Sorry for the late update, but I had finals, 2 (yea count them, two!) car crashes, and family issues.

Disclaimer: I may be British but I am not JKR therefore I own nothing you recognize.

A Mr. Remus Lupin sat at a desk in the living room of his apartment in London staring blankly at a book as Harry walked into this store. He had no idea what was going on in another part of London not too far away from him, but it was not likely that he would be stopping by any part of wizard London that day. He had just received another letter denying his application for a job and was thoroughly frustrated.

He knew that it was hard to get a job because of his… 'problem' but this was getting ridiculous. He hadn't had a job in the wizarding world since he had left Hogwarts. He was trying to ignore his problems by reading a good book, but even that wasn't helping as he kept reflecting on either the job denials or on his friend's death.

Remus had barely talked to anyone from the wizarding world since Sirius had died—apart from doing Order business. He knew he shouldn't hide away from everyone but hey, with Sirius gone he was the last of the Marauders, he should be allowed to grieve right? James was dead, Peter was a traitor and no longer considered a marauder in Remus' eyes, and now Sirius was dead. The only person who could possibly understand what this felt like was Harry, and Dumbledore had told him not to contact Harry.

'What would I say anyway? "Hey Harry sorry your father-figure just died on you, maybe I could replace him and it would make us both feel better." Yea that would go wonderfully.' Remus sighed as he continued to mentally berate himself, 'Besides, Harry never saw me in the same light he saw Sirius, and who could blame him? After I left Hogwarts we barely talked, I didn't even send him letters to see how he was doing! Sirius was on the run and he still had more contact with Harry than I did. It's been too long since I've seen Harry and actually talked to him…'

Remus glanced at the clock, "Damn." He stood up, picked up his jacket, and left to go to the muggle bakery he worked at. He didn't even notice the small sealed scroll that appeared on the desk he had just vacated as he locked the door.

Meanwhile Harry approached the red-head that was passing products to a blonde woman as she stocked the shelves. He made sure his hood was casting a shadow over his face and walked up behind the red-head.

"So, how good are you and your brother at keeping customer confidentiality?" Harry tried to change his voice so it wouldn't be completely obvious that it was him and stepped back as he waited for an answer.

The red-head turned to face Harry and a look of surprise came over his face as he realized that the customer obviously wanted to keep his face hidden under his hood. "Umm… it depends on what subject. Anything breaking any of the big laws we really can't participate in, but anything other than that nobody ever has to know except the customer, Fred and me."

Harry smirked as he heard this, 'Good then I can keep them from telling their family that I was here.' "Okay, in that case, I have a business proposition for you and your brother. But I would prefer to conduct our business in private."

George's face broke out into a grin as he turned to the blonde woman behind him, "Hey, Verity, can you take over the store for a little? We're going to be conducting some business in the back. Okay sir, just follow me." George started walking towards the back of the store as he saw Fred, "Oi! Fred, Come 'ere!"

Harry followed the two red-headed twins into the back room and asked if they could ensure that nobody would overhear their conversation. Harry waited until they put some wards up then sat down on a chair, propped his feet up on the desk, and lowered his hood. He couldn't hide the smirk as he heard two simultaneous gasps. "Harry mate, what're you doing here? We thought you were still back with the muggles."

"Yea I know, I snuck out a while ago, now I need you guys to not tell anyone that I was here. You can't tell your parents, or Ginny, or even Ron. Nobody. If you can't do that tell me right now and I will leave."

The twins exchanged confused glances but agreed. "Good, I would really hate to have to leave the country because you told people I was here. Okay now down to business: I have several objects I would like you to do some R&D on. You think you are up to it? Of course I will pay for everything, but they would help me a lot."

Fred and George's faces had become more and more surprised as Harry was talking, but as soon as they heard that Harry wanted them to invent some more things their eyes lit up.

"Why Harry—"
"I don't think—"
"We would be able—"
"To deny such a request—"
"After looking at that gorgeous face of yours."
"So what do you propose?"

Harry smirked as he brought out a list. "It's pretty simple actually. Since I'm still underage, I need to be able to get around without technically using magic. So I was thinking something similar to the headless hats, but with glamour charms not invisibility charms, also notice-me-not charms. You think you can handle that much?"

"Harry! Do you—"
"Mean to insult—"
"Our intelligence?"
"Of course we can handle that!"
"In fact—"
"We can also give you—"
"Our new shield line—"
"We created it for fun, but the aurors really like it—"
"Basically you put it on and it creates a shield charm—"
"To block some hexes, jinxes, and curses."
"We can probably make the other stuff for you in about…"
"A week? Maybe two so we can figure out if the charms will work the same way."

"That'll work, I'll send Hedwig over and she'll be able to find me for you. Now there is one last thing I need. Now I'm not sure if it's even possible, so that's why I'm asking you. I figure if anyone can figure out how to invent this, it's you two. You up to it?" Harry reached into his bag and pulled out the Marauder's map. He saw the twins eyes light up in recognition and lay it on the table in front of them. "I wanna know if it's possible to make a map not of a specific building, but of the area around a specific person. You know, something that'll center on one person, and show the area around them and anyone in that area. I know it'll be difficult—if it's even possible, but it would really help me."

The twins' looks had gone from reminiscent, to curious, to doubtful, to inspired very quickly while Harry had talked. "Harry, my friend—"
"If it can be done, we'll figure it out!"

"Great! So what's been going on in the wizarding world since I left school?"

"Well Percy's still being a prat, and you-know-who is still gathering his forces, so it's not as bad as it was in the last war, but you can definitely tell he's here now. There have only been a couple of disappearances and killings though, it's mostly the death eaters showing off their power and that they are here. The Order is still being a reactionary force, not taking the fight to you-know-who, but instead just cleaning up afterwards. And mum is of course being over-protective of everyone."

"Speaking of our family… how come you didn't want us to tell everyone that you were here?"

"Surely you'll just tell Ronnikins as soon as you get to school what happened over the summer, right?"

Harry paused, wondering if he could tell the twins or not. But as he looked at the twins they seemed to truly not suspect that anything could have gotten in the way of Harry and Ron's friendship. Plus they had already agreed to help him, so one more thing couldn't hurt… right? "Well actually…no. I'm not sure if I can trust him anymore. Well, to be honest I wasn't sure if I could trust you two either, but I had to take that risk."

The twins still looked confused, and appeared to be waiting for Harry to elaborate, so he took a deep breath and kept talking, "When I got to Diagon Alley this morning I first went to Gringotts. While I was there I was told that my magical guardian had set up a marriage contract for me… with Ginny. According to that contract your family has been getting 1,000 galleons from my vault every other month since my first year at Hogwarts."

The twins gasped, "We wondered why dad suddenly got such a big promotion—"
"He didn't get a promotion, it was your money!"
"Harry, mate! We swear—"
"We didn't know!"

Harry actually started laughing, "It's okay. I believe you, I won't hold what your parents did against you."

"Wait! That explains why mum kept telling Ron that he had to be a better friend to you."
"We once walked in on her yelling at Ron—"
"Saying that he needed to get you and Ginny closer—"
"And that he couldn't jeopardize all they had worked for."
"We just figured they were talking about how Ginny was still shy around you—"
"And how she was finally coming out of her shell. But it was about this!"

Harry sighed and nodded his head, "So Ron did know. Or even if he didn't, he was still doing what his parents were telling him to and becoming my friend, whether he wanted to or not is still unknown. Regardless, I don't know if I can look at him the same. Just don't let your parents find out that you know okay? They will probably figure out something is wrong when they don't get the payment next month, but until then I'm still trying to not let anyone figure out that I left my aunt's house. I have a lot to do before I go back to Hogwarts."

"Don't worry Harry—"
"We got your back!"
"Actually, I think we can help you in one more way."

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking Fred?"

"Most definitely George."

"Okay, would you guys just tell me what is going on instead of pulling the twin act again."

The twins broke out laughing, "Sorry Harry!"

"Anyway, a couple years ago—"

"While researching the underage magic laws to find a loophole—"

"We actually found one. The Ministry sensors only recognize whether someone does magic around an underage wizard—"

"Not if that underage wizard actually performed the magic. The reason you got caught last summer is because you were in a muggle-filled area."

"But since you left the muggle's place—"

"You can do magic without them finding out about it."

"The ministry will just assume that someone is doing magic around an underage wizard."

"Without them knowing where you are, or if there is an adult wizard around you, they can't tell if you broke the law or not!"

"Just be careful with how much magic you do wherever you are staying."

"If all of a sudden a lot more magic is appearing where there wasn't any before—"

"The ministry will probably come to investigate, just to make sure nothing fishy is going on."

"So in our family, we can do magic at the Burrow—"

"And the ministry will just assume it's our parents performing magic while we are near them."

"Drove Ron and Percy crazy since they couldn't figure out how we were still pulling pranks on them."

While the twins were talking Harry's smile kept getting bigger and bigger, and by the time they had finished explaining he had an almost-evil glint in his eye, "You guys just made my summer a lot better and my plans a lot easier. I owe you one… or several! But I should be going. I'll send Hedwig to you next week to see how the inventions are coming."

With Harry's mind buzzing for the second time that day, he left the store and made his way back to muggle London. He had to dodge two Order members going through Diagon Alley, but they didn't recognize him with his hood pulled up, so he was able to make it back to Grimmauld Place without incident.

Eight hours after Harry had walked into Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes Remus returned to his apartment after working in the muggle world. He had found it was much easier to get a job in the muggle world than in the wizarding world, and he could even arrange his hours so that he didn't have to work too close to the full moon. He threw his jacket over the back of a chair and was just going to go straight to bed, but as he passed his desk he noticed a small scroll sitting in the center of it. He had to do a double take, but yup, that was definitely a scroll sitting there when it wasn't there before. "Homenum Revelio."

There was nobody in his apartment, which meant that the scroll was probably sent by magic. He turned his wand to the scroll and checked for any curses that might have been placed on it. He didn't notice anything, so he walked over to the desk. That was when he noticed the Gringotts stamp on the parchment.

The farther down the parchment Remus read the closer his eyebrows got to his hairline. By the time he reached the bottom of the parchment Remus had a look of utter disbelief on his face, but this quickly changed to cool determination. He dropped the scroll on his desk, and while it was still rolling itself back up he was marching out the door, completely ignoring his jacket this time.

Remus was walking quickly towards Diagon Alley, thankful that he didn't live too far away, while thinking over the letter he had just read.

"Greetings Mr. Remus J. Lupin. This letter is to inform you of a recent request for you to become a magical guardian. If you choose to accept your duties will be as listed below, while you are paid for each month of service to the child in question. Despite the amount set for this child's prior magical guardian, it has been requested that you shall receive more, if you agree. This higher salary will be due to a privacy clause our client has requested, as well as a notification for our client of any changes you will make on their behalf. Below you will find a letter from our client for your eyes only. Should you agree please inform us at Gringotts whenever is acceptable for you.

"Moony, you probably thought I was still at the Dursley's house, so this is no doubt unexpected, but I need you to not tell Dumbledore you have heard from me. Don't worry I'm safe, I have a place to stay, and the Death Eaters can't find me. You have to understand why I did this, I can't be manipulated anymore. I'm not in control of anything, and it was getting worse at the Dursley's. I had to do this… for me. This is the first time in a long time that I have actually done something for me, so please don't try to find me, and don't tell the Order that I left. I should be back for Hogwarts, but for now I'm cutting off almost all contact with everyone. Now onto why you are getting this letter, I recently found out that Dumbledore has been hiding things from me… a lot of things. So I feel I can't trust him anymore. Right now I'm turning to you. You are the only on I feel safe trusting right now, so please don't let me down. If you have any questions the goblins at Gringotts should be able to help. But please, I need help right now, and I hope I can still trust you. ~Harry."

AN: Sorry for all the twin-speak, I sometimes get annoyed reading it but it is surprisingly fun to write!

Okay onto reviews:

Victoria of Memphis: Thanks! And yea, I'm bringing Moony in cause I feel like he doesn't get enough time in the books. :(

Ladywolfinmt: Yea so far in my plans for this story there is no pairing, but it might change later. But thanks for the compliments and reviews :)

Aaaaaaaand Question time! ::: My plans for this story after a couple of chapters are flexible, so I want to know your opinions: Should Voldie have horcruxes, or something else that saved him as just a one-time thing? Which do you prefer? (I'll put a poll up on my profile) (Oh and I'm not saying I will definitely go with what is popular, I just want to know where you stand).

OKAY! Last thing: I'm going to attempt to put up another chapter before the 29th, since I'm going on vacation to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter for a week and a half on that day, but if for some reason I can't post before then I'll have to wait until after my vacation to post since I won't have internet access in Florida (Don't Hate Me!)