Learning Incentives 2

By Loralee

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"Hermione wants you to learn this. She wants to practice this. Come on look at me, you know you want to." The book was taunting him. Harry shook his head to dispel the voice. The book had Sirius's voice since the horrifying nightmare last night.

Flashback to dream

Bellatrix shot the curse and hit Sirius in the chest knocking him back into the veil, he was falling, falling the look of surprise changing to horror and then Sirius stopped trapped in the mist of falling splayed out like a fly in a spider web. Sirius's head turned to Harry and Harry knew what was coming next the accusations, the guilt. Sirius's mouth opened and the words came.

"She bought you a sex book? Way to go kid. I knew you had it in you. Well what are you waiting for? Read the book. You're going to get lucky when you get back to school." And then he laughed. Not a taunting laugh or an evil manical laugh but a teasing, happy laugh like at Christmas. A laugh that made Harry warm inside in a way that he couldn't explain. A laugh that told Harry that Sirius loved him.

Bellatrix screamed at that moment, "fall already why don't you fall!"

"In a minute Trixe, Hermione sent Harry a book on sex magick and I never got a chance to give him the talk so I have to do it now. I'll just be a …"

Bellatrix's head snapped around and cut Sirius off, "A sex magick book, aren't you the lucky boy. Perhaps we should demonstrate the techniques." Then she stalked toward Sirius and grabbed him by the shirt as if to pull him out of the veil.

Harry sputtered "Ewww! You're cousins"

"Oh that's ok, we're purebloods you know."

Harry had jolted awake then, sweating and feeling rather nauseas. His scar didn't hurt so he knew it wasn't a Voldy dream but he didn't like the idea that it was his subconscious either.

All day all Harry had been able to think about was the book and hearing Sirius laugh. He glanced at book lying on the desk once more and heard Sirius laughing in his head. Harry smiled, he missed Sirius but as he picked up the book he realized that loosing Sirius didn't hurt as much and just maybe the dream was right and he would get lucky at school. Even if he didn't get lucky he still had a wonderful friend who always seemed to know what he needed. If Hermione thought he should read this particular book then he would.