So this will be updated once a week and I've been thinking about this story a lot and planning it out in my brain so don't worry. FYI it starts at the beginning of the trio's sixth year and will continue until the end of the seventh and perhaps a little bit after. A lot of things are changed, hopefully it's not too confused. I want to see how much you can understand from the first chapter before starting to explain so we'll see how many people can get it but FYI (again) pretty much anyone who died in the original series is alive. for now... mwhahahaha. ok again this story is mainly Harry and Ginny but also Hermione and Ron as well as other couples including but not limited to: Neville/Luna, Tonks/Remus, Lily/James and whoever else I think of as the time goes. If you don't like it don't read.
Disclaimer: I do not own any characters in the following story.
Chapter One
"I still don't understand why I just couldn't go alone, Sirius." Harry mumbled to his godfather.
"Because I love you too much and would never give up the chance to embarrass you at school. And since Remus left early this year, I didn't have any other reason to be here." Sirius said with a smirk.
"But I very well could've gone alone." Harry said. "I'm not a ten year old. Why couldn't mum and dad come anyway?"
"Because it's the anniversary of the day they met." He gagged. "I don't particularly understand the value of it but they're not my parents."
"Either way, I'm sixteen; I think I can manage boarding the train by myself without adult supervision."
"But where's the fun in that?" He asked with a laugh and clapping him on the back.
Harry groaned and placed his items on the train. "Goodbye Sirius, try not to be too sad without me."
"I'll try, now get on the plane and tell Remus he better be in Hogsmeade on the first trip or I shall be sorely disappointed and that he won't like me when I'm disappointed."
"Of course." Harry said with a laugh.
Sirius kissed him on the top of his head while Harry squirmed trying to get away. "Goodbye darling Harry!" He shouted as people turned around to look at him. "I will miss you so much! Make sure to write immediately, and don't forget to put on your ointment!"
Harry managed to get a compartment to himself.
He was grateful but partly wished he had been forced into another compartment with others.
He knew many people, especially girls, but he didn't really have any friends.
One of the downsides to being an only child, he had issues interacting with kids his own age.
"Hey Harry." He inwardly smiled at the voice.
It was Neville. Their parents were close friends from school, so they were somewhat friends. They also shared a room, which he was grateful for.
The other boys in his dorm weren't really his friends.
Seamus wasn't a bad guy but had a tendency to blow things up; so it was potentially dangerous to even attempt to be his friend.
Dean was also a nice guy but was always busy with something else.
Ron was nice but he always hung out with this Hermione girl who was always so…annoying, was really the only word he could use to describe it. It always surprised him how Ron could stand to be with her.
"Hey, didn't see you much this summer." Harry said
"Yeah," Neville sat down on the seat across from him. "Mum planned a trip to the states cause her and dad had a few weeks off and I spent the rest of the summer with my Gran."
Neville's parents were Aurors, much like Harry's father and godfather, but unlike his family he didn't have one parent staying home with him all the time.
"That's nice." Harry said.
Neville nodded and then the door slide open.
A small girl with dirty blond hair stood at the doorway.
"Excuse me, do you mind if I sit in your compartment," She said in a dreamy voice. "All others are too full or don't want me in it." She said.
"Uh sure." Harry said and moved his feet so she could sit next to him.
"I'm Luna Lovegood." She said. "You?"
"Harry Potter."
"Neville Longbottom."
"Oh yes, I've seen you guys around. You're in Gryffindor?"
Harry nodded.
"I'm in Ravenclaw myself. Not as brave but definitely smartest." She looked off into the window and out onto the sky as the train began to move.
Ron hated being in the prefects cabin. It was a simple fact.
All the prefects were mildly annoying.
They spent their time talking about how they had been all over the world for educational purposes and their plans for the future and such.
How did he even become a prefect?
He had no idea.
Probably because they were due for a Weasley since Fred and George had come along and ruined it all.
Or maybe it was because he spent too much time with Hermione.
But she was his best friend.
His only friend.
For him it was hard living up to all his sibling's shadows. He wasn't good at anything.
No one seemed interested in who he was. Only his brother's legacies.
Hermione didn't care about that.
Though she might have cared about school too much.
But together they made it through.
She didn't have many friends either besides his sister, Ginny.
But she could come off as stand-offish and annoying sometimes.
It was understandable.
Many people didn't understand why she was even in Gryffindor rather than Ravenclaw.
But he knew that it was cause deep down inside she was extraordinarily brave, and loyal, and benevolent and many other things that proved her Gryffindor-ness.
She had been his best friends for years.
But for a couple of years he had hoped for more.
Their fourth year, he had been a git and not invited her to a ball they were having at school.
He'd ended up going alone and Hermione with Viktor Krum, the Bulgarian seeker.
He practically growled thinking of him.
Ron had realized his feelings too late and even attempted to tell her in the midst of a fight they had that night.
It became extremely heated.
They were alone in the common room; everyone else was on vacation or at the ball. It was still extremely early for them to be back in their dorms. However, Ron had managed to argue with her all the way until they reached the common room without even noticing.
"Why are you being such an arsehole?" she had cried, literally, tears streaming down her face.
"Because you should've gone with me!" Ron had shouted angrily. He knew it was his own fault but he had always thought that she would wait for him. He was always nervous and shy when it came to girls but when it came to Hermione, he was hopeless. He could never manage a word when he thought about her that way.
His body would shake and no sound would come out of his throat but he couldn't help it.
They didn't speak for the rest of the school year, even the summer.
Only when they had returned to school and found that they were going to be prefects together did they agree to be friends again with all intentions of ignoring that night.
A year later, he still thought that Dumbledore had a perverse sense of humor.
Hermione came inside the compartment and he felt like he could breathe again, like he was no longer alone.
She smiled and sat next to him while Malfoy jeered at them.
He wanted to hex him but the new Head Boy and Girl were finally there and he decided to leave it for another day.
Harry rolled his eyes as Dumbledore read off the list of Filch's disapproved items.
Honestly, it would've been faster just to say the ones he did approve of.
Unfortunately, he hadn't been able to sit next to Neville, just bad luck.
He silently wished the Weasley twins were still in school, they were much more entertaining during dinner, though they hadn't been too nice to him once he stole the Marauder's Map. But he was only taking what was rightfully his. Not that anyone knew that.
Though he did have the fortune to get seated next to the only girl Weasley. She was one of the only Weasley's he was able to stand for more than short increments of time.
She was an excellent Quidditch player and though he hadn't told her yet, he was planning on recommending her for taking over his Captain's position when he left the following year. She also had a streak of her brother's jocular behavior and would probably the closest thing to a real friend he had.
It was a sad life for him.
"Could this be anymore repetitive?" He whispered to her.
She turned her head and smiled at him before turning back to speak to Dean.
He was a little stung at the brush off but just looked down at his plate, pushing it away. He suddenly wasn't very hungry.
"I'm very conflicted about this weather." Hermione whispered to Ron.
"Well perhaps if you were, well I don't know outside maybe, instead of inside of the library you would be less conflicted." Ron mumbled. He really wanted to be outside. They had only been back for a day and they didn't have class again until the next week and the last thing he wanted to do was be in the library.
But he was quickly reminded by the little voice in his head that if he went outside he would have nothing to do but sit and stare at other people while Hermione was in the library.
"I meant that it's very inclement but I like it. I've always like the thunder and the rain, I find it quite beautiful."
Ron nodded a bit confused. "Come on." He said grabbing all of his and Hermione's things.
"What? Where are we going?" Hermione asked as he pulled her along.
"We're going outside. I'm worried about your colour, quite frankly, I think it's been months since you've sunlight." Ron said.
"But it's raining." Hermione said.
"Still, it's more than you've been getting now let's go outside." He said and threw their things on the floor.
"Ronald Bilius Weasley! You can't just leave those there on the floor! Someone might take them!" She said furiously.
"It's alright they'll be fine." Ron said and pushed her outside quickly.
As he pushed her outside he pushed her straight into the rain.
"Ronald!" She yelled angrily.
"Enjoy it a little, have fun." Ron said with a smile.
"It's raining!" She shouted.
He laughed and started splashing in puddles.
She squealed as he got water at her.
"You will be punished for that Ronald Weasley!" She yelled.
Ron inwardly groaned at her words and tried not to think anything dirty about what she was saying but was easily distracted by the water being thrown in her face.
"What are you doing here, Harry?" Lupin asked as Harry walked into his office.
"I came to say hi, it's been a while since you've been around the house." Harry said. "Mum and Dad have been worried about you."
"As you can see I'm perfectly fine." Lupin said quietly and moved about his office moving things, and doing nothing insignificant. "No need to worry."
"You know them," Harry said quietly. "They just worry about people they love."
He smiled. "Of course."
Harry noted how skinny and sickly he looked. The scratches on his body had multiplied since he had last seen him.
"Sirius is very excited about the first Hogsmeade weekend."
"Yes I imagine he gets lonely with only your parents around. They can be very into each other to not notice others sometimes." Lupin said with a small smile.
"They can."
"Harry, why are you really here?" Lupin asked.
Harry shrugged. "I figured you'd be lonely."
Lupin didn't have very many friends besides his parents and Sirius. At Hogwarts it was even worse for him. The place that used to be his safe haven was now his hell.
But had he gone anywhere else he wouldn't have been able to make it. It was hard for werewolves.
Even worse now that some women named Doroloes Umbridge had it out for all "beasts."
"The life of a werewolf is always lonely, Harry. It is nothing to fret over. What I'm more worried about, is why a sixteen year old boy is checking on his parent's very old friends?" Lupin said.
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