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Hey everyone. Sorry I haven't updated in so long. Iv been extremely busy with schoolwork (7 hours and 4 pages later of Modern Time American History). And tomorrow we start taking the CAT tests so I should be able to have more spare time.
I'll try to make this chapter longer but I don't know if I will be able to.
Thanks to my reviewers! I love compliments. They make me feel all warm and fuzzy! (Don't mind me, I running on 5 hours of sleep after watching Darkness Falls and the Ring both at midnight.)
Summer Visits and Muggles at Hogwarts
Chapter 5: Results
"You herd me correctly Mr. Dursley. We request that you and your family spend the next school term at Hogwarts. That is unless you would rather end up dead or even worse." Replied McGonagall.
"She's right you know either go or end up dead through the same thing that I was imprisoned in Azkaban for. No, not a pretty sight. But, the decision to live or die a horrible death is left in your hands Vernon." Said Sirius.
"What about Marge? Won't she be in danger also? I mean she's part of the family too." Said Vernon.
"No, Mr. Dursley because she is not an immediate family member. Although as a muggle in general she is in danger, however we have no reason to bring her to Hogwarts until things get worse." Said McGonagall.
Marge again interrupted with a sudden outburst. "Don't they have any say in the matter in whether or not to become involved in any of this freak stuff? Is it not bad enough that they have to deal with it in the boy? And now you want them to be surrounded by it every second of their life!"
"I assure you Mrs. Dursley that if this were not a drastic situation then this would never had been suggested. Never in the history of Hogwarts have muggles set foot on the grounds except for the graduation of their children. There are so many regulations that you wouldn't even be able to fathom about its use." McGonagall nearly snarled.
"Seeing as we really have no choice in the matter we will consent to this absurdity. The only two pending questions I can't think of at the moment are what about my job, and how we Dudley receive his education?" questioned Vernon, trying to break the hostile attitude in the room.
"As for your job Mr. Dursley we will simply pass on a document directly to the company that you have been transferred for the year, and in a way brainwash your boss into remembering that he authorized the transfer. As for young Dudley's education we will simply inform Smeltings that Dudley will be receiving his education from home this year and that we need all of his weeks lessons sent to us on the Sunday before classes each week so our staff can review it and give Dudley his lessons through our own staff members, who will pose as Dudley's tutors for the year." Answered McGonagall, apparently ready for this question having had the same conversation with the headmaster and Professor Snape less than a week ago.
"Well," declared Petunia in a defeated way, "I guess it's settled then, we leave for Hogwarts on the first of September."
"I still don't like the idea." Stated Marge "but as it needs to be done I'll do whatever you need me to do."
"Thanks Marge." said Petunia. "Now, as it is nearly 9:30 I believe sleeping arrangements need to be made for you five. You are staying tonight aren't you Professor McGonagall?"
"Please, call me Minerva. And I will be, but only for tonight then I need to be returning to Hogwarts. However either myself or another professor will be checking in at least every other day until the start of the term. As for arrangements for tonight I think that perhaps the arrangements should be like in Hogwarts, separate sleeping areas for males and females. I am hoping that Dudley would give up his room and allow the two young ladies to have his room, and he can sleep in Mr. Potter's room with him and Mr. Weasley, if that's all right with him. You don't mind do you Mr. Dursley?" she asked while looking at Dudley.
"No, that's fine, whatever makes them happy is fine with me." Replied, not noticing the angry looks on Harry and Ron's face, or the repulsed one on Sirius'.
"Well its settled then. If you would all come with me I will transfigure beds for all of you. I will be sleeping with Miss Granger and Miss Weasley tonight. What about you Sirius? Are you going to sleep on the couch or would you like to share a room with the boys?"
"I think I'll share a room. I'm sure none of them will mind." Replied Sirius already heading up the stairs. "And Dudley, get whatever you need from your room now because I'll make sure you don't leave the room later to get anything you forgot."
After Sirius made his way upstairs the rest of them followed and went to Harry's room, except for Dudley who did what Sirius told him, obviously afraid, and got his things from his room. Meanwhile in Harry's room Harry, Hermione, Ginny, and Sirius were picking things up from the floor of Harry's room and putting them away while McGonagall found a few things to transfigure into beds for the group after they were done. "Am I correct in assuming that neither you Miss Granger, or you Miss Weasley would like to sleep in Dudley's bed?" questioned McGonagall.
"Defiantly not Professor." Replied Hermione and Ginny at the same time.
"In that case I will just go over to Dudley's room and shrink his bed so that I will be able to place it in here with others. When I return I hope that you will have this disaster area cleaned up so I can get this done before 3 in the morning." Declared McGonagall as she headed out the door. Walking over to Dudley room she found him getting things out of his dresser and placing other things into it. "Hurry up Mr. Dursley. I would like to have this done by the start of the term." She said and them said the spell to shrink the bed.
"HEY!" yelled Dudley as he whipped around to look at McGonagall "where did my bed go!"
"I shrunk it Mr. Dursley so that I could take it to your cousins room. I certainly hope you didn't expect to sleep in here with the girls did you?"
"No, but I wanted one of them to sleep in my bed!"
"You really are desperate. To bad neither of them like you, they didn't want to sleep in your bed." Replied McGonagall as she picked up the now small piece of furniture and headed toward the door. "Lets go."
Walking back into Harry's room everything was picked up so she placed Dudley's bed in the corner across from Harry's and transfigured a bed for Ron horizontally next to Harry's and one diagonal to Harry's for Sirius. "Now that you are settled just get your things unpacked Mr. Weasley and then get ready for bed, as I assume you will be heading there soon." She said and headed out the door with Hermione and Ginny following her. Once she entered Dudley's room, she transfigured the beds and also told Hermione and Ginny to unpack their things and get ready for bed as well, and she went down stairs to talk to Petunia, Vernon, and Marge again.
Half an hour later Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Dudley were all sitting in Harry's room playing a few games of exploding snap (after teaching Dudley how to play) while talking amongst themselves about their summer. After about two hours McGonagall and Sirius came upstairs with the other declaring that it was time to go to sleep, and in the morning there was something that need to be told to them.
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Harry awoke the next morning to hearing Aunt Petunia yell from downstairs for him and Dudley to get up and make breakfast for everyone. In shock that she would make Dudley do anything remotely like work, Harry dazedly crawled out of bed and walked over to where Dudley was sleeping to wake him up. After several attempts and a few more yells from Petunia, he resulted to letting Hedwig out of her cage and letting her sit on Dudley's head, talons digging into his skin. Suddenly feeling something sharp being pressed against his face, Dudley let out a small shriek and bolted up in bed, dislodging Hedwig from her new perch.
"Bloody hell Harry get that bird away from me!" yelled Dudley looking at Harry, his previous shriek waking Sirius and Ron up, who were now staring directly at him.
While putting Hedwig back in her cage and feeding her, Harry said, "Aunt Petunia wants you to come help me make breakfast. You two might as well get up. It's 8:15."
"Mum wouldn't make me help make breakfast. You must be loosing your hearing Harry." Said Dudley with confidence until he heard Petunia yelling at them again. "Or maybe she would." Said Dudley and got up and began getting dressed.
"We'll be down in a few minutes Aunt Petunia!" yelled Harry as he was getting dressed, Dudley heading for the bathroom, and both Sirius and Ron rolled back over to go back to sleep. "You two are so lazy. I'm going to go get Ginny and Hermione up before I go down."
"I'll do it for you Harry!" said Dudley, detouring from his original route.
Leering at Dudley, Harry growled out, "Just go get dressed and head downstairs. I will get them up."
After Dudley continued toward the bathroom, Harry headed over to Dudley's room to wake Ginny and Hermione up. Not bothering to nock, he headed in to find both girls sleeping peacefully, apparently McGonagall was already up, with Dudley's radio playing some song from a CD Hermione must have put in before they went to sleep. Looking at the track number, he picked up the CD case off the stand and scanned over the back of it, determining that the song being played was entitled 'Azul' by Christian Castro. Obviously not understanding the lyrics he decided he would ask Hermione later and shut off the stereo before going over next to her bed to wake her up. He just stood their staring at her though taking in the beauty of her sleeping face, reminding him greatly of the innocence of a baby. After staring for about five minutes and hearing Petunia yell at him again, he snapped out of his trance and bent over to gently shake Hermione awake. "Mione, its time to get up." He said quietly, and smiled when she muttered a distinctive 'Harry' and rolled over onto her side. Not being able to resist, he pulled the comforter down slightly so he could reach her stomach, which was partially showing due to her short nightshirt and began to tickle her, causing the sit strait up in bed a hit her head on his.
"Owww." Yelped Harry, rubbing his head, and using his other hand to push Hermione back down on the bed.
"Harry! That wasn't funny! I don't like being tickled and you know it! Its your own fault." Hermione screamed, waking up Ginny who sat up rubbing her eyes and looking at Harry.
"What are you doing here Harry?" asked Ginny.
"I came to get you two up. Its 8:20 and Dudley and I need to go make breakfast. You can find Ron and Sirius snoring again in my room even though I woke them up once. Breakfast will be in about 20 minutes if you are hungry." Harry replied, heading out of the room.
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Forty-five minutes later everyone was up and McGonagall said that she needed to speak with Harry and the others. After they all filed around the kitchen table McGonagall spoke up. "It was decided by Dumbledore earlier that this week that you four should be allowed to use magic for the remainder of the break without getting a misuse of magic note from the ministry. So, as it is the ministry has allowed anybody in this house the right to use magic until the first of September." Noticing the look on Ron's face, she continued, "However the same rules for school also apply here. Every other day one of the professors will be coming to check up on you here until it is time to return. If, for any reason you need to contact one of us, just use the floo network, as we have connected the house to the network permanently, only it is currently restricted to making calls only to Hogwarts. Also, in five days I will be returning to take all of you to Diagon Alley to get your school supplies. Sirius will be staying, and as he has yet to be cleared by the ministry, still doesn't have a wand, thus if it is required you must lend yours to him. I believe it is time for me to be returning and I expect that you will use the remainder of vacation to finish you assigned work. Professor Snape will be checking in on you the day after tomorrow. If there are no further questions I will be going."
Dudley spoke up just before she was ready to leave. "Am I expected to go to Diagon Alley also? And what is a floo network?"
"You are not expected to go, but if you wish to that is fine. And you'll discover the floo network soon enough. Good day, I will see you later."
After McGonagall left Hermione stood up and said excitedly, "Tiempo hacer nuestro tarea!" and head upstairs and into Dudley's room.
"Why do I have a feeling she just said it was time to do our homework?" Ron groaned out, following Harry and Ginny upstairs to get his books.
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A/N: Well this seems as far as I'm going to get with this because it now 10:20 and I need to get read for bed so I can get up and go to school in the morning and suffer through the CAT tests. I find it funny that my friend lost something very important but she doesn't. And last week my self-declared other half wasn't in school all week except for Friday, thus he missed his senior trip, but it wouldn't have mattered because he was in MASSACHUSETTS all week. And I've been declared as a stalker by one of my other friends because I got his birthday from him. I don't see as to where that is stalking, but they also made a big deal out of the fact that I poked him in the ribs when I walked by him in lunch. Oh well. They're just nuts. And I think Luisa (my best friend) was trying to kill me today! (Although not intentionally.)
And the quote from the other two translates as: "The ability to love it the greatest ability that there is in life." And I'm not surprised that nobody knew who said it because you would have to go to school with me to know who said it. It was said by my self-declared other half (he's an exchange student who's first language is Spanish).
THIS QUOTE WILL HAVE SIGNIFICANCE LATER IN THE STORY!!!!!
Once again thanks to my reviewers and do review because it makes me happy!!!