Harry Potter & The Messenger's betrayal

By: Rachelfan5000

Disclaimer: I Don't Own Harry Potter, I own all the first years though! And Rachel!!

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Listening to: Treat me like a lady (Zoe Birkett)

Chapter 7 - Voldmort strikes again

"So, another year of wizardry has begun," Dumbledore began, "I have good news and bad news, and we will, shall, start with the bad first. Over the summer many Witches and wizards have perished under Voldemort's resurrection. I believe some of you here in this room have already suffered, through family or friend loss, and I will not name those who have died for us."

The room was quiet, Harry could see Malfoy smirking at the Slytherin table, and he felt a surge of hatred towards him.

Most people in the room were looking sad, Roxie was even crying, Harry decided not to ask her why.

"And that is the bad note, as a reminder to the older students and a fact to the first years, the forbidden forest is, as always, forbidden. However, on a better note, I am pleased to inform you that there will be yet another Yule ball this year, and I am sure that all of you will enjoy, after the success of the last. All students will be allowed to the ball who are staying over the Christmas holidays."

Harry shuddered, another Yule ball? Finding a date for the last was hard enough, he looked over at the Ravenclaw table, maybe now Cedric wasn't there, Cho would… but Harry didn't notice Ginny Weasley turning around to stare at him.

"It is also my pleasure for you to meet the new defence against the dark arts teacher, Professor Figg. Now, chop, chop, lessons will begin tomorrow morning sharp."

Harry, Ron and Hermione set off to the common room, followed by Ginny and Rachel and a bunch of first years who didn't know the way to the common room.

"Hold on! Wait a minute…does anyone know the password?" Ron asked. Everybody stopped.

"You're supposed to know the password and we're supposed to follow you!" said the redhead girl called Sophie Allen, who Harry now knew had an attitude problem.

"I know, after all, I'm a prefect," Hermione said, Ron gawped.

"How come you never told us?" Ron asked, sounding insulted.

"I figured it would come out in an argument - oh and the passwords strawberry pickles," she added to the crowd of Gryffindor behind her. The Trio moved out of the way and Ron started shouting at Hermione.

"Calm down Ron," said Harry, "If Hermione's a prefect she might tell us the new password to get into all the prefect-only places!"

Ron liked that idea.

"I am but I won't," Hermione said stubbornly.

"Comon 'Mione, please?" Ron said.

"It's Hermione, not 'Mione!" Hermione said, and she walked into the common room in a huff. Not exactly how any of them had wanted the first day back.

*****

Harry decided to go to bed early that night, leaving Ron and Hermione to sort out their troubles, Harry went to his dormitory, he was the first one in there, too, and slowly went to sleep.

The first thing he saw in the morning was that he was still the only person in the dormitory, assuming that he'd gone to sleep early and woke up late, Harry got his stuff and hurried down to the common room. It was only then he notice it was only four o'clock in the morning. But many Gryffindor were in the common room, their chatting rushed; something had happened.

Hermione and Ron were sitting together chatting fast. Ron looking relieved, and Hermione panicky.

"There's been an attack," Hermione said, her words rushed. "In a girls dormitory, noone was hurt, I think, but they're just confirming it now." Hermione was obviously scared and Ron was calming her down. They'd made up, Harry guessed.

"Whose dormitories?" Harry asked.

"That tall girl called Kathryn Adams said it was hers, I don't know if she just said that to look tough though. She's over there, with that annoying Sophie girl." Ron said, looking over to the side of the room where Kathryn and Sophie were gossiping.

"Why'd you never wake me up?" Harry asked feeling confused.

"Well, it only just happened, about half an hour ago, I woke up to a girls shrilly scream and left you to it, lucky you didn't get woken up too." Ron said.

"And Hermione had gone to alert Professor McGonagall, so I wondered if it was her."

"I don't scream like that," Hermione muttered, "That was more like Lavender's scream."

"I think everyone's up now," Harry said, as Ginny and her other friend, Franscesca walked down the stairs, yawning.

"Neither of them have been to sleep for very long," Hermione said, eyeing them. "And Rachel's been up all night, apparently couldn't get to sleep because of the excitement of the Yule Ball. They've got a while to wait though."

Suddenly McGonagall and Dumbledore returned from checking out the dormitories.

"False alarm," Professor McGonagall told the fourth years who asked her first.

"Roxie Stevenson said it was just a shape in the dark and that Alexandra Power overreacted." She continued.

Alexandra Power, the pretty first year Harry had met in Diagon Alley, was walking behind them. She now had a red face to match her red pyjamas, but she was giggling.

The Gryffindor laughed at this, even Hermione, all the noise covered for one person who had a very strange look in their eyes.

*****

Short chapter, eh? 888 words long, * sigh * oh well. Sorry for not updating in a while, my website must be back up before Christmas and I've been acting in my school's Christmas production and I've been playing my new computer game. Lols! Thanx to everyone who reviewed, you're the only ones encouraging me to write more. I got writers block for a while though.

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