"I'm so sorry Harry, that bastard used my face to lure you in, I feel simply awful about this." Sirius cried to Harry once he woke up in St Mungo's, wanting his son to know how sorry he was.

"It's fine Dad, honestly, you're not to blame." Harry assured him, to no avail.

"I'll make it up to you son, I promise." Sirius whispered before leaving the room to rage about the unfairness of everything.

Petunia sat with him and talked about how worried she was, but also how relieved she was that he was unharmed.

"I think you should go after Dad, I don't like seeing him that upset." Harry suggested after a long hug from his Mom.

"I was going to once I was sure that you were okay, I'll be back soon." She responded before leaving out the door, with his friends coming in to join Harry, Dudley, and Elias.

Daphne immediately pulled him into a hug and kissed him, privately wanting to make sure that he was really there.

"Who was it that put my bones back together? Was it Earth Elemental stuff or a joint effort with casting Riparare L'osso over and over again?" Harry asked once there was a moment of silence, looking around at his friends' faces.

"Neville, Theo, and myself have been practicing on bones, though what we would call it I don't know, Bone Elementals? Probably not haha."

"Bone bending?" Harry suggested and as nobody could come up with something better, Bone Bending stuck.

"You should have seen the look on Voldemort's face. The shock was priceless." Blaise joked, though his words made Neville look concerned.

"I'm not sure how much you remember, Harry, but you killed all of Voldemort's Death Eaters that were at the Ministry, though you somehow spared Bellatrix. We aren't murderers and yet you killed them all ,with a wave of your hand no less. I need to ask, do you think you could do it again right now, in this moment?"

"Right now? Of course not, nobody is trying to kill the people I love. Unless one of you is an imposter, though I could easily verify that with a simple wave of my hand." Harry responded casually.

"But you acknowledge that you would kill if one of us was threatened?" Neville followed up.

"I would wipe out an entire army for those I love, however that doesn't mean I want to do so. I would much rather be able to convert people over to my way of thinking, or at least not joining Voldemort on his murder crusade."

"I want you to promise that you won't kill anyone else for me, wound them if you must, but I can't live with the idea of people dying because of me."

"Those people last night didn't die because of you, or Elias, but because they wanted to kill people I love. In that moment I just lost control, I can't let it happen again, I would have died last night if I didn't have you guys with me."

"You finally admit that you need us to fight this war then? You won't try to ditch us to avoid hurting us." Elias asked quietly.

At his words Harry became uncomfortable, not knowing how they knew he would do that if it came to it, looking down at the floor as he answered.

"I know you're all capable of doing great things, you're all powerful, but I also know that Voldemort will hunt and kill you all and I can't have that hanging over me."

"You won't do this alone." Draco responded, the first thing he had said to Harry since he had woken up.

"Draco please-" Harry tried.

"Don't you "Draco please" me, I swore a life-debt to you, even if my Father has since completed it, I wish to fight with you without the life-debt dictating what I can and cannot do to help you. I am your friend, and even though we have drifted apart a bit, I will always help you when you need me, even if you don't ask me."

"Thank you, Draco, but I can't ask everyone here to go with me to war."

"You don't have to ask us Harry, we will go with you any day, fight against your enemies as you would against ours." Dudley responded and everyone else agreed.

"We are the Vipers." Elias whispered and Harry nodded.

"We are the Vipers." He agreed.

/^_^-/

"Fred, George, Charlie, I can't even begin to thank you for helping me, I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't shown up when you did."

"I'd say we're even now Harry- at least Fred and I are- you need not thank us beyond the thousand Galleons you have already given us- of which we are eternally grateful."

"Harry, like it or not, you're just another one of my brothers, Dudley and Elias included, you are just missing one key detail." Charlie said, his voice laden with mischief as he waved his hand and Harry's hair changed to bright ginger, with an overabundance of freckles littering his face.

"Perfect." The three Weasleys said in unison as Harry laughed at their antics.

"I never pegged you for such a prankster Bill, but you aren't a believable George, though your Twin-speak was nearly perfect, though why Fred is pretending to be Charlie I don't know" Harry responded with a smirk.

"He wanted to be here but has been called back to Romania." Bill informed him.

"One of these days we will fool you successfully Harry, one day." Fred remarked.

"I'm sure you will, alas that day is not today."

/_,^_^_/

"Harry Potter must not be allowed to leave Hogwarts whenever he fancies, this isn't the first time he has done it." Alastor Moody responded to the claims that Harry should be sent to Azkaban for killing the Death Eaters. "In case it has escaped your attention, Elphias, he acted in self-defence and didn't use an unforgivable, moreover the Minister has commended Harry for his action while condemning the actions of Voldemort and his Death Eaters. As far as I'm convinced Potter acted within his rights and has perfectly encapsulated the ideals I hoped to impart, though he seems to have missed my most important lesson so I shall remind you all now. CONSTANT VIGILANCE!"

Elphias Doge sat back down and said nothing else, silently blaming Harry for Albus' death.