─── chapter six.

rubi takes a left and is met with lupin's office. she was going to knock until the door opened widely.

"ah, miss weasley, you came just on time" lupin smiles at her. she walks in seeing harry and lupin standing there with a box.

harry's eyes widen. "rubi" he breathes. she smiles and walks up to them. "hi harry"

"rubi here will be helping you. now the spell we'll be teaching you is called the patronus charm"

"have you ever heard of it?" rubi asks tilting her head to the side a bit. he shakes his head, fumbling with his fingers.

"no? well, a patronus is a kind of positive force and the wizard who conjures one it kinda works like a shield with the dementor feeding on it rather than him" lupin explains.

"but in order for it to work you need to think of a memory, and not just any memory, a very happy and powerful memory" rubi runs a hand through her hair while trying to explain it to harry.

lupin nods folding his hands. "rubi here will give you an example of non-corporeal patronus. its a starter" rubi grabs her wand from her pocket.

"so since rubi's boggart is not a dementor, i have asked the headmaster to bring a real one, he agreed but only allowed to use it when im around, so rubi if you may..."

lupin gestures her to stand in front of the box. nodding she walks in front of the box and sticks her wand out. "harry you might want to move back."

rubi from her peripheral vision, she sees harry back up a bit. "1....2.....3" lupin opens the box to reveal a dementor.

the whole room becoming cold and dark. the candles that are lit start to flick off. immediately rubi's mind goes to seeing every person in her family laughing and smiling.

including percy.

she feels the burst of confidence in her. "expecto patronum!" she yells out. as soon as she yells out those words a shield of light burst out of her wand towards the dementor.

her shield makes it cower back down in to the box and lupin snaps it shut. rubi lets out a puff of air. she runs a hand through her hair breathing heavily.

lupin shoves a hand in to his pocket and pulling out a piece of chocolate and handing it to her. "woah"

they both turn to look at harry. he looked at rubi starstruck. "that was....bloody brilliant" he breathes.

she chuckles, taking a bite out of the chocolate. "thanks harold"

lupin walks over to harry giving him a smaller piece of chocolate. he stuffs it in to his mouth without another thought.

"well, since rubi gave you an example, i want you to try it now. now i dont expect you to get it immediately so if you dont get it today its fine." lupin reassures harry. patting him on the back.

harry walked up slowly to the box. "ok first things first, close your eyes and concentrate" harry closes his eyes focusing himself on lupin and rubi's voice.

"search your past, do you have a memory?" he nods breathing in deeply. "allow it to fill you up, loose yourself in it, then speak incantation, expecto patronum."

"expecto patronum"

"very good" lupin walks back over to the box and opens up the box. "shall we" harry nods agreeing.

lupin looks up at harry for reassurance and he opens it up. rubi looks from the stairs, she rubs her hands together in fear.

the dementor floats out of the box towards harry. harry raises his wand higher at the dementor. "expecto patronum"

a tiny wisp of light comes out of his wand. "expecto.... expecto...expec-." rubi runs towards harry catching him while remus puts the dementor back in the box.

"harry, harry" she shakes him. his eyes slowly start to open. "come on up you go" remus says pushing harry up.

harry looks up at both of them. "its alright harry, we didn't expect you to do it on your first try." rubi smiles softly at him. "took me days to do it, my dad told me it was normal, its no easy charm."

remus nods snapping a piece of chocolate and gesturing to harry to take it. "it'll make you feel better."

"what memory did you use." rubi asks, tilting her head to the side while she pulls him off the ground. "the first time i rode a broom."

remus raises an eyebrow at him. "well thats not good enough, not nearly good enough." the third year boy sighed walking over to the now lit candles.

"well there's another one, but its not exactly happy." he messes with the lit candle. "well it is, its the happiest i've ever felt but its complicated."

"is it strong?"

harry nods turning towards rubi. she smiles reassuringly. "well then lets give it a try if you feel ready." she questions. he nods taking out his wand again.

"just do it"

and once again lupin opens the box. the dementor flies out.

"expecto patronum, expecto patronum!" harry yells out. suddenly the shield of light comes out of his wand and faces the dementor.

the dementor tries to pass through it but it just gets pushed back in to the box. once the whole dementor is back in the box, lupin fumbles with the locks.

rubi grins wide at harry. she runs over to him throwing her arms around him. harry stumbles back in surprise. but he immediately hugs her back.

"you did it" she whispers in his ear. he smiles in content.

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rubi laid in bed, wandlessly, making a paper plane float around her bed. she just stared at it while it moved gracefully in the air.

suddenly she starts hearing shouting. her mind loosing focus so the paper airplane falls down on to her lap.

she sees leanne whipping up looking around. "what the fuck is that" she stares at her horrified. angelina and katie start waking up.

while alicia is still snoring with not a care in the world. rubi immediately jumps out of a bed and runs out the room.

she immediately recognizes that the yelling is coming from the boys dormitories. she quickly runs towards there dormitories.

the door that she hears the commotion going on, she pushes it open, only to see a man standing at the window staring at her before throwing himself down.

she runs over to the window looking down only to see a dog running in front of the castle. what the bloody hell is a dog doing around here? she wonders.

she hears panting and the other boys trying to calm someone down. she whips around to see ron sitting in the corner surrounded by the other boys in the room.

she pushes all the boys before throwing her arms around him. "oh my merlin, ronald are you alright? did he hurt you? cause if he did i will bloody fuckin murder him, ill jump out of this window after him."

she says examining every inch of his body for any blood or cuts. "he bloody scared me half to death thats what he did to me" ron whines.

she nods quickly helping him up. "what happened" she hears at the door.

standing there was percy, george, fred and some other griffindor boys.

"no need to ask questions you idiot, go get mcgonagall percy, now!" she demands. he glares at her for a second before running off to another direction.

george and fred walk in to the room. "you ok ron? i almost broke my pretty face trying to make sure you were ok." george frowns.

rubi snorts, flicking george off. "its not the time for jokes you idiot." he puts his hands up in defense.

"just trying to defuse the tension" she rolls her eyes. she puts her arm around ron and guides him out the door.

once they reach down stairs, the common room was full of kids asking what happened. ginny comes stumbling up to her siblings.

"what the hell happened" she frowns at them. "you wouldn't believe what happened ginny" ron starts. suddenly the portrait hole whips open to mcgonagall and percy running inside.

"oh my, are you alright mister weasley" she runs over to the weasley siblings.

people start yelling out, on what was happening. asking ron questions. as he tried explaining himself but everyone would interrupt him.

"silence!" mcgonagall yells out to the room. everyone quiets down immediately. she turns back to ron, pinching the tip of her nose.

"explain mr. weasley"

ron starts rambling about how he woke up to seeing sirius black standing over him with a knife. "thats preposterous weasley, how could sirius black get through the portrait hole"

"i dont know how he got in, i was busy dodging his knife" ron hugs himself looking at his feet. rubi puts her arm around him, smiling softly.

"percy, have you seen sir cadogan?" percy looks around and sees him. "oh he's there profesor"

"sir cadogan, sir cadogan" she yells out to him, pushing through the kids.

"how may i serve you m'lady" he hands a bouquet of flowers to a lady in another portrait and winking at her. "excuse me, is it possible that you let a mysterious man in to griffindor tower tonight."

sir cadogan pushes through people in the portraits shamelessly.

"certainly good lady, he had the password, checkmate!" he messes with the chess board. "the whole week in fact, on the little piece of paper" he smiles pushing a woman out a window, with no regret.

"what foolish person wrote down the passwords than proceeded to loose them." everyone turns towards neville.

"is it always going to be you" neville fumbles with his fingers, feeling ashamed. rubi giggles under her breath. ron looking over at her frowning. she covers it up with a cough.

"well sirius black is gone tonight and now you all could safely assume that in future time he will try to return. now i speak from the entire staff when i say, while we take every precaution to ensure your safety it is incumbent upon yourselves to act responsibly, am i understood?"

everyone responded with mumbling a yes professor under their breath. "very well then off you go and remember act responsibly."

everyone starts to head for their dormitories. suddenly ron turns towards hermione. "and this bloody cat ate my rat" he accuses. "thats a lie" she fights back.

"it is not and you bloody well know it" he glares at her before stomping away. she sighs rubbing crookshanks before walking towards the girls dormitories.

rubi stands there looking after both of them. they need to get rid of that tension they have. she chuckles to herself.

she was about to head towards her room but she sees harry sitting by the fire, by himself. she walks over and sits right next to him, making him snap out of his thoughts.

he looks towards her making all of his face features soft. she frowns at him, "you ok harry?" she whispers.

without her even noticing he glances at her lips for a moment before looking away. "i almost killed him." he says sadly. "he was right there, he was close enough to touch, i could've killed him."

he grips his hands together, shaking a bit. she notices how hard he's gripping his hands.

she pulls them away from each other before intertwining their fingers. she could feel how his hand were sweaty but she didnt care.

they both stare at each other. it was like they both understood what they were saying to each other with just their eyes.

her lips parten. she grabbed the other side of his cheek and kisses the other one. he wondered if she could hear the pounding of his chest as her lips pressed to his cheek softly.

she pulls away and puts down her hand from his cheek. "you should go to bed, if you sleep maybe it'll help you relax your thoughts." her head tilts to the side, thoughtlessly rubbing her thumb on his hand.

he liked the warm feeling she gave him. he had a hopeless crush on her. and he knew that. he wasn't oblivious of it.

even dean had a crush on her. he told ron that he thought she was hot and ron smacked him hard on the head with a book. he had a bump on his head for a whole week.

"harry?" he snaps out his daydream seeing that he was still staring at her and she was still staring at him.

"hm?" she smiles, letting out a snort. "i was telling you that you should take a sleeping potion i have one, it helps you have a dreamless sleep." she offers.

"erm i dont know, you really dont have to-." he tries to say but she interrupts him. "ah ah, your taking it, no discussion about it alright?"

he smiles widely, nodding. not knowing why he's giving in so quickly. she uses her free hand to search her pajama pants. "you just have it in your pocket?"

she feels the small vial and takes it out. she looks back at him smiling. "yeah, i keep it there just in case my nightmare's come back." she shrugs.

"you have nightmares?" his mouth pops open. she chuckles, shaking her head. "close your mouth harry, yes i have nightmares, everyone does harold."

he smiles awkwardly. "yeah your right, im being stupid." he plays with the vial in his free hand. "hey" she grips his hand tighter to get his attention.

"your gonna be fine you know that?" she frowns, trying to reassure him. "im not worried about me." he says finally looking at her.

"then who are you worried about"

"for the people i care about. im a walking danger sign." rubi raises an eyebrow. she stifles a laugh.

"you really are darling, but you know what those people who care about you

im pretty sure they dont care if you are, i know for a fact ronald and hermione dont. if you killed someone they'd both dig that grave with you. hermione might tell you you're an idiot and tell you to tell someone but she definitely wouldn't tell someone herself." snorting she continues.

"now ronald, he'll probably be digging that grave up for himself also, because he'd definitely not wanna get caught." harry laughs at her on point comments.

"but they'd still do it for you, because they love you. and i love you"

harry's eyes widen in shock but there's still a smile plastered on his face. "whoever is my brothers friend is my friend. so i love you."

his face falls at the brothers friend. thats all she was to him, her brothers friend.

"you should drink it now, you need to go to bed. its late." he nods opening the vial. he stares at it for a second before chugging it down quickly.

he makes a face because of how sour it was. rubi burst out laughing. harry starts laughing with her, rubbing his neck. the sour taste still on his tongue.

their laughter lowers down and they just sat there holding hands looking at the ground. "well i have to go to bed" she smiles.

he nods sadly. she wraps her arms around his neck and pulling him towards her. he hugs her waist, laying his chin on her shoulder.

she digs her face in to his neck, making him shiver. "you can always count on me ok?"

he nods liking this feeling. she pulls away and puts her hand on his cheek one last time before getting up and heading towards the stairs.

"goodnight" she yells out.

he watches as she leaves towards her room. "im fucked" he rubs his face.

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hello lovelies.

its been awhile.

but im back lol.

hope you liked this chapter.

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