Chapter 13
Dream-Peeking
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or anything else that I mentioned in previous disclaimer. If I haven't mentioned something that I don't, well, basically I don't own it. I would also like to apologize (it's kind of hard to say that I "apologize", but you know what I mean) if anyone thought that Princess Glory's comments in the previous chapter were very hurtful and prejudiced, but hey, what can you say? She's turning into Malfoy! She's basically cruel, and that's what a cruel person would say. However, I am sorry if anybody would be shocked or hurt from it.
Author's Note: Hey, people (for the 13th time)! As I'd like to remind you, any recaps are at the end of the chapter. So, what'll happen in THIS chapter? Well isn't it obvious? Harry and his friends are going dream-peeking! That basically means going into people's dreams. And who's dream they'll peek in? Malfoy's, of course!! By the way, I'd like to say thanks to Rhinemjr who has reviewed so many of my chapters (and might I add, those were good reviews). So, if they're reading this: THANK YOU SO MUCH, RHINEMJR!!!! Now on with the chapter....
More than a week before they would go into Malfoy's dream, Ron finally took his via-mobile test. His face was completely white with worry the morning of the day of the test. But at the end of the day, Ron's face was full of colour (especially with red and pink tones). Harry and Hermione were talking a bit about the N.E.W.T. exam while Hermione helped some younger students with their homeowrk, when Ron burst into the Gryffindor common room with a small paper in one of his hands which he was waving up high.
"I passed my via-mobile test!" declared Ron excitedly. "I passed it with flying colours!"
"Ron, try not to make a scene!" said Joy, who was behind Ron and had just entered the Gryffindor common room as well.
"I can't help it!"
"Congratulations, Ron!" said Harry.
"Thanks."
"Now that you have your license, what are you going to do with your via-mobile?" asked Hermione.
"I'll drive it once in a while around the grounds, watching out for the Forbidden Forest of course. Joy and I will probably take a drive in it on a few of our dates," he said, as he winked at Joy.
"That sounds wonderful!" said Hermione. "By the way, we have to do some more work on going into Malfoy's dream before the actual night we'll do it."
That week, all four of them crammed all the information and research they could find on dream-peeking. Joy returned all the other library books back, and had given back the books which she had 'borrowed' from her sister. Glory wasn't quite a happy sight when she had found out, and when she had found Joy, Glory wasn't at all happy.
It was that Friday that they decided they would go into Malfoy's dream. It was a tricky and complex thing to do, and they hoped greatly that their plan would work. Their plan was to apparate to the Slytherin dormitories (with Joy's power helping, of course) and to sneak into Malfoy's room with the invisibility cloak. Once the coast was clear and they were ready, they would go into Malfoy's dream.
Malfoy wouldn't see them in his dream though. They would be invisible, kind of how Harry was like when Tom Riddle had taken him to the past to see when Hagrid was accused of opening the Chamber of Secrets (see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the whole story). Once they had found enough clues, they would get out of Malfoy's dream and apparate out of the Slytherin dormitories to the Gryffindor dorms.
That Friday, at 11 o'clock when everyone was in bed, Harry, Ron, Joy and Hermione sneaked out of their rooms and met in the common room. Everyone brought their wands just in case they needed them, Joy kept a book of dream-peeking in her BCB in case there was a problem and Harry brought his invisibility cloak. Before going, Joy checked to make sure they were ready.
"Has everyone studied and remembered our plan and all the necessary information about dream-peeking?" Joy half-questioned, half-whispered, remembering there were students sleeping.
"Yes."
"Yep."
"I memorized everything."
"Has everyone brought their wands?"
"Yes."
"Sure have."
"Absolutely."
"Harry, do you have your invisibility cloak?"
"Sure do," said Harry, holding up the silky cloak that had belonged to his father.
"Does everyone remember the rules and precautions we discussed to make sure this plan would not be uncovered and we would all be safe?"
"Yes."
"Sure do."
"Of course."
"Harry, do also have the Maurader's Map?"
"I sure do," said Harry, patting it in his pocket.
"And I have the book on dream-peeking if we need help. We're ready to leave now." Joy sighed in relief after knowing that they were all ready for their little 'expedition'. "I want all of you to come around me."
All three crept around Joy, carrying their things and trying not to make a single sound.
"Now what?" whispered Ron.
"I'll tell you what happens next. I want you all to hold onto my hands, all right?" They all gripped one of Joy's hands, wondering what would happen next. "Harry, put the Invisibility Cloak over us." Harry, still holding one of Joy's hands, lifted the cloak onto everyone, and once the silvery sheet covered them, they became invisible. "On the count of three, we're going to apparate, all right? Be ready for it. My apparating is a bit different from other wizards and witches. For mine, a wave of water splashes over us and I disappear. Don't worry, you won't get wet or anything. Is everyone ready?" They all nodded their heads, a bit anxious to see what would happen. "Remember, it's on the count of three. One......two......three!"
Joy shut her eyes and snapped her fingers. Suddenly, they could feel a gigantic wave of water leaping over Harry's cloak. They felt as if they were under an umbrella. Then, the ground started to turn round and round, and then stopped after a few seconds.
"Are we there?" whispered Harry.
"Peer under the Invisibility Cloak and check," responded Joy.
Harry, Ron, Hermione and even Joy peeked under the cloak, and was amazed to see that they were in the Slytherin common room. Hermione, nor Joy had ever laid eyes on the Slytherin common room, although Harry and Ron had. They remembered the time in their 2nd year when Hermione had concocted a Polyjuice Potion so they could turn into Slytherins, go into their common room and talk to Malfoy to see if he was the heir of Slytherin. Harry and Ron had successfully turned into Crabbe and Goyle, but unfortunately Hermione hadn't. She had turned herself into a feline-looking girl, and had to go to the Hospital Wing.
The Slytherin common room had looked almost exactly as Harry and Ron remembered it. There was still carved chairs and a detailed, carved mantelpiece above an illuminating fireplace. Its ceiling and walls of stone, still had green, glowing lamps were hung from the ceiling. Just as before, they breathed in the damp, cold air because the Slytherin common room was in the dungeons.
Even with these same details, there were some things that were quite different. In the common room, there were wonderful, modern, green-leather couches in the middle of the room. There was even a marble fountain, which had a small, stone statue of a replica of the Hogwarts castle in the middle, and there were now busts of Salazar Slytherin around the room. But one thing they noticed most of all, was a large picture of Princess Glory above the mantelpiece.
"So they have a picture of Glory hanging above the fireplace, but none of me!" whispered Joy angrily.
"The truth is, Joy," said Ron, "I wouldn't really want my picture hanging in the Slytherin common room. Would you want yours' to be?"
"No, not really."
"Come on," said Harry, "let's go up to the boys' dormitory before anyone wakes up."
"Boys' dormitory?" gasped Joy in shock. "Hermione and I can't go in there! It's a boys' dormitory! It's basically the boys' bedrooms! I'm sorry, we have to go back."
"Joy, don't be ridiculous," said Ron. "We've been in your rooms loads of times."
"Ron," spoke Hermione, "we went in her 'rooms', which doesn't mean bedroom."
"Get over it and let's hurry up before any Slytherin wakes up and finds us!" said Harry.
They all went back under the Invisibility Cloak and crept to the boys' dormitory until they found the door to the room of the 6th-year boy Slytherins. Hermione cast a spell on the door's hinges to not squeak, as they entered the room silently. The whole entire room was pitched black, until Ron did a 'lumos' spell which lit up the room. They tried not to wake anybody.
They spotted the 6-year Slytherin boys sleeping in their four-poster beds. There was Goyle and Crabbe snoring their hearts out, a few other Slytherins tossing and turning in their sleep, and Malfoy sound asleep. The room had a similar theme as the common room. The room had stone walls with a small, green, glowing lamp hung on the ceiling by a chain. Harry even spotted a frame of Glory's picture near Malfoy's bed.
"Now that we're next to Malfoy," said Joy, "we can go into his dream. Does he look sound asleep?"
"Like a log," said Harry, before noticing some drool out of Malfoy's mouth. "Ew! Malfoy drools in his sleep!"
"Finally, something that I can hold against Malfoy!" said Ron.
"Ron, there's no way we can tell anyone about it," said Hermione. "If we tell them that, they'll ask for proof and we don't want anyone finding out about this."
"Fine, but it would have been so much fun!"
"Let's just do this!"
"Will this hurt?" asked Harry.
"No, not really," responded Joy. "You might feel a tingly vibrating and warm feeling in your body, but that's it. Everyone, hold hands."
Everyone held hands while they were still under the Invisibility Cloak. Joy took out her wand and pointed it at Malfoy's head. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the spell that would transport them into his dream. As she did this, they all stood in nervousness.
"Dreamus peeko im dreamus di Draco," spoke Joy, "noi Joy, Hermione, Ron and Harry."
A blinding blue light glowed immensely at the tip of her wand, as she touched Malfoy's forehead with it. Suddenly, they were sucked into a porthole as they went spinning round and round.
They fell onto a hard floor with a loud thud. When they were safe on the ground, they took off the Invisibility Cloak and looked around. They realized that they were in a large room filled with heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of money, gold, jewels, diamonds and antiques.
"Are we at the palace?" asked Joy, looking confused.
"You mean to say that you have a room like this at your palace?" questioned Ron.
"Uh... Maybe..."
"Joy, are you filthy rich or what?!"
"So are we in the palace or what?"
"No, I don't think so," said Hermione. "Hey, there's someone over there. Look!"
As they watched closely, they saw in the middle of the room someone playing in the money. Unfortunately, they couldn't make out who it was.
"We should go see who it is," said Harry.
"All right. Come on," said Joy, "but don't worry about anyone seeing us. Remember: no one can see us or hear us, and we go through things like ghosts."
They slowly walked to the mysterious person playing in the money. By the time they were right behind them, they finally got a good look at the person.
"It's Malfoy!" said Hermione.
"Who else would you expect?" said Harry. "It 'is' his dream."
"He's playing with all his money and treasures! How ruthless!"
"What's so wrong about dreaming about money?" asked Ron. "I always dream of having money every day."
"Oh, don't think that way," said Joy, hugging him. "You're funny and wonderful, that's all that matters. The reason why Malfoy seems so ruthless is because it seems to us that's all he thinks about: his money!"
"It is pretty ruthless if you think about it," said Harry.
"I'm rich, I'm rich!" called out Malfoy. "I'm filthy rich!"
Suddenly, a loud bell rang in the room. It was the school bell, and all four could see the look on Malfoy's face.
"Oh no!" moaned Malfoy. "Not another school day! I'd better go..."
Reluctantly, he walked to the corner of the room, where he grabbed his backpack and headed out the door.
"Wow, Malfoy got up and went to school," said Hermione. "You'd think that if it was his dream, he would have ignored it and kept on playing with his money."
"He's always been a strange kid," said Ron.
The four of them were immediately transported to a hallway where Malfoy was walking with his cronies Crabbe and Goyle. Malfoy was wearing lots of jewellery and very fine clothes instead of his Hogwarts uniform. Students were bowing before him as he walked through the hallway.
"Malfoy, you are so wonderful!" said one Hufflepuff girl.
"You are the best Slytherin in the school!" said a Slytherin boy.
"You're the best student in the school, in fact!" said a Ravenclaw girl.
"Yes, I sure am," said Malfoy smiling. "Of course, Princess Glory, who is my wonderful girlfriend, is also very smart."
"Hail, Princess Glory and Malfoy!" chanted all the students in the hallway. "Hail, Glory and Malfoy!"
"The more we see his dream, the more I recognize how disgusting and self-centred he is," remarked Harry.
"Haven't you noticed how they put the name 'Glory' before 'Malfoy'?" asked Hermione. "Looking at his dream so far, you'd think they'd put his name first."
"That's traditional, you see," said Joy. "You can't put anyone else's name before a Magic Monarch's name."
Harry, Hermione, Ron and Joy (by the way, I don't have to put Joy's name before anyone else's in the narration, hahaha... ) walked right through the crowd of students as they followed Malfoy to Transfiguration class . There, all the Slytherins and Gryffindors praised him, which was sickening Harry greatly.
"Malfoy, hail Malfoy!" shouted the class.
"Dear Slytherins and Gryffindors, we are pleased to have the wonderful Mr. Malfoy in our classroom today," declared Professor McGonagoll. "For today's lesson, we shall all cheer and praise Draco Malfoy."
Malfoy put his legs on his desk as the Slytherins and Gryffindors fanned him and fed him as he talked with Crabbe and Goyle. They say a dream-version of Hermione cleaning Malfoy's nails.
"Oh Malfoy, you are so smart, way smarter than me!" said Hermione.
"This is ridiculous!" said the real Hermione. "He will never be smarter than I am!"
Afterwards, a dream-version Ron wearing dirty and torn clothes crawled to Malfoy.
"Oh Malfoy, please help my family and I!" called out Ron. "We are so poor, and we need your help. We don't have anymore money to live!"
"Hmmm... I'll give you a Knut if you polish my shoes."
"Oh thank you, Malfoy! You are so kind!" said Ron as he started polishing Malfoy's shoes right away.
"That is pathetic!" said the real Ron. "I would never polish his shoes, no matter what he'd give me, neither would I do anything for just a Knut."
Just as Ron was finishing up Malfoy's shoes, a dream-version of Princess Joy, who was looking very disappointed, came into the scene.
"My goodness, Malfoy," said the dream-Joy. "This is not very kind to treat your fans like this. They should all deserve a galleon."
"My money is not to be given to other people just because they adore me!" shouted Malfoy. "Be gone, now!"
He snapped his fingers and immediately, the dream-version of Joy disappeared into thin air.
"I can't believe he did that to me!" cried the real Joy. "He's so unfair!"
Finally, a dream-version of Harry walked towards Malfoy and bowed down to him.
"Well, if it isn't the famous Harry Potter," snickered Malfoy.
"Forgive me, Malfoy," said Harry. "I didn't mean to shun you out. You are better than I am and always will be. I deserve your jokes about me. You are the great and famous one, not I. You're even a better seeker than I am!"
"Yes, I know."
"Will you forgive me?"
"I will if you shine my rings," said Malfoy, shoving his other hand (Hermione was still cleaning his fingernails) filled with rings. Harry got out a shining kit and started cleaning them.
"I want to vomit!" said Harry, looking at Malfoy angrily.
"Calm down, Harry!" said Joy. "It's just a dream."
"Can we go now?" asked Ron, looking like he was going to throw up as well.
"We still haven't got any proof that Malfoy is scheming with Voldemort," said Harry. "We need to get some cold, hard evidence to prove that he's guilty, then we can investigate deeper."
The bell rang, and the Slytherins and Gryffindors exited the room, still cheering Malfoy's name. Malfoy got up and exited as well. Harry, Joy, Ron and Hermione followed Malfoy as he separated from Crabbe and Goyle and went through a route of many strange passageways unfamiliar to either four of them. There were many twists and turns, but Malfoy finally got to a large, wooden door and pushed one of the stones around the entrance. The door slowly opened and Malfoy walked in with the four following behind him.
Following Malfoy, they entered an extremely dark room, where they couldn't see anything at all. Suddenly, torches around the room lit up and in front of them, they saw a large, stone room with a giant chair in the middle on a platform. In the chair, sat a dark figure which none of them could recognize. Malfoy bowed to the figure all the way to the floor and stayed kneeling in that position.
"Malfoy, it is good to have a talk with you," said the figure, in a high-pitched, evil voice.
"Yes it is, Master."
"Is their any news about our plans? New events occurring? Anything?"
"No, Master, not in particular. We're still looking into the big plan, but that's it. There hasn't been any big attacks since the attack of Cho Chang."
"Ah, the disloyal one. I remember that. It was a wonderful plan, I must say. Unfortunately, we didn't get enough time to destroy her."
"Yes, Master."
Tears were starting to form in Harry's eyes. So it was true that Malfoy was behind the attack! He couldn't believe that they were thinking of trying to kill her. Harry couldn't bear to think about it any longer.
"Is your father all right with all this?"
"Of course, Master. He was doubting at first, but then he realized it was the best thing. He thought this experience was making me too kind and wimpy."
"Kind and wimpy! How absurd... You've been the most treacherous and evil you've been in your whole life! I can't believe he doubted us. I should have a talk with Lucius."
So it was true that Lucius Malfoy was a part of the scheming too! thought Harry as he listened closely.
"I am so glad to have you along with this scheme," said the shadow. "Just wait until our moment of power and we'll rule the world!"
"You have a wonderful scheme, Master."
"And our other conspirator is progressing well, is he not?"
"He's doing wonderfully, my Master."
"Thank you. Now, are there any threats to our plan?"
"Not really, Master. Everyone has no idea what we're doing, and they're all loyal to the Monarchy. No threats. Well, except for Harry and his gang, especially the other Princess."
"Yes, they are a problem, aren't they? We'll try to get rid of them."
"What about Princess Joy? We can't dispose of her! It's too dangerous."
"Malfoy, do you trust me or not?"
"Of course I trust you, Master!"
"Then have faith in me. You know I will find a way. With all our power, we can defeat her easily. Don't worry, Malfoy. We'll defeat her very slowly."
A large and evil cackle rang out through the room, which sent a sharp chill right down all of their spines.
"One day," spoke the shadow again, "I will rule the world once again!"
Suddenly, they were all transported to a different place. They were outside, in a gigantic crowd in a city square with a large, elevated platform at the far end. Glory and Malfoy were waving to the people on their thrones with crowns on their heads. A dark and evil look was spread across Malfoy's face.
Then, a large, dark cloud appeared above, and was turning the whole entire sky black. A stroke of lightning and booming thunder was seen and heard in the distance, and a large cackle echoed from all corners of the city square....
...and Harry, Ron, Joy and Hermione were sucked out of Malfoy's dream and back into the Slytherin boys' dormitory. Malfoy was still sleeping soundly, with drool still at the corner of his mouth. They all gave him a look of disgust.
"Now we know for sure that this creep is scheming with You-Know-Who," said Hermione, frowning at Malfoy.
"Who were they talking about when they said 'the other conspirator'?" asked Ron. "Probably Lucius Malfoy," responded Hermione.
"They were talking about Lucius before that, too," mentioned Harry. "They were saying how Lucius Malfoy was doubting about their scheming in the first place, but then he was okay with it. He said that Malfoy was getting wimpy. I don't get that!"
"Neither do I," said Ron. "If taking over the world with Voldemort isn't evil, then I don't know what is!"
"What did they mean when they said they would dispose of Joy?" pondered Hermione.
"I don't know," sighed Joy, looking down at the floor. "Voldemort and Malfoy wouldn't stand a chance against me, but they have Glory on their side. I'm not too sure if I could stand up against Voldemort and Glory. But it's just a dream, right? They might not come after me..."
"I don't know what to say, Joy," said Harry. "I know the majority of the dream isn't true-
"Like when we were all pampering Malfoy in Transfiguration class," interrupted Ron. "Yuck!"
"I don't know how true the rest is, though," said Harry. "All we know for sure right now is that Malfoy and Voldemort are plotting together, and they must be stopped."
"We should go to Professor Dumbledore about this," said Hermione.
"Are you out of your mind?" questioned Joy in a harsh whisper. "He can't know we've been inside Malfoy's dream. We should keep this to ourselves."
"We should go now," suggested Ron. "You never know, Malfoy just might stop drooling and wake up."
"You're right," said Joy. "Let's get out of here. Everyone, get under the Invisibility Cloak and hold hands. We'll be in the Gryffindor common room in no time."
Quickly, they covered themselves with the magical cloak and clutched each other's hands. They closed their eyes and waited for the rush of water to cover them.
"On the count of three," whispered Joy. "One...two....three!"
They were ready to be disapparated to their common room, but alas, they didn't. There was no rushing water swooping over their heads. They peaked under the cloak to see if they were in the common room, but they were still in the dormitory. They all looked at Joy in confusion.
"I have no idea what's wrong," said Joy. "I'll try again. One....two.....three!"
And again, it did not work. They were starting to get a little anxious at that moment. Why couldn't they apparate?
"It still doesn't work! I don't get this!"
"Maybe we should look in the book," said Hermione.
"Good thinking," agreed Joy.
She took out her BCB, pressed some buttons and out beamed the large book. Joy picked it up from the floor and flipped through it. She stopped right in the middle of the book and her jaw dropped, moaning in frustration.
"What's wrong?" asked Harry.
"Listen to this!" said Joy, and then she read out loud the text:
"Caution: After performing magic for dream-peeking, a witch or wizard cannot disapparate/apparate or use any big spells before waiting 5 hours. Dream-peeking requires a lot of magic and will tire out one's powers."
"So you can't disapparate or apparate before waiting 5 hours?" asked Ron.
"Exactly!" cried Joy. "What should we do now?"
"We have no choice other than to sneak out of the common room," said Harry.
Joy put away her book and BCB as they all huddled under the cloak. They crept out of the out of Malfoy's room, down the stairs and into the Slytherin room, making sure that none of their steps were heard. Once they got to the Slytherin common room, they heard footsteps.
"Who's there?" whispered Hermione.
"I don't know," said Harry, "but I'll check."
Harry peaked under the cloak and noticed a Slytherin prefect walking around the room. Why he was there, Harry did not know. All he knew was that the student was making their escape a lot harder.
"It's a Slytherin prefect!" whispered Harry.
"Oh no," said Ron. "What do we do?"
"We just have to keep quiet and try to move slowly to the door. Hopefully, he'll get out of the room and we'll be able to follow him."
"Who's there?" said the prefect, looking around the room suspiciously.
"He heard us!" said Ron.
"Don't talk!" said Harry.
The prefect looked walked around the room some more, and then forgot about it. They all let out a sigh of relief as they waited in anticipation if there would be any chance of the prefect getting out of the room.
Twenty minutes slowly passed and the prefect still didn't leave the room. Harry, Joy, Hermione and Ron were getting pretty anxious.
"I can't take this anymore," said Ron. "We've got to get out of here."
"I've got an idea!" said Harry. "Why don't I make something outside fall, like a vase or something? He'll here it and will want to investigate, so he'll get out of the room."
They all tried to creep quickly to the door, making sure that it wouldn't open, revealing their presence. Once near the door, Harry whispered a charm. Suddenly, a sound of breaking china came from outside in the corridors.
"What that?" said the prefect.
He rushed to the door as it opened automatically and he went into the hallways, examining a broken vase on the floor. Harry and his friends scrammed out of the room and into the hallway, getting away from the scene as quickly and as silently as possible.
They crept quickly through all the hallways until they finally got to the hallway in front of the portrait of the Pink Lady.
"Wait a minute!" said Ron. "How are we going to get in the Gryffindor room? We'll have to tell the password, and the Pink Lady, or Joy's really great-grandma, will know we've been sneaking out."
"Don't worry, Ron!" said Joy. "I'll handle it. Grandma and I have a very good bond between us. She'll understand, she always has."
They took off the Invisibility Cloak, and the Pink Lady, sleeping in her pink nightgown, and was snoring heavily. Harry cleared his throat which woke her up.
"Password!" she said immediately.
"Fish and chips with extra hot sauce," said Joy.
"What were you all doing out here?"
"We had to go to the washroom," said Joy with a wink.
The Pink Lady nodded with a smile as the door opened. They entered the common room with another sigh of relief.
"Finally, we made it!" said Ron loudly.
"SHHHHH!!!! Don't be so loud!" said Hermione. "People are sleeping!"
"How did you get us in without getting us in trouble?" asked Harry.
"Grandma has a way of knowing whatever I'm up to."
"She knows we've been in Malfoy's dream?"
"No, but she knows we've been doing investigation for all these weird things going on and will try and solve them."
"Your whole entire family's mysterious!" said Ron.
"Yes, I know."
"It's 2 o'clock," said Harry looking at his watch. "We should go to bed."
"You're absolute right, Harry," said Joy. "Bye, everyone. I'll see you in a few hours."
"Bye!"
"Bye!"
"Good night!"
Author's Note: Hope you liked that chapter. For recap: Harry and his friends went into Malfoy's dream. They not only found out that he's selfish and rude, but that he truly is scheming with Lord Voldemort to get him back to power with Princess Glory's strength! The next chapter's called: "Going to the Dark Side?" As you know, Glory's getting on 'Slytherin', and she's getting pretty evil too (wait a minute, don't two things mean the same thing?). Anyway, Glory shows a bit more of her dark side and Harry has his first DADA NEWT club meeting. PLEEEEAAAAASSSSEEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVIIIIIEEEEEEEEEWW!!!!!!!
Dream-Peeking
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or anything else that I mentioned in previous disclaimer. If I haven't mentioned something that I don't, well, basically I don't own it. I would also like to apologize (it's kind of hard to say that I "apologize", but you know what I mean) if anyone thought that Princess Glory's comments in the previous chapter were very hurtful and prejudiced, but hey, what can you say? She's turning into Malfoy! She's basically cruel, and that's what a cruel person would say. However, I am sorry if anybody would be shocked or hurt from it.
Author's Note: Hey, people (for the 13th time)! As I'd like to remind you, any recaps are at the end of the chapter. So, what'll happen in THIS chapter? Well isn't it obvious? Harry and his friends are going dream-peeking! That basically means going into people's dreams. And who's dream they'll peek in? Malfoy's, of course!! By the way, I'd like to say thanks to Rhinemjr who has reviewed so many of my chapters (and might I add, those were good reviews). So, if they're reading this: THANK YOU SO MUCH, RHINEMJR!!!! Now on with the chapter....
More than a week before they would go into Malfoy's dream, Ron finally took his via-mobile test. His face was completely white with worry the morning of the day of the test. But at the end of the day, Ron's face was full of colour (especially with red and pink tones). Harry and Hermione were talking a bit about the N.E.W.T. exam while Hermione helped some younger students with their homeowrk, when Ron burst into the Gryffindor common room with a small paper in one of his hands which he was waving up high.
"I passed my via-mobile test!" declared Ron excitedly. "I passed it with flying colours!"
"Ron, try not to make a scene!" said Joy, who was behind Ron and had just entered the Gryffindor common room as well.
"I can't help it!"
"Congratulations, Ron!" said Harry.
"Thanks."
"Now that you have your license, what are you going to do with your via-mobile?" asked Hermione.
"I'll drive it once in a while around the grounds, watching out for the Forbidden Forest of course. Joy and I will probably take a drive in it on a few of our dates," he said, as he winked at Joy.
"That sounds wonderful!" said Hermione. "By the way, we have to do some more work on going into Malfoy's dream before the actual night we'll do it."
That week, all four of them crammed all the information and research they could find on dream-peeking. Joy returned all the other library books back, and had given back the books which she had 'borrowed' from her sister. Glory wasn't quite a happy sight when she had found out, and when she had found Joy, Glory wasn't at all happy.
It was that Friday that they decided they would go into Malfoy's dream. It was a tricky and complex thing to do, and they hoped greatly that their plan would work. Their plan was to apparate to the Slytherin dormitories (with Joy's power helping, of course) and to sneak into Malfoy's room with the invisibility cloak. Once the coast was clear and they were ready, they would go into Malfoy's dream.
Malfoy wouldn't see them in his dream though. They would be invisible, kind of how Harry was like when Tom Riddle had taken him to the past to see when Hagrid was accused of opening the Chamber of Secrets (see Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for the whole story). Once they had found enough clues, they would get out of Malfoy's dream and apparate out of the Slytherin dormitories to the Gryffindor dorms.
That Friday, at 11 o'clock when everyone was in bed, Harry, Ron, Joy and Hermione sneaked out of their rooms and met in the common room. Everyone brought their wands just in case they needed them, Joy kept a book of dream-peeking in her BCB in case there was a problem and Harry brought his invisibility cloak. Before going, Joy checked to make sure they were ready.
"Has everyone studied and remembered our plan and all the necessary information about dream-peeking?" Joy half-questioned, half-whispered, remembering there were students sleeping.
"Yes."
"Yep."
"I memorized everything."
"Has everyone brought their wands?"
"Yes."
"Sure have."
"Absolutely."
"Harry, do you have your invisibility cloak?"
"Sure do," said Harry, holding up the silky cloak that had belonged to his father.
"Does everyone remember the rules and precautions we discussed to make sure this plan would not be uncovered and we would all be safe?"
"Yes."
"Sure do."
"Of course."
"Harry, do also have the Maurader's Map?"
"I sure do," said Harry, patting it in his pocket.
"And I have the book on dream-peeking if we need help. We're ready to leave now." Joy sighed in relief after knowing that they were all ready for their little 'expedition'. "I want all of you to come around me."
All three crept around Joy, carrying their things and trying not to make a single sound.
"Now what?" whispered Ron.
"I'll tell you what happens next. I want you all to hold onto my hands, all right?" They all gripped one of Joy's hands, wondering what would happen next. "Harry, put the Invisibility Cloak over us." Harry, still holding one of Joy's hands, lifted the cloak onto everyone, and once the silvery sheet covered them, they became invisible. "On the count of three, we're going to apparate, all right? Be ready for it. My apparating is a bit different from other wizards and witches. For mine, a wave of water splashes over us and I disappear. Don't worry, you won't get wet or anything. Is everyone ready?" They all nodded their heads, a bit anxious to see what would happen. "Remember, it's on the count of three. One......two......three!"
Joy shut her eyes and snapped her fingers. Suddenly, they could feel a gigantic wave of water leaping over Harry's cloak. They felt as if they were under an umbrella. Then, the ground started to turn round and round, and then stopped after a few seconds.
"Are we there?" whispered Harry.
"Peer under the Invisibility Cloak and check," responded Joy.
Harry, Ron, Hermione and even Joy peeked under the cloak, and was amazed to see that they were in the Slytherin common room. Hermione, nor Joy had ever laid eyes on the Slytherin common room, although Harry and Ron had. They remembered the time in their 2nd year when Hermione had concocted a Polyjuice Potion so they could turn into Slytherins, go into their common room and talk to Malfoy to see if he was the heir of Slytherin. Harry and Ron had successfully turned into Crabbe and Goyle, but unfortunately Hermione hadn't. She had turned herself into a feline-looking girl, and had to go to the Hospital Wing.
The Slytherin common room had looked almost exactly as Harry and Ron remembered it. There was still carved chairs and a detailed, carved mantelpiece above an illuminating fireplace. Its ceiling and walls of stone, still had green, glowing lamps were hung from the ceiling. Just as before, they breathed in the damp, cold air because the Slytherin common room was in the dungeons.
Even with these same details, there were some things that were quite different. In the common room, there were wonderful, modern, green-leather couches in the middle of the room. There was even a marble fountain, which had a small, stone statue of a replica of the Hogwarts castle in the middle, and there were now busts of Salazar Slytherin around the room. But one thing they noticed most of all, was a large picture of Princess Glory above the mantelpiece.
"So they have a picture of Glory hanging above the fireplace, but none of me!" whispered Joy angrily.
"The truth is, Joy," said Ron, "I wouldn't really want my picture hanging in the Slytherin common room. Would you want yours' to be?"
"No, not really."
"Come on," said Harry, "let's go up to the boys' dormitory before anyone wakes up."
"Boys' dormitory?" gasped Joy in shock. "Hermione and I can't go in there! It's a boys' dormitory! It's basically the boys' bedrooms! I'm sorry, we have to go back."
"Joy, don't be ridiculous," said Ron. "We've been in your rooms loads of times."
"Ron," spoke Hermione, "we went in her 'rooms', which doesn't mean bedroom."
"Get over it and let's hurry up before any Slytherin wakes up and finds us!" said Harry.
They all went back under the Invisibility Cloak and crept to the boys' dormitory until they found the door to the room of the 6th-year boy Slytherins. Hermione cast a spell on the door's hinges to not squeak, as they entered the room silently. The whole entire room was pitched black, until Ron did a 'lumos' spell which lit up the room. They tried not to wake anybody.
They spotted the 6-year Slytherin boys sleeping in their four-poster beds. There was Goyle and Crabbe snoring their hearts out, a few other Slytherins tossing and turning in their sleep, and Malfoy sound asleep. The room had a similar theme as the common room. The room had stone walls with a small, green, glowing lamp hung on the ceiling by a chain. Harry even spotted a frame of Glory's picture near Malfoy's bed.
"Now that we're next to Malfoy," said Joy, "we can go into his dream. Does he look sound asleep?"
"Like a log," said Harry, before noticing some drool out of Malfoy's mouth. "Ew! Malfoy drools in his sleep!"
"Finally, something that I can hold against Malfoy!" said Ron.
"Ron, there's no way we can tell anyone about it," said Hermione. "If we tell them that, they'll ask for proof and we don't want anyone finding out about this."
"Fine, but it would have been so much fun!"
"Let's just do this!"
"Will this hurt?" asked Harry.
"No, not really," responded Joy. "You might feel a tingly vibrating and warm feeling in your body, but that's it. Everyone, hold hands."
Everyone held hands while they were still under the Invisibility Cloak. Joy took out her wand and pointed it at Malfoy's head. She closed her eyes and concentrated on the spell that would transport them into his dream. As she did this, they all stood in nervousness.
"Dreamus peeko im dreamus di Draco," spoke Joy, "noi Joy, Hermione, Ron and Harry."
A blinding blue light glowed immensely at the tip of her wand, as she touched Malfoy's forehead with it. Suddenly, they were sucked into a porthole as they went spinning round and round.
They fell onto a hard floor with a loud thud. When they were safe on the ground, they took off the Invisibility Cloak and looked around. They realized that they were in a large room filled with heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps and heaps of money, gold, jewels, diamonds and antiques.
"Are we at the palace?" asked Joy, looking confused.
"You mean to say that you have a room like this at your palace?" questioned Ron.
"Uh... Maybe..."
"Joy, are you filthy rich or what?!"
"So are we in the palace or what?"
"No, I don't think so," said Hermione. "Hey, there's someone over there. Look!"
As they watched closely, they saw in the middle of the room someone playing in the money. Unfortunately, they couldn't make out who it was.
"We should go see who it is," said Harry.
"All right. Come on," said Joy, "but don't worry about anyone seeing us. Remember: no one can see us or hear us, and we go through things like ghosts."
They slowly walked to the mysterious person playing in the money. By the time they were right behind them, they finally got a good look at the person.
"It's Malfoy!" said Hermione.
"Who else would you expect?" said Harry. "It 'is' his dream."
"He's playing with all his money and treasures! How ruthless!"
"What's so wrong about dreaming about money?" asked Ron. "I always dream of having money every day."
"Oh, don't think that way," said Joy, hugging him. "You're funny and wonderful, that's all that matters. The reason why Malfoy seems so ruthless is because it seems to us that's all he thinks about: his money!"
"It is pretty ruthless if you think about it," said Harry.
"I'm rich, I'm rich!" called out Malfoy. "I'm filthy rich!"
Suddenly, a loud bell rang in the room. It was the school bell, and all four could see the look on Malfoy's face.
"Oh no!" moaned Malfoy. "Not another school day! I'd better go..."
Reluctantly, he walked to the corner of the room, where he grabbed his backpack and headed out the door.
"Wow, Malfoy got up and went to school," said Hermione. "You'd think that if it was his dream, he would have ignored it and kept on playing with his money."
"He's always been a strange kid," said Ron.
The four of them were immediately transported to a hallway where Malfoy was walking with his cronies Crabbe and Goyle. Malfoy was wearing lots of jewellery and very fine clothes instead of his Hogwarts uniform. Students were bowing before him as he walked through the hallway.
"Malfoy, you are so wonderful!" said one Hufflepuff girl.
"You are the best Slytherin in the school!" said a Slytherin boy.
"You're the best student in the school, in fact!" said a Ravenclaw girl.
"Yes, I sure am," said Malfoy smiling. "Of course, Princess Glory, who is my wonderful girlfriend, is also very smart."
"Hail, Princess Glory and Malfoy!" chanted all the students in the hallway. "Hail, Glory and Malfoy!"
"The more we see his dream, the more I recognize how disgusting and self-centred he is," remarked Harry.
"Haven't you noticed how they put the name 'Glory' before 'Malfoy'?" asked Hermione. "Looking at his dream so far, you'd think they'd put his name first."
"That's traditional, you see," said Joy. "You can't put anyone else's name before a Magic Monarch's name."
Harry, Hermione, Ron and Joy (by the way, I don't have to put Joy's name before anyone else's in the narration, hahaha... ) walked right through the crowd of students as they followed Malfoy to Transfiguration class . There, all the Slytherins and Gryffindors praised him, which was sickening Harry greatly.
"Malfoy, hail Malfoy!" shouted the class.
"Dear Slytherins and Gryffindors, we are pleased to have the wonderful Mr. Malfoy in our classroom today," declared Professor McGonagoll. "For today's lesson, we shall all cheer and praise Draco Malfoy."
Malfoy put his legs on his desk as the Slytherins and Gryffindors fanned him and fed him as he talked with Crabbe and Goyle. They say a dream-version of Hermione cleaning Malfoy's nails.
"Oh Malfoy, you are so smart, way smarter than me!" said Hermione.
"This is ridiculous!" said the real Hermione. "He will never be smarter than I am!"
Afterwards, a dream-version Ron wearing dirty and torn clothes crawled to Malfoy.
"Oh Malfoy, please help my family and I!" called out Ron. "We are so poor, and we need your help. We don't have anymore money to live!"
"Hmmm... I'll give you a Knut if you polish my shoes."
"Oh thank you, Malfoy! You are so kind!" said Ron as he started polishing Malfoy's shoes right away.
"That is pathetic!" said the real Ron. "I would never polish his shoes, no matter what he'd give me, neither would I do anything for just a Knut."
Just as Ron was finishing up Malfoy's shoes, a dream-version of Princess Joy, who was looking very disappointed, came into the scene.
"My goodness, Malfoy," said the dream-Joy. "This is not very kind to treat your fans like this. They should all deserve a galleon."
"My money is not to be given to other people just because they adore me!" shouted Malfoy. "Be gone, now!"
He snapped his fingers and immediately, the dream-version of Joy disappeared into thin air.
"I can't believe he did that to me!" cried the real Joy. "He's so unfair!"
Finally, a dream-version of Harry walked towards Malfoy and bowed down to him.
"Well, if it isn't the famous Harry Potter," snickered Malfoy.
"Forgive me, Malfoy," said Harry. "I didn't mean to shun you out. You are better than I am and always will be. I deserve your jokes about me. You are the great and famous one, not I. You're even a better seeker than I am!"
"Yes, I know."
"Will you forgive me?"
"I will if you shine my rings," said Malfoy, shoving his other hand (Hermione was still cleaning his fingernails) filled with rings. Harry got out a shining kit and started cleaning them.
"I want to vomit!" said Harry, looking at Malfoy angrily.
"Calm down, Harry!" said Joy. "It's just a dream."
"Can we go now?" asked Ron, looking like he was going to throw up as well.
"We still haven't got any proof that Malfoy is scheming with Voldemort," said Harry. "We need to get some cold, hard evidence to prove that he's guilty, then we can investigate deeper."
The bell rang, and the Slytherins and Gryffindors exited the room, still cheering Malfoy's name. Malfoy got up and exited as well. Harry, Joy, Ron and Hermione followed Malfoy as he separated from Crabbe and Goyle and went through a route of many strange passageways unfamiliar to either four of them. There were many twists and turns, but Malfoy finally got to a large, wooden door and pushed one of the stones around the entrance. The door slowly opened and Malfoy walked in with the four following behind him.
Following Malfoy, they entered an extremely dark room, where they couldn't see anything at all. Suddenly, torches around the room lit up and in front of them, they saw a large, stone room with a giant chair in the middle on a platform. In the chair, sat a dark figure which none of them could recognize. Malfoy bowed to the figure all the way to the floor and stayed kneeling in that position.
"Malfoy, it is good to have a talk with you," said the figure, in a high-pitched, evil voice.
"Yes it is, Master."
"Is their any news about our plans? New events occurring? Anything?"
"No, Master, not in particular. We're still looking into the big plan, but that's it. There hasn't been any big attacks since the attack of Cho Chang."
"Ah, the disloyal one. I remember that. It was a wonderful plan, I must say. Unfortunately, we didn't get enough time to destroy her."
"Yes, Master."
Tears were starting to form in Harry's eyes. So it was true that Malfoy was behind the attack! He couldn't believe that they were thinking of trying to kill her. Harry couldn't bear to think about it any longer.
"Is your father all right with all this?"
"Of course, Master. He was doubting at first, but then he realized it was the best thing. He thought this experience was making me too kind and wimpy."
"Kind and wimpy! How absurd... You've been the most treacherous and evil you've been in your whole life! I can't believe he doubted us. I should have a talk with Lucius."
So it was true that Lucius Malfoy was a part of the scheming too! thought Harry as he listened closely.
"I am so glad to have you along with this scheme," said the shadow. "Just wait until our moment of power and we'll rule the world!"
"You have a wonderful scheme, Master."
"And our other conspirator is progressing well, is he not?"
"He's doing wonderfully, my Master."
"Thank you. Now, are there any threats to our plan?"
"Not really, Master. Everyone has no idea what we're doing, and they're all loyal to the Monarchy. No threats. Well, except for Harry and his gang, especially the other Princess."
"Yes, they are a problem, aren't they? We'll try to get rid of them."
"What about Princess Joy? We can't dispose of her! It's too dangerous."
"Malfoy, do you trust me or not?"
"Of course I trust you, Master!"
"Then have faith in me. You know I will find a way. With all our power, we can defeat her easily. Don't worry, Malfoy. We'll defeat her very slowly."
A large and evil cackle rang out through the room, which sent a sharp chill right down all of their spines.
"One day," spoke the shadow again, "I will rule the world once again!"
Suddenly, they were all transported to a different place. They were outside, in a gigantic crowd in a city square with a large, elevated platform at the far end. Glory and Malfoy were waving to the people on their thrones with crowns on their heads. A dark and evil look was spread across Malfoy's face.
Then, a large, dark cloud appeared above, and was turning the whole entire sky black. A stroke of lightning and booming thunder was seen and heard in the distance, and a large cackle echoed from all corners of the city square....
...and Harry, Ron, Joy and Hermione were sucked out of Malfoy's dream and back into the Slytherin boys' dormitory. Malfoy was still sleeping soundly, with drool still at the corner of his mouth. They all gave him a look of disgust.
"Now we know for sure that this creep is scheming with You-Know-Who," said Hermione, frowning at Malfoy.
"Who were they talking about when they said 'the other conspirator'?" asked Ron. "Probably Lucius Malfoy," responded Hermione.
"They were talking about Lucius before that, too," mentioned Harry. "They were saying how Lucius Malfoy was doubting about their scheming in the first place, but then he was okay with it. He said that Malfoy was getting wimpy. I don't get that!"
"Neither do I," said Ron. "If taking over the world with Voldemort isn't evil, then I don't know what is!"
"What did they mean when they said they would dispose of Joy?" pondered Hermione.
"I don't know," sighed Joy, looking down at the floor. "Voldemort and Malfoy wouldn't stand a chance against me, but they have Glory on their side. I'm not too sure if I could stand up against Voldemort and Glory. But it's just a dream, right? They might not come after me..."
"I don't know what to say, Joy," said Harry. "I know the majority of the dream isn't true-
"Like when we were all pampering Malfoy in Transfiguration class," interrupted Ron. "Yuck!"
"I don't know how true the rest is, though," said Harry. "All we know for sure right now is that Malfoy and Voldemort are plotting together, and they must be stopped."
"We should go to Professor Dumbledore about this," said Hermione.
"Are you out of your mind?" questioned Joy in a harsh whisper. "He can't know we've been inside Malfoy's dream. We should keep this to ourselves."
"We should go now," suggested Ron. "You never know, Malfoy just might stop drooling and wake up."
"You're right," said Joy. "Let's get out of here. Everyone, get under the Invisibility Cloak and hold hands. We'll be in the Gryffindor common room in no time."
Quickly, they covered themselves with the magical cloak and clutched each other's hands. They closed their eyes and waited for the rush of water to cover them.
"On the count of three," whispered Joy. "One...two....three!"
They were ready to be disapparated to their common room, but alas, they didn't. There was no rushing water swooping over their heads. They peaked under the cloak to see if they were in the common room, but they were still in the dormitory. They all looked at Joy in confusion.
"I have no idea what's wrong," said Joy. "I'll try again. One....two.....three!"
And again, it did not work. They were starting to get a little anxious at that moment. Why couldn't they apparate?
"It still doesn't work! I don't get this!"
"Maybe we should look in the book," said Hermione.
"Good thinking," agreed Joy.
She took out her BCB, pressed some buttons and out beamed the large book. Joy picked it up from the floor and flipped through it. She stopped right in the middle of the book and her jaw dropped, moaning in frustration.
"What's wrong?" asked Harry.
"Listen to this!" said Joy, and then she read out loud the text:
"Caution: After performing magic for dream-peeking, a witch or wizard cannot disapparate/apparate or use any big spells before waiting 5 hours. Dream-peeking requires a lot of magic and will tire out one's powers."
"So you can't disapparate or apparate before waiting 5 hours?" asked Ron.
"Exactly!" cried Joy. "What should we do now?"
"We have no choice other than to sneak out of the common room," said Harry.
Joy put away her book and BCB as they all huddled under the cloak. They crept out of the out of Malfoy's room, down the stairs and into the Slytherin room, making sure that none of their steps were heard. Once they got to the Slytherin common room, they heard footsteps.
"Who's there?" whispered Hermione.
"I don't know," said Harry, "but I'll check."
Harry peaked under the cloak and noticed a Slytherin prefect walking around the room. Why he was there, Harry did not know. All he knew was that the student was making their escape a lot harder.
"It's a Slytherin prefect!" whispered Harry.
"Oh no," said Ron. "What do we do?"
"We just have to keep quiet and try to move slowly to the door. Hopefully, he'll get out of the room and we'll be able to follow him."
"Who's there?" said the prefect, looking around the room suspiciously.
"He heard us!" said Ron.
"Don't talk!" said Harry.
The prefect looked walked around the room some more, and then forgot about it. They all let out a sigh of relief as they waited in anticipation if there would be any chance of the prefect getting out of the room.
Twenty minutes slowly passed and the prefect still didn't leave the room. Harry, Joy, Hermione and Ron were getting pretty anxious.
"I can't take this anymore," said Ron. "We've got to get out of here."
"I've got an idea!" said Harry. "Why don't I make something outside fall, like a vase or something? He'll here it and will want to investigate, so he'll get out of the room."
They all tried to creep quickly to the door, making sure that it wouldn't open, revealing their presence. Once near the door, Harry whispered a charm. Suddenly, a sound of breaking china came from outside in the corridors.
"What that?" said the prefect.
He rushed to the door as it opened automatically and he went into the hallways, examining a broken vase on the floor. Harry and his friends scrammed out of the room and into the hallway, getting away from the scene as quickly and as silently as possible.
They crept quickly through all the hallways until they finally got to the hallway in front of the portrait of the Pink Lady.
"Wait a minute!" said Ron. "How are we going to get in the Gryffindor room? We'll have to tell the password, and the Pink Lady, or Joy's really great-grandma, will know we've been sneaking out."
"Don't worry, Ron!" said Joy. "I'll handle it. Grandma and I have a very good bond between us. She'll understand, she always has."
They took off the Invisibility Cloak, and the Pink Lady, sleeping in her pink nightgown, and was snoring heavily. Harry cleared his throat which woke her up.
"Password!" she said immediately.
"Fish and chips with extra hot sauce," said Joy.
"What were you all doing out here?"
"We had to go to the washroom," said Joy with a wink.
The Pink Lady nodded with a smile as the door opened. They entered the common room with another sigh of relief.
"Finally, we made it!" said Ron loudly.
"SHHHHH!!!! Don't be so loud!" said Hermione. "People are sleeping!"
"How did you get us in without getting us in trouble?" asked Harry.
"Grandma has a way of knowing whatever I'm up to."
"She knows we've been in Malfoy's dream?"
"No, but she knows we've been doing investigation for all these weird things going on and will try and solve them."
"Your whole entire family's mysterious!" said Ron.
"Yes, I know."
"It's 2 o'clock," said Harry looking at his watch. "We should go to bed."
"You're absolute right, Harry," said Joy. "Bye, everyone. I'll see you in a few hours."
"Bye!"
"Bye!"
"Good night!"
Author's Note: Hope you liked that chapter. For recap: Harry and his friends went into Malfoy's dream. They not only found out that he's selfish and rude, but that he truly is scheming with Lord Voldemort to get him back to power with Princess Glory's strength! The next chapter's called: "Going to the Dark Side?" As you know, Glory's getting on 'Slytherin', and she's getting pretty evil too (wait a minute, don't two things mean the same thing?). Anyway, Glory shows a bit more of her dark side and Harry has his first DADA NEWT club meeting. PLEEEEAAAAASSSSEEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVVVVVVVVVVVVVVIIIIIEEEEEEEEEWW!!!!!!!