Chapter 1 – Nearly the end of the year
The end of the 5th year was nearing an end, and everyone was extremely careful and sensitive with Harry, and I'm assuming you know why, because of course, Sirius, his godfather, had died, the only kind one left of his family was gone.
Harry, Hermione and Ron were walking down the Grand Staircase, going down to dinner, when they came across Percy walking up. Ron scowled at him as he gradually came nearer to them.
'What are you doing here?' Ron sneered.
Percy only replied in a snidely way, 'I'm looking for Dumbledore for your information, now excuse me.'
Ron's eyes followed his snobbish figure as he trailed on up to the next floor.
'Bastard!' Ron muttered under his breath, 'Doesn't even have the decency to apologize to Harry!'
Of course, you probably also know why everyone hates Percy, he worked for the Ministry, being against Harry and arresting people who believed 'he' was back and forming committees against him.
They continued down the stairs, Harry hadn't spoken much since what recently happened, so in silence.
When they entered the Great Hall Harry took a seat next to Ginny and George, who was even being nice enough not to crack a joke especially for Harry, what a nice boy he is.
Later on, when everyone was in bed, Harry lay awake, staring up at the ceiling. He was thinking about Sirius (obviously), the plans Harry had to move in with him and be treated like a human, not an animal. That wasn't going to happen, he was stuck with the Durseley's for a lot longer. Sirius was the only one left of his family, well, the only nice one. And life was a lot different now.
In two days time Harry would be going back to the Dursely's for the summer. Well, there always is one bright side to it, he could wind up Dudley, that was the only advantage. He continued to think until finally he fell asleep...
Next morning he woke late, no-one was in the dorm but him, the sun was shining painfully bright into his eyes. He hoped he wasn't too late for breakfast. He looked at his bedside alarm clock, it was 10:18, breakfast finished at 9:45. He'd probably have to go to Hogsmeade then in order for some food. He quickly got dressed into some jeans and a T-Shirt and headed out of the dormitory. The common room was also deserted, no sign of Ron or Hermione. He headed out of the common room and down the Grand Staircase, which also appeared to be silent. Where is everyone? He wondered.
When he finally got outside, there were signs of life. Lots of people were on loungers and in shorts, and some people were even swimming in the lake. He couldn't see Ron or Hermione anywhere though, and after minutes of searching, finally decided he'd have to go into Hogsmeade on his own.
He headed out of the gates and walked on until he got there. He'd had to have breakfast in Hogsmeade a number of times before, but not on his own.
He knew just where to go to get some food, The Three Broomsticks, he did like Rosmerta's cooking. Hogsmeade was never too busy at this time of morning, it was busier towards midday, but he saw a few people from Hogwarts walking around, but none of them he knew well so didn't bother speaking to them. He got to the Three Broomsticks and walked inside. Rosmerta was taking orders from some people, who were...Ron and Hermione! They grinned at him brightly as they saw him come through the door, and this was enough of a gesture for him to sit with them (well duh!), Rosmerta smiled at him too,
'Harry!' They beamed
'Oh Harry dear I was wondering why you weren't here! They said you were still asleep, bless ya! You must be here for some breakfast?' said Rosmerta.
'Yeah, missed it at school,' Harry replied
'Well you sit down and I'll get you something. What would you like? Scrambled egg and bacon? Fried egg? Toast?'
He sat down in the spare seat with Ron and Hermione,
'Scrambled egg and bacon please.' he smiled back at her.
'Of course, so that's two butterbeers and scrambled egg and bacon' and she turned and walked off to the kitchen.
'Sorry we didn't wait for you mate, we didn't want to wake you though, and we didn't know when you were gonna get up,'
'It's alright, but how come you're here? We never come here at this time of the morning,'
'That's what I said to Ron, we were outside in the sun, but some fourth years kept splashing water at us on purpose, so we just came here instead.'
'Yeah well we bumped into Percy while we were outside, I don't even know why he's hanging around here and he won't tell us why either! He doesn't even have a right to be here anyway! Bloody git!'
'Well it's obviously not to apologize to Harry...'
'Yeah well even mum and dad are pissed off with him 'cause he won't even apologize to you Harry, dad won't even speak to him.'
'It's not only me he should apologize to, there are loads of other people that he accused,'
'I know but he didn't believe you, and also tried to arrest you too, he's supposed to be on your side!'
'Exactly, he's upset a lot of people including you, and is stuck up his own arse, sorry to talk about your brother like that, but it's true,'
'You can say it, I hate the bloody twat!'
Rosmerta came along with the butterbeers and Harry' breakfast at that moment, and the conversation ended.
'Here we are, love,' She said as placed Harry's food down, 'You get that down you, you must be starving!'
'Thanks Rosmerta.' he smiled, and she turned to take another order from a different table.
Hermione decided to change to subject.
'I can't believe it's almost summer again, we'll be going home tomorrow! You have to come round in this summer!' she said after a long gulp of butterbeer.
'Yeah, it would be good to get away from living with Percy, even for just a day!'
'Hopefully I can get around the Dursely's, getting away from Dudley would be nice,'
'I hope so, you've hardly ever come to mine!'
They continued their conversation until they finished their breakfast and butterbeers about ten minutes later. Hermione ended up paying, not because she was generous but because she was the only one that had remembered to bring money with her (which was lucky for Harry really, imagine if he didn't bump into them, he wouldn't have been in a very good situation!).
They didn't go straight back to Hogwarts, they wondered around Hogsmeade for a while, it was much more packed now, and just looked in the windows of shops, even though they couldn't buy anything, Hermione hadn't brought much money. Once they'd got fed up of this they went back to the castle.
They reached the gates to still find people outside in the sun, running around like maniacs, sunbathing or swimming, or...running around naked?! All three of their mouths dropped open. A seventh year boy was drawing attention to himself with his dingly dangly hanging out and shouting things like, 'Oooh look at me girls!' or grabbing his bits, swinging them round and singing 'I'm too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt, so sexy it hurts' Everyone was laughing as he ran around in front of people, like entertaining an audience. He then started doing kung-fu with his bits, that's when McGonagall rushed outside, and everyone fell silent, but still trying to hold in their laughter.
'MR. KOVENWRIGHT PUT SOME CLOTHES ON AT ONCE!' She yelled.
'Hey McGonagall how's it hanging!' he said casually, and at once everyone burst into screams of laughter again.
'Come with me this instant!' she grabbed his hand, and began leading him inside, the way she was rushing and the stern look on her face obviously meant she was not amused. Everyone still continued laughing after him, and he quickly turned his head as he was walking off, giving a quick wink at the girls.
Ron started to chuckle, 'You can't blame him really, I s'pose you've got to make the most of the final days of your last year!'
Hermione gave him a shocked look, 'I hope you're not going to do something as outrageous as that, Ronald Weasley!' But he just continued laughing all the way to the castle.
At lunch time Harry, Ron, and Hermione all stayed in the castle, there was no point in going out again.
During lunch, Harry realised soon that Draco Malfoy was also there. He heard him laughing with Crabbe and Goyle, doing impressions of Harry when Sirius had died, 'Oh Sirius my poor Sirius I love you!' he impersonated with his pig headed laugh, all of his Slytherin mates burst into laughter. Harry felt anger rise up inside him, he clenched his fist even tighter around his knife and fork.
'Just ignore him, mate,' Ron whispered to him.
'He's just being his immature self,' said Hermione.
They both could see tears welling up in his eyes, but refused to let them see it.
Fred and George both saw what this was doing to Harry, so they both nodded to one another, stood up and said,
'We'll sort him out for you!' They scowled at Draco.
Draco, Crabbe and Goyle all saw them stand up and do this, just crying into fits of laughter even more.
'It's okay,' Harry mumbled 'you don't have to, nothing can sort him out.'
'Hey Fred, George, shame about your brother, and your crackpot of a father! What next for the crazy world of the Weasley's?' Draco yelled over to them through a laugh. They both realised there was nothing they could do to him without being seen by teachers, so thumped back down on the bench in fury.
'I'll get you, you little...' Fred whispered under his breath, but didn't seem to finish the sentence.
After lunch, Harry and Ron realised that they hadn't finished their packing and went straight upstairs to continue it, as they were leaving in the morning. Hermione decided to help them, as they would probably crumple everything up or forget things.
'Now Ron, have you made sure you have all your stationary equipment in there?'
'YES! For the last time!'
'Toothbrush?'
'Yes!'
'Hairbrush?'
'YES!'
'Underwear?'
'YES! For crying out loud! My head is going to explode in a minute!'
'Alright, alright, but don't blame me if you've forgotten something, now I've checked yours Harry, and you seem to have everything except Hedwig who should be back by tonight, so other than that we're done!'
The reason Hedwig was out was because Harry knew it necessary to remind the Dursley's about picking him up from the train station, as he guaranteed to himself they didn't know, neither would they care anyway, for most of the year they didn't even realise he existed.
'Look at the time!' Hermione babbled on, 'It's nearly five!'
All three went back downstairs, it had been a long day for them all and the sun was still out, it was time to enjoy the last few hours of the fifth year before going home for the summer.
A/N – Sorry if the chapter is a bit short – it is sort of like the introduction really! Anyway, I hope you found the naked guy bit funny, at least I did! Again, I apologize for the short chapter, it's just I had to write something for the beginning before I go into the main story soon!