Emily Black (HP FanFic)

Chapter 22

The decision to go to sleep didn't exactly work... not for me anyway. Harry fell asleep as soon as he hit his head on the pillow, but I had a hard time falling asleep and when I finally did, I only got about 30 minutes of sleep.

I'm really getting tired of it.

I decided to go downstairs with a book to read, I didn't want to read it in the room in case I would wake Harry up.

When I got downstairs there were only three wizards there and the owner who looked up from what he was doing when I sat down in a seat and started reading.

I only got up to get a few glasses of water otherwise I just kept on reading and I didn't even notice when night turned into morning, I only noticed, when Harry came back downstairs.

He asked me if I had been down here for the whole night, I lied and told him I had only been there for a few hours.

When we had finished eating breakfast we went into Diagon Alley to buy the things we needed for school but first we went to Gringotts to get more money for all the stuff.

We spent our days like this, got breakfast at the Leaky Cauldron then we went straight to Diagon alley and looked around or studied.

When we were not together I was usually in one of the bookstores reading some of the books. The day before we were going to Hogwarts I was there alone, Harry had gone to look at the firebolt - the new broom - one last time and was hoping to see Ron and Hermione.

I was also hoping to see George, I had missed him all summer, the Weasley family had been in Egypt for the summer and we hadn't heard much from them.

While I was looking at one of the books and wondering what this school year was going to be like when someone put their hands over my eyes.  

"Guess who" a familiar voice said, I pretended like I was thinking "hmm, could it be my favorite Weasley twin.... Fred?" 

I heard him laugh a bit while I was turning around and when I looked at him he had a big smile on his face. "I'm just joking , you're my favorite twin, George" I said before I gave him a big hug, he laughed a bit more but hugged me back. When we looked back at each other I asked him where Fred was, he said he was out with their mother, getting their stuff for school.  

He also told me he had been looking for me for a while, he saw Ron with Hermione and Harry and when he saw that I wasn't with them he figured I was probably in a bookstore

"I should have come here first, would have saved me a lot of time" he said with a smirk on his face. 

We walked to the ice cream shop and started talking about our summer, I told him that we had to study at night when the Dursley's were asleep and what happened to aunt Marge and he told me about the pranks him and Fred pulled in Egypt and what other things they did there.

After a while he asks me "have you been sleeping?" I wasn't sure what I should say but I decided to lie "yeah".

He wasn't smiling or smirking when I looked at him again, "don't lie to me" he said.

I was startled when I heard him say that but I told him the truth, about how I only get about an hour or less of sleep every night and how the potion only worked for about a week. When I had finished telling him about it, his face was so pitiful and I hated it. 

I told him that it doesn't really matter, I don't need that much sleep anyway, and besides I can read or study or something else. He still looked a bit unsure but he changed the subject so I'm hoping we won't talk about that anymore. 

When we had been there for a while longer George told me that we should be getting back to the Leaky Cauldron and when we got there I said hi to the rest of the Weasley family and Hermione.

We ate dinner and then we went upstairs to finish packing. Then I went to look for the twins who were snickering in their room, I asked what was so funny and they showed me Percy's Head boy badge (they had taken from his and Ron's room) that they changed to say Bighead boy. I smirked and we all went back to Percy's and Ron's room to return it when we saw Harry coming back upstairs.

I saw Harry wasn't looking as happy as he was earlier so I excused myself from the boys to go talk to him.

When we were back in our room and had and had closed the door, he told me that he heard Mr and Mrs Weasley talk about Sirius Black, that he was crazy and that he might want to kill Harry. There was silence for a few minutes and then I heard him say - more to himself than me - "I'm not going to to get murdered" and then we were both asleep.

.....

 And here we are again. I hate these freaking nightmares, they are driving me crazy. It's not that I don't get to sleep, it's that I constantly startle awake every night... it's staring to piss me off!

I go downstairs with my book (Harry still doesn't know anything, George is the only one who knows about this) and started reading. 

A few minutes later George comes down as well and sits down next to me, we don't talk, we just smile at each other and then I keep reading and George starts working on his own work - I think he still has some homework to finish - 

We do that for an hour or two and then we started joking around and having a bit of fun, then about twenty minutes before we were supposed to wake up and get ready to go to the station, er went upstairs and did just that.