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Chapter 19: Leash Laws

Harry shook in his step as they entered the dark, ominous looking place. "I change my mind," he whispered. "Let's leave!"

"Now, now, pet." Harry flinched at Jane's voice. "Let's be a brave boy and follow me to Aro. He will be very unhappy if you just leave without saying hello. He may do something rash for such horrible manners."

Edward growled at her as he stepped in front of his brother. "You aren't here to talk to us. You're here to lead us to your leaders. Shut up and keep moving."

Jane glared at him before whipping around with a grunt and walking forward, purposefully faster so that the little human wouldn't be able to catch up. Rosalie rolled her eyes and nodded to her husband. Emmett gave her a look of understanding before going over to Harry and hoisting him up on his back. "Hey!" Harry protested. "Let me down!" Despite his obvious embarrassment, the smaller boy wrapped his arms around Emmett's broad shoulders and held on tightly. "If you let me go and they eat me, you're gonna be in so much trouble with mom and dad."

Even Jane snorted at that.

"I'm not joking, Emmett," he continued flatly.

"Okay, obviously I'm not gonna let them eat you!" the vampire said in irritation.

"Emmett, stop being mean to your brother," Esme hissed as her grip tightened on Carlisle's arm.

"Esme!"

"Behave!"

"If you're done quarrelling," Jane interrupted with her arms crossed, "we're here." She walked ahead and bowed. Harry frowned as they entered the room and saw Aro, Caius and Marcus nodding at her.

"Well aren't they just the handsomest men you ever saw," Harry whispered, knowing that they heard them anyway.

He watched the glint in Aro's eyes shimmer as he came closer. "Carlisle, my old friend, it is wonderful that you've finally decided to visit again, and with a new addition I see."

"Tell me his power is to look like a human," Caius said with distaste.

"No he's a human," Alice said, not frightened by what their reaction may be. "And he's a wizard too."

"Alice," Edward hissed. "The plan was to ease into that."

"You're trying to get me killed!" Harry accused. "Mom! Dad! She's trying to get me killed!"

"Mother and father?" Aro asked, curious and slightly amused.

"Er…" Harry squirmed off Emmett's back and made a move to walk towards Aro. Rosalie jumped to stop him but the three Volturi leaders raised a hand to stop her.

"We won't hurt him, vampire's honor."

"Yea, because I'm going to believe that," the blonde scoffed.

"It's okay, Rosie," Alice told her. "They really won't."

Marcus smirked as Caius glared at the stubborn vampire. "Restrain your daughter, Carlisle. I have no patience for wizards, after all. I may be tempted to-"

"Okay, yea we get it," Harry said with a roll of his eyes. "If Rosalie doesn't shut up you'll do your crazy vampire quick stuff, grab me and pretend you're going to hurt me. Can I get my word in now?"

Caius' eyes widened and he took a step forward in anger. Edward crouched, ready to attack when Aro pulled Caius back. "Now, now brother. Do calm yourself. This one seems very interesting."

Harry took a deep breath and gave them the bravest face he could muster. "I need your help to save the wizarding world. Now I know there's a huge animosity between-"

"Huge? You underestimate the hatred between us!" Marcus exclaimed.

"…Okay, I understand there is a tremendously large animosity between us that will not be resolved very easily, but this isn't just some kind of 'do my work now,' deal. More like…You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours?"

Aro tilted his head and stopped his brothers before they could make a move to hurt the boy. "What exactly is it you want from us?"

"Do you remember the Dark Lord Voldemort?"

Aro's nose scrunched up and he waved his hand, turning to sit down on a throne-like chair. "If it is a problem with that ridiculous fool who thinks he can trick us into falling into his ranks, then you might as well leave. We want nothing to do with that mongrel."

"Not even if it's to destroy him?" Harry asked, desperation seeping through.

Caius looked at him and glanced at Aro. "Let him speak, brother. Vengeance was something we always wanted in terms of the Dark Lord."

"Speak, Cullen," Marcus demanded, eager now for information.

"Err, well…" Harry glanced back at Carlisle, who nodded encouragingly at him. "I know that your coven is…the ruler of vampires or something-"

"Close enough," Jane snorted from her position in the corner of the room.

He rolled his eyes and ignored her. "And I also know you have rules that must be obeyed, such as keeping this whole vampire world a secret from humans…or muggles."

"Muggles?"

"Non-magical people. It's just our name for normal humans."

"Although it is wonderful that you've done your research," Aro voiced, "What does it have to do with You-Know-Poo."

"Well- did you just call him-" Harry stared at the vampire, bewildered, as the two other Volturi leaders turned to glare at Aro. "Ah…anyway- there have been some vampires who have joined Voldemort's cause and are working with the Death Eaters to bring him back. If they bring him back then you all risk being exposed."

"Are you sure of this?"

"Very sure," Carlisle cut in. "We have spoken to Albus Dumbledore who has much experience fighting against Voldemort. The Dark Lord feeds on the fear of others and likes to make a show of his raids and attacks. There's no way he wouldn't use vampires to massacre the human world."

"Well this isn't very nice," Aro frowned. "We may feed from humans but that doesn't mean we are trying to exterminate the world of them, and I'd rather not be left alone with just the Wizarding World."

"Gee, thanks," Harry told him sarcastically.

"I'm still not sure we should become involved with the affairs of the Wizarding World," Marcus said wearily.

"Please, we need all the help we can have and from what I hear, the Volturi are the best anyone can get."

"Flattery will get you nowhere," Aro said with a smirk.

Harry fell to his knees in frustration and bowed his head.

"Harry, get up," Edward hissed.

"Listen," Harry started. "I know there is bad blood between us, but our world does need your help."

"And what happens after we help you? They round us up and kill us again?" Caius growled.

"No!" Harry started angrily. "A powerful potions master is making a potion that stops bloodlust for humans-"

"And why would we take that?!" Jane said in outrage. "To drink animal blood?! Revolting!"

Harry gave them a sheepish smile. "You'll have pretty eyes?"

Aro couldn't help but laugh. "This is obviously important to you… why?"

"Because I'm the Boy Who Lived and he comes back he's gonna kill my family, my friends, everyone who isn't a pureblood, and then me."

"Pureblood," Marcus scoffed. "They think so highly of themselves just because they have pureblooded magic?"

"Yes, and they're willing to kill any non-pureblood in their way, which includes half-breeds. He'll turn the vampires he recruits against you, I know it!"

Aro stood still, all laughter gone. "How about this for a deal…" he started seriously.

~*~

"What if they ate him?" Draco said anxiously. "What if the sucked his body dry, not one drop of blood left, and now he's lying on the ground dead!"

"Would you calm down?" Ron said in irritation.

"Ron, how could you be so…ugh!" Draco jumped out of his seat and began pacing around the living room. "Our best friend, BEST FRIEND, is dead! And you're just sitting there playing chess!"

"He isn't dead," Hermione answered flatly as she moved into a more comfortable position now that Draco was off the couch. "You're overreacting. Why don't you do something relaxing? Take a nap, blah, blah, blah…" Ron snickered as he leaned over and kissed her cheek. He waited for Neville to move before pondering what to do next. Draco's jaw dropped as he stared at them in shock.

"Harry may have been killed by these Volturi people and all of you are pretending like he's in the lavatory! What kind of sick friends are you?"

"Who would have guessed that it would be Draco who would be the first to start flipping out on us," Ginny said thoughtfully. "In all honesty, I thought Neville would crack first."

Neville glanced up at her with a snort. "Funny enough I thought that too."

Draco glared at them before shaking his head and crossing his arms. He turned away from them and growled. "I'm so sorry, Harry that our friends are horrible, inconsiderate people who don't worry about your well-being! I'm sorry that I'm the only one worrying that your family has been torn to shreds while the Volturi feast on you!"

"It's okay, Draco," Harry shrugged as he walked into the room.

Draco's eyes widened and he stumbled back in shock. A bright smile stretched across his face and he lunged forward, embracing his friend tightly. "Harry! You're alive! See! I told them you'd be okay, but they didn't believe me."

"Oi!" Ron's shouted as he picked up a pillow and threw it at the boy. Draco's head jerked into Harry's and the two fell into the wall laughing.

"Look what you did, Ron," Draco scowled in faux annoyance. "He's safe from the vampires but you've given him a concussion!"

"Course I did, with that thick head of yours," the redhead muttered.

Ginny fell back laughing as Hermione jumped onto Ron's lap when she saw Draco moving forward angrily. "Now, now, Dray," Neville laughed, "He was just joking!"

Harry smirked as he pulled the blond away. Hermione gave an annoyed 'humph' as she watched them move to the other couch. "And don't think about attacking my boyfriend again, Draco Malfoy!" She warned him. "I'm already beating Lavender Brown away with a stick and I don't need to protect him from you too."

"I don't need you to protect me, Mia," Ron groaned.

The others looked at each other before giving the couple a look and letting out a loud "Awwww, Mia!"

"Where'd you get the 'a' from, hmm?" Draco asked.

"Yea, did you just put it in randomly?" Harry said.

Neville nodded in agreement. "If you chose a letter randomly, it could have been Mio or Mic or Mix or Min or Mim or Mi-"

"I get it, Neville," Ron sneered with a glare.

"Oo, attitude," Ginny chuckled.

"Leave him alone!" Hermione demanded.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Draco said, holding his hands up and pointing to Ron. "He doesn't need you to protect him, Mia." They fell into laughter once more as Hermione hid her blush by burrowing her face in the crook of Ron's neck.

"Alright, alright! Knock it off already!" The redhead exclaimed. An awkward silence fell upon them before Ron cleared his throat. "Well? What happened?"

Harry looked up and smirked. "They gave me ice cream."

"This is not something to joke about," Hermione reprimanded with a roll of her eyes.

Harry sighed in response and stood to face all of them. "Aro-"

"Oh, Harry! You're alive!" The wispy voice of Luna interrupted him and he turned to smile at her. She closed the portrait hole behind her before gliding gracefully towards Ginny. "Professor Snape was looking quite worried in our class."

"Was he really?" Draco asked in amusement.

The blonde Ravenclaw nodded with a giggle. "Someone in my class got high marks and he said 'excellent work as usual, Cullen' and walked away! The poor boy was standing there so confused! I had to wake him from his stupor so that the purbles wouldn't eat his books when he wasn't looking."

"…right…purbles," Neville answered, nodding slowly for everyone. "Err…anyway, Harry. Would you like to continue with what happened?"

Harry sighed with a frown. "Aro isn't going to take the potions-"

"What?! So it didn't work?!" Draco exclaimed. "You always make things work! You're Harry Bloody Cullen and before that you were freaking Harry Potter!"

"Draco, why are you so hyper?"

"I had five coffees and I didn't sleep last night because I was so nervous that you'd be eaten!"

He shook his head and continued. "The Volturi and any other vampire that chooses to drink human blood will continue. However, Aro was curious about Severus' first attempts. He wanted to see his notes on the potion, which we brought of course to convince Aro of its efficiency. We weren't expecting him to be interested in the prior stages of Severus' work."

"What did he want?" Hermione asked.

"He wanted to see if Severus had made any potions where both human blood and animal blood tasted horrible."

"And he did!" Ron said with an excited smile. "Severus was so pissed off that day because he thought he finally had it."

"What is he going to do? Punish the vampires on Voldemort's side?"

"He figures this is a more pitiful death," Harry said with a grimace. "They'll probably starve themselves to the brink of insanity. It still smells as tempting and delicious as it was before, it's just the taste is stinging and…gross I guess. When that happens, the Volturi will take mercy on them."

"How kind," Ginny said sarcastically. "If it doesn't work? I mean, what says that will be enough to stop them?"

"Well they're only giving them a few weeks of this punishment. After that, they're going to send out their best trackers to bring them back and kill them slowly and painfully."

"Well, vampires really don't like us wizards do they?"

"Not when we're threatening their lives." Harry grinned smugly. "They took quite a liking to me. I think I even saw Jane blushing."

"Vampires can't blush, silly Harry," Luna told him with a twinkle in her eyes. "So get over yourself."

"Oi!" he shouted as the others laughed at his expense.

"So what are you going to do?" Draco asked when the laughter died down.

Harry shrugged and rested his head on the palm of his hand. "We're going to have to comply with his rules if we want them backing us up."

"Do we really need the Volturi to help us?" The raven-haired boy turned his head to give his friend a look. Draco raised his hands in surrender. "Sorry."

"It's necessary," Neville nodded. "It's definitely important if we want to win."

"There are highly trained aurors," Ginny voiced.

"That had to wait for a baby to take the dark lord out," Harry said with a dark grin.

"Okay, fine! We need them, especially since the whole vampire problem is something they can take care of, but if they try to bite me I'll throw fire balls at them."

"Deal. Now tell me, how was the opening feast last night? And the first day of classes today?"

"Delicious and boring respectively," Ron told him. "Too bad you missed it, mate. I can't believe you got to stay in Italy for the whole week. And Esme allowed it? Blasphemy. Oh! And Severus was glaring daggers at the new defense teacher."

"Ronald," Hermione said in irritation. "It wasn't like he was in Italy for leisure. Be a little sensitive."

"It was just a joke, Mione," the boy whined.

"Yea, Hermione!" Draco butted in. "Let the pup off the leash once in a while!"

"Who's our new teacher?" Harry quickly asked before the red-faced Ron could say anything.

Ginny decided to fill him in. "Some man named Wallington. Dumbledore said that he's from the ministry. People are saying that the ministry almost sent a woman named Umbridge, a person with a much higher position than Wallington."

"Why didn't they?"

"There's nothing serious going on in Hogwarts! Nothing dangerous, the school isn't falling apart. Why send her if it isn't so important?"

"Well then why did they send Wellington in the first place?"

They all shrugged at his question. "There aren't even rumors for that question, Harry."

Ron snorted as he crossed his arms. "All I know is that he looks like a right git."

"You're only saying that because he's handsome and every girl was practically drooling when he walked in," his sister accused.

He rolled his eyes and nodded his head. "Yeah, yeah, Ginny. Remember Gilderoy Lockhart, the man who lied to the public and wouldn't help a defenseless girl that was stuck in the Chamber of Secrets?"

She blushed and looked away with a 'humph.'

"That's what I thought. Just you wait! Wellington's name will be on the list of Hogwart's worst defense teachers."

"Ronald, have some respect!" Hermione snapped.

"Sorry," he mumbled.

Draco snorted and ignored Harry's warning glare. "Arf arf!"

"MALFOY!"

AN: Hey guys! Sorry it was so short, but I wanted to get this out so you guys didn't have to wait so long (like you have already). If there's any errors in any well tell me right away and I'll fix it as fast as I can! Like I said I read through this really quickly so I probably missed a lot of spelling or grammar errors! I hope you liked it!