Chapter 12 Hogsmeade When they reached the cave, Sirius transformed. Harry gave him the food they had brought. Sirius started eating and after a few minutes he said, "Sorry I'm eating right in front of you." "Oh that's ok." "Yeah, if I had to live off rats, then I'd be eating like that too." "So the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher was another supporter of Voldemort?" Sirius asked. "Yes." "Harry, you're lucky Alexa is here. We're all lucky she knows the Death Eaters or Stephan Naclle could have gotten the journal and you back to Voldemort." Sirius paused to eat a little more. "Well, the world would be chaotic if Voldemort had control over it and I really don't want that." "We can understand that. But, on a happier note, happy birthday Alexa" "Thanks" "Here's your presents." Harry said giving her the packages they had bought. "What, do you think I need a lot of fattening foods?" Alexa joked after she had unwrapped the presents. Most of them had been candy. "You are really thin" Sirius said. "You four had better get up to the castle. It's almost time for your dance." Chapter 13 The Dance Alexa, Hermione, Ron and Harry headed back to Hogwarts, clutching their cloaks, and trudging throught the deep snow. When they got to Gryffindor Tower, Alexa and Hermione went to their dormitory to get ready. "Why do they need three hours to get ready?" Ron asked. "Who knows? What should we do until it's time to get ready? We can't go outside, the snow's too deep. We don't have any homework, as we finished it last year. So what do we do?" "Chess?" Harry sighed. "Sure but your gonna cream me." They played 5 games and by then it was 5:45 and time to go and get ready. * * * * * "You know, instead of using all that gel, you should just use magic." Alexa said. "It's much faster." "Why didn't I think about that before?" Hermione said. "It's so obvious. I'm studying to be a witch and I don't even think to do my hair with magic." "If it makes you feel better, lots of witches and wizards don't think to use magic for things like that. And they aren't like Neville." "Ok. It's just about time to go downstairs. What do you think Harry and Ron will say?" "I don't know. You've known them longer than I have so what do you think?" "I'm really not sure. You know those robes look really good on you. It brings out your eyes." Alexa was wearing pale blue robes and Hermione was wearing velvet robes. "Thanks. Your robes look good too." Alexa and Hermione left their dormitory and went down to the common room. It was still unusual to see the different coloured robes. They saw Harry and Ron waiting for them at the bottom of the stairs. Both of their mouths were open. "You two look...great." Harry said. "Come on. Let's go down to the Great Hall." Ron said. When the doors of the Hall opened, they saw it had been decorated spectacularly again. "Hey Alexa, I think Malfoy likes you. Look at him" Hermione said giggling. Alexa turned and saw Malfoy looking at her with a stunned look on his face. The music started and they walked onto the dance floor. Since all of the students had dance partners, the floor was crowded. "I wish Hagrid were here." "Where is he?" "I think he went to go find his giantess mother and get the other giants to side with us so we're prepared for Voldemort." "He went to find them? Why didn't he just ask me? I have contacts all over and the giants are some of them." "So Hagrid's on a wasted trip?" "Well...sort of. He could've gone because he thought it would've been better in person which is true because they like talking face-to-face instead of by letters. And he might see his mother so it's just a little more effort to persuade them to come over." The song ended and the students all sat down at the little tables that had been there last year. The menus appeared again so they ordered and the food appeared again, as it had done last year. After the students had finished eating, they got up to dance again. Harry, Alexa, Ron and Hermione danced for most of the night. They changed partners so Harry could tell Hermione and Alexa could tell Ron about Hagrid. They finally stopped dancing and sat down for some butterbeer. "Alexa, I really do think Malfoy likes you." Alexa turned again and saw Malfoy staring at her but the scowl that was usually on his face when he saw them was gone. Alexa sighed. "Oh well." Harry and Alexa stood up to go dance some more. As they walked off, Ron was struck with a horrible thought. What if Alexa really was evil and was just trying to get Harry to trust her so she could get him to Voldemort? |