Chapter six

The following morning, a large black car was sitting outside Harry's house. The four members of Lightning's Kiss saw it as they walked inside.

'Who owns the fancy car outside, you Harry?' Mark asked.

'Oh Kingsley sent it over for me, he's making sure I'm safe when I have to go anywhere. Hector here will be my driver along with body guard. Give me a minute will you,' Harry walked over to Hector, 'This is stupid, if we get attacked and the band is with us, they will see magic. I might just explain it to them, Martin said they have heard rumours and will keep it to themselves. They'd be in danger otherwise.'

'Yes they would, alright, but explain to them they have to keep it to themselves and you know they will want you to prove it.'

'Yeah, figured they will, alright,' Harry turned back to the band, 'There's something I need to tell you, but you have to promise to never tell anyone, not you're mother's, girlfriends, whoever.'

'Sure, of course we will,' Liam said looking a little confused but the others all agreed.

'Okay, you have seen some strange things over the last few years, heard about things as well, like bridges collapsing, hurricane's, strange deaths, right.'

'Yeah and we all felt cold a lot, couldn't work out why. So you know what caused all that?' John asked.

'Yeah I do, witches and wizard, evil ones. I'm a good one by the one, so is Hector. Kingsley, he's not my financial adviser, he's our minister, same as you're prime minister. But we've been friends for years. Now, the evil ones, there what we call death eaters and their boss was a bloke called Voldemort.'

'He was the most evil and uncaring dark wizard there ever was, powerful as well, he's gone down in history as the worst dark wizard in our history,' Hector said, 'A couple of months ago, there was an all our war between all of us and all of them. The war had actually started before Harry was born. A huge fight took place at our school, Hogwarts. Harry ended up killing Voldemort making our world safe for the first time in a long time. But there still are some of his followers that want to kill Harry. I'm what you call an auror, dark wizard catcher, so I've been assigned to protect Harry, which means all of you as well.'

'We thought you should know because of the danger. Now we can protect you and I can protect this house with a charm, but it means no one could get inside or even see the place.'

'Okay, well I believe you because too many weird and unexplained things have been going on. But if you did this charm on the house, what about Madeline? She said she would be stopping by.'

'When I wrote my address down for all of you, that basically gave you permission to see the place even if I haven't done the charm yet. When you do the fidelius charm, you have what's called a secret keeper, they keep the location secret and they are the only ones that can tell anyone. I'll be my own secret keeper, I won't put anyone else in danger.'

'Actually the minister and I talked about that Mr. Potter. The death eaters know how protective you are of everyone. He suggested you make him secret keeper.'

'Kingsley's too busy if I need to let someone in, so he wouldn't work. You couldn't Hector, if they see you, the death eaters will try to take you out. I won't let Hermione or Ron, but their in Australia trying to find Hermione's parents and give them back their memories.'

'You're close to the Weasley family, what about one of those?'

'They just lost Fred, no, I won't put them through any more danger. Bills wedding got attacked because the death eaters knew I was there. What about Neville, he's trustworthy and one of my closest friends, but since we never really hung out, they might not think of him.'

'Actually, Neville might work. Can you contact him, get him here to talk.'

'Yeah, give me a minute and don't be surprised,' Harry said to the band, then shrugged as went to his fireplace, stuck his head in and threw some powder down, 'Mrs. Longbottom, hi, is Neville about?'

'Harry, yes he is, I'll just call him. Neville, Harry needs to speak with you,' she called behind her.

'Harry, what's up?'

'Can you come here, I need to ask you a favour?'

'Sure, I'll be right there.'

'Thanks,' Harry pulled his head out them stepped back and Neville appeared in a flash of green flames and hugged Harry, 'Hi, it's good to see you Nev.'

'You too Harry, so what's the favour and who are all these blokes?'

'A lot to go into, but those four are muggles, but I needed to tell them about me, well us. This is Hector, my auror guard Kingsley put here.'

'Don't tell me, death eaters right, want you dead for killing Voldemort?'

'You got it, but that's my life. I'm putting the fidelius charm around my house, but need a secret keeper. Ron and Hermione are too obvious, Kingsley offered, but his busy now his minister.'

'You want me to be you're secret keeper, I'm honoured mate.'

'Neville, this is serious and dangerous. If they found out, they would try to kill you.'

'Yeah, but I've just gone through a war with this blokes, I think I can handle that. You taught me well over the years, best teacher I ever had.' Neville chuckled.

Harry laughed, 'Well you were a good student,' Harry said making Neville laugh again, 'But I want you to think about it first, I mean really think about it. Look what happened with my parents, I know that's a little different, but they still ended up dead, Sirius got sent away, I got this scar and became, well famous.'

'I don't need to think about it Harry, you're a mate, I'd do anything for you, even try to keep you safe. Now that's hard as you always end up in dangerous situations.'

'Git and I don't deliberately do that Nev, it just happens. But that's why I told these blokes. I'm a member of their band, our band called Lightnings Kiss and we're rehearsing to record our first album. We just signed a record contract, that's why I had to explain all this to them. I thought being with muggles, doing normal things, I would get to have a normal life, doesn't seem to work out for me though.'

'So our saviour needs saving,' Neville laughed which made Hector laugh.

'Sorry Mr. Potter,' Hector said still chuckling.

'You're a git too Hector and don't call me saviour Neville. You helped end this war remember.'

'Yeah, I helped, but you were the one that killed Voldemort, but made us think you were dead first. I still haven't forgiven you for that Harry.'

'Sorry, I had no choice. He thought I was dead, Malfoy's mother told him I was, but I still needed to kill the snake. There was just too many death eaters, snatchers and giants around me. I just let him think I was dead, but you know what the bastard did?'

'Took his frustrations out on you, how many times did you escape him anyway?'

'Five I think, but yeah, he tortured me for a while. You know what he was like, couldn't resist. I heard all the death eaters laughing, they thought it was hilarious, watching me being thrown around like a rag doll.'

'Yeah, I bet they did, especially Bellatrix, bitch. Hard to believe Mrs. Weasley killed her, I wanted to, she got to her first. I wanted to ask you about something. He tried to kill you as a baby, you got that scar, he tried again that night?' Neville shrugged.

'Yeah, alright, I've got another lightning shaped scar, on my chest, right above my heart actually.'

'Can I see it?'

Harry rolled his eyes, then unbuttoned his shirt, 'See, it's the same, just bigger.'

'Actually it's not the same Mr. Potter, it's opposite to the one on you're head.'

Harry looked down, then conjured a mirror, 'Yeah, you're right, I never took any notice before. First few weeks I just wanted to rest. You know I haven't rested in seven years, this is the first time I have.' Harry vanished the mirror then did his shirt back up.

'I believe it mate, so when do you want me to do this charm and you will have to show me how to do it, I've never done the fidelius charm before.'

'I can show you Mr. Longbottom, it's easy actually. But apart from the band and this Madeline you mentioned Mr. Potter, everyone else will need permission, including you and me.'

'Alright, Neville I'll get Hector to show you then do the charm, I'll get you some parchment to write out some permission for me, Hector and a few others, like Ron and Hermione, luna, Seamus as well. The muggles, if I need to give them permission to come in, well I can show them the note you write, but what will I say to them.'

'Harry, you could say it's a superstitious thing, something you like to do to new visitors,' Martin said.

'Not a bad idea, I know muggles believe in those types of things.'

'Okay, we'll go with that,' Harry summoned some parchment, ink and quill and handed them to Neville, 'Are you sure you want to do this Neville?'

'Yes and you can get in contact with me anytime if you need to. I know I will be going back to Hogwarts to finish my last year, whenever they finish repairing it that is. Damn those giants did some damage. I was there yesterday, helping Sprout with the green houses and plants, most are gone, so she has to go looking for more.'

'You know what I noticed is gone, I almost cried when I saw it.'

Neville laughed, 'The quidditch pitch, you and flying Harry, but you're too good, so I don't blame you, me I hate being up there.'

'You just had one bad experience, you should let me take you up.'

'No way, the way you fly, fast, diving, taking off really high, forget it. How many times did you end up with something broken or in the hospital wing because of that game?'

'I lost count, I did have a cracked skull with one, broke arm with another, that was caused when the bludger hit me, but I still caught the snitch.' Harry said making Neville laugh.

'See, too good, but you won't talk me into going on a broom, forget it. I'll leave that to people like you and Ginny. hey are you and her getting back together?'

'No, I told her not long ago, she wasn't happy, I thought she was going to hex me. You know what Ginny's tempers like, fiery, explosive, like her mother.'

'She's good, you taught her too well Harry. You're lucky she didn't hit you with her famous bat bogey hex, she loves to use that one. When you Hermione and Ron were away, she kept using it on the Slytherin's, it was great.'

'I never asked you about that Neville. I saw all your cuts and bruises, did Ginny have any?'

'Oh yeah, they beat her good Harry. You never got to see that because her father got her out of there. See some of the girls were being raped, we rescued some. I contacted Mr. Weasley to come get her, she didn't want to leave us, but she realised us blokes were safer than the girls.'

'If they would have touched her, they'd be dead,' Harry said darkly.

'See, you do care about her, so why aren't you snogging her right now?'

'I do care about her, but she wants to get serious, I want some fun for a while, something I've never done before. I missed out on my childhood, never got to do normal kid things, so now I am. Plus, she doesn't like rock music and that's what we play, she likes ballads, love songs. Another thing though, I'm not sure she's really right for me, we're so different. I know we had some good times together, but I really don't want a relationship with anyone, not for a long time.'

'Just tell her you'll take things slow then, maybe have the odd date with her. All she spoke about was you, used to drive me crazy, Harry this and Harry that. Blimey I came to hate you're name mate. you know she's in love with you right?'

'Oh you're kidding,' Harry closed his eyes for a minute, 'Blimey, I never knew that. alright, I'll talk to her, see if she will just take things slow and not push, but I'll have to tell her it won't be like it was before, I might even date others, if I feel like it. Oh man, if I tell her that, I'm in for it. She might hex my parts off and I haven't used it yet.'

Neville laughed, 'You've been busy saving the world, but yeah, she might but if she wants you she might realise she'll have to take you any way she can get you. But let's get this charm done.'

'Okay, Hector, get Neville started,' Harry stood over with the band, 'I know you're confused, I'll explain more later. Let's just keep all of us safe.'

'Where with you there Harry,' Liam said watching the other two men in the room.

The band stood together and watched Neville and Hector with their wands performing a charm. They all saw a shimmer go around the place, lasted a couple of minutes. Neville turned and smirked at Harry and he couldn't believe how much Neville has changed, but was glad they were better friends now. Neville wrote notes for all the ones in the house, once they read them, Harry and Hector put them in their pockets, ready to give out to the ones that needed permission to enter the house. Once that was done, Harry took Neville into the back room to show him what was going on and hopefully enjoy it as well.