Chapter Ten: The Ravenclaw Seeker
"Harry what do you think you were doing?" asked Sirius who was standing in the spot where the Death Eater was a moment ago. Sirius walked towards Harry and took the knife out of Harry's hand. Sirius looked at the knife closely with a shocked expression and looked by at Harry. "Harry where did you get this knife?"
"Cassandra gave it to me a couple of minutes ago." Said Harry and both Sirius and Cassandra looked at him confused.
"But Harry Cassandra has been here with me since you left Dumbledore's office. I came right here and she had been with me the whole time." Said Sirius.
"I don't understand." Said Harry.
"I think I do." Said Cassandra suddenly. "Harry tell me exactly what happened." Harry told her about standing outside the restroom wait for Hermione when he heard someone calling him and saw Cassandra down the corridor. Then how Cassandra told him that Voldemort was in the castle and was going to kill Ron, and she gave Harry the knife. Also how he got there and could of sworn he saw Voldemort standing where Cassandra was and a Death Eater where Sirius was, but they spoke in the wrong voices. Harry finished and Cassandra took a deep breath. "Harry when you were talking to me in the corridor was you vision hazy?"
"Yes I was. I just thought it was because I am so tired."
"That is what I feared." Said Cassandra and she shook her head. "That is all nice that you understand what is going, but I still don't and I want to know. I especially want to know who it was that gave Harry this knife." Said Sirius and he showed both Harry and Cassandra the knife and on the knife Harry saw the Dark Mark etched into the blade.
"It is the other half to the Lady of Dreams." Said Cassandra.
"But you are the Lady of Dreams." Said Harry.
"No it is not that simple. In truth it should be the Ladies of Dreams. You see Harry there are two Dream Walkers. I never knew who was the other one, but I know that she is out there. I can feel her. There are a lot of stories about things that the Lady of Dreams did, but I never did most of them. I didn't know what happened to her after Voldemort fell, but now this is prove that she is back and can get into the school." Said Cassandra and she looked at the two horrified faces of Harry and Sirius. Harry went to say something, but was stopped by the loud bang of the hospital wing doors flying open and Dumbledore and Hermione rushing in.
"Oh Harry I am so glad we found you." Said Hermione.
"Harry why did you come down here when I told you to go to your tower?" asked Professor Dumbledore.
"Professor I think I can answer that." Said Cassandra and then she told him about what Harry told her and what she told both Harry and Sirius.
"Are you sure Cassandra?" asked Professor Dumbledore and Cassandra nodded. "That is what I was fearing as well. I am going to place a couple of wards around the school incase this happens again, but it will not stop someone who is already in the school. I am going to ask Professor Smith if she could find some amulets and talismans that will help with that problem." They all agreed with what Dumbledore said.
"But Harry I am a little confused about something." Said Cassandra.
"What?"
"How could the other Dream Walker get to you if you had the ring I gave you?"
"That's because I let Ron use it. He couldn't sleep."
"What? I told you to always keep it with you just for this very reason." Said Cassandra angrily. Harry went to Ron who was still asleep. He went to get the ring, but it wasn't there.
"I don't understand it. I saw it around his neck this morning when he got dressed and I have been with him all day." Said Harry. He was getting very upset. "That was my father's ring. Now it is gone."
"Yes I will need to get something else for you Harry and quickly from the look of this knife the other Dream Walker is definitely the other one that was a follower of Voldemort and that she is back in his service. She might do a lot of harm if we cannot find out who it is and soon." Said Dumbledore and he looked around the room at the worried expressions on everyone's faces, but the expression that most interested him was Hermione. "Is there anything you would like to say Miss Granger?"
"Yes Professor. If the other Dream Walker is in the service of you-know- who, then why didn't she just kill Harry? She had the opportunity to do it, but she told him to kill Cassandra instead. It just doesn't make sense. If you-know-who really wants Harry dead, why didn't she just kill him? Why go through all the trouble of trying to kill Cassandra?" asked Hermione.
"Good question, but I am afraid I do not have an answer to that, and the only one who does is the other Dream Walker." Said Dumbledore. Hermione still looked as through she had another answer stirring in her head.
"And another thing Professor. I read in a book that there is only one Dream Walker at a time."
"Yes Hermione." Said Cassandra. "There is only one Dream Walker at a time, but there are two parts to the Dream Walker like there are two different parts to a dream. The good dreams, where you dream of happy things and they always end happily, and the nightmares, they are both together. The Dream Walker has similar parts, two different sides. You see I never wanted to do those things that Voldemort made me do. I would like to see things come out well, but the other Dream Walker she only wants power, like Voldemort and will do anything to get it. I know I can feel the greed... and anger in her."
"So there is always two different parts to a Dream Walker?" asked Harry.
"Yes. The good and the bad."
"Which makes it even more of a priority to put up the wards and find ways to stop the other Dream Walker from making anyone else do anything." Said Sirius. Dumbledore nodded in agreement and took out his wand.
"First I shall place a protection spell on the hospital wing." Dumbledore uttered a few words that Harry couldn't hear and a golden light came from the end of his wand. "It is done." Said Dumbledore and suddenly there came a noise from the far end of the hospital wing. It was from the end bed, which had a curtain around it. Everyone stared down at the curtain in wonder. A few moments later a figure came out from behind the curtain, in a night robe and rubbing her eyes. Sirius quickly transformed himself into a dog before Jamie could see him.
"I had a terrible dream." Said Jamie as she started to walk towards the group. Then she looked around her and noticed where she was. "What happened? Why am I in the hospital wing?"
"You collapsed in your Potions class yesterday." Said Dumbledore. "Do you remember anything about what happened right before you collapsed yesterday?" Jamie looked as through they were straining to recall what happened.
"No I can't remember anything about collapsing in Potions." Said Jamie. "The last thing I remember is saying goodbye to Nancy when she got on the Hogwarts Express for Christmas." Everyone looked at her in amazement. She had lost all memory of what had happened in the last two months. This must have shown on all of their faces, because Jamie suddenly started to panic. "What?" she said and started to back up down the hospital wing. "What's going on?"
"Jamie it is the beginning of February." Said Dumbledore matter of faculty. Jamie looked at them and shook her head.
"You mean that you don't remember warning Harry about an attack that would happen today?" asked Hermione. Jamie looked at Harry and it seemed as if she remembered something. She looked at Harry with a scared expression.
"Yes I remember my father and my uncle talking about something about that." Said Jamie. Everyone looked at her.
"Who is your uncle Jamie?" asked Harry.
"Lucius Malfoy is my uncle." She said and Harry gasped. "He and my father were talking about something over the summer and I overheard it. Something that I don't think they wanted me to hear." She said and then looked straight at Cassandra with an anxious look.
"What was it that you heard?" asked Dumbledore in a gentle tone. Jamie looked back at Dumbledore who trying to give her a comforting smile.
"It was about the Lady of Dreams and how she was going to enter Voldemort's service if she liked it or not, and that they were going to get Harry."
"That's not a shock. He has been trying to kill Harry since he was born." Said Hermione.
"No you don't understand. They said get Harry not kill him. That is what Uncle Lucius said. His exact words were, get not kill. I am not sure what they meant about that." Said Jamie.
"So they don't want to kill me?" Harry looked confused.
"No, they don't want to kill you."
"May I ask you Jamie? Why are you telling us this?" asked Harry. "I mean since it is your father and uncle."
"Harry I am not like my father or my uncle or any of the other members of my family." Said Jamie with a frown. Then she went back to her bed and lay down. They all stared after her.
"Harry, Hermione." Said Dumbledore. "I want you both to stay here tonight while I and the other professors make the rest of the castle safe for you. I will go to Professor Smith for some personal protection for the four of you students in here. Snuffle, Cassandra come with me please." Dumbledore turned and left with the big black dog and Cassandra right behind him. Madam Pomfrey came out of her office and helped Hermione and Harry into bed. She quickly checked on both Ron and Jamie then went to help the Professors with their plans to keep the school safe. Harry lay in his bed now unable to sleep. Thoughts about what Voldemort might do to him stirring around in his head. Harry didn't know how long he was laying there, but it was awhile.
"Harry? Are you asleep?" Jamie's voice came from the end of his bed.
"No I am not asleep." Said Harry as he sat up to look at her. Jamie sat down at the end of his bed.
"Harry there is something that I wanted to ask you."
"Go ahead." Harry smiled at her.
"Well, Dumbledore said that I warned you that something was going to happened to you. Can you tell me what happened?" She looked at him nervously.
"Well on Christmas Eve you told me that you didn't much like Draco, because he was having an attitude like the was running things in the Slytherin house. People were afraid of him because of Voldemort and you actually said his name, Voldemort." Harry paused for a moment as he watched her reaction, which was surprising to Harry, because she didn't seem to shocked at what Harry was saying. Harry continued. "Then yesterday in potions class you gave me a letter warning me about an attack that would happen today. A little while after that you collapsed in the middle of the class."
"I actually said that I didn't like Draco?" Jamie said and laughed. "I never really liked my cousin much. He is really mean to people sometimes." There was a long moment of silence when neither of them looked at each other. Then Jamie sighed and spoke. "Harry there is something that I didn't tell Dumbledore about what I heard this summer." She stopped and looked at him seriously.
"Yes."
She looked around quickly and then lend in to whisper at Harry. "Well. I heard Uncle Lucius tell my father that Voldemort was going to do some 'recruiting' over the year and that at the spring holiday they will be initiated into the Death Eater ranks." She looked around again as if someone else was there listening to her. Harry looked around and noticed that both Ron and Hermione were still asleep, and that Madam Pomfrey hadn't returned from helping the Professors. "Harry I am scared of what will happen to me. I mean my uncle is a Death Eater and my father will be one soon, and Draco..." she stopped and sighed again. "I don't know anything about what he is going to do, but I am scared Harry."
"Why don't you talk with Dumbledore..."
"No!" Jamie started. "Then things will be really bad for me Harry. If I go and talk to Dumbledore about the things that I really know... I don't want to think about it." Harry didn't know what to say to her. He just sat there staring at her thinking about how brave she must be to even speak with him. Jamie got up and started to head back to her bed.
"Jamie, if there is anything you need me to do, just ask." Said Harry quickly. Jamie smiled at him and then headed back to her bed. Harry stayed sitting up in his bed for along time thinking and soon it began to be light outside. Harry smiled when he began to hear Jamie snore form her bed.
"Harry." Hermione said weakly and Harry realized that she wasn't asleep at all.
"Did you hear what she said?"
"Yes I did hear what she said." She opened her eye and looked at him. "What are you going to do about it? Are you going to tell Dumbledore?"
"No I think that it must be up to her." Said Harry and Hermione sat up in her bed quickly.
"But what if Malfoy does become a Death Eater at spring holiday? Do you want a Death Eater in the school?" asked Hermione.
"No I don't, but she can't tell me if he really is going to become a Death Eater, and I don't want him to be kicked out of school because of something that might not happen. I don't like him, just like you, but I won't be like him and do something out of spite." Said Harry.
"So what are we to do?"
"Nothing for right now. We really can't do anything right now, but wait for something to happen." Said Harry with a sigh and with that he lay down and feel asleep. The next morning Harry woke late and noticed that Ron and Hermione had already gone. Jamie was still sleeping in her bed, so Harry got up and went to Madam Pomfrey's office. She was sitting at her desk writing a report about what happened the night before. She smiled at him and invited him to take a seat while she finished the report. When she was done, she told him that Ron and Hermione had left together a little while before he woke. She also gave him a silver chain with a red stone dangling from it.
"Now you are supposed to wear that and not take it off. Professor Smith gave me that to give to you, Ron and Hermione have similar ones." She said and then smiling let him on his way. He went to the Gryffindor commons room as quickly as he could and when he got there he found Ron, and Hermione sitting in there usual chair with Ginny walking to them about school. When they saw Harry all three rushed to him.
"Harry are you okay?" asked Ron.
"I am fine. Are you okay?"
"My head aches a little, but I am fine." Ron said and smiled at Harry. "Hermione told me her side of what happened last night, but I want to hear your side Harry." Harry sat down in his chair and told them his side of what happened the day before. When he had finished it was time for dinner and the four of them decided to go down to the Great Hall and have something to eat. They sat eating and joking for a long time before Dumbledore stood to address the students.
"Attention everyone I have a few announcements that I would like to address. First of all Professor Smith will be providing each one of you with a talisman for protection from something that has come to my attention." There was a long silence where a couple of people from different houses began to stare at Harry as if they knew what had happened to him the day before. Harry looked over at the Slytherin table and noticed that Malfoy was giving him a sinister glare, but what peaked Harry's interest was that he saw Jamie sitting next to Malfoy with her head bowed not looking at anything, but her plate. Harry was about to say something about it to Ron when Dumbledore spoke again.
"On a happier note, coming up on the spring holiday we will have a ball. Third years and up will be allowed to attend. Please inform the head of your houses if you intend to participate." Dumbledore finished and there was a great wall of noise started as all of the students started to talk anxiously about the up coming Spring ball. Hermione and Ginny began to talk between each other and giggle. Ron turned to Harry.
"Do you have any idea who you might ask to the ball?" asked Ron, and Harry glanced over to the Ravenclaw table to see Cho as she laughed with her friends about the ball. Then she turned to see that Harry was looking at her, and she smiled at him. He smiled back at her.
"Yes I have an idea." Said Harry. Ron looked over at Cho who was still smiling at Harry and he began to laugh.
"Oh I see." Said Ron. Cho turned back to her friends and started to talk again, so Harry turned to look at Ron.
"So do you know who you are going to be asking?" Harry questioned his friend. Ron turned bright red as he stared at his friend.
"Aw. Yes I know who I want to ask to the ball." Said Ron as he ran his hand through his red hair and shot awkward glances at Hermione. Harry smiled and nodded his head in understanding, but didn't say anything about it.
When dinner was finished the four friends made their way back up to the Gryffindor commons room where Hermione and Ginny talked while Ron and Harry played chess until they all decided to go to bed. The next week rolled by and Harry hadn't asked Cho to the ball. He just couldn't think of a way to do it, but he didn't want to wait too long in case someone else asked her. It was the Friday of that week while the Gryffindor team was coming back from Quidditch practice that Harry decided that it was now or never (and lucky for him Cho was standing in front of the doors to the Great Hall as Harry entered the castle). Harry saw her and paused for a moment. He had butterflies in his stomach and his heart was pounding faster than I ever had in his life.
"Do it now!" he thought to himself. Harry took a deep breath and walked straight up to Cho with a smile. "Cho... er... can I speak with you?"
"Sure Harry." Said Cho with a smile. She and Harry walked a part from the others.
"Cho?" said Harry nervously.
"Yes Harry?"
"Er... Will you go to the ball with me?" Harry asked quickly in order to get it all out.
"Yes I would love to Harry." Said Cho smiling brighter than she was before. Harry stared at her as thought he was in shock. Then smiled back excitedly.
"Great." was all that Harry could say. Cho laughed and gave Harry a little kiss on the cheek. Then as she walked away she shouted back at him.
"We will talk more about this later. I have to get to practice. We have a game against each other in one week." And with that she was gone. Harry stared after her until he could no longer see her, and when he turned to go to the Gryffindor tower he saw Ron, Fred and George standing behind him, all three Weasleys were smiling at him. Then they suddenly broke out in laughter, and Fred and George recreated the scene over again in their own way, which made Harry laugh as well. When Fred and George were done, they all headed for the Gryffindor tower, laughing.
"Well at least you got it over with. I still have to ask Her..."
"Who are you going to ask to the ball?" asked Fred suddenly with great interest. Ron looked at his older brother suddenly lost for words. Harry could tell if Ron wanted to let his brothers know or not.
"Hermione." Harry said suddenly not wanting to want for Ron to work up the courage to tell them. Fred and George looked at each other.
"Finally!" said Fred and George at the same time. Ron and Harry look at the twin. Harry was actually thinking the same thing.
"What do you mean finally?" asked Ron.
"Well you have been mooning over her for over a year now Ron." Said Fred.
"Yeah and we are tired of you acting like you aren't" George chimed in. Harry looked at his friend and laughed.
"They have a point Ron." Said Harry quickly and laughed again. They walked the rest of the way in silence. When they all climbed through the portrait hole they saw Hermione sitting in their usual corner, in her over stuffed chair, studying. Harry pushed Ron over towards Hermione and then Harry, Fred and George stood in the other corner to watch Ron as he nervously walked up to Hermione, practicing what he would say. When he was only a few feet from Hermione he stopped and stared at her lost for words.
"Oh hi Ron." Said Hermione with out even a look up at him, but Ron didn't answer he just stood there with his mouth open wanting to say something, but nothing would come out. Hermione looked up at him and gave him the strangest look. "Are you okay Ron?" Ron stood there for a moment more before finally saying something.
"Yeah, I am fine. I... er..." Ron looked for help but didn't find it so he just said what he wanted to say. "Hermione will you go to the ball with me?" he said quickly and when he was finished he closed his eyes tight and didn't open them until Hermione answered, which was almost immediately.
"Yes Ron I would love to." Said Hermione, who had the biggest smile on her face as Ron opened his eyes to see her face and smiling back let out a great sigh of relief. Hermione jumped up out of her chair and hugged Ron. For a moment Ron stood there shocked at the suddenness of the hug, but then he hugged her back. It was a deep hug that didn't seem like it was going to stop. Harry smiled at his two friends and turning to the two Weasleys standing behind him he notice that they were both smiling as well. Harry walked up to his two friends after a few more minutes of the hug and stood just behind Hermione. He cleared his throat at them and they separated quickly as they realized that there were people looking at them.
"Oh Harry." Said Ron and he sat in an over stuffed chair next to Hermione as she sat back down in her chair quickly, her face bright red. Ron suddenly had an expression on his face as if he just remembered something and then turned back to Hermione. "You will never guess what Harry did just before we got up here."
"What?" Hermione smiled up at Harry and then looked at Ron.
"He asked Cho to the ball, and she said yes." Ron said quickly and Hermione smiled at Harry giggling.
"I was wondering if he was going to ask her this year, because I hear from one of the Ravenclaw third years that she was talking about Harry in their commons room the other day. She was saying that she hoped Harry would ask her." Said Hermione. Harry turned bright red at what Hermione said.
"Really?" Harry stood there and ran his figures through his untidy black hair. Ron and Hermione both looked at their friend and laughed. Harry soon sank into another over stuffed chair on the other side of Hermione and they all talked about things that they were going to do for the ball and the things that they were going to wear until they all decided that it was late and went up to bed.
The next week went by quickly as Harry, Ron and the other people on the Gryffindor Quidditch team was looking forward to the upcoming game against Ravenclaw loomed closer and closer. The Gryffindor team practice everyday in preparation for the game, and they were feeling ready for their next match. Harry had only talked to Cho once since he asked her out almost a week before, and it was more of a formal talk, about what they were going to wear and when they would meet each other before the ball.
On the morning of the Quidditch match Harry and Ron woke up early and went down to the Great Hall to have something to eat, but when they got there they didn't feel hungry at all, so they just sat there watching everyone come into the Great Hall talking about the match that would happen that day. Everyone was really excite, and as the Gryffindor team got up from the table to head for the locker rooms the Great Hall exploded with 'good luck's from the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuff, none of the Slytherins said anything to the Gryffindor team as they left, they only glared at them.
When they were all ready Harry gave his usual peep talk and they were soon lined up to go onto the field. When the doors to the field opened letting the Gryffindor team out onto the cheer there was a wall of sounds they made Harry's stomach churn in excitement. He hadn't been this excited about a Quidditch match in a long time, because of the things that were happening lately, he was glad for the feeling. It got his mind off of other things.
The two teams walked out onto the field and the two captains shook hand before Madam Hooch released the snitch, beaters and Quaffle. They were all on their brooms when Madam Hooch blew the whistle. Harry flew up above the action, careful not to get too high, he had some bad memories from that particular experience. He glance down to where the Professor sat and in seeing Professor Dumbledore watching everyone closely he let out a sigh of relief. At least he was there to protect people if the brooms fell again.
Harry watched the game below him for a moment before starting to look for the snitch. He notice Cho sat she sat on her broom, at the other end of the field, looking for the snitch. He watched her for a moment until he realized that Cho was speeding towards the ground at an amazing speed. Harry followed quickly seeing the snitch hovering near the ground, but before either of them got there the snitch took off across the field. Harry moved to catch it and almost ran into Cho as she shot past him. He was catch by surprise, but regained his concentration and swiftly past Cho heading for the snitch. They started to climb as the snitch shot straight up then it stopped right above the other players.
Harry and Cho were almost even until Harry put a last bit of speed to make him go past Cho. He reached his hand out to take a hold of the snitch and his hand closed in around it. Harry stopped along with Cho, who was smiling at him. Harry lifted his hand to show that he had the snitch and Madam Hooch blew the whistle to end the game. "Gryffindor Wins!" yelled Jordan Lee. Harry looked over at Cho; who was smiling at him, and he wanted to say something to her, but movement from behind her caught his eye. A Bludger was heading straight for Cho.
"Watch out!" cried Harry, but it was too late. Before Cho could even turn around to see what was happening the Bludger hit her hard, in the head. Harry watched as Cho flew off her broom. "No." Harry cried and he dove to catch her. Wind passed his ears with a whistling sound as he got closer and closer to Cho, but it seemed that he wasn't going to make it before she hit the ground. He willed himself to go faster. The ground was so close now and he was just under her now. He pulled out of the dive and caught her, his toe brushing the grass as he tried to slow down.
It was the first time that he heard the screams and excited noises coming from the stands and the group of people rushing toward him. He her down gently on the ground and when he pulled his hand from behind her head there was something on his hand. Blood. It covered his hand and he just stared at it. A panic rose in him and he couldn't do anything else but stare at the blood of his hand.
Suddenly he looked up and he was no longer at Hogwarts, but somewhere familiar. A graveyard. But not any grave yard. The graveyard that Cedric had died in, but it was different somehow. He looked around and saw Voldemort with his Death Eaters standing nearby, but they were just standing there watching him. Voldemort had his hand up as if to keep back his Death Eaters. He looked around again and noticed a figure that he couldn't see clearly, standing opposite Voldemort. He didn't know who this figure was but he stood there staring at Harry's feet. When Harry looked down he saw the body of a dead girl laying face down in the grass. Harry's heart jumped into his throat when he realized whom it was.
"Cho." He whispered. Anger rose in him, like he never felt before. It was a blinding hate for whoever killed her. He rose his wand and pointed it at her murderer, but he didn't point it at Voldemort he pointed it at the figure of the unknown person. Everything went silent, he couldn't even hear his own voice as he spoke the curse, but he could see the bright green light of the curse as it hit the figure. His whole body shook with hate as he watched the stiff body of the figure hit the ground hard, dead.
Harry turned to Voldemort, still shaking from anger to see what Voldemort would do to him, but Voldemort was just standing there smiling at him with an amused sort of smile. Voldemort walked towards Harry, who didn't stop him. He whispered, "You are more like me than you would like to think. You will be mine soon." Then a moment later Voldemort got a step back and disappeared along with the Death Eaters, except for one who stood in the same spot watching Harry with a sideways glance. Harry couldn't see who it was, because of the mask that the Death Eater was wearing, but he could see the Death Eater's brown eyes. They seemed familiar to Harry, but he couldn't think about that right now, he had to go to Cho.
Harry fell to his knees next to Cho's body, which was still laying face down in the grass. Harry picked up her body and pulled her close to him. He looked into her eyes, which were wide in horror. Her stiff body made Harry cry. She was dead and there was nothing that he could do to bring her back no matter how much he tried. He started to brush the loose hairs from her face as the Death Eater that had stayed behind came over to him knelling in the grass opposite of him and looking at him with those brown eyes.
"Harry?" said the Death Eater. It was a woman's voice, a familiar woman's voice that came for behind the Death Eater mask. His mind reeled to remember where he had heard this voice before, his mind was working clearly though the blinding hate that he felt. "Harry?" The Death Eater said again and this time Harry knew who was talking to him. His eyes flew wide and his heart dropped when he realized whom it was.
'No!' thought Harry. 'No not her, it can't be her!' Harry looked at her and he felt a tear fall down his cheek. "Ginny?" he said in disbelief.
"Harry are you alright?" said Ginny. Harry looked at her and watched as the background melted away from the graveyard back to the Quidditch field where he was a moment ago. He looked around and saw people crowding in on him and then his eyes flew back to Ginny who was sitting in front of him with a worried look on her face. "Harry are you alright?" she asked again. Harry looked back at his hand and Cho's blood was still there on his hand.
"Cho's blood is on my hand." Said Harry in an odd tone that had Ginny worry about him even more. Ginny stood up and help Harry stand up. Harry stood and noticed that Cho wasn't lying on the ground anymore, but was being carry away on a magical stretcher by Madam Pomfrey. Ginny walked him away from the group of people who were looking after him as if he had just lost his mind.
"Harry are you alright?" Harry looked down into Ginny's innocent and very beautiful eyes to see the worry that lay deep inside them. Harry smiled and nodded at her, which made her smile at him and the worry in her eyes seemed to disappear in an instead.
'That wasn't Ginny, her voice just came through the dream, that's all.' Harry looked back into her eyes as she smiled at him, and saw the pure innocence in them as she let out a little giggle. 'Ginny could never do anything like that; she is too sweet, to innocent. Ginny could never be a Death Eater.' He was kicking himself for ever thinking at she would do anything like that.
"So we are going to the common room to have a party to celebrate our victory?" asked Harry.
"No I am taking you to the hospital wing." Said Ginny suddenly very serious. "Harry you scared me out there. You wouldn't reposed to me when I was talking to you and I wasn't talking to you for awhile, Harry." Ginny looked up at him again and she saw that he was smiling at her.
"Ginny I am fine." He said and then lifted her up into the air. She started to giggle wildly. "See I am fine." Harry put her down softly on the grass as Ron and Hermione came running up to him, both with worried expressions.
"Harry what happened out there?" asked Ron who was very pale.
"Cho got hit with a Bludger." Said Harry.
"We are not talking about Cho being hit by a Bludger, everyone saw that. I am talking about when you got to the ground?" Ron was looking at him with the same serious expression that Ginny had a moment before. "Someone said that you went mad when you saw Cho's blood."
"No I think I had a vision, but I really don't want to talk about that right now. I really want to see if Cho is okay and then go to the common room. Fred and George were telling me that if we won today they were going to have a surprise for us." Said Harry and then he looked at his face and they were all staring at him with shocked expressions.
"A... vision. What do you mean vision?" asked Hermione.
"Well I am not really sure. Everything seemed so real like it does when I have dreams about Voldemort." Harry noticed everyone shuddered a little when he said Voldemort's name. "But there was something different about it this time." Harry turned to walk up the front stairs, but stopped when he noticed that Ron, Hermione and Ginny weren't following him. They were still standing in the same spots staring after him in amazement.
"Harry?" said Hermione suddenly. "How can you be so calm about this? You are acting as if this is nothing." Harry opened his mouth to say something but stopped. He didn't know why he was being calm at watching himself kill someone and seeing Cho's dead body in the grass, and Voldemort smiling the way he did. He should be extremely upset with everything, but he didn't feel anything about, not anything. Suddenly a panic rose in him that he had never felt before.
'Am I turning into him?' he thought to himself. 'No I am not I won't be like him ever!' He looked at his friends. His panic must of showed on his face because Ron, Hermione and Ginny had very serious expressions on their faces.
"Are you sure that you are all right?" asked Ginny. Harry looked at her and smiled, but it was a forced smiled and she knew it, which made her worry a little more.
"Lets just go to the hospital wing." Said Harry quickly. "Please." He turned and headed into the school, and this time he was going with or without his friends.
He walked quickly down the corridor thinking about the vision that he had just had. He was a little scared now, but not about what the vision showed him, but about would he was so indifferent about it afterwards. When he finally got to the hospital wing the thoughts of his vision were pushed from his mind as he saw Cho lying in a bed towards the back of the hospital wing. She was so pale and there were a lot of people crowded around her. The Ravenclaw team and a couple of Cho's friends where all standing around the bed whispered among each other about what happened and when they saw Harry standing in the doorway they stop whispering and looked at him in shock. Harry rushed to Cho's bed where Madam Pomfrey was busy trying to help her.
"Is she going to be alright?" Harry asked Madam Pomfrey with a worried tone.
"Yes Mister Potter, she will be just fine when she wakes up, which probably won't be for a good couple of days." Said Madam Pomfrey as if being out for 'a good couple of days' was nothing. Harry looked at Cho lying in the bed looking so peaceful. He was about to sit down in a chair next to her bed when Madam Pomfrey made everyone left. Harry stood in the corridor staring into the hospital wing one more time before turn and almost running into the Ravenclaw team, who was standing next to Harry.
"Harry I want to thank you for saving Cho like that." Said Jessica Thomas, a sixth year Ravenclaw and one of the chasers on their team. Jessica smiled at him and then lent forward and kissed him softly on the cheek. The rest of the team thanked him as well, but they didn't kiss him. After they had all thanked him they headed for the Ravenclaw tower, and as they all clear out of the corridor Harry saw Ron, Hermione and Ginny walking slowly towards Harry.
"Is Cho going to be alright?" asked Ginny. Harry nodded to her and she sighed in relief. Ginny looked at Harry and saw the worry in his eyes. "Harry didn't you say something about a party in the common room?" Harry turned to Ginny and smiled. She had always loved his smiled.
"You always know how to cheer me up. All of you do." He said and they all walked to the Gryffindor tower. When the portrait whole sprung open, a wall of sound came bursting out at them. There was, in fact, a very big party going on in the common room, where the Weasley twins had announced that they had just bought a joke store in Hogsmeade and that when they graduate from Hogwarts they will be opening the store. Ron and Ginny were more surprised about the announcement than anyone else in the common room. They both rushed over to their brothers and talked start very quickly, but Harry didn't feel much like talking to them at the moment. He went to a window and sat on the window ceil looking out onto the grounds for a long while before he noticed that Hermione had come up behind him.
"Penny for your thoughts, of should I say Knut for you thoughts." Said Hermione. Harry smiled at her.
"I was just thinking about a couple of things." He said as he watching the sky turns a light shade of red. "Would you like to take a walk with me Hermione?"
"Sure." Said Hermione and they both left the common room. They were soon outside heading for the lake. "Did you want to talk about something Harry?" Harry looked at her. He took a deep breath and told her about his vision, leaving Ginny out. Hermione stopped walking when he finished telling her. They both stood there looking at each other with the last rays of the dying sun vanishing over the Forbidden Forest creating long shadows across the grounds of the school.
"Harry." She paused. "I don't know what to say about that. Are you sure it was a vision, because I really can't see you doing anything like that to anyone... ever."
"I know Hermione, but afterwards it didn't bother me, at all." Said Harry and sighed. "That is what scared me the most Hermione. My indifference to the fact that I might kill someone." Hermione looked at him even more worried than before.
"Well you know what I think about the whole divinations situation, and I am not worried about it." Said Hermione, but her expression was telling Harry different. He smiled at her for at least trying to cheer him up, but the smiled dissolved into another worried expression. "Do you think we should go to Dumbledore about this?"
"I think that it might be a good idea." Said Harry. They both turned to walk back up to the school when their came a bright light from behind them. Harry turned to see what had happened when he notice that Hermione had stopped walking. "What's the matter, Hermione?"
"Harry I can't move." Said Hermione. Harry went to help her when he saw another flash of light coming from the edge of the forest. It was heading straight for him. He tried to dodge it but it was too late and it hit him. Harry tried to move but his feet seemed to be stuck to the ground. "Harry what is going on?" Hermione asked suddenly.
"I don't wonder, but I can't move either, someone must of..." he fell silent as he heard something from the forest that made him look up in the sky. He swore and then turned to Hermione.
"Harry that isn't what I think it is?" said Hermione. There was a look of complete horror on her face. It was a low growling sound, and he knew that he heard it before, in his third year when he was coming back from the Shrieking Shack with his newly found godfather. It was the growl of a...
"Werewolf." Said Harry and Hermione looked at him. Hermione quickly fumbled through her pockets, and she swore, it was the first time Harry had every heard Hermione say anything like that, and he was taking aback for a moment, but then was snapped back into reality as the werewolf slowly crawled out from the edge of the forest.
"Harry I don't have my wand on me, do you?"
"No, I put it on my night stand this morning before the match." Said Harry quickly and they both started to panic. Many things started to fly through Harry's mind as he tried to find a way to get out of this situation, but he could think of anything that was useful at the moment. Hermione began to cry as the Werewolf slowly walked towards the two-trapped students. There was nothing that they could do but wait for the Werewolf to get closer. It suddenly began every silent as the Werewolf got closer and closer, all Harry could was the soft growling of the Werewolf and the beating his heart, which was getting steadily faster and faster.
'This is it.' He thought 'This is how I am going to die?' The thought ran through his head as he watch the Werewolf now only a few meters away get closer. Hermione scream as they both realized that it was heading for her first. Harry thought quickly. He picked up some stones from the ground and began to throw them at the Werewolf. "Hey over here." Harry yelled, trying to get the Werewolf away from Hermione. He through another stone and this time it hit the Werewolf square between the eyes.
The Werewolf cried out in pain and then quickly to Harry. Harry stared at the now, very anger Werewolf, he had succeeded in getting it away from Hermione, but now it wanted him. Harry watched as the Werewolf rounded on him and he closed his has as the Werewolf was about to lunge towards him when he heard the sound of a cat hissing.
Harry opened his eyes to see a great black cat standing in between him and the Werewolf. The Werewolf, in seeing the cat, took a couple of steps back before lunging forward and attacking the cat, but the cat was to quick for it. The cat lunged at the Werewolf a moment before and with a graceful movement torn its claws into the Werewolf. The Werewolf let out a howl of pain so loud that he was sure that everyone in the school heard it. The Werewolf stumble back and for a moment stayed where he was but the anger of the Werewolf made him lunge once more at the cat, but again the movements of the cat were too quick for the bleeding Werewolf.
The Werewolf and the cat battled between each other, but it seemed the cat was winning as the cat pushed the Werewolf back into the forest, disappearing back into the shadows were only the sound of the Werewolf's cries of pain and the hissing of the great black cat could be heard. Harry looked at Hermione and they were both dumb struck. They couldn't think of anything to say. They both stood there for a moment in relief that the great black cat showed up and protected them from the Werewolf. Harry breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Hermione.
"So how are we going to get back to the school?" he asked but it wasn't Hermione who answered him.
"I think I can help you with that little problem, Mister Potter." Harry turned to see who was talking. Professor Snape seemed to have appeared out of nowhere and was looming over the two students with his wand in his hand. He pointed it down a Harry and whispered coldly. "Fininte Incantatem." Harry suddenly fell forward as he could move again. He did the same for Hermione, who also fell forward. They both lay on the ground looking up at Snape with curious expressions. "Come on you Mister Potter, Miss Granger, we should be out on the grounds... at night... with a full moon." They both got to their feet and looked up at the sky at the same time. The moon was so big, bigger than Harry had ever seen it before.
All three of them were heading for the front door to the school when they heard at terrible sound coming from the forest. The cat had cried out in pain. Snape stopped dead in his track and turned swiftly to look at the forest. "No!" Harry heard him say softly. There was a look of panic on his face as he started running for the forest. "You two go straight to Dumbledore's office, IMMEDIATELY." Said Snape just before disappearing into the forest. Harry and Hermione looked at each other and then turned in the school. They were walking so quickly that they were almost at a run when they finally entered the school and headed for the Headmaster's office.
They quickly moved down the corridors towards Dumbledore's office. When they got to the entrance Harry quickly whisper the password to it and the statue sprung back allowing them onto the stairs and they quickly ran up them and through the door. They were standing in Dumbledore's office before they knew it. Dumbledore was standing behind his desk and looking at them in relief. "I am glad that you are both alright." Said Dumbledore and then he looked at the door as if someone else was about to come through but there was no one there. "Where is Professor Snape?"
"He ran into the forest after we heard the cat cry out." Said Hermione simply. Dumbledore looked at her with a worried expression.
"He did, now did he?" said Dumbledore and moment for them both to sit down in the seats in front of his desk. They did, quickly. "Now tell me what happened tonight." They both looked at each other and then Harry began to tell the Headmaster everything that happened after they left the common room. "And you didn't see who it was that curse you?" asked Dumbledore, and they both shook their heads.
"Whoever it was, was standing in the shadows and we couldn't see their face." Said Hermione. Dumbledore sat and considered all the things that Harry had told him.
"Every well." Dumbledore said after a long moment of silence. "Since neither of you were hurt, I will ask you to head back to your Dormitories at once." He said urgently. Harry and Hermione quickly left the Headmaster's office and were on their way back to the Gryffindor tower in no time. They started discussing what had happened to each other.
"What I want to know is how did Snape know where we were?" asked Harry. "He got there quickly." Hermione looked up at Harry and smiled.
"You know he could have heard the howl of the Werewolf. It was really loud." Said Hermione with a smiled as they both stepped through the portrait hole and into the Gryffindor common room. The common room was empty, which shocked Harry, because it was still quite early. They were heading for their rooms when they heard someone call to them from over in the corner of the room. Ron and Ginny were sitting in their usual chairs wanting for Harry and Hermione to get back.
"Why did the party stop?" asked Harry as he approached Ron and Ginny.
"Didn't you heard that Werewolf cry?" asked Ron with a shudder. Harry and Hermione looked at each other with anxious expressions.
"Yeah we heard it." Said Hermione quickly. Ron looked from Hermione to Harry and back again.
"Okay what happened. You guys were attack by the Werewolf..." he said jokingly, but Harry looked at Hermione, which made Ron worried. "Where you?" Hermione sat down in the chair next to Ron, but Harry remained standing as he told Ron and Ginny what had happened with the Werewolf.
"Someone curse you so that the Werewolf could attack you?" asked Ginny in disbelieve. Harry nodded at her. "You think that it was... You-Know-Who." Ginny whispered that last part.
"I don't know." Said Harry with a yawn. "You know what it is really very late and I think was should go to bed. We can discuss this tomorrow morning." They all agreed and headed for their room. Ginny and Hermione said goodbye to the boys before they all disappeared into their rooms. Ron and Harry didn't say anything to each other before they both collapsed on their beds. Harry seemed to fall asleep just as his head hit the pillow, and he started to dream the instead he was asleep.
He stood in a room completely unfamiliar to him. The room was dark, but there was enough light for him to see the outline forms of two people sitting in chairs opposite each other. The chairs were sitting in front of a low fire.
"Master, please tell me what you have planed for the boy." Said one of the people sitting in the chairs. Harry recognized the cold voice right away. It was the voice of Lucius Malfoy.
"He will be one of us. You heard the prophecy told by one of the walkers." The cold hiss of Voldemort rang in Harry's ears. "The boy will help me in my quest for power."
"But will all due respect master, that is a very vague prophecy. How do you know that it is the boy?" asked Lucius.
"Lucius are you questioning me?" Voldemort stood. A searing pain went through Harry's scar has Voldemort's anger rose.
"I am sorry master." Said Lucius quickly. Voldemort sat back down in his chair and the pain in Harry's scar started to ebb away. "But master can't you at least tell me what you have planned." Voldemort place a long figure in front of his mouth gesturing for Lucius to be silent. "Not right now." Said Voldemort. "He can hear us." Voldemort turned and looked straight at Harry. Harry woke with a start. He was soaked with sweat and cold was very cold. He looked around the room. It was still dark outside and everyone else was still asleep. Harry got up and walked to the window. He put his arms around him, hugging himself, as he as on the window ceil watching the full moon set. The words of Voldemort still ringing in his head, "He will be one of us."
"Harry what do you think you were doing?" asked Sirius who was standing in the spot where the Death Eater was a moment ago. Sirius walked towards Harry and took the knife out of Harry's hand. Sirius looked at the knife closely with a shocked expression and looked by at Harry. "Harry where did you get this knife?"
"Cassandra gave it to me a couple of minutes ago." Said Harry and both Sirius and Cassandra looked at him confused.
"But Harry Cassandra has been here with me since you left Dumbledore's office. I came right here and she had been with me the whole time." Said Sirius.
"I don't understand." Said Harry.
"I think I do." Said Cassandra suddenly. "Harry tell me exactly what happened." Harry told her about standing outside the restroom wait for Hermione when he heard someone calling him and saw Cassandra down the corridor. Then how Cassandra told him that Voldemort was in the castle and was going to kill Ron, and she gave Harry the knife. Also how he got there and could of sworn he saw Voldemort standing where Cassandra was and a Death Eater where Sirius was, but they spoke in the wrong voices. Harry finished and Cassandra took a deep breath. "Harry when you were talking to me in the corridor was you vision hazy?"
"Yes I was. I just thought it was because I am so tired."
"That is what I feared." Said Cassandra and she shook her head. "That is all nice that you understand what is going, but I still don't and I want to know. I especially want to know who it was that gave Harry this knife." Said Sirius and he showed both Harry and Cassandra the knife and on the knife Harry saw the Dark Mark etched into the blade.
"It is the other half to the Lady of Dreams." Said Cassandra.
"But you are the Lady of Dreams." Said Harry.
"No it is not that simple. In truth it should be the Ladies of Dreams. You see Harry there are two Dream Walkers. I never knew who was the other one, but I know that she is out there. I can feel her. There are a lot of stories about things that the Lady of Dreams did, but I never did most of them. I didn't know what happened to her after Voldemort fell, but now this is prove that she is back and can get into the school." Said Cassandra and she looked at the two horrified faces of Harry and Sirius. Harry went to say something, but was stopped by the loud bang of the hospital wing doors flying open and Dumbledore and Hermione rushing in.
"Oh Harry I am so glad we found you." Said Hermione.
"Harry why did you come down here when I told you to go to your tower?" asked Professor Dumbledore.
"Professor I think I can answer that." Said Cassandra and then she told him about what Harry told her and what she told both Harry and Sirius.
"Are you sure Cassandra?" asked Professor Dumbledore and Cassandra nodded. "That is what I was fearing as well. I am going to place a couple of wards around the school incase this happens again, but it will not stop someone who is already in the school. I am going to ask Professor Smith if she could find some amulets and talismans that will help with that problem." They all agreed with what Dumbledore said.
"But Harry I am a little confused about something." Said Cassandra.
"What?"
"How could the other Dream Walker get to you if you had the ring I gave you?"
"That's because I let Ron use it. He couldn't sleep."
"What? I told you to always keep it with you just for this very reason." Said Cassandra angrily. Harry went to Ron who was still asleep. He went to get the ring, but it wasn't there.
"I don't understand it. I saw it around his neck this morning when he got dressed and I have been with him all day." Said Harry. He was getting very upset. "That was my father's ring. Now it is gone."
"Yes I will need to get something else for you Harry and quickly from the look of this knife the other Dream Walker is definitely the other one that was a follower of Voldemort and that she is back in his service. She might do a lot of harm if we cannot find out who it is and soon." Said Dumbledore and he looked around the room at the worried expressions on everyone's faces, but the expression that most interested him was Hermione. "Is there anything you would like to say Miss Granger?"
"Yes Professor. If the other Dream Walker is in the service of you-know- who, then why didn't she just kill Harry? She had the opportunity to do it, but she told him to kill Cassandra instead. It just doesn't make sense. If you-know-who really wants Harry dead, why didn't she just kill him? Why go through all the trouble of trying to kill Cassandra?" asked Hermione.
"Good question, but I am afraid I do not have an answer to that, and the only one who does is the other Dream Walker." Said Dumbledore. Hermione still looked as through she had another answer stirring in her head.
"And another thing Professor. I read in a book that there is only one Dream Walker at a time."
"Yes Hermione." Said Cassandra. "There is only one Dream Walker at a time, but there are two parts to the Dream Walker like there are two different parts to a dream. The good dreams, where you dream of happy things and they always end happily, and the nightmares, they are both together. The Dream Walker has similar parts, two different sides. You see I never wanted to do those things that Voldemort made me do. I would like to see things come out well, but the other Dream Walker she only wants power, like Voldemort and will do anything to get it. I know I can feel the greed... and anger in her."
"So there is always two different parts to a Dream Walker?" asked Harry.
"Yes. The good and the bad."
"Which makes it even more of a priority to put up the wards and find ways to stop the other Dream Walker from making anyone else do anything." Said Sirius. Dumbledore nodded in agreement and took out his wand.
"First I shall place a protection spell on the hospital wing." Dumbledore uttered a few words that Harry couldn't hear and a golden light came from the end of his wand. "It is done." Said Dumbledore and suddenly there came a noise from the far end of the hospital wing. It was from the end bed, which had a curtain around it. Everyone stared down at the curtain in wonder. A few moments later a figure came out from behind the curtain, in a night robe and rubbing her eyes. Sirius quickly transformed himself into a dog before Jamie could see him.
"I had a terrible dream." Said Jamie as she started to walk towards the group. Then she looked around her and noticed where she was. "What happened? Why am I in the hospital wing?"
"You collapsed in your Potions class yesterday." Said Dumbledore. "Do you remember anything about what happened right before you collapsed yesterday?" Jamie looked as through they were straining to recall what happened.
"No I can't remember anything about collapsing in Potions." Said Jamie. "The last thing I remember is saying goodbye to Nancy when she got on the Hogwarts Express for Christmas." Everyone looked at her in amazement. She had lost all memory of what had happened in the last two months. This must have shown on all of their faces, because Jamie suddenly started to panic. "What?" she said and started to back up down the hospital wing. "What's going on?"
"Jamie it is the beginning of February." Said Dumbledore matter of faculty. Jamie looked at them and shook her head.
"You mean that you don't remember warning Harry about an attack that would happen today?" asked Hermione. Jamie looked at Harry and it seemed as if she remembered something. She looked at Harry with a scared expression.
"Yes I remember my father and my uncle talking about something about that." Said Jamie. Everyone looked at her.
"Who is your uncle Jamie?" asked Harry.
"Lucius Malfoy is my uncle." She said and Harry gasped. "He and my father were talking about something over the summer and I overheard it. Something that I don't think they wanted me to hear." She said and then looked straight at Cassandra with an anxious look.
"What was it that you heard?" asked Dumbledore in a gentle tone. Jamie looked back at Dumbledore who trying to give her a comforting smile.
"It was about the Lady of Dreams and how she was going to enter Voldemort's service if she liked it or not, and that they were going to get Harry."
"That's not a shock. He has been trying to kill Harry since he was born." Said Hermione.
"No you don't understand. They said get Harry not kill him. That is what Uncle Lucius said. His exact words were, get not kill. I am not sure what they meant about that." Said Jamie.
"So they don't want to kill me?" Harry looked confused.
"No, they don't want to kill you."
"May I ask you Jamie? Why are you telling us this?" asked Harry. "I mean since it is your father and uncle."
"Harry I am not like my father or my uncle or any of the other members of my family." Said Jamie with a frown. Then she went back to her bed and lay down. They all stared after her.
"Harry, Hermione." Said Dumbledore. "I want you both to stay here tonight while I and the other professors make the rest of the castle safe for you. I will go to Professor Smith for some personal protection for the four of you students in here. Snuffle, Cassandra come with me please." Dumbledore turned and left with the big black dog and Cassandra right behind him. Madam Pomfrey came out of her office and helped Hermione and Harry into bed. She quickly checked on both Ron and Jamie then went to help the Professors with their plans to keep the school safe. Harry lay in his bed now unable to sleep. Thoughts about what Voldemort might do to him stirring around in his head. Harry didn't know how long he was laying there, but it was awhile.
"Harry? Are you asleep?" Jamie's voice came from the end of his bed.
"No I am not asleep." Said Harry as he sat up to look at her. Jamie sat down at the end of his bed.
"Harry there is something that I wanted to ask you."
"Go ahead." Harry smiled at her.
"Well, Dumbledore said that I warned you that something was going to happened to you. Can you tell me what happened?" She looked at him nervously.
"Well on Christmas Eve you told me that you didn't much like Draco, because he was having an attitude like the was running things in the Slytherin house. People were afraid of him because of Voldemort and you actually said his name, Voldemort." Harry paused for a moment as he watched her reaction, which was surprising to Harry, because she didn't seem to shocked at what Harry was saying. Harry continued. "Then yesterday in potions class you gave me a letter warning me about an attack that would happen today. A little while after that you collapsed in the middle of the class."
"I actually said that I didn't like Draco?" Jamie said and laughed. "I never really liked my cousin much. He is really mean to people sometimes." There was a long moment of silence when neither of them looked at each other. Then Jamie sighed and spoke. "Harry there is something that I didn't tell Dumbledore about what I heard this summer." She stopped and looked at him seriously.
"Yes."
She looked around quickly and then lend in to whisper at Harry. "Well. I heard Uncle Lucius tell my father that Voldemort was going to do some 'recruiting' over the year and that at the spring holiday they will be initiated into the Death Eater ranks." She looked around again as if someone else was there listening to her. Harry looked around and noticed that both Ron and Hermione were still asleep, and that Madam Pomfrey hadn't returned from helping the Professors. "Harry I am scared of what will happen to me. I mean my uncle is a Death Eater and my father will be one soon, and Draco..." she stopped and sighed again. "I don't know anything about what he is going to do, but I am scared Harry."
"Why don't you talk with Dumbledore..."
"No!" Jamie started. "Then things will be really bad for me Harry. If I go and talk to Dumbledore about the things that I really know... I don't want to think about it." Harry didn't know what to say to her. He just sat there staring at her thinking about how brave she must be to even speak with him. Jamie got up and started to head back to her bed.
"Jamie, if there is anything you need me to do, just ask." Said Harry quickly. Jamie smiled at him and then headed back to her bed. Harry stayed sitting up in his bed for along time thinking and soon it began to be light outside. Harry smiled when he began to hear Jamie snore form her bed.
"Harry." Hermione said weakly and Harry realized that she wasn't asleep at all.
"Did you hear what she said?"
"Yes I did hear what she said." She opened her eye and looked at him. "What are you going to do about it? Are you going to tell Dumbledore?"
"No I think that it must be up to her." Said Harry and Hermione sat up in her bed quickly.
"But what if Malfoy does become a Death Eater at spring holiday? Do you want a Death Eater in the school?" asked Hermione.
"No I don't, but she can't tell me if he really is going to become a Death Eater, and I don't want him to be kicked out of school because of something that might not happen. I don't like him, just like you, but I won't be like him and do something out of spite." Said Harry.
"So what are we to do?"
"Nothing for right now. We really can't do anything right now, but wait for something to happen." Said Harry with a sigh and with that he lay down and feel asleep. The next morning Harry woke late and noticed that Ron and Hermione had already gone. Jamie was still sleeping in her bed, so Harry got up and went to Madam Pomfrey's office. She was sitting at her desk writing a report about what happened the night before. She smiled at him and invited him to take a seat while she finished the report. When she was done, she told him that Ron and Hermione had left together a little while before he woke. She also gave him a silver chain with a red stone dangling from it.
"Now you are supposed to wear that and not take it off. Professor Smith gave me that to give to you, Ron and Hermione have similar ones." She said and then smiling let him on his way. He went to the Gryffindor commons room as quickly as he could and when he got there he found Ron, and Hermione sitting in there usual chair with Ginny walking to them about school. When they saw Harry all three rushed to him.
"Harry are you okay?" asked Ron.
"I am fine. Are you okay?"
"My head aches a little, but I am fine." Ron said and smiled at Harry. "Hermione told me her side of what happened last night, but I want to hear your side Harry." Harry sat down in his chair and told them his side of what happened the day before. When he had finished it was time for dinner and the four of them decided to go down to the Great Hall and have something to eat. They sat eating and joking for a long time before Dumbledore stood to address the students.
"Attention everyone I have a few announcements that I would like to address. First of all Professor Smith will be providing each one of you with a talisman for protection from something that has come to my attention." There was a long silence where a couple of people from different houses began to stare at Harry as if they knew what had happened to him the day before. Harry looked over at the Slytherin table and noticed that Malfoy was giving him a sinister glare, but what peaked Harry's interest was that he saw Jamie sitting next to Malfoy with her head bowed not looking at anything, but her plate. Harry was about to say something about it to Ron when Dumbledore spoke again.
"On a happier note, coming up on the spring holiday we will have a ball. Third years and up will be allowed to attend. Please inform the head of your houses if you intend to participate." Dumbledore finished and there was a great wall of noise started as all of the students started to talk anxiously about the up coming Spring ball. Hermione and Ginny began to talk between each other and giggle. Ron turned to Harry.
"Do you have any idea who you might ask to the ball?" asked Ron, and Harry glanced over to the Ravenclaw table to see Cho as she laughed with her friends about the ball. Then she turned to see that Harry was looking at her, and she smiled at him. He smiled back at her.
"Yes I have an idea." Said Harry. Ron looked over at Cho who was still smiling at Harry and he began to laugh.
"Oh I see." Said Ron. Cho turned back to her friends and started to talk again, so Harry turned to look at Ron.
"So do you know who you are going to be asking?" Harry questioned his friend. Ron turned bright red as he stared at his friend.
"Aw. Yes I know who I want to ask to the ball." Said Ron as he ran his hand through his red hair and shot awkward glances at Hermione. Harry smiled and nodded his head in understanding, but didn't say anything about it.
When dinner was finished the four friends made their way back up to the Gryffindor commons room where Hermione and Ginny talked while Ron and Harry played chess until they all decided to go to bed. The next week rolled by and Harry hadn't asked Cho to the ball. He just couldn't think of a way to do it, but he didn't want to wait too long in case someone else asked her. It was the Friday of that week while the Gryffindor team was coming back from Quidditch practice that Harry decided that it was now or never (and lucky for him Cho was standing in front of the doors to the Great Hall as Harry entered the castle). Harry saw her and paused for a moment. He had butterflies in his stomach and his heart was pounding faster than I ever had in his life.
"Do it now!" he thought to himself. Harry took a deep breath and walked straight up to Cho with a smile. "Cho... er... can I speak with you?"
"Sure Harry." Said Cho with a smile. She and Harry walked a part from the others.
"Cho?" said Harry nervously.
"Yes Harry?"
"Er... Will you go to the ball with me?" Harry asked quickly in order to get it all out.
"Yes I would love to Harry." Said Cho smiling brighter than she was before. Harry stared at her as thought he was in shock. Then smiled back excitedly.
"Great." was all that Harry could say. Cho laughed and gave Harry a little kiss on the cheek. Then as she walked away she shouted back at him.
"We will talk more about this later. I have to get to practice. We have a game against each other in one week." And with that she was gone. Harry stared after her until he could no longer see her, and when he turned to go to the Gryffindor tower he saw Ron, Fred and George standing behind him, all three Weasleys were smiling at him. Then they suddenly broke out in laughter, and Fred and George recreated the scene over again in their own way, which made Harry laugh as well. When Fred and George were done, they all headed for the Gryffindor tower, laughing.
"Well at least you got it over with. I still have to ask Her..."
"Who are you going to ask to the ball?" asked Fred suddenly with great interest. Ron looked at his older brother suddenly lost for words. Harry could tell if Ron wanted to let his brothers know or not.
"Hermione." Harry said suddenly not wanting to want for Ron to work up the courage to tell them. Fred and George looked at each other.
"Finally!" said Fred and George at the same time. Ron and Harry look at the twin. Harry was actually thinking the same thing.
"What do you mean finally?" asked Ron.
"Well you have been mooning over her for over a year now Ron." Said Fred.
"Yeah and we are tired of you acting like you aren't" George chimed in. Harry looked at his friend and laughed.
"They have a point Ron." Said Harry quickly and laughed again. They walked the rest of the way in silence. When they all climbed through the portrait hole they saw Hermione sitting in their usual corner, in her over stuffed chair, studying. Harry pushed Ron over towards Hermione and then Harry, Fred and George stood in the other corner to watch Ron as he nervously walked up to Hermione, practicing what he would say. When he was only a few feet from Hermione he stopped and stared at her lost for words.
"Oh hi Ron." Said Hermione with out even a look up at him, but Ron didn't answer he just stood there with his mouth open wanting to say something, but nothing would come out. Hermione looked up at him and gave him the strangest look. "Are you okay Ron?" Ron stood there for a moment more before finally saying something.
"Yeah, I am fine. I... er..." Ron looked for help but didn't find it so he just said what he wanted to say. "Hermione will you go to the ball with me?" he said quickly and when he was finished he closed his eyes tight and didn't open them until Hermione answered, which was almost immediately.
"Yes Ron I would love to." Said Hermione, who had the biggest smile on her face as Ron opened his eyes to see her face and smiling back let out a great sigh of relief. Hermione jumped up out of her chair and hugged Ron. For a moment Ron stood there shocked at the suddenness of the hug, but then he hugged her back. It was a deep hug that didn't seem like it was going to stop. Harry smiled at his two friends and turning to the two Weasleys standing behind him he notice that they were both smiling as well. Harry walked up to his two friends after a few more minutes of the hug and stood just behind Hermione. He cleared his throat at them and they separated quickly as they realized that there were people looking at them.
"Oh Harry." Said Ron and he sat in an over stuffed chair next to Hermione as she sat back down in her chair quickly, her face bright red. Ron suddenly had an expression on his face as if he just remembered something and then turned back to Hermione. "You will never guess what Harry did just before we got up here."
"What?" Hermione smiled up at Harry and then looked at Ron.
"He asked Cho to the ball, and she said yes." Ron said quickly and Hermione smiled at Harry giggling.
"I was wondering if he was going to ask her this year, because I hear from one of the Ravenclaw third years that she was talking about Harry in their commons room the other day. She was saying that she hoped Harry would ask her." Said Hermione. Harry turned bright red at what Hermione said.
"Really?" Harry stood there and ran his figures through his untidy black hair. Ron and Hermione both looked at their friend and laughed. Harry soon sank into another over stuffed chair on the other side of Hermione and they all talked about things that they were going to do for the ball and the things that they were going to wear until they all decided that it was late and went up to bed.
The next week went by quickly as Harry, Ron and the other people on the Gryffindor Quidditch team was looking forward to the upcoming game against Ravenclaw loomed closer and closer. The Gryffindor team practice everyday in preparation for the game, and they were feeling ready for their next match. Harry had only talked to Cho once since he asked her out almost a week before, and it was more of a formal talk, about what they were going to wear and when they would meet each other before the ball.
On the morning of the Quidditch match Harry and Ron woke up early and went down to the Great Hall to have something to eat, but when they got there they didn't feel hungry at all, so they just sat there watching everyone come into the Great Hall talking about the match that would happen that day. Everyone was really excite, and as the Gryffindor team got up from the table to head for the locker rooms the Great Hall exploded with 'good luck's from the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuff, none of the Slytherins said anything to the Gryffindor team as they left, they only glared at them.
When they were all ready Harry gave his usual peep talk and they were soon lined up to go onto the field. When the doors to the field opened letting the Gryffindor team out onto the cheer there was a wall of sounds they made Harry's stomach churn in excitement. He hadn't been this excited about a Quidditch match in a long time, because of the things that were happening lately, he was glad for the feeling. It got his mind off of other things.
The two teams walked out onto the field and the two captains shook hand before Madam Hooch released the snitch, beaters and Quaffle. They were all on their brooms when Madam Hooch blew the whistle. Harry flew up above the action, careful not to get too high, he had some bad memories from that particular experience. He glance down to where the Professor sat and in seeing Professor Dumbledore watching everyone closely he let out a sigh of relief. At least he was there to protect people if the brooms fell again.
Harry watched the game below him for a moment before starting to look for the snitch. He notice Cho sat she sat on her broom, at the other end of the field, looking for the snitch. He watched her for a moment until he realized that Cho was speeding towards the ground at an amazing speed. Harry followed quickly seeing the snitch hovering near the ground, but before either of them got there the snitch took off across the field. Harry moved to catch it and almost ran into Cho as she shot past him. He was catch by surprise, but regained his concentration and swiftly past Cho heading for the snitch. They started to climb as the snitch shot straight up then it stopped right above the other players.
Harry and Cho were almost even until Harry put a last bit of speed to make him go past Cho. He reached his hand out to take a hold of the snitch and his hand closed in around it. Harry stopped along with Cho, who was smiling at him. Harry lifted his hand to show that he had the snitch and Madam Hooch blew the whistle to end the game. "Gryffindor Wins!" yelled Jordan Lee. Harry looked over at Cho; who was smiling at him, and he wanted to say something to her, but movement from behind her caught his eye. A Bludger was heading straight for Cho.
"Watch out!" cried Harry, but it was too late. Before Cho could even turn around to see what was happening the Bludger hit her hard, in the head. Harry watched as Cho flew off her broom. "No." Harry cried and he dove to catch her. Wind passed his ears with a whistling sound as he got closer and closer to Cho, but it seemed that he wasn't going to make it before she hit the ground. He willed himself to go faster. The ground was so close now and he was just under her now. He pulled out of the dive and caught her, his toe brushing the grass as he tried to slow down.
It was the first time that he heard the screams and excited noises coming from the stands and the group of people rushing toward him. He her down gently on the ground and when he pulled his hand from behind her head there was something on his hand. Blood. It covered his hand and he just stared at it. A panic rose in him and he couldn't do anything else but stare at the blood of his hand.
Suddenly he looked up and he was no longer at Hogwarts, but somewhere familiar. A graveyard. But not any grave yard. The graveyard that Cedric had died in, but it was different somehow. He looked around and saw Voldemort with his Death Eaters standing nearby, but they were just standing there watching him. Voldemort had his hand up as if to keep back his Death Eaters. He looked around again and noticed a figure that he couldn't see clearly, standing opposite Voldemort. He didn't know who this figure was but he stood there staring at Harry's feet. When Harry looked down he saw the body of a dead girl laying face down in the grass. Harry's heart jumped into his throat when he realized whom it was.
"Cho." He whispered. Anger rose in him, like he never felt before. It was a blinding hate for whoever killed her. He rose his wand and pointed it at her murderer, but he didn't point it at Voldemort he pointed it at the figure of the unknown person. Everything went silent, he couldn't even hear his own voice as he spoke the curse, but he could see the bright green light of the curse as it hit the figure. His whole body shook with hate as he watched the stiff body of the figure hit the ground hard, dead.
Harry turned to Voldemort, still shaking from anger to see what Voldemort would do to him, but Voldemort was just standing there smiling at him with an amused sort of smile. Voldemort walked towards Harry, who didn't stop him. He whispered, "You are more like me than you would like to think. You will be mine soon." Then a moment later Voldemort got a step back and disappeared along with the Death Eaters, except for one who stood in the same spot watching Harry with a sideways glance. Harry couldn't see who it was, because of the mask that the Death Eater was wearing, but he could see the Death Eater's brown eyes. They seemed familiar to Harry, but he couldn't think about that right now, he had to go to Cho.
Harry fell to his knees next to Cho's body, which was still laying face down in the grass. Harry picked up her body and pulled her close to him. He looked into her eyes, which were wide in horror. Her stiff body made Harry cry. She was dead and there was nothing that he could do to bring her back no matter how much he tried. He started to brush the loose hairs from her face as the Death Eater that had stayed behind came over to him knelling in the grass opposite of him and looking at him with those brown eyes.
"Harry?" said the Death Eater. It was a woman's voice, a familiar woman's voice that came for behind the Death Eater mask. His mind reeled to remember where he had heard this voice before, his mind was working clearly though the blinding hate that he felt. "Harry?" The Death Eater said again and this time Harry knew who was talking to him. His eyes flew wide and his heart dropped when he realized whom it was.
'No!' thought Harry. 'No not her, it can't be her!' Harry looked at her and he felt a tear fall down his cheek. "Ginny?" he said in disbelief.
"Harry are you alright?" said Ginny. Harry looked at her and watched as the background melted away from the graveyard back to the Quidditch field where he was a moment ago. He looked around and saw people crowding in on him and then his eyes flew back to Ginny who was sitting in front of him with a worried look on her face. "Harry are you alright?" she asked again. Harry looked back at his hand and Cho's blood was still there on his hand.
"Cho's blood is on my hand." Said Harry in an odd tone that had Ginny worry about him even more. Ginny stood up and help Harry stand up. Harry stood and noticed that Cho wasn't lying on the ground anymore, but was being carry away on a magical stretcher by Madam Pomfrey. Ginny walked him away from the group of people who were looking after him as if he had just lost his mind.
"Harry are you alright?" Harry looked down into Ginny's innocent and very beautiful eyes to see the worry that lay deep inside them. Harry smiled and nodded at her, which made her smile at him and the worry in her eyes seemed to disappear in an instead.
'That wasn't Ginny, her voice just came through the dream, that's all.' Harry looked back into her eyes as she smiled at him, and saw the pure innocence in them as she let out a little giggle. 'Ginny could never do anything like that; she is too sweet, to innocent. Ginny could never be a Death Eater.' He was kicking himself for ever thinking at she would do anything like that.
"So we are going to the common room to have a party to celebrate our victory?" asked Harry.
"No I am taking you to the hospital wing." Said Ginny suddenly very serious. "Harry you scared me out there. You wouldn't reposed to me when I was talking to you and I wasn't talking to you for awhile, Harry." Ginny looked up at him again and she saw that he was smiling at her.
"Ginny I am fine." He said and then lifted her up into the air. She started to giggle wildly. "See I am fine." Harry put her down softly on the grass as Ron and Hermione came running up to him, both with worried expressions.
"Harry what happened out there?" asked Ron who was very pale.
"Cho got hit with a Bludger." Said Harry.
"We are not talking about Cho being hit by a Bludger, everyone saw that. I am talking about when you got to the ground?" Ron was looking at him with the same serious expression that Ginny had a moment before. "Someone said that you went mad when you saw Cho's blood."
"No I think I had a vision, but I really don't want to talk about that right now. I really want to see if Cho is okay and then go to the common room. Fred and George were telling me that if we won today they were going to have a surprise for us." Said Harry and then he looked at his face and they were all staring at him with shocked expressions.
"A... vision. What do you mean vision?" asked Hermione.
"Well I am not really sure. Everything seemed so real like it does when I have dreams about Voldemort." Harry noticed everyone shuddered a little when he said Voldemort's name. "But there was something different about it this time." Harry turned to walk up the front stairs, but stopped when he noticed that Ron, Hermione and Ginny weren't following him. They were still standing in the same spots staring after him in amazement.
"Harry?" said Hermione suddenly. "How can you be so calm about this? You are acting as if this is nothing." Harry opened his mouth to say something but stopped. He didn't know why he was being calm at watching himself kill someone and seeing Cho's dead body in the grass, and Voldemort smiling the way he did. He should be extremely upset with everything, but he didn't feel anything about, not anything. Suddenly a panic rose in him that he had never felt before.
'Am I turning into him?' he thought to himself. 'No I am not I won't be like him ever!' He looked at his friends. His panic must of showed on his face because Ron, Hermione and Ginny had very serious expressions on their faces.
"Are you sure that you are all right?" asked Ginny. Harry looked at her and smiled, but it was a forced smiled and she knew it, which made her worry a little more.
"Lets just go to the hospital wing." Said Harry quickly. "Please." He turned and headed into the school, and this time he was going with or without his friends.
He walked quickly down the corridor thinking about the vision that he had just had. He was a little scared now, but not about what the vision showed him, but about would he was so indifferent about it afterwards. When he finally got to the hospital wing the thoughts of his vision were pushed from his mind as he saw Cho lying in a bed towards the back of the hospital wing. She was so pale and there were a lot of people crowded around her. The Ravenclaw team and a couple of Cho's friends where all standing around the bed whispered among each other about what happened and when they saw Harry standing in the doorway they stop whispering and looked at him in shock. Harry rushed to Cho's bed where Madam Pomfrey was busy trying to help her.
"Is she going to be alright?" Harry asked Madam Pomfrey with a worried tone.
"Yes Mister Potter, she will be just fine when she wakes up, which probably won't be for a good couple of days." Said Madam Pomfrey as if being out for 'a good couple of days' was nothing. Harry looked at Cho lying in the bed looking so peaceful. He was about to sit down in a chair next to her bed when Madam Pomfrey made everyone left. Harry stood in the corridor staring into the hospital wing one more time before turn and almost running into the Ravenclaw team, who was standing next to Harry.
"Harry I want to thank you for saving Cho like that." Said Jessica Thomas, a sixth year Ravenclaw and one of the chasers on their team. Jessica smiled at him and then lent forward and kissed him softly on the cheek. The rest of the team thanked him as well, but they didn't kiss him. After they had all thanked him they headed for the Ravenclaw tower, and as they all clear out of the corridor Harry saw Ron, Hermione and Ginny walking slowly towards Harry.
"Is Cho going to be alright?" asked Ginny. Harry nodded to her and she sighed in relief. Ginny looked at Harry and saw the worry in his eyes. "Harry didn't you say something about a party in the common room?" Harry turned to Ginny and smiled. She had always loved his smiled.
"You always know how to cheer me up. All of you do." He said and they all walked to the Gryffindor tower. When the portrait whole sprung open, a wall of sound came bursting out at them. There was, in fact, a very big party going on in the common room, where the Weasley twins had announced that they had just bought a joke store in Hogsmeade and that when they graduate from Hogwarts they will be opening the store. Ron and Ginny were more surprised about the announcement than anyone else in the common room. They both rushed over to their brothers and talked start very quickly, but Harry didn't feel much like talking to them at the moment. He went to a window and sat on the window ceil looking out onto the grounds for a long while before he noticed that Hermione had come up behind him.
"Penny for your thoughts, of should I say Knut for you thoughts." Said Hermione. Harry smiled at her.
"I was just thinking about a couple of things." He said as he watching the sky turns a light shade of red. "Would you like to take a walk with me Hermione?"
"Sure." Said Hermione and they both left the common room. They were soon outside heading for the lake. "Did you want to talk about something Harry?" Harry looked at her. He took a deep breath and told her about his vision, leaving Ginny out. Hermione stopped walking when he finished telling her. They both stood there looking at each other with the last rays of the dying sun vanishing over the Forbidden Forest creating long shadows across the grounds of the school.
"Harry." She paused. "I don't know what to say about that. Are you sure it was a vision, because I really can't see you doing anything like that to anyone... ever."
"I know Hermione, but afterwards it didn't bother me, at all." Said Harry and sighed. "That is what scared me the most Hermione. My indifference to the fact that I might kill someone." Hermione looked at him even more worried than before.
"Well you know what I think about the whole divinations situation, and I am not worried about it." Said Hermione, but her expression was telling Harry different. He smiled at her for at least trying to cheer him up, but the smiled dissolved into another worried expression. "Do you think we should go to Dumbledore about this?"
"I think that it might be a good idea." Said Harry. They both turned to walk back up to the school when their came a bright light from behind them. Harry turned to see what had happened when he notice that Hermione had stopped walking. "What's the matter, Hermione?"
"Harry I can't move." Said Hermione. Harry went to help her when he saw another flash of light coming from the edge of the forest. It was heading straight for him. He tried to dodge it but it was too late and it hit him. Harry tried to move but his feet seemed to be stuck to the ground. "Harry what is going on?" Hermione asked suddenly.
"I don't wonder, but I can't move either, someone must of..." he fell silent as he heard something from the forest that made him look up in the sky. He swore and then turned to Hermione.
"Harry that isn't what I think it is?" said Hermione. There was a look of complete horror on her face. It was a low growling sound, and he knew that he heard it before, in his third year when he was coming back from the Shrieking Shack with his newly found godfather. It was the growl of a...
"Werewolf." Said Harry and Hermione looked at him. Hermione quickly fumbled through her pockets, and she swore, it was the first time Harry had every heard Hermione say anything like that, and he was taking aback for a moment, but then was snapped back into reality as the werewolf slowly crawled out from the edge of the forest.
"Harry I don't have my wand on me, do you?"
"No, I put it on my night stand this morning before the match." Said Harry quickly and they both started to panic. Many things started to fly through Harry's mind as he tried to find a way to get out of this situation, but he could think of anything that was useful at the moment. Hermione began to cry as the Werewolf slowly walked towards the two-trapped students. There was nothing that they could do but wait for the Werewolf to get closer. It suddenly began every silent as the Werewolf got closer and closer, all Harry could was the soft growling of the Werewolf and the beating his heart, which was getting steadily faster and faster.
'This is it.' He thought 'This is how I am going to die?' The thought ran through his head as he watch the Werewolf now only a few meters away get closer. Hermione scream as they both realized that it was heading for her first. Harry thought quickly. He picked up some stones from the ground and began to throw them at the Werewolf. "Hey over here." Harry yelled, trying to get the Werewolf away from Hermione. He through another stone and this time it hit the Werewolf square between the eyes.
The Werewolf cried out in pain and then quickly to Harry. Harry stared at the now, very anger Werewolf, he had succeeded in getting it away from Hermione, but now it wanted him. Harry watched as the Werewolf rounded on him and he closed his has as the Werewolf was about to lunge towards him when he heard the sound of a cat hissing.
Harry opened his eyes to see a great black cat standing in between him and the Werewolf. The Werewolf, in seeing the cat, took a couple of steps back before lunging forward and attacking the cat, but the cat was to quick for it. The cat lunged at the Werewolf a moment before and with a graceful movement torn its claws into the Werewolf. The Werewolf let out a howl of pain so loud that he was sure that everyone in the school heard it. The Werewolf stumble back and for a moment stayed where he was but the anger of the Werewolf made him lunge once more at the cat, but again the movements of the cat were too quick for the bleeding Werewolf.
The Werewolf and the cat battled between each other, but it seemed the cat was winning as the cat pushed the Werewolf back into the forest, disappearing back into the shadows were only the sound of the Werewolf's cries of pain and the hissing of the great black cat could be heard. Harry looked at Hermione and they were both dumb struck. They couldn't think of anything to say. They both stood there for a moment in relief that the great black cat showed up and protected them from the Werewolf. Harry breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Hermione.
"So how are we going to get back to the school?" he asked but it wasn't Hermione who answered him.
"I think I can help you with that little problem, Mister Potter." Harry turned to see who was talking. Professor Snape seemed to have appeared out of nowhere and was looming over the two students with his wand in his hand. He pointed it down a Harry and whispered coldly. "Fininte Incantatem." Harry suddenly fell forward as he could move again. He did the same for Hermione, who also fell forward. They both lay on the ground looking up at Snape with curious expressions. "Come on you Mister Potter, Miss Granger, we should be out on the grounds... at night... with a full moon." They both got to their feet and looked up at the sky at the same time. The moon was so big, bigger than Harry had ever seen it before.
All three of them were heading for the front door to the school when they heard at terrible sound coming from the forest. The cat had cried out in pain. Snape stopped dead in his track and turned swiftly to look at the forest. "No!" Harry heard him say softly. There was a look of panic on his face as he started running for the forest. "You two go straight to Dumbledore's office, IMMEDIATELY." Said Snape just before disappearing into the forest. Harry and Hermione looked at each other and then turned in the school. They were walking so quickly that they were almost at a run when they finally entered the school and headed for the Headmaster's office.
They quickly moved down the corridors towards Dumbledore's office. When they got to the entrance Harry quickly whisper the password to it and the statue sprung back allowing them onto the stairs and they quickly ran up them and through the door. They were standing in Dumbledore's office before they knew it. Dumbledore was standing behind his desk and looking at them in relief. "I am glad that you are both alright." Said Dumbledore and then he looked at the door as if someone else was about to come through but there was no one there. "Where is Professor Snape?"
"He ran into the forest after we heard the cat cry out." Said Hermione simply. Dumbledore looked at her with a worried expression.
"He did, now did he?" said Dumbledore and moment for them both to sit down in the seats in front of his desk. They did, quickly. "Now tell me what happened tonight." They both looked at each other and then Harry began to tell the Headmaster everything that happened after they left the common room. "And you didn't see who it was that curse you?" asked Dumbledore, and they both shook their heads.
"Whoever it was, was standing in the shadows and we couldn't see their face." Said Hermione. Dumbledore sat and considered all the things that Harry had told him.
"Every well." Dumbledore said after a long moment of silence. "Since neither of you were hurt, I will ask you to head back to your Dormitories at once." He said urgently. Harry and Hermione quickly left the Headmaster's office and were on their way back to the Gryffindor tower in no time. They started discussing what had happened to each other.
"What I want to know is how did Snape know where we were?" asked Harry. "He got there quickly." Hermione looked up at Harry and smiled.
"You know he could have heard the howl of the Werewolf. It was really loud." Said Hermione with a smiled as they both stepped through the portrait hole and into the Gryffindor common room. The common room was empty, which shocked Harry, because it was still quite early. They were heading for their rooms when they heard someone call to them from over in the corner of the room. Ron and Ginny were sitting in their usual chairs wanting for Harry and Hermione to get back.
"Why did the party stop?" asked Harry as he approached Ron and Ginny.
"Didn't you heard that Werewolf cry?" asked Ron with a shudder. Harry and Hermione looked at each other with anxious expressions.
"Yeah we heard it." Said Hermione quickly. Ron looked from Hermione to Harry and back again.
"Okay what happened. You guys were attack by the Werewolf..." he said jokingly, but Harry looked at Hermione, which made Ron worried. "Where you?" Hermione sat down in the chair next to Ron, but Harry remained standing as he told Ron and Ginny what had happened with the Werewolf.
"Someone curse you so that the Werewolf could attack you?" asked Ginny in disbelieve. Harry nodded at her. "You think that it was... You-Know-Who." Ginny whispered that last part.
"I don't know." Said Harry with a yawn. "You know what it is really very late and I think was should go to bed. We can discuss this tomorrow morning." They all agreed and headed for their room. Ginny and Hermione said goodbye to the boys before they all disappeared into their rooms. Ron and Harry didn't say anything to each other before they both collapsed on their beds. Harry seemed to fall asleep just as his head hit the pillow, and he started to dream the instead he was asleep.
He stood in a room completely unfamiliar to him. The room was dark, but there was enough light for him to see the outline forms of two people sitting in chairs opposite each other. The chairs were sitting in front of a low fire.
"Master, please tell me what you have planed for the boy." Said one of the people sitting in the chairs. Harry recognized the cold voice right away. It was the voice of Lucius Malfoy.
"He will be one of us. You heard the prophecy told by one of the walkers." The cold hiss of Voldemort rang in Harry's ears. "The boy will help me in my quest for power."
"But will all due respect master, that is a very vague prophecy. How do you know that it is the boy?" asked Lucius.
"Lucius are you questioning me?" Voldemort stood. A searing pain went through Harry's scar has Voldemort's anger rose.
"I am sorry master." Said Lucius quickly. Voldemort sat back down in his chair and the pain in Harry's scar started to ebb away. "But master can't you at least tell me what you have planned." Voldemort place a long figure in front of his mouth gesturing for Lucius to be silent. "Not right now." Said Voldemort. "He can hear us." Voldemort turned and looked straight at Harry. Harry woke with a start. He was soaked with sweat and cold was very cold. He looked around the room. It was still dark outside and everyone else was still asleep. Harry got up and walked to the window. He put his arms around him, hugging himself, as he as on the window ceil watching the full moon set. The words of Voldemort still ringing in his head, "He will be one of us."