Dispelling a Spell
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter OR Naruto, beat that!
The sun shone brightly through the windows near the four-poster bed. Harry blinked in the light and he decided to stall a bit more in the bed and try to sleep in. It was only 6:00 anyway. But his stomach rolled around. He couldn't stop thinking about Sirius. This feeling was haunting him since last night and a very uncomfortable sleep consumed him.
Sirius was his reflection of a mirror. He was pointing at Harry, blaiming him for his death.
"You could have stopped her, Harry. Why did you let me die? Couldn't you see that Voldemort was tricking you? Why? Why...?"
Harry banged his hand against the mirror to stop the talking. It was too painful. His scar was annoyingly pricking him. The prick turned to a jab as Harry glided his arm and smashed the mirror. But the talking didn't stop.
It did, as suddenly as if he tripped into a swimming pool.
He had overslepted and the beds next to him were empty. He threw on his clothes and spent about 5 minutes looking for his left sock.
The breakfast table was full of bustle already. Hermione was fawning over what classes were going to be like and how hard the exams would be. Ron was complaining about Hermione. Naruto and Neji was eating and Sasuke was talking to Mrs. Mcgonagall about the school or something.
A seventh year was passing out schedules. Harry took his and saw that he had double potions (he had surprised himself with a good score at the OWLS), transfiguration, and charms. He joined in the conversations and found that Neji, Naruto, Sasuke, Ron, and Hermione had the same schedule.
"Naruto, Neji, and I are going to explore the castle before classes start. See you." Said Sasuke with a wave and the three of them turned off and briskly walked out of the great hall. Except Naruto, who skipped a bit with every step.
Harry nodded and pulled Hermione and Ron towards him. "Did you guys see who the new Defence Against Dark Arts teacher was?"
"No, that seat was empty. Maybe ol' Dumbledore just couldn't find a suitable candidate this year. I mean, everyone thinks that position is cursed, right?" Said Ron with a strange look.
"Yeah, but still, they can't have the DADA classes without a teacher. Who would teach us?" Hermione thought aloud.
"Well, that's no use, everyone knows that you-know-who really is back so they can't just not teach us and leave us sitting ducks, can they? There's got to be someone, right?" The Redhead asked.
Harry spoke up, "Well, maybe the teacher just had his schedule filled. Maybe he couldn't make it to the feast."
Hermione pondered and then stated "I hope you're right, Harry."
A silence was borne and was only broken when a black-haired (but with reddish streaks) third-year girl walked by fretting about how she would starve to death because her birthday was on January 22 to her friend.
The bell rang and it was time for double potions. They sullenly walked towards the dungeons. It was the same as usual. The gloomy darkness mocked the students. Now that there's so little students taking potions, the pupils were mixed around other houses. So the trio saw many other Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws.
"Potter! How'd you get into this class? Had to beg didn't you? I suppose that wouldn't be below you, in fact, you probably remember your scum mother begging to the Dark Lord before she was blown up!" Malfoy let out a mirthless laugh.
Ron's ears turned as red as fire. He lunged towards Malfoy, who jumped back nonchalantly.
Harry, who was used to insults like this tried to hide his real emotion and answered "How're you gonna survive NOW, Malfoy, your cronies aren't here."
"Please, children, settle down. Five points from Gryffindore for causing such a din..." A voice came from behind them. Snape's eyes closed on Harry and his lip curved. "Today we'll be studying how to create the 'Gothroo' potion. Whose effect will let you walk through walls like a ghost. It will last prisisely 1 hour. The directions," He turned swiftly, "are on the board. You have exactly 2 hours."
They set to work right away and Harry brought his cauldron to near where the three newcomers and his two friends were. Hermione was briefly trying to explain what goes on in these potion classes.
"You know mates, you guys are lucky. Last year, we had to take these tests to get in this class. But you guys barely know anything about potions and you guys are in here ALREADY!" Ron said while coughing through the smoke that was rising from his cauldron.
Naruto squinted at the board and read the first instructions. Boil 3 gallons pure water in the cauldron for 5 minutes. He took out a measuring cup and poured three gallons in. He lit the fire and started waiting.
Two minutes later, he decided that it was enough. Why exactly 5 minutes? So he proceeded to the next line of instructions which said to add 7 drops of salamander blood and mix the water 6 and a half times. Naruto poured a bit of blood inside and then mixed the potion about 7 times. Why was the instructions so damn exact? So the blonde just rounded the ingredient numbers.
Stir in a pinch of powdered unicorn horn. He threw some in and mixed the potion when...
Naruto started feeling some weird feeling. His shoes were... BURNING!
Shit... potions class was NOT going to be easy...
"Where are you going?" Sasuke asked, as Harry, Ron, and Hermione tried to sneak out of the commonplace room.
They did not think that anyone was awake, but Hermione recovered first. "We're err... going to the bathroom." She did not think that the boy would be eager enough to follow them to a lavatory.
"...At the same time...?" Sasuke asked. Hermione hesitatingly nodded. "Now that you reminded me, I need to go too. Also, I don't really know my way, would you mind if I come with you three...?"
'Shit..." That thought was in all three of the witches and wizards' minds. Harry said, "Sure. Err... We'll lead you there."
"Okay, let's go," Answered the ANBU.
Sasuke followed the three out of the porthole and into a long corridor with candles lighting the way. They took a left and then a right. After that, they went up three staircases and then there were two doors. The one on the left was the Boys, and the one on the right was for girls.
Before going inside, Hermione flicked her eyes quickly to Harry and Ron and she nodded a quarter of an inch. Harry understood that that meant to come out early and try to ditch Sasuke.
The three boys walked in. Harry and Ron automatically jumped over a trick tile. But since the ninja was new, he wasn't so smart about it. He tripped and stumbled when his sandels sunk low.
Harry then thought he saw something queer. The candle lit an inch of Sasuke's skin when his robe flew up. It lit his arm, and there was some kind of dark tattoo on it. It was in the same spot that Death-eaters usually have their tattoos. Harry's heart stopped beating as his eyes widened a little.
Ron obviously didn't notice a thing. They helped Sasuke up and proceeded into the stalls.
"...And then, I thought I saw something on Sasuke's arm!" Harry said in an urgent whisper.
They had successfully gotten out of the bathroom without any detection that they knew of. All three of them were safely under the Invisibility cloak.
"I don't really know if we can trust them too," The girl said nervously. "I mean, for all we know, they could be spies of Voldemort. --Ron, stop jumping every time you hear that word!-- Professor Dumbledore did say that You-know-who would have spies."
"Well, I never mentioned it because it would be rude," started the redhead. "But... they're pretty freaky. Naruto's hyper-active as if he didn't care about the war. Sasuke and Neji just seem uninterested. And have you seen Neji's eyes! They're blank! At first I thought, whoa, he must be blind. But then I think he could see. And even if they ARE spies, WHY did Dumbledore--"
"Dumbledore what?" Said a voice behind them. There, Sasuke was standing there as if he knew exactly where they were.
They whipped around. The cloak flying off. Harry asked, "How did you know we were here!"
"Well, the tall one," He indicated to Ron "was talking pretty loudly. And I've read that there are certain things that help people become invisible. So I figured that maybe you had something like that. Turns out you do." He pointed to the silvery cloak laying on the floor.
"Did you hear... everything?"
"No, I just came." Sasuke was lying, he had been there following for quite a while. They were too busy chatting to notice. But he learned a lot.
"Students roaming the halls late at night? Come with me." Filch was sporting a nasty grin. The same grin he always had whenever he caught students breaking the rules.
Hehehe... well, this time I KINDA have an excuse for posting so late. My brother was always using this computer for his "projects" at school. But I see him playing games all the time. (scoffs) Some project. I didn't really like this chapter. I realized I was going too fast on the previous chapter. So this chapter's just half about some information and yeah. If I didn't cover everything, sorry.
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