Harry discovers happiness
Harry sat in his box room at number 4 privet drive aimlessly strumming his guitar which he had bought from a shop in south London after at the end of last school year he had no idea why he had bought it he thought it would provide him with something to do in these long nights at the dursleys. Although he had found that the only place to play was on the roof past half nine at night he didn't know any songs per say but he knew all the cords so he could string a few together to make a rudimentary tunes he was happy with this and with school only two weeks away he was fairly content.
An audible pop was heard behind him
"you know if you were any noisy you'd be back there "harry began"
must you give me this lecture every time" said the man who was standing behind him throwing him something.
harry caught the flying object with minimal effort and it was revealed to be a can of coke smiling he cracked to open as the figure sat beside him
" so come on spit it out or do i have to force you to tell me the man smiled
"I'm just tired with the dursleys want to go to the burrow i miss my friends harry said shacking slightly as he did so
" hey pup i will have none of that Sirius said with his trademark grin
" i know potters never cry and neither do marauders harry mumbled still upset that he have to wait till the Hogwarts express to see his friends. They sat in silence for a while neither one of then felt awkward but just content to sit and watch as there meetings had become of late
"FREAK!" Harry heard something bellow "that's my cue harry mumbled although skinny he could easy swing from the roof to his window in a single movement Sirius waited for harry to disappear before he himself disapparated.
lying on his bed blood dripping from his back as he was used to at this point he just seemed to not notice as he was beaten after getting off the roof Vernon had begun as he always did by a few punches but then went to whip i know it seemed medieval but having it steel tipped was the worst part to it as the steel would rip any new skin that tried to form.
Harry tried to ignore the pain. A strange rumbling sound approached Harry's window although definitely familiar the noise got louder and louder, harry reached for his wand and pointed it at the window and bringing it level with the window ready to attack whatever approached he took and breath a steadied himself. He released the breath at the sight at what was actually coming a blue flying car that harry knew all too well as it pulled alongside his window it seemed to be missing a passenger
"Fred George what are you doing and where's Ron" harry said relif dripping from his voice
"keeping mum at bay of course now come on get your stuff don't have all night" laughter filled then room as harry hurried to get his trunk ready.
"Here take Hedwig" Harry said still smiling at the memory of the last time he did this. Although this he noticed a lack of Vernon trying to pull him back in "here" he heaved as he handed the trunk to the twins who accepted it
"you know as you once said to our brother most muggles aren't accustomed to seeing a flying car and if you take much longer they will all see us now will you please get a bloody move on" George laughed
"alright I'm done now let me in" harry said
"oh no harry the thing you need is your broom as it's now a race see ya at home" the twins laughed as the car began to pull away
"when will they ever learn" harry mused grabbing his firebolt and shot out of the window with his guitar strapped tightly on his back no way was that staying there. Harry felt the wind slap him in the face as he flew although chunky the car was no slug harry was having a bit of difficulty keeping well the twins although they did have a few minutes head start. After 20 minutes of desperate lying harry finally pulled alongside the twins
" you know I swear that thing has gotten a hell of a lot faster" harry grumbled as the twins tried to stifle the laughs
"awww poor harry kins is all alone well come on were almost home" anyway George laughed. the two objects began there decent towards the burrow
"aw fuck" Fred shouted as he saw who was standing in the doorway it was mrs weasly holding Ron by his ear painfully it would seem as well as he kept squealing
"FREDRIC AND GEORGE WESALY!" Molly shrieked "WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN"
"well mother we have been rescuing a friend of ours form a living hell" Fred replied calmly
" and who were you rescuing this time" molly quizzed
"me "harry replied stepping into the living room
"harry my boy why didn't you say it was you" molly screeched harry remained silenced as he was too tired to even formulate an answer
"mum can we please sit down I'm pretty sure poor Harry's about to faint" George said stifling a yawn
"you two no but harry can" molly replied calmly
"but mum" Fred whined
" you" were in a car he was on a broom who really needs the rest here" she said with a glare
"thanks" harry said but as he reached for a chair everything went black
Harry awoke to the familiar ceiling of the burrow he began to sit up but as he did so he was thrown back onto his back by a brown missile
" HARRY" The object screamed
" you know being pushed onto the ground isn't advised after passing out Hermione" harry groaned "and by the way why are you here" he asked
"didn't Ron tell you" Hermione asked
" Hermione I was here 10 minutes before it went black now how long have I been out" harry asked
"2 weeks" Hermione answered meekly
" right, now what was Ron supposed to tell me" harry asked
" ohhh were going to the world cup so get up were going in like 5 minutes"Hermione answered
"so hold on where you going to leave me here" harry shouted
" never Ron even said if u didn't wake up he would carry you there himself we never leave a man behind I believe where his exact words" Hermione laughed "come on you don't need a bag just yourself and whatever you want to bring" she finished
"ill catch up I want to change" harry said
"harry you do realize you are awful liar right" Hermione scowled "I'm not going until you are walking where I can see you and that's final" she said sternly
"fine" harry snapped slowly he rose to his feet and took his shirt from the nearby table and began walking with Hermione after a few steps he stopped and pointed his wand into the air "accio firebolt" he said and once again began walking after about 20 minutes harry put his hand out and his broom shot into it he simply slung over his shoulder and kept going hardly even noticing its arrival just continuing to walk along in silence after a while they caught up to the weasly and the digarys harry always enjoyed chatting to all the weasly and even cedric was a great guy soon arriving at the world cup and setting up camp.
"Ron I'm going to go flying for a bit" harry called into the tent
"ok just be careful I don't want to deal with a hysterical girl again please" Ron begged
harry laughed as he shot into the air after flying about 700 meters he came to a stop a hovered and just began watching the giant campsite suddenly something caught Harry's attention left of him it was fireworks man about to set off his wares harry just laughed and looked towards the horizon suddenly his broom shook violently and began to spiral out of control harry looked down to see what he was going to hit " oh shit clear the ground I have no control" harry yelled but alas no one could hear him and the front of the broom caught the ground and harry was sent flying into a figure carrying a bucket of water which sent them both tumbling to the ground with the stranger ending up on top of him. Harry groaned and looked up in to seemingly endless pools of sparkling blue. Words seemed to fail him his brain working overtime as he tried to formulate a sentence " I'm so sorry but would you mind getting off me please "harry stuttered unsure as what to say in his position
"oh sorry" the girl said nervously harry laughed and turned to walk away "wait please" the girl called in a beautiful French accent and harry froze had he done something wrong had he hurt her he spun round to her staring at him " what's your name" she asked acting as if nothing had happened a few minutes prior
harry sighed here we go again wanting for moment to lie to her but he just couldn't bring himself to " ok but before I do you have to tell me you not going to treat me differently" harry said quietly
" O K " the girl said suddenly very curious
" ok here goes, my names is harry James potter" he said clearly
"good to meet you mister potter my name iz fleur delacuor" she answered laughing
"what's so funny" he asked "why would I treat you different it'z just a…ohhh are you zat arry potter" she said sternly
"yes" was his answer although he immediately regretted it
" ok just wanted to make sure" she finished the conversation continued back and forth finding out about each other and ages and stuff that like that harry was entirely intrigued by the captivating girl in front of him he could stop listening to her or trying to catch a glimpse of her eyes or her beautiful silver hair which seemed to go on forever "arry, I must get going to my family but can we meet tomorrow" she asked
"sure" harry answered and the two laughed but strangely fleur stood there for a few second before seemingly deciding on something which harry soon discovered as fleur pulled him into an embrace that would put even Hermione's to shame harry returned the hug but after a few seconds realized fleur was tracing his recent beating marks through his shirt and pulled away Fleur looked horrified but said nothing as her eyes seemed to lock on the approaching man and she stiffened terrified harry turned behind him and looked back at fleur this was all the information he needed the man still approached and was soon in Harry's face "
out of the way pipsqueak" he growled
"no" harry said firmly
"this thing behind you has no rights she is a toy and it's my turn" the man attempted to push harry out of the way only to be met with fist to his nose the man stumbled and pulled his wand "how dare you" he screamed
harry just calmly drew his and muttered the first spell that came into his head "rictasempra" he yelled red light shot at the attacked but he easily dispelled it and cast his own
"bombarda" harry threw himself left as the spell hit where he was originally standing creating a massive crater at this point fleur had her wand at the ready and cast three spells that harry couldn't even begin to pronounce at her attacked but once again all had no effect the man laughed" stupefy" he said cruelly and fleur was thrown down helpless as the man approached victorious
harry once again stood up and in front of fleur
"you won't hurt her" harry said clearly exhausted the man kept laughing and put away his wand walked to harry and raised his fist but before he could strike harry attacked and delivered several punches on the man's head dazing him before harry gave him four headache punches knocking him out harry ran to fleur and helped her up
"come on" harry said blood pouring from a cut on his cheek "I'm walking you home" he smiled
"no I don't need you to" fleur deadpanned
"look if you give me permission or not I'm walking you home so take a pick I walk with you or I follow you your choice" harry said his mind still in defend mode
"alright fine just don't dawdle" she said harry wandlessly called his broom to his hand and began walking