Chapter Thirty-Two

The last week before the new school year began the Weasleys, Harry, Blaise and Hermione spent their time at the Burrow. Most of the time they were either helping Molly out in the garden or flying down at their make shift pitch. At night Harry and Hermione would usually spend their time reading their books or discussing the things they'd read recently. The twins were always off in their room doing who knows what while Ron and Blaise would play chess.

The day before the new term was to begin Draco had to return back to the manor. Blaise went with him to act as a buffer between Draco and Lucius. Harry wanted to go with them as well but knew his presence would just make things worse. Anyways Harry was going to be spending the last night of the summer at the castle with Severus. He was really looking forward to getting to spend some time alone with just Severus.

"Harry. Harry, wake up." Severus whispered as he gently shook Harry awake.

"I don't wanna." Harry moaned and rolled over.

"Harry you've got to get up now so you don't miss the train. Your brothers and sister are expecting you. As well as Draco and Blaise. You don't want to upset them do you?"

"Fine I'll get up." Harry slowly sat up. "I'm hungry."

"You can eat at the station. Just get dressed in your muggle clothes."

"I know. I know." He began to pull his clothes on that were scattered all over the room. Just as he pulled his shoes on there was a knock at the door.

"I'll get it, you just finish getting dressed." Severus stated before walking out into the sitting room to answer the door.

"Good morning Severus, is Harry still here?" Dumbledore greeted his Potions master.

"He's getting ready to go catch the train. Would you like me to get him for you?"

"I'm in no hurry. I'll just wait until he comes out here himself." Just then Harry came out of the bedroom.

"Good morning Professor. What did you need?"

"I wanted to talk to you about the dream you had about Pettigrew and Voldemort."

"Alright…" Harry told Dumbledore all about the dream he'd had three times now. The dream had been basically the same as the vision he'd had a few weeks prior.

"Do you have any idea who the other man was?"

"No idea. They never said his name. All I know is that Voldemort gave him the job to get me for something."

"Do you have any idea why Voldemort wants you?"

"Voldemort said something that makes me think he needs me so he can come back to power."

"I'm sorry to interrupt but Harry has to leave now or he's going to miss the train." Severus interrupted.

"We're done anyways. If you remember anything more feel free to come speak to me. I'll see you at the feast Severus." Dumbledore then left.

"You ready to go Harry?"

"Let me just grab my bag then we can leave." Harry quickly went into the bedroom. "Alright Sev just take my hand and we'll apparate to the station."

"I can't go to the station with you Harry. If people see me there with you it'll be all over the press. We already had enough problems when you, Draco and Blaise made the front page."

"Alright I'll see you after the feast right?"

"Probably not until tomorrow. You, Draco and Blaise need to stay in the dorms tonight."

"Why?"

"We need to keep up appearances with the Slytherins. If you all start the year not sleeping in the dorms it'll cause too many questions."

"Alright. I love you Sev." Harry kissed him deeply before apparating to the station with his trunk and Hedwig's cage. He settled all his stuff onto a trolley and rushed towards the entrance to platform 9 & ¾.

"All aboard." A conductor called from the train as students hurried onto the train. Harry shoved his stuff onto the train then began searching for his siblings and friends. He'd searched nearly the entire train before finally finding them.

"Harry we were beginning to worry you weren't gonna make it. What took you so long?" Hermione greeted him as he opened the door to their compartment.

"I got delayed by Professor Dumbledore. He came to speak to me this morning just as I was getting ready to leave. I barely made it here in time." Harry answered.

"What did Dumbledore want to talk to you about?" Ron asked.

"That dream I had about wormtail and Voldemort a few nights ago. He thinks it may have been a vision. We're still trying to figure out why exactly Voldemort wants me." Harry answered as he took his seat. "Where are Draco and Blaise?"

"They never meet up with us." Hermione replied.

"What?" Harry yelled before apparating to Hogwarts. "SEVERUS!"

"Harry? What are you doing here?" Severus asked.

"Blaise and Draco never showed up at the train."

"What do you mean they never showed up?"

"Just what I said. They never showed up at the train. Ron and Hermione never saw them and they meet up on the train."

"Harry calm down and go back to the train. They probably were just wearing Draco's invisibility clock and hadn't gotten a chance to meet up with Ronald and Miss Granger. Just go back to the train."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes Harry I'm sure."

Harry sighed loudly before focusing on the image of the train and apparating to it. He landed on the top of the train with a thud. Harry could hear the windows all along the car being thrown open. Carefully he made his way towards the back of the train. Jumping down between the last two cars Harry made his way into the car to find Ron and Hermione again.

"Oh Harry. We were so worried about you." Hermione screamed, throwing herself at Harry.

"I'm sorry Hermione." Harry hugged her back.

"Don't ever do that again."

"I promise I'll try not to."

"Okay." Hermione released him only to be replaced by Draco.

"You are such and idiot Harry. You could have splitched yourself. What were you thinking?"

"I was thinking that I was worried about where you and Blaise were. I thought that Lucius had done something to the two of you."

"Harry you would have known if something had happened to us. You're so connected to us." Blaise told him with a smile.

"Yeah Harry. You'd have known if something had happened to us." Draco agreed.

"I guess you're right but I still worry."

"I know you do baby." Draco pulled him gently over to the seat.

The rest of the train ride Harry remained sitting in Draco's arms. None of them really cared at that time that they might be seen. It just didn't matter to them. They were happy and weren't going to let anyone else ruin their tiny bit of happiness. Anyways they were in the last compartment of the last car so very few people would be coming by. It was only once they had nearly reached the village that Draco released Harry only to be replaced by Blaise.

Through out the feast that evening most of the students in the Great Hall were staring at Harry and Blaise. Blaise had yet to remove his arm from around Harry since they had gotten off the train. He could sense Harry's worry and didn't want to add to it for even a second by removing his arm. What no one else could see however was Draco holding Harry's hand under the table. He also was able to feel the worry rolling off of Harry.

The stares didn't move away from the Slytherin table until the feast was coming to an end. Dumbledore had stood up and made an announcement. Even Harry, Draco and Blaise paid attention as Dumbledore began to tell them all about the Triwizard Tournament that Hogwarts would be hosting that year. The three boys were all very intrigued until Dumbledore said that it would only be open to those students who would be at least 17 years of age by Halloween. This saddened Draco and Blaise a bit but Harry was actually pleased. He had been worried that Draco and Blaise would enter and possibly make it into the tournament. He couldn't take it if they would be involved in such dangerous tasks.

Through out the hall there were cries of outrage over the rule. The loudest voices belonged to none other then the Weasley twins. Harry had to laugh as he saw Hermione and Ginny both trying to quite the twins. They were failing but it was still amusing to watch the two girls. The voices didn't quite until the doors to the Great Hall banged open at the same time as a loud roll of thunder. Standing at the doors stood a very beaten looking man. He walked slowly with a limp towards the head table. Harry instantly had a very bad feeling about the man. Dumbledore introduced him as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Once the students had calmed down from the entrance of the new professor, Dumbledore released them to their dormitories. Harry, Draco and Blaise all made their way down to the Slytherin dorms slowly. They didn't really want to head down there but knew that they had to. As they entered the common room however they were stopped by Pansy, Crabbe and Goyle.
Harry knew they were going to cause some trouble for the three of them.

"I can't believe that you're still willing to share a room with that poof." Pansy snarled at Draco with a glare at Harry and Blaise.

"Who I chose to share a room with is none of your concern Parkinson." Draco snapped back.

"They better not be thinking of sleeping in my room." Nott stated as he came up behind Pansy.

"Oh don't worry Nott. We'll be staying in my room." Harry replied as Blaise tightened his hold.

"Come on babe lets head to bed. I'm beat." Blaise pretended to yawn as he slowly lead Harry towards their room.

"You're going to share a room with both of them?" Pansy asked in outrage.

"They're my best friends and I enjoy their company far more then any of you lot." Draco answered before following Harry and Blaise.