Dreaming through Hogwarts
by Healer Pomfrey

Please refer to the disclaimer and warnings in chapter 1!


A few minutes later, the two boys were having a Seeker scrimmage, eagerly searching for the Snitch. All of a sudden, Harry heard a voice call his name.

"Harry, call us out of here. We'd love to play Quidditch," Minerva was shouting from the painting, causing both boys to look at each other and begin to laugh.

"Oh well, we could use some company," Draco said, chuckling.

Harry smiled and shouted back, "Gawain Ravenclaw, Evelyn Ravenclaw, Mary Gryffindor and Minerva O'Neill, would you like to come out of your painting and play Quiddich?"

The wizard and three witches climbed out of the painting a mere instant later.

"Now conjure some brooms or give us your wands," Gawain instructed the boys, causing Harry and Draco to hand their wands to the older wizard after a quick mutual glance.

"I suggest that we make two teams with one Seeker, one Chaser and one Keeper each," Minerva spoke up, eagerly. "Harry, you need to try calling more of my friends out of the painting, so that we have a whole Quiddich team on each side. We're going to have so much fun."

"I'll try," Harry replied, inwardly groaning at the prospect of seeing more visions. 'I'll ask Hogwarts later on,' he resolved. 'Maybe she can just tell me a few names, preferably those of people who play Quidditch.'

Harry played Seeker together with Evelyn as Keeper and Minerva as Chaser in one team, while Draco chose Gawain as Keeper and Mary as Chaser. 'It's almost as difficult to see the Snitch as it is outside. The room seems to have made the Quidditch pitch with all the features that it has outside, like the weather or the soft ground. I figured it would only provide the space to play,' Harry thought, as he feverishly searched for his favourite small ball that was hiding between what seemed to be lowly hanging clouds. It took him almost an hour, before he finally managed to catch the Snitch.

"Sorry Draco," Harry apologized, only then noticing that Lily was standing in the doorframe, smiling at the scene.

With the promise to come back soon for another match, Harry and Draco excused themselves and followed Lily back home.

HP

"Have you heard anything about my father yet?" Draco queried, quirking an eyebrow at Lily and Severus.

"No sweetie; if we hear anything, we'll tell you right away," Lily promised. "I'm sure the Aurors will inform us as soon as possible."

However, it took until about dinner time, before Draco was called into the Headmaster's office.

"Uncle Sev, will you come with me?" Draco asked, hesitantly.

"Yes Dad, go with Draco," Harry immediately supported his friend.

Giving his son an amused look, Severus nodded. "Let's go Draco," he said, soothingly laying his arm around the boy's back.

"Mum, what if Draco's father doesn't get arrested? Will Draco have to return home?" Harry asked, worriedly.

Lily sighed. "I don't know," she said, finally. "Let's wait and see. Don't worry, sweetie, I'm sure everything will work out somehow." She suddenly smiled. "Harry, come here," she then said, and, when Harry stood next to her, giving her a questioning look, she took his hand and laid it on her stomach. "Here, can you feel the baby?"

"Oh wow, what's it doing there?" Harry asked, torn between laughter and bewilderment. "Is it jumping around?"

Lily chuckled. "It feels as if it was. Your sibling seems as energetic as you were, when you were this age, and it seems to possess a similarly strong magic, otherwise we wouldn't be able to feel its movements yet."

'Oh I completely forgot to think about a name,' Harry suddenly remembered; however, before he could address the topic, Severus and Draco entered the room.

"My father has been taken to the Ministry, where he's going to have a trial tomorrow morning," Draco informed them.

"Apparently, they're afraid to keep him longer in a Ministry cell, unsure of what way he might find to break out," Severus added, smirking.

"Sev, why don't you invite Narcissa over?" Lily suggested. "She'll surely be shocked and will want to see Draco."

"Very well," Severus agreed, giving Draco a questioning look.

"Dobby," Draco called his personal elf. "Tell Mother that I'm here at the Snapes'," he hurriedly instructed the elf, before Dobby could begin a tirade again.

"Dobby," Severus addressed the elf, who immediately turned to him, bowing deeply.

"Yes Master Professor Severus, what cans Dobby do for yous?" Dobby asked, wide-eyed.

"Tell Mrs. Malfoy that she's welcome to visit us and see Draco," Severus instructed the elf.

"Yes Master Professor Severus, Dobby wills tell Mistress Narcissa to visit Draco," Dobby repeated eagerly and popped away.

Just when Severus opened the fireplace again, it informed him that Ms. Malfoy requested to floo over.

tbc...

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