truth he didn't know himself, mabey he was just bored with this petty rivalry. He did have more important matters to think about anyway."
"Fine." Ron snapped still looking peeved.
"Come on cheer up, we've got weapons raining third period, and Professor Rillem's going to teach us the snake strike!"
Harry's mood brightened considerably. Weapon training had been a new class for sixth years and up only. After the ministry realised Voldemort was back they had practically insisted upon the class. They had also provided extra funding for DADA. Perhaps the best moves they had ever made as far as Harry personally could remember.
Professor Rillem was the instructor and started them off on basic sword techniques, blunt swords of course but swords no the less, and despite only having had 2 lessons it was already his favourite class just above DADA.
They had arrived at Hogwarts just a few weeks ago. Harry couldn't have been gladder. His time spent at the Dursleys had been unbearable, he had always wished the Dursleys would just leave him be and they had. It was hell. They had stopped all his chores and let him leave when he wanted. The draw back was that they completely ignored him. Aunt petunia cooked for him giving him only marginally smaller portions of food than Dudley. But they only ever said the same five words to him. Remember to send the letter.
With nothing to distract his thoughts from Sirius he had soon fallen into depression. He had been so angry his friends, as they had not sent him a single letter. He had found out later that the all wise Dumbledore had told them to not send any though this did little to calm his anger. He couldn't help think that true friends would have at least tried to contact him in his hour of need.
His thoughts where interrupted as he was practically dragged out of his seat by Ron.
"Come on mate, double potions first then History of magic."
It was going to be a long 3 hours.