All The Houses

Dreams and Reality

I watch Hagrid's look change to a look of worry. His face slowly turning a pale grey.
"Thank you for err, bringing this to my attention. Ge' back to class and the other Professors and I will deal with this." He says trying not to let the worry show in his voice. I nod and slowly make my way back to the Hufflepuff dormitory where I left my bag. Care of Magical creatures class was cancelled and we had study instead. I couldn't concentrate at all for the rest of the day. I was thinking of what they were gonna do about the werewolf. They can't kill since it is a person. They would probably try to find it in it's human form and try to help it with wolfbane potion or something. Unless it's a really nasty one that let the wolf take over. When my last class (Defence against the dark arts) was over I ate only a small portion of dinner, then walked to my room.
"Calandra?" Whispered a voice behind me. I turned around and saw Teresita sitting on her bed with a potions book in her hand.
"Yes?" I replied
"What?"
"You said my name"
"Ummm no I didn't. You look really pale, Calandra. You should go to bed"
"Why do you think I came down here for?" I mumble. I really do fell ill. My head aches like hell, and my stomach feels like there is a tfrog hopping around in there. I peeled of my unusual Huffledor robes, which clung to my skin with sweat. I must be coming down with a fever. I flopped into my bed and it didn't take long for me to drift of to sleep.
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I woke up in what felt like 5 minutes. I groggily swung my feet out of my bed. It was only when my feet landed on the soft, cold ground, did I realise where I was. My eyes widened in shock. The large trees loomed over my bed. The soil was cold beneath my feet. I stood up slowly. I turned around to get my quilt from my bed, but my bed and quilt was gone. Even though this all felt so real, it must be a dream. Something moved out of the corner of my eye. I swung around, but it was gone.
"Over here, darling" said a voice behind me. I jumped with fright and turned to see the source of the voice.
"Oh. It's just you Simba. You almost gave me a heart at........ SIMBA?" I yell, almost fainting in shock.
"Oh my. You seem surprised to see me. Sorry for the unannounced visit, but I really do need to talk to you" he apologised as if he always has conversations with people.
"This is a dream, right? I'm not awake, right?"
"No, you are not awake. Are you dreaming? Well that's for you to decide"
"Oh wow, my cat is some sort of wise old wizard now?" I say sarcastically. Simba smirks (if it's even possible for a cat to smirk)
"Who ever said I was a cat? I may look like a cat, and act like cat, but it was never clarified that I am a cat"
"So your not a cat?"
"I didn't say that"
"Ugh" I was getting frustrated now.
"Enough of the small talk now, I am afraid I can't stay for long. I came here to warn you.
"Of what?"
"The beast in the woods is a....
"Werewolf, I know"
"Do you always interrupt people? If you had let me finish, I was going to say that the beast in the woods is a great danger to you"
"Well, ya. It's dangerous to everyone"
"You aren't very good at listening, are you? I said it is a danger to you. As in it's particularly dangerous to you. It's after you"
"Why?"
"How am I supposed to know?"
"But.."
"Calandra, get up" a far of voice interrupts me.
"I must go, but remember what I told you. Stay out of the forest"
All of sudden I am no longer in the forbidden forest. I am lying in bed and Teresita is looking down at me and telling me to get up. I sit up straight and look around.
"Where is Simba?" I say slightly panicky.
"Umm....over there, why?" She asks, confused and pointing at the window sill where Simba was sitting up and looking at me innocently. I didn't want to seem insane, so I wait until Teresita left before I bent down to Simba's eye level.
"Alright, what was that about?" I ask, but he just looked at me with his innocent cat eyes. "Fine then. Be like that" when I said it, I felt slightly insane. Of course he wasn't gonna answer. It was probably a dream.