CHAPTER 8
A/N: Well, I'm writing again. and I don't remember my author note I wrote
before the power went out at like an hour ago. but I hope it comes on soon.
I'm writing at a relative's house 2 miles away that just happens to have
power here.
I have ideas for something after the attack on Hogwarts that I got from 'Marian the librarian.' I'm not going to tell you which idea I'm using yet, but I can only use them if Hogwarts survives the attack (gives Dumbledore an evil grin) [insert maniacal laughter here].
I know someone from my school who has a Harry Potter website. If you want to check it out go to www.thepotterprofile.com . there are links to fan fiction there too. There are 10 links, and links 2-10 are ff.net links. Number one is different.
CHAPTER 8-
The meeting and the first week of lessons
Dumbledore sat at the head of the table in his office. It was sort of like a table you would find in the meeting room of a big muggle company. The only difference there is between the two would be the kind of people.
There was silence at first. Harry thought something bad might have happened to someone at the school. Harry has yet to realize that it hasn't happened yet. Then Dumbledore spoke. "Former and Future Professor Snape, I believe, has some information for us all to hear."
Snape stood up and started to talk about the information he found last night. "Last night, I gathered information that the death eaters are expecting to fail their first attack on Hogwarts, which means there could be more attacks. Because of this, they have positioned a well-hidden death eater inside the school whose mission is to attack the headmaster. It will be such a well-hidden attack that we must keep security for the headmaster at the maximum and send the first person that tries to attack to Azkaban."
"Thank you Severus," Dumbledore said. "Harry," he began again. Harry quickly assumed a frightened position. Was he supposed to do something for Dumbledore that he didn't hear clearly last time? "Would you please tell everyone about your Animagi forms and your book of spells. Oh yes and I believe both of you have Animagi forms."
"Okay, I have two forms. The first is a phoenix of the colors red and gold, and my second is a white stag. On both of these forms, the only way you can tell it's me is if you look closely where my scar is and you can see it. The old book of spells is just a regular book of spells except for one thing, these spells were forgotten long ago. Not even Voldemort knows about them, which is a good thing because there are the bad spells in there too. To my knowledge, we should keep this book away from him. That is why I put a protection charm on the book so neither Voldemort nor his supporters (not all supporters are death eaters) can find this book."
Then Hermione began. "I have two Animagi forms also. The first is a phoenix of red and purple, and the second is a white unicorn. For the phoenix, Harry said I have a very intelligent look and the feathers on my head have a kind of zigzag shape, which is probably my hair because my marking for the unicorn is my hair."
Dumbledore stood. "I think we shall leave it at that for tonight. The next meeting will either be Wednesday or Friday this week and then again on Saturday after dinner."
~*~
The next morning in Hagrid's class, happenings were normal. Malfoy had some things to say, but the joke was on him when fang got loose and chased him around the Hogwarts grounds for the second half of class.
Harry was also taking Arithmacy (sp?) this year with Hermione. He was glad that Hermione took Arithmacy too because Ron didn't. This was the first class Harry wasn't with Ron in it. Ron was sad that Harry wasn't going to Divination this year, but he was happy too because he could predict Harry's death to get top marks.
Harry had prepared during the summer for both ancient runes and arithmacy. This took a lot of time from his other work though, which made him exceptionally glad Snape wasn't teaching. He did well enough to get high marks from the other teachers, but because Snape needs two to three times as much effort, Harry would have gotten very low marks. He just hoped Mrs. Figg wasn't as tough.
Later that afternoon, all of the Gryffindor fifth years had Defense Against the Dark Arts. They went over curses that weren't as dangerous as the year before. In fact, they were more at the same level of the jelly legs curse. Something Harry had never done before was take two full pages of notes in one class period, but by the end of professor Lupin's class, he had not failed to have all of those notes taken. Even Hermione was surprised he had started to catch up to her two and one half pages.
~*~
That night, Harry and Hermione found an empty classroom to practice for the upcoming mission. Harry first taught her all of the basics of a patronus (sp?). She was sure she'd be able to do it but how could they practice. After he taught her how to do it, they couldn't very well test it on nothing, so they practiced spells from Harry's book.
Harry figured out quickly that some of these spells would really help for their mission and that they should let Cho and Terry use the book. Both Harry and Hermione learned that they each have a natural talent for spells. Of course, Hermione was better in charms and transfiguration, while Harry almost matched her level in charms and exceeded her in Curses and hexes. For this reason, Hermione was starting to look more like her Animagi form then when she first did the spell and noticed a slight change in appearance. Harry was able to shoot curses at the wall and succeed in making the spell correctly within three tries for almost every curse.
They practiced create food and water spells for the last twenty minutes before heading back to the Gryffindor tower to go to bed. They both got it right almost instantly. These spells were practiced in case of some unusual happening where they couldn't leave a certain area and if they needed to survive.
When they got back to the common room Ron wasn't there, so they each decided to go to bed shortly after they got back. When Harry headed up the stars and entered his room, Ron was still awake. He looked up at Harry. "How did it go with Hermione?" he asked, trying to keep the serious look on his face.
Harry then picked up a pillow and threw it at Ron. "You know nothing happened."
"Yeah, but you would have told me if it was something else," Ron said back.
"What if it was for Dumbledore?" He asked.
"Well, are you going to do that every night?"
"Probably."
"Oh."
~*~
The next morning the Gryffindors had Herbology with the Hufflepuffs. They were repotting new plants in greenhouse 5. These plants were much like Mandrakes, except these plants (which, because they have so many shapes and forms, have no name) produce a liquid that makes an odor that could knock you out anywhere from several hours to a year or two, depending on the size.
After Herbology, charms was their next class. They were mostly going to go into healing charms for the rest of the year and then again by seventh year. The first part of the lesson was to cut themselves. By the end of class, Harry and Hermione were the only ones who could do the spell, so they had to help professor Flitwick mend everyone's cuts at the end of class.
Ron had off the rest of the afternoon, but Harry had his first ancient runes class with Hermione. Harry, of course, studied over the summer. The reason he was nervous about his class was because he found it very easy and thought everyone else could excel as fast as he could, which would put him far behind. Harry soon realized that he excelled in the subject even faster then Hermione, but she was still the top of the class. He was also surprised when he found that he was almost completely caught up with the class, and when professor Fletcher went over it all, he found himself knowing answers to some of the questions.
Harry and Hermione met Ron at dinner and talked for a while before Harry and Hermione left to go see professor Lupin. They were going to see him to find out how they could practice Hermione's Patronus on a dementor (sp?), without actually bringing a dementor into the castle. Professor Lupin knew Hermione's greatest fear wasn't a dementor, so he decided to talk to Dumbledore to see what they could do. In the meantime, he gave them permission to use him class after dinner to practice spells they might need to use on their mission. Lupin also gave them a book of more modern spells to use with Harry's book.
They decided to practice more advanced healing charms then the ones from earlier. Hermione used her transfiguration skills to transform a desk into Malfoy, except this Malfoy didn't fight back when you broke his arm, which is exactly what Harry did. They then practiced healing it. Harry wanted to know why they were healing Malfoy, even if he wasn't real. Hermione reminded him that they needed to practice. Professor Lupin walked in when Harry was breaking Malfoy's arm and almost gave him a detention when Hermione told him what they were doing. Lupin just laughed when he heard it was all fake. The fake Malfoy came in handy again when they were practicing curses and hexes.
This time they came back earlier, and Ron was still in the common room. They talked until they were too tired to talk anymore.
~*~
Wednesday was another arithmacy day and for Ron it was Divination. Harry had almost completely caught up with the arithmacy class, and Hermione thought of it as a huge accomplishment for Harry (and an even bigger accomplishment for Ron if he had done it, but he hadn't). When Harry turned in his homework (that Hermione had not checked), professor Vector said that he had almost everything correct.
Their first transfiguration lesson was to take notes on how to make an animal out of furniture. Finally, they got to the part where they try. Professor McGonagall told everyone not to worry if they couldn't do it. It was advanced magic, so making even the slightest change was quite the accomplishment. By the end of class, once again it was Harry and Hermione that made the only changes.
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, the Gryffindors had no classes. Ron had some studying to do in the library (is that possible? Ron studying?). With Ron studying, Harry and Hermione went to practice spells when they realized that they couldn't use a classroom until all of the classes were over because there were those still using them. They instead, went up to Dumbledore's office because he has an open space two floors above his office. They practiced more healing spells at first. Harry suggested they try the transportation spells just before Dumbledore walked up to the room. He also thought the transportation spells would come in handy as they were going to Azkaban and were to young to apparate.
After dinner, there was no order meeting, and Harry and Hermione were still willing to practice some spells. They had Cho and Terry meet them in the Lupin's class so they could practice too. They knew that being in sixth and seventh years, Cho and Terry knew healing spells. That left them to practice things that were useful to use against attack at Azkaban. They practiced curses and hexes mostly, but Dumbledore warned them not to use any of the unforgivables. This left Cho and Terry wondering why Dumbledore would warn them not to use the death eaters curses on the death eaters.
"Two wrongs don't make a right," Harry said, starting to sound like Hermione. Hermione stared at him for a minute before she spoke.
"That's my line, you know. I'm the only logical one around here. And yes, I am proud you're getting smarter for your O.W.L.s this year," Hermione said, changing her expression to a smile at the end.
"The O.W.L.s are really a piece of cake," Cho said.
"Says the really smart Ravenclaw. And by the way, Hermione, muggles can be a really big help sometime. I learned logic from a book titled 'logic for dumdums,'" Harry said.
"That's where I get my logic from," Hermione said.
Cho and Terry learned the charms, hexes, and curses really fast, which meant they almost caught up to the stuff Harry and Hermione were at, except they let them catch up before they went ahead. When Harry and Hermione went up to meet Ron, he wasn't there, nor was he sleeping. They thought he must still be in the library.
~*~
Thursday was a great day for Harry. When he looked at his schedule, he realized that 5th years and above don't have to take history of magic. This put a smile on his and Ron's face all threw breakfast and care of magical creatures, which was their first class that day. Malfoy decided to crack a few jokes and Hagrid couldn't take it anymore. He sent Malfoy back inside to go find Dumbledore. Of course, Malfoy doesn't know where Dumbledore's is, or what the password is, so he just went back to the Slytherin common room.
The Gryffindors had defense against the dark arts next. They were still working on curses, but professor Lupin hinted that at the end of the year, or at least the last two months, they would be writing essays on topics picked out of personality by the sorting hat. Harry and Hermione knew most of the curses they practiced in class, which gave them time to talk when everyone was trying to get them right and then undo them properly. This kept Lupin busy undoing spells all class period.
After lunch, Ron had to study again, and Lupin said that he didn't have a class on Thursdays after lunch. Harry and Hermione spent all until dinner practicing healing charms as they only had that class once a week. They were three chapters in their book ahead on the class, which was on chapter one still, and would be like that for the next week or so. By dinner time, they had just started on chapter five on healing charms, and decided they would take a break until Sunday, as they had order meetings all weekend.
They spent all of their time with Ron doing homework in the library after dinner. All three were wondering how their class would go the next day, which was Friday. Double potions, with the Slytherins. With the new teacher, Mrs. Figg, everything would go right. They finish their transfiguration homework and headed for the common room for the night to sleep.
~*~
Friday morning, Harry woke trying to keep his spirit high, even with potions that day. 'It won't be as bad this year,' he thought as they walked down to the dungeons that morning. The potions class turned out to be enjoyable, as Harry and Hermione knew most of the answers to Mrs. Figg's questions. They actually gain points in potions. They were working on the weakest version of a truth potion, and Harry and Hermione were the only students in their year to get it right on the first try. Obviously, both Harry and Hermione were very talented in all subjects.
After lunch, they continued working on turning furniture into animals in transfiguration. Harry and Hermione made even more of a change then the time before, and Ron actually made something change. Of course, Ron's change was a lot less noticeable then Harry's and Hermione's. Finally, the weekend began. Dinner tasted better then usual, according to Ron, and Saturday was Hogmeade day. For Harry and Hermione, there was an order meeting that night. After dinner, they made their way to Dumbledore's as not to delay the meeting.
~*~
Dumbledore sat at the head of the table like always. When everyone was in the room, he at last spoke. "Severus more information for us again."
Snape stood in front of the room and began a very short speech. The attack on the headmaster is going to be attempted within two weeks of the attack on the fifteenth. We must take all precautions necessary to keep the headmaster with us." After that, he sat back down.
It was Dumbledore's turn to talk. "There has not been a meeting all week because of the lack of important news. Fudge, along with most of the ministry that isn't sitting among our meeting tonight, still refuse to believe that Voldemort has returned. The news of the summer's events has not been let out, which surprised me. I had assumed you all had known about Beauxbatons falling to the dark lord's power. Drumstrang is going to be attacked any day now. This will happen sometime before October. There is nothing else to be said tonight."
Everyone got up to leave and Harry remembered that the next morning, he would be getting ready for Hogsmeade. He looked over to Hermione and noticed that she was almost as tired as he was. They probably wouldn't spend much time talking before bed that night.
~*~
Harry was walking on a flat surface, a far tower in the distance. The surface led up to a lake made of a silvery substance that looked very much like pensive. He kept walking and looked down into the pensive-like substance and started seeing people moving in it. He kept going only to see more people, and the people were becoming more modern as he walked, but he didn't know that. Finally he stopped on sight of Voldemort.
Every time Voldemort appeared in the substance, he was killing or torturing another wizard. There was pure hatred in his eyes every time Harry saw him. When Voldemort came back again, Dumbledore was there too. They appeared to be in the middle of a duel. Dumbledore had the upper hand, but that was changing, fast. Voldemort hit him with a spell that sent him flying far back. Once Dumbledore began getting the duel back in order, it ended. Voldemort just left, apparated.
Harry continued walking a few more steps when he came to himself. He was up to his own time on this timeline of events, except he held a heavy sword in his hand in the substance. He wondered if this was some time in the future. He looked not much older than he did at that point in time. This sword looked like the second sword of Godric Gryffindor. Voldemort led an army of death eaters to Harry, and he was all alone. The death eaters encircled him, trapping him from getting anywhere, or at least to their knowledge. It was a fully Harry and Voldemort duel. The death eaters stood there waiting for instructions. Voldemort was using a sword that belonged to Salazar Slytherin. The duel continued for about five minutes before Harry disappeared out of nowhere.
~*~ A/N: this is my longest chapter yet. It has exactly 3,127 words, not counting the author notes.
I am writing the next chapter right now. This chapter can't be posted until Sunday, but it's done one night too late to post. But that's ok because I'm hoping to get more reviews because a lot more people posted on Thursday night so they could get it before the system closed down to add the new fictionpress.net.
*Shakes collecting tin* REVIEW. thanks.
I have ideas for something after the attack on Hogwarts that I got from 'Marian the librarian.' I'm not going to tell you which idea I'm using yet, but I can only use them if Hogwarts survives the attack (gives Dumbledore an evil grin) [insert maniacal laughter here].
I know someone from my school who has a Harry Potter website. If you want to check it out go to www.thepotterprofile.com . there are links to fan fiction there too. There are 10 links, and links 2-10 are ff.net links. Number one is different.
CHAPTER 8-
The meeting and the first week of lessons
Dumbledore sat at the head of the table in his office. It was sort of like a table you would find in the meeting room of a big muggle company. The only difference there is between the two would be the kind of people.
There was silence at first. Harry thought something bad might have happened to someone at the school. Harry has yet to realize that it hasn't happened yet. Then Dumbledore spoke. "Former and Future Professor Snape, I believe, has some information for us all to hear."
Snape stood up and started to talk about the information he found last night. "Last night, I gathered information that the death eaters are expecting to fail their first attack on Hogwarts, which means there could be more attacks. Because of this, they have positioned a well-hidden death eater inside the school whose mission is to attack the headmaster. It will be such a well-hidden attack that we must keep security for the headmaster at the maximum and send the first person that tries to attack to Azkaban."
"Thank you Severus," Dumbledore said. "Harry," he began again. Harry quickly assumed a frightened position. Was he supposed to do something for Dumbledore that he didn't hear clearly last time? "Would you please tell everyone about your Animagi forms and your book of spells. Oh yes and I believe both of you have Animagi forms."
"Okay, I have two forms. The first is a phoenix of the colors red and gold, and my second is a white stag. On both of these forms, the only way you can tell it's me is if you look closely where my scar is and you can see it. The old book of spells is just a regular book of spells except for one thing, these spells were forgotten long ago. Not even Voldemort knows about them, which is a good thing because there are the bad spells in there too. To my knowledge, we should keep this book away from him. That is why I put a protection charm on the book so neither Voldemort nor his supporters (not all supporters are death eaters) can find this book."
Then Hermione began. "I have two Animagi forms also. The first is a phoenix of red and purple, and the second is a white unicorn. For the phoenix, Harry said I have a very intelligent look and the feathers on my head have a kind of zigzag shape, which is probably my hair because my marking for the unicorn is my hair."
Dumbledore stood. "I think we shall leave it at that for tonight. The next meeting will either be Wednesday or Friday this week and then again on Saturday after dinner."
~*~
The next morning in Hagrid's class, happenings were normal. Malfoy had some things to say, but the joke was on him when fang got loose and chased him around the Hogwarts grounds for the second half of class.
Harry was also taking Arithmacy (sp?) this year with Hermione. He was glad that Hermione took Arithmacy too because Ron didn't. This was the first class Harry wasn't with Ron in it. Ron was sad that Harry wasn't going to Divination this year, but he was happy too because he could predict Harry's death to get top marks.
Harry had prepared during the summer for both ancient runes and arithmacy. This took a lot of time from his other work though, which made him exceptionally glad Snape wasn't teaching. He did well enough to get high marks from the other teachers, but because Snape needs two to three times as much effort, Harry would have gotten very low marks. He just hoped Mrs. Figg wasn't as tough.
Later that afternoon, all of the Gryffindor fifth years had Defense Against the Dark Arts. They went over curses that weren't as dangerous as the year before. In fact, they were more at the same level of the jelly legs curse. Something Harry had never done before was take two full pages of notes in one class period, but by the end of professor Lupin's class, he had not failed to have all of those notes taken. Even Hermione was surprised he had started to catch up to her two and one half pages.
~*~
That night, Harry and Hermione found an empty classroom to practice for the upcoming mission. Harry first taught her all of the basics of a patronus (sp?). She was sure she'd be able to do it but how could they practice. After he taught her how to do it, they couldn't very well test it on nothing, so they practiced spells from Harry's book.
Harry figured out quickly that some of these spells would really help for their mission and that they should let Cho and Terry use the book. Both Harry and Hermione learned that they each have a natural talent for spells. Of course, Hermione was better in charms and transfiguration, while Harry almost matched her level in charms and exceeded her in Curses and hexes. For this reason, Hermione was starting to look more like her Animagi form then when she first did the spell and noticed a slight change in appearance. Harry was able to shoot curses at the wall and succeed in making the spell correctly within three tries for almost every curse.
They practiced create food and water spells for the last twenty minutes before heading back to the Gryffindor tower to go to bed. They both got it right almost instantly. These spells were practiced in case of some unusual happening where they couldn't leave a certain area and if they needed to survive.
When they got back to the common room Ron wasn't there, so they each decided to go to bed shortly after they got back. When Harry headed up the stars and entered his room, Ron was still awake. He looked up at Harry. "How did it go with Hermione?" he asked, trying to keep the serious look on his face.
Harry then picked up a pillow and threw it at Ron. "You know nothing happened."
"Yeah, but you would have told me if it was something else," Ron said back.
"What if it was for Dumbledore?" He asked.
"Well, are you going to do that every night?"
"Probably."
"Oh."
~*~
The next morning the Gryffindors had Herbology with the Hufflepuffs. They were repotting new plants in greenhouse 5. These plants were much like Mandrakes, except these plants (which, because they have so many shapes and forms, have no name) produce a liquid that makes an odor that could knock you out anywhere from several hours to a year or two, depending on the size.
After Herbology, charms was their next class. They were mostly going to go into healing charms for the rest of the year and then again by seventh year. The first part of the lesson was to cut themselves. By the end of class, Harry and Hermione were the only ones who could do the spell, so they had to help professor Flitwick mend everyone's cuts at the end of class.
Ron had off the rest of the afternoon, but Harry had his first ancient runes class with Hermione. Harry, of course, studied over the summer. The reason he was nervous about his class was because he found it very easy and thought everyone else could excel as fast as he could, which would put him far behind. Harry soon realized that he excelled in the subject even faster then Hermione, but she was still the top of the class. He was also surprised when he found that he was almost completely caught up with the class, and when professor Fletcher went over it all, he found himself knowing answers to some of the questions.
Harry and Hermione met Ron at dinner and talked for a while before Harry and Hermione left to go see professor Lupin. They were going to see him to find out how they could practice Hermione's Patronus on a dementor (sp?), without actually bringing a dementor into the castle. Professor Lupin knew Hermione's greatest fear wasn't a dementor, so he decided to talk to Dumbledore to see what they could do. In the meantime, he gave them permission to use him class after dinner to practice spells they might need to use on their mission. Lupin also gave them a book of more modern spells to use with Harry's book.
They decided to practice more advanced healing charms then the ones from earlier. Hermione used her transfiguration skills to transform a desk into Malfoy, except this Malfoy didn't fight back when you broke his arm, which is exactly what Harry did. They then practiced healing it. Harry wanted to know why they were healing Malfoy, even if he wasn't real. Hermione reminded him that they needed to practice. Professor Lupin walked in when Harry was breaking Malfoy's arm and almost gave him a detention when Hermione told him what they were doing. Lupin just laughed when he heard it was all fake. The fake Malfoy came in handy again when they were practicing curses and hexes.
This time they came back earlier, and Ron was still in the common room. They talked until they were too tired to talk anymore.
~*~
Wednesday was another arithmacy day and for Ron it was Divination. Harry had almost completely caught up with the arithmacy class, and Hermione thought of it as a huge accomplishment for Harry (and an even bigger accomplishment for Ron if he had done it, but he hadn't). When Harry turned in his homework (that Hermione had not checked), professor Vector said that he had almost everything correct.
Their first transfiguration lesson was to take notes on how to make an animal out of furniture. Finally, they got to the part where they try. Professor McGonagall told everyone not to worry if they couldn't do it. It was advanced magic, so making even the slightest change was quite the accomplishment. By the end of class, once again it was Harry and Hermione that made the only changes.
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, the Gryffindors had no classes. Ron had some studying to do in the library (is that possible? Ron studying?). With Ron studying, Harry and Hermione went to practice spells when they realized that they couldn't use a classroom until all of the classes were over because there were those still using them. They instead, went up to Dumbledore's office because he has an open space two floors above his office. They practiced more healing spells at first. Harry suggested they try the transportation spells just before Dumbledore walked up to the room. He also thought the transportation spells would come in handy as they were going to Azkaban and were to young to apparate.
After dinner, there was no order meeting, and Harry and Hermione were still willing to practice some spells. They had Cho and Terry meet them in the Lupin's class so they could practice too. They knew that being in sixth and seventh years, Cho and Terry knew healing spells. That left them to practice things that were useful to use against attack at Azkaban. They practiced curses and hexes mostly, but Dumbledore warned them not to use any of the unforgivables. This left Cho and Terry wondering why Dumbledore would warn them not to use the death eaters curses on the death eaters.
"Two wrongs don't make a right," Harry said, starting to sound like Hermione. Hermione stared at him for a minute before she spoke.
"That's my line, you know. I'm the only logical one around here. And yes, I am proud you're getting smarter for your O.W.L.s this year," Hermione said, changing her expression to a smile at the end.
"The O.W.L.s are really a piece of cake," Cho said.
"Says the really smart Ravenclaw. And by the way, Hermione, muggles can be a really big help sometime. I learned logic from a book titled 'logic for dumdums,'" Harry said.
"That's where I get my logic from," Hermione said.
Cho and Terry learned the charms, hexes, and curses really fast, which meant they almost caught up to the stuff Harry and Hermione were at, except they let them catch up before they went ahead. When Harry and Hermione went up to meet Ron, he wasn't there, nor was he sleeping. They thought he must still be in the library.
~*~
Thursday was a great day for Harry. When he looked at his schedule, he realized that 5th years and above don't have to take history of magic. This put a smile on his and Ron's face all threw breakfast and care of magical creatures, which was their first class that day. Malfoy decided to crack a few jokes and Hagrid couldn't take it anymore. He sent Malfoy back inside to go find Dumbledore. Of course, Malfoy doesn't know where Dumbledore's is, or what the password is, so he just went back to the Slytherin common room.
The Gryffindors had defense against the dark arts next. They were still working on curses, but professor Lupin hinted that at the end of the year, or at least the last two months, they would be writing essays on topics picked out of personality by the sorting hat. Harry and Hermione knew most of the curses they practiced in class, which gave them time to talk when everyone was trying to get them right and then undo them properly. This kept Lupin busy undoing spells all class period.
After lunch, Ron had to study again, and Lupin said that he didn't have a class on Thursdays after lunch. Harry and Hermione spent all until dinner practicing healing charms as they only had that class once a week. They were three chapters in their book ahead on the class, which was on chapter one still, and would be like that for the next week or so. By dinner time, they had just started on chapter five on healing charms, and decided they would take a break until Sunday, as they had order meetings all weekend.
They spent all of their time with Ron doing homework in the library after dinner. All three were wondering how their class would go the next day, which was Friday. Double potions, with the Slytherins. With the new teacher, Mrs. Figg, everything would go right. They finish their transfiguration homework and headed for the common room for the night to sleep.
~*~
Friday morning, Harry woke trying to keep his spirit high, even with potions that day. 'It won't be as bad this year,' he thought as they walked down to the dungeons that morning. The potions class turned out to be enjoyable, as Harry and Hermione knew most of the answers to Mrs. Figg's questions. They actually gain points in potions. They were working on the weakest version of a truth potion, and Harry and Hermione were the only students in their year to get it right on the first try. Obviously, both Harry and Hermione were very talented in all subjects.
After lunch, they continued working on turning furniture into animals in transfiguration. Harry and Hermione made even more of a change then the time before, and Ron actually made something change. Of course, Ron's change was a lot less noticeable then Harry's and Hermione's. Finally, the weekend began. Dinner tasted better then usual, according to Ron, and Saturday was Hogmeade day. For Harry and Hermione, there was an order meeting that night. After dinner, they made their way to Dumbledore's as not to delay the meeting.
~*~
Dumbledore sat at the head of the table like always. When everyone was in the room, he at last spoke. "Severus more information for us again."
Snape stood in front of the room and began a very short speech. The attack on the headmaster is going to be attempted within two weeks of the attack on the fifteenth. We must take all precautions necessary to keep the headmaster with us." After that, he sat back down.
It was Dumbledore's turn to talk. "There has not been a meeting all week because of the lack of important news. Fudge, along with most of the ministry that isn't sitting among our meeting tonight, still refuse to believe that Voldemort has returned. The news of the summer's events has not been let out, which surprised me. I had assumed you all had known about Beauxbatons falling to the dark lord's power. Drumstrang is going to be attacked any day now. This will happen sometime before October. There is nothing else to be said tonight."
Everyone got up to leave and Harry remembered that the next morning, he would be getting ready for Hogsmeade. He looked over to Hermione and noticed that she was almost as tired as he was. They probably wouldn't spend much time talking before bed that night.
~*~
Harry was walking on a flat surface, a far tower in the distance. The surface led up to a lake made of a silvery substance that looked very much like pensive. He kept walking and looked down into the pensive-like substance and started seeing people moving in it. He kept going only to see more people, and the people were becoming more modern as he walked, but he didn't know that. Finally he stopped on sight of Voldemort.
Every time Voldemort appeared in the substance, he was killing or torturing another wizard. There was pure hatred in his eyes every time Harry saw him. When Voldemort came back again, Dumbledore was there too. They appeared to be in the middle of a duel. Dumbledore had the upper hand, but that was changing, fast. Voldemort hit him with a spell that sent him flying far back. Once Dumbledore began getting the duel back in order, it ended. Voldemort just left, apparated.
Harry continued walking a few more steps when he came to himself. He was up to his own time on this timeline of events, except he held a heavy sword in his hand in the substance. He wondered if this was some time in the future. He looked not much older than he did at that point in time. This sword looked like the second sword of Godric Gryffindor. Voldemort led an army of death eaters to Harry, and he was all alone. The death eaters encircled him, trapping him from getting anywhere, or at least to their knowledge. It was a fully Harry and Voldemort duel. The death eaters stood there waiting for instructions. Voldemort was using a sword that belonged to Salazar Slytherin. The duel continued for about five minutes before Harry disappeared out of nowhere.
~*~ A/N: this is my longest chapter yet. It has exactly 3,127 words, not counting the author notes.
I am writing the next chapter right now. This chapter can't be posted until Sunday, but it's done one night too late to post. But that's ok because I'm hoping to get more reviews because a lot more people posted on Thursday night so they could get it before the system closed down to add the new fictionpress.net.
*Shakes collecting tin* REVIEW. thanks.
