DON'T PRETEND YOU LOVE ME

CHAPTER X THAT STUPID DREAM SEQUENCE

Monday came; Harry, Hermione and Ron were walking along the corridors to Transfiguration after a day's class at Care of Magical Creatures; he managed to have a nice chat with Draco while he was studying that Dragon dung Hagrid told them to do, his insults nowadays have been.....you know.....lame, what the hell is he talking about when he said "Potter! Your.....stupid" what does he think I am? A nine year old? Did he expect me to cry? He suddenly stopped when he noticed someone walking towards them.

"Sirius?" asked Harry

"Oh, hey there Harry," said Sirius

"Why aren't you dressed properly?" asked Hermione

"Dressed, I don't have to teach until three more hours," said Sirius

"What are you talking about Sirius, were on our way to your class right now," said Ron

"What! But my clock said.....my clock said....." Sirius's eyes narrowed "Snape," he said darkly

"Well, well, if it isn't our new Transfiguration teacher, Professor Black, hmmm, that doesn't seem to sink in to my stomach," said Snape

"Sink in to your stomach?" Sirius repeated "How about I sink my fist to your stomach you asshole, what the hell did you do to my clock?" snarled Sirius

"Your clock? Don't make me laugh, I've been looking for that damn thing ever since you arrived here, and like the criminal you are, you don't seem to have a problem rummaging my room to find something to steal," said Snape

"What is going on around here?" said Lupin who just came along "Sirius, why aren't you dressed yet, don't you have a class to attend to? And why are the two of you at each others throats again?" asked Lupin

"Nothing Remus," said Sirius

Harry noticed that several students were now piling in watching in what seems to be a potential blood bath.

"By the way Snape, I didn't know that you were a Michael Jackson fan," said Sirius with a malicious grin on his face

"Shut up! You sick excuse for a house hold pet, before I conjure a paper roll and whack you with it while saying what a bad dog you've been," snarled Snape

"Oh by the way Snape, I didn't know what those letters on your smiley spotted pajama pants means, M. J.? You sure it doesn't stand for My beloved Jacked ---ass!" said Sirius

"You think you know so much, well guest what, if it wasn't for Dumbledore, you wouldn't be in this School in the first place, you Rin-Tin-tin wannabe!" said Snape

"Oh, you should talk, no wonder you never had a girlfriend, they all died in depression and hunger, because you were too poor to buy food to feed them with!" said Sirius

"You want to talk about money you fuzzy haired flea bag, you were the one who moved in at his best friends backyard, I wonder how you even got food, what did you do Black? Beg?" said Snape

"Take it from the man who has a Shrine of Michael Jackson, you Freaking Psycho!" said Sirius

"Sirius! Sirius, I think you should be the bigger man and walk away," said Lupin

"He started it!" yelled Sirius who was pointing at Snape, Snape crossed his arms and his eyes narrowed at him

"That's right Sirius, and like the mature men that we are, were just going to ignore these kinds of---"before Lupin could even finish, Snape has strike again

"That's right Black, do indeed follow the advice of your friend here, go ahead and walk away........You smelly pile of dog droppings," said Snape

"Dog droppings? Dog droppings!" yelled Sirius

Lupin rolled his eyes "You just couldn't let it go hah Snape, you just couldn't let it go pass you," said Lupin

"Listen here you pathetic insect! If Dumbledore hadn't band my wand to throw courses at you, you would be balancing on a rubber ball while wearing a tutu right now!" said Sirius

Snape placed his hands at his sides "Do go on ahead Black, I'm shaking like a leaf,"

"How about you put you hands inside your pants and shake your own," said Sirius

"I think you should go find a tree somewhere, since the bathroom's far from here," said Snape

"And I think you're gay," said Sirius

"Are you questioning my manhood!" roared Snape

"Manhood? Oh please, come to think of it, It's kind of hard to think that you have one," said Sirius

"Sirius! Severus! You're acting like children for Merlin's sakes!" said Lupin

"SHUT UP!" shouted Sirius and Snape in unison

Lupin suddenly looked offended "What! Bu... but, FINE! SUIT YOU'RE SELVES" he turned around and walked away muttering to himself

"What seems to be the problem here?" came Dumbledore's voice

Both Sirius and Snape turned to see him standing besides them

"Nothing Professor, Sirius and I were just having a debate" said Snape

"About what?" said Dumbledore

Sirius started stuttering, he was having difficulties to quickly scoop up a lie to tell Dumbledore.

"About student Hygiene Professor, we were debating about student Hygiene," said Sirius

"Student Hygiene?" said Dumbledore

"Yes Professor, isn't that true Harry?" Sirius turned around to Harry only to find every student that piled around them eating popcorn, even Draco, he's guessing they conjured those while he and Snape were busy arguing

"No need to explain further Sirius, you better go and get dressed for your class right away," said Dumbledore

"Right away Professor," said Sirius before getting ready to disapparate; he paused for a while then came to his senses "Oh sorry, I forgot you can't do that in here," he left and so did Snape

"All right all of you, you should all get to your own classes now," said Dumbledore and immediately the students walked to their own classes. The Headmaster called lupin who was just about to leave

"Remus, a word if you please," said Dumbledore

"What is it Professor?" asked Lupin

"Would you to do me a favor?" said Dumbledore

"Anything Professor," said Lupin

"Good, what I want you to do is to prevent those two from arguing each other whenever they have a row," said Dumbledore

"What! But Professor, I---"

"Thank you Remus," said Dumbledore and then left Dumbledore

"Oh crap," sighed Lupin

After an exhausting day, Harry and Ron said goodbye to Hermione before going to their Dorm room, both of them changed and gone to bed asleep.

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It was a set of a talk show; the sits were full of Wizards and Witches.

"Welcome everyone, I'm you're host as usual Gilderoy Lockhart and you're watching Wizards are from Mars, Witches are from Venus," said Lockhart

APPLAUSE!

"Tonight's guest is known as the Boy-Who-Lived and the Boy-Who-Defeated-The- Dark-Lord, the famous-just like me, Harry Potter!" said Lockhart

APPLAUSE! (Harry walked out of the curtain and sat down on the chair at the set)

"What the hell am I doing here?" asked Harry

"You're here to answer some of our questions Harry," said Lockhart, Harry tried to protest but Lockhart was to quick for him

"So Harry, Defeated the Dark Lord, saved the whole Wizardry world and those other boring stuff Blah-Blah-Blah," said Lockhart lazily "What we all want to know is about your love life,"

"What!"

Lockhart was checking some notes on his hand "Tell us Harry, who's Cho Chang?"

"She was just someone I had a crush on, she was a year ahead of me, but it was just a crush, I'm over her," said Harry

"It also says here that you are now secretly in love with your best friend Hermione Granger though you are just pretending at first, now your feelings for her are now becoming as more than a friend," said Lockhart

"What! That's not- I mean-how did you know that we were pretending to be--- "

"This is your dream Harry, anything's possible," said Lockhart

"If it's my dream, why can't I control it?" asked Harry now sweating

"Well Harry, this is one of those dreams you don't have control over. Now back to the subject, to make things more interesting, let's bring her out, please welcome Hermione Granger," said Lockhart

APPLAUSE! (Hermione walked out into the set looking puzzled, she sat down on a chair next to Harry)

"Harry what's going on? Why are we here? And what's Gilderoy Lockhart doing?" asked Hermione "I was dreaming that I was handing the bill to House elf rights to the Ministry of Magic then the next thing I know, I was coming out of those curtains,"

"Hermione I can explain, I---"

"And lets not forget about your other best friend Ronald also known as Ron Weasley!" said Lockhart

APPLAUSE! (Ron walked out of the curtains also looking puzzled then sat down besides Harry)

"Harry, Hermione, what the bloody hell are we doing here?" whispered Ron

"I don't know Ron, that's why I'm here to find out," said Hermione

Lockhart ran through his notes "It says here that you two have other issues aside from Harry here, let's start with you," said Lockhart nodding at Ron

"Wait, I mean-what the hell is all these?" protested Ron

"It says here (still looking at his notes) that you have mixed feelings with a girl that is in your same house, tell us, how does it feel?" asked Lockhart

"I'm not telling you anything, you big jerk," said Ron

"My, my, such language, who ever raised you Ronald?" said Lockhart with a false offense look on his face

"My parents!" snarled Ron "And it's Ron!"

"Your parents huh, well for the sake of Ron here, let's bring out his parents and all of his siblings!" said Lockhart

"What!" said Ron who jumped from his seat and turned to the curtains behind him and saw his parents Mr. And Mrs. Weasley and his five older brothers and his youngest baby sister. Red hair, freckles and all.

"Please give them a big applause," said Lockhart "Mr. Arthur Weasley, Mrs. Molly Weasley, Bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George and Ginny Weasley!"

All of the Weasleys sat down including Ron.

"What on earth?" started Mr. Weasley

"Hey, I know what this is, it's that show called Wizards are from Mars, Witches are from Venus," said Ginny

"Did you say Witches are from Pe-"

"Shut up Fred!" snapped Ginny (Fred and George chuckled)

"Your acting like ten year olds," muttered Percy

"Nice place you got here Ron" said Charlie

"I don't own it! Cant you see I'm being held captive or as they think of it, a guest," said Ron

"What are we doing here?" Mrs. Weasley asked Lockhart

"Well Molly, can I call you Molly, of course I can, Ron here has something to tell you," said Lockhart

"Ron?" asked Mrs. Weasley

"Ron here has special interest with two girls," said Lockhart

"Yeah Ron" cheered Charlie (Bill gave him a sharp look while Ron flushed)

"And twins if I might say so," said Lockhart

"Go Ron!" cheered Charlie again (Bill gave him another glare)

"Wait a minute, did you say twins?" said Fred

"The only twins I know in that school are-"started Percy

"Parvati and Padma Patil!" said George

Ron turned if possible even more red "Wait-wait, I can explain," said Ron

"Parvati and Padma huh, I'm gonna have a little talk to them after this," said Ginny sounding a little jealous

"You should talk! You have a boyfriend and you didn't tell me!" yelled Ron

"What!" shouted all the Weasley boys at the same time (except Ron)

"Ginny," said Mrs. Weasley sounding shocked

Ginny turned red "Mum, I...i...i...I can explain this really" stuttered Ginny

"And who might this man be?" asked Charlie sounding dangerous

"Well his name is-"started Ginny

"It's Neville!" yelled Ron

"What!" said Fred and George at the same time

"You mean that toad boy?" said Percy

"The same one," said Ron bitterly

"I don't know who this Neville is but I want to have little talk with him," said Bill

"Not before I have a talk with him first," said Charlie

"Forget it! I'm not going to have a brother in law like him," said Percy

"I know, that's why I'm going to have a little talk with him Perce," said Bill

"Who said he's going to be your brother in law" protested Ginny "Ron has twins on his hands,"

"That's my brother!" Charlie cheered once more, he attempted to stand up and give Ron a high five but Bill grabbed his robes and dragged him back down to his seat "Sorry, got carried away,"

"Ron, what's the deal about this girls?" asked Mr. Weasley, having a hard time not to smile

"I.....i..."

"It's alright Ron, it's just a dream, it will be all over when you wake up," said Lockhart

"If that's the case then, uh... this girl Padma, she's from Ravenclaw-"Ron started

"Yeah Ron!" cheered Charlie

"Charlie, don't make me hit you," said Bill calmly

"Sorry," said Charlie, but his grins were visible to Ron, which he tried to ignore

"I mean, I really like her but there's her twin Parvati, and she's... well, been throwing herself at me, and I think I like her too, and now I'm all going insane," said Ron

"Ron it's perfectly natural for this things to happen," said Mr. Weasley

Mrs. Weasley started to sob "I can't believe that their all grown ups now Arthur, it seems so yesterday that we were dropping off Bill at Kings Cross,"

Bill rolled his eyes "Here we go again," he muttered

"Or buying Charlie his first broom (sniff), getting Percy his (sniff) first books and buying (sniff) Fred and George their school robes, they'll all leave me Arthur (sniff), and I don't want that to happen! Wahhhhhh!" wailed Mrs. Weasley

"Mum, cut it out," said Charlie

"Honey, don't cry," said Mr. Weasley

"Ohhhhh, how heart warming, well since were at the subject of growing up, let's bring out the man who seems never wanting to, please welcome.... Sirius Black and his best friend Remus Lupin!" said Lockhart. Sirius and Lupin walked out of the curtains and sat down

"Can somebody tell me what's happening around here," said Lupin

"Hey there Remus," greeted Bill "Don't have much to tell you, all I know is were in somebody's dream," he explained

"Hello there Mr. Black, welcome to my show," said Lockhart

"Oooooooookay, since this is just someone's dream, I'll go along with you," said Sirius

"See folks, what did I tell you" said Lockhart "It says here (still looking at his notes) that you were the biggest bully that walked Hogwarts since you went there, is that true?" asked Lockhart

"That's not true!" said Sirius sounding offended "James was the bigger bully" Lupin rolled his eyes

Harry covered his face with his hands; he was turning so scarlet behind his hands, Ron was busy ignoring Charlie's thumbs up, while Bill was busy tying to get his mother to stop crying; Hermione was occupied on examining the set. Ginny was still giving Percy the cold shoulder because of what he said about Neville earlier while Fred and George were in deep conversation (A\N; I don't know why really).

"Well we'll see about that," said Lockhart "I'd like all of you to meet the man that Mr. Black had bullied.......Severus Snape!"

Snape entered the set of Lockhart's show, when the minute he saw Sirius, he quickly rummaged his pockets for his wand but something was wrong, his wand was missing. Sirius felt for his wand at the same time in his pocket.

"Where's my wand!" yelled Sirius

"Black! What did you do to my wand!" roared Snape

"Now, now you two, we didn't waste time to get all of you here just to let you throw hexes at each other," said Lockhart "Now would you please sit down Mr. Snape" Snape sat down but still glaring at Sirius as though he might course him while he is not looking

"Now since the subject is now on bullying someone, let's bring out someone of Harry's own age, please welcome Draco Malfoy and the boy he bullied, Neville Longbottom!" said Lockhart

Draco and Neville walked out of the curtains. All the Weasley boys turned to Neville with lethal looks, that was enough to unnerve Neville who sat down next to Lupin; Draco on the other hand walked right next to Snape and sat down.

"What the-"Draco started

"-Hell are you doing here, I know, I know, it's not the first time I've been asked that," said Harry

"What am I doing here? Explain!" Snape demanded

"You're inside a dream Mr. Snape," said Lockhart

"And who's dream would it be?" said Draco

"Potter! Explain yourself! Why on earth are we inside your dream!" yet again demanded Snape

"Who told you it was mine?" said Harry

"Oh I know it's you Potter, the name Potter is always the root of all evil, if you don't believe me, ask THEM!" said Snape pointing at Sirius and Lupin

"Keep pointing your grimy fingers at me Snape, and I'll make sure that you'll be missing some," said Sirius

"Or what, you'd bite me and give me rabies, who do you think you are. Hah, answer me!" said Snape

"I have a gesture though, but I don't think it would be appropriate to do so since were at the presence of children," said Sirius

"Who are you calling children!" said Ron

"I have a few pointers for you little bro," said Charlie

"Charlie would you give it a rest already," said Bill

"Right, sorry," said Charlie

"Mr. Snape," said Lockhart

"It's Professor to you Lockhart!" snarled Snape

"Well then, Professor," said Lockhart

"Don't mind him, he's always like that, it's really normal for him," said Lupin

"Very well, Professor Snape, how does it feel to be always picked on," asked Lockhart

"How do you think it feels-"said Snape, suddenly there came a music of some sort from somewhere" "Wait! What's this! There's something strange happening, I feel like... I feel like... (Sniff, sniff) I'm going to cry," a hanky suddenly appeared out of nowhere "It's so hard enough (sniff) having no friends (sniff) but it's even harder when kids always make fun of you (sniff) even if you did absolutely nothing (sniff) Wahhhhhh!" wailed Snape

"Mr. Black, have you got anything to say?" said Lockhart

Sirius is now starting to be infected of the strange music's effect "Snape (sniff) I didn't know (sniff) you have to understand (sniff) about my mother, (sniff) she's always (sniff) giving me a hard time (sniff) I mean (sniff) doing that to you (sniff) might have been the way (sniff) I could lash it all out (sniff) I'm sorry!"

"All I wanted was friendship! Waaaaahhhhhhh!" wailed Snape

"I said I was sorry! Waaaahhhhh!" wailed Sirius

"I should have stopped them (sniff) I should have done what was right (sniff) I should have... I should have.... OH MY GOD! I'M SUCH A WORTHLESS THING! Waaahhhh!" wailed Lupin

"Ah, Neville, what do you feel about being bullied by Draco?" said Lockhart ignoring the cries of the three

"Me? I don't know, I got over it I guess," said Neville

"How about you Draco, what do you-"Lockhart didn't get to finish his question, the reason was Draco was now staring to cry

"I did it (sniff) I did all those horrible things (sniff) because (sniff) because (sniff) I WAS NEVER LOVED BY MY OWN FATHER! Waaaahhhh!" wailed Draco

"You were-"started Lockhart but was interrupted when he heard....

"ALL I WANTED WAS ACCEPTANCE! Waaaahhhhh!" wailed Snape

"I SAID I WAS SORRY!" wailed Sirius

"CURSE THIS SICKNESS OF MINE!" howled Lupin

Lockhart cleared his throat "You were never loved by your father, is that what you are saying" asked Lockhart

"Yes (sniff)," said Draco

"Then let's bring him out here, Draco Malfoy, say hello to your father, everyone please welcome Mr. Lucius Malfoy!" said Lockhart

Lucius Malfoy walked out of the curtains looking snobbish as ever, he took a sit on one of the chairs.

"Mr. Malfoy, is it true that you never loved your own son?" asked Lockhart

"Who says I ever did?" said Lucius, with that answer; Draco started crying again

"Nobody loves me! Waaahhh!" wept Draco

"That's so cruel," said Hermione

"Cruel would be an understatement," said Ginny

"I would prefer it if you would call me vindictive, since that's a nice word I like to hear," said Lucius

"I used to look up to you (sniff), but now (sniff) I wont let you hurt me again (sniff)" said Draco

"Oh please," said Lucius rolling his eyes

"I think we just had enough of that," said Lockhart, and then suddenly, everyone vanished in a blink of an eye. Harry scanned the set only to find that He and Hermione are the only ones who was left behind

"Going back to our original subject, Hermione, I think Harry has something to tell you," said Lockhart

Harry paused. He didn't want to open his mouth but a strange force was allowing him to speak.

"Hermione," started Harry

"What is it Harry?" asked Hermione who was paying Harry all of her attention, a reason to make Harry sweat

"I... I... I think I'm in love with you," said Harry

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Harry suddenly opened his eyes; he quickly sat up on his bed and started looking around the room for something strange, he saw Ron, Neville, Seamus and Dean sound asleep, he thought about what he dreamt about, and then something hit him, he had realize something he was so stupid not know of sooner. Harry was in love with his best friend Hermione.

Coming up:

Neville gets chased by flying knives and they all went to buy their costumes for the Lunar Ball.

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