Here's the next chapter. R&R.
Summary: Harry has never been able to perform the Unforgivable curses before. What happens when an accident causes Harry to be able to perform them? What happens when he starts hearing a voice in his head telling him to do things? What will he do next?
Disclaimer: I still don't own Harry Potter or its characters.
Chapter 14Harry spent the entire night in his room, pacing. He didn't know what was going on and he couldn't talk to Luna about it, for she had long since gone to bed. Hermione tried to get him to talk to her earlier, but he ignored her so she went to bed resentfully. Neville was already fast asleep and Harry kept glancing at him every time he walked past the bed.
I don't know what's been going on anymore. I don't remember what I was doing before Ernie's attack. Does that mean that I might somehow be responsible?
He remembered what Ginny had said to him just last year. "When You-Know-Who did it to me, I couldn't remember what I'd been doing for hours at a time. I'd find myself somewhere and not know how I got there."
Is it possible that Voldemort is possessing me? I know it's supposed to be harder to do inside Hogwarts, but I don't know if I'm truly safe from possession. Snape said that Voldemort could try to make me do things if he wanted to. Maybe Voldemort's controlling me and making me do everything!
Now you don't really believe that, do you? I thought you were smarter than that. Listening to other people will get you nowhere in life. Why do you assume that Voldemort's behind it all? How do you know that you just can't remember certain things? And how do you really know it's you that's doing everything? As I've said before, Hermione has been acting very suspicious lately. She's been missing around the times of certain attacks before.
Like when?
When Cho Chang was murdered, Hermione wasn't in the common room or in the library. No one remembered seeing her at all before Cho's death. It's very possible that Hermione's behind it all.
But Hermione would have no reason to want to kill Cho. Cho never did a thing to Hermione to make Hermione wanna kill her.
How do you know that?
……I just do.
Well, thinking that you just do won't mean that much when all the students are dead. You don't know. She might turn on you soon. And you don't know who else could too. Luna might turn on you too. You don't know if you can really trust her, but you act like you can.
I trust Luna because I can feel that it's right. Hermione is another one of those people I just trust because I know I can. I've known Hermione for six years. I think I would know if I could trust her or not. You're just trying to make me turn on my best friend.
Before the voice could reply, the dormitory door opened. Harry slipped into bed and pretended to be asleep. Whoever came in was walking towards his bed. He squinted in the dark, but he couldn't make out who it was. His hand slipped into his pocket to pull out his wand in case this was an attempted murder. He wasn't going to go down without a damn good fight.
"Harry? Harry, wake up!"
Harry opened his eyes. "Hermione? What are you doing here?"
"I need to talk to you about something," Hermione replied quietly, hoping to keep from waking Neville up. "It's urgent."
Don't trust her.
"Ok. What about?" Harry asked.
"Not here," Hermione replied. "Let's go down to the common room."
Harry rose his eyebrows, but followed her down to the common room anyway. He wondered what it could possibly be about. They hadn't really talked to each other in a while. In fact, ever since the attacks started, they had grown distant. He wondered if it had anything to do with the attacks or with something else. Maybe she was going to question him about Luna. Or maybe she was going to tell him about her and Neville. When they sat down, Hermione turned to face him, a serious expression on her face.
"Harry, I've been meaning to talk about this for a while," Hermione said. "But I wasn't sure if it would be a good idea."
"Ok. Talk to me about whatever it is," Harry said.
Hermione took a deep breath. "Ok. Lately I've been feeling…off. I don't know why, but things are feeling different and I've been acting different lately. And it all seems to have started right around the time of the attacks."
Oh my god. Could she be the one doing it? Is Voldemort possessing her and not me? Wow. This complicates things.
"Anything else?" Harry asked apprehensively.
"Yes. I've also been…hearing strange things," Hermione replied, looking down.
"Like what?" Harry asked.
"It's like a voice in my head. It keeps trying to tell me to do things and it really drives me crazy. I think I'm losing my mind or something. The voice just won't go away and I seem to be the only one that can hear it!" Hermione exclaimed, looking worried.
Oh my god. I'm not the only one that can hear you? Thank god! I thought I was going crazy.
Harry sighed in relief. "Oh god. I thought I was the only one." When Hermione gave him a puzzled look, he continued. "I've been hearing a voice in my head that tells me what to do all the time. I thought I was going crazy. But now that I know I'm not the only one, I feel a little bit more sane."
"Maybe you shouldn't," Hermione said seriously. "I don't think hearing voices is a good thing. And if we're both hearing voices in our heads, that makes things that much worse."
"What does the voice say to you?" Harry asked.
"It keeps telling me…to turn you in for what happened to Ron and Ginny," Hermione replied quietly. "It's always saying that you're the one behind everything."
Harry stared at her in shock. "That's what the voice says to me. It keeps telling me that you're planning on reporting me about Ron and Ginny. And it keeps telling me that you're the one who's been doing all the killing."
Hermione sat in thought for several minutes while Harry went over everything she just said. It made no sense that they would both be hearing the same voice in their head telling them to do the same thing. The only way that was possible was if someone else was the voice and they wanted Harry and Hermione against each other.
"Harry," Hermione said finally, taking a deep breath. "I think I know what's going on. I think someone else is using magic to put a voice in our heads. This voice must be trying to turn us against each other. Clearly it's been doing something and it thinks that we might be able to figure out what that is."
"But the question is who is it and why are they doing it to us?" Harry asked. "And if they're behind the killings, why are they only attacking people close to us?"
"Maybe to lure us into a trap or something?" Hermione asked. "Or to frame us. As I'm sure you already know, you are one of the main suspects in the murders."
"What?" Harry exclaimed angrily. "What do you mean, I'm a main suspect?"
"Well, you live in the dormitory that three of the victims slept in, Ginny and Lavender were both last seen near you, you used to date Cho, and you were also one of the last people seen by Ernie Macmillan," Hermione explained.
"But Ginny's death was told as a disappearance and so was Ron and Lavender's!" Harry exclaimed.
"People have been saying that they're as good as dead with how long they've been missing," Hermione replied.
"I'm in trouble," Harry said, holding his head in his hands.
"I know," Hermione said. "We both are. I know for a fact that I'm another suspect just because I roomed with one of the victims and everyone knows I was friends with Ron and Ginny."
"We have to do something," Harry said.
"We have to find out who the voice belongs to and if they're the one behind all this," Hermione replied. "If not, then we have to find out who's really behind it all and turn them in."
End Chapter 14Ok review please! I know I haven't updated as often with this story as with some of my others, but I try. I don't want to send out bad chapters so I only write when I have inspiration. Don't forget to review. Chapter 15 coming soon!