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The Only Way 3Harry, Hermione and Ron arrived at the Headmaster's office right on time, but they were also the last to come. They walked in and saw Sirius and Remus sitting in two chairs in front of Dumbledore's desk.
When they walked into the office, three more chairs appeared. They each took a seat and looked at the Headmaster, waiting for him to tell why they had to meet.
"Don't look at me. Sirius is the one who wanted everyone to get together," Dumbledore said as he gestured toward Sirius.
"Thank you Dumbledore," Sirius said. He turned to face the others. "Well, I have asked you all here today to tell you something." He paused and looked at them each in turn before saying. "HARRY IS NOT DYING. HE IS JUST BECOMING A WEREWOLF LIKE MOONY SO GET OVER YOURSELVES."
Now, the four miserable faces looked shocked. "Wow Sirius." Harry started. "I um..."
All of a sudden his face broke out in a huge smile. Harry ran over and hugged Sirius. "Thanks."
Sirius smiled. "I didn't know that meant so much, but I'm glad I helped." Sirius pushed Harry away from him
Dumbledore looked at the rest of the group, who had calmed down after they saw Harry smile. "Right, well if that's all then I guess you may return to your dormitory."
Harry, Hermione and Ron walked out of the Headmaster's office laughing and talking for the first time in weeks. They walked passed through the Entrance Hall and made their way toward the stairs when a familiar sneering voice came from behind.
"Well if it isn't Potty, the Weasel and the Mudblood."
Harry quickly turned around and pushed Draco against the wall, his wand trained to Draco's heart in a second. The blonde boy had no time to react, and stood as proudly as he could, but his eyes portrayed his fear.
"You do not want to mess with me now Malfoy."
"Why Potter? Did you kill another family member?" Harry glared at his enemy.
"Harry forget him, let's go back to the common room," Hermione pleaded, "He's not worth it."
Harry looked Draco straight in the eyes, giving one last glare before he removed his wand and left.
Draco watched the trio leave. After they were out of his vision, he sighed and slid to the floor, rubbing his chest where Harry had stuck his wand. He hung his head and sighed again.
Every time he saw Harry some kind of urge took over his body, he lashed out and fought the boy. Harry seemed so small and such an easy target. Draco knew that He wanted to be nice to the Golden boy, he really did. He wanted to be more than nice to him actually… kind of naughty you could say.
Draco's body started reacting to his thoughts and he had to quickly jog to the common room.
Meanwhile, Harry sighed and climbed the stairs to his room. He wanted to get some sleep because tomorrow was a big day and he needed all the energy he could get. Harry undressed and climbed into bed, wondering.
He was wondering if the bite would hurt, and if the transformations would hurt worse. He wondered how much pain he could take. He wondered why he was given this fate and if there was anyway he could change it.
Harry fell asleep but his nightmare woke him right up again.
::Harry's Dream::
Harry was in an unused classroom in the castle, sitting on a wooden chair. He was looking around for some clue of where he was when he heard a growl. He looked to the left and saw a wolf walking towards him, teeth bared.
"Remus?" Harry asked tentatively. "What's going on?"
The wolf just crouched back and leaped, landing on Harry, biting into his neck as he did so. Harry screamed out in pain, pushing against the beast on top of him to no avail. Finally, the wolf climbed off him and Harry watched as the animal licked its lips, staring at Harry hungrily before he woke up.
::End::
Harry was sweating profusely and shaking. Harry was freezing even though the room was warm. Before going to bed he grabbed his wand and on himself he placed a cleaning spell, to get rid of the sweat, and a calming spell, to help him stop shaking.
As soon as his head hit the pillow he fell into another nightmare.
::Harry's second dream::
"Now where am I?" Harry looked around and saw that his friends surrounded him. They were all looking at him with a mix of disgust and fear.
"What's wrong?" Nobody answered him.
"Hermione?" he stepped towards her which in turn made her crouch down and hold her hands out.
"Please don't hurt me!" she cried. "Harry, please!"
"What are you talking about, I'm not going to hurt you-!" All of a sudden Harry was whisked away from his circle of friends and he was watching the scene from above. He realized why everyone was scared.
Instead of Harry's normal body, there stood a brown mangy werewolf staring at his friends with a long string of drool hanging from his chin. He growled and launched himself at Hermione, killing her instantly. He then moved on to kill each and every other one of his friends while Harry could do nothing to stop the creature.
::end::
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Harry woke up the next morning feeling like crap. He hardly slept at all the night before and not to mention that today was the day he was supposed to become what he had feared in his dreams. He had planned on staying in his room the whole day, but Hermione dragged him and Ron to the library to do some research on werewolves.
Harry was so out of it that he read the same sentence over and over again, never taking in the meaning. Hermione watched him with worried eyes and Ron didn't notice for he was snoring softly behind a huge volume.
The day turned to night and the trio made their way to Dumbledore's office. Harry said the password and they made their way up the staircase.
Dumbledore watched them come in and looked at Sirius and Remus, the other two men in the room. "Ready?" he asked and when they nodded. "Good, follow me."
Surprisingly enough the headmaster led them straight to the room of requirement. He let Harry and Remus walk by together, thinking of what they needed before showing them into the room. He kept Harry's friends and Sirius outside.
"Good luck Harry," Ron called with a wave and a smack from Hermione.
"What do you think this is Ronald? Harry is not going into a Quidditch match." She turned red when she realized Harry was listening. "We will be rooting for you Harry."
"Not a Quidditch match, eh 'Mione?" She turned even redder.
Dumbledore shut the door and bolted it while Remus did the same thing on the inside. The room was totally dark not even the outlines of a person or thing could be seen. Suddenly, the curtains were thrown open and light flooded the moon.
Remus looked at Harry and said "Sorry about this. Stop me if I go too far," he paused. "Or try to…you are a great kid Harry."
He gave one last smile before looking at the moon and moving in its light to allow the transformation to take place.
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
A/N: wow guys. I am so sorry that took so long. I love you all by the way. I was swamped with homework and just remembered that I had a account when Queen Vampire Ashakra emailed me. Thank her!