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It's been a while...

Harry's POV

I watch Percy step up the the boggart. I'm disgusted with myself because I can't wait to see what my brother's worst fear is.

And then the landscape transforms into a disfigured living hell, the earth is covered in veins, and there are stactilicities hanging from the ceiling.

The world flashes on and off, flickering between hell and classroom, and eventually the boggart flashes away and into the cupboard, hiding from whatever this nightmare is. I go to see if Percy is okay, but he is already gone into the tangles of his own mind.

I start to shake his shoulder to wake him, but professor Lupin warns me away from his shuddering form.

" I'll take care of Percy. Class, dismissed" the professor announces. Quietly to me he whispers "if we wake him when he's like this, it might hurt him. Go gather your things, and then we'll bring him to the hospital wing"

As I pass by the cupboard I feel a chill. Recognizing the icy touch of a dementor's aura I whip around and brandish my wand wilidly. Out of the cupboard bursts a dementor. The professor jumps in front of me and the boggart, I now realize, transforms into the image of the moon.

"Riddikulus!" He calls, and the moon transforms into a deflating balloon. Professor Lupin slams it into the cupboard.

"Darn boggart!" The professor exclaims. "It must have peered out and seen you as you were walking by" he locks the door firmly "that's quite enough excitement for today."

He leads me, carrying Percy like a sack of flour, to the medical wing and writes me a note to excuse me from the beginning of my next class. "Take some time to calm down and be sure to have some chocolate." The professor then leaves.

I sit in the chair next to Percy's practically designated cot. I hold my head in my hands and pray to whatever is watching over us. "Please let percy wake up. Please, please"

Finishing off my chocolate in one huge bite I chew it thoughtfully, reminiscing about the last time I was in the medical wing with Percy and Malfoy. What had driven us to bully him like that? He was alone and vulnerable. What kind of gain does one make by biting back at their enemies when they're exposing themselves as weak?

"Are you contemplating life or something?" Percy interrupts.

"Um. No?"

"We have to get to class" he reminds me.

"But…"

" Let's just forget about that and pretend it didn't happen, okay?" He clambers out of bed and I try to force him back into it, before he playfully pushes me off and sets off out the door. "You know," he calls "Snape isn't going to be happy that were so late"

Flashing the pass at him as I run by him, we both set off racing to the dungeons.

Why am I running to potions?

-Linebrek-

Hermione's POV

Potions is a drag today. We're brewing something (I'm sorry I'm tired) and Ron has already messed it up.

I look up from trying to find a way to combat the extra 12 bat eyes that Ron added to the grey soup in my cauldron when I feel a note of some sort hit me in the head. I pick it up and crush it in my hand, before throwing the offending paper in the direction it came from, the Slytherin side of the classroom.

I turn back to the calculations in my notebook. The potion was originally supposed to have 4 bat eyes, so if we repeat the other steps times two in the other cauldron, and then mix them together and then get rid of all but one third of the elixir, then it will be as if nothing happened.

"I'm going to get more ingredients from the cupboard. Try not to make a mess of anything while I'm gone" I get up and make my way to the potions cupboard. I am confronted by the professor.

"Mrs Granger. What are you doing?" Snape drawls.

Crap.

"I… uh, I was going to go get.." the door bursts open, and the terrible twosome, none other than Percy and Harry, enter, red faced and breathing heavy.

"What are you two doing so late to class. I believe that it started over an hour ago." Snape turns away from me and I slip off to the cupboard and grab the ingredients. I return to my seat and as the rest of the class watches the showdown I use the extra time to replicate the beginning of the elixr.

"We have a note from professor Lupin. Percy fell ill during class." Every gryffindor in the class looked away, probably remembering the events of Percy's strange boggart. I wasn't going to forget to question him later.

"Fine." Snape states. He stalks over to his desk, "I still want your potions by the end of class." When Snape looks away I slip the pair one third of the extra potion that I had made to help them make up time. Percy, constantly checking with Harry, continues the potion from where I left off, and I do the same. We fall into routine of following the directions on the board, and soon the only sound is the quiet chatter between Percy and Harry, which, even though I am very close, I cannot decipher.

At the end of class, somehow, Ron and I make passing marks, and Percy and Harry make little better grade. Snape lets us go with an audible glare, if that's even possible, and we make our way to the dorm for some studying. Now, how do I make Percy spill what's really going on.

Hey…. so it's been a while, but I hope that you'll forgive me.

So, I need to know if you guys want me to write an extra bit (like down here) of Percy's wand ceremony just for funzies. Also I mean any ideas in the comments are cool too.

Leofangirl Out!