Marriage troubles

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Harry had gotten into a new routine. He and Sirius would wake up late and eat breakfast together. They would then do some clearing up in one of the many rooms that needed their attention, it usually ended with Harry grabbing one or two books for some later reading. After lunch, Harry would floo to the Weasley's for some Quidditch or what ever they fancied for the moment. Sirius would usually have Remus come over, Harry suspected that other Order members popped by as well, but Sirius never mentioned it. Harry would try to floo back to Grimmauld place for dinner, but most of the time Sirius was invited for tea at the Burrow by Mrs Weasley, who was convinced that Sirius and Harry were starving. After dinner Harry would spend the rest of his evening to reading his books and brewing potions. His room was stacked with books and his potions set was in constant use. He had become very adept at brewing, but as he'd been told that his mother had been very skilful he gave her the credit. He had soon discovered that Sirius was quite lax with safety regarding the books they sorted and allowed Harry to take most of the ones that interested him. "What harm could a book do, anyway?" He'd asked Harry one day whilst they'd been sorting, he had then thrown a book that was screaming curses at him in an ancient language into the to-give-to-charity pile.

Harry wondered where the picture of Mrs Black was, but as he guessed that it hadn't been there when he was a baby, he'd refrained from asking.Kreacher had been acting very strange, even for his standards. He had stopped muttering and taken up a new hobby, spying on Harry. Harry couldn't help but feel a little worried, Sirius on the other hand was obvious to it all as Kreacher continued to badmouth and disrespect him.

"Master wants cool drink?" Harry turned to face Kreacher who was standing next to his desk with a tall glass of Pumpkin juice. Harry accepted it gratefully as it was one of the hottest days so far in the summer. The first time Kreacher had brought him something eatable he'd left it untouched afraid that it might be poisoned, but as time passed Harry found himself getting used to the strange house elf.

"Thanks." He muttered before taking a large gulp of juice, it was just as cool as the condensate water on the outside of the glass had promised.

"Kreacher good house elf, Kreacher keeps masters secret." Harry choked on the juice.

"What!" Harry managed to choke out between his coughs.

"Kreacher very happy with serving young Master Black!" The elf exclaimed before sneaking out through the door, leaving Harry to stare at the empty doorway in wonder.

"Are you alright, Harry?" Sirius had appeared without Harry noticing and was now eyeing Harry worriedly.

"Yeah, I'm fine." Harry said covering his notes with a heavy book from his desk. He didn't want Sirius seeing his notes on different ways to take over another persons mind, he had a feeling that Sirius might freak out.

"Ugh, you're not accepting drinks from that flee eaten rat are you!" Sirius exclaimed at the sight of Harry's juice.

"Oh, he's alright Sirius." Harry sighed, tired of Sirius constant problem with the elf. He knew that Kreacher was responsible for Sirius death, but that was in the future. And maybe Dumbledore had been right about Sirius never treating the elf right, maybe if they treated him like a house elf he'd behave like a proper one. Sirius eyed him strangely but just shrugged it of.

"Must have gotten your mom's head, with all the studying and reading you do." He said, poking at a pile of books neatly stacked on Harry's desk. The tower of books wobbled before toppling over and crashing to the floor. Sirius sniggered at the sigh Harry let slip before spelling them back up in a neat pile.

"Your mom liked potion too!" Harry nodded and eyed Sirius hand, which was going to one of his neat piles of notes this time.

"But how anyone can like the subject now when Snirvellus teaches it is beyond me!" Sirius snorted.

"I just try to ignore him most of the time." Harry muttered, much to Sirius delight.

"Listen Harry, I talked to Molly and she's taking her lot to Diagon Alley tomorrow…" Harry started to nod exaltedly. "…well, I'll just tell her we're on then!" Harry pulled out a piece of paper already thinking of what books he need and most importantly, which potions ingredients he needed to fill up on. Sirius took one look at the list and snorted before leaving Harry to his writing. Harry really needed to find a way to stop Voldemort from getting to Snape. Voldemort would appear with or without Harry's blood so it really was a matter of time. So far all he'd found was bonding spells meant for newly married couples and charms meant for binding children to their parents. He was beginning to think of just going up to Snape and ask for the right spell or potion, as he figured that it might be easier.

Harry had given up early on the night before, not finding anything interesting in his books and woke up feeling very rested the next morning. After appariting with Sirius to Diagon Alley they had walked up to Gringotts for a visit to Harry's vault.

Harry had spotted the Weasley's as soon as they had stepped out of the bank.

"Ron!" the whole lot of redheads had turned to wave at him as he and Sirius approached. The twins sported identical grins at the sight of Sirius.

"Padfoot!" They cried together, earning themselves a huge smile from Sirius.

"Ah you've got such lovely boy's Molly!" Sirius exclaimed. Mrs Weasley huffed and sent the twins a hard glare.

"If you two come up with any trouble I'll have you de-gnoming the garden until Christmas!" She said before turning to Percy with a soft smile.

"Here you go darling, I'll see you at home later." Percy sent the twins a glare before walking towards Madam Malkin's. Harry had to cough in order to hide the laughter that threatened to escape at the sight of Percy's back. The twins, no doubt, had painted a picture of a bottom making a green fart.

"Tell us something from your school years!" Fred demanded excitedly.

"He will do no such thing!" Three disappointed sighs could be heard after Mrs Weasley's exclamation.

"Ah…But they're only boys!" Sirius whined.

"I am very much aware of that! I happen to have six, seven with Harry! I can assure you, that they get into enough trouble as it is. No need to fill they're heads with your diabolical ideas!" Mrs Weasley snapped, Sirius wisely refrained from making any further comments.

"Shall I take the terrible three?" He asked instead, making Harry, Hermione and Ron glare at him. Fred and George looked disappointedly at him, but soon brightened up after Sirius mimed the word later to them

"Let's go then little children! Hold hands we don't want anyone to get lost. Where to first?" Ron rolled his eye at Sirius teasing, whilst Hermione and Harry shouted Bookstore at the same time. "Ah…come on Harry! Not the bookstore." Ron whined looking defeated.

Hermione who automatically had grabbed a hold of Ron's hand quickly let go. Ron's ears slowly turned red making Harry snigger in amusement, he was however pleasantly surprised when Ron smiled back.

"Oh, stop it Ron! The OWL's are coming up soon, and you should do some reading too, you know!" Ron sent Harry a glare now.

"Traitor." He muttered when Hermione dragged Sirius ahead.

"I'm not reading up for my OWL's. I just want to find some new Potions and spells." Harry muttered back. "And anyway, she's the one who thinks I'm reading for the OWL's." Harry said pointing at Hermione's back.

"Come on Boy's! Better not loiter around, she's in quite a hurry!" Sirius shouted at them, making them hurry up to save him, as Hermione had started to ask him questions about the exams.

Hermione sent Sirius glares as he'd dragged them into Madam Malkin's. "Well it was on the way!" Sirius defended himself after Hermione demanded to know why they'd entered the shop and not proceeded on to the bookstore as they'd said.

"It say's here that you need a dress robe. Oo, are the wittle children going to have a dance?" He belittled them.

"You knew!" Ron suddenly shouted, making Harry jump in fear. "What?" He asked confused, he had no idea what Ron was accusing him of knowing. "You gave me that dress robe for Christmas! It was too big, but I'll bet it fits now!" Ron spat angrily. "Are you saying you'd rather have that brown one with the frilly thing on?" Harry asked in a bored tone, looking through the robes on display.

"No! No I like the one you gave me, thank you." Ron quickly said, looking around afraid someone might have heard Harry's description of his would-have-been robe. Hermione stood on the other side of the shop, making Ron relax.

"You're welcome." Harry said, shaking his head at the gold and red dress robe Sirius was holding out for him to try. It was flashing as if a hundred of photographers were taking pictures at the same time. Harry held up a green and silver one with a snake on the back, making Sirius hang the Gryffindor robe back where he'd taken it from without a complaint.

They meet the other Weasley's at Flourish and Blotts. "I'll just…" Harry sneaked towards the charms section of the store. "That boy! I tell you, he's nothing like his father." Sirius complained. "Books, books and books! That's all he knows." Mrs Weasley eyed him strangely.

"You're complaining because he stays at home and reads! Be grateful!" She snapped, before hurrying towards Fred who was busy climbing a bookcase without using the ladder standing next to him. He'd made it to the fifth shelf when his mother pulled him down and started scolding him loudly.

"Soul bonds? Harry that book is for marriage!" Sirius laughed before going pale. "Oh no! You are much too young to get married!" Harry stared at him as I he'd gone mad. "It's just a book." He said making Sirius eye him concerned. "So you're not getting married?" He asked, making Harry scowl. "Of course not!" he snapped. "Why not! Did she say no? Harry she's not worthy of you if she said no." Sirius said, smiling.

Harry snatched the book out of Sirius hands and marched over to the defence section sending Sirius a hard look, he was relived when the twins latched onto Sirius dragging him over to a corner when Mrs Weasley was busy with Ginny.

"What did he want?" Ron asked after making his way over. "He wanted to know if I was getting married…" Harry said tiredly. "You're getting married!" Ginny gasped behind him. Ron shook his head quickly seeing that Harry was about to pop. "No!" Harry nearly screamed in frustration. "And when I told him that, he said that who ever the girl was she wasn't worthy of me if she said no." Harry glared at Hermione who was giggling at him.

"What! You don't think I could get a girl to marry me?" Harry snapped insulted.

"I'm sure that any girl you ask would be delighted to marry you Harry." Hermione hurried to say. Ron eyed her suspiciously whilst Ginny nodded to Hermione's words. Harry turned to the shelf when Ron started to question Hermione on who she would like to marry. "Oh, I've been looking for this!" Harry exclaimed pulling out a thick tome from the shelf. "What is it? What is it?" Hermione wanted to know whilst Ron eyed him horrified at the books size. "Ancient spells and forgotten curses." Hermione read eagerly over Harry's shoulder. "Are youfour done?" Mrs Weasley called from the desk, Sirius piled up Harry's school books and rolled his eyes at the ones Harry had chosen. The party soon made it to the Apothecary.

"Hi! I'd like…" Harry read up a list of ingredients that made the shop owner raise his brows. "Good to see a lad as young as you interested in Potions." He said before making his way over to the shelf behind the disk.

"Harry, what in Merlin's name do you need fairy dust for?" Sirius asked in a sly voice, wagging his eyebrows suggestively. "Not for any of the things you're thinking of." Harry answered back, knowing fully well that Fairy dust was commonly used in love potions. "You sure? It's not for that girl who turned you down, is it? It is illegal you know!" Harry growled in response.

"It's for my healing balm!" Harry had accidentally dropped a fairy wing he'd found in one of the rooms at Grimmauld place into his healing balm whilst it was cooling down. The balm had turned out to be really nice smelling and made his skin glow when he'd tried it on.

"Ice-cream for everyone!" Sirius exclaimed as soon as they were out of the smelly shop. The owner had been intrigued at hearing Harry mention the incident with the balm and had wanted to hear all about it.

"Honestly Harry, you had us in there for hours and hours!" Fred exclaimed exaggeratedly whilst grinning broadly.

"We managed to get loads of stuff mum would have noticed. Thanks for distracting her, mate." George whispered giving Harry a pat on the back. Harry shrugged and decided not to ask what they'd bought. When it came to Mrs Weasley and the twins, it was best to keep out of their business. She could sniff a lie and someone hiding information, a mile away.The rest of the day was spent looking through the books they'd bought.