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AN: Voila! Chapter 3 of 'Street Rules Apply!' Remember to review, and enjoy the chap! By the way, when Harry says 'Dumbies,' he's shortened Dumbledore's name.

I'M SORRY!!!!!! I was on holidays, and I barely had time to even check my email! Let alone type up another chapter!! Please forgive me!!!!!

Now, after that horrendously long delay…Enjoy!!

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Wild Animals Should Not Be Caged

Harry stirred groggily in response to the persistent poking on his arm.

"Go way..." He mumbled, rolling over to snuggle deeper into his pillow. Pillow? He dimly wondered.

"Come on you lazy git! Get up!" Ayden's voice seemed to come from a long way away, and he sounded tired, as though he had only just woken from a long sleep. Harry didn't respond, wanting to stay in the in the warm and comfortable place of sleep he was currently residing in.

"Harry! Wake up! Come on - sleeping like a baby while the rest of us work - how typical of you!"

"What!?" Harry asked indignantly, rolling over and opening his eyes to glare at a grinning Ayden. "That is such a lie. If anything it's the other way around! You are nearly impossible to get up in the mornings!"

Ayden chuckled. "Knew that'd wake you up. Come on. Get up. Take a look at our new lodgings."

Suddenly, the fight in the city came back to Harry, who swore and jumped up frantically.

"Where are we? Is everyone here? Where's Rust? There you are. How long have we been here? When did you wake up? Where's Sirius? Where are those bastards - I'm going to kill them!"

"Calm down Harry!" Ayden interrupted before Harry could go on. "Everyone's here, the bonding spell worked like a charm. I woke up an hour ago. Sam recons we've been here at least a day and a half. The midgets say they haven't seen anyone yet except for this weird little grey thing with huge ears and eyes in a tea towel loin cloth that brought food up for us."

"They didn't eat any did they?"

"Of course not. They're not that stupid. They had the sense to wait for you to scan it."

Harry looked around for the first time. He saw that they were in a large room that had bedding scattered all over the place. Kirsten, Sam and the others were on the other side of the room chatting amongst themselves, a table piled high with foods sitting to one side, untouched. There were windows, but they were set high in the roof, obviously only for letting light in, not for looking out of. Closer to the other end of the room was a reddish haze that stretched from wall to wall, floor to roof.

Harry gulped uncertainly. "Where are we? And where's Sirius?"

"I don't know where Sirius is, but I can venture a guess as to where we are. And you are not going to like it. I think we are being kept at Hogwarts."

Harry paled, but before he could reply, he heard a door open from the other side of the reddish haze and he snapped his head around.

Through the door walked James, Lily and Jayme Potter, followed by Dumbledore and a few other witches and wizards that Harry did not recognise.

Fury filled him, and he flew forwards in a rage, but Ayden grabbed his arms.

"You wont be able to get to them." He said. "That red haze, that's a barrier. And it's immune to any of the spells I know. I've already tested it out."

"And it's immune to the elements too Harry. So I wouldn't bother wasting your energy trying to get through that way." Dumbledore said calmly, again with the annoying twinkle in his eye.

"Where the hell are we?" Harry spat.

"You are at Hogwarts Harry."

Any of the colour that had been left in Harry's face immediately drained from it.

"Let us out. Now." He said in a voice that made even Ayden (and Kirsten and Sam who had come to stand next to Harry and Ayden) take an uncertain step back.

Dumbledore however, was not abashed. "Now Harry, I'm afraid we can't do that. I am sure you are feeling exhausted, you rather exerted yourself the other day. Perhaps you would like to sit down?" (And of course, as soon as Dumbledore said that, Harry realised that he was indeed feeling exhausted, but refused to give the wizened old man the pleasure of seeing him sit down) Dumbledore raised an eyebrow at the young man's stubbornness before continuing. "You have missed out on five years of your magical education, and your parents and I feel that you-"

"I don't give a damn what you and those two pathetic excuses for human beings think!" Harry interrupted roughly. "You want me to go to your school? Feel that I won't be able to protect myself in the real world? Feel that I won't be able to make something of my life? Well guess what? That's exactly what I HAVE been doing for the last seven years! And those last seven years of my have been the happiest and most productive of my life thank you very much, so who do you think you are to come in and muck all that up? Now let us go."

"We cannot simply let you go back to the life you were living Harry."

"Why not?" Came the spat response. "I managed fine without you for seven years! As soon as you take your freaking barrier down, me and the rest of my team are out of here. We will go back to where we belong, and you will leave us alone. Is that understood?"

From behind Dumbledore, Jayme scoffed. "I don't think you are in the position to be issuing orders."

Harry bristled. "No body asked you, Brat. Go torture some poor unsuspecting street kid – I've seen how good you are at that! You do realise that this all your fault. If you hadn't taken it upon yourself to beat up that kid then none of this would have happened!"

Jayme thrust forward angrily, an action matched by Harry. "I'll have you know that that little pick-pocketer did not show Blaise and me the respect we deserved!"

"And what respect was that?" Harry yelled back, inches from his twin brother's face, the only thing separating them the reddish haze. "He didn't bow down and kiss your precious toes?"

"He didn't even acknowledge us!" Jayme yelled in response. "He pretended as though we didn't exist!"

"Of course he did! He was a muggle! Your fame isn't as wide spread as you would like it to be you arrogant moron! The muggles don't know your name anymore than the name of any other random they bump into on the street! And because that kid didn't know that he was in the presence of the 'The Great Jayme Potter' you decided to beat him up!? The poor kid must have been about ten for Merlin's sake! And not mentioning the fact that you and that other guy are sixteen, there were two of you!"

"Harry I do believe we are getting slightly off topic." Dumbledore interjected calmly, before the two identical teens could somehow get through his barrier and throttle each other. "What some young street child did to Jayme and Blaise is irrelevant."

"WHAT SOME YOUNG STREET KID DID TO THEM!?" Ayden roared furiously, stepping up to join Harry. "That kid was on the ground crying for mercy while they were kicking him!"

"He deserved it." Jayme spat.

A ball of fire shot from Harry's clenched fists, and his hair sparked blue electricity. "When I get out of here Jayme Potter," He said in a stony calm voice, "I will make sure that you get what you deserve. And your parents will be lucky if they have dust left to worship once I'm finished with you."

Harry turned away, ignoring the responses his threat prompted, and strode angrily to where Ebony, Jesse, Dhani, Suri and Anna were sitting, Ayden, Sam and Kirsten following.

Harry looked at the food on the table for a moment, seemingly studying it, before announcing that it was all safe to eat, with the exception of the muffins. Everyone immediately started reaching forwards to pick out the foods they wanted, but leaving the muffins untouched.

Harry reached over Dhanni's head and picked up the plate of muffins. He strode calmly back to the barrier where he asked, almost pleasantly, "Would you care for a muffin Dumbies? Jayme?"

Jayme looked at Harry with an expression that clearly showed that he thought Harry was mental, but Dumbledore replied "No thank you Harry, those are for your friends and you to eat."

"Shame." Harry replied, as a ball of flame leapt up to engulf the plate. "We don't want any either. You see, we don't particularly like spiked muffins."

There was a pause, before James spoke for the first time. "How – How did you know?"

Harry cocked an eyebrow at him. "Oh I'm just full of surprises. For future reference, when delivering our food, we would like it to come without a sedative. Or at least, if you insist on supplying it, have it come on its own. See Dumbies? Just coz I grew up on the streets doesn't mean I have no intelligence." Harry turned around and walked back to the food table, where he helped himself to some mashed potato and gravy.

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Harry had just finished his meal when he heard a scuffle outside the door. Dumbledore and the others had long since left, and, thinking it was them returning again, Harry turned around, a scowl planted firmly on his face.

The door opened and Sirius came bursting in, closely followed by another man Harry recognised immediately.

"Remus!"

Remus looked up at Harry and his face split into a huge grin. Sirius was busy locking the door behind him with a series of charms.

"Hey Moony – do me a favour and cast that locking charm – the one that took me hours to undo."

Moony obliged quickly, and Harry asked, "Er…why are you locking the door?"

"Because Dumbledore and the others don't want us to see you." Remus answered easily, completing the charm with a final flick of his wand. "James seems to think we will be a bad influence." As soon as Remus had completed the charm, a bang was heard on the other side of the door, followed by muffled shouts and incantations.

"There," Remus said cheerfully, turning back to Harry. "That should keep them occupied for a while. Wow – you've grown."

Harry snorted and turned to Sirius. "And you always told me he was the intelligent one."

"Yeah well – the last time we saw you; you were a midget weren't you! So you HAVE grown!"

"Put a sock in it Padfoot." Moony said, smiling. "I apologise Harry. It was a fairly obvious comment and only a stupid person would defend saying it." Behind him, Sirius fumed. "It's great to see you again Cub." Remus continued.

Harry smiled. "You too Moony."

Remus gestured behind Harry to where Ayden, Sam and the rest of the gang were standing. "And who are these lovely people? From what I heard from Sirius, the two older boys did quite a nice job at the fight two days ago."

Harry smiled again. "Yeah, that was Ayden and Sam. I taught them how to control their magic." Harry turned around and started pointing out who was who. "That's Ayden and Sam, I met them when I first ran away, we've been a group since and have collected the rest of the little rascals as time went on. That's Kirsten and behind her is Suri – you'll want to watch the temper on that one. Over there is Dhani, Jesse and Anna. And the last one on the right is Ebony. Everyone, this is Padfoot and Moony. Also known as Sirius and Remus."

"Uh huh…" Remus said. "It might take me a while to remember all of your names guys, so I apologise in advance. Now, unfortunately, we must move onto some slightly depressing topics. Harry, Dumbledore, James and Lily are going to try their hardest to ensure that you, Ayden and Sam – they want you too know that they know you can do magic – are separated from Kirsten, Ebony…and everyone else. They are going to make you go to Hogwarts."

Ayden and Sam both muttered something that sounded suspiciously like "like hell they will" and Harry groaned. "I knew you were going to say that. But don't worry; I am not planning on letting them. I point blank refuse to attend Hogwarts, and there is no way in their wildest dreams that I would ever consider leaving this lot. They can't make me."

"Unfortunately Harry, they are not going to give up. But!" Remus quickly continued, for Harry had gotten a flame of fury in his eye, "But, we can bargain with them."

"What do you mean 'bargain?'" Harry asked. "What do we have to bargain?"

Sirius took over. "Harry, why is it exactly that you don't want to go to Hogwarts?"

"There are a few reasons…" Harry began dubiously. "One, there'd be no point. I already know all the stuff. Two, Dumbledore is the headmaster. Three, Jayme's there. Four, it means I'll have to depend on the Potters, because I have no money, and they will be paying for my books and stuff. And five, it means I will have to leave these guys, and they have been my family for the past seven years. Not to mention I refuse to let them try to survive on the streets without my, Ayden's and Sam's protection."

Suri took this as an insult. "I can survive fine on my own thank you very much! I don't need your 'protection!' I can live on the streets fine without you!"

"Suri! You're not helping! And besides! Who was it that led three of you into certain capture by the cops, and would have been caught if it wasn't for Harry, Ayden and Sam?" Kirsten scolded. "That's what I thought." She continued after Suri had adopted an embarrassed expression.

Sirius ignored the interruption. "I can understand those reasons." He conceded. "But there are a few of those things I think we can change."

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It was several hours later that Dumbledore, Lily and James finally managed to break through the locking charms placed on the door to the Room of Requirement that held Harry and the rest of the street kids. When he entered, it was to find Sirius struggling to remember the name of the smallest girl of the group.

"Anne? Annie? 'A'…'A'…I know it starts with 'A'! Give me a second!"

"You've had a whole five minutes Padfoot!" Ayden laughed. The ten people had spent the about ten minuted talking about the 'situation,' and planning how to make it better for everyone. Everyone being Harry and the gang, Sirius and Remus. They had then spent the following few hours getting to know each other, and, as Harry had introduced the two adults as 'Padfoot' and 'Moony,' those were the names everyone called them.

Sirius ignored Ayden's jibe. "'A'… 'A'…ANNA! YES! I remembered!"

"Er, Excuse me?" James interrupted rudely. "Do you mind?"

"Ugh." Remus mumbled. "Now I know where Jayme gets it…"

"What's that Lupin?" James spat.

"Oh nothing." The werewolf said innocently. "Just that I know where Jayme gets his dire need for attention."

"Sirius, Remus." Dumbledore interrupted, before James could blow up. "We specifically asked you not to come in here."

Remus snorted. "More liked ordered us. And we wanted to see how Harry and his family were, seeing as you thought it acceptable to have over 150 ministry wizards and witches attack them."

"His family? His family were not in here. What are you talking about?" Dumbledore asked, seemingly perplexed. The twinkle in his eye told a different tale however.

Dhani spoke up. "Moony means us. We are Harry's family. We have been for the last seven years. And I wish to warn you. No stick waving pompous arse like yourself is going to change that."

Dumbledore's eyebrow twitched. He changed tack. "Harry, I would like to talk to you again about going to Hogwarts. We feel that-"

"Is that the only thing you want me to do? Go to Hogwarts?"

"Yes Harry." Dumbledore said, frowning slightly. Why was he suddenly allowing the concept to be breeched? "All we wish for you and your …friends, Ayden and Sam to do is to go to Hogwarts and get a decent education."

"And you don't want us do anything else? Like, join the Gobstones Club? Or, anything else?"

"Well… there are some other details of this arrangement that we would like you to-"

"Shush!" James interrupted. It seemed to him that Harry was about to cave, and he didn't want to change his decision. A bad idea as it turned out. "Yes Harry. The only thing we want you to do is to go to Hogwarts.

Harry thought for a moment. "Very well then. On one condition Ayden, Sam and I will go to Hogwarts."

"Agreed!" James said. Fool. "So what is your condition?"

Harry smiled a wolfish smile. Once a wizard has given his word, there's no going back on it. And James had just given his word.

"Ayden, Sam and I will go to Hogwarts, on the condition that all of us – and I mean from me right through to Anna – live with Sirius and Remus, and they become our legal guardians."

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Oops! Jamsie made a booboo! Lol. Well, there is chapter three. Again, sorry for the wait. We depend too much on computers these days…

Ok, BELOW IS A POLL! Please take part in it, because I am writing this story for you lot. (Ok, I'm writing it for me too, but I write it so that it's read. And you lot are the readers.) I really don't know what house to put Jayme in! And I need help! The choices are Gryffindor or Slytherin. Now before you vote, remember: His best friend is a Slytherin. His whole family before him has been in Gryffindor. He is a total bastard. If he's in Gryffindor, I can have Harry annoy the shit out of him constantly. If he's in Slytherin there will be more of an excuse for inter-house rivalry.

So tell me:

WHICH HOUSE SHOULD JAYME POTTER BE IN?

GRYFFINDOR or

SLYTHERIN

Vote now!! (Through a review of course.)

Hope you enjoyed!

Love Bundi