SEVENTH YEAR
A few hours later, Harry woke up to some loud cheering and someone jumping on his stomach as he slept on the comfortable sofa.
"Harry! You're home! Yay!" She cheered happily. Harry smiled while opening one eye to his adorable little sister.
"Hey my little flower, I missed you." Harry said giving her a hug.
Little Lily giggled happily and gave him a sloppy kiss on the cheek.
"I missed you too big brother!"
"Ahem!" Their father said loudly behind them. Not turning around, Harry spoke.
"Hello to you too dad." Harry said putting his blanket back over his head to go back to sleep.
"Your mother told me that you came home early this morning. Care to tell us the reason why you just left the Weasleys without a word?" His father asked while chuckling at his youngest daughter, who was trying to sneak under the blankets with her brother.
"Harry, let me in." She pouted.
Harry began to murmur an answer while letting his sister cuddle up to him under the blankets and she giggled happily at being close to him. She giggled even more when he gave her a kiss on the forehead. He wrapped his arm around her and she rested her head in the crook of his neck. She sighed in content, the air from her nose tickling Harry's neck.
"I didn't like saying goodbye, so I left early while they were sleeping."
"I see, well just so you know, that's very rude of you to leave like that son and…"
"Harry!" A voice shouted while interrupting his father in mid conversation.
Before Harry could take a peak out from under the blankets, he could sense it was his twin sisters Rosa and Sakura who were about to jump onto him.
"Sakura! Rosy! Harry's home!" Little Lily said from under Harry's protective arm as both twins crashed into the couch and onto of the eldest child of the Potters.
James looked annoyed at the interruption. "Harry, as I said before, it was rude for you to…"
"Yes! We can go to Diagon Alley to get our wands and go shopping now!" Sakura cheered while giving her brother a smile.
"That's right Harry, we been waiting for you to get home so we could go shopping. You took an awfully long time brother. Your Hogwarts letter came in yesterday night." Rosa said giving her brother a hug and playful kiss on the lips from sitting on top of his stomach.
James left eye twitched at how his children were interrupting him from lecturing the eldest. Harry just sent his father a weak smile.
"Will you lot quit talking over me?" James shouted. "Harry, that was very rude of you to…"
Whatever James was about to finish saying, Leon walked inside the living room with his broom on his shoulder and gave his brother and three sisters a raised eyebrow.
"It's nice to see you back Harry, however, would you mind if I not jump into the batch and get kicked somewhere it hurts…."
It was now Leon's turn to be interrupted when a cheerful looking Sylvia came running into the living room. Seeing the pile of people on top of her brother, she too jumped into the stack.
"Harry! You're home! It's so boring just being with Leon all the time." She said giving her brother a sloppy kiss on the cheek like Little Lily did. Leon just rolled his eyes but it was true, it was so boring without Harry around.
Harry was now being cuddled and hugged by all four of his little sisters.
James had long given up as he had already left the living room seeing how everyone seemed to interrupt him.
Before Harry could respond to all of them, their mother called from the kitchen.
"Hey everyone! Breakfast is ready!"
Immediately Sakura and Sylvia squealed in delight at the sound of food and took off with their father following suit.
Rosa rolled her eyes at her sister's enthusiasm for food.
As they all got up and sat down at the breakfast table, Rosa commented to her twin sharply.
"You know Sakura, you need to stop eating so fast and messy. You're a bad influence to Sylvia and Little Lily."
Sakura who had food in her mouth shrugged and spoke with food still in her mouth.
"It's not my fault. They can eat whichever way they like." Sakura said accidentally spitting food out at her youngest sister who was eating across the table.
"Eww…" Little Lily said rubbing the food off her face. "Yucky."
"Sakura Anne Potter! Don't you talk with your mouth full! You are a lady. You better not do this when we're at the celebration party."
This caught Harry's attention. He was in the middle of cutting up his French toast.
Harry raised an eyebrow. "Celebration Party? Huh? What party?" Everyone gave him a look of realization.
"Oh, sorry Pronglet I forgot to tell you, the Minister of Magic has given an invitation to all the Wizard Pureblood families in Britain in celebration of his daughter's birthday. As an Auror and a Ministry employee, I have to be there and so does the family." James said the Minister part with distaste. He had not mention the fact that people had also wanted to meet the person who defeated Quirrell and was the savior of the Sorcerer's stone.
Harry knew what why his father spoke about the Minister with an ill tongue. It was common news, his father, Sirius, and Remus had never liked the Minister because of his prejudice against Werewolves.
"Is Uncle Sirius coming?" Harry asked while taking a gulp of orange juice and giving his sister Sakura his food, because she was eyeing it greedily after she had finished hers, which was faster then what Ron usually ate.
"Yes, Sirius and the Blacks are coming, so…"
"What about Remus? Isn't he invited?" Harry asked with fake puzzlement. He already knew the answer.
"No, he's busy. So he won't be attending." James said. The reason he wasn't invited was because he was a werewolf. The secretary of the Minister had really disliked Werewolves or in her terms, half-breeds.
Harry shrugged and was about to grab a new plate of food that his mother gave him when she noticed his original plate was 'stolen' by his younger sister.
"Do you have my letter mum?" Harry asked wanting to see what books he would need for the year. It had been so long since his second year, he forgot what books he would need.
"Here you go luv." Lily said leaning over the table to hand him his letter with his supplies on it. Harry grabbed the letter and ripped open the seal and read.
SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS WILL REQUIRE:
The Standard Book of Spells, Grade 2
by Miranda Goshawk
Break with a Banshee by Gilderoy Lockhart
Gadding with Ghouls by Gilderoy Lockhart
Holidays with Hags by Gilderoy Lockhart
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Travels with Trolls by Gilderoy Lockhart
Voyages with Vampires by Gilderoy Lockhart
Wanderings with Werewolves by Gilderoy Lockhart
Year with the Yeti by Gilderoy Lockhart
"Oh yeah, guess what Harry?" Sakura said excitedly.
Harry raised an eyebrow at his sister. Without giving him the moment to talk, she spoke.
"Our book list contains the full Lockhart book series. Isn't that exciting? We'll be learning about all his adventures this year!"
Harry snorted. So Lockhart was going to teach this year? Harry was going to have some fun with him. Looking back on some of his memories, his mother was never a Lockhart fan and she herself, thought that he was a fake. Both his father and mother had gone to school the same time with him and they knew him best. How? Harry didn't know.
As everyone was eating breakfast and questioning him about his sleep over at the Weasleys, they heard flames of the Floo powder being used.
"Prongs! We're here! Got any breakfast? I'm still hungry!" Sirius whined from the living room.
Harry cheered up slightly at hearing his godfather shouting about food.
"Uncle Sirius!" Harry shouted grabbing the attention of everyone who was currently in the living room to run into the kitchen.
Yuna was the first to enter and gave him a big bear hug. She was slightly different then the last time he saw her, she had an odd familiar looking aura around herself.
As if reading his mind, "My Veela heritage is maturing! Isn't that great Harry-kun?" Yuna said smiling at the boy she had a crush on. No matter what Harry told her to say, she was would always end his name with a 'kun' suffix, which in Japanese meant dear to them or someone close.
Before Harry could respond to that, another half Veela had jumped onto him for a hug.
"Harry!" Amanda said happily.
Harry smiled and returned their hugs.
"Amanda! Yuna! I missed you two." Harry said ignoring the blush that Yuna was giving when he said he missed her… well… her little sister too.
"I missed you too Harry!" Amanda said excitedly while scooting him a bit and sat on his thigh in which Little Lily glared at her best friend for stealing her favorite brother.
"How's my munchkin." He kissed her neck and made playful gobbling noises, which made Amanda shriek with laughter and kick her feet.
At this point Little Lily had stopped eating completely and walked around the table and sat on Harry's other leg, much to his amusement. He tickled her stomach which made her giggle and made Amanda give her best friend a glare for stealing her favorite boy.
Soon everyone began to make small talk over breakfast while Harry chatted with his family and the Black children about his sleep over at his friend's house. When Harry had mention about Ginny, Harry caught the narrowed eyes that his sisters, brother and the Black kids had at her name.
Harry gave them a questioning look. "You all know Ginny?" Harry asked.
Sakura glanced at her friend Yuna and spoke slyly.
"She's a threat to Yuna's dream." Harry gave them a puzzled look.
"A threat to Yuna's dream? What are you talking about? Yuna?"
Sakura was about to open her mouth to answer, but Yuna hastily covered Sakura's mouth with her hand.
"Don't know what she's talking about. So she's going to Hogwarts this year Harry-kun?" Yuna said changing the subject while giving her childhood friend an apologetic look when she had silenced her.
Harry knew something odd was going on and that he was missing something important, but he decided to ignore it and not bother using his Legimency to find out.
"Yeah, Ginny's going to Hogwarts this year. She's going to be in your year. Treat her kindly okay? I hope you guys become good friends. She's a great person." Harry said smiling at the memories of Ginny from this dimension and his old dimension.
Yuna flinched at his words and but didn't show that she was hurt, sad, and jealous.
"That's nice, maybe Rosa, Sakura, and me can get to know her." Yuna said. Harry eyes sparkled with a smile.
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Harry sat in the living room waiting for everyone to be ready before they would all go to Diagon Alley. During that time, he took the moment to continue skimming the memories of the 'Harry' he replaced, one of the memories had showed him how he had died.
It was actually quite sad how he died. The story all started when he was trying to learn how to fly before going to Hogwarts. As a wizard from a Pureblood family, not to mention the son of famous Quidditch Star Player James Potter, he did not want others to laugh at him because he was pathetic at flying.
At first, he had finally gotten the hang of it, however the broom he was using, an incredibly old one, had began to malfunction while he was in the air and had led him to his death when he had pummeled head first against a grave tombstone, and he died.
He had several questions he wanted to ask that Time Guardian, but she was nowhere to be found. He cursed himself several times for not asking the Time Mage for her name or possibly, how to contact her again.
"Harry!" An excited voice said interrupting his thoughts.
Harry shook his head and turned his attention toward the speaker, his other little sister. Damn, he had so many little sisters, he knew it was going to be hard for him in the future when they would be looking for boyfriends. If anyone hurt his family he would not hesitate to kill them or make sure they never had children.
He and Leon would scare them. Merlin knows Leon was protective of everyone, even though he had rarely showed it. Harry was already making a point for people not to mess with him.
"You ready to go to Diagon Alley Sylvia?"
Sylvia nodded, her long messy black hair going into a mess. Out of all the girls in his family, she was the only Potter girl whose name was not named after a flower or had red hair in the family.
"Yep!" Sylvia said excitedly as she sat on her brother's lap and laid her head against his shoulder.
"Five more years until you can go to Hogwarts, that's too bad." Harry said quietly as he patted his little sister on the head. "By the time you go to Hogwarts, I'll be graduating and leaving."
Sylvia had only pouted sadly at this.
"Heh heh... don't pout Sylvia, you're not missing a lot at Hogwarts." Harry said playing with his little sister's hair. Like Leon and his, Sylvia's hair would never stay down, and it drove her insane that her sisters had all straight red hair. At least she had the rare green eyes from her mother.
"Of course," Sylvia said sarcastically.
Harry raised an eyebrow at this. Sylvia was growing a sharp tongue at the age six, wasn't she?
"Aww, don't be mad, you know I was only trying to cheer you up. I didn't mean to make you angry." Harry said giving his little sister a hug.
"I know. I'm sorry Harry." Sylvia said quietly.
Harry gave his her a thoughtful look. Lately, he had been spending most of his time with his mother and youngest sister. He rarely had time to spend with his other family members. He made a note to himself to spend time with the rest of his family.
"Hey big bro," Another voice said coming into the room.
Harry had already known who it was. Lately, his suppressor orb was close to it's limit and he was able to pick out random thoughts from people once in a while and his senses had increased significantly without his him doing it himself.
He knew he was going to have to let out some power later. When he was in that dream world with that Time Guardian, it felt slightly relieving for him when he had released a bit of that magic. He could remember the feeling of intensity when he had released it, and this was the first he had ever left it at such a high capacity.
"Hey Leon." Harry said in greeting as pulled himself from the thoughts of releasing his suppressor orb at the back of his mind. He'll find a secluded location later, where no one would be able to find him when he released it. "What you planning to get at the Diagon Alley?" He said already knowing what Leon was going to say.
Leon had only shrugged. "Just want to check the Quidditch store, I heard the new Nimbus 2001 one had just came out. I want to compare it to yours and my Nimbus 2000."
"Just wait until next year. I heard they are making a new proto-type broom that is supposed to be so fast, it makes the Nimbus 2000 look slow." This caught Leon's attention.
"Oh? I never heard of anything like that. What broom is it?" Leon said curiously.
"The Firebolt." Harry smirked.
"The Firebolt?" Harry nodded.
"Yes, the Firebolt. You'll see next year."
Leon had only looked at him in confusion.
"The Firebolt..." He trailed off testing the name from his lips. "How did you know they were making this type of broom?"
"I have my resources." Harry winked.
Leon looked affronted at this.
"Sorry little brother, can't tell you." Harry said smiling.
Leon had only sent Harry a glare when his brother had rubbing his hand all over his messy hair, making it look like he had just woken up.
"But I promise we'll get one for the both of us." Leon smiled at this.
"Hey! Is everyone ready to go?" Their father had shouted as he entered the living room.
There were some 'Yes' and 'No' echoing throughout the house from his question.
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As they walked around Diagon Alley for their school supplies, Harry wasn't surprised to see the Blacks coming with them. All the Potter children had grown up going everywhere with the Blacks. It was not unusual to see them together. The kids themselves were chatting amongst each other excitedly about going to Hogwarts this year. As they were a year younger then him, his twin sisters Rosa, and Sakura as well as Sirius children Alex and Yuna were heading to Hogwarts this year as first year's. In one arm, he was holding his younger sister Sylvia's hand and with the other, he was carrying Little Lily as usual who happily giggled once in a while when he stuck his tongue at her, his sister Rosa was chatting happily with Yuna talking about several books and the upcoming semester.
Sakura was comforting their little brother Leon, who was sad that his twin sisters were leaving for Hogwarts as well. It was bad enough when Harry left. This would leave him home alone with only Sylvia and Little Lily. Alex, well Alex was like him, holding onto his baby brother Eric and holding his baby sister Amanda's hand at the same time, though Amanda had preferred Harry holding her hand instead.
"Hey big bro, are we going to be able to see your best friends Hermione, Ron, or Padma here at Diagon Alley?" Sylvia asked poking her brother in the stomach while he kissed Little Lily on the nose in return after she had kissed him.
Harry gave a quick glance at his parents when his sister mentioned about his friends. From the looks of his parent's gaze, Harry felt slightly worried. Every time he mentioned one of his girl-friends names, whether it was Padma or Hermione, he could hear his mother talking about grandchildren or his father, talking about how he should be friendlier with Yuna or something about uniting the families.
Harry wasn't sure if he should react to this. His parents were officially mental whenever he mentioned about any of his female friends… that, he knew for sure. He was snapped out of his thoughts when his mum was waving her hand in front of him.
"Harry? Is something wrong dear?"
Harry looked up and gave his mother an unreadable expression, which made her worry.
"Nothing." He whispered out as he gave his mother Little Lily, much to his youngest sister's protest. Both his mother and father had given him a funny look, but Harry did not look at them in the eye, he just continued on walking.
"Say Harry." Sakura whispered as she walked alongside with him. Looking at her, she whispered. "What's wrong big bro?" Sakura whispered while looking at their mum who was humming while holding onto Little Lily who tried to imitate their mum by humming as well, but she would sometimes stop and give him a worried look.
"Nothing Sakura..." Harry trailed off. "Just nothing..." He said as he thought if the Time Guardian would ever send him back home to his old dimension?
Sakura gave her older brother a curious expression.
"Are you sure Harry?" Sakura asked and then hesitated as she leaned in closer to whisper to him.
"You're different. You're not your in your normal mood. I don't know how to describe it." Sakura commented as she looked at him in confusion.
Harry shrugged and patted his sister's head in which she quite liked. She had always liked it when her older brother would pat her on the head. Though she would show annoyance, inside it felt oddly nice and Harry knew it.
As they continued shopping, Harry noticed his mum and dad were really happy today. His parents had given them money in case they wanted to buy anything in which the kids happily accepted. Usually, the parents wouldn't give them any extra money because they were already getting a twenty-galleon month allowance, which was considering a lot. Twenty Galleons was how much Mr. Weasley would make in two months at the Ministry. Harry inwardly wondered what his parents were so happy about, but he just shrugged and put it into the back of his mind.
While they were in the parchment store picking out parchment and quills, Harry felt a familiar person sneaking up from behind him.
"Don't even try it Yuna." Harry commented smiling, not looking behind him.
She pouted. "Aww, you're no fun."
Harry smiled at Yuna, the girl who was slowly loosing her shyness around him. It felt oddly satisfying to know that you have a half-Veela that's got a crush on you. Speaking of Veelas, looking over her shoulder, Harry could see Mrs. Black flirting and using her Veela charm to get the parchment, ink, and quills they were buying for a whooping 75 percent off. Sirius just rolled his eyes at his wife and grumbled as his wife used her Veela charm.
From what Harry understood correctly and what he read from several books. Most Veelas are married to men who are immune to Veela charms because it is quite hard for them to fall in love, when their Veela charm attracts every guy in the vicinity. It is quite hard for them to fall in love and find the right guy because they would only like them because of the charm and their looks. To them should they find that person, it was usually their soul mate they found.
"Hey Harry." Yuna said interrupting his thoughts.
Harry gave an affectionate smile, which had made her blush slightly. "Yes?" She gave him a curious look.
"What's wrong?" She said hooking her arm through his arm. Harry knew she liked him and if things went okay he would ask her to be his girl-friend. With a fast thought on what to say, Harry responded back with a fake calm voice.
"Nothing's wrong. Why do you ask Yuna?" Yuna only shrugged. She had a feeling he was lying.
"Just asking, you looked serious a while ago when we were walking down Diagon Alley."
Harry had only shrugged as he continued walking with her, not bothering to disentangle his arms with hers, which had caused her to smile widely.
"So how was it at the Weasleys?" Yuna asked looking at him questioningly.
"It was fun." Harry said remembering the nice times he took walks with Ginny. He had a feeling if he had told Yuna about those walks. She would immediately get mad at him. He trusted his instincts and did not mention about those walks. "What about you Yuna? What did you do while I was gone? Were you were still sewing those beautiful sweaters of yours?"
Yuna blushed and spoke in a quiet voice, "Yeah, I'm almost done." Harry smiled.
"I wasn't sure if I did, but did I ever thank you for that sweater you made me for Christmas? It was very warm and comfortable. I could have sworn you must have enchanted it to be always warm or something."
Yuna blushed again. "Your welcome, I want to thank you for the pet Phoenix you gave me. I always have it with me before I go to bed."
Harry smiled brightly at this. "Really?"
Yuna flushed and nodded.
"Hey you two," Sirius said from the front of the store. "We're about to leave, you guys and girls got everything?" He grinned as he noticed that his daughter and Harry were getting along quite well. It took all of his control to not shout out loud, 'The families will be united!'
"Yes." Yuna said back a bit confused on why her father was grinning at her.
"My mom had already gotten my parchment and ink already." Harry said as he helped Yuna carry her stuff to the counter, which caused her to turn pink.
"Yuna, are you okay? You're not ill are you?" Harry, obvious of what was going on, asked as he settled the stuff onto the counter and had his hand on her forehead.
Yuna blushed at the contact of his hands. Strangely, for a boy, his hands were quite soft.
"I'm fine." She whispered softly and shyly.
Harry nodded. "Okay, if you say so."
When Yuna had finished buying her stuff, both she and Harry had left the store and had followed the family by the meeting spot.
"Come on mum, let's go to the book store." An excited looking Rosa commented as she gave her mum the puppy eye look. "Of course sweetie, if you want to." This comment had a few others groaning.
"Hey, I've got an idea." James interjected into the conversation. "Since both Amy and Lily like books, why doesn't everyone who wants to go to the book store go there and Sirius and I will lead the ones who want to go elsewhere, like perhaps visiting the Quidditch store?"
He was met with a cheer from the children at this.
"That doesn't sound so bad, let's do it." Amy said as she looked at who was going to go with her.
In seconds, the male adults, which was Sirius and James, had Leon, Alex, Sakura, Eric, and surprisingly Little Lily in their group.
In the female adult group, which was led by Amy and Lily, had Rosa, Yuna, Amanda, and Sylvia.
Everyone stared at Harry who went alongside his mother and his Aunt Amy. It was quite surprising to see Harry preferring to go to the bookstore. One would think such a young and gifted Quidditch star like Harry would have immediately gone to the Quidditch Shop instead.
"I want to check up on some books." Harry said seeing that most of the people's eyes were on him. "For school stuff…" Harry trailed off. There were some nods of understanding. It was well known Harry was the brain child of the family and he had to live up to his reputation.
When the two groups had departed, Harry began to notice that there were many people shopping today, if he came across the Weasley's he would make sure that he got Riddle's diary before Ginny could get it.
"We're here!" A smiling Amy said as they all stood in front of the only other bookstore in Diagon Alley besides Flourish and Blotts. They had yet to go there and Harry was looking forward to seeing the Weasley's. When Harry had opened the door like a true gentleman for his mother and the girls, he had blushed at the comments that Mrs. Black had given him.
"Such a darling boy," Amy said as she patted him on the head softly. "You would do my Yuna well."
'Oh no, please don't tell me she jumped onto the band wagon with dad and Sirius?' Harry miserably groaned. There was a flier on the window of the shop that said:
GILDEROY LOCKHART
will be signing copies of his autobiography
MAGICAL ME
today at 12:30 P.m. to 4:30 P.m.
"Ohhh Lockhart's here!" Rosa said excitedly looking at the flier.
"Don't believe in all of that rubbish that he had said that he had done Rosa." Lily said while looking at the books.
"Have you two ever heard of the memory charm?" Harry suddenly spoke as he was skimming through the shelves for a book that he might not recognize. He had tended to know and read every book that he had laid eyes on. With his Shadow Mage abilities, his understand and reading abilities were beyond normal, including his memories. He wasn't close finish reading the Potter library, but he was half way there. "Memory charms are considered easy to use if you understand the concept." Harry said in his teacher voice as he found an unidentified book that he had never seen before. "Memory charms are considered illegal, and only the ministry is classified by using it. Any others caught in using memory charms without proper authorization, could be fined for a good two-hundred galleons and maybe given a few days in Azkaban." He had said all of this, much to the amazement of people around him. If he didn't look like a twelve–year-old, anybody would have thought he was a teacher by the way he lectured him or her.
"You know, it could be possible he really is a fraud." Harry said faking as if he was in deep thought. "He could have easily asked the person, who had performed those heroics deeds for information, and then memory charms them. Lastly, he could have implanted false memories. It's not that hard." Harry said as he decided he was going to keep the book he found. 'Magical Knight Rayearth.' It looked to be quite a good interesting story if it was three inches thick.
"You know, I had never had thought of it that way." His mother said amazed at the theory Harry made. "Harry, you could be right."
"You're wrong!" Yuna blurted out as she stared at the green-eyed boy.
Harry frowned and turned his attention away from the book to the young Veela.
"I didn't say I was right. I just said…"
"I know what you said!" Yuna interrupted angrily.
Harry was amazed suddenly. Yuna, the young girl who always had a crush on him was going ballistic on him?
Her Veela powers are out of control…
He noticed that he wasn't the only one flabbergasted at her reaction.
"Yuna, dear, please calm down. You're causing a scene." Amy said embarrassed as she noticed that the few people in the store were staring at them. Then again, people were already staring at her and her daughter because they had Veela traits and had left a flocking of speechless men behind them as they went.
Harry noticed that Yuna, angry as she was, was slowly transforming into her Veela bird form.
"Yuna!" Amy said as she tried to calm her daughter down. She had known that her daughter was a big fan of Lockhart, but to see her exploding on the person that had been nothing but nice to her as of late, was ridiculous.
Yuna had paid no heed, she was already half transformed and in her hand, she had a ball of fire. She looked to be a berserk harpy that was radiating static electricity.
Harry had his full attention on her.
"Yuna, calm down." Harry said calmly. "I didn't mean anything saying..."
Yuna glared at Harry angrily. "Shut up! Shut up you… you…"
Harry knew Yuna was temporary out of control. As a young Veela who was still unaccustomed to her Veela heritage, there were random moments of her losing control and Harry knew she was out of control. At the moment, Yuna was not the sweet little girl that he had known this past year. Both Amy and Yuna had warned him of this since she was at the age that her Heritage was manifesting. The only way for her to snap herself out of her shock was to be magically stunned or she had calmed herself down.
"Yuna-chan!" Amanda, her little sister shouted, she was terrified she would hurt Harry, but Yuna had paid no attention again.
"Forgive me daughter, Stupefy!" Amy shouted as she whipped her wand on her daughter.
Amazingly, the spell had bounced right off.
"Oh no, I forgot she is temporary immune to basic spells in that form."
Harry raised an eyebrow at this as Yuna had prepared to launch a fireball.
"Die!" Yuna shouted as she threw it.
"Harry run!" Lily shouted, but it was too late as her son was stuck between two shelves.
Harry didn't bother listening to his mother's warning. Instead he had put his hand forward and grabbed her fireball that she had thrown at him. He got rid of it a moment later. This had momentary stunned the people present. Using the moment of shock, Harry ran forward in a blur and appeared in front of a surprised Yuna.
"Sorry Yuna." Harry said apologetically as he punched her right in the stomach, which had blown the wind out of her.
"Oh." Yuna gasped as she went limp and losing her transformation in the process. Harry had caught her right in time before she fell to the ground.
"Sorry Mrs. Black." Harry said giving the Veela an apologetic look.
She waved it off softly and stared at her daughter worriedly. "It's okay Harry."
"Yuna? Are you okay?" Harry asked worried as he checked the blond-haired girl who suddenly began to cry uncontrollably.
"I'm sorry..." Yuna sniffed. "I'm so s-so sorry... I didn't... I didn't mean to... oh god... I'm so... so... sorry." Yuna sobbed as she had finally regained her breath and crying onto his shoulder all at once.
"It's okay." Harry said trying to pacify the young half-Veela.
"No it's not." She sobbed hysterically. "You hate me now." The thought of the one person she wanted to be closer with the most hating her was too much to handle. It didn't help that she was at the point growth of her Veela abilities, which was heightening her emotions to feel even more misery.
Harry sighed. He was great at comforting people, especially girls that cried or Veelas for that matter, but that was another story.
"Look at me Yuna." Harry said gently raising her chin to meet his eyes. "No, I am not angry at you, neither do I hate you."
"B-But..." She said looking worried, but Harry silenced her by putting one of his fingers on her mouth. He looked at her very warmly.
"That's enough." Harry said lovingly as possible, not paying attention that his mom and her mom were all watching the scene before them. His face softened even more. "Now give me a hug, and it'll all be fine Yuna," He said seeing her embarrassed look. "Hug. Now." He said,
remembering how his Uncle Nicholas had said it would eliminate the awkwardness for two people should it ever arise.
Yuna sniffled at this and chuckled at how funny Harry seemed to act. She leaned forward and gave him a fierce hug.
"It's all just so romantic." Rosa said wiping some of her tears away as she looked at the scene between her older brother and good friend.
"How sweet," Lily said, as she looked starry eyed at the children in front of her.
This had both Harry and Yuna breaking off from their hug. Both were looking awkward and embarrassed. Harry couldn't help but silently curse his Uncle Nicholas for telling him that was how to stop a person from talking. If he hadn't known any better, he had just made the situation more awkward.
Little did Harry know… his Uncle Nicholas had only initiated the hug because they were a bit like family already. Hugging Yuna who had a crush on him was completely different for an entirely different reason, which could lead up to other conclusions.
If Harry had known the reasons when to initiate that kind of hug, he would have been slamming his head repeated against a wall for his ignorance.
"Oh dear, there is no need to be so embarrassed. It isn't unusual to see young children in love."
Amy said looking starry eyed at her daughter and hopefully future son-in-law.
Both went scarlet red at this.
Lily felt sorry seeing how the two seemed so flustered and decided to break the ice.
"Now come on, we have lots of shopping to do." Lily said to the two children who couldn't look at each other in the eye. Lily noticed that the two were indeed in the middle of attention, and she didn't need to explain why. They had all just saw a growing emotional tempered half-Veela go crazy and was about to murder someone right in front of them, but the boy being threatened just grabbed her fireball and dispersed it. In a blink of an eye, the boy blurred faster then the eye can see had slammed his fist against the enraged half-Veela's stomach, knocking the wind out of her. And then, before you could recover, the two were suddenly in the romantic mood and acting all sweet and innocent.
"Come on big brother." Sylvia said wanting to get rid of the awkwardness in the air.
Harry nodded and followed Sylvia onto the other side of the bookstore, away from Yuna who was embarrassingly red.
Immediately there were bursts of whispers as Harry was dragged away by his little sisters.
"Did you see that?"
"He grabbed the ball of fire! In his hand!"
"Yeah, did you see him disperse it?"
"That couldn't be wand-less magic was it?"
"That's enough!" Lily yelled to the whispering crowd. "Should I hear anything else about my son while I'm in this store, I'm going to hex you all into oblivion." Lily said in her most menacing voice, her green eyes glowing slightly.
Everyone gave her a look of fear and ran out the store before anything else could be said. Some could be heard mumbling about the devil itself or nightmares.
"Anyone else what's to whisper about my son?" Lily Potter whispered menacing to no one else in particular. The only person left in the store except the Potters and Blacks were the shopkeeper who looked deathly afraid.
"I thought so." She said smiling deviously that would even scare off even Voldemort's most highly trained Death Eater.
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"Harry, I'm sorry." Yuna said again as they left the store. She had been apologizing ever since the store was emptied.
Harry had only held her hand in his and gave her a smile.
"S'okay. You had told me earlier that your Veela Heritage was maturing and that your emotion's levels were increasing. I should have known better." Harry said comfortingly. "Cheer up Yuna. Hey, how about I treat you to some ice cream after we go to Madame Malkins?."
Yuna still looked doubtful, so Harry decided to pull out his trump card. For some reason, every time he would mention to go on a date with a girl, they would be extremely happy. "It can be a date!" He said cheerfully. "Just you and me," He said much to amusement to the mothers. "Oh and of course I'll pay."
Yuna went incredibly red at this and her face went into a big goofy smile, much to Harry's relief. "R-really, a d-date Harry?" She said stuttered out shyly.
Harry nodded brightly when he noticed that Yuna was no longer sad. "Of course!"
Yuna immediately cheered up.
"Meanwhile, we are going to find your fathers before we go robe shopping." Mrs. Black said as she smiled down at the two children. "We are going to need to look nice if we are going to that party."
"Date! Date! Date!" Amanda singed melodiously. "Big sister and Harry-kun are going on a date!"
Yuna blushed and had tried to hush her baby sister who just refused to shut up.
When the bookstore group had met up with the Quidditch store group, Amy had quickly told Sirius about how Yuna had lost control. Lily however, had discreetly told her husband about Harry's ability to catch Yuna's fireball.
Sirius had sighed at this. As a father, he would have to be responsible. He hated playing the adult.
"That is the 5th time that has happened this summer." Sirius paused. "I think it maybe to dangerous for you to go to Hogwarts for a while until you grow out of it."
"No!" Yuna blurted out. "No daddy! You can't!" Yuna said looking heart broken. "I've been waiting so long to go to Hogwarts! You can't! Please!" Yuna pleaded. Tears were threatening to spill from her eyes.
Alex, who was Yuna's twin pleaded as well.
"Dad! You can't do this to her! Yuna's wanted to go to Hogwarts since forever!"
"Uncle Sirius! Please don't! Hogwarts has always been Yuna's dream." Sakura said giving her uncle the deadly eye attack.
Seeing that all the other kids seemed to be jumping into the pleading game, Harry decided to help out a bit.
"Besides," Harry said talking over the group. "You have already bought half her supplies and it'll take at least two months for you to gather the papers to register her for home school." Harry inwardly smiled as he realized all the attention was on him. As oldest child, he had a lot of saying. He had quickly learned that from being the oldest and temporary babysitter during the times when his parents and the Blacks were having their private time. "Also, it will be harder for Yuna to make friends should she join Hogwarts after missing her first year. Oh, did I forget to mention that while she would be home, Sakura and Rosa wouldn't be home to keep her company whenever she would feel bored? So basically, you'll have to deal with a bored eleven year old girl for an entire year until she can start Hogwarts."
"Okay! Okay!" Sirius said throwing his hands in the air as if surrendering. Harry was always able to drag him down to do anything, like his wife. "Too much information! My head is hurting." Sirius said as the children cheered.
"T-Thank you Harry." Yuna said reverting back to her shy self.
Harry had only smiled at the girl.
"Okay, remind me why I have to look like this again?" A harassed looking Sirius said as his wife Amy had made him wear at least a dozen different illusion robes, before it would be made to his liking.
"As an Auror of the Ministry, not to mention one of the elite Aurors," Harry said playing his godfather. "You must attend as proud elite Aurors of the British Ministry of Magic."
Sirius had begun to grumble, "Well as an elite Auror, this better be worth it."
Lily and Amy had to giggle at this. Harry, the eldest of the Potters had always known just the right words to pacify Sirius so he could quit whining like a child. It was simply amazing.
"Harry-kun..." A hesitant voice had said behind him. "What do you think?"
Harry looked over his shoulder and saw a pretty looking Yuna wearing a beautiful black Japanese Kimono with silver edge lining.
"You look very cute." Harry commented as he checked her out up and down. "Beautiful, actually."
Yuna couldn't help but blush at his praise.
"Have you picked your dress robes yet?" Yuna asked shyly as she noticed almost everyone had picked a pair of dress robes, except for her father, Mr. Potter, and him.
"After I find James robes that will look right with mine, I'll start on Harry." Lily said annoyed at her husband who was beginning to whine like Sirius as well. Honestly, after ten to eleven years of their marriage, he was still acting like a child.
"Honey, why are we robe shopping? We have some at home don't we?" James pleaded as his wife was still searching for the 'proper' dress robes for him. "I mean, remember those dress robes we bought a year ago? We have only worn it once!"
"James!" Lily shouted heatedly. "Do not argue with me! I am clothes shopping for you right now and you nagging in my ear are not helping me very much."
"Sorry Lily flower." James said apologetically as he noticed his wife was indeed looking really angry.
Harry decided he should help his father out before he could get into trouble more.
"Mom, isn't Dad suppose to just wear his official Auror robes?" Harry asked as he noticed he had his mother's, and Mrs. Black's attention. "I mean, as an Auror, shouldn't Uncle Sirius and dad be wearing their Auror robes to the ball party? I remember reading about how Aurors were suppose to wear their uniform and promotion badges in representation of the Ministry they work for or something like that in one of your books whenever their is a official ball."
Lily had blinked at the realization of this.
Harry had thought for a moment his mother was going to blow her top at him, but she did not. Instead, she was glaring daggers at a sheepish looking James Potter.
"You know son, I think Amelia said something about that. I had totally forgotten and just remembered just now." James said in thought.
"Hey, I had just remembered. Amelia really did tell that to us mate. I can't believe we had forgotten."
"What?" Amy screeched. "You mean we been spending the past twenty minutes trying to find you two dress robes and you just realize you can't even wear them?"
"Sorry." Both James and Sirius had said at once.
Lily had sighed at this. Sometimes her husband and his best friend were so irresponsible.
"Mom? Are you going to find me some dress robes now?" Harry asked as he redirected wear the conversation was going.
"Just a moment dear, I'm going to have to find some robes that will match with your father's official Auror uniform." She said sighing.
Harry shook his head. "Mum, you look very beautiful in that dress, there is no need for you to get anything else. I doubt anything else can make you look as pretty as you look now." Harry said as he admired his mother who had thought of buying a beautiful white dress.
"Hey, that's my line!" James shouted at his son who seemed 'prone' to say whatever that was on his mind.
Lily ignored him and went up to her son. "Oh sweetie, that was so sweet of you." She said kissing him on the forehead, much to his confusion.
Harry had to smile at this. He loved having his mother showering him with affection. It felt incredibly nice. He didn't know why she had said that was sweet of him. He had just said what had truthfully come to mind.
"Come on. Let's go find you some robes." She said her in a cheerful voice.
As Lily led Harry away to the catalogs for custom made robes; James spoke to no one in particular.
"Is it me or is Harry, my own son is trying to steal Lily away from me?"
"Oh James, what on earth are you talking about? Can you see your wife and son are bonding?"
"Bonding?" James asked incredulous to a starry eye Amy Black who was looking at a smiling Lily Potter teasing her eldest son.
"How come Harry doesn't bond with me? He prefers to talk to Lily most of the time instead of me!" He said a bit jealous. For the past ten years, his son would have always looked up to him, but this past year, it had been different, he had been looking up to his mother instead of him He didn't want to admit it, but he missed having the attention his eldest son would always give him. It was just another thing he added to the list of suspicious things about his son.
"Wow Prongs, is that jealously I hear? You're jealous of your own son?" James went incredibly red. "Hell no, he's my son! Why should I be jealous?" Amy shook her head in exasperation.
"James, just because Harry is closer to Lily, doesn't mean he doesn't love you." Amy said comforting.
James just shrugged. He knew he was being selfish, but he had thought that being a Marauder, he should at least be the favorite parent of the family.
"No way mum, I am not wearing that!" Harry's voice echoed throughout the store.
"But it would look so nice on you Harry, don't you like it?"
"No!" He said right away.
"Aww, please?" His mother said giving him an irresistible cute pout. Harry had cringed at this.
"No fair mum! You know I can't resist that!" Lily couldn't help but giggle at this.
"Oh sweetie," She said giving him an affectionate hug. "You are so easy to tease."
Harry began to grumble at this.
"I am not wearing that." He said pointing at the old fashion robes his mother wanted him to wear. It was something what Mrs. Weasley had wanted Ron to wear at the Yule Ball.
"I'm picking something else, whether you like it or not." Harry said moving away from her, but his mother put a strong hand restraint on his shoulder.
"Okay, how about you wear this." She said as she skipped several pages and pointed to a picture of q nice looking black robes with silvery edges at the end of the robes, collar, and cuffs. It looked to be quite fancy looking and it matched with his bright green eyes.
"I'll take that one." Harry said right away before his mother would change her mind. Little did he know that his mother's earlier suggestion was just a joke to tease him. It looked to be something you would have worn in the mid or late-eighties.
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"Come back in a hour, we'll have the robes ready for you Lily." Madame Malkin said bidding one of her old classmates' good-bye.
"Bye Helen, see you in a bit." She said as she and the whole crew stepped outside the shop.
Thinking upon his promise he made a while ago, Harry decided to get it over with.
"Hey mom, Yuna and I are going to go get some ice cream." Seeing everyone's interest look as if they wanted to tag along since it was a great idea for some ice cream, he added in a clear obvious voice. "I had promised to take her to get some ice cream with me… a date… meaning us two… together…alone."
James had immediately given a whoop when he had understood the meaning of what Harry was trying to say and Sirius looked simply ecstatic. The mother's were looking at the two interestingly and the children were all looking excited for the two.
Yuna was looking bright red at this. She couldn't believe Harry was so blunt about it.
"Of course… of course Harry, you have my blessing."
Harry gave Sirius a puzzled look, his blessing? For Christ sake, they were only eleven and twelve! Sirius was talking as if he was going to marry his daughter off or something!
"Dad!" Yuna yelled embarrassingly wanting to get away from the staring the parents.
"Let's go Yuna." Harry said taking her hand gently and taking off before anything else could be said.
A Little bit Later…
Harry had to bite his lip from screaming out loud in aggravation as people all over the Ice Cream Parlor who were oh so nicely commenting on Yuna and him.
They looked to be an honest to God couple in the making.
Harry had to fight the urge to run toward a nearby wall and hit his head repeatedly against it.
Yuna had blushed at the stares and comments that were sent their way.
"Oh look dear, look at the cute little couple."
"That's so sweet!"
"They are starting kind of young aren't they?"
"Wow, I wasn't even dating at that age! Damn."
"I agree mate, I didn't even get any attention from girls until I was possibly fourteen."
Harry couldn't help but gritted his teeth as people were rudely pointing and making open comments.
"Hey Yuna, how's the Ice Cream? I had never tasted Peanut-Butter mixed with Cookies and Cream." He said talking over the comments about him.
Yuna had given him a small smile at breaking the ice.
"It's quite nice. I like the Cookies and Cream, and the Peanut-Butter doesn't taste to bad." Yuna said as she looking at Harry fondly. "What about you? Mint Cookies and Cream and raspberry Ice Cream? I ate that one before with my dad, it was really good."
"I like it too." Harry said as he licked a spoonful of it. "Cookies and Cream are my favorite and my mum had recommended me before in trying the Raspberry one."
"Want some?" Harry asked, getting a small spoonful for her and holding it to her mouth. Yuna blushed and put her mouth over it and swallowed the wonderful tasting ice cream. She smiled at Harry and they blushed together.
Not so far away…
"Excuse me sirs… ma'm… But may I ask what are you all doing?" A clueless shop owner asked as he noticed a bunch of adults and children were spying through his window across the street at the Ice cream shop. He wasn't the only one curious of what they were doing. There were shoppers staring at the 'stalkers' and wondering whom were they spying on.
"Shh." Sirius said to the shopkeeper. "We're spying on my daughter who is on a date."
The owner had a look of understanding. If his daughter were dating some guy, he would want to observe the date as well.
"Aren't they so sweet?" Lily commented when she noticed that Yuna had absentmindedly whipped some extra ice cream off Harry's cheek and had blushed in realization.
"Of course," Amy muttered. "We'll be having grandchildren in no time Lily." She murmured just loud enough for only Lily to hear.
"Move Padfoot, I can't see!" James said trying to look over his shoulder.
"The families will be united!" Sirius was whispering excitedly, ignoring his best friends desire to see.
"Hey uncle Sirius, can you move? I can't see as well!" Leon said trying to help his dad shove his uncle away.
"Mummy," Little Lily said loudly. "What is so special about dating? Just eating Ice Cream? If it is, can I go on a date with big brother next?" She said hopefully as she was hanging off her dad's shoulder.
"Aww, they're already done." Alex said pointing to his twin and the eldest Potter getting up from the small table.
"Hey, weren't we supposed to meet them up with somewhere ahead of time?" Rosa said in deep thought.
"We better hurry, before they realize we went missing, especially Harry. Harry is smart enough to realize where we of went should he discover we went missing." Lily said proudly.
"That's nothing to be proud of Lily. I mean, wouldn't Harry and Yuna be mad at us should we be discovered?" Sirius said in puzzlement.
"Quiet! Let's just hurry up and go." James said as all of them tried to leave the shop at once. They ended up getting stuck.
Harry and Yuna…
"Why did I get the feeling people were watching us a while ago?" Harry mumbled as his senses were going haywire.
Yuna had giggled slightly at this. Then her face went into a frown.
"Of course people were staring at us. Didn't you noticed the people around our table were giving us looks?" She said sounding a bit disapproving at how rudely adults were these days.
Harry shook his head.
"No… no… I knew there were people staring at us, I meant… like people who didn't want to reveal themselves were watching us." Harry paused. "It was as if someone was spying on us."
Yuna gave Harry a look of puzzlement.
"Are you absolutely sure?"
Harry nodded. With his magical senses increased, he knew exactly who was watching him and her.
"If you say so," Yuna said surely. She had never doubted Harry's instincts.
"Well, how did you like our date?" Harry said changing the subject.
"It was nice." Yuna said cheerfully. "Though…" She hesitated.
"Though what?" Harry said anxiously.
"Ummmm" Yuna didn't know what to say. She wanted to ask Harry that after every date a guy was supposed to kiss a girl, but she was to shy and embarrassed to hint it to him. Well, it wasn't exactly necessary, but in her book she wanted him to steal her first kiss and she wanted more than anything to steal his.
"Come on Yuna. You can tell me." Harry said.
"Did you know after every date, a guy is supposed to kiss a girl to end the date?" Yuna blurted out.
She immediately went red as a tomato as she realized she had blurted that out loud. She fought hard to keep her blush down, but she couldn't help but feel her cheeks heating up. Taking a deep breath, she gathered her courage and glanced at the person she had her crush on.
Yuna was surprised to see that Harry wasn't blushing or even in shock. She had expected him to be embarrassed or even looking at her incredulously, on the contrary he was just smiling as if he understood.
"Oh, is that all?" Harry said smiling as he remembered that girls her age would be having romantic dreams about having their first kiss. He wasn't surprised that she was hoping for a kiss after their 'date.'
Yuna nodded with a furious blush on her cheeks. If this was the old Harry she knew a few years ago, she was sure he would have laughed at her or said out loud he didn't want the cooties from her.
"Well, ok…" Harry trailed off as he leaned in toward her face.
Yuna eyes widened in shock as Harry had leaned his head towards hers and kissed her right on the lips.
Shock…
Yuna wasn't sure if she was in heaven or if this was all a dream. Closing her eyes, she leaned in to deepen the kiss.
Harry on the other hand… he knew he was wrong for kissing an eleven year old girl, but then again, he was twelve years old at the moment! He was about to pull away from the kiss when he had felt a slight surprise. There was the spark he felt in his old dimension with Ginny.
Was that her tongue trying to seek entrance in his mouth? He excepted it, letting his hormones get to him. Yuna thought she was going to faint.
Both were in for a shock when they had heard two voices speak from far away.
"Oh Merlin!" The girls said. "Is that my brother and your sister!" Leon said. "The families will be united!" "Hooray!" "Oh! Big brother has the cooties!" "I want a kiss!" Other familiar voices shrieked from several feet away.
In a blur, both were separated and looking down to the ground with matching blushes.
"Sorry." Both said at once.
"No, it was my fault." They said at once again.
"Aww… isn't that sweet!"
This had caused both of them to be awkward with each other.
"Hi mum, hi dad." Harry said recovering and trying to play it off, but his blush had betrayed him.
"Hi." Yuna said hiding behind Harry and trying to look innocent as she realized pretending it was just nothing might help.
But the parents were not listening to them.
James, Sirius, Leon and Alex were dancing in the middle of the street and singing about marriage. Amy had hearts in her eyes as she stared at the two lovingly. Lily… well Harry's mother was hollering and looking hysteric while making loud comments that she had never considered telling her son about the birds and the bees at this age or in a few years or she might be having grandchildren sooner then she might think.
All the kids had sweat dropped at this. Little Lily on the other hand, just asked out loud, "So does that mean that big brother and Yunie will be marrying each other and having a baby?"
Yuna looked like she was about to faint at the word baby, and Harry didn't know if he should pretend he didn't know the people who were dancing and hollering in the middle of the street, or just faint on the spot.
They headed to Flourish and Blotts after that. It was a nightmare beacuse Leon and Alex kept on makingkissy faces towards Harry when ever they caught his eye. Harry just rolled his eyes, he had other things to worry about. Harry was getting ready for the big show down between Lucius Malfoy, and Harry had to be careful about getting Riddle's diary before Ginny could have a chance at getting it. Harry looked in the window of the book-store and groaned, there were at least one hundred people stuffed in the book shop. They entered the shop and it smelled like old books and ink. Harry found what he was looking for and saw several red heads and a bushy brown-haired girl next to each other. They were looking around the store, hoping to find their friend.
Hermione finally caught sight of him and bellowed, "Harry! Harry! Over here!" She almost strangled him in her bear hug.
For the next several minutes, the Weasleys took time talking to Harry and asking him about why he had left so suddenly and unexpectedly over the summer. Well, more like Ginny was asking. Harry had apologetically explained to his friends that the reason he had left was that he couldn't sleep. Not wanting to wake bother anyone by waking them all up, he decided to leave early.
"Harry, it was fine if you just woke me up. I won't mind keeping you company next time you were unable to sleep." Ginny said looking at him with a hurt expression.
"I'll keep that in mind next time summer," Harry said smiling as Ginny had immediately cheered up hearing that Harry was going to come and stay at their home next summer.
Harry's good mood dimmed slightly at the sight of Draco Malfoy. Malfoy was on the stairs just above where Gilderoy Lockhart and Neville Longbottom were standing at a table surrounded by large pictures of Lockhart's own face, all winking and flashing dazzlingly white teeth at the crowd. The real Lockhart was wearing robes of forget-me-not blue that exactly matched his eyes; his pointed wizard's hat was set at a jaunty angle on his wavy hair. While Neville was standing next to Lockhart getting his picture taken, he had a smug grin on his pudgy face.
Harry felt a push at his side and looked down to see a short, irritable-looking man was dancing around taking photographs with a large black camera that emitted puffs of purple smoke with a blinding flash. "Out of the way, there," he snarled at Ron, moving back to get a better shot.
"This is for the Daily Prophet." He said acting like it was the most important thing in the world.
Lockhart then saw Harry and said with a delighted smile, "Why look who it is, it's Harry Potter, the savior of the Sorcerer's Stone!" The photographer gasped and before Harry, the Weasley's or his family could do anything, he was shoved to where Lockhart and Neville were standing. Neville was giving a smile that said he really did not want Harry taking his glory. The pictures were taken but Harry had refused to smile and instead he gave a frown.
Harry looked to his mother and sent her a pleading glance for help but she could not do anything for the photographers were in her way. The entire family, were trying to get through the crowd. James, Sirius, Leon and Alex were starting to threaten people to get to him. Unlike in Harry's old dimension, Ron was not envious of Harry's position right now because Harry did not look like he wanted to be there at all.
Gilderoy began to speak, "Ladies and gentlemen," he said loudly. "What an extraordinary moment this is! The perfect moment for me to make a little announcement I've been sitting on for some time!
"When young Harry and Neville here stepped into Flourish and Blotts today, they only wanted to buy my autobiography -which I shall be happy to present both now, free of charge-" The crowd applauded again. "They had no idea," Lockhart continued, giving Harry and Neville a little shake, "that they would shortly be getting much, much more than my book, Magical Me. Their schoolmates will in fact be getting the real magical me. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have great pleasure and pride in announcing that this September, I will be taking up the post of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!"
The crowd cheered and clapped and Harry and Neville found themselves being presented with the entire works of Gilderoy Lockhart much to Neville's delight and Harry's disgust. Lockhart was Neville's idol and he was so excited that he was going to be his teacher. If it was possible, Neville got even more stuck up and snobbish over the summer. Harry grabbed the books while rolling his eyes and walked over to his sibling's and the younger Weasley's, tipping the books into Ginny's new cauldron.
"You have these, I'll buy my own." This made Ginny turn red.
Neville was right next to them also and then like déjà vu, Draco Malfoy said with the normal sneer on his paleface, "Bet you loved that, didn't you Longbottom, Potter?"
Malfoy continued, "Famous Longbottom and Potter, can't even go to a book-store without making the front page."
Ginny said while glaring at Malfoy, "Leave them alone they didn't want all that."
What Neville Longbottom did next changed Ginny Weasley's view of the Boy-Who-Lived forever. Neville said in an arrogant voice, "Yes I did, don't talk about thing's you don't know little girl. I got fame, money, and girls." Ginny looked shocked and sad, her hero was an arrogant jerk. Harry placed his hand on Ginny's shoulder and said in a harsh tone, "Shut up Longbottom."
Malfoy smirked, "Ohhhh look, Potter's got a girl-friend." Ginny went scarlet at this. Harry placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. Harry said coldly to the albino boy, "A bloke would be the luckiest man in the world if they had Ginny as a girl-friend. She's smart, beautiful and funny. Everything a guy could want." Ginny turned around and looked at Harry with tears in her eyes. She decided right then and there that this boy was nothing like all the rest. She saw him in a new light. All of a sudden Mr. Weasley finally got to the children through the crowd, the elder Potters and Blacks were getting the rest of the books with their children.
"It's too crowded in here kids. Lets go outside." Trying to ease the tension.
"Well, well, well, -Arthur Weasley." It was Mr. Malfoy with his eyes as cold as the day Harry killed hi,. It took everything Harry had not to kill that man right there in the store. He had murdered an entire muggle family and raped their daughter while making the mother and father watch. Harry could never forget the look of pure terror on that girls face and the pleading voices of the parents.
"Lucius," said Mr. Weasley, nodding coldly.
"Busy time at the Ministry, I hear," said Mr. Malfoy. "All those raids... I hope they're paying you overtime?"
He reached into Ginny's cauldron and extracted, from amid the glossy Lockhart books, a very old, very battered copy of A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration. This was where it all happened. Harry was ready.
"Obviously not," Mr. Malfoy said. "Dear me, what's the use of being a disgrace to the name of wizard if they don't even pay you well for it?"
"We have a very different idea of what disgraces the name of wizard, Malfoy," he said.
"Clearly," said Mr. Malfoy, his pale eyes straying to Mr. and Mrs. Granger, who were watching apprehensively. "The company you keep Weasley, really, Mudbloods and muggles?" There was an intake of breath many of the people in the shop were now listening in on the conversation. Malfoy looked over to where the Potter children were seething in anger. Harry was aout to punch the bastard in the face if he wasn't careful. "Ah and the spawn of a blood traitor and mudblood." That's it, Harry lost it.
CRUNCH!
The crowd gasped as one of the most noble purebloods in the wizarding world got punched by a twelve-year-old and was sent flying through the glass window of the bookstore. The Potters and Blacks gasped as they saw the boy who was alway gentle to his family and friends, deliver a powerful uppercut and send the former Death Eater through the window. James did not think he had ever been so proud of his son in his entire life.
"HARRY!" Lily and Amy shreiked. Harry ignored them and climbed through the window to the street, Ron, Fred and George, and suprisingly Percy were cheering as the young boy proceeded to beat the crap out of the man.
"Get him Harry!" "Yeah Harry! Go Harry!" Leon, Alex and the two mature James and Sirius yelled. Harry yelled at the shocked man, "Get up you inbred. Fight like a man. Never fought muggle style huh?"
Harry jumped and roundhouse kicked the man hard in the chest, sending him flying in hard into a cart of dragon manure. Malfoy stood up wobbly and spat out a bunch of manurefrom his mouth. He started to walk towards Harry before he slipped in the manure and fell flat on his back. Many more people in the street laughed. Draco Malfoy ran to his father and helped him up while trying not to throw up at the revolting smell his father had radiating off of him. Before they left, Malfoy senior turned to Harry and said, "Mark my words Potter, you will pay for this. The Dark Lord will make you pay." Harry smirked and whispered,
"Bring it on."
They left and the crowd still sat shocked. Harry walked over to where Ginny was standing and saw that her cauldron had dropped on the ground in shock at seeing her crush defend the muggleborns. This was his perfect chance. Harry walked up and kneeled on the ground and picked up her books, secretly searching for the cursed diary. But what terrified him was that it was not there. Harry quickly calmed down and thought 'It must not be ginny in this dimension, but who? ' Harry pondered to himself. He handed her the cauldron adn turned around to see the furious face of his mother. Harry groaned, this was not over yet.
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After several hours of yelling, Harry was in his room avoiding everyone, just one kiss and fight and everyone had gone ballistic.
"You know Hedwig, sometimes I wonder if all this stress in this dimension might not even be worth it." Harry commented to his Owl who had hooted back in response, 'Oh well, tough luck being you.'
"I had never thought my parents would act like that." Harry said to himself. "Just when you had thought they were the perfect parents that any child would have, you find out that they had a strong desire for their children to hurry up and marry, have children." Harry said disbelievingly.
"Scratch that, make that only Yuna and me that they are hoping to get married first."
Knock Knock
"Harry! Harry! Where are you? Can I come in?" Little Lily asked out cutely from the other side of the door.
"Sure." Harry said as he pulled himself out of bed and went towards his door.
"Hey my beautiful flower." Harry said as he opened the door. "Shouldn't you be in bed?"
She immediately pounced on him.
"Yes, but I want you to tuck me in bed. Mommy says you can tuck me in." She said giving him a kiss on the nose.
"Mommy says so huh? Do you really want me to tuck you in?" Little Lily had nodded at this.
"Well then, I guess I'll have to tuck you in!" Harry said as he adjusted her so he would be carrying her in his arms.
Little Lily had giggled at this. "Shall we go princess?" Harry said in a pompous way.
"Yes." She said happily.
Carrying her, Harry headed towards the little red head's room. On the way to her room, Harry had paused for a moment. "Are you planning to sleep with mom and dad tonight? Or do you want to sleep in your room?" Little Lily thought hard.
"Oh! Oh! I got an idea! Can I sleep with you big brother?" Little Lily said hopefully.
"Pretty please?" She said pouting her lip out cutely. Harry groaned as she had done this.
"If you want." Harry said grudgingly.
"Yay! I can sleep with you tonight!" The little red head had giggled out.
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"Well, how was the kiss Yuna?" An anxious looking Sakura said as she talked to her good friend Yuna over the Floo network.
"It was… it was just… just wonderful." A dreamy eyed Yuna said to her friend as she absentmindedly touched her lip. "Harry-kun was just... amazing."
"What did he taste like?" Rosa said settling herself next to her sister.
"Mmmmm…Mint and Raspberry." Yuna replied dreamy.
Rosa and Sakura glanced at each other.
"Of course he would be taste like that. He had eaten that ice cream with you. Remember?"
Yuna paid no attention to this. She was looking out into space. She had her head resting on the palm of her hand.
"Sis…" Sakura said looking at her twin. "I think Yuna here is still love struck." She whispered.
"I think so too." Rosa whispered out.
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"Harry dear," His mother said in the early morning as Harry was helping her cook breakfast. "I know you may be surprised of our… behavior yesterday."
'What behavior? You saying how you are hoping I would be the first in the family to have children?' Harry thought.
"What are you talking about mum?" Harry said in fake ignorance as he was helping her cook. He had just finished taking his shower after his usual morning work out. His mother blushed.
"I was talking about me telling you how I wanted grandchildren as quickly as possible."
Harry had said nothing at this as he continued to cook.
"I want to say I'm sorry. I was only joking with you sweetie." She said honestly. "Just seeing Yuna and you kissing each other had made me realize how old I truly am. It feels as if it was just yesterday I was changing your diapers and teaching you how to walk. Before you know it, you see your son going to Hogwarts, becoming the top student of his class, saving the Sorcerer's stone, going on dates, and lastly kissing a girl. It makes me feel so old."
"Old?" Harry said turning his attention away from the pan of cooking sausages. "Mom, you do not look old. You look like you are still in your early twenties." Harry said thoughtfully. If he had remembered correctly, he was out of his mother's womb when she was nineteen, right after her graduation. She was married to her father and was pregnant with him. He was now twelve, so that meant she was thirty-one years old. She looked to be still in her early twenties, which was impressive for someone her age.
That was why he was so impressed that his mother had still looked so beautiful. Not to mention his dad had also looked younger then most his age.
True, wizards and witches lived longer then non-magical people because they were magical, but there weren't many that had kept their younger youth longer then others. There was only a handful that was able to look younger then they were supposed to be.
"Oh Harry, you are so sweet." She said giving him a small kiss on his cheek.
Harry couldn't help but smile seeing his mother looked happy. She did have a point though.
"So does this mean that I'm forgiven?" His mother asked hopefully.
Harry still wasn't sure if his mother was joking with him yesterday or not.
"I forgive you." He had only received a hug for his response.
"Just so you know, Yuna's mom was only joking with you yesterday as well son."
"Joking? I almost had a heart attack." Harry said sounding a bit angry. He had never been so freaked out in his entire life. Seeing his parents talking about how he would have them
grandchildren in no time, had scared the life out of him.
Lily had only given her son a sorry apologetic look. "I'm sorry." Harry waved it off.
"S'okay." Harry mumbled.
The two continued to cook in silence as time flew by. By the time they were done, most of the family was downstairs and breakfast was served.
"Hey dad," Harry said in a quiet voice. "Will grandpa and grandma be their today at the ball?" He was surprised to hear that his grandparents and his father's little sister were still alive when he was back-pedaling the memories of the youth in this dimension.
"Yes." James said shortly, not wanting to talk about it much. As the last surviving son in the Potter family, his parents were stricter on him instead of his little sister on how he should raise his children.
There was a reason why he became a prankster. Instead of being an old boring stiff pounce like his two older brothers, his inner self desired to be a prankster. He wanted to break the shell that he was given at birth. Sure he loved his parents, but they were always hard on him and his children about manners and politeness, which had aggravated him to no end. As one of the last Pureblood families he was taught about everything, from how to eat to talking in a respectful tone in civilized conversations.
Speaking of proper antique, he was expected to work on his kid's manners until the next time his parents see them again… or so his mum ordered him. Thankfully, he had his wife Lily to handle things like that. He was never good when it came to proper antique.
He was still a bit ticked on how his parents disapproved of his marriage with Lily. Oh no, they were not part with that Muggle-born eradication with Voldemort. They had just thought she wasn't right for him. They had thought she was one of those gold diggers only going for him because he was a Potter, rumor descendant of the Gryffindors. If his parents had known him better, they would have understood that he was the one chasing after Lily, not Lily chasing after him in school.
"James dear, I know your parents may not like me, but there's no need for you to separate yourself from your parents."
James had only smiled at this.
"That's why I love you Lily. Always worrying about other people instead of yourself."
Lily had blushed coyly at this.
Harry had let out an extremely loud cough.
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"I'm finished." Harry said coolly as he stood up.
"Big brother, can we go play?" Little Lily squeaked out as she hurried finished her food. What she really meant was, can they go practice flying, but she didn't want her parents to find out.
"Sure, later okay?" Harry said quietly as he left the table.
Silence had befallen on the table as Harry left and James had known why. It was because of his parents… or Harry's grandparents. He knew they weren't particular fond of Harry.
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"So they detest me." Harry said out loud.
At first, he was happy knowing his grandparents had survived, as well as his father's sister, his Aunt, but later when he was skimming through the memories, he had grown to dislike them.
His grandparents were slightly on par with the Dursleys, but a lower level. Since his original self was a bit clumsy, rarely showed talent, and didn't look like he had the guts in standing up to people, his grandparents had badmouthed him about how he would never make a proper Heir of the Potter fortune. True, his original self was considered loud, rash, and he had to admit, annoying, but that was all because of his grandparents verbal degrading. His grandparents considered him weak and called him a 'ignorant' boy when he was nothing but a child at the time! Were not all children at a small age a bit ignorant, loud, a bit annoying, and sometimes spoiled at such a young age?
Just what kind of grandparents was that? Telling they're own grandchild that he was worthless and that he would be no one special in the Wizard World? Though it was not his memories, he was still able to feel the pain on how they had said that to him.
That was also one of the reasons why his mother did not get along with his grandparents. It was mainly because when they were badmouthing him, his mother was in hearing range and she blew up on them. Like every mother, they were quite protective of their children.
Just when he thought everything in this dimension was perfect, it turned out that it wasn't. His grandparents disliked him, it was possible for him to fall in love with Ginny but she needed to make the choice for herself. Lastly, he was mainly sent to this dimension to kill Voldemort so that everyone he loved could have a future. Looking up at the bright sky in which the sun was rising, Harry inwardly wondered how his grandparents would react seeing the new him.
Authors Note: I could not believe it. I was almost done with the new chapter 13 and I had not saved it all yet and the dam power went off. I LOST THE CHAPTER!! I have never been more pissed in my entire life. It is hard for me to write because I need to get better grades or I will go to summer school (yay!) I mostly write in my Math class or study hall. Bear with me people, this is going to take a while to finish. I am mostly getting ideas into my head about the fourth year, and not so much the second or third. We'll see how it goes. Please REVIEW!