A/N: I know I've said this a million and two times already but I'm SO SORRY for the long wait! Thank you to all my reviewers! This chapter is a little... well, pointless lol. I've worked long and hard on it, but there is very little point to it. But never less I hope you all enjoy it all the same! Happy reading!
A/N 2: In this chapter Hermione uses a spell that I've created " Generoduo" generoduo is Latin for " Create Two" I just wanted to inform everyone of that before you read this.
Enjoy!
Chapter 23
Breaking an Entry and A Letter
A few minutes after Ginny had left the Hospital wing, Harry found himself drifting off into a dreamless sleep. He awoke about an hour and a half later only to find Madame Pomfrey shaking him.
" Potter," she said, shaking him a bit harder, " Wake up! It's time for you to go."
Harry's eyes opened slowly as he yawned and stretched, he quickly noticed that his sling had been taken off and he was feeling much more flexible.
" Okay, okay, I'm up," he said, as he swung his legs over the side of the bed and stood up.
Madame Pomfrey handed him his cloak and uniform and started to pull the curtains around his bed." Here, put your uniform on, once you've dressed you can go ahead and head down to the Great Hall, lunch will be starting in about fifteen minutes." with that said she felt that there was no need to stay so she clicked off to her office leaving Harry to himself.
Harry slipped out of his beater and shorts and changed into his uniform and pulled on his cloak quickly. He put his wand in his pocket, straightened his glasses, and walked out of the Hospital wing, heading towards the Head's dormitories.
As soon as the familiar canvas had came into sight he dashed up to it, said the password, and scurried into the common room. He grabbed his bag and then ran back out of the room, now walking briskly towards the great hall.
Before he even reached the doors he heard a girl squeal and then felt someone hug him, at first Harry thought it was Ginny but when he turned he had received a mouthful of curly brown hair, Hermione.
" Oh, Harry, I'm so glad your out again!" she squealed, then she let go of him and gave him a friendly smile, "How's your arm?"
Harry smiled, " Much better than before,"
" That's great!" she exclaimed, looking around cautiously, "Ginny told me all about your plans," Hermione whispered.
" And what do you think?" he asked slowly, afraid that she would blow up at him.
" I think it's bloody brilliant if you ask me!"
He was surprised, very surprised," Wow, Ron really has taken a toll on you, hasn't he?"
Hermione giggled, " Yeah, but for the most part I think it's better that I've loosened up a bit,"
" So do I," Harry muttered.
Hermione laughed and then slapped his arm, " Oh shut up, come on let's get us a seat, Ginny's been waiting for you,"
Harry smiled at her and followed her to the table. When they got half way into the Great Hall a ball of flaming red hair came running towards him, knowing it was Ginny a smile spread across his face. She ran into his arms and he picked her up, spinning around in a circle.
When he set her down she beamed from ear to ear, she had missed him so much and he had only been in the Hospital wing for a day! Half of that day she had been with him too, " I missed you," she said as she planted a soft kiss on his lips.
" I missed you too, it seemed like I was in there for an eternity!"
Ginny laughed and nodded, " Yeah, I know what you mean. Come on you should get something to eat before we head back to our dorms, we have a free period after lunch, and Hermione wanted to use up that time for planning."
" Oh, okay, er ... did you tell Ron?" Harry whispered as he seated himself at the long table.
She shook her head, " Hermione and I didn't know if we should, I mean the last time we went to the Department of Mysteries he had gotten himself attacked by flying brains... only Ron"
Harry snorted, " Yeah, now that you mention it, that was pretty funny,"
" What was pretty funny?" Ron asked clueless, having heard the last sentence Harry said.
Harry looked at Ginny nervously, " Er, nothing,"
Ron didn't object, he just raised his eyebrow and then shrugged, " Can you hand me the Pumpkin juice please?"
Ginny giggled and handed him the large pitcher, "Sure."
" So, I was planning on meeting up with Nevile and Seamus, we were going to go to the library to do a bit of studying, would you like to join us Harry?"
Harry felt guilt surge up inside him as he replied, " Oh, no thanks, actually I was planning on going back to our dorm after lunch. I was going to do some research on the N.E.W.T subjects, as you know we'll be taking them in April, and that's only two months away. You guys can go ahead and have fun."
Ron gave him a curious look and again shrugged, " Alright, we can study another time,"
After they had finished eating Ron kissed Hermione goodbye and set off to the library while Ginny, Harry, and Hermione headed off to their dormitory.
Once they reached their dormitory, Hermione seated herself down in a chair while Harry and Ginny sat together on the love seat.
" So how are we supposed to get into the Department of Mysteries?" Ginny asked.
Hermione bit her lip and sighed, " Well, I'm not really sure, I mean we can't use the invisibility cloak obviously," she stood up and started pacing. " people like Moody would be around guarding the entire building."
After a few minutes Hermione sat back down and started rubbing her forehead. Silence filled the room as they sat in deep thought, Harry was the one to break the silence.
" Hey do you think there might be a potion that would make us invisible for like two hours or something?" he asked.
Ginny shrugged, she had no idea but Hermione stood up and flung her arms up in the air, " Why didn't I think of that? Of course, brilliant Harry, brilliant!" before either of them knew what happened Hermione ran out of the room.
Ginny started laughing and Harry just looked confused, suddenly the door opened again and Hermione stuck her head in, " Well, are you coming with me or are you just going to let your arses go numb!"
With that they both got up and followed Hermione out of the room and all the way to the third floor. " Harry do you have your invisibility cloak with you?"
He pulled out the filmy material from his pocket and nodded " Always,"
" Good everyone under, no talking and be careful not to show your feet," Hermione pulled out her wand and whispered, " Alohomora!"
The tall old door swung open, creaking loudly and the three of them snuck in unnoticed. Hermione kept her wand out and looked around checking for any signs of people being in the library, once the it was clear she again whispered another spell, " Lumos!" the tip of her wand lit and she held it in front of them as they crept up to one of the long bookshelves.
" Hey, whoever is grabbing my butt, please keep your hands to yourself," Hermione said shifting uneasily under the cloak.
Even though no one saw, Harry blushed a deep crimson, " Sorry, thought it was Ginny," he muttered, Hermione didn't acknowledge him but Ginny burst out into a fit of giggles.
" Shh!" Hermione hissed angrily, " Do you want to get caught?" she whispered, Ginny just shook her head and grunted.
Ignoring this, Hermione lifted her wand up higher so that the spines of the dusty books could be read.
" Hm, let's see here: Mystical Creatures That Really Do Go Bump In the Night, ... no no,... Performing The Very Dark Arts, .. no.. Aha!" she exclaimed pulling out a greenish ripped and dusty book that was attached to the bookshelf by an old rusty chain. " Potions: Disillusion and Invisibility," it read, she waved her wand in an 'L' shape over the book as she whispered " Generoduo!" another copy of the book appeared in her hands. She shoved this copy at Ginny and thankfully Ginny caught the book.
"Nox" she whispered making her the tip of her wand return to its normal state. " Okay guys, let's get out of here before we get caught," she said as she turned and started to walk towards the entrance.
Just before they reached the doors they flew open and a small beady-eyed cat crept in followed by none other than Filch. " Who's there!" he bellowed " Someone set off the Stealth Sensory Spell, there's no way out of this Professor Snape has just informed me that the charm has gone off!"
Ginny gasped but thankfully Harry had put his hand over her mouth.
" Show yourself!" He grunted loudly
Suddenly Ginny pulled Harry's hand away from her mouth, thinking fast, and screeched out an evil laugh, " Oiy, has ickle Filchy come to find me up to no good, eh?" she screamed out, throwing her voice so that it sounded like it was coming from the other end of the room. " I guess Filchy Wilchy will just have to come find Peevesey!" then the room was filled with another evil laugh and Filch turned running for the opposite end of the room.
" Argh! Peeves! You'll never get away this time!" he yelled angrily.
Hermione giggled quietly and then led them back out of the library, they didn't dare speak or make a sound until they were safely back in Harry and Ginny's common room. When they entered Harry ripped off the cloak and the three of them burst out laughing.
" That was bloody wicked, Gin!" Harry said, grabbing a stitch in his side.
She giggled and managed to spit out, " Thanks,"
Hermione was grabbing onto the nearest chair, holding onto her stomach and howling with laughter. " Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!"
Once they had all calmed down they took a seat as Hermione started skimming the pages of the book for a good potion. After a few seconds of searching she whipped out her wand and waved it making a piece of parchment and a quill appear on the coffee table in the middle of the room.
" This one looks like it might just work, I'm going to copy this down on the paper and then get rid of this book, someone might have put a tracking spell on those books up there and we don't need to be in anymore trouble this year than we already are." Hermione said absentmindedly scribbling quickly on the parchment.
" Your right on that one 'Mione, I've already gotten detention once this year, been in the hospital wing, and gotten Ginny in the hospital wing as well."
Ginny waved a finger at him acting as if she were scolding him, as she said " Not to mention the fact that you've gotten a boy expelled from Hogwarts!"
He shook his head, " He shouldn't have messed with my girlfriend then, he was asking for it!"
Hermione giggled and then shut the book, whipped out her wand for the hundredth time that day, waved it and the book disappeared. " There, now we have about fifteen minutes until Charms, and I have to go get Ron," she said rolling her eyes
Ginny looked at the clock and got up, " Alright I'll meet you there 'Mione, bye!"
Hermione gave Ginny a hug and kissed Harry on the cheek and then sped out of the room. Ginny picked up the paper that Hermione had just written on and placed it in her bag she then went into her room and freshened up, a few minutes later she returned to the common room only to find Harry holding her bag in his hand and opening the door for her.
She walked over to him and gave him a kiss on the cheek, taking the bag and leaving the room she said, " Oh, what a gentleman."
He walked up to her and slipped his hand in hers, " Why thank you, miss."
Ginny didn't reply she just shook her head and giggled at him.
Charms went by quick enough and before they knew it they were in History of Magic class. And of course they didn't get past Professor Binns without a report on The Warlock Secret Society of 1325. Harry and Ginny slipped out of class eagerly, both of them didn't exactly have much enthusiasm for Professor Binns teaching techniques.
" Is he bloody mad," Harry exclaimed as he, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny made there way to the Great Hall for dinner. " First he drones on for thirty-five minutes about how all important wizards are guarded by some ridiculous secret society and then he has the nerve to give us a report on it!"
Ron groaned, " ... And, it couldn't be a reasonable sized one, it has to be extremely long,"
" It's not as bad as what he's given us before," Hermione contradicted.
Ginny rolled her eyes, " No, an entire foot isn't that bad? What's worse then an entire foot?"
Hermione sighed heavily, " Honestly you three, you'd think he asked us to do something completely irrational, it is his job to teach us and I believe that, with his usual assignments, a foot isn't that bad. After all, we had plenty of information from him babbling along to make at least half of the report entirely off of just notes,"
Ron turned slightly pink, Ginny started scratching her forehead and Harry cleared his throat loudly. Hermione knew what this meant, " Don't you even think of telling me that none of you took notes,"
" Er,.. well 'Mione, love, I was too busy.. er... admiring you!" Ron said, trying to be sly... it didn't work, Hermione shook her head, " Thank you I'm touched, but you are the worst liar, what about you Ginny? What's your excuse? Hmm?"
Ginny's eyes bulged a bit as she sputtered, " Um, well you see, I actually did take notes, er but they aren't very helpful... heh ..."
Hermione grabbed her note book and flipped the pages until she came upon an entire five lined pages of doodles and things like " GW+HP TL,"
Hermione snickered and then tossed the book back at the mortified girl, " Wow those will be really helpful won't they?" Ginny giggled nervously and turned a bit red, " So Harry what's your excuse?"
He laughed and then confidently said, " Fell asleep," Ron, Ginny and Harry all started laughing while Hermione stood with her arms crossed glaring at the three of them.
" 'Mione, can you just help us out once more?" Ron asked slipping his arm around her waist, as they entered the Great Hall.
At first she seemed angry, glaring at him like that, but then the scowl disappeared and was replaced by a look of ' I can't believe I'm about to say this' " Fine," she said pushing him away playfully, " But since you are so irresponsible, Ronald, dear, no snogging,"
Ron's face dropped and his arms fell limp at his sides, Ginny giggled quietly and Harry snorted, " Only kidding, love, I don't want to miss out on that either,"Hermione leaned over and gave him a small peck on the cheek as she sat down. With this Ron's face lit up again.
" Merlin, I'm so hungry!" said Ginny ignoring her flirtatious brother and his fiance, piling her plate with roast beef, carrots and peas.
Ron lifted his fork and pointed at her, " Grrat rife," once he swallowed he repeated himself, " Got that right!"
Ginny laughed at her pig of a brother and then turned to Harry, " After dinner we better go straight up to our dorm and start studying that one section in the Charms N.E.W.T book," she said winking heavily. " I think I've got an idea as to what it all means,"
Harry looked dumbfounded, " Er, ... if you say so,"
" Oh, Harry, don't be dumb," she said through gritted teeth, " You know what I'm talking about, what Hermione, you and I were studying earlier, remember?"
A look of realization swept over his face, " Oh, yeah, that part! I thought you were talking about the... er ... other part, heh," he looked at his plate and muttered, " That was close," Thankfully only Ginny heard that.
When Harry looked up from his plate again he noticed that Hermione and Ron hadn't been talking much, when he glanced over at them he realized why, they were snogging ... again; right in front of the entire school.
Harry cringed, he still wasn't exactly accustomed to watching his two best friends snogged each other, " Merlin guys! Get a room!"
Ginny laughed as the two pulled apart, " Er,.. sorry mate, ... er,... ya know how it is, I kind of just got caught up in the... moment," Ron stuttered making wild gestures with his arms.
He shook his head and then laughed. There was no way that Harry could stay disgusted at his dim witted friend longer than about... five seconds.
Once dinner was over, the four friends went their separate ways. Ginny leaned on Harry as they made their way back to their common room, " You know what next month marks?" she asked as they walked into their dormitory.
Harry thought and thought and thought, but he really had no idea, was it Ginny's birthday? No, that was August 11, he had already gotten her new robes, and a pair of gold earrings for her birthday, so he knew he hadn't missed that. What could it be?
" Er,..." he said. " your mum's birthday?"
Ginny put her arms around his neck and said, "No, silly! Our sixth month anniversary,"
"Shit!" Harry thought, he was totally unprepared, guys didn't remember things like that!
" Oh, yeah, our sixth month anniversary," he said bending down and kissing her, " something that will surely be very special, now ... er ... what would be the date of this lovely occasion, it's seemed to slip my mind."
" March 10th, of course," she said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.
" That is the Saturday before we go on Spring Break," he said more to himself than to her.
" Yep, which means..."
"... That it will be on a Hogsmeade weekend, but... er ... I have something better than that planned of course,"
She smiled and brushed her lips against his again as she whispered in his ear, " And what would that be,"
He shivered at this, he hated it... but at the same time loved it, when she did that. He bent down and then whispered in her ear, " Something that you will find out on March 10, until then you'll have to wait,"
Ginny then shoved him away playfully and turned around pretending to be mad, " Some boyfriend you've turned out to be,"
Harry laughed and then rapped his arms around her from behind, " Don't tell me your angry now, love," said Harry.
She whipped around and giggled, " Of course not, I'm just like Ron,..."
"... Can't lie to save your ass,"
Ginny giggled again, " Right," she leaned up again and kissed him softly on the lips.
The kiss lasted about three seconds before there was a loud tapping on the window in the kitchen part of the common room. Ginny pulled away from Harry and looked at the window, it was an owl, and one that neither of them had seen before. Harry looked at Ginny curiously, she shrugged, and he walked over to the window letting the owl in.
He took the letter from the owl's leg and gave it a Knut, but the owl didn't leave it just stayed there. Harry didn't object, he just looked at it curiously again and then opened the letter.
Dear Harry and Ginny,
I am sorry to say that neither of you appeared at my office today as I requested, I am a bit surprised by this but I'm guessing that you were doing something useful with this time and it just slipped your mind, maybe studying for your N.E.W.T.'s. Yes, I'm sure you were. Well, as I was saying before, you didn't come to my office before so I would like to you come by now, unless one of you gets seriously hurt on the way down here, I want you to be here in ten minutes exactly. No excuses! Thank you, I will be waiting!
Yours Sincerely,
Albus Dumbledore
" Oh, no," Harry started looking at Ginny as she petted the owl, " it's from Dumbledore."
She stopped immediately and looked at him with fear in her eyes, " What is it? What has happened? Does he know we broke into the restricted section of the library?"
He shook his head, " No, but he isn't very happy with us, although it's not because of that. We forgot to go to his office this afternoon! He's waiting for us, we are supposed to be there in ten minutes!"
Ginny sprinted to the door, " Well, let's go! We have to go to the other side of the castle!" She exclaimed running out of the room, Harry followed her at a fast pace.
They reached the eagle that marked the entrance to Pr. Dumbledore exactly seven minutes later, both huffing and puffing heavily.
" Frisklin!" Harry said quickly, trying to catch his breath.
The eagle sprung to life and began spiraling, Ginny hopped onto the stairs and was followed by Harry, when they reached the top, they found the door open with Dumbledore waiting expectantly at his desk.
" Very nice timing, you had ten seconds left." he said smiling kindly at them.
" I am so sorry, Sir, that we missed our original appointment." said Ginny.
He nodded in acceptance, " Quite fine, Miss Weasley, quite fine,"
Harry shook his head " We really should learn to be more responsible!" Ginny nodded in agreement.
Professor Dumbledore smiled again, " I am very pleased to see that you have learned from your mistake so quickly... the minds of today are nothing like the ones of yesterday. You two are the few of my many students that will learn from their mistakes before punishment has been given, thus, you are forgiven again," he stated wisely making the two in front of him beam.
" Thank you, Sir," Ginny said kindly.
" You are quite welcome, Miss Weasley," he said nodding towards her and Harry, " Now, I do believe we had something to discuss about this ... accident in the Great Hall don't we?" Dumbledore asked looking at Harry oddly.
Suddenly Harry felt out of place, something felt wrong, but what it was... Harry didn't know. All he knew was that whatever were to happen next, whatever they would find out, would not be good news in anyway.
A/N: OMG, I think this is the longest it has taken me to type up a chapter in my entire writing experience! I am so so so sorry for the wait, and I hope that you don't give up on me and stop reading because of my slowness, just remember that I won't stop writing until it is finished, which will be a long time! Oh and sorry about the cliffy please review and I will try my hardest to get out the next chapter soon!
Lissy
