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Chapter 5: Cabin in the Hills

When Harry awoke, besides noticing the immense aching of his body, he became aware that he was no longer in the headquarters of the Order, but in some new place. The room around him was rather dark and bare except for a small lamp on a stool by his bed, which cast misshapen shadows around the room with dim yellow light.

Footsteps echoed outside the door and instinctively he reached for his wand, but he then remembered that the Imposter had taken it from him. How would he do magic now? Would they get him a new wand, he thought. But then he realized that he did not want a new wand. He wanted his old wand. He'd grown rather attached to it, now that he thought about it. That wand had been with him through thick and thin. That wand had been with him when he'd fought Vold- He stopped his thoughts abruptly and looked at the shabby wooden door. Its handle was twisting. Someone was coming in. Harry could feel his heart pounding his throat. The door opened to reveal a bushy haired girl with a large smile on her face.

"HARRY! HARRY! OH- HARRY, YOU'RE AWAKE!! RON! RON! GET IN HERE! HARRY'S AWAKE! Ooh! We've been SO worried about you!! We thought you were dead!" she squealed running over to him and hugging him. He could feel her tears wet his cheek as her face brushed up against him.

"Hermione! Let him breathe! He just woke up! You're going to make him pass out again if you don't let him go!" came Ron's voice in the doorway. Though it didn't sound angry, rather it sounded relieved.

"Where are we? H-how long have I been unconscious?" he asked hurriedly as Hermione let go. He looked at Ron who was smiling broadly, and then at Hermione. She still had tears in her eyes but beamed at him. He was afraid she might start hugging him again, but she did not, instead she began to answer his questions.

"We are in the new headquarters. It's a small cabin in the mountains just outside of Hogwarts. Dumbledore thought it best that we moved now that the enemy knows where the old headquarters is. He doesn't think the House of Black is safe anymore. We moved everything that we needed and headed up here as quickly as we could. We did all this in the three days you've been unconscious."

"What about the Imposter? Did you guys catch him, or at least figure out who he was? And my wand? What about my wand?" Harry asked turning his eyes back and forth on each of them as he spoke.

"We didn't catch the Imposter, but Dumbledore reckons he knows who it was. The adults do too, but no one will tell us anything." Ron spoke for the first time since he saw Harry awake.

"I have an idea…." said Hermione thoughtfully.

"Well, what is it then?" said Harry almost impatiently.

"Well, if you think about it…. No one could get into the headquarters unless Dumbledore told them first. And Dumbledore would not be stupid enough to let anyone untrustworthy know where headquarters was. So, it would have to be someone from the Order…." she said in a measured voice.

"You don't reckon it was the real Snape, do you?" said Harry sitting up even farther in the bed.

"Well, who else could it be? Unless someone used the Pollyjuice potion and took the form of Snape, which I find highly unlikely, because that would take months. And no one knew for sure until three days before they went and got Harry from Private Drive, that he was coming to headquarters. That would certainly NOT be enough time to make the Pollyjuice potion." Hermione said matter-of-factly.

"So Snape really IS a Death Eater! I KNEW it!" Ron said walking over and sitting on small bed across from Harry's.

"Well, we don't know for sure. There might be other possibilities…."Hermione said in a voice thick with thought.

"Oh come ON, Hermione! Snape has hated Harry for years! I bet he would give ANY excuse to attack him!" said Ron in a voice of outrage.

"What other possibilities do you think there are, Hermione? There are none! Think about it! Ron is right. Snape HAS hated me since the first day I stepped foot at Hogwarts! He's crazy! We always knew he was up to no good! Now this proves it!" Harry said angrily. He was offended that Hermione was defending Snape after what he had just done to him. Who else could it be, after all? Hermione said herself that it had to have been someone from the Order. She had also said that it couldn't be someone from the Order posing to be Snape, because they wouldn't of had time to make the Pollyjuice potion. So who else could it be, but Snape himself?

"Well…" she began slowly. "I did read about this one spell in Hidden Potions Uncovered: Everything You Need To Know And More by Frederick Binsly. It's called the Padamento Curse. It's a very complicated spell. It gives you the ability to possess a person's body, but it wears off within an hour, and it's a very complicated spell to perform. You need the person to drink a special potion and then, when you want to take possession of their body, you need to say these words: Cerebralis Y Cerebralis Connbre Core." Only the most advanced witches and wizards can pull it off."

"So you mean…you mean…that someone possessed Snape and attacked Harry?" Ron asked.

"Yes, that could be exactly it. But we can't know for sure…." She said biting her bottom lip.

Author's note: I actually still want to write more, but this is a really long chapter already. I hope I explained enough that people are starting to not be confused. More will be explained in the next few chapters.