Chapter 4

Harry, Hermione and Ron were in Ron's closet in his bedroom.

Everyone else was asleep. It was a walk-in closet so they had plenty of

room. They were sitting on the floor and were talking about

everything, what they had done that summer, who had won the

Quidditch matches and how fun the next year at Hogwarts was going

to be. Then Ron brought up Dudley.

"Harry I know it's hard for you to talk about it, but I really want to

know what happened, what we're up against."

"We're not up against anything Ron. We will not go looking for trouble

like you and Harry do every year. It's just too dangerous and I do not

approve", Hermione said angrily.

"Hermione we're not going to go looking for trouble! It usually finds

Harry. And we need to be prepared when it does. Oh Harry can you

pass me that chocolate frog, I'm starving."

Harry grabbed the frog and passed it to Ron. He looked at Hermione.

She looked so worried.

"Hermione, all Ron is trying to say is he doesn't want anything to

happen to any of us. So we need to be prepared incase something

really does find us."

"I know Harry, but.... earlier today I really thought you were going to

die and I couldn't stand it. If anything happened to you or Ron I don't

know what I'd do."

"Well, right now let's just figure out what we know. Harry, you willing

to tell us what happened?", Ron asked.

"Yeah..."

Harry told them everything.

"Wow", is all Ron could say.

" I know", Harry said, "and we've been up against things much worse

than this, but he killed Dudley right infront of me, it was horrible."

Hermione just sat there, thinking. Ron and Harry started to talk about

Fred and George and how well their shop was doing.

"We'll have to go see them before we go to Hogwarts. There are so

many things I want to get. They've come up with some amazing things

these last few weeks...."

"I know what it is!!" Hermione screamed, "It's a Quar! That's what

attacked Harry. I read about it somewhere! They're really rather

stupid. They don't usually attack unless they have a master. And the

one that attacked you must have been after you."

"Then why'd it kill Dudley?", Ron asked.

"Because nothing gets in the way of a Quar and it's prey. If Lupin

hadn't gotten Harry when he did, it probably would have killed

him....unless it's assignment was to bring him back to it's master

alive!"

Harry just sat there. He had already been against so much. Nothing

can be worse than Lord Voldermort and he'd beaten him many times

before. So this Quar didn't scare Harry now, as much as he thought.

"Well, we'll be back to Hogwarts in no time, and I don't know about

you two but to me I feel safest when I'm there.", Ron commented.

"I don't know about you guys but I'm tired.", Harry said.

They both agreed with Harry and got up.

"Goodnight you two. Harry, tomorrow we're going to play some

Quidditch. Ginny's gotten really good. You've got to see her fly!"

They said there goodnights and went to bed. Harry, however didn't fall

asleep very quick. He looked at Hedwig and she flew over to him. She

nestled up beside his head and went to sleep. Harry was afraid to go

to sleep because of the nightmares he had been having lately. But

soon enough he dozed off. And for the first time in a while, he didn't

dream about the accident.

"Harry, wake up".

Harry opened his eyes and couldn't believe what he saw. He thought

he might be dreaming. He reached out his arms and with his hands

touched the face in front of him. Yes, Harry thought, this is real.

"Sirius!"