Bringing Back the Dead

A/N-Well...here we are..at the second chapter. Welcome! Okay...I really don't have much to say, except one thing. This story is rated R for some pretty big violence scenes coming up EXTREMELY SOON. That's just about it....yea...enjoy!

2

In a dreamy state, Harry placed the Time-Turner around his neck and under his robes, and shirt. It's cool glassy surface was cold against his skin. He quickly and quietly snuck out of the dormitories, and back into the deserted common room. Harry checked his watch, and realized that dinner had just started...and if he hurried, he could make it to the Great Hall in about 6 minutes.

Down in the Great Hall, Ron and Hermione had already started their meal. Harry sat down between them and began his meal also.

"Where were ya mate?" asked Ron watching Harry apprehensively.

Harry paused a moment then answered, "I was...getting a few notes for Defense class."

"You weren't in the library 10 minutes ago," said Hermione now watching Harry too.

"Well....you must have just missed me or something...because I WAS there Hermione," Harry snapped...slightly more forcefully than he had originally intended.

"Fine!" said Hermione with a sharp snap in her voice to match Harry's, "What side of the bed did you wake up on this morning?"

"The wrong one," said Ron in an undertone that only he could hear.

Harry looked up at his two best friends, and set his silverware down on the long table. "Sorry you guys," he mumbled, "I'm just under a lot of stress right now...these NEWT courses really are mind and time demanding." But in the back of his mind...that wasn't the major reason for his agitation.....though it was one of the slightly smaller problems.

Hermione smiled, "I understand that."

"Yea, it's okay mate...we're all in the same situation," chimed in Ron.

"Speaking of classes..." said Hermione, but neither Harry nor Ron was listening this time...usually when Hermione went on about homework, it took her a long time to get it all out of her system.

Much later when Hermione had finished her rant about homework, and Harry, Ron, and Hermione were finished with dinner, they rose in unison and headed up the marble staircase toward Gryffindor Tower.

When they finally reached the seventh floor corridor, Harry stopped walking...and so did Ron and Hermione.

Before either could speak, Harry said, "No matter what happens, will you guys always be my friends? Even if something really horrible or good happens to any of us?"

"Of coarse" chorused Hermione and Ron together.

"Think of all the things we've been through already," said Ron grinning.

Hermione nodded and smiled to, "Yea Harry...if we've made it through all that stuff together, who says we can't survive more."

Harry smiled, "Thanks guys....that really means a lot to me."

And soon after, they began to walk again...and Harry became lost in thoughts.

He would go out into the grounds with his invisibility cloak, and sit under the beach tree...and go back in time using Hermione's old Time-Turner. Then...he would just have to go from there on whatever ideas popped into his mind.

But, one of the most important parts was that he make sure Ron and Hermione would remain his friends...because he couldn't afford to lose them on top of everything that he had already lost.

Harry came back to his senses when he heard Hermione give the Fat Lady the password, and clambered through just behind his friends.

The common room was full of talkative Gryffindors doing homework, playing games, or sitting by the fire warming their hands before going off to bed. Harry knew he wouldn't be able to concentrate on anything, so he sat down by the fire and listened to the talkative fourth year girls sitting at a nearby table.

They seemed to be gossiping about some new wizard boy that had transferred from another magic school. Apparently he was tall, with broad shoulders, blue eyes, and blonde curly hair that he had grown long...Harry supposed that they all fancied him, of coarse it didn't take much to tell that he probably didn't have a clue that they existed...but no matter to him.

After a long while...people slowly began to make their way up to bed. Then, at last Harry was the only on left in the common room...and he quietly snuck up to his dormitory to grab his invisibility cloak and the Marauders Map.

After retrieving them from his trunk...Harry snuck back down to the common room, and put on the cloak and tapped the map with his wand, and at the same time muttering, "I solemnly swear that I am up to no good." Immediately small black dots indicating the locations of everyone everywhere in the castle appeared. Harry looked at it very carefully...not wanting to run into a teacher that he could have avoided all together. After checking five times that the coast was clear, Harry set off.

Midnight was almost upon Harry. He sat outside shivering under the invisibility cloak under the Beach tree. At exactly midnight...he planned to go back, it would be easier for him to come and go from the present time if he left at an hour such as twelve.

He stared at his watch, wishing the time would pass faster...the trip outside hadn't taken as long as he had planned too.

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5 , 4, 3, 2, 1, 0" Harry turned the dial on the Time-Turner, and was suddenly surround by flashes of color and sound.