CHAPTER 10

I woke with a start.

"Amy, are you alright?" I heard Hermione ask groggily and I realized that I must have screamed.

"Umm, yeah, I'm fine. Nightmare," I explained, thinking.

'Hey, babe, did you just have a nightmare?'

'Yeah, how did you know,' I could tell he was still shaky by his thoughts.

'Just a feeling. Come down to the common room and tell me about it,' I said, aching to be near him, hold him, anything.

'Alright, be right down,' he replied. I was suprised because I thought I was going to have to do more convincing than that.

I was down first and waited patiently until he got down. I smiled when I saw him. Then I realized he must have been in pain.

"Your scar still hurts, doesn't it?" I asked as he sat next to me. I leaned forward and instead of kissing his mouth kissed his forehead.

He nodded. I layed down and put my head in his lap. He started stroking my hair almost automatically.

"What exactly happened in the dream?" I asked him and he told me the whole thing, everything I had seen. I just needed to decide if I was going to tell him that I had seen it or not.

"Harry, I think we should tell Dumbledore about this dream," I decided not to tell him that I had seen it.

When he didn't respond I looked up and found that he had fallen back to sleep. I chuckled and put my head back down. It wasn't long before I fell back to sleep also.

I woke with a start not knowing where I was. Then I remebered the nightmare and decided to wake Harry up so we could go to Dumbledore.

I thought a moment before I decided what to do. I leaned closer and blew in his ear.

He woke with a start.

"Stop it," he pushed me away from his ear.

"C'mon lets get out of here before someone comes down."

He closed his eyes and pretended to be asleep.

"Don't make me do something you'll regret," I said, teasingly.

When he didn't respond I started tickling him.

"No," he laughed, pushing me away, "Ok, Ok, I'll get up," he surrendered.

"Very good," I laughed patting him on the head. "Now come here and give me a kiss."

"I shouldn't, but I will, but know this love, I will not always listen to you. I am not a dog," he pushed my hand away from his head.

"Shut up and kiss me," I said, pulling him toward me. He leaned in for the kiss and pulled me closer.

"Ugh, get a room, will you?" I heard Ron's voice. I guess we hadn't heard him come in.

"Look who's talking, mate. At least I just ignore you when your sucking you girlfriends face," Harry laughed and dodged the pillow Ron chucked at him.

He threw it back as Hermione repsponded to his remark.

"I'm right here Harry, listening to you," she said, "Ronald, don't throw it, replace it to the chair it came from," Ron stopped in the motion of throwing it.

Harry laughed as Ron put the pillow back, defeated, but didn't voice the comment I knew he would say.

'You better not ever command me like that,' he thought.

'You better listen to me on the occasions that I do,' I threatened.

'Or what?'

'You don't wanna know.'

'Oh maybe I do.'

"Hello, Amy, Harry. Are you still with us?" Hermione asked, breaking into our thoughts. I realized that she must have been talking to us.

"Oh yeah, sorry, I was just thinking," I replied, "What is it?"

"I asked what are you guys going to do about Christmas break?" she repeated.

That was honestly something I had not thought about. The question kind of scared me, "I dunno," I replied honestly, looking at Harry, who just shrugged his shoulders.

"Well, we have to go see Dumbledore about something," I got up, "See you in potions," I said to the other couple as I pulled my boyfriend to his feet.

'She has a point babe, what are we going to do about Christmas Break?' I asked Harry privetly.

He hesitated a long while before I heard his voice softly and assumed I almost wasn't supposed to hear it. 'I dunno.'

'I have to go home. My family and friends will want me to. I'm sure Isabella would like to meet you, too. You know, you could always come out to my house.'

I saw him smile and it made me smile, 'I thought you'd never ask,' I heard him say before he bent down and kissed me.

'C'mon, stop! We don't have time for this,' I demanded.

"But you're so damn beautiful," he replied with a mischevious grin. I couldn't help but smile. Fourtunately I was saved when I found Dumbledore.

"Amy, Harry, we have some matter that we need to discuss that I forgot about last night," he smiled and watched us with his knowing eyes before he led us into his office.

"Well, first, I must say, I have already arranged things out with your parents, assuming that you both planned on going to her parents house," his eyes watched us knowingly.

I felt my shoulders sag with relief and Harry nodded.

"Wait," a qustion popped into my head, "You said the magic between us is really powerful. How powerful is it really?" I asked, thinking about the anguish I felt when I was separated from Harry last night.

"It is the most powerful thing that can happen between anyone. In fact, I only know one couple who it has happened to," Dumbledore answered serenly.

I wasnted to ask who, but Harry had another question on his mind. "Why can't we tell our friends?"

"Well, I thought that was obvious, if Voldemort tortured the answer out of one of them he would come after Amy."

'I don't want that to ever happen, I love you Amy,' Harry thought.

'It won't babe, I love you, too,' I squeezed his hand trying to reassure him and me at the same time.

"Now, why were you looking for me this morning?"

"Harry had a nightmare Professor, I saw it too, as he was having it," I confessed in front of Dumbledore's knowing gaze.

'What?' Harry asked shocked. I ignored it.

"Oh my, I forgot about that problem. We'll need to do something about that," Dumbledore said thoughtfully.

"Sir, if you don't mind my asking, what is the reason I saw Harry's nightmare?" I questioned.

"It's part of the magic of it. You guys were not sleeping in the same bed. I assume the dream was about one of you dying, am I correct?" we both nodded and he went on, "That can be handled. You can sleep in the room of requirement. Just walk by the spot three times thinking 'I need a place to sleep'. It should work fine."

"Thanks Professor," Harry said. I was going to thank him,. but an idea popped into my head.

"Sir, what if we had a secret keeper. Then only that one person would be able to say that we're dating and we could tell our friends."

"You know, I hadn't thought of that. That just might work. Very good thinking," He smiled and I smiled at the praise and shrugged it off. "Who do you wish it to be?" he asked.

'Dumbledore?' I heard Harry question.

I nodded as I looked over at him, "We'd like it to be you, sir, if you don't mind." I replied.

"That's fine. Now, hurry on and get to Potions before you're late. We can do the spell later," Dumbledore nodded as we left his office.