"I missed you so much," Hermione said holding him tightly "and you look so different,"

"You do two Mione," Harry said with a grin.

It was true the young witch had significantly changed, the slightly large teeth that she had had been shrunken, he guessed that she had shrunk them herself or had gotten another student to help her, she had grown to around 5'7 or 5'8 in height and had become quite curvy, her bushy hair had become quite a lot tamer also.

"So," Hermione said "are you back for good?"

"Now at least," Spike said drawing attention to him from the two teens "oh Harry, yeah he is back, me and Harmony, not so much."

"So what has it been like here?" Harry asked his best friend "how has school been, what have you learnt?"

"The majority of teachers are good," Hermione said "Snape treated me better when you left he just sees me as smart now, Malfoy was practically gleeful that you left he tried to tell people you where a vampire but Dumbledore stopped him."

"Dumbledore stopped him?" Harry said seemingly surprised

"Of course he would Harry." Hermione admonished her best friend "he doesn't care that you are a vampire, neither do I, I am still your best friend and he is still your headmaster,"

"I know what he meant." Spike said "we are looked down upon for what we are, Harry wasn't expecting to be protected at Albus' expense like it appeared to have been the case, I have to admit it is a surprise if I do say so myself."

"Why?" Hermione asked defensively stepping towards Spike and Harry could feel a Hermione rant coming on like he had seen happen to Ron in their first year "you are against wizards and witches when they attack you and then you are suspicious when they help you I don't know what the matter with you is but I am pretty sure that we cannot win with you."

"Me," Spike said "or my kind?" then he nodded at Harry who was standing behind Hermione with a hurt look on his face.

"You know I didn't mean it that way." Hermione said softly "it was just you were making out that the wizarding world would turn their back on you when they didn't need you I would never do that to you Harry, I promise I would never ever do that."

"I know you wouldn't" Harry said hugging his best friend "we were just making a vocal decision Mione, we didn't think that Albus would defend me even though he cares, he didn't have to because he didn't know what I would be like when I came back."

Then Hermione held Harry into the great hall and sat next to him with Harmony and Spike the other side of the table with them.

"So how is the being a vampire situation?" Hermione asked him "have you gotten it under control?"

"Yeah," Harry said "I drink pig's blood, any animal really just so that it wasn't human,"

"Yeah Angel makes sure of that," Harmony said with a smile "he never lets us drink human blood, only when we are suffering blood lust after fighting other vampires or demons but we drink from each other we don't drink from none vampires."

"Oh," Hermione said

"Yeah." Harry said "we pride ourselves on that."

Then some of the other students that where in the grounds came down to dinner.

"So is Katie here yet?" Harry asked "I wanted to see her if she is here, yet."

"You want to kiss her," Hermione said and Harry knew that it wasn't a question.

"Yeah," Harry said "she told me that if I came back she would kiss me,"

"You like her?" Hermione asked, she wasn't hurt even though she had grown to have feelings for Harry she wanted to see him be happy rather than him be with her, if he was happy with Katie then Hermione would accept that it may have been hard for her but she would accept it.

"Yeah," Harry said "I do like her, she was my first crush, you are my best friend but she was the first girl that I liked other than you."

Hermione was slightly hurt that Harry didn't see her that way but she didn't want to lose Harry as her friend so she would rather have him as her best friend rather than lose him completely.

"Well, Well Well," Draco Malfoy said "Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts, I thought you would have been dead by now half-breed," Harry looked up and saw Draco and some Slytherin students who obviously knew and where not bothered that Harry was a vampire. Draco had been able to remember that Harry was a vampire not long after his third year as Dumbledore had been putting two much magic into the wards so therefore he had not been able to sustain the spell but had put a different spell on Draco where he couldn't mention it to anyone with authority or influence which included both of his parents and all Hogwarts staff.

"Have you stopped screaming now?" Harmony said Draco turned and saw Harmony and Spike and began to shake with past fears which caused Spike to smirk and Harmony to blow Draco a kiss, the two vampires knew that they were in the blonde Slytherin's head as they knew he was scared of everything that was different and Spike and Harmony was the epitome of everything that the purebloods didn't want that they didn't like, Spike was a monster or he had been, therefore he was something that was unexpected and unpredictable therefore he couldn't be controlled.

Harmony however was different she was a lot more controlled which made her just as dangerous, she knew what she was doing and what she was in complete control of her actions. Also she had associated herself with the strongest and smartest people that she knew she had done it in high school and she did it as a vampire, in high school she had been friends with Cordelia, as a vampire she was friends with Spike and Angel or close with Spike and Angel who were known as two of the darkest vampires that there where in existence.

"What are you doing here?" Draco said trying to stop himself from looking scared.

"We were invited," Spike said smugly "we are back with Harry and there is nothing you or your daddy can do about it."

Draco just couldn't even think about anything that he could say because he was frozen with fear that the fact Harry Potter was back, he had used the fact that Harry was gone as a way to gain the support he wanted for his pureblood agenda, therefore the fact that Harry was back it wouldn't be good for the pureblood agenda,

"What's the matter Draco?" Harry teased "surprised that I am back? Sorry to disappoint that I didn't stay away."

Then Harry saw her, Katie Bell was standing at the doorway looking at Harry with her mouth wide open as she began walking down the hall. Her head girl badge on her chest gleaming as she stopped right behind Harry.

"Mr Potter," she said causing him to turn around.

"Katie," he breathed out.

"I need to speak to you Mr Potter," Katie said and Harry nodded and let himself be lead away.

"Do you think he will be ok?" Harmony asked with a fake worried look on her face,

"Harm," Spike said "I think our boy will do just fine,"

America

"Do you think they will be ok?" Cordelia asked as they walked back towards the hotel

"I think so," Angel said "Harry is clever and he has two very powerful vampires watching out for him."

"Yeah," Cordelia said "I think it will be boring without him being here," then Angel opened the door

"Thanks for cheering me up." Angel said

"What are friends for?" Cordelia said then she turned the lights on and saw Darla standing in the middle of the room with a noticeable baby bump

"You ask me, they're for knocking you up and leaving you high and dry. " Darla said sardonically

"This is impossible" Angel said

" Hello, lover. Long time no see. "Darla saidYHA