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Harry awoke, disoriented,in a dark room to some very loud snoring. He turned over, ignoring the dull ache is caused his backand smiled at the sight that met him. Four camp beds had been squashed into the room and occupying them were Mr Weasley,
Mrs Weasley, Remus and Sirius. Fred and George were on the ground
their backs leaningagainst a chair,their heads balancedon one and other. Ron was also on the ground leaning against the chair spralled out in a star position. Sleeping in the chair was Hermione, curled into a tight ball breathing
softly. He recognised this room as one of the bedrooms at the Burrow, the night before rushed back into Harry's memory.
He was safe, he was with people who loved turned backaround to lie on his back accidentally puttingto much pressure on one of his now healing wounds and must of let out a moan as the others in the room began to stir. Sirius
woke up first as he wasn't sleeping properly- he hadn't been since the collected harry.
He satup, rubbing his eyes trying to make them come into focus then he spotted Harry.
"Harry? Pup!" His words filled withexcitement. Harry let out another moan he was hurting,
hurting bad.
"Pup what's wrong? What hurts? You can tell me." Sirius movedonto his knees
leaning over Harry so he could see him.
He placed Harry's glasses on his face so his godson could make sense of the blurred shapes. Sirius seemed to understand so shifted Harry so that the pressure was taken of his wounds.
"Is that ok pup? That better?" Harry couldn't answer but giving Sirius a genuine smile seemed to satisfy him. Other people were waking up now and someone had turned on the lights so the roomwas
now bright.
Everyone was now awake and falling over each other to get to Harry's side tell him he's safe, tell him he's home.
"Do you want to sit up pup?" Sirius asked Harry managed to croak out a yes so Remus assisted Sirius in putting Harry into a comfortable sittingposition. Hedwig flew over and started rubbing
her head against Harry's hands wanting to be pet so harry oblidged running his finger along her head the down her back.
"She was really scared for you cub."Remus broke the silence with a smile,"She wouldn't leave this room and was always looking over you making sure you were ok."
"She made loads of noise whenever they did something to me"Harry started, "or when I was locked in my room to long, she always refused the food I gave her, insisted on living on tiny owl treats for the whole summer, I think she knew
how I didn't getmuchas it was, I don't think she wanted to add to it." Harry was oblivious to the worried and disturbed looksthat
were now getting sent round the room.
"Oh harry why didn't you tell us?"Hermione whispered tears falling down her face.
"I couldn't, Uncle Vernon locked Hedwig in her cage I tried but couldn't find the key and I mean it's never been that bad you know they never really beat me...". Harry was trying to make them understand, it was his fault
not theirs.
"Why couldn't you send a letter back with owls we sent you?"
"All my stuff was locked u- wait what owls I never got any letters or owls.' Harry now looked confused instead of guilty "nobody sent me anything."
"Pup."Sirius jumped into the conversation, "we sent you a letter everyday without a fail sometimes twice a day or three times day. I sent them, Moony over there, the Weasleys, Hermione literally everybody."
Harry seemed like he wanted to say something then decided against ,after a couple minutes of silence words came tumbling out of Harry's mouth like he had, had them bottled up for years.
"I, I never received any of them I thought, I thought you didn't care about meanymore"he turned to Sirius, "I thought you regretted asking me to stay with you so never contacted me or you had been caught and went back to Azkaban
I though I was nevergoingto see you again."Harry shiftedback to look atthe rest of the group and started again with tears pouring down his face. "I thought you were only doing this because you felt sorry for
me, but you had enough, that you, you never wanted me to visit again orbe my friends. You are like my family, in factyou are my family, I thought I had lost you, I thought I was alone again."Everyone now had tears falling and
if not they definitely had tears threatening to overflow. "I thought I was alone again."Harry whispered.
Harry had never let this slip to anyone. He was always good at keeping secrets, but that didn't seem important anymore. These people already knew how much of a freak he was and likeUncle Vernon always said, hiding your true identity as a abnormal
freak will only end in pain.