As Albus Dumbledore sat puzzling, the Junior Marauders were back in the common room. This time, some stood. They had questions. Amelia was one of them, so as an adult, she went first. "You don't mention me much in the dream." she pointed out. "What happened to me?"
Harry looked down. "You fought very bravely Amy. You helped me when I was in trouble at the ministry so thank you." he said slowly still looking down.
Amy smiled. "Tell me out went out with a bang, Harry."
Harry smiled lightly at her and looked up, telling someone how they died wasn't necessarily a happy occasion. "No one is quite sure when you died. It was between the 28 of June and the fifth of July. Voldemort himself killed you."
Harry looked to Sirius who gulped. In Sirius' head flashed what happened in his dream, she opened the door and then she was dead. He vowed nothing like that was ever going to happen to her, not if he could help.
Harry looked to the next person, Neville. "My aunt, she always grips about how I'm not brave and courageous like my father. Did I ever do anything important?" he asked. Harry and Ginny both chuckled dryly, "Yes, in first year you were the reason Gryffindor won the house cup by 5 points, your 5 points." Harry said, "Because Ron, Hermione and I were going to do something stupid and dangerous and you stood up to us, trying to get us to stop. You said you'd fight us to stop us." Harry chuckled, "Out of all the people to want to come with me to go to the Department of Mysteries to attempt a fake rescue you came, you had joined the D.A. club that year, fifth year, and you fought, you were one of the last standing actually. You fought the Battle of the Astronomy Tower because you were one of the only D.A. members to answer the call. Then when Ron and Hermione and myself went on the hunt for horcruxes you and Luna and Ginny restarted the D.A. and attempted to steal the sword of Gryffindor from the headmasters office. Then at the battle you ran out when everyone thought I was dead, you were going to fight, and then you told Voldemort you'd join him when hell freezes over when he tried to get you to join him. He then made you stand still, and he stuck the sorting hat on you and then caught it on fire. You broke the body bind and pulled the sword of Gryffindor from the hat when the battle abruptly started again. You then took the sword and killed Nagini, the last Horcrux." Harry said almost in a proud manor.
Neville grinned a face-splitting smile. He looked to the next person, George. "Tell me we did something productive before Fred- before it happened." he choked. Harry nodded, "I became, by default as the other winner died, the Triwizard champion. Meaning I won 1000 galleons. I gave it all to the both of you and you two used it later to buy a joke shop. You named it Weasley's Wizard Wheezes, and since it was after the minister finally realized that Voldemort was back, everyone was on edge with low spirits. Your store was a quick success, day after day of being packed to the brim with people looking for ways to make them laugh and be happy. You even made a line of products for Aurors and people who needed protected. Like shield hats, that warded off and minor hex or jinx as long as they had it on. It was brilliant really. You were probably the most successful people that never acquired their N.E. ." George and Fred highfived, finally something to look forward to.
"Harry," said Lily. "Can you tell us all of the people or things you know of who died?" she asked hesitantly. He sucked in a breath and shut his eyes. He nodded slowly, trying to organize the list. "Well, there is at least 2 unicorns in first year, you and dad of course, Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel, Quirrell, the basilisk, binky the rabbit, don't ask, the flobberworms in third year, Mary, Thomas, and Tom riddle sr., Mrs. Crouch, Wilkes and Rosier, Bertha Jorkins, Frank Bryce, Barty Crouch Sr., Cedric, Marlene McKinnon and her family, Amelia's family minus Susan, the Prewett twins, Benjy Fenwick, Dorcas Meadows, Deans father, Karkus the giant, Broderick Bode, Pandora Lovegood, Sirius, Marvolo, Merope, and Morfin Gaunt, a muggle tramp, Hepzibah Smith, an Albanian peasant, Amelia, Emmeline Vance, Florean Fortescue, Igor Karkaroff, Mrs. Abbott, a boy named Montgomery, the king arachnid Aragog, Gibbon, Albus Dumbledore, all the people that have to do with the Peverell brothers, the rest of the Dumbledores minus Aberforth, Regulus Black, Bilius Weasley, Octavius Pepper, Charity Burbage, Hedwig my owl, Alastor Moody, Rufus Scrimgeour, a german woman and her two children, Gregorovitch, Bathilda Bagshot, Gellert Grindelwald, Ted Tonks, Dirk Cresswell, Gornuk, Peter Pettigrew, Dobby, Bogrod, another goblin, a bunch of death eaters, Scabior, Vincent Crabbe, Fred, Remus, Dora, Lavender Brown, one of the female teachers here, not one I had, Colin Creevey, Snape, Nagini, Bellatrix Lestrange, death eaters, fallen 50 of the battle of Hogwarts, and Voldemort." he finished definitely out of breath. He took another breath, "And I know how 3 of the 4 official Hogwarts ghosts died, and Cuthbert Binns, Moaning Myrtle, and Armando Dippet."
Everyone stared at him, that was a really long list. "Wait a minute." said Lily, "Did you say Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape?" she asked.
Harry nodded. "H-How did they die?"
"Well Severus was killed by Nagini on Voldemort's orders and Dumbledore was hit with a killing curse." he said.
"Well who killed him?" asked James. Harry looked down and suddenly his fingers became the most interesting thing in the room. He glanced to Ginny who was doing the same.
"Well?" asked Lily. Everyone wanted to hear it, but were almost afraid to hear it. It was so bad that they wouldn't say? Harry took a calming breath and turned to Ginny. Should we?
Its up to you. I'm just afraid of how they will react.
Me too.
I mean they practically hero worship him as much as you did. Now...
Harry frowned, yeah that again. I know. he said.
"So you all want to know?" he asked.
Everyone nodded, "I'll warn you, you will think different of him." he said looking around. His eyes fell on Draco a bit longer than the rest, he was there and was in charge of doing it, but he didn't. "Severus Snape." everyone's eyes widened and they all kind of stared at each other. "He killed Dumbledore?" asked James.
Harry nodded, "But there were special circumstances surrounding that." he said. Then he showed everyone what happened and why. Then everyone nodded.
After another few minutes everyone was calm enough to do something useful. Harry and the rest of the Ickle-firsties went up to the Founder's study and got the books for Ancient Runes and Arithmancy. He said to Hermione that she shouldn't take Divination.
"Last time you made fun of the subject. It was horrible really. Trelawney said something mean and you stormed out. It was awful." said Harry.
She smiled. They all went back to studying Ancient Runes and Arithmancy. Half did Ancient Runes and the other half did Arithmancy. After they quickly read and reread the books they shared the information. It was amazing. They were like giant sponges, they absorbed the knowledge. By the time they shared it was 8:45. They dove into more advanced Ancient Runes. They were going to start to put certain ones on things to protect them. It was then 9:15 Harry went down to his and Ginny's room and quickly went to his trunk. He opened the top layer and pulled out a heart locket. He flipped it over and put Harry 💙 Ginny on the back. He made the heart into a rune. The rune that wards off people who wants to be in a relationship or to be with their mate in any way other than a friend. Then he engraved XO on it. He made the X and O runes as well. X for protection from possession, mind control, and provides a strong occlumency shield and O for keeping evil away. Harry smiled and then did the same to another necklace. Then he came out and went over to Ginny. He stuck the necklaces in his pocket.
"Meet me by the tree by the lake at 3:45 today." he whispered in her ear as he came up behind her wrapping his hands around her waist. She shivered and giggled.
"I'm ten, I'm not supposed to be able to feel the effects a boy has on me Mr. Potter. But you are different. I got the chills from your touch." she purred.
"Hmmm, I'm not just any boy. I'm your boy. I'm supposed to do that to you, Mrs. Potter." he murmured.
She turned around and kissed him on the cheek then said "Come on, we have a schedule to keep."
Ginny dragged her somewhat incoherent boyfriend to the door of the common room door. She then teleported them to an empty classroom beside the Charms room.
They watched as the other three couples did the same. Then they all walked out and went into the Charms classroom. They sat in their usual seats in the front row. Professor Flitwick smiled and hobbled over to them.
"What other charms do you know may I ask?" he squeaked.
They all stared at him for a moment. "Professor Flitwick, I am speaking for all when I say you don't have the time to sit here and listen to them all." said Luna dreamily. Everyone nodded.
Flitwick smiled. "Alright, if you don't mind could you quietly work on a list today?" he said.
They all nodded and got out parchment. Hermione said, "My mind is extremely organized. I have it all organized in filing cabinets if that makes any sense. So one has all the charms I know in it. I could charm a quill to write it all down? How does that sound?"
Everyone smiled and said a quick yes. Hermione looked at her quill and it picked itself up and waited. She tapped her head and a large blue string came out. Everyone watched as it got copied and one went back into her head and she pulled the copy to the quill. The quill glowed green then it started to write. Harry smiled.
"Good job Mione! It was a really good idea. We all know the same charms and well that would take forever to write. The quill is faster than us. They sat there talking about everything. Class didn't even start before the quill finished the list that was now on it's fifth piece of parchment. It was a long list. The first two pieces are all the ones from charms classes at Hogwarts for all years, the third piece is from being an Auror and the last two were ones that were invented after this time that actually works. They made the quill write what those on the last two pages did, and how they are useful and how the Marauders tested them. They figured the could give themselves credit but instead gave the credit to Remus and Tonks. They gave the list to a beaming Professor Flitwick. The bell rang just after he finished the fourth page. He told Amelia to start the class while he finished the charms papers. She agreed and went out help those still struggling with the levitation charm.
After another minute Filius stood and went to the Marauders. "The last two pages have charms I have never heard of. Who made them may I ask?"
Before any of them could answer, Ron piped up "Professor Lupin and Professor Tonks."
Filius' smile grew. "I will have to speak with them at lunch then. The rest of the class is yours."
They all cast charms around them so only Amelia could see what they were really doing. They got out their maps and Harry tried using something he added yesterday. He sent out an animation of his talking patronus. It worked and it went to Tonk's dot on the map. He charmed it to sound only to the person he sent it too. It was like muggle headphones. Only she would hear it and not anyone around them. It was a really good idea. He told her what they did. How they gave them the credit for the charms. He said they should put them in a book. It would make money.
He got back a patronus that said he would have to help write it. He sent back one that said he would start it now. He conjured some parchment and made it look like a book. He then charmed his quill to start to print out the charms. It drew some diagrams and after a while they had a 112 book with a charm per page that was new. He sent Tonks another patronus. "It is done. Ready to be published." it said.
He got back a "Thanks Harry we will pick it up during your class." Harry looked back to the common room and saw that Sirius was their on his map. What confused him was that their was a room in the founders Study that he hadn't seen before. According to the map it had 4 ghosts and 4 portraits in their. What confused him was to who these people were. It was so cool. The map showed 4 portraits on the wall. One for each wall, and their ghost in front of them. It was labeled Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin. He gaped at it and sent an animated patronuses to all of them say to meet him in the Founder's study at 5:00. The row all sent back an okay. After a few minutes the rest of the students (Fred and George) and the adults answered with Yeses and Okays.
Class felt like it was an all day class. Just when Harry was about ready to start playing with the Professors chair the bell rang.
Harry and the Marauders were the first out of the room. As soon as they were back in the empty class room they teleported to the empty classroom beside the herbology classroom. They then walked casually out and into the Herbology classroom. Professor Sprout smiled.
"I imagine at least one of you has a garden where you live. Considering your knowledge that is. Now could you please for me today write down all the plants you have knowledge of or have taken care of." she said.
They nodded and Hermione did the same thing she did in Charms. Then the Marauders all worked on organizing their minds like Hermione's. Harry's was already close to organized so he just made it better. Then he started to help Ginny. They all finished rather fast. Then finally they had four pages of things in the Potter's garden. They had loads of plants. Some of the rarer plants in the world. Neville really like to be living there, they had and large awesome garden. It was a lot of fun. The first page is the things they got to take care of in herbology in all the years. The last 3 were from the Potter and Weasley gardens. It was rather spectacular. Even Professor Sprout hadn't personally taken care of that many plants. They gave her the list and she read it all. She came back over. "That is quite an impressive list. Where did you take care of all of those?"
"At Potter Manor, they have a really large garden. Not to mention the Burrow's garden." said Neville. Professor Sprout beamed. "Very good. The rest of the class is yours. I spoke to Dumbledore. He said that if your lists the teachers are asking you to make are impressive enough by the end of the day he said you didn't have to go to them. But you still had to go to classes you haven't been to like Astronomy and Potions." she said as she walked away.
They smiled. Then Amy's patronus came through the door. It informed them of what Professor Sprout just said about missing classes. It explained how Professor Flitwick forgot to tell them. They smiled and Harry sent a quick thank you with his patronus. Sprout watched in awe.
"Who taught you to do that? It is supposed to be very advance magic! At the least N.E.W.T level! Over half of our seventh years can't make a shield let alone a talking corporeal patronus!"
Harry smiled, "Professor Lupin is a better teacher than most would think." he replied.
She stared at him. Then he held up his book that he made. "They made every charm in this book. I told them I was going to get it published for them."
"That is a large book! Did anyone test them?" she asked.
"We did. They all work just fine." said Luna.
Sprout smiled. Then the rest of the students came in. Zacharias and his best friend Wayne Hopkins wasn't their. The bell rang and they came in 5 minutes late.
"10 points from Hufflepuff, each." said Sprout in a very disapproving way, her own house members!
"Really?! If it were them," said Zacharias glaring at the Marauders "You wouldn't have take any points."
"You are right Mr. Smith. But only because they aren't required to be here right now. They are going in advanced classes next week, because unlike you they know what they are doing in their classes." said Sprout a bit hotely.
Zacharias sneered and sat down next to the other Hufflepuff boys.
"Alright anyone answer these correctly they will receive 30 points for their house per question. For each incorrect answer you will lose 10 points. Mr. Smith, since you seem to think you know what you are doing I expect to see your hand raised for every question."
Zach's eyes widened.
"What happens if you hear the scream of a Mandrake?" said Sprout.
All the Marauders hands went up immediately. They were the only hands up.
"Mr. Smith?" said Sprout.
"Uhh… you get a headache?" he asked.
"Incorrect, 10 points from Hufflepuff, Neville?" said Sprout smirking.
"Depending on the age a number of things happen. If they are not adults the cry will only knock you out for a certain amount of time depending on how old they are. If they are adults, Mandrakes the cry is fatal, which is why in your second year classes where we care for Mandrakes, we have to wear earmuffs at all times." said Neville with no hint of shyness in his voice at all.
Sprout beamed at him "Correct! 30 points to Gryffindor!" she turned back to Zach.
"What is the other name for a Mandrake?" she said.
The Marauders all shot their hands up. The only ones to do that. After a minute the rest of the Gryffindors put up their hands having actually read the section for homework.
"Miss Patil?" said Sprout.
"Mandragora." Parvati stated clearly from the back of the room.
"30 points to Gryffindor. What is the purpose for raising Mandrakes?"
The Marauders hands went up again. Some of the Gryffindors did as well.
Wayne laughed and Zach sneered.
"Mr. Hopkins, since you find having extremely intelligent classmates amusing, you answer." said Pomona glaring slightly at them.
"Uhhh… just for the fun of it?" he said slowly.
"10 points from Hufflepuff. Ronald!"
Ron looked up from staring at floor with his hand raised. He realized that was his cue to answer.
"When matured, can be cut up to serve as a prime ingredient for the Mandrake Restorative Draught, which is to cure those who have been petrified." he answered without really thinking about it.
"Good! Those are the exact words I said yesterday when we discussed all of this! 40 points for exact wording! One last question. This is worth 100 house points, more if your answer has enough detail. What two creatures are known for eating Mandrakes?" she asked sweetly.
They Marauders were the only ones that knew.
"Ginny?" said Sprout ginning, this was going to be good.
"The first is the Dugbog. It is a marsh-dwelling magical creature found in Europe and North and South America. It resembles a piece of dead wood while stationary. It has finned paws and sharp teeth, and glides through marshland, feeding on small animals, and occasionally attacking the ankles of humans who venture into its habitat. Its favourite food is the Mandrake, and due to this, Mandrake-growers have found their plants nothing more than a bloody mess when they pull them out of the ground. The other is the Flesh-Eating is a magical creature very similar to its namesake, the common garden slug. The spittle of the Flesh-Eating Slug has a corrosive effect on both skin and plants. They have made a specific repellent for them that is sold in Knockturn Alley." Ginny replied smiling triumphantly.
Sprout was smiling proudly. "150 points to Gryffindor for that well said answer! If I asked my seventh years or even a Ministry official, they couldn't have said it better. I don't think I could have either."
She smiled and finally the bell rang. The Gryffindors walked out and went to the Great Hall. The Marauders went to the passage where they quickly met the rest of the Marauders.
"Wait till you see what we did in Herbology!" said Draco.
"You know how we already had 660 points because of Voldemort, Charms, and someone else earned some?" said Astoria. When everyone who didn't already know nodded she continued. "Well during class Professor Sprout got made at Zacharias Smith and we then had like a pop quiz. This resulted in the Hufflepuffs losing 50 points and we got 250 points!"
The adults all grinned. Harry slipped Tonks the book. She turned to Remus and said lowly in his ear.
"How do you feel about getting a book published?"
"I haven't written a book, so what does it matter?" he said after he shivered from her close contact.
"Who said you haven't? Harry made this for you, he said you should publish it, become famous. these charms will come in handy." she said passing him the book that read.
Charms for Those Who Need Them
By: Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks
He stared at it. "These are all the new charms from his dream aren't they?" she nodded.
Remus stared at dora for a while and said "Alright."
She squealed and rose on her tiptoes and kissed Remus lightly. Remus responded immediately by picking her up and deepening the kiss. She squealed but continued kissing him.
"GET A ROOM!" yelled Sirius earning him a punch in the shoulder from Amy. The snogging couple broke apart. They blushed a Weasley blush and continued to the Great Hall. They were the last ones there again. They kinda planned it but they really didn't know if it would work. People in Hogwarts walked so slow.
They walked in and sat down. Flitwick and Sprout stood up and came over to the Marauder table. They stood right behind Remus and Tonks.
"Remus! Tonks! I heard you wrote a book!" squeaked out Flitwick.
Remus smiled. "Harry and his friends gave me a rather long list of Charms they knew in class today. The last two pages they said were your inventive spells. How wonderful! You should get Professor dumbledore to publish your book! Now I really must get going." he said as he went back to the Head table. Pomona however stayed. SHe said it a bit loud so the noise drifted a lot.
"Congratulations on all those wonderful answered in class today it was worth every one of the 250 points I gave you! I don't think my other classes will be able to do as well as you guys did! Even when I had you two, Fred and George, today earned Gryffindor 50 points!"
They grinned at here "Our pleasure Professor, thank you." said Ron.
"No thank you! You proved you payed attention in class!" then she winked slightly and walked away. She had made sure the whole Gryffindor Table heard who it was that got them up to 960 points.
All the Gryffindors were applauding and shouting in glee. The Slytherins were sneering. They only had 120 points and were in last place now. 140 Hufflepuff and 200 Ravenclaw. Professor Snape stood up and started towards the doors of the Great Hall. All the Slytherins thought he was angry and was storming out as usual, but he wasn't. He went out of the Great Hall then came back in something sparkling behind his back. Then he approached the Marauder's table. He raised the sparkling thing and it shot off Fireworks that read.
"CONGRATULATIONS GRYFFINDORS!" they were read and yellow.
Everyone but the Slytherins laughed. They though Sev was bipolar. Harry stood up and ran to Snape. The Slytherins looked on hoping Harry would hex him or the other way around. But instead Harry ran up to him and hugged him. When he let go. James stood up and pointed his wand at Sev. The Slytherins sat forward, someone was going to get hexed. But instead of hexing him he put a little firework display in front of him that read.
To Sev, I apologize for behaving like I did in school. You were doing what I should have done. You were mature and was being a friend to Lily. I am sorry, deeply sorry. I know why you did what you did and I know how sorry you were. I know why you tried to save us. I am fine with it and I hope we can be on good terms. Thank you for trying to protect us when it mattered most. And above all thank you for trying to keep Harry safe. Sincerely James.
When the fireworks went away everyone saw something they had never seen before. Severus Snape was almost in tears. He let a single drop fall then he dashed to James and hugged him.
"I don't love her like that anymore. She is just my best friend now. I accepted that when she died for you and Harry. SHe is just a friend. But as you can see I do thank you for apologizing. I'm sorry for treating you so poorly as well and would like to take you up on the offer to be on good terms." he said still hugging him. James smiled and released Severus.
Most of the girls in the Great Hall were either fairly close to or already balling. Even Minerva had tears in her eyes.
The one tear Severus had let loose landed on Fred's head. As soon as it touched the ginger hair. The Great Hall doors burst open and in comes Bilius Weasley, and Fabian and Gideon Prewett. Every saw who it was and every Weasley in the room got up and ran to their dead uncles. They hugged them and started to cry.
Harry turned to Severus. "Did you notice the second time you cried Sev, you brought back the dead?"
Severus stared at him "Wow! I'll have to cry more often. My tears landed on you your parents came back, my tear landed on Fred and his uncles come back. Strange." he said.
Dumbledore stood up and strode to the doors.
"Weasleys, Prewetts please stay in the great hall, I will be back there is people that will want to see you." he said as he left. Since 4 of the 5 Weasleys were at one table that is where they went. They all sat there catching up with the missing Uncles. After a minute Dumbledore came through and said everyone who isn't from the Big House leave. The teachers all left except the Marauders. Percy went to leave but Dumbledore said. "If you are a Weasley you should stay." Percy sat back down. After everyone left Dumbledore stepped aside and in ran all the Weasleys. Molly at the lead.
"Fabian! Gideon!" she screamed. She ran to them and hugged them so much their faces turned purple.
"MUM DON'T KILL THE DEAD! IT IS RUDE!" said Fred and George. Molly let go of her brothers who were now gasping for breath.
"good… to… see… you… too." they managed between breaths.
She smiled. Arthur was crying on Billius' shoulder. Finally after awhile they let go of the dead.
"How did this happen Albus?" asked Arthur.
"Why don't you ask Severus." he said.
The Weasleys all looked to him.
"It seems if I cry and my tears land on you, some of the dead in your family will rise." he said looking down.
"Ehh! If you ever cry again stay away from me! I don't want my family back!" said Sirius. They laughed and finally Dumbledore said.
"Well alright, we do have classes, if they would like maybe this bunch could come to the Burrow for the weekend to catch up."
Mrs. Weasley nodded and the Marauders all set off to their next class. The first years went with James. While Fabian, Gideon and Bilius went with Molly and Arthur.
For letting lunch out early it was remarkable considering the Marauders were still the first ones in the room. They sat there talking to James and Ginny. Charmed her quill after James mention McGonagall wanted a list. When the quill wrote that they could turn a towel into a rooster Harry stood and casted a patronus right in the middle of his conversation with his dad. After he said what he realized, Dumbledore came in with the Horcruxes and gave them to Harry.
"Thank you sir. Don't worry about destroying them either we have got it covered." he said.
"Harry, I don't think you should use Fiendfyre, it is too dangerous." said Dumbledore sternly.
"We aren't. I have recently obtain some Basilisk fangs." he whispered.
"How on earth did you do that? those are uncommonly rare."
"Do you remember Tom Riddle opening the Chamber of secrets?"
Dumbledore nodded. "Well the monster that petrified those students and kille Moaning Myrtle was a basilisk. She was still down their. She still is, just not alive. I killed it, last night."
"How did you kill it? How did you get down to Chamber?" Dumbledore asked really intrigued.
"I know how to speak Parseltongue. The entrance is in the girls lavatory, second floor. It is in a sink. If you can say Open in Parseltongue you can easily get in. And thanks to Hermione, Ginny and I knowing something about Basilisks I knew the crow of a rooster would kill one. So in the bathroom I transfigured a towel into a rooster and brought it down with me. Then i took the teeth."
Dumbledore smiled "Very clever. Now I must be going. Harry good luck and please tell me when you to retrieve the next Horcrux." after Harry nodded Dumbledore walked out.
McGonagall walked in and James went back to his desk. By now the quill was done. So when McGonagall came over she opened her mouth. "If you would please could you write-" she was then handed the parchment. She looked at the header of Things we can all transfigure. She smiled and took the parchment "Class is yours."
Harry cast the distraction charms so McGonagall wouldn't see, he didn't think the Ravenclaws would come in early he was wrong. He leaned over to Ginny. He whispered in her ear "Ginny, I love you."
He felt her shiver. He leaned back looked down to his bag and watched as his map floated up to his desk, then came his advanced books on Ancient Ruins. He opened the book and went to his page. Ginny took his distraction as an opportunity to get him back. She leaned in and kissed his neck. He closed his eyes and bit his tongue to hold back a groan. She pulled back "Harry, I love you."
"I knew it!" he said. She giggled.
"I hope you do, I do love you."
"I love you too."
Neither noticed Cho Chang scowling at them in the doorway. She had come with some Ravenclaw first years who were lost. I'm gonna get him. He will be mine. Adventually. I just have to get him alone one time and he will be mine.
Harry didn't hear that. He was too busy watching Ginny. Ginny heard and spun to see Cho still glaring in the doorway. Ginny snarled. Harry raised his eyebrows and turned to see Cho glaring in the doorway. Ginny sent him what she heard. He glared at her and let out a snarl. James saw what was going on. He cast loads of charms over McGonagall's desk so she would see anything, hear anything and if she looked up they were all at their desks.
Harry stood up but Ginny grabbed his arm. He wheeled around.
"Just obliviate her to forget about you, don't hurt her." she said. "I'm just as mad as you but please control yourself."
"I want to kill her!" he was fuming again.
"I know you do, but please for Cedric, for me." she said with a bit of a pouty face. Harry cooled down almost immediately. He walked over to Cho who was still glaring. He looked at her "Obliviate."
He watched as her eyes glazed over. He made her forget all about him and made her remember thinking of Cedric instead.
He scowled at her when she came back to reality and she ran off. Harry went over to Ginny and sat down. Ginny kissed him on the neck. He smiled and she pulled back. "Better love?" he nodded and James removed the charms. The other couples looked away now. They knew with Ginny Harry was alright and probably wasn't going to blow up the room. McGonagall took this time to stand up.
"Very good! This is excellent! Most of my 5th years can't do half of this. Some of these things I don't believe my N.E.W.T. level students can do! Do what you wish, leave I really don't care. You are well educated." Harry smirked to James. They stood up and left the room. They went to the common room. They had plenty of time to talk, the first bell for that class had just rang.
Harry drug Ginny out to their spot by the tree. He sat down and pulled her onto his lap. She giggled.
"What are we doing out here? We were coming out later weren't we?" she asked.
He nodded. "Close your eyes." she complied and he teleported himself into the tree. "Open." he said.
She looked around and panicked she couldn't find him but she sensed he was there. She got out her wand. She stood up and Harry landed behind her. She jumped and saw him. He laughed and she smiled. He pulled out the box he put the necklaces in. He opened it and took out hers. He said "Turn around love." she turned slowly. He put it around her neck and shut the clasp. He tapped it with his wand and it glowed. Then he leaned down and kissed her neck. "I love you, now please keep the necklace on. It has runes on it."
She looked down and flipped it over. She read it and then flipped it back over opened and saw two pictures he must have taken from his memories. On the left was a picture of her and him kissing at their wedding in one and a cute one of them older walking into the sunset. She smiled and shut it turned around and kissed him. He pulled his out and she said "I love you." He grinned.
"I know, now will you clip mine? Just tap it with your wand when you are done." he said.
She smiled and took the necklace. She put the bigger, manlier chain around his neck. She clipped it and taped it with her wand. It glowed and she put down her wand. He turned and picked her up bridal style.
"Ger-off! Put me down!" she tried to scream but it didn't work. She was laughing too much.
"I don't want to put you down." said Harry smirking.
Ginny pouted. "I'll put you down when my wife kisses me." he whispered in her ear.
She shivered and leaned up and kissed him deeply on the mouth. It lasted a while until she pulled back.
"There your wife kissed you. Now will you please put me down?" she said.
He smiled and set her down. "Very well Mrs. Potter, my l-" he was stopped when he felt a magic and heard a thought since he was back to reality.
No way. Wife, love?! We are only ten and eleven. They can't be married, we are too young! It is illegal! Not that it matters she will be mine by 4th year.
"Harry love, what is it?" asked Ginny. Harry turned his head so fast it would have made your head spin if his wasn't already spinning in rage. He was trembling and the trees branches were moving, but the wind was blowing. His face was red in anger. Ginny looked over and saw Dean Thomas. Staring. At her. Harry was glaring and growling so much the tree beside them was vibrating. He went for his wand but Ginny be shocked earlier had hers out and put a lot of force, not nearly close to what she was capable of but still enough, into a Bat Bogey Hex. Dean shriek and Ginny quickly put up a silencing charm on him. She teleported to him and picked him up by the small tufts of hair he had. He shrieked a bit more you could tell by the bigger the shape of his mouth was. Harry was shaking so much he looked as if he we experiencing an earthquake. Ginny was shaking just as much, though she didn't realize it. She took the silencing charm off him and used a blade of grass to turn into temporary duct tape. She put it on his shrieking mouth.
"YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ME! I AM AND WILL FOREVER BE WITH HARRY! IF ANYONE TRIES TO STOP US THEY WILL BE HEXED FARTHER THAN OBLIVION! YOU GOT OFF EASY TODAY DEAN THOMAS!" she spat. Harry teleported next to her and did some memory charms so that he would forget liking Ginny and would remember today as Pansy Parkinson doing it. Then they teleported to the Slytherin dorms. Luckily Pansy was the only one there. Harry grabbed her wand did a bat bogey hex with it on Parkinson. Then silently giving her back her wand he got rid of the curse. He edited her memory to her doing that to Dean. Then Ginny and Harry stepped back and teleported to their common room. Both still shaking in rage.
Sirius was the first to see stood up and dashed to Harry. He wasn't hot this time. The room was being torn apart though. Sirius transformed to his Phoenix and grabbed them and traveled to the Hall of Hexes. He paced quickly and then pushed the two into a training room with dummies and hard walls. He shut the door and sat down beside it. After a good ten minutes of concentrating on Amelia's face. Sirius relaxed enough to deal with the situation better. He opened the door to see blasted smithereens of dummies. All strangely looking like a Gryffindor 1st year and a certain Ravenclaw second year. He went over to his godson who was sitting on the floor with his bondmate and they looked to be meditating. He came over to them and tapped Harry.
"Class will be starting soon. Defence is next. I'm sure at least one other adult would want to see you. Tell them what happened, let them help. You know I can't. My advice would be accompany me to a bar and drink it away."
Harry smiled, "That wouldn't surprise me." He stood up and looked down to Ginny. He grabbed her hands and lifted her up. He kept her hand and went back to the doorway.
"I'm going to take a walk, you go get your things and go to class. I will be fine." said Sirius winking. Harry and Ginny teleported back to the common room. They found Hermione and Ron reading books and Neville and Luna talking about Wrackspurts.
"We better get going, we will be late." said Ginny.
Everyone laughed. "Us? Late? Are you crazy?" snorted Ron. Ginny smiled at her brother.
"We should just take a walk. We don't ever do that! We teleport everywhere." she said. They nodded went to their rooms and came out with their bags. They all noded to each other and walked to the door. When Harry got there he sent what they had done to Dean and Pansy through their mind connection. They gasped and kept walking. I don't think our bond and our past knowledge mixes well. he said. They all nodded.
Harry continued to walk out with his bag. He figured he could start working on a list of things to do their bags. Hidden pockets for their maps, make them lightweight, unbreakable. Things like that. Hermione came up behind him and smacked him over the back of the head.
"OW! I wasn't the one who hexed him!" said Harry rubbing his head. Ginny winced and growled slightly. She had felt that and now she was mad, someone hit her Harry.
"Yes but you put a memory charm on him too! Then you blamed an innocent person!" said Hermione glaring.
"What was I supposed to do? Let him know it was us? You know I would have done it for you guys. Plus it would be hard to explain why we did it if the wrong Professor found us." he defended grabbing Ginny's hand to calm her. Ginny looked down at their hands. It felt so good. His and her hands connected. It was good, perfect, right. But most of all it was warm. She felt the warmth move through her until she was calm. It was nice.
Finally they arrived outside of Lupin's classroom, they were talking about the bet they made about Remus and Tonks.
Amelia and Sirius took 18½. Harry and Ginny took 19. Draco and Astoria took 19¼. Hermione and Ron took 19½. Neville and Luna took 19¾. James and Lily went for 20. Remus and Tonks were still oblivious to the situation. Finally after 5 minutes of discussing who was going to be right and why, the bell rang. The students all came out. As soon as the last one was out the Marauders all rushed inside. The sat their books down on the front row of desks and said in 8 different yet the same voices came "What do we need today?"
Remus smiled, Tonks laughed.
"Wands." was all he said. They nodded grabbed their wands and sat down. Except for Harry. He strode over to Remus.
"Remus? Can you speak to me privately?" he asked.
"As private as permanently sharing 7 other people's mind then sure." he said smiling.
They walked up to Remus' office and Harry cast his wards that were really strong. Best in the world.
"Alright I was wondering. When are you planning to change Ms. Tonks' last name?"
Remus spluttered, blushing.
"Remus, I have your rings." he said pulling out a box from his pocket. The rings weren't very big. But for being cheap, and durable not to mention a hand me down. Remus looked at them.
"They were my parent's rings." it wasn't a question. Harry nodded and gave Remus the rings. He picked it up.
"When should I do this?" asked Remus looking at the box.
"Well I think a certain date coming up has been known for misery for me in particular. In October."
"Halloween?" he asked. Harry nodded. "You wouldn't mind if I skipped class to go see Dumbledore would you?"
"No, the classes you have already had are optional. You know how to do the Curse of the boogies. You know a lot of curses. You should be fine." Harry smiled at Remus and stepped back and teleported to Dumbledore's door.
He knocked. "Enter Harry." he heard.
Harry smiled and opened the door. "I assume since you are here you would like to do something important?"
Harry nodded. "Mind if I use your floo? It will cause less explanations." Dumbledore nodded.
Harry stepped in Ministry of Magic. he said. Then in a burst of green he was gone.
He arrived in the atrium. He quickly walked to the office of Auror Shacklebolt. He knocked "Open." Harry walked into the office of Kingsley.
"Hello Kingsley, I am Harry Potter. I have a rather large favor I hope you with the assistance of some others can help me accomplish."
To say that Harry's statement caught Kingsley by surprise was a rather large understatement.
"W-What can I do for you Mr. Potter?" said Kingsley.
"I was hoping that maybe this weekend we could work on something with different, creatures I guess people call them, get more rights. Like House Elves and Werewolves, Goblins and such." he replied.
Kingsley nodded, "I'm just an Auror, what can I do for you that someone in the MLE can't."
"Well I am great friends with Amelia Bones, the head of the MLE and I do happen to know you are good at your job. I was hoping that we could arrange something in secret with trusted people such as you." replied Harry.
"Alright may I ask who else you will be getting on your project?"
"Well I haven't talked to her about it yet, really you are the only one I have talked to but I was hopping, Mad- Eye, You, Amelia, Albus Dumbledore, Bill and Arthur Weasley and some others. Now this does sound like a strange group for this project but trust me it is much more than this project our group would be working on. It would be helping destroy some things to stop Voldemort, to sack the Minister, and rid the Ministry of laws put in place to support purebloods and dark people." said Harry.
"How are we going to do this?" asked Shacklebolt.
Harry stood up from the chair he occupied. "Well I was hoping we could go and find these people to get started. I thought it may look weird if and 11 year old kid waltzed through the ministry knowing exactly where to go. We can go now if you aren't busy."
"I'm not busy, if I was I wouldn't be here." replied Kingsley immediately.
Kingsley stood and went to the door. They started to walk off towards the Head Auror office. When their they explained what Harry just told him. When Alastor started asking questions Harry merely said. "If you all desire I will tell you when everyone is with me."
They nodded and followed him to Arthur's office in the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts department. Harry knocked.
"Come in." they heard. Harry opened the door. "Arthur I have something to share with you and William. Where is he? Egypt of Britain?"
"He is still here, home with our um, guests." he said.
"Good." said Harry. He picked up his wand from his pocket. 'Expecto Patronum' he thought. He watched the stag burst out of his wand after he told Bill to come to his dad's office. Moody and Kingsley stared at him while Arthur watched as Harry put away his wand.
"You know what I have told you before so I don't have to have you in on part of the explaining so just listen." he said. Then Arthur's head was flooded with things he wanted done. When it was over Arthur nodded. Bill came through his dads floo and having been explained about Harry's dream over the summer Harry flooded his head as well. Then Arthur stood up and followed Harry out the door, grabbing the two Aurors who were still in a bit of shock.
They went to the Atrium and flooed to the Headmaster's office.
"Hello, Professor." said Harry. "Would you mind if I went and got Amelia?" he said.
Dumbledore shook his head while Harry teleported right outside of the Charms class that was at the moment empty of students. He opened the door.
"Amelia, the headmaster and I request your presence in his office at the moment." He said.
She came to the door and then Harry changed into his phoenix back to the phoenix quickly changed back Harry when Amelia let go of his tail. The Auror just stared.
After a half hour of answering questions and telling stories, he finally got everyone up to date and told them what he planned to do. They agreed and said they would start that weekend. Then they were gone. Harry went back for the last few minutes of class. He teleported to the door of the defence room. He opened the door and walked inside with a silencing charm and a disillusionment charm on. He was glad to see the group had their distraction charms up.
Then Harry sent to Ginny, I'm back.
He watched as suddenly he saw the group with their maps out.
Fixed the charms for you. Now come here! I missed you and you didn't tell me you were leaving! I will have to punish you later!
It was for Remus! Don't punish me!
Too late! I made up my mind.
Harry groaned and cancel his charms casting the silencing one around their group.
He sat beside Ginny. Remus was at the front doing demonstrations to the eagerly watching class. He told them to stand and practice. The marauders stayed in their seats. Harry grabbed her hand.
Punishment is starting.
No fair.
He buried his nose in her neck. Her scent was so intoxicating. He breathed it in. It was vanilla, strawberries and cinnamon. Strange combination, but it was perfect to Harry. He kissed her neck and she scowled. He was too good for her, the way he made her feel was too strong to stay mad at him. He kissed her cheek and grabbed her other hand he wasn't holding and kissed her hand. Every finger, all the way up her arm and back down.
Would you stop it! I'm trying to focus.
Oh am I distracting then?
Highly.
Quit ignoring and punishing me and I'll stop.
What if I don't want you too.
You said you wanted me to stop.
So what. I say a lot of things.
Harry went back to her neck. Kissing it again. Better?
No that is worse.
Oh. Oh well.
Harry! she moaned inwardly.
He chuckled slightly. She grabbed his head and pulled his head up.
Stop kissing the spots I don't want you too. Kiss where you normally do.
He grinned and leaned in and started to snog her senseless. After a few minutes they pulled apart. She smiled and went back to her work.
Right to the side of the loving scene that they that could watch, weren't watching. Right beside Ginny was Hermione. She was reading a book. She looked up to see Ron was too. She did this every ten seconds. What she didn't know was Ron would look up every ten seconds as well. She watched him read.
If I didn't know that was my brother right now. I would tell you it isn't, Before Harry told him about you he wouldn't touch a book unless 90% of it was pictures. He changed a lot after he heard what Harry told him you enjoyed was. Hermione heard Ginny's voice in her head. She smiled and scooted closer to Ron who looked up and smiled. For the first time they noticed they were on the same page of the same book. They laughed quietly.
"I love you." she heard. She looked up to see Ron staring at her. She blushed.
"I love you too." she said. He grinned. She leaned in and kissed his cheek. She sat back down with her book. She didn't notice his chair scooting as close as possible with hers. Then she felt a nose on her neck.
"Ron? What are you doing." she asked.
"Smelling the most beautiful thing ever. Better than any food I have ever eaten or smelled." he mumbled. She blushed. He kissed her neck and felt her shudder. He grinned against her. He playfully bit her earlobe.
Ron?
Yes Hermione?
That felt good.
What this? Ron thought back as he bit her earlobe again.
She whimpered. He pulled back. She looked at him and kissed him. After a few minutes of heated snogging they broke apart gasping for air. She smiled and went back to her book like nothing happened.
Neville and Luna had a similar interaction next to them. As did Astoria and Draco. After everyones interactions were done. Remus looked to Tonks. She was watching him. He stood over to her while the class continued to practice.
"Hey." he said.
She grinned. "Hey."
"I was wondering, where is your favorite place?" he asked.
"Right here." she said as she wrapped her arms around Remus' waist and snuggled into his chest.
Remus laughed. "No, I meant an actual place. Where someone could take you."
"Truthfully Hogwarts. In the Great Hall." she said. He . I have to propose in the Great Hall in front of everyone where there is a great chance she will say no. he thought. The bell rang and everyone left except the Marauders. Remus leaned down kissed Tonks then pulled back and came back to reality. He went over to the kids with Tonks following close. Really close.
They went back to the common room and did a little of this and a little of that before it was 5:00. They met Harry in the Founder's study like they promised. He went over to a bookcase and tapped in and said, "Open in the name of Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin." The bookcase slide open and they went inside. There they found what the map said was there. the ghosts and the portraits.
"Welcome" they heard from 8 voices, or rather 4.
Harry turned to Slytherin. "I was supposed to be in Gryffindor, yet I found your Chamber of Secrets Salazar." her said.
Slytherin's eyes widened. "No you didn't!"
"Alright then what did I find in the second corridor's girls lavatory, behind a sink that all you have to do is say open in Parseltongue to open? When you get down there, there was a giant statue of you. I heard it used to be protected by a trapdoor, until Hogwarts got plumbing. To think, your chamber is behind something muggle inspired and muggle made." said Harry.
The portrait spluttered. "Not to mention their is a Muggle-born in this house. She is 25% Slytherin." said Harry. "Oh and I forgot to mention, your last heir other than me is a Halfblood. I am a halfblood as well."
The portrait spluttered even more. Harry turned to Ravenclaw. "I had the pleasure of meeting your daughter once. She was very helpful. By the end of my fourth year I'm going to bring your crown back to you Rowena. I'd give it to you right now but, I don't have it, It is riddled with Dark Magic and I need it for fourth year." She smiled. "I met the Baron you sent after her, I'm truly sorry for your loss, I heard her story."
He then turned to Hufflepuff. "I will return your cup by the end of Fourth year as well." He turned back to the still sputtering Slytherin. "I will not be returning your necklace or ring. The ring is going to be 'accidently lost' and the necklace belongs to a house elf that works for the Most Noble and ancient House of Black." Sirius snorted.
Harry turned to Godric. "If you would like, I can give you your sword after Fourth year as well. Your hat is helpful so I cannot return it." Godric smiled.
"Alright, If your ghosts would like to accompany us to dinner, we would be thankful. You can see how good your houses are right now." The ghosts followed them out after a long while of exploring all the books and things in the studies' hidden room. They went to the passage where they will be hidden and no one else seemed to know about it.
"You found my passage!" said Helga's ghost.
They nodded. "It is yours? How strange. Why did you make it?" asked Harry.
"So people could sneak around. Like to the kitchens or something. Plus it is the fastest route to class. The door can close to the second floor and you walk a few feet and open a door to the sixth floor." she said.
They smiled. "So which of you made the Room of Requirement then?" Hermione asked after a minute.
"I did that." said Rowena.
"Who made the founders' study?" asked Ginny.
"That was me, brave one." said Godric. Everyone had their own hidden place. They were again the last to dinner. As planned. They entered setting off red and yellow fireworks when Godric's ghost came in. Then the red changed to black as Helga entered. Then they changed to bronze and blue when Rowena entered. Then finally silver and green as Salazar entered. Then it stopped and everyone stared at the ghosts. Rowena watched as the four house ghosts moved forward, her daughter one of them. The ghost shook hands and exchanged greetings. Except for the Ravenclaws.
"Mom?" Rowena heard. She looked up to see her daughter staring at her.
"Helena. It is nice to see you again."
"I'm so sorry! I shouldn't have taken your crown! I was being stupid! I wanted to be like you! smart! But all that got me was getting the diadem filled with dark magic." she said.
Even though they were ghosts and couldn't touch humans without going through them ghost could touch and Rowena knew this. So she leaned in and hugged her daughter. "It was my fault. Plus that nice boy there named Harry Potter said by the end of his 4th year he is giving me back my diadem. He just needs it for something first. He said he could rid it of the dark magic."
"Thanks mom." Helena said as they broke apart and followed the ghost to their house tables. Rowena flew over her bright students. She had began to challenge them with riddles.
Harry and Ginny watched the ghosts for a little while before they started eating. They splurged for a bit of dessert seeing as they weren't training until tomorrow. Tonight they were going to start on the books they found in the 'Room of Founders' for a little while. Then they would go to bed and then wake up a get to Astronomy.
Finally they were finished eating and they told the ghosts they could come back when they wanted and left. They got back to the Room of Founders and started going through the books. Their we tomes in their on all the founders. They all figured out where Harry connected with them. When the clock said 8 they all went to bed.
At 11:00 they all got up and got dressed and started to walk towards the Astronomy tower. When they got there after walking extremely slow as if not to be too early it was 11:45 and they were still the only ones there. They got out loads of essays for that class from their bag and presented them to Professor Sinistra. She stared at them.
"What are these?" she asked.
"Possible essays we may have to do this year." replied Draco.
"Very well Mr. Malfoy." she replied taking them.
Draco shifted uncomfortably. "Actually Professor Sinistra, it is Draco Black now." said Astoria.
"Oh, I'm sorry I heard about that. Must have slipped my mind Mr. Black." she said.
He smiled. "It is alright Professor." he replied.
They all strode over to their seats. All but Ron. "Excuse me Professor, but I was wondering what do we need for today's lesson?"
"Well we will be taking notes on what we will be learning this year, but seeing as that is the first page on all these piles, the first half of class is yours. The second half of class will be spent trying to use the notes to point out certain things in the sky. Certain stars and planets and constellations. Though most of our research will be one Jupiter and it's moons." she said.
"We already know the names of the 50 moons, would you like us to write essays on them?" asked Ron.
"That is a fifth year essay!" she said.
"But we have finished all the first year essays, if we finish it in the first half of class will you accept it?" he said.
She nodded and watched as they all started working on their papers. They easily finished the first 7 before class even started. They quickly plowed through 42 more. They all put the last sentence on the last one when Harry checked his watch 12:25. They had five minutes. Professor Sinistra was watching everyone write. More imparticularly the 8 in the front row. She saw they had finished and collected the 50 essays from each student.
"I will give you a response to these within the next two days." she said laying them on her desk. She then waited another minute and made sure everyone's notes were done before getting everyone outside.
The class continued with the Marauders blowing Sinistra away. Then she dismissed the class at 1 and the Marauders went back to their common room.
They all laid down and went back to bed.