Here is chapter 4. Please review and tell me how I'm doing. Thanks! Oh, and characters thoughts are in italics again. The dream Harry has in this chapter is a continuation of the dream he had in the 1st chapter, so if you don't know what's going on when you get to that part, you might want to reread that chapter.

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Harry Potter and the Dream
Chapter 4

Hermione woke up the next morning with her head in Harry's lap and tried to remember what happened. She smiled when she remembered how much she loved just sitting there and talking with Harry for hours. "I didn't think I could love him more than I already do, but after last night, I guess it is possible." She looked up at his face to see his eyes fluttering open. He smiled, "Morning." "Good morning to you, too." They both stared at each other and they both felt something 'click'. "Oh my, he's going to kiss me!" "I'm going to kiss her!" Their faces were getting closer and closer until the portrait door swung open and Ron came bouncing in.

"You guys up yet? I'm hungry…" he saw Harry and Hermione fly to the opposite sides of the couch and a huge smile appeared on his face. "Oh, sorry. Did I interrupt something?"
"No!" Harry and Hermione said at the same time and blushed a deep crimson. When Hermione realized that she was in her pajamas, she said. "Let me go take a shower and get changed and then we can go to breakfast" and with that she went out of the room and shut her door.

"Wow Harry, what was going on in here?"

"Honestly Ron, I don't know."

"Well to me Harry, it looked like you two were rather cozy on that couch. Why did you both have your pajamas on? Did you sleep down here? Oh, I know, Did you have a late night snogging session?"

"Ron stop. Nothing like that happened. We stayed up late talking and we both fell asleep and when we woke up this morning, we almost kissed but you came in."

"Sorry 'bout that mate"

"It's ok. I need more time. I want to give her the necklace first. I better go get dressed." Soon Ron, Harry and Hermione were on their way to the Great Hall for breakfast. After Ron went in, Harry stopped Hermione, "We need to talk," she nodded her head in agreement. "Meet me in our common room at 7 tonight, ok?"

The rest of the day went by uneventful, probably because all he could think of was Hermione. He didn't even care when Snape took away 20 points in potions because he was day dreaming. When 7:00 was approaching he headed toward the common room with his invisibility cloak and the necklace in his hands. Harry had a plan. He would take her down to the bench by the lake and give her the necklace. If it changed colors, he was going to tell her because it meant that she loved him too, but if it stayed clear, he was just going to leave it at that because he didn't want to ruin their friendship. A few minutes later, he heard the portrait door open and Hermione came through it.

"Sorry, I was in the library" she threw her books onto one of the chairs.

"Ready to go?"

"Were are we going?"

"Outside by the lake. Is that ok?" She nodded and Harry covered themselves with the invisibility cloak and then went out to the lake. After a few minutes of a somewhat comfortable silence, Hermione spoke, "Its pretty out here isn't it, with the sunset and all."

"Yes, but not a pretty as you." She looked up at him and smiled and grabbed his hand. "Mione, I have something for you." She looked up at him quizzically. He pulled out the box and handed it to her. Hermione gasped as she opened it.

"Harry, its beautiful. I can't accept this, it must have cost you a fortune."

"Sure you can, Mione. Your worth it." She blushed and Harry put the necklace on for her. "The moment of truth." He watched as it glowed and the colors began to swirl. He let out a sigh of relief he didn't know he had been holding.

"I love it Harry. Thank you." She leaned over and gave him a hug.

"Mione, there's something else I need to tell you."

"What is it Harry?"

"I love you" Did he just say he loved me? He did! Hermione looked up into Harry's eyes and saw that the love was true

"Oh Harry, I love you too!"

"Mione, you don't know how much I love you."

"I do Harry, I feel it too." He leaned down and kissed her. There couldn't have been a more gentle, loving kiss.

"Mione, you make me so happy. I never dreamed that you would feel the same way." They just sat on the bench for a while, holding each other. Finally they decided that they were tired and they went back to the prefect common room. After Harry showed Hermione to her room and gave her a kiss goodnight, he went to his room thinking that this was the perfect night and that nothing could spoil it. He was wrong…

He came back a minute later with someone gagged. He realized that it was Hermione. "You see Harry," Voldemort said, "I knew that you would never just give me something that I wanted, so it looked like I was going to have to bribe it out of you, so to say. Over the past few years, my spies and myself have noticed you and the mud blood have been getting closer and closer and I saw this of value to me. I saw the same kind of love you parents had in the two of you, rather sickening really. It's a real shame that you won't be together again. Just to show you that I'm serious… Crucio!" Hermione fell to the ground in pain.

"NO!" Harry yelled as he shot up in his bed.

"Harry! Harry, are you ok? I heard you screaming."

"Yea, I'm ok. I just had that dream again"

"What dream?"

"Hermione, we have to talk about that but can it wait until tomorrow, I'm really tired."

"Yeah sure." Hermione was almost to the door when she heard Harry speak. "Could you not go? I mean, I can sleep on the floor and you could sleep in the bed, I just need to know that you are really here and safe." Then next thing he knew, she was climbing in his bed and she wrapped his arms around her. They soon fell asleep, neither of them ever having slept better.

They woke up in the morning and were late for breakfast. They had made it down to the Great Hall for the last 10 minutes of breakfast. Ron looked at the two of them and saw that something had changed. He thought that he'd mess with there heads for a while. "So, Harry and Hermione, did you two have a wild night last night?" Harry choked on his bacon and Hermione spit milk through her nose.

"Ron, I would never treat Hermione like that. I can't believe you would even think…"

"I know Harry. Jeez, lighten up I was only joking. So, are you guys going out or something?"

"I should hope so, unless Harry is the kind of guy who tells girls he loved them then leaves them." Hermione looked playfully at Harry.

"Mione, will you be my girlfriend?" He leaned over and kissed her softly on the lips.

"Oh brother!" Ron murmured. Later that night, Hermione was in their common room when Harry came in. "Hermione, is it ok if we talk about that dream now?"

"Yes Harry, come here." He went and sat down next to her on the couch and took her hand.

"I really don't know where to start."

"Why don't you just tell me what happens in the dream."

" Ok, well I've been having this dream every once in a while since the end to the Tri-wizarding Tournament. I'm in the woods and I'm surrounded by Voldemort and his death eaters. Voldemort says that he needs something from me. He knows that I won't give it to him, so he takes you captive as sort of a bribe. Then, just to show me that he's serious, he puts the Cruatious (sp?) Curse on you. Mione, It was horrible. You screamed out in pain. I've been under that curse before and I know how it feels and I never want you to have to experience."

"Oh, Harry its ok. It's just a dream, Voldemort is not going to get me. Hogwarts is safe and Dumbledoor has shields around my house."

"But Mione, what if he finds a way. It would be the perfect thing for him to do. He knows that if you were hurt or killed I would die too."

"Oh, Harry, nothing is going to happen to me and if it does I know that you will be there to save and protect me" She leaned over and gave him a sweet kiss. He smiled at her in return and they continued there on the couch, snogging, as Ron would say until they were tired and they said goodnight and went to their respective rooms.

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The weeks went by and pretty soon the whole school knew about Harry and Hermione. Before they knew it, Halloween was approaching and there was going to be a Halloween Ball and Harry and Hermione were going to go together. Ron had gotten enough courage to ask Lavender to the ball and she accepted.

They were in the middle of Transfiguration class one day when Professor McGonnagal stopped her lecture mid sentence. "Class is dismissed for today." Hermione looked upset and Harry and Ron grinned. As the three were nearing the door, McGonnagal called out to them. "Mr. Potter, Ms. Granger, can I speak to you for a moment. Harry and Hermione exchanged a confused glance. When they sat down she spoke. "Hermione, may I ask you where you got that necklace?" Hermione, still confused as to why they were here, answered "Well, Harry gave it to me at the beginning of the term." McGonnagal then turned to Harry, "Where did you get that necklace?"

"At the jewelry store in Diagon Alley."

"Well Harry, I don't know if you know this or not, but a piece of jewelry can't be copied to duplicated in the wizarding world. You're mother, Harry, had a necklace that your father gave her when they were in Hogwarts. She never took it off. When she died, we noticed that she wasn't wearing it. We searched everywhere, even at their vault in Gringotts, but we couldn't find it anywhere. I believe that necklace that you gave Hermione is in fact your mother's necklace. There is only one way to find out. May I see that necklace Hermione?" She didn't really know what to say so she just handed the necklace over to her. McGonnagal waved her wand over the necklace and they watched in amazement as the words James Potter and Lily Evans were engraved in the back. Hermione gasped and Harry looked shocked, but McGonnagal just had a small smile on her lips. "Yes Harry, this was your mother's necklace. Someone must have found it and sold it to the jewelers. You have the same taste as your father. I think that it was destined that you found that necklace. That's all, you may return to your next class." When they were outside, Hermione handed Harry back the necklace.

"Harry, you can have this back. You probably don't want to see it everyday and think of your mother." Harry looked at her like she was crazy.

"Are you kidding?! I want you to wear the necklace even more now. I mean, It was my mother's and you're the only one special enough to wear it besides her." Hermione blushed a out the necklace back on. They shared a smile and, hand in hand, they walked to the common room to pass the time until their next class.

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I have about a page written on the next chapter, so It should be up by the end of the week. I know this isn't a great story, but I wanted to contribute something to the fanfic world. Please review. Thanks!