Chapter 9 The Dream
The next day, after breakfast Harry, Ron and Hermione made there way down to the dungeons for potions with Snape. They sat down all the way in the back behind Neville, who looked extremely nervous.
Soon Snape swooped in like a giant bat, his eyes flashing on there uneasy faces.
"Hello students" he said in almost a whisper. " This year we will be starting with long term potions, they take more than a month to make and-are extremely dangerous if made wrong" he hissed.
But Harry's attention had turned to Snapes office; he could see a shadow of something…. It was moving between Snapes potions….then it stopped at an extremely small bottle and from what Harry could tell picked it the bottle up….
He saw its shadow jump down for off the shelves and watched the door…..then he saw what it was it has those green eyes and was black from head to toe, except behind its ears where it had to white tuffs of fur---it was Nevells cat, and it had the potion tied around its neck. Harry watched it walk towards the door when…
"Mr.Potter!" Snape hissed "Ten points from Gryffindor for your lack of attention!"
Harry looked back at the stairs-the cat was gone.
"Harry are you ok..?" asked Hermione taking out her ingredients.
" Er, yeah sorry. What are we doing?" he asked
"Where making a polyjuice potion." Said Hermione
"Oh that should be a snap-we managed that when we where in are 2nd year!" said Harry
"Don't tell the world." Said Ron
"Sorry." Said Harry getting some ingredients out of his bag.
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Finally when potions was over and after putting away their stuff, Harry, Ron and Hermione raced to Defense against dark arts class.
"Harry! Ron! Hermione!" said Lupin "Nice to see you!"
Harry, Ron, and Hermione all smiled. "What are we doing this year professor?" asked Hermione taking some parchment out of her bag.
"Well I thought we'd start with doxy's." said Lupin
"Oh I've heard of them,…" said Ron "Aren't they also known as the biting fairy?" he asked
"Yup!" said Lupin pointing to the cage in the corner, it had a cover on it but was glowing gold.
"Fred was bitten by one of those once….had a horrible mark they have nasty teeth those things…" said Ron shuddering
The rest of the class came in and sat down, Harry, Ron and Hermione grabbed three seats together near the front. Everybody was whispering excitedly wondering what they where going to do, most seemed happy Lupin was back. Harry was glad he didn't have DADA with Malfoy, he would probably try to spread rumors about Lupin being a troll or something now- even thought by looking at him you could tell that wasn't true.
"Hello everyone" Lupin said "Its nice to see you all again… but I have to tell you something, I'm sure you've already heard but I think it would be better if you heard it from me." He said
Everybody shifted; Harry knew what he was about to say.
"Two years ago I was a were wolf.. Now I'm cured. Ever wonder why I was sick so often? It was because it was a full moon and that's when I would morph. But now I am cured- a new point was discovered over the past year and I'm a wolf no more!"
Everybody clapped
"Alright Professor!" shouted dean
Lupin grinned. "With that aside I will introduce you to are first project" he walked over to the cage and took of the cover. Inside where what looked like fairies but they where covered in thick black fur and had 6 arms and legs. They zoomed around and made noises that reminded Harry of a bee.
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After lunch Harry and Ron went up to divination as Hermione went to arithmancy. Harry and Ron climbed to the north tower and through the trap door. The room was in its normal haze filled with all sorts of weird smells. Ron and Harry sat down at the back table on two stools.
Professor Trelawney came in as usual, out of the shadows as if she had apparated.
"Hello class" she said " Another year has come and with it new challenges…" she sat down on a pink poof chair and continued." "This year we will start the ancient practice of reading rune stones.." she said picking up a box next to her. She opened it up and inside was at least 20 stones all the same except for a single symbol on the front.
"These are rune stones, you can tell peoples fortunes. It will take much practice but I believe some of you will be able to accomplish it in about a week or so." She said opening her cabinet and getting out several more boxes and setting them down on the table.
"I'll also hand out a guide on what the symbols mean. Now pick a partner and get started."
After getting a box of runes and a guide Harry and Ron tried to tell each other's fortunes.
"Hummm.." Ron said " You are going to…. Have a great misfortune….oh wait..No I think your going to lose something dear to you…"
He looked up at Harry and shrugged.
"Let me try now." Said Harry picking up the runes.
"Hmmm….your going to er, Drown.. no um..Your going to do something with water..?" said Harry looking perplexed at the little stones.
Finally the bell ring and Harry and Ron put there stuff in the dormitory and went to dinner. As Harry walked into the great hall he saw Cho and went over to say hi.
He bent down and kissed her red lips.
"How's my angel?" he said
"Good, thank you." She said hugging him tightly
"Good" Harry said, "How are your classes?"
"Fine, can't wait to see you in care for magical creatures tomorrow!" said she with a big smile
"Yeah same here!" he said kissing her on the cheek and walking over to the Gryffindor table.
"Hey Harry how's divination going?" asked Hermione
"Good, where starting runes-haven't had much luck though." Said Harry grabbing a roll
Hermione laughed as she helped her self to some ham.
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Later that night Harry put on his p.j's and went to bed. He was having an interesting dream when…..
"Harry, Harry please wake up!" they said. Harry picked up his glasses and Cho came into view, she was crying and was shacking all over. Had jumped up.
"What's wrong?" he said jumping up and hugging her.
"I had this horrible dream..but it seemed so real! There was a lady standing over me with scissors and she looked like she was going to stab me!" she said tears still running down her face.
Harry pulled her down on to the bed and rubbed her back as she cried into his shoulder.
"Its ok" he whispered
"But it just seemed so real! When I woke up I was sweating and my bed curtains were open!" she whispered
Harry grabbed his wand and muttered "Readusnaga!"
"Its ok now." He repeated "And you don't have to whisper I blocked out are voices."
He looked down at Cho, she was wearing p.js and slippers but…
"Cho how did you get in?" he asked
"I was surprised too…..when I woke up I knew I had to see you…I came to where the fat lady was and a cat was sitting in front of her..she said something..the fat lady I mean, and the door opened I thought maybe she was sleep walking because she opened when only a cat was standing there, so I just walked in, but the cat ran off went it saw me." She sobbed
He looked into her eyes, she had bright green eyes just like his. He eland forward and kissed her lightly.
"Its ok..it was just a dream…you um..can stay with me if you want." He said as he felt his face redden.
She looked up at him again and nodded. He scooted over and pulled up the covers around them. She was still slightly sobbing and he continued to rub her back. Finally after awhile she stopped crying and settled next to his chest, all most curled up in a little ball. For a second the fact flashed through his mind- he was in bed -with a girl. But he knew he would never do anything like that at this young age and he would never do that to Cho, he cared too much about her to do anything that might break them apart. And with that he fell asleep with an angel in his arms, his angel.
