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The Potterkey

That night, Harry had had another dream, but unlike the ones he had been having for the entire summer, this one was quite different. It had begun with Harry talking to Hermione about how he was supposed to get to Hogwarts from where they were, Number Twelve Grimmauld Place. Hermione giggled, and Harry had blinked, and suddenly they were in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom. Hermione was busy telling Harry how much she wished he would come with her to the mountains to see house-elves during Christmas break. Harry was telling her that house-elves wouldn't be in mountains, they'd be in homes.

"But they are there Harry, they aid the giants." Hermione was telling him.

Harry found her to be gibbering when suddenly Neville Apparated next to them. Hermione turned her attention to him, and had begun to yell.

"You just broke the rules! You're not even supposed to be able to Apparate or Disapparate in Hogwarts!"

"Sorry Hermione, hey Harry, did you see the Potterkey?"

Harry was about to reply that he had seen nothing when he was abruptly awaken by someone's voice.

"Harry, Harry Potter?" came a voice that sounded far, from outside. It was also three in the morning, as Harry found out after looking at his clock.

Looking around, he found himself very shocked to see a young wizard outside his window, on a broomstick no less. Without knowing even who he was, Harry yanked the boy out of his window and into his room.

"What are you doing? Do you know how many Muggles there are around here?" Harry said while rubbing his eyes from the sleep that was in them.

"So sorry chap, oh, by the name is Miniscus Reading." said the young wizard who had extended his hand.

"Reading?" Harry said groggily as he shook the young man's hand, also noticing that he was about three inches taller than Harry.

He had messy black hair kept very short, but long enough to get in his face, which held piercing green eyes. He could've passed for Harry himself, had he not smiled, where instead of fine kept teeth, he had straight, yellow teeth. Closing his mouth quickly, he moved his hair out of his face.

"No chap, Reading, you know, like the street name." replied Miniscus who was busily dusting off his robes which were a deep blue, and picking up his broomstick, a Cleansweep 600, the same kind Cho Chang flew.

"What are you doing here?" asked Harry who had finally shook his sleepiness away and finally realized that he had another visitor from the wizarding world.

"Well, I'm here to talk to you of course, the famous Harry Potter. Bloody brilliant of that Longbottom, to send you an owl and all. Guess I should've done the same... oh well." answered Miniscus who had looked around, as if expecting something.

Harry looked at Miniscus a bit more hard than he meant to when he realized that he hadn't offered him a place to sit. "Oh, you can sit here if you'd like." Harry had offered him his chair which Miniscus Reading took eagerly.

"Thank you, I've always wished to speak with you. I assume from Neville that you've heard of the Potterkey." Miniscus looked up at Harry who was in the process of sitting down, but froze once he heard Miniscus.

"You know about the Potterkey?" sputtered Harry who had finished sitting down and was staring at Miniscus.

"Why of course I do, I was next to Neville when that old wizard told everyone in the store about the Potterkey. From what I heard of you however, I would've thought you would jump for the opportunity, but you're here asleep."

"What do you mean from what you heard of me?" Spat Harry who was getting angry at the accusations this stranger, Miniscus Reading, was throwing at him.

"Well, I've heard everything about you, from the way you thwarted the Dark Lord's, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, attempt at getting the Philosopher's Stone, then how you found the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets and stopped the younger version of The Dark Lord and saved Ginny Weasley. Of course everyone knows of your bravery when you faced off against Sirius Black and that werewolf Remus Lupin."

Hearing Sirius' name come from Miniscus didn't sound too good to Harry, it was almost as if he spit it out. His anger continued to rise as he listened on to this poor informed young wizard.

"Then two years ago, you somehow got away from the Dark Lord while Cedric Diggory died, and you won the Tri-Wizard tournament. And last year, taking your friends into the Department of Mysteries. No one outside of the people in there actually knows what was going on in there. We only know that you got out of there, and Albus Dumbledore dueled against the Dark Lord who has risen again."

His anger soared as he heard Reading spit out Dumbledore's name as well. His anger was so much that he didn't even realize that Miniscus seemed to relish in saying Voldemort's name.

"What are you here for?" asked Harry who was trying to calm down his raging anger.

"Well, I'm here to take you to the Potterkey chap that is if you want to."

The discussion had gotten back to the Potterkey. Harry had started to calm down as the idea of getting his parents came back to him. Along with that came his curiosity toward the thing.

"How do you or Neville even know if the thing truly exists?"

"Well... I flew past where it is when I came to see you. Only you can touch it, which is why I didn't get it for you chap. Bloody brilliant magic that is. The Muggles are keeping it in some museum. Fudge really has gone the lengths for this one."

"Fudge knows about this?" It had to be real, if the Minister of Magic knew of its existence.

"Of course, he did place it there you know, strict secrecy. At the museum, they've labeled it as a key from Egypt so that Muggles won't get what it really is."

"And how do we get there?" asked Harry who's curiosity was reaching its high point. He really could get his parents back.

"Broomstick, you've got one right?"

"Yeah, but... well it is three in the morning."

"Good then, grab your robes, and I'll take you there."

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