A Nightmare

in Hogwarts

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~He's Back~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Prologue

She looked in all directions. Something was wrong. Where was she? This was NOT her school. What was going on... Wait, she was still home. She looked down, and realized she was in her T-shirt she used as pajamas and sighed. A dream.

Wait.. Was that someone else?

She ran as fast as she could towards them. It was a guy, he was in his Pj's too.

"Hey!" She shouted.

He turned, "Shh. Do you hear that?"

She closed her mouth, slowing to a stop by the boy, and listen carefully. Children? Singing something.

"Let's go closer." she suggested. He instantly shook his head.

"It doesn't feel safe."

"It sounds like litte kids playing, what's unsafe about that?" She asked, tilting her head.

"Something isn't right about it. Who are you, and why are you in my dream?" He said, suddenly turning to look at her, and sounding slightly angry.

"I'm Rianna.. and this is my dream.. Who are you?"

"Hmm.. Tomas. So, a joint dream with someone I don't know."

"Weird.." Ria said, thinking.

"How do I know you aren't lying?"

"I don't lie. Not easily at least."

"I'm supposed to trust you?"

Suddenly a screeching noise came from the direction the children's voices, which had ceased, had come from.

Ria and Tommy covered their ears.

"What an awful noise!" Ria yelled, her ears still covered.

Tom just nodded.

The children's voices started again, louder. "One, Two. Freddy's coming for you..."

Then something scraped across Ria's right arm, she screamed.....

~END OF DREAM~

Ria screamed out, and was shaken awake.

"What is it?" Yelled a familiar voice. Her brother.

"A dream!" She said, as she breathed out.

"Are you ok?" Her brother said, looking over her.

"Fine..." Then she stood, and bumped her right arm on her dresser. She gasped in pain, and looked at her arm. It was bleeding.

"How'd you get that?"

"Musta just scraped it on my dresser. That's all.." Though she knew her face gave away the fact that she was worried.

"Oh, Right." Her brother, James, nodded. "Well, the guys are coming over. They should be here any minute. You might wanna get dressed, and come down. Remus can probably fix that up, no problem, K?"

Suddenly Ria smiled, "Ok! I'll be down in a minute. OUT! Lemme get dressed!" She started shouting, though playfully.

James just smiled at her. "I'm out, I'm out." As he stepped out the door. Then he shouted through the door, "Sounds like they're here!"

On his fingers he counted, to two. The door opened, producing a fully dress Ria. Her hair was done and everything. How she did it? He could only guess.

"New record." He grinned, before taking off down the hallway, toward the stairs. Being a good cat, she gave chase.

James reached the bottom of the stairs, and saw his friend Remus step out of the fire, followed by James' best friend, Sirius.

Ria had stopped about three steps up, and saw the two boys come out of the fire. "Good morning!" She shouted suddenly.

All three boys looked at her.

"Good morning, Rianna." Remus replied first.

Next Sirius. "Mornin'!"

James just grinned at her, then looked at his friends. "Hey Moony, can you take a look at Ria's arm, she got it pretty good on somethin!"

"Yeah, no problem. That is, if she doesn't mind coming over here." Remus said, smiling.

Ria smiled, then put on a childish scared look. "NO!" she shouted, sounding like a little child being taken to get a shot.

"Come on, Rianna. It won't hurt a bit." Remus said, playing along. They were used to playing around like this, mainly to include the younger girl. Being the younger sister of the infamous James Potter, none of her friends wanted to come over on breaks.

"NO! NO! NO!" She shouted, as she turned to run. But James was quicker, and caught her around the waist. He picked her up best he could like that.

Sirius, not wanting to be left out, ran over to help James. He took over, grabbing her around the waist, while James moved over and grabbed her hand.

"It'll be ok, Ria." He said, mock soothingly.

She looked at James, eyes wide, realizing who was holding. "NO!!! EVIL!" she shouted. She started to kick, to get away.

James just grinned at her, in a way that Sirius couldn't see. "It's ok, little Ria."

She was finally brought to Remus and set down on the couch.

"So.. which arm?" Remus asked, now that the game was over.

Ria simply held out her right arm, showing the deep scrape there.

"Hmm.. How'd you do that?" Remus said, sounding worried.

"She says she just got it caught on her dresser when she was getting up." James said, sounding doubtful.

"I must have, I didn't have it before I went to bed!" Ria said, defensively.

Remus just looked at James, before getting up to get some stuff to take care of it. "We'll have to wrap it until we get to school, then Madam P can heal it." He said, as he came back with some cloth. He wrapped it up nicely, and taped it. "That should do."

"Thanks, Rem."

"No problem, Rianna."

"Now, we boys are gunna head up to James' room for a bit, if you don't mind Ria." Came Sirius' voice.

"Hmm? Oh.. Yeah, no problems here. You're here to see him, not me." She smiled, and stood to leave the room. "Bye!"

Once she'd left James looked at Siri and Rem. "Somethin's up with her.."

"Yeah.. She doesn't look like she slept at all last night..." commented Remus.

"I didn't notice anything off about her." Sirius said, looking confused.

"She slept, but she screamed before she woke up." James said, thinking.

"So she had a bad dream." Came Sirius.

"Still.. We should watch her this next year." Remus said, as James thought it.

James nodded, and looked at Sirius. "Alright."

"Fine with me."