A/N: o.m.g. I cannot believe how quickly I have received reviews! I am at a loss for words on how excited I am, and since I am grounded currently =( lol I am going to update the story. But first to thank all of you guys sooo much!
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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or the similie I use about holding water in your hands, J.K. owns both because I remember reading that similie in one of her books and I liked it a lot lol.
Chapter 8
"I feel as if you are being dishonest with me, how do I know what is really going on? What if you are a traitor? You are making me very suspicious of your activities lately. Wormtail!" the scrawny rat like figure flinched at the sound of his nickname, no it was his only name now, no one had called him Peter in such a long time, "fetch me my wand!"
He scurried away and quickly returned with the wand that had the core of a phoenix feather, he handed over to its master. "I will have to make you pay for this mysterious suspicion, maybe I will get some crucial information out of this, perhaps a confession? Now I would like to say this won't hurt a bit, but in fact it will. Crucio!"
The figure on the other side of the room let out a moan of pain, yet didn't speak. It let the curse run its course without uttering a single word. Finally the curse died down. "Alright if you have nothing to say or report then leave and don't return until you do!"
Harry awoke once again in a cold sweat, he then grabbed some parchment and a quill and quickly wrote down what he could remember but his dream was like holding water in your hands, it was impossible to do it without losing half of it. He had decided to write down his dreams lately, maybe it would come in handy one day.
It was still early, but late enough to go down to the common room, Harry took his books he would need for the day and went and sat in his favorite armchair by the fire. The fire was great to sit by and just stare into during deep thought. Harry found himself doing this many times in his years here at Hogwarts, and this time was no different, he was in such deep thought he didn't even notice someone come down from the girls dormitory's and sit down in the chair next to him.
"The fire is a great place to sit and think at times, don't you think?"
Harry jumped up, startled, he looked to see Ginny sitting down in a chair near his, he then looked at his watch. "G-Ginny isn't it too early for you to be up?"
"I was going to ask you the same thing."
"Oh, well, I was just—Wait, I asked you first!" replied Harry with a small grin on his face.
"Oh I can never sleep that late, so I figured instead of just laying in my bed awake I'd come down here and enjoy the wonderful Gryffindor fire, probably one of the best fires in the school."
Harry smiled at this, he never realized how smart Ginny was, she seemed to be one of those people who was always thinking.
"Okay Harry, now it's your turn, why are you down here so early?"
"Same, except add a nightmare in there and you got it."
Ginny smiled at that, and then quickly stopped, "You had a nightmare? Was it—erm."
"About Voldemort, yea."
"Oh."
They both sat there in silence watching the fire for a while until the common room finally started filling out. Ron and Hermione came down and sat down by Harry and Ginny.
"You know, as much as I will probably regret saying this one day, the common room just isn't the same without Fred and George" said Hermione staring into the fire.
"I don't think anything is the same without Fred and George" replied Ron, "and I am really hungry lets all go down for some breakfast."
They all went down to the great hall and ate, listening to Dean and Seamus argue on which Quidditch team was better, Bulgaria or Ireland.
Harry and Hermione then headed off for the dungeons after breakfast, they had N.E.W.T. Potions today. When they got down there it wasn't the usual Slytherin's getting to do whatever they want, Professor Snape wasn't there, instead it was Professor Bugiardo. Harry and Hermione quickly took their seats.
"Alright class, Professor Snape was not able to teach this class today, but I assure you he will be back for your next lesson, now today I want you all to make this potion and leave me a vial of it before you leave, if done correctly it will be a deep red color when finished" said Professor Bugiardo as she waved her wand at the board, to display the directions for the potion.
The class hour went by very quickly and most kids finished before class ended and were free to leave for the rest of the lesson. Harry was one of the few that remained in the class until the end. When he finally finished he brought his vial up to Snape's desk and was about to leave when Professor Bugiardo stopped him.
"Potter, the headmaster asked me to tell you that you will still have you lessons with Snape tonight, in the same place it has always been."
Harry nodded and left, much to his disappointment he still had Occlumency tonight, and even worse he had it with Snape. He went up to the common room and sat down by Ron to try to work on his homework, not that a lot even got accomplished, they ended up playing wizard chess.
Harry took his time going down to the dungeons for his 'lessons'. He really didn't want to go since he hadn't really practiced. Even though he walked as slowly as possible he still got there too fast for his liking. He took a deep breath and then knocked on Snape's door.
"Come in" grumbled Snape. And Harry walked in and went to his usual spot. "I trust you are ready for today Potter for I am extremely short on patience at the moment."
The next thing Harry knew Snape had entered his mind, he hadn't even heard him say the spell he usually used. He quickly tried to concentrate.
It was his dream from last night, he saw Wormtail and Voldemort with the figure being tortured on the other end of the room. Then he remembered he was supposed to be blocking out thoughts. He concentrated really hard and somewhat successfully blocked out Snape, he opened his eyes to see Snape staring at him wide-eyed.
"What was that memory of Potter?" asked Snape tensely.
"Erm, it was a dream I had last night, sir" replied Harry remembering to add the sir at the end.
Snape looked at him for a long time and then told him that he was done for the night, and to keep emptying his thoughts every night. He then got up and limped to let Harry out.
Harry left and wondered why Snape was limping and why that memory had affected him so much. There was only one person to go to figure this out, Hermione.
A/N: okay another chapter is now up, I hope everyone has a great new years!!