A Mind's Maze
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Comfort
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A/N: Thanks to the people that reviewed, the story already has a huge amount of hits and a stack of people who have either marked it as a favourite or have it on their alerts, it would be nice for a few of these people to review with what you think or suggestions. Anyway, enough of my babbling, here is the next chapter, so enjoy!
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Once Harry sat down on Hermione's bed he felt all the adrenaline that he had been running on disappear and his depressive mood coming back. Hermione noticed straight away but for once in her life was at a loss of what to do as she watched his strong façade completely crumble and his face become empty. She settled for giving him a hug with soothing words of comfort. She was surprised at actually how broken down he was as he cried into her shoulder but she thought that she should have realized that Sirius meant so much to him as he was the only fatherly figure that Harry really knew maybe apart from Remus. Oh my God, how could have I been so insensitive I thought Remus was going over the top about Harry, but Harry is all he has left.
"HERMIONE JANE GRANGER, EXPLAIN YOURSELF THIS INSTANT." Hermione opened one eye to see Harry bolt upright and her red faced father standing in the doorway of her room.
"Christopher, what's happened?" Hermione's mum hurried into the room to see the two teens in the same bed but took a calmer route.
"Chris, I am sure they have good reason, look they are still fully dressed in last nights clothes and look you've given poor Harry here a great first impression" She said taking in the scared expression on the boy in question which only caused him to want to sink into the bed, she then whispered something in her husbands ear which caused him to calm down and mutter an apology which gave Hermione the time to speak up.
"Sorry Harry these are my parents Chris and Jan," She introduced a very red faced Harry to her parents while Jane came over and gave him a hug and Chris shook his hand,
"Sorry, bout that," Chris said gruffly, "I am a little protective of my daughter" Jan raised her eye brows and Chris corrected himself, "OK very, happy now?" He said in exasperation and Jan nodded happily.
"I will go make some breakfast and Chris, be nice to them I am quite positive it is a completely innocent situation." Chris nodded and she left.
"Daddy all that happened was Harry was a bit upset and I comforted him we just accidentally fell asleep," Hermione looked her father in the eye and Harry nodded in agreement and then to their surprise he smiled.
"It's ok; I remember a similar situation happening with Jan's parents so really, its ok. I am sorry if I gave you a scare, see you at breakfast." He grinned and left. Harry and Hermione looked at each other before falling back on the pillows and laughed so hard that they had tears coming down there cheeks when they finally calmed down Harry said,
"Well if I didn't laugh I was gonna cry," which just set them off again until Remus knocking on their door forced them to regain their composure but it was hard when they saw the look on Remus's face at seeing them in the same bed but he visibly relaxed when he realized that they were dressed in the same clothes and he sat down on the edge of the bed.
"It's ok; I have been in this situation a few times over the last week." He spoke softly looking at his shoes, Harry crawled out from under the covers and gave him a hug and Hermione tried to brighten things up.
"So who's been the supportive girl?" This was met by a response that was extremely hard to understand so Harry stepped in;
"Sorry Uncle Remus we didn't hear that one." Harry raised his eyebrows in question.
"Tonks" A very, very red faced Remus replied before immediately looking back down at his shoes, before Harry or Hermione could ask any more questions Remus was saved by a call for breakfast.
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A week passed with Order members popping in and out, a couple of visits from the Weasley's and even a visit from Neville, due to Hermione's persistence Harry had nearly finished his holiday homework but what he thought was the biggest accomplishment was when going out to test out the quidditch pitch he managed to get Hermione on his Firebolt which she ended up enjoying.
Now they were sitting around the dining room table eating lunch when they heard a little giggle coming from down the hall, feeling like they were 12 again they slowly stuck their heads out the door only to see someone with bubblegum pink hair disappear though it before shutting it but obviously forgetting a silencing charm as the two teens could hear very clearly what was happening inside.
"Well I think we have found out how Remus has been dealing with things." Hermione said as they walked back into the kitchen before collapsing in a fit of giggles while Harry was gripping the door frame so hard trying to stop himself rolling around on the floor that his knuckles were turning white but it wasn't long before he was on the floor with Hermione rolling around in laughter.
"Well I haven't seen this side of you before but I have to say that I like it." Harry grinned at Hermione and she sheepishly smiled back before shrugging her shoulders.
"Well you seem to bring it out of me."
"Well I think I know something else to make you laugh uncontrollably," He started tickling her but she leaped up and ran out of the room pushing her mum out of the way before bolting up the stairs with Harry screaming after here so you can imagine what Luna and Neville felt like when they walked straight into the middle of it and especially when a pillow that was meant for Harry got Luna right in the face, resulting in an all out pillow war which had them all panting on Harry's bed by the end of it. Harry hadn't had so much fun in ages and he knew this is what Sirius would have wanted him to be doing which was pushing him to have as much fun as he can and live his life to the fullest, Sirius's death taught him a lesson of that.
"Well that was a great welcome." Neville was the first one to speak after catching his breath. The once nervous round faced boy was finally turning into a confident young man and Harry knew that the DA really helped with that.
"Well, welcome to the Gryffindor Castle Luna, what brings you here today?" Hermione asked.
"Just thought I would pop in, Neville told me that his gran was bringing him so I thought I would come along too we also wanted to talk about the DA and whether it would be continuing this year?" Luna seemed more down to earth than normal which was great as the other three didn't have to wonder what the next wonderland creature would be.
"Well first things first, are you two together?" Harry raised his eyebrows, Neville answered quickly.
"No, no, I am with Susan Bones and Luna is having a thing with Ron. Oops I don't think I was supposed to say that." He shot Luna an apologetic look but her expression remained the same.
"No its ok, I am sure they would have found out sooner rather than later." Luna's dreamy expression never left her face.
"Wow, well this is a new thing, I wonder when Ronald was going to tell us." Hermione said and Harry shrugged his shoulders.
"Oh well just let him tell us in his own time, now about the DA would people still want it to continue, Umbridge is gone now."
"I am pretty sure people enjoyed it as well, the amount of confidence it gave people was amazing, I actually spoke to Dumbledore earlier about it and he said it was free to go ahead and he thought it was great, like a younger generation of the Order he also said that we would have the help of the DADA teacher which he said we would definitely like. So I think if you agree we are all set to go right ahead with it." Hermione said in one breath while Harry pondered and then smiled.
"Well let's go ahead with it then, I did kinda enjoy teaching it." Hermione, Neville and Luna all brightened visibly.
"Neville, your grandmother said this was only to be a short visit so we should probably be going." Neville nodded and after some goodbyes Harry and Hermione were alone again.
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A/N: Hope you liked it, so review and tell me what you think.
Lila