Back to Hogwarts
"Harry," Ginny said kissing his cheek,
"Mmm?" He said rubbing his eyes and sitting up in the bed,
"Morning,"
"What time is it?"
"Seven" She said with a smile,
"Yeah we really should get a move on," he said with a yawn,
"Yeah but we should say bye to everyone first," she said lying back,
"Yeah…"
"So do you have any idea where in Hogwarts to look?" Said Ginny raising her eyebrows, Harry shook his head,
"Nope, I mean I thought of the room of requirement, but that's too easy, then I thought Slytherin Dungeon, but that's too risky." Ginny frowned, then said extremely quietly almost to herself,
"The Chamber of Secrets,"
"What?"
"The Chamber of Secrets," she said louder, Harry thought for a moment,
"I guess..." he said frowning, "well lets check out room of requirement first, just to be safe, then we will head there," he said shrugging. Harry kissed her, his arms around her back. Ginny responded immediately, kicking off her pants.
Harry and Ginny walked down the stairs, knocking on Hermione and Ron's door,
"Oi! Get up; we're going to leave soon!" Said Ginny through the door,
"What?" Harry heard Ron say,
"Get off Hermione and come to the door you idiot," said Ginny, Ron came to the door a second later, his face was very red from what Ginny had just said.
"What do you want Ginny? Hey Harry," he said nodding in his direction,
"Morning," said Harry,
"We are going soon, we will fill you all in, so get changed and come down," said Ginny walking away from the door.
"Since when did she become the boss of me?" Said Ron shaking his head, Harry shrugged, and walked after Ginny.
Their backpacks sat packed on their backs, Mrs. Weasley kissing them all and giving them bone breaking hugs.
"Be safe," she said hugging Harry, "keep Ginny safe for me," she whispered in his ear.
"I will," he whispered back, Mrs. Weasley let go, and stood back with Fred, George, Charlie, Gabby and Mr. Weasley (Fleur and Bill were at their honeymoon,) they all smiled at them.
"Bye everyone," said Harry,
"Where to?" Said Hermione,
"Hogsmeade station," he replied. He held Ginny's hand, and apparated, followed by Ron and Hermione. Cool air filled Harry's lungs and he zipped up his dark grey jacket.
"We aren't going to walk there are we?" said Ron,
"No… brooms," said Harry looking through his bag,
"I prefer walking," said Hermione looking worried. Ginny rolled her eyes, pulling her broom from her bag, it enlarged immediately. Harry mounted his firebolt, and kicked off the floor. Or though there was nothing fun about what they were about to do, he always loved the feeling. He saw Ron and Ginny rise beside him, and Hermione sighed and mounted her old broom, and kicked off from the floor, half-heartedly. Harry leant forward on his broom, feeling the breeze pass through his face.
Almost too soon they were at Hogwarts gates, Harry touched back down and put his broom in his bag, followed by the others. Ron looked at the closed gates,
"What now?" Said Ron looking up at the castle, Harry thought of what Tonks had done last year, he thought of Hagrid, and said,
"Expecto Patronum," a silvery stag appeared at the end of his wand, and went into the castle off to Hagrid's cabin.
"Who did you send it to?" Said Hermione watching the stag,
"Hagrid, he will open the gates for us." Hagrid jogged to the gate, they waited patiently.
"Hello!" Said Hagrid puffing slightly, "Blimey Harry, when I saw your Patronus, I thought I was seeing things!" He said smiling, "So I'll let 'ye in, 'cos I know it's you, only you have a stag patronus, but are you sure these people are really 'ermione, Ginny and Ron?" He said eyeing them suspiciously.
"Yeah Hagrid, they're fine," Harry said smiling.
"So what brings yeh to Hogwarts so early?" Said Hagrid, as they walked towards the castle
"Sorry Hagrid, but I can't tell you," said Harry, Hagrid frowned, but nodded,
"I unde'stand,"
"We are just going to see McGonagall to tell her that we are here, not why," he said, choosing his words carefully, Hagrid nodded,
"Well, I'll leave ye' to it!" He said patting Harry on the shoulder and making his knees buckle, "but visit me before ye go ok? Oh and the password is Chocolate Frog," He said moving away to his cabin.
"Thanks," said Ginny waving. They walked across the grass and onto the path, and up the stairs. Harry sighed and opened the main door, he stepped into the abandoned hall, the hour glasses stood, repaired; all the stones intact. Harry looked over near the stairs, where Dumbledore's body had lain. The voice echoed through Harry's head, 'Severus…Please,' he shook out the memory; it was making him shake with anger. They walked to the Headmistress' Office,
"Chocolate Frog," said Harry, the gargoyle sprang to life, and he stepped on the revolving staircase with the others. They came to the office; it looked exactly the same as it did when Dumbledore occupied it. As if she was too afraid to change anything, because then he would really be gone.
McGonagall was at her desk looking at papers, she looked up when they entered.
"Harry, Hermione, Ron, Ginny what are you doing here?" She said, frowning
"Hello Professor," said Harry, "We are just here to tell you that we are here…"
"Well, Potter I can see very well you are here, but why?"
"I can't tell you that," he said glancing up at Dumbledore's picture, which nodded and smiled. McGonagall nodded,
"I can not force you to tell me…" she said with a sigh, "You are welcome to stay in the Griffindor tower while you are here, the password is 'Amortentia' and you are also welcome to come down to the Great Hall for breakfast, lunch and dinner, or though there will only be you and a few teachers."
"Thankyou," replied Harry, turning to leave,
"And Harry," He heard Dumbledore say, he turned around, the painting was talking to him,
"I agree with your decision," he said with a nod, "I always thought one would be in these walls," Harry frowned and nodded,
"Thankyou Professor," and walked down the stairs.
"Let's try the room of requirement first," said Hermione, "then I think we should get settled in before we go for the Chamber of Secrets,"
"But what if it is the Room of Requirement?" Asked Harry,
"Well then we will have to deal with it then," she said. They walked up to the seventh floor, and went to the blank wall,
"Right," he said and began to walk past it, he thought 'Voldemort's Horcrux,' he looked up on the third time, there was no door,
"Well… not in there," he said staring at it.
"So do you want to go to the Griffindor tower now?" Asked Ginny,
"I guess, we need to plan this, we were lucky last time," said Harry
"But we don't know what it is so how will we know how to plan it?" Said Ron, as they walked down the hall,
"Well we need to practice all the dark spells we have, I guess we could use the DA room," he said, walking in front of the Fat Lady.
"You're here a little early!" She said, "Password?"
"Amortentia," said Harry, she nodded and let them in. They entered the Common Room, it was clean, but there was no fire, and it was oddly cold. Hermione walked over to the fire and lit it with her wand. They walked up to the boy's dormitory and put the bags into the draws. Harry pulled out the paper they wrote all the spells on and slipped it into his pocket.
Ginny took the bed next to Harry; Hermione was next to Ginny, and Ron next to Hermione.
They left the dormitory, after making sure everything was safe and secure then headed back up to the Room of Requirement. Harry walked past the door thinking 'A place to practice Dark Curses,' when he looked up, there was a door.
He pulled it open, followed by the others, and entered the room; it wasn't the DA room, it was a room full of life like manikins to use spells on, pillows again, to float and do minor curses on. The walls were a light grey, the floor was black. Harry looked down the list, after looking around,
"Ok, there is… 'Gigoliame,' which is a curse that knocks people out for a day," he read, "could be handy," he said looking up at them. Harry walked over to a manikin and said "Gigoliame!" The manikin fell over, "that's easy," he said. The manikin got up again,
"I guess, they repair themselves," said Hermione looking at them, "Headoculous," she muttered, the manikin's head fell off and then went back on again. Hermione nodded,
"Ok," said Harry peering down the list and pointing to one of them, "Right, well this is a little gross, a spell that destroys the enemy from the inside," he muttered "Munshrude," he frowned, "you have to move your wand in a cross," they all faced the manikin's and muttered the curse, an 'X' gleamed white on the manikin's chests before they started to expand, larger and larger.
"Uh, they are going to explode!" Said Ron jumping back, the manikin's continued to get bigger, until, sure enough, they exploded. Then repaired themselves,
"Right… well I guess that one works," he said, looking mildly disgusted.
They practiced spells the rest of the day, until they all admitted they were sick of killing the manikin's and left, heading down to the Great Hall. Hogwarts was very eerie when there was no one around. Their footsteps echoed, and they opened the large oak doors.
All the tables were still there, but only the very end of them was occupied by Professor Flitwick, Hagrid, Professor McGonagall, Professor Trelawney and Slughorn.
"Harry m' good boy!" Said Professor Slughorn standing up,
"Hello Professor," he said smiling and taking a seat next to Trelawney, he took a couple of sausages on a plate and sat back, Trelawney grabbed Harry's hand dramatically, and looked at his palm. Harry sighed,
"Oh, pity, pity," she said shaking her head and giving Harry back his hand, Professor McGonagall rolled her eyes.
"What is it?" She said looking at Professor Trelawney, who just raised her hand and shook her head,
"The inner eye can not let out its secrets,"
"Well you have predicted Harry's death before, so why not now!" McGonagall said furiously, Trelawney looked incredibly angry, but just continued to eat.
"So, Harry what brings you to Hogwarts?" Said Slughorn, McGonagall shook her head, and Slughorn withdrew his question.
"So did you have a nice holiday?" He said looking at them, Harry nodded,
"My brother and Fleur, one of the people from the Tournament in fourth year got married," said Ginny with a smile,
"Ah, that's lovely," he said with a nod. "I can tell you, that I am going to miss you this year," said Slughorn to Harry, "your talent for potion making was wonderful," he said courteously,
"Thankyou Professor," he said, trying not to think of Snape or his Advanced Potion Making.
Happy 110th review everyone! Hee hee, you guys are great, thanks for all the support.
LadyCathain- thankyou very much for the offer, it was sweet. But I would like to do it by myself, or though suggestions such as where the other Horcruxes might be are always welcome…because after this I have no idea where they might be so… throw them at me! Seriously!
Also I forget who asked, but yes, teens can sometimes act like this. I am not saying all do, because I know for a fact not all do. But yes there can be some who do…
You know what's weird? More people have visited the third chapter than the second…strange huh?
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