Chapter 3: Just a Dream

Harry lay tossing and turning in his bed. The imiges of inferi staring at him with their cold, dead eyes wobbling in their sockets. Groping into the darkness, their scarred and contorted faces sneered grotesquely out at him. One that looked perticularly evil stood up and began to speak. "This child has done the unspeakable deed. He must be punished! Rip out his eyes, and make sure he is dead, he will be one of us soon..." The inferi came at him, shreiking and moaning. Harry sat up ridgedly, he was breathing hard. He wiped the sweat from his eyes and stuffed his glasses on his face. Cold fear crept up his spine as he realized who the leader of the Inferi was in his dream, Voldemort. What could this mean? Harry grimaced as the pain seeped into the scar. He couldn't sleep. He decided to go get some water. As he walked he was careful not to step on the creaky stairs. Then he stopped, someone was talking. It was very quiet, but he could just barely make it out.

"I can't make it father, I have a lot to do and Dumbledore says I can only go at night." Harry pressed his face to the wall, it was coming from the Common Room.. Then there was a deeper voice, it sounded like a man's. "Hmm. We cannot find someone to replace you this late. We'll just have to do without." The smaller voice started again. "Father, How will we get him to come without the teachers knowing?" There was a pause."We will find our ways." Harry sneaked down the stairs just in time to see a face dissapearing from the fireplace, it was too quick to see who it was. He heard quiet footsteps padding up stairs to the girl's dormitory. This didn't explain much. Harry went into the common room and sat in a comfortable chair. Thoughts began to flood into his mind. what if one of the students was a deatheater, or maby she was talking just having a chat with her father. She did say father quite a few times. But who was it? Thought after thought popped into his mind. But none really helped him to understand what had happened. Thoughts pored into his head until he was fast asleep.