Auhtor's note: Hey everybody, once again, i have attempted another story! Please read, and if u do pwease, PWEASE REVIEW! It would be much appriciated. :) .

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Harry Potter characters but all characters that I have made up, they are mine! MINE i tell u! Hehe..

Anyways, keep up the smiles

Harry awoke in the middle of a dark, gloomy, rather depressing night to the sound of his heart beating in his chest. Everything around him was dark and he had, for a moment, thought he was back at Hogwarts or even back at the Dursleys. But he knew he wasn't.

It was stuck in the back of his mind as he had forced it back there because it seemed to hurt him everything it took over his mind. It, was the fact that he would never be able to go back to Hogwarts. It was the fact that Dumbledore was dead. It was the fact that he would never be safe again.

He sat up, stretching his long tired arms as he put on his glasses and reached for the light switch. The light was blinding and for a few moments, Harry felt as if he'd never be able to see again. After regaining his sight once more, he rose out of his bed and looked around at his surroundings. As usual, his clothes were strewn about the messy floor so bad he didn't know if he'd ever be able to see the floor again, his owl, Hedwig was out for the night and he was the only person for miles who was awake… well.. that's what he thought. In fact, there were two other people awake at this time. One of them, was Mr Biknode, a barman, who was about two minutes away from pouring Harry a Butterbeer at the pub downstairs. The other… well… they wouldn't be awake for much longer.

Harry pulled on a random sweater that was closest to him and tried to make his way over to the door. Swinging it open (which proved to be rather difficult as the clothes were threatening to come out of the room every time he opened the door) he saw the bright lights in the hallway blasting light into every corner the light could reach. Sleepily, Harry made his way down the hallway, down the creaky stairs and opened the door to the bar. The bar looked very different to what it had looked like on Friday night, with the bustling (mostly drunk) people scurrying around, laughing and generally having a good time. But at this time on a Sunday morning, it was almost completely deserted. But there, behind the bar, was Mr Biknode wiping down the bench before him just as Harry had seen him do hundreds of times. Harry walked up to the bar and took his usual seat in front of Mr Biknode.

"Back again, eh, Harry?" Mr Biknode begun, placing the filthy cloth he had been using under the bench.

"Same time as always." Harry replied, looking at his watch and seeing 3:48 booming back at him, the same three digits that had made themselves noticed for the last couple of weeks. The last couple of weeks being ever since he left Hogwarts.

"The usual, I suppose?"

"Yeah, give me two this time."

Mr Biknode raised one eyebrow in surprise as he filled two large glasses with Butterbeer.

Harry forced the first one down in one gulp. Mr Biknode held back a chuckle although a smile just managed to appear on his large, round face, somewhere underneath a large blonde moustache.

Suddenly, there was a faint knock at the front door to the hotel. Mr Biknode got to his feet and walked out of the bar, the chilly air that followed indicating the door was now wide open. Harry heard a mutter of "thanks" before the door was closed and the cool breeze brought to a halt. Mr Biknode strolled in merrily once more, a slightly damp newspaper in his right hand.

"Delivery has to be quite early from now on." He began placing the newspaper in front of him. "The guests up in 206 were complaining because they didn't get their newspaper until six." He chuckled as he spread the newspaper out in front of him. But the smile that had forever lived on his face was suddenly ripped off and in its place was a look of utter shock. His hands began to shake as he turned the paper around to face Harry.

Harry took one look at the front page of the Daily Prophet before muttering:

"Crap."

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