Author's Note:
Okay, I am sincerely sorry that I have not updated for a while, I have
meant to get this up and then I just got occupied and all, but now that school
is over I will try to post more. Thanks
to everyone that has e-mailed me and made me feel incredibly guilty about not
posting. Anyways, thanks to all that
has reviewed, and please r/r. Oh, and I
need a new name, so if there is any ideas out there e-mail them to me, I have
always thought that the hardest part of writing a story was coming up with a
title.
Disclaimer: Must I
write this? I don't own any of the
characters. I do own their new powers
and all though, I also own the plot.
Harry Potter and the Powerful Friendship (Part 8)
Professor Minerva
McGonagall sat at dinner watching three of her students eating dinner. Not only were the three that she was
watching weren't talking (when they were supposed to be best friends) but now
that she had thought about it, she hadn't heard them talk to each other since
they had arrived at school.
"Dumbledore." McGonagall whispered while leaning over so
no one could overhear. "What is
going on with Harry and his friends?
Have they even been talking to each other?"
Dumbledore looked
over to where the Gryffindors sat, noticing for the first time that they hadn't
been talking. "I don't know what's
going on. Maybe it's time that I have
another chat with Mr. Potter, or maybe I'll talk to one of the other two."
McGonagall looked
at him, she knew about the argument between Potter and Dumbledore, 'maybe
Sirius will talk to him,' she thought, looking over at the two marauders who
were currently having a silverware fight with their knives, 'scratch that one.'
**********
[So, Hermione, do
you think this will help us become Animagi?]
Harry asked.
{I think so; at
least that was what it said in the book.} Hermione answered.
Ron looked at
them, looking quite interested. (That would be cool.) Harry nodded his head in
agreement.
Harry looked up
at the teacher's table while Ron and Hermione carried on their
conversation. Sirius and Remus were
having a knife fight, which looked like fun.
Sirius looked up in time to catch his eye and gave him a grin, which
Harry returned. Harry looked then at
Dumbledore, who was talking to Professor McGonagall. Dumbledore looked towards Harry and Harry quickly turned away so
Dumbledore wouldn't notice that he was looking at him.
(Come on,
Harry. We're going to go find an empty
classroom to go practice in.) Ron told
Harry.
Harry nodded his
head quickly and followed them out of the hall. Harry saw Fred and George who looked miserable having died hair
in Slytherin colors, apparently the hair was pay back for what happened to the
Slytherin's common room, which of course, Fred and George had nothing to do
with.
Harry tore his
eyes away from the Weasley twins and looked to where he was walking, noticing
that Hermione and Ron were way ahead of him.
"Well, if it
isn't Potty, and where is Weasel and Mudblood." Draco said from where he stood behind Harry.
By now most of
the hall was staring at them, and the teachers were going to come down to break
up the fight but Sirius stopped them, with the help of Dumbledore and
Remus. They wanted to know how Harry
would react to the situation.
"So Potty,
what are going to do? Now that Weasel
and Mudblood aren't around to save you?"
Harry quietly
counted to ten, not wanting his temper to get the best of him.
Draco leaned in
closer to where Harry was standing, not wanting to be overheard. "You think that you will always have
your friends by your sides? Well your
wrong Potty, you're the Dark Lords."
At that statement
Harry lost his temper.
{Harry, don't do
anything you'll regret.} Hermione thought to Harry from where she stood by the
door, holding Ron back.
(Come on, Harry,
deck him one.) Ron practically yelled
in his mind.
But Harry didn't
hear either of them, and at that moment every window in the room
shattered. Girls screamed and all the
students jumped under the table, not wanting to get hurt. Then Draco was thrown onto the nearest
wall. A barrier was placed unconsciously
around Harry and Draco so the teachers couldn't break up the fight.
"Watch your
mouth." Harry said menacingly,
then turned and walked out of the barrier leaving Draco hanging, and everyone
else staring after him.
After a moment
Dumbledore said, "I guess I need
to talk to him soon." And with
that he stood up and followed the three out of the room.
***(Thought about leaving it at that, but
then decided it was to mean.)***
{Harry,} Hermione said cautiously when Harry had
finished dragging them into an empty classroom. {Why did you do that? We
could get into a lot of trouble.}
(Well, he
deserved it. Nasty slime ball, someone
had to teach him a lesson.) Ron
answered for Harry.
Harry was sitting
quietly on one of the desk, waiting for someone to show up and tell him he was
expelled or for a hoard of Slytherins to show up with knives. It was way to quiet for his liking. [I wonder if they have figured out how to
get to Malfoy yet?] Harry thought idly.
Before either one
of them could answer a voice cut the air like hot metal. "I suppose it's time for us to have a little
chat."
The three turned
to find themselves face to face with Albus Dumbledore.
***(Thought about leaving it there
too.)***
In the Great Hall
there was a large amount of chaos at the moment.
"All
students please exit the Great Hall."
Came the voice of Professor McGonagall who was using the megaphone used
in quidditch to be heard.
Of course, nobody
listened to her. The other professors
were trying to get the barrier to come down, or at least get Draco down, and
they were have absolutely no success.
Finally
McGonagall resorted to blackmail.
"All students who are not out of the hall, and into their common
rooms in ten seconds will receive detention for the rest of the school
year." That got the students
attention.
There was a mad
scramble to get out of the hall, leaving the professors and one very frantic
Draco, in peace.
"So any
ideas on how he did it?"
McGonagall asked.
Professor
Flitwick, the charms professor answered. "None whatsoever. I have never seen a spell like this."
"He didn't
use a wand, though, did he?" Remus
Lupin asked.
"I didn't
see one." Sirius answered.
McGonagall
thought for a moment along with the other professors, then asked the questions
that was bothering everybody else, "Then how did he do it?"
***(Wouldn't that be and evil place to
stop?)***
The three were,
at the moment, trying to look as innocent as possible.
[I hope he
doesn't know! We could get into a lot
of trouble.]
"What do you
mean by that?" Harry said
cautiously.
Dumbledore gave
him a look that made him shut his mouth before he could say another word.
"First of all,
Harry, I would like you to know that you will be in a lot of trouble if you
don't let Mr. Malfoy down before long.
When he is down you three will be coming to my office and explaining
what has been going on." The three
nodded guiltily, although they didn't want their secret to be out.
Watching the
three nod Dumbledore then said, "Come along, I'm sure you don't want to be
in anymore trouble with Professor Snape then you already are."
Ron paled at this
idea, he hadn't even thought about Snape!
Seeing Ron go pale
Dumbledore said "Don't worry, there will be no murder this year. Now come along."
Dumbledore led
the way to the Great Hall where the Professor, and Draco were.
Everything went
silent when Harry walked up to the barrier.
Harry just stood there for a minute, concentrating really hard, but the
barrier didn't come down.
"I don't
think I can do it." Harry
stuttered.
Snape glared at
him, "You don't think you can do
it?" He whispered menacingly,
"You wait until you hear from Malfoy's dad and then lets see if you can do
it."
Harry turned his
concentration back onto the barrier, trying with all his might to get it to
come down.
Sirius watched
his godson as beads of sweat broke out on his forehead. He can't do it, Sirius thought helplessly,
and if he tries any harder he's going to faint.
Harry grew paler
as everyone watched with bated breath.
Sirius quickly
moved towards the headmaster and said,
"He's going to make himself sick if he keeps going at it like
this."
Dumbledore nodded
his head then said loudly for everyone to hear, and to break Harry's
concentration "Ron, Hermione, why don't you come with me and we can have a
small chat about this. And you probably
ought to come too, Harry."
Ron and Hermione
nodded their heads and walked over to where Harry was standing to help him.
(Think you can
make it by yourself?) Ron asked Harry.
[I don't know, I
feel like I am going to faint.] Harry replied faintly.
Ron and Hermione
nodded and grabbed his arms, helping him to walk out of the room.
The professors
watched this silently, noticing that again, they weren't talking to each other.
"I wonder
what is going on." Sirius
whispered to Remus.
Remus agreed with
him and said, "Needless to say, Dumbledore will know by the time they come
back."
"And knowing
those three, Draco will still be hanging there tomorrow at breakfast." Sirius said while grinning.