" He will be very pleased to hear this."
" I'm sure he will. The poor boy, having to live with those horrid muggles all these years."
" Yes, but that is about to change........"
" Headmaster? What are you doing here?"
" Just let us in please."
" As you wish." and the Fat Lady swug foward to expose the Gryffindor common room. Hermione, and the Weasley's looked up, startled at having two professors visit at once. Usually none of the Professors but McGonagall came to the common room. Professor Dumbledore looked from Professor McGonagall and then to the rest of the room, smiling at the sudden silence and curiosity in their faces.
" Do any of you know where I could find- oh, here he is now." said Dumbledore, turning around to face Harry and Fred, who had just walked in behind them looking just as confused, but interested, as the other students.
" Harry, may we have a word with you?"
" Err....yes, of course." said Harry, begining to look slightly worried. He followed the two Professors out of the common room and into the corridor. The Fat Lady watched them closely.
" We have news for you Harry."
" News Professor?"Harry shifted his weight on his feet.
" Yes, news. The Ministry caught a group of three death eaters last night when they were in the middle of tying a family of muggles to brooms and then letting them float off into the distance with no idea where they were going to end up. This is after they did other things to the mother and children of which I am not going to tell but I'm thinking you will be able to get the idea of what it was." said Dumbledore, his face growing serious.
"Were the muggles allright?" asked Harry, disgusted at what Voldemorts followers were doing.
" Yes, after the Ministry found the Father and two children floating across an open field, they performed memory charms on all of them. But this is not why I am telling you all of this, I am telling you this because the three death eaters that were caught." he paused to look at Harry. A thought came across Harrys mind, but he pushed it out of the way. There was no way that could have happened anyway.
" Who?" he asked. Dumbledore could hardly contain his excitement. He wanted to keep Harry guessing because that would make the expression on his face even more priceless after he told him who one of the death eaters was, but he knew that now would be the best time. Professor McGonagall smiled and looked excited herself as Dumbledore began to speak.
" Peter Pettigew was caught two nights ago and has been placed in Azkaban. That is, after the ministry used truth spells on him to make him spill the beans about how he managed to be alive after he was proclaimed dead." Harry's jaw dropped. Did he just hear what he thought he heard? His mind was fighting within itself. No, that couldn't be true. Things like this didn't happen to Harry. No, he had to be mistaken. He looked up at Dumbledore with questioning eyes.
" It is true Harry."
Harry blinked. He didn't want to jinx anything and make the excitement that was slowly growing in his stomach to go away.
" That means....Sirius is cleared?" he asked softly withought looking at anyone.
" Yes, Harry. It does." said Dumbledore. Harry looked up at both Professor's, who he saw were beaming at him, and smiled. He wanted to hug them both, to run and tell everyone in the common room, and to go find Sirius himself at that very moment. His feet kept on going from left to right in the space he was standing in. He looked as though he was doing a sort of dance. He had so many questions and he didn't know where to start. Dumbledore looked amused. Harry wanted to jump up and down. Professor McGonagall looked very pleased and was beaming at him. Harry couldn't think of anything to do but laugh. And he did. Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall along with him.
" The Dursley's are no longer my guardians!!!!" Harry practically yelled, throwing his hands up.
" That's right." said Dumbledore.
" Congratulations Potter!" said McGonagall.
" Thank you Professor! Thank you!" said Harry.
" Harry?" He looked at Dumbledore who suddenly turned, along with McGonagall, and looked to the end of the corridor where a huge black dog morphed into a man.
" Why don't we wait in the common room Minerva? We can alert Mister Weasley and Miss Granger that Harry will be bursting through the Fat Lady withought waiting to give her a password any moment now in a mad dash to tell his friends what has happened." said Dumbledore, twinkling as he usually did.
" He most certainly will not!" said the Fat Lady as the Professors walked in.
Harry turned to Sirius as the portrait closed. Sirius looked back. He seemed slightly nervous.
" So..........they've told you?"
" Yes." Harry seemed to think that now was the time to ask questions." And I need to know some stuff. Like, where do you live? When do I move in? How big is your house? Have you......." and then a thought came to him. What if Sirius didn't want him to live with him? He knew that he had asked him if he wanted to the night they met, but maybe he had changed his mind. Harry stopped and looked at Sirius who had been walking toward him while he had been talking.
" I mean.......that is..... if you still........" Harry began.
" My house is near Hogsmeade, it's not very big, and since there are still four days of your Christmas vacation left we can go to your aunt and uncle's today and have you moved in in no time." said Sirius, looking increasingly happy by the second. Harry thought that if the smile he smiled at that moment had been any larger his cheeks would have popped. They stood for a moment smiling at each other when Sirius finally spoke.
" Well then! I guess you can go tell Ron and Hermione and whoever else you want and then we can be on our way." said Sirius. Harry was about to turn to go to the common room when he stopped, turned back around, and ran up to Sirius and hugged him. Sirius hugged him back tightly. Harry looked up and saw tears welling up in his god-fathers eyes just as soon as they both heard the Fat Lady bawling with happiness in her frame with a handkerchief in her hands. Harry grinned, ran up to the Fat Lady, gave the password, and ran through the portrait hole where Dumbledore and McGonagall smiled at him and exited the common room. Hermione giggled at the sight of Harry.
" What is going on? I don't believe I've ever seen you this happy!" she said, grinning.
" We've been waiting forever for you to get in here and tell us what's going on! Come now! Tell us!" said Ron. Harry leaned in and whispered to them.
" Wormtail's in Azkaban." Hermione's and Ron's faces lit up to look just as excited as Harry. Hermione began to jump up and down screaming before she jumped onto Harry and wrapped him in a hug.
" THIS IS GREAT!!" exclaimed Ron, who along with Harry had begun to scream with joy too.
" What's going on?!" asked Ginny, Fred, and George. Harry, Ron, and Hermione stopped. Would it be wise to tell them?
" Be right back." said Harry, who opened up the portrait hole and stuck his head out.
"Professor Dumbledore?" asked Harry.
" Yes?" said the headmaster, who was talking with Sirius and McGonagall.
" Should I tell anyone about this?" Dumbledore thought for a moment.
" It should be in the papers tomorrow. Then everyone will know the whole story, including the bit about Sirius being your god-father." Harry stood thinking for a moment. He then looked back up at Dumbledore.
" Can I tell the Weasley's?"
" I don't think it would hurt, although you may need to ask Molly and Arthur before you do. They may be better at explaining everything." the Headmaster said, folding his hands and smiling. Harry closed the portrait and walked quickly back into the room.
" Ron, Hermione, lets go." he said, poking them both in the arm and motioning for them to follow him into the dormitory. Fred and George jumped out of their chairs.
" Now wait just a minute! We want to know what went on with you and Dumbledore!" said Fred, looking stubborn.
" You'll find out soon enough, but I'm not allowed to tell you right now." said Harry, grinning from the stairs. Fred, George, and Ginny looked at each other, very confused.
A few moments later, Harry, Ron, and Hermione came flying down the stairs. Harry had told them the whole story, and they were extremely excited about the whole thing. Harry told them bye and then exited the common room, fighting off questions from the Weasley's.
Sirius was waiting for him outside, looking very excited himself.
" Ready?" he asked.
" Yeah." said Harry. He followed Sirius outside to find a cariage waiting to take them to Hogsmeade station. He and Sirius climbed in, neither saying anything for a few moments. Harry couldn't quit grinning. He couldn't believe his luck. He was never going to have to see the Dursley's again. Never! Except for when he got his stuff from their house.
" I hope you like it where I live. There aren't many houses around mine, and there's lot of forest to explore." said Sirius.
" Anywhere but the Dursleys is heaven to me."
" I haven't been to the house yet. That means that everything will be boxed and packed away. I'll have to get it all out again and arrange it." Sirirus looked happy about this.
" Can I help?" asked Harry.
" Well, yes, I guess. If you want to."
" When am I supposed to go back to Hogwarts?"
" Well....since we have magic, we could probably have everything pretty much unpacked and my furniture set up by sometime late tonight. You can spend your first night in your own room tonight. Then you can be on your way to Hogwarts tomorrow, or you can stay a bit longer. You still have four days of vacation left after all. "
" Okay." said Harry, still grinning beyond his control.
~**¤**~
A few hours later, Harry and Sirius were walking up to the front door of Number Four Private Drive. Harry picked up the newspaper that had been thrown into a trash can by the door. He turned pages until he found the part about Sirius being cleared. After all, they couldn't have muggles looking for him any longer. He showed it to Sirius and while Sirius read he knocked on the door. Aunt Petunia answered and he face fell as soon as she saw him.
" What are you doing here? Got yourself kicked out did you? Well you can just tell them we aren't taking you back until the summer." she hissed and began to shut the door. Harry grabbed it to stop her.
" You won't be seeing me again after today." said Harry.
" And just why not?" she asked, looking suspicious.
" I've come to get my things. I'm moving out. Im going to live with my God-father, Sirius Black." he said, opening the door wide enough for his aunt to see Sirius, who looked up from his paper and grinned at her. Her eyes went wide with fear.
" VERNON!!!" and she went running into the living room.
" VERNON VERNON IT'S HIM!!!!! THE BOY HAS BROUGHT HIM HERE!" she was yelling. Sirius gave Harry a puzzled, but Harry could see the amused sparkle in his eyes.
" Who has brought who here?" said Uncle Vernon.
" THE BOY HAS BROUGHT SIRIUS BLACK HERE!"
" WHAT?!"and they both came running to the door. Uncle Vernon looked beside himself with anger.
" You?! Him!? Here!? How?!" he barked.
" We have come to get my things so I can move out. Then you will never see me again."
This sparked their interest.
" Nope, never. You'll never have to put up with me or my magic again. I'll be gone-forever."
" Where are you going?" asked Vernon.
" To live with Sirius."
" And murderer?" Vernon said with a nasty grin.
" He's not a murderer. He was cleared."
" Ah yes." said Vernon with an even worse grin."Well, be my guest, go get your things." he said, motioning at the stairs.
" Yes, now, I need you both to sign the adoption papers please. Giving me legal custody of Harry." said Sirius, pulling the papers out of his pocket. He handed them to Vernon, stll grinning slightly. Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia stood back to where Vernon had lean forward and stretch his arm out as far as it could go in order to take the papers from Sirius, which he did quickly. The stared at each other for a moment, when Sirius, though he felt guilt and childish later on, decided to test them for his own fun. He leaned casually against the door frame and took out his wand, swinging it around in circles. Then he noticed they were eyeing the wand with fear in their eyes. He jerked his head up quickly.
"BOO!" he said loudly to them. The two stupid muggles shrieked and went into the kitchen to look the papers over while Sirius went upstairs to help Harry, but met him halfway.
" Is that all?" Sirius asked, looking at the small amount of clothes Harry had with him.
" Err...yeah, I don't have much, most of my stuff I carry to school with me."
" You mean everything you own fits in your trunk?"
" Well, it is a very large trunk." Sirius thought for a moment.
" Give me those." He said to Harry, taking the clothes from him.
" These are much too big for you."
' They're Dudley's old ones."
" I see......" Sirius turned around and walked towards the kitchen, Harry right behind him. When they walked in, Vernon got up from the table and handed Sirius the papers.
" Here you are then. He's all yours." he said wearing the same, nasty grin.
" Thank you. You may keep these." Sirius threw the clothes high into the air, pulled out his wand and blew the clothes to bits that flew all over the kitchen. Petunia looked like she was about to faint.
" My kitchen.........."
" Lets go Harry." and he and Harry left Number Four.
" We're going to go to a friend of mine's house and go to Diagon Alley from there."
" Diagon Alley? Why?" asked Harry.
" You need proper clothes to wear now that I've done away with your old ones."
"Who's your friend?"
" Miss Figg." Harry's jaw dropped.
" You're joking?"
" No, I'm serious."
" She's a witch?"
" Yes."
" No Way!"
" Yes Way." Harry's mind was spinning with questions. He wished he had a pensieve at the moment.
" No...but...she cant.."
" Oh, but she is." said Sirius, looking amused.
" But she has all of those cats....."
" So? Anyone can have cats. And that's part of her protection. Dark Wizards hate cats. Cats are the guardians of the under-world. They hate them."
" But the smell....."
" So her house smells, big deal! That doesn't mean she's not a witch." said Sirius.
" Yeah, but if she had the power to make that smell go away, why hasn't she done it already?"
" Maybe she likes it."
Moments later they were on their way to Diagon Alley by floo powder after having a talk with Miss Figg and explaining the whole thing out to Harry. Hours later they were walking out of Madame Malkins, Harry carring a huge bag of four of five new pairs of robes. All varying in shades of blue and green. They then went to Sirius' house by floo powder from Gringotts.
Sirius got there before Harry, and when Harry got there he fell completely out of the fireplace face first onto a hardwood floor.
" Oomph..." He raised himself up enough to see Sirius standing in the middle of the room looking around as though he were drifting in space. Harry stood up and took a look around the room.
He could see a sofa, tables, and a few more seats all arranged around the fireplace; although, all of them had sheets pulled over them and the sheets were covered in dust and cobwebs. Behind the furniture was an archway that led to the kitchen. Evrything in there was covered with sheets, dust, and cobwebs, too. A staircase was to his left and as he follwed it upward he saw that it led to a large landing that looked over the living room. He figured the bedrooms were somewhere behind the railing. To his right was the front door and many medium sized windows with heavy curtains. Harry noticed Sirius still going in cirlces on the spot looking around.
" Been so long........" then he realized what he had been doing when he turned around to face Harry.
" It's not as big as the Dursley's." he said.
" No, it's so much better than the Dursley's. I'm going to love it here." Harry said, smiling. Sirius smiled back.
" Well! I guess we should start by getting all this dust and dirt off of everything." he said, waving his wand around the room and the dust, dirt, and cobwebs vanished.
~**¤**~
In five hours they had everything set up and clean. An inviting fire was ablaze, and Harry sat on the sofa in front of it. He looked up to the mantlepiece where he saw pictures of Sirius, his father,his mother, and Professor Lupin. Sirius had told the people in the pictures what Wormtail had done to them in the future( for all of the pictures were before Wormtail had become secret keeper) and they had shunned Wormtail out of the pictures, hexing him if he came back. This Harry found very amusing. Sirius had found an old camera in one of the boxes and had taken a picture of he and Harry, which now had its own place on the mantlepiece. Sirius came into the room and sat in a chair near him. He sighed contentedley, then frowned.
" I just realized that we haven't eaten in quite a while now..... I know what to do though." Sirius said. He walked over to the fireplace, got out his wand and muttered something Harry couldn't hear. Suddenly Professor Lupin's head popped up in the fire.
" Oh, hello Sirius! What can I do for you?" he asked.
" Well, you see, I haven't got any food in my home except for something that may have been food at one point but has grown hair and kind of glows when the light hits it right and its under the refrigerator." said Sirius. Lupin chuckled.
"Ahhh, so you need food?"
" Err.......yeah."
" Okay, hold on."
" Okay." Sirius yelled into the fire." Yeah, bring some sandwhich meat and cheese. And some cola.....a-and some chocolate cake or somethin...and-"
" Ah shut up Sirius I'm coming....Stand back." Sirius moved out from in front of the fireplace, where the fire had grown green and Professor Lupin walked out of it into the room carrying a tray covered in different foods. Sirius stared at the food, much like a dog waiting for table scraps. Lupin sat the tray on the coffee table in front of Harry and looked around like Sirius had when he had first walked in.
" It looks almost exactly like it did fifteen years ago. " he said. Then he came back to his senses.
" So! You two are hungry I see?"
" Yeah." said Harry and Sirius.
Two hours later they had all eaten the whole tray of food and Harry had listened to many stories of when Sirius and Remus ( as Lupin had told Harry to call him when they weren't at school) were at school. He enjoyed finding out what his father and mother were like.
After Remus went back to his house Sirius said he thought it was time for them to go to bed. It was, after all, three in the morning.
~**¤**~
Tap tap tap.
" Go 'way Hedwig." Harry said grogilly. He was laying in his bed and trying to go back to sleep. The room was cold but his blankets were warm. For the first time in his life he had a good home-aside from Hogwarts- and he had a full sized bed at that home other than a smaller than average twin bed, even though he was lying on his stomach and his left arm was hanging off the side of the bed. He could feel himself slowly sliding off, but he was too asleep to care.
Tap..tap.....BANG!
Harry, startled, fell off bed and landed on the floor with a loud thud. What on earth did that? He looked out the window...and laughed.
Sirius had been knocking on the window to get his attention. Since Harry was two stories up, it was obvious that Sirius was on a broom. He was also wearing thick robes and a heavy cloak considering that it had been snowing. Sirius motioned for Harry to come outside before leaning foward and zooming out of sight. Harry stood up from the floor quickly and ran over to his chest of drawers and pulled out a deep purple, almost black set of robes encrusted with moons at the hem and then went to the closet and grabbed the new cloak he got yesterday (emerald green with silver owl fastenings). He then ran dawnstairs and out the door.
Sirius came flying around from the back of the house, wearing a huge grin. He came to a smooth landing next to Harry.
" Look! I was looking around in the attic this morning and found this." he brandished the broom out to Harry." My old Moonspinner! I haven't ridden it in forever but it feels like just yesterday I was a beater for Gryffindor!" Harry laughed. Sirius looked like it was his birthday. Then he seemed to have remembered something.
" What is it?" Harry asked.
" We've got to go to Gringotts."Sirius said, looking like his birthday had come twice in one day. " I cant believe I forgot to get it!"
" Why? We were there just yesterday."
" I forgot something. Come on lets go!" he called to Harry as he ran into the house.
Five minutes later they were walking out of a fireplace in the Leaky Cauldron and on their way to Gringotts. Harry was still confused about what was goin on as Sirius walked up to a free goblin.
" Storage space please. Vault 263." Sirius showed the goblin the key and they walked through a door across the room.
Harry was surprised. Storage space? And they hadn't walked onto one of the cart tracks that Harry had always seen when he went to Gringotts. They were in a small space with a marble path that led down a hill and underground, though there was no dirt and no cart. They walked for approximately seven minutes and had gone past many large doors in the well lit corridor when they reached a door that had the golden numbers 263 wriiten on it. Sirius walked up to it, unlocked it, and walked in. Harry couldn't see inside, but heard a low rumbling sound after a few moments like an engine to a car. He and the goblin lept back as Sirius drove a shiny motorcycle out of the storage room.
" Needs to be used a bit. After all, It hasnt been used in fifteen years." said Sirius." Come now, Harry. Let's go home. " Harry jumped onto the back of the motorcycle and held on for dear life as Sirius sped off in the opposite direction of which they came.
" Where are we going?!?" Harry yelled.
" To the portal!" Sirius yelled back.
" What?!?" Harry yelled just as they turned a corner. In fornt of them Harry saw a huge pearl color wall. But the wall was rippling like water.
" Sirius, look out!"
" Hogsmeade!" Sirius yelled as they went through the wall. Harry closed his eyes waiting for the worst but it never came. When he opened them again they were riding through Hogsmeade.
" Whoa!" said Harry, watching the people zoom by.
" Now hang on!" Sirius said as they left the village and entered a backroad. Harry did as he was told and watched in astonishment as they rose off the ground. His memory did a backtrack. Something felt very familiar. The excited feeling left him as he tried his best to remeber what it was that was pushing its way back to the front of his brain.
In no time they were making a landing in their front yard. Harry climbed off before Sirius and stood there looking at the ground. Sirius climbed off and looked at him strangely.
" Something wrong Harry?" he asked.
" No, no........I just.... riding that motorcycle jarred something in my memory."
" Well I should think it would. Hagrid rode this same motorcycle to carry you to the Dursley's the night......the night it all happened." said Sirius. Harry looked up at him.
" Hagrid was there?" Harry asked. He had never thought about how he ended up at the Dursley's. It never seemed important.
" Oh yes, and Professor McGonagall, and Professor Dumbledore."
" All of them were there?" said Harry. He hadn't expected this.
" Well......yeah." As they walked back into the house Harry realized that all this time he thought that the first time he met the Professors was in his first year, but in reality, he had basically known them his whole life.
~**¤**~
"Wow! A flying motorcycle!" said Ron. He, Harry, and Hermione were on their way to breakfast. They had two more days to go before classes started again, and Harry was now trying to fill them in on everything that happened while he was at Sirius' house.
" Sounds like you had a good time." said Hermione.
They sat down to eat, and were having a good time talking about things, when owls came fluttering into the Hall. One dropped a newspaper into Hermione's lap and flew off. She lifted it up and read the front page.
" They've written a story about the whole thing." she said.
" 'Bout what?" asked George. She looked at Harry, who gave her an encouraging nod, and handed the paper to the twins and Ginny, who all leaned over it reading. They all looked up at Harry with expressions of disbelief.
" Keep reading." he told them.
" Harry........" Ron said, looking around at the rest of the Hall. Students who had stayed over the hollidays were reading papers too, including Malfoy, and were staring at Harry as if he was going to do the same thing to them as Sirius was accused to doing to those other people. Harry ignored them. In a few minutes time the twins and Ginny were done reading and sat and stared at Harry, same as other students were doing.
" Oh Harry......we had no idea.....Peter Pettigrew!" said Ginny.
" Yeah..." said Harry.
" How long have you known about all this?" asked Fred.
" Well, me, Ron, and Hermione have all known about it since our third year. A couple of days ago, when I left, it was because Dumbledore had told me that Sirius had been cleared and I went to spend some time with him." said Harry.
" All three of you knew! And you didn't tell us!" exclaimed George.
" Well, honestly George, would you not have thought they were all mental for thinking that Sirius was innocent?"said Ginny.
" Good point." he said, looking thoughtful.
" Wait! This means......okay, he's your god-father?" asked Fred.
" Yeah."
" Then you don't have to live with those muggles any more!" said Fred, looking as if he had cracked the code to the universe.
" Yeah, that's what I've been doing for the past two days-moving into his house."
" Ahhh, but it's not only his house now, it's yours also." said Ron. After talking about the whole Sirius thing for a while they all exited the Hall and went to walk along the grounds for a while.
" So Potter has gotten involved with yet another Dark Wizard. Hardly suits your image." said a bored voice behind them as they walked down the steps leading to the grounds. They all turned around to face him and his body guards.
" He's not a dark wizard."
" Oh no, of course not! What was I thinking? He only killed a bunch of muggles-including your parents! Not that that was a waste or anything-"
Harry and Ron both lunged at Malfoy while Fred and George shot binding curses at Crabbe and Goyle. Hermione and Ginny stood holding their wands out.
Ron frantically tried to make sure that Malfoy wasn't able to get to his wand while Harry punched Malfoy as hard as he could in the stomach.
"DON'T EVER SPEAK OF MY PARENTS THAT WAY AGAIN!" growled Harry. Malfoy simply glared at him, clutching his stomach. Harry turned around and walked off toward Hagrid's cabin, with the rest following him.
~**¤**~
Later that night, Harry lie awake in his four poster wondering why Malfoy didn't even try to throw a punch at him. Harry had gotten away without a scratch.
He couldn't sleep for some reason so he decided to take a walk. He didn't want to wake Ron, who was snoring from behind his curtains, so he quietly got up and went over to his trunk and opened the lid. Worry spread through him. His invisability cloak was gone. He threw everything out of his trunk and still no cloak. He was beggining to panic.
And hour later ,after tearing up the whole dormitory, he still couldn't find it. Then he knew who would be able to find out who took it. Hermione of course.
He went into the common room and up the stairs that led to the girls dormitories, and opened the door. A strong sweet scent hit him as he opened the door. He rolled his eyes. Girls. He knew immediately which bed was Hermione's. The one with a stack of books on the bedside table and her bag on her trunk at the foot of the bed. He walked over to the bed and pulled back the curtains. Hermione was curled up with the blanket pulled all the way up to her chin. He gently shook her, hoping that she wouldn't kick him like Ginny did. But she merely rolled over. He shook and shook and shook, but she was obviously a very heavy sleeper. He straightened himself back up. Putting a hand on his hip and scratching the side of his head with the other, he tried to figure out how he was going to do this. Then he heard a voice from the other side of the room.
" Mmm........who's there? Hermione is that you? Why are you wearing boy's clo-boys?!?" said Ginny. Harry sprinted over to her bed as fast as he could.
" Sssshhhhh!!! It's me!" he whispered.
" Harry?.....Harry! What on earth are you doing in here?! Do you know how much trouble we're going to get into-"
" Shhhh! We're going to be heard! Now, I need your help. Someone got my invisability cloak out of my trunk. Do you know any spells or charms or whatever to find out who might have gotten it?"
" Mmmmm.......yeah, yes I do, hang on.Wait......Invisability cloak?!"
" I'll explain in the common room, just hurry up and lets get out of here!"
" Okay, okay...." she grabbed her wand and climbed out of bed, following him out of the room.
" Now, where on earth did you get an invisability cloak?" Ginny asked as they reached the bottom of the stairs.
" It was my fathers. Dumbledore gave it to me in my first year." he explained to her.
" And why are you up so late at night anyway?" she asked.
" I couldn't sleep, and I wanted to take a walk and for that I needed the invisablility cloak. "
" Well......let's go have a look." she said. Harry led her into his dormitory and they tip-toed quietly over to his opened trunk.
" Now what are you planning on doing?" he whispered to her.
" Well......I think I know a charm to find out who's fingerprints are on it." she whispered back.
" Okay......yeah, yeah that's good." she pointed her wand at the lid, whispered a few words, and suddenly there were names all over the lid to his trunk.
" Read quickly, it will wear off in a few minutes." she said. Most of the writing on it said 'Harry Potter'. In a few spaces it said 'Ron Weasley' and to his surprise in one spot it said 'Neville Longbottom'.
" Probably fell on it." he said. Then he saw it. The two words that made anger spread through his vains like wildfire. Ginny gasped. They stared at each other.
" Draco Malfoy?"