Chapter 4

2 years and 4 months later

Harry woke up the morning of his 9th birthday in very high spirits. He was inviting his friend from school Hermione granger over, along with the weasley's.

"Happy birthday bud!" came a voice from his doorway.

"Dad!" harry yelled running and jumping into his fathers arms. James had been gone on an auror mission for a week and harry had been worried he would miss his birthday. Lily and Desiree walked in the room a minute later.

"Happy birthday harry." ten year old Desiree said.

"Thanks des." Harry said hugging her. Lily smiled and handed her son his birthday presents. "Cool a quidditch set!"

"That's from Desi and me; I figured you'd want a new one compared to the old busted one we usually use for practice." James said.

"Well if I'm gonna get on the quidditch team I gotta practice." Harry said hugging his dad and sister. He then opened the next one; this one was from his mum. It was a full set of quidditch robes, with harry printed on the back. "Wow! That's amazing mum thanks!" he said hugging his mum.

"Rachel helped me with those so you better thank her too." Lily said.

"Sirius is bringing your present from him over later, at lunch time." James said.

"Wanna go practice before Hermione comes? She can't know about quidditch." Desiree asked.

"Sure." Harry said, he ran down stairs after his sister, they both headed for the broom shed. Each of them had received a new broom when they turned eight, so Harry's cleansweap 6 was a bit faster than Desiree's cleansweap 5. They were both undoubtedly amazing flyers.

"Hey can I fly too?" came a voice from below them on the quidditch pitch in the woods between the two houses.

"Sure, grab your broom!" harry called down to the seven year old. Trixie smiled and ran off to the broom shed, she had just gotten her broom, it wasn't the best broom out but she was only seven so she didn't need the best broom just yet, not when she was still learning. So she flew up on her comet 180, an older model that served her purpose all the same.

"You up for a game?" Desiree asked releasing the brand new quidditch balls.

The three of them were mostly just flying around tossing the quale through the hoops and trying to spot the snitch. Harry caught the snitch far more times than the other two but they made many more goals than he did. They didn't start a real game until the weasley's arrived.

"Mind if we play?" asked one of the twins as six of the seven weasley kids flew into the air on their broomsticks. Percy was the only one not playing; he was presumably being boring somewhere up at the house.

"Not at all. Let's divide into teams." Desiree said.

"Captains Charlie and… harry. Since they're both the seekers." One of the twins said.

"Harry you can pick keeper first." Charlie said.

"Alright I chose-"he started.

"Wait I'm not playing." Trixie said.

"Alright Ron." Harry said.

"Bill." Charlie said.

"Dez for chaser." Harry said.

"George." Said Charlie.

"Ginny." Harry said.

"Ooh choosing the lady's." whistled Fred.

"Dez is my sister and Ginny's actually really good." Harry countered.

"Alright well I obviously chose Fred." Charlie said. "Doesn't bother me anyway Fred and George work better together."

"Let's play." The two teams were evenly matched. Ron wasn't the best keeper but Fred and George weren't used to playing chaser. Ginny and Dez were amazing chasers despite being so young, and bill was a pretty good keeper. Of course harry and Charlie were even so the game lasted a total of five minutes before harry had caught the snitch.

"You are good." Charlie said amazed. The second game lasted a little longer with Charlie catching the snitch in fifteen minutes. No sooner had they started the third game though lily called them down.

"Come on back to the house Hermione's just arrived." Lily said thankful that the pitch was hidden so well. The teams reluctantly came down.

"Who's Hermione?" Ron asked.

"Friend from school." Harry answered.

"Muggle?" Fred asked.

"Probably." Harry said.

"What do you mean probably?" George asked.

"Well she could be a muggle born." Bill said.

"Could, but what's the possibility of that?" Charlie said.

"It doesn't really matter, we'll know in approximately two years." Said Desiree. The other's shrugged and walked up to the house.

Hermione was a little confused why Mrs. Potter had told her to wait while she got the kids. She would have liked to see the yard.

"Oh it's not that dear." She had explained. "They're deep in the forest I wouldn't want you getting lost; those kids know the woods better than anyone."

Hermione was slightly shocked to see such a large group of kids come through the door.

"I thought you said there were only two other families coming." Hermione asked harry.

"It is just two other families." Harry said smirking slightly. "There's Dez, then Trixie, Maggie, and jo-jo black, and bill, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny weasley." He pointed at each one as he said the name. Hermione then noticed that all of the weasley's had red hair. "And everyone this is Hermione granger, she's a friend of mine from school."

"Hi's" were heard from all the kids. Just then James and Sirius came back inside.

"Check out the backyard everybody!" James said. All the kids immediately ran outside. The backyard was now occupied by a giant pool and slip-n-slide.

"Well that explains why mum said to bring swimsuits." Ron said.

"Alright everybody go inside and change." Sirius said.

"But I don't have a swim suit." Hermione said.

"I have some old ones you could borrow." Desiree said. Hermione thanked her and the two went up to her room, Ginny and Trixie followed. The boys all went up to Harry's room to change.

Coming back into the backyard Fred and George immediately went for the slip-n-slide making a huge splash at the end. Most of the kids followed. Rachel took the two younger kids to the pool to play and most of the adults followed – except James and Sirius who were on the slip-n-slide with the kids.

The festivities ended though when cracks were heard around the yard and suddenly men in dark cloaks were surrounding them. The kids all looked at the people in fright, especially Hermione who did not understand what was going on. But before anyone could comprehend what was going on curses started firing off. Bill grabbed Ron and Ginny and turned, Hermione was now completely confused as she watched him vanish. She didn't have much time to dwell on confusion though because someone else had grabbed her around the waist. She soon found herself in a nice house, Ron, Ginny, and Trixie were next to her and Sirius was just disappearing. More people came with more children none of the adults looked confused just determined. The kids looked scarred a little confused.

"What just happened?" Hermione asked to no one in particular.

"Death eaters." Charlie answered.

"What?" Hermione asked.

"Evil dark wizards, servants of you-know-who." Charlie said. Well that didn't really give her an explanation.

"Wizards?" she nearly screamed. "Tell me the truth and don't lie this time."

"I wasn't lying. Wizards are real. How do you think we got you here so quickly?" Charlie said.

"I must be dreaming." Hermione muttered.

"You're not dreaming, but it doesn't matter," said Sirius. "You'll have to be obliviated anyway."

"I what?" she asked.

"Obliviated. We have to erase your memory of the event so you don't go blabbing about witches and wizards." He explained.

"That will not be necessary Sirius." The voice came from an old man Hermione did not know.

"But professor Dumbledore sir. What she just witnessed-"

"I am well aware of what she just witnessed Mr. Black, but miss granger does not need obliviating." He said.

"You mean she's -?" he started.

"Yes a muggleborn," he said calmly.

"A what?" Hermione asked.

"A muggleborn witch." He said just as calmly.

A/N Dun, Dun, Dun. Cliffy. I am somewhat sorry about that. Anyways please review.

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