Sleep Break

When Harry had walked into the room he shared with Ron, he found Hermione sitting at the desk with Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny listening to her as she told the story of Peter Pan.

"And when Jane grew up, her daughter Margaret took her place. In fact, there's a muggle movie called 'Hook' where Peter falls in love with Margaret and grows up with her and they marry, have two kids, and Hook kidnaps them so it's up to Peter to remember what he was and face his old enemy. It came out during our first year."

The room was silent.

"That is the CRAZIEST story I've ever heard!" Ron said. "Who ever heard that pixie dust can make people fly? Pixies don't even CREATE dust! That's fairies!"

"Hey! Leave Peter Pan alone" Harry said. "you wouldn't believe how many times I had wished he's swoop in and take me off. Of course, I didn't think he could what with there being no window in the cupboard."

"Harry!" The two witches and three wizards exclaimed as Harry had snuck in on them.

"How'd your talk with Sirius go?" Hermione asked.

"Okay." Harry said with a shrug as he joined Fred and George on his bed "Asked about my life with the Dursleys and wanted a head's up about the rest of the stories."

"StorIES?" Ron asked "You mean there's MORE that Mum's going to find out?!"

"It's worse than that Ron" Harry said eying Hermione wearily. "There's seven books. Three of which haven't really happened yet."

"This could change the future! It's dangerous!" Hermione exclaimed.

"Relax Hermione" Ginny said. "Maybe this is a case where we WANT the future changed. I for one wouldn't mind finding these books before my first years."

Ron placed a comforting hand on his sister's shoulders knowing that she was talking about wanting a warning about Tom.

"We agree" Fred and George agreed with Ginny.

"If we had read about this lot's second year before…"

"…we would have ridden in the car with these two" George finished his twin while pointing at Ron and Harry.

"Well, the way Sirius pointed it out was that we could get a sneak peek at some OWL and NEWT questions and our love lives. Not sure I like the idea of Sirius finding out about Cho."

Now that Harry thought about his crush, he wasn't exactly sure WHAT he saw in the Asian girl other than her looks which he admitted WAS pretty shallow. But in times of war like now, brains were essential. However, Cho was in Ravenclaw.

"Well Harry," Ginny told Harry "Your love life will be the LAST thing your godfather worries about considering a question I asked Professor Lupin about basilisks year before last."

"What did you tell him Ginny?" Harry demanded going pale

"Relax. I was just asking how one can get a basilisk fang out of a mouth of one" Ginny said. "Granted, his first statement was that the person would die before they could even reach for it because of the glare, but I asked what if it was blinded or dead. You know what he told me?"

"What?" Harry asked dreading the answer.

"It needs to be embedded in something" she said giving him a look that told him that she saw the rip in his robes where the fang had sunk in.

"What'd you do Harry?" Ron asked "Use that bloody diary as a pad?"

"Can we discuss that when we get to that book?" Harry asked not really wanting to go into this. "We should have a game plan for tomorrow."

"Why?" Ron asked

"There's the troll…the reason WHY Hermione was in the bathroom that night, Fluffy, Snape presumably jinxing my broom, Norbert, detention for Norbert, the Devil Snare, the chess set, Voldemort making his grand entrance…"

"I still say we leave the room for Norbert and the Troll" Ron said. "Maybe Fluffy."

"Not a good idea" Hermione said "I was watching Sirius as we read and he's getting REALLY wrapped up in these stories. I think for the REALLY tough scenes, the ones you want to leave the room for, it's going to get worse and he's going to need you there Harry to remind him that you made it out okay. Especially with what happened when you were alone with Quirrell and You-Know-Who. But you're right Harry. We need a game plan. Harry. You should DEFINITELY sit with Sirius and Professor Lupin if only to hold them back since we spent most of that year blaming Snape. Ron. I think we should sit together because of how we acted before that Halloween as we're probably going to need to remind people that we WILL be on better terms."

Ron nodded.

"What about us?" Fred and George chorused.

"Depends. If you're brave enough, you two can sandwich your Mum and keep her pinned for the tough parts. Either that or Charlie for when his part with Norbert happens."

"We'll take Charlie!" they chorused sounding scared.

"And me?" Ginny asked.

"Whatever you want." Hermione said. "But for the book about second year, you MAY want to sit with your parents."