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Harry Potter and the Powerful Friendship (Part 9)
Harry sat in front of Dumbledore's desk with Ron
and Hermione on either side of him.
"So, Mr. Potter, let's start at the
beginning, shall we?" Dumbledore
said, then without waiting for an answer continued. "First, why haven't you been talking to each other, and how
do you acquire so much power?"
Harry looked at the other two and asked them
[Should we tell him the truth?]
Ron and Hermione nodded. [Hermione, why don't you explain about the
potion?]
"Well you see sir, it started out with some
summer research." Dumbledore
nodded his head knowing perfectly well that Hermione's part of the story was
going to begin with 'some summer research.'
Receiving a nod Hermione continued, "Well I
found this book on potions that looked quite interesting at Diagon Alley and I
was reading through it and found the Ladriend Potion." (A/n Finally a name!!!! And this isn't Ron speaking)
Dumbledore, of course, having never heard of a
Ladriend, asked what one was. But instead of Hermione answering it was Ron.
"You see, sir, it's this potion that should
make you more powerful. It let's the
people who drink it read each other minds, and acquire more strength."
"Actually, you don't acquire more strength,
the peoples strength are combined into one, giving the three more
power." Hermione explained.
Ron and Harry gaped at her, they hadn't known
this!
"So," Ron said "are you saying it
wasn't just Harry who threw Malfoy against the wall?"
Hermione shook her head, looking rather
guilty.
Ron let out a whoop.
Harry then asked quietly "Then it's just not
me who can take down the barrier?"
Hermione nodded her head and stated simply
"The three of us have to do it together."
[Fat chance at that one.] Harry thought, while looking at Ron who was
still laughing.
Dumbledore, who had been quiet this whole time
said "Why didn't you tell me this at the beginning of the year?"
Hermione looked sheepishly around at the other
two for support.
"No, wait, don't answer. I understand the importance of having a
secret that is your own, but really, did it have to be something this
dangerous? So, what else has this potion
done?"
Harry looked at the other two, he knew that he was
supposed to have gone and told Dumbledore about his dream, but of course he
hadn't. Of course, if he didn't tell about the dream, they would.
"Well, um, we have been sharing
dreams." Harry said while looking down at the floor.
Dumbledore looked up sharply, he knew about
Harry's dreams and he knew how bad it could be if the shared dreams.
"I guess we ought to deal with the problem
at hand at the moment now that I know the basics." Dumbledore told the three of them. "If we do not get Mr. Malfoy down I'm
sure this incident will be all over the press."
Ron let out another whoop, "Yeah, well who's
going to believe it, 'Famous Harry Potter hangs fellow student'?"
{Ron don't push the issue!} Hermione told him.
Dumbledore gave Ron a look that quieted him down
and turned to go back to the Great Hall, trusting the others would follow.
[We ought to skive off.] Harry said, [Either that or run for our
lives when Draco gets down.
(I want to see if we can go through the barrier,
since we helped put it up.) Ron said.
**********
"Do you think that they will ever come
back?" Remus asked Sirius. It had
been a long time since Dumbledore had left with Harry and his friends and
Draco, who had been screaming early, had finally decided to go to sleep.
Snape looked at them and before Sirius could
answer said "They better come back or I'll murder Potter and his
friends."
Sirius glared back at Snape "You better not
lay a finger on Harry or I'll have something to do with it!"
Snape glared right back and snapped "Oh yeah?"
Sirius was just about to punch Snape in the nose
when he felt someone grab the back of his robes.
"Come on Sirius, we don't want to hang out
with this trash." Remus said,
while turning around.
"What did you call me?" Snape said in a low whisper.
"You heard him, he called you
trash!" Sirius answered.
Snape pulled out his wand, ready to curse the two
of them, when Dumbledore walked into the room.
Upon seeing the fight that was about to happen
Dumbledore said "There is no problem I hope, is there Sirius," Sirius
shook his head and Dumbledore looked at Snape questioningly. Snape also shook his head.
"Well then, I think that we have figured out
what has happened." At this
statement all the professors looked at the trio that was standing by the door. "Hopefully now, we will be able to get
the barrier down."
"Hold on, just one second!" Ron called, as he raced across the room and
into the barrier. "Cool!" He exclaimed.
Harry gave Hermione a look and they both walked
through the barrier.
"How did they do that?" McGonagall asked Flitwick who shrugged his
shoulders. All the professors had tried
to walk threw through the barrier with no success.
Dumbledore just smiled at their childish
antics. "Now if we can move
along?" He asked the three that
were still standing in the barrier.
"Oh, right." Harry said.
(Must we do this?) Ron asked the two of them.
Hermione glared at him, {do you really want to get expelled? I wonder what your mother would say.}
Ron nodded and started to concentrate on the
barrier.
The Professors watched as the three of them stood
there, Harry was still looking pale, while the other two paled considerably.
"They're going to pass out." Sirius whispered to Remus, who just nodded
his head.
Within seconds of them saying that there was a
loud explosion and the barrier came down. Sirius, Remus, Dumbledore, and McGonagall rushed towards them.
Sirius grabbed Harry's shoulder and shook it
roughly. Harry hadn't quite come out of
the trance that he had unconsciously put himself into. When he came out of it he fell into Sirius's
arms.
The other two weren't in quite as bad shape. They were still considerably tired but not
nearly as bad as Harry.
After making sure that they were somewhat okay,
Dumbledore walked back over to Professor Flitwick.
"Think we can levitate him down?" Dumbledore asked.
Flitwick shook his head. "I've already tried." Dumbledore nodded his head understandably.
"I guess I better go break the news to
them." Dumbledore said, although
he didn't like the idea of them doing anymore wandless magic for a while.
Dumbledore walked back over to where Harry, Ron,
and Hermione were sitting on the floor. They were all quite pale and looking rather tired.
"Ready to try again?" Dumbledore asked motioning towards the still
hanging Malfoy.
Malfoy was looking dumbstruck at his three worst
enemies. He hadn't known they had that
much power; otherwise he would have never provoked them in the first
place. He would have to tell this to
his 'Master.'
Harry glanced up at Malfoy before nodding his
head. He knew that he better be able to
run real fast when Malfoy was down.
{Come on you two. We better make this quick.} Hermione said while standing up.
Ron nodded his head and stood up beside Hermione.
Harry glanced up at the two of them, then back at
Sirius, and then tried to stand up, with no success.
"You better just sit." Sirius told Harry, who just nodded his head.
Sirius and the rest of the professors backed up a
little to give the trio a little more space. Dumbledore pulled out his wand,
not wanting to know what would happen if he wasn't ready when they let go of
Malfoy.
The trio again concentrated as hard as they could
on Malfoy. It took them longer to get
Malfoy down then it did for them to get the barrier. Probably because they were more tired now then they had been
before, but nonetheless, they did get Malfoy down.
A big BANG announced the falling Malfoy,
Dumbledore quickly put a charm on him so he wouldn't hurt himself when he hit
the ground.
Sirius rushed over to his godson when he heard
the bang. Harry, who was still sitting
down, had promptly fainted when it was finished.
Ron and Hermione sank to their knees and put
their heads in their hands.
McGonagall leaned over towards Flitwick and whispered, "Well I guess they won't be doing that
again for a while."
