Three days time
chapter 4 of 'Legacy'



Harry gently closed the door to the 7th year's room and made his way down to the portrait hole to get Dumbledore. The fire was still burning in the fireplace, casting shadows on the armchairs of the common room. A slight tapping broke the silence of the desolate common room, Harry ignored the small sound and was about to climb through the portrait hole when he stopped and noticed that the tapping was coming from the common room window. A black owl was fluttering around outside, a letter tied to its leg. He crossed the room and opened the window, he had never seen a black owl before and assumed they were rare. Once the window was open, the owl swooped in and landed on one of the armchairs, it remained still while Harry untied the letter and then it swooped off into the night. "Who would send an owl to the common room? All post was received in the Great Hall at breakfast, but this was a strange owl. Harry unrolled the thick parchment of the letter and was startled when he read it to himself. The parchment contained one sentence, scrawled in red ink, it said:
"You'll both be dead in three days time."
"What the-," whispered Harry. "This must be a prank...but Fred and George are much too busy with the joke shop to be up to their old mischief..." he thought. "And this isn't funny...wait...it must be...I knew he'd pull something like this!" exclaimed Harry and he stormed through the portrait hole and toward the Slytherin room.

He half walked, half ran down toward the dungeons, as he reached the door he muttered, "crucio," an entranceway to the common room slid open. Harry had found out the Slytherin password by mistake a few weeks earlier, Ron and him had been walking to the dungeons when the cruciatus curse came up in conversation, when Ron said "crucio," the door had opened. Harry was fuming by the time he got up the stairs to the 7th years Slytherin dorm, he slammed the door open and shook Malfoy awake. "Wake up, you stupid git!" he yelled.
"Potter? What the hell are you doing in here? Is this a joke?" mumbled a half-asleep Draco.
"Yeah, Malfoy, a joke, just like your little letter!" exclaimed Harry, going red in the face.
"What are you talking about, I didn't send you any letter, do you have any idea what time it is, Potter? I know your into walking around in the middle of the night bit I'M not!" said Malfoy in his usual drawl.
"This letter," yelled Harry shoving the letter under Malfoy's nose.
Malfoy looked at it. "Dead in three days? Good for you, but I didn't send this, so leave."

"Yes you did, so quit lying! How'd you know about her?"

"Who's her? if you talking about that Granger mudblood, I wouldn't care if she were to be dead in 3 days so I wouldn't bother to write you, your highness," added Malfoy sarcastically.

"Just shut up, it had to be you, who else's family could afford a black owl?!" Harry was trying to keep his voice low, if any of the other Slytherins woke, Harry'd be in Snape's office quicker than he could say "detention."

"A black owl? They're a sign of dark magic and they're illegal, if we'd had one we wouldn't have it fly around delivering warnings to you, freak." Malfoy attempted to lay back down but Harry seized his pajamas, "Dammit, Malfoy, if I find out that you're behind this, you'll be sorry."

"Whatever, Potter, just get out," said Draco as he pulled the covers over his head.

Harry went to the door, still shaking with anger as he swung it open and marched back to the Slytherin common room and out toward Dumbledore's office. Harry was nearly there when he stopped and realized that it was 3 A.M. "oh right...I forgot it was the middle of the night, I'll get Dumbledore in the morning," Harry thought.

His mind reeled all the way back to Gryffindor tower, "What did they mean by both?" he thought, "Me and Chloe?" His mind drifted back to the suspicious arrival of Chloe and he remembered kissing her when she had been unconscious. "Why didn't I tell her I had kissed her when she asked?" he scolded himself, "why idid/i I kiss her?." He thought about it all the way up to the portrait hole and when the fat lady asked for the password he had inadvertently said "Chloe," instead if the password (grindylow). The fat lady gave Harry a quizzical look and said "excuse me? who's Chloe?."
"Nevermind, the password is 'grindylow," he replied, going slightly red.
"Whatever you say," answered the portrait as she swung forward to admit him back into Gryffindor tower.