A/N: Okay... so I did this a little backwards. I started off writing chapter fifteen and realized that I had jumped several months, so I made that chapter number sixteen. I'm listening to "De Show" by Two-Mix.
I can't wait until my birthday! OOH! I can't wait because I usually get a bunch on money on my birthday and I can spend, spend, spend till my hearts content. Really, I don't spend it that quickly. I'll buy a couple of mangas that I want and keep the rest until I need it again.
Anyway... I hope ya'll are doing those pictures! I can't wait to see them! ^.^ Of course... If no one does this little contest I hath incited, I will have to hurt you people! ::diabolical laughter::
::Miss Snape's Ayeka laugh::
Chapter Fifteen
February came up and the cold weather started to warm up outside. Harry couldn't wait until the next Quidditch game. He had already played against Hufflepuff and Gryffindor won. Next was Ravenclaw.
Hermione was putting on her witch hat for the prefect meeting. Harry put on his own hat and they walked to the room where they normally met. He walked into the room to see the other Prefects watching as he and Hermione walked in. It always made him nervous, as if they expected him to trip or something.
"First order of business..." said the Head Boy, "There is a girl missing from Ravenclaw. There is no one that can tell us how long she has been gone, or what took her."
"Maybe she drowned in the lake or was taken by a centaur!" said a Hufflepuff girl.
"We scoured the lake where she was last seen, no one found anything and the centaurs don't take people. They abhor being around humans!" The Head Boy growled.
"Sorry... it was just a thought." The Hufflepuff girl said.
"The second order of business...."
"The fighting in the hallways has to stop!" said a Slytherin boy.
"Y-yes.... but that wasn't what I was going to say... I was going to say..."
"More homework time for those who are slower than us!" said a Ravenclaw boy.
"That too, but what I was going to say was..."
"Too many people know about the secret prefect bathroom! It must be stopped!" said A Slytherin girl.
"ALRIGHT! I GET THE POINT!"
The Head Boy huffed at the other Prefects and growled. He was a Hufflepuff, by the looks of the colors on the crest of his robe. Harry had never actually noticed which houses the Head Boy and Girl were in.
After the meeting was over, Harry went back to Gryffindor Tower. Hermione went to ask a Ravenclaw Prefect a few questions. When he reached the common room, Harry saw Ginny playing chess against her brother, looking oddly strained.
"Come on, Gin... you can make a better move than that!" Ron chided Ginny.
She glared at her brother. "Well... If you would let me win a round or two, I might actually feel better about myself!"
"Right, like that's going to help! How are you ever going to learn like that!" Ron said. His cheeks were as pink as Ginny's were.
"I'm one of the only ones who'll play with you, numbskull! You've played everyone else away from you!" Ginny growled.
"Why don't you try playing with Kennedy again?" Harry said calmly.
"Yeah... why don't you pick on him a bit! Or Harry!"
"Thanks, Ginny... I need to lose to Ron a few more times." Harry said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Honestly, he could play against Ron and win, and it was fun, but Ron was on a winning streak that he didn't want to break.
Suddenly, Ginny stood up, her face as red as her hair. She grabbed a hold of Harry's arm and clung onto him. She batted her eyes playfully at him. "Harry... why don't you and I spend some time alone?"
Harry gulped, then grinned. His heart raced a mile a minute as she wrapped her arms around his waist. Her hair still smelled like lilies.
Ron grimaced at them both. "Hmph! You scream at me for kissing Hermione, but when I have to see you and my best mate, I'm supposed to roll over and play dead."
"I never said I couldn't stand watching you and Hermione kiss! What I saw you and her doing yesterday was just down right gross to watch!" Ginny stuck her tongue out at her brother and he did likewise.
"It's not like you and him don't do that either! Nyah!" he stuck his tongue at her again.
"It's not like I ask anyone to watch!" she growled.
"Ginny... maybe it's not a good idea tonight..." Harry said, just a little afraid of Ron.
Ginny turned her head and gazed up at him with her big, bright brown eyes, stars seemingly pranced in them. "What? You don't want me anymore?!"
"ACK! That's not what I said!" Harry stuttered. Ron looked furious.
"Are you saying that you don't want me sister anymore!" Ron growled, standing up at his full height. He was huge against Harry, who began to shrink in fear against Ron.
"No! That's not what I said! I was simply trying to be thoughtful!" Harry growled at Ron.
"You and Ginny are going out, right now! I don't want to see either of you until later!" Ron said as she shoved Harry and Ginny out of the portrait hole.
When they turned a corner, Ginny grinned impishly. "That's the way to win an argument with him. Turn everything around until he doesn't know if he should scratch his watch or wind up his rear!" Ginny giggled.
"Where to, oh mighty Weasley." Harry said as he bowed to Ginny.
She rose up on her toes until her face was centimeters away from his. "The Astronomy Tower." She grinned up at him.
Harry grinned. "As you wish, m'lady."
They walked up to the Astronomy Tower and sat down in font of one of the massive windows. "It's such a pretty night out." Ginny sighed as she leaned against his shoulder. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
Harry took off his hat and placed it next to him. "I like watching the stars shine. It's so peaceful."
Ginny leaned up and kissed his cheek. Harry blushed slightly and smiled. He turned his head and kissed her on her lips. She let him deepen the kiss as she wrapped her arms around his neck. She even tasted great.
Harry leaned her back until they were lying on the floor. His hands found her hair and wrapped themselves in the soft mass. Lips on lips, breath for breath.
He pulled back to breath in fresh air. He felt dizzy and his glasses were steamed up. He took them off and placed them next to him. He gazed into her eyes and smiled. Her eyes were now very dark, like black coals almost. Her pale skin reflected in the moonlight.
He kissed her again. Ginny put her hands underneath his robes, underneath his shirt, letting her small hands feel his skin. He moaned softly at her touch.
Suddenly, he heard someone. He shot away from Ginny's embrace, grabbed his glasses and looked out the massive window. There was a fog rolling in from the Forbidden Forest. He saw a female figure walking into the mist and disappearing. She had shoulder length, shimmering black hair and wore a familiar kimono.
"Harry? Harry... come back..." Ginny's small hands caressed his chest through his uniform. "Harry.. What do you see?"
"I don't know... It looked as though Miss Snape walked into that mist there." he said to her.
She came around to get a better look. "Where is she. I don't see her."
"Like I said... she walked into the fog." Harry said to Ginny, grinning at her.
She slapped him on his shoulder. "That's not cute! I know what you said!" Suddenly, she stopped and looked out the window. "Wait a minute... that looks like her over there walking back into the castle."
"Please come to me..."
Harry turned abruptly to the Forbidden Forest. He heard the same voice again, singing that frighteningly morbid song. It struck him like it had before, freezing his insides like a dementor.
"Come fly through.... the night, the sky, I dine..."
There was that light again. It came out from the Forbidden Forest, turning away from the lake and headed toward the castle.
"Please come to me.... we'll fly away and soon your soul is mine...."
Harry saw something emerge from inside the castle. There was a small figure walking in a trance like state. It was a second year boy. He had ginger hair and wore yellow pajamas.
"Please come to me, come ride the wind... come sing, come dance, you're mine...."
Harry dashed out of the Astronomy Tower. He ran towards the nearest exit to the grounds. He ran onto the grounds.
"Please don't despair..."
Harry saw the boy heading towards the light. He ran toward him, a stitch in his side from running so long.
"...it's never fair...."
Harry saw the boy clearer now. He had a cherub like face with large blue eyes. "Hey there! Hey!" He yelled at the boy. The light was getting closer.
".... and soon..."
Harry stopped cold in his tracks. The cold from the light pierced into his body, worse than ever before. He struggled against the cold. He felt as though he was in the presence of a whole legion of Dementors.
"... your soul..."
The boy stopped now. Harry watched in horror as the light turned into a shape. It was the form of a woman. It picked up the boy, who seemed to go limp at its touch.
"...is mine...."
Harry's spine froze up. His entire body locked up and he fell to the ground in a heap. He suddenly felt his scar burn furiously. He saw the boy suddenly realize what was happening.... He heard the scream..... He felt his mind fill with a haze.... and then... everything went black....
"Yes, sir... I found him outside... I immediately picked him up and took him to the infirmary."
Harry heard voices coming from everywhere. He opened his eyes and found everything slightly blurry. He picked his glasses and put them on, feeling his forehead covered in sweat.
"Yer awake!" said Astra gleefully. "Are you alright?"
Harry shook his head of the fuzziness. He looked around him. Everything was quiet and the few people in the infirmary were asleep. How long had he been asleep, he wondered.
"That was quite a tale, Miss Knight. Why were YOU out." Harry heard Professor Snape say. He turned and saw both Miss Snape and Professor Snape standing together.
"I saw something when I was walking down the stairs to the common room and saw that weird light." Astra said. Harry noticed that she was wearing only her pajamas and a pair blue fuzzy slippers with yellow moons on the fronts.
"I saw...." Harry began. His voice sounded hoarse. "I saw Miss Snape out there..."
"What? Of course I was out there, Mr. Potter. I always take a walk at night!" she said indignantly.
"Why were you out there, Aldonia....?" sneered Professor Snape. "I don't remember you saying that you were a die hard midnight walker."
"It's nice outside.... I thought it was a nice idea..." Her cheeks were pink.
"Wh-where's that second year boy! I heard him scream! That light picked him up and he screamed just before I blacked out." Harry said. His thought were a jumble.
"Boy? I didn't see anyone out there." Astra said with a questioning look on her face. "I heard someone singing and then I heard a scream."
"Singing? Can you remember the song?" Professor Dumbledore prodded.
Astra seemed to think a moment and then shook her head. Dumbledore sighed heavily. "Alright..."
"Sir... they were out of bed and walking around the castle freely. Don't you think they ought to be punished? Like take away Harry's badge and limit Astra's quidditch privileges?" Miss Snape said sweetly. Her violet eyes locked on Dumbledore as if she were trying to make him bend to her will.
Dumbledore smiled. "Miss Snape... you ought to know that it doesn't work that way, by now. You know.... you are becoming quite used to your abilities, Aldonia. I think you ought to remember where you keep you bag of tricks before trying to set them on me."
With that, Dumbledore walked out of the infirmary with Professor Snape sneering at Miss Snape in a satisfied manner. Madame Pomfrey walked out with a small block of chocolate. "I hate those dementors..." she said under her breath as she broke it into two pieces.
Astra's eyes grew wide and smiled gleefully. "Chocolate!" she giggled.
"I got tired of eating this in my third year." Harry said as he gulped down his chocolate. "We had loads of Dementors around so she kept feeding us this."
"I wouldn't mind so much. I love chocolate. Especially dark chocolate. You know... the semisweet stuff!" Astra said as she sat down on Harry's bed beside his legs and munched happily.
When they had finished, Astra grabbed Harry's hand and led him toward the castle. Harry suddenly realized whom he had left behind in the Astronomy tower. "Oh no! I forgot about Ginny! She was so entranced by that light, that she just stood there like a statue! I had to get to the boy, so I ran." Harry said. Harry had gone white as a sheet.
"Don't worry about it.... You two were gone so long, that Ron ran all the way up to the Astronomy tower to see if you two were alright. You know, concerned brother and all." Astra winked. Harry still awaited pensively. She sighed. "When Ron brought her in, that was when I started hearing the voice. I ran outside when I thought I saw you running out there."
"You heard it?" Harry asked. "Did you hear the words?" He gulped. He wasn't sure about what she had said to Dumbledore. She was fairly good at lying.
She pressed her finger to her lips and led him to a darkened classroom. When they stepped inside, she closed the door and locked it. She raised her wand in a manner Harry had never seen before and a white ball of light came out of it. It surrounded them and disappeared.
"What was that!" Harry exclaimed.
"Sort of sound proofing the room in a way." Astra winked at him. "I trained under one of the best Amazon Time Sorceresses around."
"Huh?"
"I stopped time for a short period. I can't control it very well, seeing as how I had to leave in my fourth year, so I'm not that good, but like I said, it'll allow us to talk for a little bit." She said.
"You know how to manipulate time? I thought that was kept under lock and key by the Ministry." Harry said. He was still in shock.
"It is... I can't change time, I can only do so much with it and they allow Miss White to teach her class. She can do that only if she keeps a limited number of students and she's very picky." Astra said lowering her wand.
"So what did you hear. Why didn't you tell Dumbledore?"
"Please come to me, come fly through the night, the sky, I dine.... Please come to me, we'll fly away and soon your soul is mine! Please come to me, come ride the wind, come sing, come dance, you're mine! Please don't despair, it's never fair and soon your soul is mine!"
Harry heard the chilling song come from her lips. She bellowed it out like someone who was used to being on stage. She stared at him with those eyes of hers.
"I didn't tell Dumbledore because I was afraid." She shook her head at herself. "I don't know why, I was just afraid."
She looked like she was shaking and Harry took off his robe and put it around her shoulders, holding her in a hug. "It's alright... It's okay to be afraid. You above all people should know that."
"It wasn't just fear... it was absolute terror that I felt out there. That above all else is what made me grab you and drag you back." Astra said into his shoulder.
Suddenly, the door knob started shaking, like someone was trying to open it. "Oops... I think the spell wore off." Astra said.
Harry hid them in a shadow as Miss Snape walked in. "Damn and blast! I hate that man, I really do! I hate him, I hate him, I hate him!" She kicked her desk repeatedly.
She moved to an area of the room where she had her back to the door. Harry and Astra slid out of the room and into the hallway. They ran down the hallway and up the stairs to Gryffindor Tower. They ran inside where they each retreated to their separate rooms and went in for the rest of the night.
I can't wait until my birthday! OOH! I can't wait because I usually get a bunch on money on my birthday and I can spend, spend, spend till my hearts content. Really, I don't spend it that quickly. I'll buy a couple of mangas that I want and keep the rest until I need it again.
Anyway... I hope ya'll are doing those pictures! I can't wait to see them! ^.^ Of course... If no one does this little contest I hath incited, I will have to hurt you people! ::diabolical laughter::
::Miss Snape's Ayeka laugh::
Chapter Fifteen
February came up and the cold weather started to warm up outside. Harry couldn't wait until the next Quidditch game. He had already played against Hufflepuff and Gryffindor won. Next was Ravenclaw.
Hermione was putting on her witch hat for the prefect meeting. Harry put on his own hat and they walked to the room where they normally met. He walked into the room to see the other Prefects watching as he and Hermione walked in. It always made him nervous, as if they expected him to trip or something.
"First order of business..." said the Head Boy, "There is a girl missing from Ravenclaw. There is no one that can tell us how long she has been gone, or what took her."
"Maybe she drowned in the lake or was taken by a centaur!" said a Hufflepuff girl.
"We scoured the lake where she was last seen, no one found anything and the centaurs don't take people. They abhor being around humans!" The Head Boy growled.
"Sorry... it was just a thought." The Hufflepuff girl said.
"The second order of business...."
"The fighting in the hallways has to stop!" said a Slytherin boy.
"Y-yes.... but that wasn't what I was going to say... I was going to say..."
"More homework time for those who are slower than us!" said a Ravenclaw boy.
"That too, but what I was going to say was..."
"Too many people know about the secret prefect bathroom! It must be stopped!" said A Slytherin girl.
"ALRIGHT! I GET THE POINT!"
The Head Boy huffed at the other Prefects and growled. He was a Hufflepuff, by the looks of the colors on the crest of his robe. Harry had never actually noticed which houses the Head Boy and Girl were in.
After the meeting was over, Harry went back to Gryffindor Tower. Hermione went to ask a Ravenclaw Prefect a few questions. When he reached the common room, Harry saw Ginny playing chess against her brother, looking oddly strained.
"Come on, Gin... you can make a better move than that!" Ron chided Ginny.
She glared at her brother. "Well... If you would let me win a round or two, I might actually feel better about myself!"
"Right, like that's going to help! How are you ever going to learn like that!" Ron said. His cheeks were as pink as Ginny's were.
"I'm one of the only ones who'll play with you, numbskull! You've played everyone else away from you!" Ginny growled.
"Why don't you try playing with Kennedy again?" Harry said calmly.
"Yeah... why don't you pick on him a bit! Or Harry!"
"Thanks, Ginny... I need to lose to Ron a few more times." Harry said, his voice dripping with sarcasm. Honestly, he could play against Ron and win, and it was fun, but Ron was on a winning streak that he didn't want to break.
Suddenly, Ginny stood up, her face as red as her hair. She grabbed a hold of Harry's arm and clung onto him. She batted her eyes playfully at him. "Harry... why don't you and I spend some time alone?"
Harry gulped, then grinned. His heart raced a mile a minute as she wrapped her arms around his waist. Her hair still smelled like lilies.
Ron grimaced at them both. "Hmph! You scream at me for kissing Hermione, but when I have to see you and my best mate, I'm supposed to roll over and play dead."
"I never said I couldn't stand watching you and Hermione kiss! What I saw you and her doing yesterday was just down right gross to watch!" Ginny stuck her tongue out at her brother and he did likewise.
"It's not like you and him don't do that either! Nyah!" he stuck his tongue at her again.
"It's not like I ask anyone to watch!" she growled.
"Ginny... maybe it's not a good idea tonight..." Harry said, just a little afraid of Ron.
Ginny turned her head and gazed up at him with her big, bright brown eyes, stars seemingly pranced in them. "What? You don't want me anymore?!"
"ACK! That's not what I said!" Harry stuttered. Ron looked furious.
"Are you saying that you don't want me sister anymore!" Ron growled, standing up at his full height. He was huge against Harry, who began to shrink in fear against Ron.
"No! That's not what I said! I was simply trying to be thoughtful!" Harry growled at Ron.
"You and Ginny are going out, right now! I don't want to see either of you until later!" Ron said as she shoved Harry and Ginny out of the portrait hole.
When they turned a corner, Ginny grinned impishly. "That's the way to win an argument with him. Turn everything around until he doesn't know if he should scratch his watch or wind up his rear!" Ginny giggled.
"Where to, oh mighty Weasley." Harry said as he bowed to Ginny.
She rose up on her toes until her face was centimeters away from his. "The Astronomy Tower." She grinned up at him.
Harry grinned. "As you wish, m'lady."
They walked up to the Astronomy Tower and sat down in font of one of the massive windows. "It's such a pretty night out." Ginny sighed as she leaned against his shoulder. He wrapped an arm around her shoulders.
Harry took off his hat and placed it next to him. "I like watching the stars shine. It's so peaceful."
Ginny leaned up and kissed his cheek. Harry blushed slightly and smiled. He turned his head and kissed her on her lips. She let him deepen the kiss as she wrapped her arms around his neck. She even tasted great.
Harry leaned her back until they were lying on the floor. His hands found her hair and wrapped themselves in the soft mass. Lips on lips, breath for breath.
He pulled back to breath in fresh air. He felt dizzy and his glasses were steamed up. He took them off and placed them next to him. He gazed into her eyes and smiled. Her eyes were now very dark, like black coals almost. Her pale skin reflected in the moonlight.
He kissed her again. Ginny put her hands underneath his robes, underneath his shirt, letting her small hands feel his skin. He moaned softly at her touch.
Suddenly, he heard someone. He shot away from Ginny's embrace, grabbed his glasses and looked out the massive window. There was a fog rolling in from the Forbidden Forest. He saw a female figure walking into the mist and disappearing. She had shoulder length, shimmering black hair and wore a familiar kimono.
"Harry? Harry... come back..." Ginny's small hands caressed his chest through his uniform. "Harry.. What do you see?"
"I don't know... It looked as though Miss Snape walked into that mist there." he said to her.
She came around to get a better look. "Where is she. I don't see her."
"Like I said... she walked into the fog." Harry said to Ginny, grinning at her.
She slapped him on his shoulder. "That's not cute! I know what you said!" Suddenly, she stopped and looked out the window. "Wait a minute... that looks like her over there walking back into the castle."
"Please come to me..."
Harry turned abruptly to the Forbidden Forest. He heard the same voice again, singing that frighteningly morbid song. It struck him like it had before, freezing his insides like a dementor.
"Come fly through.... the night, the sky, I dine..."
There was that light again. It came out from the Forbidden Forest, turning away from the lake and headed toward the castle.
"Please come to me.... we'll fly away and soon your soul is mine...."
Harry saw something emerge from inside the castle. There was a small figure walking in a trance like state. It was a second year boy. He had ginger hair and wore yellow pajamas.
"Please come to me, come ride the wind... come sing, come dance, you're mine...."
Harry dashed out of the Astronomy Tower. He ran towards the nearest exit to the grounds. He ran onto the grounds.
"Please don't despair..."
Harry saw the boy heading towards the light. He ran toward him, a stitch in his side from running so long.
"...it's never fair...."
Harry saw the boy clearer now. He had a cherub like face with large blue eyes. "Hey there! Hey!" He yelled at the boy. The light was getting closer.
".... and soon..."
Harry stopped cold in his tracks. The cold from the light pierced into his body, worse than ever before. He struggled against the cold. He felt as though he was in the presence of a whole legion of Dementors.
"... your soul..."
The boy stopped now. Harry watched in horror as the light turned into a shape. It was the form of a woman. It picked up the boy, who seemed to go limp at its touch.
"...is mine...."
Harry's spine froze up. His entire body locked up and he fell to the ground in a heap. He suddenly felt his scar burn furiously. He saw the boy suddenly realize what was happening.... He heard the scream..... He felt his mind fill with a haze.... and then... everything went black....
"Yes, sir... I found him outside... I immediately picked him up and took him to the infirmary."
Harry heard voices coming from everywhere. He opened his eyes and found everything slightly blurry. He picked his glasses and put them on, feeling his forehead covered in sweat.
"Yer awake!" said Astra gleefully. "Are you alright?"
Harry shook his head of the fuzziness. He looked around him. Everything was quiet and the few people in the infirmary were asleep. How long had he been asleep, he wondered.
"That was quite a tale, Miss Knight. Why were YOU out." Harry heard Professor Snape say. He turned and saw both Miss Snape and Professor Snape standing together.
"I saw something when I was walking down the stairs to the common room and saw that weird light." Astra said. Harry noticed that she was wearing only her pajamas and a pair blue fuzzy slippers with yellow moons on the fronts.
"I saw...." Harry began. His voice sounded hoarse. "I saw Miss Snape out there..."
"What? Of course I was out there, Mr. Potter. I always take a walk at night!" she said indignantly.
"Why were you out there, Aldonia....?" sneered Professor Snape. "I don't remember you saying that you were a die hard midnight walker."
"It's nice outside.... I thought it was a nice idea..." Her cheeks were pink.
"Wh-where's that second year boy! I heard him scream! That light picked him up and he screamed just before I blacked out." Harry said. His thought were a jumble.
"Boy? I didn't see anyone out there." Astra said with a questioning look on her face. "I heard someone singing and then I heard a scream."
"Singing? Can you remember the song?" Professor Dumbledore prodded.
Astra seemed to think a moment and then shook her head. Dumbledore sighed heavily. "Alright..."
"Sir... they were out of bed and walking around the castle freely. Don't you think they ought to be punished? Like take away Harry's badge and limit Astra's quidditch privileges?" Miss Snape said sweetly. Her violet eyes locked on Dumbledore as if she were trying to make him bend to her will.
Dumbledore smiled. "Miss Snape... you ought to know that it doesn't work that way, by now. You know.... you are becoming quite used to your abilities, Aldonia. I think you ought to remember where you keep you bag of tricks before trying to set them on me."
With that, Dumbledore walked out of the infirmary with Professor Snape sneering at Miss Snape in a satisfied manner. Madame Pomfrey walked out with a small block of chocolate. "I hate those dementors..." she said under her breath as she broke it into two pieces.
Astra's eyes grew wide and smiled gleefully. "Chocolate!" she giggled.
"I got tired of eating this in my third year." Harry said as he gulped down his chocolate. "We had loads of Dementors around so she kept feeding us this."
"I wouldn't mind so much. I love chocolate. Especially dark chocolate. You know... the semisweet stuff!" Astra said as she sat down on Harry's bed beside his legs and munched happily.
When they had finished, Astra grabbed Harry's hand and led him toward the castle. Harry suddenly realized whom he had left behind in the Astronomy tower. "Oh no! I forgot about Ginny! She was so entranced by that light, that she just stood there like a statue! I had to get to the boy, so I ran." Harry said. Harry had gone white as a sheet.
"Don't worry about it.... You two were gone so long, that Ron ran all the way up to the Astronomy tower to see if you two were alright. You know, concerned brother and all." Astra winked. Harry still awaited pensively. She sighed. "When Ron brought her in, that was when I started hearing the voice. I ran outside when I thought I saw you running out there."
"You heard it?" Harry asked. "Did you hear the words?" He gulped. He wasn't sure about what she had said to Dumbledore. She was fairly good at lying.
She pressed her finger to her lips and led him to a darkened classroom. When they stepped inside, she closed the door and locked it. She raised her wand in a manner Harry had never seen before and a white ball of light came out of it. It surrounded them and disappeared.
"What was that!" Harry exclaimed.
"Sort of sound proofing the room in a way." Astra winked at him. "I trained under one of the best Amazon Time Sorceresses around."
"Huh?"
"I stopped time for a short period. I can't control it very well, seeing as how I had to leave in my fourth year, so I'm not that good, but like I said, it'll allow us to talk for a little bit." She said.
"You know how to manipulate time? I thought that was kept under lock and key by the Ministry." Harry said. He was still in shock.
"It is... I can't change time, I can only do so much with it and they allow Miss White to teach her class. She can do that only if she keeps a limited number of students and she's very picky." Astra said lowering her wand.
"So what did you hear. Why didn't you tell Dumbledore?"
"Please come to me, come fly through the night, the sky, I dine.... Please come to me, we'll fly away and soon your soul is mine! Please come to me, come ride the wind, come sing, come dance, you're mine! Please don't despair, it's never fair and soon your soul is mine!"
Harry heard the chilling song come from her lips. She bellowed it out like someone who was used to being on stage. She stared at him with those eyes of hers.
"I didn't tell Dumbledore because I was afraid." She shook her head at herself. "I don't know why, I was just afraid."
She looked like she was shaking and Harry took off his robe and put it around her shoulders, holding her in a hug. "It's alright... It's okay to be afraid. You above all people should know that."
"It wasn't just fear... it was absolute terror that I felt out there. That above all else is what made me grab you and drag you back." Astra said into his shoulder.
Suddenly, the door knob started shaking, like someone was trying to open it. "Oops... I think the spell wore off." Astra said.
Harry hid them in a shadow as Miss Snape walked in. "Damn and blast! I hate that man, I really do! I hate him, I hate him, I hate him!" She kicked her desk repeatedly.
She moved to an area of the room where she had her back to the door. Harry and Astra slid out of the room and into the hallway. They ran down the hallway and up the stairs to Gryffindor Tower. They ran inside where they each retreated to their separate rooms and went in for the rest of the night.
