Chapter Four; The Break In

Harry removed his cross necklace from around his neck and set it down on the nightstand before he started changing into his pajamas. A few minutes later Ginny entered the room. "I just went down to visit Eve. She's looking pretty good. I think she just needs a few more days inside the hospital." She told him.

"That's good, how's her studying coming along?" he asked her.

"Good, Neville and Luna were just down there helping her with the written questions. I just hope that she remembers all of her spells that she'll be quizzed on when she's able to wave her wand again." She said.

"Oh I don't really have much doubt in my mind that she will. Like you, Mum, and Hermione she's a very talented witch." He told her as Ginny grinned and stifled a laugh.

"Yeah I know. She already has my bat boogey hex down. Although I know that Ron isn't too happy about that. I know that deep down he really loves me but sometimes I think that he thinks even one of me is too much." She said.

"Yeah, sometimes I think like that about Eve but I love her with all my heart and I couldn't ask for a better sister." He told her.

"What about Heather?" she asked him.

"I still love her it's just that I feel closer to Eve since she's closer in age to me even if it's about several years." He told her.

"Well, it's getting late so I suppose that we should be getting into bed." Ginny said as Harry placed his glasses on the nightstand next to his necklace while Ginny pulled back the covers. Then they both climbed into bed and Ginny snuggled inside Harry's chest while she glanced out the window at the full moon and all of the stars in the sky.

"Wow, it really is a beautiful night." She said as Harry smiled down at her. "I've got to admit that as much as I love my job as a healer and a singer, deep down I've always wanted to be an astronaut and travel to the moon." She told him.

"So why didn't you?" Harry asked her.

"I'm a witch remember?" she questioned him.

"So? I've got a muggle job. I'm a Sunday school teacher. If you want to be an astronaut you should. It shouldn't matter how you were born." He told her.

"Yeah but I still need several years of college for it." She told him when suddenly Harry got an idea.

"Look, I might be able to help you with that later but right now I have to get to bed and get some sleep since I've got a busy day ahead of me tomorrow." He told her while she turned her head and looked back at him before giving him a quick and tender kiss on the lips.

"Alright, well in that case goodnight Harry." She told him as he kissed her back.

"Goodnight." He told her before he rested his chin down on the top of her head and gave it a soft kiss before they drifted off to sleep together.

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Harry woke up in the middle of the night and grabbed his wand off the nightstand before placing his glasses back on his face, putting on a bright blue furry robe and slipped into his slippers before lighting his wand. "Lumos." He whispered as he walked out of the room and into the hallway guided by the light in front of his face. Then he quickly placed his invisibility cloak over his shoulders.

The last time he had remembered wearing it was when he had been attending Hogwarts himself. He was almost twenty now but that didn't seem like such a long time ago to him. However he knew that he couldn't let his father or anyone else find out that he was breaking into the potions classroom. Once he had safely made it down the stairs of the dungeon he stuck out his wand and pointed it at the lock on the door.

"Alohomora." He whispered while he slowly pushed the door open and entered the room. Then as he shut the door behind him he pulled off the cloak. That's when he suddenly realized that he wasn't alone. For someone else had followed him into the room, and that someone was now sniffing his shoes. "Zip." Harry said as she stopped sniffing and glanced up at him wagging her tail.

"What are you doing in here?" he questioned her before he rolled his eyes and walked over to the cupboard. "Oh well, you can't get me into too much trouble. After all I know that you can't squeal on me when you can't even talk. At least not yet." He said as he opened up the cupboard and started looking at all of the ingredients inside the potion bottles.

He couldn't believe how many cobwebs and spiders were inside of it. "No wonder Ron hated this class so much." He said to himself when suddenly there came a great screech as a great big black bat flew out at him. Harry quickly ducked and pulled his head away from it.

"Harry?" he heard a familiar voice from behind him say. Harry turned around and saw that Luna was standing behind him. "What are you doing in here?" she wondered.

"I'm sorry Luna but it's a long story." Harry said as he grabbed ahold of the memory potion and the happiness potion.

"You're making a new potion aren't you?" she questioned him as he stopped and turned around to stare at her.

"How did you know?" he asked her while his jaw dropped down and his eyes widened at her.

"Eve told me when I was down in the hospital wing with her." She explained.

"Oh." Harry said simply not knowing what else quite to say as he took both of the potion bottles and dumped them inside the cauldron in front of him.

"Don't worry Harry, I'm not going to tell on you." Luna reassured him with a warm loving smile as he turned back to look at her. "I think it's a great idea. Neville and I always wanted to be able to talk to animals so that we could understand them more." She told him as Harry smiled at her. That's when Zip started sniffing the air and perked up her ears before she started to bark.

"Zipporah no, be quiet!" Harry snapped inside a whisper when something suddenly occurred to him when he had said her name. He was a Christian and a big believer in following the Bible otherwise he wouldn't have named her that. Yet here he was breaking one of the Ten Commandments. These potion bottles weren't his so technically he was stealing. Just as he started getting an uncomfortable guilty and sickish feeling inside his stomach the doorknob started to turn.

Harry panicked and quickly threw the invisibility cloak back over him and Luna. That's when all of a sudden his father entered the room. "Zip?" Snape questioned raising an eyebrow at her. "How did you get in here? It's in the middle of the night." He said. "Where's Harry?" he asked her even though he knew that it was foolish to expect her to answer him. That's when his eyes caught sight of the bubbling cauldron. Harry gave a nervous gulp and started backing away before he watched his father turn around and leave the room.