Dreams

By

SpOOt

Summary: At night, things rarely make sense…

Rating: Nothing to shocking in here. Just giving it PG-13 c'oz it makes me feel like a big person.

Disclaimer: Anyone you recognize would belong to someone that is not SpOOt.

Note: I was having insomnia, so this happened, enjoy! And if you don't understand anything Harry or anyone else says, you've got the point of this.

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Sometime in the near future

Outside, wind and rain lashed at the windows, but all those inside barely noticed.

Inside the heat from well-tended fires made all the occupants of Hogwarts dry and content. Up in the dormitories most of the students were sound asleep. Here and there, one would toss in a dream. One of these students was Harry Potter.

In his dream, he was half-asleep. He was lying on a bed he had never seen before when a voice cried out.

"Wake up Harry." The Voice was stern, but Harry ignored it. As foreign as the bad was to him, Harry still wanted sleep.

"Time to get up, child," The Voice urged Harry once more. This time, Harry's dream self sat up. "Good."

"Is it time?" Harry asked.

"When was it ever not?"

Harry accepted the answer and got out of the bed. When he walked out of the bedroom, he found himself in the middle of an abandoned Platform 9 3/4th.

"This is where it starts?" Harry bobbed his head as if in understanding.

"Move just a little to the left."

Harry obeyed The Voice. After two steps Harry stopped. "This is the spot? Isn't it? This is where the change started?"

"Yes. Don't you feel it too?"

Harry didn't respond. He was looking at his hands. They weren't his, were they? He squinted and thought he saw a speckle of blood on them.

"Oh, they are mine, aren't they?" Harry pondered the new information for a few seconds before looking over the train station. "The symbolism is almost too much sometimes. Bloody Hands? Train Stations? I'm surprised it took me this long to understand it all." Harry began to laugh until tears were streaming down his face.

Hard used his bloodied hands to wipe the tears away, and when he looked up he was in the cupboard that had been his bedroom for 10 years.

"This should make things clearer." The Voice said.

Harry frowned. Bloody Hands? Train Stations? Dusty Stairs? Now it made no sense to him.

"Turn." The Voice commanded. Harry began thrashing his body left and right.

"I think I'm sick now." Harry came to a sudden stop. He looked around the cupboard once more before shouting; "This isn't where I'm suppose to be!" With a sudden burst of speed, he tore out of the cupboard, through the Slytherin Common Room, and finally, pushing tables out of the way, stopped in the middle of Snape's Potion Dungeon. "This is closer to where I should be, I think." Harry looked at his surroundings.

"It's rather dark in here." The Voice stated.

"I know. I can fix that. I work with wires." Harry opened the exit and walked through it just to find himself walking back into Snape's Dungeon. "Guess I belong here."

"What? In the dark?" Harry turned to see a stranger sitting on Snape's desk. "Harry, the blood isn't yours. You left that behind long ago. You do belong over there." The Stranger pointed at the door Harry just tried to use.

"I thought I already tried to get away…" Harry was puzzled.

"You did. And you failed once already. You may fail again. Is that a reason to stop? Here, try using these." The Stranger handed Harry a red hair band. "Helps keep the hair off your nape." The Stranger started laughing. "Get it? 'Off your nape'?"

Harry looked at the hair band. A sudden realization overcame him and he threw it down with discuss. "That's a horrible joke! I won't put that thing anywhere near me!"

The Stranger stopped his laughing and stared at the discarded hair band. "Are you sure you can't use it properly?"

"It's better off here."

"Okay then," The Stranger bent to pick up the hair band. "GO!" he suddenly shrieked.

"I WILL!" Harry screamed back, opening the door and running through it.

"I told you that you might fail again," The Stranger scolded Harry from atop Snape's desk. "You didn't use all that was given to you."

Harry walked up to The Stranger and took the fiery red hair band. "So, this isn't…"

"No, but you're young. And you're scarred there." The Stranger gave no indication where "there" was. "But take solace young child," The Stranger took the hair band back. "Somewhere behind you is the ability to stand up to The Dragon."

Harry woke up slowly to see the storm had passed during the night.

"Harry! Are you up yet?" Ron Weasley poked his head in the bedroom. "'Bout time. Come on lets go get something to eat."

Harry got out of bed, his dream already forgotten.

Note: Nope, this ain't the end of it. There's more, including an eventual explanation for everything. But it takes time and whatnot. So go to the next chapter, get a little more confused, tell me how much you don't like this, then wait for the next chapters which SLOWLY explain what's going down.

Come on! you're gunna tell me you can read 400+ page books, wait 2 years, read another one, but you wont spend five minutes to read the next chapter?