.Until I Found Her.

Everyone is gathered in the clock tower courtyard, Harry, who is upset because he forgot to get his permission slip signed for Hogsmeade, is pacing back and forth.

"Harry, just ask her, try to explain the situation with the Dursleys, she knows how they are!" I say trying to encourage Harry.

"She still won't let me go."

"Just ask, it worth a shot."

He sighs and walks up to her. He barely opens his mouth before she starts talking then she sends him away.

"Well, what did she say?" Ron stupidly asks.

"She said no, Ron." Harry says sharply.

"Hey, it's okay Harris." I say, rubbing his back trying to lighten the situation. "Tell you what, I'll stay with you." That caught his attention cause looks at me quickly.

"No, please. This is your trip, you got your thing signed! I cannot ask you to stay with me."
"So then don't ask, I'll do it anyway."
"No, go and have fun, just bring me back stuff." He sends me a wink, which I pretend to ignore.

I pause for a minute, hoping he'd change his mind. Seeing as he didn't I get up and follow Ron and Hermione to the exit.
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Harry's POV
—/—
Standing on a bridge talking to Professor Lupin wasn't how I planned to spend my time alone, but it was better than doing homework.

"So no Hogsmeade?"He starts.
"No."
"Well, don't feel too bad. I was roundly disappointed the first time I went."
"Really?"
"No.  I was just trying to make you
feel better.  Honeyduk's' sweets are the best in the world.  Their Pepper Imps are so strong you smoke at the ears.  And Zonko's Joke Shop may be dangerous, but you can't beat their Stink Pellets!"

"Wow, I feel so much better!" I say sarcastically.

"Sorry..." he takes a pause for a minute.
"But I do have to ask, what's going on with you and Y/n...L/n?"

"What do you mean?" I say feeling my face heat up, I never really talk about how I really feel about her, even with Ron.
"Harry, you know what I mean. Just tell me about her, what you think. You obviously, dare I say, like her?"

I softly laugh.
"I thought I would never fall in love, but then I found her. She's, I don't know, real. I know I'm only 13 and that sounds dramatic but-"
I sigh and look at him as he gives me a knowing smirk.
"I was lost within the darkness, but then I found her. But, I don't want to tell her."
"I think you should, what's the worse that could happen?"

"I don't know, I tell her and she thinks I'm weird and never wants to talk to me again?"
"Harry, for as long as you have been friends? That's unlikely."

"Fine, I'll make a deal with you, if we loose our next quidditch game, I'll tell her."

"Wait, haven't you caught the snitch every time?"

"Yep!" I stick out my hand for him to shake it.
"Okay fine." He shakes it.

-Time skip-
They get back from Hogsmeade and bring me a bunch of good sweets and prank stuff.(Y/n's doing of course.) I didn't tell anyone about the deal I made with Professor Lupin obviously.
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Y/n's POV
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"Let's go to the common room now, there's nothing to do here and we always manage to get in trouble, Especially you two." Hermione said looking sharply at me and Harry.

"Okay mom." Ron giggles as we all start speed walking leaving her behind.

We reach the stairs to find a like of about 10-15 people outside the common room.

"What's the hold-up? Only Neville ever forgets the password..." I say, not realizing he's right in front of us.
"Hey!"
"Oh! Sorry Neville..."

"Let me through, please. Excuse me, thank you, I'm Head Boy!"

Percy takes a pause before returning to face the growing crowd.
"Back! All of you! No one is to enter this dormitory until it has been fully searched!"

"The fat lady...she's gone!" Ginny runs up to say to us.
"Maybe she got sick of people calling her fat." I whisper to no one in particular.

Harry, focused on Ron and Ginny bickering, didn't notice the huge gash in the portrait. I nudged his shoulder and pointed to it. Right before the whole crowd was shoved forward.

Dumbledore mutters something I cant quite hear, then I hear the lady scream.

"Eyes like the devil he's got! Paired with a soul as dark as his name. It was him, Headmaster. The one they talk about. He's here. Somewhere in the castle! Sirius Black!!"

Everyone gasps and murmurs go around as Hermione puts a comforting hand on my shoulder. She knows how I feel about him, but I didn't tell her about our conversation, let alone the fact we had one.

"Secure the castle Mr. Filch! Rest of you, to the Great Hall!" Dumbledore's booming voice fills he stairwell. Students immediately start storming down the staircase and if it wasn't for Harry grabbing my arm and snapping me out of my trance I would've been trampled.

We get to the great hall and grab sleeping bags. Ron, Hermione, Harry, I all go off into a far corner. after about an hour of mumbles and rumors we're told "lights out". and the lights in the great hall shut off and were left with a beautiful display of the night sky flowing above us. It feels like hours go by and I still can't sleep. Suddenly I feel a tap on my shoulder and I flinch.

"Sorry I didn't mean to scare you." Harry whispers.

"You having a hard time sleeping too?" I whisper back.

"Yeah."
he lays flat on his back, hands flat on the floor while I'm on my side facing him. I link pinkies with him. It's something we've done since we were kids. It just provides comfort. Like the time when we almost died fighting Voldemort first year...or last year. I don't know about this year, I feel like we're not actually being hunted by Sirius Black...

"I've got a quest-" Harry gets interrupted by teachers walking in and we quickly pretend to be asleep, my finger still intertwined with his.

I've done the dungeons, Headmaster.  No sign of Black. Nor anywhere else in the castle.
"I didn't really expect him to linger."

"Remarkable feat, don't you think?  To enter Hogwarts castle on one's own, completely undetected... You may recall, prior to the start of term, I did express my concerns when you appointed Professor—"

"I do not believe a single professor inside this castle would have helped Sirius Black enter it, Severus."As Snape sends a scowl he continues,  I always knew Snape was a jerk, but never to me.
"But what about a student..?"
"Miss Black? No, of course not." Dumbledore looks right at me and Harry. We quickly pretend to be asleep again forgetting to unlink pinkies. Dumbledore continues to glance out over the slumbering students.
"No... I feel quite confident the castle is safe.  And I'm more willing to let the students return to their Houses.  But tomorrow. For now, let them sleep...It's astonishing what the body can endure when the mind allows itself  to rest."

I hoped no one else was awake and heard the "Miss Black" part. I knew Harry did, but he wouldn't think so much on it.
After that I slowly fall asleep, I'm not sure if Harry did or not.

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1258 words not including A/N

Bro I wrote so much this chapter took me 3 days to write cause I had writers block throughout most of it so I kinda just pulled something out of my bum.