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Chapter three:

Harry looked around, he started walking towards the end of the street. It wasn't easy though, seen that his trunk was heavy and his ribs were bruised. Halfway through the street, Harry paused for a moment. He had never thought it would be so difficult for him to move with bruised ribs. Then he heard a sound, he startled. Quickly he turned around pointing his wand at the shadows behind him. "Who is there? Show yourself." He said with a lot more confidence then he actually felt. A man stepped out the shadows. The man was wearing patched clothes and had light brown hair with a bit of grey in it. "Hello Harry, I'm Remus Lupin." The man said. "Why are you here?" Lupin answered: "I was checking up on you, you see, I was friends with your parents and I wanted to make sure you were okay." "Why only now, if you really were friends with my parents, why are you only here now, why didn't you come for me earlier and why should I believe you?" Harry said bitter. "I know it seems unlikely Harry, but until you went to Hogwarts, you're place of living was unknown. No one knew where you were and with whom you were living. As for why you should believe me, do you have any memories of the time with your parents?" "Memories? I was only one year old, why should I have memories?"

Harry was getting more and more irritated, he just wanted to get out of here and Remus Lupin was stopping him. "I get it Harry, I'll just give you the name you used to know me under. I was uncle Moony" Harry's eyes widened. He remembered something. He remembered the name, it was familiar, he couldn't yet give it a face, but he remembered it! He saw the man grinning at him and in that moment he remembered that smile. Harry lowered his wand and said: "Is that really you, I, I remember you." "That's great Harry, will you come with me to my house?" "I don't know." Harry answered honestly. "Listen Harry, you don't have to stay if you don't want to and you won't be a burden, I promise." Harry looked him in the eye and gave in, he would go with "his" uncle Moony.

At Remus' home, Harry was looking his eyes out. "It isn't much Harry, I'm afraid." Remus told him. "Are you mad? This is amazing." Harry said. His eyes going over the warm looking brown couch. The nice wooden table and the chairs. The small kitchen. It was nice, it felt like a home. "Well I'm glad you like it Harry. But tell me, why did you run away from your house?" Remus asked, knowing the answer a bit but hoping that Harry would open up. "It isn't mine house." Harry said bitter "It wasn't mine home. That's one thing they made very clear from the day I was brought there. I was just a servant to them, something they could beat up if something went wrong. Something they could always blame. Something they could use as a personal punch sack. I wasn't even a person to them. I was a thing." Tears welled up in Remus' eyes. He had expected it to be bad, but that bad? No he hadn't thought of that. But Harry was still going on: "They didn't even give me a room, I slept in the broom cupboard under the stairs. I couldn't even lie there. I could only sit. I never owned anything. I wore Dudley's worn clothes. And they didn't even patch them. They were full of holes, always dirty and if I wanted them clean. I had to do it myself, but after all my usual chores. This meant I never had time for it. They never told me my name. The first time I learned I had a name was when I went to school. I always thougth I was just called Freak or Boy, that's how they always call me. I didn't even know how my parents looked like or what their names where. I didn't know anything of the wizard world. Hell, they told me my parents had died in a car crash because they were drunk!"

That was too much for Remus. He had felt his anger towards the Dursleys building, but now he couldn't take it anymore. "How dare they? Those bastards!" He yelled angrily. Harry was shuddering. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you." He said with a soft voice. "Oh Harry," Remus said. "You did nothing wrong, I'm angry at the Dursleys for doing that to you, I'm angry at Dumbledore for putting you there. Hell, I'm angry at myself for not looking better for you and getting you out there earlier." Harry nodded. "But uncle Moony," Remus smiled at that name. "It's okay now, I mean, you came for me, you took me with you. That's more than anyone has ever done for me." Remus nodded. And then Harry surprised himself and Remus by giving him a hug. "Thank you" He murmured.

After a minute Remus broke lose. "Listen Harry, I know you won't like it, but some has to take care of your injuries." He saw the panic in Harry's eyes and said calmly: "It doesn't have to be a complete stranger, you know Madame Pomfrey, right?" Harry nodded. "Do you trust her enough to take care of your injuries, I will stay with you the whole time." Harry just nodded. The panic not completely gone, but it wasn't as intense anymore.

At that moment the fireplace lightened up green. "Quick Harry, go to my room, it's the first door on the left. I don't know who it is and it's better to keep the people who know you're here at a minimum." Harry quickly left the chamber and went to Remus' bedroom. He fell on the bed and asleep.

In the living room professor McGonagall stepped out the fireplace. "Good evening Remus, I hope you are doing well?'" "I'm not completely okay, but I'll manage." McGonagall looked concerned at him, but decided to ignore it and to do what she came here for. "Well, I came here for the issue of Mr. Potter. The last year I have noticed that he reacts badly when someone touches him without a warning. I decided to investigate it and I came to know that Mr. Potter's house situation is far from good." "I know." Remus said "What do you want to do about it?" "Well I was hoping you could help me with that. We have to get him out of that house without Albus knowing. He can stay away from there for 24 hours before Albus knows. Then we have to change his guardian and he is safe." McGonagall laid her plan out. "Well if you have a moment, I think I know something that may help." With that Remus stood up and walked towards his bedroom. When he came in, he saw Harry lying there asleep. He smiled to himself, then he shaked Harry softly to wake him up. "Harry, Harry, someone wants to talk to you." Harry slowly opened his eyes, he first looked around and then sat up. "Who wants to talk to me?" he asked. "Professor McGonagall is here and she asked me to help her getting you out of there. I told her to wait a moment because I knew something that could help us." Harry chuckled at that. He stood up and walked towards the living room with Remus.

Minerva McGonagall sat in the living room of Remus Lupin's house. She really hoped he would help her with Harry. She was curious as to what he was doing at the moment. At that moment he walked in the room with behind him: "Harry!" she said as she quickly stood up. "Oh boy, I'm so happy you're here, that you are safe." Her eyes went to Remus "How did you get him out?" she asked. "I was running away professor." Harry said. "When uncle Moony found me." When she looked at Remus, she saw the happiness in his eyes when Harry called him uncle Moony. At that moment she decided that she would make sure Harry would be living here.

"Harry, how long have you been away from your aunt and uncle's?" she asked him. Harry looked at the clock. "Just two hours, professor. Why did you ask that?" She smiled at him and answered: "Well you can stay away from there for 24 hours before Albus notices. We don't want him to notice since he would do everything he could, and I assure you that is a lot, to make sure you stayed there. I was with him the day he placed you there. I have argued endless with him about it, but he wouldn't listen. He said that that was the place where you were the safest. Now I really wish I tried harder." Harry nodded: "You wanted to get me out and even made a plan for it. That makes it even. You're not to blame. Dumbledore is to blame for this." Harry said. "Thank you, Harry. And would you please stop calling me professor. Just call me Minerva or Aunt if you wish for now." She noticed that Harry was looking curious. "That's how you used to call me before that night." "Then I will do that now again, aunt." Harry said with a smile on his face. "But how are we going to make sure Dumbledore doesn't know about this?" "Well, I will go and place a spell on the house that will fool Dumbledore. Then we will talk to a trustworthy person inside the ministry. She is very powerful and will be able to change your guardian without Dumbledore knowing. After that we will just see how it plays out. But the most important thing is making sure you don't have to return to them." Aunt Minerva told him. Harry nodded and then turned around to Remus with a soft voice he asked: "Will you be my guardian?"

Remus was shocked, Harry wanted him to be his guardian? "Harry, there is something you don't know about me. I will understand if you don't want anything to do with me after this. But, I am a werewolf." Harry decided that actions spoke louder than words and just hugged Remus. Remus was speechless. Harry didn't care about him being a werewolf. He then looked at Minerva: "Will I be able to, with the anti-werewolves laws?" "It is possible, if you have a declaration that you are a good person and that you don't use your wolf. I can stand in for you." "Thank you." He said holding Harry close to him. Then he remembered something. "Can you please fetch Poppy for Harry, he needs to be checked over." Minerva just nodded and went to use the Floo.

Ten minutes later she came back with Madam Pomfrey. She told Harry to lie on the bank while she checked him out. She performed a spell on him that would make a list of all his current injuries and the ones that hadn't healed well, so that he still suffered from it. A blue light came from Harry and went into Madam Pomfrey's wand. She ticked on a piece of parchment with it and a list appeared. "Oh my." She said. Remus took the list from her hands and went silent his eyes full of anger.

Current injuries:

1 broken rib

3 bruised ribs.

1 bruised hand

1 bruised knee

25 bruises

1 black eye

Injuries not properly healed:

2 broken legs

4 broken ribs

2 broken arms

"Harry I'm going to give you a potion, which will make you sleep. You will wake up again in the morning, but this way I can heal everything without you feeling it too much. Is that okay with you?" Harry nodded and took the potion. He fell asleep immediately and Madam Pomfrey set to work while Remus watched and never went from Harry's side. Just as he had promised. Minerva went to place the spell on the Dursleys' house and to talk to the person inside the ministry.


A/N: Next chapter will be a visit to Diagon Alley. I also have a question: Who should be the person inside the ministry. She won't become a main character but will be important through the whole story nd she has to have power inside the ministry. This person can possibly become Sirius' love interest. I'm not sure about it, so if anyone has an idea. Please let me know. I'll be on a holiday the whole week so I won't be able to update so quick. I hope this chapter was any good, since it didin't turn out exactly ow I had planned first. But hey, that's possible.

What I further wanted to say has to do with the change in genre I made. First I had noted Romance and I changed it into adventure. That's because at this point in the story romance doesn't play a big role, but it will later. Also I'm going to use a lot of canon pairings because there are at least two I have a thing for, so if you don't like the canon pairings. Be warned.