Harry opened his eyes. The hallway was empty. Harry sat up quickly, only to fall to the ground again at the pain in his head. His vision was blurry. He brushed his hand over his forehead to wipe his hair out of his face and felt glasses. Pushing them off Harry found that he could see much clearer. Finally feeling that he could get up, Harry slowly got to his feet and looked around some more. There was no one there. Harry had no idea where he was, but there was a nagging feeling in the back of his head that this place was familiar. After a few minutes of silently contemplating what he was going to do, Harry heard footsteps. In too short a time for Harry to hide behind a large humpbacked statue that was a short way down the hallway, something didn't appear around the corner, walking briskly.

The footsteps faltered. Harry was sure there was something there with him, but he just couldn't see anything. He reached down to his pocket where he had put his glasses and slipped them back on to see if they would work. Everything went back to being blurry again. Harry was just about to take them off again when his eyes landed a large huddled shape near the end of the corridor that was definitely not there before. Flicking his glasses on and off Harry was astounded to find that he could only see the shape when the glasses were on, and though it was rather blurry, it was more distinct than the surrounding blurry shapes. The shape seemed to be two people: one a short girl with vivid red hair; the other a boy with glasses and a moon- like face.

"Hello?" Harry called out to the people, hoping desperately that they were friendly.

"Could you please help me?" I'm afraid I don't quite know where I am. The figures looked at each other, clearly shocked.

"You can see us?" the boy asked, standing up straight. The girl elbowed him in the ribs.

"Well even if he can't he's going to know we're here now, let's just hope he doesn't tell Dumbledore. I told you we needed to be more careful!"

Harry was confused. Was he not supposed to be able to see these people? Maybe they thought that cloak they held over themselves made them invisible! Maybe he was in a mental institution. He was debating whether he should run away and hope to find some sane people when the girl threw the cloak off her and walked towards him. She instantly became as blurry as everything else while the boy remained at his current degree of blurriness. Harry lifted his glasses and objects righted themselves. The girl stood in front of him, smiling slightly. The boy was nowhere to be seen. Harry spun around looking for him.

"Where-" he started, looking back to the girl. There was a shimmering in the air next to her and the boy appeared out of it.

Harry fainted.