HP:Family Help

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Harry Potter just finished his third year, the summers were always miserable because he had to go back to the Dursley's. His friends were always nice to him and did a bit to try and make his life more comfortable but it's really not like they could do much or tried overly hard, they needed a break as well as he did which he hadn't got because all the fighting in the school.

But this summer Harry was happy, for he got to stay with his godfather Sirius. It was amazing for him as he finally he didn't have to suffer the miserable beatings that he got from the Dursley's. So far the beatings that he had gotten from them had been worse than anything that he got at school and the only person that knows of them is Madam Pomfrey because she had taken care of him whenever he got hurt at school. A broken arm couple scrapes and cuts are the extent of what he endured at Hogwarts, but at the Dursley's he had suffered a broken leg a few broken ribs a broken arm and several deep cuts and those were the ones that he had gotten from them after he got to Hogwarts and he also had plenty of scars on his back. He had made Madam Pomfrey swear that she wouldn't tell anyone and she assured him saying that it was standard doctor patient confidentiality, but it still made him nervous.

Harry was extremely self-conscious about his scars and to a large degree they made him feel a bit weaker. Madam Pomfrey told him that if he showed some of his close friends it would probably help but he couldn't bring himself to do it, although he has been thinking about just mentioning it to Sirius since he was going to be living with him but he didn't think that that would be a good idea because it would be kind of an awkward conversation.

"Good luck Harry hope its ok at Sirius's house" Hermione smiled.

"Anythings better that the Dursley's" Harry grinned unconsciously rubbing his shoulder that had been broken before. "I'll make sure to write you guys if I can get the chance but at worst i'll see you next year"

"Yeah it's too bad we can't write you Harry but I would probably do the same thing if I had bars put on my windows just so I couldn't send mail" Ron said.

"Well at least I'll have human contact" Harry said a little for grimly than he intended. Thinking back on the 'human contact' that he had had at the Dursley's, even his contact with Malfoy was slightly better. "Well I guess I better get going but don't think for a moment that if I can write you I won't" Harry said seriously.

"Ok not your fault if we don't get a letter" Hermione responded. As Harry left they waved goodbye to each other.

Going to be the best summer ever Harry thought while grinning.

"Harry best we get going I stocked up on some stuff you can use if you get bored, but I hardly doubt you will, as my place has a charm on it so they can't detect magic in it so it's basically not even on this planet that's how well its hidden" Sirius grinned "although a few board games and such never hurt."

"Can't wait for this summer no b.. things to get in the way I can actually have some fun, the funny thing is that I'll probably see more people here than I did at the Dursley's" Harry said smiling.

"Seriously? It's only going to be three maybe four people" Sirius replied frowning.

"Well I was locked up inside my room the entire time and if I complained they b-yelled at me" Harry said a bit nervously. He decided not to tell Sirius, it was his own problem to deal with.

"Ok the two people that will come over the most will be Nymphadora Tonks who is my favorite cousin's kid, and of course Remus. Oh and a small word of advice don't call her Nymphadora because don't think you will own a head after that, just call her Tonks, although I think that you can get away with it the first time" Sirius grinned.

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"Well this is my place" Sirius smiled "like it?"

"Well I do but it does seem a bit dark, old, and dusty" Harry responded.

"Well what did you expect boy, when you're in a prison like Azk... that for that long without anyone who has time to clean the house it tends to get that way" Sirius said avoiding the name of the prison he had been in, as it still left a bad taste in his mouth.

"Also just ignore all of the paintings I am thinking of moving them as they are all very annoying, most of all is the one of my mother who absolutely hates me, I think I am going to move them to a different room" Sirius laughed "This is going to be great, I haven't seen you for the longest time since this year much less did I expect to have you living with me after I was sent to prison"

"Just out of curiosity can I leave the house, it doesn't matter much to me but I don't wanna do it on accident if i'm not supposed to"

"There will be times when you can leave but stay inside unless I am also going out and I will show you how to find this place before I start taking you out" Sirius replied "Now Harry I doubt this is what you were expecting to do when you got here but you wanna help me clean"

"I'm fine with it as long as you're not b-yelling at me if I don't do them or making me do them all myself everyday" Harry said with a touch of anger in his voice, but Sirius knew it wasn't directed towards him "Oh and I get more than 5 meals a week" Harry added. Harry mentally sighed, he really needed to stop almost saying beating.

"Absolutely no problem with that I mean I am absolutely loaded, even so my parents were against my beliefs and hated me they never actually got a chance to change the will so I got over one-million galleons well I'm not actually sure how much I have but I'm pretty sure it's well over that, so when we go out if you wanna buy anything at all, it's on me" Sirius laughed.

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Harry woke up when he heard a knock on the door. He was sleeping on the couch as he had fallen asleep when he was watching tv. He went over to the door and looked through the eye hole and saw Sirius standing in front. Harry opened the door and saw 2 people behind Sirius, one of which was Remus and the second one the first thing he noticed was her pink hair then how hot she actually was.

"You must be Nymphadora" Harry said smiling. Sirius grinned when he saw the look on her face, but it quickly went away, still amused by the look she had, Harry hadn't quite noticed the objects in their hands.

"Call me Tonks" she replied smacking Sirius in the back of the head.

"Harry I haven't actually gotten you something since we met, so I got something I think you'll love, but Remus got you something as well as Tonks, but I think we will like it a little more than you, I guess it would kind of be for all of us but it's mostly directed towards you" Sirius said trying to explain it while not giving too much away while Remus and Tonks were snickering behind him.

"Has anyone ever told you you're terrible at explaining things?" Harry asked rhetorically.

Sirius gave a playful glare "No, in fact most people think that my speech is quite eloquent."

Rolling his eyes Harry opened Sirius's gift first and gaped in amazement "Wow thanks" Harry said still staring at the gift Sirius got him. A Firebolt, the fastest broom that you could be at the moment. His speech was still a bit impaired from the gift, but it was quite obvious he liked it. After a bit more staring and grinning Tonks shifted a bit and faced Harry "I call second ride"

Harry laughed "Sure and if this this is as fast as I think it is then I hope I can find my way back so you can ride my... ummm bad phrasing" he said as he saw Remus and Sirius raising their eyebrows. "Ok then onto the next present let me guess it's a spell book" Harry said seeing a big rectangle I wrapping paper.

"Well Harry it's better than any of the spell books that you will find in you school, also it has all the spells me, Sirius and your father came up with" Remus grinned.

Harry opened the book and looked through the book and found a spell that he liked "Well I hope this doesn't kill me" Harry said as he prepared himself. Remus and Sirius looked worried because they didn't know what spell he was going to cast, there were spells in there that were dangerous, but he labeled them because they were. They all knew that Harry had learned to cast spells without a wand or having to say anything.

Remus and Sirius laughed hysterically as they saw multi-colored string fly from Harry's hand. "Harry I would run if I were you, it's silly string except much more sticky" Remus laughed. Harry saw the death glare in Tonks eyes, as he had cast the spell at her.

"Uh Tonks hold on there's a spell to get rid of it lemme just find it, pleasedontkillme" Harry said quickly not wanting to face the wrath of the young woman. Harry quickly cast the spell at Tonks and the silly string on her disintegrated.

"Boy you're lucky I added that spell in there" Remus chuckled and Sirius just nodded grinning.

"By the way don't worry my present isn't bad for you, and the effects aren't permanent... you know probably" Tonks smiled a bit evilly.

Harry slowly opened Tonks present, "A suitcase?" Harry asked.

"Open it" Tonks grinned.

Oh god there's no way she'd be grinning right now unless its bad after what I just did to her Harry thought. "Um I think I'll open it later I'm a bit tired" Harry said making up what he knew was a horrible excuse. Tonks gave Harry a look that only women could give that said you had to do what they said no matter what. Harry started to open the suitcase slowly when there was a small dragon. The dragon sent out a small bolt that hit him in the face.

"That dragon is now bonded to you, it doesn't get much bigger and by the way your skins green" Tonks grinned "I modified the bonding process to color your skin it'll go away in a two weeks time plenty of time to keep making fun of you"

Harry lifted his hand and cast the silly string at Tonks and sprinted away after he put the equivalent of an entire can on her. Tonks moaned as she couldn't get it off "Harry I'm gonna kill you" Tonks screamed and tried to sprint after him but fell on her face.

Sirius and Remus burst into laughter at the sight of her falling not because she herself was so clumsy but because of the silly string. Tonks shot them a death glare and they immediately stopped laughing but couldn't help but have a grin on their faces.

To keep her away from them Remus quickly dissolved the silly string and Tonks chase Harry. "Better him than us" Remus grinned and Sirius laughed along with him.

"Harry let me in, I just want you open the door and say sorry" Tonks said in the nicest softest voice she could make.

"I'm sorry" Harry said from inside the door.

"Ok Harry fair warning I'm blowing the door down" Tonks said bringing out her wand.

Before he knew what happened the door blew open catching him by surprise. Harry slid across the floor and got nasty cut from a nail that was sticking out of the floor a bit. Tonks saw the blood "Oh god Harry I'm so sorry I didn't realize that this house wasn't fully repaired" Tonks said with a look of horror on her face when she saw all the blood. She noticed Harry hardly even noticed it.

"Harry let me disinfect it and wrap it up for now we don't have any potions that I know of that can help" Tonks said stepping towards him.

Harry jumped back from her "Harry I said I was sorry, I wasn't trying to hurt you" Tonks said looking a bit hurt herself by his reluctance to let her help him.

"It's not you, it's just... I'll take care of this myself" Harry said feeling a bit bad that Tonks thought he didn't like her.

"Harry you can't do anything to a wound on your back just let me help you" Tonks pleaded. Harry came closer and turned around so Tonks could see the wound knowing that she was right. Not to mention it was extremely painful.

Tonks started to lift Harry's shirt when he jumped away from her, but because of the rip in his shirt his whole shirt ripped off. "Harry I was just.." she stopped seeing all the scars on Harry as he lowered his head avoiding her eyes. Tonks walked towards Harry, who didn't move and went around to his back and disinfected his wound with a spell and then pulled some bandages that were shrunken down and wrapped it up. As she looked across his back he had even more scars there than he did on his front, it looked as though he had been whipped

"Harry how many broken bones have you had?" Tonks asked.

"I don't know" He responded.

"Why not?"

"Stopped counting after five" Harry mumbled.

"How many were your fault?" Tonks asked.

Harry looked a bit confused not sure how to answer the question "How many of those did someone else give to you?" Tonks rephrased the question. "All of them?" Tonks asked taking a guess. Harry nodded.

"How many happened at Hogwarts?"

"One or two" Harry replied quietly. "Please don't tell Sirius about them" Harry said as he started walking out of the room.

"Oh no you don't, I'll tell Sirius and Remus if you don't tell me how you got them" Tonks threatened, feeling a bit bad using that as leverage. Harry sighed and figured Tonks had already seen them so he explained his life at the Dursley's.

"Hey is everyone alright here?" Sirius asked

"Oh sorry I blew open this door and it knocked Harry back and there was a nail sticking out of the boards" Tonks explained leaving out what she found out about Harry, as he requested.

"Well Remus is going to leave now so..." Sirius said tailing off.

"Oh yeah we'll say goodbye but do you mind if I stay here, I feel a bit bad about Harry and I wanna make sure he's gonna be fine"

"Sure why not we've got plenty of room" Sirius grinned.

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"Tonks what's wrong?" Sirius asked.

"I don't know what you mean."

"Ever since you've chased him you've gotten really defensive about him" Sirius said crossing his arms.

"Look he told me something and made me swear not to tell you, I only found out by accident, I'm sure he'll tell you later, but right now I think he just wants a happy life with you."

Tonks had started coming over more often to see Harry. He found it nice because he had someone to talk to about his troubles since she already knew. Tonks was also the first person that knew about the beatings.

"Harry you have a crush on anyone" Tonks asked. Harry nodded.

"Who is it then?" she asked.

"It's embarrassing" Harry said his cheeks turning red

"It's ok you can trust me who is it" Tonks asked again. Harry shook his head. "Fine i'll find out eventually".