I have many dreams, but dreams are all I have. – Brom
A/N: I'm feeling pretty good about this story. It's taking longer to get where it's going then Ten Years in Lost Memory. And I like!
DontLetMeGetMe: Yeah, I like Nate too. He is much more enjoyable to write than his father was. Do you mean like a flashback? Because I was thinking about how those just kind of stopped. But I have up to and including chapter twenty five written so adding to those chapters would screw everything up. Thank you, I like my stories too.
LittleCrazy1: It's not that Harry's dim, it's just that he doesn't want to believe that he's that much different from everyone else at Hogwarts. I mean let us think about his time at Hogwarts so far. First year everyone all 'oh look its Harry Potter…' you know? Second year he finds out he can talk to snake and very few other people can. Third year everyone is getting all protective of him because of Sirius. Fourth year that damn Triwizard crap. Fifth year all he's having are nightmares about Voldemort. And sixth year there's the stress of finding Voldemort's soul. The kid hasn't had it easy and he wants more than anything for his new powers to mean nothing. For once he wants to be normal. Thank you for reviewing.
Chapter Twenty-One
Later in November
Harry watched Sirius from his desk in Speciology class. Sirius watched Harry from his chair at the front of the Speciology class. Harry thought as he stared at Sirius that pretty much all of the girls in the class would kill to be in his position. But no, Sirius only paid heed to those he liked. And he liked Harry. Why? Harry could not imagine.
Suddenly Sirius stuck his tongue out. Harry put his head on his desk to keep from showing the large smile on his face.
"Now, unfortunately the only male Siren that would agree to come for this class was Sirius Black jr." Juarbe said to the class. "As I have said before this eventuality is most unhelpful when it comes to teaching you anything. But right now we will venture into the seemingly unheard of. We will try to work with Sirius to teach you something about his species." Harry raised his hand, Juarbe nodded at him.
"Maybe if you give him a treat, he'll corporate." Harry suggested, the class laughed. Juarbe considered this.
"That actually might work." Nakita said. "It's the only way I get him to do anything he doesn't want to." Sirius looked away from Harry for a moment and then nodded in agreement to her statement.
"We'll discuss treats later." Juarbe said.
"Why does Sirius get treats and not me?" Nathan asked.
"Shut up and we'll continue class…"
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"Sirius, couldn't you just do what's asked of you?" Harry asked in the Common Room later that night.
"Yes, I could. But I learned from my dad that being helpful is often not as fun as not being helpful." Sirius said.
"Have you ever thought about not listening to your dad?" Harry asked.
"But he has so many good ideas." Sirius stressed. "Like naughty things to do with your girlfriend when her father isn't looking."
"Sounds interesting, elaborate please." James said.
"Not to you. You're dating my sister."
"Why yes, and you're dating my sister so cut it out." Remus snapped.
"Perhaps a change of subject would be in order." Harry said.
"Much agreed." James said. "May I suggest we converse on the subject of Harry's hairy hair?" Harry groaned.
"Or not." Harry suggested.
"I think that it's genetic." James said. "Either that or I'll be getting you a brush for your birthday."
"Who cares why it's messy?" Sirius asked. "All I know is that I wish my hair was like that." Sirius tried to mess up his hair, but only succeed in making look more perfect. "Oh poo."
"Do you know how strange you are?" Nakita asked.
"Of course I do. I wouldn't be this strange if it weren't a conscious choice. You should know that by now, m'dear."
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Ginny walked into Harry's Head Room. It was empty, a little more frantic now she knocked on the door to Hermione's room. Hermione opened the door looking annoyed that her studying had been put on hold. But when Hermione saw the frightened look on Ginny's face she forgot all of her annoyance.
"Ginny, are you alright? Did you have another dream?" Hermione asked sitting Ginny down on the couch.
"No, it was something else." Ginny said trying not to cry.
"What? What was it?"
"I was doing my homework and started daydreaming, when all of the sudden it was like I was losing control of my body. Like there was something trying to take me somewhere I didn't go. Then just as suddenly it stop. I wanted Harry but he's not here, where is he?" Ginny asked a few scared tears escaping her eyes.
"He's at his lesson with Professor Smeth. He should be back soon, he left two hours ago."
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"You put it where?" Cassandra demanded of her sister. Annabella had just told her where she hid the Key after the First War with Atu. Cassandra quickly and quietly dragged Annabella out of the Weasley's house and into the field behind it.
"I put the Key where I thought, and still think, it will be safe." Annabella said again.
"But inside of a human!" Cassandra said incredulously. "You must have gone mad!"
"Said the Dien that's in love with a human."
"My feelings for Bill have nothing to do with this. You being irresponsible with the Key to all existence, does! Why? Why would you be so careless with it? Why?"
"Careless!" Annabella exclaimed finally loosing her temper. "I'll have you know that I put the Key in a place where I knew the Lost One would find it, and protect it with his love."
"Did the human even agree to be used?"
"Of course she did, Cassie. I wouldn't have forced it on her, but if you must know, I don't think she really understood what it was she was agreeing to."
"But why? Why a human? Of all the species to put it in, a human."
"That is exactly why, Cassie. Why would any Pagan in its right mind place the most precious of things inside of a creature so delicate? No one would ever guess that it resided inside a human. No one would think that I would put it there. And now no one but you and I know that is inside a human."
"Which human is it now?"
"You'll find out soon enough. The Key has become aware of the fact that Atu is no longer trapped in stone. It is moving inside of its human for the first time. It is warning the human. And soon it will begin randomly taking control of the human. It wants to know its safe and the only place it feels safe is with the Lost One."
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Ginny clung to Harry the second he entered the Heads Common Room. He held onto her and looked over her head at Hermione.
"Was it another dream?" Harry asked either of them, but mostly Hermione, because Ginny was sobbing uncontrollably.
"No, Harry, its worse. I think that its time we tell a professor." Hermione said. Then she told Harry what Ginny had told her.
"I don't know, Hermione." Harry said holding Ginny tighter to him.
"I owled Ron, he should be here any minute now." Hermione said and just as she said it Ron came running through the door.
"Where is she? Ginny!" Ron yelled looking for his sister. Ginny most reluctantly left Harry's grasp and walked to her brother. He put his hands on her shoulders. "What is it? What's wrong?" Ron asked and Ginny told him.
"Don't you think we should tell a professor?" Hermione asked looking for support because Harry looked uncertain about the idea.
"I think that it should be Ginny's choice." Harry said.
"I think we should owl mum and dad, they'll want to know." Ron said.
"I think we should tell a professor first." Hermione insisted.
"Ginny, what do you want?" Harry asked looking at her. She sniffled and thought.
"I want to tell Cassandra." Ginny said. "I trust her and if Bill has it his way she'll soon be family. I just don't want to tell mum or dad or professor if it's nothing. Cassie'll know what to do." Harry got Ginny a piece of parchment and a quill. He let her use the desk in his room. Harry, Ron and Hermione talked in the Heads Common Room as Ginny wrote.
"Harry, we should really tell a professor anyway." Hermione said.
"Hermione, this is her problem we need to let her deal with it her way. She needs to feel like she has some control of the problem, all right? We'll do it her way." Harry said.
"I still think we should tell mum and dad. What if You Know Who's behind this? The Order should know." Ron said.
"I don't think he is." Harry said hoping that it was true.
"How do you know, Harry? He got to you through your dreams." Hermione said.
"What has Voldemort done since the end of last year? He did one attack and then quieted down for whatever reason. Why would he pick now, and Ginny to start shit again?" Harry asked. Ginny came out of Harry's room with a letter in her hands.
"Can I use Hedwig?" She asked, Harry nodded and went to the window. He gave a low whistle and his snowy white owl flew threw the window and perched on his hand.
"Harry, she'll cut you." Hermione scolded walking over to Harry. "And look she has." Hermione mumbled something that sounded an awful lot like 'stupid boys.'
"Look, Hermione, its fine." Harry said walking towards Ginny, who tied the letter to Hedwig. Hedwig flew back out the window. Harry stuffed his hand in his pocket to avoid Hermione, which he knew would not work. And it did not work because she pulled out her wand and grabbed Harry's hand.
Hermione stared at his hand. There was not a scratch on it. But she could have sworn she had seen a scratch. Hermione looked up at Harry as she ran through the information in her head.
"Harry, how did you do that?" Hermione asked.
"Do what?" Ron asked walking up next to Hermione. He pulled Harry's hand out of Hermione's for two reasons really: one was that he wanted to see what Hermione had been looking at on Harry's hand, and two was because he did not want Hermione holding Harry's hand.
Harry pulled his hand out of Ron's.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Harry said. "Look, we had better let it be for right now and see what Cassandra has to say about it."
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Cassandra was sitting on Bill's lap in the living room. They were kissing and cuddling when Hedwig flew through the window and landed gracefully on the arm of the couch the couple was sitting on. Bill reached over and snatched the letter.
"It's for you, Cassie." Bill said handing her the letter. He kissed her neck as she opened broke the seal. Cassandra ran her free hand absently through Bill's long hair as she read Ginny's distressing letter.
"Bill, where's Anna?" Cassandra asked pushing his mouth away from her neck. Bill sighed and thought.
"I saw her and Charlie go up to his room. But that was like an hour ago, they're probably done by now." Bill said smiling.
"Billy!" Cassandra yelled getting off of Bill's lap.
"Wait, Cassie, where are you going?" Bill asked standing up too.
"I have to go talk to Anna about something she did."
"I'm related to someone she did." Bill said smiling.
"Stop it, Bill, that's my little sister you're talking about. How would you like it if I talked about Ginny that way?"
"Ginny is a little girl, she's not having sex." Bill snapped.
"How do you know? Are you at Hogwarts with her watching her every move?" Cassandra snapped back.
"Ginny has better morals then to do anything like that!"
"Oh, are you saying that my sister doesn't have good morals?"
"Yeah, for a vampire she's got fabulous morals." Bill snapped. Cassandra just stared at Bill for a second before she went up to Charlie's room. She knocked on the door. A fully clothed Charlie answered it.
"Hey," Charlie said to Cassandra before walking back over the Annabella who was lounging underneath the covers of Charlie's bed, "see you later, baby. I have to go talk to Bill." Charlie kissed Annabella lightly on her plump red lips and left the room.
"You need something, Cassie?" Annabella asked getting out of Charlie's bed taking the blanket with her as she searched for her clothes.
"What have you done?" Cassandra asked thrusting the letter into Annabella's hands.
"I told you the Key was aware of the fact that Atu is back." Annabella said pulling on her clothes after she had read the letter.
"What should I write back? 'Dear Ginny, I'm sorry but the reason these things are happening to you is because the very thing that holds existence together is inside of you and it's scared because the evil vampire queen who stole it once before is back and its just trying to warn you.'"
"Yeah, something like that except maybe in more sentences." Annabella said.
"Everyone in this house is impossible." Cassandra said. "I'll just go and tell her then, shall I?"
"Wait until next month." Annabella said, Cassandra gave her a questioning look. "Something big is about to happen. I can feel it in my bones."