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Harry's POV.
Percy grabs me by the wrist, and starts dragging me away. His grip is like irion, and in his other hand there is a pen that he grabbed from his pocket.
We Sprint through the mazes of halls and reach a strange hallway where Percy starts pacing back and forth. A door appears, leading into inky blackness. He drags me in as quickly as possible and slams the door behind us.
In the darkness I push myself away from Percy and light up my wand. I point it at him. "What are you doing?! Where are we!?"
He lifts his hands disarmingly. "Dumbledore told me to bring you here. It's called the room of requirement." I lower my wand before I lift it above our heads.
"It doesn't look much like a room to me."
Percy laughs. "No I don't think it does."
A pinprick of light appears in the distance. It's not enough to make me distinguish my wand, but enough to show us a place to go.
As we walk to the light Percy asks, "how do you make your wand glow like that?" I'm assuming that he's trying to take my attention off Sirius Black, but I respond.
"You just say Lumos and then it gets all glowey."
"Lumos" Percy commands his wand. It flashes a few times before sputtering out. Her tries again "lumos" this time it works slightly better, glowing for a whole minute before it goes out.
He tries again and again, through the duration of the walk. Eventually, just before we reach the door/light I think he gets it, but I can't tell, because the door-light is do bright I can't see a thing.
He steps into the light, and I follow. We step out into a strange room, sort of a bunk or living space. The walls are decorated with sea shells and there is a fountain in the corner.
"Oh, nononono… " Percy looks through the blinds briefly to look outside momentarily. Then he quickly closes them.
He slumps down on one of the beds.
Suddenly he goes to check if the portal we came here through is still there. Into just the right spot he inserts his arm. "We have to go back." He says.
"But Dumbledore says to stay in here."
"He says stay in the room of requirement. I can assure you that this is not it. We have to go back"
Begrudgingly, I agree. We walk back into the dark. As we sit in a spot that's just in a bright enough environment to see Percy across from me.
"What now?" I ask him.
"I guess that since the room is supposed to give us what we want then we could ask?"
"Uh, room?" He questions "could we uh… be in like an actual room or something?"
The landscape around us transforms. We are now in a warmly furnished room with walls of bookshelves and multiple doors leading off into separate rooms.
Percy gets up and checks out a few of the rooms. In one is a kitchen. In another, a bunk bed. One leads out into the hallway, at least I'm assuming, because Percy slams it so fast. We sit together on the softest couch ever and I try to get him to do some spells. At one point we travel into the kitchen and scavenge for some snacks.
I come up with some chocolate cauldrons and Percy has a slice of pizza with blue crust.
Eventually we go to bed. The bunk bed reminds me of the makeshift one we had made in the cupboard under the stairs. Percy had found an old inflatable mattress in the attic and suspended it from the ceiling with some old cables he had found.
Reminiscing the old times, we chatter long into the night. I conk out first, leaving Percy to his thoughts. My dreams are full of large snarling beasts, and once or twice I wake in terror, before drifting off into a rock-like sleep.
I wake up to the smell of sizzling bacon and the rest of a delicious breakfast. On a large table in the main room are the fixings for breakfast. The kitchen door is open, and inside Percy is cooking a pan of bacon.
"Hey"he calls, grabbing my sleepy attention "you're awake now!"
I nod, and then sit at the table. Percy brings over the bacon and then fills his plate with pancakes and actually drowns them in syrup. I gather a healthy serving of food, as to not offend Percy, but I'm not hungry.
He shovels down his food and gets up. I follow him. As he looks to open the door and scoops up his books I remind him that were not supposed to leave.
"Well I'm not missing any more school. You don't have to come"
He leaves and, after a moment's consideration, I follow. As long as I stick with him, it should be fine. I run up to reach his retreating form.
"Hey," I call "you need me to show you where to go"
I rush up to him, and we walk the halls together, and of course, he's doing his divination homework as we walk.
Hey, wait a minute I'm not rushing to finish this…. What's going on?