Chapter 6
Harry awoke the next day, with a jolt of terror; he'd been having a lovely dream. In the dream his parents were still alive, it was Christmas and they were all celebrating at Hogwarts. It had been the best Christmas, his dad had shown him all the secret passages and his mum had smothered him in hugs and kisses. At the last few minutes of the dream Harry had been walking down to the great hall when he bumped into Cho.
"Hi." Harry said trying to act casually." You going down to the Great hall too?"
"Yeah." Cho flirted back." You want to walk with me?"
"Sure." Harry blushed." Here, let me carry that book for you." Taking the book from Cho, who smiled at him. At the bottom of the stairs they stopped to say bye to each other, Harry was handing Cho back her book when Ron and Hermoine crept down the stairs behind them.
"Look up." Said Hermoine holding a piece of mistletoe above their heads.
"Go on Harry, give here a kiss. You like that wouldn't you Cho?" Ron was grinning as wide as his brothers usually do when they've just blown something up.
"Yeah, I would like that." Cho admitted. Harry went redder than Ron's hair, but he wasn't going to miss this opportunity, he leaned forward and kissed Cho right on the lips for about a minute, it was interrupted by a loud crash. That's when Voldermort had came and Harry had awaked. Harry didn't want to go back to bed so he got up and dressed, it was still dark out but the sunrise could be seen on the horizon.
He went down to the dark common room; the embers in the fireplace had almost gone out. Harry pulled out his wand "flameo" a jet of flame shot out of the end of his want, seconds later his wand had stopped spewing flames and there was now a raging fire in the fireplace. A silhouette of a dark figure caught Harry's eye as it moved closer, Harry reached for his wand. As the figure drew closer it became more detail. Its dark, messy black hair stood up at the back. "No" Harry gasped "it can't be". But sure enough, as the man crept closer he came completely visible, it was him, Harry's father. But there was something strange, the light from the fire seemed to pass right through him and cast no shadow.
"He's coming, he's coming and he's after you. Make no mistake, he will get you." The man that looks like James whispered in a cruel and harsh voice.
"YOURN'T MY FATHER!" Harry shouted." WHO ARE YOU?" The man let out a high pitched evil laugh, for the first time Harry noticed that the man was transparent, Harry pulled his from his pocket and aimed it straight at the creature "Stupefy", Harry shouted the first spell that came to him. The bolt went right through the creature, the creature approached Harry.
"What's going on down there?" Ron's voice floated down the stair. There was a banging on the stairs that told Harry people were coming. Harry turned to the stairs, when he looked back the creature was gone. Five minutes later the whole of Gryffindor was down in the common room looking bewilderedly at Harry.
"What's going on here?" Every head turned to see who it was that had just came through the portrait hole, it was Sirius. Good, Harry thought.
"We need to talk, Sirius." Harry spoke as everyone stared in silence. Sirius nodded.
"Alright everyone." Sirius called out." Get back to bed." Ron and Hermoine hung back after all the others had gone back upstairs, they waited by Harry's side. Sirius started to tell them to go upstairs, but Harry cut him off. "I want them to here this, can we go to Dumbledor."
"Very well." They walked out through the portrait hole down a long corridor and up a flight of stairs, Sirius in the lead, stopped them in front of a familiar stone gargoyle, this was the hidden entrance to Dumbledor's office.
"Ton tongue toffee." Sirius said aloud, the gargoyle hoped aside and a passage opened with a spiral staircase leading up, but it wasn't a normal staircase it was like an escalator. They hopped on the stairs and it took them up.
"Is that password for real." Ron Whispered to Harry." I mean my brother's invented them." Harry didn't have time to answer, they had reached the top of the stairs and the office door lay open. Dumbledor welcomed them in and asked Harry to tell him what happened, Harry told them the story of the creature that looked like his dad. Harry drew his story to a close, Ron, Hermoine, Sirius looked stunned and even Dumbledor looked puzzled. There's no question about it, until we know what this creature is you will need protection at night, Sirius you will have to stay in the Gryffindor Common room until this is all blown over.