CHAPTER ONE: new outlook

Harry was in a world of his own as he reflected back on what had happened in the past few weeks since sirus's death. His only hope left in the world that he would escape the dursleys and have a real family and harry had recklessly thrown it all away. He had blamed himself for a very long time refusing to eat never sleeping staying locked in his room at the dursley's until either he died of starvation or they keilled him for the lack of cleaning he was doing. Which ever came first. He was sat unshaven amongst a mountain of broken quills and scraps of parchment asleep with his head on his desk when dumbledore found him. What happened next amazed harry dumbledore shook harry awake told him to brace himself and counted backwards from 5, when he got to one harry felyt a familiar tug behind his navel and the last thing he saw was an envelope on his bed before his room at private drive turned into a swirling mass of colours. He barely had time to organize his thoughts before the swirling colours settled to form the front door of grimuald place, harry was sure that at that moment if dumbledore was not still hanging onto his shoulder he would have ran then and there,"its alright harry" dumbledore had said a sadness in his voice as he guided harry inside, what happened that night was a blur to harry, he walked into a room full of people he recognized dumbledore sat him down as molly fussed over him getting him food which he refused to touch and then they all started, yelling shouting at him telling him how stupid he was being , it wasnt his fault, blame voldemort he heard someone exclaim as the room went quiet as they turned towards the voice to see the image of an even shabbier looking remus lupin in the door way. "i think you and me need to have a little chat harry" remus had said.and they did they talked until the sun was up again and afterwards harry had felt better, relieved, someone understood how he felt he still had friends in the world and he understood sirus's death wasnt his fault. The days passed at grimuald place and harry's mood gradually improved, the gang was all here and they were spending there days together happily, he turned 17 and they had a huge but somewhat subdued party at headquaters and he was finally able to do magic out side of school, there was about 4 weeks left until they were to return to hogwarts and this morning they had received their OWL results. Looking back he shouldnt be surprised he always new hermione would do great and that ron would do dismal but he necer really expected to get the highest ever mark in DADA and most shocking of all an O in potions. It just wasnt fathomable, he shook himself back to reality as hermione entered and sat on the edge of his bed, still with that glint of proudness in her eyes.

"you did really good harry im proud of you, aren't you glad I made you do all that study"

"yeah mione i'll be eternally greatful your geniusness,"harry snorted mock worshiping his best friend.

Hermione picked up a pillow and threw it at harry " oh harry your too much."

"nah seriously hermione no one can ever deny it now you really are the smartest witch of our age 11 outstandings and one exeeds expectations and you can't really blame yourself for that, maybe you can petition the ministry to re sit it as its there fault for appointing umbridge that you didnt ace astronomy what with her attacking hagrid and mcgonagall."

"yeah I probably could but I really can't be bothered I'm happy enough and I don't plan on taking astronomy for newts who needs star gazing its practically the same as divination."

just then ron walked in." oh guys please dont tell me your talking about OWLs please can we not ive had enough of it from mum I can tell shes dissapointed, I don't care I don't really need school just biding my time till I can go try out for the major legue quiditch teams."

"oh ron I wish you would focus more, well i'll leave you two to play chess or whatever it is you lot do when I stop pestering you about studying, i'm going to go check out the library" hermione called as she walked out the door towards the library, she was so busy going over her class list in her head and deciding which books to look for first that she wasnt paying attention to where she was going and she walked head first into a tall cloaked figure heading the opposite way.

"ouch, oh sorry" hermione said looking up, she froze as she realised she was looking at a very cross looking professor snape, and inwardly prepared herself for the punishment she was sure he was going to dish out.

TBC...

please R&R its my first attempt at a fic ever tell me what you think, ideas for a plot line, its like the goosbumb series you can decide where it leads to , this will be a HGSS fic , I read a really good one and have been dying to write my own. Any way please criticism is always welcome.

GLoW