Chapter 1: A rude awakening

Harry Potter sat staring out of his window in his room at number 4 privet drive, his summer so far had been eventless, his uncle Vernon had so far left Harry alone with his thoughts, Sirius was gone, Harry's only Father figure was gone, he had fallen behind the veil at the department of mysteries, Harry felt extreme guilt because he had inadvertently brought Sirius to the department of mysteries, here Harry fought death eaters and saw Dumbledore battle Voldemort, Harry knew that he would need to prepare for Voldemort, because if he didn't he would die, Voldemort had been after Harry ever since he was one year old, when Voldemort had come to the Potter residence he had killed Harry's father James and his mother Lilly, but Lilly had left an ancient sort of charm on Harry when she sacrificed herself to save him, When Voldemort had used the Killing Curse on Harry it somehow rebounded back onto Voldemort reducing him to nothing more than a spirit, and Harry received only a mere scar on his forehead.

Right now this scar was paining him, a lot, the pain was a sort of throbbing ache that also seemed to drain the strength out of Harry, he decided to write to note to Professor Dumbledore to tell him about it.

Professor Dumbledore

I'm writing this message to warn you that my scar has been hurting for a few days now and I think it may mean that Voldemort is planning something.

I also wish to ask if you could send me anything that might help me prepare for Voldemort, I know that he's after me and I need to be prepared for him!

p.s I don't know if it means anything but I had a dream about Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin, does it mean anything?

H.P

Harry stared moodily out of his window, why had he dreamt about 2 of the four founders of Hogwarts, they looked to be about his age in his dream.

"Maybe i'm finally going insane" muttered Harry

"Hey it's the Burrow!" said Harry happily
"wait…this is a dream…who are these people?" asked Harry

A black cloaked figure walked towards the house with its wand held in its hand

"no, wait!" cried Harry to the figure, but he didn't seem to hear Harry

other cloaked figures started towards the Burrow, they were Death Eaters! Somehow Harry had to stop them, but how?

An evil laugh reached his ears, Harry turned to see something out of a nightmare, there stood Voldemort, with his snake-like nose, his pale stretched face, but worst of all were the horrible red eyes of this creature, it was no longer a man, this was a monster, Harry would never get used to looking at this creature

"massster" hissed a snake around Harry's legs

"what is it?" hissed back Voldemort

"I can feel sssomething, that doesss not belong!" hissed back the snake

"well nobody is invisible, and I don't feel potter here, so shut up!" hissed Voldemort angrily

"asss you wisssh massster" hissed the snake angrily

A black cloaked man walked up to Voldemort, his face wasn't visible to Harry because it was covered by a Death Eater mask, the man bowed.

"Master" the man said before he kneeled before Voldemort

"what is it Lucius?" asked Voldemort with irritation evident in his voice

"we are ready to strike at your command master" said Lucius quickly

" Lucius! Sound the attack immediately" answered Voldemort still irritated by what the snake had told him

Harry shot up out of bed, Dumbledore had told him if anything like this were to happenHarry was to tell him strait away, so hurrying so as to remember the whole dream he wrote it all down on a piece of parchment, every small detail, when he was finished Harry looked it over for any mistakes and woke up his snowy owl Hedwig to send his message to Dumbledore.

"Hurry girl Dumbledore needs this!" Harry begged quietly

With a hoot Hedwig flew out the window and Harry watched her fly away into the horizon.

They're attacking the Burrow! How could he help, he couldn't fly to the Burrow, his Firebolt was locked up in the dungeons at Hogwarts, there was a knock on the door, who could it be at this hour?

Harry walked down the stairs and to the door, when he opened it he saw his old professor Remus Lupin!

"Professor Lupin!" said Harry in surprise, why is he here?
"Hello Harry, quickly we have to go, where is your room?" asked Lupin quickly

Harry walked up to his room not knowing why Professor Lupin was there

"um…here's my room Professor" said Harry uncertainly
"This is your room?" asked Lupin incredulously, it barely big enough for a young child, let alone a 15 year old boy!
"Um…yes?" answered Harry

Lupin started to pack away all of Harry's things into a magically sized trunk, you put anything you wanted into it and it would never get full.

Harry helped Lupin put away all his things and got out everything that was under the loose floorboard near his bed.

"Harry... do you know how to apperate?" asked Lupin

"um…no professor I don't…what's wrong, why do we have to go right now?" asked Harry in a whisper so he wouldn't wake up his uncle Vernon and aunt Petunia
"we've been told you were to be attacked tomorrow morning, we have to hurry!" answered Lupin hurriedly

Harry and Lupin went to the fireplace in the lounge room and Lupin threw in some floo powder

"Arthur hooked you up to the floo network yesterday, just after Albus told us of the attack" Lupin said in answer to Harry's unspoken question

"ok Harry, walk in and say Hogwarts: headmasters office" said Lupin once again with haste "hurry!"

Harry stepped into the fire and shouted 'Hogwarts: Headmasters Office' immediately he felt the sickening feeling of spinning endlessly, after what felt like an eternity he fell out of the fireplace right at the feet of the aged headmaster.