Chapter 7
After the sorting had finished Professor McGonagall stood up from the large gold chair that used to hold Dumbledore. "I have a few announcements but I feel that they can be said after the feast" she said and as she sat back down the 5 tables filled with mounds of potatoes, roast, turkey, carrots, fruit, and large jugs of pumpkin juice.
All the first years gasped in surprise as it all appeared. Then as the 'golden trio' ate their dinner Harry happened to look up and something across the hall caught his eye. He looked around and saw what caught his eye, it was platinum blonde hair.
"WHAT how could they still allow him to come here after what he did" Harry burst out in shock "What do you mean Harry" asked Hermione and Ron asked at the same time. Harry only pointed and said "Malfoy" but the both had a reaction for it was Draco who was sent to kill Dumbledore.
Harry kept a watchful eye on Malfoy all evening even when McGonagall gave her speech. Harry didn't need to listen he had heard it all before she was just telling them how Lord Voldemort had returned and reminding them to be careful when walking on the school grounds and that the forbidden forest was off limits.
Then as she was speaking he heard something that made his stomach turn and twist "Also this year we ask that students stay away from the Whomping Willow for we have a student that will be dangerous but only for a day a month and will sometimes stay within the vicinity of the willow".
He shot a worried glance toward Hermione who shot back a gaze that clearly said 'don't worry it will be alright nobody will know it is you' this helped calm him a little but he was still extremely worried. As Harry shot the worried glance toward Hermione he didn't know he was being watched by none other that Draco Malfoy.
So as Draco watched this odd scene he smirked to himself then turned to his cronies and said "Well well well look at Potter, it's almost like he's got a secret to hide, I think that we might have to keep a extra good eye on him this year" Draco said this but he was already 75% sure he knew what Harry was hiding for rumors had flow around the Dark Lord of his rival being tainted by a werewolf.
So since Harry already knew what the new year's password was he decided that he wanted to walk around the castle grounds and just think about Malfoy, the school year, and just about the whole situation he seemed to be stuck in.
As he was walking around he finally sat under the giant oak tree beside the lake as the moon shown down on the lake a little more than half full. He let out a depressed sigh and shut his eyes thinking about his life before all this had happened.
Yeah he had to admit his life wasn't exactly easy with the whole Voldemort think but now with his lycanthropy it made it almost 100% harder. Harry sat out by the lake for roughly 45 minutes for when he finally decided to go back into the Gryffindor common room.
By the time he had reached the common room everybody had already gone to bed except one person.... Hermione. "Why are you still up I figured you would be asleep already" Harry said "I just wanted to talk to you" replied Hermione "well how bout we just talk about it tomorrow cause right now I'm a bit tired and just wanted to go to bed" said Harry truthfully.
"Fine I will hold you to that" said Hermione with a smile on her face as they both turned and went up the stairs to their rightful dormitories and went to bed.
The next morning Harry woke up to a quiet tapping on the window beside his bed. It was still dark when Harry finally got annoyed enough to actually open the window, so once it was open enough Harry's snowy white owl Hedwig soared into the dorm and landed onto his bed.
It was only until Harry made it over to his bed did he notice that she had a small scroll of parchment tied to her leg. He stroked her head as he reached over to untie the letter. Once it had been removed she gratefully nipped his finger and started to clean her feathers.
Harry got up and closed the window a little bit so not to make it cold in the dorms and returned to his letter, it was from the one person he did NOT want to talk to Draco Malfoy. It read (A.N. Draco is all rich and stuff so he has fancy writing):
Potter,
I heard from a very reliable source that something has happened to you over the summer that may have tipped the scale between you and the Dark Lord. I heard that you had an encounter with a werewolf, good job Potter you have finally found another way to get yourself more attention.
Malfoy
Harry knew that it might have been possible that the Dark Lord had found out but Malfoy? Harry went over to his school bag and grabbed a quill and wrote:
Malfoy
I
don't know where 'your lord' heard about that but I can assure
you I'm 100% the same as I was last year. So you can get your calm
your arse down!
Harry Potter
After he had finished he sealed the letter with his wand and gave it to Hedwig who clamped it tightly in her sharp curved beak and hopped onto his arm. He walked over the slightly opened window and said "I need you to take this to Malfoy okay girl?"
Then with that he left his arm and into the night air and toward the other side of the castle. Once she was gone from sight he shut the window and tried to go back to sleep at least for a few more hours.
Harry fell asleep within minutes of his head hitting the pillow. He had a very restless sleep once he had gotten to the point in which he could have dreams. With the full moon coming in 15 days he started to have nightmares about the day he had been bitten...he was walking down the stair case in the Dursley's home when he ran into his broad sided cousin then without missing a beat Dudley pulled back his arm with his hand curled into a tight fist and hitting him squarely in the nose.
Harry then performed the full body binding curse and Dudley went crashing down the stairs. Within minutes Harry's Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon were at the bottom of the stairs with their paralyzed son and forced Harry to return his to normal.
Then as they were heading out into the car when Harry who was following behind the Dursley's heard a deep throated growl then he saw it a large grey wolf he knew as the one and only Remus Lupin for Harry had encountered him in his third year.
Remus lunged for his Uncle and without thinking Harry jumped in front of Vernon shielding him from the large werewolf yelling "Remus NO!!" Then once the wolf had fallen on him he felt a white hot pain in his shoulder and all went black.
Harry was suddenly awaked by somebody violently shaking him. It was then that he heard that somebody was screaming, and then when he opened his eyes he realized that it was he that was screaming. He quickly stopped yelling and turned to Ron who was the one was shaking him awake.
"I'm awake so quit shaking me" Harry snapped to Ron then as he felt his anger quickly rising he looked away from Ron and the other boys so they wouldn't notice his eyes changing from emerald to amber. Once he calmed down he dared to look at the other boys who were starting to walk away toward the showers to get ready for the day ahead.
Right before Harry looked away Ron could have sworn he saw Harry's eyes change colors but with a shake of his head he said "You okay mate you were acting like you were being attacked."
"I was Ron; by uh... Voldemort".
"Oh well then I guess it is a good thing that I woke you up then huh?" Ron said.
"UHHHH yeah, thanks" Harry said uncertainly. Ron who hadn't notice Harry stutter said "Well come on let's get ready for our first day" "Oh yes fun fun" Harry said sarcastically. Harry slowly got up with Ron's constant bugging and got dressed, and then they went down to the common room to meet with Hermione who gave Harry a sympathy look for she knew that the full moon was fast approaching.
Harry really hated that she gave him those looks for he could not stand people giving him those looks. So as a group they all headed down to the Great Hall to get their schedules and some breakfast.
When they had finished breakfast Harry Ron and Hermione went down to the dungeons for their first class, double-potions with the Slytherin's. When they arrived Draco Malfoy and his little group of followers was already there backs facing them whispering. Then Harry saw that Balise Zabbine tapped Draco on the shoulder and pointed to them.
"Hey look it's the mud-blood, weasel, and Potty" Draco said while everybody around him laughed while Ron's temper got the better of him and he started to pull out his wand.
Hermione stopped him as she saw Professor Snape approaching his cloak billowing behind him "In" he said and he pointed to the door with his wand and the door opened with a small *click*.
Once they students were standing around their cauldrons waiting for Snape to tell them what potion he wanted them to make in the double period they had with him. He glanced toward Harry making the most evil face Harry had ever seen him make.
Then Snape opened his mouth and said "Today we will be helping a student with their 'special' problem, today we will be making their years supply of the wolfsbane potion". Harry's heart sank and he paled when he heard this 'this is just what I need, public yet still secret attention' he thought bitterly, Harry looked around and saw that Hermione was looking at him in sympathy which caused Harry to frown and turn away from her face.
He hated sympathy. Then with a huge sigh they set to work on the complicated potion.
At the end of class Harry was more depressed than he felt a few days before the full moon. When the final bell rang Harry was the first one to clean up and leave the room for he didn't want anything to do with his friends or that classroom. But when he rushed out of the dungeons he ran into the one person he didn't want to face was Draco Malfoy who rushed out behind Harry.
"Hey Potter, why are you rushing" said Malfoy which caused Harry to stop in the hallway and closed his eye's for with the moon coming in 14 days he was starting to get more irritable.
"Go away Malfoy I don't want to deal with you right now" said Harry through clenched teeth there was a brief pause "No I don't think I will" he responded nonchalantly. Harry then turned around pointed his wand at Malfoy and cast the full-body-binding curse at Malfoy, after the purple curse hit his stomach his limbs snapped together.
After Malfoy toppled over Harry broke into a run and up the stairs to the Gryffindor common room.
Once Harry had gotten into the common room he went into his bed shut the curtains and just thought about his whole situation. As Harry laid there staring at the ceiling he heard somebody climbing the stairs outside of the dorm doors, but before they opened the door Harry could smell who it was. Hermione.
"Harry, are you in here" she asked carefully looking around the room "Please go away Hermione I'm not going to dinner" he said in a monotone voice "Come on Harry just come with me to dinner" she said walking over to where Harry lay. Harry looked over to where her scent was coming from and saw through the crack in the curtains she was coming towards him.
"Hermione go away, please" Harry begged "No I don't think I will, Harry I want to help you. That was really unfair to make us do that potion today. Harry when is the next full moon coming?" she asked as she sat down at the end of his bed. "13 days tomorrow" he said with definite sorrow in his voice.
"Oh, well next month I would for you, push myself to the limit to be able to be with you to lessen your load on full moon." Hermione said this and Harry snapped his head up with a look of horror plastered on his face.
"Hermione no"
"Wait Harry let me finish, I researched it today and it doesn't take too much time to become an animagus and I already have an animal I want. I will become a wolf, I will be ready for the dominate/submissive fight. Also I would like to say I won't take no for an answer.
Harry let out a sigh for he knew that he wasn't going to win this fight. "Fine I will come to dinner" he said defeated. And together they headed down to the great hall for dinner.
