Chapter 6

That night Harry had a dream. His phoenix, which he named Rose, was telling him something. She was telling him about a power which would soon be his, power that would make him even more powerful than both Dumbledore and Voldemort combined. He would be known as the wizard of phoenixes. His power would enable him to bring peace to the entire planet.

The only other person who ever had this power was Merlin. That was how he became the most powerful, and well known, wizard that had ever existed.

"Your new power has begun it's development and when the time comes it will be unleashed. The power you will possess will be something only a god would be able to comprehend. Until then, learn as much as possible from your teachers and learn everything that they will not teach you. But most importantly, love Cho." Was what Rose had said.

Harry awoke with a start. His scar was stinging and beads of sweat was streaming down his face. Harry felt as if his body was completely numb. He fell back onto his pillow and took a deep breath.

Harry got up from his bed and walked over the jug of water that was near the window. He grabbed a cup and poured himself some water from the jug. He quickly gulped down the water and poured himself some more.

A sudden burst of pain made Harry drop the cup and fall to his knees. He tried to scream, but he couldn't, all he could feel was the pain. He tried to get up but what felt like a giant hand held him down. He managed to look up but when he did he wished he hadn't. Something with red eyes and an aura of darkness that even Voldemort would be afraid of was silhouetted against the light the full moon. It seemed to float in through the window and towards Harry.

Just as t landed in front of Harry, Harry managed to find his voice and scream a blood curdling scream.

Everyone in the Gryffindor tower woke up including the sixth year boys. In a flash the boys were out of their beds and holding their wands in their hands.

Ron saw Harry laying unconscious on the floor.

"Harry!" he yelled. He ran over to Harry an turned him over onto his back. Harry's eyes were closed and he breathing heavily. But the thing that shocked Ron the most was his scar. It was glowing a faint scarlet and god color.

Suddenly Harry's eyes snapped open and he sat up.

"Harry, Harry what happened?" Ron asked.

"Evil, dark, creature, Voldemort" Harry panted.

The doors swung open and in walked Professor McGonagall.

"What is going on? What happened?" She asked.

"Harry said he saw something professor"

"Is that true Potter?" Asked McGonagall.

Harry cleared his throat and nodded. "Yes, it had red eyes, and seemed to have evil radiating from around it."

Professor McGonagall stared at Harry for a second then said: "You are sure you weren't dreaming?"

"I had just woken up when I saw it." Harry replied. McGonagall paled.

"Get dressed and go to the Headmaster's office." Then she whispered, "the password is Butterbeer" Harry nodded and went over to his trunk and pulled out some robes as the Professor walked out.

A few minutes later Harry was giving the gargoyle the password to Dumbledore's office.

"Butterbeer" Harry said. The gargoyle promptly jumped aside and let Harry pass. Harry walked on to the escalator like stairs and rode all the way up to the door.

"Ah Harry, Minerva told me you saw something floating outside your window. I need you to tell me exactly what you saw." Dumbledore said as Harry walked in.

"Well, I had just woken up and was getting some water when I looked out the window. I saw something with red eyes and seemed to have evil radiating from it. I screamed and everyone in the dorm woke up." Harry explained. Dumbledore and McGonagall exchanged worried and knowing glances.

"Harry, I believe what you saw was a vampire, or something, more. Was your scar hurting?" asked Dumbledore.

"Yes." Harry replied.

"Then Voldemort must have a vampire on his side. And we can only guess that there are more on his side." Dumbledore sighed. "Minerva, I want you to go wake Professor Flitwick and have him put an anti-vampire ward on the school. Then I want you to go wake Hagrid. Tell him to go into the forest and find out if anyone has seen something go on to the grounds."

"Yes headmaster" McGonagall said. She then walked out.

"You will spend the night in here Harry." Dumbledore said. He pulled his wand out and with a snap a small cot, blanket, and pillow appeared. "Good night Harry" Dumbledore walked out and the candles went out.

Harry felt relaxed as he lay down on the cot and pulled the blanket over himself. He knew that he would be safe. For the night at least that is.

The next morning someone shook Harry awake. Dumbledore was smiling brightly as Harry finally got up with a grunt.

"Good morning Harry, good sleep?" Dumbledore asked.

"Yep, though I had no dreams" Harry replied.

"Good, then that means my dreamless pillow and blanket works." Dumbledore smiled. "But on a slightly more serious note, have you had anymore dreams about Sirius?"

"No, it's really weird, like he never died. It's sort of creepy."

"You may go down to breakfast, I have some work to do here" Dumbledore said. Harry jumped up, thanked the old man and ran down to the great hall where Hermione and Ron were waiting.

"Harry there you are! Everyone was wondering what happened to you!" Hermione said.

"Yeah where were you?" Ron said

"I was staying in Dumbledore's office." Harry replied. He then continued to explain to Ron and Hermione what happened the night before.

"So that's what happened. Hermione said.

"Harry James Potter!" yelled a voice behind Harry.

Harry turned around and smiled. "Hi Cho"

"Where the hell were you? I've been searching for you for the past hour! I almost went up to Dumbledore's office to see if he knew where you were!"

"Cho calm down, I'll tell you what happened" Harry then re-told what happened the night before.

"You saw a vampire outside your window? Harry this is very serious!"

Harry sighed. "I know, but there was something different about this vampire. I've read about vampires before and this one didn't seem anything like the ones I've read about. I'm not even sure it was a vampire. For some reason this one seemed alive and dead."

"Harry vampires basically are like that. They're dead and alive" Hermione said. "They're considered one of the most powerful undead creatures in the world."

"I know Hermione, but there was something different about it, like it came from hell itself." Harry said. "I read that vampires don't have any aurora around them. You can't even sense them watching you in the dark, but this one seemed to radiate evil."

"I've never heard of anything like that" Hermione said thoughtfully. "Not even a rumor."

"I know someone that probably has" Cho said suddenly. "Hang on." Cho got up before anyone could say anything and walked over to the Ravenclaw table. She spoke briefly with someone then nodded led the person over to the Gryffindor table.

"Luna?" Ron said in disbelief. "Why Loony Luna?"

"Because Luna's father runs the quibbler and has probably reported some things about demonic like vampires" Hermione said. Cho and Luna arrived at the table and sat down. Cho sat down beside Harry and Luna across from Ron.

"So" Luna said in her dreamy voice. "What do you need to know?"

"We need to know if you've read anything in the quibbler about strange vampires" said Harry.

"Actually I have heard something, but it wasn't in the quibbler." Luna said.

"What was it in then?" asked Hermione.

"The Daily Prophet" Luna said. "It was on the front page." Luna pulled out a copy of the Daily Prophet and handed it Harry. Harry took the wizarding news paper and read out loud, but only so Ron, Hermione, Cho and Luna could hear.

"Last night there were four reporting of a strange demonic creature around the village of Hogsmedae. Three of the four witnesses claim they saw 'a strange creature flying through the sky with evil seeming to be radiating from it's body'. The other witness said she felt what seemed like evil on the roof of her house. Mr. Lucious Malfoy, a very wealthy and well known donator to the ministry of magic, says there was nothing above the village that night. Mr. Malfoy claims he was in the village and didn't see or feel anything. This was supported by his wife, and two others."

"Why aren't I surprised? Groaned Harry.

"Because we know the Malfoys all to well" Hermione grumbled. Suddenly the bell rang and everyone stood up to leave for classes.

"I'll see you later Harry" Cho smiled then kissed Harry and ran off towards the seventh year Ravenclaws.

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A/N: You know something funny about this chapter? Its been almost completely finished for a few months now! I didn't go back to fix anything but hopefully you'll be able to tell where I started up again. Sorry for not updating sooner, but I will do so more often. R&R!