HP: The Stealing Isn't That Bad! Is It?

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"He looks different when he's asleep, doesn't he?" Padma observed. The boy who lived slept on his stomach, and he occasionally let out a soft snore as he slept.

"He's going to miss the express if he keeps this up." Hermione said. She hurried to the side of the four post bed and gently shook the boy who lived awake.

"Harry... Harry! Wake up Harry!" Hermione increased the volume of her voice but the boy who lived didn't stir.

"Why don't we try and tickle him?" Padma suggested as she approached the bed.

"Let's tickle the leg then." Hermione said and the two girls began to tickle the boy who lived with their fingers.

SMACK!

"AWwwwww" Hermione grabbed her face as Padma immediately covered her eye with her left hand. The boy's leg tensed as it felt the unfamiliar sensation and immediately kicked out, hitting Hermione's face while his knee slammed into Padma Patil.

"My eye..." Padma moaned.

"My nose..." Hermione added as her eyes moistened with pain. "It hurts..."

Harry finally woke up and he scrubbed his eyes and was puzzled at the sight of his two classmates on their knees beside his bed.

"What are you two doing down there?" Harry asked. He noticed Hermione was holding her hands to her nose and mouth while Padma covered her left eye with her hands. "Hermione, your nose is bleeding."

"I'd knowb!" Hermione shouted angrily through her hanky.

Albus stared through the window as he watched Harry Potter and his friends entered the carriage that led them to the Hogsmeade Train station. The Headmaster was disappointed about the boy who lived, since he failed up to the promise of his name. He was too normal, and never once had he been assigned detention since the incident at his first potions class.

"Well? Has there been any progress?" Albus asked. The carriage that contained Harry Potter soon joined the queue of carriages and he turned around and looked at his four heads of houses.

"She didn't see much." Minerva McGonagall said. "All the Fat lady knows is that she was in the office of a wizard, and that the sorting hat was there with her."

"She can't recognize the face of her abductor?" Albus asked.

"The Fat Lady said that it was very hard to see beyond a few feet in front of her. And the voices she heard was muffled so she couldn't hear anything that would give away their identity." Severus Snape answered. "She heard two voices, that of a young man and an older man."

"That only confirms that it was indeed Quirell that stole the sorting hat and the Fat Lady." The Headmaster replied. "Search his quarters, the sorting hat must be in there somewhere."

"Albus, what happened that night?" Filius Flitwick asked.

"Professor Quirell attempted to steal the stone, but he failed. I suspect he was the one that let the troll in last Halloween to act as a diversion as he attempted to steal the stone. Fortunately for us, Severus headed him off." Albus replied.

"And the Fat Lady?" Pomona Sprout asked.

"Quirell was cunning, but not smart. He thought that the fat lady had great singing talent and planned on her singing the Cerberus to sleep." Albus replied. "Luckily for us, it had the opposite effect, and the Fat Lady's horrendous talent at singing enraged Fluffy into a frenzy, and Quirell saw the results first hand."

Harry looked out of the window bored as Padma and Hermione discussed their summer plans. His mood had rapidly dropped since boarding the train, as he realized that he had to return to the Dursleys. He had been gone since early last summer, and he was sure Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia would be furious with him.

A glint of gold caught his eye and he immediately made a swipe for it and found himself holding a golden ribbon.

"Harry... that's mine... but if you want to keep it that's fine." Padma said, grinning at her friend.

"Uhh no, it just caught my attention that's all." Harry replied as he handed back the golden ribbon. Padma smiled and started playing with the ribbon, and Harry's eyes followed it.

"Harry, do you want to visit my house over the summer? Mum and Dad would like to meet you." Hermione asked.

"Hmm..." Harry didn't reply as he was focused on the spinning golden ribbon. His hands itched to try and catch it as it tempted him with its shiny goodness.

SNAP!

Hermione snapped her fingers in front of her friend's face, bringing him out of his trance.

"What's wrong with you Harry? You're not acting yourself these past few days." Hermione said in concern.

"I'm not?" Harry asked, blinking. Padma started twirling the golden ribbon and his eyes immediately locked on to it.

"Yes..." Hermione said as she grabbed Harry's chin and forced his face to look at her. "You get easily distracted now."

"Oh right." Harry struggled to stop staring at the golden ribbon and forced himself to look at the countryside. He realized that it must be the side effects of completing the animagus transformation by using the potion. The old man had warned him that although the potion was safe, he needed a few weeks to control the unfamiliar instincts within him since he accomplished the animagus transformation unnaturally.

"So... do you want to visit over the summer? You already have my address." Hermione said. "Padma said she'll visit around the first week of July and stay with us till September the first."

"Hmm" Harry thought for a moment. He liked the idea, since Hermione house was located in an affluent Neighborhood and it was another reason to avoid the Dursleys. "Sure Hermione, I'll visit you."

Hermione squealed happily as she hugged her friend, and Harry was forced to hug his friend back. "Oh we will have so much fun!"

"It's nice to live in a muggle environment, I'm excited too." Padma said.

Harry endured the girly talk for a few moments before he excused himself and headed towards the baggage compartment to have a proper nap. The roof was out of the question, since there was the occasional drizzle that made the roof slippery to walk on.

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