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"Sirius? Sirius Black?" Amy asked, a bit alarmed, as she held out the note Alexis had summoned.
"I guess so. I hope not though. I mean, what buisness would Harry have writing to a murderer?" Alexis replied. She looked around the first year girl's dormitory to make sure they were alone. As far as she could tell, they were.
"Well, how'll we know if it's really Black. I mean, Sirius isn't THAT unique of a name," Amy said. When she wan't being a total ditz, she was pretty bright.
"Okay, here's the deal," Alexis started, looking at Amy determinedly. "If this was a reply of some sort, it doesn't look like it but it might be, then wont Sirius be expecting it?"
"Well, naturally," replied Amy.
"So what we'll do is sneak into the boy's fifth year dormitory. After that, we search through Harry's things till we find the note."
"When will we do that?" Amy cut in.
"While they're all asleep of course!" Alexis exlaimed.
"But...don't you have dtention with Snape tomorrow night?" Amy asked.
"No, that's Sunday. Tomorrow I have it with Hagrid at 9:00 in the morning. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be done by nighttime." said Alexis, smiling.
"Well, why don't we look for it tonight?" Amy asked logically.
Alexis sighed. "We have to give Sirius time to start worrying about the letter."
"Oh...go on."
"Anyway, we'll go through his things as quiet as possible and put everything back in order. And, Amy, this is the most important: Don't take ANYTHING," Alexis said frimly.
"Yeah, like I'd want some fifteen year old's stuff," Amy said sarcastically.
"You would if it was Matt's," Alexis said. Amy blushed.
"I don't know anything about him!"
"You know his name."
"Yeah, I think I've cleared that up pretty well."
Alexis smiled.
* * * * * * * *
Harry sat down in the Gryffindor Common Room and began to write his reply to Sirius when Ron and Hermione walked in.
"All I'm saying is that someone COULD Apparate into the forest!" Ron said
"Ron, how many times do I have to tell you? No one can Apparrate onto Hogwarts grounds!" Hermione replied, obviously annoyed.
"But listen. The forest isn't on Hogwarts grounds, is it?" Ron persisted.
"He has a point, Hermione," Harry said making both of them look at him.
"Yes the forest is on Hogwarts grounds!" Hermione exclaimed. "How else would they protect it from Muggles? They can't very well have giant spiders running around a wooded area tresspassed on by Muggles, now can they?"
"Okay, I'll give you that one, but couldn't someone Apparate at the edge of the forest, then travel up to the castle on broomstick or something?" Ron pushed.
"I never said that wasn't a plausible idea, the question was, and I quote, 'Hey Hermione, I just thought of something. Couldn't someone Apparate into the Forbidden Forest?' You never asked if they could Apparate on the edge and come up to the castle, which I think could very possibly happen." Hermione said all this looking very satisfied
Ron opened his mouth to reply but Harry cut in, "Just drop it. She's right."
Ron sighed, "As usual," he muttered under his breath.
"Anyway," Hermione said shooting Ron a sideways glance. "I heard your last letter to Sirius was intercepted." Her tone had change and she sounded worried. "What did it say? You didn't put anything down about where he is now, did you?"
"Of course I didn't!" Harry said. "All I put down was about the nightmare I had the other night."
"Oh yes, that does seem like a bit of a heads-up. I do hope You-Know-Who isn't anywhere near," Hermione said.
Just then, Alexis and Amy walked in from the girl's dorm.
"Don't look guilty," Alexis muttered under her breath to Amy.
"Why would I look guilty, you're the one who t-" Amy said loudly before recieving a sharp blow to the stomach by Alexis's elbow. "Ow!Violence is NOT the answer!"
"It is when you're about to blow a secret," Alexis muttered.
By this time, Harry, Hermione, and Ron were all watching the two girls. Alexis looked over and smiled innocently and took Amy to sit away from the trio but close enough to hear them. They took out their homework but whispered behind their books.
"I wonder what they're up to," Harry said.
"Nevermind them, you need to write Sirius a letter telling him yours was intercepted." Hermione said.
Amy looked at Alexis, "They know already!"
"How though?" Alexis replied.
"I dunno, he didn't see you get it, did he?"
"Huh uh, I made sure he left and anyway, he would have confronted me by now."
"You're right. D'ya think Sirius sent a letter already?"
"We'll look tonight," Alexis said glancing at the other three.
"I'll wake you up at midnight, since I'm sure I'll be up that long with all this homework. And then we'll go in and search. Remeber what I said, don't take anything unless it's the letter."
"Tell me again why we're doing this," Amy said.
"Don't you want to know if and why Harry's writing to Sirius Black?" Alexis said lowering her voice even more.
"Well...I guess so but... what if they wake up?" Amy asked cautiously.
"We'll figure that out if it happens." Alexis replied dismissively.
"Oh...I just thought we should have a game plan," amy said.
"Trust me, what could go wrong? If they wake up, we hide. No big deal." Alexis said.
Harry was writing his letter to Sirius and Hermione and Ron were doing homework. Well, Ron was mainly looking around, longing for a game of wizard chess.
"Come on, Hermione. Just one game," Ron said for the umpteenth time
"Ron, the report for Potions is due Monday. You should be working on it too," Hermione replied, not looking up from her parchment.
"I've got writer's block," Ron retorted.
"What a horrible excuse. Here, all the information you need is in this," she said shoving a large book into his hands.
Ron turned it over in his hands.
"How do you carry this around all day?" he asked incredulously.
"Well, it's a necessity. I never know when I might need it," Hermione replied.
"You're nutters," Ron said.
"I'm prepared," Hermione retorted.
* * * * * * * *
Later that night, Amy was getting ready for bed while Alexis sat propped up on her pillows, surrounded by books.
"You sure you wont fall asleep?" Amy asked climbing into her four poster.
"Positive," Alexis replied.
"Alright, but I'll try to wake up on my own anyway," Amy said pulling up the covers. Alexis got 3 reports finished by 11:30. She checked the clock and sighed. Her head was nodding and she was getting increasingly tired. Finally, she slipped into a restless slumber.
* * * * * * * * *
"Alexis! Alexis wake up!" someone was hissing into her ear.
Alexis grunted. "What?!" she mumbled angrilly. She slowly opened her eyes and looked into Amy's anxious face. The plan for getting Harry's note flooded back to her. "Oh no! The note! I'm so sorry, I was finishing my report on all the uses of brussel sprouts and I must have fallen alseep!" Alexis exclaimed, pushing her supplies aside and getting up, already fully clothed.
"It's okay, I woke up early as I hoped I would. It's 3:30 now." Amy said pulling her long sleeves up and grabbing her wand.
"Okay, let's go then," Alexis said grabbing her own wand from the bedside table.
"Where are you guys going?" a voice asked from a four poster across the room. Both girls froze and Mary Anne's head popped out from behind the hangings on her bed.
"We're going to go look for something." Alexis said quickly.
"What?" asked a voice from another bed. Sadie pulled back her hangings.
"A note," Alexis said simply.
"From who?" yet another voice asked as Nancy sat up in her bed.
"You lot are so nosy!" Alexis said, smiling.
"Let us help, we might be able to find it for you," said Sadie.
"It's too risky," Alexis answered.
"How come?" Mary Anne said timidly.
"We have to sneak into a boy's dormitory," Alexis said, smirking at the effect. All the other girls besides her and Amy looked disgusted.
"Now, we trust you wont tell anyone," Amy said warily.
"You're right to," Nancy said.
"Why are you looking in a boy's dorm anyway?" Sadie asked.
"Yeah, there might be things in there you don't want to see." Mary Anne said, wrinkling her nose in disgust.
"Like certain magazines." Sadie said and all the girls giggled.
"That's a chance we have to take." Alexs said, smiling.
"I bet you WANT to see the magazines." Nancy said, a smirk on her face. Alexis's jaw dropped as the rest of the girls giggled.
"You're gonna pay for that one, you just wait!" she exclaimed, but she was smiling.
"Okay, if we tell you, you have to swear that you wont tell a single soul about this." Amy said, checking her watch.
"Alright," the three girls said in unison.
Alexis told them about finding the letter Harry wrote to Sirius and they sat there, open-mouthed. After about a minute, Mary Anne said in a small voice," So, can we come?"
Alexis sighed."I guess, but you have to be quiet and don't take anything unless it's the letter. Understood?"
The girls replied positively and by this time they were sneaking down the steps, it was 4:45.
Harry tossed in his beed restlessly. He was troubled by the nightmare he had suffered through and was sleeping lightly. He heard when the girls opened the door to the dorm but soon fell into a deeper sleep and thought nothing of it.
Alexis opened the door and crept in, looking around, followed closely by Amy, then Sadie, Mary Anne, and finally, Nancy. Alexis tiptoed to Harry's four-poster watching him carefully.
~Harry was pulled into the room by a trembling hand.~
Alexis started to search through his trunk, Sadie under his bed, Mary Anne and Amy through his bad; and Nancy standing watch.
~Harry was turned sharply to face a high-backed arm chair.
"Good evening, Harry Potter," that cold voice said from behind it.~
Alexis pushed a few books aside and spotted the Invisibility Cloak. "Whoa..." she said under her breath, running her fingers through the water- like material.
~Harry felt his legs moving himself automatically toward the chair. A long snake slithered out from under it and started circling Harry and the chair all the while forcing him closer. The chair was turned around and Harry was facing the Dark Lord.~
"Found it!" exclaimed Amy, holding up a piece of folded parchment. Alexis looked up and shoved the cloak into her pocket.
A searing pain went through Harry's scar. He sat up so quickly that his bed shook slightly. He was clutching his forehead. All the girls looked at the bed, surprised.
"Hide!" Alexis whispered urgently. Every girl slid under a bed. Alexis went under Harry's, Amy under Neville's, Nancy under Seamus', Sadie under Dean's, and Mary Anne under Ron's. They all waited in silence as Harry pulled back the covers and grabbed his glasses from the bedside table. He sighed and got up. All the girls watched his feet as he started to pace, muttering incoherently. He took out the letter he had started to Sirius.
There was a loud croak and Amy had to cover her mouth to keep from screaming. Trevor had crawled onto Amy's head. She swpied at it and shook her head, which she hit on the underside of the bed. Trevor flew from under it. Harry turned around looking at Trevor. Alexis slid the Invisibility Cloak across the floor to Amy who hid under it. When Harry went to investigate, he didn't see anything. He shook his head, stuck his letter on the bedside table and put his glasses on top of it. He got back into bed. The girls waited 15 minutes before letting out one big sigh of relief. They all crawled out of their hiding spots.
"That was close!" Mary Anne whispered. Alexis had the letter Harry had been writing in one hand and was hastily copying down what was on it.
"Come on Alexis, Amy said. "You've got your note now let's get out of here.
"One moment," Alexis muttered finishing it up. Amy was running her hands through her hair disgustedly. "What kind of a kid owns a frog?" she muttered.
* * * * * * * * *
Alexis sat, awake in the girl's dorm while the others quickly fell asleep. "I don't get it. Sirius says he's against You-Know-Who, but yet, he killed all those people...." she was saying to herself. "It just doesn't make any sense." Slowly, she fell into an uneasy sleep, her subconscience mind turning the events over and trying to make sense of them.
"Sirius? Sirius Black?" Amy asked, a bit alarmed, as she held out the note Alexis had summoned.
"I guess so. I hope not though. I mean, what buisness would Harry have writing to a murderer?" Alexis replied. She looked around the first year girl's dormitory to make sure they were alone. As far as she could tell, they were.
"Well, how'll we know if it's really Black. I mean, Sirius isn't THAT unique of a name," Amy said. When she wan't being a total ditz, she was pretty bright.
"Okay, here's the deal," Alexis started, looking at Amy determinedly. "If this was a reply of some sort, it doesn't look like it but it might be, then wont Sirius be expecting it?"
"Well, naturally," replied Amy.
"So what we'll do is sneak into the boy's fifth year dormitory. After that, we search through Harry's things till we find the note."
"When will we do that?" Amy cut in.
"While they're all asleep of course!" Alexis exlaimed.
"But...don't you have dtention with Snape tomorrow night?" Amy asked.
"No, that's Sunday. Tomorrow I have it with Hagrid at 9:00 in the morning. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be done by nighttime." said Alexis, smiling.
"Well, why don't we look for it tonight?" Amy asked logically.
Alexis sighed. "We have to give Sirius time to start worrying about the letter."
"Oh...go on."
"Anyway, we'll go through his things as quiet as possible and put everything back in order. And, Amy, this is the most important: Don't take ANYTHING," Alexis said frimly.
"Yeah, like I'd want some fifteen year old's stuff," Amy said sarcastically.
"You would if it was Matt's," Alexis said. Amy blushed.
"I don't know anything about him!"
"You know his name."
"Yeah, I think I've cleared that up pretty well."
Alexis smiled.
* * * * * * * *
Harry sat down in the Gryffindor Common Room and began to write his reply to Sirius when Ron and Hermione walked in.
"All I'm saying is that someone COULD Apparate into the forest!" Ron said
"Ron, how many times do I have to tell you? No one can Apparrate onto Hogwarts grounds!" Hermione replied, obviously annoyed.
"But listen. The forest isn't on Hogwarts grounds, is it?" Ron persisted.
"He has a point, Hermione," Harry said making both of them look at him.
"Yes the forest is on Hogwarts grounds!" Hermione exclaimed. "How else would they protect it from Muggles? They can't very well have giant spiders running around a wooded area tresspassed on by Muggles, now can they?"
"Okay, I'll give you that one, but couldn't someone Apparate at the edge of the forest, then travel up to the castle on broomstick or something?" Ron pushed.
"I never said that wasn't a plausible idea, the question was, and I quote, 'Hey Hermione, I just thought of something. Couldn't someone Apparate into the Forbidden Forest?' You never asked if they could Apparate on the edge and come up to the castle, which I think could very possibly happen." Hermione said all this looking very satisfied
Ron opened his mouth to reply but Harry cut in, "Just drop it. She's right."
Ron sighed, "As usual," he muttered under his breath.
"Anyway," Hermione said shooting Ron a sideways glance. "I heard your last letter to Sirius was intercepted." Her tone had change and she sounded worried. "What did it say? You didn't put anything down about where he is now, did you?"
"Of course I didn't!" Harry said. "All I put down was about the nightmare I had the other night."
"Oh yes, that does seem like a bit of a heads-up. I do hope You-Know-Who isn't anywhere near," Hermione said.
Just then, Alexis and Amy walked in from the girl's dorm.
"Don't look guilty," Alexis muttered under her breath to Amy.
"Why would I look guilty, you're the one who t-" Amy said loudly before recieving a sharp blow to the stomach by Alexis's elbow. "Ow!Violence is NOT the answer!"
"It is when you're about to blow a secret," Alexis muttered.
By this time, Harry, Hermione, and Ron were all watching the two girls. Alexis looked over and smiled innocently and took Amy to sit away from the trio but close enough to hear them. They took out their homework but whispered behind their books.
"I wonder what they're up to," Harry said.
"Nevermind them, you need to write Sirius a letter telling him yours was intercepted." Hermione said.
Amy looked at Alexis, "They know already!"
"How though?" Alexis replied.
"I dunno, he didn't see you get it, did he?"
"Huh uh, I made sure he left and anyway, he would have confronted me by now."
"You're right. D'ya think Sirius sent a letter already?"
"We'll look tonight," Alexis said glancing at the other three.
"I'll wake you up at midnight, since I'm sure I'll be up that long with all this homework. And then we'll go in and search. Remeber what I said, don't take anything unless it's the letter."
"Tell me again why we're doing this," Amy said.
"Don't you want to know if and why Harry's writing to Sirius Black?" Alexis said lowering her voice even more.
"Well...I guess so but... what if they wake up?" Amy asked cautiously.
"We'll figure that out if it happens." Alexis replied dismissively.
"Oh...I just thought we should have a game plan," amy said.
"Trust me, what could go wrong? If they wake up, we hide. No big deal." Alexis said.
Harry was writing his letter to Sirius and Hermione and Ron were doing homework. Well, Ron was mainly looking around, longing for a game of wizard chess.
"Come on, Hermione. Just one game," Ron said for the umpteenth time
"Ron, the report for Potions is due Monday. You should be working on it too," Hermione replied, not looking up from her parchment.
"I've got writer's block," Ron retorted.
"What a horrible excuse. Here, all the information you need is in this," she said shoving a large book into his hands.
Ron turned it over in his hands.
"How do you carry this around all day?" he asked incredulously.
"Well, it's a necessity. I never know when I might need it," Hermione replied.
"You're nutters," Ron said.
"I'm prepared," Hermione retorted.
* * * * * * * *
Later that night, Amy was getting ready for bed while Alexis sat propped up on her pillows, surrounded by books.
"You sure you wont fall asleep?" Amy asked climbing into her four poster.
"Positive," Alexis replied.
"Alright, but I'll try to wake up on my own anyway," Amy said pulling up the covers. Alexis got 3 reports finished by 11:30. She checked the clock and sighed. Her head was nodding and she was getting increasingly tired. Finally, she slipped into a restless slumber.
* * * * * * * * *
"Alexis! Alexis wake up!" someone was hissing into her ear.
Alexis grunted. "What?!" she mumbled angrilly. She slowly opened her eyes and looked into Amy's anxious face. The plan for getting Harry's note flooded back to her. "Oh no! The note! I'm so sorry, I was finishing my report on all the uses of brussel sprouts and I must have fallen alseep!" Alexis exclaimed, pushing her supplies aside and getting up, already fully clothed.
"It's okay, I woke up early as I hoped I would. It's 3:30 now." Amy said pulling her long sleeves up and grabbing her wand.
"Okay, let's go then," Alexis said grabbing her own wand from the bedside table.
"Where are you guys going?" a voice asked from a four poster across the room. Both girls froze and Mary Anne's head popped out from behind the hangings on her bed.
"We're going to go look for something." Alexis said quickly.
"What?" asked a voice from another bed. Sadie pulled back her hangings.
"A note," Alexis said simply.
"From who?" yet another voice asked as Nancy sat up in her bed.
"You lot are so nosy!" Alexis said, smiling.
"Let us help, we might be able to find it for you," said Sadie.
"It's too risky," Alexis answered.
"How come?" Mary Anne said timidly.
"We have to sneak into a boy's dormitory," Alexis said, smirking at the effect. All the other girls besides her and Amy looked disgusted.
"Now, we trust you wont tell anyone," Amy said warily.
"You're right to," Nancy said.
"Why are you looking in a boy's dorm anyway?" Sadie asked.
"Yeah, there might be things in there you don't want to see." Mary Anne said, wrinkling her nose in disgust.
"Like certain magazines." Sadie said and all the girls giggled.
"That's a chance we have to take." Alexs said, smiling.
"I bet you WANT to see the magazines." Nancy said, a smirk on her face. Alexis's jaw dropped as the rest of the girls giggled.
"You're gonna pay for that one, you just wait!" she exclaimed, but she was smiling.
"Okay, if we tell you, you have to swear that you wont tell a single soul about this." Amy said, checking her watch.
"Alright," the three girls said in unison.
Alexis told them about finding the letter Harry wrote to Sirius and they sat there, open-mouthed. After about a minute, Mary Anne said in a small voice," So, can we come?"
Alexis sighed."I guess, but you have to be quiet and don't take anything unless it's the letter. Understood?"
The girls replied positively and by this time they were sneaking down the steps, it was 4:45.
Harry tossed in his beed restlessly. He was troubled by the nightmare he had suffered through and was sleeping lightly. He heard when the girls opened the door to the dorm but soon fell into a deeper sleep and thought nothing of it.
Alexis opened the door and crept in, looking around, followed closely by Amy, then Sadie, Mary Anne, and finally, Nancy. Alexis tiptoed to Harry's four-poster watching him carefully.
~Harry was pulled into the room by a trembling hand.~
Alexis started to search through his trunk, Sadie under his bed, Mary Anne and Amy through his bad; and Nancy standing watch.
~Harry was turned sharply to face a high-backed arm chair.
"Good evening, Harry Potter," that cold voice said from behind it.~
Alexis pushed a few books aside and spotted the Invisibility Cloak. "Whoa..." she said under her breath, running her fingers through the water- like material.
~Harry felt his legs moving himself automatically toward the chair. A long snake slithered out from under it and started circling Harry and the chair all the while forcing him closer. The chair was turned around and Harry was facing the Dark Lord.~
"Found it!" exclaimed Amy, holding up a piece of folded parchment. Alexis looked up and shoved the cloak into her pocket.
A searing pain went through Harry's scar. He sat up so quickly that his bed shook slightly. He was clutching his forehead. All the girls looked at the bed, surprised.
"Hide!" Alexis whispered urgently. Every girl slid under a bed. Alexis went under Harry's, Amy under Neville's, Nancy under Seamus', Sadie under Dean's, and Mary Anne under Ron's. They all waited in silence as Harry pulled back the covers and grabbed his glasses from the bedside table. He sighed and got up. All the girls watched his feet as he started to pace, muttering incoherently. He took out the letter he had started to Sirius.
There was a loud croak and Amy had to cover her mouth to keep from screaming. Trevor had crawled onto Amy's head. She swpied at it and shook her head, which she hit on the underside of the bed. Trevor flew from under it. Harry turned around looking at Trevor. Alexis slid the Invisibility Cloak across the floor to Amy who hid under it. When Harry went to investigate, he didn't see anything. He shook his head, stuck his letter on the bedside table and put his glasses on top of it. He got back into bed. The girls waited 15 minutes before letting out one big sigh of relief. They all crawled out of their hiding spots.
"That was close!" Mary Anne whispered. Alexis had the letter Harry had been writing in one hand and was hastily copying down what was on it.
"Come on Alexis, Amy said. "You've got your note now let's get out of here.
"One moment," Alexis muttered finishing it up. Amy was running her hands through her hair disgustedly. "What kind of a kid owns a frog?" she muttered.
* * * * * * * * *
Alexis sat, awake in the girl's dorm while the others quickly fell asleep. "I don't get it. Sirius says he's against You-Know-Who, but yet, he killed all those people...." she was saying to herself. "It just doesn't make any sense." Slowly, she fell into an uneasy sleep, her subconscience mind turning the events over and trying to make sense of them.
