Autumn Winds;Chapter 6:The Shack Shrieks Again
By: Kaytea
Harry sat at breakfast, eating scrambled eggs with orange juice. He saw Allison coming his way. Her hair was mid length soft curls. And they bounced as she walked. Her gorgeous aquamarine eyes sparkling in the morning light. She sat down next to Harry and began to eat her bagel with strawberries. Harry wasn't sure if it was because of last night, but Allison looked more beautiful than ever. Her pearly white smile and her soft tan skin. Allison must have realized Harry staring at her, because she blushed immensly. She looked around the table, "Where's Ron and Hermione?". Harry chuckled, "I don't want to even know!" He said grinning. Allison laughed at this. Just the Draco Malfoy walked up to Harry and Allison. "Hello Potter, who'd you bribe to sit with you this year?" Draco hissed, like a snake. "This is Allison BeauxYeux, Allison, this Draco Malfoy." Draco Malfoy took Allison's hand and kissed it while bowing. Allison looked repulsed. "Umm…..Pleasure to meet you?" she said uncertainly. "No, the pleasure is all mine." Draco said with a smirk. He gave Harry a dirty look and left the table. Harry was furious. How dare Malfoy even touch Allison, and right in front of him too. "Eww…..I think I'm going to go wash my hand, be right back Harry, ok?" Allison said, her face still filled with disgust. "No problem, I don't blame you." Allison left for the bathroom, and Harry finished his breakfast, scheming of a plan to get revenge on Malfoy. Allison came back minutes later and smiled at Harry. "You won't believe what I just saw in the girl's bathroom! A ghost in a toilet!" Harry chuckled. "Oh that's just Moaning Myrtle." "You went into the girl's bathroom before?" Allison asked. "Long story" Harry said with a laugh. Allison was finishing up her bagel as Hedwig, Harry's snowy white owl swooped down and dropped a letter on to his lap. Harry opened his letter. It was from Hagrid. He wanted to know how Harry's 5th year was going and that he'd see him tommorow in class. Harry wrote on the back, that it was going by wonderfully, and that he's see him tommorow. He tied it to Hedwig's leg and sent her off. "Well, guess we better be off to Transfiguration. After that it's Charms and then Defense against the Dark Arts." Harry said getting his stack off books. Allison got up, grabbed her books and they walked off together to Proffessor McGonagall's. They walked into the classroom and took their seats. Proffessor McGonagall blushed when she saw Harry and Allison, to the bewilderment of her students. "Alright, today we've taken some extra precautions, in case something like yesterday happens again. I've put a lock charm on the lights, that only I can break to turn them off. Also, this glass orb, when broken, will have Dumbledore down here in seconds." Proffessor McGonagall said with her voice shaking slightly. "But there should be no need to worry, we can still get on with our lesson." Proffessor McGonagall she said sternly. Harry glanced over at Hermione and saw that she wouldn't even look at him. He hoped she wasn't mad at him, he hadn't meant to see them, personally he would have rather not have seen it, but it was too late for that. Ron on the other hand seemed fine. He was acting almost normal again. Allison had her nose buried in her transfiguration book, trying to catch up with what the class was doing. Proffessor McGonagall handed everyone a pair of scissors. They had to transfigure it into a chainsaw. Allison looked worried. "Allison, you transfigured a chair into a fountain yesterday. You can do this, don't worry." Allison gave a Harry a look of gratitude. She gripped her wand and pointed it at the scissors and muttered, "Cutius transformus sawus chanius" The scissors remained scissors. Harry took Allison's hand in his and he moved it left then right then down. Proffessor McGonagall saw this and she became overcome with girlish giggles, which no one else understood why. Allison tried the spell again, and moments later there was a huge chainsaw on her desk. They kept practicing till, the end of class, and there was a pig pile of chain saws lying by Proffessor McGonagall's desk.
Allison, Harry,Hermione, and Ron headed to Charms next. They went into the Charms classroom, and took their seats. Flintwick showed them how to do Confusion charms. They only used mild ones so they would only be confused for a few minutes. Flintwick made them try it on their partners and then switch turns. It scared Harry, because when he performed it on Allison, her eyes grew dim and she stared at him with a blank expression. He asked her questions to see if she was confused and she simply stared at him like he was speaking another language. But once it wore off she wrapped her arms around his neck. "Don't ever do that to me again, that was the worst thing to not know you or what you were saying." She said smiling at him. Her eyes dancing with joy of not being confused. Harry smiled back. "Now it's your turn" Allison said deviously. She pointed her wand at Harry and said"Confusious!" Harry's green eyes dimmed to a dull jade green. Allison talked to him about what happened that morning and Harry had no clue what she was talking about. He kept saying, "Are you sure it that didn't happen to Neville?" Really? I could have sworn we had History of magic this morning." Allison laughed at his stammerings and when it wore off he couldn't remember what he had said. After Defense against the Darks Arts, they headed to lunch. They walked into the Great Hall, when Malfoy walked up to them. "Allison, why don't you have lunch with people, of your worth? You can sit at the Slytherin Table with me." He said slyly. Harry put his arm around Allison and she clung close to him. "No thank you Draco, I'm sitting with my friends." Allison said with clenched teeth. Ron looked ready to pounce on Malfoy. Malfoy held his head high in the air and walked back to the Slytherin table. The all sniggered at how mad Malfoy had looked. They sat down and enjoyed lunch, but Harry and Allison noticed Ron and Hermione staring at them and whisphering to eachother. "What wrong?" Harry asked. "We couldn't help, but notice you put your arm around Allison when Draco asked her to sit with him."Ron sniggered. Harry and Allison looked nervously at eachother. "Well uhh….your secret's safe, as long as ours is" Allison said with a quirky smile. Hermione's eyes lit up. "You mean…you two!?!" Hermione and Ron shared surprised expressions as Allison slipped her hand into Harry's under the table. Harry squeezed it ,as they exchanged smiles.
After lunch, The 5th years got to go to Hogsmeade. "So it's an all wizarding town?" Allison asked eagerly. "Yeah…you have to see Zonkos joke shop, and Honeydukes has every type of sweet there." Ron said, excitedly. When they go there, they went into Zonko's first and bought tons of pranks to bug Filch till the end of the year. They were on their way to The 3 Broomsticks, when Ron spied a gray rat trailing it's way up the hill to the Shrieking Shack. "Scabbers!" Ron exclaimed. "What?!?!? Where? "Harry asked in bewilderment. "There! He's going up to the Shrieking Shack. They all looked up the hill, and sure enough they saw a skinny gray rat making it's way into a tiny hole leading into the Shrieking Shack. "Let's get him. We can bring him back to Dumbledore who will deliver him to Azakban!" Ron said angrily, rubbing his hands together. They all started up the hill, when Allison grabbed Harry by the robes and held him back. "No Harry, Voldermort is in there. I can feel it." She said under her breathe. He could tell she was worried."Of course! Wormtail helped bring Voldermort back into power, So that's where Voldermort's been hiding out!"Harry said stopping dead in his tracks. Hermione looked like she swallowed a lead weight. "Umm….maybe we shouldn't go in there then." She said biting her lower lip. "Yeah, we'll tell Dumbledore what we saw." They all agreed, and stopped by 3 Broomsticks and got butterbeers to go. They stopped by Honeydukes and filled up on treats. And prepared to leave with rest of their class. Allison wouldn't leave Harry's side at all until they were safely at Hogwarts again. He could see the tense expression on her face. The look of sheer fear in her eyes. She and Harry immediantly went to Dumbledore's office. They told him, that they thought Voldermort was hiding in the Shrieking shack, and that they'd seen Peter Pettigrew. Dumbledore nodded and thanked them for not trying to go after him by theirselves.
They headed off to the Great Hall for dinner, and Dumbledore made an announcement. "The Yule Ball is scheduled tommorow evening as I told you in the beginning of the term. So wear dress robes and have fun!" They began to eat, Allison asked Harry, "What's the Yule Ball?" Harry explained" It's the Christmas dance. It's our second annual one this year. " "And what did Dumbledore mean by dressrobes?" Hermione cut in on the conversation. "I'll show you tonight Allison. You can borrow a pair of mine." "Thank you Hermione, that's very generous of you." Allison said graciously. "What are friends for ?" Hermione said matter of factly. "So Harry, who's your date for the Yule Ball?" Allison asked innocently with a grin. "Oh I don't know….I was thinking of asking Parvati Patil……" Harry said with a sly smile. Allison punched him playfully on the shoulder. "You know there's no one else I'd want to go with, but you." Harry said. Allison blushed a rosy pink and picked at her food with a smile."Well without Krum around this year, maybe I'll get the chance to dance with the beautiful Hermione." Ron joked . Hermione smiled a toothy grin. "Oh Ron" she sighed under her breath. Draco made his way up to their table for the 3rd time today, and stopped in front of Allison. "Oh great not again. " Harry muttered loudly. But Malfoy ignored him as usual. "So Allison, I suppose a beautiful girl like you will be wanting a handsome escourt to the Yule Ball tommorow night." He said as he held out his hand. "Once again, No thanks. I already have the most handsomest escourt in this school to go with." She draped her arms around Harry. Draco's jaw dropped about 2 feet. "It's a shame. I gave you so many chances." He said smitefully. "But you decide to hang around trash like him . " Allison's eyes were thunder teal and they were angry. "Oh poor little orphan Potter. I bet if your Mother could see you now, and what kind of wizard you have become, she'd have never had sacrificed herself for you. She'd rather have had Voldermort kill you for her." Ron, Hermione, and especially Harry had their wands out, about to attack Malfoy, but Allison was already on top of him. She knocked him down and held her wand to Malfoy's head. "NEVER! SPEAK ILL OF LILY POTTER IN MY PRESENCE AGAIN!" She screamed. Malfoy let out a nervous laugh. "What are you going to do to me? You don't know enough magic to harm me!" He said defiantly. "You'd be surprised what someone who actually has brains can learn in a day." She turned the sash of Malfoy's robe into a slimy serpent with long poisonous fangs dripping in venom. Malfoy was frozen in fear. "uhh..uhhh. ….I take it back. Potter good. Draco bad." Allison got off him and turned the snake back into a sash. "You leave us alone from now on or suffer MY consequences!" Malfoy backed away in fear and returned to the Slytherin table sulking. Harry stared at her with an open mouth. She had never failed to amaze him yet. She slipped her hand into Harry's and they walked off to the Gryffindor common room.
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