Through a Glass Darkly

alyssa321

Chapter 4

It's definitely time to sleep.

I nod off, my wand tightly gripped in my right-hand, temporarily forgetting the ban on underage magic.

I woke up, feeling like I had slept for days. I hadn't been able to sleep very well, because Madame Pomfrey was waking me up to take various medicinal potions, and professors kept wanting to talk to me. I can hardly bring myself to get out of bed. I roll over, stretching to reach into my trunk. I dig my way through it, looking for my book bag. In my third year, during all the business with the time turner, I had so many classes in a day. That many classes equal that many books. Especially for classes like arithmancy, which, similar to muggle math classes, requires bringing your book to every class meeting. So, to counter this, it was only natural that I research expansion spells, and triple the capacity of my book bag without altering the way it looks from the outside. I find it, and, after rummaging around for a few minutes (while at school, I usually just accio whichever book I need) I pull out Most Potente Potions. I was able to convince the clerk at Flourish and Blotts to sell a copy to me last year in Diagon alley, which took a lot of flirting and even more maneuvering to get around the ever-intrusive Order members. No, I can't hate them, or their behavior anyway; I have to support them in their endeavor to protect Harry.

Harry! Oh, no, I haven't seen him OR Ron since the Department of Mysteries, let alone owled them. They must be so worried. Well, actually, they probably aren't…Harry is likely at the Dursley's, laying in his room, full of angst, waiting and focusing on nothing but the Order getting him out of there. Ron will be busy with chores and putting up with his brothers and mother, thinking only of his beloved Chudley Cannons. They probably haven't thought of me at all, or at best only a passing thought of why I haven't written yet. I always try to go on holiday with my parents; they probably think that's where I am.

There's nothing to do for it now, and I'm tired. Still. All I want to do is settle further back into my pillows and read Most Potente Potions some more before I take a nap.