𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 | Harry James Potter x Reader

YR 3 ☆•°~'* 12

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'Y/N!' said Harry, climbing back down the ladder after about fifteen minutes. 'You're still here!'

'Yes, I wanted to tell you-' Y/N began, but Harry cut her off.

'I know, you said she went rigid-'

'She said 'it will happen tonight' in a weird raspy voice, I thought she was being possessed or something!' exclaimed Y/N.

'She said that to you too?' said Harry, gaping at Y/N while walking down the spiral staircase. 'She- she told me something about Voldemort being friendless and that his servant would go back to him after being locked away for twelve years and that he - Voldemort - would rise again.'

'His servant? She doesn't mean Sirius Black, does she?' muttered Y/N, quickening her pace to the common room. 'Did- did she say when?'

'Yes,' said Harry, breaking into a run. 'Tonight, before midnight. Do you think she was making a real prophecy?'

'I... I think so,' said Y/N, turning to the corridor with the security trolls. 'She wouldn't just say something like that as a joke...'

'We need to tell Ron and Hermione,' said Harry, walking into the common room through the portrait hole, Y/N right behind him. The room was almost deserted; it seemed that everyone had gone to enjoy the end of the exams, but Hermione and Ron were sitting in a corner.

'Professor Trelawney,' Harry panted, walking over to them, 'just told me-'

But Harry stopped abruptly, and Y/N knew why. Ron was clutching a letter, and Hermione looked like she was on the verge of tears.

'Buckbeak lost,' said Ron weakly, handing the letter to Harry. 'Hagrid just sent this.'

Y/N peered over Harry's shoulder at the letter. The handwriting was so shaky that it was difficult to read:

Lost appeal. They're going to execute at sunset. Nothing you can do. Don't come down. I don't want you to see it.

Hagrid.

'We've got to go see him,' said Y/N resolutely. 'We can't just leave him alone!'

'Sunset, though,' said Ron, unconvinced. 'We'd never be allowed... Especially you, Harry.'

'We'll use the Invisibility Cloak,' said Harry, but he sank onto an armchair, his head in his hands. 'If only I had it...'

'Where is it?' said Hermione.

'In the One-Eyed Witch's passage, I left it there the last time I snuck into Honeydukes, but if Snape ever sees me there again-'

'If he sees you,'  said Hermione, getting up. 'How do you open this passage again?'

'You just tap it and say 'Dissendium',' said Harry, watching as Hermione strode to the portrait hole and vanished from sight.

'Well, she's gone to get it, I guess,' said Y/N, smiling. 'Really changed this year, hasn't she?'

'Yeah,' said Ron, looking stunned. 'Walking out on Trelawney and then this? Blimey.'

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Two hours later, after getting the Invisibility Cloak back and gone down to dinner, they were walking down the sloping lawns, all hiding beneath the Invisibility Cloak. The sun was already setting when they reached Hagrid's hut, and they knocked on the door.

Hagrid answered the door. Y/N felt pity for him; his hair was shaggier than ever, and as he looked around to see who his visitor was, he was pale and trembling, his face tear-stained.