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IMPORTANT! Author's Note: Before we begin I would like to thank Cassiopeia Potter. She reminded me that certain things wouldn't have existed in this time period (i.e. iPods.) So thank you. I forgot to mention that this story wouldn't take place in the original Harry Potter timeline. It'll be in the more recent time period. This warning will be added to every chapter from now on in the beginning. It'll be right next to the disclaimer. From here on out, you will not be able to say I didn't warn you.


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The Change, For Better or For Worse

Chapter Three: I Can Protect Myself!


"Hey mum," Ron Weasley said as he walked into the kitchen at Grimmauld Place, taking the plate out of his mother's hand, completely oblivious to the shocked faces of the people around him and Bill's laughter. He sat and started to eat when he realized the silence. He swallowed and asked, "Where's Harry and Fred and George?"

"He left!" Hermione yelled. "He just took the twins and left! He didn't even eat!" Ron looked horrified.

"He didn't eat? Why didn't he eat?"

"He said he already ate and he needed to talk to the twins," Bill said as he put his plate in the sink and headed off to work, he really needed to talk to Fleur about supporting Harry.

"Can you guys go get Harry?" Molly asked the three teens. The three nodded and rushed upstairs and started to search for their best friend. They looked in every room and couldn't find neither hide nor hair of Harry, the twins, or Sirius. They raced down the stairs and went to Molly.

"Mum! We can't find him!"

"He's not there!"

"The twins and Sirius aren't here either!"

Molly looked at them in shock. They weren't here? Where could they have gone? She started to panic and started to become angry.

"Ginny call Dumbledore and tell him what happened, he may want to have an Order meeting because of this. Ron, Hermione keep looking and try to figure out where they could have gone." The three nodded and ran off to do as they were told. Molly sighed, those four were going to be in so much trouble when Dumbledore finds out.


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Harry led the three purebloods to the counter in a department store and rang the bell at the counter. While he did that, Sirius, Fred, and George were looking around in awe, they had never seen such a big store or so many muggles. Dan just stood there indifferent. They waited a moment before a young woman that looked to be in her late teens early twenties appeared. When she saw Harry and Dan she squealed.

"Harry! Dan! What are you guys doing here? And who's this?" She asked when she finally noticed the three wizards.

"Hey Jacks," Harry greeted with Dan nodding and smiling at the girl. "This is Sirius, Fred, and George," he pointed to each of them in turn, "don't bother trying to figure which twin is which it just drives normal people crazy, at least in the beginning." She nodded in understanding, she had cousins that were twins and she has some trouble telling them apart. "They need some normal clothes; they're absolutely hopeless since their purebloods." Sirius and the twins looked at Harry sharply. Harry saw the looks and told them that she was in the know since her younger brothers were wizards.

"They are all yours, Jackie, I'm going to go to the toy store and some other places. I have my phone if you need me." Jackie nodded distractedly as she was sizing the three wizards up. "I presume that you were the one that transfigured their clothes." Harry nodded and started to walk away with Dan following. They didn't even glance when they heard Jackie dragging Fred, George and Sirius around.


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After the four said goodbye to Jaklyn and Dan, they portkeyed back to the front of Grimmauld Place, all dressed in muggle clothes and laden down with bags, and Harry and Sirius were able to tell the twins apart because Jackie had given them their own style. They glanced both ways before they crossed the street and walked up the steps to Number 12. They opened the door chatting loudly and seemingly making a large amount of noise. They went up to their rooms to place their bags when a portrait told Sirius and Harry about the Order meeting going on in the kitchen and to hurry their sorry asses up. Harry rolled his eyes and took Sirius' bags and gestured for him to go.

The moment Sirius walked into the kitchen silence reigned then succumbed to utter chaos. The yell that covered everyone else's and made the room silent except for her and was heard by everyone in the house jump except for Harry and twins who just walked down the stairs calmly, was Molly Weasley's.

"SIRIUS BLACK! WHERE WERE YOU? WHAT POSSESSED YOU TO LEAVE THIS HOUSE AND PUT YOURSELF, MY CHILDREN AND HARRY, YOUR GODSON IN DANGER?" Sirius glared at the woman in front of him. How dare she say that he put his godson in danger? But before he could answer, the door flew off the hinges and cut Molly off in the middle of her rant. Everything in the house was silent except for a slight crackling that was coming off the person in the door way.

"How dare you?" Harry hissed at the raging redhead in front of him, almost slipping into parseltongue because of his anger. He stalked forward with the twins behind him at a safe distance away from his magic behind him. Hermione, Ron, and Ginny appeared in the doorway. Hermione and Ginny looked pissed while Ron just looked confused, but no one paid them any attention, they were too focused on Harry.

"How dare you say that Sirius put me in danger" My thoughts exactly pup, Sirius thought. "None of us were in any danger whatsoever. By saying that we were in danger you're insinuating that me, Harry Potter, the Boy-Who-Lived, the one who has faced Voldemort at least four times and lived to tell the tale, which is far more than everyone in this room could say, cannot protect myself and the people I cared about, completely ignoring the fact that everyone single one of us are trained wizards that know how to use our magic in every situation." Harry's eyes had an eerie Avada Kedavra green glow to them. "You have absolutely no right whatsoever to imply such things. Nor do any of you have the right to keep neither me nor Sirius trapped in this house that he owns by the way. You don't have the right to tell me when I should eat, what I should eat, where I should sleep, whether I clean this house, or where I go. You are not, no matter how much you wish, my mother or the owner of this house. So I suggest that you start acting like you are supposed to in another's home or all of you may find yourself not able to access this house." Well said Harry, well said, the twins, Sirius, Bill, and surprisingly, Snape thought. Molly put her hand to her chest in surprise and anger and Ron stepped forward to grab Harry in anger not realizing his extremely stupid actions. The twins did nothing to hold Ron back; he was going to get what was coming to him, it was his own fault for trying to touch an extremely powerful, angry wizard whose magic was visible and you could hear. And they wanted to see what would happen.

And see what happened they did. Ron reached Harry and touched his shoulder. As soon as Ron's hand breached Harry's magical aura he was blasted backwards and across the hall, knocking Hermione and Ginny down in the process as he went. Harry didn't even turn around.

"Harry, my boy, I must ask you to calm down. You are losing control of your magic and you are harming your friends. And you left without letting the Order know and put Sirius and Misters Weasley in danger." Harry slowly turned to face his Headmaster.

"Are you deaf, old man? I'm in danger wherever I go; I have an insane Dark Lord after me, in case you forgot. But as I just told the rest of your flaming chickens, I am more than capable in defending myself as you just saw when that idiot decided to grab me from behind." Harry told the man. The Headmaster's eye twinkle started to dissipate. Harry had never talked back before. "Now if you'll excuse me I have things I need to do. Goodbye." Harry turned and walked out the door, his magic rippling behind him and destroying everything in front of the Order.

When he was walking up the stairs he heard a voice calling him. "Harry wait up! I need to talk to you!" Harry slowed his walk so Bill could catch up with him.

"What would you like to talk about William?" Harry asked Bill, using his full name. Bill took a second to catch his breath and started to speak.

"I just wanted to let you know that I'll support your decisions, whatever they are, and so will Fleur, if you'll let her." Harry nodded.

"Can you arrange a meeting between me and Fleur, Bill? I hear that you two have gotten...close." Harry finished with a smirk appearing on his face. "Great Bill, let me know when." Harry disappeared into his room. Bill looked after the true figurehead of the light and shook his head. That boy was full of surprises.


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Author's Note: Review! I know it's short but review anyway. Please?

So before I answer your reviews, I'm going to ask you a question and I want you guys to answer it in the wonderful reviews you leave me.

So here it is:

QUESTION: If you were to be left to live in a house with four characters from Harry Potter, and weren't able to change them, who would you want to live with? It HAS to be a person from EACH house. They have to actually be in the book, but DON'T have to be developed in the book but CAN BE developed in a fanfiction story. If they are developed in a fic, can you tell what story it is? You don't have to though if you don't want to or the character is developed over several people's fanfictions.

And I'm going to try to recommend a story or author each time I update, if you have any suggestions let me know, if it's your story or someone else's it doesn't matter.

So recommendation:

If you like reading the book stories, you'll probably like "EXPLORING HARRY POTTER'S LIFE" by LADY CELESTIAL STAR. If you do read and review, give me a shout out in the review?


So reviews! (finally!) Onward!

Reviews:

Dear redstickbonbon,

Thanks for the review! I'm glad you enjoyed it. And I agree with you it never sat right with me either.

So review again, please,

M2mM


Dear Dani08,

The story is keeping me guessing as well! Lol. I'm glad you love it. Well here's the chapter! And I took your suggestion about lord Cartwright. Well keep reviewing and be sure to answer my question.

So review again, please,

M2mM


Dear 917brat,

I'm not really sure about the pairing but it won't be any of those, so don't worry. I'm kinda sick of them too. So review again and be sure to answer the question.

So review again, please,

M2mM


Dear ILikeComps, Pri-Chan 1410, and cozmic,

I'm glad you like it and thanks for the review. I hope you answer the question I left.

So review again, please,

M2mM


Dear autumngold,

Thanks for the review and I'm glad you like it. Some of my ideas surprise me sometimes so when I came up with the Sirius works in the twins store idea I was like 'Write it down now!' I didn't include the shopping trip because, to be honest I think it makes the story drag. But if you like I can put up a one shot that includes the shopping trip. But they did discuss some things during the shopping trip that'll come up later in the story…cough, cough, -Harry's summer- cough, cough. And Harry has a black Mercedes Benz SL Night. Be sure to answer the question and review again.

So review again, please,

M2mM


Dear Cassiopeia Potter,

I would like to give you an enormous thank you. I wouldn't of remembered to put the warning in if you hadn't of reminded me. If you look in the author's note at the top, it's there. Harry's summer will come up in the later chapters. But I'm going to try to work a part of it in the next chapter. Hopefully it won't disappoint. As to muggle stuff working around magic, well when Harry was younger and did accidental magic, you'd think that it mess with the electronics in the house right? But who's to say it didn't. I don't know if it did or not but I guess it'll be explained when Harry explains what's been going on to Sirius. But it has to do with a lot a lot of spells and broken electronics. If you find any other problems or issues let me know. I hope you answer my question asked earlier in the author's note, if it pleases you of course.

So review again, please,

M2mM


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