Once Nym, Sirius and Harry were back at Hogwarts they headed back to the headmaster's office.
"I'm spending far too much time up here for my liking." Harry muttered.
"Aww, poor baby." Nym teased.
"Who are you?" Sirius asked again "and what the bloody hell happened with Harry and Bellatrix?"
Harry stuck his hand out, "Harry Potter, at your service"
"You look nothing like Harry! Where is he? I swear if you've done anything to him I WILL kill you."
"Sirius, you spent two months behind that veil and a lot of things have changed with Harry." Nym explained.
"TWO months, no chance, I was only in there for five minutes."
"Nope two months." Harry corrected
"Tonks is this really Harry?"
"I bloody well hope so." she giggled.
He sent her a funny look but decided to accept that this bloke was Harry.
"So Harry, mind telling me what the bloody hell happened?"
Harry huffed and explained about his training, Malfoy and the minister leaving out the fact that he was dating Nym (seeing it as an opportunity to shock Sirius) and that he had cured Remus (another surprise).
After harry had explained everything to Sirius, who's mouth was hanging open, they waited five minutes until Dumbledore entered. He looked to Sirius and then to Harry.
"I thought you said that had to wait a month?"
"I was finished with Mooney with time to spare, getting Sirius a month early seemed like a good idea."
"That it was. We'll talk about what happened at the next order meeting if Harry agrees to attend but right now it's late. Harry I believe you have a very comfortable sofa that the house elves will happily change into a bed for the night."
"No it's OK I don't want to be a bother."
"It's fine Sirius, no bother at all. Unless you want to go back to Grimmauld Place?"
"NO...I mean no, I'll stay it'll be a good opportunity to catch up.
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Harry, Sirius, and Nym were sitting in the living room of Harry's quarters but within minutes Sirius had nodded off so they went to bed.
The following morning Sirius thought he would give Harry a wake up call, he still didn't have a wand and therefore had to fill a bucket from the sink, he marched into Harry's room and promptly screamed "WHAT THE BLOODY HELL?" at seeing his godson a cousin cuddled up together.
Groaning, Harry sat up and shook Nym
"Morning" they chorused sleepily
"Explain!"
"Well we're dating, what were you doing with a bucket of water?"
"Waking you up, explain!" he said gesturing them in bed.
"We are dating" he repeated "You were going to put that over me?" he asked
"Yeah, so you finally took my advise Tonks" he asked a lot more calm now that he had gotten his head round the situation.
"YOU KNEW!" Harry screamed "YOU KNEW AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ME?!"
"Yeah I knew Tonks liked you. Whats the big deal she asked me not to tell you, so I didn't?"
"But you didn't know about Ginny?"
"What about her?"
"Nothing" he said feeling a lot better
"Now about this bucket of water..."
Harry waved his hand and the bucket instantly poured over Sirius' head, then he waved his hand again giving him pink greasy hair. Laughing Harry told Sirius to get out so they could get dressed. Sirius however was fuming "I'll leave but I'm warning you now, no-one gets the best of a marauder!"
"what not even a really old one like you?"
With that Sirius launched himself out of the room to start plotting his revenge
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When they got dressed they made there way to the hospital wing to find Remus sitting up in his bed. "HARRY JAMES POTTER IM GOING TO KILL YOU!"
"And why might that be?" he asked with a bright smile.
"Oh I don't know almost getting yourself bitten by a werewolf, or maybe almost killing me by poisoning me with silver?"
"Nah I knew what I was doing."
"Care to explain?"
"Well...I don't know...maybe I shouldn't if your going to kill me."
"NOW Harry!"
Sirius and Nym watched the Harry tease Remus with open mouths watching the man become angered not even noticing Sirius' presence.
"Well OK, silver poisoning attacks the link to the moon, when you sever this link the wolf within feels this and sensing that it will be locked within forever it simply gives up and dies."
All three were listening with rapt attention along with madam Pomfrey who had walked in half way through the the explanation.
"This wouldn't be so much of a problem, however the wolf's lifeforce is linked directly with the host so the host would die."
Shocked faces all around.
"Now I gave you the elixir of life which prevented you from dying, so strictly speaking your cured, but the wolf is still within you."
"Where does this leave him then?" the school matron asked.
"As an animagus." he smiled "However he must transform at least once a month otherwise the link to the moon could reestablish."
By the end Remus had tears in his eyes.
"Harry I can't thank you enough, I mean how would I begin."
"By getting some rest and catching up with your best friend." he replied pointing out Sirius.
"Sirius, how the..."
"I told you I had stuff to do this full moon and that it would be next, well I had enough time left over so I went and got him."
"Care to explain that Harry?" asked Dumbledore who had just walked in.
Harry huffed again.
"Right I'm going to skim through this real quick I have things to do."
"The veil was created by merlin and Gringot the founder of Gringotts, it was originally designed as a VERY high security vault, obviously all ministry fees are paid once a month so it was set to the full moon. the room is a room of stasis, Merlin and the goblins cast many charms and placed many ruins on the veil, a few people tried to break through the veil and when the minister went to collect money he found them and had them executed, these people left trails, bragging at the fact that they were going to steal from the ministries vault, the would be robbers broke into the veil and on the way through were stunned, when these people were never seen again, the veil became known as the veil of death. The minister encouraged these rumors, eventually the ministry began to use a different vault for cash payments and the veil became used less and less. The veil of death myth continued until unspeakables broke down many of the defenses including the predecessor of the key system the goblins use now, as well as password and stunning feature" Harry finished.
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Harry left the hospital wing soon after and was followed by Nym down to the dungeon where he had brewed the elixir of life.
"What you planning on doing with the elixir Harry?"
"Oh, I'll keep a vile for emergency's but the rest I'll dilute 1:20 with water and give to madam Pomfrey, it will act like a strong all around healing potion, I'll keep a couple of viles of that to"
"What about the rest of the healing potions you had me slave over?"
"I'll put the into the potions cabinet in my trunk."
"Want me to help bottle up?"
"Sure."
They spent an hour bottling and sealing viles (all stolen from Snape, Nym had laughed for 20 minutes when she pictured his face when he went to his personal store cupboard).
"What you planning this afternoon Harry?"
He grinned like a six year old when he told her he was starting his broom, she asked if she could watch. Later they were heading down to the forbidden forest to a nice secluded area Harry had found on one of his scouting trip's into the forest, he had brought his trunk with him and set about placing his knives, axes, and hammers he had made out in a dragon hide cloth, Nym curious girl she was kept asking questions about everything.
"Why are most of the blades made from flint?"
"Using a steel or iron can restrict the output of magic, store it and release it at the most inopportune moment."
"Oh OK."
He conjured a pewter casing that was basically a long rectangle and set taps into 10 of the surrounding trees he fed a tube from each tree into his casing and watched it begin to fill slowly with sap, pulled out a 1/2 foot diameter branch of holly that was about six foot long, he sat for an hour, whacking away with his axe until it was the rough diameter he felt comfortble with before he whittled away with his flint knifes until it sat perfectly in his hands. all the time Nym watched him work with fascination.
By the time he had finished whittling down the branch of holly the casing had filled, he lit a fire underneath the case and waited for the sap to boil, he pricked his finger on a thorn from a bush and let 5 drops of blood drop into the sap.
"Why did you add blood?"
"Keys the broom to me."
"So no one else could ride it?"
"Well Voldemort could, he was resurrected with my blood but pretty much yeah."
"Cool."
He placed his new broom handle into the sap/blood mix and told Nym that it had tube left for an hour and offered to go back to the castle. She looked at him with a saucey grin.
"Or we could make a night of it here?"
"Or we could make a night of it here." he repeated he added additional cushioning charms to the blanket Nym had conjured herself hours ago and dropped to his knees.
Nym quickly dove on him ravishing his mouth with her own, slowly, as if by magic clothes began removing themselves from there bodies and before long both were naked. Still kissing deeply Harry ran one had up and down her side while he used the other one to massage her breasts, the hand running her side began making small circles on her back as she pushed Harry onto his back before straddling his waist.
"Harry, I'm ready."
Quick as a flash he rolled them over giving him control.
"You sure?"
"Yeah."
Harry gulped nervously taking in his surroundings before getting down to his task the only light came from the fire, and the stars, there were small yellow lights Harry assumed was firefly's and then tree's it made a very romantic scene.
Harry began by finding all the sensitive spots he had discovered and making sure they were seen to, nibbling lightly at her earlobe and licking just behind it, sucking lightly at the nape of her neck craving the light moans she was making, taking a nipple and running it through his teeth, before slowly sinking into her, he fumbled a bit before he reached her hymen, he apologized before thrusting past it and holding giving her time for the pain to pass.
He slowly thrust in and out falling out of her twice not quite used to the motion, neither lasted long when Nym contracted around him, Nym's warm, wet flesh contracting against him set him off and the night events were over.
Rolling off and breathing heavily they began to catch there breath, Harry summoned and potion from his trunk and handed it to Nym.
"For any pain."
She smiled at the his thoughtful gesture and drank the potion gratefully. before kissing him and telling him they had better get dressed.
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20 minutes later Harry removed the Holly from the basic and began shaping a saddle near the tail end while the wood was still flexible. Once the shape had set he cut the handle down to his preferred length, keeping the off cut to one side, he began hollowing out the very thin hole with a small piece of flint and a stick using it like a drill. Once he was finished he asked Nym for a favor and turned into a phoenix then a hippogriff then a firewolf.
She collected phoenix tears and hippogriff feathers and then Harry sent enchanted fire at them in his firewolf form, Nym had already seen all but his dragon form so she wasn't surprised by the forms but she did coo over them.
The phoenix tears filled the hole that had been drilled and the hippogriff feather was rolled up small enough to fit and suspended in the tears. The offcut was used to make a plug and charms were used to conceal it. the twigs to make up the tail were peeled and and treated in the sap/blood solution.
He began marking runes into the wood using his wand and muttering incantations, again he used concealment charms to hide the runes, all bar a swirly squiggle on the end, then carved in the word scopae into the handle, before long he was wrapping treated willow bark around the twigs for the tail, he stretched proud of his days work, he took all of his tools and packed them away before waking Nym up and showing her his creation, taking her by the hand and leading her to bed, tomorrow would be a fun day.
