Chapter 3
The Dream
'He is of no use to me, kill him.' Said some one in a cold voice.
'Yes master' replied a second voice 'It will be my pleasure' there was footsteps and the second voice came nearer 'I have wanted to kill you for a very long time Patrick.' Patrick saw his master sitting on the throne that his master always sat on. The other voice came from a man standing in front of him, his face was hooded and he held a wand pointed at Patrick. Patrick stared at the wand pointing at him and then turned to his master and said
'You were using me all this time?' asked Patrick
'Of course' replied his master.
'Avada Kadavara' said the other voice and a brilliant green light filled the area.
Patrick woke up in a cold sweat.
'It was a dream.' He said out loud. But it had seemed so real and it was so vivid in his mind. What if it had been a premonition of the future? What if his master was using him? He could speculate all he wanted but it would not do him any good. He would have to do some research. He had divination after lunch. That was fortunate he could ask professor Trelawny about dreams and seeing the future. Patrick decided to miss break fast and go straight there but he got distracted. When he got the entrance hall he saw a very strange sight. Leanne came running into the entrance hall followed by a worried looking Snape and then a smug looking Lockhart. Then it clicked, they were just coming back from the whomping willow. There was another girl with them she was called Amy. I wonder when Lockhart and Amy joined them, it must have been after Patrick left certainly.
Patrick muttered 'Occaeco-arey' and followed Leanne and Amy up the stairs back into the common room. The bell for class had already gone by this time. Leanne whirled on Amy
'Amy, swear you will never, ever use the Cruciatus Curse on Severus, please?'
'But I-' Amy started she looked confused.
'SWEAR IT' Leanne yelled frantically.
"Fine! Ok! As long as you never use it on Guildroy ever again?"
"Whatever, I really couldn't care less about the stupid selfish prat! But I swear it." Leanne said walking towards her room. Patrick followed them. 'Leanne, stop, what happened, I couldn't help myself, all I saw was… Leanne, Snape is a vampire, look at your neck! I knew it! I knew it! Snape is a vampire!' Amy said grinning at her discovery. Leanne ran to the mirror above the fireplace in the common room, in her neck she had two puncture marks. 'He can't, he wouldn't… He isn't Amy, he bit me last night, to control me, because he came after me, he was worried… or something like that,' Leanne explained
'He still bit you, that makes him a vampire!' Amy said excitedly.
'No, he isn't! He is a snake animagi, I woke up this morning with him wrapped around me… as a snake, I got a fright, then you walked in, you obviously got the wrong idea!' Leanne said hurrying to explain.
'So how do explain the Dark mark then!' Amy brought up unexpectedly. Patrick couldn't help thinking that this piece of information had become less valuable to him now that Amy knew it.
'W-what, you know? H-how?' Leanne said, glancing at her arm.
'I saw it, are you sure he didn't hurt you, we should really tell Dumbledore that he has Deatheater scum' Leanne flinched. 'Right under his nose. I should have guessed Snape was a Deatheater, I mean, he is head of Slytherin…' Amy went on, oblivious to the look of relief and hurt on Leanne's face.
'Amy, Dumbledore knows, you mustn't tell anyone, please?' Leanne begged.
"I… Leanne are you sure you're ok, you're really pale? Yes I swear never to tell anyone or use the Unforgivables on him. Ok?" Amy said finally.
'Thank-you, really and truly, Amy, can we just forget this happened, just be friends?' Leanne asked
'Sure, if you give me my wand back, you'd better give me Guildroy's too, I'll return it.' Amy said, grinning. There was more but Patrick wasn't listening he decided to follow Leanne since she said she had to do something and people would ask to many questions if he went to class now. He waited for her in the common room while she headed towards her room to change he presumed though he was careful to eaves drop on her as she said the pass word (severe) he would search her room later. When she came out she had changed and was wearing Snape's cloak. He followed her into the library and heard her ask Madame Pince about the jewel of Cassandra. Patrick spun round and went back up to the common room. He removed the invisibility spell and went in. he walked across the common room to Leanne's bed room and whispered
'Severe.' He went inside and saw the black and green decor and said 'Figures.' He looked around and saw a very rare item. It was a jewel of Cassandra, exactly like the one his master wore. But that couldn't be right, his master had told him that there was only four in the entire world. How could two of these magical seeing stones be in the same country? An idea sprung into his head, he could ask his master how it worked and borrow this one to see the future, he would be able to tell if his master was using him or not. He left the room and went to his own dormitory. He lay there and thought about everything, trying to figure it all out. He couldn't.
The bell went for next lesson and Patrick jumped of his bed. He'd have to run to get all the way to divination. When he finally got to the top of the tower he realised he wasn't late. He sighed in relief and lent against a wall to stop himself breathing so heavily. The trap door went down and Patrick climbed the stairs with the rest of his class. 'Today class we were supposed to be starting palmistry.' Said a misty voice from behind them. Patrick jumped. 'But a few things have just came to light and we will be instead starting dream reading.' That's a coincidence thought Patrick. We're starting dream reading and I was going to ask her about my dream.
Once the lesson was started Patrick raised his hand, professor Trelawny swooped over to his table and asked 'What is it?' Patrick thought the truth would be best here, well some of it anyway.
'I had a dream last night and it was really vivid.'
'It could be a premonition dear child, what did u see?'
'I saw…someone being killed by a person who was sitting on a throne.'
'A throne you say, the throne symbolises a person of great power and the death…well that means death.' She paused 'It was really vivid you say? Who was the person being killed?'
'It was…' he decided not to say me. 'I couldn't see who it was.'
Professor Trelawny sighed and said 'Well if you remember tell me.' And she went to another table.
That night as Patrick sat by the fire in the common room he thought about what he had learned so far. Firstly Leanne was a werewolf, secondly she was also a death eater, thirdly dreams could predict the future and lastly Leanne had a jewel of Cassandra. As he turned this over in his mind the common room slowly emptied and he fell asleep by the fire. When he awoke the fire had gone out and he could hear voices, he quickly cast the invisibility spell on himself and waited. What he saw relieved him slightly. It was just Amy and her boy friend. They said good night and the boy went up to bed but Amy did not, she sat down by the extinguished fireplace. Patrick crept silently up to bed and fell asleep almost instantly. Not really caring what Amy was doing at all.