A/N: I just realized that I haven't given a shout out to my new beta yet. This story would never have come together so quickly without all of her hard work! She beta'd the entire story in less than a week just so I could begin posting on July 31st. Thank you acciodanrad9! You're the best!
August 6, 1996
Things were still rather rocky between him and Remus. Harry still refused to speak to him for taking away his things and Remus seemed to be at a loss as to how to deal with the angry teenager. Mostly they kept to themselves.
Harry was still taking his meals in his room and suspected that Remus was still keeping an eye on how much he was eating through the house elves. Out of spite, Harry was purposely not eating everything that was brought to him, though to be honest he really couldn't if he tried. It seemed that his stomach had shrunk or something from the lack of food all summer. He did drink the nutritional potions Madam Pomfrey sent with each meal and figured at least that was something.
Harry couldn't say that he was surprised when he saw Pig delivering yet another letter to him after dinner that evening. He took the parchment from the bird's leg and sent him back to the Burrow without a reply.
He walked towards the waste bin, intent on throwing this one away too, but then paused. For whatever reason he just couldn't do it. Harry had begun to feel guilty about throwing away his friend's letters. He turned it over and over in his hands wondering what he should do. He finally decided although that he couldn't bear to read it, he didn't really want to throw it away either. So he stowed it on the bottom of his trunk instead.
Out of sight, out of mind. Right?
A/N: I will be leaving on vacation this evening and I'm not sure how long I will be gone. I don't want to leave you all hanging so I'll be posting the next few chapters today as well. Any chapters I miss, depending on the length of my stay, will be updated accordingly when I come home. I suggest still reading one chapter a day, but I'm sure you will read them all at once. I know I would. Well, enjoy!
