Disclaimer: These charaters are not mine, and never will be. They belong to the beautiful J.K.Rowling )
A/N :I promise the real action starts in the next chapter
As Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Ginny all walked to the great hall, they could hear the excited voices of the other students chatting. Harry just wished he could be as excited as they were.
"Harry, you haven't talked much you sure you're okay?" Hermione said worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Harry lied. Harry hated having to lie to them but how was he supposed to bring it up? Just say "Oh yeah I'm fine, except for the fact Voldemort is trying to kill me . . . again, my only family member I had left has just died, and I have a prophecy about me that says I will either murder, or be murdered." Harry thought almost smiling at how their faces would look.
Harry and the others made their way towards the Gryffindor table. As they sat down, they were greeted by their fellow Gryffindors. Harry looked up at the faculty table. He saw all his regular teachers except the defense against the dark arts teacher's seat was taken by an old man, with many cuts and nicks in his face. That's when Harry noticed who it was.
"Hey you guys, look! It's moody!" Harry said excitedly as the others looked towards where he was pointing.
"Why is he here? Do you think he is going to be the new teacher?" Ron asked right before he noticed Professor McGonagall coming to start the sorting. After the sorting was over, Dumbledore stood up to begin his welcome speech.
"Welcome, welcome, to a new year at Hogwarts." His smile was very big and his crystal blue eyes twinkled "Before we become too befuddled by this wonderful feast, I'd just like to tell you that any privileges that were taken away last year have been denounced and our caretaker, Mr. Filch, has a new list of forbidden school things. I'd also like to welcome once again out new defense against the dark arts teacher, Professor Moody."
Harry and the others watched Moody stand up, try to take a bow, and sat down.
"Now without further a do, please, DIG IN!" Dumbledore said as food magically appeared upon the tables.
After the feast in the Great Hall, Harry, Ron, and Hermione all walked up to Gryffindor tower together.
"Finally here, I HATE sitting with those other dumb prefects." Ron said after collapsing into a big comfy chair in the common room. "So what did you and Ginny do the whole time?" Ron asked Harry, but Harry wasn't listening. He was still thinking about how he was going to tell Ron and Hermione about Voldemort. He still hadn't even told them about the prophecy from last year.
"Harry?" Ron said looking up at him.
"Huh? Oh it was okay." Harry answered quickly.
"Uh, I'm kind of tired I'm going to head off to bed." Harry said before briskly walking upstairs.
"What's up with him lately?" Hermione asked Ron.
"Dunno, but he had one of those weird dreams again last night." Ron said looking towards Hermione" Then he promised me not to tell anyone."
"You don't think he is keeping something from us do you?" Hermione said thinking.
Right then Ginny burst out of her chair by the fireplace and ran upstairs, crying her eyes out. Ron was suddenly startled because he didn't even know his sister was sitting there.
"What's with her?" Ron asked "Well, what should we do?"
"We wait. When they want to talk to us they will." Hermione said before closing her book and got up to go to her dormitory.
"So we wait? That's all?" Ron asked impatiently, expecting a better answer.
"Yes." Hermione said coolly before kissing Ron and walking to her dormitory.
Harry, even though was not tired at all, was trying to fall asleep in his bed, but all he could think about was how he was going to tell Ron and Hermione the news. Harry then decided to tell them tomorrow. Harry then, with his new decision made, fell into a light sleep.
"My plan is becoming better and better." Voldemort explained "All I need is Mr. Potter, and I will be unstoppable." Voldemort was indeed happy with something as he paced through the long line of deatheaters.
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"My Lord, I believe I have found a good harboring place." Wormtail said before bowing in the moonlight.
"Really Wormtail? How surprising, I thought Avery was doing that." Voldemort said sarcastically before his cold laugh was distributed before then deatheaters.
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Harry awoke shivering more than ever, along with uncomfortable pains from his scar. Voldemort had obviously done something to Avery, to which Wormtail was now assigned his job. But what was the harboring place for and why did they even need it? These questions ached in Harry's mind for the rest of the day.
After Care of Magical Creatures Class, Harry led Ron and Hermione towards the lake.
"Did you need something Harry?" Hermione said why laying her books down under the shade of a great oak tree.
"Okay, the reason I have been acting funny and stuff . . . well . . ." Harry began
"Well, do you remember the prophecy? From last year in the Department of Mysteries? Well it said that I would either kill Voldemort, or be killed by him. It also explained how I survived that night when I was a baby." Harry continued hushing his voice " and I have been having these weird instances where I would see a glance of a deatheater at Privet Drive. As if they are watching me or something. Dumbledore recons they are going to use me for something again but no one knows what." As Harry finished, he stared at Hermione and Ron's shocked faces.
"So Voldemort is trying to use you again?" Ron asked.
"But what for? Now that the prophecy is gone . . ." Ron stopped to think.
"Isn't it obvious? Voldemort is going to . . ." Hermione started to say as a giant tentacle rose from the water and wrapped itself around her, dragging her in the freezing cold water.
"HERMIONE!" Ron and Harry yelled at the same time as they dove into the green water of the lake. Harry grabbed out his wand and did a bubble head charm, and Ron mimicked. They both swam as fast as they could to catch up with the giant squid. Ron swam fast and hard to the left and so did Harry to the right.
"Wingardium Levioso!" Ron shouted, but his spell didn't do any damage.
Harry suddenly remembered reading something in Care of Magical Creatures last year. Squids like the darkness, or their eyes didn't deal well in the light.
"That's it! Lumos Maxima!" Harry yelled as a bright light burst out of his wand and blinded the giant squid.
Right then, Harry noticed a giant cave that (if not for his spell) the squid was going to go in.
Ron then swam to grab Hermione and carried her to the surface. She was unconscious from the lack of air and the wind knocked out of her before being drug underwater.
"Is . . . she . . . okay?" Harry said gasping for breath, because his charm had worn off three minutes before reaching the surface.
"I think so but she needs to go to the hospital wing." Ron said surprisingly calm.
"I am . . . okay" Hermione said after coughing up a two mouthfuls of water.
As Ron and Harry carefully helped Hermione up the steps to the hospital wing, Harry looked back at the lake to see Lucius Malfoy standing on the opposite side of the lake. Harry had to double glance but by the time he did Lucius was nowhere to be found.
"You three are very lucky, one more minute in there and she would've drowned." Madam Pomphrey said "Now you two need check-ups just to make sure there isn't anything wrong with you either."
"Okay Madam Pomphrey." Ron and Harry echoed as they hoped onto a nearby bed.
"Okay Harry, you first, you have had shots before right?" Madam Pomphrey asked.
"Uh, yeah." Harry said looking at Madam Pomphrey as if she were stupid. Just then he heard a slight giggle from the bed that Hermione lay in. That was enough for Ron and Harry to smile.
"Well, living with those brutal muggles, I wasn't sure if they had given you the basics, well anyhow . . ." Madam Pomphrey said as she continued through Harry's exam and Ron's.
"Okay, Hermione needs rest. I suggest you two do the same." Madam Pomphrey said as she walked out and shut the doors behind her.
"Goodnight Hermione, Get well soon." Harry said as he hugged her and walked towards the door.
"Goodnight 'Mione." Ron said as he kissed her tenderly and turned to leave.
As Ron and Harry left Harry had just remembered something. He had forgotten to tell Ron and Hermione about seeing Lucius Malfoy across the lake.
"Oh Ron, come to the Owlery I need to talk to you." Harry said almost instantly.
"Okay, but can't it wait?" Ron asked "I'm kind of hungry."
"No, now!" Harry said so that Ron would notice the urgency of his voice.
Ron quickly followed Harry as he walked up to the Owlery. As soon as Harry and Ron reached it he closed the door behind them Harry began to tell Ron about the hole the squid was going in and Lucius across the lake.
"Wow, that's really, really weir- hey, what the bloody hell is that?" Ron asked irritably.
"What?" Harry asked confused to what Ron was hearing.
"Something, I am not sure what, but it was like a burst, or something outside the window." Ron said confused.
As Harry and Ron both looked out the Owlery window he noticed a group of people right on the edge of The Forbidden Forrest. They seemed to be wearing hoods and black capes. That's when Harry noticed they were deatheaters.
"Three deatheaters at Hogwarts?" Harry thought out loud "It doesn't add up."
"DEATHEATERS?" Ron said in complete shock "What the hell are they doing here?"
"I'm not sure, but what are they doing out in the open? Don't they think someone will see them?" Harry said confused.
"Wait, look someone is joining them." Ron said pointing out another deatheater joining them "That'sLucius Malfoy . . . What the hell?"
"Ron you know when I had that dream, well Lucius was telling Voldemort that He knew how to get me to them. And I think that they were going to kidnap Hermione. So then I would come after her, and there I would be, right in their trap. That's what Hermione was trying to tell us before the squid got her."
"Ron's face had turned a bright red as if he was blushing, but Harry could tell he was raging with anger.
"Ron, I need you to go tell Hermione the news tomorrow morning, okay?" I have to go talk to Dumbledore right after the dinner feast." Harry said.
"You can count on me." Ron said.
As they turned to leave Harry started going in a different direction than Ron.
"Hey, where you going?" Ron asked.
"I'm not hungry I need to go think." Harry said "See you tonight."
"Okay, I guess." Ron said a little disappointed that he would be alone at the feast.
As Harry walked to Gryffindor tower, he accidentally bumped into someone.
"Oops, sorry I wasn't looking where I was going." Harry said fixing his round glasses.
"No, it was my fault." A female voice said.
Harry lookeddown to see Ginny'ssmiling face.
"I thought . . . oh never mind. Hey Ginny." He said laughing at his own shuddering.
"Hi Harry, you heading up to Gryffindor tower?" She asked happily.
"Yeah actually" Harry said "You want to come with me?"
"Sure." She said happily.
"Thanks." Harry answered. This was the first time that Harry had seen a happy Ginny in a long time.
After they reached the common room, they each picked a comfy seat by the fire and sunk into it.
"So why weren't you at dinner?" Harry asked.
"I was, but I wasn't very hungry, and Ron told me you weren't coming so I wanted you to have some company" Ginny said "I hope that's alright."
"Of course not, I just was going to relax a bit. I am tired from tod- OUCH!" Harry was interrupted by a serge of pain in his scar.
"Jeez, right when I started to relax!" Harry said rubbing his scar.
"What happened, what's the matter?" Ginny asked suddenly.
"I don't know, I think Voldemort is really mad about something . . ." Harry said his scar aching even more painfully.
"What would they be mad about though?" Ginny asked.
Just then the pain went away from Harry's scar. Voldemort was suddenly happy.
"I think I need to go talk to Dumbledore. Sorry Ginny I got to go." Harry said getting up to leave.
"Wait, Harry!" Ginny called after him "You should wait until tomorrow. So you're not up all night, I think you need to rest . . ."
Ginny all of the sudden seemed worried about Harry.
"Yeah I suppose. . . okay I'll go first thing tomorrow." Harry agreed.
"Goodnight Ginny." Harry said as he waved.
"Goodnight Harry." Ginny answered back as she also got up and left to her dormitory also.
It was easy for Harry to fall asleep tonight as he lay down on his bed, he didn't even bother to undress. He just fell into a deep sleep.
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"Lucius, I am very disappointed in you." Voldemort sneered "CRUCIO!" Voldemort watched his servant cringe and squirm with pain on the floor.
"Master, wait. I think I have another idea." Lucius said steadily getting up form on the floor.
"Charming the giant squid obviously was not enough! No we shall do it MY way!" Voldemort yelled angrily. "Gather the others and I shall tell you." Voldemort ordered.
As the other deatheaters arrive, Voldemort sits stroking the head of his snake.
"I have another, and obviously better, way to convince Harry Potter." Voldemort laughed his cold laugh once again.
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A/N : Please read and review. I have only gotten one review, but I need some suggestions! Or atleast tell me if you like it so far :oP
P.S. Like I said before, the action and suspense really starts in the next chapter.