After showering and brushing his teeth he returned to the bedroom and located his trunk, again not noticing that he found it too quickly for someone who could not recall being there before.
He dressed, made his way into the front room and headed for the door, completely missing that the suggestion boxes had disappeared from his desk and that the wall behind the desk was as blank as it had been two days before.
He made his way down to the Great Hall for breakfast.
Harry's pattern for where he ate his meals was now well established, meaning that everyone who had been paying the slightest bit of attention over the past week knew that Harry was due to have breakfast with the Slytherins that morning. So, when Harry sat down with the Gryffindors, some people should have been slightly concerned.
However, many of those in the Great Hall had already ingested some form of food or drink and with it some of Snape's special brew.
That Harry then began to talk to Ronald Weasley as if they were still the best of friends should have sent even more alarm bells ringing, but the potion kept on working its magic.
Hermione entered the Great Hall. The last week had been a miserable one for her. Harry had taken exception to her doing as Dumbledore had asked her over the holidays and now wasn't talking to her. With Harry not talking to her she was suddenly a social pariah again and she was feeling about as low as she had been back in first year, shortly before that Mountain Troll had stomped into the girls' bathroom and begun swinging its club at her.
So it did come as a surprise to her when, moments after sitting down next to a gossiping Parvati Patil and Lavender Brown, Harry looked up from his seat directly opposite her and said, quite friendlily "Good morning Hermione."
She blinked at him, wondering what on earth was going on. It appeared that he had decided to simply forgive and forget, but something about that did not sit right with her.
In a voice that she had barely used all week she replied "Good morning Harry."
He smiled at her and turned back to his conversation with Ron and Seamus.
Things really did look like they were back to normal, but why? It didn't make any sense to her that Harry would suddenly want to be her friend again.
She wanted to question him about this sudden change, but decided to pour herself a goblet of pumpkin juice first.
Once her goblet was full, she raised it to her lips, took a refreshing drink and completely forgot about her question for Harry.
From his golden seat in the centre of the staff table, Dumbledore was watching the morning's events with a smile on his face. Alone or in groups of twos and threes and fours the students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry had entered the Great Hall and taken their seats at the correct House Tables and begun to eat their breakfasts without question, unknowingly ingesting the potion that would drive all questions from their mind and completely forget about their complaints.
Dumbledore regretted slightly that he had been forced to potion Miss Granger this time. Before now he had been able to cajole her into doing his bidding by playing upon her two biggest weaknesses, admiration for authority figures and her concern about Harry's safety (the Tri-wizard tournament and its aftermath made this last one an especially easy way to manipulate her into doing his bidding.)
However this time Dumbledore could afford to take absolutely no chances. Harry had been to different this past week for Miss Granger to not notice the sudden change in him, far less accept it, even if Dumbledore told her it was in his best interests. Added to that she, like everyone else, knew about the complaint boxes and like everyone else, with the exception of Ronald Weasley and Draco Malfoy, she had contributed to the complaints with one of her own. That needed to leave her mind.
Mr Potter entering the Hall was the moment of truth. That he happily sat down next to Ronald Weasley and began chatting with the boy as though they were still best friends proved to Dumbledore that his plan had worked. He watched just long enough to ensure that Miss Granger took in a dose of the potion and then turned his attentions elsewhere. Severus wanted to know when he was going to get his position as Head of Slytherin back and Minerva wanted to know what they were going to do with Dolores Umbridge, who was currently in an enchanted sleep in a bed behind a screen in the Hospital Wing.
Turning to talk with them meant that he missed several very important and very similar things occur almost simultaneously.
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