Chapter 2: Sirius and Remus and real friends

Severus stepped out of the floo and walked into the living room where he left the Potter's as soon as he walked in Fred and George looked up at him but Harry stayed where he was between Fred and George with his head buried in his hands, his shoulders shaking from what Severus didn't know.

'How do we calm him down?' Severus asked the twins.

'Sirius is the only one who can calm him down in this state.' George answered him while Fred tried to sooth Harry with calming words but it wasn't working.

Severus took a deep breath and went back to the fire place where he throw in some floo powder and called out.

'Grimmauld Place.' (AN: in this story he is trapped in his family home during Glolet of Fire not after in the Order of Phoenix)

'Black are you there? Black!'

'What do you want Snape.' Was heard on the other end before Sirius's head appeared grey eyes glaring at him.

'It's Potter he needs your help.'

Sirius immediately stopped glaring at him and a look of concern flashed across his eyes and his whole face within seconds of Severus uttering that sentence.

'Let me through.' Sirius demanded.

Severus moved back in time too because not a second after he stepped away from the fire place Sirius came through.

'Where is he?' Sirius asked his concern mounting when he saw Severus look towards a room that looked like a living room.

Sirius walked passed Severus and into the room that he assumed to be the living room and was meet with the sight of Fred and George trying to comfort Harry who still had his head in his hands.

'Harry, what happened?' Sirius asked as kneeled down on front of Harry whose head had shot up as soon as he heard his godfather's voice.

Harry's magic swirled within him as he thought about how Dumbledore had manipulated him and everyone in his life just so he could have the victory he thought he deserved.

All of a sudden there was a small voice in the back of his head.

Unleash it don't hold it in. Get rid of the person who made your life hell you can do it.

No I can't do it. It's true that he manipulated me and everyone else that was in my life but he doesn't deserve to die for it, yet.

But he manipulated you and drove everyone away from you don't you think that he deserves to die for that.

Yes but -

Than what are you waiting for do it you know that you want to you just admitted it to yourself. You want him dead because of all the pain and suffering that he has caused you.

Harry was pulled from his thoughts as he felt hands on his shoulders and whoevers hands they were starting to shake him lightly. He looked straight into the grey eyes of his godfather.

'Sirius what are you doing here?'

'Snape said that you needed my help.'

Harry looked at Severus who was now standing in the doorway of the the room watching as they tried to figure out what was wrong with Harry.

'What's wrong?' Harry heard Sirius ask again.

'You won't believe me if i told you.'

'Try me.'

Harry took a deep breath and told his godfather all of the manipulations that Dumbledore had dealt out to him and everyone else that was in his life. Sirius, himself, the twins, Remus, his parents but most of all Voldemort and how he was suppose to be on the dark side and Voldemort's soulmate.

When Harry was done he looked at his godfather who had a look of complete and utter shock and confusion on his face.

The twins who had watched every single emotion that flickered across Sirius' face as Harry told the story suddenly thought of something. They remembered back to when Dumbledore was talking to Madam Promfrey before they went to get Harry.

Flashback

Fred and George stood, anger radiating of off them as they continued to listen to the headmaster talk about Harry as if he was a tool, a pawn to be played with whenever he wanted or needed it.

'I manipulated everyone that he ever saw and took them out of the equation whether it be his parents, Remus or his godfather and his plaything I got ride of all of the obstacles that were standing in the way of him becoming my wepean.'

'Headmater did you really call Severus Sirius' plaything you know that were and still are very much in love with each other. Just because you implanted some false memories about them hating each other does not mean that they actually do hate and loath each other you are just making them believe that they do.'

End of Flashback

Fred and George were rather surprised thay Sirius and Severus use to be lovers but were made to believe by Dumbles that they hate each other. Now that they thought about it through and also after hearing all the things that Dumblemaniac had said they knew that he was capable of doing something like that to people that were happy. The twins looked at each other knowing that they had to say something and probably get rid of the false memories while they were at it.

'There's more stuff that we didn't tell you earlier.' Fred stated.

Everyone looked at the twins and saw that they were having a tough time trying to figure out how to tell them this new and that wasn't the only werid thing that they were doing, they also kept on looking between Severus and Sirius as if they thought that they were the ones that were going to take it really bad.

Suddenly Fred reached for his wand and put it up to his temple, focusing on the memory, and pulled it out. As he was doing this Severus realised what he wantes to do and went to get his own pensive, it only took a few seconds to find it, grab it and take it into the living room where everyone was staring at the memory in either confusion or curiousity that is until Severus set the pensive down.

'This is called a pensive and you can store memories into it so that you can either view them later or to prove that something is true or false, because if the memory will be a bit hazzy whereas a true memory is clear and percise, and before you ask what a memory is it is the thing that Fred just pulled out of his temple.' Severus explained.

Everyone in the room nodded as soon as Severus finished explaining why Fred had pulled out the memory and why Severus had brought the pensive out and also what they were and the use of them.

'Show it to everyone.' George said before Severus had a chance to ask them.

Severus nodded as Fred put the memory into the pensive and Severus brought the memory right up to the top of the pensive so that when it started playing it would spring up into the air above the pensive to showed everyone else.

They watched as Fred and George stopped in the corridor that Severus had found them and Potter in earlier as they heard voices up ahead and as they continued to watch it they saw the twins shaking in obvious anger and ever the people who weren't there shaking in anger because of what they heard. After a few minutes the memory showed the bit that the twins wanted them to see.

They watched as Fred and George leant closer to the corner of the corridor so they could hear better. They listened as Dumbledore told Promfrey about manipulating everyone that had even come into contact with Harry while he listed off the people that he got rid of, but when he said Sirius's plaything Sirius frowned because he didn't remember having anybody in his life at that point. What they heard Promfrey say was the thing that shocked everyone in the room except the twins. When the memory finished Seveus, Sirius and Harry's jaws were wide open in shock.

'We can get rid of the false memory charms as well as any tampered with memories, if you guys want.'

Severus and Sirius looked at each other for a moment and saw a flash of the way that they were, well the way that they thought they were because of the memory that they just saw but it was hard to accept that was the way they were because of all the memories that the old coot implanted in their minds. They both nodded at the twins knowing that it would still take some time to get use to it, even if they uncovered that they were like they just saw.

The twins raised their wands after seeing the two older man nod and said the spell under their breath and white light shot out of their wands and speed towards them sperating into three bits on light instead of two like it was suppose to. One surrounded Harry's head and then shot into his mind through his temple while the other two whisp of light did the same to Severus and Sirius's head. They could all feel the memories that were implanted in their minds shift and twisting as the memories that were false were pushed aside to make room for the real memories and as soon as the real memories were put into place the false memories disappeared and Harry, Sirius and Severus all dropped to the ground, panting as their bodies tremble with the aftermath of the twins spell.

'That wasn't suppose to do that, well not to Harry at least.' George stated while looking at Fred.

After a while Sirius got up and walked to the fire place in the next room and throw some floo powder into it.

'Lupin cottage.' Sirius said. 'Remus are you there.'

There was a thump followed by a curse and then Remus's head appeared in the fire place as he tiredly looked at his best friend who looked a bit worried about something and that made Remus instantly worried that something bad had happened to his friend or even Harry.

Sirius saw that Remus knew something was wrong so he stepped back giving Remus the invitation that he wanted so that he could stepped through the floo, which he did.

After he stepped out of the floo Sirius lead him to the living room and in there was where they all pitched in in telling him about all of Dumbledore's manipulations and why he did it.

It took over two hours for them to explain everything that Dumbledore did but when they did everyone in the room sat and contemplated something else that had happend this year.

The fact that Harry's name had shot out of the Goblet of Fire after the champions were choosen as well as the way that Dumbledore looked so pleased about his name coming out of the goblet and how he didn't tell Harry that he didn't have to compete if he didn't want to.

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It had been two days since Harry, Fred and George had found out they were brothers as well as the truth about Dumbledore and his manipulations. They had spent a lot of their time together, hanging out and just getting to know each other.

During the two days Harry had noticed that Seamus and Dean had been hanging out with Fred and George, they even had a few conversations with Harry, who could tell that something was going on with the four of them but he didn't say anything because he knew it was non of his business even if Fred and George were his brothers, if they were happy he wouldn't get in their way.

Harry also noticed that Neville has been hanging out with Parvati Patil and her sister Padma as well as couple of Ravenclaws Cho Chang and Luna Lovegood and he wanted to see if they were good friends to have around or if they were some more people that he couldn't trust, like Ron and Hermione. He remembered vividly how much it hurt when he realized that he couldn't trust them and further then he could throw them.

Flashback

Harry's name had shot out of the Goblet of Fire an hour ago and he just now heading back up to the Gryffindor common after having been with professors and other champions as well as their head master and mistress and the judges for the tournement for the whole hour.

Once he reached the entrance to the common room he said the password to the portrait and watched as it swung open, but before he could walk in he was pulled in by Colin Creevey and his brother Dennis.

As he was pulled through the common room he heard everyone that was in the room congradulate him for becoming a champion and all he wanted to do in return was to tell them that he didn't put his name in the goblet, that he didn't want to be apart of the tournement when all of a sudden it went very quiet as if someone had silenced the entire room, because someone did.

Hermione stepped out of her hiding spot her eyes as hard as ice as she stared at him, and with that stare he realised that she, one of his best friends, believed that he had put his name in the goblet of fire for more fame.

With that thought the hurt came crashing down on him like a tidal wave because he knew if Hermione didn't believe that he didn't put his name in the goblet then Ron definately wouldn't believe him.

Harry saw Hermione starting towards him so he broke through the crowd of people blocking his way and headed to his dormatries, shutting the door behind him and turned around only to come face to face with Ron who had a look of rage on his face, proving his earlier thought true.

'How did you do it?' Ron demanded

'I didn't put my name in that cup.' Harry said furiously.

Ron shook his head and rolled his eyes as if to say that he knew he was lying so he better tell him the truth.

'I didn't.'

'Yeah right.' Ron scoffed as he walked away.

'Ron.'

'Piss off.' Ron said as he got into bed and pulled his curtains closed.

He was devasted that his first friend wouldn't believe him, his eyes watered as he remember the hard look in Hermiones eyes as she looked at him across the room because now he knew he knew he was alone whether he liked it or not.

End of Flashback

That is what Harry thought when Ron and Hermione abandoned him but now he knew that he wasn't alone, not as long as he had his brothers, godfather, Remus and Severus who he had gotten to know over the past couple of days because Sirius and Remus were staying in his quarters. Seamus and Dean were on the list of people that wouldn't abandon him because they were with Fred and George.

Neville he had spoken to a few time since Weasel and Granger abandoned him, and he found that he was very loyal to his friends, well people that he considers his friends, so he was slowly becoming his friend and now Neville was hanging out with four new people that he thought of as friends that would mean that he was going to have to find out if they were trustworthy people, and he would do that tomorrow the day before the first challenge because right now he wanted to get some sleep.

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The next day Harry awoke to Nevillle shaking his shoulders saying that he was going to be late for breakfast if he didn't get up. That made him wake up quicker.

Harry dressed quickly before heading down to the great hall with Neville. When they arrived Harry sat down next to Fred while Nev sat down next to George.

Fred deliberately sat facing the Ravenclaw table while George had deliberately sat close to the Patil twins so Nev would sit next to them.

Fred muttered the spell under his breath while pointing his wand at the people intended for the spell under the table. The spell was cast and it hit its intended targets. The group of five people all felt a funny tingling sensation run down their right arm so they looked down to see what had happened only to see that their arms were glowing white and gold and they all knew that these were the colour of someone casting a spell to see if someone was trustworthy and they all looked up at the same time towards Harry knowing that he had trouble trusting people after what hapoened with Ron and Hermione. They all smiled at Harry who smiled back and settled back into a relax posture because now he knew who he could trust, who were his real friends.