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Harry woke up feeling extremely warm. He snuggled into the covers until suddenly he realized what had happened. He shot up straight and took in his surroundings. He was in a huge bedroom, in an extremely comfortable bed. Apart from the bed, the room was furnished with two side tables, a dressing table, a divan and two armchairs by the fireplace. The stone walls were curtained with dark green curtains that were coated with dust. Sunshine slanted in through the French doors. Apart from that Harry noticed three more doors around the walls. One of them was probably the bathroom, the other was the exit. Harry was in doubt about the third one. Everything in the room had a thick layer of dust over it. It looked like as if this place hadn't been used in a while. Harry observed the bed covers and noticed that they were fresh.

Harry raised his hand to his cheek and felt his temperature. The fever was gone. He got out of bed and noticed that he was still dressed in his own clothes. Well not his own clothes. They were hand me downs by his cousin and hung loosely on his thin frame. He had never had clothes of his own. He remembered the locket around his neck and stared down at it blankly. At the moment, he couldn't hear any sounds from it.

Harry felt like he was being watched again. He probably was. One thing was certain, someone had brought him here from that chamber last night. Someone had probably nursed him back to health or as healthy as he could be. He wondered why he wasn't dead yet. It eased his fear to some extent. Whoever was watching him, didn't mean him any harm. Because if they did, he would be dead by now.

Harry made his way to the dressing table and looked at the dusty mirror. He wiped the dust from it with his hand and looked at his murky reflection. As he moved his fingers through his roughly cut hair, he remembered his aunt and uncle and tasted the bitter taste of betrayal on his tongue. He was glad he was away from them. He would never return to them again. But he couldn't stay here either. He looked around the room again and felt himself shudder. Someone was watching him.

Harry wanted to leave the room. He wanted to get out of this place and be as far away from it as possible. A thousand questions were running in his head. Could he really leave this castle without getting his answers? Harry cursed his curiosity. It would get him killed one day. Some exploration was in order. He went to the wooden door and tried to pry it open. He didn't feel shocked to realize that he was locked in. Harry made his way to the French doors. He felt pleasantly amused to realize that they led to the balcony. He opened them and stepped out in the balcony. At least they weren't locked.

The fresh morning air greeted him. The view was breath-taking. He saw the wide expanse of the forest surrounding the castle which broke off into the greenest hills. There was greenery as far as he could see. The sky was the most beautiful shade of blue. It was as if he was in a different world altogether. Maybe he was in a different world. He had been transported here by a locket. Harry held the locket in his hand and observed it again. Why couldn't he take it off? A feeling of despair filled Harry's heart. There was no way he could ever get out from this place. The woods and the hills seemed almost impossible to get through. Harry shook his head. He wouldn't think about it now. All he could do now was watch how everything played out.

He was just admiring the view when he heard a sound from the room. His heart began beating at a million miles an hour. Someone was in the room. He slowly and carefully made his way back into the room. He half expected to see a ghost there but saw nothing except for a huge tray laden with all manners of breakfast items sitting on the side table. Harry looked suspiciously around the room and made his way to the door again. He tried to open it and found that it was still locked.

Harry sighed in frustration and made his way to the bed again. The wonderful scent of food tempted him to eat. He had never been offered this much food before. His breakfast had only comprised of one dry piece of toast for as long as he could remember. What if it was poisoned? Well if someone wanted him dead then they would have killed him by now. Harry picked up the plate of egg and toast and began eating. He realized how starved he had been. Maybe it was his starvation of fifteen years that was finally displaying itself. After all he had always had nothing more than leftovers as meals all his life. Harry wolfed down as much as he could.

He was just about to pick up a glass of orange juice when his gaze noticed a folded piece of paper on the tray. He picked it up, unfolded it and saw a spidery handwriting scrawled across the paper. The note read,

"I shall allow you to leave the room, if you promise not to leave the castle."

Harry found the note extremely cryptic. So, whoever was watching him didn't want him to leave this castle. Harry sipped his orange juice. He wasn't in any hurry. It wasn't like he had people who would miss him or a life that he would miss. He was just puzzled if he was supposed to speak out the promise or write it down. Since there was no way to write it down, Harry decided to vocalize his promise,

"I promise I won't try to leave this castle."

For a few minutes, nothing happened. Harry began to think that he hadn't been heard. But his thoughts were proven wrong when the door swung open. Harry's heart beat that had just slowed down, quickened again. He began to grow certain that this castle was haunted by some ghost and the very same ghost was observing him very closely.

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