Chapter 34

I didn't go back to sleep that night. I was lying in my bed but my head was full of worries. Harry's nightmare had given me a lot to think about. Why is he having them almost a year early? It can only mean one thing: Voldemort's on the move.

In the books, Pettigrew found Voldemort and helped him execute a plan. In this timeline, Pettigrew is in prison and Voldemort doesn't even know about Barty Crouch Jr. What could make Voldemort act so quickly? Then a horrible thought struck me. What if he discovered that I have been destroying his horcruxes? He might make more and I'll have no clue how to find them! I just have to pray that he doesn't know, that he doesn't make more. How many is it even possible to make. He made seven already. His soul is in eight pieces. Only three pieces are left though because I destroyed the others. The ones inside him, Nagini and Harry. I'll just have to wait until tomorrow so Harry can tell me his dream.

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Then next morning I had large bags under my eyes. I did fall asleep at some point but it must have been very late because I feel like I haven't slept at all. Luckily it was Sunday so I don't have to go to any classes. After breakfast, Harry, Fred, Neville, Hermione, Draco, Ron and I all went to the secret library so Harry could tell us his dream.

Harry tried to explain the dream but he said that he had forgotten some things. "I wish that we had a pensive or something." I muttered. At the word pensive, a huge bowl floated towards us from behind a bookshelf. I stood up and walked over. It was a pensive. It looks just like the one I saw in Dumbledore's office. "Sweet. It's a pensive." I told them.

"Whats a pensive?" asked Harry.

"It's something you can use to share memories or just view your own." I said before walking over to him. I pulled out my wand and placed the tip against his head. "Just hold still a second I have to extract the memory." I focused on what I wanted then slowly moved my wand away. A kind of wispy grey thing came out of his head and rested on the end of my wand. I walked over to the pensive and put it in the murky, dark grey water. I waved them over. "We have to put our faces in the water." I told them.

We all stuck our heads in and I felt as if I was falling forward until I landed in a shadowy room. I didn't recognize it. There was a chair facing the other way and two men were kneeling in front of it. The others were there with me. We all watched as one of the men, who I was sure were death eaters, spoke to a person who must be sitting in the chair. "My Lord, are you sure we can use no other child?"

"We must use the boys blood! My followers are going to Askaban! If we don't act soon there will be none left. I must have a body!" The thing in the chair snapped. I knew it was Voldemort. I recognized his voice from the encounter in first year.

"But how are we going to get him My Lord?"

"We must infiltrate Hogwarts." Voldemort said.

"We could wait for the Defense Against the Dark Arts position to be open again." Suggested the other man.

"That will not be soon enough." Voldemort said. I saw Nagini slither over to the men and snap at their feet in warning. Voldemort laughed a cruel laugh. "Get into contact with the snatchers. Tell them I want them to bring me the boy or one of his friends. Like that mudblood friend that was with him when I saw him a few years ago. If they can't get into Hogwarts they can snatch him on a Hogsmeade trip. If they can't get him then, they can take one of his friends. Anyone close to him or in his year at Hogwarts. We can simply use polyjuice potion to get close enough to grab him."

The memory ended and I felt myself being sucked out of the pensive. We all exchanged worried glances and made our way back to the table. The pensive floated away as we started to sit back down. Ron broke the silence. "So you-know-who needs Harry for something?" He asked me.

"Why are you asking me?" I demanded.

"Your the one from the future." He said.

"Oh right." I laughed. By the sound of things, Voldemort was going to do the ritual he did in fourth year. The curse prevented me from saying that though. I nodded.

"Probably a ritual." Hermione said. "He said something about your blood, Harry. He's sending people after you."

"That's not the point!" Harry suddenly yelled. We all jumped and stared at him in surprise.

"Then what is the point?" Ron asked angrily. "We can't let the you-know-who get you mate."

"But what about you guys?!" Harry exclaimed. "He's coming after you too and he specifically mentioned Joanne!"

"What! when?" Fred asked.

"I was the 'mudblood friend' he mentioned." I explained. "But Harry's more important in this war."

"You're important to me." Fred muttered so quietly I almost didn't hear him.

"What?" I asked. I must have miss heard.

"Uhh...I said you're important to your family." He stuttered. That makes more sense. I saw Hermione grinning at me and I blushed. I sent her a look that meant 'what?'. She just grinned bigger.

"What about the other students in our year?" Said Harry. "They have basically no defense training and the one year we get a good teacher is the year we study magical creatures. As important as it is to be able to defend yourself against a boggart, we need to learn how to duel and stuff."

Then an idea struck me. "The DA!" I exclaimed.

"The what?" Harry asked.

"We should start a Defense Association (DA). We can invite students that aren't death eater wannabes and teach them how to defend themselves." I explained.

"That's a great idea!" Hermione exclaimed. "We could do it in the Room of Requirement and ask some professors to help."

"But I don't know if we can trust the teachers. It should be a secret so if the ministry comes to evaluate the school, they won't know about it." I said. Hermione opened her mouth to argue but I quickly said. "Trust me. I'm the one with future knowledge."

"So the ministry didn't want us able to defend ourselves in the other time line?" Draco asked.

"Spot on." I confirmed.

"Further more, as awesome as the Room of Requirement is, it could be discovered." I said.

"But where do we go then?" Neville pointed out.

"I think we should find Godric Gryffindor's training room." I explained.

"That's a great idea!" Hermione exclaimed. "Harry is the heir after all."

"Sorry, the what?" Draco asked. Fred looked just as clueless.

"Each of the founders built a secret place for their heirs." Hermione explained like she swallowed a book. "Slytherin built the Chamber of Secrets, Gryffindor built a training ground, obviously we're in Ravenclaw's Secret Library right now and Hufflepuff built the Room of Requirement but she made it so anyone could enter because she didn't want to be discriminatory."

"Cool." Fred said in awe. Draco nodded in agreement.

"We'll start looking for that later." I said. "What I would like to know is why Voldemort is acting so soon."

"What do you mean?" Harry asked.

"In the other timeline, Voldemort did nothing in your third year." I explained. Ron and Fred flinched when I said 'Voldemort'. "You spent the whole time wondering what was up with Hermione, being attacked by dementors and stressing over Sirius."

"You sure saved us some time then." Ron said.

"What if he knows I've been destroying his horcruxes?" I said, voicing my biggest worry. "He might make more."

"By the sound of things, he was just angry his death eaters were being imprisoned." Said Fred.

"Who were those guys he was talking to anyway?" Harry asked.

"They were Crabbe and Goyle Sr." Draco informed us.

"Oh yeah, I remember you saying they went on the run a few days ago." Hermione said. "They must have found Voldemort."

"Don't say his name!" Ron hissed.

"Voldemort! It's just a name." Harry yelled.

"So how are we going to find the Secret Gryffindor room?" Asked Draco.

"Oh, I forgot to show you the best part of the library." I told Draco and Fred, excitedly before asking the Library, "What is there on the location of the Gryffindor training room?" One of Rowena's diaries flew off the shelves and opened in front of me. I picked it up and started to read aloud.

Godric is building some sort of secret training ground. Unfortunately it's not very secret as he insists on constantly telling us what new charms he is using to create it and make it impossible to find unless you are an heir. I believe he is making passages, much like I did, that open at the touch of his heir. He says that only a true Gryffindor can find it. I can only assume that means there is something dangerous you need to get past. I suspect that Godric, being the rash, brave man he is, expects all his descendants to be full of courage. I pray they don't get killed trying to get past whatever monstrous thing he has placed in his tunnels. I can only hope that I'm wrong and he didn't put another dangerous monster in the school. I already have a basilisk that needs to be found because of Salazar's illogical prejudice.

"So you probably just need to go around the Gryffindor common room, touching the walls and stuff." I told Harry. "I discovered the Library when Goyle fired a tripping hex at my back which sent me into a wall."

"Okay." Harry agreed. "Lets go." We got up and took the passage to the Gryffindor common room.

Draco got some strange looks when we got there. I suppose seeing a Slytherin in Gryffindor Tower would be suspicious. Harry started touching all around the common room. People were giving him weird looks. I suppose going around touching the walls does look funny. Harry had got through half the common room before he had to stop because it was time for dinner. "I'll keep trying after dinner." He told us and we went down to the great hall to eat.

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