Chapter 4

'Where am I?"I mumbled to myself. The surface on which I have slept was clearly not my bed. 'Did I fell asleep in Hogwarts ground?', my mind was a hazy mess. Rising up was equally hard. Something was above me and in my half awake state it was proving difficult to rise.

I opened my eyes, and was greeted by sight of red hair. Last few hours before sleep flashed back, and my mind soon solved the puzzle of who she can be. Lily Evans was sleeping on top me.

'Holy shit man! what do I do? what do I do? She is not awake, is she?' I was panicking and my heartbeat was fast like never before. Its one thing to have fantasy about such situation with your crush but its different altogether when it happens in reality. My mind became more of a jumbled mess with each passing second. 'Should I move from below as silently as I can?' or 'Should I wake her up?' or 'Should I feign sleep and let her wake on her own?'. Too many options and no idea which one will be best? 'What if she became angry at me?'. 'What if she became uncomfortable with me and never talked again?'.

I took few deep breaths and forced myself to relax. My heart beat was still faster than normal. After few more minutes passed, I came to decision, and that was to let the situation run its course. I would act as if I am sleeping until she wakes up. Then she can decide what to do of our current situation. I would also be able to enjoy her proximity for that long but I would refuse if you say it has anything to do with my decision. This was just some added perk of my gentleman decision. Soon, I discovered a very important distinction, taking decision was one thing and acting on that decision was another, and it was proving very difficult in my case. What with two soft mound pressed on stomach as well as her breath on the chest, generating ticklish feeling, very difficult indeed. My body was also not helping, I can feel myself getting hard in lower region, no matter how hard I tried to command it to soften.

I had to wait in the same position for about half an hour, but it definitely felt longer. I myself was of two mind. One side of my mind was wanting to prolong the feeling for forever while other side wanted to get out of this situation as fast as possible. Not because I was not feeling good but because this was totally alien feeling and I had no idea how to deal with it.

When Lily finally woke up. She definitely noticed something amiss (her whole body became tense in just a moment). She came to realization soon enough, this was evident by the way she hastily jumped back to maintain respectable distance. I sighed and got ready to wake up. But stopped when Lily once again moved toward me.

'Is my tightness in lower region that much visible?'my mind raced to the hardness that I was feeling.

She stood near me and spelled a drying charm on my t-shirt. Then, only my notice went to the area where the spell hit. And felt that portion of t-shirt became dry. I hadn't really noticed it before. I realized soon, what must have happened. In her sleep she must have drooled upon me and she is now covering up her tracks. I mentally smiled and decided to keep this embarrassing moment to myself for now.

"Lily, Pandora, come on its dinner time. You can resume sleeping later", a voice spoke from the left side, where the door opened and a strange guy walked in.

He was wearing a strange necklace. His eyes were looking at lily but still looked like he was not looking at her, hair was spread all around. The look that the wizard presented was very strange.

With a groan, Pandora woke up beside me. She opened her one eye looked at him. I also left the pretense of sleep and woke up.

"Xeno, what are you doing here? And how did you find us?" Pandora questioned her friend. She was still feeling the effect of the sleep.

"On my way to great hall, I heard some 'Blibbering Humdinger' whispering among themselves about some strange dark creature presence. They were also talking about two girls sleeping with a guy in here. So I came here as fast as I can. I am quite excited to see the creature. Have you seen it?"

Both mine and lily faces flushed with embarrassment,due to sleeping together comment. Pandora ignored that comment, stood up and walked past us, up to Xeno and spoke in a apologetic voice, "Sorry Xeno, the creature is not here. I should have bought you along when I was testing my new summoning spell".

Xeno face turned disappointed,"Oh, okay. I just thought... Anyway what were you summoning?"

"Pondocyrus"

"Really, Did it came or spoke to you?" The excitement was back in his voice.

"No, something went wrong. Instead of Pondocyrus coming here. A big circular portal opened up. And we felt a dark creature presence from the other side, it started to pull us inside itself. The pull was strong, we were barely able to stop ourselves and afterward became so tired that none of us had power to go back to our own room for rest."

"That's sad. I would have loved to add more information about them in my library".

He spoke with a thoughtful tone. I also stood up and we moved toward great hall together.

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Two weeks passed since the incident. I didn't participated in any further spell experimentation. Though I would have few conversation here and there with Pandora, not frequent but whenever possible. Most of them occurred while in the common room of Ravenclaw tower. I had greater understanding in ancient runes than her and would often spend that time helping her to understand them. I owe that much at least for introducing me to Lily.

In this short period of time, Lily has became a good friend of mine. After that day, we sometime sit together in class or at dinner table. Most of the time we would be discussing class related stuff, homework and things like that. Though we never mentioned the day when she slept on top of me ever again. That day still gives me the most pleasant dreams. I have even used the memory for 'Patronus charm' but unable to form corporeal Patronus yet. Maybe I am not that skilled yet or maybe need a new memory with Lily, who knows.

My closeness to Lily didn't went unnoticed. I was targeted by Maurdrer thrice in these two weeks. Thanks to my house elf Fopsy, I managed to avoid all those pranks. He keeps his eyes on everything that goes around me and helps whenever he can. Other students were also anticipating a harsh prank in the form of a grand show from Maudrers, after all I had broken the unspoken rule of befriending Lily. But they had yet to see any successful results.

Meanwhile, I was also working on gaining as much knowledge as I could obtain before leaving this escalating war and this country behind me. Like everyday, I came back to my room, refreshed, and went to the room of requirement through the secret tunnel.

Reaching there, I opened a book and sat down on the chair for another long study session when I remembered discussion from somewhere about Hogwarts having conscious. I was not sure, since the details of any such discussion was hazy at best. But my mind was stuck. If Hogwarts possibly have conscious, could it teach me. It was a possibility and I would be able to ask it many of my questions. Since its ancient castle it must have abundance of knowledge.

With thoughts like these, I forced myself to fully focus on my need to communicate with Hogwarts. If Hogwarts is conscious then it will certainly communicate with me as its the requirement that I was fully focusing on. Few seconds passed in total silence, after which came the most pleasing and melodic voice that I have heard in life. The sound was neither male nor female but sounded as if created by magic itself.

"What do you want young wizard? Why do you require to talk to me?"

"Am I speaking to Hogwarts", I asked. Excitement laced in my voice.

"Yes, Many young wizards and witches have called me that"

"wow, It worked" I was giddy with excitement, and jumped out of my seat to pace up and down.

"Will it be possible for you to teach me?", I asked with hopeful voice. It would make my learning process very easy if Hogwarts itself decided to teach me.

"Why? Why do you wish to learn from me? Do your wizard professors not doing their work.", I can hear the inquiring tone of Hogwarts.

"They are trying but are only partially successful. I just wish to learn more than what they would teach us in the class. You see there is a war going in the outside world which will only get worse. I want to learn,how to defend myself in every way possible, heal myself or friends if we ever get caught in crossfire. I also want to create magical artifacts to make the magical world more advanced. For all three purposes, the education provided here is inadequate. The quality of defense professor is poor and dropping with the change of professor every year. Art of healing and creating magical artifact is also not taught here in any of the classes. So you see how I would require help other than conventional options."

"I see. That's a problem. And your request for help makes sense. So, what do you wish to learn first?"

"About magical defense, Everything that you know. I want to learn."

"I have been in this world for many centuries and in time I have picked a lot of knowledge. Its so vast that no wizard can truly learn all of them. Even going through them once will take you several lifetime. I will have to sort through and pick the required magic to teach you. Your mind and body are also weak for most of my magical training. To learn from me, it would need to be improved first. Then only, I can start teaching you to satisfactory level. Remember that it will be different than what your professors teach you. But it will be the core of magic and much more difficult than what you have assumed."

"Thank you, Thank you so much", I spoke in gratitude and relief at finding myself one step closer to my goal.

"You should go now, young wizard. Its soon going to be time for your sleep. Its not good for your health if you keep yourself up till late night. You will burn out if you keep the routine that you have kept for the last two weeks. Your body needs sleep as much as it needs work. From tomorrow, your routine will change. You will wake up early and come here. We will start then. Till then, have a pleasant night and magical dreams".

"Have a pleasant night" I repeated to Hogwarts. My mind filled with questions, at the top of those questions.

'What it would be like for Hogwarts to have dreams? Is it possible for Hogwarts to have sexual dreams like us and if yes, what it would be like?

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