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Chapter 6 – The Return To The Burrow

The four figures appeared at front gate to burrow when Harry turned to Ginny 'are you sure you want to do this Gin? It could get ugly?' nodding she replied 'I love you Harry, I'm with you to the end…they deserve it anyway. What did you think of Fred and George?' Harry shrugged 'I'm not sure Gin, we'll have a chat to them see what they think of everything,' he turned suddenly at the sound of gravel crunching behind them, Harry flicked his wrist producing his wand 'talking about us Harry?' one of the twins spoke up 'You know Fred I think he was,' the other one added smirking 'Oh and look he has little Gin Gin with him,' he said grinning at Ginny 'just so you know, where with you to,' 'don't take it personal Harry-kins but we don't love you,' 'but we are with you,' 'we done a little digging last night and found out about the stolen money and left,' 'I'm sorry Harry we never knew,' 'You've done nothing but good for us and we won't betray that,' they both finished together nodding to Harry.

Harry grinned he was glad the twins were on his side and still his friends 'thanks guys, it's good to know your both still with me…where going to retrieve the money now,' one of the twins nodded 'It's in the family safe, we tried to take it but couldn't get to it,' 'so let's go already, oh by the way…Hello Remus and Sirius,' the twin finished smirking at the two cloaked figures standing behind Harry and Ginny, Sirius spoke up from under his hood 'How on earth did you know it was us? Especially when I'm supposed to be very dead at the moment?' both of the twins grinned evilly at this 'we knew back at Privet drive, good work with the fire this morning too,' 'Come on Sirius, you and Remus are two people Harry trusts above all others…Of course it was you,' 'yeah now come on, we have things to do, I think a change of clothes is a good idea Fred,' 'I agree George, we shouldn't look different after all,' they finished both flicking there wands and transfiguring there clothes into cloaks like Sirius and Remus hiding there faces.

The six of them turned back towards the Burrow and were about to start walking up the drive when they heard a soft pop behind them, they all turned to find a detachment of goblin warriors appear behind them lead by Griphook who inclined his head to Harry 'Lord Potter, we come to serve the Weasley family with the information regarding there account, we thought it would be beneficial to conduct our business just before you do yours in case there are…complications,' Harry nodded in thanks allowing the goblins to move ahead and lead them to the front door, Harry and Ginny stepped up to the door standing to either side of Griphook with the goblin warriors and the other four humans stood slightly off to the side out of sight of anyone opening the door.

Harry and Ginny stood quietly while Griphook rapped smartly on the door, with in moments Mr Weasley opened the door with his family stood just behind him, he looked shocked to see Harry and Ginny before he looked down and noticed the goblin stood between the two of them 'What is this about? What are you doing here?' the older man asked before Griphook let out a snort and spoke firmly 'Mr Weasley I am here as a curtesy from Gringotts International Wizarding Bank, Your account with our bank have been terminated,' he dropped a heavy sack that sounded like gold before the man before continuing 'Here is the contents of your family vault, minus a 20 termination fee,' he finished before nodding politely to Harry and Ginny and stepping back from the gaping Mr Weasley and his outraged looking family when Ron stepped forward and spoke to Harry 'Why are you here with the goblins Harry, Have you come to help us?' Sirius, Remus and the twins looked at each other laughing quietly before Harry burst out laughing and said 'you have got to be kidding? What in merlins name would make me help you people?' he finished raising a brow at them.

Harry looked over the Weasleys who were all staring at him with there mouths gaping 'you hurt my family, you hurt my girlfriend, you used and betrayed me…Why the HELL would I help you?' Ginny stepped to his side taking his hand gently in hers and squeezing it a softly she whispered 'this is getting us nowhere love, there idiots…they don't get it,' Harry smirked 'They will in a minute,' before turning back to Mr Weasley and stating firmly 'Mr Weasley, I Lord Potter demand you return the money stolen from my family,' Mr Weasley sputtered before his wife stepped forward 'that money was payment for us having to look after you, you little brat!' Harry smirked at the woman 'Mrs Weasley you had no right to take that money without my permission if you didn't want me here you should have said so instead of lying to me,' Mrs Weasley swung her hand back intending to slap Harry when she found a wand jammed firmly into her throat she looked over at Ginny 'how dare you attack me Ginevra,' Ron and Ginny who had been watching this stepped forward quickly and both yelled 'Expelliarmus' hitting both Ginny and Harry sending them flying back from the door.

Harry and Ginny managed to just land upright 5 metres from where they were standing, Ginny held out her hand that had her family ring on it and muttered 'Wand,' watching as her wand shot into her hand, Harry stepped forward 'how dare you attack me,' he stated as the Weasley who had finally left the house stood before them with Hermione stood beside Ron 'leave here Potter…your not getting a thing,' Charlie said as he stepped up to his fathers side, Bill coming and standing on the other side of his father raising his wand to point at the two. Sirius and Remus looked at each other and nodded before they walked up and stood beside Harry and Ginny, watching as the twins joined them Sirius leaned forward and whispered in Harry's ear 'there is enough of us to take them if this comes to a fight, but I think its time the Black family got involved too,' he finished watching Harry smirk 'You know I quite agree Padfoot,' Sirius stepped forward still cloaked and spoke menacingly to the Weasleys 'Arthur, as the head of the Ancient and most Noble house of Black, I demand you return the money you stole from my charge,' he finished flipping his hood back revealing his long black hair and crystal blue eyes glaring at the other man who looked shocked and was now spluttering again when Hermione spoke 'How is this possible? You died at the ministry,' Sirius laughed 'looks like you don't know everything eh Hermione,' he finished smirking at Harry who grinned back. Ron said 'how dare you talk to her like that, it was probably dark magic,' he finished glaring at Harry and Sirius.

'Grow up Ronald,' Harry hissed before he turned back to Mr Weasley 'this is your last chance, return my parents money NOW!' he stated nearly shouting the last word watching Mr Weasley who was still looking defiant 'No Potter, as my wife said it was payment for having to keep you here,' Harry raised a brow, a little hurt by how cold they were before he clamped down on his emotions and snarled 'as the head of the Ancient and most Noble House Potter I challenge you Arthur Weasley to a formal duel,' he stated still surprised by the amount of information the two rings had given him. Arthur Weasley looked at the young man before him finally noticing that he was about his height now, his jaw dropped open when he realised he had just been challenged by the person who had defeated he who must not be named, he looked into the emerald green eyes a little shocked by how cold they looked. Harry turned to Griphook before saying 'Griphook would you please be oversee the duel,' Griphook nodded without a word and stepped forward.

Harry turned around to face Ginny who was still stood quietly at his side 'Gin, are you ok?' she nodded 'Yeah I'm alright, just shocked by how cold and stupid they really are,' Harry nodded hugging her gently 'I'm sorry its come to this Gin,' he looked up at Sirius 'Will you be my second Sirius?' before Sirius had a chance to reply Ginny grabbed Harry's arm 'No Harry, I want to be your second,' Harry raised a brow looking at Sirius who nodded discreetly he turned back to Ginny 'You sure Gin?' she nodded not saying a word 'Ok then,' Harry turned back to Mr Weasley 'Let's do this then? The goblins will oversee the duel,' Mr Weasley nodded stepping forward and drawing his wand, Harry said 'you need a second Weasley,' he said smirking as he watched Ron's face turn red from anger as he stepped forward and said to his father 'Dad let me do it, I know how he fights…I can beat him,' Mr Weasley looked thoughtful for a minute before he nodded his head 'I name Ronald Weasley as my second,' he finished nodding to Harry who said 'I name Ginevra Black as my second,' Griphook cleared everyone back before he turned back to the two and said in a clear voice 'no unforgivable curses, Now begin.'

Both men bowed to each other before Harry went straight on the offensive yelling 'Impedimenta, stupefy, stupefy' at Mr Weasley as the other man yelled 'protego' deflecting all three spells and flicking his wand out casting 'incarcerous' watching as ropes shot from his wand toward Harry, spinning sideways Harry dodged the ropes muttering 'difindo' at the ropes cutting them to pieces. Smirking as he watched the ropes fall to the ground Harry jabbed his wand out yelling 'Reducto' and blasting the ground in front of Mr Weasley causing a large cloud of dust to blow up and cover the older man before Harry yelled 'Stupefy' hitting him straight in the chest, Arthur didn't even have a chance to raise his wand the spell shot through the dust at him and he was taken by darkness and fell unconscious on the ground. Mrs Weasley and her two eldest children ran to Mr Weasleys side to check on him as Ron stepped forward raising his wand to point at Harry, Looking up at the wand pointed at him he smirked at his once best friend Ron and said 'You really want to do this Ronald?' Ron turned a dark shade purple as snarled at Harry 'I'm going to get you for this Potter, your not going to get away with disrespecting my family…I'll prove once and for all that I'm better than you,' he finished pointing his wand at Harry and shouting 'Stupefy.'

Harry smirked at the incoming spell before he neatly sidestepped it and shot 'Serpensortia' at Ron, hissing quietly at the snake "Do not attack him, distract him only" he finished grinning at the scared look on Ron's face before the red headed boy shouted 'Incendio' incinerating the snake before it could reach time, Harry using the distraction caused by the snake quickly closed the distance between himself and Ron, and then taking some of his old friends advice he swapped his wand to his left hand and swung back landing a neat right hook on Ron's nose feeling it break under the impact knocking the other boy to the ground out cold. Harry smirked down at Ron then looked up at the Weasleys 'this is settled then,' he said looking over at Mrs Weasley and Hermione who had just woken a very groggy Arthur Weasley up 'I thought you was a better person than this Mrs Weasley, your no better than the Dursleys, if anything your worse…at least they were honest about hating me,' he said coldly before he looked to Hermione who was looking at him with an odd expression on her face 'You,' he sneered 'I trusted you, I protected you…for that you betray me for the traitors,' he said jabbing a finger in the direction of the Weasleys 'after everything that has happened, your going to throw your lot in with these?' he finished raising a brow.

Hermione looked back and forth between Harry and the Weasleys as she thought back over everything, Harry had always been a true friend to her even when Ron was mean to her Harry would still talk to her and still be her friend, tears started to well up in Hermione's eyes as she realised what she had done by betraying Harry, the only time Harry had ever been mad at her had been in the third year when he got his Firebolt, but it had been Ron who told her to tell McGonagall, thinking back she realised he had probably been jealous and used her to upset Harry. Hermione closed her eyes realising how perfectly she had been used, looking up into Harry's cold green eyes staring at her patiently 'you see it don't you Hermione?' he asked her quietly as she looked at him with tears streaming down her face she nodded mutely 'So tell me Hermione…Was it worth it?' Harry asked when felt soft hand embrace his as Ginny leaned in and whispered in his ear 'Harry, do you think you could trust her to give her another chance?' Harry shrugged and whispered back 'I really don't know Gin, Do you think she can be trusted if I give her another chance?' he said before looking back up at Hermione who had collapsed to the ground crying her eyes out, Harry walked up to her and knelt in front of her with all the Weasleys including Ron who had only just regained consciousness he whispered quietly to her so only her and Ginny who was stood behind him could hear 'Hermione, why did you do it?' looking up at Harry who was now kneeling in front of her Hermione wiped her eyes on her sleeves and decided she was going to tell Harry everything 'I was lonely, I had no friends in our first year when Professor Dumbledore told me that if I helped him with something important he would make sure I found some good friends, I agreed because I was so lonely…I saw everyone in our year making lots of friends but I was always alone,' she said sobbing as she continued 'I was going to tell you everything last summer when you come to Grimwauld Place, but Professor Dumbledore told me that I wouldn't make prefect if I didn't keep on helping him and Ron,' she said taking a deep breath before she continued 'at the beginning of last summer I was kicked out of home, my parents told me they didn't want a freak living with them anymore,' she said sobbing 'the Weasleys invited me to live with them, I have nowhere else to go,' she finished pausing for a moment to look up at Harry 'I'm sorry Harry, I really am…I know I can't make it up to you, but I'm so sorry and you Ginny…I never wanted to hurt you,' she whispered just loud enough for them both to hear.

Harry looked up at Ginny who was standing there quietly watching and listening to Hermione then over at the Weasleys who were stood there watching them talking, he noted that Ron looked like he was about to explode and attack them, Harry smirked at Ron who quickly turned a scary shade of puce, laughing quietly Harry looked back to Hermione who was kneel head down in front of him. Ginny who had been watching quietly looked over her shoulder at Sirius and others before looking straight at Sirius who nodded discreetly to Ginny, she leaned down and whispered in Harry's ear just loud enough for him to ear 'I believe her, but its up to you,' grinning a little Harry reached up and squeezed her hand gently 'are you ok with this Gin?' Ginny smiled 'Course I am Harry,' he nodded turning back to Hermione and whispering 'How attached to the Weasleys and Ron are you?' looking at him with shocked look on her face the brunette girl quickly shook her head and muttered 'I have no one else,' Harry reached out and squeezed her arm gently and said 'Wait here a moment, I need to ask Sirius something,' Harry rose quickly and nodded to Ginny who knelt down and started whispering in Hermione's ear.

Harry walked up to Sirius and the others and spoke quietly 'Padfoot, I read in one of those things at Gringotts that no one can join the Potter family out of marriage, but can I bring someone into the Evans family?' Sirius raised a brow before nodding 'Yes there is a way, the person would take on the role of a member of that family it is also a blood ritual so it would make the person a pureblood too,' he said winking, Harry grinned 'How do I do it?' Sirius raised a brow before saying 'your going to do it right here? Ok then…you need to cut each other's right hands, place a drop of her blood on the Evans ring then grasp hands,' he said pulling a small black dagger from his boot handing it to Harry as he continued 'Then you have to say "Hermione Granger, As the head of the Ancient and most Noble House of Evans I accept you into my family line, with all rights and responsibilities attached to it" all she has to say is "I Accept" and the magic will do the rest, you know you will have a blood bond as brother and sister?' Harry nodded 'Yeah I figured it would end up being something like that, I'll go and see what she thinks,' Harry finished as Sirius nodded to him he walked back over and knelt in front of Hermione, grinned at Ginny who knelt down beside him as he spoke quietly to Hermione 'I have always thought of you as a sister I never had Hermione,' he said taking a breath as Hermione looked up at him with shocked face before she broke down again 'listen Hermione, I'm willing to give you another chance and accept you into my family, I can't make you a Potter…the rules of the family won't allow it, but I can make you an Evans, you would become Hermione Evans,' he said pausing for a moment to let her absorb what he said before he continued 'you would of course have a responsibility to the family and name…but more importantly it would make you a pure blood…the bonding spell magically wipes out the Granger blood line within you, replacing it with the Evans.'

Hermione sat there for a moment looking shocked at Harry before she looked over and saw the royally pissed look on Ron's face she knew he was about to attack Harry or Ginny at any moment, but this was what she wanted…what she had always wanted, a family that would love her looking up at smiling at Harry she nodded and said 'I would love to Harry, but are you sure?' Harry grinned and said quietly 'Yeah I'm sure, I know I can trust you…otherwise I wouldn't give you my mothers name, you need to something though, this is a blood ritual and we are going to do it now,' he finished watching her eyes carefully as he withdrew the dagger inside his leather cloak. Hermione nodded 'you know the Weasleys will try and stop it don't you?' Harry smirked evilly at this and said 'let them try, We both need to cut our right hands, you need to place some blood on my Evans family ring…then I'll say some stuff and all you have to do is say I accept and where done, ok?' Hermione smiled and nodded looking at the dagger carefully as Harry stood up and helped her to her feet, Harry turned to his group and said in a loud clear voice 'Defend us,' as the others moved quickly to surround them all drawing there wands and holding them on the Weasleys who were now trying to restrain Ron.

Harry raised the dagger between him and Hermione and cut a shallow cut on the palm of his right hand allowing the blood to run free he handed the dagger to Hermione who repeated the procedure when she was finished and her hand was bleeding Harry held out his hand and tapped his wand on his finger revealing the Evans family ring hidden there, Hermione quickly dropped a couple of drops of blood on the ring as they grasped right hands as Harry said 'Hermione Granger, As the head of the Ancient and most Noble House of Evans I accept you into my family line, with all rights and responsibilities attached to it,' he finished feeling the magic start to spark between there hands, Hermione said clearly 'I accept,' and sudden bolt of magic shot through her and she felt her magic growing inside her, she looked at Harry shocked as she felt her magic growing more powerful. Once the bolt of magic was gone they both broke apart and looked down at there hands which had healed themselves when Harry nearly fell of his feet when Hermione launched herself on him hugging him tightly as she whispered in his ear 'Thank you Harry, thank you so much…I'm so sorry for all the nasty things I said to you,' Harry finally pushing her back a little spoke firmly to her 'It's ok Hermione, Its behind us now…after all you're my sister now,' he said grinning at the delighted smile on her face as she said quietly 'There is something I need to do Harry…Is it ok if I come with you and Ginny where ever you are going?' Harry nodded 'of course it is, where going to see Neville and Luna tomorrow but for now we are going to check out the Marauders Penthouse in London,' Hermione nodded 'Ok then, I need to end things with Ron, he isn't going to take this very well…you know that right?' Harry shrugged and smirked.

Hermione turned away from Harry and walked back to the Weasley family who all looked completely livid with her when Molly Weasley snarled out 'How dare you, you ungrateful little bitch after everything we did for you,' Hermione simply ignored her as she turned to Ron and spoke quietly 'It's over between us Ronald, Goodbye,' she said simply turning and walking away she headed back towards her new brother and family smiling brightly at them she noticed Harry say something to the two tall figures who still had there faces hidden and they quickly disapparated away with a loud crack. Ginny stepped forward from the group and embraced Hermione warmly and whispered in her ear 'It's all in the past Hermione, your one of us now,' stepping back leaving an arm around the taller girls shoulder she heard Ron scream out 'No you bastard, your not going to take her from me…I'll make you pay, you already have everything…why do you have to take her too?' he screamed hysterically as he broke free of his family and charged towards Harry waving his wand wildly, Harry looked over at Ron and flicked his wrist dropping his wand into his hand in a moment and point it directly at Ron who was still charging towards him screaming out stunning spells sending them flying randomly at Harry who was deflecting them with ease which was only infuriating Ron even further when Harry felt his Evans family ring tingling against his finger as he thought of the spell he would use on Ron, somehow knowing that he would know be able to do it perfectly he waved his wand in an intricate pattern transfiguring Ron into a bright red weasel, he paused for a moment looking at weasel Ron who was now laying on the ground squeaking angrily at Harry who spoke loud enough for everyone to hear, just as the other two figures appeared holding a trunk between them and looking at the weasel curiously 'Well we had Malfoy the amazing bouncing ferret a couple of years ago, now we have Ron the incredible squeaking weasel,' he said as everyone who was there with him burst out laughing hysterically at this as Ron started to squeak even louder.

The Weasleys minus Fred and George who were now rolling around on the ground laughing started yelling abuse at the group and shooting stunning spells randomly at them all, Harry and Sirius finally getting themselves under control stepped forward and quickly cast powerful shields protecting the group and stood there smirking at the Weasleys before Sirius said to Harry 'So where we off to now Mr Bolt?' Harry grinned before saying mischievously 'you know Padfoot my fine fellow I reckon we should go to the penthouse first,' he said looking up at the Weasleys who were starting to cast more powerful blasting spells and some pretty serious looking stunners at there shield getting more and more furious at the two men's complete lack of interest in there attack. The rest of the group finally sobering up walked up to stand beside Harry and Sirius watching the Weasleys when they all saw a tall man dressed in purple robes with big silver stars all over them and long white hair and beard walking up behind the Weasleys and say loudly 'What is the meaning of this? Harry how dare you attack this family,' he said looking over the group his eyes coming to rest on Sirius Black 'I see your notification of your death was a little premature Mr Black,' he said with his eyes twinkling at Sirius who snarled and said 'Yes, not for a lack of trying you old bastard,' Sirius said as he turned back to everyone and said 'Where leaving, lets go,' Dumbledore stepped forward noticing Ron and flicking his wand transforming him back he nodded to Mr Weasley who moved forward to help his son who must have been hit by one of there stunners as he was now unconscious 'Not quite yet Mr Black, you can't come here and attack these kind people and then leave when you want to…your under arrest,' Sirius laughed at Dumbledore who looked over Sirius's shoulder and noticed the armed goblins standing there he paled slightly at the stony glares they were giving him before he turned his attention back on Harry and his friends 'I'm sorry but I do have the right to arrest you for assaulting the Weasley family and attempting to kidnap Miss Granger who believe Miss Black is currently restraining,' Harry hearing this spun on his heal and looked at Ginny who had her arm draped around Hermione shoulders hugging the other girl who was looking defiant he said coldly before anyone else had a chance to say anything 'Dumbledore I believe you are mistaken, there is no Miss Granger in this group, I think you was talking to Miss Evans' he said smirking at the headmaster whose eyes twinkled merrily as he stared at Harry.

Harry turned away from the headmaster and placed a hand on the piece of rope Remus had pulled from his he turned back and grinned at Dumbledore and said 'See you in September,' he finished smirking as he felt the portkey pull him away from the Burrow, the last thing he saw before the portkey activated was the furious look on Dumbledore's face.

AN: Hey Guys…And Girls, Sorry for the shortish chapter. I'm trying to make them at the very least 6000 words or more now that I have the first few done however the next one is going to be fairly long so I thought I would get this much out for now.

Please read and review, tell me what you think…or anything you think could be improved. I do have a direction I'm heading in…Yes Dumbledore will pay (eventually) but hell no there will be no Dumbledore spanking Treck…That just conjures up some very nasty images but don't worry I'll make sure he gets what is coming to him…and then some.

I'm not sure at the moment wether or not I want to do the whole summer section, or just bits and pieces before launching back into the school year.

I know everyone will be a little shocked by Hermione's change, but hey I learnt in high school…everyone needs a smart friend to do there homework for them. (I'm joking…in case any of my smart friends read this.. :P)