JULY 30th STILL

After about 20 minutes, the forest thinned and a large property appeared before them.

"Wow, Harry I didn't know you lived in such a great place. I thought it was destroyed when Voldemort attacked," Ron was awed at the two-storey Victorian era cottage with a huge acreage backyard.

"So did I, Dumbledore must have redone the shell at least. We need to get this place secure before we do anything. Hermione, you find out what we need to do for a Fidelius as the first charm while Ron and I clear the house and stable for any strays that are needed to be dealt with," Harry said getting his wand at the ready, even if he couldn't use it legally yet.

"Ok but if you get into trouble called Dobby for help, we can't afford for you to get into strife with the Ministry," Hermione ordered whilst throwing herself into her backpack, obviously in search of a book.

The boys nodded, even though their friend wouldn't see it, and went to check out the house and land. The stable was cleared and they found it was large enough for a dragon, then head up to the house. It was only a shell, not even having the floor for the second story in there, but luckily there were no uninvited visitors lurking around waiting to attack. The pair head back to their friend.

Hermione had heard the boys leave but was still searching for the rare and expensive book she had found in the Black library. When Dobby had returned with the hundreds of books, Hermione was surprised that there was so many because she was certain that Molly Weasley had removed all of the dangerous books. Apparently she was wrong, would need to ask Dobby to see if he knew.

Finally, the witch found the book she had been searching for and pulled herself out in time to find Harry and Ron walking back to her. Flipping through it, Hermione got to the page containing the Fidelius Charm and read it aloud for the boys.

"We need 4 casters, each standing at the property line of the house and chanting the spell, then once that is all done we all convene back in the exact centre and the naming ceremony of the secret keeper is to be completed."

"But we only have three here," Ron stated dumbly.

Harry and Hermione thought the same thing, "Idiot."

"Dobby," Harry called out, hoping that he was done at Privet Drive.

*POP*

"Yessus, Master Harry Potter."

"Would you like to be the fourth caster in a Fidelius Charm and then the Secret Keeper for Godrics Hollow?" Harry asked the house elf, kneeling to his height.

Dobby started to tear up, "I woulds be proud to be the secrets keeper for Master Harry Potter."

The elf and teen hugged before Harry stood back up and turned to Hermione expectantly, "What next then Mione?"

Hermione laid out the plans for the house plot, keeping under cover and away from Spinners End for the moment before sending her friends on their way. To make sure they chanted at the same time, the witch had placed a Protean Charm on several pieces of parchment and would signal to state the chant when it appeared.

Arriving at her destined spot, Hermione pulled out the master copy of the parchment and held it while giving the boys and elf a moment to get to their spots. While waiting, the witch looked around to get a lay of the land. From where she was there was nothing else she could see but thick forest, a good thing for the trio and elf but bad when wanting to search for a common enemy. Figuring she had given the boys enough time, Hermione tapped the parchment with her wand and it sent the spell to her comrades.

'Fidelius Protego Totalum' Was chanted from the four and a shot of magic went around the property line.

They all then proceeded to run to the centre of the property, about 10 yards from the barn. Once all there Hermione had Harry and Dobby hold hands, which she then wrapped with a gold ribbon and once again chanted the charm. A golden light covered the elf and teen, but drew the other teens into darkness.

"I issus telling yous that this issus Godrics Hollow," Dobby stated clearly and the whole area come back into view for Hermione and Ron.

"It worked," Ron smiled stupidly.

Harry groaned at his friend's idiocy but laughed when Hermione whacked him hard around the back of the head, "HEY!"

"You dare doubt me? Ronald Bilius Weasley I will hurt you the next time you doubt my magic aptitude," Hermione yelled at her friend, who was shying away from the angry witch.

"Yeah hurt me even more and I'll end up dead," Ron mumbled but was smiling in apology at the witch.

The trio and Dobby walked up to the shell of a house, Hermione talking to the elf about how to do the house up all the way there. Entering their new home, the witch gasped as it was worse than she had been planning for. Diving into her bag once more in search of another book, Hermione quickly returned with an extremely thin textbook.

"Dumbledore's Guide to Home Renovations? I didn't know Professor Dumbledore wrote a book," Harry stated as he looked through the book, flipping the pages slowly as he tried to remember some of the wand movement and incantations.

"Not Albus Dumbledore, Aberforth, the Headmaster's brother. Professor Dumbledore gave this to me last term, he probably figured we'd be coming here at some stage or another and would need to fix the place up," Hermione explained to the stunned teens.

Ron grabbed the book and flipped to the back cover, gasping in shock when he noticed the face there, "The Hogs Head owner? I didn't know that that was Dumbledore's brother. Wait, I thought Aberforth was mad and in love with a goat, how could he be the headmaster's brother?"

Hermione sighed, "Look, you of all people should know how inbred the pureblood families have gotten. Maybe the professor's parents were closer than acceptable in blood and it caused a malfunction in Aberforth's mind but he is a very talented wizard, just odd. Not that Professor Dumbledore wasn't odd in his own way."

At that the teens and Dobby nodded, each having been annoyed by the deceased wizard at one stage or another during their time in his presence. Having Ron and Harry sit and Ron practice his transfiguration while creating furniture, Hermione and Dobby started to fix the house up.

By nightfall the witch and house elf had turned the two storey shell into a 5 storey Victorian cottage. There were 30 rooms, 10 bathrooms, a huge but half empty library, potions lab, lounge with working floo system, war room, kitchen and massive dining room. Also Hermione had added a dungeon underneath the house, only accessible by the teens and house elf, for any prisoners they may capture and want to interrogate. Once done Hermione was exhausted but pleased with the work she and Dobby had done.

"So how have you boys gone?" The witch asked, walking from the kitchen, where Dobby was packing away the food he had gone out and bought for their dinner, into the lounge.

Harry and Ron were sitting on different sides of the room, Ron with a pile of well done but simple furniture in front of him. Of course Harry was practicing the wand movements, without a wand, and saying the incantations, but until tomorrow he could do nothing to help the actual process.

"Well done Ron, we can use these in the dungeon. Now keep making them, we need about 30 for the cells. Dobby can place them in there once you're done. Harry keep watching and studying, I'm going to furnish our rooms then the dining room."

Hermione had created three master bedroom for them, her in the middle, Harry to her right and Ron to her left, each with an ensuite and walk in robe. After furnishing each of them she then went and made a huge dining table, 30 chairs and two benches for any visiting half-giants that they may have. Seating herself at one of the three chairs at the head of the table, the witch place her head on her arms, which were resting on the table and drifted off to sleep.