Aki- Okay, I have had some questions about different ships. I'm not really going to
put any ships in this story, but you as the reader can interpret some friendship-y
things any way that pleases you.
Chapter 21
Breaking Rules…Together
"Ouch!" said a female voice out of a seemingly empty hallway.
"Shh..," came a quick response of another voice.
"Don't hush me," replied the first voice in an angry whisper "If you weren't so
clumsy and hadn't stepped on my foot for the millionth time, I won't have made any
noise."
"Stop talking or someone will hear us," a male voice hushed anxiously.
"Who? Who can possibly hear us in the middle of his deserted castle, I don't
understand why we have to be under this stupid thing. It's not like I'm a student with a
curfew."
"Fine, if you don't like it, walk on without it."
"Fine," said the girl, "I will," and she began to lift up a side of the invisibility
cloak she shared with a boy named Harry. He grabbed her arm to stop her.
"Don't do that or we'll be caught," Harry said as she dropped it.
"You said that if I didn't like it to go on with out it," replied Raven sharply.
"Well, I wasn't serious."
"Then why'd you say it."
"I didn't actually think you were gonna' do it."
"Well, you thought wrong." The both stared at each other nastily for a moment in
silence.
Harry regressed, "Look, Dumbledore's office is just around the corner. Can we
make till we get their without killing each other or being caught."
Raven sighed and said, "I'll be quiet as long you don't step on my foot again."
"Agreed," said Harry and they began to slowly move down the hall again.
"Damn it!" came a loud shout a few seconds later.
"Sorry…, I'm really am sorry this time…"
Raven growled under her breath and they began to move on again, "I swear, if
you're doing it on purpose…"
"Oh, look we're here," said Harry, interrupting Raven's thought in a voice that
was obviously covering up something.
Raven glared at Harry as he recited a password that he had used the last time he
had paid the headmaster a office visit, and mercifully, it had not been changed. The
gargoyle jumped aside to reveal the moving steps that Raven and Harry almost tripped
over each other getting on, but did soon take off the invisibility cloak as they road up the
steps to Dumbledore's office.
"Its twelve thirty," whispered Raven to Harry as they reached the door.
"Your point?"
"He's probably not awake…"
"So…?"
Raven rolled he eyes uncharacteristically at the boy, "We are either disturbing
him or he is not even there."
"Well we're just going to have to take are chances. This is too important to
wait for morning!" Raven agreed with him, but she was not going to give him the
pleasure of knowing so.
Before either of them could knock on the door it was opened to expose
Dumbledore, wide awake and dressed. He looked down on the two of them slightly
amused before saying, "Are you two going to argue out here all night, or would you like
to come in."
Raven and Harry looked at each other. Harry's expression clearly read, 'Ha, ha,
look who was right. Oh yeah, that's me.' Raven scowled at him, but they both followed
Dumbledore into his office and sat down in two chairs in front of his desk.
If it had been any other time but this, Raven would have doubtlessly been
interested, maybe even fascinated, by the objects, artifacts, books, and paintings that
filled the Headmaster's office, but it wasn't any other time.
Dumbledore sat back in his chair, steepled his fingers and looked deeply at the
two teens. He knew that the two had not been getting along, but yet here they were,
sneaking into his office after hours. It might have not been the best way Dumbledore saw
the Titans and the Hogwarts students bonding, but they were breaking rules together.
"You wanted to speak to me about something?" Dumbledore asked.
"Yes-," started Harry, but Raven interrupted.
"We had a dream," she said simply, cutting to the point.
"We?" question the headmaster curiously.
"We both had the same dream," Raven clarified, realizing how crazy it sounded
now that she sad it aloud.
Dumbledore simply nodded in response for them to continue, but Raven did not
know how to.
"It was like the dreams I had last year, Professor," put in Harry.
The wise wizard nodded in understanding, but Raven looked at Harry in surprise.
He had had dreams like this before! Why didn't he tell her? Oh yeah, because it sounds
crazy and we're not friends. It made sense now that she thought about it, that he so easily
accepted the dream was a vision. Most people wouldn't, or at least from Raven's
experience.
They told the headmaster all that was in the dream. He assured them that he
believed them and the proper steps would be taken and urged them to go back to bed. The
walked again under the invisibility cloak, but made it to the common room without any
feet stepping incidents.
Harry yawned bigly, "I'm so tired. I'm gonna' hit the sack."
"How can you sleep at a time like this?" said Raven indignantly.
"A time like what?"
Raven gapped at him, "A time like this!"
"Tell me something," said Harry, "The Death Eaters are attacking tomorrow
night, right?"
"Yes."
"Not tonight?"
"Correct."
"So, tonight, when the Death Eater's are not attacking, I am going to go sleep."
Raven scorned him, "You are unbelievable."
"Hey," said Harry defensively, "Dumbledore knows what he is doing. We can't
do anything about the attack tonight. In fact, the only thing we can do is get rested for
whatever is to come."
"You're probably right," sighed Raven in defeat, "But shouldn't you being
thinking up a plan…like the other time."
Harry looked at Raven seriously, "Maybe I should, but the teachers will be ready
this time. I can't spend my whole life worrying about it. I have come to death practically
every year since I came here. I learned my first year, worrying too much isn't going to
help anything, …but sleep is."
"Hey, I've danced with death too. I've fought the bad guys too. Neither of us
seem like the hero type, but tomorrow, when you are going to go out their and fight, like I
know you will, just know that I want to help…I brought that guy in here once, I am not
going to let it happen again."
Harry looked at Raven like he never had before, with respect. He had seem
something in her that he had never seen before. It was determination, determination to
win and rectify mistakes, and guilt, guilt for doing wrong. The walked hand-in-hand in
her eyes and in her speech. She had seemed so uncaring and apathetical before. Now he
saw it was a mask, a rather flimsy one once you recognized it.
"If…when I make some plan up, you'll be involved."
"Good," said Raven, "So what was this about you having other dreams?"
Harry looked at her, "What other dreams."
"The dreams you had last year. That you told Dumbledore about."
Harry sighed, "This may sound weird, but I have this connection to Voldemort.
When I was a baby, he…he killed my parents, but he couldn't kill me, because of this
magical protection love thingy because my mom died for me. So, anyway, I have this sort
of connection with Voldemort. It seems that since he's come back that sometimes when
I'm sleeping I sort of ….get into his mind."
"Wow," said Raven plopping on one of the couches.
"What?" asked Harry.
"I was just that I thought was the only freak in this school."
