I know that the chapters are horribly short,and I sincerely apologize for that.The only thing I can say for my defense is that this was my first story,and that the sequel has much longer,and more detailed chapters.
Chapter7:The Daily Grind and awakenings
The next morning Harry was woken up by Ron.
"Come on mate,first day of school,let's get breakfast!"
So the rather tired Harry put on his clothes and went down to breakfast with Ron.
As soon as they reached the great hall they saw that the marble stone floor had been repaired,and all traces of the previous evenings events had vanished.They sat down and Hermione handed them their timetables,sitting down next to Tonks on the other side of the table.
"How comes she gives us always our timetables?"Harry asked his friend.
"No idea dude?"
"Oh great Double Potions today!"Harry said sarcastically after looking at his timetable.
"Well at least we get to meet our new DADA teacher today!"Hermione told them.
"Hey,Hermione,don't you want to go and bring Gabriel his timetable?"Ron asked.
She shortly thought about it,and then got out of the great hall,heading to the hospital wing.
Ron,Harry and Tonks who had finished their breakfast,stood up and also went out of the great hall,but in the opposite direction,towards Hagrids hut,were they had their double lesson about Care of magical creatures.As the lesson started,Hermione also came to them.
"It's horrible what the teachers did to him,even Madame Pomfrey was shocked!And Dumbledore is also there,standing like a guard!"Hermione told them.
"Yeah",Harry thought to himself," a guard for who'm?Him or us?"
"Fine then!"Hagrid said:"Evry'one ere?Good!Then let's star'.The creatures I brough' ye guys t'day are Bun'imuns.Look ove' ere.Those are quite ey pest fo' a house,cause they make em crash!"
For the rest of the lesson,they had to draw the anatomy of Bundimuns and find out what they eat,or how to know that there is a Bundimun in the house.The trio,now a quartett had soon finished all the tasks,and as the lesson ended they headed to the dungeons to have the torture of double potions with their teacher Snape brought upon them.
Harry couldn't recollect the entire lesson,but he remembered it looked something like this:
Harry did what he was told to,Snape took five points from him.
Harry said an answer to a question,Snape took ten points from him.
Harry did his potion,Snape vanished it and took 15points from him.
Harry breathed,Snape took 20 points from him.
At the end of the lesson Harry approximately had lost about 70points for just being there.Tonks was seething at the unfairness so openly displayed by Snape,but Harry was just glad he had gotten through the lesson,quite unscathed,and they went to their DADA classroom,wondering who their teacher might be. They were equally surprised when they came in and were greeted by a scarred looking man,with a wooden leg,and an eye spinning around madly.
"Moody!"Harry asked confused.
"Hi you three,yes it's me,don't be so obvious about that you know me!"he stated.
They all got themselves places next to eachother in the first row of the class.When everybody had arrived Moody started her lesson.
"Hello to all of you!My name is Alastor Moody,as many of you surely know already thanks to my impostor two years ago!I must say that your class is quite advanced in knowing about the dark arts,most of that is surely to be thanked to your ex-professor Remus Lupin.But I would like to take you a step further,concerning the black and evil creatures out there.I would like you to open up your books at page 182,the chapter about Vampires.Well I guess most of you know or think they know what a Vampire is.For those who do not know,a Vampire is an undead creature,bound to the night.At least most of them are,while others do not fear daylight.There are only rumours about how the first Vampire came to walk the earth.These creatures seem absolutely normal,except that they cannot survive in the sunlight for a long amount of time,and also cannot die of natural cause!A Vampire has to be destroyed,if he were to die.I think there are some of you here who can tell me how to destroy a Vampire?"Moody said.
A few hands shot up in the air.Unsurprisingly one of them was Hermione's.
"Yes,please Mrs...?"
It took Hermione a few seconds before realising that Moody wanted to know her name.She wasn't used to the fact that they had to pretend to don't know him.
"Granger,professor.A Vampire can be killed by driving a stake through his heart."Hermione replied.
"Right you are Mrs.Granger!There are several other methods of killing them,but this one is actually the simpliest.I happen to know that there should be a student inside this class,who should know more about these creatures than I do,but I can't seem to find him!Can one of you tell me of the whereabouts of Gabriel?"Mad-eye questioned the class.
"He was brought to the Hospital wing yesterday,professor,you might want to talk to Dumbledore about this?"Harry told her.
"Yes yes,I might will do that!But now on with Vampires.Probably the most famous of them was count Dracula..."the DADA Professor continued.
Soon the lesson had ended and Moody had given the Gryffindors a lot of points for their knowledge.The four of them were heading downstairs for their Lunch now.When they reached the great hall,something came into Harry's mind,and he told the others to meet him later.He ran to Dumbledores office.Then he remembered the stone gargoyles,and that he needed a password for entry.He thought of trying different ones,it had already worked once before,but to his relief he saw Alastor heading his direction.
"I just thought about seeing Dumbledore,and you?"he asked Harry.
"Same thing!You have the password for this?"he replied.
"Coconut's Coconutter!"he said,and the Gargoyle's sprang to live,revealing a round staircase.
He and Moody climbed up the stairs and knocked on the door,leading to Dumbledore's office.
"Come in!"
They both entered,and Dumbledore smiled as he saw them.
"Sit down please,what is it that troubles your minds?Alastor?Harry?"the old wizard asked them.Harry waited for Mad-eye to talk first,but when he didn't make an attempt to do so,Harry said:"It's about Sirius,couldn't we somehow...I don't know...revive him...making him a ...a...Vampire!"
"I don't think that this life would be something Sirius would enjoy,and we also do not have his body,so there is no way into making him a Vampire,as he would also need to have been bitten by one once,and been given his blood!"Dumbledore said,flattening Harry's hopes.
"And now,what can I do for you Alastor?"
"I was just wondering,where Gabriel was,for we discussed Vampires today in class?"
"Well,I fear that our friend is still in the Hospital Wing!"
"But why?"
"He was "angered" yesterdays evening at the feast,and you know his nature about this!"
"Yes I do know it well enough!But how did he end up in the Hospital Wing?"
"I and the other teachers had to stop him,using a stuning spell!"
"I see that this was quite a pleasure, for Snape!"
Dumbledore chuckled a bit at this comment.
"Professor,could you please tell me what exactly happened that evening?Because I do know that the person you stunned wasn't Gabriel anymore!"Harry asked.
Dumbledore sighed,but still replied:"Partly you are right Harry,you have seen a bit of Gabriel's other nature then.I would suggest to you and your fellow students not to make him angry or such,for I dread the results!Gabriel is a powerful wizard,but sometimes,his "evil side" gets the better of him!In his veins rushes ancient wizard blood,very ancient!But other than that he is probably the friendliest person you have ever met.I'd say that you and Mrs. Granger,Mrs. Isaacs and Mr. Weasley should make friends with him and show him around,for I think that he must wake up again any moment now!"
"Err...right Professor.But he also knew about my Prophecy,and he told me he was here to help me fulfil it?"Harry said a bit confused.
"And he is right about this,you will need his help in times when you least expect it!And now you should get down to get something to eat,for I assume that Mr. Weasley has already eaten the most of our food!Goodbye!"
"Goodbye professor!"Tonks and Harry said to him and made their way to the door.
The days went by at Hogwarts and Harry had gotten into the school rythm again.In contrast to Dumbledores expection,Gabriel had not awaken yet,and still lay in the Hospital Wing.Even Madame Pomfrey had no idea what it could be that made him like this.Harry noticed that Hermione grew rather worried about him.
"Come on Hermione,he'll get better!"Harry told her after another boring Herbology lesson on Thursday afternoon. She nodded slightly,but still wore a worried expression.
"They should have never used that sort of spell,it's bound to make him like that!"she exclaimed.
The four had just entered the castle when they noticed something smeared on the wall right of them.Harry and the others moved closer.There,written on the wall,with paint that bore a horribly similiarity to blood,stood:
The gateway to hell has opened
Quail in terror
For I shall leave none alive
I am awake
Harry looked at it for a few minutes,until he realized that this felt familiar.He had seen something like this in his second year,when the Chamber of secrets had been opened.He hesitated for a moment,but then decided to go and find Dumbledore.But when he turned around he saw that he was already standing there,with a grim expression on his face.
"Step aside please!"he told the students,and went forward to have a look on the wall himself.He put his finger on one of the letters,and Harry could clearly see,that some of the paint had come of,and was now sticking on Dumbledore finger, who looked at it for a moment,before he suddenly turned around and spoke to all of them
"Everybody go into your common rooms.Prefects,make sure they stay there!None of you look for your friends,for if they do not turn up,the teachers will find them!"
There was a loud turmoil going on,as everybody went back into their common rooms.
"Dumbledore!Dumbledore!Albus!",Harry heard a familiar voice shouting over all the others.
Harry stopped dead in his tracks and turned around to see Dumbledore and Gabriel standing in front of the smearing.They were talking about something anxiously after Gabriel had taken a look at the writing.
"Dumbledore,it had to be one of your students,you know that they are bound to their own rules!None of them can come in,unless invited!"Gabriel exclaimed.
"Yes,truly,this fact is known by me!Do you think there is a betrayer inside Hogwarts?"
"Perhaps.Maybe someone gave them an invitation unwillingly.But invited they surely already are,for this is written in blood,Dumbledore!"
"I know,I know,but from which student,we must wonder!But we should find this out very soon,for the heads of houses are counting the students at the moment!Is there anything we can do for you Harry?"Dumbledore stated calmly.
And only then Harry suddenly realized that he was standing in the middle of the corridor,a few feet away from Dumbledore with no one left around him.
"Err...no,no thanks,I was just glad to err...see Gabriel again!"Harry stuttered.
"Right,then of you go!And Gabriel,keep your eyes open,you have the sharpest sense of us all concerning this subject!But do still keep your reservations!"Dumbledore said,pointing on the wall.
Harry was confused by his headmasters last sentence,but didn't quetsion any further.
When Harry arrived in the common room,Professor McGonagall shot a deadly glare at him,but when she saw Gabriel entering the room behind him she calmed down.
"Alright,you two are the last Gryffindors!Now stay here!"she ordered.
Harry and Gabriel sat down in a chair,when he suddenly noticed that everybody in the common room was staring at him and Gabriel. And then he realized why this was. He,like everyone else in the room,remembered the last paragraph of the smearing: I am awake. And Gabriel was lying unconscious in the Hospital Wing a mere hours ago.