Chapter Sixteen: Dreaming and Scheming
The hallways, weren't any he knew, the way was unfamiliar, yet he kept walking. He heard voices laughing. Two to be precise, both male, and both men. He looked around, the walls were made of the same brick stone Hogworts was, and hanging all along the corridor, were silver and black banners. The carpet itself was black as well.
As he walked the voices grew. He could start to make out where they were coming from, and started to walk towards the place, a room, the only place glowing while everything else was dark.
He opened the door a crack and peeked in.
"Really! Could you possibly imagine the looks on their faces if they found out?" Harry crept into the room, and hid behind a sofa.
"Yeah, though Rowena would find out a way for sure to blame this on our scheming, Helga would sure fall over laughing her head off!" the sandy blonde head nearly fell over himself from his own laughing.
"That precisely why, Godric, we can't let them know." Looking closer, He saw a man sitting by the fireplace, he had black curly hair, and though it was odd, he felt that he had somehow, seen this man before.
Harry, the boy who lived , or the boy who just wouldn't die, depending on how you looked at things, woke up from a strange dream he was just having. He flopped back down and tried to go to sleep again.
The problem was, however, that when Harry dreams, half the time he's dead on target, and his dreams either happened or will happen sometime soon.
Eventually, sleep took him. A sleep that wasn't plagued with dreams.
*~*~*~*~*~
Golden eyes. Gold, slits of eyes stared at her. A smirk of silver underneath them, it grinned evilly at her.
Suddenly light filled the room. Harry stood in front of her, but it wasn't Harry. At least not the Harry she knew all to well.
"Who are you?" She asked, spitefully.
"Why, don't you recognize me Mione? Its me Harry."
"If you're Harry, then I'm a goddess." She spit at him. "Now answer my question!" she nearly yelled at him.
"Well, my goddess, if that's indeed what you are, then this wont hurt a bit, will it?" He raised his wand. " Curcio!"
And she screamed.
Draco heard and ran to her room, from the common place. He had decided to stay the night considering that it was midnight when they finally all got to tired to talk. This in itself rendered him useless in walking around at night, without getting caught.
So he was decently asleep when he heard the scream. It was female, making it Mione who screamed.
Opening the door a crack, he looked in to see if it was alright to enter, when he saw that she was in her P.J.'s he opened the door and walked over to her bed, where she was crying.
He puts his arms around the little shaking figure and started to rock her. "Shhhh.. ." he whispered into her hair. "Its alright, shhh.. . everything is fine.. . your fine.. . shhhhh."
"Harry.. .he.. .he."
"Shhhh.. . tell me what Harry did."
"He, wasn't himself." She whimpered. "He had gold eyes.. . He cast the Curtaisous curse on me!" and she went into another wave of sobs.
Draco started to rock her again, holding her tighter now. "Shhhh I'm here, me Draco, your Fine Mione, Shhhh, everything will be alright, Harry would never do anything like that to you." He was really amazed at how easily she could be scared. He never imagined that she would break down into a fit of hysteria just because of a dream.
Closing his eyes, he gently blew into her ear, thinking about complete solace. Praying that the technique that his mother used on him worked, he was happy to see her falling back into a peaceful sleep. When he was sure that she was asleep, he laid her back down onto the bed, and pulled the covers over her.
Leaving the room, he looked back to see that she hadn't woken up. Reassured that she hadn't he quietly shut the door.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
"How very loving of you." Tom stood in front of Draco smiling.
Draco was partly shocked to see the other boy there. "What? Why are you up?"
"Her screams probably woke the entire school, come on we had better hide you." And Draco followed the Boy into his room, where he was hid in the very large closet he had.
Pointing his wand at the ground a bed appeared. "Go to sleep, I'll handle the teachers." Tom then left the room.
Draco, to tired to argue, went to bed and made sure that the door was locked.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
Just as he predicted, It took no time for Three professors to enter the room. McGonagall, Followed by Snape along with Dumbledore entered the room quickly.
"Tom!" Dumbledore was shocked to see the boy there.
"Don't worry, she was probably having a nightmare, she sleeping now, quite peacefully, and I believe she needs her rest."
"Oh, well, tell her to come up to my office tomorrow morning." Dumbledore said merrily. "WE do need to see if she is alright."
"Certainly professor."
"Tom," Snape started slyly, looking over at a book on the coffee table. "What is that book doing there?"
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't put it away."
"But it belongs to Mr. Malfoy." he said innocently
"Yes, I'm borrowing it from him."
"right." And they left. Except the head of Gryffindor.
"If she has anymore nightmares, notify me before the headmaster."
"Will do, Professor."
And she too left.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hermione woke up right as the sun wise rising in the sky. The Light that hit her eyes was precisely what woke her from her sleep. Yawning she felt her cheeks tugging against the action. Touching them, she felt the dried up tears that she shed the night before.
Sighing she stepped out of bed, and walked over to her trunk. The memory from last night was still fresh in her mind, much to her surprise, and she didn't want to forget it before she put it down in her book of memories.
Opening her trunk, she picked up all of her clothing and set it aside, then her books, then her potions and inks and pieces of parchment. One thing remained in the trunk, a small blue silk baggie.
Picking it up she dumped the contents out onto her hand. There sat a small brown book, no bigger than her thumb. Picking up her wand she pointed and whispered the spell "Engorgio!"
Her Book now laid in her embrace. "Mercurious!" she whispered into its pages. Setting it aside she carefully put everything else back into her trunk. That task done she stood up and plopped onto her bed.
Picking up the pencil that was inside her book, she began to enter the dream into the pages of her memories.
When she was done with her work, she put away the book, walked out of her room and saw Tom reading a book as usual.
"Morning." She said slightly out of habit.
"Did you sleep well, after.. ."
She knew what he was talking about. "Yes, I did. Where's Draco?"
"He went down to his bed after the teacher left. He thought it would be safer."
"The teachers were here." She sat down on the couch nearest Tom's chair and started to brush her hair.
"Yeah, and I beet that it they could have, Ron and Harry would have been here to."
"Was I that loud?"
"You must have been pretty scared, Mione." Tom put down his book at looked at her in a worried fashion. "Tell me of your dream."
And she did, knowing that Tom was the only person she couldn't keep anything from, apart from Draco. It was quite an odd friendship that had. Nothing like that of what she had with Harry and Ron. With those two, it was more of a team thing then friendship. That caused a thought to cross her mind.
"You know Tom." She started. "My birthday is in 15 days."
"Really? It's the fourth, so your were born the 19th?"
"Yeah."
"We'll need to make a huge party for you!"
"Oh dear."
"What?"
"Its my seventeenth birthday."
"So?"
"I promised Ray and Dora a while back that I'd have that birthday with them!"
"Oh." And he thought for a bit. "Maybe, you could get them up here?"
"How." She challenged him.
"I don't know, maybe with Draco, we could figure out a way?"
"And after we are done with this year, Hufflepuff will certainly win the house cup!" Mione sighed, and then remembered something. "Oh yeah! I told Harry and Ron that Dora and Ray go to a witching school in America, try to keep to that story, I'm telling Draco later."
"Alright, and your right."
"About what?"
"Hufflepuff will win if we don't have a representative from their house working with us." Tom looked at Mione oddly. "When we were talking last night Draco said we need to make this group a foursome or we'll get in trouble, with one person from each house we can't have points deducted without it not mattering."
"So, we need to find someone from Hufflepuff?"
"Basically."
"We start searching today, watch the whole lot, we need someone who has good traits for tricks, and who wont tattle at the first sign of danger."
"Right, shall I tell Draco?"
"You?"
"Well, yes of course. So far we have made the impression that he and I are close."
"I missed it then."
"Well, he told 'you' to tell 'me' that he would be coming up last night. And last night I told Snape that I was borrowing a book from him, so I'm covered as a friend."
"I see, well that makes life easier. Tell Draco also that after lessons tonight, I want him to read my newest entries to my book."
"Ahh, the infamous book. Pray tell, when will I get the honor of being allowed to read it?"
"When there is reason." She answered as she clipped her hair back in a Pollyanna.
"What's Draco's Reason?" he asked puzzled.
"He had already seen it without my consent."
"I see, well I'm going down to breakfast, see you there."
"Of course, and we have charms together today!" she yelled that last part. He nodded in response as the portrait closed behind him.
Sighing, she began the process of getting ready for the day.
It didn't take much time; she grabbed a blouse and a pair of pants and put her school robes over them.
Once she had all of her books in hand, she headed down to breakfast.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
AN: I know it's just a turning chapter, but I hope you all liked it just the same.
Sorry it was out so late but as you can probably tell by how my writing disinagrated, I'm having trouble thinking today, and my brothers gunshots (fake) aren't helping much.
Well, review, I will be taking a break from writing but you'll get the next chapter before December, so don't worry too much.
Thanks again every one. Also, 100 reviews! Yeah! ^_^ you don't know how proud I am that this story has proved itself to be worth 100 reviews!
My hard work has paid off, but it wouldn't have happened with out any of you, so thanks bunches!
Relena
The hallways, weren't any he knew, the way was unfamiliar, yet he kept walking. He heard voices laughing. Two to be precise, both male, and both men. He looked around, the walls were made of the same brick stone Hogworts was, and hanging all along the corridor, were silver and black banners. The carpet itself was black as well.
As he walked the voices grew. He could start to make out where they were coming from, and started to walk towards the place, a room, the only place glowing while everything else was dark.
He opened the door a crack and peeked in.
"Really! Could you possibly imagine the looks on their faces if they found out?" Harry crept into the room, and hid behind a sofa.
"Yeah, though Rowena would find out a way for sure to blame this on our scheming, Helga would sure fall over laughing her head off!" the sandy blonde head nearly fell over himself from his own laughing.
"That precisely why, Godric, we can't let them know." Looking closer, He saw a man sitting by the fireplace, he had black curly hair, and though it was odd, he felt that he had somehow, seen this man before.
Harry, the boy who lived , or the boy who just wouldn't die, depending on how you looked at things, woke up from a strange dream he was just having. He flopped back down and tried to go to sleep again.
The problem was, however, that when Harry dreams, half the time he's dead on target, and his dreams either happened or will happen sometime soon.
Eventually, sleep took him. A sleep that wasn't plagued with dreams.
*~*~*~*~*~
Golden eyes. Gold, slits of eyes stared at her. A smirk of silver underneath them, it grinned evilly at her.
Suddenly light filled the room. Harry stood in front of her, but it wasn't Harry. At least not the Harry she knew all to well.
"Who are you?" She asked, spitefully.
"Why, don't you recognize me Mione? Its me Harry."
"If you're Harry, then I'm a goddess." She spit at him. "Now answer my question!" she nearly yelled at him.
"Well, my goddess, if that's indeed what you are, then this wont hurt a bit, will it?" He raised his wand. " Curcio!"
And she screamed.
Draco heard and ran to her room, from the common place. He had decided to stay the night considering that it was midnight when they finally all got to tired to talk. This in itself rendered him useless in walking around at night, without getting caught.
So he was decently asleep when he heard the scream. It was female, making it Mione who screamed.
Opening the door a crack, he looked in to see if it was alright to enter, when he saw that she was in her P.J.'s he opened the door and walked over to her bed, where she was crying.
He puts his arms around the little shaking figure and started to rock her. "Shhhh.. ." he whispered into her hair. "Its alright, shhh.. . everything is fine.. . your fine.. . shhhhh."
"Harry.. .he.. .he."
"Shhhh.. . tell me what Harry did."
"He, wasn't himself." She whimpered. "He had gold eyes.. . He cast the Curtaisous curse on me!" and she went into another wave of sobs.
Draco started to rock her again, holding her tighter now. "Shhhh I'm here, me Draco, your Fine Mione, Shhhh, everything will be alright, Harry would never do anything like that to you." He was really amazed at how easily she could be scared. He never imagined that she would break down into a fit of hysteria just because of a dream.
Closing his eyes, he gently blew into her ear, thinking about complete solace. Praying that the technique that his mother used on him worked, he was happy to see her falling back into a peaceful sleep. When he was sure that she was asleep, he laid her back down onto the bed, and pulled the covers over her.
Leaving the room, he looked back to see that she hadn't woken up. Reassured that she hadn't he quietly shut the door.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
"How very loving of you." Tom stood in front of Draco smiling.
Draco was partly shocked to see the other boy there. "What? Why are you up?"
"Her screams probably woke the entire school, come on we had better hide you." And Draco followed the Boy into his room, where he was hid in the very large closet he had.
Pointing his wand at the ground a bed appeared. "Go to sleep, I'll handle the teachers." Tom then left the room.
Draco, to tired to argue, went to bed and made sure that the door was locked.
*~*~*~*~*~*~
Just as he predicted, It took no time for Three professors to enter the room. McGonagall, Followed by Snape along with Dumbledore entered the room quickly.
"Tom!" Dumbledore was shocked to see the boy there.
"Don't worry, she was probably having a nightmare, she sleeping now, quite peacefully, and I believe she needs her rest."
"Oh, well, tell her to come up to my office tomorrow morning." Dumbledore said merrily. "WE do need to see if she is alright."
"Certainly professor."
"Tom," Snape started slyly, looking over at a book on the coffee table. "What is that book doing there?"
"Oh, I'm sorry I didn't put it away."
"But it belongs to Mr. Malfoy." he said innocently
"Yes, I'm borrowing it from him."
"right." And they left. Except the head of Gryffindor.
"If she has anymore nightmares, notify me before the headmaster."
"Will do, Professor."
And she too left.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Hermione woke up right as the sun wise rising in the sky. The Light that hit her eyes was precisely what woke her from her sleep. Yawning she felt her cheeks tugging against the action. Touching them, she felt the dried up tears that she shed the night before.
Sighing she stepped out of bed, and walked over to her trunk. The memory from last night was still fresh in her mind, much to her surprise, and she didn't want to forget it before she put it down in her book of memories.
Opening her trunk, she picked up all of her clothing and set it aside, then her books, then her potions and inks and pieces of parchment. One thing remained in the trunk, a small blue silk baggie.
Picking it up she dumped the contents out onto her hand. There sat a small brown book, no bigger than her thumb. Picking up her wand she pointed and whispered the spell "Engorgio!"
Her Book now laid in her embrace. "Mercurious!" she whispered into its pages. Setting it aside she carefully put everything else back into her trunk. That task done she stood up and plopped onto her bed.
Picking up the pencil that was inside her book, she began to enter the dream into the pages of her memories.
When she was done with her work, she put away the book, walked out of her room and saw Tom reading a book as usual.
"Morning." She said slightly out of habit.
"Did you sleep well, after.. ."
She knew what he was talking about. "Yes, I did. Where's Draco?"
"He went down to his bed after the teacher left. He thought it would be safer."
"The teachers were here." She sat down on the couch nearest Tom's chair and started to brush her hair.
"Yeah, and I beet that it they could have, Ron and Harry would have been here to."
"Was I that loud?"
"You must have been pretty scared, Mione." Tom put down his book at looked at her in a worried fashion. "Tell me of your dream."
And she did, knowing that Tom was the only person she couldn't keep anything from, apart from Draco. It was quite an odd friendship that had. Nothing like that of what she had with Harry and Ron. With those two, it was more of a team thing then friendship. That caused a thought to cross her mind.
"You know Tom." She started. "My birthday is in 15 days."
"Really? It's the fourth, so your were born the 19th?"
"Yeah."
"We'll need to make a huge party for you!"
"Oh dear."
"What?"
"Its my seventeenth birthday."
"So?"
"I promised Ray and Dora a while back that I'd have that birthday with them!"
"Oh." And he thought for a bit. "Maybe, you could get them up here?"
"How." She challenged him.
"I don't know, maybe with Draco, we could figure out a way?"
"And after we are done with this year, Hufflepuff will certainly win the house cup!" Mione sighed, and then remembered something. "Oh yeah! I told Harry and Ron that Dora and Ray go to a witching school in America, try to keep to that story, I'm telling Draco later."
"Alright, and your right."
"About what?"
"Hufflepuff will win if we don't have a representative from their house working with us." Tom looked at Mione oddly. "When we were talking last night Draco said we need to make this group a foursome or we'll get in trouble, with one person from each house we can't have points deducted without it not mattering."
"So, we need to find someone from Hufflepuff?"
"Basically."
"We start searching today, watch the whole lot, we need someone who has good traits for tricks, and who wont tattle at the first sign of danger."
"Right, shall I tell Draco?"
"You?"
"Well, yes of course. So far we have made the impression that he and I are close."
"I missed it then."
"Well, he told 'you' to tell 'me' that he would be coming up last night. And last night I told Snape that I was borrowing a book from him, so I'm covered as a friend."
"I see, well that makes life easier. Tell Draco also that after lessons tonight, I want him to read my newest entries to my book."
"Ahh, the infamous book. Pray tell, when will I get the honor of being allowed to read it?"
"When there is reason." She answered as she clipped her hair back in a Pollyanna.
"What's Draco's Reason?" he asked puzzled.
"He had already seen it without my consent."
"I see, well I'm going down to breakfast, see you there."
"Of course, and we have charms together today!" she yelled that last part. He nodded in response as the portrait closed behind him.
Sighing, she began the process of getting ready for the day.
It didn't take much time; she grabbed a blouse and a pair of pants and put her school robes over them.
Once she had all of her books in hand, she headed down to breakfast.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
AN: I know it's just a turning chapter, but I hope you all liked it just the same.
Sorry it was out so late but as you can probably tell by how my writing disinagrated, I'm having trouble thinking today, and my brothers gunshots (fake) aren't helping much.
Well, review, I will be taking a break from writing but you'll get the next chapter before December, so don't worry too much.
Thanks again every one. Also, 100 reviews! Yeah! ^_^ you don't know how proud I am that this story has proved itself to be worth 100 reviews!
My hard work has paid off, but it wouldn't have happened with out any of you, so thanks bunches!
Relena