Percy and Nico Undercover at Hogwarts

Chapter Thirty Nine

Harry's POV

I woke up to someone shaking me.

"Harry, are you alright?" Percy asked as I sat up and he handed me my glasses.

"Yeah, I'm fine," I said as I put my glasses on.

"You were having a nightmare," he said as he shook his head, doubting my previous answer. I just sort of shrugged, unsure of what to say. "Do you want to talk about it?" He asked and I shrugged again.

He took that as a yes and got up from where he was beside my bed and motioned for me to follow him as he walked out of the room. I got out of my bed, put on my slipper and followed him.

When we sat down on the couch, he said, "I didn't want to wake Ron and Nico."

"Yeah, Ron's really grouchy when he doesn't get him sleep," I said and he chuckled and nodded in agreement.

"I know."

We sat there in comfortable silence for a few minutes before Percy started talking again.

"What was your dream about?" he asked and I thought for a moment for how to answer.

"I was in a graveyard," I started slowly. I hadn't shared this dream with anyone other than Sirius, Ron and Hermione. "Then I somehow ended up in this old house with the guy that tried to kill me last year, Voldemort and some other weird guy." I didn't know why I was telling Percy this, but I felt like I could trust him since I've known him for about six months. "They're talking and then they notice me and it ends with them hitting me with the Killing Curse."

Percy was nodding as I spoke, thinking. "Guy who tried to kill you last year?"

"Yeah, it's a long story."

"What's the shortened version of it?"

"A guy pretended to be Ron's rat for twelve years and then tried to kill me last year, but our old DADA teacher and my uncle saved me."

Percy gave me a look that said I sounded like I was crazy.

"That's fucked up."

"It is."

After a moment, he went back to the previous conversation. "How long have you been having nightmares?"

"Ever since before the Quidditch World Cup, but it's always to same one."

"Why then?" Percy asked, his eyebrows coming together in confusion.

"I don't know," I said and shrugged. "Maybe because of the attack?"

"What attack?" he asked, furrowing his eyebrows more.

"The Death Eater attack," I stated and Percy just shook his head, not knowing what I was talking about. "It happened right a few days before you and Nico showed up at the Weasley's place," I informed him. "You really don't remember?"

"I was in America then."

"But it was all we talked about for before school started and it was the topic of every conversation for the first few weeks of school." Percy just shook his head, completely unaware of what I was talking about. "The Dark Mark appeared in the sky," I said, trying to jog his memory but he just got more confused.

"What's the Dark Mark?"

"It's Voldemort's Mark and his followers have it tattooed on their forearms."

"Ohhhh," he said, finally understanding something. "That's what you guys' thought Nico and I had tattooed."

"Yeah," I said nodding. Percy looked quite proud to have gotten that right. After a moment I remembered something that Sirius had asked me to do in a letter not that long ago. "So, what are you and Nico doing for Easter Break?"

Percy shrugged. "I don't know, whatever Nico wants. Maybe go back to America or stay here, I'm not really sure."

"Do you want to spend it with Hermione, the Weasley's, myself and some other people at one of my relatives house?"

Percy jumped as if he had heard a loud noise before he nodded. "Yeah, that seems like that would be fun."

Sirius and Remus had asked me to invite Percy and Nico over for Easter so they could meet the 'so-called 'Elemental Wizards.''

I knew that I wasn't supposed to tell anyone about Percy and Nico being Elemental Wizards or about the war, but what Professor Apollo doesn't know won't hurt him.

"Does you scar hurt?" Percy asked as he pointed at my hand that was rubbing my forehead. I hadn't even realized I was doing that.

"Ummm, yeah, it has been since the nightmares started."

"Have you told anyone?"

"Just Ron, Hermione and my Uncle."

Percy tensed up again out of nowhere for a second, almost as if someone else had started talking and startled him, but he relaxed after a moment.

"Maybe you should tell Dumbledore?" he suggested.

I gave him a confused look. "Why would he care?" I asked and he shrugged.

"I don't know, but the things he likes to know are always surprising."

I thought about it for a moment before nodding. "Yeah, he'd probably have something to say about it. I'll go see if he's awake. How about you go back to bed?" I suggested and he nodded.

"Okay," he said, getting up from the couch and heading up to the dormitory as I headed to the door. "See you in the morning."

"Good night."

(I know that Sirius hasn't been in the story till now, but I don't feel like changing things, so he's here now)