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Chapter 12: Plans Discovered
Harry woke up considerably early compared to everyone else. He looked out the window. The sun wasn't very high and the sky and was tinted pink with the first lights of dawn. Harry turned back to his pillow, but he couldn't fall asleep again.
He stretched, climbed out of bed, and put his clothes on. Then, he looked around to see if any of the other boys were up. They were all appeared to be sleeping soundly. He thought for a moment about looking through their things, but he decided he'd just wake up Ron instead.
"Ron! Ron! Wake up, Ron," Harry nudged Ron.
"It's all dark, Harry," Ron complained.
"Just get up, Ron," Harry told him.
"Go bother someone else," Ron said groggily turning over and falling back asleep.
Harry sighed and decided that it was hopeless to keep trying to wake up Ron. He exited the boy's dormitory and went down the steps. He thought about trying to wake up Hermione instead, but then he saw that someone was sitting in one of the chairs in the Common Room.
"Hello?" Harry asked uncertainly.
The person jumped in surprise and he saw that it was Ginny.
"Oh, hi Harry," Ginny greeted when she saw it was him.
"I couldn't sleep and I decided just to come down here and read." she said as she held up her book.
"I couldn't sleep either, so I tried to wake up Ron, but-" Harry began, but Ginny started laughing.
"You tried to wake him up? You'd have better luck with the dead!" Ginny told him.
"Yeah, I figured it was pretty hopeless," Harry told Ginny.
They just stood there in silence for a little bit, before Ginny broke the silence. "Want to go for a walk?"
Harry looked at her and nodded his head.
They walked out of the Common Room and started wondering around aimlessly. They passed most of the classrooms, the dungeons, and the kitchens before they ended up by the Astronomy tower. They went outside to look at the grounds, but they saw that someone was already there.
The person was covered in a long, black cloak and appeared to be speaking to someone else who was also wearing a long black cloak. Ginny turned to leave, but Harry grabbed her arm and pulled her into the shadows.
Harry made sure that Ginny and him were completely hidden by the shadows, or as good as they could be. Then he strained his ears to hear pieces of the conversation.
"Is the plan ready?" the first one asked sounding muffled.
"Yes," the second voice answered.
"The attack's planned then?" he asked.
"Yes," the second voice answered once more.
"What time?" asked the first voice.
The second voice answered sounding annoyed, "I don't know, I just know that it's happening."
"Well, you're a lot of help!" the first voice said sarcastically. "It's taking place in Hogsmeade, correct? Do you know that much?"
"Of course I do. And it is taking place in Hogsmeade. Lucky Dumbledore planned an early one," the second voice commented dryly.
"The aim is this, new Potter person, right?" asked the first voice.
Ginny let out a cry of terror when she heard Harry's name be said.
The two people in cloaks looked over at the shadows where they were. Harry squinted, trying to identify their faces, but he couldn't. They were wearing masks, as well as cloaks.
Eventually, the two pairs of eyeballs turned away from where Harry and Ginny were hidden. Harry knew that he and Ginny had to get out of there as soon as they could and tell Dumbledore what they had heard. He grabbed her hand to let her know that they were going to leave soon.
He crept out of the shadows, along with Ginny. They walked over to the door. Unfortunately, the second person saw them.
"Hey! Who are you?" he yelled angrily.
The other one turned around just to see Harry and Ginny run out of there at full speed.
"Tell me who they are, go after them, and I'll run to the village and disaparrate!" the man who had spotted him told the other man sharply.
"Potter and Ginny Weasley," he said quickly. He left to follow them.
"Good," the other man said smiling to himself. Then he grabbed his broomstick, which was in the corner of the tower, flew into Hogsmeade and disapparated to Voldemort's lair, to tell him what had just happened.
Meanwhile. . .
Harry and Ginny were still running at full speed. Harry looked behind himself and Ginny and saw one of the people from the Astronomy Tower running behind them, and it looked as if he was beginning to catch up.
Harry needed a plan to get rid of him as soon as he could. He looked down the hallway and saw that he was slowly approaching Professor Dumbledore's office. Harry smiled as he came up with a plan in his head.
"Ginny," he panted. Ginny looked over at him. "I have a plan. Follow me."
Ginny nodded and followed Harry.
He turned down the hall which was going to lead him and Ginny into Professor Dumbledore's office. He saw the gargoyle slowly come into focus.
"Lemon drops!" he shouted from a bit of a distance, but the gargoyle opened up, anyways.
Ginny was smiling at Harry's brilliance.
"Good plan," she told him as they ran up to the gargoyle and sprinted up the steps.
They looked back, to see that the person in the cloak, was now looking terrified. He had frozen in his tracks, once he realized that they were in Professor Dumbledore's office. The person unglued his feet from the floor and ran as quickly as his legs would take him out of the hallway.
They got up to the door that would lead them into Dumbledore's office. Normally, they would've knocked, but the circumstances were so extreme, that they thought that they needed to speak with him right away.
They burst into his office.
"He's not here," Ginny stated.
"I know," Harry responded.
"Should we wait for him?" Ginny asked Harry.
Harry nodded and they both sat down. They sat there for about ten minutes before Harry noticed the watch on Ginny's wrist.
"Ginny, what time is it?" Harry asked.
"9:57," Ginny replied looking down at her watch. She looked up and curiously added, "Why?"
Harry didn't answer her question, he just took a deep breath and asked, "What time does the Hogsmeade trip start?"
"10:00!" Ginny moaned. "We have to find Dumbledore!"
"I don't think there's time," Harry said. "But I think we can find my mum or dad before we can find Dumbledore."
"Good idea!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Okay, you go look for my mum and I'll go find my dad. Meet me in the entrance hall in. . . 10 minutes," Harry told her.
Ginny nodded and they both ran out of his office.
Harry ran straight towards the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. He prayed that his dad would be there. At least, he was staying in a bedroom nearby. Harry ran into the classroom. But he didn't see anyone. He ran to the room where he was staying and pounded on the door.
"Dad! Dad!" Harry screamed through the door. There was no answer. Harry slumped down against the wall. "Where could he be?" Harry asked himself.
Slowly the answer came to him. "Mum!" he shouted in realization of where his father was. He was obviously talking with Lily.
He picked himself off of the floor and started to run to the Charms corridor. He was running at breakneck speed. He raced through the hallways and finally got to the Charms corridor where he bumped into Ginny.
"Ouch!" she said and then she saw Harry. "What are you doing? I thought you were going to find your dad?"
"I was, but he wasn't there. I figured he'd be here," Harry told her. They were now walking to the Charms classroom, hoping Lily would be in there.
She was. And James was, as well.
"Mum! Dad!" Harry shouted.
"Ginny and I went for a walk and we overheard these two guys talking!" Harry said in a rush.
"And they were Death Eaters, we think!" Ginny added rapidly.
"And they were planning an attack on Hogsmeade!" Harry said quickly.
"So, we went to tell Dumbledore," Harry told them.
"But he wasn't there," Ginny added.
"So we came here," they said together.
Lily looked shocked and as though she was going to be sick when she heard the news. James's auror instincts, however, allowed him to take over this situation immediately.
"Lily, go inform Sirius and Remus and any other aurors you know of what is going to happen," James told her swiftly. "Ginny, Harry, go back up to your dormitories, you're safe there."
Ginny nodded, but Harry didn't want to go to his dormitory.
"But, I can help!" Harry protested.
"It's too dangerous," James told him. Lily nodded her head in agreement.
"I can help!" Harry said again.
"No, like your father already said, it's too dangerous!" Lily told him, practically begging Harry with her eyes to stay.
"Ok," Harry said grabbing Ginny's hand and leaving. They walked down the hallway and heard James exit the classroom a few minutes later.
Harry and Ginny ran up to the Common Room. When they got there, they noticed that it was completely deserted, except for a few first and second years.
"No!" Ginny moaned softly. "That means they've all gone."
She spoke those words to Harry, but Harry wasn't around to hear them. He had run up to his dormitory and was now looking for something that James had given only a day ago. And he found it. The invisibility cloak. He tucked it away in his robes and raced out of the Common Room, grabbing Ginny's hand again, and taking her with him.
He led her up to the statue of the hag with the hump.
"Ginny, this passage leads into Hogsmeade. I'm going there, ok? You won't tell my mum that I've gone, will you?" Harry asked her.
Ginny shook her head and said, "Of course not, I'm going with you."
Harry opened his mouth to protest, but then he realized that it wouldn't get him anywhere.
Reluctantly, he agreed and said, "All right."
He pulled out his wand and said "Dissendium."
The hag's hump opened up and Ginny and Harry crawled through the small opening. They ran through the tunnels, until they couldn't anymore because their sides were aching. They walked on to the door into Honeydukes.
Harry glanced over at Ginny and pulled out his invisibility cloak. She let out a gasp of surprise. He pulled it over both of them and they exited out of the passageway and into the Honeydukes's cellar.
They climbed out of the cellar and into the store. Harry didn't know whether he expected to find people screaming in terror or people chatting away happily, but he found the latter one. However, there weren't very many people in Honeydukes, so Harry decided to go somewhere else.
Harry and Ginny made sure no one was looking and took off the invisibility cloak. They walked over to the door of the shop to get outside. They exited the shop.
They heard a scream of terror. A little old witch who had been shopping looked on the verge of a heart attack. She was clutching her shopping bags in one hand, and in the other she was pointing up at something very high in the sky.
It was the Dark Mark. The attack on Hogsmeade had begun.
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Urain: Thanks. And *slaps self for saying this* the spy is one of his classmates. Bad Lils!
Hermione HP: Thanks! I tried to make the chapters a little longer!!!
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Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter and unless I can somehow get a ton of money and bribe her, I never will!!!!
Chapter 12: Plans Discovered
Harry woke up considerably early compared to everyone else. He looked out the window. The sun wasn't very high and the sky and was tinted pink with the first lights of dawn. Harry turned back to his pillow, but he couldn't fall asleep again.
He stretched, climbed out of bed, and put his clothes on. Then, he looked around to see if any of the other boys were up. They were all appeared to be sleeping soundly. He thought for a moment about looking through their things, but he decided he'd just wake up Ron instead.
"Ron! Ron! Wake up, Ron," Harry nudged Ron.
"It's all dark, Harry," Ron complained.
"Just get up, Ron," Harry told him.
"Go bother someone else," Ron said groggily turning over and falling back asleep.
Harry sighed and decided that it was hopeless to keep trying to wake up Ron. He exited the boy's dormitory and went down the steps. He thought about trying to wake up Hermione instead, but then he saw that someone was sitting in one of the chairs in the Common Room.
"Hello?" Harry asked uncertainly.
The person jumped in surprise and he saw that it was Ginny.
"Oh, hi Harry," Ginny greeted when she saw it was him.
"I couldn't sleep and I decided just to come down here and read." she said as she held up her book.
"I couldn't sleep either, so I tried to wake up Ron, but-" Harry began, but Ginny started laughing.
"You tried to wake him up? You'd have better luck with the dead!" Ginny told him.
"Yeah, I figured it was pretty hopeless," Harry told Ginny.
They just stood there in silence for a little bit, before Ginny broke the silence. "Want to go for a walk?"
Harry looked at her and nodded his head.
They walked out of the Common Room and started wondering around aimlessly. They passed most of the classrooms, the dungeons, and the kitchens before they ended up by the Astronomy tower. They went outside to look at the grounds, but they saw that someone was already there.
The person was covered in a long, black cloak and appeared to be speaking to someone else who was also wearing a long black cloak. Ginny turned to leave, but Harry grabbed her arm and pulled her into the shadows.
Harry made sure that Ginny and him were completely hidden by the shadows, or as good as they could be. Then he strained his ears to hear pieces of the conversation.
"Is the plan ready?" the first one asked sounding muffled.
"Yes," the second voice answered.
"The attack's planned then?" he asked.
"Yes," the second voice answered once more.
"What time?" asked the first voice.
The second voice answered sounding annoyed, "I don't know, I just know that it's happening."
"Well, you're a lot of help!" the first voice said sarcastically. "It's taking place in Hogsmeade, correct? Do you know that much?"
"Of course I do. And it is taking place in Hogsmeade. Lucky Dumbledore planned an early one," the second voice commented dryly.
"The aim is this, new Potter person, right?" asked the first voice.
Ginny let out a cry of terror when she heard Harry's name be said.
The two people in cloaks looked over at the shadows where they were. Harry squinted, trying to identify their faces, but he couldn't. They were wearing masks, as well as cloaks.
Eventually, the two pairs of eyeballs turned away from where Harry and Ginny were hidden. Harry knew that he and Ginny had to get out of there as soon as they could and tell Dumbledore what they had heard. He grabbed her hand to let her know that they were going to leave soon.
He crept out of the shadows, along with Ginny. They walked over to the door. Unfortunately, the second person saw them.
"Hey! Who are you?" he yelled angrily.
The other one turned around just to see Harry and Ginny run out of there at full speed.
"Tell me who they are, go after them, and I'll run to the village and disaparrate!" the man who had spotted him told the other man sharply.
"Potter and Ginny Weasley," he said quickly. He left to follow them.
"Good," the other man said smiling to himself. Then he grabbed his broomstick, which was in the corner of the tower, flew into Hogsmeade and disapparated to Voldemort's lair, to tell him what had just happened.
Meanwhile. . .
Harry and Ginny were still running at full speed. Harry looked behind himself and Ginny and saw one of the people from the Astronomy Tower running behind them, and it looked as if he was beginning to catch up.
Harry needed a plan to get rid of him as soon as he could. He looked down the hallway and saw that he was slowly approaching Professor Dumbledore's office. Harry smiled as he came up with a plan in his head.
"Ginny," he panted. Ginny looked over at him. "I have a plan. Follow me."
Ginny nodded and followed Harry.
He turned down the hall which was going to lead him and Ginny into Professor Dumbledore's office. He saw the gargoyle slowly come into focus.
"Lemon drops!" he shouted from a bit of a distance, but the gargoyle opened up, anyways.
Ginny was smiling at Harry's brilliance.
"Good plan," she told him as they ran up to the gargoyle and sprinted up the steps.
They looked back, to see that the person in the cloak, was now looking terrified. He had frozen in his tracks, once he realized that they were in Professor Dumbledore's office. The person unglued his feet from the floor and ran as quickly as his legs would take him out of the hallway.
They got up to the door that would lead them into Dumbledore's office. Normally, they would've knocked, but the circumstances were so extreme, that they thought that they needed to speak with him right away.
They burst into his office.
"He's not here," Ginny stated.
"I know," Harry responded.
"Should we wait for him?" Ginny asked Harry.
Harry nodded and they both sat down. They sat there for about ten minutes before Harry noticed the watch on Ginny's wrist.
"Ginny, what time is it?" Harry asked.
"9:57," Ginny replied looking down at her watch. She looked up and curiously added, "Why?"
Harry didn't answer her question, he just took a deep breath and asked, "What time does the Hogsmeade trip start?"
"10:00!" Ginny moaned. "We have to find Dumbledore!"
"I don't think there's time," Harry said. "But I think we can find my mum or dad before we can find Dumbledore."
"Good idea!" Ginny exclaimed.
"Okay, you go look for my mum and I'll go find my dad. Meet me in the entrance hall in. . . 10 minutes," Harry told her.
Ginny nodded and they both ran out of his office.
Harry ran straight towards the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. He prayed that his dad would be there. At least, he was staying in a bedroom nearby. Harry ran into the classroom. But he didn't see anyone. He ran to the room where he was staying and pounded on the door.
"Dad! Dad!" Harry screamed through the door. There was no answer. Harry slumped down against the wall. "Where could he be?" Harry asked himself.
Slowly the answer came to him. "Mum!" he shouted in realization of where his father was. He was obviously talking with Lily.
He picked himself off of the floor and started to run to the Charms corridor. He was running at breakneck speed. He raced through the hallways and finally got to the Charms corridor where he bumped into Ginny.
"Ouch!" she said and then she saw Harry. "What are you doing? I thought you were going to find your dad?"
"I was, but he wasn't there. I figured he'd be here," Harry told her. They were now walking to the Charms classroom, hoping Lily would be in there.
She was. And James was, as well.
"Mum! Dad!" Harry shouted.
"Ginny and I went for a walk and we overheard these two guys talking!" Harry said in a rush.
"And they were Death Eaters, we think!" Ginny added rapidly.
"And they were planning an attack on Hogsmeade!" Harry said quickly.
"So, we went to tell Dumbledore," Harry told them.
"But he wasn't there," Ginny added.
"So we came here," they said together.
Lily looked shocked and as though she was going to be sick when she heard the news. James's auror instincts, however, allowed him to take over this situation immediately.
"Lily, go inform Sirius and Remus and any other aurors you know of what is going to happen," James told her swiftly. "Ginny, Harry, go back up to your dormitories, you're safe there."
Ginny nodded, but Harry didn't want to go to his dormitory.
"But, I can help!" Harry protested.
"It's too dangerous," James told him. Lily nodded her head in agreement.
"I can help!" Harry said again.
"No, like your father already said, it's too dangerous!" Lily told him, practically begging Harry with her eyes to stay.
"Ok," Harry said grabbing Ginny's hand and leaving. They walked down the hallway and heard James exit the classroom a few minutes later.
Harry and Ginny ran up to the Common Room. When they got there, they noticed that it was completely deserted, except for a few first and second years.
"No!" Ginny moaned softly. "That means they've all gone."
She spoke those words to Harry, but Harry wasn't around to hear them. He had run up to his dormitory and was now looking for something that James had given only a day ago. And he found it. The invisibility cloak. He tucked it away in his robes and raced out of the Common Room, grabbing Ginny's hand again, and taking her with him.
He led her up to the statue of the hag with the hump.
"Ginny, this passage leads into Hogsmeade. I'm going there, ok? You won't tell my mum that I've gone, will you?" Harry asked her.
Ginny shook her head and said, "Of course not, I'm going with you."
Harry opened his mouth to protest, but then he realized that it wouldn't get him anywhere.
Reluctantly, he agreed and said, "All right."
He pulled out his wand and said "Dissendium."
The hag's hump opened up and Ginny and Harry crawled through the small opening. They ran through the tunnels, until they couldn't anymore because their sides were aching. They walked on to the door into Honeydukes.
Harry glanced over at Ginny and pulled out his invisibility cloak. She let out a gasp of surprise. He pulled it over both of them and they exited out of the passageway and into the Honeydukes's cellar.
They climbed out of the cellar and into the store. Harry didn't know whether he expected to find people screaming in terror or people chatting away happily, but he found the latter one. However, there weren't very many people in Honeydukes, so Harry decided to go somewhere else.
Harry and Ginny made sure no one was looking and took off the invisibility cloak. They walked over to the door of the shop to get outside. They exited the shop.
They heard a scream of terror. A little old witch who had been shopping looked on the verge of a heart attack. She was clutching her shopping bags in one hand, and in the other she was pointing up at something very high in the sky.
It was the Dark Mark. The attack on Hogsmeade had begun.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Wow! That was longer than usual!!! Thanks to all my reviewers!!! You guys are the best people ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Krikoris: Thanks!
Silver Angel: Yup, Harry would have dreams no matter what in my opinion. Thanks!!
Urain: Thanks. And *slaps self for saying this* the spy is one of his classmates. Bad Lils!
Hermione HP: Thanks! I tried to make the chapters a little longer!!!
Smilez: Thanks!! You're so nice!
Fox690: Seamus or Malfoy??? Hmm. . . Thanks!
Wquad: Thanks!!!!
Shdurrani: Thanks!!! I'm so happy you like my story!!!!
Review!!!! REVIEW!!!!! Review!!!!!!!!!!!! Please!!!!!!!