Chapter Eleven
"Did you see that they're having a Hogsmeade visit today after lunch?" I asked Hermione as she was studying another book for her exams.
She nodded and said, "Yeah, do you want to go."
"Hmmm. Only if you do."
"I think it'll be nice to get out. I mean who knows when we will be able to in the future. It's getting to the point where it is dangerous to go any where."
"Yeah that's true," I said sighing. "But Dumbledore wouldn't allow it if he thought there was immediate danger."
"That's true," Hermione said as she stuck her noise back in her book.
As I got up she suddenly said, "Did you notice the way Professor Kagome teaches everyone differently? I mean with the Slytherins they seem to be strictly book work, yet she teaches Ginny's class and us the same things. She also teaches the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs differently."
"Yeah weird," I said not knowing what else to say.
She shrugged as she set her book down as she said absently. "She is very strange but also very powerful."
I was sitting in my office meditating allowing my miko powers to flow around me when I heard a strange noise. Opening my eyes I was not surprised to once again see that my office was different.
Again it was plain and bare as if no one had been there for quite awhile and I once again saw the boy with messy black hair and green eyes that I identified as Harry Potter. His scar was clearly visible from this angle and he seemed almost scared.
I swear he turned right at me as I sat there but I quickly dismissed the ideal as he walked passed me to put a white envelope behind a broken panel in the corner of the room.
Closing his eyes in what seemed like a brief prayer he disappeared from view. For a moment the office remained bare and unlived and then it was back to the office that I now stayed in.
Out of curiosity I walked over to the corner of the room I had seen Harry in. Bending down I removed a loose piece of panel but I didn't see the envelope that had been put in there.
Sighing I stood backup and dismissed the vision again. I did however find it annoying that I was seeing the past. I was brought out of my thoughts when the Lunch bell rang signaling it was time to leave for Hogsmeade.
Ron and I walked quietly to the village after we had grabbed a quick bit to eat. I needed some more parchment and quills and Ron just wanted to have a break. It wasn't that I blamed him.
I too wanted to get away from everything. As I paid for my materials I saw Kagome walk into the Three Broom Sticks with a thoughtful look on her face.
She seemed tired like we did but at the same time animated. She still wore that strange package around her back and I once again wondered what it was but all thought of it disappeared from my mind as Ron pulled me toward the Joke shop.
Walking into the Three Broom Sticks I was immediately warmed by the blast of air. Smiling a real smile at the bar tender I ordered a butter beer and found myself a back table.
Sitting down with my butter beer I allowed myself to relax for the first time since I had last gone through the well. I knew by now in this time period all my friends from the feudal era were dead but it did not surprise me to find myself smiling at my memories of Sango beating Miroku up for groping her or the memories of Shippo playing tricks on everyone, especially Inuyasha.
As I relaxed I didn't notice that the atmosphere of the Three Broom Sticks changed drastically. It was not until I took a good look around that I noticed that everyone was happier. They seemed laid back and carefree. The tenseness I had experience when I first walked in was gone.
The kids no longer seemed depressed and weary as they had when I walked in and that was when I noticed that it was snowing outside. Remembering the weather that it had been previously, I realized that something was seriously wrong. That was when I notice two kids walk in and one went to a back table while the other ordered three butter beers when there was seemingly only two kids.
When the red haired kid walked past me to the back table I spit out the swallow of butter beer I had just taken. It was younger versions of Ron and even Hermione. The young Ron slipped a butter beer to Harry Potter who had just appear but then the young Hermione levitated a tree over to there table as three teachers came in.
They pushed the boy Harry Potter Down under the table as the teachers came over. Professors McGonagall and Flitwick and Hagrid shortly followed who was in a conversation with Fudge.
For a moment nothing happened and then a woman in High heels came over, I identified her as the bar tender. She handed the adults their drinks.
They all thanked her and Fudge even invited her to share a drink. Madam Rosmerta's asked, "So, what brings you to this neck of the woods, Minister?"
His voice boomed quietly as he said, "What else m'dear, but Sirius Black? I daresay you heard what happened up at the school at Halloween?"
"I did hear a rumor," she admitted.
"Did you tell the whole pub, Hagrid?" said McGonagall exasperatedly. I smiled at this. She always did get irritated at the strangest things.
"Do you think Black's still in the area, Minister?" whispered Madam Rosmerta.
Fudge answered shortly, "I'm sure of it." I really didn't like this guy.
"You know that the dementors have searched the whole village twice?" she said as the vision started to fade slightly.
It was a few moments before I heard them again and it was confusing. I wondered why I was hearing some and not other parts, ".worst? Worse than murdering all those poor people you mean?" asked Madam Rosemerta.
"I certainly do," said Fudge.
Again the voices faded out I was starting to think it was really annoying. I heard the words Hogwarts, friends, James, Dumbledore Suspecting something and then something about James and Lily being murdered and Harry living. I had a feeling I had not heard all I was suppose to because I started to get slightly sick.
Then suddenly it was as if I knew exactly what happened. Dumbledore had used a Fidelius Charm to hide James and Lily for Voldemort was looking for them and then a guy named Sirius, who was best friends with James, supposedly betrayed them. I knew there was more to it because something about didn't add up. Why would someone who was best friends, so close that they were almost like brothers, betray his friend? It just didn't add up.
As the Christmas mood faded it was replaced by the bleak mood that had been everywhere since I had started teaching at Hogwarts.
"Did you see that they're having a Hogsmeade visit today after lunch?" I asked Hermione as she was studying another book for her exams.
She nodded and said, "Yeah, do you want to go."
"Hmmm. Only if you do."
"I think it'll be nice to get out. I mean who knows when we will be able to in the future. It's getting to the point where it is dangerous to go any where."
"Yeah that's true," I said sighing. "But Dumbledore wouldn't allow it if he thought there was immediate danger."
"That's true," Hermione said as she stuck her noise back in her book.
As I got up she suddenly said, "Did you notice the way Professor Kagome teaches everyone differently? I mean with the Slytherins they seem to be strictly book work, yet she teaches Ginny's class and us the same things. She also teaches the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs differently."
"Yeah weird," I said not knowing what else to say.
She shrugged as she set her book down as she said absently. "She is very strange but also very powerful."
I was sitting in my office meditating allowing my miko powers to flow around me when I heard a strange noise. Opening my eyes I was not surprised to once again see that my office was different.
Again it was plain and bare as if no one had been there for quite awhile and I once again saw the boy with messy black hair and green eyes that I identified as Harry Potter. His scar was clearly visible from this angle and he seemed almost scared.
I swear he turned right at me as I sat there but I quickly dismissed the ideal as he walked passed me to put a white envelope behind a broken panel in the corner of the room.
Closing his eyes in what seemed like a brief prayer he disappeared from view. For a moment the office remained bare and unlived and then it was back to the office that I now stayed in.
Out of curiosity I walked over to the corner of the room I had seen Harry in. Bending down I removed a loose piece of panel but I didn't see the envelope that had been put in there.
Sighing I stood backup and dismissed the vision again. I did however find it annoying that I was seeing the past. I was brought out of my thoughts when the Lunch bell rang signaling it was time to leave for Hogsmeade.
Ron and I walked quietly to the village after we had grabbed a quick bit to eat. I needed some more parchment and quills and Ron just wanted to have a break. It wasn't that I blamed him.
I too wanted to get away from everything. As I paid for my materials I saw Kagome walk into the Three Broom Sticks with a thoughtful look on her face.
She seemed tired like we did but at the same time animated. She still wore that strange package around her back and I once again wondered what it was but all thought of it disappeared from my mind as Ron pulled me toward the Joke shop.
Walking into the Three Broom Sticks I was immediately warmed by the blast of air. Smiling a real smile at the bar tender I ordered a butter beer and found myself a back table.
Sitting down with my butter beer I allowed myself to relax for the first time since I had last gone through the well. I knew by now in this time period all my friends from the feudal era were dead but it did not surprise me to find myself smiling at my memories of Sango beating Miroku up for groping her or the memories of Shippo playing tricks on everyone, especially Inuyasha.
As I relaxed I didn't notice that the atmosphere of the Three Broom Sticks changed drastically. It was not until I took a good look around that I noticed that everyone was happier. They seemed laid back and carefree. The tenseness I had experience when I first walked in was gone.
The kids no longer seemed depressed and weary as they had when I walked in and that was when I noticed that it was snowing outside. Remembering the weather that it had been previously, I realized that something was seriously wrong. That was when I notice two kids walk in and one went to a back table while the other ordered three butter beers when there was seemingly only two kids.
When the red haired kid walked past me to the back table I spit out the swallow of butter beer I had just taken. It was younger versions of Ron and even Hermione. The young Ron slipped a butter beer to Harry Potter who had just appear but then the young Hermione levitated a tree over to there table as three teachers came in.
They pushed the boy Harry Potter Down under the table as the teachers came over. Professors McGonagall and Flitwick and Hagrid shortly followed who was in a conversation with Fudge.
For a moment nothing happened and then a woman in High heels came over, I identified her as the bar tender. She handed the adults their drinks.
They all thanked her and Fudge even invited her to share a drink. Madam Rosmerta's asked, "So, what brings you to this neck of the woods, Minister?"
His voice boomed quietly as he said, "What else m'dear, but Sirius Black? I daresay you heard what happened up at the school at Halloween?"
"I did hear a rumor," she admitted.
"Did you tell the whole pub, Hagrid?" said McGonagall exasperatedly. I smiled at this. She always did get irritated at the strangest things.
"Do you think Black's still in the area, Minister?" whispered Madam Rosmerta.
Fudge answered shortly, "I'm sure of it." I really didn't like this guy.
"You know that the dementors have searched the whole village twice?" she said as the vision started to fade slightly.
It was a few moments before I heard them again and it was confusing. I wondered why I was hearing some and not other parts, ".worst? Worse than murdering all those poor people you mean?" asked Madam Rosemerta.
"I certainly do," said Fudge.
Again the voices faded out I was starting to think it was really annoying. I heard the words Hogwarts, friends, James, Dumbledore Suspecting something and then something about James and Lily being murdered and Harry living. I had a feeling I had not heard all I was suppose to because I started to get slightly sick.
Then suddenly it was as if I knew exactly what happened. Dumbledore had used a Fidelius Charm to hide James and Lily for Voldemort was looking for them and then a guy named Sirius, who was best friends with James, supposedly betrayed them. I knew there was more to it because something about didn't add up. Why would someone who was best friends, so close that they were almost like brothers, betray his friend? It just didn't add up.
As the Christmas mood faded it was replaced by the bleak mood that had been everywhere since I had started teaching at Hogwarts.