CHAPTER 8:

Harry went inside and fell into an uneasy sleep and when he woke up the next day he remembered last night , it had been a strange experience but the one thing that troubled him the most was that he had let whoever that was get to him.

He sat in his bed with a thoughtful look on his face thinking about yesterday , he couldn't even imagine his mom doing something bad , she was like a saint and she would die of shame if she did something like that.

IN LILY AND JAMES'S ROOM:

Lily was standing in the balcony taking in the peaceful scenery or at least that's how it seemed to an onlooker if you look closely you could see the bags under her eyes and how downcast her usually bright emerald eyes looked.

The door to the balcony opened and James came out, "Peaceful isn't it?" he asked breathing the fresh air and then saw his wife's eyes, "What's the matter? are you all right?" he asked in a concerned voice.

"Nothing's the matter" she said not looking him in his eyes, he forced her to face him and asked "You are thinking about Lorena aren't you?", she sighed but it was enough for him "It's not your fault besides I am sure Lorena wouldn't want you to be like this forever, she would want you to go on with your life".

At that moment , there was a knock and Lily went to open it eager to avoid the questions , opening she saw Harry standing and rubbing his eyes looking as if he had just got up , "Harry , you are up early" she said with her eyebrows raised for it wasn't often that her son got up so early during holidays.

"Mummy, there's something I want to talk about "he started but stopped when he saw a muggle photo on his mom's desk , he knew it was a picture of mum and her friends when they were just 16 and he had seen it often but he had never paid any attention to it before.

Now he realized why the lady looked so familiar, there was his aunt Callie and his mum in the middle but the one who got his attention was the girl to his mum's right, she had long black hair and large violet eyes she was very pretty.

She looked a lot like the women in his dream, he turned towards his mom who had been watching him looking puzzled "Mum, who is that?" he asked walking towards the picture slowly, "She is my best friend Lorena Malfoy" when Harry looked at her quizzically , she sighed and explained , "She died during the first war , a very brave person she was and she was so unlike her family , she hated them and their beliefs and if nobody wanted to kill them as she did , don't get me wrong she was not a murderer but she hated them passionately".

His mum and dad went down after that but he stayed behind watching the photo "could it be? Was that women the women in his dreams?" , musing on these thoughts he went into his own room instead of going down to breakfast for his appetite had vanished suddenly.

He took out his homework thinking that he might as well finish it as he would not be able to finish it later and Hermione wouldn't show him her notes so that was out of question , "The most boring one the first" , he thought as he took out his History of Magic , he had to write about some one called Uric the oddball , he worked on it slowly but after sometime he couldn't concentrate at all and he fell asleep with the thought "if there was anything boring than Professor Binns then it was History of Magic and the history of Uric the Oddball".

He was sleeping dreaming about when he was four years old , the day on which everyone including his Aunt Callie who was always busy was there when he heard a sudden beep , he jerked awake and looked around with his eyes half closed and spotted the source of the noise , his dear stupid computer , apparently he had forgotten to turn off the alarm system which even if offline informed him if there were any messages in his inbox , he looked at the clock and sure enough saw that it was 10 o'clock , he had made plans to meet his other friend whom he had met while he was in India.

He quickly logged in and saw that it was indeed from Rahul reminding him that he was supposed to chat with him, he logged in to his messenger and saw that Rahul had for once taken off the invisible mode (A/N: Couldn't resist adding chatting for I haven't chatted with anyone for a while and my friends are going to be very angry but back to story).

He clicked on Rahul's name and the IM window opened ,

Harry: Sorry I fell asleep while doing the homework that's why I wasn't online.

Rahul: It's all right but let me guess was it History of Magic (A/N: Rahul's a wizard but he does not go to Hogwarts).

Harry: Of course what else could be more boring than History of Magic especially when it is about Uric the Oddball , anyway enough about my homework I have something important to tell you , lately I have been having the same dream daily , it is about a women with long black hair and yesterday night when I went into the forest…

Rahul:You went into that forest gasps isn't it dangerous?

Harry: would you please let me finish , Rahul?

Rahul: I am sorry , please continue.

Harry: when I went into the forest I heard a strange voice but what was stranger was the fact that it said "You may have defeated the dark lord but you will die this time and it will be because of what your mum , dad and Sirius did to me" as if they could ever do something bad to anyone , but anyway I wanted to ask you something else , your dad and my mum and dad were best friends weren't they could you please call him and ask him if he has any idea of what that lady meant?

Rahul: Just wait a min.

Harry: k

Rahul: hello, Harry and yes I can answer your question but not all of them and you must promise to never mention about this to anyone.(A/N: Jut so that you are not confused but from now on it won't be Rahul who would be chatting at the other end but it would be Rahul's dad).

Harry: Yes sir.

Rahul:I am sure you are aware of the fact that you just saw Lorena Malfoy who is believed to be dead by most of the people , anyway only a very few people are aware of the fact that she is not dead and that she is sometimes called as the dark sorceress , in fact she is more powerful than Voldemort himself.

Harry Potter has signed off.

I am so sorry for such a short chapter but this itself was difficult , I have been so busy lately that I just had time to start this chapter and I have to go to my homework pile or else I am in big trouble and this month is an inspection month when teachers from other school inspect our school and there is also the interschool competions and sports. anyway enough about my day , thanks to all those who reviewed and I am sorry I wasn't able to thank each of you personally and remember to REVIEW as it inspires me