Harry shook his head as he walked down the corridors towards the Great Hall
for lunch. People actually believed Sybil when she had said all this stuff
about the Grim, and Harry making sarcastic comments didn't help too much
either.
So it was with a heavy heart that Harry sat down next to Draco at the Gryffindor table, hood firmly in place. He noticed that people from his Divination and Defense classes had spread the word quickly. People were pointing and whispering at him. Didn't he get this enough in his own time?
"So how was Divination?" Draco asked in a sickly sweet voice.
"Terrible." Harry sighed as he picked up an egg sandwich from a plate in front of him and sat it on his own, as well as other foods.
"Good." Draco said.
Harry made a sigh of annoyance. "Thanks for your sympathy Mr. Dragon."
"Shut up Harold."
"I'll kill you!" Harry whispered in mock anger. "I'll pull you apart limb from limb."
In case it slipped your mind, Harry didn't like to be called Harold, it was just Harry, just as Draco didn't like to be called Mr. Dragon or Dragon Boy.
Harry noticed James looking at him apprehensively from down the table, so was Sirius. How on earth did they hear him?
Harry shrugged to himself, they didn't have to like him, just had to trust him. Then again, with the way he acted around them didn't make him seem to trust worthy, he reasoned, but he had to do it so he didn't lose himself. Harry flattened his robes that were swirling around his legs and tickling them every now and then. this day couldn't possibly be any more frustrating!
"History of Magic, then Care of Magical Creatures." Draco said.
"Wonderful." Harry said sarcastically. Binns wasn't a ghost here, as he was currently sitting at the Head Table fully fleshed.
After lunch Harry and Draco made their way to the History room, it was the same one from their time, and seemed just as dull inside.
As it was, they were the first two people there, apart from Binns, and so they got out all of their things and sat on different sides of the room.
Though they had called a truce they wouldn't start hanging around like friends, if they could get away from each other, they would.
Two minutes later the rest of the class filed in, the two 'cousins' received odd looks, as they had in DADA for not sitting next to each other, but who in their right mind would want to sit next to a Malfoy? Certainly not Harry!
The lesson was boring. There was no other word for it. It didn't even deserve a title that was even vaguely interesting like "exceedingly dull" it was juts plain boring.
Care of Magical Creatures was a different story. The Professor, Professor Kettleburn, was a short yet sturdy little wizard who was graying and wrinkling. He was also missing a couple of fingers, and half an arm. How very odd. But then again he could recall Professor Dumbledore saying that Professor Kettleburn had retired to spend the time he had left with his remaining limbs.
"Can anyone tell me what a Phoenix is."
Harry was surprised that only three hands went up. Draco, James and Lily's. Maybe he should have put his hand up as his new watch was in the shape of a Phoenix, the planets moving around in its belly.
He noticed Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix, sitting on a perch next to Professor Kettleburn.
"Yes Mr. Granger." Kettleburn said.
"A phoenix is a bird that's tears have healing powers, and it is also a light creature-" Draco was about to continue when a shrill whistling interrupted the class. Harry groaned, it was Harry's sneak-o-peak, the one he had gotten off Ron for his thirteenth birthday. He could feel it spinning in his pocket and he started to blush behind his hood. Oopsie daisy!
'Oopsie Daisy indeedy!' said Tom's amused voice from inside his head.
'Shut up you, I was getting used to the pace and quiet.'
Harry knew that the thing worked properly, it had been checked atleast once a year, but he really hoped that there wasn't anyone 'evil' around at the moment apart from Draco, who was only evil in Harry's opinion.
"Sorry sir." Harry said sheepishly causing people to look at him questioningly.
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That was another thing about Harry. He carried around a sneak-o-peak. Now James was sure he was either really paranoid or there was something more than met the eye. or in this case, cloak. He would have to be sneaky with this one, do what a Marauder did best.
He however stopped this line of thought to cover his ears when the shrill whistling picked up in volume and pitch. So much for sneaky.
He vaguely heard Harry mutter an apology.
"CAN YOU TURN THAT THING OFF MR. GRANGER?" He heard the Professor yell. Draco also held a smirk on his face, a satisfied smirk, though it was a little curious and even a little concerned, he managed to make his grin look satisfied as though embarrassing Harry was a favorite past time.
"Sorry sir." He heard Harry's reply. "It doesn't turn off until the 'danger' is out of range. Just then, it turned off. "And, it seems that the danger is now out of range." He added in a surprised voice, which was odd because Harry barely ever talked with emotion shining through his voice.
"Why in Merlin's name do you carry around a sneak-o-peak?" The Professor asked bewildered.
"You can never be too careful." Came Harry's reply and James got the distinct impression that Harry was looking around as his head moved slightly from side to side, as though piercing all the shadows with his gaze. He shuddered as Harry's robes swirled around him in an even more powerful manner, he had been started to get used to it but then it had just increased ten fold.
If you thought about it, it was quite funny as Harry tried desperately to stop his robes from flying about everywhere in his suspicion. (A/N I should make it known that Peter isn't a bad guy at the moment.)
"Never be too careful? Who on earth would attack you here?" The Professor asked waving around a half fingered hand for emphasis.
"Alright, sorry, but anyone could attack us here. I mean ." Harry suddenly stopped and lunged at the teacher. "See what I mean?" He asked as he stopped just before Kettleburn who was looking decidedly skeptical.
James almost laughed, it looked really odd just watching as Harry suddenly went from his usual self, to an evil demeanor, and back again. Then again, what if Harry was evil? James shuddered, and he was sharing his dorm with this bloke?
At that time before they could learn any more about Phoenix's, the bell went and before James left he caught a glimpse of Harry's watch, but he didn't know what a Phoenix was. which meant he had obviously been lying.
James noticed also that Harry stayed behind when everyone else had left, but he paid it no heed as he entered the wooden door's and cut Harry off from view who was looking around for anything suspicious.
Peter, Remus, Sirius and himself all headed for the Gryffindor Common Room where they started to plan, plan for what had to be done! A PRANK! It had been a whole day and they still hadn't done anything to the Slytherin's OR Evans for that matter.
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Harry walked around trying to get a signal on his sneak-o-peak. Whoever, or whatever it had been couldn't have gone too far right?
Draco was there with him, though he didn't like Harry he decided to give him a hand. He made an annoyed sound come forth from the back of his throat and Harry grinned underneath his hood.
"You wouldn't be getting impatient would you Dragon Boy?" Harry asked grinning. Draco wasn't that bad when you got to know him, Harry knew that, in fact he could be quite funny now that he was away from his fathers clutches.
"Your one to talk." He snapped at Harry who had only minutes ago been muttering to himself, 'it's got to be here somewhere, it's got to be here somewhere, whatever IT is.'
'Well,' Tom said unhelpfully, 'It isn't me. Otherwise it would have been going off from the moment you got it. Try up near the Castle door.'
Harry didn't know why but he actually trusted Tom's information and he moved towards the castle, Draco following behind, wondering what had caused Harry's turn in behavior.
What do you know, Voldemort's good self was right! The sneak-o-peak started to whiz and buzz.
"Hmmm." Harry mumbled looking around. Draco started to search as well, but they found nothing out of the ordinary.
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Hermione and Ron were hysteric. HOGWARTS was hysteric. Dumbledore seemed unnaturally calm though.
Harry was missing! And so was Malfoy, but they weren't worried about him.
"I dunno where he could be 'Mione." Ron said exasperatedly. It was dinner and he and Hermione were in the Common Room trying to figure out what dastardly fate had befallen Harry, as Trelawney had so insistently told them in Divination that she knew what had happened to him.
Ginny who was sitting in a corner of the Common Room after going down to the Kitchens for lunch, watched sadly. She wanted so much to tell Ron and Hermione that Harry was OK, and Draco too, he wasn't that bad really.
Ginny actually envied Harry, how lucky, he got to go back in time to . well the reason he was gone could have been better but that wasn't the point. Hermione was now crying and Ginny decided she had to act, she's stayed quiet to long, after all, she and Harry were almost as close as Ron and Hermione so.
"Hermione. Don't worry. I'm sure Harry's fine. I can feel it." She smiled reassuringly but it didn't work too well, though Hermione calmed down a little. "Come on, Dumbledore isn't worried, neither am I, and neither is Sirius." She quickly shut her mouth as she realized that she wasn't supposed to know about that .
"How'd you find out about that?" Ron demanded.
"I'm Harry's friend too Ron, and Sirius and I get on quite well, also, Dumbledore told me." She said in a hurt tone as if she thought Ron didn't think her worthy of such information. How very wrong he was. SHE was in the Order, but HE wasn't.
"I still don't think Harry would have told YOU that." Ron sneered and Ginny felt really hurt now. How could he say such a mean thing? She and Harry were really good friends.
"Fine, Ronald, be like that, but don't expect to find out what I know any time soon." Ginny left it hanging there and huffed out of the Portrait hole, leaving a very suspicious Ron and a very distraught Hermione who was berating Ron, saying that maybe she really did know something they didn't.
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They didn't find what was upsetting the sneak-o-peak, and that really bugged Harry as he hated being left in the Dark, even if it was something no one else knew either.
So now the two very frustrated 'Grangers' sat in the Common Room with the rest of the Gryffindor's.
Harry stood up. "Well I'm off to bed." He said looking around. Draco nodded. "Good night."
Harry was halfway up the stairs when he felt his body involuntarily seize up. 'Please not now.' he thought to himself.
Then came that familiar pain along with a surge of power that Harry hoped had been over the last time it had happened. He could numbly feel his robes swirl about his stiff body as he feel backwards down the stairs as though he were in a body bind.
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A/N. Hey. Seems Mr. Potter's decided to have a power surge (chapter one explains 'em.) in the middle of a whole room of people. How nice of him to share that little powerful experience with everyone. Hehehe. Well, I hope ya's enjoyed that chapter. I just HAD to post it tonight for reasons unknown to even myself. Hehe. Well, see you all and please REVIEW!
ConcreteAngel - Thanks for reviewing. Glad you liked it.
LittleEar BigEar's sis- Glad you like this too! Thanks for reviwing.
Kanashimi - Glad you think it's interesting and like it. I just can't resist the 'puppy eyes' hehe. Thanks.
So it was with a heavy heart that Harry sat down next to Draco at the Gryffindor table, hood firmly in place. He noticed that people from his Divination and Defense classes had spread the word quickly. People were pointing and whispering at him. Didn't he get this enough in his own time?
"So how was Divination?" Draco asked in a sickly sweet voice.
"Terrible." Harry sighed as he picked up an egg sandwich from a plate in front of him and sat it on his own, as well as other foods.
"Good." Draco said.
Harry made a sigh of annoyance. "Thanks for your sympathy Mr. Dragon."
"Shut up Harold."
"I'll kill you!" Harry whispered in mock anger. "I'll pull you apart limb from limb."
In case it slipped your mind, Harry didn't like to be called Harold, it was just Harry, just as Draco didn't like to be called Mr. Dragon or Dragon Boy.
Harry noticed James looking at him apprehensively from down the table, so was Sirius. How on earth did they hear him?
Harry shrugged to himself, they didn't have to like him, just had to trust him. Then again, with the way he acted around them didn't make him seem to trust worthy, he reasoned, but he had to do it so he didn't lose himself. Harry flattened his robes that were swirling around his legs and tickling them every now and then. this day couldn't possibly be any more frustrating!
"History of Magic, then Care of Magical Creatures." Draco said.
"Wonderful." Harry said sarcastically. Binns wasn't a ghost here, as he was currently sitting at the Head Table fully fleshed.
After lunch Harry and Draco made their way to the History room, it was the same one from their time, and seemed just as dull inside.
As it was, they were the first two people there, apart from Binns, and so they got out all of their things and sat on different sides of the room.
Though they had called a truce they wouldn't start hanging around like friends, if they could get away from each other, they would.
Two minutes later the rest of the class filed in, the two 'cousins' received odd looks, as they had in DADA for not sitting next to each other, but who in their right mind would want to sit next to a Malfoy? Certainly not Harry!
The lesson was boring. There was no other word for it. It didn't even deserve a title that was even vaguely interesting like "exceedingly dull" it was juts plain boring.
Care of Magical Creatures was a different story. The Professor, Professor Kettleburn, was a short yet sturdy little wizard who was graying and wrinkling. He was also missing a couple of fingers, and half an arm. How very odd. But then again he could recall Professor Dumbledore saying that Professor Kettleburn had retired to spend the time he had left with his remaining limbs.
"Can anyone tell me what a Phoenix is."
Harry was surprised that only three hands went up. Draco, James and Lily's. Maybe he should have put his hand up as his new watch was in the shape of a Phoenix, the planets moving around in its belly.
He noticed Fawkes, Dumbledore's phoenix, sitting on a perch next to Professor Kettleburn.
"Yes Mr. Granger." Kettleburn said.
"A phoenix is a bird that's tears have healing powers, and it is also a light creature-" Draco was about to continue when a shrill whistling interrupted the class. Harry groaned, it was Harry's sneak-o-peak, the one he had gotten off Ron for his thirteenth birthday. He could feel it spinning in his pocket and he started to blush behind his hood. Oopsie daisy!
'Oopsie Daisy indeedy!' said Tom's amused voice from inside his head.
'Shut up you, I was getting used to the pace and quiet.'
Harry knew that the thing worked properly, it had been checked atleast once a year, but he really hoped that there wasn't anyone 'evil' around at the moment apart from Draco, who was only evil in Harry's opinion.
"Sorry sir." Harry said sheepishly causing people to look at him questioningly.
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That was another thing about Harry. He carried around a sneak-o-peak. Now James was sure he was either really paranoid or there was something more than met the eye. or in this case, cloak. He would have to be sneaky with this one, do what a Marauder did best.
He however stopped this line of thought to cover his ears when the shrill whistling picked up in volume and pitch. So much for sneaky.
He vaguely heard Harry mutter an apology.
"CAN YOU TURN THAT THING OFF MR. GRANGER?" He heard the Professor yell. Draco also held a smirk on his face, a satisfied smirk, though it was a little curious and even a little concerned, he managed to make his grin look satisfied as though embarrassing Harry was a favorite past time.
"Sorry sir." He heard Harry's reply. "It doesn't turn off until the 'danger' is out of range. Just then, it turned off. "And, it seems that the danger is now out of range." He added in a surprised voice, which was odd because Harry barely ever talked with emotion shining through his voice.
"Why in Merlin's name do you carry around a sneak-o-peak?" The Professor asked bewildered.
"You can never be too careful." Came Harry's reply and James got the distinct impression that Harry was looking around as his head moved slightly from side to side, as though piercing all the shadows with his gaze. He shuddered as Harry's robes swirled around him in an even more powerful manner, he had been started to get used to it but then it had just increased ten fold.
If you thought about it, it was quite funny as Harry tried desperately to stop his robes from flying about everywhere in his suspicion. (A/N I should make it known that Peter isn't a bad guy at the moment.)
"Never be too careful? Who on earth would attack you here?" The Professor asked waving around a half fingered hand for emphasis.
"Alright, sorry, but anyone could attack us here. I mean ." Harry suddenly stopped and lunged at the teacher. "See what I mean?" He asked as he stopped just before Kettleburn who was looking decidedly skeptical.
James almost laughed, it looked really odd just watching as Harry suddenly went from his usual self, to an evil demeanor, and back again. Then again, what if Harry was evil? James shuddered, and he was sharing his dorm with this bloke?
At that time before they could learn any more about Phoenix's, the bell went and before James left he caught a glimpse of Harry's watch, but he didn't know what a Phoenix was. which meant he had obviously been lying.
James noticed also that Harry stayed behind when everyone else had left, but he paid it no heed as he entered the wooden door's and cut Harry off from view who was looking around for anything suspicious.
Peter, Remus, Sirius and himself all headed for the Gryffindor Common Room where they started to plan, plan for what had to be done! A PRANK! It had been a whole day and they still hadn't done anything to the Slytherin's OR Evans for that matter.
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Harry walked around trying to get a signal on his sneak-o-peak. Whoever, or whatever it had been couldn't have gone too far right?
Draco was there with him, though he didn't like Harry he decided to give him a hand. He made an annoyed sound come forth from the back of his throat and Harry grinned underneath his hood.
"You wouldn't be getting impatient would you Dragon Boy?" Harry asked grinning. Draco wasn't that bad when you got to know him, Harry knew that, in fact he could be quite funny now that he was away from his fathers clutches.
"Your one to talk." He snapped at Harry who had only minutes ago been muttering to himself, 'it's got to be here somewhere, it's got to be here somewhere, whatever IT is.'
'Well,' Tom said unhelpfully, 'It isn't me. Otherwise it would have been going off from the moment you got it. Try up near the Castle door.'
Harry didn't know why but he actually trusted Tom's information and he moved towards the castle, Draco following behind, wondering what had caused Harry's turn in behavior.
What do you know, Voldemort's good self was right! The sneak-o-peak started to whiz and buzz.
"Hmmm." Harry mumbled looking around. Draco started to search as well, but they found nothing out of the ordinary.
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Hermione and Ron were hysteric. HOGWARTS was hysteric. Dumbledore seemed unnaturally calm though.
Harry was missing! And so was Malfoy, but they weren't worried about him.
"I dunno where he could be 'Mione." Ron said exasperatedly. It was dinner and he and Hermione were in the Common Room trying to figure out what dastardly fate had befallen Harry, as Trelawney had so insistently told them in Divination that she knew what had happened to him.
Ginny who was sitting in a corner of the Common Room after going down to the Kitchens for lunch, watched sadly. She wanted so much to tell Ron and Hermione that Harry was OK, and Draco too, he wasn't that bad really.
Ginny actually envied Harry, how lucky, he got to go back in time to . well the reason he was gone could have been better but that wasn't the point. Hermione was now crying and Ginny decided she had to act, she's stayed quiet to long, after all, she and Harry were almost as close as Ron and Hermione so.
"Hermione. Don't worry. I'm sure Harry's fine. I can feel it." She smiled reassuringly but it didn't work too well, though Hermione calmed down a little. "Come on, Dumbledore isn't worried, neither am I, and neither is Sirius." She quickly shut her mouth as she realized that she wasn't supposed to know about that .
"How'd you find out about that?" Ron demanded.
"I'm Harry's friend too Ron, and Sirius and I get on quite well, also, Dumbledore told me." She said in a hurt tone as if she thought Ron didn't think her worthy of such information. How very wrong he was. SHE was in the Order, but HE wasn't.
"I still don't think Harry would have told YOU that." Ron sneered and Ginny felt really hurt now. How could he say such a mean thing? She and Harry were really good friends.
"Fine, Ronald, be like that, but don't expect to find out what I know any time soon." Ginny left it hanging there and huffed out of the Portrait hole, leaving a very suspicious Ron and a very distraught Hermione who was berating Ron, saying that maybe she really did know something they didn't.
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They didn't find what was upsetting the sneak-o-peak, and that really bugged Harry as he hated being left in the Dark, even if it was something no one else knew either.
So now the two very frustrated 'Grangers' sat in the Common Room with the rest of the Gryffindor's.
Harry stood up. "Well I'm off to bed." He said looking around. Draco nodded. "Good night."
Harry was halfway up the stairs when he felt his body involuntarily seize up. 'Please not now.' he thought to himself.
Then came that familiar pain along with a surge of power that Harry hoped had been over the last time it had happened. He could numbly feel his robes swirl about his stiff body as he feel backwards down the stairs as though he were in a body bind.
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A/N. Hey. Seems Mr. Potter's decided to have a power surge (chapter one explains 'em.) in the middle of a whole room of people. How nice of him to share that little powerful experience with everyone. Hehehe. Well, I hope ya's enjoyed that chapter. I just HAD to post it tonight for reasons unknown to even myself. Hehe. Well, see you all and please REVIEW!
ConcreteAngel - Thanks for reviewing. Glad you liked it.
LittleEar BigEar's sis- Glad you like this too! Thanks for reviwing.
Kanashimi - Glad you think it's interesting and like it. I just can't resist the 'puppy eyes' hehe. Thanks.
