Author: FantasyDreamer23

Disclaimer: Once again. I do not own Harry Potter. sob

Author's Note: I AM SOOOO SORRRYY!! dodges pencils, books, and other big heavy items being thrown at me I have been so busy with school. Junior year in high school sucks!! So enough with this. Here is the looooong awaited update! :D

CHAPTER 7

They arrived back at the cottage and took Hedwig out of her cage and let her fly around. Harry and Remus watched her fly about for a minute or two and then started their way indoors.

"So…tomorrow, how about I show you the lake?"

"Sure! You gonna tell me where the secret room is too?!"

Remus started to laugh out loud. "I am not going to tell you! You've gotta find it yourself!"

"Please Moony," Harry begged.

Remus just looked away. Seeing this Harry said, " Pleeeaassseee Moony." While saying this, Harry whipped out his best puppy dog face. (You know…the one no one can possibly resist)

"Harry…" Remus started as he looked down at him and saw the big, pleading, green eyes. Then he saw the pouty lips with the chin that quivered.

Pout Face

"Harry…I…"

If even possible…MORE Pout Face

'YES! I'm gonna break him,' Harry thought triumphantly after seeing Remus' look of defeat.

Pout Face

Remus couldn't take it any longer. He burst out laughing, clutching his sides as he laughed. "Nice try Harry, but the pouty puppy face has never worked on me. Sorry to burst your bubble, Cub." Remus said with laughter still lingering in his voice and with more than a little confidence.

'I can't believe he just did that,' Harry thought as he realized that is award-winning puppy pout face was denied.

Seeing this, Remus put his arm around Harry's shoulders and said, "Don't worry Cub, you'll figure it out or should I say, find it."

"Ha. Ha. Ha. Very funny," Harry said sarcastically.

The weeks went on and turned into months. During that time Remus taught Harry more about the magical world. Remus told Harry all about Quidditch and how the game was played and what teams were good and which ones were terrible. Although he really didn't want to, Remus taught Harry about the Death Eaters and, most importantly, Voldemort. He really didn't want to…but he knew that the sooner he told him, the better. Harry was scared at first, and what child wouldn't be at that age? But then he realized that Voldemort was just a coward who didn't care about what he did to people and that made Harry realize that he shouldn't be afraid of him.

Harry's favorite part of those 10 months was when Remus would tell him about his time at Hogwarts and, of course, his, Harry's, searching for the secret room in the cottage. Harry had been looking for that room for those 10 months and he couldn't figure our where it was. During dinner one night, Harry asked Remus where it was and he just said, "It's in the house. I swear it is not outside…I hope that narrows it down a bit. Oh and you might be looking too hard." Harry went to bed puzzled that night.

Harry was looking around the house, at the end of May when he saw Remus leave the house and work in the garden our front. He smiled and started looking around the living room. 'I can't believe I still haven't found this stupid room after 10 whole months,' Harry thought to himself. 'Ok…where is the one place I haven't searched? Remus said that maybe I was looking too hard. Alright. I've been through the living room, the dinning room, the bathroom, the kitchen; the basement, front hall and even Remus' room…wait! MY ROOM!'

Harry ran upstairs to his room and threw the door open. He looked under his bed and felt around to see if there was anything there to help him. For two hours, Harry searched his room. Eventually, Harry walked over to the bean bag snitch, trailing his fingers along the wall, when the wall, well part of the wall, vanished.

Harry stared at it in astonishment. 'That is all I had to do? Drag my hand across the wall? Well, I feel pretty stupid,' he thought annoyed. Harry walked in front of the opening. There were stairs that led down to what seemed to go past the basement. He stepped forward and was thrown back onto his bed. There was a slight crack sound when Harry bounced up off the bed and his leg on a bedpost. Harry screamed in pain and clutched at his now broken leg and he wondered, 'what the heck was that?!'

Remus was still outside but he heard Harry scream. He dropped everything and ran to his charge. He shot up the stairs faster than you could say "what?" and found Harry on his bed gripping his leg.

"Harry," Remus gasped. The ten year old was obviously in pain. He briskly walked to the boy and asked what had happened.

"I was looking for that room and I found it. But there was this barrier thingy and it pushed me back. And when I bounced off the bed I hit my leg. It really hurts Remus," Harry said through gritted teeth.

"It's ok Harry. Don't worry. Don't move," Remus got up, "I'll be right back."

'I can't believe that happened! I forgot to take that stupid spell off! How could I be so stupid?!' Remus chastised himself silently, while mentally slapping himself. He ran downstairs to the fireplace and grabbed some floo-powder and tossed it in. He stepped inside and shouted, "Hogwarts: Hospital Wing." Then he was engulfed in green flames.

"Oh my goodness! Whoev…Remus?" a voice exclaimed as he came through the grate.

"Yes Poppy. Look I need help," Remus started.

"Oh my Remus what is wrong? You don't look ill, except for how pale you are," the medi-witch rambled.

"NO, Poppy. I'm not sick or anything, but Harry broke his leg and I'd appreciate it if you would come and help him," Remus exclaimed, very close to strangling the woman.

"Oh! Yes, yes, let me grab some things."

She took off in a flash and grabbed a potion or two and ran back to Remus. He went through the fireplace first and shouted the address "13 Waveway Drive" and de disappeared in the emerald flames. Madame Pomfrey came through not a minute later. Remus immediately showed her through the small cottage and up to Harry's room.

Harry was still sitting on the bed, gripping his broken leg.

"Remus!"

"Hey Harry. OK this shouldn't take long."

Madame Pomfrey walked in and examined his leg while Harry just stared at her. Remus sat behind him and hugged him while the medi-witch tried to figure out the easiest and fastest way to reset the bones.

"Ok, Harry, this part is going to hurt, but that will it, ok. It's the only way I can fix the bones properly," Poppy said with a grim face. She knew that this would hurt the boy terribly.

"O-Ok…" Harry stuttered. He wasn't really afraid of pain, but hey, he was just a 10 year old.

"On three…alright," Poppy said. Harry's only response was a nod.

"One…"

Harry braced himself.

"Two…"

Remus hugged Harry tightly and whispered, "It'll be alright, Cub."

"Three." Poppy pulled Harry's broken leg towards her to straighten the bones. Harry tried to grit his teeth and bare it…but he screamed our in pain and Remus held him even tighter.

The Hogwarts medi-witch quickly grabbed the Pain Reducing potion and handed it to Harry. He quickly drank it and the pain faded away. As the pain faded into numbness, Madame Pomfrey quickly said the healing spell and the bone was mended. She gave Harry a Sleeping Draught and a Dreamless Sleep potion. And before Harry fell into dreamland, he heard her telling Remus that he shouldn't be walking for two days.


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