5th
Year Sorrows Part 9
Harry and Ron trudged up the familiar staircases on their way up to the Gryffindor Common Room. Hermione was up front with the younger students; Harry strongly suspected she would start acting a lot like Percy.
"What's the password?" asked
Ron.
"Hungry hippo," Harry answered.
"Wonder how the fat lady thinks
of these passwords."
"I du-du-dunno," said Harry,
yawning.
They finally reached the
portrait hole.
"Password?" asked the Fat Lady.
"Hungry Hippo," said Ron, and
the portrait swung forward, admitting them into the Gryffindor Common Room.
Something didn't seem right
about it. It wasn't that the first years had the good chairs, or that it was
less crowded, not even that there was less noise, no there was something else,
Harry just couldn't think of what.
"Harry, Ron, wanna play a game
of Exploding Snap?" asked George Weasley, yawning afterwards.
"Nah, I can't, too tired, I'm
going to bed," said Harry.
"Yeah, so am I," said Ron
following him.
The boy's dormitory was empty,
who knows where Neville was. Harry drifted into an uneasy sleep.
**
"Ahh, Severus Snape, I have
heard that you have been working with Dumbledore. Spying on me."
"No sir, never would I spy on
you, never."
"Yes, yes, well, I would like to
use you in my plans to kill that nasty Potter boy once and for all."
"Why, my lord, must you use me?"
"Well, you are very close to
Dumbledore, and that is where the boy is right now."
"But sir, I thought you wanted
to get back at Karkaroff first."
"Why yes, silly me, he must be
gone first. You may leave."
**
Harry woke with a splitting pain
in his scar and cold sweat covering his face. He wiped his face and quickly
dressed. He had to see Dumbledore, quick. He ran as fast as he could down
through corridors, but right when he got to the gargoyle, he heard a voice.
"Well, we meet again, Potter. I
bet you thought you could do anything you want since term didn't start yet,
well, we still give detentions before term starts," it was Filch.
"Please, sir, I need to see the Headmaster,
it's an emergency," said Harry out of breath. Just then, Snape Apparated out of
no where.
"Argus, I never thought I'd say
this, but let the boy go," he said in a voice he never heard before. It sounded
panicky, or urgent, Harry didn't know what one, but for once he was glad to see
Snape. "Chocolate Frog," he said. The gargoyle sprang to life and moved aside.
Harry and Snape moved up the moving stairs (A/N I would say escalator, but J.K.
said it was a moving staircase) and up to Dumbledore's office. Snape knocked.
Dumbledore came out, looking extremely tired.
"Anything new, Severus?" he
asked.
"Yes, Voldemort's going to kill
Karkaroff," he said, and the moved aside so Harry could step in.
"Harry, what are you doing
here?" he asked.
"I, er, had another dream," he
said, slightly embarrassed.
"Well, what happened?"
Dumbledore asked.
"I think Snape could give you
more details," Harry said.
"Me? How would I know what goes
on in his head?" asked Snape.
"Sir, you were in it. It was
your little meeting with Voldemort. The one where he wanted to use you to kill
me," said Harry.
"Oh, Headmaster, that was what I
came to see you about." He then explained what had happened. In the end,
Dumbledore stood up.
"Well, Severus, looks like
you're going to have a pretty rough time. Harry, you'll need to sleep in that
room over there. Sirius is staying there, too," at those words, Sirius came
out.
"Albus, what's go- oh," he said
when he saw Harry. "Well, Harry, looks like you're moving in," said Sirius.