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A/N - Ok guys, sorry for the long wait but here's chapter five. You probably guessed by now i don't do quick updates, but i am trying :P Hopefully you'll all be pleased with this chapter :D oh and thanx to my beta lizzie for her much appreciated help on this chappie :D
A week passed by without Harmony regaining her memory, or in fact, even remembering any details of her life at all. Charlie was beginning to wonder if the damage to her mind would be permanent. Occasionally he would catch her staring absently into space, and when he asked her what was wrong, she would shake her head and mutter something incoherent before returning to her schoolwork.
The students' life at Hogwarts was becoming very hectic lately, but none more so than Harmony's. She had discovered about two days after her first lesson, that all seventh years would be taking their N.E.W.T's, a series of wizarding exams, at the end of the year. Unlike her friends, she had found this news very disturbing, and had taken to studying as often as she could.
All her friends had found her obsessive studying highly amusing, and Charlie couldn't help but tease her, especially when he showed her the schools library for the first time.
He had taken her there to stop her constant complaining that her school books didn't hold enough information to complete her essays. He had dragged her into the library by the arm, ignoring her complaints that he was interrupting her revision time. Of course, the moment she had lain eyes Hogwarts' extensive selection of books, her protests had been quelled.
Fortunately, Charlie had Quidditch practise, therefore he had been saved having to remain in the library with Harmony. The library had been a place he had resiliently avoided as much as possible during his time at Hogwarts. He only ventured there in dire emergencies (whenever Caitlyn refused to let him copy her, in other words).
Charlie returned from the particularly vigorous Quidditch practice to discover Harmony had yet to return to the common room. He took a quick shower and changed out of his Quidditch robes before walking with a slight limp (Fred had "accidentally" whacked him around the shins with his beater bat), down to the library.
It took Charlie quite some time to find Harmony, but finally located her sat at a desk right at the back of the library, hidden behind a ridiculously large pile of books. She failed to notice him though, as her eyes were moving across the pages of her current book with astonishing speed.
'Have you read all these already?' he asked, staring at the titles on the spines of the books. Hogwarts: A History, A Guide to Basic Potions and Quidditch through the Ages were just a few of the tomes residing on the table. Harmony' head popped up from behind her book as she noticed Charlie for the first time.
'Don't be ridiculous,' she snapped, returning to her book. 'Just those ones.' She gestured with her free hand to a smaller, but still rather impressive, pile of books.
'Wow.' Charlie stated. 'Well, are you coming back to the common room? Caitlyn said she'd give you a hand with your potions essay if you want, she's already helping Gemma.'
'I finished it,' Harmony replied, her eyes remaining fixatedly on her book. 'Did it about an hour ago.' Charlie listened in amazement. How had she managed to finish a three and a half foot long essay and still have time to read all those books? Charlie shook his head. Whoever she really is, I think we've established she's a swot, Charlie thought.
'Well, are you coming anyway? It's almost nine o'clock and I left you here at about five,' Charlie stood up, wincing slightly at the pain in his muscles. Harmony noticed and asked:
'Rough practice?'
'Got to work hard, we've got a match against Slytherin first weekend after the holidays. So are you coming?'
'No I'm fine, you go, I'll see you later.'
'Harmony,' he groaned. 'Right then, as a prefect, I'm ordering you to your common room. No buts!' he added as Harmony opened her mouth to protest.
'Fine,' she sighed, pushing her chair back. She stood up, and Charlie noticed her eyes slide out of focus. She gave a sharp intake of breath before stumbling forwards, her eyes tightly shut. Charlie lunged forwards and managed to catch her before her head hit the table corner. He lowered her body back into her chair and watched her with a worried expression, wondering if he should fetch Madam Pomfrey. Just then, to Charlie's immense relief, Harmony let out a small groan and her eyes flickered open.
'Harmony, are you ok?' Charlie asked, crouching so that he was at her height.
'W-what?' her face was extremely pale and she looked as though she was about to cry. 'What happened?'
'Well, you, um, fainted.' A frown appeared on Harmony's face for a moment but was soon replaced with a look of surprise. Her eyes widened and her mouth dropped open slightly.
'Do you want to go to the hospital wing?'
'No-no. I think I just need to go to bed, that's all.' She attempted to stand up, but Charlie had to grab her arm to stop her from falling once again.
Around twenty minutes later they arrived in the common room, Charlie still helping Harmony to walk. Harmony headed to the girls staircase the moment they stepped into the common room, holding tightly to the handrail running up the wall of the staircase. Charlie watched her go, concern etched on his features. Charlie walked over to the fireplace where Jason was sat, scratching away with his quill, a perplexed look on his face.
'What's up with her?' Jason looked up as Charlie sat down on the couch opposite him.
'I dunno,' Charlie answered. The truth was he had a pretty shrewd idea of what was wrong but he could hardly say to Jason. 'My amnesic friend just got part of her memory back', so instead he settled for 'she went really dizzy in the library and almost fainted, but she said she's fine.'
Harmony was not fine. She had a huge headache, feel queasy and, if her assumption was correct, she had just regained a portion of her memory.
Harmony rolled over onto her back and stared at the deep red canopy of her bed. The curtains were pulled closed around her bed so that she could pretend to be asleep should any of her roommates come in.
Unconsciously, Harmony's hand found its way to the chain around her neck and her fingers wrapped around the tiny 'H'. She hadn't taken the necklace off since she had found it on her first day in the hospital wing. It was the only connection she had to who she really was. Although it hadn't helped her so far, it was nice just to have it with her.
Her mind wandered back to the incident in the library. The force of the memory had literally knocked her off her feet and left her feeling light headed. At first she hadn't understood what she had seen, but once she had had time to think in the cool calmness of her dorm, she mind had slowly made sense of her "vision".
Over the past week, Harmony had experienced flashes of colour and seen fractions of incomprehensible images, but nothing like what had happened in the library.
Harmony closed her eyes, allowing the memory to resurface to the front of her mind once more.
She crouched amongst the splintered wood and debris that was once a row of toilet cubicles and she watched in terror as something very large and bulky destroyed the rest of the bathroom. That something was a troll.
But she noticed the troll was not demolishing the room for no reason, though. Hanging on to the trolls back was a young, bespectacled boy gripping on for dear life.
'Harry!' she heard herself shout. The boy was dangerously close to letting go of the troll. The troll lumbered clumsily around the bathroom, spinning in circles, apparently trying to see what was clinging onto its back.
'Careful Harry!' for the first time she noticed someone else was in the room. Through the clouds of dust created by the troll, she could see a small red-haired boy, looking anxiously at the boy on the troll.
'Do something!' Harry yelled as he was almost thrown from the trolls back and hit by its club. She noticed the red haired boy had his wand out, pointing it uncertainly at the troll.
'Swish and flick!' she found herself calling out to him. He glanced over at her before taking a deep breath and bellowing:
'Wingardium leviosa!' the trolls clubs flew out of its hand and hovered above its head for a few seconds. The troll looked around for its club with a clueless expression on its face. Moments later the club fell out of the air and hit the troll n the head with a dull 'thud'. The troll went cross eyed and staggered around the room, failing its arms about, before falling unceremoniously to the ground.
Harry clambered off the trolls back. He walked around its gigantic body until he was standing in front of its head.
'Urgh, troll bogies,' Somehow his wand had ended up lodged inside the troll's nose and his face held a disgusted look as he pulled it out.
'You alright, mate?' the dust had now settled a little, and the red haired boy stepped forwards…
It had ended there. Harmony had opened her eyes and found Charlie's face looking at her with concern. She still didn't know what to make of the vision.
Obviously, at some point in her life she had fought a troll. This was the least of her worries however, she was more concerned with who the two boys who had been with her were.
'Harry,' she muttered to herself. The boy had looked so familiar, yet he still couldn't place him. Judging by the way he had looked, he couldn't have been any older than twelve, probably the same as she was in the "vision". And the other boy, the one with red hair – had that been Charlie? When she had opened her eyes and seen Charlie staring at her, she could have sworn it was the same boy. Yes, his features had matured a little, but there was an uncanny resemblance between the boy in her vision and Charlie.
Harmony stiffened when she heard the door to the dorms open and the hushed voices of Gemma and Caitlyn as they entered the room. The dormitory door shut with a thud.
'Sshh, you'll wake her up,' Caitlyn whispered.
'Not if you wake her up first with your… elephant feet,' Gemma retorted, somewhat lamely.
'Well, that was witty and clever of you,' Caitlyn hissed back sarcastically.
'Shut up will you, you'll wake her up,' Gemma said, and Harmony could imagine the confused look on Caitlyn's face as she replied.
'Eh? Uh…whatever.'
'How long do reckon Lori'll be?' Gemma asked. 'I don't wanna be woken up at three in the morning again to hear about her latest conquest.'
'Shouldn't be too long, Charlie didn't look in the mood for flirting.' Harmony felt something tighten in her stomach at the mention of Charlie, or, more precisely, the mention of Lori flirting with Charlie.
'Charlie's never in the mood for flirting anymore, at least not with Lori. Why doesn't she just give up on him already?'
'You know what she's like – always wants what she can't have. Just leave her to it, she'll find someone else eventually. And she's happy enough chasing Charlie for now.'
'Can't say the same for him though. G'night.'
'G'night' Harmony heard their mattresses creak as the two of them climbed in to their beds. She lay awake for a little while longer, listening to the sounds of breathing coming from her two friends, before finally rolling onto her side. She finally fell asleep, only to dream about red headed boys, a dark haired bespectacled boy and trolls.
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