Rockabye has been deleted, it might get re-posted again, but it probably won't be.
Also, this fic has not been abandoned—as long as it's on the site there's a possibility it might be updated.
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Isidoria: you'll see what the letter says, and yes, Harry's going to go with Voldie
Enelya Fefalas: You're from Tasmania? Cool! I want to go to Tasmania, that's why Harry and Sin want to go there…
Ferdia: I do need to bring Ginny back in…she'll be in next chapter with Voldie, and I do need some more magic classes…
To be left outside alone: Well, as much as I love a good SS/HP fic, I'm sorry, but this is a Voldie/Harry fic, and not only that but Snape and Remus are going together…and Sin isn't going with anyone, but he and Harry seem to be getting pretty heavy…glares at end of chapter and they know they're not supposed to be doing that…
Super-sailor-saturn39: grinsAre you offering your services as a beta? leers
Black Sorceress: okay, lemme get one thing straight—I don't abandon fics. If I do get rid of them I delete them, there is no abandonment involved. I also really happen to like this fic, and I'm not going to leave it hanging…Now, that little rant is out of the way, I'm glad you like it too and here's your update I might follow it up quickly or I might wait and work on my original fiction, but as long as you see Something Lost, Something Found on this website it has not been stopped.
Chapter Nineteen
Ron stood alone in the barely lit hallway, fidgeting and looking around anxiously at every little noise for Filch.
"Do not look for us, we will guide you to us when the time is right," That's what the first letter said. It'd been two days and this morning he'd received another letter, telling him to wait here…well, he thought it was here. The letter had only given him directions here.
The dungeons.
The torchlight began flickering dangerously, and Ron could sense the impending darkness. He fought the urge to run, and remained where he stood…then the torch went out.
Silence…
The only thing Ron could hear was his breathing and increasing noise of his heartbeat, banging in his chest.
"Ronald Weasley, I'm quite glad to see you my boy."
"Headmaster?" Ron asked turning to look in the direction of the voice.
Ron was temporarily blinded when the hallway exploded in light, after a few moments his vision cleared, excluding a few bright yellow spots and Ron realized he wasn't in the hallway anymore.
Squinting, he saw he was surrounded by at least a hundred people, dressed in pure white robes.
"Ronald," Dumbledore said again, "should you agree to join us, we would like to welcome you to the side of the Light."
Harry sighed and lay his head down on the table in Trangfig, seconds later everyone else in the room had their heads down. Professor McGonagall finished writing the notes and Harry could tell she was going to turn around, so he closed his eyes and waited.
"Wake up!" Professor McGonagall shrieked, "All of you wake up!"
Harry slowly blinked his eyes open and sat up, looking around the room in confusion….like everyone else.
"Where am I?" Blaise Zabini, a shy Slytherin who had no ambition—at all, asked quietly.
"Who are all of you?" asked Terry Boot, a Ravenclaw with a knack for failing…well…everything.
"Who am I?" Harry demanded, hoping his voice came out as innocent as Blaise and Terry's. It did, and then the whole class erupted into questions regarding their identity.
Professor McGonagall was staring at the class in horrified confusion. She held up her hands, her head bobbing up and down with her labored breathing.
"All of you stay here," she urged in a panicked voice, "I'll be right back."
"Where is here!" A boy Harry only knew as Sessisalian—a Hufflepuff, from Harry's magic class—demanded in near hysteria.
Professor McGonagall groped with something to say for a moment and then ran out of the room with whoosh and a panic.
Sessisalian and his friends, the Outkasts of Hufflepuff, jumped out of their desks and ran over to the door, to check the hallway.
"All clear!" Sessisalian's friend, Mark, yelled.
"Thank you all," Sessisalian said with all the grace of someone getting a Grammy, "I appreciate you taking part in this diversion, and you will get your money after I finish my Potion's essay."
Then without further ado, Sessisalian abandoned ship.
"Class dismissed!" Mark yelled, and within two minutes, the entire room was cleared out, except for Little Miss Moon, expert deceiver, who was to lead the teachers on a wild goose chase, so everyone wouldn't get caught.
"Did you feel it?" Remus demanded as he walked into Severus' empty classroom.
"Yes," Severus replied, "It should be taken care of soon."
Remus sighed and leaned against the doorframe.
"How soon?" He asked, "The timing has to be just right. I wish we had kept this to ourselves, I keep worrying that something will go wrong."
"There is always that possibility," Severus replied.
"Remus tilted his head and looked at Severus, a spark lighting up in his tired eyes, "but…"
"But," Severus continued, "You will find that it will not go so badly, in case of a mishap."
"Are you speaking from experience?" Remus asked a smile quirking at his lips, "make a lot of 'mishaps' do you?
Severus smiled.
After Harry narrowly escaped McGonagall and Co. in the hallways of the school, saved only by Little Miss Moon who'd sworn up and down that she'd seen "that particular crack in the wall—way over there" before, Harry retreated out to the dank Forbidden Forest. One place he was sure Little Miss Moon wouldn't bring the professors while "looking" for her classmates.
He'd swung his robe off and arranged it on the ground as a pallet and then he plopped down on it and breathed in the wild magical air that permeated the forest. The deep shadows of the forest comforted him the way the sun used to…and Harry felt so warm and safe for the first time since Sin had left…
"You are a pain to find."
Harry flew up and stared, his hand going to cover his heavily beating heart, "Christ, Sin!"
"It's three AM," Sin informed Harry, "and you're in the forbidden forest, do you have any explanation as to why?"
"Fell asleep," Harry mumbled, his heart was pounding so forcefully that Harry could feel it propelling his body back and forth, gently, "Didn't want to get caught skipping class."
"Well," Sin replied with amusement, "whatever class it is that you're skipping at three AM, I think you've missed it."
Harry fell back onto his robe with a sigh and stared up at Sin's silhouetted face.
"So," Sin asked, sitting down next to Harry, "what happened?"
"Sessisalian hadn't done his 100 point test grade essay that was due today," Harry explained, "so he organized a distraction for transfiguration during breakfast, that would get us all out of class—not just him."
"What was this amazing plan?" Sin asked.
"We all pretend to fall asleep," Harry explained, "and then we wake up and act like we have amnesia—then professor McGonagall freaks and runs out for help and we all split."
"And this worked?" Sin demanded in shock, his voice vaguely amused.
"Like a charm," Harry replied smugly. "I cued everyone to fall asleep."
Sin ruffled Harry's hair and then dropped his arm around his shoulder and hugged him, "My little rebel."
"I try," Harry replied.
Sin chuckled, and hugged Harry again, and the two of them lapsed into a comfortable silence.
"Are you stillangry that I talked you into staying here?" Sin asked after a moment.
"I…guess you have your reasons," Harry replied, his brow furrowing, "I don't know exactly what they are, but I'm sure you do."
"You can come home for Christmas," Sin told him, "We'll even get a tree…and we'll buy everything to go on it….and decorations…and Christmas food…and everything else that goes along with Christmas."
"You don't have to buy anything," Harry told him.
"I do if you want to have Christmas," Sin replied, "I haven't celebrated Christmas since before Christmas started being celebrated."
"Which was what?" Harry demanded, "1290 BC?"
Sin nodded thoughtfully and replied, "Yeah, something like that."
Harry snickered.
"This place is wonderful," Sin sighed, "so magical and dark…"
Harry hummed his agreement and leaned against Sin, breathing in the scent of the blood flowing beneath Sin's skin. He suddenly felt very hungry and he could feel himself start to drool…Harry felt like a leech…
Then almost as though Sin was reading Harry's mind:
"Hungry?" Sin asked, looking into Harry's eyes, and it suddenly hit Harry how much Sin's eyes glowed…
Harry's teeth began tingling as he nodded, yes, to Sin, who tore open the skin on his wrist. As soon as blood hit the air Harry's teeth erupted into an almost painful ache, but he didn't notice as Harry latched his mouth onto Sin's arm and drank.
All right, let's vote what do we want a bit of Sin/Harry on the side? Or just Voldie/Harry?