Chapter 16

"The boy is getting stronger each day" Harry said.

"He still isn't strong enough to stop us" the voice said.

"True as though that may be but he still has Dumbledore on his side" Harry said.

"Dumbledore doesn't suspect me one bit. It's only Snape that seems to have figured me out" the voice said.

"I already told you not to worry about Snape. For now all we have to worry about is the boy" Harry said.

"What shall we do about him?" the voice said.

"Dispose of the boy whenever you find the opportunity to do so" Harry said.

"Are you sure about this Master?" the voice asked.

"No, I'm not but I have no choice. The stronger the boy gets the weaker I get" Harry said.

"What about the stone?" the voice asked.

"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it" Harry said.

Harry's eyes shot open, it was very early on Saturday. He had a break from classes today. He couldn't help but worry about the dream he had just had. Was he really in danger? He kept asking himself.

Having trouble falling asleep Harry went down to the common room. As he went down he noticed someone sitting on the couch. When he got down all the way he saw a familiar bushy haired sitting on one of the tables with her books out.

"Typical" Harry said to himself smiling at his own joke.

He walked towards her as quietly as he could however her head suddenly shot up. Hermione gave a wide smile and then asked "Trouble sleeping?"

Harry nodded and then sat on a chair beside her "It was another one of them." She stared at him with a worried look and then she asked "Want to talk about it?" Harry then told her all about the dream and about what he heard.

She gasped when he mentioned the threat to dispose of him "They didn't mention how?" she asked him. He shook his head and looked back to her. She reached out and put her hand over Harry's and squeezed it, Harry just smiled back as response to her action. However Harry just realized just how close they were and then thoughts about how Hermione meant to him just started flooded in.

Suddenly Harry stared at her face intently. He was examining it as though he would find an imperfection in it however he found nothing it was simply perfect. He had been staring at it for a while and then he realized that she was staring at his for a while as well.

Then some urge pulled him closer to her. For a while Harry hadn't thought about Hermione's reaction to all of this. She slowly moved closer to him as well. There was very little distance between their bodies. All that was left was the gaps between their lips.

They started slowly closing that gap. Harry tilted his head a little bit to the side. Hermione tilted her head to but in the opposite direction. The both of them started closing their eyes halfway in between. Harry could feel her warm breath against his skin as both their lips had just touched the other. Before both of them could precede any further a noise from one of the dormitories caused the both of them to break apart.

"Damn" Harry said to himself before he and Hermione retracted their hands. Harry was still fazed by what was just about to happen a few moments ago. They both turned to see the somewhat sleepy figure of Ronald Weasley.

"What's up?" he asked them.

"Nothing" Harry said.

"You're up early" Hermione said.

"I'm a very light sleeper" Ron said "What are you guys up to?"

Hermione blushed when Ron asked but it was Harry who spoke "I had another dream. This time there was something a little bit more to it" and then Harry told Ron all about the dream.

Ron's eyes went wide when Harry told him about the threat to his life. "What are you going to do about it?" he asked.

"I don't know" Harry said

"Harry this man is threatening to ki-"

"I know that Ron but what can we do. I don't know who it is yet" Harry said

"Maybe you can" Hermione said. Both Ron and Harry turned to her.

"It's just a theory, if you can see or hear this person perhaps it could be some sort of mental connection. In which case if he wanted to he could inflict pain or manipulate your mind. In theory you should be able to do the same thing as well" she said.

Harry considered this for a moment and actually closed his eyes hoping that by some miracle it worked. However it didn't all he could see was black and all he heard was the crackling of the fire lit in the common room.

Harry's eyes opened and he shook his head and said "Nothing"

Hermione had a defeated look on her face "Well what do we do from here?" she asked.

"Well what can we do? We face a nameless threat and on top of that we don't know anything about the Sorcerer's Stone" Ron said

"Sirius might know a little about it, maybe we could ask him" Harry suggested.

"Won't he get all suspicious and involve Dumbledore?" Hermione asked.

"No, not if I tell him not to but then I'll have to explain a great deal of things to him as well" Harry said.

"Perhaps we haven't looked enough in the library" Ron said "Let's keep looking for it. If we can't find something we can then refer to Sirius"

"Ronald we don't have much time. Whoever is after Harry will have probably had him off in the time we take to keep looking in the library" Hermione said

"Well involving Sirius is bound to attract more trouble as well!" Ron yelled.

"Well what choice do we have, as you've so explained we have a nameless threat" she yelled back.

Harry couldn't take the constant bickering and just left the common room. Both Ron and Hermione continued to argue with each other neither of them noticed that Harry had gone. Harry went to one place were he was certain to find peace...The Great Hall.

AN: I hope you guys like that chapter. I did that particular moment with Harry and Hermione only because I never got any real comments for if you guys wanted it or not except for one and I thank that person. It's my way of saying I'm giving you guys more time to comment on whether you guys want them together in this story or not. As always Rate and Review