Harry Potter and the Deathday Curse
Chapter 20 Back to Hogwarts
A.N. In this chapter Harry has a dream, and odd things start happening at Hogwarts, such as things disappearing, and they try and figure out who the spy is and more about the Deathday Curse. Anyway, I hope that you enjoy it. Thank you to everyone who reviewed!!!!!!
J Malena
The next day, all of their trunks were packed and loaded into a Ministry car.
Mrs. Weasley and Charlie came with them, Fred and George wanted to come, but they had to work at their shop, which had easily become the most successful shop in Diagon Alley, besides Flourish and Blotts. Percy and Mr. Weasley were at the Ministry, trying to get things settled down after the recent attack on Muggles.
Harry had sent an owl to Sirius, James and Remus, telling them about the attack. Hedwig hadn't returned with a reply, and it had been over a week. Harry was starting to get worried.
"I'm sure they're fine," Ginny said reassuringly, patting Harry on the arm, after he spent the whole car trip looking anxiously out of the window.
Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny all got a compartment together, unfortunately it was right across from where Draco Malfoy was sitting with Crabbe and Goyle. They were all sticking out their tongues and making obscene hand gestures through the glass, until Hermione put the leg locker curse on them.
"You'll pay for this Mudblood!" Malfoy yelled, trying to reach his wand. Ron put the Full Body Bind on him so he couldn't move at all.
The rest of the afternoon was really enjoyable. They all bought lunch at 12 and around 2 Dean and Seamus, along with their girlfriends, Parvati and Lavender, showed up. While the boys talked about Quidditch, the girls huddled together and occasionally giggled and looked over at the boys, slyly.
When the train stopped, there was the usual hustle and bustle to get off of the train. Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle were still lying on the floor of the compartment. Hermione undid the spells on them, much to the protests of Ron.
"But he deserves it Hermione!" He moaned. "C'mon, just leave him like that, they'll get to Hogwarts eventually."
Harry, Ron, Hermione and Ginny all got into a horse-less carriage, and about a minute later they were riding up the winding driveway of Hogwarts.
"Welcome back students!" Cried Professor Dumbledore, later that night at the feast.
"I hope you had a highly enjoyable break. Now, I only have one thing to say. Eat up!"
Everyone dug into the feast, all talking merrily, or just stuffing their face.
After the desserts had disappeared, Dumbledore bid everyone good night, and they all went to their dorm rooms.
The next day was not nearly as enjoyable. Everyone was busy with classes, and unfortunately, Harry had Potions, Divination, and Care of Magical Creatures all in one day. Care of Magical Creatures was usually a slightly enjoyable class, only today, Hagrid had managed to get a Quintaped. No one had any idea about how he got it, as they were only found on one island, and avoided attack as much as possible. Hagrid told them all the legend of the Quintaped, or Hairy MacBoon. The legend goes, that the whole MacBoon family had been transfigured into giant, reddish brown, five legged, spider like creatures because their enemies the McCliverts had gotten angry at them after one of their own was killed. Unfortunately for the McCliverts the Quintaped's attacked them and killed them. Of course, now they were unable to be transfigured to their normal state.
Hagrid had them try and feed the Quintaped raw meat of some sort. Of course, when the Quintaped exploded Hagrid realized that he had accidentally fed the beast meat covered in Erumpent poison. Everyone went back up to the castle to change, all of them wiping Quintaped guts off of their robes.
Potions was horrible as usual. Snape, who had grown nastier over the Christmas break, informed everyone that he would be teaching them how to make invisibility potions, and if anyone overdosed, that person would find themselves invisible for the rest of their lives. When everyone tested their potions and became invisible, it was an absolute disaster. No one could see anyone else and everyone was bumping into everyone.
With the help of Draco, who didn't become invisible, he said that he had the antidote. However, when he went to find it with Draco, it was no where to be found.
"All right!" Barked Snape, glaring around at the empty looking dungeon, "Who took the antidote!"
No one said anything.
"Well?" Snarled Snape. "Detention for all of the Gryffindors!" Everyone moaned.
"But we didn't do anything!" Seamus protested.
"Two detentions for Finnigan!" Snape said.
Eventually, Snape sent Draco to go get Professor Dumbledore. He cast a spell that made everyone reappear. Then he made Professor Snape take away the detentions.
Hermione went to Arithmancy while Ron and Harry trudged reluctantly up to the North Tower for Divinaton. The heavy perfume made Harry's head spin when he walked into the room. He took a seat in the back of the room with Ron, ignoring Professor Trelawny, who had immediately burst into tears when he walked into the room.
When she had finally stopped, she explained to everyone that they would be studying Death Omens for the next semester. She stared pointedly at Harry, who yawned.
"I would think, my dear," She said, staring hard at Harry, "That you would take this one seriously, after all, I see great danger and deaths in your path."
Harry rolled his eyes, while Ron stared out of the window wistfully.
In the first 10 minutes of the lesson, Professor Trelawny predicted the death of Harry no less than 7 times. Harry, who was growing tired of listening to Professor Trelawny, started to drift off to sleep.
It was a bright and sunny day, somewhere south because it was very hot. However, the people who were around were wearing black. They were standing in front of a house on the beach, and one man walked up to the door and rang the bell.
An old wizard answered the door, his mouth fell open in horror and he started to back away.
"Ah, Marvin, how are you?" Hissed the man under the cloak.
(A.N. For those of you who haven't read my first story (which is incredibly idiotic) you should know that Marvin is an old man who worked with James, Sirius, and Remus 14 or more years before Lily and James 'died'.)
"V-voldemort," Marvin stuttered. "W-what do y-you w-want?"
"I think you know what I want," Voldemort said coolly. "I want your information about the book."
"Wh-what book?" Marvin said. Voldemort gave a short laugh.
"The Deathday book, you bumbling fool," He hissed. "I believe that you have information about where it is."
"I-I don't know what you're talking about." Marvin said, seeming to regain some of his bravery.
Voldemort laughed his high laugh, and then whispered, "Crucio!" Marvin fell to the ground twitching and screaming.
"Of course, I might not need your information, my spy at Hogwarts might already have the book." Voldemort looked down at the twitching man.
"Now, this information of yours…"
"Harry wake up," whispered someone. "Wake up! Trelawny's going to ask you a question!" Harry lifted his head off of his arms and looked around. Ron was shaking his shoulder lightly and he was no longer on the sunny beach, but back in the perfumey classroom. Professor Trelawny was asking everyone if they had seen any Death Omens lately. Harry's scar was stinging slightly, but he ignored it.
"You, my dear," Said Professor Trelawny, pointing at Harry. "Have you seen any Death Omens lately?"
"Nope, absolutely none," Harry said, not paying much attention.
"Are you sure, dear?" Professor Trelawny prompted. "No Grims? No premonitions?"
"No," Harry lied. "None at all." Professor Trelawny eyed him, but turned away.
"Have you?" Ron whispered.
"Yes, I just had a dream about Marvin, you know, the guy who kept calling me James two years ago."
"What happened?"
"I'll tell you later…"
Later that night at dinner Harry told Ron and Hermione what he had dreamed.
"So Marvin's dead?" Hermione whispered.
"I don't know," Harry said in a low voice. "He could still be alive…"
"And You-Know-Who said that there was a definite spy at Hogwarts," Ron said, looking around nervously.
"Yes, he said that they were looking for the Deathday book."
"This is serious," Hermione said. "If the spy got his hands on the book-"
"Well, before we start accusing people," Harry said. "We really should research the Deathday Curse a little more. There's bound to be a little information in the library. We should be able to find some without going into the Restricted Section."
"Yeah, let's go."
A minute or so later they were in the library, looking through dusty books. While Harry looked through Dark Curses: A complete list of Dark Curses and how to block them, Hermione looked through Dangerous Spells that should not be Attempted under ANY Circumstances.
Harry, looked around the room in frustration. He had had enough of the library in his fourth year. Then he noticed something odd. Professor Snape was gliding between the shelves, looking at all of the books.
"I wonder what Snape wants with a book?" Harry wondered aloud.
Hermione and Ron leaned over and looked at Snape, passing through a bookshelf
(A.N. For those of you who haven't read the fifth year story (Don't! It's awful) Snape died in it. But (unfortunately) he returned as Potions teacher.)
"Maybe he's looking for a book on invisibility potions," Ron suggested.
"Well he can't pick it up, he's a ghost!" Harry said.
"C'mon guys, we have to keep looking for anything about the Deathd-"
"What are you doing?" Said a voice. It was Professor Perry.
"W-we're uh…" Ron trailed off, gazing into Professor Perry's amazingly blue eyes.
"We're researching Dark Curses for the er- N.E.W.T.'s, you said that there was something about them." Hermione lied quickly, elbowing Ron in the side.
"That's nice," Professor Perry said. "Well, why don't you all go back to your dorm room. I'll be teaching that tomorrow, don't want to spoil the fun." Professor Perry smiled her dazzling smile and left.
"I suppose we should go back to the tower," Harry said. "I've had enough of this library for today.
Hermione and Ron nodded and walked back to their dorm room. Harry decided to go to bed a little early. He didn't immediately fall asleep though. He stayed up for thirty minutes before he finally reached a conclusion about the thing he was thinking about.
He reached under the bed and pulled out the book Ginny had given him as a birthday present. He pulled out his wand, tapped the cover of the book and said, "Show me Voldemort."
A.N. That's all for now!!!!! In the next chapter you will find out what Harry sees in the book… Also, the Gryffindors start to train for the next Quidditch match against Hufflepuff!!!!!!
