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A/N: Sorry if the grammer and spelling are off, I didn't get a chance to check it. If you see something just tell me and I'll fix it.
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Chapter 2: Can anyone see this?

Harry almost dropped the mirror to the floor when he heard Sirius' voice. He shook his head thinking he must have been daydreaming and looked into the mirror again. There, staring back at him, were the sad grey eyes of his godfather, Sirius Black.

"Sirius...? How are you doing this?" Harry managed to stutter out.

"No time to explain Harry, just listen. Something is happening soon, something dangerous and you are going to be a target. We hear things here, although I'm not sure where I am. The point is stay on guard no matter what happens, keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." Sirius turned away from the mirror quickly, when he looked back he had a frightened appearance. " They're coming.... they're coming. I have to go, I'll talk to you again when I can, keep the mirror on you at all times." Sirius disappeared.

"Sirius, SIRIUS!!" Harry yelled, it was to late, his godfather had already gone.

Harry's yelling alerted the people sitting downstairs, they immediately ran to Harry and Ron's bedroom to see what was happening. Remus Lupin reached him first.

"Harry, are you alright?" he asked as he swung the bedroom door open.

"Remus, I......I saw Sirius. He was in the mirror and he talked to me." Molly Weasley, Ron, Hermione and Ginny had all appeared in the bedroom now, they were watching Harry apprehensively.

"Harry....Sirius is gone. You couldn't have seen him, you must of had a nightmare." Remus said as he sat down beside Harry.

"But I wasn't asleep. I was looking in the mirror and I said his name......he appeared in it I swear. He told me that something dangerous was going to happen, and.... and I was the target." Harry refused to look into the face of his friends, he knew they all thought he was losing him mind from the depression.

"Harry, there is no way he could have contacted you." Remus told him.

"I KNOW IT WAS HIM, I'M NOT CRAZY. BELIEVE ME IF YOU WANT!" Harry yelled at him.

"Harry, please, I am only trying to help you." Lupin told him calmly.
"Help me? You are trying to help me.....well maybe you should listen to me then, instead of calling me crazy. You know what I'm going to bed." Harry crawled into his bed and covered himself up completely hiding his body. He lay in silence, listening to the sounds of his friends leaving the room, he wanted to be alone then anyway, especially if no one believed him.

As quickly as he appeared, he was gone and the hand that had locked it's grip around Harry had disappeared leaving a scorch mark on his wrist. He ran away from the veil and back up the stone steps, there coming through the door were a group of deatheaters and they had someone bound and gagged, struggling to get away. Voldemort stepped from behind the group and spotted Harry and his scar felt like it had burst open.

Harry was screaming and clutching his scar while it was burning. He was sick and couldn't stop himself from retching on the floor from the pain. He could hear voices around him but the pain was blinding him, keeping him from opening his eyes.

"Is he alright? Should we get Albus?"

"No, no, I believe he has just had a bad dream"

"He hasn't done that since he saw that snake attack dad."

"Harry, are you alright?" A calming voice surrounded him and he felt someone lay their hand on top of his that was profusely rubbing his forehead. In an instant the pain was gone and he was able to open his eyes again. There standing around his bed was Mrs. Weasley, Remus Lupin, Ron, and Hermione. Hermione was unconsciously rubbing his hair, not realizing the calming effect it had on him.

"No...yes, I'm fine," he lied. "I just saw Sirius in my dream......he came out of the veil and grabbed my arm here." He looked down at his wrist where in his dream Sirius had grabbed it and he could very clearly see a hand print burned onto his wrist. He tried to hide it but Hermione grabbed his hand.

"Harry what happened, how did you do that?" He didn't want to answer her, knowing anything he said was just going to cause confusion among his friends. He jerked his hand out of hers and covered it up quickly.

"Harry you have to tell us, did you have that before you went to sleep?"

Feeling defeated, he stared at the concerned looks of everyone he decided he had to tell them the truth. "No, Sirius' touch burned me in my dream when he came out of the veil. He was warning me about Voldemort coming for someone, some girl.....he disappeared before he could tell me. When I tried to run out of the door I ran into deatheaters and Voldemort," The Weasley's flinched at the name. "They had someone with them, bound and gagged, she was trying to get away. My scar started hurting in my dream and I woke up."

"Is that everything Harry?" Remus asked him.

Harry nodded his head in response unconsciously rubbing the burn on his wrist.

"Well, I believe we should alert Professor Dumbledore about this. I have never seen someone getting hurt in a dream and it showing up when they were awake." Remus turned and started walking out of the room.

"Oh and Molly, I think we need to put something on Harry's wrist to keep it from hurting. I'm sure that Ron and Hermione can take care of him while you do that. I'll be back in a few minutes." Lupin left the room and Mrs. Weasley followed him, heading to the kitchen to mix a few things to put on Harry's wrist.

After Mrs. Weasley and Lupin had left Hermione, Ron and Ginny sat down on his bed and stared at him.

"Why are you all looking at me like I am some kind of caged animal in a zoo?" Harry asked them with a frustrated tone.

"You don't have to get all huffy you know, we are just worried about you." Hermione stated to him.

"Sorry," he muttered. "I just feel like something big is going to happen to someone, someone we all know. Why else would Sirius have warned me in my dream?"
"How do you know it was actually Sirius Harry? Couldn't Voldemort have planted that dream, I mean think about it."

"I know it was Sirius ok, he was warning me. Would Voldemort warn me of something he was going to do?" His friends shook their heads at him showing that they understood.

It had only been a matter of minutes when they heard Dumbledore step into the room, followed closely by Remus Lupin. He sat down on the bed beside Harry's, Ron's bed. He looked at Harry and smiled, the twinkle was fading from his eyes but it was not yet gone.

"Harry, I need you to tell me every detail of your dream..." Professor Dumbledore told him. Harry launched into revealing his dream in full, not leaving out a single step, afraid that it could be very important.

"I see," Dumbledore smiled at him after he finished. "Now I believe that we should take Sirius' warning to heart. The dead have a way of communicating with us, we have all felt their presence at one time or another. You say you saw Sirius in the mirror today as well?" Harry nodded silently to him.

"Very well, very well. Sirius must know of something that Voldemort is planning, he has seen the girl and tried to show her to you in your dream. Someone very close to you is in danger Harry, we must take extreme precautions. Now Mrs. Weasley has prepared a dream less sleep potion and I need for you to drink it all. I will be back tomorrow if there is any news of who we think he is after. I want you all to be very careful, especially you Miss Weasley and Miss Granger, you never know when there is a traitor among you."

Dumbledore walked out of the room and could be heard talking in hushed voices with Lupin, Mrs. Weasley was trying to force the potion down Harry, he eventually gave in and fell into a deep sleep, one he had been needing for a very long time.

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The next morning Harry awoke to the smell of breakfast wafting up the staircase into his bedroom. Ron's bed was already made, he figured that everyone had let him sleep because of what happened the night before. He quickly dressed and ran down the stairs into the kitchen where everyone else was already eating.

"Oh Harry dear, you're up. What would you like, bacon and eggs?" Mrs. Weasley asked him as he slumped into a chair beside Hermione.

"Yeah, that sounds great Mrs. Weasley." Harry smiled at her. Hermione was the first to speak to him.

"How are you feeling this morning, better?"

"Loads, best sleep I've had in a while."
"Well you had us all worried about you last night mate, we were afraid something terrible had happened." Ron mumbled while he ate.

Harry saw Ginny and Hermione give Ron looks of disgust as he talked with his mouth full. Mrs. Weasley sat a plate down in front of Harry and began telling him what he had just told the others.

"I am going into Diagon Alley today to get a few things for around the house. Is there anything special you need Harry dear?"

"No thanks Mrs. Weasley."

"Remus will be staying here while I am gone, I expect you all to stay out of trouble." Mrs. Weasley proceeded to give them all a kiss on the cheek and a small hug before she left. Ron was mumbling under his breath when she kissed him.

After they had all finished breakfast Harry decided that they should play a game, he had already finished his summer work, as well as Hermione. Ron and Ginny still hadn't even began. So while Ron and Ginny sat in the drawing room studying, Harry and Hermione played a few games of wizards chess. She was whispering to him as they played.

"Harry, are you sure you are alright? You can tell me, I won't say anything."

"Fine. I'm not alright, I'm worried. I just don't understand why Voldemort has to come after the people that I care about, can't he just be happy with attacking me?"

Hermione reached over and laid her hand on Harry's. To him it felt like a shock had went through him, beginning at the spot where their hands touched. He tried to shake the feeling off but it wouldn't go away, he had never felt that before when Hermione touched him. He looked up to see if she had felt it as well and saw that she was staring at their hands, she looked up at him and blushed slightly before she pulled away and quickly changed the subject to school.

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