Chapter 26
As Harry and Marshal were walking down back to their dormitory they ran into Seth coming out of his.
"Hey Harry, what are you doing with Hawthorn?" Seth asked by way of greeting.
"Hey Seth, this is Marshal Hawthorn, my roommate. Marshal this is Seth Fletcher. I met him earlier yesterday." Harry introduced the two.
"Hey Fletcher." Marshal nodded politely.
"Hawthorn, how ya doing?" Fletcher nodded back. "So who's your other roommate Harry?"
Harry shook his head. "Marshal is my only roommate."
Seth furrowed his brow. "I thought you said you had two roommates."
"I did, but now I don't." Harry said tersely.
"There was a bit of an incident with Moore." Marshal said briefly.
"I blame you for that you know?" Harry said to Seth. "If you hadn't jinxed me, I wouldn't have gotten Moore for a roommate." He mock glared at the wind demon.
Seth laughed a bit at that. "Oh really, it's my fault is it?"
It irritated Harry a bit that Seth was laughing at what had happened, even though he'd been trying to act as though it hadn't affected him in the least. He reminded himself firmly that Seth didn't know what had actually happened though and he had no intention of telling him. From the look on Marshal's face, he also didn't appreciate the laughter but it looked like he was respecting Harry's right to privacy by not spilling the beans.
"Well I still need to gather my summer work and turn it in. I'll leave you two alone then." Marshal said, taking his leave.
"Shit! Summer work! I still need to turn mine in! I'll see you later Harry." Seth ran off to turn in his summer assignments.
Left alone, Harry knew he had to send a letter.
Dear Vol,
I hope this letter reaches you well. I've made a few friends here at school, one of them is a wind demon and I'm not sure what the other one is, only that he has blue skin and a tail. Do you have any idea what he could be? I feel kind of rude just asking. I did meet one other guy, an Irish demon named Jason Moore. He was going to be one of my roommates until this morning. He's got an ego the size of your army I swear, and when he tried to hit on me he wouldn't take no for an answer.
Anyway, he should be getting expelled by week's end for tying me up and attempting rape. Thankfully my other roommate, the one I mentioned with blue skin and a tail, came in and freed me. I just thought you might want to know that JASON MOORE will be out of the school by Monday morning.
How's my family doing? I haven't seen them in so long, I miss the quality family time Draco and I had been spending with them.
Love,
Harry
Dear Draco,
I've gotten to school all well and good, there are such interesting people here. Quite a few of the students here seem to be demons. Just wanted to give you a heads up that I'm sending an ex-roommate of mine over to Voldemort soon. Yeah, I know, I've been here less than a full day and I already have an ex-roommate. Impressive, eh? My luck held out again and the first person I didn't get along with turned out to be a roommate with an ego problem. Give the Dursley's my best.
Harry
Harry tied the letters up and went to the owlrey to send them off. He felt no remorse for setting Moore up on the front line for vengeance. If everyone was right then Moore's daddy would just get his son out of trouble even if he did get expelled. And Harry wanted revenge. Moore thought he was just bluffing when he said he'd be wishing for death. Well as long as Voldemort had a bit of time to consider things, he wouldn't jump off the handle and Moore would be wishing for death within minutes of his expulsion.
"What are we going to do now that he's in prison?" Molly Weasley fretted, bustling about the kitchen of Grimauld Place.
"Well we can't just disband, that's for damned sure." Moody grumbled from his spot at the table.
Sirius just sat at his place in a corner off to the side where no one paid him any mind, thinking. Dumbledore had been the Secret Keeper for this place, and now that he was in prison he wasn't about to be giving away his address any time soon. No one bothered to ask Sirius if they could keep using his place. Hell no one had ever actually asked if they could use this place to begin with, much less when Dumbledore was sent away.
"No one's suggesting we disband Moody, so just shut the bloody hell up about that already. As often as you say shite like that one might infer that youwere suggesting we disband." Snape snarled from where he sat.
Oh yeah, that was another thing Sirius couldn't stand. Snape still had access to his family home. HIS home and Snivellus had unlimited access.
"Shouldn't we still be looking for Harry?" Remus pointed out. Thank Merlin for Remus, always knowing the right thing to calm Sirius down. Maybe the Order did have full access to his family home but they were still looking for Harry.
"I think we have a bit more pressing matters to attend to Lupin." Snape sneered.
Well there went the calm.
"Oh yeah Snape, let's forget about the boy who's supposed to save us all, lets focus on the old man who was supposedto have been training him. And we all saw how well that was going. Last time he saw He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, he barely escaped on luck." Sirius pointed out snidely.
"Bloody mutt, you're just getting sentimental over you goddamned godson." Snape taunted him.
"Now Snape, he does have a point." Arthur pointed out calmly.
"I don't care if he has the bloody Space Needle for a point." Snape ground out.
That tore it, Sirius fumed silently. As soon as everyone was out of his house, he was setting up some more wards. He was sick and tired of everyone dropping in, unannounced and unwelcome at all hours. The Fidellus Charm may have been the most powerful warding spell for people on the up and up, but he was a Black, and he knew there were far more powerful wards a child could do if they were willing to spill a little blood.
Maybe if he had the place safe enough he would be able to get in contact with Harry and let him know it was safe he would be able to visit and Sirius could help train him. Any way Sirius could keep Harry safe, especially from Voldemort, he was all for it.