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A week passed and it was now July 14th, 2 days after the full moon. Harry had become increasingly trustful and affectionate towards his guardians. At this moment, it was around 4 in the afternoon and Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, Remus and Sirius were in the kitchen. The rest of their guests had order business to attend to, so here they were staring at Sirius's half-assed attempt at a snack. They were all eating the sandwiches cautiously when 3 owls came in through the window and dropped 3 envelopes in front of Harry, Ron, and Hermione. Knowing what it was, Hermione promptly started chocking on her butterbeer, Ron paled and Harry bit his lip. Remus and Sirius snickered.

"They won't open themselves, you know. Are you Gryffindors or not?" Ginny said amused. The 3 friends snapped out of their trance and reached for their destined envelopes. They looked at the letters and then at each other. They quickly exchanged letters, sending Sirius and Remus into a flurry of laughter and causing Ginny to slap her forehead. Harry ripped opened Ron's letter.

Ordinary Wizarding Level Results

Pass Grades Fail Grades

Outstanding (O) Poor (P)

Exceeds Expectations (E) Dreadful (D)

Acceptable (A) Troll (T)

Ronald Billius Weasley has achieved:


Astronomy: A

C.O.M.C.: E

Charms: E

D.A.D.A.: O

Divination: D

Herbology: E

History of Magic: D

Potions: O

Transfiguration: E

Harry looked up from the results as Ron smirked, "Well 'Mione-"

"What?" Hermione panicked, "Are they really bad? OH, I KNEW I failed everything-"

"Hermione calm down! You got all O's except in D.A.D.A. where you got an E!" Ron said laughing.

Harry snickered and said "Well, Ron you didn't do too shabby yourself. You got an O in potions."
Ron turned to him and stared. He finally opened his mouth to say, "How is that even relatively possible?" He lunged for his letter, scanning over it.

Hermione, finally pausing in devouring her results, looked at him,

"You've got an O in potions as well, Harry."

Now, even Ginny stared at her in disbelief.

"Come again?" Harry finally said.

Hermione nodded and handed him his letter.

Harry looked at his scores.

Astronomy: A

C.O.M.C.: E

Charms: E

D.A.D.A.: O

Divination: D

Herbology: E

History of Magic: D

Potions: O
Transfiguration: E

Harry was snapped out of his shock when Sirius spoke, "You can share any day now Harry."

Harry handed his letter to Sirius and smiled half-heartedly.

"I got the grades for Auror training."

Sirius hugged Harry in congratulations followed by Remus who whispered, "We'll talk about this later." in his ear. Out loud he said, "Not like you'll need it much, you're getting training by Tonks and Shacklebolt."

And it was true, for the last 5 days Tonks and Kingsley had been teaching him dueling and even muggle martial arts. He was quite good at it too, but Tonks wasn't as clumsy as she appeared. He found that out the hard way and still had the bruise to prove it.

Harry shook his head and arched his back, yawning.

"Harry…" Remus said slowly. "Open your mouth."

Harry looked confused at first but then understood. He winced and stuck his tongue out. Remus started to chuckle.

"What?" Sirius asked. He hooked a finger under Harry's chin and turned his face to himself. Sirius grinned widely, "When did you get your tongue pierced?" He was studying the sphere with interest. The snake inside the transparent circle shone as it caught the light, "Nice symbolism, by the by."

"Last year." Ron answered for him. "Most Gryffindors in out year, the years above and the year below got something pierced."
"It was out way of rebelling, I suppose." Hermione cut in, "Umbridge was controlling our lives so much we decided to do something she couldn't control." She showed them her cartilage ring.

Ginny spoke next, "You should have seen her face when I stretched in class and my pierce showed," she lifted her shirt a bit so they could see her red belly ring. "I got 2 nights detention but it was so worth it. Don't tell mum I got a pierce okay? She'll go bonkers."

"I'm guessing it was the same face she pulled when she saw mine." Ron said fingering his earring."

Harry smirked, "I swear I spent more time in detention then in class last year." The other three snickered and shook their heads.
Remus then asked, "If she was so horrible, why would you aggravate her?"

Hermione responded for all of them, "Sometimes, we lost our tempers, she was so bloody infuriating. We all had to control ourselves, especially Harry. No offence, Har."

Harry just shrugged.

"I swear Luna had to cast at least two silencing sells on me in class per week so I wouldn't get in trouble. I'm not kidding." She added to the disbelieving faces of Remus and Sirius, "She would deliberately provoke you. Plus, you got detention for even breathing too loudly anyway."

"Oh, come on." Sirius and Remus said at the same time, not believing the stories.

"I mean," Remus elaborated, "I know she is bad, I've been on the end of her doings more than once… but detention for breathing too loudly?"
Harry turned to him and nodded, "Seamus got 3 days for it."

Sirius looked disgusted, "What did she make you do?"

Harry quickly hid his hand under the table while the other three stuttered, obviously aware that Harry didn't want them to know.

Sirius stared at Harry and said firmly, "Hand."

Harry sighed and showed Sirius his hand. Sirius gently ran his fingers over the words 'I will not tell lies' and his eyes filled with fury.

"Last time I checked, Blood Quills are illegal," He said through gritted teeth.

Remus came up behind him and put his hands on Sirius's shoulders

"Breathe, honey."

"Breathe? Remus, that…that woman had him use a Blood Quill!"

Remus sighed, "I know, baby. But what are you going to do about it now? She got what she deserved anyway; she's at St. Mungo's psychiatric word until further notice, and with no signs of being let out."

Sirius paused, "I guess." He said reluctantly.

After a moment's awkward silence Ginny broke through the tension in the room.

"Siri… you are so his bitch."

Sirius rolled his eyes and sighed while the teenagers laughed and Remus tried not to.

"I'm not even going to try and deny that one."
Remus cleared his throat and looked around the table, "I think we should be getting back to cleaning. We're almost done with the bedrooms."

The rest agreed half-heartedly.

It was around 5 that they took a break. Harry and Ron had their shirts off. The girls had their hair pulled back, Ginny with her shirt tied around her waist and Hermione changed into shorts. Harry was lying face down on the floor with Ginny drawing something on his back with a quill and colored ink. Ron was laying on one of the beds and Hermione on the other, sleeping. Ginny put the final touches on her drawing and said, "Done."

Harry looked at her, smiled and went over to the mirror. He looked from the drawing to Ginny in shock.

"You're good." He said, studying the picture.

A black, grim-like dog with piercing blue eyes, watching a beautiful silver wolf howling at the full moon with love apparent in his expression, a stag with mischievous light brown eyes watched and a white lily decorated the scene wonderfully. It almost looked real.

Harry tilted his head in thought and turned to a blushing Ginny.

"Can you make this permanent?" He asked.

Ginny shrugged, "I can make it water-proof so it won't some out in the shower, but it'll fade eventually."

She took out her wand and muttered something Harry couldn't hear pointing at the drawing. He felt a kind of seal over his lower back and smiled at her. He took his position on the floor again and almost yelped as cold water ran over his back.

"Had to check if it worked," She snickered and grabbed his shirt off the floor. "Looks pretty good," She added, dabbing at the drawing.

"What looks good?" Sirius asked, coming into the room, "We kind of need your help upstairs. My dear old mum put some kind of curse in my old room and the clothes in my old wardrobe are trying to kill me." He blinked afterwards as if stuff like this happened to him everyday…which when you thought about it, it did in this house.

He noticed Ginny dabbing at Harry's back and thinking he had hurt himself, crouched down and took the shirt from Ginny's hand.

He stared at his godson's back for a moment before gently tracing the stag and the lily.

"Did you draw this?" He asked Ginny curiously. When she nodded he said, "How did you know what James's animagus looked like?"

Ginny shrugged, "Common sense. Animagi keep their eye and hair color. It's one of the reasons it is impossible to duplicate an animagus form."

Sirius smiled slightly and nodded as Harry turned to look at him, "I like it." He said in barely a whisper.

Ginny stood and pointed, "I'm going to go help Remus." She said and left the room

Harry sat up and turned to Sirius,

"All right?" he questioned.

Sirius looked up into his god-son's eyes, sighed and said, "I miss them."

Harry nodded slightly and shrugged, "I never knew them enough to miss them… that sounds horrid."

Sirius wrapped his arms around Harry and said, "I wish you could have known them. I wish it all went differently."

"Yes, but." Harry said, pulling away, "I have you and Moony right? That is more than enough for me."

Sirius smiled, his eyes becoming suspiciously bright. He stood, and pulled Harry up, guiding him out the door and up the stairs. When they were almost to the room, Sirius put his hands on Harry's hips from behind and admired the drawing.

"Looks very cool." He stated, "If you want to, we could go get it permanent in Diagon Ally once I'm free. I wanted to get another tattoo anyway. We could go get it together."
He smiled widely, "I'd like that. What other tattoos do you have?"
Sirius was about to answer, when they walked into the room and the cloak that Ginny was holding came flying at them. Out of reflex, they both ducked and Remus banished the cursed piece of clothing with a flick of his wand.

"It was all going well until you walked in." Remus said, exasperated.

"So glad you missed me." Sirius responded sarcastically.

"Uh… not to be… obvious, or anything. But why now just cast a finite incantatem over the room?" Harry asked.

The other three blinked at him for a moment before Sirius said, "Smart arse."

They all exited the room so Remus could cast the spell, but before he could do anything Harry gasped and fell to his knees, clutching his head and writhing in pain.

A/N: Heh. I know I have absolutely no right to end this with a semi-cliffy. . I shouldn't be begging on my knees for forgiveness. But I stayed in Brazil 1 week longer than planned, then I came back and was failing 5 of my subjects horribly, then the end of term happened and all of these term projects were due. xx end of term is actually next week but grades are due then too, so teachers made us turn them in a week early. Anyhoo. I really hoped you enjoyed this; I worked really hard on it. I just have a tiny, teeny problem. Writer's block. If you have anything you want to happen, or would like to see, let me know, please. I really want this story to succeed but you might not get an update for a few more months after the next chapter if I still have writer's block. I love you all!

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