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Harry went to meet up with Ron and Hermione right after his meeting with Dumbledore. As he was walking, he knew that at some point this summer he'd probably have to explain a thing or two to Dumbledore. Mainly that he would have to explain the scars that were on his torso. Hoping though that he wouldn't have to, he found Ron and Hermione eating breakfast.
"Hey Harry, where were you this morning? Did you go for a walk or something?" asked Ron as he stuffed his face full of eggs.
Taking a seat beside his friends Harry started filling his plate as he answered the question. "Yea Ron, I went for a bit of a walk and had a chat with Professor Dumbledore."
Hermione ,after throwing a disgusted look in Ron's direction, leaned in and asked, " Was the chat you had with him about Voldemort?"
"No, it wasn't." Harry looked up from eating to see the question that was on both of his friends minds. "It was about where I am staying this summer."
Ron brightened up at this point. " So you finally got him to say yes to going to the Burrow, eh Harry?"
Harry took a moment to glance up at the head table before answering Ron. He noticed Dumbledore was sitting in his chair, and he locked his emerald eyes withDumbledore'ssapphire onesfor a moment before he turned to Ron. "Actually Ron, " Harry began, " I'm going to be staying with Dumbledore." Letting out a bit of air, Harry awaited the explosion. But the explosion never came, which surprised the teen.
"Hey man, that's cool. I'm just happy you're not with the muggles this summer. You'll be allowed to visit though won't you?"
Smiling slightly Harry answered, " Yea, I should be able to. I highly doubt that Dumbledore is going to lock me up in a cupboard." As he mentioned the cupboard, his eyes gave a flash of emotion before returning to normal. Hermione, ever the clever witch, saw the movement in his eyes, and stored that for later information.
"So Harry, are you going to ride the train or just stay here?" asked Hermione.
"I'm not riding the train, but after all the goodbyes I'm supposed to head up to his office."
Ron shoveled one last bite of food into his mouth and said, "Well then, we'd better get on with the goodbyes. I mean, we have only two or so hours to cause chaos and commotion." Laughing, the trio stood up and headed out the hall, not seeing the twinkling eyes following them out.
The trio spent their last remaining time together like it was a normal day. Of course though, they set a couple of Fred and George's fireworks off in the entrance hall right as the students started out to the carriages which caused a bit of the chaos they were looking for.
Harry watched from the huge doors as everyone left, giving one last smile he turned inside and headed up the stairs.
He was almost to the headmaster's office when he ran into his head of house. Professor McGonagall almost walked past him before she turned. "Mr. Potter!" she said gaining his attention.
"Yes Professor?"
"What are you still doing here? The train has already left!"
"I know ma'am. I'm headed up to Professor Dumbledore's office. He told me to come up after the train left, because Professor I'm staying with him this summer."
"Oh, very well then Potter." With that she gave him a rare smile and headed in the way of her own office. She thought in her head as she walked away from Harry, "It's about time that Albus had Harry with him, I still wish he would have listened to me all those years ago."
Once coming infront of the gargoyles, Harry gave the password and headed up the stairs. The door was open when he reached the top so he walked in. He could hear Dumbledore in his quarters, so he took a seat infront of the desk. A swish of red and gold later, Harry found his lap full of phoenix. "Hello there Fawkes, are you happy to see me?" Harry asked the phoenix. Fawkes let out a note of happiness and rubbed his head aganist Harry's cheek. Smiling, Harry stroked the phoenix, not realizing he was being watched.
"I see Fawkes has taken an extreme liking to you. Of course, I could guess that from your second year, " said Dumbledore.
Harry looked up at his headmaster, and gave a smile. " I ran into Professor McGonagall on my way up here. I thought she was going to lecture me about something or another."
"Ah, I knew I was forgetting something this morning when I was talking to her. But it seems you got away from her without any harm."
"Yes sir."
"I thought you may like to get away from the castle for a little bit of the summer at least, so I had Dobby prepare my summer home. That is, if it is alright with you of course."
Harry stood up, transfering Fawkes to his shoulder like he'd seen Dumbledore do many times, "Of course sir, that sounds wonderful."
Clapping his hands together, Albus smiled. "Very well then, I've already sent all of our luggage on ahead with Dobby. It may be easier to go by floo than anything else. Well, as long as you speak clearly Harry." Albus of course had heard the story of Harry's first adventure with the Floo Network.
"That was one time sir. Will that ever be forgotten?"
Thinking a moment Albus smiled at him and said, "Probably not." Harry just groaned. Dumbledore lead Harry over to the fireplace and held the floo powder out to him. "Just say 'Gryffin's Manor', and you'll be off." Fawkes took this moment in time to fly from Harry's shoulder to his perch in the office, where he planned to stay for the time being.
Throwing the powder into the fire Harry said, very clearly, "Gryffin's Manor!" and was off.
Stumbling into the comfortable sitting room, Harry took a look around the warm room. A whoosh behind him told him Dumbledore arrived.
"Welcome Harry, this is home."
a/n: Hurray to the next chapter. Don't ask about updates, I'm working on it.. I've actually got the next chapter(s) pretty much done, but until the one after that is started you aren't allowed to have it.
And if any of the words stick together it is not my fault.. it's this bloody edit/preview thing.. cause I found some little things I wanted to change and did not feel like fixing them in my doc. and reloading it.. so I'm sorry if the words are attracted to one another.. I cannot force them to divorce at this point in time..
I dont have the 5th chapter done, and I know I had told some people that I wasn't giving out this chapter till then.. but 214 hits later.. well here you go.. I'm going to be nice.
Wulfric.