Disclaimer: This is MY version! This is my version of year 7. I Do not own or profit from anything you see here. I wrote this months ago with a few revisions lately, but it is my version. I will write another version that follows JK's final book, but this is not it! Anything that is similar to book 7 is completely coincidental! Credit belongs to me: ) Plot and OC's belong to me.

Author's Notes: Something I find interesting is how both JK and I have a large, pointy death stick, and neither of us are afraid of using it : )

Chapter 10: Life's Jumbo Surprises

A week before school started they met Ginny in front of the twin's joke shop. Ginny rushed up to Harry and jumped into his arms when she saw him. When Harry saw Mrs. Weasley, all of her emotions were evident on her face. Anger, fear, relief, happiness, and something he couldn't quite name.

"That would be hostile annoyance," Emma whispered.

Molly started in on berating Ron for just leaving. "ONLY A NOTE! RONALD WEASLEY I RAISED YOU BETTER THAN THAT. YOU HAVE BEEN GIVING US NOTHING BUT CONSTANT WORRYING! Harry, dear, I'm glad that you are well. BETWEEN YOU AND PERCY, WHY, I DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM GOING TO DO WITH MYSELF! Harry, dear, honestly, not saying anything! We were just as worried about you too! And Hermione, after all this time, I had thought you would have had more sense! WE HAVE BEEN SO WORRIED!" and Molly continued for a few minutes. Emma couldn't help but notice that she wasn't included which actually hurt since she was suppose to be part of the group. Harry noticed what Emma was feeling and squeezed her hand. Molly finally finished when the twins jumped into the conversation.

"I suppose you want to know how Percy's doing, huh?" Fred asked stepping in.

This seemed to bring Molly back to reality, and she jumped in telling them the latest on her long lost son. They all went shopping together. Emma bought a ton of extra potion ingredients for their extra potions they would be making and practicing for the horcruxes. Harry felt bad for her spending all this extra money, even though he knew she had a vault at least the same size as his. Emma just smiled at him and said "Don't worry Harry. Yes, Potter children are well taken care of. This money, however, isn't mine. It's Draco's. I have access to his vault, and he wants to contribute."

Harry was shocked. One, that Emma had access to the Malfoy vault (he figured there must be more to 'the bond' than he knew) and that Malfoy actually wanted to help him. "Thanks, Harry, for giving him a chance. It means a lot to me," Emma said.

Harry was use to Emma's comments fitting a person's mood and thought pattern. "Well, it's like a package deal. I want to be your friend, you're family, and I think of you like a sister. I just get him along with it," he joked.

"He feels the same way," Emma laughed.

Everyone ate lunch together before leaving. The twins had decided to treat everyone to lunch since they were experiencing a boom in sales lately– even more so than normal. Molly was irated that they were not coming back to the Burrow before school, but the four decided to stay the last week together since they didn't want any chance of Molly or anyone else finding out what they were doing. Ginny was sad she couldn't come, even for the week but Molly would not listen to her leaving. Harry promised to bring her to the hotel later. They apparated out before Molly could coerce (or hog tie them) back to the burrow.

Harry apparated to the Burrow later that afternoon and apparated back with Ginny. "Decided to get your license, then?" she asked.

"Yeah, I decided to get it after you guys left Diagon Alley. I figured there was really no need to keep apparating illegally. They can't trace you either way," Harry explained

"So the great Harry Potter wants to do everything legal, huh?" Ginny teased. "Why did you guys decide to go back to school? I thought your plans were to skip?"

"There might be something we need at school," Hermione said.

"I'm assuming your not going back, though, right?" she asked Draco.

Draco smirked. "No, I thought I would make it easier to let the Death eaters find me."

Surprisingly, everyone, including Ginny, was used to his sarcasm and laughed. Ginny caught everyone up on what the latest with Percy was. It seemed Draco was right, and that the argument Percy had with their father was Percy's idea of distancing himself from his family. He knew people inside the ministry were corrupt (cough, Umbridge, cough) and he was afraid that someone would use him to get to his family. He didn't expect this to happen, though. "It was so sad. He said that he tried to fight of the curse, he had a few times, like he when he wrote Ron a letter or something, but after awhile gave up, it was too much for him. He doesn't blame you Ron," Ginny said, seeing as how this made Ron even more upset. "In fact, he thanks you for getting him to St. Mungos. He thanks Emma, too, for getting there. He said that you somehow threw the curse off him. Everyone thinks he was delusional about that, though, don't worry. But everyone does think all of you saved him. He spends most of the time sleeping or unconscious, though."

"You'll be able to spend plenty of time with him when we go back to Hogwarts. Don't worry," Hermione told Ron. They were sitting together on one of the love seats.

They spent the night talking like they had on Privet drive. Then, early in the morning Ginny went back to the Burrow. Harry decided not to sleep-in in the morning so Emma could get some much needed rest. He figured he could go one night with out sleep after all the nights Emma got only a few hours.

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The next night Ginny apparated into the Hotel in the middle of the night, scaring Emma who was awake and talking with Draco while the others slept. "Harry!" Emma screamed. Harry, Ron, and Hermione all rushed in.

"Ginny? How on earth did you get here?" Ron asked at the same time Harry asked "Are you alright? What's wrong?"

"It's the Dursleys!" Ginny said which caused everyone to be surprised. "Death eaters attacked their house, looking for you probably, and now there is an uproar. The order and some aurors have been there– they didn't capture anyone though, but they did have to obliviate some memories."

"Are they okay? What happened to them?" Harry asked, surprising everyone, except maybe Emma, that he even cared to ask.

"Your aunt and cousin somehow got a portkey to Hogwarts and arrived their safely, frantic and driven half mad with worry, but unharmed. I don't know about your uncle."

"How did they get a portkey?" Hermione asked.

"What is mum doing now? She's got to be half mad worried about you." Ron said.

"She is busy helping the order. I said I would tell you. I've been practicing apparating, following Emma's instructions, and thankfully it worked. I figured you didn't want to read the headline saying 'Potter's Family attacked by death eaters' tomorrow," Ginny explained.

Harry, Hermione, and Ron decided to Apparated back to the burrow with Ginny to see what was happening. Emma and Draco stayed behind to pack everything. Within an hour they had everything in everyone's trunks.

"Quick thinking on giving them a portkey," Draco said as he held Emma before she left.

"I will be so happy when all this is over– all the emotional turmoil, mass emotions, . . ." she said as she leaned against Draco's chest.

"I know. If you want me there, all you have to do is say so. I don't care what the Weasley's think," Draco reassured her.

"I know," Emma said.

They stood there for a few minutes before Emma shrunk all the luggage and put it in her pocket (where she kept her car) and apparated to the burrow. She found Fleur sitting at the table. "Emma! Mon amie! C'est 'orrible!" Fleur said.

"Where is everyone?" Emma asked.

"Molly, Arthur, Ginny, Ron, 'ermione, and 'arry are at 'ogwarts. They flooed there about 'alf an 'our ago. Bill and I decided to wait till you arrived so you would know what was 'appening." Fleur explained.

"Who was hurt?"

"Emma?" She heard a voice behind her.

"Remus!" She said and gave him a big hug.

"We have been so worried about you. You shouldn't have kept us in the dark. If something happened to you we wouldn't have known," he reprimanded.

"You know I wouldn't let anything happen to Harry and that I look after Ron and Hermione too."

"And Percy from what we were told. But who would have looked after you?" Remus said.

"Harry does a good job at looking out for me. And besides we didn't do anything remotely dangerous," she said. A little white lie, but they honestly spent most of the summer in a hotel suite.

"I'm here to take you to Hogwarts. It seems that Petunia is actually asking for you," Remus said with a questioning look in his eye. "Just tell me one thing, was it you who made the portkey for them?"

"Does it matter if I did?"

"Not to me, and not to a lot of people. In fact, I think you saved their lives," Remus said.

"We'll be coming too," Bill said. They all flooed to Hogwarts to the headmistress' office to find a lot of people were there. McGonagall, the minister of Magic, some aurors, her father, and the Weasleys.

"Emma!" Her father cried. He gave her a hug. "Where have you been? You worried me so much– I wasn't sure if. . . when you would be coming back," he said. "You told me you would be going to the Dursley's with Harry, not galavanting around who knows where!" He reprimanded.

"Uh-hem," Scrimgoer said. "I am glad that Miss O'Neill is well, but we need to get this taken care of."

Emma knew she was unwanted and walked to the hospital wing and Fleur and Bill followed her. "Emma," Harry said when they arrived. There in the hospital wing was Petunia and Dudley. She also saw Percy sitting in a bed across from them and Ron and Ginny sitting with him. "Emma?" She heard Petunia ask.

"Hello Petunia," She said walking up to her bed.

"It was awful. It must have been what Lily felt like . . .how could I have been so mad at her all these years after she went through that. And they won't tell me what happened to Vernon, and I am so worried about him and Dudley, and . . ." Petunia rushed.

"Petunia, everything's fine. You and Dudley are safe. I know what happened. and yes, you do know what Lily felt like and went through, but I also know that you have nothing to be ashamed of. You were just as courageous as she was in the end. She will forgive you for your feelings because now you understand her. I will find out about Vernon. Now take this, I know you are not use to our healing, but it will make you sleep peacefully," Emma said handing her a vial.

Petunia downed it in one gulp. "I will look after Dudley," Emma reassured her.

Harry watched all this in silence. "Do not feel anger at her, Harry," Emma said.

"Why not?" Harry asked. "She got to live when my own parents didn't. She isn't even a part of our world."

"No, she isn't, and she was still attacked."

"Because of me," Harry said, sadly.

"Yes, I can't lie about that, nor can I lie about the fact that there will be many more innocents attacked. But she is confused, and frightened out of her wits. She never accepted our world and here it is attacking her and her family; first her parents, then her sister, and now her own family," Emma said. Harry could understand that. Everyone in his life was being attacked too. He never thought he would have something in common with his aunt.

Dudley was lying there on his bed. Emma turned to him. "You will be fine, Dudley. That I can promise you." Images swirled in her mind as Dudley continuously dwelled on the event. Dudley rushing down the stairs when he heard his mother scream, somehow he managed to send the man pointing a wand at her across the room and out the window without physically hitting him . . .

"It is not me I am worried about," he whispered. Emma could sense he was angry and frightened.

"So will your mother. I don't know about your father yet."

"I don't think he made it," which shocked Harry. So far no one had told him anything about what happened.

"Take this to go to sleep. I promise you will have a dreamless sleep," Emma said and gave him the same potion as Petunia. He downed it and was looking forward to the images and confusion being out of his head.

After a pause, Harry said, "They wouldn't say a word before you got here. I heard it took them forever to get Petunia to calm down enough to let go of Dudley, and then to lie down. They wouldn't say anything that happened. Then they asked for you. I'm the one related to them, I am right here even after how they treated me and here they are asking for you!" Harry yelled, which caused Hermione, Ginny, and Ron to turn to look at him. Fleur and Bill didn't know what was going on. They knew that everyone was confused and that no one knew what happened.

"Harry, look, I didn't ask to become the ambassador of the magical world to the Dursleys. All I did was try to get them to accept you and our world. And look! They have in a sense! They are in shock, yes, but they know they are at our school and aren't fighting it."

"They still want you. You have become a member of their family in a way I will never be. You always find a way to weasel your way into everybody's life and family," Harry accused.

"That's not fair, Harry." Emma said.

'Emma, calm down, he doesn't mean it. Remember when we were fifteen? He has anger issues. I can remember you said you liked the fact that he could express emotions clearly.' Draco said.

'Remember when we were fifteen and I wanted to strangle him because of his emotions?' Emma said.

'Refrain from doing that now, though,' Draco advised.

"Harry, you didn't want to be part of their family though, remember? You have always despised the Dursely's so why do you even care if they have befriended me? Everything I have done was to make them accept you! It's my empathy they are attracted to right now, not me!" Emma yelled. "Do you know how much I hate people wanting to be around me simply because I'm an empath? They don't want me, they want my empathy."

Before he could yell something even more hurtful, Fleur stepped in. She respected Harry, but she didn't like how he was treating Emma at the moment. "Why don't we figure out what 'appened to them, non? Then we can find out what 'appened to 'arry's uncle?" Fleur suggested.

"I know what happened." Emma said which surprised Fleur because she didn't know when Emma would have found out.

"They went to bed that night, a little later than normal. Petunia heard the door open, which made her think a burglar was in. She woke up Vernon who was going to go down to look. She had a funny feeling and grabbed the portkey I had made her. Dudley had woken up for some reason and followed after his mom in the hall. They went downstairs a few seconds after Vernon, but they heard him yelling at people. There was laughter and Petunia ran down to see what was happening. There were 4 hooded figures in the living room. Petunia yelled for Vernon to come to where she was at because she knew that I had said for them all 3 to be touching it together. Vernon yelled for Petunia to take Dudley. Vernon yelled at the hooded figures when something hit him and he fell to the floor. Dudley saw one of the Death Eaters had a wand pointed at Petunia, and he sent the man flying through the living room window. Petunia had Dudley grab the portkey and when they left they saw that some other figures, aurors, had arrived, but she doesn't know beyond that what happened."

"How did aurors arrive so quickly?" Hermione wondered.

"Mrs. Figg. She had heard the commotion and when she saw the death eaters she called my father. He then called in some aurors and some of the order. I don't know what happened to Vernon, though. I know it wasn't avada kedavra, but it was a nasty curse of some sort, and he could have been hit by something else later," Emma said. Everyone was surprised by Dudley's burst of magic but didn't know how to explain it.

Harry just sat numbly down on the chair by Petunia's bed. He didn't talk to Emma or look in her direction the rest of the night. Ginny moved over and sat in the chair next to Harry to try to comfort him.

The next morning Percy woke and was happy to see all of them. "I wanted a chance to thank all of you for saving me," Percy said.

"I'm sorry I didn't come sooner. I knew something was wrong, I should have come sooner," Emma said sadly.

"I am just glad that you came at all. I did such a thorough job at making my family mad at me that I didn't think anyone would ever come. Penelope knew something was wrong, but thought I was just obsessed over work. I guess I have a nasty reputation for being all wrapped up in work, huh?"

"You can say that again," Ron said.

"I don't suppose you are going to tell me how you threw off the curse, though. Nobody would believe me anyways," Percy said with a smile.

"Sorry, confidential information," Emma teased. She left him when she heard Petunia waking up, and knew Ron and Ginny wanted time with their brother.

"Morning Petunia," Emma said as cheerfully as she could.

"Morning Aunt Petunia," Harry said from the other side of her bed.

"I take it that it wasn't all just a bad dream," Petunia said sadly.

"I'm afraid not," Emma said.

"Madame Pomfrey, the nurse, says that you will be well enough to leave your bed tomorrow, if you wish. After that, we can find you some place to stay if you like," Harry said.

"What happened to Vernon? Why isn't he here?" Petunia asked.

"He was taken to our hospital. He was hit by a powerful spell and required more attention that you did. The portkey, the spoon I gave you, was made to take you to our school because it is the safest place in our world. Dudley activated it when he touched it," Emma said.

"But how is Vernon?" Petunia asked worriedly.

Harry looked at Emma to see who should tell her.

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Author's Notes: Yay, the dursley's are back: ) This is officially the most reviews I have ever gotten for an Emma chapter! 18 reviews!! Thank you so much!

Prof. Epona I haven't been there yet, but my sister has and says it's beautiful. Thanks! readerwriterwhatever Norcal or Socal? I am from SoCal : ) Iceball thank you! I like Percy to much to make him evil (and page 605 was hilarious in my opinion in Deathly Hallows if you have read it yet). Year1989 Canada? Cool! Never been, but I love knowing I have international readers. BornBlue ah, thanks! No guarantees, I just hope everyone likes the ending. : ) The AmazingEscapadesofEggbert hello! Thank you! I hope you like this one too. edward Cullen's girl me too! Southern California. Childofthekng I haven't been there before. I have a picture to PM you since you read the final book. Hopefully it will make you laugh! Devil-Angel Really? South East Asia? That is awesome! And I am glad Draco is likeable : ) (I think he is!) AnimeCrazy Molly is so much fun to write when she is yelling at Ron! I couldn't pass up on the opportunity. MysweetTimeJommie Belgium! Awesome! Glad you liked it! KRP you are back! I was afraid I lost you :( but you found me! Yay! I wasn't sure how he worked it out either, and I was/am surprised at some of the commonalities between mine and JK's work. But I think something in the end is drastically different, and definitely more shocking. twilightloverkaren Thanks! ; ) midnightrain (I love your SN) Thank you! Your review was so awesome! If only JK would have let me collaborate with her :: pouts:: I definitly have a few things I wouldn't mind altering at the end! Thank you! DaffodilSweetie yet (on the bloodshed) : ) Thanks! I understand about the computer stuff; i was gone for awhile, and I am getting ready to move so I won't have any computer access for about a week or so ::shudders:: snufflessweetie thanks! I love writing Ron. I think he has some of my fave lines in this year. Erica I had just realized you also read my covenant story : ) I drive through Arizona all the time. As for the Chamber, I thought with the Basilisk it made good sense (JK didn't think so, oh well). Princess Kaira If Emma doesn't want the chocolate, I would! I'm glad you liked it! And Emma will be getting even more stressed out soon.