Autumn Winds:Chapter 10;Memories retold
By: Kaytea
Harry
rubbed his eyes and put his glasses on. He glanced over to Allison who was
breathing quietly next to him. She stirred in her sleep. Harry watched her
with a smile on his face. She looked so angelic in the morning light. Her
auburn locks were in ringlets, and her lips were a soft pink. Her eyelashes
fluttered, and she yawned quietly. She opened her eyes, they glittered in the
morning sun that was peeking through the curtains. Allison wrapped her arms
around Harry and gazed sleepily into his eyes. He kissed her forehead gently.
Allison laid her head down on his chest and listened to his heartbeat. "I
want to stay here forever......" she muttered lovingly. Harry ran his
fingers through her tousled hair. Then a loud noise interrupted their blissful
silence. "Oiy Harry! We're back!" a voice called. Harry heard trunks
being thrown on beds and the door opening over and over again. "Crap!
they're home from Christmas break!" Harry whispered to Allison. Allison's
eyes were filled with panic. "quick, hide!" Harry threw the blanket
over Allison and buried her head under the pillows. He checked to make sure
that her foot wasn't sticking out or anything, right when Dean pulled
open Harry's curtains. "Rise and Shine Harry!" Harry sat there
looking nervously around the bed. "What? Aren't you happy to see us?"
"Yes! Of course!" Harry said quickly with a smile.
"Say....where's Ron? Didn't he stay here for Christmas?" Harry looked
at Ron's empty bed. He hadn't heard Ron come up last night...perhaps he didn't.
"Maybe he's down at breakfast already?" Harry replied. "Well I'm
starved, see you down at breakfast?" Dean said, unpacking his trunk.
"Sure...be down in a sec!" The room emptied again, as the boys rushed
down to breakfast. "All clear." Harry told Allison, as she
emerged from the blankets. She sat up on the bed. Harry muffled a laugh.
"What are you laughing at?!" Allison demanded. "Oh nothing...mfhff"
Harry said choking down a laugh. "Are you laughing at me?" Allison .
"It's just.....your hair!" Harry said with tears in his eyes and a
big grin on his face. Allison opened the curtain and looked at the mirror on
the wall. Half her hair was sticking straight up and the other half down. She
took out her wand and muttered a spell, and hot air shot out from the tip of
her wand. She muttered another enchantment and the hot air stopped and her hair
was......well perfect. Then she muttered another enchantment and pointed her
wand at Harry. He felt a cool breeze blow by, but nothing happened. But Allison
was giggling immensly. Harry looked in the mirror and saw his messy hair
sticking straight up as if he had seen a ghost. He took out his wand and fixed
it. But Allison was still giggling madly. He grabbed her and pulled her in for
a long and passionant kiss. "I'll have to mess up your hair more often
then...." She said smiling. "Come on, everyone will be wondering
where we are..." she said getting up. "So?' Harry said deviously.
Allison smiled and took Harry's hand and kissed him softly. "My mum and
Sirius will be worried though." "Alright then...." Harry said
getting up. Allison left the room and Harry headed for the shower.
Down at breakfast the hall was
filled again. Ron and Hermione were eating oatmeal. Harry and Allison sat down
at the Gryffindor table. "So where were you guys all yesterday?"
Harry asked cooly. Hermione blushed scarlet and Ron cleared his throat.
"We were ummmm in the library." Ron said quickly. "Sure..."
Harry said buttering his toast. "Say where's Malfoy?" Hermione said
peering over at the Slytherin table. "I heard he got hit by one hell of a
confusion charm. He's in the hospital wing still." Harry laughed,
"Wonder how that happened." Allison smiled happily, "Yes, it's a
wonder how that came about." "You guys aren't telling us
something!" Hermione protested. So Harry and Allison told them all about
what happened with Voldermort at the Yule Ball. "Wow....Harry I'm
surprised you didn't kill Malfoy." Ron said impressed. "I wanted
to." Harry said through clenched teeth. Ginny walked up to the table and
sat down next to Ron. "Ron, did you send Mum an owl? She's been dying to know
what you've been up too!" she said merrily. "No, haven't gotten around to it."
Ron said spreading some marmalade onto his muffin. Ginny bit into a bright red
apple, "Where's Neville?" she asked innocently. "How should we know?" Ron said.
"Oh I just thought maybe you've seen him……" Ginny said peering around the
table. "Why….is he your boyfriend or something?" Ron said jokingly. Ginny
blushed redder than the apple she had been eating. "No…..of course not…" and
she remained silent the rest of breakfast. They finished breakfast and headed
back to the common room, to play exploding snap. "Where's my mum and
Sirius?" Allison whispered to Harry. "They're supposed to be in a
guest room, I don't know where though." Harry muttered back. "Let's
find them...I need to talk to my mum." Harry nodded and they slipped out
of the room.
They headed towards
Dumbledore's office when they collided with Dumbledore, who was coming around
the corner just then. Harry picked up Dumbledore's tall hat and handed it to
him. "Sorry Proffessor, we were just wondering if you knew where Allison's
mum was staying." Dumbledore dusted his hat off and put it back on his
head. "Certainly, come this way." He lead them to large Faerie
portrait that was down the hall. The Faerie was fixing hair, and was quite
irritated when Dumbledore interrupted her with the password, "Bumble bee
butter". The portrait swung open and Sirius and Autumn were sitting at a
small table enjoying a cup of tea. Dumbledore lead them into the room and
turned around and left. Autumn got up and hugged Allison. "I'm so sorry
sweetie, you shouldn't have found out that way. I hope you'll forgive me."
Allison cleared her throat. "Yes Mum, I understand." Sirius sat there
quietly, reading a newspaper. Harry glanced nervously around in the ackward
silence. When suddenly, Allison leapt forward and flung her arms around Sirius.
"Oh....I'm sorry I ran out on you...I know it wasn't your fault." She
cried into Sirius' shoulder as he held her in amazment. "I always wished
that there might be a chance that my dad was alive, and I guess my wish came true."she
said weeping quietly.
Autumn
and Harry left the room, while Sirius and Allison talked. They walked down the
grand hallways silently, looking at all the portraits that hung on the wall.
Harry coughed slightly, and broke the silence, "Autumn?" Autumn looked at him,
as if startled by the sudden noise. "Yes Harry?" "Well…since I've met you, I've
been wondering……you know since you knew my mom so well….if you could tell me
about her….I'm mean you don't have to….if you don't want to….." Autumn pushed
her long autumn hair out of her face and smiled, "Why I don't mind at all
Harry, you deserve to know about her! She was wonderful, Lily was my best
friend. We lived next door to eachother. She grew up as a muggle, they didn't
know she was a witch. I knew my families history of witchcraft, but I was
forbidden to tell my muggle girlfriends about me being a witch. So it wasn't
until Lily ran up to me one day and told me that she had been accepted to
Hogwarts, that I could finally tell her about my secret life!" Harry clung to her
every word, Autumn paused and continued," I was so happy, I didn't have to hide
anything from her anymore. Well….I guess you would say that we met your father
and Sirius on the Hogwarts express, they were very kind about helping us with
our luggage onto the train. They would always play jokes on us, but we were
smarter…and quicker!" Autumn said with a sly smile. They sat down on some
fluffy chairs by the entry to the Great Hall. She talked on and on for hours
about their days at Hogwarts. Harry hardly noticed the time pass by, until
Sirius and Allison bursted out laughing from behind them. They had apparently
been listening to Autumn's last story, where Sirius had turned Autumn's hair
purple without her noticing, and she had paid him back by turning his spagetti
into worms. "You know they really weren't that bad tasting." Sirius said with a
grin. Autumn punched him playfully on the arm. "All this talk of food has made
me hungry, let's go to dinner." Harry hadn't realized it was dinner already,
and the toast seems like years ago.
They entered the hall and sat
down to eat. Harry introduced Autumn to Ron and Hermione. Sirius looked so
different being all cleaned up, that no one recognized him. Even Hermione
nugded Harry, asking him to introduce them to his other friend. Sirius looked
pleased and fed Hermione and Ron a long drawn out story on how he was the new
DADA teacher, and his name was Proffessor Nulegan. He said he was getting a
tour of the castle before the beginning of next year. Allison, Harry, and Autumn
tried not to laugh. Hermione was very interested and asked what subjects they'd
be covering. Sirius muffled a laugh and continued, Allison coughed noisily into
her napkin to cover a snigger. And Harry was trying hard to keep a straight
face, and Ron kept eyeing him suspiciously. "So Proffessor Nulegan, is there
any books that I should read over the summer that might help with our
subjects." Sirius smiled widly, "Yes, try reading , "How to fool a Gryffindor"
by: S. Black or "Gullible Granger" by: Sirius B." Hermione's jaw dropped as Ron
started laughing madly. "Sirius! (he whispered) it's you! Couldn't even tell it
was you!". Harry,Autumn, and Allison let out their laughter, till they were red
in the face. They gathered around the common room fire after dinner and joked
around. Sirius showed Ron some new pranks to play on Malfoy. And Autumn was
showing Hermione and Ginny an easy spell to braid their hair quicker than a
flick of the wrist. Harry and Allison were curled up on the couch. Allison was
warming her feet by the fire, and Harry was laying back, trying to stay awake,
he felt extremly tired. Allison yawned softly and gazed up at Harry. Her eyes
were their bright aquamarine as
usual. "Harry, why don't you get some sleep, you looks so worn out." Harry smiled
and blinked his eyes open. "No, I'm alright." Allison smiled wickedly. "We have
classes again tommorow……so you'll need the sleep." Allison said lovingly. She
planted a kiss on Harry's nose. His heart skipped a beat. Allison got up, and
headed towards the girl's dormitories. Hermione checked her watch, "Oh my! It's
past eleven! And we have classes tommorow!" She got up and her and Ginny
followed Allison into the dormitories. Ron got up and smiled happily. "Oooh, I
can't wait to see Malfoy tommorow!" he said merrily. Sirius chuckled and got
up. He and Allison left the common room, saying good-night to Ron and Harry as
they left. Ron and Harry trudged up the stairs into the boy's tower. Harry
collapsed onto his bed, taking his glasses off and fell asleep right away.
There are we happy? I updated! Sorry it took so long, and it's not
that long, but I've been busy. The end is near! Ginny's finally in here, thanks
to ~*~Joe~*~.
So write some more reviews and you will get the next chapter soon.
I'm leaving this Saturday to go across the country,
so I will try to get the ending by then up so I won't leave you guys hanging
for a long time again! Alright then, please be good little readers and review!
It really gives me the energy to write the next chapter, (which I promise will
be better than this last one) . It lets me know that people are still reading
it! Alright then, let me know how you liked this chapter, it's not that great,
I'm so picky that's why it took so long, I'm not satisfied with it, but it'll
do. Later then, gonna have me a cup a tea! :o) yum.
Luv, Kaytea