“it’s a allows me to get out of any of my sses should malfoy feel threatened,” harry muttered, passie aross the table.
“hey, you should use that to get out of snape’s sses!” ron eximed.
&he fat that malfoy is in his potions ss,” hermio.
“oh…” ron didn’t look so exited.
&ion room looked the same as it always had, now that umbridge was gorewney was bak. harry and ron sat at their ustomary table ihe room aheir professor to arrive.
“welome all,” ame the misty voie, “today we will begihe use of tarot ards t out your inner eye—”
“but ens if my inner eye is shy a to ome out?” ron muttered and harry grinned.
“—oh, and harry, ies don’t feel as if you have to ask before you leave, dear. he will be waiting for you i hall.”
what? harry thought as the rest of the ss looked at him questioningly. okay…maybe he should just use that preditioo leave the ss ies…
“now, there are ma spreads that are used for a tar, so pay attention dears, for many of you will not uand this for a week beause you have he oy for all these spreads is that they invoke your ierpret their meaning, n. o knopeared in the reversed position and what that means verses ears in the normal position. there are also many kinds of tarot deks that ahe auray based oo your ihihere are the major arana ards and the minor arana ards. you will begihe differehese ards for our ss, but only four of you will have memorized the meanings of all the tarot ards i you will reeive at the end of this lesson. now the major arana is used feneral—”
harry’s eyes widely as he felt a familiar burioo reep down the walls of his stomah ale in a oil arouon. oh no.
not b to ask to be exused frot up ahe room.
rohe lok on the wall a was es into ss, not ten. should he point that out? hmmm…of ourse. smirking boldly at the professor, he raised his hand.
harry raed great hall to see drao sitting almly at the slytheriing for him.
“?” harry dema down angrily to drao. as drao’s hand found its way underh his shirt again he added, “i sure as hell wasn’t iuation.”
“no, i was.”
“were you i the dark arts or something?”
“no.”
harry tried to think erous ssroom situations. it ouldn’t be are of magial creatures, harry took that with him. “herbology?”
“no.”
“what ss?”
“a runes.”
“ray tell, is so gerous about a runes?”
“pansy,” drao replied almly as if that expihihe skeptial look on harry’s fae he ontiake a hint.”
harry sighed and fought the urge to bang his head on a hard surfae. oh well, at least he dido go bak to divination.
wheered his and drao’s rooms that night he was amazed to find drao loked ihroom with the sh. how mahat boy take? did he have some kiish for them or something? no—bad thoughts, and why did harry are anyway? it wasn’t as if the water in hot old if oook aremely loer all. shrugging off his lothes and hanging into pajamas, harry limbed into his own bed a a reent idea of his. maybe if he fell asleep first, he would remain safely in his own bed.
harry was out like a light befotten out of his shower.
harry awoke from a very pleasa absolutely nothing (whih suited him just fi meant it was a very safe dream) to find that he was in net out of bed, lounging on his stomah with his fae buried o pillow. at least he was until a slightly muffled voie from his hest area deided to omment on the m.
“okay, now this annot beome a normal ourreer. if you insist on sleeping ihan i insist oop.”
harry balked and promptly fell off drao and off the bed, nding harshly on the floor. oh, wasn’t that a wonderful way to start the m.
chapter 13: pinpointing the problem
harry sat in the library, faing hermioio respond. after a in drao—no, malfoy’s bed, he’d finally gotteh trying to figure out how to stop it on his own. he, or really they, had tried everything they ould ome up with. first they’d tried harry falling asleep before drao. had for the small differe somehow drao had been on top of harry ihen harry tried sleeping out on the ouh in a room ompletely different from drao. hadhey’d oaher wheime. to be sure he’d overed every possibility, harry’d persuaded drao to sleep ohe o say…it hadn’t worked. harry’d ehe ouh with drao and harry’s bak had ahed for the day from the positiohat night.
aross the table one ould almost see the gears turning in hermione’s brai about the situation. “well, are you sure you don’t sleep walk harry?”
harry looked poi hermiohink i would have or ron oi to me by now.”
& tion, harry,” was the unabashed r